Chapter 45: The Disaster of Apricot and Plum
PS: Happy's codeword moment has started again, and the next three chapters of this chapter are about chivalry, love Jin Yong, love life!
With smoke curling and shadows of trees, the villagers of Xingli Village are busy cooking a dinner for their families. Under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, two children are sitting on the ground playing with mud. Suddenly, the shadow under her dimmed, and the girl looked up to see a man and a woman standing behind them. The woman was beautiful, with a cloth towel wrapped around her head, and the man was handsome, looking at the little girl with a bright smile. Seeing this, the little girl immediately pulled the man's placket, and didn't care that she was still playing with mud above her hand, and said softly: "Big brother, you are so good-looking." ”
The man saw that the little girl's round face looked very cute at him, so he squatted down and was about to speak, when the voice of the villager came from afar: "Rabbit, Xiaoshun, who are you talking to?" ”
Rabbit, the name of the little girl, the little girl ran backwards when she heard the sound, threw herself into the arms of the comer, and called sweetly: "Daddy." Then he pointed to Luo Chen, the man standing under the big banyan tree, and said, "There is a good-looking big brother." Daddy Rabbit scratched the rabbit's little nose with his fingers, and looked at the rabbit with a doting smile on his face.
Daddy Rabbit walked in with Luo Chen and Mu Mingxue, looked the two of them up and down, stroked the head of the younger Xiaoshun with his hand, and asked, "Forgive me for being rude, but I heard that there have been bandits nearby recently, so I was a little alert." Are the two of them passing? ”
Luo Chen shook his head and said, "The strong man should be alert. My sister and I were asked by our parents to visit distant relatives in another village, and we wondered if we could spend the night here. ”
"Ha, Childe is polite, we have not had any foreign guests in Xingli Village for a long time, I am very happy to be able to entertain you, Childe, please come with me."
"That's a nuisance, strong man."
The big man smiled and said embarrassedly: "Childe can call me Dazhu, everyone calls me that." After speaking, he took Luo Chen and Mu Mingxue to the village. Dazhu held the rabbit in one hand and Xiaoshun in the other, and the rabbit lay on the shoulder of Dazhu, looking at Luo Chen and grinning.
Da Zhu took Xiao Shun to his own house, greeted Xiao Shun's mother and left, and not long after, Da Zhu shouted to a farmhouse: "Rabbit mother, there are guests at home, quickly bring out all the good dishes." ”
The rabbit's mother came out of the stove room, happily and busily beckoned Luo Chen and Mu Mingxue to sit down, and after a while, the dishes were served one by one.
"Coarse tea and light rice, I hope that the son and your wife will not dislike it." The mother rabbit set the dishes and chopsticks and said enthusiastically.
Dazhu stopped the rabbit and his mother on the side, "What are you talking about, people are brothers and sisters visiting relatives." ”
Mother Rabbit glanced at the big pillar and choked, "You are really a big pillar, you are very stupid!" After speaking, he beckoned Luo Chen and Mu Mingxue, "You are hungry, hurry up and eat while it is hot." Mu Mingxue replied embarrassedly and glanced at each other with Luo Chen. The two laughed in unison.
After dinner, the rabbit mother went into the house to clean up the guest room, and hurriedly came out with an apologetic face: "Childe, girl, it is really a simple hut, we don't often come to guests, so there is only an idle room, I don't know if I can be wronged The girl lives with me and the rabbit, let my family Dazhu and Childe live, you think it's good?" ”
"I'm grateful for not letting us sleep in the open tonight, and my eldest sister couldn't have made such an arrangement."
"The girl doesn't dislike squeezing a room with my village woman, the rabbit and his father will go up the mountain early tomorrow morning to chop wood, so go to sleep first, and the girl and the son will go directly into the house later."
The rabbit, who was playing with Luo Chen, immediately turned her little head when she heard the sound, flashed her big eyes and said to the rabbit Niangjiao: "Mother, I want to have a room with my big brother, okay?" ”
"Why do you want to live with your big brother, the girl's family can't just live with a boy. No shame! The rabbit mother hugged the rabbit and looked at Luo Chen and Mu Mingxue helplessly. Seeing this, the rabbit immediately writhed in her mother's arms, arguing "I want to play with my big brother".
Luo Chen stood up embarrassedly and teased the rabbit, "Good rabbit, the eldest brother likes the rabbit who obediently listens to his mother's words, if the rabbit goes to sleep, the eldest brother likes the rabbit the most." ”
When the rabbit heard this, he immediately obediently lay on his mother's body and murmured, "Mother, I'm tired, let's go to sleep." ”
When the rabbit mother saw her daughter's small appearance, she couldn't cry or laugh helplessly, smiled apologetically at Luo Chen, and then went into the house with the rabbit.
Mu Mingxue saw that the rabbit mother had entered the house, so she began to fiddle with the cloth towel in her hair, and after a while, asked, "Ah Luo, my hair is tightly covered?" ”
Luo Chen stroked Mu Mingxue's headscarf and looked at it carefully, and said seriously: "It's very strict, it's very strict, you are now the same as the village woman in Xingli Village, as soon as the two of us go out, they are just an ordinary village couple." Don't worry. ”
Mu Mingxue flashed Luo Chen's gaze, turned around and walked into the back room, "Brother, go to bed early, we will continue to visit relatives on the road tomorrow morning." At the end of the words, there was a hint of banter.
Early in the morning, before the rooster in the village crowed, Luo Chen noticed that the big pillar beside him had already moved, so he also got up and came outside the house, but saw that the rabbit's mother had prepared breakfast early in the morning and placed it on the table, hot steamed buns and noodles, exuding fragrance. The rabbit mother outside the house was sorting out Dazhu's clothes, combing her hair bun, just put down her left hand, and handed hot water to Dazhu to wash her face with her right hand, this series of actions is full of tacit understanding, the two of them have been like this every day for more than ten years, Luo Chen looked at the old husband and wife, couldn't help but wet his eyes, and stood in place for a long time, so that Mu Mingxue didn't notice it when he came to him.
"Arlo, what's wrong with you?" Mu Mingxue shook her palm in front of Luo Chen.
Only then did Luo Chen come back to his senses, turned his head and wiped the corners of his eyes, and said casually: "When I got up in the morning, the wind entered the corner of my eye." ”
Only then did the rabbit mother see Luo Chen and Mu Mingxue get up, and hurriedly asked them to sit down and eat breakfast.
"Rabbit's father is going to go up the mountain to chop wood immediately, which direction are the two nobles going?"
"We're out of the village and heading south."
"If you want to go south out of the village, you have to cross the fishbone mountain, and I happened to go there to cut wood, and the two of you will follow me, and I will show you the way." After Dazhu finished speaking, he put on his back a bamboo basket and an axe, and prepared to go on the road.
The rabbit mother smiled and said, "Wait", ran into the stove room quickly, took a big bag out, and hurriedly handed it to Mu Mingxue: "Girl, you and Gongzi are on the road, I have more than a dozen steamed buns made this morning, you bring them, the road is so hungry." ”
Mu Mingxue remembered that when the sky was still dark this morning, she heard the rabbit mother get up, and it turned out that she was going to the stove room to help them prepare food on the road, and she suddenly felt a surge of warmth. "Rabbit's mother, the two of us have been disturbing for a night, and we are embarrassed to accept your things. Keep it until Daddy Bunny comes back and eats it. ”
"I've prepared his share for a long time, but don't retreat, girl. Our Xingli Village has always been like this, if you don't accept it, you will dislike our poor food. ”
"Don't dare. If so, thank you. ”
Only then did the rabbit mother regain her smile, and hurriedly tied the burden for Mu Mingxue, and then turned her head to Luo Chen and said: "Son, let's go on the road quickly after eating, the mountain road is not easy to walk, I'm afraid it will take some time, if you come back from visiting relatives, remember to come to Xingli Village to see us and see the rabbit." ”
"Will definitely be back in the next place! Thanks a lot! ”
When Luo Chen and Mu Mingxue left Xingli Village with the big pillar, the sun had just risen, and the first light of harmony reflected on the entire small village, which was a peaceful and warm scene, but they didn't know that behind this peaceful and warm place, there was a burst of murderous intentions