After walking for more than a month, the couple arrived in a small town. It has not yet been affected by the war, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful, quiet and peaceful.

Mingyue decided to stay and settle here for the time being.

He spent money to buy a tattered two-story small bamboo building on the edge of the town, which was about to collapse, and got a set of carpentry tools and got busy.

On the first day, the sixteen main beams were straightened one by one with brute force, and then climbed high and low, and each roof beam interface was shaken tightly with wooden wedges. Another person carried back forty or fifty bamboos from the back mountain, split the bamboo, mended holes in the walls, and repaired the roof. Ding Ding Ding Bang cleaned up, and the bamboo building took on a new look.

The next day, pick out the discarded wood in the bamboo building, draw the line, pull the big saw, put the wooden wedge, plane, and make a simple set of tables, chairs, beds and benches before it gets dark.

On the third day, he carried back a pile of white shanty paper, and carefully pasted a layer of the inside of the bamboo building, until it was as clean as a snow cave. He also removed a few large stones from the courtyard and removed the old moss that had accumulated in the courtyard. Make a row of fences out of bamboo and put them outside the courtyard. A delicate arch was vacated in the middle of the fence, and a few arm-thick camellia vines were planted in the doorway.

Meng Xiaowan was stunned to see her husband finish what others could do in thirty days in three days, and on the fourth day, under the leadership of Mingyue, he lived in a new home in a daze. She felt that her husband must have been born by Xiang Yu, and she was trying her best to cover the world.

finally has a stable nest, and Meng Xiaowan's life is more comfortable. Mingyue still takes care of all the work, busy cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner for his beloved wife every day, cleaning the house, and washing clothes. Occasionally go out, and when you come back, you often bring pheasants and antelopes and other game. Sometimes they also bring back small jewelry such as earrings and necklaces. I also bought a pair of thick cotton shoes for Meng Xiaowan, the cotton shoes are ugly, but they are very warm on the feet, enough to withstand the wet and cold wind of the mountain stream.

Soon, Meng Xiaowan was pleasantly surprised to find that her considerate husband was not only strong, but also talented. One day, she was playing the piano alone, and suddenly saw Mingyue holding a spatula outside the door to probe her brain.

"How?" She asked.

Mingyue pursed her lips and frowned slightly: "Hun family, the third note of the second section should be a low note, not a strong tone." After saying that, he carried the spatula and continued to cook.

He knows the piano?!

Meng Xiaowan was stunned.

Within two days, Meng Xiaowan got up in the morning and went out to see a few more couplets at the door. The font is round and powerful, and it is chic and elegant. Taken aback, he hurriedly shouted to the people in the house: "Husband." ”

"Huh?" Mingyue walked out.

Meng Xiaowan pointed to the couplet: "The one who wrote the couplet for us is a calligrapher, and he is really the ...... in the world" He noticed the brush held on Mingyue's slender fingers, and his voice suddenly turned soft, "Huaisu ......"

"Oh." Mingyue answered, turned around and entered the house.

Thanks to Mama Li's vision, in addition to the strange habit of not eating with herself, her husband is really agreeable, Meng Xiaowan thought happily.

On the eve of the New Year, Mingyue carried back two pieces of fabric. One is dark purple and the other is black, the color is bright, and the auspicious cloud pattern is dark. Meng Xiaowan recognized that it was a high-grade Shu brocade, and she was born in a Shu brocade family, and she finally found something to do. At night, she took advantage of Mingyue's inattention to secretly carry the cloth back to the house, lit the tung oil lamp, and made a set of clothes for Mingyue with black brocade overnight. The next morning, before Mingyue got up, he sneaked into the outhouse, wanting to change Mingyue's torn old clothes.

In the pale cyan morning light, the bright moon fell asleep quietly, and her handsome face looked so good. She took the old garment with joy and put it on the bedside. Accidentally, a large silver dollar rolled out of his old clothes. She hurriedly grabbed her hand and tried to put it back on the table, but her eyes accidentally caught a glimpse of the large seal at the bottom of the silver dollar. Suddenly broke out in a cold sweat......

This is official silver!

said that it was too late, Mingyue sat up suddenly, took away the silver in her hand with one hand, and grabbed her palm with the other hand to check: "It hurts?" ”

Woke up so quickly, maybe he didn't sleep at all.

Meng Xiaowan hurriedly shook her head: "No." ”

So Mingyue put the silver on the table and picked up the new set of clothes: "Clothes, did you make them for me?" ”

Meng Xiaowan glanced at the silver quietly, and didn't see the official seal again, only saw an extra pit at the bottom of the silver, as if it was pressed into it by her fingers. She didn't dare to think about it, so she smiled at Mingyue: "Yes, husband, you try." ”

"Hmm." Mingyue stood up and got dressed with her help.

Mingyue put on her new clothes and suddenly looked energetic, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly: "The Hun family is good for needlework." ”

He rarely laughs, but when he laughs, the corners of his eyes are warm, as if even the ice spirit can melt away. But Meng Xiaowan was absent-minded and didn't notice this smile at all.

Mingyue likes this outfit very much, she goes out in her clothes every day, and when she comes back, her clothes are spotless.

She rarely asks about the food and clothing at home, and Mingyue doesn't say anything. But no matter how high the price of rice outside rises, her family always eats hot white rice, uses good vegetable oil for stir-frying, and often has meat dishes on the table. Not to mention the guys who moved back in the three days of the month, even jewelry. In a famine year, it takes a lot of money to support such expenses. She asked Mingyue about the financial situation of her family, but Mingyue didn't say much, only said that she had been in business before and had quite a lot of savings.

She was skeptical.

Ever since she saw the ingot of silver that day, Meng Xiaowan felt as if she had found the answer. The sweet dream in the past suddenly became extremely terrifying, and as soon as I entered the dream, I saw a group of officials breaking into the courtyard, bringing shackles to Mingyue and dragging it on the ground. She was so frightened that she often woke up in the middle of the night, sweating profusely and running out of the door with a beating heart, and only let go when she saw Mingyue lying there safe and sound.

When the spirit is poor, the temper is also poor. There are fewer smiles on his faces, and fewer words. Occasionally playing the piano, the notes swayed restlessly, and the tone was broken.

Mingyue thought that Meng Xiaowan was sick. I asked the local doctor of the Qing tribe in the town, and he collected a few thousand-year-old Panax notoginseng plants from the mountains, chopped them into minced pieces, and mixed them with Tongzi chicken and steamed them in a pot. After steaming, the lid is lifted, and the chicken is soaked in the clear notoginseng soup, and the rich aroma comes to the face. Eat twice a day to nourish yin and lungs, calm the nerves and help sleep.

But more than a dozen boys and chickens ate it, and Meng Xiaowan's face became fat, but her spirit was not good. One day, when she saw Mingyue and brought back a few pieces of cloth, she lost her temper for the first time, she didn't look at the cloth, pouted and said to Mingyue: "The war is in chaos, why do we have to wear such good clothes, why do we have to eat such good things?" With that, he went back to his bedroom and closed the door.

Mingyue was left holding the cloth and standing in the center of the room in a daze.

After a while, Meng Xiaowan came back to her senses, feeling that her words and deeds violated the etiquette of women, and hurriedly pushed the door out to apologize to Mingyue. But Mingyue was gone, and only a few pieces of cloth were left on the table. How can a wife scold her husband for running away, is she a shrew?

Meng Xiaowan was sad and blamed herself, sat at the door of the house, took a needle and thread while making clothes for Mingyue, and waited for Mingyue to come home.

When the sky was slightly gray, the clothes were ready. She raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, then opened them again and saw Mingyue standing in the doorway. With the cold smell of wine, he was carrying a food box in his hand, and his eyes were looking at her, with a faint dark purple light under his eyes.

Meng Xiaowan hurriedly greeted him: "Husband, are you back, have you drunk a lot of wine?" ”

Even the eyes are discolored.

"Hun family, I ate on the street, and I brought you dinner." Mingyue handed her the lunch box, turned around and walked towards the dark scene.

Meng Xiaowan hurriedly asked, "Husband, where are you going?" ”

"Go bathe in the river." Mingyue said coldly.

On this day, the dripping water turned into ice, what kind of bath did you go to the river? Meng Xiaowan wanted to call Mingyue back, but she was afraid that she would not be able to speak out again. She returned to the room in a daze, lit a tung oil lamp, and sat in front of the bronze mirror in a daze.

Her mother once told her that men and women should not meet and interact at will. Only husband and wife can live together without barriers in the world, and such a marriage is the most complete marriage. Her marriage with Mingyue is very good, but for some reason, she always feels that something is missing in her marriage and cannot reach the realm of "no barriers". Just like the matter of Guanyin, she didn't dare to ask, and Mingyue didn't say it, it made her have nightmares night after night in vain......

Just as he was thinking about it, the figure of the bright moon suddenly appeared in the bronze mirror. The handsome face is stained with thin droplets of water. Shirtless, with a fair and firm chest exposed. The long black hair was scattered, and the strands were clinging to the body, and the snakes were winding and circling. Under the tight lower abdomen, he only wore a pair of black trousers, which lined his legs with slender and strong legs.

"Scare ......"

Don't look at it, Meng Xiaowan hurriedly held her sleeves and blocked her eyes. But his mind shook with the light on the table, fluttering for a while, and his cheeks were red and hot.

"Hun family, don't be shy." Mingyue came to Meng Xiaowan's side and looked at her fixedly, "I asked others, and they said that husband and wife should do one thing so that they don't blush." ”

Feeling Mingyue's tight lower abdomen beside her facing her face, poor Meng Xiaowan was so ashamed that she couldn't help herself, and her eye-blocking sleeves almost covered her face.

"What are you doing?" She asked in a whisper.

As soon as the words fell, Mingyue picked her up horizontally, so frightened that she screamed softly.

"Morning clouds and twilight rain." 's very explicit words, when he said them in a serious tone, they revealed a different kind of bewitching taste.

Meng Xiaowan covered her face tightly with her hands, almost out of breath: "Shame on you, shame on you, don't say it." ”

"Hun family, don't be ashamed." Holding the little daughter-in-law with blushing cheeks in her arms, Mingyue slowly walked towards the bed.

The winter wind was tight overnight, but the house was endlessly lingering.

After clumsy temptation, touching, seeking. When the day is about to dawn, the diligent people finally taste the sweet reward. The loose and comfortable limbs are not as delicious as the delicacies......

In the dark, Meng Xiaowan only knew that she was clinging to Mingyue's neck tightly, like soft aquatic plants wrapped around hard stones, rising and falling in the torrent together......

……

After tossing all night, Meng Xiaowan fell asleep.

Mingyue got up lightly and was about to get out of bed, when suddenly an arm reached over and wrapped around his neck and pulled him back to the bed. Then Meng Xiaowan leaned on his chest like a kitten and muttered, "Husband, sleep with me for a while." ”

Lovingly stroked her hair: "Hun family, I'll cook porridge." ”

"I don't eat porridge, I eat you. We stay together, stay together forever. Even if you are sent to Qiongzhou, I will pack my luggage and go with you......" said in a daze, and Meng Xiaowan fell asleep again.

Since then, husband and wife have been more like honey and sugar, and good scores are inseparable.

Every day after eating, Mingyue and her beloved wife hold hands, or walk along the town's smooth bluestone path, or go to the river to play and eat. If it was a light rainy day, Mingyue held a plum blossom oil paper umbrella and took Meng Xiaowan to look into the distance. When he came across a steep place, he carried his beloved wife on his back and stepped on a rock to climb the height, as if he were walking on the ground. Standing on a high place and looking into the distance, the green mountains of Saga are located in the mist and rain, appearing and disappearing, which is extremely charming.

There is a wasteland next to the bamboo building, where Mingyue opened a vegetable garden one afternoon and planted some cabbage lentils. Every time Mingyue worked in the field, Meng Xiaowan sat on the big bluestone next to the vegetable field and stroked the qin. The valley is quiet, the sound of the piano reverberates, and the ordinary sound of the piano is also extraordinarily distant and long.

Just after her eighteenth birthday, Meng Xiaowan was unwell. Afraid that Mingyue would be worried, she went to the pharmacy to ask the doctor for a diagnosis, and was pleasantly surprised to learn that she was more than two months pregnant. It was her long-standing wish to pass on the lineage for Mingyue, and she rushed home full of joy, and Mingyue was drying clothes in the yard. She walked over with a smile and wrapped her arms around Mingyue's waist: "Husband, tell you good news." ”

"Huh?"

"You're going to be a daddy......"

Before she finished speaking, Mingyue jumped away as if she had been stung by a needle, and looked at her in a daze, her face pale.

"Kid?!" The tone is urgent.

Knowing that he would be very excited, Meng Xiaowan touched her stomach with a shy face: "It's been two months." ”

Standing in place, his fists clenched and released, his brows furrowed.

Then step by step, he walked over slowly, knelt on the ground, carefully pressed his side face against Meng Xiaowan's lower abdomen, and his voice trembled slightly, "This...... Have my kids...... Hunjia ...... Thank you for crossing me out of ...... Boundless Hell ......"

I felt the back of my hand warm up, and some warm liquid fell on it. Meng Xiaowan was taken aback, and quickly picked up Mingyue's face, seeing that his eyes were red, she couldn't help but feel relieved and her nose was sour: "Husband, this is the first one, I will give you many births in the future." ”

"Hun family......" Mingyue stared at her quietly for a long time, and then buried her face in her, "My Hun family, no one can take away ......"

Then Mingyue disappeared in the afternoon, and when she came back, she was busy carrying a lot of supplies to ward off evil spirits.

Finger-thick ropes are soaked in cinnabar, woven into a large net, and draped over the roof of the house and the courtyard; Dozens of bowls of thick trees were dragged to make a three-meter-high fence. The original fence was replaced, and the courtyard was surrounded like a fortress. The fence is carved with runes in the shape of tadpoles; In all directions of the courtyard of the house, countless strings of bronze wind chimes were hung; The corners of the walls are sprinkled with all kinds of exorcism powder.

Seeing that her bright house was dressed like a temple by Mingyue, the black hole was very depressing, and Meng Xiaowan's doubts were increasing day by day. Finally, she couldn't help but ask, "Husband, what are you doing with your home?" ”

Mingyue didn't answer. After a while, his dark eyes looked over: "Pregnancy is easy to attract evil, I want to keep you and the child safe." ”

is about to be a parent, and naturally my heart is apprehensive.

But Mingyue seemed to be a little too nervous, he not only redressed the small family, but also asked Meng Xiaowan not to go out of the door, and not to step out of the second door. Not only are they not allowed to go to the streets, but they are also not allowed to go to the vegetable patch next to the yard, and they can only move around in the yard and in the house. Meng Xiaowan, who has been free and easy since marriage, is a little unaccustomed, but people with strict family education have such requirements for their daughters-in-law. She had to follow her husband's instructions one by one, and only hoped that the child would be born as soon as possible, so that she could return her freedom.

After becoming pregnant, Meng Xiaowan's appetite became bigger and bigger, and she always felt hungry, and she ate at least three bowls of a meal. At that time, the surrounding bandits were in turmoil, and many refugees poured into the town, and the things in the town were also more expensive day by day. But Mingyue has his own way, he exchanged rice for chickens and eggs, went up the mountain to hunt roe deer, and went down to the river to fish, never let Meng Xiaowan's rice bowl cut off meat.

was supported by such a considerate and careful husband, and the child in Meng Xiaowan's belly grew up quickly, and it only took four months to show that she would move.

In the evening of that day, Meng Xiaowan had lunch and sat in the yard making children's clothes.

Someone knocked on the door: "Master, can you drink saliva?" ”

Listening to the voice, it was an old woman, and Meng Xiaowan hurriedly brought a bowl of water. opened the door, and sure enough, there was a white-haired old woman of the Qing clan outside, with snow-white hair.

She stood at the door and handed the water to the old woman: "Old man, please." ”

The old woman looked at her stomach and took the bowl: "The lady has a body." ”

"Yes." Meng Xiaowan lowered her head shyly.

The old woman blinked: "The lady knows that some children can be born, and some can't." Let's tell a story to the lady. ”

Expectant mothers are very sensitive, and their ears involuntarily puff up when they hear someone say something related to their children. (To be continued.) )