Chapter 2: Homecoming
After leaving the city, the bustling flow of people gradually became scarce, and the meal arrived at noon, so on the road to Sheung Shui Village, there was only one leisurely.
Thinking of the two girls in the family, they were already walking leisurely in a hurry, and they were walking more urgently.
Just as she left the official road leisurely and just stepped on the sheep intestine path, a thick and honest voice sounded from behind her, "Gao Wu's family, Gao Wu's family, Gao Wu's ......"
There were three or four sounds, and he reacted leisurely, Gao Wu is the name of the husband who died of the original owner......
Leisurely suddenly stopped, smelling the voice, but saw an old man in his fifties a year driving a donkey cart towards her in a hurry.
It's Uncle Zhou.
Uncle Zhou, a native of Ruoshui Village. Ruoshui Village and Shangshui Village are close to each other, and these two villages are together with Shangshan and Shangshan Villages, and are called the four ancient villages.
Speaking of Uncle Zhou, he is no stranger in his leisurely memory, Gao Wu's iron brother Zhou Dafen was Uncle Zhou's eldest son.
In the extremely cruel and bloody battle in southern Xinjiang, Gao Wu lost his life and no bones remained, and Zhou Dafen, the eldest son of Uncle Zhou, also broke a leg in that battle, to be precise, he lost a leg, and the person came back, and the leg remained on the battlefield......
Uncle Zhou, who originally drove a donkey cart all the year round to travel south and north, and made some money to support his family by pulling goods with others, has never gone far since his eldest son survived the battlefield for nine lifetimes, and only pulls goods in a few nearby towns in order to go home in time to take care of his physically and mentally fragile son.
Thinking of this, you sighed slightly in your heart, and exclaimed to the approaching person, "It turned out to be Uncle Zhou!" ”
Uncle Zhou reined in the donkey and smiled honestly, because he was out all the year round, his face was full of rough skin folds, and his smile was like an old tree, vicissitudes and thick.
"It's not me, Gao Wu's family, I saw you early in the city, but the master didn't bother to greet the owner when he was shouting to unload, and when I finished unloading, you were nowhere to be seen, I thought you were out of the city, so I hurried to hurry...... Come on, Uncle will give you a ride! ”
"Uncle Xie Zhou, no need, this idea is not sinking!" Leisurely and politely refuse.
The main reason for refusal is that now she suddenly bought such things like a nouveau riche, it is easy to make people suspicious, once people are suspicious, they will cause a lot of things intentionally or unintentionally, and now Youran has not yet gained a firm foothold in Sheung Shui Village, so she wants to keep a low profile.
Uncle Zhou was surprised and puzzled, and the folds on his face suddenly doubled.
"Gao Wujia, what are you doing? Can't trust my old man? My family and your man are brothers in life and death! ”
"Uncle Zhou, I didn't mean that......" Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, and after thinking about it, he simply threw out a sentence, wanting to probe the tone of this old uncle, "It's just my reputation...... Not good. I'm afraid that Uncle Zhou's family will ....... ”
It's not good, it's notorious!
Not only is there no child in his life, but he is also Kefu, and the last one is even more terrifying, and the red apricot is out of the wall! It's all euphemistic to say badly!
When Uncle Zhou heard this, he immediately stomped his feet, "Cough! Gao Wu's family, others don't know you, uncle, can I still know? Those rumors and rumors are the poisonous opinions of the bitter people who have been blinded by lard, and your uncle and your aunt don't believe it at all! Child, there is a good saying, if you can't stop other people's mouths, you can't control your own heart? No matter what others say, we just need to know it in our hearts! ”
This is quite insightful, and "go your own way and let others say it" has the same effect, if the truth is not rough, he nodded leisurely and secretly, this Uncle Zhou, but he is an understanding person.
Uncle Zhou didn't need to say anything more, he leisurely untied the bamboo basket, put it on the donkey cart, and sat down.
Uncle Zhou naturally saw the basket full of heavy things, but after walking for a long time, he didn't ask anything, and unconsciously, he leisurely respected this weathered old man even more.
However, halfway through, Uncle Zhou brought up another topic, "Gao Wujia, you are really in danger today, thanks to Zhan Liugongzi"
Zhan Liugongzi? Could it be the "lack" of the long flowers?
didn't have time to think about it, a fox-like face jumped out, and shook her head leisurely and subconsciously, but Uncle Zhou mistakenly thought that she didn't understand.
Uncle Zhou paused slightly, and then said: "Zhan Liugongzi is the only son of our county master, he is very graceful, although there are a lot of cousins and sisters in the family, but he is the only one who is most favored by the old lady. However, our county master is very close to him, and he wants him to go on a career path. Speaking of which, this sixth son of Zhan is also unfortunate enough, every year in the imperial examination, every year in the first place, and later, due to the pressure of the old lady, our county master simply stopped caring about him, only gave him a head-catching errand, and let him mess around at will in the county office. ”
I see, I knew it in my heart, and sighed secretly, isn't it another Jia Baoyu!
"It turns out that the engong who helped me today is actually the sixth son of Zhan!" Leisurely followed Uncle Zhou's thinking and said, and then thought, how does Uncle Zhou know?
"You saw everything that happened in the city?"
"No!" Uncle Zhou picked up quickly, "At that time, I was unloading the goods, and suddenly I heard someone shouting to catch the thief, I looked up and saw that the thief was running in front, and you were chasing after him...... I was also in a hurry, so I picked up a wooden stick and rushed over, and before I could run a few steps, Zhan Liugongzi had already caught the thief, which was a relief! ”
Youran was surprised that there was still this scene, she really didn't see it at the time.
"Thank you, Uncle Zhou!" Said leisurely gratefully.
Uncle Zhou shook his head again and again, "Thank you, Gao Wu's family, the uncle didn't help at that time!" ”
Didn't help? But he rushed out to help a person with a "bad reputation to the end" at the first time!
Approaching the entrance of the village, Zhou Shuben insisted on sending Youran to the door of the house, but Youran insisted on getting out of the car, and the donkey cart still stopped at the entrance of the village.
Taking advantage of Uncle Zhou's inattention, he put ten copper plates under the felt of the cowhide stool before getting out of the car leisurely. Although Uncle Zhou just brought her back along the way, he leisurely understood that this was not the case.
However, in this world, except for close relatives, no one is rightfully good to anyone.
Say goodbye to Uncle Zhou, and walk home leisurely.
A simple fence fence surrounds two low and simple thatched houses, and from a long distance, you can see the tall old locust tree standing in the middle of the yard, which is the home of leisurely here.
"Mother is back!"
As soon as Youran pushed open the chai door, a thin and small body rushed to Youran's feet, she opened her two small wing-like arms, and hugged Youran's thighs affectionately. The phoenix eyes that are curved like the moon, the dark and deep and flawless pupils, and the long curved eyelashes are very smart.
Those eyes are extremely beautiful, and you can't help but guess what the body she occupies looks like, or a vague conjecture about the dead Gao Wu, what kind of parents have such beautiful eyes?
This is the boss of the high incense leaves.
Immediately afterwards, another girl who was almost exactly the same as Gao Xiangye, but was a little shorter, hugged Youran's other leg, she hugged her little face tightly to Youran, whispered in a low voice, and shouted "Mother" softly.
This is the second child, Gao Vanilla, and the two girls are twin sisters, who are only five years old this year.
Hanging his head leisurely, he smiled and stroked the fluffy heads of the two babies, "Come into the house, my mother bought you something delicious!" ”
As soon as she heard the delicious, the second high vanilla immediately let go, and the two slightly narrow phoenix eyes were blazing, she pushed her sister away with one hand, and pulled it leisurely with the other hand, like a calf, and dragged it into the house like a calf......
"Chrysanthemum~ You're back!"
A melodious chrysanthemum made your body tremble slightly, and when she looked up, she saw Wen Po walking out of the small thatched hut with squinting eyes against the dazzling sunlight.
Wen Po is an old woman who is nearly sixty years old, her facial features are extremely uneven, her big and small eyes, the bridge of her nose is collapsed, her lips are thick, her face is full of melasma, and she shows a mouthful of yellow teeth when she speaks, which is very ugly.
She lost her husband at an early age, and only had a frail and sickly daughter under her knees, and she only lived to be six years old before dying. Since then, Wen Po has been alone until now.
In order to see a doctor for her daughter, Wen Po's family sold her land and real estate, and after the man's death, life became even worse, and later, her daughter also died, and she locked herself in the yard and didn't show her face in front of people for a while. Later, he went out, but the whole person suddenly aged ten years.
Fortunately, she has a good hand in embroidery, and with this skill, she was not starved to death.
When she arrived at the house, Wen Po put the porridge, steamed cakes, and vegetable nests in front of Youran, and was busy for a while, and then said: "Chrysanthemum, you went into the city to sell dried vegetables today, why didn't you come back now?" ”
Leisurely swallowed the food in his mouth, put down the soup bowl, wiped his mouth, and said, "You go and take a look at the bamboo basket first." ”
Wen Po looked at Youran in a daze, and only came back to her senses when she heard the word bamboo basket, and hurriedly lifted the lid of the bamboo basket, and when she saw the things inside, she opened her mouth in surprise and didn't close it for a long time......
"How many were sold?" A bamboo basket of dried wild vegetables is sold for so much money? How could it be......
smiled leisurely, "Dried wild vegetables are not valuable, what is valuable is mountain ginseng." ”
Mountain ginseng? Wen Po's eyes were wide open.
"Speaking of which, it's really lucky, when I was digging wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain, I accidentally came across a wild ginseng, but it is small, and it has not been through a few years of wind and frost. I wasn't sure, and I didn't tell you, but who knew that the shopkeeper Kang saw it, and it was true! ”
With such an explanation, Wen Po believed it, and she didn't feel happy, and she boasted of her good luck.
"Of course, the most important thing is to rely on the face of the shopkeeper Kang and take me to the medicine store, so my wild ginseng was sold for so much money!" Leisurely added another sentence, Wen Po nodded approvingly after hearing it, and praised the shopkeeper Kang who was the source of diners.
Then, leisurely described what he saw, heard and experienced when he entered the city today, but he did not mention anything about the theft of his purse by thieves and the sixth son who was helped by the county magistrate.
After the meal, Wen Po happily took the two girls to divide the color thread, the best silk thread in her hand, smooth and delicate, from beginning to end, with a contented smile on her face. The two children were full of food and drink, and they had a lot of fun.
For the first time, you have a sense of solidity. After putting away the half-hanging money, she opened the bamboo basket again, ready to put the rice, flour, oil and grain inside into the storage basket, but she just put her hand in, and suddenly, as if it was scalded, it retracted, and there was an extra mirror in her bamboo basket!
When?