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What does it mean to respect each other like a guest, Yang Liu really understands. Except for the necessary communication, the two did not speak in private, let alone have any physical contact. However, in front of other people, both of them looked affectionate, but who knows how awkward the two of them are.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and Li Cong can finally justifiably take out the thin quilt he had covered before, and live with Yang Liu in a real separate quilt. Yang Liu also let him, as soon as he got on the kang, he turned his back to Li Cong and closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, and the two husbands and wives fought coldly in their own ways.

On this day, Li Cong went to the ground early, Yang Liu and Qiaoqiao came back after washing their clothes, Qiaoqiao pointed to a basket of apricots in the corner, "Fifth aunt, what are you picking so many apricots for, you can't eat them." ”

Yang Liu followed her gesture and saw that the folded ear roots and fungus on the surface of the back basket were all gone, she was stunned for a moment, thinking about her original intention of asking Li Cong to pick apricots, Yang Liu responded: "Oh, my aunt plans to make apricot jam." ”

"How?"

"Is it delicious?"

Qiaoqiao and Tie Zhu spoke at the same time, but Tie Zhu's voice overpowered Qiao Qiao, because he had already jumped in front of Yang Liu, looking like he was about to drool. In Tie Zhu's opinion, since the fifth aunt cooks deliciously, everything she cooks is delicious. As long as he actively expresses his position, the fifth aunt will give him food first.

"When my aunt makes it, you'll know if it's good or not." Yang Liu smiled and hooked Tiezhu's nose, "Our Tiezhu is really a little gluttonous cat, but we can't do it yet, wait for my aunt to buy sugar." ”

Tie Zhu was very active in proposing: "Let's go buy it now and make apricot jam." Actually, he wanted to eat sugar first.

Yang Liu didn't break it either, and nodded with a smile: "Then I have to ask your milk first." ”

Tie Zhu nodded, and jumped up to find the He family. After Yang Liu finished drying the clothes, he helped Qiaoqiao dry them again, and said, "Qiaoqiao, let's go to the town with the fifth aunt in a while." ”

Qiaoqiao was obviously a little moved, but she still shook her head: "My mother is on duty today, I'd better stay and help my mother do something." ”

It is said that the daughter is the mother's little padded jacket, and this sentence is indeed not wrong. Yang Liu touched Qiaoqiao's hair with some emotion, and no longer persuaded him, thinking that he would bring some snacks to Qiaoqiao when he came back from shopping. They were all children, except for the smallest iron pillar, Dashan and Qiaoqiao never asked for snacks. This kind of helpless sensibility, isn't it forced by life to grow?

At this time, Tie Zhu's somewhat excited voice came, "Fifth aunt, grandma agreed, grandma agreed." ”

Yang Liu and Qiaoqiao turned their heads when they heard the sound, and saw the iron pillar jumping on his feet, his eyebrows fluttering and waving. Immediately afterwards, a person came out of He's house and smiled at Yang Liu, "Brother and sister, I also happened to go to the town to buy some farm tools, let's go together." ”

It's Roche.

Yang Liu hurriedly said hello, she had just gone to wash clothes with Qiaoqiao, and Luo came at that time. The two exchanged a few more pleasantries, and He Shi also came out. It is estimated that in front of Luo, He was embarrassed to say anything against it, so he only told the two to be careful on the road, go early and return early, but left the iron pillar at home.

Tie Zhu pursed his lips and looked at Yang Liu with big innocent eyes. Although he is lively and active, in fact, at home, he is most afraid that the person is He, and since He said so, he didn't dare to say no.

"Mother, if you don't let Tiezhu go to town with me, I'll be optimistic that he won't let him run around."

He said disapprovingly: "Your sister-in-law is going to do something urgent, she has two children at home, what are you doing with an iron pillar." It's not hanging out, let's talk about it later. ”

Yang Liu found out that Luo's two children were not here, and she suddenly felt a little embarrassed, she really went to play, but she was not doing business.

Wen came out of the house, took Tiezhu's hand and said with a smile: "Brother and sister, you should go quickly, the child will run everywhere, leave him alone." ”

"Sister-in-law, you wait for me." Yang Liu put the empty wooden basin against the corner of the wall, turned around and entered the room, took out his money box, and put the two small horns of silver into the purse.

Watching Yang Liu and Luo Shi walk out of the courtyard gate, Yu snorted heavily: "She will be lazy." ”

After bending over to work for several days, He was a little unbearable, so he didn't go to the field today. Several daughters-in-law also used this as an excuse to stay at home, and the days were not too hurried, so He didn't ask for much, and he was still a little dissatisfied in his heart. Only two brothers, Li Qiang and Li Cong, borrowed other people's oxen to plow the dry land. Listening to Yu Shi say this at this time, He Shi's heart was not comfortable, she felt sorry for her son, so she felt that her daughter-in-law was not sensible, and scolded her with a calm face: "If you don't want to rest, let me go to the field, the grass in the field is still waiting to be pulled." ”

"Make some meat and vegetables at noon, plough the ground with a lot of strength, don't be a little cabbage every day, you are tired of eating crooked." Ho's words were addressed to Wen, who was on duty. In the past few days, the land has been vacated, and the little cabbage has been cut back, and the Li family's dinner table is full of cabbage, boiled, fried, and fed to the pigs if it is broken.

Hearing Wen's answer in the house, He shook the ash on his sleeves, turned around and walked into the house, she was just mending her clothes, and she was still a few stitches away.

Yu glanced at He with some dissatisfaction, knowing that He was a little dissatisfied with Yang Liu, but he usually didn't show much about it, didn't Yang Liu go to the town at this time just to have a good time, if Luo was not here, He could agree to let Yang Liu go to the town? He didn't know how to be dissatisfied, she knew, and Wen also knew, but she was stupid and still eating He's head. Yu's gaze swept over Xiuxiu's room and muttered in a low voice, "Why didn't Xiuxiu see anyone early in the morning?" ”

He paused, and looked at Xiuxiu's closed door with some surprise.

Yang Liu's memory is good, and she only remembers the road she has walked once. When she and Luo Shi arrived in the town, she automatically walked along the route of the original marriage, Luo Zhi walked two steps and didn't hear Yang Liu coming, so he couldn't help but look back and reminded loudly: "Brother and sister, it's this way." ”

The blacksmith shop is next to a weeping willow tree that turns right at the entrance of the town, leaning against the Qingliu River. Roche estimated that it was the first time for Yang Liu to come to such a place, and it was not surprising that he had taken the wrong path.

Yang Liu stopped, a little surprised by her actions just now, did she feel wronged at her mother-in-law's house and wanted to go back to her parents' house to find someone to cry and support? The biological mother is gone, the father is not in pain, even the closest maid around her did not tell her about the relocation of the Yang Mansion, maybe when she goes, she can only see people going to the empty Yang Mansion, who is she going to find when she goes back? Yang Liu just turned around in his heart and then turned to Luo and smiled: "Sister-in-law, I want to go around first, you go buy farm tools first, we will meet here in an hour, what do you say?" ”

Roche didn't think much about it and nodded directly: "That's okay." ”

Along the way, she and Yang Liu had little to say, most of the time it was Yang Liu who was talking, and she nodded "um" and "ah". It's not that she doesn't know that Yang Liu took the initiative to talk when she saw the awkward atmosphere between the two, but she is an authentic rural woman, and she can only talk about children, crops or something, and what common language she has with the girls in the town who have never given birth to children. She wanted to say but was afraid that saying the wrong thing would make Yang Liu laugh at her in her heart, and weighing the gains and losses made the two even more embarrassed.

Luo took two steps, and suddenly remembered that Yang Liu had lived in the town since he was a child, and there was still something to look around. She came to the town to see where else she could go except to the Yang Mansion. Thinking of this, Luo Shi remembered that the woman in the tunzi said that Yang Liu did not return to the door in the third dynasty, and he knew a little in his heart, probably because Yang Liu did not want to be weak in front of him, so he secretly came back to settle the account.

Yang House.

Two mighty stone lions squatted on both sides of the stone steps, the door of vermilion lacquer was closed, and the only time they walked through the main gate was the last time they got married. Yang Liu took a deep breath and stepped forward to pat the lock.

The door opened, and then a voice of surprise sounded, "Third Miss is back." ”

Hearing this voice, Yang Liu suddenly understood who he came back for, the corners of his mouth naturally rose, and he said softly: "Yes, Uncle Zhang." ”