Chapter Twenty-Six: Yin Jiu'er
The little bride also looked at the groom official, the groom official sword eyebrows were unusually handsome, and the figure of the bee waist ape back stood straight in front of her like a javelin, and she hurriedly lowered her head shyly.
Zhang Xiaowu wanted to praise her for being beautiful, but somehow blurted out: "It's not bad, it's not ugly." ”
Suddenly, the little bride raised her head angrily, stared at her eyes and said angrily: "I'm not ugly, you have to apologize to me." ”
Zhang Xiaowu saw that she was still holding her stomach with one hand and clenching her fist with the other as if in protest, so he said, "Are you hungry?" Let's eat together, I haven't eaten in days, and you haven't eaten for a day, right? ”
The little bride was surprised: "Huh? Can't you generals eat? At least my family can have one meal in two days. ”
Zhang Xiaowu couldn't believe it: "The people only eat one meal in two days? ”
The little bride whispered: "I also have a younger brother, the only seedling of our Yin family, he has been weak and sick since he was a child, and he needs to eat more to survive." ”
"It turns out that he is also a brother demon." Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and sighed.
Mo said that in this era of cold weapons, even in the developed modern world, many patriarchal families are reluctant to let girls go to school, and even some selfish family members of "Brother Demon" kidnap and scatter their families. He felt very sad in his heart for the little bride who endured hunger and gave food to his younger brother, and said: "Starving to death for the sake of a man is really a Chinese tradition, fortunately, you are not a member of the Yin family now, you will be a member of my Zhang family in the future, I will not starve you with my stunt, and our old Zhang family does not have the tradition of starving to death of a new daughter-in-law." ”
The little bride's heart trembled when she heard this, she raised her head with a blushing face and looked at Zhang Xiaowu strangely, her heart was indescribably complicated, isn't it what everyone should do to starve her sister to death and let her eat her younger brother? Shouldn't my brother's life be cheaper than my brother's? Could it be that Grandpa is wrong?
Seeing the little bride's bright eyes, she was puzzled, but she sat aside and didn't dare to move, Zhang Xiaowu felt that the little bride was imprisoned by feudal thoughts. Maybe the little bride has a bit of a pungent personality, but her thinking is much more old-fashioned, and he stepped forward and took the little bride's hand to the dinner table.
The face of the little bride who was held for the second time was even more embarrassed, her mind was blank, and she struggled to free his hands, only to find that the big hands were strong and powerful and difficult to break free. She was reserved for a moment, but she was too hungry to sit down at the table. Seeing Zhang Xiaowu move his chopsticks, he thought that he was a "little woman", so he was no longer polite and began to eat.
Zhang Xiaowu smiled slightly and said, "Now that food is precious, let's not waste it and eat it all." I don't know if there will be another meal after eating this meal. ”
One of these two people was in a coma for two days, and the other only drank a mouthful of gruel yesterday, and they were really hungry, and they were very elegant at first, but after eating, they "exposed their nature", and soon wiped out all the food and dry food on the table, leaving only four breads. Zhang Xiaowu was full, and the little bride couldn't hold on, but she began to clean up the table. She was born in an ordinary family, she has helped her family since she was a child, and her character is hardworking and her hands and feet are also sharp, but she doesn't know where the kitchen is, after all, this county government is a bit big, so Zhang Xiaowu asked her to put it next door.
The little bride packed up the dishes, the sky gradually darkened, and when she returned to the new house, she suddenly thought of the words of her female companions, and suddenly became worried, and her heart fluttered, and she stood at the door for a long time before entering the house with a red face. She closed the door, leaned against the door and didn't dare to step forward, and peeked at Junlang opposite with a crimson face, but suddenly hiccuped because of nervousness.
"Uh......"
Zhang Xiaowu couldn't help but laugh when he heard her hiccups. The little bride hurriedly buried her head and wanted to get into the crack in the ground, her hungry stomach screamed before, and now she couldn't stop hiccups, which made her face the gentleman in front of her.
Zhang Xiaowu stepped forward and led her back to the bed for the third time, sat on the chair next to the dining table reflexively, and whispered: "I'm not Liu Xia Hui, nor Yue Buqun, but you are too young, although you are pretty, I am not a pervert." So you'll sleep here today, and I'll go find a place later, and the county government is big." I forgot to introduce myself, my surname is Zhang Xiaowu, and my companions call me Xiaowu, so you call me...... Brother Xiaowu, I'm a few years older than you after all. I heard your mother-in-law say that your name is Jiu'er, what is your big name? ”
The little bride blushed and didn't know what she was thinking, but then she regained her well-behaved expression and said: "I don't have a big name, because I was born on the ninth day of April, and my family calls me Jiu'er by my milk name, and no one asks me about my name on weekdays." When she said the origin of her name, her expression was like that of a fawn, and her eyes were quick and cautious, for fear that her husband would think she was not very educated.
Zhang Xiaowu said with a wicked taste: "The name Yin Jiu'er is difficult to get into the hall of elegance, why don't I give you a name, a serious name." There are flower words in the "Book of Songs": Flee from the premature death, scorching its flower, the son is home, and it is appropriate for his room. How about I help you name Yin Xiaoyao? ”
The little bride stared at the stubbornness of dissatisfaction, those eyes were angry and beautiful, and she pouted after a long time to protest: "Yin Xiaoxiao, it's ugly, I don't want it." ”
Zhang Xiaowu stroked his palms and laughed, although this marriage is a little ridiculous, it is also very interesting. The ancients got married first and then fell in love, and most of the people who fell in love first and then pursued marriage like Liang Zhu became butterflies, and the marriage of first marriage and then love is not necessarily all tragedy, at least compared to the 50% divorce rate in later generations, the couples who marry first and then fall in love rarely divorce. He shook his head and joked: "Yin Xiaoyao has such a beautiful name, why can't it be called?" ”
"Don't, my name is nice, don't change your name, huh." In order to fight for the right to her name, the little bride even forgot to hiccup.
Zhang Xiaowu nodded and said: "Actually, Yin Jiu'er is quite good, but it's not good to be called Yin Jiu, it sounds like a guy in a gambling house or an errand boy in a certain ranger novel."
The little bride still said stubbornly: "My name is Yin Jiu'er, not Yin Jiu'er." She suddenly found that she was no longer hiccuping, and immediately became happy, and her eyes smiled like a crescent moon of command, which made people look refreshed.
Zhang Xiaowu felt that the time was almost up, so he got up and walked to the door, opened the door and was about to go out, but turned around and said, "Go to bed early, good night." ”
Yin Jiu'er was only told in the morning that she was going to get married, and she was told a lot by her mother and aunt, but she didn't expect to become a relative, and the groom didn't touch her, so she was immediately relieved. Hearing the sound of the door closing, Yin Jiu'er looked up and saw that the groom was gone, and suddenly became confused, there were only the two of them in such a large courtyard, if he left, would there really be only himself left in this house? The little bride couldn't help but shout: "Zhang Xiaowu! Brother Xiao Wu! Don't go. ”
"What's wrong?" Zhang Xiaowu was closing the door, and when he heard the shouting inside, he had to walk in and ask.
Yin Jiu'er blushed and said, "I'm afraid of the dark." ”
"Pepper is still afraid of the dark?" Zhang Xiaowu was stunned for a moment, only to realize that the little bride in front of him was only fourteen years old, and she was only in the first grade of junior high school according to the standards of later generations, and then laughed, walked back to the bedside and said: "Seeing your pungent character, I thought you were bold, but I didn't expect to be afraid of the dark." ”
"Hmm......" Yin Jiu'er said in a shy voice, and suddenly asked vigilantly: "What is Little Pepper?" Which girl's name is it? Are there any other concubines? What does she look like? Although she is young, she has also been exposed to it since she was a child, if any family accepts a concubine, most of the wives are neglected, especially in large families, then the wife is most likely an ornament, but is excluded by the concubine.
At this time, Jiu'er suddenly thought about it, thinking that she was the wife of the eight-lift sedan chair Ming Media was marrying the door, and she definitely couldn't let that "little slut" bully her.
Zhang Xiaowu looked at her big bright black eyes, and understood that she must be thinking nonsense, a woman is a woman after all, no matter how old a woman is, the ability to be jealous is innate. He couldn't help laughing: "I'm not too old and not too jealous, the little pepper I'm talking about is you, the little pepper is a dish in my hometown, just like dogwood, very spicy." It's a metaphor, a metaphor, you know? ”
The little bride suddenly stared at Yingying's big eyes and looked at him angrily, but her heart was beautiful, and she couldn't hold back her giggles for a while.