The summer heat of June was rising, the sun was together, and there was no interest in doing anything outside, and the peasant men were all wearing short single clothes and working barefoot, but the women were also tightly surrounded, showing only two eyes to see the way.

On the bank of the Xijiang River, a small boat stopped on the shore, and when the boat stopped steadily, a woman on the boat jumped ashore with a cloth bag, and said something to the big man on the boat, the big man scratched his head, smiled honestly, and then stretched out the bamboo artemisia and rowed to the river.

The woman turned around and walked slowly, and returned home along the path to the north, which was the catkins that had returned from the Flower Building. Pushed open the door and entered the small courtyard, maybe it was still early, there was no movement in the courtyard, Liu Wu put the cloth bag on the table, and went straight to the backyard.

"Huh? When did Uncle Junior feed? The catkins saw that the ducklings had been chilled under the covered scaffolding, the trough had been slurped, and the flow was full of small paw webbed marks, all of which were rubbed black.

Liu Wu smiled, "You little bastards, all playing in the mud, what have you become?" The good fluff is all made of mud, so let's take a cool breath and dispose of you later! ”

The catkins looked next door again, there were only two chickens lying in the nest under the rack next door, obviously it was not hot, the catkins ignored these few small things, went back to the front yard, only picked up the wooden basin and the water scoop on the side, walked to the table and put the cloth bag in the basin, and picked up the wooden basin to go out of the courtyard. After taking a few steps, he stopped, gently placed the wooden basin on the ground, and tiptoed towards Meng Feishi's room.

Liu Wu lowered his body, the whole person was attached to the door, his ears listened up and down, and he didn't hear half a minute of movement, straightened up and pouted.

"Why don't you go in?"

"Ahh Liu Wu screamed, fell backwards, slammed the door of Meng Feishi's room open, and the whole person fell into the door.

Poof!

There is no doubt that catkins were broken, rubbed their buttocks and got up, and complained: "Why don't you rest in the house, and run outside to scare me!" ”

Meng Feishi looked at Liu Wu, ignored her complaints, walked to the table in the courtyard and sat down, and said, "The three poles are high in the sun, how can I lie high in the room?" ”

"You should rest more, there are still injuries!" Liu Wu closed the door of Meng Feishi's room, and Ying Ying walked towards the table.

"Okay, it's almost, Bertona's trauma medicine is very effective, I originally wanted to practice martial arts today, aren't you going to Xijiang to wash your clothes? Let's go, I'll go too. ”

"What are you going to do, and I don't need you to wash it." Liu Fu asked suspiciously.

Meng Feishi looked at Liu Fu with strange eyes and said: "Build a hanger for you by the river, wash it and dry it directly, and it won't take an hour to dry it all this day." ”

"Huh? Uncle Xiao is really smart, why didn't I think of it! Liu Fu clapped his hands and said with a grin.

"Don't delay, let's go." Meng Feishi got up and took the wooden basin in his hand and walked towards the outside of the courtyard.

"Huh? Why are you taking my tub? Aren't you going to get a drying rack! Liu Wu asked as he trotted to catch up with Meng Fei.

"You'll know when you get there, I've chosen a good place for you." Meng Fei didn't look back, just walked forward with such a dashing step.

"What a weird man!" Liu Fu dragged Meng Feishi out in his heart, raised the embroidered shoes and pumped them twice, humming angrily, of course he didn't dare to say this, if this little uncle listened to it, he would have to trouble her again.

Following behind Meng Feishi, Liu Wu's steps can really easily follow! Liu Wu lowered his head and looked at Meng Feishi's steps, and found that this man was consciously slowing down his pace, although his steps were large, he controlled the rhythm very well, if it wasn't for Liu Wu's staring, he wouldn't have found such an interesting thing.

"Ahh

Meng Fei felt a softness, just hit his back so unscrupulously, paused for a moment, turned around, Liu Fei was touching his forehead and rubbing, obviously hitting Meng Feishi's skeleton, hitting a solid one.

"Do you walk without eyes? I stopped, and hit me so recklessly, if I didn't stop it, would you plan to jump off the Xijiang River? ”

"What a murderer! Am I wondering if things can't work? Besides, why did you suddenly stop and not say a word! Liu Wu pouted and complained when he looked at Meng Fei, a big man, what kind of rambling like a woman?

Meng Fei didn't realize that since he met the catkins, his words suddenly increased, and he was always picking fault with the catkins, as long as it didn't go well, he would have to speak harshly, he had never thought that he also had the potential to become a housekeeper's wife before!

"Xijiang is in front of me, and I am still doing anything forward, and I haven't seen you speak all the way, how can I open my mouth to remind you?" Meng Feishi's meaning is also obvious, blame me?

"Whatever you want, return the tub to me, and I'll find a place to wash my clothes." Liu Wu stepped forward to take away the wooden basin in Meng Feishi's hand, and he could drag it with force for a long time, and the wooden basin seemed to be stuck in Meng Feishi's hand, and it did not move.

"Don't be busy, this is the place I chose for you." Meng Fei pulled the catkins' hand away, and the wooden basin in his hand was placed by the river.

Liu Fu looked behind Meng Feishi, Meng Feishi let go of his body in time, there was a naturally recessed inlet behind him, there were no aquatic plants in this area, it was bare, and the water surface was encircled by a wooden fence, making a flat and spacious wooden bridge, not only people can sit on it, but there is also a flat boulder in the center showing half of the body, looking at the appearance of this stone, it seems to be artificially placed here!

"This is? What did you do? Liu Wu asked in surprise.

"See if it works?"

Liu Wu walked up to the wooden bridge with the wooden basin, put the wooden basin on the bridge, stretched out her legs and tried it, the height of the stone was just right, she took off her shoes, rolled up her trouser legs, and stepped on the underwater stones with her bare feet.

The part of the stone that invades the water does not feel the sun is hot at all, but it is a little cool and comfortable, and the extent of the stone exposure is just right, as long as you stretch out your hand, you can pour water on it, "Uncle Xiao is quite intimate." ”

Liu Wu played for a while, withdrew his feet, and said, "It's just right, much better than my laundry table on the edge of the reeds in the east of the city." ”

"It's good to be suitable, I think this stone panel is too narrow, and it will be inconvenient for you to use it."

"It's just right, no matter how big my arms are, my arms aren't long enough."

"Then you wash it, don't push too hard, it won't be good if it falls in the water."

"How can I be as bad as you say?"

Meng Feishi's eyes stared at the catkins for a while, and he didn't say anything, what did he look like, didn't he have a number in his heart?

Meng Feishi ignored the catkins that had already started to wash his clothes, but stepped aside and nailed the wood he had prepared to the ground every half step, forming an open semicircle, enclosing the place.

Meng Fei tied beams to the upper half of each stake with hemp rope, and set up two rows of hangers by the fence on the north side, on which Hsinchu was placed, and I don't know where Meng Fei found it.

Meng Feishi finished all this side, and the catkins were still playing and doing laundry there, and he didn't care about her, squatted by the river and washed, wiped the sweat on his forehead and went home.

The west bank of the West River is the near water point of the North City Gate, and there are often people here who wash clothes by the riverside.

There was a person on the opposite side of the catkins at this time, but it was not Huanniang, but a man who looked different from others, this man was short, but his arms were long, and he was holding two wooden basins in front of him, which blocked the face of the whole person, and the man walked to the river, put the wooden basin he was holding beside him, and habitually looked at the other side, and after seeing the figure, the man actually grinned.

A man and a woman on both sides of the Xijiang River were washing clothes by the river at the same time, but they didn't know each other.

The catkins only got a dozen dresses today, compared to the coarse clothes for the rice line, the girls' dresses are much easier to wash, and some flower girls sent soap specially for washing the skirts.

This soap also has a great origin, the soap of the water show people is equipped with lard, and the smell is quite fishy, but the soap of the flower building is transformed by the palace people, I don't know what the reason is, it flows out a little, to the hands of this flower building, this soap adds the fragrance of the petals in it, after use, there is still a floral fragrance on the clothes.

The catkins also want to find two pieces for use, listen to the flower girl said that this thing, the palm size will be ten taels of silver, the scared catkins no longer have any ideas, such a valuable soap, they were actually used by them to wash clothes, in the eyes of the catkins, this is definitely a loser's behavior!

Put the dress into the basin, the catkins straightened her waist, and when she looked up, she found that a man on the other side was also washing clothes, without thinking too much, she picked up the wooden basin full of dresses, walked to the drying rack that Meng Fei had set up for her, and hung the dresses on it one by one, and was afraid that the wind would blow away the dresses, and wrapped the belts on the skirts around their respective dresses.

After all hung up, the catkins picked up the wooden basin and walked home, just walked two steps, found that there was a row of clips hanging on the side of the drying rack, the catkins took one out of curiosity and played with it in their hands, there is a groove on each side of the head of the clip, so that a pair formed a small round shape, suddenly a thought flashed in the catkins' mind, and hurriedly clamped the clip in his hand to Hsinchu, which just stuck Hsinchu, "Isn't this for me to clip clothes?" ”

As soon as the catkins thought about it, they clamped a dress with this clip, but it was tightly seamless, and it was really used like this!

"This little uncle won't make it clear to me, if I can't see it, won't I make some jokes again? Hum! ”

The catkins clipped the dresses through the universal clips, and walked home with an empty wooden basin and water scoop.

When I returned home, I saw that the courtyard was full of people, "When did a guest come to the door?" ”

Liu Wu was puzzled, pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, the four people sitting around the table listened to the voice, and all looked at her, and three of them even got up and saluted, "Sister-in-law is well!" ”

Liu Wu was stunned for a moment, and looked at them one by one, isn't this one of the four sons of Xunyang, Cui Chenshu, Duan Yifeng and Zhang Boxuan? Why did they all come together?

"You guys? Why did they all come together? ”

Zhang Boxuan pinned the fan in his hand to his waist and said: "I haven't visited the door in recent days, it's very rude, if it wasn't for Brother Duan to mention it, I don't know that my sister-in-law and Erlang moved here to live." ”

"Yes, it is extreme, if my sister-in-law has difficulties, even if she speaks to me, Brother Meng was as close to us as brothers and sisters during his lifetime, so he naturally has to take care of him for one or two."

"Brother Cui, why does this sound so piercing?" Duan Yifeng is an understanding person, and he can make up his mind to marry a woman like Yun Shu as his wife, so he naturally doesn't attach so much importance to this identity, and Cui Chenshu is not very kind to talk about the late Meng Yi.

How do you say that? Is it wrong to take care of Brother Meng's widow? ”

"Brother Meng is deceased, we don't have to mention how he is, just say that the willow girl is not famous now, and she can't be regarded as Brother Meng's wife, how can Brother Cui climb around and determine the identity of the person at will!"

"Huh?" Cui Chenshu saw Duan Yifeng say such things, presumably there were some reasons he didn't know, and said at the moment: "Even so, we are old friends, and it is understandable to visit one or two." ”

"You don't have to argue about any identity issues here, if you come to visit, people have seen it, it's okay, it's not missing half a hair, please go back."

Meng Feishi's face was cold, he had no smile since the three of them entered, the reason why he moved out of Xunyang was to avoid right and wrong, he didn't expect these people to be so ignorant, they just wanted to intervene sideways, disturbing people's leisure.

"What did Jiro say? We came together with good intentions, and if you have any difficulties, you can also help you. Zhang Boxuan turned to look at Meng Fei and said.

"There is no difficulty, my brother is too careful." Meng Feishi's tone was flat, and he still didn't have a good face.

"That sister-in-law and a woman are from a Taoist family, how did they take over the business of Yinghualou, and show up like this, how can they say that there is no difficulty? Why don't you tell me if you don't have a silver messenger? ”

Meng Feishi's face suddenly changed when he heard this, and he said, "Zhang Chong! I respect you as a brother and friend, so I treat each other with courtesy, things in my family, no need for outsiders to comment, if you have nothing important, you will not come to my door in the future! ”

"This!" Zhang Boxuan flicked his sleeves awkwardly and stopped talking.

Cui Chenshu was angry when he saw Meng Fei, his face was not good-looking, and he hurriedly stepped forward to persuade, "Erlang, although Brother Zhang's words are a little ugly, it is not unreasonable, sister-in-law lives like this, how can outsiders say?" I don't admit that I'm an outsider, no matter how we grow up together, after so many years of love, how can we break it off because we don't deal with it with a word? ”

"I know what your brothers are thinking, I don't steal when I am Meng Fei, I don't rob it, I just want to live in peace, who is it to provoke?"

"Who dares to mess with you? It's not all about my sister-in-law! ”

"Needless to say, I don't care what others say about me, my Meng family's family affairs, and I don't bother you to pay too much attention to it, please go back."

Duan Yifeng looked displeased when he saw Meng Fei, and hurriedly grabbed Zhang Boxuan, who was about to say more, and said: "Since Erlang has his own decision, we don't have to be strong, but if there are difficulties in the future, find us, and my brothers will not look at Erlang and sister-in-law's jokes." ”

"Brother Zhang?"

"Alas!" Zhang Boxuan sighed, took the fan in his hand and knocked it on his head, secretly annoyed, now that he was annoyed with Meng Fei, he had to leave first, and talk about it later.

"Now that Erlang has made up his mind, I'll leave later!"

"Sister-in-law stays, you don't have to send each other." Duan Yifeng stopped Liu Wu, pouted in her direction towards Meng Feishi, and then followed Cui Chenshu and Zhang Boxuan away.

Liu Fu wanted to say something, but he never opened his mouth, just muttered something in his mouth, turned his head to look at Meng Feishi's face, was startled, and asked, "Meng Zhao, what's wrong with you?" ”