Shang Cheng was worried about the affairs of the Huo family, and he didn't sleep well for half the night, and when he heard the first rooster crowing outside the window in a daze, he hurriedly got up and cleaned up.

The lamp was already on in the stove, and the dim light cast a magnified figure of a man on the wall.

He stepped to the door of the stove room and took a look, and Lianniang was sitting in front of the stove cave and napping.

A warm current immediately poured into his heart. He hunched over into the low stove, stroked his wife's hair, woke her up, and then said affectionately and concernedly, "Why do you get up so early?" Go back to bed! His wife's cheeks were flushed with the bright light of the fire, redder than the day they got married. He picked up a piece of broken wheat stalk from Lianniang's hair and said, "Go to sleep, I can do it myself." ”

"Okay." Lianniang agreed vaguely and staggered to her feet. But she immediately came to her senses, and with a soft "ah" in her mouth, she immediately lifted the lid of the cauldron across the stove. Fortunately, although there are already circles of white scale in the pot, there are still two scoops of hot water left. She immediately scooped all the hot water into the wooden basin, then poured a small half spoonful into a large bowl, mixed it with some cold water, and put the basin and bowl under the eaves, and then took out a dish of green salt for brushing her teeth, and placed it on the high stool by the door of the stove. While doing these things neatly, she said to Shang Cheng: "Look at me, I overslept, if you hadn't gotten up, the water would have almost run dry." One by one, you brush your teeth and wash your face first, and I'll go get some sauce. ”

When Shang Cheng washed his face and entered the stove room, there were already dishes and chopsticks and simple food on the small wooden table against the wall. The porridge is a five-flavor porridge cooked by Lianniang yesterday, and after a shallow boil in the middle of the night, it becomes more fragrant and viscous; Next to the porridge bowl is a large pottery bowl filled with steamed buns, and several steamed white flour buns exude a hungry fragrance; A handful of washed winter onions lay tenderly on the table; And a bowl of sauce......

He drank porridge at Huo Shiqi's house last night, and when he got up in the middle of the night, he soaked two bubbles of urine and sprinkled on it, and his stomach was already so hungry that he gurgled and screamed. He sat down at the table without saying a word, took the porridge in his left hand and the porridge in his right hand, and drank two bowls of porridge and ate four steamed buns in the blink of an eye, which drove away the hunger of heartburn, burning lungs and cold belly.

Lianniang didn't move the chopsticks, but sat next to him and watched him eat.

When his wife served him a third bowl of porridge, he noticed the problem and asked, "Why don't you eat it?" Eat ...... together"

Lianniang shook her head with a smile and said, "I'm not hungry now, I'll eat with Erya and them later." You eat first, eat and drink well, and hurry to the county seat to ask what happened. I'm always worried that something will happen to the big girl. "How does she eat? This bun is made of tribute noodles; The tribute noodles at home are just a little, she eats what the man doesn't eat, and the man is the pillar of the family, she can't compete with the man who does heavy work outside.

Shang Cheng drank the porridge in the bowl with the winter onion dipped in sauce, reached out and wiped his mouth, comforted her, and said, "What can happen to the big girl?" At most, it was a fight between the two, and her man couldn't do her, so he came to her father-in-law's house to find help. He patted his stomach to show that he had eaten and drunk, and said, "I'll go into the city." As soon as the morning dawns, you will go to Uncle Zhuzi's house to report a message, don't let them worry blindly, and then say that we will not do anything. As he spoke, he stood up and walked out, stepped out of the door of the stove room with one foot, and turned his face to Lianniang and said, "You eat those two buns first, pad your belly." The girls are noisy for half a night, who knows when they will wake up? Don't go hungry. ”

Lianniang said "oh" and told him, "You should go and come back quickly." No matter what happens, come back and report it first. Don't let the family worry about ......"

Shang Cheng agreed.

Lianniang lowered her eyes, and propped her elbows on the edge of the table for a moment. Something like this happened to her aunt's house, where is she in the mood to eat now? After a while, she took the bowl used by the man and served herself half a bowl of porridge, and drank it with the sauce, which was considered a breakfast. She didn't touch the white bun that the two Shang Cheng specially left for her, and even put the bun and bowl back into the cage drawer. She extinguished the stove, sealed the air duct of the coal stove, washed her face indiscriminately, and saw that the sky in the east had turned white, and then went out to report to Liu's house.

When she arrived at Liu's house, Liu Laozhu was walking outside in a panic, and when he saw her face, he asked with a split face: "What's wrong?!" ”

It seems that he already knows about the disaster that happened to the Huo family last night. Thinking about it, Huo Shiqi's family had someone knocking on the door in the middle of the night, shouting at the carriage to drive the night, and Erya even took her two younger sisters to cry from the east of the town to the west of the town. Huo Shiqi's family made such a big move, and it was impossible to cover the eyes and ears of the villagers?

On the way here, Lianniang has been thinking about how to open her mouth to tell Liu Laozhu about things, how to teach Liu Laozhu not to be anxious and not worried, was asked by Liu Laozhu, and was a little speechless, and glanced into the surrounding people who got up early, and saw herself and Liu Laozhu standing at the gate of the courtyard talking, all of them were curious, and hurriedly said: "It's nothing, it's the eldest girl who is fighting angrily, and her man can't discipline her mother-in-law, so she has to come to Uncle Seventeen's house to move the rescuers......"

The people around him immediately let out a few good-natured laughs. Another guy said, "It seems that the adults who are officials are just as afraid of their wives." It made people laugh even more.

Liu Laozhu didn't laugh, and asked, "That Erya cried so hard in the middle of the night?" Still running to your house? "It's rare for him to be dumbfounded this time.

Lianniang wondered in her heart, Uncle Zhu had never been out of the door early in the morning, how could he understand things so clearly? She immediately saw a woman standing behind the courtyard wall of the neighbor's house next door, and she understood what was going on, and she must have been this broken-mouthed woman who didn't know where she heard the news, so she wanted to please and see the excitement, so she hurriedly ran to tell Liu Laozhu.

She immediately made up a nonsense and said, "Erya was drunk and confused last night, when my uncle and aunt went out." She said a few things that she shouldn't have said, and was beaten and scolded by Uncle Seventeen, so she ran to our house to avoid the limelight. ”

When they spoke, Yue'er stood by the door and listened. She is smarter than her father, and as soon as Lianniang said two sentences, she guessed that there was another story in it. She walked up and quietly tugged on Liu Laozhu's sleeve, and said to Lianniang, "Sister-in-law hasn't eaten yet, right?" It just so happened that I had just steamed steamed buns, as well as yesterday's five-flavor porridge, and came in to eat together. ”

Lianniang shook her head and said, "I won't eat it." I still have to go to the street to buy something, so I'll go first. ”

"Is the monk brother at home?" Yue'er immediately asked.

“…… He's still sleeping. Lianniang glanced at Yue'er and said to Liu Laozhu, "He said that he would invite his uncle over for dinner at noon today......

Lianniang walked on the front foot, Yue'er and Liu Laozhu arrived at Shang Cheng's courtyard on the back foot, and the three of them, plus Erya, who had just woken up and had red crying eyes, all gathered in the hall and waited hard for Shang Cheng to bring back the news from the county seat.

Before noon, Shang Chengcheng came back with a pale face.

The four eager people greeted the courtyard together, and almost at the same time asked, "What's wrong with the eldest girl (my sister)?" ”

Shang Cheng didn't say a word, pulled away the towel handed by his wife and walked to the eaves, found a footstool to sit down.

With his appearance, everyone's hearts sank, and they didn't dare to suddenly come forward to ask, for fear that what came out of his mouth would be the most terrible news. The courtyard was so quiet that it made people's hearts palpitate. The four girls didn't know what was going on, but the solemn and solemn atmosphere made them instinctively afraid. The two little guys hugged the adult's legs, grinned, opened their throats and cried with a "wow".

The two of them cried, and the two girls couldn't help it, and shouted "sister" heartbreakingly, but they couldn't even cry, and tears poured out. Yue'er opened her mouth wide and didn't make a sound, pulling her father's sleeve and trembling. Lianniang was already stupid with the towel, and tears fell down. Only Liu Laozhu was used to seeing this kind of thing, so he was quite calm, stroked his daughter's head, and sighed vigorously.

"Crying for what? Big girl is fine! Shang Cheng yelled in frustration.

What the? Is the big girl okay? Everyone stopped crying at once. But after everyone figured out the taste of these words, they immediately looked at each other again, and then stared at Shang Cheng together. Since your relatives are fine, what are you doing with this dejected face?

"Gu Shaomiao is dead."