After not seeing him for more than a month, Shang Cheng's appearance has changed a little. After more than two months of continuous travel, his already tall body became thinner and thinner; However, this thinness is not thinness, on the contrary, judging from his vigorous posture when walking, it should be said that long-term physical labor has made his body stronger. Probably because of the long journey, he wore only a gown, a single coat on his shoulders, trousers were pulled high, and the muscles on his calves tightened as he lifted his feet; Sun-tanned skin shimmers with a healthy glow. He had no beard, a well-defined chin, some unshaven stiff stubble, and a few thin wounds on his slightly sunken cheeks. It can be seen that this is most likely not the heirloom skill of the master to be edicted in the market town. Judging from the palm-length sheathed knife hanging from the belt around his waist, this knife is likely to be his tool for shaving his face. His hair grew a little longer, and now he had learned to wear it in a bun on top of his head, and wrapped it in a bun of blue cloth like a prominent farmer. But it can be seen from his fluffy and messy hair that he is not familiar with this craft now, and the shape of the bun he pulled out is strange, and the position is not quite the same as others, so after wrapping it in cloth, it looks more like a blue bump on the top of his head, which makes people a little unbearable at the sight.

The big girl is feeling a little funny right now. While cleaning up a few rooms with Yue'er, and putting away the small things that she took from the Liu family, she secretly laughed, and couldn't help but look at Shang Cheng's head, and then turned her face back and laughed for a long time. Yue'er was also like her, turning around, her eyes kept rolling on Shang Cheng's head, and she bit her lip desperately, suffocating her little face red.

When the two women were tidying up the house, Shang Chengcheng found a small stool for Liu Laozhu to sit on, and he squatted on the dripping edge under the eaves of the hall house and talked with him.

said that he was talking to Liu Laozhu, but in fact, Yue'er was talking to him instead of her father. Liu Laozhu was almost silent, holding his hands and drooping his eyelids, only occasionally responding. Occasionally, he would raise his eyes, look at Shang Cheng with a wrinkled face, and muttered something vaguely in his mouth.

Yue'er took a broom to sweep the soil in the courtyard, and said, "My father asked you, why did you go to Beizheng and walk for so long?" ”

"At that time, it was said that the trip to Beizheng was over, but when I arrived in Beizheng County, an officer came to the Yamen of the Right Army of Yanshan, and with a wave of his hand, he sent our tribe to Pingshanzhai. Rushed to Pingshan Village, and the border army asked us to transport the herbs, furs, cow horns, etc. from the village to Duanzhou. After a big circle, I returned to Yi County from Duanzhou. ”

Liu Laozhu couldn't speak official language, but he could understand what Shang Cheng said. He grinned and said, "Lenqi merchant Namo ......"

Speaking of which, Shang Cheng has been in Huojiabao for more than half a year, and he can already understand the local dialect, and he can also deal with a few sentences with others with the local local accent, and occasionally a vulgar slang that scolds his mother pops out of his mouth, and the words are round, and people who don't know his details will not treat him as a foreigner at all, but Liu Laozhu's accent always makes him feel embarrassed, so whenever there is Yue'er's ready-made "translator" next to him, he almost doesn't listen to it very carefully, just waiting for Yue'er to speak.

Yue'er didn't rush to change the conversation after hearing this, but only glanced at her father and said a word to Liu Laozhu in a very strong local dialect.

Liu Laozhu was silent for a moment, and muttered again. Yue'er immediately said a sentence, and then said a few words. Now Liu Laozhu is not open; Yue'er didn't give Shang Cheng a "translation", frowning and slamming the broom hard, raising the dust half a day high.

It seems that the two father and daughter are arguing about something.

Shang Cheng didn't know what they were arguing about, nor did he know the beginning and end of the dispute, and after waiting for a long time to see Yue'er ignore himself, Liu Laozhu was an elm pimple and a gourd, and he felt a little bored, so he stood up and pretended to find water to drink, and stepped into the hall.

The eldest girl was taking a wet sackcloth and smearing the soil of the house in the back room, and when she saw him enter the hall and look around, she said through the door, "...... The water is not yet boiling. As he spoke, he glanced at Liu Laozhu, who was sitting outside the door of the hall, pursed his lips, and looked at Shang Chengyi with big eyes, why did you come back?

"You're busy. I'm not thirsty. ”

Seeing that Shang Cheng was about to turn around and go out, the eldest girl hurriedly stopped him.

But what should I say after calling the monk? Seeing Shang Cheng standing in the ground and looking down at herself, she suddenly didn't know what to say. In fact, she has a stomach full of things to say to him, one by one, why did you come back? Do you think I don't? I think of you every day, and I come to see this house every day; This is our home from now on...... But she didn't have the courage to say these words, because Uncle Zhuzi was sitting at the door, and Yue'er was also in the courtyard......

After a while, she blushed and said, "...... Do you look good at the window grille? ”

The half window of the back room was covered with tribute paper. This is a rare price, not only does it not affect the light in the house, but also can blur the things outside the courtyard wall without opening the window, which is the best window paper. It's just that the price is frighteningly expensive, and a window so big costs 15 yuan. This was bought by her own ladder with the ladder she had saved from playing a small school, and it was also pasted by herself. The paper is also pasted with red paper cut out of the window flower "Tong Zi Sending Blessing Picture": a fat doll with all facial features, he holds corn, beans, hemps, wheat, rice and grains in his hands, surrounded by horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, six animals, one by one, this is the best window flower, but also the most difficult to do window flowers, it often takes several days to cut such a window flower; And because the patterns are too complicated, the slightest carelessness will fail, so this is also the most expensive window flower in the city's flower paper shop.

"Beautiful." Shang Cheng said casually.

"I'll hang it." The eldest girl said proudly in a tone of expression. She took a handkerchief, held up a small piece of cloth with her fingers, and carefully wiped a few strands of spider silk from the window flowers. "But it took nine days...... Only the "Boy Sending Blessing" that was twisted out on the ninth day is the most auspicious, and the window flower lady will make people realize their wish......"

Of course, Shang Cheng couldn't believe these myths and stories that circulated in the little girl's pile, he smiled and said, "Isn't it possible to make the window flowers roughly in the first eight days, and wait until the ninth day to put the last scissors?" ”

"How can that be?" The big girl gave him an angry look. He put his hands together again, bowed his head and prayed two sentences with a solemn face. "Don't be angry, he is such a mouthful and unintentional. There are a lot of Niangniang, don't worry about him......" After praying, she said to Shang Cheng, "Don't say this in the future, the window flower Niangniang will be angry when she hears it." ”

Shang Cheng is also a sneer. When I opened my mouth, I felt that there was nothing to say, but if I didn't say something, the atmosphere would be even more embarrassing. Finally, he finally found a good topic: "...... Did you make a wish? As soon as the words came out, he wanted to pick them up and swallow them all.

Hi! Which pot is not opened, which pot is mentioned! Didn't he find trouble for himself?

Ever since he met the big girl in the county seat last month, he knew that this girl really wanted to be good with him. Speaking seriously, he didn't know about it at that time. Earlier, when he was idle and had nothing to do to help Huo Qi's family serve the crops, the eldest girl ran to the field under the excuse of delivering water on the left and food on the right, and he already knew a little bit in his heart at that time. The purse that gave him his own surname was embroidered with his surname, which is even more clear. And the scene in the county town is just the eldest girl implicitly provoking it to him...... Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, one by one, this little girl was more anxious than him.

Marrying a little girl who is sixteen years old is a little awkward psychologically, but it is not unacceptable. According to the law of the Great Zhao Dynasty, a woman of thirteen and a man of fifteen can get married, and since he is a native of the Duanzhou Mansion of the Great Zhao, of course, he must also abide by the laws of the imperial court. And he also knows that there are not a few people who marry off seven or eight-year-old female babies, of course, more female babies are generally fourteen or fifteen years old before they start looking for their in-laws, and some mothers-in-law and aunts themselves are still like dolls, and the babies have given birth to two or three......

But he couldn't respond to the big girl's enthusiasm, because until now he still had deep worries and doubts in his heart.

His wonder was how he could have come here, to this strange and familiar world. This question has been bothering him. Where the hell is this? What he saw, heard, and known, all this told him very clearly, that he was on earth, in the East, in an ancient civilization that had been in the same vein as the twenty-six years before him, and that everything here was the precursor to the place where he came...... But! But everything here was so different from the history he knew, and so different that he still felt that he was in a bizarre dream, in a fantasy that existed only in his own mind......

Since it is a dream, since it is an illusion, then the dream will always wake up, the illusion will definitely disappear, and he will go back to continue his ordinary and fulfilling life, and continue to walk the path he should take.

In this way, it seems that he should not hesitate to marry the eldest girl. Since he himself thought it was just a dream, it was impossible for him to do harm to a person who was stuck in his mind.

But there was a voice in his heart that told him that everything he was experiencing now was not a dream, because it could not be so real, nor could it be so delicate! How can this be a dream? Even the movie oligarchs known as "DreamWorks" can't build such a huge and wonderful world and create so many ordinary characters, right? Look at these people around him, Da Ya, Yue'er, Liu Laozhu, and the mountain baby and Zhao Shizi who broke up with him after lunch, each of them is so real, their words and deeds are full of real emotions that are difficult to describe in words, and even their joys, sorrows and sorrows are so infectious, can this be a dream?

It's a dream. He told himself in his heart.

Even he himself felt that the answer was so pale as unconvincing, so delicate that even if he did not refute it, it would itself be like a small whirlpool in the girl's river, which would have disappeared without a trace before you could see it clearly.

So he can't accept the big girl. He couldn't hurt this passionate girl. When he faced her and her feelings, he couldn't help but think about a very important thing, and what he was most worried about, whether he would mysteriously disappear from this world and return to the world he used to have......

He had to admit that he was a little attached to the world now, and he had begun to fall in love with everything here. He fell in love with the mountain, the water, the land, and the hardworking and simple people in this land, and it was because of his feelings for them that he couldn't hurt them, including the big girl.

But in order to find a face covering for his temporary mouth, he actually teased the big girl for no reason......

Seeing the big girl blushing and staring at herself with a pair of big watery eyes, and when she was about to say to herself the wish she made in front of the window flower girl, he almost wanted to slap himself and let you have nothing to fuck and make a mess! Aren't you hurting others?

"Excuse me!" Suddenly, a familiar voice came from outside. "Excuse me, does the merchant brother live here?"

Immediately, like a man about to drown, he caught a life-saving straw and immediately replied loudly: "This is it!" This is it! Stone, how did you get your dog stuff? Didn't you go back to Zhao Ji? As he spoke, he jumped out of the hall like a rabbit with its tail on it.

"I will definitely go back to Zhaoji, but I don't have to go back immediately." Zhao Shishi had already entered the courtyard, and was looking around at the placement in the courtyard, and said, "I have been confused by the sun and the plague mountain baby has not said anything to remind me, you also pretend to be a wooden fetus like a ghost!" I only remembered after walking twenty miles, I will go back now, and I have to come back again if my ass does not land! I just don't go back first, stay here with you, I can help if I can, and if I can't help, I'll wait for the big day of eating and drinking......"

Shang Cheng was a little confused by Zhao Shishi's series of words, and asked in confusion: "Big day?" Nice to eat and drink on a big day? What's the big day? ”

The eldest girl rushed to the side of the hall and looked at him, but only smiled, but did not speak. Liu Laozhu knew that Shang Cheng couldn't understand his words, so he simply didn't speak. It was Yue'er who robbed him: "Didn't you see that the door gods on the courtyard gate were all paste?" The hall also didn't post a happy couplet, this is all waiting for you to come back! Building a house is a big event, and it takes two meals to run a running water table. My dad just said about this banquet, and I want to give you a big operation, set up a day's running water banquet, the dishes are not empty, the wine is not empty......"

Shang Cheng was puzzled at first, then suddenly, and then he was very grateful to Liu Laozhu for this friendship, and finally he rejected Liu Laozhu's idea of doing a big job. His reason was very realistic: in order to buy this compound, he had already pulled down a famine of more than a dozen dollars, which already gave him a headache; If he organizes another banquet, I am afraid that he will have to sell the house to pay off the debt before he can live in the new house.

Yue'er protested and flattened her father's mouth. Look, I'll just say that the monk brother won't agree to the big operation, right?

After learning how to deal with this kind of banquet, and asking who to invite and what things to prepare for the banquet, Shang Cheng decided to hold a one-day banquet according to the old rules, and invited relatives and friends in the neighborhood to have two meals......