Liu Xingmei was puzzled.

Tao Zhenkun lifted the cutting board on the tank, picked up a water hyacinth floating in the almost full water tank, and filled half a scoop of water, which he had filled yesterday. He poured water into the copper basin where he usually washed his face and clothes, and poured it on the ground, and then added most of the water to the basin.

Liu Xingmei stood aside and watched, and then understood.

Tao Zhenkun said: "In the future, when you go to carry water, you have to be more careful, don't let the rollers hit, and don't fall down if you stand firm on the well platform." ”

Liu Xingmei nodded with tears in her eyes and said, "I know, I'm not a child." ”

Tao Zhenkun smiled slightly, then dragged her to the basin, grabbed the waterfall-like flowing hair, slowly put it into the basin, rubbed her hair in the water, and said: "I hope you are a child, forever young and never old." The face is not old, and the youth is eternal. ”

"There is no one who will not grow old, will you dislike me at that time?" Liu Xingmei looked very obedient.

Tao Zhenkun didn't answer her directly, but said earnestly: "If only I were Tang Seng!" ”

"Why?"

"Eat my flesh and you will live forever."

"No, you can't."

"Why?"

"A monk doesn't marry a wife."

"That's right!"

Liu Xingmei, who lowered her head, tears fell in a pour.

This seemingly rival couple didn't expect it to be so affectionate.

As for Tao Zhenkun, tears are also flashing. He looked at the floating hair in the basin, and in this case, it reminded him many times of taking a mandarin duck bath in the fairy river with Liu Xingmei on that Qixi night last year. It was a warm and romantic evening, which made a young man and woman pay lingering and passion.

The river of time will wash away everything that has happened in the past, but it can't wash away the good memories in people's minds.

In those days, poor families could not afford to wash their hair without things like shampoo.

This young couple who are about to part, in their hearts seem to have a thousand words to say to each other, but the bitterness and sorrow make them stingy with many words, and it seems that silence is better than sound.

Tao Zhenkun wiped his hair half-dry with a towel very seriously, and the two of them came to the West House and sat on the kang.

The space in the room seems to have a rich faint fragrance permeating, thinking that it comes from the pot of plum blossoms on the ground. Since Liu Xingmei brought this pot of flowers back from the Chu family, under her careful fertilization and watering, the growth is good, and the branches and branches are thriving and multiplying, and it can be seen that the broken ceramic pot has become smaller and difficult to tolerate, and the lush flowers are blooming extremely enchanting and fragrant. If she doesn't know the flowering period of this flower, she will think that there is an out-of-season phenomenon.

After Tao Zhenkun decided to go out to work, Liu Xingmei tried her best to improve the fire food for three meals a day, changing her tricks, carefully selecting the coarse grains and fine rice, and the millet white noodles that she usually saved to eat became dry rice and dumplings, gruel noodles, steamed buns or pancakes. The dishes in this season are a bit monotonous, only pickles and sauerkraut and cabbage that have been preserved for the winter, as well as mushrooms and wild vegetables collected in the mountains and dried and stored, and the meat is basically nothing except oil and a few pieces of bacon. Oh, and the fish that Tao Zhenkun caught were salted and salty, which is rich if you talk about it in detail.

Tao Zhenkun was really a little unbearable, so he said, "Do you really treat me as a foodie?" Keep it for yourself! ”

"How can I eat as much as I can eat in your stomach? Eat, I hope to see you come back with this fat and strong body, just don't be skinny! ”

"Don't you usually think I'm fat?"

"Only when you are fat can you appear to be rich."

"If I'm too fat, aren't you panicking?"

"If you don't say three words, you'll be out of place."

"Between husband and wife, how can there be so many serious things!"

The words of two days ago made Tao Zhenkun still remember it. Doesn't the bits and pieces of this life illustrate the love between husband and wife?

At this time, Liu Xingmei said with guilt: "There is really nothing good to cook for you at home!" ”

Tao Zhenkun smiled and said, "I was thinking about what I have eaten in the past few days, and you brought it up again, you can't use it, what a cropper eats can't do, don't treat me as a guest." ”

"I'll just say kill those two chickens—"

"But don't, it's my sin to kill them just to make me eat them, and I don't want to take their lives by eating that bite. Even when my mother is here, you want to kill a chicken and give your mother a stew to drink, and she will be reluctant to do so when she is insane! We don't have donkeys or pigs, except for the black tiger, there are only three and a half chickens left. At least it's panting, so I'll keep it with you. If you want to talk about it, I don't always catch some game. It's just that I'm leaving, probably because I'm suffering you. ”

"If I'm hungry, I'll go hunting. Yanping's sister-in-law said that she has a lot of chickens, and when there are hens lying in the nest, she will also hold a few for us. We also have roosters, eggs can also hatch, but there are few chickens, and there has never been a nest, so when the time comes, we will take a few eggs to continue, we don't take advantage of other people's small advantages, don't you say that you want to suffer a big loss? ! ”

Tao Zhenkun stared at Liu Xingmei in a daze.

"Look, what's wrong with the flowers on my face?"

"My wife is a flower, it's beautiful. You speak softly, this is gentleness, it looks feminine, I like it. ”

"you." Liu Xingmei said coquettishly, she was twisting her slightly wet hair in her hands, and her handsome face was red in shyness.

Her appearance, in Tao Zhenkun's eyes, is indeed beautiful. So, he couldn't help the turmoil in his heart, so he put his arms around Liu Xingmei's neck, and said excitedly: "Now I don't want to eat anything, I just want to eat you." ”

He went to kiss the beautiful lips greedily, and lifted the hem of his shirt with one hand and crawled towards the full chest like a snake.

Liu Xingmei twisted her body in panic to dodge, and pushed away his hand that only needed to untie her trouser belt and said: "What are you doing here, it's not enough to toss people endlessly at night, and this daylight doesn't stop, so I'm not afraid of being watched by others——"

"There's a black tiger standing guard, and it'll bark when someone comes."

Then, Liu Xing's body was pressed down on the kang. At this time, she can only be obedient, and it is impossible for her to struggle and resist as she did when she was forced to conquer.

Tao Zhenkun believes that one more intercourse, Liu Xingmei will have one more hope and opportunity to get pregnant.

But just as this exciting moment was coming, I suddenly heard the black tiger in the yard screaming.

Both were taken aback.

Tao Zhenkun hurriedly got up and went to the ground, fortunately he didn't take off his clothes and shoes, and he scolded unhappily: "Who is so muddy, really ignorant, a good thing to disturb others at this time is coming?!" ”

He looked through the open window towards the gate, and saw that there were four children standing there, looking very well dressed, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be the four brothers and sisters of the Lao Wu family.

"Who is it?" Liu Xingmei also got up and sorted out her clothes.

"It's someone from the old Wu family who is here, there must be something. I'll go out and have a look, and you go and put the tiger skin away." ”

Tao Zhenkun went out of the house, came to the gate and asked, "May I ask you what this is——? ”

Wu Huan said: "My grandfather said that he would invite you to my house for dinner in the evening. ”

Wu Le said, "I said I had to go to you." ”

Tao Zhenkun said politely: "No need, we understand his old man's kindness." ”

Ni Ji said, "Don't you listen to my grandfather's words?" ”

Ni said, "That's it, what about sister-in-law Xingmei?" Call her out. ”

The four children of the Lao Wu family have now grown into boys and girls, handsome and beautiful.

When Tao Zhenkun was in a dilemma, Liu Xingmei came out. He came to him and asked, "Why are you here, what is the matter in the house?" ”

Ni Ji said, "My grandfather has sent a message and said that he will invite you two to dinner in the evening." ”

Ni said: "Sister-in-law, you talk happily, do you want to go or not?" ”

Liu Xingmei laughed when she heard this, and said happily: "What should I do, daring is such a good thing, how can I not go." I've been hungry for a long time, and I'm thinking about the happy event of your three sisters, so I should shake off my cheeks and raise my big molars to eat a few meals. Go back and go back, and you'll be there in the evening. This is the grandfather for the two of us to put gold on the face, if you don't go, you don't know how to lift, others don't want to have this opportunity, it's hard to be gracious. It's people who appreciate face, how can we not give face, and besides, our face is not worth anything! ”

When the two sisters heard Liu Xingmei's words, they both smiled.

"I love to listen to my sister-in-law. ”

Ni said: "It's our family that we love to hear. ”

"Really?" Liu Xingmei was a little confused.

"Of course!" Ni said solemnly.

"Whoever lied to you is a puppy!" Ni said in a daze.

"Looks like I'm still quite popular." This really flattered Liu Xingmei a little.