"Her family is poorer, but she won't sell girls for a cheap year, and she won't ask me for a lot of dowry. Her family is poor, but it's none of her business, she's just a child, and it's his father who didn't take the right path at the beginning. I helped her mother open a tofu shop again, and I have a little income, and my life will improve. Besides, Chu Yunzhao went out to work, maybe he would be able to earn money back. When I was engaged, my father asked the Tao family for a lot of dowry, because the family was poor, so that now Zhenkun still complains! If it happens, in the future, if you are willing to help, you can help a little, and if you don't help others, it is impossible to force people with a dead face, they are all people who want face. You go back and ask Zhenzong, if he agrees to this family business, you and the uncle will wait to enjoy Qingfu in the future, Mei Xiang will definitely be a filial daughter-in-law, I dare to guarantee this. If he doesn't agree, then don't quarrel about it, otherwise their teachers and students will feel awkward when they meet, and it will be better if there are no eight sects. ”

"It's really okay to hear you say that, and I also think Mei Xiang's child is really good. I watched her grow up, and I know what kind of child she is. Luo Fang was tempted.

"I'm complimenting her from the bottom of my heart, not just to match this family affair. If Zhenzong wants to, you can tell me, and if you don't want to, you don't need to. ”

"Okay, let's cut through the mess quickly, I'll go back and ask Zhenzong, then do you know Mei Xiang's birthday?" Luo Fang said and went to the ground.

"I don't believe in that superstition, so I didn't ask. Auntie, I've cooked a meal, let's eat it here! ”

"No, I haven't cooked the lunch yet, and the two of them are still waiting at home! If Zhenzong agrees, it will not be too late for me to ask about the birthday, and see if it is compatible or not. ”

Liu Xingmei sent her out.

When passing by the livestock pen, Mei Xiang shouted shyly at Luo Fang: "Grandma! ”

Her heart was looking forward to when she would be able to change that title.

On a piece of wood next to it is a bowl with two pieces of tofu in the bowl. When Ji Jieyu was there, she could eat tofu almost every meal.

"Hey!" Luo Fang looked Mei Xiang up and down, and a smile appeared on her face.

Mei Xiang's heart was pounding, and she was shy.

The black tiger squatted beside the nest and began to shake its head and tail up.

Sent out of the gate, Luo Fang left.

Back in the courtyard, Mei Xiang picked up the bowl.

"I'm sending tofu again, why don't you let your mother keep it and sell it?"

"I didn't sell the rest, and I couldn't hold it when it was hot."

"Won't you ask her what she's doing?"

"What? It has nothing to do with me. ”

"It really has something to do with you, she came to me to be an introducer for your teacher, I told you, she is very satisfied with you, can you be your mother-in-law, just wait to listen!"

"If he doesn't agree, why should I go to school!" Mei Xiang blushed in embarrassment, and it depended on her teacher whether the family affair was successful or not.

Liu Xingmei smiled and said: "You don't have such a thing, just go to study anyway, what's the big deal." This is a pie-in-the-sky good thing for your teacher, and he will not be blessed if he does not agree. A girl like you is hard to find with a lantern. ”

Mei Xiang smiled, and brought the bowl into the house, she found a spare bowl to pour out the tofu, and when she came out with the empty bowl, she saw Liu Xingmei taking the saddle into the circle.

"Sister Xingmei, you are ——?"

"I'll take you out for a walk."

Liu Xingmei pulled the red apricot who had prepared the saddle out of the circle, and the donkey in the circle seemed to be envious and earning the reins back and forth.

Mei Xiang put the bowl on the wood again.

Liu Xingmei held the reins, let Mei Xiang get on the horse first, she pushed it, and then she also stepped on the horse with stirrups, Mei Xiang was in front and she was behind. The black tiger is struggling with the chains, and the meaning must follow.

"You're at home and watch the door!"

Liu Xingmei patted the jujube red horse as she spoke, and went out of the gate.

The black donkey in the pen was babbling.

"Where?"

"Just go for a walk."

But the direction in which the horse went was the magpie bridge.

"I don't know where Sister Jieyu is now?"

"Where she's supposed to be."

"I miss her."

"From the moment she left, I never stopped missing!"

Mei Xiang was reminiscing about Liu Xingmei's words, like a pun, with ulterior motives.

Xin Dongfang and Ma Zhitu came to meet them, both of them were carrying guns, not shotguns, but Hanyang-made rifles, and the two of them were patrolling.

Liu Xing Melema stopped.

"Sister-in-law Xingmei, where are you two going?" Xin Dongfang asked.

Liu Xingmei said: "I'm not going anywhere, I'm just a yo-yo horse." ”

Xin Dongfang smiled and said, "You must be waiting for me on the bridge again, Brother Zhenkun, right?" ”

"What are you waiting for him to do, I'm more quiet at home alone."

Ma Zhitu said: "Duplicity." ”

Mei Xiang burst out laughing, and then missed her father.

Liu Xingmei said, "You two should also go back to eat." ”

Xin Dongfang said: "Let's go back to change shifts." ”

Liu Xingmei asked, "I didn't find anything wrong, did you?" ”

Ma Zhitu said: "Anyway, I didn't even see a single hair of the devil bandits." ”

He looked at the lovely Mei Xiang a little crazy, because the charm of the little beauty can conquer the eyes of men, and he is still a young man who is not engaged.

"That's good!" As soon as Liu Xingmei kicked the stirrup and shook the reins, the jujube red horse ran forward.

Mei Xiang was a little scared, but she didn't squeak, and her body was tightly leaning against Liu Xingmei's arms, and Liu Xingmei was almost hugging her.

Lema stands on the magpie bridge, the woods and mountains in the distance have become obstacles to his eyes, but he is hopeful of the end of the world in his heart.

At this time, the black tiger that broke free from the chains chased after him like an arrow from the string-

As a result, Luo Fang did not come in the afternoon.

Liu Xingmei knew that Tao Zhenzong did not agree to this family matter.

And Mei Xiang, who went to class normally, found that the teacher's eyes looked at her a little unnatural, and she understood that the teacher did not agree to her family affairs, which made her sad and embarrassed.

At night, after Liu Xingmei and Mei Xiang got into the bed, they saw Mei Xiang sullen, so they said: "Don't take it to heart, you are so good, he doesn't agree, it means that he has eyes and doesn't know Jin Xiangyu." If you think any young man in the village is good, I'll be responsible for protecting you. Isn't he just a few drops more ink in his stomach than anyone else? Isn't it just to be handsome? What's the use of these, at best, it's just an embroidered pillow, nothing remarkable. ”

"Because he has only you in his heart!"

"What can I do? It's not self-inflicted! Besides, it's immoral to say that I'm also his sister-in-law. I only have you Uncle Zhenkun in my heart, and he is the only man I have in this life. ”

"But I can't help liking him!"

Liu Xingmei touched Mei Xiang's hair and said affectionately: "You are still young, some things don't quite understand, sometimes the person you love is not as good as the person who loves you can give you happiness." ”

Mei Xiang was pondering what she said-

The next morning, Mei Xiang did not stop going to school because of this, she decided to face everything bravely, as long as the teacher did not get engaged to someone else, then she was hopeful, just a waiting result, and this result may not need to wait for a long time. If the marriage needs to be ordered by the superstitious "eight", the teacher is the one, and she should be the one. Liu Xingmei's enlightenment last night did not play a decisive role, she still obsessively missed her teacher, this is her innocent first love, and she is loyal to it. Unless the teacher is engaged to someone else, she will not let her slowly try to give up the painful process until she gets married!

Mei Xiang covered the school supplies with her left hand on her chest, while her younger brother Chu Ge's school tools were in her hands, and neither sister nor brother had a school bag. Mei Xiang put her right hand on her brother's shoulder and was walking towards the road to the Wu family.

"Sister, we must study hard, and when our father comes back, we will tell him what we have learned, and my father will definitely be happy, what do you say?"

Mei Xiang nodded and said, "That's nature!" When his father came back, whether he earned money or not, he didn't let him go out again, and now he can make tofu at home and make a living. ”

Chang Fa whistled and chased after him from behind.

"Where's your textbook?" Chu Ge looked at Chang Qian, who was empty-handed, and asked.

"Left in class."

"No wonder you don't study well, what a lazy bastard! forgetful of his brain, and when he becomes a general, he has to lose his seal. Chu Ge snorted lightly.

Chang Fa said disapprehantly: "It's good for your sister and brother to study, in our mountain village, what's the use of studying well?!" When I grow up, I will become a soldier and fight devils, like Ji Jieyu, become an anti-Japanese fighter, and drive them out of the Northeast and China as soon as possible. ”

He walked in a backward posture in front of him.

Mei Xiang smiled and said, "When you become a soldier to fight, the daylilies are cold!" ”

"Why?"

"Sister Jieyu said that the Japanese devil is a grasshopper after the autumn, and it won't be able to jump for a few days, and it will go back soon."

Since Chang Fa explained to Mei Xiang on the Queqiao, the two of them no longer had a knot in their hearts because of the failure of their relationship. Chang Fa seems to be the kind of person who has no heart and lungs, and never takes the past to heart, which makes Mei Xiang feel much more relaxed.

"That's—then this country needs to be protected by the military." Chang Fa said very blankly.

Chu Ge said seriously: "The teacher told Aunt Xingmei that we must learn cultural knowledge, and when the devils are defeated, we will build our motherland in the future." ”

"Everyone has their own ambitions, whatever!" Chang Fa said helplessly.

At this time, Mei Xiang saw the teacher, and Tao Zhenzong followed Hua Rui at a certain distance. At this time, her vision suddenly became a little hazy, is it a dazzling and blurred sunlight problem? ——

In the afternoon of this day, Mei Xiang asked the teacher for leave to go back early for a while, because her mother went to work in the field and came back late, she had to cook and wait for her mother to come back to eat.

Zhu Le watched from the mound as the rays of the setting sun cast an elongated shadow, swaying left and right.

"Nasty! I don't care about you! Don't pester me, I'll trample you to death! ”

He really chased after the shadow on the ground, but the shadow still followed him. So, he was demented, and as if he had suddenly realized, he danced with his hands, and the shadow seemed to be learning the posture with him.

It's not self-pity, it's not a demon, it's drunk.

"Wine is sorghum water, drunk people first drunk legs, full of nonsense, eyes live ghosts!"

He was burping and muttering, as if he was in a state of cerebral loss of control and insanity.

In the morning, he lured the common but unknown thin yellow dog to his house with a piece of dry food as bait, and strangled him to death with a rope around his neck in a dead end at the back of the house. It is not easy to control and slaughter an adult dog with his weak little physique, but there is an accomplice, and the conspirator is Zhang Qi.

The two of them secretly skinned the dog and removed the internal organs, and then put it in the pot and burned it. Zhu Le also made an exception and went to the Wu family's shop to buy two packs of Laodao brand cigarettes, and went to the Lin family to buy four catties of sorghum wine. Then he went to invite Wang San, Luo Gan, Qin Liancheng, Meng Guoan, the purpose is to protect the media, although he clearly knows that the words of these friends are not credible, but if you want to leave this lonely life, you have to know that you have to suffer losses and be deceived, just to put a glimmer of hope on it!

Because of their weak hearts as thieves, they did not dare to eat dog meat and drink soju in a big way. Tila melon seedlings are looking for melon eggs, afraid that the owner of the yellow dog will come to the door to ask for it.

As a result, under the gluttonous feast of these gluttonous ghosts, only a pile of skeletons and white bones were left after eating a dog that was not small, and there were also four catties of sorghum wine with 62 degrees left.

As soon as there was a lot of wine, Chen Guzi was churning with rotten sesame seeds, and the old sow remembered that it was like 10,000 years of chaff, and who had estranged from whom became the main topic, and the noisy and shouting had a discordant relationship and almost fought. Such a mess made Zhu Le forget about the purpose of inviting them.

Wang San and Luo Yan both drank and vomited, and if they let the pigs and dogs eat what they vomited, they would be drunk for a day and a half.

Because it was in his own home, and the wine was not Bindong, he fell off Lala like this, and Zhu Le still drank too much. For the dog meat and wine that were not left, I regretted and regretted it very much.

It was almost an afternoon of tossing, and the others went back to their homes. Zhu Le didn't worry about Qin Liancheng, who didn't drink less, he had bad legs and feet, so he personally sent him home, and when he saw his wife Han Sixiang helping him into the house, he wiped his body and walked back.

As soon as the wind blows, the strength of the wine comes up.

Mei Xiang, who was walking back, saw Zhu Le's funny scene, and thought that he was going to fight grasshoppers on the grass like a child!

For the first time, Zhu Le had drunk so much that he forgot the gongs and mallets he often carried with him.

If others see Zhu Le like that, they will think that they are either stupid or crazy, or drunk, and then they are entertaining themselves, only these four explanations will definitely not be bitten by lice like that.

Zhu Le felt that there was a hazy and pretty figure shaking not far away, and it was very blurry.

"What the hell am I doing?"

He muttered to himself, so he rubbed his eyes, and when he looked again, he realized that it was Mei Xiang, and he muttered after his heart was moved: "It's a ghost, and it's also a beautiful female ghost, I'm happy!" ”

At this time, he seemed to remember what Hua Rui had instigated him, and his blood boiled again under a shudder.

Mei Xiang no longer has a good impression of this lice-eating guy, and she doesn't even have sympathy anymore, and she wants to avoid speeding up.

As the sun sets, the sunset begins to appear, and the dirt streets look empty. At this moment, thin clouds floated in the air, and the wind was blowing, and it seemed that there was rain to fall. Swallows fly in flocks at low altitudes, their dexterous figures preying on all kinds of insects that suit their tastes, judging from the number and call of not exactly domestic swallows, it will remind her of the mountain swallows that live on the ghost tower in the mountain forest. It looks like they form a different kind of spectacular landscape, as if they are weaving a net, as if they are salvaging something.

When Mei Xiang was thinking about going home to prepare some firewood, for some reason, she suddenly felt a little panicked.

Last night she had a nightmare, dreaming that she was being chased by a strange animal, and she ran and ran as hard as she could, and finally she was chasing after the thing, and when she was desperate, she suddenly saw a big river in front of her, and she jumped down helplessly. While struggling in the water, she suddenly saw her father kneeling on the shore calling her name and reaching out to pull her - she was woken up by Liu Xingmei, who was sleeping next to her.

Mei Xiang looked back as she walked, and saw Zhu Le stumbling after her, keeping a distance. At the gate of her house, she saw Zhu Le stop and staggered away. So she went into the courtyard still with trepidation, and the door was locked, and she found a key left by her mother under a stone on the windowsill, and opened the door and went in. When she arrived in the back room and put down her study utensils, and was about to pick up firewood for the fire, she heard a faint sound of tiptoeing from the outhouse. She looked back in surprise and saw that it was Zhu Le who appeared on the ground of the outhouse like a ghost.

"Y-what are you doing?"

Zhu Le had a strange expression on his face-