The snowflakes were flying, Xu Ye finally walked out of the woods with one foot deep and one foot shallow, standing outside the forest and looking around blankly, looking at the yellow reeds and decaying grass, the silver sea and the snowy sky, and not seeing the sea, so he couldn't tell the east and west, north and south, and didn't know where he was.

Fortunately, I saw a place with green smoke from a distance, it should be someone's house, Xu Ye sighed, pitiful that he couldn't move an inch, and now he could only take his last breath. So he rolled and crawled in the snow to find it.

Half an hour later, Xu Ye was already unconscious, a few old trees in front of him covered a few people's houses, it was an inconspicuous small village, he crawled to the nearest door and knocked on the door indiscriminately.

After knocking for a while, someone inside came out and opened the door, it was a middle-aged woman in a coarse cloth hairpin skirt.

Xu Ye, whose lips were bruised, trembled, and didn't care about waiting for the woman to open her mouth to ask, so she fell straight in, lying in front of the door, so that the woman couldn't close the door.

The woman was startled, took a step back and exclaimed, "Who are you?" How did you come to my house? Get out quickly, how can you beg for food like this? ”

Xu Ye tried his best to climb a few steps forward, and said with trembling teeth: "Sister-in-law, I, I am a traveler who fell into the sea to pick up a life." I don't know where this is, and I can't find my boat, it's really cold and unbearable, so I beg my sister-in-law to be okay, take pity on me, give me some hot tea to drink, borrow two clothes, and change the ice clothes on this body, so that I can live. By the way, I have a ring here, please accept it first, and then thank you when my family finds it. ”

Seeing that it was not a beggar called Huazi, the woman stared at the gold ring greedily, and Xu Ye's words were very pitiful, so she hurriedly turned around and shouted to the house: "Sister, you come." ”

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl walked out of the room, with a good temperament and a refreshing appearance, Xu Ye barely glanced at it, and found that the other party was not like an ordinary country woman, although she was dressed in ordinary coarse cloth clothes, she was beautifully cut. It is also clean and tidy.

The girl walked to the door, looked down at the strange man at her feet, and asked, "Who is this?" ”

The woman repeated the conversation just now, and Xu Ye muttered angrily: "Sister Wang, help me!" ”

The girl couldn't hear clearly, but when she saw Xu Ye's wolf appearance, she really looked like a person who had fallen into the water and asked for help, so she squatted down and listened carefully, and said softly: "My family name is Meng, and my parents have passed away." He had no brothers or sisters, and studied alone in the city. This is my sister-in-law's aunt's house, and my cousin is out, so I invite him to be my companion. Reasoning can't contain men, because you are a person in distress and have to be reluctantly rescued, but what is your last name? What kind of family is it? I hope you don't lie. ”

Xu Ye closed his eyes and said: "My surname is Xu, a son of the British Duke Xu family, and I accidentally fell into the sea on the way back to Jinling. Somehow I was rescued and carried home, but was kicked out by his wife, and I crawled here with all my life. The dying man will never dare to deceive, and every word is true. ”

The two sisters-in-law looked at each other in surprise, and the woman said in surprise and surprise: "It turns out to be a wealthy son!" I just look at the children of ordinary people. Oh, please go inside and undress. Don't be formalized at this pass, it's important to save your life. ”

Xu Ye said, "Sister-in-law, you don't accept this ring." I was uneasy. ”

The girl laughed, secretly praised her cleverness, and said, "Sister-in-law, this is the grand intention of the son, you can accept it." ”

"This, okay." The woman squatted down and took it in her hand, she was very happy, and hurriedly held Xu Ye's arm, and the girl had to reach out to help when she saw this.

"Offended."

Xu Ye breathed a sigh of relief, so the three of them entered the house and let him go to a small hut with a small kang in front of the window.

The two sisters-in-law helped him lie down, took a charcoal basin, brought a basin of hot water, the room was warm, Xu Ye took the hot towel, and the two women walked out.

Xu Ye, who had recovered from the situation, had the strength, took off his whole body cleanly, washed his face and wiped his body with hot water. Miss Meng found out the clothes, shoes and socks left by her father, and said through the curtain: "The clothes are on the stool, let's change them quickly." ”

Xu Ye changed his clothes, and at this time, his whole body was itchy and unbearable, so he sat on the kang and gritted his teeth to endure it.

After the sister-in-law came in, she took the initiative to help him comb his hair, and Miss Meng cooked a bowl of ginger soup and sent it, and warmed a cup of hot wine to relieve his cold.

Xu Ye, who picked up a life, was very grateful, and said excitedly: "My sister and sister-in-law treat me like a brother, Xu Ye will treat the two as relatives in the future, if you don't dislike it, please come to Beijing with me." Haven't asked your sister-in-law for her surname? ”

Xu Ye, who has been freshened up, has restored his true face, his face is like a crown of jade, sword eyebrows, and starry eyes, and his speech and demeanor are all with a natural sense of nobility, ordinary people may be able to pretend to be a rich boy, but the inner things are not something that can be pretended to be if he wants to, so the two daughters who have been observing him all said in their hearts that what he said should be true.

Even if Xu Ye is not a wealthy son, he is not a villain at a young age, saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, and these two women are calm and not worried about luring wolves into the house.

The woman opened the conversation and said with a smile: "The slave family's surname is Liu, my family is in the camellia business, and the capital is small, and the one in my family is greedy to make more money, and he is outside all year round." I'm always with my sister as a companion, your sister Meng don't look soft and weak, her father is a famous sailor teacher, and has made a lot of contributions, just because the old mother has no one to support, does not want to be an official and has no son, sold the military registration, and passed on all the skills of the family to her daughter, and now your sister Meng is studying, while teaching female students martial arts. ”

"Oh, disrespectful, disrespectful." Xu Ye was immediately in awe, and then said in distress: "I am weak and can't walk, and it's not good to ask my sister-in-law and sister to go to the harbor to find my ship, so it's inconvenient to stay at your house." ”

"It's okay! The mountain village is not so particular, and there are guests from afar, who should try their best to entertain. Sister-in-law Liu said again: "Don't worry, there are only a few families in our village, and the men all go to the town in the morning to catch the market and go home in the evening." Wait until the evening to tell them that you will know when you go to Haikou early tomorrow morning. ”

Talking to each other, since this Sister Meng is a female student and husband in the new school, she is sitting on the side without twisting and generously.

Xu Ye suddenly asked, "Sister-in-law, what kind of incense is burning in your house?" If there is no lightness. ”

"My family has never burned incense, maybe it's the fragrance of tea." Sister-in-law Liu replied.

Miss Meng said: "I think it's the six calyx plums in the tree in front of the window, which has been pressed by the snow in the past two days, and it is full of spirit." ”

"I'll see." Xu Ye easily pushed open the small window on the kang, and sure enough, there was a jade plum tree, half in front of the window and half outside the horizontal fence, cold and fragrant, unable to speak.

The sister-in-law saw him looking at Aoxue Hongmei in a daze, and sighed: "I didn't expect to suffer many disasters today, and I met a good person, just in response to two lines of poetry. ”

"Hey! It's really a rich child, and he just saved his life, and this time it's poetic. Sister-in-law Liu laughed, got up and said, "You are an interesting person, then I will go and warm a pot of wine, so that you can drink and enjoy the plums." ”

Xu Ye smiled: "It's been like this since I was a child, and I'm afraid it's a habit that I can't change for the rest of my life." My sister-in-law and sister treat me like this, and you two are not laymen, anyway, there is nothing to do, so it is better for the three of us to enjoy the snow in a bunch, which is more interesting than sitting down. ”

"Well, with your identity, you are not afraid of being talked about." Sister-in-law Liu seemed to be explaining to herself, "The distinguished guests who can't be invited should have been hospitable." ”

In this way, a small table was set up in front of the kang, a pot of wine, four dishes of bacon-style chicken and dried bean curd side dishes, a large bowl of fragrant tofu and egg soup, and a pot of fragrant white rice.

Miss Meng admired Xu Ye's knowledge very much, and asked this and that from time to time, wanting to solve some problems, and the more she talked, the happier she became. And Xu Ye inherited his father's mantle, and his knowledge far exceeds that of most people in this world, even if he doesn't have an accurate answer, he can give the other party a satisfactory explanation.

Sister-in-law Liu said: "Look at your thin body, you don't play with the wind, and you don't have any other clothes at home, according to me, put this piece of felt on your body to block the wind, don't you want to." ”

"What's this?" Xu Ye didn't say a word, he directly draped the worn felt on his body, surrounded him on all sides, and said with a smile: "Su Wu swallows the felt and eats the snow, I just wear the felt to enjoy the snow, the bitterness and happiness are like a world of difference, how dare I not be happy?" ”

"After the meritorious service, I don't know how many times stronger than those swingers in the county." Sister-in-law Liu smiled.

Miss Meng looked at his child's spirit, and couldn't stop smiling, she liked the free and easy not squeamish of this cheap brother.

Xu Ye drank a few glasses of wine in a row, stared at the plum blossoms outside the window, and for a while the poetry was full of excitement, and he chanted loudly: "

The scenery of the homeland is natural, and the felt is better than home.

I don't know that tonight's moon, shining on the snow and plum blossoms? ”

As soon as the words fell, suddenly there was a shout from the courtyard gate, and the momentum was violent, knocking the fence wall of the wooden door. Xu Ye was shocked, got up and said, "Could it be that the Japanese thieves are here?" Sister-in-law and sister run, I fought with them. ”

Who knew that Sister-in-law Liu was not afraid at all, pulled him and said, "Don't be afraid, there have been no villains around here for many years." It must be a young man from a neighboring village who came to grab his relatives. Who made your sister put down her words and only marry the one who beat her. ”

"Huh?" Xu Ye saw that Sister Meng quickly untied her cotton skirt, showed a neat and energetic suit, raised her hand to pick up the eyebrow stick standing on the wall, and walked out unhurriedly.

"It's really a heroine among women."

Xu Ye was dumbfounded, turned his head to look outside, the wooden door had been knocked down, and four or five people rushed in, each holding swords and sticks, and shouted at Sister Meng who came out: "Talk counts, if you lose, you have to marry the person who won you." ”

"Don't talk nonsense."

Seeing that Miss Meng didn't wait for them to get close, she rushed up to use the stick method passed down by the family, and the eyebrow stick in her hand swept along their lower bodies, knocking down three of them in an instant. The other two people raised their sticks and swung them down, and she used them to block them, and the two sticks were knocked to the ground.

Xu Ye was so happy that he couldn't help stroking his palms and laughing: "Such a three-legged cat's kung fu dares to come and show ugliness, my sister is really good at martial arts!" ”

The five men turned around and ran, probably Miss Meng was bothered by this kind of thing, and chased after her with a stick.

Unexpectedly, there was a crowd outside, and Xu Ye exclaimed: "Be careful, there is an ambush!" (To be continued......)