Liu Cao and Hu Xiaohu's marriage is destined to be unhappy.

Soon after the two got married, Hu Xiaohu went to work in a lumber mill in the town. The indicator was brought by Director Hu, and Hu Xiaohu became a city man in a blink of an eye. Hu Xiaohu also often thinks of himself as a city man, wearing sunglasses, wide-legged bell bottoms, a cigarette in his pocket, a cigarette between his fingers, and a pop song in his mouth, wandering around the village streets. Hu Xiaohu's appearance mostly appears at night or on Sundays. The town is more than 20 kilometers away from the village, and he has to ride his bicycle for nearly an hour every day to commute to work.

On the wedding day, Hu Xiaohu went out early and returned late, and he looked very diligent, like a happy man who cared for his family. Liu Cao has already gone to work at the health center, and there are not many people in the health center who usually see a doctor, that is, a minor illness of headache and brain fever. Before Liu Cao came, there were already two barefoot doctors at the clinic, and most of the time, she always carried a basket up the mountain to dig herbs, and then sorted and dried them when she returned.

In the evening, Hu Xiaohu rode a bicycle and came back with a bell. When Liu Cao saw Hu Xiaohu coming back, he didn't say much, so he went into the house to cook on the fire. Hu Xiaohu also followed up the house, washed his face, glanced at Liu Cao happily, and touched and pinched her body with his hand. Liu Cao pushed him away and continued to be busy, Hu Xiaohu swallowed his saliva and muttered: Look at the night, how to clean you up.

Hu Xiaohu staggered out of the house, put on sunglasses, lit a cigarette, and swayed around the village street with a smug expression. A farmer who had finished his work came back from the field and greeted him when he saw him: Xiaohu, are you off work?

He replied aloud: "It's time to leave." How is the second brother, is he tired of being a farmer?

The person who was called the second brother said enviously: How can doing farm work compare with you going to work? How nourishing you are.

Hu Xiaohu smiled with a very superior expression, raised his hand, flicked the cigarette ash gently, and greeted people with a hum.

When the three elders and four young people in the village were almost gone, Hu Xiaohu leaned his shoulders and walked home. At this time, Liu Cao had already finished the meal, and Director Hu was sitting at the table waiting for him. As soon as he entered the house, he sat next to Director Hu, and Liu Cao began to serve food to the father and son.

The two of them see each other every day, and there is nothing to say, ** said to eat, and picked up the bowl.

After eating, Hu Xiaohu had to go to the village with a paper cigarette in his hand. At this time, when the village street was the most crowded, he turned around under the noses of everyone with his chest straight, and if someone accosted him to ask him a word or two about the town, he would stop, and spit on the vernacular for a long time, saying something new about where the building was up again, and where someone had an accident and the police arrested him.

When the people on the village street were almost gone, he also walked back, his sunglasses had been taken off and hung on his chest.

When he entered the hospital, Liu Cao was still sorting herbs in the yard, lying in the house, reading the editorials in the People's Daily. Hu Xiaohu said: Gotta get it, don't get these things endlessly, let's go to sleep and rest.

Liu Cao replied to him angrily: You sleep with yours.

Hu Xiaohu tilted his neck, glared at her, and went to wash his face and brush his teeth. When he went back to the house and laid out the quilt, seeing that Liu Cao hadn't come back yet, he pulled on his shoes and shouted at the door of the house: Liu Cao, are you still sleeping? I'm going to get up early tomorrow.

Liu Cao didn't answer, nor did he move, but still lowered his head and was busy with the shadow of the lamp.

Hu Xiaohu shouted again: What's wrong with you, don't let people rest?

** coughed and said outside: Grass wow, rest, Xiaohu will still go to work tomorrow morning.

**After speaking, he turned off the light in his room with a "pop", and the courtyard was half dark all of a sudden, Hu Xiaohu also reached out and turned off the light, and the whole yard was pitch black. Liu Cao stood silently in the courtyard for a while, returned to the house, washed his hands and face, took off his coat and lay on the kang.

Hu Xiaohu hurriedly crawled over, took off Liu Cao's underwear two or three times, and went up. Liu Cao lowered his voice and said hatefully: I know this all day long.

Hu Xiaohu said while busy: No, why did I come back so far away?

Liu Cao lost his voice and could only bear it silently.

Hu Xiaohu seems to be very unhappy: You are a dead man, and I don't know how to respond.

Liu Cao closed his eyes and didn't speak, only hoping that this crime would end soon. The more she looked forward to it, the more he didn't mean to stop, and said fiercely: Damn, see how I kill you. As he moved, he pinched Liu Cao with his hands.

She shouted and resisted below.

Hu Xiaohu snorted angrily: Don't call it wow, why are you calling it again.

Hu Xiaohu tossed around on Liu Cao for a long time, and then fell asleep to death.

Liu Cao lay quietly for a while, and when she saw that Hu Xiaohu was asleep, she put on her clothes, turned on the small lamp at the head of the bed, and continued to read the book "Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine".

Early the next morning, Hu Xiaohu was still asleep, and she had already gotten up. When the meal was almost ready, Hu Xiaohu also got up, and when he saw breakfast, his face sank and said: You are feeding pigs, and you don't know how to change it. I have to run so far, and my nutrition can't keep up with it for a long time, so how can I still work? After speaking, he ate a few bites indiscriminately, smashed his chopsticks, put on sunglasses, and rode away.

Liu Cao glanced at Hu Xiaohu's disappearing back, and felt relaxed in his heart, and then picked up the medicine basket and went up the mountain to collect medicine. As long as she walked into the mountains, the world in front of her was hers, the birds were singing in the forest, the stream was flowing at her feet, she squatted by the stream and washed her face, and picked a flower by the roadside and put it on her head, and laughed happily in the water. It was the happiest and happiest time of the day for her.

Occasionally, she would visit her mother's house. In the eyes of her mother Wang Guixiang, the water spilled by her married daughter is obviously not as close as she was at home. As soon as she entered the door, her mother began to nag, telling her over and over again to honor her father-in-law, take care of her husband, and live a good life. She couldn't listen to her mother's words, and it upset her, so she went to her brother's house. My brother was leaning on the kang cabinet to read a book, and when he saw her come in, he put down the book and looked at her face carefully.

Brother said affectionately: Cao'er, what's the matter?

She didn't answer her brother's words, and said to her brother: Brother, you are also the eldest child, I am gone, my brother is also gone, and you should also arrange your own marriage.

Every time she said something like this, her brother didn't speak, and picked up the book in his hand again.

She stepped forward and snatched the book, fell on the kang, and looked at her brother anxiously: You can't live your life like this alone, right?

My brother was asked in a hurry, so he said: Why am I alone, don't I still have a mother?

Mom is mom, you're you. Can Mom live with you for the rest of your life? Liu Cao was so anxious that he shouted at his brother.

My brother lowered his head and said: When my younger brother is promoted to the army, I will think about my own affairs.

She sat on the edge of the kang and persuaded in a low voice: Brother, don't ask too much of your brother, if he can't do it, won't this day be over?

Liu Shu didn't say anything, he opened the cabinet and took out Liu Dong's letter from it, and he carefully collected the thick pile and numbered it. He often reads his brother's letters one after another, as if he were reading a novel. Writing and reading letters to his brother became the most important part of his life.

He picked out a letter and said: Our brother has made progress again, and he has another news report on the front page of the newspaper of the military region.

Liu Cao took the letter handed by his brother, read it at a glance, sighed lightly, and a sad look appeared on his face.

Liu Shu glanced at his sister: Is Xiaohu not good to you?

Liu Cao didn't speak, sat silently for a while, and then walked out.

Liu Shu shouted at his sister's back: If Xiaohu is not good to you, I will settle accounts with him and see how I clean him up.

That evening, Hu Xiaohu was wearing a mirror again, holding a paper cigarette in his hand, and when he was wandering around the village street, he saw Liu Shu from a distance. He took off his sunglasses and threw away the paper cigarette he had just smoked halfway in his hand, for some reason, he was a little afraid of Liu Shu.

Liu Shu walked by his side, looked him up and down, and said: Can you be a serious person?

Hu Xiaohu smiled flatteringly: Brother, I am a serious person, now I go to work every day and don't go anywhere.

Liu Shu glared at him, turned around and left. Hu Xiaohu saw that Liu Shu was far away, so he bent down to pick up the half of the cigarette he threw away, shrugged his shoulders and walked forward.

Liu Shu was very famous when he was in school, and Liu Shu didn't interact with anyone when he was in school, and always walked alone. At that time, there was a child head in the middle school, and some children were gathered to fight. Children in middle school are in adolescence, and their excess energy cannot be vented in their ordinary lives, so they try their best to find trouble. Many students are afraid of this group of children, and when school is over, students often go home in groups, but Liu Shu is still a lone ranger. He carried a satchel on his shoulder, and sometimes a novel in his hand, which he glanced at from time to time.

That day, the group of children intercepted Liu Shu, a group of children in the second year of junior high school and the first year of high school, led by the first year of high school, nicknamed "Fathead Fish". Liu Shu knew fathead fish, but he hadn't said anything before.

The fathead fish gang blocked Liu Shu's way, Liu Shu stood in the middle of the road, looked at the fathead fish group coldly, and said in a low voice: Stay away.

The fat-headed fish group looked at him with a smile, and someone spoke: Liu Shu is really good.

At this time, the students on the same road were all standing near and far, watching the development of the situation, including Hu Xiaohu and Liu Dong. Hu Xiaohu dragged Liu Dong's arm and said: This time your brother is going to be cleaned up, he usually doesn't pay attention to anyone, it's too good.

Some of the fathead fish in the group came to push Liu Shu, and more people coaxed in the back.

Liu Shu still didn't speak, first retreated, then squatted down, picked up a few stones, and at first the fathead fish thought that Liu Shu was going to throw stones at them, so he hid a little farther, but unexpectedly, Liu Shu poured the books in his schoolbag on the ground and put them in the stones. He did all this without any panic, but rather slowly, and then he got up, slung his bag with the stone over his shoulder, and walked forward with the book in his armpit.

The fathead fish group laughed and surrounded him, and someone coaxed: Look at his cow, clean him up.

Someone ran over and kicked Liu Shu with flying legs. Liu Shu dodged, suddenly picked up his schoolbag, screamed, and smashed it at the fathead fish. One man's back was hit by a schoolbag, and he lay there motionless. Liu Shu picked up the schoolbag like a whirring windmill, and the fathead fish gang finally encountered hard stubble and fled for their lives.

Liu Shu saw that the people were scattered, so he poured out the stones in his schoolbag as if he was nothing, packed the books, and left quietly. The students who watched the excitement on the side looked stupid, no one dared to trouble Liu Shu in the future, and no one dared to bully even the children who were on the same road as Liu Shu.

For a while, Liu Shu's name spread throughout the school, and someone secretly gave him the nickname "Cold Noodles Catching Fast", "Cold Noodles Catching Fast" is what the children see from "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", and it is the embodiment of justice. Wherever Liu Shu went, a child pointed to his back from a distance and said: Look, he is a cold noodle catcher.

It was from then that Hu Xiaohu began to fear Liu Shu, and although many years had passed, he still had lingering palpitations. Liu Shu usually speaks little, never wants to interact with people, always goes out on time to finish work, and sits there with a book to read during the break. At night, he squatted in front of his house and played the flute, and many people couldn't figure out Liu Shu.

Hu Xiaohu once said to Liu Cao: Your brother doesn't say anything from morning to night, what does he think?

Liu Cao said angrily: You ask him to go, I'm not him, how do I know?

Hu Xiaohu naturally didn't have a chance to ask Liu Shu, as soon as he saw Liu Shu from afar, his legs were a little weak. Hu Xiaohu found out half a year after getting married that Liu Cao, who used to be as beautiful as a fairy in his heart, was actually like that. Eating in the same pot with her, she didn't look at him squarely, and her attitude towards him was no different from before she got married.

One night, Liu Cao sat on the edge of the kang and sewed a piece of clothing, and Hu Xiaohu also sat on the kang, smoking while looking at Liu Cao and saying: We have been married for so long, why don't you look at me once?

Liu Cao didn't speak, and was busy with the work in his hand with a cold face.

Hu Xiaohu sprayed a puff of smoke on Liu Cao's face: Why are all the people in your family like this? With whom? Do you want to be a cold noodle catcher?

Liu Cao waved his hand to drive away the smoke, but ignored him without raising his head.

As soon as Hu Xiaohu stretched out his hand and turned off the light, he immediately threw Liu Cao on the kang, snatched the things in her hand, and tore her clothes. Liu Cao didn't cooperate or resist, he pressed her under him, and felt her body becoming more and more cold and stiff. Hu Xiaohu tried his best and worked hard for a long time, but he still played a one-man show. He didn't think it was interesting at all, and after turning over, he said indignantly:, that's what you do.

Liu Cao turned sideways, leaving him with only a back.

Hu Xiaohu felt very sad, a flower that was so pretty in his eyes in the past, but now she is married, after pinching and kneading, the result is still the same, she still doesn't have to look at him squarely. Hu Xiaohu's self-esteem has been hit like never before, the more she treats him like this, the more he wants to take revenge on her, as long as he has time, no matter day or night, he has to crush her under him and take her body out of anger. Her silence and cold reaction made him angry and discouraged.

While pinching her, he gritted his teeth and said: Stinky **, do you still have Houtun Dabao in your heart? You say.

Liu Cao turned his face sideways without saying a word, letting him toss himself.

Hu Xiaohu guessed right, she really can't forget her big treasure. Dabao's surname is He, and he was a grade above her when he was in school. At that time, the two had a good feeling, and later Dabao graduated, so it was not easy for her to see him. Sometimes in order to take a fancy to her, Dabao walks a few miles more mountain roads and waits for her on the way she must go after school. At that time, she hadn't learned to express herself, but she would be excited for days when she just blushed and looked at Dabao. The relationship between the two has never pierced the layer of window paper, and all the good things are obscured.

It wasn't until she graduated from high school and returned to her hometown to work that the relationship between the two took a turn for the better. Once watching an open-air movie on the threshing floor of the brigade, Dabao took advantage of the darkness to stuff a note into her hand, which said that after the end of the field, let her wait for him under the willow tree at the head of the village. She didn't remember the plot of the movie that day, and her mind was full of words on notes.

At the end of the movie, she first walked in the direction of her home, and then turned back on the detour and walked under the two big willow trees at the head of the village. At this time, the people who had left the scene had already left, and the noisy village street suddenly quieted down. When she came to the big willow tree, she didn't find Dabao, and when she was puzzled, Dabao came out from behind her and hugged her at once. Excited and nervous, she let out a "bang" in her mouth. Dabao gasped in her ear: Cao'er, I like you, let's be okay.

Since that time, she has been in love with Dabao.

When she had time, she went to the mountains to dig herbs, so that she could see the great treasure. The two made an appointment before she went up the mountain, and this meeting was to agree on the time of the next meeting.

The mountain was quiet, Dabao and Liu Cao dug herbs together, sang to the birds in the woods, and swore to the stream at their feet that they would love each other forever and never regret it.

Before Liu Cao got married, he finally met Dabao on the mountain. They hugged each other and were difficult to separate, and Dabao asked with tears: Cao'er, can't you marry him?

My brother is going to be a soldier. After speaking, she fell on Dabao's shoulder, and her tears were wet.

Dabao shook her and asked more eagerly: Do you have to marry him?

At this time, Liu Cao's reason had overcome emotion, she bit her lip and said with a pale face: He Dabao, although I am married, what I like in my heart is you.

He Dabao hugged his head in pain, in pain.

At this time, she said: I can get married, and I can divorce in the future.

Dabao raised his head and said: Then I'll wait for you.

Liu Cao is still secretly meeting Dabao, and the date location is still on the mountain. Now Liu Cao has more time to dig medicine in the mountains, and every time she goes up the mountain, Dabao is there waiting for her. After they hugged each other, they held hands and went to dig medicine, and when they were tired, they lay there and watched the birds sing. They no longer dare to sing as loudly as they used to.

Half a year after Hu Xiaohu got married, he felt the tedium of marriage. He began to rarely return home, living in the town's lumber processing factory. I came back once on the first day of the new year, and once on the fifteenth day, I rarely wandered around the village street, but squatted in the yard thinking about my thoughts. When he saw Liu Cao coming back, his eyes were still shining, and he dragged her into the house without saying anything and vented it. Afterwards, he also felt bored and empty.

The next morning, he was gone. There was no figure for ten days and a half months.