Chapter 4: Men like women and hate them
Zhou Ming was kicked out of the room by Lin Taohua, standing at the door very depressed, and couldn't understand where she was not happy.
Zhou Wangshi saw Zhou Ming standing at the door of the room in a daze, so he called him over to inquire about the situation, and Zhou Ming told Zhou Wangshi what had just happened.
Zhou Wangshi smiled when he heard this, patted Zhou Ming's head and said: "You stupid boy, she hasn't recovered her memory yet, and she doesn't admit that she is the peach blossom you said, you said in front of her that she would wait for the peach blossom to recover her memory, and she was not happy when she heard it, indicating that she had thoughts about you, and she couldn't bear to pretend to be someone else in your heart." ”
Zhou Ming didn't understand, frowned and said, "But I didn't pretend to be someone else." ”
Zhou Wangshi glared at him, "What an unenlightened idiot!" In Peach Blossom's heart, her peach blossom and the peach blossom you said are two people. Listen to my mother, don't mention it to Peach Blossom again. ”
Zhou Ming was speechless, is it necessary to separate himself from himself and himself?
Zhou Wangshi saw that he was still entangled, and scolded with a smile: "What are you doing in a daze, don't say it if you don't say it, hurry up and go in and coax." ”
When Zhou Mingmo walked back to the room, Lin Taohua was still lying in the quilt, leaving the back of his head for him. Zhou Ming thought for a while and said, "Peach Blossom, do you still have a headache?" Shall I press your head? ”
Lin Taohua was lying on the bed lamenting the loneliness of being alone in another world and the depression of being a stand-in, when she heard Zhou Ming's voice and turned her head. Zhou Ming stood not far away, his face was as tender as water, and the gentle figure in Lin Taohua's dream immediately jumped out vividly.
Although she and Zhou Ming have just met, they always feel as if they have known each other for a long time. Lin Taohua has been on a blind date more than ten times in order to get a gentle and lovely sweetheart, and she has crossed into this backward space for this obsession, and now she can't be far away from Zhou Ming, so she can only say sorry to the original peach blossom. Lin Taohua shrank in the quilt and thought, staring at Zhou Ming with a pair of bright peach blossom eyes.
This look is too hot, there is no intention to hide it at all, and it is full of strong possessiveness. It was the first time for Zhou Ming to experience such a direct selfish desire from a woman, and completely ignoring the requirements of female virtue provoked his heart, and his eyes unconsciously became more and more gentle.
"Headache." Lin Taohua's aggrieved voice came out of the quilt.
Zhou Ming smiled shallowly, lifted his robe and sat on the edge of the bed, rubbing Lin Taohua's forehead and temples with moderate force.
The skin of the fingers pressed on the forehead was delicate, not like a hand doing farm work, Lin Taohua felt strange in her heart, so she caught his hand in front of her. Zhou Ming's palms are dry and warm, his fingers are slender and the bones are distinct, his nails are neatly trimmed and round, and his palms are sporadically calloused, not like a farmer's hand at all.
"Don't you farm at home?"
Zhou Mingben was also surprised by her actions, and said with a smile: "Our family used to be a rich family in the village, and the fields were all planted by hired people, and later the fields were planted with peach trees, and only the two acres of fertile land in the back were planted with some grain, and the eldest brother and the second brother usually took care of it." ”
"What are you doing with that daddy?"
"My father is a gentleman in the village school, and the village gives me some money, and as for me, my father and mother let me concentrate on studying and gaining fame."
"It turned out to be a scholar." Lin Taohua's eyes blinked and muttered.
Zhou Ming has seen Lin Taohua's panic and grievances in the past half a day, and he doesn't know how much more agile than the quiet peach blossom before, and he can't say the joy in his heart, hearing her muttering, he touched her face gently.
"Do you prefer a farmer? Then I could do more work. Zhou Ming said.
Lin Taohua glanced at him: "Who likes farmers?" ”
Zhou Ming smiled, seeing that she was no longer angry, so he said, "You rest first, I'll help the eldest brother and second brother grab the grain, the locusts are ruining things too fast." ”
"Locusts!" Lin Taohua's mind immediately came to mind the scene of insects flying all over the sky when she first came, and her white and tender arms had goosebumps at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Zhou Ming saw her shivering and rubbing her arms, and gently comforted: "Don't be afraid, you can't enter when the door is closed." ”
Lin Taohua is indeed afraid of insects, especially flying insects, but the locusts must be eliminated quickly, otherwise the people who feed them will starve to death.
"I'm going too, I'm going to eat fried locusts!" Lin Taohua forced herself to forget about life, thinking about food, wiped the corners of her mouth, lifted the quilt, put on her shoes and ran to find Zhou Wang's, shouting as she walked: "Mother, do you have fishing nets?" Tents are fine, too! ”
Zhou Ming heard Lin Taohua say that he wanted to eat locusts, and he was obviously stunned, he was obviously afraid of this thing, how could he dare to eat it? Besides, can you eat locusts?
In ancient times, locust plagues occurred from time to time, because of the large scale and rapid reproduction, the fertile land turned into red land in a short period of time, which was a headache in ancient agricultural production. Lin Taohua didn't know what the pesticides for locust control were extracted from, but he did know how to catch locusts.
She dismantled the tents at home and made several large locust traps, so that Zhou Ming and Zhou Wen ran quickly from the field with the two corners of the locust trapping bags.
"Brother Wen, what are you guys doing?" The neighbors who were desperately trying to harvest grain in the fields came to ask when they saw this strange scene.
"The locust trapping bags made by my younger siblings, I look at them very well. Look, you've caught so many locusts in just a few moments. Zhou Wen opened his pockets for the neighbors to see.
"I think everyone will also draw two people from each family to catch locusts, and the rest will be harvested, and the more this thing is caught, the more food we can grab." Zhou Wen said.
"Peach Blossom, you are really a bodhisattva in the village, you can help us find a way every time you suffer a disaster, and when the locusts pass this time, Genber will go up the mountain to catch rabbits for you." Zhou Laogen, a sturdy middle-aged man, smiled kindly at Lin Taohua.
"Exactly, exactly." The other men smiled and agreed, and expressed their gratitude to Lin Taohua.
Zhou Ming smiled gently, took over the conversation and said: "The younger generation thanked Genbo, but the eldest mother and sister-in-law came to my house today, and seeing that the liver was a little hotter, Genbo still used it tightly for them." ”
As soon as he heard this, Zhou Laogen's black and red old face was flat, and he glared and said, "What can be wrong with those two lazy women who eat, sleep, sleep and play?" It's peach blossom's weak body and illness all year round, we are all neighbors, what is Brother Ming polite to us? ”
Zhou Ming said bluntly, not daring to bother.
Lin Taohua stood beside Zhou Ming and watched him act in fear, and said secretly, the people here are also strange, the man looks very fond of Peach Blossom, treats her well, why did this woman go to the extreme and be so vicious to Peach Blossom? Is it because of her beauty? Lin Taohua's black line is said to be the most difficult to absorb the grace of the beauty, so for her, this man's liking is also extremely unbearable.
In the past, when disasters occurred in the village, Peach Blossom was always the first to arrive, helped with a lot of ideas, and saved a lot of people, the men in the village were grateful for Peach Blossom's kindness and often sent some mountain prey or other rare things to her, even if Zhou Ming shirked it, he didn't look like he was so resolute as today. Zhou Laogen realized that this was wrong even if he had a tendon in his brain, and remembered that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at home often counted the peach blossoms at home, and they couldn't change it after being scolded by themselves a few times, could it be that they went to Brother Ming's house? Zhou Laogen had a plan in his heart, and said with his neck and glaring at him.
"What's the matter, did my mother-in-law do something? The girl who owes the beating, just forget if she doesn't work when she sees the sky, and she still lacks morality, see if I can't kill her when I go back. ”
As soon as he said this, the others immediately turned around and echoed it.
"Brother Ming, you will take it if you give it to you, let's read the peach blossom well and it means that she is in good health, and the kindness of uncle and brother can't be accepted."
"That's it, because you're still a scholar, how can you get involved with a bunch of mothers-in-law? Keep it away. ”
"Take good care of your daughter-in-law, next time you get sick, your father will spare you, and we will not spare you."
A group of men blew their beards and stared at Zhou Ming to educate Zhou Ming, and Zhou Ming reluctantly thanked him.
When a group of people went to Zhang Luo to catch locusts, Zhou Wen patted Zhou Ming on the shoulder, and the brothers laughed.
Lin Taohua came to Zhou Ming's side and whispered, "You are really bad." ”
Zhou Ming smiled, held her hand and said, "It's all women, I'm not good at it, just forget it, I'm not comfortable, I have to find a way to vent your anger." ”
Lin Taohua was heartbroken, and suddenly wanted to lean into his arms, but he endured it again and again before he made any moves that were regarded as frivolous.