The next day, Helan vaguely heard a hint of movement and immediately opened her eyes, looked at the nearby and saw that no one had gotten up, so she lifted Wu Qingzhu's quilt and returned to her quilt seat with only half a corner.

After Helan left, Wu Qingzhu turned over and continued to fall asleep with Helan on his back, Helan listened to it, and was relieved to see that Wu Qingzhu showed no signs of waking up.

After a while, Wu's mother also woke up, and her years of control of time made her get up as soon as she opened her eyes, only to remember that she was okay to get up early now and lay down again.

Seeing that Helan didn't cover much of the quilt and pulled it there, after a while, he couldn't lie down anymore and got up and went to the river, cleaning up the pots and pans that came from yesterday and cleaned up.

Helan also got up when she heard the movement, and the first thing she did when she got out of the quilt was to shrink her neck and hold her hands, her face flushed and she wanted to shrink into her clothes.

Mother Wu was also startled when she looked at Helan who came out: "It's such a cold day, why did you come with you?" ”

"I'll come out and do you a favor."

"I'll do it myself, obedient, you go back quickly, don't freeze your body."

"It's all out, I'll come with you."

Wu's mother saw Helan's resolute attitude and didn't let her go back, the two of them walked to the river and first broke the ice on it, and then washed the pots and dishes, in fact, there was nothing to brush, there was no oil and water at all, and it could be cleaned by flushing.

"Lan girl, this time you go down the mountain and Brother Zhu to get married first." The atmosphere of small talk, I said this sentence very suddenly, and when I said this, it was as if I was asking you what you were eating today.

"Mother......" Helan didn't expect Mother Wu to say this sentence suddenly, and she was not mentally prepared at all.

"This conscription, it must be Brother Zhu and your father, Brother Quan'er's age is still almost, not yet 18 years old, people don't want it, in case ...... I don't know when I'll see you in the future. Wu's mother didn't say anything deeply, saying that as long as people are not stupid, they should understand what things mean.

"However, I am still keeping filial piety."

"Mother knows, Mother doesn't embarrass you, I just want you to become relatives first, and the wedding will not be held, and the 100 days have passed, for the sake of our Wu family, Mother begs you."

When Wu Mu said this, her voice began to whimper, and her shoulders were still faintly shaking.

Helan was stunned, and she seemed to understand why the villagers had been surrounded by grief and pain from yesterday to now, and why these women were crying and choking.

Helan knows a little about the etiquette of loyalty and filial piety, when his parents die, he needs to keep filial piety for three years, and the state of his mother's death like Helan is at least one year.

Others don't know Helan but they know that their parents don't know whether they are dead or alive, and if they are not there, they should not marry like this.

He Rumo inquired when the official messenger came to deliver the news, except for the dead "Miss" eight generations of relatives in the He family are in prison, just waiting for the verdict to come out, and they will all be beheaded.

Later, Helan never heard any more news, as if the He family had never appeared in this court.

Speaking of the present, in ancient times, because there were more emergencies, there were more special cases, such as fewer taboos after a hundred days.

For example, if his fiancé needs to go to war, as long as there is an engaged person, he can send a matchmaker to carry the girl back from home on the same day, so that he can pass on the lineage.

As long as the man asks, the woman has no reason to refuse, which is also a kind of amnesty for the soldiers, and in order to let them have a bond, they will work harder for the court.

When Helan was in a dilemma, Wu Qingzhu walked down the hillside.

"Mother, why haven't you gone back for so long! Dad asked me to come over and take a look, don't freeze on such a cold day. ”

"Here it is, it's already washed."

The two of them hurriedly got up and picked up their things and walked back, Wu Qingzhu reached out and took the things in the hands of the two people after the two people came over.

Helan looked at the hand in front of him and panicked slightly: "I'd better take it myself." ”

"I'll come, you warm your hands first." Wu Qingzhu looked at Helan's somewhat suspicious behavior and sank into her thoughts, and couldn't help but think of last night, was she still angry? Are you out of line?

Seeing the two people walking behind, Wu's mother walked a little faster, and there was a faint posture of wanting to distance herself from the two people.

"Yesterday...... It's my fault, can you please not be mad at me? Wu Qingzhu saw that Helan was thinking about things and was thinking about things, so he opened his mouth first.

Helan paused, not knowing how to answer, whether to answer or not.

"Hmm." After a long while, Helan hummed softly.

And Wu Qingzhu wanted to open his mouth again when he met Aunt Hong coming from the west and chatting with his mother in front of him.

"You also got up so early, I knew that I would be waiting for you together." When Aunt Hong spoke, she first glanced at Helan and Wu Qingzhu, and then chatted with Wu's mother.

"No, I usually wake up late, so I'm not going back today, so I can be more comfortable with a hot meal while it's still early." The two of them walked back while chatting, although there was still some sadness on their faces, it was still better than yesterday.

"Your daughter-in-law here is good, she knows how to feel sorry for people, my girl is still asleep at this moment."

"No, Lan Yatou is a capable person, when she heard me get up, she was afraid that I would freeze, so she hurriedly went out to help me clean up."

"Hey, you'll be proud as soon as you say it, since you're so satisfied, hurry up and let the two of you get married, and give you a few big fat grandchildren!"

Hearing Aunt Hong say this, Mother Wu was afraid that Helan would think too much, so she quickly changed the topic: "Oh, let's talk about this matter, let's talk about it, when do you plan to get married?" ”

"It's not less than a month, I want to go down the mountain and let them get married, let my father-in-law and them talk and go, we have this one son in the family, and I don't know how to say it, and I don't feel solid if I don't stay."

A few people went back to their place of residence while talking, and everyone got up from house to house, and in this case of living together, you can see which mother-in-law is lazy or diligent.

Helan saw that some people didn't wash up in the morning, and cooked and ate directly when the time came. Some people's pots are only brushed once a day, and they put them there when they eat them, and they don't wash them when they don't use them.

There are also some people who pass by and have stinky bodies, and there are all kinds of unpleasant smells.

Qingmei secretly told Helan that if there were lice on their bodies in hot spots, she would have seen the arc that jumped out of their bodies: "Let's just say that now, if you look closely, there are a lot of them on their heads, those itchy heads, the lice on their heads are fat, and a lot of white cubs can pop out when you squeeze them." ”

"How do you know that?" The Netherlands said they had goosebumps coming out of what they listened to.

"I used to like to catch this thing with the girls in the village, squeezing it is addictive, but it's fun."

Helan: "Don't talk about ......", you may really not be able to eat in the future.

There are a lot of sloppy people, and I looked at those people several times, thinking about what Qingmei said, I really couldn't stand it, and I didn't even have an appetite when I ate, but the family felt nothing.

The village chief said yesterday that they would go down the mountain together at noon, and today's meal was a little earlier, as always, the men sat on the side and waited for the meal to start, and the women began to be busy adding firewood to make the fire.

The cooking places have been changed outside, and a few stoves have been set up in an empty space, and whoever goes earlier can use them first, but the pots are still used by each family.

Helan and Qingmei sat on the stones, and from time to time you added some firewood to the stove one by one, and by the way, you put your hands closer to keep warm.

There are also two people's shoes next to it, and they can be baked warmer at this time, so that their feet will not freeze and be unconscious when they go down the mountain later.

"As the saying goes, it's easy to go up the mountain and hard to get down, and when you go back later, you'll have to suffer another sin." Qingmei leaned her hand towards the fire again as she spoke.

"When I go back, my shoes will definitely get wet again, and it was a bit heavy in the snow last night." Helan remembered the feeling of losing sensation in her feet when she went up the mountain, so she couldn't help but hug her little feet.

She was most satisfied with her feet, but unfortunately after coming here, she was wrapped in ill-fitting shoes, wide footcloths, that is, socks, and she couldn't take them off even now by the fire.

The cold of winter also gave these white and tender little feet a few more small bubbles.

"The two girls' family, what kind of style is this, the shoes are almost baked and put on quickly, so that the family can see that they are uneducated." Mother Wu interjected when she heard the weak moans of the two little girls, but as soon as she opened her mouth, it became a reprimand.

"Mother, wait a little longer, my feet haven't gotten better yet, if it's warmer now, if it's too serious to go down the mountain later, I won't be able to help you with housework for a few months." Qingmei is reluctant to bear the fire under the stove, it is warm, and it is very suitable for the current weather.

"You, you should bring your father and your brother's shoes over, and the two of them will carry you down the mountain later, and you are not guilty, what are you complaining about such a good treatment?"

"No, no, my father's feet are so smelly, and my shoes are also smelly, and I can't eat it anymore."

"How can you say that about your father? I haven't seen your father dislike you when you're so big! Girl with no conscience"

"Why do you have no conscience? I also brought my brother's coat over to help bake it. ”

Qingmei also knew that she needed the help of her brother and father to go down the mountain, so she had just asked to come over to help light the fire, and by the way, she also helped warm up the clothes of the two people.

It's just that the person who helped bake the clothes was Helan, and Helan saw that it was inconvenient for Qingmei's body to move and help with these tasks, for fear that Qingmei would burn the clothes again one step later.

Qingmei also asked to do it herself a few times in the middle, Helan didn't talk much, and hurriedly baked the clothes and sent them back to the two of them.

When they came back, Wu's mother had already finished the meal, Qingmei also got up with a wooden stick, and there was already a family next to her who was waiting for them to leave and started cooking.

Wu's mother said hello, chatted briefly, and then returned to her residence with her own food.