The wind was a little cool on the face, and the air was moist and watery.

The pomegranate blossom looked up at the sky, the sky was gray, and it was about to rain.

At this time, a slightly thin figure came along the loess road towards the village.

The man was in a hurry, and when he heard the footsteps, he turned his head to look, but it was a beautiful young man.

The young man was dressed in a blue robe, which was in harmony with the watery sky, and he was carrying a bookcase behind him, and he looked like a scholar studying abroad.

This scholar pomegranate recognizes that it is a neighbor separated by a wall, not only is he good-looking, but his name is also elegant, called Tao Hengling, and his mother's surname.

However, the scholar is usually alone, with a cold temperament, and he always sees a smiling face, and his cold face makes the pair of black pupils faint into a cold pool, and he looks like he is not close to anyone.

Pomegranate wanted to say hello to the neighbor boy, but when she came into contact with his cold eyes, she couldn't help but dispel her thoughts.

Seeing Pomegranate Blossom and Jinbao here, the beautiful boy's eyes were a little surprised at first, but then he returned to his usual indifference, and walked over without looking at the two of them again.

"This man is so strange." Pomegranate whispered to herself at the boy's back.

Jinbao didn't hear clearly, and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

"I said Tao Hengling, this person is really strange." Pomegranate replied.

Jin Bao shook his head and sighed: "This is all forced, in the early years, there was no one in the village who was willing to talk to Aunt Hongdou, Tao Hengling is too normal now." ”

Pomegranate Blossom's curiosity rose and she hurriedly asked what was going on.

"I also accidentally heard my mother talk about these old sesame seeds and rotten grains with the aunts who came to the house to talk about their teeth." Jin Bao thought about it carefully, and said eloquently: Aunt Hongdou has many brothers and sisters in her family, and her father sold her to a big family as a maid when Aunt Hongdou was seven or eight years old. It's just that after giving birth to Tao Hengling, he was kicked out again, and no one knows what the specific reason is. ”

At this point, Jinbao stopped.

When the pomegranate flower heard the excitement, she asked him to urge him to go down.

Jinbao organized the wording and said: "Aunt Hongdou became an abandoned woman, so she had to return to the village with Tao Hengling, who couldn't speak, but Aunt Hongdou's father and brother and sister-in-law disliked Aunt Hongdou and humiliated the family, and refused to let the mother and son enter the house. On a cold day, Aunt Hongdou knelt in front of the courtyard gate all night with the baby in her arms, but her father didn't open the door. The next day, Aunt Hongdou was completely chilled, and no longer begged the family, but asked Li Zheng to set up another door for herself in the village, and built a yard next door to your house. The yard was built, and since then he has lived a quiet life behind closed doors, rarely walking around the village. ”

"That's the case, why don't I know?" Pomegranate wondered why the original owner didn't have a memory of this old story.

Jin Bao smiled: "When Aunt Hongdou returned to the village, your mother was not pregnant with you yet." When you start to remember things, the people in the village are reluctant to talk about Aunt Hongdou's affairs, so you naturally don't know the ins and outs. ”

Pomegranate nodded, and asked puzzledly: "Tao Hengling's mother didn't do anything hurtful, why didn't the people in the village treat her?" ”

Jin Bao pondered for a moment, and said in embarrassment: "I can't tell you this kind of thing, I just heard my mother say that it is shameful enough to be a concubine for others, and the concubine who was kicked out of the house is even cheaper than the girl in the building." ”

When Pomegranate heard this, she couldn't help but sympathize with the mother and son next door.

The concubine is a victim of feudal society, many women are not voluntary, Tao Hengling's mother was sold to be a maid, and then the things after that are not what she can do by herself, how can Tao Hengling be the master?

The two of them sat for a while, and at last the drizzle fell, and their clothes became wet, and they had to go home separately.

Pomegranate Hua entered the courtyard and deliberately listened to the noise next door, silently.

Tao Yougui used palm leaves to weave things for the baby pimple Tao Tianbao under the eaves of the porch, and the slender and flexible palm leaves were worn and folded in his hands, and soon became an interesting little toy.

Tao Tianbao shouted excitedly.

The pomegranate didn't bother the father and son, and went back to her cabin.

Tao Yougui saw that his daughter came back and ignored him, feeling that he had lost his majesty, and his heart was a little uncomfortable.

At dinner, Pomegranate Blossom paid close attention to Cao's face, and the clouds dispersed and the rain was gone. She couldn't figure out whether this woman had a big heart or a lack of eyes.

The drizzle fell overnight and stopped the next day.

At the beginning of the light rain, the eyes are full of clean azure, and the mountains in the distance are shrouded in clouds and mist, just like a fairyland on earth

After breakfast, Tao Yougui and Cao went to the field to plant sweet potatoes, and yesterday's events were like water flowing silently, and the wind passed without a trace.

Tao Tianbao has always gone out with a full meal and returned at mealtime.

After cleaning a few rooms and feeding the chickens in the yard, Cao's hatched a new nest of chicks a few days ago, and after a few days of care, they were already able to be released for activities.

Looking at a group of small yellow balls rolling in front of her, the girl's eyes were as soft as the spring mud on the ground soaked with rain.

"The predicate of the Mandate of Heaven is sexuality, the predicate of recklessness is the Tao, and the predicate of cultivation is teaching. Those who are in the Tao do not need to leave the Tao, but they can leave the Tao. Therefore, the gentleman is cautious of what he does not see......"

Pomegranate Flower was about to go back to the house with a food bowl, when suddenly there was a sound of reading aloud in the courtyard next door.

The school is closed every ten days, and today is just the end of the month, which is the day for scholars to get together with their parents at home.

Pomegranate listened quietly, walked to the courtyard wall, and gently stood on tiptoe to peek into the courtyard next door.

The courtyard wall was flush with the top of her head, and after tiptoeing a few times, she didn't see the situation in the courtyard clearly, but she was tired enough.

Pomegranate didn't give up, went into the house and moved a stool to put it on the wall, stepped on it, and there was a purple and red in front of her.

Although the two families are only separated by an earthen wall, the environment is very different.

The courtyard of the scholar's house is paved with square bricks, clean and tidy, not like their own home, and the courtyard is muddy when it rains, and it is difficult to walk.

In addition, there are many flowers and plants planted in the courtyard next door, and at this time, all kinds of flowers bloom one after another, and the fragrance is overflowing. In the middle of the courtyard, there is a flower pavilion made of climbing and winding with wood incense, the yellow and white flowers are overlapped and overlapped, hanging like a waterfall, which is very beautiful.

The pomegranate flowers climbed on the wall and smelled the flowers, their eyes were full of admiration, and they thought that they would build a small courtyard like this in the future.

The beautiful boy was reading under the flower pavilion at the moment, and Tao was sitting on the side doing embroidery, looking up at his son who was reading from time to time, with a comforting smile on his face.

Climbing the wall to peep is not a glorious thing, and the pomegranate was about to get off the stool, but Dow found her.

"It's a pomegranate flower, if you're not busy with things, just come and sit down and talk to your aunt!" Dow smiled and extended an invitation to the pomegranate.

Seeing that the people were caught, Pomegranate Hua was so embarrassed that her face was flushed, and she wanted to refuse, but she was afraid that Tao would think that she looked down on their mother and son, so she froze on the stool and was in a dilemma.

The scholar heard his mother talking, withdrew his gaze from the book and looked at the pomegranate flowers on the wall, nodded politely, and then turned sideways to continue reading.

The beautiful boy's performance was polite but detached, which made Pomegranate feel a little hurt, and for some reason, Chongkou agreed to Tao's invitation: "Okay, aunt, I'll go over." ”

After speaking, he jumped off the stool, left the courtyard door, and walked to the courtyard gate of the scholar's house.

The two courtyard gates open side by side, just a few steps away. When she arrived at the door of the scholar's house, she raised her hand and knocked on the door, and it opened immediately.

"Pomegranate, come in!" Tao smiled kindly inside the door, wearing a very plain light gray robe, dignified and gentle, and the charm was completely different from that of the women in the village.

The pomegranate flower raised her legs and crossed the threshold, and the colorful colors immediately came into her eyes, and she praised from the bottom of her heart: "Aunt, the flowers in your yard are so beautiful." ”

"It's not a precious flower or plant, I went to the mountains to dig it up. We not only have a lot of camellia forests, but also a lot of flowers and plants. Tao closed the courtyard gate and led the pomegranate flower towards the flower pavilion.

There is a table and two stools under the flower pavilion, which are obviously used by the mother and son for their own use, and there is no place for the guests.

When the scholar saw that his mother had arrived with the pomegranate flowers, his eyes flashed with a hint of panic, and he got up and hurried indoors, forgetting to take the books with him.

Well, I'm not a tiger, I can't eat him, I need it!

Modern people don't have the concept of male and female defense, and when the pomegranate saw the scholar leave in a hurry, she felt incomprehensible, and only thought about the countryside, and it was very common for them to visit each other.

"Pomegranate flowers, sit down!" After Dow sat down, he saw the pomegranate standing stunned as if thinking about something.

The pomegranate blossom thanked him, sat down on the scholar's stool, and glanced at the books on the table by the way, and the word "The Mean" on the cover was eye-catching.

"Pomegranate Blossom, come, take a sip of tea." There was brewed tea on the table, and Dow poured a cup and put it in front of Pomegranate Flower.

Pomegranate thanked again, picked up the teacup and took a sip, it was not the best tea, but it was also full of fragrance, much better than the boiled water at home.

Tao looked at the pomegranate blossom and said with a gentle smile: "Although our two families live next door, they have rarely interacted with each other over the years, and the neighbors are unfamiliar. Pomegranate flowers, Hengling he is rarely at home, my aunt is lonely, if you are free in the future, you will come to my aunt to talk to me to relieve boredom, okay? ”

"Okay, aunt, I'll come here when I'm free." Pomegranate Flower responded seriously, her eyes lingered on the beautiful flowers, and she asked casually: "Aunt, are these flowers famous?" ”

"Yes."

So, Tao got up and led the pomegranate flowers to the front of those flowers and plants, and introduced them one by one This is the moon season, that is the ginger lotus, the pot is called the bowl lotus, the primrose on the wall, the Lingxiao flower on the wall, the canna over there and so on.

Pomegranate smacked her tongue when she heard this, and said in admiration: "Aunt, you are so powerful, you have raised all these flowers so well." ”

Tao listened and smiled indifferently: "When I was a child, I was a maid in the courtyard of the deep house, specializing in serving flowers and plants, and the way of raising flowers and planting grass was learned from a mother-in-law, and I don't know anything else." ”

Most people tend to avoid the painful years of the past and are reluctant to reminisce.

Seeing that Dow took the initiative to mention the events of the year, Pomegranate Blossom's face was as calm as usual, and she was secretly convinced by Dow's strong heart.

After admiring the flowers, the pomegranate sat for a while, then got up to say goodbye to Tao and went back. There are very few days when mothers and children get together, and it is not appropriate to disturb them for a long time.