Tonight was a pale moonlit night, the night was deep, and there was silence everywhere, Er Zhuang lay flat on the bed and fell asleep, his broad and strong chest bathed in the moonlight. A white hand with red nails stretched out from the darkness and touched his chest, Er Zhuang woke up alertly, and he impatiently shook off that hand, "Dirty woman, go aside!" Sanmei pulled up from the darkness, "You didn't come back last night, there must be someone outside." "Don't you have someone too! Zhu butcher! "Erzhuang choked white." I'm confused, what is he! Old and ugly, my heart is still in you. Even if you did something last night, I don't blame you, and I have no right to blame you, let's settle down, and in the future, let's live a good life. Sanmei's tone was full of begging, and Erzhuang didn't say anything more, and went to sleep. Sanmei continued to speak in the dark: "I really saw Xiu'er, there are ghosts in our family, please ask a ghost hunter to drive them away." ”

After breakfast the next day, Er Zhuang went to the mountains to chop firewood, he wanted to cut some firewood to sell during this period at home, to subsidize the family, although he had to play cotton in a few days, but he couldn't be idle, he also needed to be alone quietly, think about Qiu'er's problem. Only Sanmei was at home, her mother-in-law went to the neighbor's house, her father-in-law went to the market to buy vegetable seeds, and a small part of the land opened up by the north wall was still idle. The weather is as hot as ever, Sanmei sat down under one of the most lush jujube trees in the yard, there are stone benches and stone round tables under this jujube tree, it is a place to eat dinner in the hot solar terms, Sanmei often sits here to enjoy the shade, and it is also far away from Xiu'er's door, she now does not dare to approach Xiu'er's door even during the day. She was sitting at the stone table embroidering tweed, when suddenly there was a knock on the door, a slight, tentative knock, "Who! Sanmei shouted. Is this Erzhuang's home? A young woman's voice, soft and weak, came from afar through the door. Sanmei was shocked, she felt with a woman's intuition that there was something about this woman and Erzhuang. Sanmei opened the door, only to see a plainly dressed and lovely-looking woman standing outside the door, carrying a basket on her arm. "Who are you? What is the matter with Erzhuang? Sanmei looked at her with a scrupulous, hostile look. When the woman saw Sanmei, her eyes became cowardly, and she said, "It's nothing, it's nothing." He turned around and left. Sanmei looked at her back in bewilderment until she disappeared around the corner. "Humph!" Sanmei retreated to the door and closed the door with a "bang", thinking to herself, Er Zhuang must have been with this woman last night, and he came to the door, did he sleep out of his feelings?

In the afternoon, Er Zhuang carried the chopped firewood to the market and sold it, bought sauce meat and pig's trotters and carried it home. However, if he still has to pass his mother's level, will his mother agree to him marrying a prostitute?

Erzhuang walked into the house and went straight to his mother's house.

Mrs. Guo was quite happy when she heard Erzhuang say that she wanted to rest Sanmei at first, but when she heard that Qiu'er was a prostitute, she exploded all of a sudden, "Prostitute?!" You're going to me off! There are many good girls in the world, why do you always revolve around some rotten women! Erzhuang explained in every possible way that Qiu'er was forced to be a prostitute, and she was actually a good woman in her bones, Mrs. Guo sneered, dirty is dirty, one day is Sister Yao, and life is Sister Yao. You don't care, we care, do you want to make the neighbors laugh at us?

It's a blow. Erzhuang returned to his room sullenly.

Sanmei was sitting and snorting melon seeds, and when she saw Er Zhuang coming in, she ignored it, and gave him a blank look, since she saw that woman in the morning, she was not only ashamed in her heart, but also had a little more anger, and saw Er Zhuang's dejected appearance even more angry, just now she heard his mother's words vaguely, and roughly understood the meaning, Er Zhuang wanted to marry a prostitute named Qiu'er, but his mother disagreed, that Qiu'er must be the woman in the morning. Erzhuang is sad for a prostitute, in his eyes, prostitutes are better than her Sanmei, can she not be angry?

At dinner, Old Man Guo said at the dinner table: "I met Xu Banxian at the market today, and asked him to collect the soul of Da Zhuang, starting tomorrow night, Er Zhuang, go find your brother tomorrow and bring him home." ”

"Hmm." The second strong should be undertaken.

When Er Zhuang found Da Zhuang the next day, Da Zhuang was sleeping on the haystack in the grain field in the west of the village, Er Zhuang almost didn't recognize him, his stupid and silly brother was already sloppy to the point that he couldn't look good, his hair was unkempt in all directions, the mud on his face was several layers thick, and his beard was longer than Xu Banxian's. Erzhuang dragged him home.

When he arrived at the door of the house, Da Zhuang didn't go to the door, he was tall and big, more burly than Erzhuang, Erzhuang tried his best to push him, but he didn't move like Mount Tai, and he had no choice but to call Old Man Guo, and the two worked together, Da Zhuang was finally pushed forward. As soon as Da Zhuang entered the courtyard, he immediately stared at Xiu'er's door in horror, and frequently looked back at hiding behind the jujube tree.

"It's been so long, I'm still afraid." Old man Guo said.

"I said Xiu'er was in the house, she must still be inside." Sanmei said that her eyes slipped to her mother-in-law, and found that her mother-in-law was looking at Xiu'er's door, and there was a little horror in her eyes. She's scared too? Even her own daughter is afraid, I guess I am sorry, I am afraid that my daughter will harm her, Sanmei thought.

"Xiu'er's soul refuses to leave, why don't you ask this Xu Banxian to give Xiu'er a super degree tonight?" Mrs. Guo said.

Old Man Guo nodded.

In the evening, Xu Banxian came, the robe was all over the sky, and the dust was on his arm, Old Man Guo greeted him and brought him into the big house, everyone was waiting for Xu Banxian to show his skills, but unexpectedly, this Xu Banxian closed his eyes and pinched his fingers, and said: "It's not good, he was frightened by the ferocity, he was crazy too deeply, my mana is not enough, goodbye, goodbye." With that, he turned around and left, walking in such a hurry that he almost tripped over his robe. Sanmei only thought it was funny, and Old Man Guo sighed.

Da Zhuang continued to run wildly in the field, and Er Zhuang and Old Man Guo continued to play cotton. There are two more old women Guo and Sanmei's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law left in the house.

After Erzhuang left, as soon as the sky was dark, Sanmei latched the door and turned off the lights.

She still endured the torment of this dark night, and the dark night always reassured her, because Xiu'er always seemed to come out on a moonlit night. There was thunder in the sky, and it was going to rain. Sanmei was lying on the bed shaking a fan, she was most afraid of thunder, she could get into Erzhuang's arms when there was thunder before, but Erzhuang was not here tonight, even if she was, she would not open her mind for her. So, should she look for the next mind? Who is it? Zhu Sheng? If she asks Zhu Sheng to marry her, will he? She'd been thinking about it for two nights.

The thunder grew louder and more frequent, and it chased the lightning ass as if it was going to explode into the house. Sanmei covered her head with the quilt, she was too scared, a dazzling lightning pierced the sky, and the "sizzling" sound of electricity seemed to rub the quilt, followed by a thunderclap, the roar exploded in the brain, making people wonder if the head was blown up by it. The rain poured down like a waterfall. Sanmei lifted the quilt, she sat up from the darkness, she wondered, she seemed to hear a frightened scream just now, mixed with the thunder, ahhhhhh She didn't really hear it, and was very skeptical of its authenticity. Maybe she misheard, she thought, and lay down again. After a while, a panting voice remembered in front of the bed, "Who! Sanmei asked, staring at the side of the bed with wide eyes, but it was too dark in the room, or too dark tonight, and she couldn't see the person at all. The man let out a few laughs in the dark, it was a man, and the laughter was full of obscenity and lewdness. Sanmei wanted to shout, but found that her voice couldn't make a sound, and she couldn't even move her hands and feet.

It was almost noon, Sanmei got up, she opened the window, a burst of heat came to her face, she looked into the yard, the ground was dry, the rain last night was absorbed by the sun, she didn't know when the rain stopped, maybe it only stopped for a short while, she was immersed in happiness, she didn't care about anything.

Today is the day of the market in the village, Sanmei wants to walk around the market, she wants to meet Zhu Sheng, she has to pave the way for her future. Sanmei sat in front of the mirror and dressed up carefully, she braided her long hair into several braids, then split the braids in half to the sides, and then folded them in half and tied them with red ribbons. The trumpet flowers on the outside wall climbed onto the windowsill, the pink flowers swayed in the breeze, and Sanmei reached out to pinch one and put it on her head. She is also dressed beautifully today, with pink silk yarn, light and breathable, and a close-fitting big red belly pocket looming. After packing up, I went out with a basket.