Zhao Laosan entered the house, put the things in his hand, and saw that Su Binghuai was sick like this, and estimated that he was outside the ancient house on the outskirts of Beijing, drenched in the rain all night, and suffered from the cold.

"Get up, come with me to see Lang Zhong!" Zhao Laosan stood in front of the bed and glanced at Su Binghuai, his face was pale, and his lips were white with cyan. If it drags on like this for another two or three days, it will kill if it is not guaranteed.

Where does Su Binghuai still have strength, Zhao Laosan doesn't want to toss back and forth, so he carries Su Binghuai to Zhou Langzhong outside the village.

When I arrived at the ridge, I saw Uncle Wang passing by with his own woman, Wang Luoxia. He was a little surprised, a few months ago this girl was born in vain, bright and beautiful, but today she seems to be several years older.

Su Mi saw that there were some clothes piled up at home that had not been washed, so he quickly put them into a wooden basin and took the clothes to the river to wash. Su's mother was about to go down to work in the field, and when she left, she pulled her daughter: "Come back early after washing your clothes, your uncle Wang said that he would come to our house for dinner today!" ”

"Why did Uncle Wang come to the house for dinner?" Since the last time she blushed with Aunt Wang, Su Mi has always felt a little embarrassed.

"They are all relatives, just walking around each other, what is the reason!"

Su Mi finished washing his clothes, and when he came back, his man had already returned with Su Binghuai on his back. Su Binghuai was lying on the bed, and his complexion improved significantly. Su Mi looked at it and asked her husband in a soft voice: "What did Zhou Langzhong say there?" ”

"It's okay, it's just a cold wind, and it will be good for a few days!"

When the man had finished speaking, he took his hoe and went down to the ground. Su Mi thought about it, at noon today, there were relatives at home who were coming, so they began to prepare meals. Fortunately, the man bought some meat and vegetables today, otherwise this meal would have been sweaty at noon today.

Seeing that her husband and mother were working outside, Su Mi saw that there was still some millet at home, and in the chicken nest, her mother laid eggs again, so she picked up four or five eggs, boiled them with millet, carefully carried them, put them in the basket, and sent them to the hillside for the man and his mother.

When they arrived at the riverside, the man was digging hard, and his mother was pulling weeds. Su Mi saw his man, shirtless, revealing dark skin, with beads of sweat on his cheeks, as if he had been drenched in rain, and couldn't help but feel distressed: "Husband, take a sip of tea and rest!" ”

The man happened to be thirsty, put down the hoe in his hand, went to the river to wash his hands, and found a flat place to sit down: "Lady, you have been busy all morning, drink saliva too!" ”

Su Mi was very energetic, and with a smile, she handed the tea bowl in her hand to her mother first, and then gave her husband a bowl. The man took a bowl of tea, took a breath, and drank it to the bottom.

"Husband is tired!" Seeing this, Su Mi took the bowl in his hand, poured another bowl of tea, held it in a pair of white hands, and handed it to him.

"Mother, I also warmed the buns and cooked millet porridge!" After Su Mi finished speaking, he handed the bun in his hand to Su Mu. Su Mu ate less in the morning, and now she was a little hungry, smelling the fragrance of this bun, and swallowed her saliva.

Some days, Su Mi didn't send tea to the man to the hillside, the man drank two bowls of tea, ate a bowl of millet porridge, and ate an egg, and then took a hoe and began to dig the ground.

"Mother, you and Mi'er should go back first, isn't Uncle Wang coming to dinner at noon?" Zhao Laosan was afraid that his mother-in-law would be tired, and he could finish digging this little bit of soil before lunch.

"Mother, you just listen to your husband, let's go back!" Su Mi knew what he meant by a man, and after the two of them finished eating, he put away the dishes and chopsticks, pulled his mother, and walked across the river to his home.

Seeing that it was noon, after Su Mi arrived home, he quickly warmed up more than a dozen buns he brought this morning. This bun feels a little hot when I touch it with my hands. Today, the man bought lean meat at the market, washed it in a basin with clean water, put it on a cutting board and cut it into thin strips, and then marinated it in kimchi water.

Seeing that Su's mother was cooking for her brother, she tied an apron and went to the back door to pick some chili peppers. The pepper strips are nearing the end, and they're getting red.

Seeing that there were eggplants and tomatoes in the vegetable patch, she picked some one by one and went home.

After arriving home, I heard a commotion outside the door, and when I went out, I saw that Aunt Wang was coming with her daughter Wang Luoxia, and I didn't see Uncle Wang's shadow, Su Mi wiped her hands on the apron with both hands, and smiled: "Aunt Wang, why didn't Uncle Wang come!" ”

"Your Uncle Wang is going to the market temporarily, so he won't come!"

Although the two families also moved around before, for some reason, Su Mi always felt weird, and looked at her sister Luoxia and was even more surprised: "It's only been a month or two, and Sister Luoxia seems to have lost weight and is a lot haggard!" ”

"Could it be that Sister Luoxia is sick?" Su Mi looked at it in his eyes, and said secretly in his heart.

Su Mi went to the stove room to be busy, and Wang Luoxia also came to help light the fire. When Su Mi was not married, the two often went out together to cut pigweed, cut cow grass and come back to feed the family's livestock. Now, Su Mi has become a relative and married to Zhaojia Village, which is more than ten miles away, and the two are a lot stranger.

Su Mi is simple-minded, and still treats her as a sister. Seeing that her face was sallow and she had lost a lot of weight, she asked softly, "What's wrong with my sister, why did she lose weight like this in more than two months?" ”

Wang Luoxia sighed, raised her eyes to be slightly cloudy, and they were already full of tears: "Sister Su Mi, my life is hard, not as good as your life!" ”

Seeing Wang Luoxia crying, Su Mi panicked all of a sudden, hurriedly scooped up the vegetables in the pot, wiped the oil on the apron with one hand, stewed it in front of the stove, and wiped the tears on Wang Luoxia's cheeks: "What's wrong with Sister Luoxia, didn't Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang hold you in the palm of their hands and hurt?" What's the matter, life is not good? ”

"After we met last time, I married the third son of the Wang family in the town according to the arrangement arranged for me by my mother. My mother only sees that this Wang family is still a big family, how do you know that the third son of the Wang family is a splash, and he doesn't talk about bringing girls to the house all day long, and he also uses me as a cow and a horse, and punches and kicks me when he drinks! After Wang Luoxia finished crying, she put down the pliers holding firewood in her hand, rolled up her sleeves, and her white arms were full of scars.

This Wang Luoxia is the son of Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang, and when she was a girl at home, not to mention how distressed she was. No matter how much work she did at home, she was never allowed to work in the fields.

"Isn't this Wang family a big businessman? In our town, he is also a well-known figure, how can he be such a scoundrel? Su Mi also felt shocked, when she went to the market with her man to do tofu business, she met with the lord of the Wang family, and opened several shops in the town, looking at it gentle and elegant.

"Before I got married, I hadn't seen the third son of the Wang family, but my mother-in-law liked me a lot. But my mother-in-law can't be the master at home, and it's all men who have the final say. Wang Luoxia touched the tears on her cheeks, took a piece of dry firewood, and put it in the stove.

Su Mi also stood up and continued to stir-fry. I never thought that my pampered sister Luoxia would have such a unsatisfactory marriage: "What is my sister going to do now?" ”

"Less than a month after marrying into the Wang family, I became pregnant, but Wang Sanding said that he had never slept with me, and he didn't recognize the doll in this womb. The whole room at home didn't like me, so I let the child disappear. The body lost a lot, and he was charged with unchastity! Wang Luoxia sniffed, a pair of eyes, tears like pearls with broken threads, hanging on her face, did not stop.

Although Su Mi is doing things in his hands, his heart is as uncomfortable as a knife, this Luoxia sister, the two of them used to be very affectionate, and they did everything together.

"What are you going to do now?"

"Now, my mother cries every day, and I'm afraid that the people in the village will see it and feel that I am embarrassed, and I can't live this day!" Wang Luoxia is obviously one or two years younger than Su Mi, and she has only been married for a month or two, and she is four or five years old. The originally clear and translucent eyes were full of gloom and exhaustion, and the hands that were originally white and plump were now full of blisters, not to mention, and there were many scars.

"It's not a way to go on like this, I think, just let my sister leave!"

"I also thought about leaving, but my mother and father said that after I left here, it would be difficult to find my mother-in-law's house when I returned to my mother's house, and I couldn't raise my face to be a man in Sujia Village all my life!"

"Then it's not a way to go on like this!"

"Or ...... Why don't you let your man help me go and go to Wang's house to persuade my father-in-law and mother-in-law, and see that Wang San can be more restrained from now on? Wang Luoxia raised her eyes and looked at Su Mi with tears in her eyes.

Su Mi was a little embarrassed, his eyebrows frowned, and his clear eyes were very anxious: "The man in my family is just a farmer in Zhaojia Village, and the Wang family in the town, it must be impossible to speak!" ”

"Your man can't do anything, you go and tell him, otherwise I really can't live this day!" After Wang Luoxia finished speaking, she saw Zhao Laosan pacing to the stove room, and hurriedly lowered her head to wipe the tears on her cheeks.

Su Mi fetched a basin of water and asked the man to wash his hands and face. Zhao Laosan saw his little lady's uncertain appearance, and then looked at Wang Luoxia, and estimated what was going on: "Lady, after eating, we will go back to Zhaojia Village!" ”

"Oh!" Su Mi replied perfunctorily, the oil in the pot was hot, but she still didn't put the eggplant to be fried in it, and the man saw this and hurriedly poured the dish in.

"Lady, go and rest, this dish is in the pot, and you can eat!" Zhao Laosan picked up a shovel, skillfully fried the eggplant pieces, put them on the plate, and sprinkled some chopped green onions.

Wang Luoxia secretly raised her eyes, took a closer look at Zhao Laosan, and saw that he had dark cheeks, extremely thin lips under his straight nose, a face like a knife, and the whole person was tall and heroic. I can't help but think of the first time I saw him at the ridge.