Wang Xiaoming nodded and said, "Yes, my leg is injured and it is not suitable to hurry, so I want to find a place to rest here and leave tomorrow." May I ask this eldest brother: Are there any big families here who have a good house?"

The farmer shook his head and said, "No! The people living here are all tenants, and the landlords live in Tianjin." ”

"What then?" Qiu Ju asked the farmer, "How far ahead is there a village, and is there an inn there?"

Zhuang Han said: "There is a village called 'Wujia Village' twenty miles ahead, but there is no inn, only a landlord. ”

"What can I do? I don't necessarily have a place to live. Camellia's brows were twisted.

Wang Xiaoming said to the farmer, "This big brother, may I ask: Who has an empty house here? It doesn't matter if it's good or bad, as long as it can last for one night." ”

The farmer shook his head and said, "It's all tenants here, and no one has extra rooms. ”

Wang Xiaoming let out a sigh of relief, shook his head and said to Camellia: "Let's go! Rush to Wujia Village to rest at the landlord's house." ”

"Twenty miles, at least two hours, and it was already dark when I got there. But there's no way, that's all!"

"Recently, there is a gang of grass robbers on the winding mountains near here, robbing houses and houses, and doing all kinds of evil, I am afraid that it will not be safe when it is late!" the farmer reminded.

"It's really a grass coward! If you run into it, it will be troublesome, and Brother Wang is now injured again. What can I do?" Camellia frowned like a twisted flower, Wang Xiaoming was about to say something?

The farmer said, "If the three of you don't dislike it, you can go to my house for one night." Tomorrow at noon, there are more pedestrians passing by, and it is not too late to go!"

"Didn't you say there was no extra room?" asked Wang Xiaoming.

The farmer nodded, "There is no extra room, but we can give you the room to live in, after all, you have injuries." It's good to be at home, but it's hard to go out!"

Qiu Ju was overjoyed when she heard this, and asked, "Then where do you live?"

"We are a farmer, we can live there, I still have a simple firewood house, clean up, and it will be fine all night. Hehe!" the farmer had a simple smile on his face, and at first glance he felt so simple, so sincere, and his body exuded a kind of down-to-earth warmth.

"May I ask the eldest brother's surname?" Wang Xiaoming asked.

The farmer grinned and said with a mouth full of yellow teeth, "Hehe! The farmer family doesn't have a big name, and his surname is Liu, ranking sixth." That's why people call me: Liu Liu. May I ask the son's surname?"

"Brother Liu Liu's polite......ness! My surname is Wang, and people call me the old Wang next door! These two are ......" and almost said that the "miscellaneous family" revealed that he was a eunuch, and originally wanted to say that these two girls were his sisters.

Qiu Ju didn't wait for Wang Xiaoming to say it, so she rushed to introduce herself: "We are all his wives, I am the second wife: Qiu Ju, and she is the eldest wife: Camellia." ”

Wang Xiaoming was speechless, shook his head, and didn't dare to say no. The heart said: That is such a thick-skinned girl? This beauty of the Ming Dynasty is different.

"Hehe! Brother Wang next door is really a nobleman, what a blessing! There are two wives who are so young and beautiful. Liu Liu said with envy.

Wang Xiaoming shook his head and said, "What a blessing! Only I know that my belly hurts......

As they spoke, they came to a fence made of wooden stakes, which was the family's fence. Liu Liu pointed to a thatched house made of rammed earth and two houses surrounded by tree bark inside the fence and said, "This is the Humble House, please don't dislike it." ”

Wang Xiaoming had already seen on horseback that the houses in this mountain front village were basically like this, and some of them only had a kitchen outside.

"There, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, Hehe!" Wang Xiaoming smiled.

Qiu Ju muttered in the back: "This house is really shabby!"

Wang Xiaoming turned his head and glared at Qiu Ju, who stuck out her tongue at him and made a grimace in protest. Fortunately, Qiu Ju's voice was small and was not heard by Liu Liu, otherwise it would be so embarrassing that she couldn't hold it on her face at all. Qiu Ju knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she lowered her head and stopped talking, hurriedly tied up the horse, and then came over to help Camellia help Wang Xiaoming off the horse.

Liu Liu put down the hoe, and then shouted to the thatched hut: "Old woman, come out quickly, there is a distinguished guest here!"

"Who's coming?" came a woman's voice from the thatched hut, and then the wooden door opened, and out came a woman of about forty years old, dressed in dyed cloth. As soon as he saw Wang Xiaoming's three faces, he asked Liu Liudao: "Liu Liu! These are the distinguished guests from there? Why haven't I seen them?"

Liu Liu hurriedly introduced his wife, and the two sides were inevitably polite, and Liu's sister-in-law was also a warm-hearted person, and she enthusiastically came up with Camellia and helped Wang Xiaoming into the house.

After entering the room, Wang Xiaoming's eyes lit up, and he originally thought that this kind of house must be smelly, at least dirty and messy, but it was much more than Wang Xiaoming expected. Although this is a thatched house, and the ground is also land, the ground is flat and hard like a cement floor, and the large soil kang inside is clean, the quilts are neatly folded, and the tables, chairs and benches in the room are well organized.

The camellia helped Wang Xiaoming to the kang and covered him with a quilt. Wang Xiaoming felt that Liu Liu's wife must have a habit of cleanliness, although the quilt was a coarse white cloth, the white cloth was clean and tidy, and there was a faint fragrance of soaphorn on it.

After arranging Wang Xiaoming, Liu Liu went out with his wife to start cooking. I also took out the only piece of bacon at home, wild mushrooms, etc.

"There's only one old hen!" Qiu Ju, who was walking around outside, pointed to the chicken coop and said with a look of surprise.

Liu Liu, who was lighting a fire under the stove, replied: "Yes! lay laying hens, laying eggs for children to eat, nourish the body." ”

"Child, do you have children?" asked Qiu Ju.

"I went out to dig wild vegetables, and I came back in a while. Sister-in-law Liu, who was busy working on the stove, said.

Oh! Qiu Ju nodded and said, "Brother Liu, I'll discuss something for you." ”

"What's the matter? Sister Qiu Ju has something to say. Liu Liu said.

Qiu Ju pointed to the old hen and said, "Can you kill the old hen?" My husband has a leg injury and needs to be repaired!"

"This ......" Liu Liu paused for a moment, looked at Sister-in-law Liu, Sister-in-law Liu nodded, Liu Liuer didn't say a word, got up and carried a kitchen knife over, grabbed the old hen from the chicken coop and killed it.

An hour later, at dusk, Liu Liu's son Liu Xiaoquan came back with a basket of wild vegetables. This Liu Xiaoquan is thirteen years old this year, with bright eyes and bright teeth, and he is an obedient and sensible good boy.

But when he saw the feathers in the basket in the ground, he immediately pouted and exclaimed, "My old hen! Who told you to kill the old hen?"

Sister-in-law Liu reprimanded: "Don't make noise! There are distinguished guests, all of them! Be polite." ”