As soon as the magpie's words fell, the cotton curtain was lifted. A cold wind swept in with fine snow. Xing Ruyi squinted, and the magpie sitting next to him had already turned his head and stood up. I saw a woman in her thirties standing at the door, although she was dressed without makeup, but the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were full of charm that she couldn't hide.

Seeing that Xing Ruyi's eyes swept over, he immediately pursed his lips and smiled, stepped into the door, and asked, "But the torture shopkeeper of Ruyi's rouge shop?" ”

Xing Ruyi got up, and the blanket fell to her waist, revealing her already visibly bulging belly.

The woman was stunned for a moment, then smiled again: "How many months has the shopkeeper's belly been?" ”

Xing Ruyi did not answer, but handed his hand to the magpie, and only after getting up did he say, "You are ......"

"She's the horse girl."

The magpie whispered to the side. Xing Ruyi listened, and couldn't help but glance at the "horse girl" in the magpie's mouth again.

"Where is there still a horse girl, as if she has become a horse lady." The woman didn't mind, "My maiden name is Ma." As for me, I was born in the countryside since I was a child, grew up in the countryside, and my temperament is a little wilder than ordinary girls. At the age of seven or eight, he followed my father out to sell livestock. When those people saw that although I was young, I was acting harshly and steadily, they called me Miss Ma. This call is more than ten years, even if I become a parent and a mother, those people still call me Miss Ma. ”

The woman said, tugging at the corners of her clothes, as if she was a little embarrassed.

"Now, it makes the criminal shopkeeper laugh."

"Where, ma'am, please be seated!"

The woman nodded, and after taking her seat, she hesitated for a while before she spoke: "I heard that the shopkeeper is not only good at making these rouge gouaches, but also knows some Qihuang techniques, which can cure diseases that others can't. I take the liberty to come, and I hope that the shopkeeper will not blame. ”

"Madame, what's wrong with you?"

"It's not me, it's my mother." The woman lowered her head slightly: "I originally thought that I could invite the shopkeeper to come to my house to diagnose my mother and see if I could see where her illness was." But when I got here, I realized that the shopkeeper's body was inconvenient. ”

Xing Ruyi glanced at the magpie, and the magpie immediately spoke: "Isn't Grandma Liu as inconvenient as my shopkeeper?" Could it be that it is going to be produced? ”

Before the magpie's words landed, the woman blushed and waved her hand, "No, no, I asked the shopkeeper to diagnose another illness for my mother." As for my mother's belly, it's really hard to open. ”

"Having children is a natural law. Grandma Liu is older, but it is not without precedent, and Mrs. does not need to be embarrassed about this. It's just that what Ruyi did was originally a business of rouge gouache, which is not a strong point. Grandma Liu's body is special, if there is really anything uncomfortable, Mrs. should go to a serious doctor. ”

"Alas!" The woman sighed a long sigh and said, "Since the shopkeeper knows what is happening in my house, I will no longer hide it from the little woman." Since the day my mother married my father, she has been striking iron with my father, and since she has suffered more than ordinary women, her body is naturally tougher than that of ordinary women.

I had never seen or heard my mother say anything uncomfortable about her until I came in and had an accident with my father-in-law. Ordinary people's homes are nothing more than good health, no diseases and no disasters, and family harmony. It is also a blessing for a little woman to meet such a tough father and mother. But after my father-in-law passed away unexpectedly, my mother suffered from heartache, and every morning and dusk, she couldn't stand up in pain.

Over the years, I have taken my mother to see a doctor, but I have taken a lot of this medicine, but my illness has not improved at all. At the beginning of spring this year, I watched my mother become more and more wrong, not only did her face become ugly, but her spirit was not as good as day by day, and even her belly was getting bigger. I knew that her condition was spreading and showing signs of worsening, but my mother seemed to have fallen into an evil spirit, not to say that she was pregnant with a child, and the child was still accompanied by Da Lang and Erlang.

I'm not afraid of the shopkeeper's jokes, how can I still give birth at my father's age. Even if she really has children, she won't drag my mother down like that. There are rumors that my mother is pregnant with a bad baby and a monster, but only I know that my mother is sick. I inquired a lot before I found the shopkeeper here, hoping to diagnose my mother's illness so that she could have a good old age. ”

"Madame is filial, this is a matter of seeing a doctor......

The woman seemed to have a prevarication when she saw the punishment, and hurriedly said: "I know that the shopkeeper is not in good health now, but the little woman really has no other way to think of it. Don't you know that my mother thought she was pregnant with a child and refused to go with me to see a doctor, especially a male doctor. But in this huge Luoyang City, where is there any female doctor who can see a doctor. It was also by chance that I learned from a bystander that the shopkeeper of the Ruyi Rouge Shop could see a doctor, so I rushed to find it. The shopkeeper can refuse, but my mother is pitiful, she has worked hard for half her life, she is old, and she has to be tortured by the disease. As a daughter-in-law, it is really unfilial, and as a wife, I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to substitute for my poor Xiangfu who went early. ”

And as she spoke, she bowed her head and wiped away her tears.

"Isn't Miss Ma embarrassed for my family?" The magpie seemed to be moved when he saw the punishment and hurriedly said: "Before Mr. went out, he specially explained to the magpie, so that the shopkeeper should not care about the troubles in this world. ”

"It's the little woman who is bothering." The woman pursed her lips and turned as if to leave.

"Wait a minute." Xing Ruyi spoke up.

"Shopkeeper." The magpie shouted in a long voice, and pulled the sleeve of Xing Ruyi's coat with his hand: "Have you forgotten what Mr. told you?" Besides, there are so many idle things in Luoyang City, but the Liu family can't manage it. ”

"In that case, the shopkeeper should listen to this little girl. The little woman went to look for it again. Alas, now I just ask God to bless me, so that my mother can suffer until that time. ”

"Saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, since Mrs. found my Ruyi rouge shop, and found my punishment Ruyi, if I really don't care, I'm afraid that Mrs. will inevitably have resentment in her heart in the future."

"The shopkeeper is serious, I don't dare to think like that, little woman, and I don't dare to resent Mrs. or anything. The so-called everything is fate, only complaining, my mother is not sick, and it is not the time for me to come to the door. While the shopkeeper was resting, the little woman went back first. ”

"As soon as Madame says this, if Ruyi doesn't go with Madame again, then the sin will be great." Xing Ruyi stroked his stomach: "Magpie, take the big piece left by Mr. and order the carriage to be prepared in the backyard." Oh, by the way, and my box, you can carry it with you. ”

"Is the shopkeeper really going?"

"Luoyang City in the first snow is also quite a scenery to enjoy, you and I should go out to relax. Holding it in the shop like this is not good for the baby in the belly. ”

As if in response to Xing Ruyi's words, the little fox happily kicked her in the stomach a few times. Xing Ruyi lowered his head, smiled a little helplessly, and said, "What a wild child, I didn't follow your father at all." ”

The magpie "fluttered" and smiled, and the whole person relaxed.

The carriage swayed and walked for half an hour before it arrived outside Liu's house. The Liu family has been striking iron for several generations, and they are very diligent, and this day is more than enough in Luoyang City. The courtyard of the Liu family is bright, and the east chamber lives Grandma Liu, Grandpa Liu and Dalang's family. The West Chamber is home to Erlang's family. The shop where the Liu family struck iron was different from the shop next to it, not in the place along the street outside, but in the backyard of the Liu family, and there was a small door open in the backyard, but it was usually locked. The walls of the courtyard are very high, and the locks are also very thick, like the kind made by the Liu family themselves.

In the words of the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, this is the Liu family's fear that their family's ability to strike iron will be leaked, which can be regarded as the paranoia of the Liu family for several generations. When you are used to being poor, you naturally regard the skills of making a living as a treasure.

When Xing Ruyi followed Da Lang's daughter-in-law into the door, Grandma Liu was sitting under the porch. His eyes stared at the sky in a daze, not knowing whether he was looking at the sky or the falling snowflakes.

Dalang's daughter-in-law called "mother", and Grandma Liu's eyes rolled twice. Looking at each other, Xing Ruyi saw that Grandma Liu's face was dry and yellow, her green tendons were leaking, and her eyes were deeply sunken into her sockets.