Chapter 10: Early Morning
Time flies, spring passes, summer arrives, and the riverside village enters the hottest time of the year.
Early in the morning, Jiang Xiaohu carried a hoe and a bucket, rushed to water the family's vegetable patch before the sun, the time was six o'clock in the morning, he swayed through the village, passed an alley, and suddenly heard the sound of a dog barking from the door.
It's too normal for rural people to raise dogs, his family has also raised them before, and he has accompanied Jiang Xiaohu through ten years of childhood and adolescence, and was later poisoned by stealing dogs, and since then, Jiang Xiaohu has never had the idea of raising a dog.
Now when he hears the dog barking, he still feels kind, but at the same time he can also hear it, this dog barking is not ordinary, and there must be a thief in the house.
He took a look at it, he was familiar with this family, her family was not bad before, but now, it is the poorest family except Jiang Xiaohu's family.
Jiangbian Village Jiang is a big surname, but there are also two surnames Zhang and Wang, three parts of the world, this family is surnamed Zhang, and there is only one widow named Biyun left, who can be twenty-five or six years old this year.
If you want to talk about her appearance, it is really not to be picked. With a goose egg face, willow eyebrows, and a cherry mouth, although her skin is not as white as that of the people in the city, she is a healthy wheat color, and her body is delicate and full, which often provokes a group of perverts in the village to linger behind her. Biyun has a nickname Black Widow, the reason is that since she entered Zhang's house, first her father-in-law died, and then her brother-in-law was in a car accident and lay in the hospital for three months and finally died, and in less than half a year, her husband fell off the scaffolding on the construction site and died.
A good home, in an instant, the wind and rain were in an instant, only the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were left, the mother-in-law hated her, felt that she had harmed the whole family, had a mental breakdown and went crazy, and not long ago she left home without a trace, and now the Zhang family is left with Biyun alone, oh yes, there is also a dog.
There are many rights and wrongs in front of the so-called widow's door, and there are more rights and wrongs in front of Biyun's house, Jiang Xiaohu is well versed in the faces of some men in the village, and he can't help but think a little more.
He hid under a big tree next to him, and saw a man sneaking out of the wall. Looking at the back, it seems to be Wang Qiang, a plumber in the village.
He jumped down from the wall, looked left and right, and ran to the west, Jiang Xiaohu remembered that Wang Qiang's house was in that direction.
"Could it be that what the people in the village said is true?Biyun is really that*?" Jiang Xiaohu was surprised and secretly pondered.
In fact, he was a little sad in his heart, because he still liked Biyun, and he preferred to call her Sister Biyun than his sister-in-law.
He still remembers that he was helping his mother work in the field that year, but he fainted due to heat stroke, and the old lady was far away at that time, but Biyun helped him drag him to the shade of a tree, and has been taking care of him to wake him up.
Shaking his head, Jiang Xiaohu sighed: "This is life! I'd better go and water the ground." ”
At about eight o'clock, Jiang Xiaohu went home after work, and passed by the door of Biyun's house again, he subconsciously walked to the side of the road opposite the door, this time the door was open, he could even see Biyun's busy figure in the door, she was probably washing clothes, she was really diligent, how could such a diligent woman be wasted?
Jiang Xiaohu couldn't figure it out.
Just as he was about to walk over, he suddenly heard Biyun speak.
"Why are you so unlucky, it's broken again. ”
The voice is faint, revealing a sense of helplessness, which makes people feel distressed.
Jiang Xiaohu's heart jumped with joy inexplicably, recalling the first time he saw Biyun in the crowd on the day of her wedding.
At that time, Jiang Xiaohu was still in junior high school, and he was a half-grown boy who didn't understand anything, and the moment the bride's hijab was lifted, Jiang Xiaohu looked straight at it directly, he had never seen such a good-looking person in his life.
Jiang Xiaohu stepped across the path, walked to the near door, and coughed: "Cough!" deliberately attracted the attention of the people inside the door.
The big dog barked inside the door, and Biyun looked back to see him.
She looked haggard and helpless, and her hands were full of soap foam.
"Ah, it's Huzi. She smiled reluctantly and said hello.
Jiang Xiaohu nodded: "Sister Biyun, what can I help you with?"
"You can't help much, let's call Wang Qiang later. ”
Wang Qiang was the plumber Jiang Xiaohu saw in the morning, and he felt inexplicably in his heart, feeling that something was wrong.
"Let me take a look, maybe it's a small thing. Jiang Xiaohu took the initiative to go inside, Biyun didn't stop her, she still likes this big boy, it's different from those rough old men in the village, but I feel that this little guy is different from before, as if he has grown up.
Jiang Xiaohu put down the farm tools at the door and opened the two doors easily, he had to worry about something.
When he came to the faucet, he found that the faucet was like an old man with prostatitis, ticking, not much water, but there was water.
"Is the faucet broken?" Jiang Xiaohu said, "Is there a wrench at my sister's house?"
Biyun hurriedly ran to find the tools and handed them to him, and said with a wry smile: "I'm really a broom star, I can't even gram the faucet at home, I don't know what's going on with this faucet, it's been a few days since it was broken." ”
"Sister, don't say that, I don't believe in this. Jiang Xiaohu turned off the water valve, snorted, unscrewed the faucet, and checked it, but there was nothing wrong.
"Sister, your faucet doesn't seem to be broken. Xian Xiaohu was a little puzzled, he thought for a while, and said, "You wait, I'll go home for a while." ”
"Hey!" Biyun wanted to stop him, wanting to say Huzi, you are not a plumber, maybe you can't see what's broken.
But without waiting for Biyun to answer, Jiang Xiaohu ran home with the faucet, first turned on the tap water in his house, the water flow was very smooth, and then replaced it with the faucet of Biyun's house, the strange thing is that the water flow is still very smooth.
Remembering the scene he saw this morning, his heart was even more strange.
Picking up the faucet of his own house and kicking it, and unloading the faucet of Biyun's house, Jiang Xiaohu trotted back to her house.
Before entering the door, Jiang Xiaohu heard a familiar voice: "I said big sister, you can't find a layman for this kind of thing, there will be a big incident in that minute, you see, he ran away with your faucet...... This is clearly Wang Qiang, a plumber in the village.
As soon as he heard this, Jiang Xiaohu's eyes were on fire, what do you mean? What do you mean by running away with your faucet?