Chapter II
Fu Shuye failed to marry his Cheng Cheng girl.
A-Niang scolded fiercely, but on the second day, she and Daddy wore new clothes, cleaned up neatly, touched all the valuable corners of the house, and went straight to Cheng's house in the early morning.
Miss Cheng Cheng was overjoyed, and the tears in her eyes sprinkled in the air like smoke, pouring on Ah Niang's heart, which provoked Ah Niang to give her a little love first.
But Cheng Cheng's father didn't do it, he looked down on the Fu family's only one leaky medical hall, and even looked down on A-Niang, a woman who showed up to beg for a living, and planned to marry Cheng Cheng to Luxian County Cheng as the eighteenth concubine, so as to hook his case record in the official mansion.
The so-called parents' orders, the words of the matchmaker.
Even if Cheng Cheng and Fu Shuye promised to be happy with each other, they had to beat the mandarin ducks and forget each other.
Again, Cheng Cheng's father owes debts, and Daddy and Auntie can't pay them when they empty their family funds.
On the day of Cheng Cheng's wedding, Fu Shuye squatted by the small pond at the entrance of the village and sat in a daze for a day.
I didn't go to him, I think he wanted to be quiet.
As usual, I cleaned up the house, cleaned up, cooked for my father and aunt, and only wiped my hands when I was free, sat in front of the stove and took out a book to memorize.
I was fascinated by my back, and I didn't suddenly come back to my senses until Fu Shuye sat next to me.
"You're back?"
Fu Shuye didn't answer, took out the book from his arms, and silently memorized it.
I ignored him, Fu Shuye is a man, and he has to digest these emotions by himself.
After getting out of school, Ah Niang saw me dozing off on Fu Shuye's shoulder, the spring catkins were as white as snow into my nose, going in and out with my even breathing.
Fu Shuye looked at the wetness on his shoulders with disgust, stretched out a finger to push my drooling chin shut, and then turned his head to A-Niang with a serious face and said, "I have something to say." ”
In April in the world, the sun and the wind are intoxicating, and when the afterglow is about to end, I can wake up.
Finished.
The moment I opened my eyes, my heart drooped straight down, like a basin of cold water poured on my head, and I secretly screamed that it was not good.
I didn't make dinner!
quickly turned over and got out of bed, didn't care about the bun on his head and slept messily, and pulled his shoes to get out of the house.
together, they were scared "ah".
A-Niang sat on the stool with her feet crossed, and heard me get up and turn my head sideways, and my beautiful eyes were dim.
“。。。 I slept. I touched my head a little apprehensively, and secretly scolded Fu Shuye in my heart for being unreliable and didn't know how to call me.
Ah Niang didn't speak, but handed me a bag of broken silver with one hand.
I didn't dare to answer, so I asked with a trembling mouth: "A-Niang is going to sweep me out of the house?" ”
"Don't talk nonsense," A-Niang gently pressed my head like a big yellow dog touching the village, and said softly: "This is your entanglement." ”
I was even more scared, so I hurriedly squeezed out two tears, hugged A-Niang's hand and howled: "Yazi must cook well, don't drive Yazi away." ”
A-Niang uncharacteristically didn't push me away, and let me rub the snot and tears that I squeezed out.
I howled and felt that I couldn't go on, and I wanted to raise my head but was hugged tightly by A-Niang.
"Yazi," Ah Niang's voice trembled a little: "Ah Daddy and Ah Niang never wanted to trap you in this world, it's just that you are too young and a woman, unlike Fu Shuye's naughty boy who went outside to go out and endure some hardships, Ah Niang just ...... I'm just afraid that you will be wronged. ”
I was smothered in my mother's chest, my eyes widened and I forgot to move for a while.
Ah Niang stroked my hair, gently spread the ends of my somewhat knotted hair, and muttered in her mouth: "Yazi is a big girl, it is Ah Niang's selfishness and negligence." ”
I don't know what Fu Shuye told Ah Niang, I just know that I haven't slept with Ah Niang for a long time, and Ah Niang's arms are fragrant and soft.
She put her arms around me, and I slept soundly that night.
The news that the daughter of the Fu family was also going to participate in the imperial examination spread all over Lu County for a while, and the families who originally had a wait-and-see attitude towards A-Niang's teaching level also came to send their daughters to private schools.
Ah Niang has been counting the money happily in the past two days, and she is smiling and talking softly to me and Fu Shuye, which makes us both very bottomless.
Daddy's medical clinic has not been open for the past few days, and he stubbornly wants to go up the mountain to pick some herbs with a bamboo basket on his back, chattering that he wants to prepare them for the children.
Jin Shun's scientific examination has to go through the government examination, the hospital examination, and finally the palace examination.
Fu Shuye said that if he can take the first place in the Zhongfu examination, he can be called a jinshi, and when he returns to his hometown, he will respect his master, and he can take the career path.
"Then what if you can win the first place in the temple exam?"
"That's the champion." Fu Shuye's eyes looked at the winding path at the head of the village: "From now on, it will soar and flourish, and the ancestors will be glorified." ”
I followed Fu Shuye's eyes, and the winding mountain paths were entwined together, making people dizzy one by one.
Can you really get out of this world?
I looked down at the newly embroidered shoes made by my mother, and my feet were soft brocade, and my feet were like stepping on clouds.
The upper is embroidered with flowers, and a huge peony texture spreads upwards and spreads on the instep, and the blooming brake is eye-catching.
I moved carefully, only to feel that it was neither moving nor moving, and that the new shoes were so worn on my feet that I was afraid that they would get dirty, but they were restrained.
Fu Shuye watched me put down my embroidered shoes, and secretly rubbed his hand to reach out and touch the brocade surface, but I "snapped" my hand.
"Have you washed your hands, Hugh is going to touch it."
Fu Shuye sniffed and said sourly: "Who is rare." ”
The house test is imminent, and my mother made two new clothes for me, saying that I can't let people see jokes when I enter the city.
Fu Shuye jumped up and down like a monkey on the side and shouted why he didn't, Ah Niang rolled her eyes, and said with disgust: "You are a mixture of mud, and you can't survive a day wearing any new clothes." ”
Daddy was silent on the side, silently grinding the herbs, and packed the prepared medicine bags into categories.
Daddy still has a plaster on his waist, he is old, his legs and feet are not as neat as before, and he flashed his waist when picking herbs, and was carried down the mountain by the villagers who went with him.
I sat and watched silently, not feeling good.
"Auntie."
"Take it well, Fu Shuye is not a good person, you must not let your brother touch the money, otherwise you two will wait to sleep on the streets." As if she knew what I was going to say, Ah Niang quickly interrupted me and stuffed me with two heavy bags of money.
I touched the coil in my arms that A-Niang gave me a few days ago, and I was about to refuse, but A-Niang winked at me and whispered: "That's for you to be an emergency, don't make a noise." ”
In this way, everyone spent the last night before leaving home.
After this night, Fu Shuye and I will embark on the long road of the imperial examination, taking Daddy and Auntie's Qiji to fight for a future.
As soon as the sky was bright, the morning sun slowly opened the curtain, and the morning sun broke through the sky.
The sound of firecrackers in front of Fu's house continued to sound.
Daddy and Auntie got up early to deal with the villagers who came to see each other off.
I was still in the haze, opening my eyes and looking at the yellow clay roof in a daze, and secretly vowed in my heart that I would earn a reputation so that my father and mother would no longer have to work hard, and I could live in a big yard with two entrances and two exits.
Fu Shuye stood beside me with a calm face, his face gloomy and he wanted to kill.
I know why he is so late, the people of Lu County are later enlightened, and the villagers here generally do not have the will to rush to take the exam.
Daddy and Auntie came to settle here after the Jinshun government took over, and saw that Lu County had no income except for some hungry livelihoods, so they did their best to provide Fu Shuye and I with reading and literacy since childhood, and strive to let us get out of this square piece of the sky.
Therefore, since the resumption of scientific examinations, only me and Fu Shuye have rushed to take the examination this year.
This is also a matter of a glorious place, Lu County Cheng stood in the courtyard with a shy stomach, and said some polite words to Daddy and Auntie with a red face.
As the saying goes, killing one's father and taking one's wife are hateful, and now the person who takes his wife is in front of him, Rao is Fu Shuye's disguise on weekdays, no matter how good he is disguised, he can't hold it anymore now.
Ah Niang also knew it in her heart, and hurriedly greeted the county lord into the house, with a hypocritical smile on her face, turned around and turned to me with her back hand, signaling us to hurry up.
Although it is not that I didn't think about the scene of departure, but on this day, I was still panicked.
Fu Shuye and I carried two bags of luggage on our backs and walked silently to the entrance of the village, not speaking to each other.
The grass on the mountains is green, and unknown wildflowers are blooming brilliantly. The spring breeze blows the willow silk that pulls out the buds, and it looks like a girl's face delicately. If you take a hard breath, the mountain air with the unique sweetness of dew drops is much cleaner than the yellow earth that is always dusty in front of your house. If it was usual, I wouldn't know what Fu Shuye and I would be like if I could sneak out.
But now this beautiful scenery fell in my eyes, but I didn't have any interest, and only walked forward with my head bowed sullenly.
"Are you hungry?" Fu Shuye finally couldn't help it and opened his mouth first.
I walked listlessly and casually replied, "It's okay." ”
Fu Shuye seemed to open the conversation box and began to chatter: "After crossing this mountain in a while, we can hire a carriage, and then run for two days and two nights to get to Fengqi, and then find a clean inn, just waiting for the middle of the month to sign up and the end of the month for reference." ”
“......”
"Yazi, why don't we set a small goal first, climb to the mountainside first, and then eat the almond crisp that A-Niang brought?"
“......”
Fu Shuye read while rummaging through his luggage: "A-Niang also brought your favorite candied fruit, you can taste it!" ”
Fu Shuye didn't care whether I answered or not, he just talked to himself, but after a while, there was no sound.
"How?" I turned around to look at him and saw Fu Shuye standing in place, holding two packets of silver and white Luopa in his hands.
"Whoa." Fu Shuye blinked vigorously with a strange expression, and handed me one of the packets.
I took it, and the smell of cinnamon greeted my nose.
"Daddy is afraid that your hands and feet will be cold." Fu Shuye sniffed and said, "Daddy also brought me honeysuckle, I think I was afraid that I would get angry." ”
I touched Luo Pa, felt the convex on the handkerchief between my fingertips, and carefully turned the handkerchief over, only to see a crooked embroidery on it: "Lingyun thousands of miles, Shaohua does not live up." ”