After three or four months of pregnancy, the child who had tormented Shi Qiu for a long time finally stopped, and now Shi Qiu is no longer nauseous and wants to vomit, and he will not become sallow when he hears the word "eat", but his body still feels a little weak.

But fortunately, even if Su Zhi is not there, and Aunt Sun is taking care of him, Zhiwen is already a half-old child, since he can have the courage to go out of the city to deliver letters when the Beidi soldiers are besieging the city, Mao Sui recommended himself to go out of the city to deliver letters, and he can already take on one side, some things in the tavern, as long as it is not too difficult, Shi Qiu is also willing to let Zhiwen take care of it, and when she can't do it in the future, even if Zhiwen has no results in his career, he can also have something to do to support his family.

The weather at the border pass was dry, the ground was cracked, and the snow began to fall in the cold winter months, and it began to be endless.

In Shi Qiu's memory, it seems that in the winter of Liangcheng, on the top of the distant hillside, the snow has never melted, and the ice by the well has frozen layer after layer, and it will not turn into a puddle of water again until the spring of the second year.

There is a well on the street corner in the west of the city, the old man who killed the pig, Huan Huanxi passed by the well with a basin of pig blood, slipped under his feet, sprinkled all the pig's blood on the ice, and before the old man got up, the pig's blood had formed a red layer on the ice, as long as someone went to the well to fetch water throughout the winter, he had to step on the bright red blood all over the ground, and some people laughed that the old man's pig must be dead and blind, and it was not counted that the heart and liver were eaten and the meat was not counted, and it had to be trampled back and forth for a winter.

There are also people who say that the people who build bridges and pave roads are said to have great merits, and the bridges that have been repaired and the roads that have been paved are also trampled by people who come and go, and the more they step on, the more merits they have.

From here, when people see the old man, they always have to ask, have you eaten the meat of your pig master? Or when you see him coming to fetch water, you laugh and say, "You have come to see your pig master again?"

As for whether the old man was annoyed and angry, or laughed and listened to it as a joke, Shi Qiu didn't know specifically, but when he heard Aunt Sun tell her interesting things in the city, he mentioned the well again, and said that it was the pig master's side, and the pawnshop next to the well was called the pig master's pawnshop, and the one who sold steamed buns was called the pig master's bun.

Speaking of the pig master's buns, Aunt Sun peeled the peanuts for the winter in front of the charcoal fire, and said to Shi Qiu: "In recent years, the world is still peaceful, and the number of people who have fled has slowly decreased, but there will be people who are sad in the peaceful and prosperous times, and there are also people who are sad in the peaceful and prosperous times, and there was a woman with a child yesterday, and went to the store to steal a few pig master buns, and the shopkeeper arrested the woman and beat two brooms, only to know that the woman stole the buns to eat for her children, and the two of them fled all the way to Liangcheng, It's been a long time since I've had a full meal. ”

"And then?"

"Presumably the shopkeeper who sells buns over there of the pig master, you have also noticed, that is a stingy person, originally he had to let the woman give money, but the neighbors persuaded the shopkeeper to forget it, and a few buns are not worth much."

Shi Qiu said: "That bun is his, and it is natural to ask for money, but if all the thoughts of the business are based on interests, it will not be good." ”

"Not really." Aunt Sun spoke with emotion, "At that time, there were also kind-hearted onlookers who bought the bun stolen by the woman, but the kind-hearted man was also coincidental, and he brought a copper plate missing, and in order to cheapen a copper plate, he shouted with the shopkeeper of the bun." ”

Shi Qiu shook his head and listened carefully, knowing that as long as it was the story that Aunt Sun wanted to tell, it would definitely not be an ordinary past, and there would be room for development in the future.

Aunt Sun put a somewhat sprouted peanut into her mouth, took two bites, and said: "The quarrel went back and forth until the end, Wang Er, who had never married a daughter-in-law in the south of the city, came over, and Wang Er came to listen to the reason for the matter, and without saying a word, he settled all the money for the buns, and bought an extra drawer for the woman." ”

Shi Qiu nodded at this time, "This Wang Er is a good person. ”

Aunt Sun said regretfully: "People are good, but they are ugly, not to mention short, their faces are full of pockmarks, when they were children, their family background was average, and they had no education, and they were too honest, so they haven't married a daughter-in-law until now." ”

"Maybe fate hasn't arrived." Shi Qiu thought about himself at the beginning, wasn't he quite old and didn't get married, and at that time he made his godfather worry about this matter, but fate was coming, Shi Qiu was also glad that he didn't find someone to marry casually, God let her meet Su Zhi, Shi Qiu felt in his heart that Su Zhi was the best husband in the world.

"It's here."

Aunt Sun smiled, it seemed that people had reached a certain age, and they were particularly interested in this kind of topic, so she hurriedly said to Shi Qiu: "That woman got the bun, knelt down and kowtowed to Wang Er, and said something unforgettable, it sounded like a learned person, and at this time there were good things in the crowd to help, saying that since the great kindness and virtue are unforgettable, it is better to follow Wang Er back to be a daughter-in-law, at least there is food, drink and a place to live, and you can also find a way for the child to live." ”

Shi Qiu smiled softly, seeing that Aunt Sun's peanuts were fragrant, she also reached out and peeled them and put them in her mouth, and said while eating: "The woman agreed?" ”

Aunt Sun was surprised when she heard this. "How does the shopkeeper know?" ”

Shi Qiu chuckled, "If you don't agree, this matter will be too ordinary, how can you let Aunt Sun tell it." ”

Aunt Sun listened, slapped her thigh and laughed, "The emotional shopkeeper is not like a god, but has already seen through my mother-in-law." ”

Shi Qiu said: "Did you really go back with Wang Er?" ”

"Really. The woman may have endured a lot of hardships along the way, and seeing that Wang Er was kind and a kind person, she pulled the child and kowtowed to Wang Er and agreed to go back with him. ”

"Then this matter can be considered complete."

Aunt Sun shook her head, "It's a good story, but it also hurts Wang Er, the woman's child is sick, and the condition for marrying Wang Er is to let Wang Er hire a doctor for her child to treat the disease, Wang Er's family background is thin, and for such an unknown woman, he has to take out the money, but it is a matter of gambling on the future." ”

"Wang Er agreed?"

"Promised." Aunt Sun said: "The woman wiped the soil off her face, and she looks very standard, and she looks about the same age as the shopkeeper." Saying that, Aunt Sun looked at Shi Qiu and exclaimed: "Speaking of which, the eyebrows and eyes look a little similar to the shopkeeper." ”

Shi Qiu went over these words in his mind, stopped peeling peanuts, and asked Aunt Sun, "Where did the woman flee from?" ”

Aunt Sun thought for a while and shook her head, "I don't know the specifics, but I met her shopping for vegetables near Wang Er's house later, and she listened to the accent, and she was a little similar to the shopkeeper." ”

Shi Qiu had a little speculation in his heart, but he felt that it was unlikely, and said to Aunt Sun: "Aunt Sun, if you go over there and see the woman, help me ask where she is from?" Why did you flee here? ”

Aunt Sun nodded in response, "That's easy to say, there's a pig killer over there, I often go over there to buy meat, and when the time comes, just take two steps around and ask." ”

Shi Qiu nodded, "That's annoying aunt." ”

Aunt Sun waved her hand, this was just a trivial matter for her, and in a blink of an eye she remembered other things, and then at the same time, Qiu talked about it, in short, the pig of a certain family gave birth to twenty cubs, and the son born to a certain daughter-in-law was actually her eldest cousin, and a series of unbelievable novelties.

At night, Shi Qiu told Su Zhi about it, obviously Su Zhi was not very interested in this kind of market news, and he always wanted to touch Shi Qiu's stomach in his eyes.

Shi Qiu talked about this matter intermittently, and kept opening Su Zhi's hand from his stomach, and he was not interested in talking about it, so he simply turned off the light and lay down to sleep.

For things like gossip, women and women are more like-minded, and within a few days, Aunt Sun completed the task assigned to her by Shi Qiu.

That day, Aunt Sun arrived at the pig master's side, and she didn't even have time to buy meat, so she ran back to report the news to Shi Qiu.

Aunt Sun said that the daughter-in-law that Wang Erxin brought home was Huainan's, her husband's family was bankrupt and was driven out by her husband, and there was no one left in her poor mother's house, so she could only live on the streets. Now staying in Wang Er's house, Wang Er neither beats her nor scolds her, and can still treat his children, so he thinks that if he can live it, he is not willing to leave again.

Shi Qiu listened, his heart became more and more chaotic, the clothes in his hand were folded and spread out, repeated countless times, and finally said to Aunt Sun: "I want to go to Wang Er's house to see." ”

Aunt Sun didn't know why, she didn't know why Shi Qiu was so interested in a foreign woman, but she knew that Shi Qiu had always had her own way of doing things, so she went out of the yard and called the groom, got into the car and walked towards the second king's house.

The courtyard of Wang Er's house was more broken than Shi Qiu imagined, and even Wang Er was uglier than Shi Qiu's impression. Seeing Shi Qiu, Wang Er's family hurriedly welcomed her into the yard, and entered the door, Shi Qiu saw a woman who was drying and washing her clothes in the yard, and when she looked up and saw Shi Qiu coming in, the wooden basin she was holding in her arms fell to the ground with a clatter, and a thousand words came to her mouth, leaving only the cry of covering her mouth.