Mrs. Chu faintly felt that something was wrong, and she said a few words of gossip and left. After she struggled to find the little bird hiding in the house of a distant relative, she learned that her daughter had really eloped with the previous scholar. Mrs. Chu almost fainted with anger, and went home and pulled Mr. Chu to cry.

Mr. Chu was also half angry, but he was a man after all, and he was quite calm when he encountered trouble, thinking that when Zhang Gui came back, he would definitely find their husband and wife, so he quickly sold the private school and the yard, and then picked up his luggage and went to his friends in the south.

When Pu Cao learned about this, she couldn't laugh or cry. What kind of daughter has what kind of parents, when it comes to absconding, the Chu family of three is the first in the world.

On this day, Fang Jie bought two watermelons from nowhere, with green and green stripes on the round melon body, which looked very gratifying. Peach Blossom and Shanzi were originally playing by the paddy field, but when they saw this, they immediately ran to them with cheers, and couldn't move their feet around the two big watermelons.

Pucao washed the mud on her feet, put on her cloth shoes, and walked forward with joy, "Where did you buy the watermelon, it ripens so early?" ”

Fang Jie said with a smile, "You are only allowed to grow early vegetables, aren't you allowed to plant a few early watermelons?" ”

"Hmph, I'm thinking about who stole my business, you know, I'm going to grow watermelons and melons next year."

Both of them laughed, and casually picked up the two children to go home to get kitchen knives and cut melons, and then sat side by side in the shade of the tree and gossiped. Fang Jie pondered that what Fang Cai had heard was not bloody, so he slowly considered and informed Pu Cao. Pu Cao grabbed the placket of his shirt in shock, and asked in a low voice, "Is he worried about his life?" ”

Fang Jie hurriedly shook his head, "No, no, it's a good life." Maybe it's time to go back to the village tomorrow. ”

Pu Cao breathed a sigh of relief and responded, "It's good that a person is still alive, and he will suffer more, and he will probably grow up in the future." ”

Fang Jie didn't want his beloved woman to worry about other men, so he stretched out his hand and pointed to the rice field to divert the conversation, "When will this rice mature, you estimate the exact time, and I can send a letter to Kyoto." ”

Pu Cao remembered that in his previous life, the rice harvest at home was in mid-August, so he said, "You can harvest it during the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

Fang Jie shook her hand and responded, "I'm afraid that when the time comes, I'm afraid that I will send rice to Beijing, so I won't be able to accompany you for the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

Pu Cao chuckled and comforted him, "I can still tell which one is more important than the one hundred and ten Mid-Autumn Festivals in the future, if you can't reunite with you on a Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

"Okay, as long as this thing is over, we will be together for the rest of our lives. Not only the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also the New Year, the Middle Yuan, and the Dragon Boat Festival, all of which must be spent together..."

The two snuggled together, whispering and laughing, Xia Feng naughtily hid on the side and eavesdropped, and at the end, he couldn't stand the sweetness and quietly slipped away. Not far away, Uncle Wu squatted on the ridge, occasionally turned his head to look, and sighed with a low smile, "It's good to be young." ”

Chu Fei also turned his head and looked at it for a long time when he heard the voice, but when he turned around, it was rare to say something to Uncle Wu, "Uncle Wu, if I marry her home and take care of Brother Shou'er, do you think she will respond?" ”

Wu Bo was stunned, and finally patted Chu Fei's shoulder with a smile, "Little Hou Ye, it's not that the old man thinks that Fang Gongzi is better than you, it's just that a woman like Zhang Dongjia is only suitable for growing up in the countryside, and she also likes to grow up in the countryside." If you enter the courtyard of the deep house, I am afraid that it will dry up in a few years. The old man said, you better put down this belly. Even if you speak, Zhang Dongjia will never respond. ”

Chu Fei didn't understand this truth, but he wanted to keep his nephew by his side, and he really envied the sweetness between Pucao and Fang Jie, so he had this thought. Now that I heard Uncle Wu's persuasion, I really put this matter down.

The next morning, it was still a good weather with a good wind and sunshine, and everyone in Nangou Village laughed and chattered that it was all God's fulfillment, so they seized the time to take a pickaxe, rapeseed and a bucket and water scoop and went down to the ground again.

It's been another morning, and most of the people are almost busy. The men gathered at the head of the village to smoke a pot of dry tobacco to relieve their fatigue, while the women rushed home to cook and feed the pigs.

The big willow tree at the head of the village, this season is the time when the branches and leaves grow the most luxuriantly, and the willow flutters in the wind, which makes people feel cool at first sight. The children walked between the trees, laughing and playing.

After gossiping for a long time, they heard the women of each family shouting and shouting for their husbands and children to come home for dinner. At this time, a pony cart came running on the dirt road at the head of the village. Curious, the crowd slowed down, but when the carriage came to a halt at the head of the village, a man rolled out almost immediately.

Before everyone could see clearly, the man had already grabbed a handful of dust on the ground and cried, "I'm back, I'm back!" Daddy, sister-in-law, sister, I'm back! ”

Everyone listened even more curiously, and those who were bold wanted to take a few steps forward and ask for clarification. It just so happened that the man also raised his head to look, and everyone shouted in unison, "Your brother! How did you get back? ”

Needless to say, the person who cried bitterly was Zhang Gui. When he returned to the city last night, he saw that the small courtyard he rented was empty, and the only hope in his heart was shattered. Finally found a small inn and endured until dawn and then rushed to Sancha River, and the Chu Family School had already changed owners.

He had nowhere to vent his anger and no way to take revenge, so he returned to Nangou Village in grief and grief. The fear of almost dying in a foreign land made him unable to bear it anymore when he saw his familiar homeland, and he cried loudly on the ground, which attracted everyone.

The villagers gathered around, this one helped him beat the dust, and the other helped tidy up the coarse cloth clothes, all guessing why he didn't take the big exam in Kyoto, but rushed back in such a mess, could something happen on the road?

Zhang Gui refused to answer no matter how many people asked, and only said that he wanted to see Pucao to make amends. Everyone was helpless, and while dividing up their hands to invite Li Zhenghe clan elders, they escorted Zhang Gui to Zhang's house. But this time, everyone was even more surprised, it turned out that Zhang Gui's left leg was almost dragged to the ground, this is... Crippled?

Xu ate a lot of watermelon yesterday, and Shanzi, a naughty boy, actually drew a 'map' on the mattress at night. Pu Cao made lunch, and while taking the two children to eat and drink with the spring warbler, he said a few words about it.

Shanzi's embarrassed little face turned red, and he shouted that he would never eat watermelon again. It's a pity that everyone in the family knows his details, how can anyone believe it.

The family was laughing and eating and drinking, when they suddenly saw that the courtyard door was opened, and the villagers poured in, so they were so shocked that they put down the dishes and chopsticks to welcome them out.

Pu Cao had heard Fang Jie say it yesterday, so he was not surprised to see Zhang Gui, who was surrounded by everyone. On the contrary, Peach Blossom cried and pounced, hugged her brother's waist and asked, "Second brother, why are you back?" Your legs..."

Zhang Gui remembered that his sister had gone to the city to see him several times before, but he avoided it, and he was even more sorry in his heart, stretched out his hand and hugged his sister's little body, crying, "Peach Blossom, it's the second brother who is sorry for you, the second brother knows that he is wrong, and he will treat you well in the future." ”

Peach Blossom didn't know what was going on, but she had never seen her second brother cry so sadly since she was a child, so she cried louder.

When the clan elder and Li Zheng arrived, they saw the brother and sister hugging their heads and crying, although they were puzzled, they didn't want to ask much.

Pu Cao waved his hand and motioned for Chunying to move the chair and put it in the courtyard, and Li Zheng sat down with the clan elder before asking loudly, "Brother Gui, don't cry, talk to everyone." You went to Beijing to take the exam, why did you come back so early? Also, what's going on with your legs? ”

Zhang Gui wiped his tears, looked around and saw Pu Cao standing beside him and was silent, so he dragged his stump and stumbled over, and knelt on the ground and knocked his head down.

"Sister-in-law, I know it's wrong. Sister-in-law, I regret that I shouldn't have listened to you in the first place. Ye Mei secretly changed my coil and eloped with someone, and even the Chu family moved clean. I endured a lot of hardships on the road, and almost lost my life several times, and I realized that my sister-in-law was the only one in the world who treated me sincerely.

Sister-in-law, I used to be bad, I shouldn't disrespect my sister-in-law, I shouldn't look down on my sister-in-law. It's all my fault, sister-in-law, you beat me and scold me..."

As he said this, he opened his bow left and right and slapped his mouth more than a dozen times. Everyone was stunned by Ye Mei's elopement, and they forgot to step forward to stop Zhang Gui in this stunned effort. As a result, when everyone woke up and stepped forward to persuade him, Zhang Gui's cheeks were already swollen like a pig's head. His already unkempt hair, coarse cloth clothes are also dirty, and his bloodstained forehead is really embarrassing, how pitiful and pitiful.

Li Zheng and the group prison door both sighed, and the soft-hearted women began to wipe away their tears. After all, a handsome scholar who was originally so handsome, was tortured to the point that he was no different from a beggar in less than a month, and anyone who saw it would have three points of sympathy.

Pu Cao saw that the corners of everyone's eyes swept towards her, so she let out a long sigh and asked, "Brother Gui, you couldn't wait to leave the village that day, and you rushed back after suffering and waking up today." What do you want? Let me divide this yard and field in half of you? ”

When everyone heard this, their faces were a little scornful. When the Zhang family was separated, they all scolded Zhang Gui for being ungrateful, why did he end up more miserable today, so they wanted Pucao to forgive him easily.

Zhang Gui shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, I didn't come back to share the family property again." I really want to make amends with my sister-in-law, I used to be ignorant, I read a few sage books and my eyes were above the top, obviously I spent all the money that my sister-in-law had earned back, but I didn't respect my sister-in-law. I vowed that no matter what I would do for a living, I would treat my sister-in-law like a mother. If there is the slightest disobedience, I am willing to ask God to send thunder and chop me into ashes. ”

His oath was really vicious, and the villagers felt nervous when they heard it. The clan elders and the Li Zheng looked at each other, and they all felt that it was not easy for the village to show off for many years, and if Zhang Gui was thrown out like this, he would be a little reluctant.