Chapter I
"Jingle bell, jingle ......." the bell of the head mule led a team of horses to walk on this thousand-year-old road, today another team of horses and gangs are moving forward on this ancient road, in front of the horse gang team is a middle-aged man with a square face wearing a felt hat, wearing a robe, a short gun with a belt, only to see that the man holding a long knife to cut off the branches on the side of the ancient road, and the head mule followed him unhurriedly like a shadow.
The man walked to the top of the mountain with the people, looked down at the town at the foot of the mountain, and shouted: "Take care of your mules and horses, the road is slippery when you go down the mountain." Although the voice was not loud, what came out was majestic, and all the countries replied, "Xu Guotou, I know." The man replied in a neat and unhurried voice, and the man looked back at the people and continued, "Distance four or five horses, and don't let the mule loosen the falling stone and hit the man and the mule." In an instant, the mule team stretched a long distance, and the man watched carefully as he inserted the long knife into the scabbard on his waist, and walked carefully on the slippery ancient road with his head in his hand.
A young man caught up with the man and said, "Uncle, Gonglang has arrived, what are the arrangements?" The man looked at the town at the foot of the mountain and replied: "Stone, you go to the back and tell the third father: let him put the brothers in the old waist of the mule and horse shop to live, and clean up the things sold in Gonglang, such as needles and threads, foreign fire, salt, foreign cloth, and homespun cloth, and sell them in Gonglang for two days, and then we will cross the Yifang from Shenzhou, and the food should be done well, not more than ten people have a plate of meat, and he has not given the mules and horses to eat well, and the fish in the Lancang River in Gonglang will not cost much a catty, and the meat must be half a plate for one person, and it must be explained clearly." , I won't go to the old waist, I'll go to your aunt's place to stay, you will also come, but you can only come after the matter is implemented, everyone blocked a handful of hairs in the black wind basket, and the bullets hit some, so that everyone can maintain the gun. "Okay, uncle," the young man ran back after speaking, and the two big dogs caught up with the young man again.
The head mule was walking on the steep slope, followed by a long line of mule teams, when a voice came out halfway up the mountain: "Brother Nan, is Brother Nan you?" The voice was filled with excitement. The man shouted along the way: "Brother-in-law is me, Nanzi, brother-in-law, don't climb the mountain, you are fat, stand and wait for me." "Well, okay Brother Nan, I'll wait for you, wait for you," half an hour later, the man held the fat man's hand tightly.
"Brother-in-law, are you okay!"
"Okay, okay, your sister is good, the family is good, what about you? Pretty good! Mother-in-law, her old man, it's okay! The nephews and nieces are okay too! The fat brother-in-law replied excitedly.
"It's all right, my mother asked me to bring you some food, all on the mule, and I will give it to you when I go home."
"Brother Nan, look at me, I'll be with you on this road, walk home, your sister is at home! Go home and get food," the fat man took the man's hand and walked down the mountain.
"When I poured tea today, I saw a few tea leaves standing in the cup, and your sister said that maybe you were almost there, and sure enough, you came today, so accurate! I know that you will never forget the same day of your sister's birthday as mine every time, and this time it is the same, Brother Nan has a heart."
"Brother-in-law, the family doesn't talk to each other, go home"
The caravan was moving forward on the steep slope again, and the man walked slowly with the help of the fat man, and the head mule followed slowly, and then the two dogs, one black and one flower, also wagged their tails to the fat man. "Brother-in-law, look at Heijie, the flower bear has also come to welcome you, the fat man bent down and touched the heads of the two dogs, and the two dogs happily tried to sell cuteness beside the fat man, and took something from his pocket for the two dogs to eat, and the dog ran forward after eating something and barking.
A woman with her little feet wrapped in her feet was supported by a young girl standing on the edge of the city, and said with a smile on her face: "Your uncle will definitely arrive today." When the young girl heard this, she jumped up and was about to scream, but she was pulled by the woman and said, "I'm going to start going crazy again, it's your uncle's habit of not letting you bind your feet, and you don't look like a girl who is quiet and quiet all day long?" The pro is still unstable. "
The girl whispered shyly, "Isn't my uncle here?" People miss their uncle," "You have a reason, I told you that girls should be quiet and gentle, don't blow up your hair at every turn, your uncle and your father are used to you, I should really wrap your feet well, you are honest, I am really afraid that you will marry and say that you have no tutor." "Mother, you're here again, can you not count me, isn't your sister also bound to her feet?" "It's not big or small, it's called aunt, what my sister, that's your aunt," after saying that, the girl's mother twisted the girl's hand fiercely, and the girl: "Hey, yo" called out and said: "Mother, it hurts" But she still whispered: "People who are two days younger than me still call me aunt." The voice was small but still reached his mother's ears, and her mother said in turn: "Dead girl, what about the seniors?" When she raised her hand and was about to fight, the girl told her again and again, and her mother continued: "You have sent your sister-in-law too much, your sister-in-law's piano, chess, books, and paintings, are so unprecise, so incomprehensible, and the article is written in such a way that the husband at home gets drunk on the article." "Mother, don't say this, I know, what do you say about how many people are proposing, the threshold is going to be broken, my sister-in-law is good, but she is also worried, if there is no one in Midu County that makes her look good, my uncle is good, let my sister-in-law choose a man by herself, I don't have to bind my feet." "Dead girl, what do you choose a man by yourself, the more you talk about it, the more you don't want it, let me beat you to death, just raise your hand." The hand hit the girl's body twice. The girl giggled: "Mother, I won't say it" At this time, the girl saw a young man walking towards her mother and daughter, and said to her mother: "He comes" sound like a mosquito, her face was like a flying glow, the mother looked at her daughter lovingly, the young man came over and bowed to her mother and said: "Hello mother-in-law" The girl's mother nodded, he turned to bow to her and said: "Ruolanshu, hello!" She hurriedly replied to Wanfu and said: "Brother Kang Ming is good" The young man looked at her eyes with his eyes, she was looked down and lowered, she saw the blazing love in his eyes, which made her feel at a loss, so she had to lower her head and play with the corner of her clothes, and couldn't bear to look at the young man with her eyes secretly, her eyes just happened to be connected and she was reluctant to separate, so the two young people were looking at each other in a daze.
"Hey, look at the two gooses!" "Mother is there" "Ran away with the wind", Ruolan seemed to understand something, Mother, you are happy with the two of us again," the young man also reacted at this time, and stood there silly. "What are you happy about, what a stupid goose," the young man finally laughed, and when he saw the girl's mother again, he endured it again, and his face was white and red for a while. When the mother saw that her daughter was going to say that, she hurriedly said: "Okay, there is a horse gang coming down from Ruolan Mountain, isn't that your father?" The other one is not your uncle, go to Cumming Ruolan, let's walk a few steps to meet them."
"Mother-in-law, you watch your feet, Ruolan, you hold your mother"
"Okay, Brother Kang Ming, you go faster, I'll help my mother take my time."
"Okay, Ruolan."
The girl looked at the distant back with attached eyes, until the young man reached her father and uncle, and stared at it from a distance, and saw that it seemed that the elders were talking to the young man, and a sweet smile appeared on her face.
"Girl, I'm dreaming again,"
"Mother, ignore you, always play tricks on people,"
"Mother laughed with you, your wedding date is half a year away, the wedding clothes are all ready, your father said that he wants to invite your grandmother, and it will be lively once, happy! At that time, the uncles on your father's side, I don't know if they can come, they are older, and the road is not smooth, your father has been this petty official here for almost ten years, you are only eight years old, time flies so fast, hey! In the blink of an eye, my little girl is about to become someone else's new daughter-in-law, my mother is really reluctant to you, I think of your grandfather again, when I was bound to my feet, every day I would be so painful that I cried to death, your grandfather secretly took a piece of candy and put it in the palm of my hand, girl, don't cry, my father's heart is broken, or I don't bind my feet, I told my father again, my father doesn't hurt, I don't cry, I have my father's sugar, I see my father can't help tears flowing from the corners of his eyes, my mother just held my father's hand tightly when she saw it, and my father said that this is a religion that harms people, and told my mother' A pair of small feet, a tank of tears'You are really happy, your aunt and you have told your uncle not to bind your feet. "
"Mother, didn't my uncle say that the Republic of China is over, the girls in those big cities in Kunming are all sufficient, and President Sun Da of the Republic of China issued a full release order in the first year of the Republic of China, which is the law of the country.
"Hey, daughter, the law that came, you see the young ladies around you who don't bind their feet, it's your father and your uncle who can't bear to let you suffer, that big family is looking for a daughter-in-law, we are not all small feet, it's also Chen Kangming who likes you, and his father and your father are used to you when they work in the same yamen,"
"Sister"
"Third brother, I haven't seen you for almost half a year, it's okay!"
"Okay, it's all good sister, mom is worried about your headache, she said that the little sister is going to get engaged, let you go back and she will find a miracle doctor to treat you, this time it will be cured, and ......"
"Brother Nan don't say anything, go home," the fat brother-in-law said roughly.
A Bai people's house, four in five patios, three rooms and one wall, the fat brother-in-law and the pot head sat in the living room eating tea, the two nephews sat next to each other, one was carrying pastries, the other was busy adding tea, and the mouth kept asking: "What happened to my uncle." Only the youngest daughter in the arms of the fat brother-in-law asked: "Uncle, that flower bear, did Heijie catch a rabbit on the road?"
"You see you have so many questions, how do you answer them one by one,"
"Ting Hao, the stone has come to eat, and the third brother has been called to eat."
A big table was set up in front of the wall, and under the table there were Kang Ming, Ruolan, and Shishi, Shi and Kang Ming had a good relationship, and they were chatting happily when they saw a group of them coming out, and took the initiative to stand up, and welcomed them to sit down, Ruowu and Ruowen sat under his uncle, but he was too small to fight, but his brother had to sit under his brother, only Ruomei easily sat next to his father, and everyone sat down.