Chapter 4: The Ideal of Tranquility
"You just look, don't do it!" Sijiu stood up vigilantly, his back to the moonlight, and his face, which was so red to the base of his ears, was hidden in the shadows.
"It's really nothing, you turn around, I'll take a look."
"I've been watching it for more than ten years, so I don't need you to look at it." Make a gesture to crouch back into the water.
"That's not what you said, haven't you heard of some mysterious seals that can only be seen by special means, such as flooding, roasting, or only in the moonlight."
"Really?" Forty-nine turned around suspiciously.
An Ning looked around with satisfaction, the skin on his shoulders was shining slightly in the moonlight, and the water droplets were shining, flashing, and the collarbone was slightly convex due to his gaze...... It is true that you can't distinguish between men and women when you wear clothes, the figure is thin, the muscles are faintly visible in the abdomen, and the waistline is like a willow leaf.
After feasting his eyes and relieving the peace of his doubts, he touched Sijiu's shoulder, "Okay, there are indeed no marks, let's get dressed." He turned around and walked out of the pond to get Sijiu's clothes.
An Ning is still a little girl after all, and she doesn't have the courage to stretch her claws to places where she shouldn't.
When they got home, the two were still crowded on the same bed, and An Ning didn't pull Sijiu's quilt again. The two closed their eyes and breathed evenly.
I don't know if Sijiu is really asleep. Tranquility is indeed the brightness of the heart.
My brother is really a girl, and I have coaxed and pretended to be well-behaved in the past few years. In vain. It's not my husband.
Where is my husband? Think about it. The life of the parents is gone, and the words of the matchmaker are also difficult, which son-in-law will find the matchmaker to say that she is an orphan girl with no father, no mother and no dowry? Do you really want to fall in love freely like the girl next door and the second dog brother? Be a wife no matter what, alas! It's really troublesome, if I can marry Sijiu, I will definitely be a wife, and I fall asleep thinking about it.
Yadan and Ergouzi are also pitiful people, both parents are dead, they are all orphans, and they are just huddled together to keep warm.
An Ning is only 12 years old, and she doesn't know where she learned it, what kind of thinking is this, so precocious.
In the current dynasty and the previous dynasty, a woman who is 15 years old and can be married can also submit documents to set a doll marriage. Considering the continuous wars and disasters in recent years, the population has plummeted, and there are not a few marriages in advance, and the government also hopes that the people will prosper, so they will turn a blind eye. But in a scholarly family, the children of the eunuchs still pay attention to the Ming media marrying thickly, and only the rural village husband will marry early, and it is already considered a good family condition if he is not pulled to be a child daughter-in-law. On the one hand, daughters are always from other people's families, and staying at home is to pay for rations, and there is a bride price when they get married, which is left for the brothers to marry their daughters-in-law; On the other hand, he is worried that his son will be dragged to be a big soldier, and he has not yet married his daughter-in-law and has a grandson, and the family will cut off the incense again.
After a night without words, the sun rose, An Ning got up on time, washed the rice, put it in the pot, and sat in the yard with her female red absentmindedly flying needle and thread, waiting for Sijiu to get up and chop wood and cook rice.
The sun was three poles, four nine got up, and the two of them had dinner.
An Ning once again reminded the old words, "We can't sit back and eat, we have to find a way to make some money." ”
"Little things, I've thought about it, I'll be able to do it at my father's meeting, I'll continue to go to the clinic with his desk, my father and mother earn money to support the four of us, and it shouldn't be a problem for me to earn money to support us alone." Sijiu patted his chest and said confidently.
"Will you be?"
"Eighty percent." Four-nine said with a smile.
"No, we still have big things, we can't just live." As he spoke, his face flushed again.
"Do you want to go to a big family to do laundry and sew like your mother? I disagree! You can't do that kind of work. I'm sure I'll be able to feed you. Sijiu's eyes widened with anger, as if he had blown up his hair.
…… An Ning hasn't said anything yet......
In Sijiu's heart, his peaceful sister is dignified and virtuous, she should marry into a high-ranking family, wear satin soft shoes, wear silk and satin, and the maid and woman hug each other, go out with a gauze hat to cover their faces, and accompany them in a sedan chair. Instead of washing and sewing for others here, the clothes are in tatters, and the face is yellow and the hands are thick. The hairs on my spine stand on end when I think about it.
"I didn't say I'm going to do the laundry."
"It's not okay to be a girl!"
"Okay, okay, if you think about anything else, you have to make money anyway." An Ning adheres to her ideal of earning money and marrying.
"I can write, or if you go to the doctor, I'll sit next to you and write letters, right?" An Ning's eyes lit up.
"You're a girl, you haven't been out of the cabinet yet, you can't show your head!" Forty-nine puffed.
"You can be a boy, and so can I!" An Ning did not back down in the slightest.
Can you make money writing letters? How many people need to write letters in this small place, those whose sons have become big soldiers? He had to know him when he wrote the letter. Sijiu thought about it, it was better to take it with him, so as not to do anything out of the ordinary. "Okay, that's it, you follow me."
agreed to act, found a set of relatively not so old men's clothes for An Ning, took the four treasures of the study, picked up his father's medicine box, ran into the city, bought a cheap scholar's hat, found a place to carry people, tied up An Ning's hair, and fixed the hat.
At the door of the teahouse, "Little brother, my father is the doctor who visited at this door before, and the table is stored in this teahouse, please ask the little brother to help call the boss out." Sijiu laughed with him, he hadn't seen this young man, maybe he was new.
After a while, the big teapot came out, "Boss, where is my father's table, I'm still at this door." "Sijiu has been in this area for a long time and is very familiar with the boss.
"Here, you move out, and let me go here at night, and you can go out at this door." The big teapot likes to have a doctor at the door, there is a bruise, burns and scalds are inevitable, with their father and son here to see a doctor, there is a lot less trouble. "Alas, this little brother is a relative of yours, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but he is a little thin."
"Don't worry about it, Xiao Yezi has already gone out, and if you look at it again, you can't find her a husband anymore." Forty-nine joked about the big teapot.
"What nonsense are you talking about, stinky boy." The big teapot reached out and patted the back of Sijiu's neck. Forty-nine flashed, bumping into An Ning, An Ning's face turned red when he heard this, and he flashed sideways.
The big teapot just happened to see the tranquility of the red ears, "The little brother is thin-skinned, and he blushes when he says it." After saying that, the clear ear piercings on the earlobes, with traces of earrings, pulled Sijiu and whispered: "This is a girl!" ”
Sijiu was also stunned, but I didn't expect it to be exposed so quickly. Pull the teapot to the side, "This is my sister, my father and mother are gone, I don't feel at ease to leave her at home alone, so I'll take it with me, don't tell outsiders." ”
"It's easy to say, it's just that there are a lot of people on this street, you can be careful."
Forty-nine answered, and set the table.
Three days later, the two of them faced the five cents on the table. Three of them are big teapots to take care of business, the guys in the store are slightly burned, and the remaining two are picked up! Picked up! Anning hasn't opened yet.
"It's not okay to go on like this, we can't support ourselves. Gotta think of something else. An Ning was worried again.