The starry sky illuminated the small courtyard transparently, and a man and a dog quietly looked at the mountains.

Suddenly, Xia Li saw a big snake slowly climbing up on the top of the mountain behind Xiaowa Village, on a large protruding rock. There was no shelter there, and the serpent could be seen clearly. Green background, golden hexagonal plate pattern, body length is more than two zhang. There is no protruding mass in the stomach and it should be in a state of starvation......

Xia Li's breathing became rapid. If the big python goes down the mountain directly, it happens to be the location of her house.

After a while, the python got down the boulder again, burrowed into the dense forest, and was out of sight. After another quarter of an hour or so, a little of its figure was revealed in the cracks of the branches and leaves blown by the wind, and it must have slid over the top of the mountain and went to the back mountain.

Xia Li finally breathed a sigh of relief. still told Dangdang about the situation of the big snake and told it to be vigilant at night. And I thought that every night I should keep the big bow and the bag containing the arrows in a convenient place so that I could easily access them.

At the end of the next day, Xia Erhu led rhubarb to play again. Xia Li asked him to call Tie Dan'er of the Wang family, Dunzi, the eldest grandson of the Zhou carpenter, and Hao Dazhu of the Hao family next door to play at home. These children are all four to six years old, and they are good children in the village, and the relationship between adults and Xia Li's mother and daughter is also very good, and they are the little playmates that Xia Li found for Xia Ju.

Xia Li gave them a piece of candy and asked them to smoke spinning tops and play with stones in the yard.

She sat under the eaves doing needlework and watched the children play.

Xia Ju couldn't let go, not only because he was not familiar with these children, but also because he used to be the concubine of that family, and he was used to being cautious.

If you want to give your own door, your personality can't be so soft. If he has to return to his home in the future, it can't be this kind of character.

As long as Xia Ju is drawn, Xia Li will cheer, "Ju'er is awesome." ”

When Xia Ju heard this, he smiled more brightly, and his voice was louder. He was like this, which made Erhu a little tasteful, and he glanced at Xia Li after smoking.

Xia Li already likes Erhu, and he also praises him.

On the eighth day of the new year, Xia said to Widow Huang that she would come to help on the tenth day of the new year, and she would come to prepare tomorrow, and Wang Erniu would also come to help with the rough work. Cooking for so many people, she was reluctant to let Xia Li get tired.

In the next morning, Xia and Xia Li took Xia Ju to Shiban Village to invite Li Xiucai's family of three, Lin is Xia Li's female husband, and Xia Ju will follow Li Xiucai to study in the future. Li Xiucai's son is studying in the county academy, and there is only one daughter in the family, Li Xiumin.

Xia Lizun only had a good time with Li Xiumin before, but the two families were in two villages, and the deity didn't go to Li's house to study.

The three members of the Li family happily accepted the invitation, and Li Xiucai also taught Xia Ju, saying that he was a smart baby and had aura, as long as he worked hard, he might not be admitted to the Jinshi.

When Xia heard this, his eyes turned red with excitement.

The courtyard of the Li family was built in a bamboo forest, and the sound of reading made Xia Li feel like he had come to another world.

Li Xiumin is fourteen years old this year, beautiful and gentle, not like a country girl like Xia Li, and has a different charm. She held hands with Xia Li and sent them out of the bamboo forest.

On the way back, I actually met Li Darang, whom I hadn't met for a long time. He was much thinner and scruffier than before. He glared at the Xia family of three viciously, making the Xia family tremble. Xia Ju also felt that the person was not kind to them, and shrunk his neck.

Xia Li pinched Xia Ju's hand and said softly, "That's a wicked person, I'll see him hide away in the future." ”

Seeing Xia Li's indifferent eyes, Xia's charm still exists, and the delicate and small appearance of that little cub, Li Darang's teeth are about to be crushed.

I heard Mrs. He say that Xia's reluctance to remarry was because the dead girl stopped her. If she hadn't stopped her, how could she have gone up the mountain to have a private meeting with the ugly widow if she had married the beautiful little widow Xia as she wished. If you don't go to a private meeting, how can you be fooled by wild dogs.

Dead girl is amazing, isn't it? Wait, wait for you to be the "Mrs. of the Village", your mother has to marry me for your better life, your mother and family property are still Lao Tzu. As for that little cub, if you sell it again, it will be......

Xia Li and the others didn't know that Li Darang was thinking about bad ideas, so they left in a hurry.

After dinner, Xia took Xia Ju to invite Zhou Lizheng's family, Zhou's carpenter's family, Zhou's old doctor's family, and Hao's family, who were friends with his family or had a reputation in the village.

The Zhou family in Xiaowa Village is a big surname, and all the people with face are from the surname Zhou.

These families gladly accepted the invitation, and they all praised Xia Ju for being beautiful and clever, and the Xia family would be blessed in the future, which made the Xia family happy.

Sending Xia Ju home, Xia went to the Xia family's compound alone, and asked Xia Zhu to leave her a pair of pig intestines, a pig scalp, and half a pork rib tomorrow, which will be marinated first tomorrow night. The day after tomorrow, three catties of pork will be left, and they will be fried on the same day.

Except for Xiao Yang, she invited everyone in the Xia family, including Xia Sanbao.

Xia Tie snorted coldly, didn't say to go, and didn't say no. Although he beat Sapoo's Xiao Yang that day, he was still a little angry with his sister. It is said that fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, and if Xia leaves to recruit a son-in-law, he can't. But they would rather adopt outsiders they don't know than adopt their own sons, which is disregard for family affection.

The stupid leopard happily agreed, and when he heard that he was going to eat something delicious, his saliva was about to flow out. As for Xiao Yang's, there are delicious foods, and she will be cheeky if she is not invited.

The next morning, the Yellow Widow and Wang Erniu came. Xia was busy, so he had to let Xia leave Sancao Town to buy things.

Xia Li wore a hat and a basket with wooden sticks on his back, and went out with Dangdang. It has been so long since the bounty was offered to find the dog, its former owner is hundreds of miles away, and there are also Yanshan wolf dogs in the town, so Dangdang can officially show his head.

With Dangdang, Xia was still not at ease, and asked his neighbor Hao Yunxiu to accompany Xia Li.

The two of them and a dog walked to the west of the village, and then continued west through a large field to the small river, which was pushed by Li Darang at the beginning. Along the river, we crossed the small arch bridge on the Wujiang River, walked through Jitou Village, and arrived at Sancao Town.

Sancao Town is very small, only two streets, and there are a lot of people in the market today.

Xia Li pulled Hao Yunxiu with one hand, and tightly pulled the rope with the other, first went to the shop to buy tea, candy and braised meat seasonings, and then bought a big rooster at the stall, some fresh fungus, mushrooms, daylily, dried tofu and other things, and it was enough to buy a few fish and a few boxes of tofu early tomorrow morning.

Xia Li carried a basket of things on her back, Hao Yunxiu helped her carry the chickens, and the two of them returned with a dog.

The two handsome little ladies held hands and whispered, and their crisp laughter was as graceful and pleasant as a yellow warbler, making passers-by stop and look at them from time to time.

A few half-grown children still wanted to tease and tease, but when they saw the fierce-looking big dog beside them, they also stopped thinking.