Chapter 157: Immortality
Su Heting smiled dumbly, "You sometimes speak old-fashioned, and if you don't look at your face, you still think you're already very big." ”
"Ahem," Yuan Ning coughed a few times, bowing his head to hide the discomfort on his face, "It's not that knowledge and experience have nothing to do with age?"
"Actually, how much older can you be than me? Aren't those old pedants with a big beard who are still studying hard can't compare with you?
"I've always thought that being older is the most boring, and you can't just look down on young people just because you're old, right?
"Like the old pedants I just said, I have been studying hard all my life, do you have your eyes and knowledge, or do you have the experience of the title of the gold list?"
Su Heting laughed, it was really easy to get along with her, and she could make gains every day.
The two talked and laughed and soon entered Liu Village.
Since they can't reveal their identity when they come out, they can't dress too well.
Therefore, the clothes on the body should have patches or patches, but the sewing is more neat and the pulp is cleaner.
There are not a few countrymen who ride donkeys to go to relatives, and they borrow them if they don't have them, which is better than walking to save time and effort and save face.
The two pretended to be two brothers and found a farmhouse to spend the night.
As Su Heting said, the folk customs of Liu Village are very simple, although every family is not rich, but they are still very enthusiastic about treating foreign guests.
They were delayed for a long time on the road, and it was already dusk when they entered Liu Village.
Liu Village, Liu Village, seven or eight out of ten villagers are surnamed Liu, and the house where they stay is no exception.
Aunt Liu and Uncle Liu and his wife guarded their two grandsons to live, saying that their son and daughter-in-law had gone to other places to find a living, and they had not come back for five or six years.
In those years, the situation of the family was not good, they could still have a way to live when they went out, if they stayed, the family would just wait for death.
Over the years, their husband and wife have also brought back some money and goods one after another, and the remaining four people are barely surviving.
It was after Su Heting came, the bandits were eliminated, and their ancestors and grandchildren dared to go out to farm, and now the basic food and clothing can be solved.
The shrine in the hall of Aunt Liu is not a god and Buddha, but a tablet.
Yuan Ning took a closer look, his eyes widened, and then he turned his head to look at Su Heting.
Su Heting was also a little surprised, and turned his head to ask Uncle Liu, who let them in: "Uncle, your family is ......?"
"This is the immortal tablet of our county master!" Uncle Liu explained with a smile, "Originally, my old woman was offering Buddha statues, and in those years, when the days were difficult, she squeezed out the money from between her teeth to buy incense and candles to worship."
"But what's the use? That year, the bandits came to our village and burned down half of the village.
"The year before last, the county magistrate cleared up the bandits, sent people over to help rebuild, and took the money found in the thieves' dens to help us buy grain and farm tools......
"My little grandson was sick at that time, and he didn't have money to see a doctor and take medicine, so he waited on the kang to die. Our family is not scattered.
"Master Su is our reborn parents, since then, our family will not be dedicated to the Buddha, we worship the county master, and we are looking forward to his old man's life of a hundred years!"
Yuan Ning raised his hand to cover his mouth, otherwise he would really laugh.
"Old man" Su Heting showed a little embarrassment on his face, coughed a few times, and wanted to divert the topic, but this old man was a talker, and pulled them to talk about a lot of Su Heting's measures to benefit the people, and he couldn't praise Su Heting as a flower.
That's not all, after praising it, Uncle Liu took out two sticks of incense and divided them with the two of them, "You also say goodbye, whether you go south or north, or what you do, anyway, let Master Su bless you!" It works better than asking for gods and Buddhas! ”
This person was too enthusiastic, the two of them were really hard to refuse, lit incense, symbolically worshipped, and were disgusted by the old man for not being pious enough.
After the incense was inserted, the old man turned around, and Yuan Ning raised his elbow and bumped Su Heting, and asked him in an angry voice: "How does it feel to worship yourself?" ”
Su Heting couldn't laugh or cry.
However, although the old couple was dissatisfied with their lack of respect for the county lord, they were still very considerate in their hospitality.
Dinner was almost the best things in the house.
When it was time to sleep at night, a large room was set aside for them to sleep in.
There are no beds in the farmhouse, only kangs. However, due to the limited conditions, only half of the kang is covered with mattresses, and the other half is only a smooth kang mat.
The mattress was also patched on top of each other, but it was cleanly washed and could smell the sun.
There is only one quilt, which is not long enough, anyway, if Su Heting goes to cover it, it will definitely cover the neck and expose the feet, and cover the top of the feet, so you can only expose the shoulders.
It's nothing, the point is that there is only one quilt, but they are two people!
It's still a man and a woman.
Su Heting didn't expect this to be the case, but at this time, it would be inappropriate to ask others for quilts, not to mention, it is unknown whether people have extra quilts.
Yuan Ning was quite generous, "What, since this is the case, there is no way, let's make do with it, cover the quilt horizontally, although the cover is not tight, it is better than nothing." ”
Thankfully, there are still two pillows.
Aunt Liu was enthusiastic, and even boiled hot water to make them burn their feet, saying that it was not easy to go out.
The two of them were so gracious that they both burned their feet, and they could only come back when they saw that the family of four went to sleep.
Without lights, they couldn't ask for lights, and the farmers were very frugal, and they wouldn't light them at night unless they had to.
In those film and television dramas, the ordinary farmer's scene where the lights are still lit in the middle of the night is really unreasonable!
There is a bit of moonlight outside, but the window paper of the Liu family doesn't know how many years it has been used, and it has also been patched in several places, which is black and swarthy, and basically opaque.
The room was dark.
Yuan Ning climbed onto the kang, shook off the quilt, fumbled to lay it out, lifted a corner, and lay down first, "I'll sleep first." ”
Su Heting was entangled for a while and went up, everyone was so generous, what did he say again!
It's just that both of them try to restrain their bodies and try not to touch each other, so that there is a foot of open space between the two.
How long can a farmer's quilt be? The state of the two of them is that they both have a little quilt on their bodies, and one side of their bodies is still exposed, so it is really uncomfortable to sleep like this.
Su Heting sent the quilt to Yuan Ning, "I am a person who practices martial arts, and I am not afraid of the cold, so you should change it more." ”
Yuan Ning looked sideways, although it was dark in the room, but after getting used to the darkness, it was not really blind.
She saw the wide vacuum band between the two, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.