Click, the door was locked, and Luo Shi heard outside the wooden door, Grandma Shengzi was talking in a hoarse voice:

"Our family is poor, and we are a bought daughter-in-law, we don't have the money to do a vain flower, so we are hungry for a meal, and you send her something to eat at night, turn her into your daughter-in-law, and grandma will let her out tomorrow"

"What about Ah Huang?" Shengzi asked.

"Ah Huang has nothing to do with our family in the future, Manho's daughter-in-law promised me that I would send it away, so you don't have to worry...... You come out with me, and grandma will talk to you about the night."

The mother-in-law's voice gradually lowered, and Shengzi sighed, his steps were heavy, and he pulled the pair of tattered shoes, and followed him outside.

Hearing the two walk away, Luo Shi began to look at the environment she was in.

Fang just called the stupid big man upside down, and didn't recognize the road carefully, but Luo Shi had already kept an eye on it - she picked up a handful of white sand from the edge of the village entrance and kept it in the palm of her hand, and just sprinkled it along the road a little bit, secretly making a mark, as long as it didn't rain in the past few days, she would definitely be able to find a way out.

Shengzi's house is in the westernmost part of the village, near a mountain forest, all the way, Luo Shi basically did not see a brick and seam tile house, all adobe, or ballast mortar bricks, barely sheltered from the wind and rain. Fortunately, this is Liangzhou, with little rain and a dry climate, if it rains a lot like in the south, most of these houses will collapse.

There are three adobe thatched huts due north in a small fenced courtyard on one side, a simple straw hut on the left, an earthen stove on the other, and a cowshed enclosed by wood on the right. Compared with Niujia Village, the embarrassment here is even better.

The thatched hut is even more dilapidated and dilapidated, there is a lame incense desk in the hall, and the wall is pasted with a portrait of the family god with a brocade robe and long hair, the west house is the bedroom of the grandmother of Shengzi, and the east house is the house with a locked rasa, except for a clay kang and a few camphor wood boxes, there is not even a table, let alone a decent house.

Luo Xian frowned, sat down with the earthen kang, and sighed secretly: This family exchanged an old cow for a daughter-in-law like her, if she runs away, won't it make matters worse?

It's a pity that she can't find a valuable object on her body, and if she does, then she can go here and she can walk with some peace of mind.

"Tuk-tuk—"

Someone outside the window lattice tapped the long wood with his finger bones, and a figure was reflected on the Dongchang paper, he lowered his voice and called "Sister", and when he saw that there was no reaction in the room, he knocked a few times softly.

Rosh walked to the window and knocked back, motioning for her to listen.

Erkui leaned on the edge of the window and whispered to the crack: "Sister, I'll pick you up at night, let's run together, I recognize the way out of the village, it won't go wrong, wait for me!" ”

After that, he turned around and left, and the unfinished words of Luo Shi were still on the tip of his tongue, and he couldn't swallow or spit out.

The daughter-in-law is a kind-hearted person who spent all the money to save Erkui, if he runs away together, for her, I am afraid that the loss is not only the silver, but also the failure of the beautiful hopes of the son.

That's too much for her.

took a long breath, and Luo Shi said: At this time, if you can make a quick amount of money to supplement her and Shengzi's family, then it will be good.

Hesitating in the anxiety in her heart, she leaned on the kang, smelled the smell of fire rice outside, and knew that the fire had been lit at home and began to make lunch.

The daughter-in-law I bought had to make rules, and she ate half a meal a day, not to starve to death, but to run away from hunger, so that the family could rest assured.

Luo is not afraid of hunger, but the child in the belly is not hungry, this is still the first three months, it is already a carriage bumpy and hard, the tire is unstable, if you are hungry for another three or five days, the body is afraid that you can't eat, let alone escape, even if you walk, your steps are floating, and your body is weak.

She stood up on the edge of the kang, walked to the wooden door, and raised her hand to pound the door panel—

Grandma cooks, always shengzi comes to open the door, he opened the door, looked at Luo Shi coldly with a calm face and said:

"In the house, there is a bucket of gong!"

He was born burly and strong, with an iron tower, and his body blocked most of the door, and Luo Shi was powerless even if he wanted to sneak out.

Seeing that he was about to close the door with his backhand, Luo Shi hurriedly reached out and tugged at his sleeve, shook his head, and looked at him pitifully—it was very appropriate, her belly gurgled, and she didn't need to say anything more.

She wanted to eat, not to come out of Gong.

"No, grandma said no, she gave birth to a baby before giving food"

Shengzi didn't want to see her, it was because he bought her, and Grandma forced herself to sell Ah Huang, and he couldn't talk to Ah Huang anymore in the future, and slept with the head of the ridge together!

Thinking of this, he tensed his face, twisted his neck, and tilted his face to the side.

Luo Xi glanced outside, took a step into the room with the stupid big one, put her ear up, and said in a dumb voice:

"I'll go and get Ah Huang back, I know you can't bear it"

Shengzi looked at Luo Shi in surprise, his tense face instantly soothed, and he asked in a daze:

"Really, will you return Ah Huang...... No, no, my grandma refused, she wanted me to marry a daughter-in-law, and the people in the village thought I was poor and ...... me" He lowered his head, obviously refusing to say the words that others often put on their lips.

Luo Shi patted his thick shoulder and comforted:

"My own idea, I'll go tell Grandma, she won't blame you"

"Good! Good! Then let's go! Ah Huang hasn't eaten yet, I'm going to pull it back! Shengzi was very happy, he took Luo Shi's hand with his backhand, and was about to rush out—

"Wait, wait!"

Luo Shi was dragged by him and staggered, reluctantly picked up the door panel, and said to the stupid big man: "Ah Huang didn't eat, I didn't eat, I didn't eat and I didn't have the strength, why can I walk?" ”

Scratching her head, Shengzi thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he grabbed her and went out to find her grandmother to ask for food.

Shengzi's grandmother was making black noodles in the pot, and when she saw Shengzi holding Rashi's hand with a happy face, her eyes suddenly lit up, and Rashi lowered her head, half of her body hid behind Shengzi, and she didn't say a word.

They are all people who have come over, and they know that Shengzi never lies, grandma's old eyes were full of tears, and she answered twice in a row, and murmured: "Okay, I'm relieved, I'm relieved......"

"Grandma, she said she was hungry and wanted to eat!"

Whether it's sincere or not, in order to be full, I can honestly succumb to live with Shengzi, and I don't want to run away, the big stone in Shengzi's grandmother's heart has fallen.

Grandma picked up a coarse porcelain bowl with a gap, filled two black-flour steamed buns, and handed them to Shengzidao:

"Go to the house to eat, there is still a pot of hot water sitting in the culvert under the stove, pour some and drink with her, the bun is dry and hard, don't choke"

Shengzi seemed to have something to say, but Luo Shi shook his hand when he saw the situation, stepped forward to take the porcelain bowl, and walked straight into the room.

With such a thing, Grandma Shengzi didn't lock her up, just moved to Xiao Mazha by herself, and sat outside the hall to peel broad beans.

Shengzi followed Luo Shi back to the house, and said anxiously, "Aren't we going to pick up Ah Huang?" ”

Luo Shi squatted down and brought out the copper-spouted teapot from the culvert under the stove, she took out the steamed bun, filled the open bowl with water, and swallowed the steamed bun one by one.

"You're a liar!"

“……”

"Don't eat it!"

Shengzi strode forward, snatched the steamed bun from Luo Shi's hand, and smashed it to the ground angrily.

Luo Xi sighed secretly, squatted down and picked up the broken buns, she was reluctant to keep a little bit of the pieces, she said indifferently: "Grandma wants you to marry a daughter-in-law, she must be very angry if she wants to know that you changed Ah Huang back, although she won't blame you, but she will still be sad, you don't want to see her sad, right?" ”

"Then, what should I do......" Shengzi didn't want Grandma to be sad, but he was reluctant to give up Huang.

"You listen to her, you married your daughter-in-law at night, and I will change Ah Huang tomorrow, she is not sad, and you are not sad, isn't it good?"

Shengzi seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and pondered Luo Shi's words, which seemed to make some sense. Marrying a daughter-in-law, in Grandma's words, is to sleep with her at night, yes, then go to change Ah Huang tomorrow after the night, grandma will not be sad, he is so stupid!

After thinking about it, he was happy again, and when he saw that Luo Shi was eating steamed buns deliciously, he also asked her to ask for a taste.

"You just smashed it, and it's only these scraps for you to eat—"

Shengzi didn't pick it, picked up the minced buns from the palm of Luo's astringent hand one by one, and ate it very satisfied.

Luo Shi looked at him and couldn't help but smile, and he also grinned and had no scheming.

*

It was dark early in Liangzhou, and it was a cold winter day, which was not yet unitary, and the window was already painted, except for the occasional dog barking, there was basically no one on the rural road.

Grandma deliberately changed a set of clean clothes for Shengzi, although it was still washed white, but at least there were few patches, and it looked more structured.

She made two bowls of noodles, served them in coriander, and asked Shengzi to carry them into the room, and then closed the door for him.

For the first time, a pair of red candles were lit in the room, and you must know that even oil lamps are reluctant to light at home on weekdays.

Shengzi put the coriander on the kang, took out his noodle bowl, and put a pair of chopsticks on it, and he buried himself in eating it-

After two or three bites, the noodle bowl bottomed out.

He raised his sleeve and wiped his mouth, and said solemnly to Luo Shi: "You eat quickly, my grandma said, eat noodles first and then go to sleep, when you sleep, you are my daughter-in-law, she will be happy when I listen to grandma's words, hurry up, let's go to sleep!" ”

Luo Shi held the noodle bowl and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, her big and clear eyes were a little dwarfed, he kept sleeping on his lips, but there was no trace of obscenity in his eyes, I am afraid that in his understanding, sleep is really just a literal meaning?

Seeing Luo Shi eating noodles and grinding, Shengzi drove her off the kang, and knelt on the kang to lay the mattress - a narrow and torn blue-blue mattress, the cotton had been pressed into a hard board, and the cloth was greasy and pickled, as if it had never been dismantled and washed.

After the bed was made, Shengzi remained motionless, staring at her so tightly that she sucked the last noodle into her mouth, and then he breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been pardoned, and stepped forward to snatch the bowl of noodles from the hand.

Luo Shi made him startle, and before he could react, he was already hugged by the stupid big man.

He held her under him, his snort heavy and his eyes wide open, as if he were remembering what Grandma had said.

Luo Shi was a little flustered, could it be that she made a mistake in judgment, this is a wolf who pretends to be stupid?