Luo Shi left Dr. Zhang and Tian Niu for dinner.

She killed a live carp and made a delicious and fragrant panfish; Vegetarian dishes include stir-fried tofu and garlic purse, and a bowl of sea rice soup, dotted with two drops of sesame oil, and eaten fragrantly.

At the dinner table, Shengzi was uncharacteristically silent, just caring about the rice in the bowl, if it wasn't for Luo Shi giving him a chopstick dish, he could dry up the bowl of rough white rice in one go.

Asked if he was unwell, he shook his head and buried his head lower, his face against the bowl, and he didn't know if he ate it with his mouth or his nostrils.

After eating, a cup of tea was consumed, and it was getting late, Dr. Zhang and Tian Niu were about to say goodbye, and Luo Shi shouted that Erkui drove the carriage to send people back, and it was not in vain.

After the people left, Luo Shi lit a fire in the culvert under the kang, sat on the decoction jar, and prepared to drink another medicine before going to bed-

At this time, there was a sound of clothes outside the door, and Luo Shi raised his eyes to see that the tall figure of Shengzi was reflected on the Dongchang paper between the wooden lattices.

He never knew how to knock on the door when he entered the house, and after being detained by Luo Shi with a few broad beans, he would not break in, he would only call her loudly outside the door, but today he hung his head silently, holding something in his arms, wandering and pacing, advancing and retreating.

Luo Shi was surprised, someone like Shengzi actually had something in his heart?

She took the initiative to open the door, met his tangled and dodgy gaze, and asked with a smile, "What's the matter?" I've been like this since dinner in the evening, and I'm not willing to give up, but it's the first time I've seen me."

The liter is large, standing in the door frame, looking like the head is up to the sky, and the feet are standing on the ground, very tall.

He rubbed the tin box in his arms uneasily, and held back a sentence from his throat for a long time:

"Are you leaving......"

Luo Shi was secretly surprised, he was taken away in the afternoon, but he never thought he heard it? It's hard for him to hold back until now to ask her, in front of Dr. Zhang, his silence is not at all his stupidity.

"Did you hear it all?"

Shengzi raised his eyes, his dark eyes met Luo Shi's clear eyes, his gloom was written on his face, and he nodded dejectedly:

"It's me who is not good, grandma bought you home as a daughter-in-law for me, you are not mine, and you refuse to live with me"

Luo Shi's heart was sour, and her words stayed on the tip of her tongue, not swallowing, not spitting, she didn't care about ordinary people, but this person was Shengzi, she couldn't bear to hurt him.

Sighing secretly, Luo Shi held her waist, lowered her eyes to look at her lower abdomen, and said softly:

"I have children, how can I really live with you? I saved some money for you, and after I left, you will seriously ask a matchmaker to make peace, marry a virtuous and good lady, and give birth to your own doll, have you written it down? ”

Shengzi didn't say a word, just stared at Luo Shi's stomach in a daze, his wide palm held the iron box, and his knuckles were white, which showed the weight of the force.

"Where are you going?"

Luo Shi was stunned for a moment by his question, and after a pause, she replied with a gentle smile: "...... I'll go home."

"Liar, you have nowhere to go!"

Surprised at the determined eyes of the rising son, Luo Shi was difficult to distinguish for a while, is he really stupid or pretending to be stupid?

As if he had made a great determination, Shengzi gritted his teeth and said with a look in his eyes:

"The doll doesn't have a father, I'll be his father, wash his ass and eggs, and teach him hunting and nitrate leather when he grows up! I also taught him to throw his pockets and never let the bad guys bully him! And I won't let anyone bully you......

Luo Xi choked for a while, her fingertips trembled a little, and the emotion in her heart was true-she wanted nothing else now, only a stable life, just hoping to give birth to a child safely, can she stay? Ugly women accompany stupid households, support and take care of each other, isn't husband and wife better than husband and wife?

The balance of feelings has tilted, but reason has always adhered to the bottom line, and her heart can no longer tolerate a second man, even if she has a night love affair with Uncle Liang in this life, but it is too selfish and unfair to Shengzi.

He just didn't figure it out, or he was temporarily dependent on her, and after a long time, he would definitely figure it out.

Her departure is the best fulfillment for him.

Shaking his head, Luo Shi turned his head away, took a deep breath and said: "Don't be stupid, your family is the only one who has a seedling, and your grandma has spent so much effort to buy you a daughter-in-law, don't you expect you to spread the branches?" Live with me, your root is broken, why is your grandma blind? ”

Seeing Luo Shi move out of Grandma, Shengzi's eyes flashed, and his hesitation was revealed, he couldn't hide any thoughts, and he was reluctant, all of which were shown on his face.

"Go to sleep, I'll leave after the Shangyuan Festival"

Rassi patted him on the shoulder, smiling and urging him back to sleep.

Shengzi stiffened his back, twisted and took a step, and suddenly seemed to be a silver spear rooted in the ground, not moving at all, refusing to move half a step.

He rubbed back, stuffed the iron box in his arms to Luo Shi, and said firmly:

"Sixty-six! It's all for you! Stay! ”

“……”

"You are my daughter-in-law, half of it counts! I don't want anyone else, only you! ”

Afraid that Luo Shi would refuse, Shengzi stubbornly slammed the door, sat on the ground with one butt, leaned against the door with a wide back, stretched out his hands, and clinged to the root of the wall: "I will listen to you in the future, eat and wash your hands, enter the house and knock on the door, wash your hair without pouring cold water, sleep without snoring, I can eat less, I, I go hunting more, life is not bitter!" You and the child, I raise! ”

Luo Shi now finally understands that in fact, Shengzi is not stupid, not stupid at all.

He just lives too really and understands too well, he is not wary of the world, and his intestines slip to the end, but his persistence and cherishment, he will definitely try his best to fight. The handwriting is worthy of it, he is not afraid of right and wrong in the world, and even for her, he will lie, and he will use small means, at this moment, he does not look like a fool at all.

"I'm stupid, everyone says I'm stupid, I'm not afraid to be stupid! I want to be with you, I don't want you to go! ”

Luo Shi's heart palpitated, his palm was unstable, and he accidentally knocked over the iron box stuffed by Shengzi - broad beans fell like balls on the plate, scattered all over the ground, a few rolled far away, and a few immediately smashed into two watercresess.

Shengzi didn't know that Luo Shi was unintentional, but when she ate the scale, she had an iron heart, and she had to leave, and her eyes crossed with an injured look.

He put down his outstretched arms in despair, drooped his head, picked up the broad beans on the ground one by one, and put them in the palm of his hand......

He was scolded as a fool since he was a child, and he couldn't do anything well, and then as long as he did one thing, Grandma rewarded him with a broad bean, he was very happy, it turned out that he could do the right thing, and he would no longer be scolded as a fool, he was extremely precious to this broad bean, when Grandma died, he wanted to exchange all the broad beans for her open eyes...... Now, he wanted to keep her even more......

He has no relatives, and he earned this pile of broad beans, but he is the only one who cherishes them, because he can't keep anyone.

Embarrassed to get up from the ground, before Shengzi could stand up straight, Luo Shi had already walked up to him—she picked up the broad beans in his palm and stuffed them neatly into his mouth.

Shengzi looked at Luo Shi with a confused face, licked the broad beans, and was reluctant to chew them, only holding them under his tongue, looking at her without moving for a moment.

The corners of Luo Shi's eyes were red, and she sighed in her heart: The debt can be repaid, the affection is hard to give up, maybe it is really the right way to stay? She really had no other way, and she couldn't be ruthless if she decided to leave Shengzi like this. It is not so much that Shengzi depends on her, but that she is more dependent on the current stable days.

Turning her face and raising her fingers, Luo Shi quickly wiped away the tears that were about to fall from the corners of her eyes, and she complained in her heart: Really, the whole person is sentimental when she is pregnant, her nose is sour and unbearable, and she looks soft-hearted.

"How long have these broad beans been hidden, I see that they are all moldy, it is better to lose them, and the past is all together, you just said so much, the consequences of the day are really done, I will reward you"

Shengzi still looked confused when he heard this, and even with a heavy sadness in his eyes, he didn't know that she had promised to stay, but when she said goodbye, he broke his heart.

Luo Shi snorted and continued:

"I also planted spicy seeds in the vegetable field, and when the time comes, I will fry crispy broad beans for you, which are spicy and crispy, and are a hundred times more delicious than this hard broad bean!"

Shengzi shook her head in frustration and didn't listen to anything.

"You don't want it?"

"You don't have to buy me, you go, I don't want anything" looks like a soldier can be killed but not humiliated.

Luo Shi rolled his eyes in his heart, sure enough, everything was an illusion, for the stupid big man or to speak the vernacular, he couldn't understand this euphemism.

"Stupid! Idiot! ”

She scolded twice, snatched the broad beans from his palm, put the beans she picked up on the ground back into the tin box, hid herself at the head of the bed, and said reluctantly:

"Changed it, sixty-six for me, I'm not leaving!"

"Really?"

Shengzi's eyes suddenly lit up, swept away his sluggish and gloomy look, he scratched his head and smirked with joy, and waved his hand generously:

"Change! Change! I'll change ...... It's all for you! ”

After walking around the room, he still couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, and after confirming with Luo Shi repeatedly, he slammed the door slammed the door, and jumped out with a step—

"Hey! Where are you going in the middle of the night? ”

Luo Shi's steps are small, and she can't catch up with him at all, and when she walks quickly to the yard with her support for the door panel, Shengzi has already disappeared!

From time to time on the dark country road, his excited cries were heard, and from a distance, it was like the sound of a wolf howling, and for a while the voices of people in the village gradually rose, and the neighbor next door had turned off the lights to sleep, but now he also lit the oil lamp again, and the man came out with a stick and a coat to see the situation.

Knowing that it was Shengzi, the second fool, his face was as ugly as the bottom of the pot, and he scolded a few words, and he couldn't really care about the same fool, so after throwing a blameful look at Luo Xi, he turned around and went back to the house.

……

After waiting for an hour, Shengzi returned home covered in mud.

Luo Shi was angry and funny, punished him for chopping wood and carrying water tomorrow, deducted ten broad beans and slowly returned them in the future, and did not bear to starve him for food.

*

In the blink of an eye, it is Chinese New Year's Eve and Chinese New Year's Eve.

The New Year's goods were purchased a few days ago, although a little money was spent, because Tongzhou was much poorer, and if you want to have a good year, you can't really get down without one or two silver.

Since she planned to stay, Luo Shi didn't have to save the money she had saved for the time being, so she generously bought pork New Year's vegetables, carried a bag of Feiluo noodles home, and all kinds of mixed candied fruits, persimmon rice cakes, and pulled an oxcart to hoard them.

Erkui's family has Li Dahu's carriage, and in his spare time on weekdays, he has become a handlebar type, going back and forth to various parts of Kushui Town, running around to earn money, and encountering fresh vegetables and vegetables in neighboring towns, he will also bring some back for Luo Shi.

All in all, the Luo family has not been worried about this year, and they can live a very nourishing life.

When it was not over, the sky had gradually darkened, only to hear the crackling sound of firecrackers outside the door, and every household was ready to burn incense at this time to welcome the gods to the lower realm.

In the courtyard, Luo Shi brought out the lame long case in the hall, on which there were candlesticks, incense sticks, incense burners and other things, and after burning the tin foil, it was considered to be a real invitation to the gods to sacrifice to the ancestors.

The rich and noble people pay attention to the full offering, what pig heads, roosters, carp these, but the farmers are poor, but set the table for vegetarian offerings, and pay tribute to a few plates of dried fruits, rice cakes, and vegetarian dishes to show their intentions.

Pasted the heaven and earth paper horse, Luo Shi took the offering table and began to go to the stove shed to cook.

Shengzi held a stack of cannons and lit incense sticks in the courtyard, in addition to the hanging whip on the doorpost, there were also hemp thunder, double rings, two kicks and the like.

The explosion was so hard that the red clothes splashed on the side of the stove, and she threw it away with a cold slap - Shengzi silently lowered his head, pretending not to see it, but just moved his footsteps and moved away.

Because there were only two people eating the New Year's dinner, Luo Shi only burned a plate of braised carp, a bowl of white song base, fried rice noodles with noodle sauce, and steamed pork with mixed fat. In the early days, the pickled sausage was also cut in half, steamed on the grate for a while, and then taken out and eaten.

After finishing the New Year's dish, there are only dumplings left, the flour is woken up yesterday, she kneaded the dough and took off the agent, rolled out the dough, and chopped the meat filling.

The sound of knives and anvils came out from the cutting board, hearing each other from far and near, the door was not closed, and the chickens and dogs were safe. Men shout for wine, women scold naughty, all of them are lively.

Luo Shi ordered a pot of dumplings, although the number is not much, but it is better in a variety of ways, there are net meat filling, pork and cabbage filling, sesame oil, dried tofu, spinach filling not to mention. Luo Shi specially wrapped a copper plate in a dumpling, after all, she was either eating, or Shengzi eating, although it didn't mean anything, but it was always an auspicious good house.

While the steaming dumplings were out of the pot, Luo Shi called for Shengzi to wash his hands and eat.

After a meal, the two of them were sleepy, Shengzi spit out the copper plate from his mouth, and he was so happy that he couldn't find the north, and Luo Shi took out the red rope and strung it for him and hung it around his neck.

Before I had time to put away the bowl, there was a knock on the door of "tuk tuk" outside.

Luo Shi opened the door, and saw Manchu's daughter-in-law holding a pot of dry dumplings, pulling her husband Manchu and Erkui, and standing outside the door with a smile, she said:

"I'm afraid that the two of you are not lively, our family will come over to make a head, gossip, even if you keep the New Year, you have to hold the peanuts, and you can make it easier to pass the time together."

"Sit inside, it's cold outside, I'll make a brazier!" Luo Shi smiled and turned sideways to invite someone to enter the door.