Chapter 49: Five Rivers Village
Morningside, the east is dim, Cui Jiuan has already sorted out the medicine box, busy in the kitchen, slender fingers due to perennial soaked in medicinal juice, no longer the white jade flawless of the year, countless small wounds have scabbed, just good stubble and stubble, day after day, year after year, covered with invisible scars, where is still like the rich hand born in the Guogong Mansion.
Du Youjia also got up and walked out of the house, the costume had been completed, and the crane's hair and white beard finally looked like an old man.
The two of them quietly ate simple meatloaf. Cui Jiuan put the kettle and wild eggs into a food bag, and put the medicine box on his back to signal Du Youjia to prepare to go.
"You want to leave me behind and sneak away again!" Cui Ranxin pushed open the door and saw the two who were thieves.
"Hehe-" was knocked through, and the two of them laughed.
"Wait for me!"
After a while, Cui Ranxin, who had freshened up, turned out meatloaf and wild eggs in the kitchen, and ate them while drinking water.
"Alright, let's go!" Swallowing food in his mouth, he made a muffled voice and beckoned to the two of them.
Du Youjia and Cui Jiuan glanced at each other and set off in a huff.
"You're so unkind!" Cui Ranxin pointed at the two and complained.
"Isn't my father-in-law afraid that you will have a difficult mountain road!"
"No, Hugh has to make excuses, one of you goes to attract bees and butterflies, and the other goes to spend all day drinking, just because I'm afraid that I will take care of you, so you have to leave me." The girl was still angry.
Wuhe Village, because there are five rivers staggered and surrounded, but it is too exaggerated to say that it is five rivers, the widest part of the river is less than two zhang, the narrowest point is only half a zhang, Wuhe Village is a relatively large village in this periphery, there are more than 200 households in the village, the villagers use hard work and wisdom to reclaim the trapezoidal paddy field, around the mountain, the ladder rises, the spring water nourishes, the climate is suitable, and it is particularly suitable for planting rice here.
The group of three struggled to walk all the way south, and finally saw the lights when the moon was high.
"Father-in-law, why didn't you come on a scalper!" Cui Ran, who was really tired, asked puzzled.
"Fool!" Faced with Cui Jiuan's sudden sentence, Cui Ran's heart was even more unclear.
"That cow doesn't know which bison in the mountains he got along with, and now he's six months pregnant." Du Youjia gritted his teeth and said.
"Who let the master keep it so free-range." Cui Jiuan did not forget to tease each other.
"No, father-in-law, you mean the cow is a cow?" Cui Ran subverted her imagination, she always thought that it was a big bull who was sincere and hardworking, but she didn't expect that he was a shy cow.
"How can a bull be as docile as my Huang'er." Du Youjia's words surprised Cui Ranxin again, it turned out that this cow had a name, and it had been almost three years, and everyone was barking every day.
"Father-in-law, Huang'er is its name?"
"Hmmm! Cows, yellows, moo, whatever you want! ”
This time, even Cui Jiuan was surprised, this master's name is too arbitrary!
"No, father-in-law, you're too casual, I have to choose a good name for the unborn calf baby."
"Okay, listen to you." Du Youjia looked at the girl in thought dotingly.
"What's your name?" Cui Ranxin poked Cui Jiu'an's back in front and asked.
"Thinking about it slowly, there are still more than three months before the calf is born." Cui Jiuan dropped a sentence and did not intend to participate in naming the calf.
"Okay."
In thinking, unconsciously has come to the front of Wuhe Village, across the front of several rivers is the destination, there is a small thatched house, every spring, when the seedlings are planted, Du Youjia will try to come over to send medicine, for the villagers who were bitten by snakes and insects, so this thatched house is prepared by everyone for Du Youjia.
The three of them easily boasted about the river, but the last two-zhang wide river stumped Cui Ranxin, the girl who stood by the river and made a difficulty, her slender waist was surrounded by an arm, and the young man held the person in his arms with a slight force, jumped hard, left the ground, and then fell down to the other side of the river.
Cui Ran blushed and shrunk her neck, not letting herself get too close to the other party, in the past few years in the valley, she has grown taller like spring bamboo shoots moistened by rain and dew, and she has developed very well in addition to her height, so even if it is a hot summer, she doesn't dare to dress as thin as before, but fortunately, it is the end of spring and it has not yet entered summer, and her clothes are thick, which will not make her too embarrassed.
"Thank you." Cui Ranxin muttered quietly.
In the face of the girl's rare politeness, Cui Jiuan gladly accepted.
"Stinky boy, there is still a teacher!" Du Youjia on the other side of the river shouted.
"Master, don't pretend, okay? Now there is no one else. Du Youjia looked around and suddenly flew across the river.
Although the thatched hut is not large, it is fully equipped, and the inside is refreshing and clean, presumably the villagers have been cleaning it every day recently to welcome distinguished guests. There are still fruit cakes unique to Wuhe Village on the table, made of red dates and hawthorn, Cui Ranxin tasted some, especially like hawthorn flavor, sweet and sour is very appetizing.
There was a stove under the canopy outside the hut, and there were some noodles on the table, Cui Jiuan skillfully crossed the river and pulled a few greens and chives in the vegetable field opposite, and came back to make a fire to cook noodles.
Suddenly, a few eggs were found under the thatch next to the earthen stove, and the boy did not bend down to pick them up.
"You get out of the way, I'll come, that's my forte." Cui Ranxin pushed away the boy who was about to stir-fry.
Cui Jiu'an rarely refused, his eyes stayed on the girl's white and soft fingertips, and turned back to the house.
Cui Ran's heart retracted with the disappearing figure, in fact, she knew in her heart that that person rarely let her work, no matter how busy she was, he would rush to do these trivial things, just to protect this pair of jade-like soft wattles, how could the young lady of the Guogong Mansion have a pair of rough hands, they would go back after all.
But the man forgot that the son of the Guogong Mansion can have a pair of scarred hands, why can't he have a pair of plain hands for washing and cooking.
"Okay!" The girl's voice sounded crisply.
The two of them came out and took their bowls back.
"Yikes! There were eggs this time, and these guys were finally more generous and knew how to take care of the elderly. ”
But I didn't know that in a room in the village, a girl with a red face asked her brother in a low voice, "Did you send eggs to the earthen stove outside the hut today?" ”
"Sister, when it was delivered, I also covered it with thatch, so as not to be seen and taken away by others."
"Oops—will it be too tightly covered to be found, what if someone accidentally crushes it?"
"Sister, no, I'll do things, don't worry."
"No, I'd better go and see for myself." The red-faced girl said that she was about to go out.
"Sister, it's so late, I'll accompany you!"
So the two siblings carefully opened the door and went out, and the old wooden door made a screeching sound.
"the child, you don't care about her." A middle-aged man's voice rang out.
"If the woman is not stayed, I can't control it. What's more, I also like that little miracle doctor very much. The woman giggled shyly when she said that.
"Your mother and daughter are really, I'm scared for you." The man complained, but when he thought of the young man's stunning face, he stopped eating the vinegar of the gods, and turned over and fell asleep, leaving only the shy woman who was still a nymphomaniac.