Chapter 9: The Night When the Moon Is Dark and the Wind Climbs the Wall

Not long after Jin Qing took Jin Zhi out, Xu Bin, who had already thrown off the crutches that was in the way, knocked on the door of Jin Qing's house with two fat gray rabbits.

Mama Liu was still pulling vegetables in the vegetable garden, and when she heard the knock on the door, she hurriedly opened the courtyard door, Xu Bin didn't expect that only Mama Liu was there, so she was quite cramped, and hurriedly stuffed the rabbit into Mama Liu's arms, and said in a loud voice: "For Jinqing, for Jinqing." ”

Mama Liu was startled, and hurriedly stuffed the rabbit back, the two rabbits were pushed back and forth, and Mama Liu said: "No, no, you helped us so much last time, we didn't have a chance to thank you, how can we ask for your rabbit again!" ”

Xu Bin touched his head, "Cough, it's just a gesture, how can you still take it seriously!" This rabbit is what I gave to Jinqing Jinzhi's two nieces and nephews, you can take it first. ”

Mama Liu insisted on refusing to accept it, only saying that she would wait for Jinqing to come back, Xu Bin looked at Mama Liu depressed and couldn't do it, Mama Liu, an old lady in her early thirties, why did she rely on Jinqing so much!

"Sister-in-law Liu, you better take it, you see the two of us standing at the door, pushing around like this, how bad it is for people to see!" Xu Bin had to use a killer move.

Mama Liu was startled, then she came to her senses, Xu Bin hurriedly stuffed the rabbit to Mama Liu, Mama Liu looked at Xu Bin's face was hot, took the rabbit and turned around and closed the yard door, Xu Bin couldn't help but eat a closed door, touched his beard and stood embarrassed for a long time.

In the morning, Zhujia Village was quiet and peaceful, and the smoke of the cooking could be seen everywhere, Li Fucai yawned and went out in the morning, and he wanted to go to the family of his relatives to eat, and he saw Xu Bin and Mama Liu at the door, "You come and go".

Li Fucai's eyes were straight, and he looked at Mama Liu's white and red face, and he felt a burst of hatred in his heart, pretending to be the same as the chaste martyr in the script, but he was not secretly hooking up with the broken beard!

Li Fucai spat on the ground, and rubbed back and forth on the ground a few times with the torn black cloth shoes that were wearing the toes in front and the heels in the back, and I had to find some ground tonight!

Jin Qing led his younger brother away all morning, touched the seven or eight copper plates harvested in his pocket, and felt that it was almost the same, so he took Jin Zhi home.

As soon as she entered the house, Jin Qing was surprised to see two fat gray rabbits on the stone table in the small courtyard, which were tied and thrown on the table.

As soon as Jin Zhi saw the fat rabbit, he screamed happily and pounced on the rabbit and touched the rabbit, and the two rabbits were pulled by him and touched their ears, if they were not tied firmly, they would have opened their mouths to bite Jin Zhi.

"Mama, where did you get the rabbit?" Jin Qing unloaded the medicine box and asked.

Mama Liu came out of the stove room when she heard the sound, and said with a smile: "It was sent by Xu Bin, the bearded man who helped us two days ago, and he caught two rabbits in the back mountain." ”

Jin Qing opened her mouth wide in surprise, Xu Bin's injury was not yet healed, he was so disobedient, and he dared to go up the mountain to catch rabbits!

Looking at Jin Qing's disapproving eyes, Mama Liu thought that Jin Qing blamed her for not accepting gifts indiscriminately, and whispered: "I didn't want it originally, but he had to ask me to accept it, how can I talk to him more when he is a big man, doesn't this make people gossip......

Jin Qing laughed, Mama Liu can work and endure hardships, but she can't regard etiquette as nothing, in fact, in this era, the suppression of women is far less powerful than the later Ming and Qing dynasties. An unmarried woman can also show up to do business, just like Jinqing walks the street to sell medicine, and she doesn't feel that she is immoral.

"Since he has to give it, then let's take it. Tomorrow, when Mama goes to sell vegetables, she will take them to sell by the way, and she can make some money, so let's share some of them. Jin Qing said with a smile.

In the evening, Jin Qing boiled a pot of hot water in the stove room, and the three of them were busy all day, ready to burn their feet and relieve fatigue. When Jinqing went out of the stove room and entered the hall with foot-washing water, he keenly heard a sound on the east courtyard wall, and turned around to see that there seemed to be a black shadow rising up from the wall little by little.

It was already dark, and there was silence in the night in the countryside, only a vague sound similar to a wolf's howl came from the distance, Jin Qing had always heard adults say that there were wolves in the back mountains of Zhujia Village, and there were noses and eyes, Jin Qing subconsciously thought of whether there would be a wolf going to climb over the courtyard wall to come in, and immediately turned around and ran back to the house in fright, closing the door.

Mama Liu looked at her like this and immediately asked, "Jinqing, what's wrong?" ”

Jin Qing was about to open her mouth to answer, but she felt that it was wrong, Fang Cai was afraid for a while, a little dizzy, this is a place where people live, I have never heard of a wolf entering the village to hurt people, and even if a wolf comes, it will only hit the courtyard gate, but I have never heard of a wolf climbing a wall, and the evolution is too thorough.

Since it's not a wolf, it could only be ...... people. Jin Qing thought about it, his family was poor and white, and everyone in Zhujia Village knew that it was impossible for him to come to his house to steal things. When the courtyard wall of Jinqing's house was first built, Jinqing's mother thought it through, and built it as tall as one person, and ordinary people couldn't easily climb in.

Jin Qing made a reassuring gesture to Mama Liu, and hid behind her by picking up the flat pole in the corner of the room, Mama Liu quickly got up from the bed and got dressed, Jin Zhi saw the tense atmosphere, and wanted to get up, Jin Qing whispered to him to ask him to stay in the house, let Mama Liu open the door first, and she quietly followed Mama Liu out of the door.

Tonight is the new moon, there are only shining stars in the sky, Jin Qing touched the courtyard wall, raised the flat pole, and knocked down hard according to the black shadow across the courtyard wall, no matter who he is, who will be a good person who climbs over the wall in the middle of the night, fight first!

"Ouch!" The black shadow screamed, and when Jin Qing heard it, he was angry, and this voice was clearly that of the rotten Li Fucai!

Li Fucai straddled the wall, it was difficult to ride a tiger, he was dizzy and dizzy when he was knocked on the door of his head by Jin Qing, he wanted to go back like this, but he was unwilling to die without taking advantage of it, if he went down, he would not be able to take advantage of it if he was discovered.

Jin Qing saw that Li Fucai was lying on the wall and refused to leave, so she was angry, stood on the stone table in the courtyard, picked up the hot foot washing water that she had just scooped out, and poured it on Li Fucai on the wall with all her might. Jin Qing had little strength in the end, and most of the water was spilled on the wall, but a lot of it was splashed on Li Fucai's body, and he screamed when it was hot.

Mama Liu also mustered up the courage and grabbed Li Fucai who hit the wall with the flat pole, Li Fucai was hit by the flat pole on his waist coldly, and suddenly lost his balance and fell outside the wall.

There were bamboo poles left over from building a stove house some time ago in the yard, Jin Qing saw Li Fucai fall outside, picked up an arm-thick bamboo pole and was about to go out to beat him, Liu Mama hurriedly stopped her and shouted: "Jin Qing! Can't go out! ”

Jin Qing was already angry, this Li Fucai bullied people three times and twice, and if he didn't beat him hard, Jin Qing couldn't get rid of the hatred in his heart.

Seeing that Jinqing didn't listen to her, Mama Liu only took the bamboo pole and ran to the gate, so she hurriedly ran forward and hugged Jinqing, and said with tears: "Our orphans and widows can't beat him, now it's good that he doesn't come in anymore, go out to fight, where are our opponents!" ”

Jin Qing was silent for a long time before slowly throwing down the bamboo pole, and outside the courtyard gate was Li Fucai's cry of "oops", mixed with unbearable whispered curses. Jin Qing gritted her teeth and looked at the courtyard wall, waiting, she wanted Li Fucai to look good!

Li Fucai fell from the courtyard wall, his waist and legs seemed to fall apart, and as soon as he stood up, staring at the door of Jinqing's house with resentment, his ears were pinched fiercely.

Xu Bin's voice rang in his ears, "Li Fucai, it seems that your ears are not good, you can't remember what I told you two days ago, right?" ”

Li Fucai was so frightened that he wanted to scream, he originally wanted to take advantage of the night when no one was there, scare someone or something, so that he could vent his anger, if he knew that the bearded man was here, he didn't dare to run over the wall if he was given a hundred dares.

Xu Bin quickly stuffed a ball of rags into Li Fucai's mouth, the rags stinked and coaxed, and Li Fucai's eyes only wanted to cry, and he couldn't speak, his hands were cut behind his back by Xu Bin, and he was dragged to a distance like a dead dog.

Li Fucai's neighbors listened to him crying wolf howl for a night, but they didn't take it seriously, and when they came to his house the next morning, they saw that their faces and bodies were full of wounds, especially their faces, which were as colorful as if they had opened a paint shop.

Li Fucai is usually a scoundrel, he offends a lot of people, he doesn't have any relatives or anything, and the neighbors don't want to see him.

Someone in the neighborhood asked him who beat him, Li Fucai snorted and chirped, and lay on his broken wooden bed to live and howl, but he didn't say who beat him, and he didn't dare to say it, but he only said that he accidentally fell while walking, and if it was known that he climbed the wall of other orphans and widows at night, the patriarch was afraid that he would be killed.

Early the next morning, Jin Qing couldn't care about selling medicine, and didn't give Li Fucai some color to see if she couldn't get out of her heart, so that he was really afraid of himself It was a done thing once and for all.

Jinqing remembered that at the foot of the back mountain in Zhujia Village, there were a lot of wild rhododendrons and oleanders, the weather was warm, the flowers were very beautiful, Jinqing went to pick a lot of azaleas and oleander leaves early in the morning, and when he returned home, he set up a pot and burned it, and put the leaves in the garlic mortar and pounded them into juice.

Mama Liu looked at Jinqing with a gritted tooth on her face, and asked worriedly, "Jinqing, what's wrong with you?" ”

Jin Qing came back to her senses, smiled embarrassedly, and only said, "Prepare some medicines to be sold in the future." ”

Mama Liu brought up Jinqing with one hand, and it can be said that she knows Jinqing's habits well, but now Jinqing is something she can't understand. Just after Jinqing broke her head and suddenly got better, Mama Liu was scared for a while, she keenly felt that the current Jinqing was not the Jinqing she raised single-handedly.

But as long as Jinqing still recognizes her as a grandmother and Jinzhi as a younger brother, Mama Liu will be satisfied, and the current Jinqing is stable and outgoing, much better than the previous Jinqing. Mama Liu also had to admit that Jinqing gradually supported the family, and now, Mama Liu and Jinzhi can't do without her at all.