Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Bed
Qu Xiaomo smiled: "My husband's surname is Jin, I don't know what the two sisters-in-law call me?" ”
The sister-in-law with the silver hairpin and silk flowers said: "My husband's surname is Qi, and her husband's surname is Zhang, so you can call us Sister-in-law Qi and Sister-in-law Zhang." ”
Qu Xiaomo also shouted very respectfully: "Sister-in-law Qi, sister-in-law Zhang." ”
The two laughed in response, and then asked, "Is this to deliver food to Aunt Fang?" ”
Qu Xiaomo hurriedly said: "Exactly, but the newcomers are unfamiliar and don't know where they are, I just want to ask the two sisters-in-law, I don't know if the two sisters-in-law have seen them?" ”
Sister-in-law Zhang nodded and said, "Yes, Aunt Fang's field is next to our house, you follow this path to the first fork and then go to the right, there is a path, you can see people if you go in along the road." ”
Qu Xiaomo hurriedly thanked her.
Sister-in-law Zhang smiled and waved her hand to say that she was polite, and then said, "Hurry up and send the meal, we won't delay you." ”
Qu Xiaomo smiled and thanked him, then carried the basket and walked according to Fang Cai's guidance, Sister-in-law Zhang looked at her back and said: "She looks really handsome, the girl from our village chief's family is far worse than her, and she has a very good speaking temperament, no wonder she can marry a merchant." ”
Although the merchants are more lowly than the common people, but the merchants are also silver! Wear gold and silver all day long, eat and drink well, compared with these croppers, those who have a little brain will choose to become a merchant woman, what is the status of the family, and silver is the king.
Sister-in-law Qi snorted when she heard this, turned around and walked towards the village, and said as she walked: "Don't mention to me the little slut of the village chief's family, who is angry with my family's brother A Yong all day long." ”
Sister-in-law Zhang quietly raised her eyes and glanced at her, then opened the topic and talked about something else.
Qu Xiaomo walked on the path to the right at the fork according to Sister-in-law Zhang's guidance, and sure enough, after walking for a while, he saw the Fang family couple resting in the field not far away, and shouted when he walked in, "Auntie, uncle." ”
Outside, they all have to be called like this, after all, the identity of the Fang family is cousin niece, at first the Fang family couple didn't react, but a man sitting not far from them turned his head first, and saw Qu Xiaomo looking beautiful and fresh, thinking that the cousin and niece of Aunt Fang's family who had been rumored in the past two days were here, and saw her shouting this way, so he said to Uncle Fang, who was eating steamed buns: "Uncle, aunt!" Isn't that your cousin's niece? ”
The two people who were gnawing on steamed buns heard the sound and looked in the direction he pointed, it was indeed Qu Xiaomo, the child, and Aunt Fang hurriedly responded.
But this ridge is really a little small, Qu Xiaomo is not used to walking, Uncle Fang saw that she was carrying a basket and walking on the ridge was difficult, so he came over to help carry it.
Aunt Fang took the basket and opened it was the meat porridge and the leftover meat dishes from last night, the porridge was deliberately cooled, the dishes were still a little warm, I think it was hot when I brought it, the two of them gave birth to a son, but they fell into the water and drowned ten years ago, they sent the white-haired people to the black-haired people, no one has sent them food like this for a long time, and their eyes can't help but be a little hot.
Qu Xiaomo didn't know why the emotions of the two were so excited, so he hurriedly said: "My husband has already fallen asleep, I see that my aunt and uncle should only bring steamed buns to drink water when they go out in the morning, how can they only eat such dry and hard things after being tired for a long time, and seeing that there are still a lot of dishes left from last night, I took it hot and brought it with the porridge, it should be... Out of the way, right? ”
"Out of the way, out of the way." Aunt Fang wiped her reddened eyes with her sleeve, patted the haystack beside her, and said with a smile: "Sit down and rest for a while." ”
Qu Xiaomo squatted down and handed them all the dishes and chopsticks before sitting next to him, looking at the weeds in the fields that were overgrown with crops because there was no chemical fertilizer and weeding agents, and asked, "How long does it take to pull this?" ”
Uncle Fang, who was drinking porridge, said while chewing the meat: "If you can pull a little bit, you can't just let it go like this." ”
Also, there are no chemicals and only manpower!
The three of them chatted about the crops, and after a while, the porridge was drunk, and the two of them ate two steamed buns on the dish, and they both felt a little supportive, so Aunt Fang put the dishes and chopsticks into the basket and said, "It's hot here, you can go back quickly, there is still someone to take care of at home." ”
Qu Xiaomo also felt hot and panicked after staying for a while, so he didn't say that he wanted to help or anything, after all, Jin Yu really needed to be taken care of, so he got up and said goodbye to the two of them with the basket, and went back along the way he came.
The man came over and said with a smile: "Auntie, your cousin and niece have a really good heart, she takes care of her husband and brings you food, I heard that her husband is a merchant?" ”
"It's not, it's said that it's a restaurant, I don't know the specifics." Aunt Fang said with a smile
"Oh yo ~ open a restaurant! That's amazing, I heard that opening a restaurant is the most profitable money. The man was astonished
Uncle Fang took two puffs of cigarette and said, "It's not ours to earn money, it's all relatives of Wufu, but they are here to borrow it." ”
As he spoke, he tapped the cigarette ash, plugged back into his trouser belt, got up and said, "Hurry up and finish the work and go back, it's too hot this day." ”
After speaking, he walked into the field and began to bend down to pull weeds, he didn't want to talk too much about Qu Xiaomo and the two of them, after all, they were covered in mud when they first met, and the shopkeeper was injured and hit by poisoned arrows, this is not what ordinary mountain bandits can do, but they don't say it, he doesn't want to ask, and it's a human life, even if it may cause trouble, he didn't stop his daughter-in-law from letting them into the house.
And after getting along in the past few days, looking at the child's good nature, although the shopkeeper is not very good, but the momentum of the superior person is not something that ordinary people can have casually.
Aunt Fang also saw that the old man didn't want to say more, so she also got up and said to the man: "Pillar! We're going to be busy first, we're getting older, and we're going to get dizzy if we don't finish it quickly, so you should hurry up. ”
The man known as the pillar smiled and stretched out his hand to scratch his head, and said with a smile: "Cheng, there will be no delay, I will hurry up, and I have to go up the mountain to collect bundles of firewood when I go back." ”
"Hey, let's go, let's go."
Aunt Fang got up and wrapped her headscarf, and the pillar also turned around and went to work in her field.
Qu Xiaomo, who went back along the road, opened the door and entered the house, put down the basket, and went into the room to see if Jin Yu woke up, and when he lifted the curtain, he saw him lying on the bed with his eyes open, and his eyes looked straight at her, thinking that he had known that she was back.
He walked over and turned her over and asked, "Do you want some water?" ”
Jin Zhen hummed, and Qu Xiaomo got up and went out to bring a bowl of burned cold white open to feed him and drink.
Looking at Qu Xiaomo, who was dressed in women's clothes and was not weird at all, Jin Zhen rarely joked with her: "Women's clothes... Not bad. ”
After speaking, he deliberately raised his eyes to look her up and down, and then his eyes stayed on his chest that was not concave and convex, and his lips were shallowly hooked.
Qu Xiaomo suddenly blushed and annoyed, not to blame his sudden flirtation and that evil and seductive smile, but that she is a real girl at the moment! Being stared at like this, everyone was angry, and he would have slapped him in his previous life, but fortunately, he was still a little rational now, but he was also stimulated and ignored it, raised his eyes and glared at him fiercely, and then left with a red face and a negative face.
Jin Yu didn't expect this kid to be so bold that he dared to show him a look, but at this moment, he was so weak that he had to watch her out of the room.
Qu Xiaomo, who rushed out of the door angrily, took a chair and sat under the tree where he stayed yesterday to blow the wind, but it was just after noon, and it was all hot wind blowing outside, and the annoyance did not blow away, but it made him even more irritable, so he simply went back to the house and sat down, remembering that it was time to start decoction at this hour, so he could only resign himself to starting a fire.
The sun set fast, and when only half of their faces were left, Uncle Fang and Aunt Fang also came back with hoes, and just saw Qu Xiaomo washing pots and dishes and preparing to cook, the two looked at each other and smiled.
For many years, every time the two of them come back to see a deserted and unheated home, and now they come back and see a person busy waiting for them, not to mention how good it feels, even if this person has only known them for a few days, but they know that she is also kind to them from the bottom of her heart.
Qu Xiaomo, who was washing the pot by the well, heard the sound of the hoe falling to the ground, and when he turned around, he saw that the two of them were back, and hurriedly said hello: "Aunt and uncle are back, come and wash your face." ”
As he spoke, he turned around and went back to take out the basin, pumped cool well water from the well, washed the faces of the two of them, and sat back in place to wash the pot and wash the rice when he was done, and asked Uncle Fang, who was wiping his face, while working: "Uncle, is there a carpenter in our village?" ”
"Carpenter?" Uncle Fang wiped his neck with a wet handkerchief, thought for a while, and said, "There are carpenters, but they are all made of some farm utensils, you want to make a bed." ”
Aunt Fang, who was patting her face with water, said, "Also, it's not a way to sleep on those two benches without a bed." ”
Qu Xiaomo said: "The bed is not needed, a soft couch or something will be, or it will be made into a big board, and it will be able to sleep people." ”
"Why don't my uncle ask Wang Laohan, who knows a little carpenter in the village, tomorrow to see if he can do it, if not, I can only go to the county."
"Cheng, then it's troublesome uncle." Qu Xiaomo said
"What's the trouble, it's just a matter of a few steps and a few words." Uncle Fang said with a smile
The dinner is still white porridge and steamed buns, plus the green vegetables picked by Aunt Fang from the field, both of which are vegetarian dishes, but they are all fried by Qu Xiaomo herself, her stir-fry skills are okay, but the oil is a little too much, and every chopstick is shiny, although Aunt Fang and Uncle Fang are distressed, they didn't say anything.
The next day, everything was as usual, and when Uncle Fang came back for lunch, he went to Wang Laohan's house to ask, and knew that he couldn't do it, so he came back and said to Qu Xiaomo.
There was no way to think about it, and after thinking about it, I decided to let Uncle Fang go to another house to ask if there was any door panel that I didn't need, and it would cost a few hundred wen to have a space to turn over, and it was too troublesome to go to the county seat to buy it.
Uncle Fang only asked a few families, and the matter of her words about the silver to buy wooden boards spread all over the village, and many people also quietly asked Aunt Fang and Uncle Fang if her husband Jin Yu could not survive, and when they came back, they told her about it, and she laughed so much that she couldn't do it.