Guizhi hurriedly crouched down and hid behind the hay pile next to the cowshed.

In the cowshed, Jin Xiaolou covered his mouth and nose, slowly leaned against the pillars of the shed, squinted at the lit window, and wanted to wait for the oil lamp to go out before continuing.

How do you know that the lamp not only did not go out, but was picked up at once. After shaking twice, the door creaked open, and a gray-haired, stooping grandmother walked out slowly with an oil lamp.

Oops......

Jin Xiaolou secretly said that it was not good, didn't he say that the elderly all slept early, why is this Grandma Zheng still awake.

Gui Zhi was even more nervous, his fingers clutching the corners of his clothes.

Seeing Grandma Zheng walking through the yard and walking straight towards the cowshed, Jin Xiaolou raised his voice and said to Guizhi: "Run!" ”

Gui Zhi took a sharp breath, saw Jin Xiaolou turn over and jump out of the cowshed, closed his eyes, turned around and ran out.

As soon as he took a step, he heard an old but powerful voice behind him: "Stop! ”

Gui Zhi suddenly stopped.

Jin Xiaolou was caught off guard, and almost hit Gui Zhi's back, so he had to turn around and stand up obediently.

Guizhi bit her lip, annoyed that she was so useless and that she would not be able to escape, and when she turned back, she pulled down the small hat made of potato leaves on her head and covered her face.

"Don't cover it up, although I am old, my eyes are not blind." Grandma Zheng spoke, "The new daughter-in-law of the Jin family, show your face." ”

Huang Guizhi has been married for more than three years, and only Grandma Zheng, who stays at home all the year round, still calls her a new daughter-in-law.

"Two people sneaking around, running to my cowshed to steal cattle?" Grandma Zheng snorted, "I'm going to hand you over to Lizheng, convict you of stealing, chop off your hands, and whip you a hundred lashes."

Gui Zhi shook all over, his hands were weak, and the potato leaves suddenly fell to his feet.

She hurriedly bent down, bowed her body for a long time and said, "Grandma Zheng, this is all my idea, it's not about Xiaolou, you can pull me to see Lizheng." ”

Jin Xiaolou also hurriedly bowed: "I'm sorry, Grandma Zheng, I was confused and did something wrong." I had to pull Guizhi to milk the cow, Guizhi didn't know anything, she was tricked by me......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a snort, and someone laughed.

Jin Xiaolou and Gui Zhi both faced the ground, and when they heard the laughter, they raised their heads together, puffed out two red little faces, and looked at Grandma Zheng with round eyes.

But under the candlelight, Grandma Zheng's eyebrows and eyes were spread, and she smiled heartily.

The monk of Jin Xiaolou was confused, and he was confused, so he heard Grandma Zheng say in a kind voice: "It's windy in the courtyard, don't bow down, come into the house quickly." ”

Jin Xiaolou and Huang Guizhi, look at me, I look at you, I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in Grandma Zheng's gourd.

Grandma Zheng sighed: "I was teasing you two daughters just now, I'm old, no one has spoken for a long time, and I'm very lonely." Come and talk to me in the house, and you can take the milk as you like, and it will be exchanged. ”

……

Jin Xiaolou and Huang Guizhi accompanied Grandma Zheng to talk about a pot of wine, from the strange things in Jingkou Village thirty years ago, to Wei Qingshu who was not smiling, and from Wei Qingshu to Wei Orion.

Grandma Zheng just mentioned that Wei Orion was very strange, and the next sentence was already on her lips, but she took it back at once. got up and beat his legs, shouting that it was too late and he was going to rest, so he drove Jin Xiaolou and Huang Guizhi to milk.

Grandma Zheng's heifer has a docile temperament, and Jin Xiaolou quickly milked half a bucket of milk.

When the two of them returned to Wei Orion's house with milk, the moon had already risen high, and the cold wind was blowing the rubble.

Huang Guizhi was still thinking about the strange things that Grandma Zheng told him, and he was so scared that he couldn't do it, so he held Jin Xiaolou's hand and didn't let go.

Jin Xiaolou coaxed Gui Zhi to bed like a coaxing Lin'er, and then carried the milk to the stove room.

Making cheese is not easy to say, but it is not difficult to say.

Jin Xiaolou sat in front of the stove and poured all the milk into it while the pot was not hot, and then took out two lemons that were pulled on the way back, rolled the knife board, rolled the pulp softly, cut it with a knife, mixed the sour juice into the milk, and then stirred it with a spoon.

It was boiled over a low fire for eight hours, or four hours.

Jin Xiaolou dozed off and leaned on the stove and fell asleep grogily.

When he woke up on the second day, the fire in the stove had just been extinguished, and Jin Xiaolou picked up a spoon and stirred the pot. The milk had broken down into semi-clear whey and curdles, and she took the salt from the side and sprinkled it in it and mixed gently.

Outside the window, Zhou Shuli was carrying a small cloth bag and was coming.

Gui Zhi stood at the door with Lin'er in his arms, but Zhou Shuli didn't care about Gui Zhi's "plague", and stepped straight into the door, not saying anything, just handing over the cloth bag he was carrying.

Jin Xiaolou lowered her head and stopped looking at them, she picked up the gauze boiled in boiling water, spread it out in a large wooden basin, and then picked up the pot and poured all the milk into it.

The smell of milk rose to his nose, and Jin Xiaolou picked up the cloth while it was hot and filtered out all the milk cake-like substances.

It is then pressed under a washed whetstone, which takes another four hours.

Zhou Shuli sent Gui Zhi a new robe made of cotton cloth, embroidered with frangipani in the color of the lake, lined with spinning, thin cotton, warm and thick to the touch.

Gui Zhi said that this robe was sewn by Widow Zhang when she went into the city to buy materials and came back.

"Zhou Shuli is really stingy, there are three people living here, he only gives one, you are warm, pity me and Lin'er, no one hurts, no one loves." Jin Xiaolou joked that Gui Zhi arrived.

Gui Zhi blushed: "I...... I said I didn't want it, and he forced it into me......"

Jin Xiaolou pursed his lips and pushed Guizhi and said: "Go and change into me, it's a pity that Zhou Shuli sent such beautiful clothes and put them on such a beautiful person, so I and Lin'er feasted our eyes!" ”

Gui Zhi didn't move, his brows furrowed: "I don't change, my mother has taught me since I was a child that I have no merit and no luck, he will run away when he throws it down, I don't have time to pay him back at the moment, I can go out in a few days, I must return it." ”

Jin Xiaolou sat down again, looked at Gui Zhi, and said seriously: "Although Zhou Shuli is a little wooden, his heart is very good, he knows your thoughts at a glance, Gui Zhi, what do you think?" ”

Gui Zhi's ears buzzed, but the shadow of a man suddenly appeared in his mind, but this shadow became fainter and fainter, and finally turned into a small black mole, which grew in his heart.

"I ...... I'm already married, and I don't deserve to think about anything. Gui Zhi tugged at the black mole in his heart and sighed abruptly.

Jin Xiaolou's eyes moistened: "Guizhi, you are no longer the daughter-in-law of the Jin family, you and Jin Dacheng have reconciled, and Li Zheng is witnessing, from now on you are free and can pursue the life you want to live." If you meet someone you like, you can also be with him and grow old together. ”

Gui Zhi blinked: "The life you want to live?" Xiaolou, people like us can only survive desperately, where are we qualified to choose the life we want to live. ”

Jin Xiaolou was stunned, and then listened to Gui Zhi continue: "I have lived a good life, I have been a master, I used to be a cloud in the sky, and I was served by a group of maids and grandmothers, but I didn't deserve it, I just stained the light of my ancestors and stood on the clothes of my ancestors." That's not what I wanted, I never had a choice, I couldn't say no. Dad said that girls should have three from four virtues, so I learned from women, read "Women's Rules" and "Women's Training", my mother wanted to climb to the governor of Shang, and when I was five years old, I promised me to the second son of the governor's family. No one will ask me what I want and will not allow me to want anything. ”

Later, the family fell in the middle of the road, and the clouds fell into mud, and since then they have struggled in the mud, and they can't help themselves. I fled to Jingkou Village, followed my family's arrangement and married Kim Dae-sung, a man I had never even heard of by name. When we get to the Jin family, you know, we can't even drink one more sip of soup, let alone talk about anything else. I am already very satisfied to be able to leave Kim Dae-sung, and I don't dare to ask for too much, because I am afraid, afraid that God will take back what I have now. ”

Jin Xiaolou had a headache in her heart, for her, a person who traveled from the 21st century, it seemed to be her innate nature to fight for what she wanted and fight for a free life.

Everyone will work hard to live the life they want to live, whether they succeed or fail, it is a natural thing.

She never thought that in this patriarchal era, a woman would need to summon up a lot of courage to have the idea of living the life she wanted to live.

To do so is to forge a new path in the midst of the thorns in the mountains.

"Katsura Branch." Jin Xiaolou held Huang Guizhi's hand, "If you let yourself choose, if you can choose by yourself, what do you want to do most?" What kind of life do you want to live for the rest of your life? ”

Huang Guizhi opened his eyes, thought for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "When I was a child, I had a dream that I dreamed of a large piece of sparkling water, and there was a glass platform on the water, and I stood on the stage and danced over and over again. The water waves and the glittering brilliance of the glass hit me, I was colorful, like a fairy in the nine heavens, and on the shore, all who saw me were stunned......"

Gui Zhi paused and smiled: "Actually, I have always loved to dance, when I was a child, I was still in a big house in Huzhou, and the dance banquet of the Mid-Autumn Festival every year made me obsessed." One year, I remember when I was seven years old, I grabbed a dancer who had just come off the stage and begged her to teach me how to dance. ”

"Xiaolou, you don't know, that dancer praised me for my good figure, and I was a good seedling for dancing." Gui Zhi sighed, "It's just that my mother said that only lowly women can learn to sing and dance, and she not only punished me, but also made me copy the female virtue a hundred times, and also drove the dancer out of the house." ”

"If I had a choice, I would like to be a dancer, follow the troupe to make a living, I want to dance the best dance, the eyes of the people in the audience widened, they couldn't close their mouths, and they didn't care what others said!"

Jin Xiaolou's eyes were bright: "Guizhi, do you believe it, a few hundred years later, in the same land, whether men, women, the elderly or children, they all have the right to pursue life." Women don't have to marry early, they can study, they can work, they can sing and dance, and they can choose their own lives. So you have to be brave that even though it's not hundreds of years from now, we can still go and live the life we want. ”

Gui Zhi's palms were sweating: "I ......"

She didn't have time to think about it, she just opened her mouth and asked, "Xiaolou, how do you know what will happen in a few hundred years......

Jin Xiaolou looked at Gui Zhi's eyes and didn't blink: "Because I'm from there." ”