Zhao Shi, the man who picked up people, since he was divorced by Wang Xiu'er of Guzi Village last time, married another family surnamed Li, and only got a big fat boy last year. In addition to farming every day, he also goes to the town to pick up some loose work such as carrying bags, and he is a well-known honest and diligent person in the entire Linzi Village.

He kindly saved the person, saw the doctor and took medicine, and took care of it, and only after a month, did the man open his eyes and recover a little vitality.

Zhao Li, the mother-in-law of the Zhao family, pushed open the door with a bowl of millet and rice, and saw that the person on the bed was struggling to get off the ground crookedly with a cane, hurriedly put down the bowl, and reached out to sit down on the edge of the bed with a sweaty person.

"You're not in good shape, you should lie down. I hurt my muscles and bones for a hundred days, and I can't rush to come. So saying, he scooped the man's legs back into the bed, carefully covered the quilt, and put a straw pillow behind him, so that he could sit crookedly against the wall.

"The family is poor, and there are no good things. You pad your stomach for this bowl of rice first, don't dislike it. He took the bowl and chopsticks and gently stuffed them into the man's hand, moving gently and carefully.

The man took the bowl and smiled gratefully at her, then lowered his head and devoured it. Zhao Li looked at this young man who was more tender than her brother-in-law, and sighed silently, it was also pitiful!

Her man was sharpening the end of the wooden stick in the courtyard outside the house, and when he saw her come out with an empty bowl, he said loudly, "Ming'er, I'll go to the back mountain to try my luck and see if I can catch two pheasants to make up for him." ”

Zhao Li hurriedly beat him, "Are you crazy?" Is there anything you can go to in the mountains? Get people back, see a doctor and grab medicine, and cook clothes and cook to wait, and the family is almost gone! You're kind to you! ”

She didn't have to drink a bowl of chicken soup during childbirth, if it weren't for the two of them being diligent, where would they get the money to feed such an outsider? She had heard from the people in the village that this man was of unknown origin and that others did not pick it up, but their family not only picked it up, but also served it with delicious food and drink. You can't think about this terrible thing, and you get angry when you think about it!

Zhao Shi frowned and looked at his mother-in-law disapprovingly, "That's not what I said, it's not easy, since we have met, we can help it." With me, he can't eat our family. Bodhisattvas all say that saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter! ”

What else could Zhao Li say, he stared at his husband angrily with a puffed face, and seeing that he was bent on entering the mountain, he went back to the kitchen to wash the dishes angrily. Thinking about it, she poked her head out and asked her man to be careful of the wild things in the mountains, and only allowed to go around the outside of the mountain. There are big worms in the mountains!

And the man who had almost spent all her money was now slowly turning his head, looking at the farmhouse with his eyes open. When I saw the air-dried sausage hanging on the beam in the room, my eyes flashed.

After a few days, with the constant replenishment of pheasants and hares, the man was able to circle the house several times with a stick, and his face was a little bloody, and he looked at this beautiful and peaceful little mountain village with a little daunting. Slowly walked up to Zhao Li's face, raised his hands and smiled at her: I want to go to the village for a walk, so that the injury will heal faster.

Zhao Li was busy drying moldy cowpeas in the yard, preparing to make soybean sauce for his son. Looking at his sweaty gestures, I realized that he was a mute. Lian Meng guessed what he meant, nodded his head in agreement and motioned for him not to go far, and then continued to bow his head and go about his housework. There is not a moment of idleness for a woman in the countryside.

Seeing that Zhao Li agreed, the man hurriedly turned around and dragged his stump along the dirt road in the village aimlessly. When he saw a small blue brick courtyard, he slowly stopped, and "Bang Bang" knocked on a wooden stick and circled at the gate of the courtyard, looking at the closed gate from time to time.

Wen Wan had just opened the door bolt from the inside, and a person standing at the gate of the courtyard smiled flatteringly at her, her thin body was holding a wooden stick, but there were two bright eyes embedded in her dark face, and those two eyes were looking at her fixedly at this time. Even though he had changed his outfit, Wen Wan recognized at a glance that it was the young man covered in blood.

The boy smiled brightly at her again, then gestured at her again and again, and then pointed to the courtyard behind her. The meaning couldn't be more obvious: can you go in and ask for a glass of water?

Wen Wan locked the courtyard door, blocking his eyes from looking in. He gestured to him neatly: I'm sorry, I'm going out, and there's no one at home. She really had to go out, and she didn't have time to spend with this person. Seeing that the young man was still smiling and looking a little stupid, she walked away with a wooden face.

She didn't see it, and the man behind her stopped laughing, staring at her back for a long time.

Walking to the river contracted by her family, Wen Wan rolled up her trouser legs and went into the water, and put away the narrow bamboo cages under the river one by one. The output of this river is not low, and after a year, her family returned to her original book, not to mention, and earned dozens of taels of silver. Today's harvest was good, there were tail grass carp in the bamboo cage, and a few thumb-thick eels.

She poured the fish into the wooden bucket she had brought all the way, and tied the bamboo cage back into the water with a cloth again. Wen Wan stood up and prepared to make up for the three fathers and sons in the stew pot of tofu and fish soup in the evening. The dark face appeared in her mind, I don't know if it was the wind blowing or a little uneasy, the cold hairs on her body stood up for a while, and after throwing out that clear face, she brushed her hair and hurriedly carried the barrel back home.

The moon was about to climb up the treetops, and three men in the house entered the door one after another.

"A-Niang, A-Niang, your little ingots are back, do you have any eel that I love to eat?" The little man, whose clothes were crumpled and his hair was unkempt like a chicken nest, had a cloth bag casually diagonally on his shoulders, and lowered his face that resembled her man, like a mud monkey burrowing into the house.

Seeing Wen Wan smiling evilly and wanting to rub her black dirty hands on his mother's skirt, she hurriedly dodged to avoid it, and the fat boy became more and more skinny.

"The eldest son has also returned home, is my mother okay today? Do you want to be envy during the day? The tone was flat, the clothes were neat, and the joy was faint. The schoolboys at home are well-behaved, rigid and rigorous, and they are more worried than the strict master. Her head hurt, one too lively, the other too serious.

Lin Yuan didn't know the gentle Jiujiu, washed his hands and saw that his favorite wine and vegetables were steamed in the kitchen, so he was so happy that he picked up Ah Xian and threw it in the air and easily caught it. Ah Xian was amused by the stimulation that rose up and down in the air, and immediately lost his serious and stereotypical appearance, grabbing his father's hair and giggling like an old hen laying eggs.

"Don't go crazy! Wash your hands and eat! She dried her hands on her apron and beckoned the family to eat.

The three men immediately washed their hands and squeezed into the kitchen one after another, serving the dishes, taking the bowls, and taking the wine. The whole room suddenly became lively under the dim light, and from time to time there were bursts of happy chattering of children.

The dishes on the table soon swept away the leaves like the autumn wind, leaving only a few residues. Lin Yuan squinted his eyes and squeaked out the wine in the glass, and was sweating all over his head. At a casual glance, I saw Wen Wan and stunned counting the meters, making an ugly look in a daze.

"What's wrong? Out of sorts? He tapped the bowl in front of her with chopsticks in one hand, and grabbed a green and charred leek quiche with the other, and took a big bite.

"Do you know that the Zhao Shi family in the village saved someone?" Wen Wan raised her head and looked at him blankly, her face in a trance.

"Yes, what's wrong?" He had heard from the people in the village about this.

"I saw that man on the way home from grocery shopping, covered in blood, wearing Hu people's clothes, kicking Hu people's sheepskin boots, and his knife was covered with blood. I'm afraid ......." the gentle uneasiness intensified.

"You, you just love to worry! Don't think about it so much, when this person of unknown origin is well up, the village chief will put pressure on him to leave the village as soon as possible. After speaking, Lin Yuan went to the kitchen to add a bowl of rice and ate the vegetable soup in one go, only to touch his belly like a landowner, lick his oily mouth and burp, his mother-in-law's craftsmanship is amazing!

"Why don't we go to my mother's house for a while? Ah Xian Yuanbao also hasn't been to a foreign house for a while. She hesitated.

Lin Yuan shook his head, "Now is the time to farm, the two sons still have schoolwork, it's inconvenient to go, let's live for a while." ”

Wen Wan turned her head to look at the dark sky outside the courtyard, and bit her chopsticks uneasily. Her heart still couldn't settle down, and she seemed to jump out of her throat with a "poof, poof".

Unexpectedly, for several days, Wen Wan did not see the smiling young man again, and the village was still full of smoke and calm. She relaxed slightly, trying to calm down the inexplicable panic, laughing at herself that she was still as suspicious as in her previous life.

"She, Aunt Lin! She Aunt Lin! Are you going to the river? Zhao Li greeted Wen Wan, and the end note carried the tenderness of his daughter's family.

Wen Wan woke up and realized that she was in a daze again, so she smiled back enthusiastically and said, "Ah, yes, go and see." Are you going to the field? ”

"Exactly, go to the field and help his father." Seeing that Lin Yuan's family had a lot of rare words, she hurriedly put down her hoe and talked gently, and the Li family, the owner of the family, said some trivial things briefly.

"That ...... yours?" Wen Wan didn't hold back, but still inadvertently sounded.

"Which? Oh, you said the one you picked up? I left yesterday. His father had just sent him away early in the morning. "She is now relaxed, and she can be regarded as sending the big Buddha away, which can cost her a lot of grain, oil and silver these days.

"Then you can save a little later, you are busy first, and when you are free, you have to go to my place to sit!" Wen Wan's heart was put back in her stomach, and the smile on her face became more and more indifferent.

Zhao Li was also relaxed, picked up the hoe and smiled and responded "Naturally, naturally." I haven't thanked your little ingots for the chicken cake the day before yesterday. ”