Chapter 3 The so-called marriage
"I said Cheng Wei, where are your parents?" After being honest for a while, Gu Xicheng asked through the door panel. It was quiet for a long time, so long that Gu Xixuan thought that Cheng Wei was asleep, and then heard his voice.
"You ask my father? I don't have a mother, just a father and a little daddy. The baby girl born in Yunyue Kingdom every year can be counted on five fingers, and it is a blessing for ordinary people to be able to take a look. ”
Cheng Wei paused and said, "My father and little father are dead. ”
Gu Xixuan was silent for a while and then asked, "I saw your move to cut that snake today, it looks like a soldier, you are a soldier?" ”
"I enlisted in the army when I was sixteen, I was in the army for three years, and I only came back half a year ago. When I came back, my father and father were already dead, and I had a younger brother who was also sold by the villagers. "When the younger brother had a serious illness, he went without hesitation when he was conscripted into the army, and came back for five taels of silver to treat the younger brother.
It's a pity that when he came back, he heard that his little father fell ill after he left, and his father sold the family's land to his uncle, and then sold his younger brother to treat his father. It's a pity that the person was not saved, and my father couldn't think about it for a while and followed.
Gu Xixuan didn't continue to ask, the two didn't talk all night, and slept until dawn with their eyes closed.
Gu Xixuan had never slept so deeply that he was woken up the next day. When he opened his eyes, it was dark, and someone outside the house was talking.
“…… I said Brother Wei'er, your marriage can't be delayed, Li Zheng has already looked for me a few times, and if you drag it back, someone will come to the town. "The person who came was the official media in the town, that is, a celebrity, he had a red thread wrapped around his hand, and everyone knew him.
"Please also ask the little father of the Lu family to give a few more days, calculate the birthday, I will not be twenty until October, and it will only be mid-July at this time." Cheng Wei whispered and handed three copper plates to his palm.
In Yunyue, the brother who is not married after the double ten is full is going to be forced to marry. When the time comes, the official will tell the person, but it doesn't matter if it's round or flat.
"It's not that I said you, sooner or later you are going to get married, I am also telling you that you are also a hunter, although people are not very tall and there is no field at home, but it is better to have a kung fu to eat."
The official family's red man dragged the three copper plates and sighed and said, "No matter what, I won't starve you to death, isn't it better to have someone to take care of than you are now?" ”
Cheng Wei lowered his head and did not speak.
"Okay, I don't embarrass you, so your uncle is a little anxious." He stuffed the copper plate back into Cheng Wei's hand and whispered: "It's only two months, I'll give you a closer look, if you see a lot of people, don't shirk it." ”
Cheng Wei pinched the three copper plates, and suddenly said, "Uncle Yun, can you tell me how my father and little father died?" Where was my little brother sold? ”
Due to the scarcity of women, Yunyue is generally based on deeds in China, and the husband and wife are called brothers. Outsiders can be called uncle, and when they have a child, they can be called a little dad when they give birth to a child. Cheng Wei called him uncle at this time, but it was a very good name for the relationship between the two families.
"Alas......" The red man looked at him and sighed, he and Cheng Wei's little father were very compatible when he was alive, but unfortunately this matter should not be said by him. With that in mind, he was going to find an excuse to go first.
When Gu Xixuan heard this, he opened the door and walked out.
The red man who heard the voice raised his head, was shocked when he saw him, and then immediately said, "Brother Wei'er, why is there a man in your house?!" ”
"Well, he is a distant relative of my little father, he only arrived last night, and the distance is far away and it is inconvenient to go back and forth, so I will keep him for two days." Cheng Wei was also taken aback by Gu Xigong, who suddenly came out, he glared at the person, and replied with some hesitation.
"Confused! If you don't have an adult in your family, you dare to leave a man to live at home, and now that you're going to double ten, you don't want to get married! The red man pinched him in frustration.
The mark on Cheng Wei's body is innate, and the matter of marrying someone cannot be avoided no matter what.
Gu Xicheng was wearing the clothes that Cheng Wei found for him yesterday, this dress was obviously his father's, but it was a pity that he was born tall, and this dress was a big shortening. It was hot again, so he simply rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs.
In this way, it looks quite improper, and the appearance of being disheveled when you just get up is easy to misunderstand.
"Uncle Yun, you go back first, and I'll talk to you another day. You...... Don't tell the official about this yet. Cheng Wei whispered to him, said a basket of good things, and finally stopped his idea of interrogating Gu Xixuan, and left with a chatter.
"You don't know how to get dressed when you get up!" As soon as the people were sent away, Cheng Wei turned around and glared at him.
Gu Xicheng pretended not to hear, he wanted to take off his clothes if he had to wear two pieces on such a hot day, and they were long-sleeved.
"You helped me wash my clothes?" Gu Xixuan glanced at the clothes hanging on the fence, it was his military uniform, and this person was so diligent that he washed all his underwear. He stared at the small piece of army-green cloth and reached out and scratched his chin.
"Don't think too much, I'm used to being in the army." Cheng Wei was interrupted by him, and he suddenly couldn't get angry. Speaking of which, the fabric of the clothes worn by this person is very strange, he just said that it is something unique to the Cloud Mirror Country, it is very soft to the touch, but it is deformed when it is washed.
He resigned himself to the house and fetched the green salt for his mouth, and then sat aside to handle the snakeskin he had brought back the previous day.
"There's food in the house, we're going to go to town in a moment."
Gu Xixuan didn't ask much, fetched well water to wash his face and mouth, and then went to the kitchen to find food. There were a few tortillas in the pot and a stack of pickles on the side. He thought about it and took all the things to the yard and left half of them for Cheng Wei.
The family looked poor, and he wasn't sure if Cheng Wei had eaten it.
"Don't you think it's salty?" Cheng Wei frowned and stared at Gu Xixuan while handling the snake skin, this pickle was salty for him, and he could only eat it with porridge.
"It's fine." Gu Xixuan paused and answered him.
"Don't you have a sense of taste? How much do you remember about the events in the Cloud Mirror Kingdom? Cheng Wei put down the snake skin in his hand, when he was in the army, he followed the military doctor to deal with external injuries, if Gu Xicheng had any internal injuries or poison, he had no way to treat them.
"I don't remember anything when I wake up except my name." Gu Xicheng wiped his mouth, looked indifferent, and squatted down to deal with the snakeskin like him.
His sense of taste is actually a manifestation of human degradation. The resources on the Blue Star are limited, and the land is not suitable for growing green plants, and the human ration is mainly synthetic food. In addition, he has been in the army all year round, and compressed food and nutrient solution are his main foods.
This led to a deterioration of his sense of taste, and what he ate was an afterthought.
The two of them disposed of the snakeskin, and Cheng Wei hung it in the yard, then went into the house to clean up, carrying his small backpack and preparing to go out.
At this time, the sun had not yet risen, and every household was only ready to make breakfast, and he took Gu Xixuan with him, so he was not ready to squeeze the ox cart with the people in the village.
"Give it to me." Gu Xixuan took his back basket and held it in his hand, and didn't ask Cheng Wei what he was doing with him in town.
Cheng Wei didn't do anything, his ribs were indeed still hurting, he pursed his lips and said, "In a while, we will go to the town to sell the things in the back basket first, and then we will go to the yamen to check the case for you, and then we can settle down when we come back." ”
He went to Li Zheng's house early in the morning to talk about it, Li Zheng was not idle today, and wrote him a document to take to the town to do.
It was also Gu Xixuan's clean face that did not have the imprint of slaves and prisoners, so he dared to bring people out so openly.
It took an hour and a half to walk from Tonghua Village to the town, and the sun had risen high by this time. Cheng Wei asked Gu Xicheng to wait for him outside, and carried the basket into a medicinal herb shop.
But for a while, people passing by pointed at him and whispered. Gu Xixuan listened intently for a long time before he realized that they were talking about his short hair.
He also realized that everyone who passed by had their hair tied up.