Chapter 16: Xiao misses him
Cai Shi raised his hand and slapped the bed gang, slapped his chest angrily and scolded: "Cheap hooves! The mouth is so tricky! What about Juan? Stay in peace! Hit me hard! She's trying to me off! ”
Du Ruo leaned against the door and watched her play.
Song Yinhua lifted the curtain and ran out of the back room, looking at them in a panic, "Mother, Rulan, why are you arguing again?" ”
Daddy Song also suddenly heard a movement on his side, probably just now when he fell asleep and was woken up by them, he knocked on the leg of the bed with his hand, knock knock! Again and again.
Song Yinhua hurriedly walked out, "Dad! What's wrong with you?! ”
Father Song's voice was chaotic, he couldn't say a word, and he coughed violently, Song Yinhua hurriedly calmed him down, "Dad, why is your face so ugly?" What's uncomfortable? ”
"It's not that this mother-in-law who has suffered a thousand knives is angry with your father! Seeing my wife being bullied, can your father feel better?! Cai said viciously, and continued to curse in his mouth.
Du Ruo sighed and said to Song Yinhua: "Dad is thirsty, right?" Pour him some water to drink. ”
If she doesn't do it, Song Yinhua has to do it, and said with a touch of conscience, Song Yinhua didn't work less when she returned to her parents' house, otherwise she would be the one who is serving Cai's and Song's father now.
With a wooden face, she packed up the dirty clothes that Cai's and Song's father had changed out and hugged them out, and Cai's scolding stopped.
Du Ruo went back to the West House and took the two robes that Song Ju'an had worn, the wooden basins were piled high and couldn't be moved, so she had to separate the clothes and carry some of them to the well outside.
Song Ju'an was at the well.
Du Ruo put down his things and looked at him, and found that he was crouching there on a stone and sharpening a pair of scissors, the one she couldn't find.
After grinding for a while, he poured some water on his head and continued grinding.
The scissors are really not very sharp, very blunt, and there are a few gaps in the middle, she sharpened it once a few days ago, and it didn't work for two days, and it didn't work anymore, and the cloth head couldn't be cut, so it was really hard.
She went home silently and picked up the rest of her dirty clothes. I moved a low stool, sat on it, rubbed and beaten, and watched the west fall like a bloody sun.
After washing and drying, it was already completely dark. Back in the West House, Du Ruo saw the scissors lying in the sewing basket, she picked it up, cut it a few times into the air, and the blade flashed brightly.
Song Ju'an helped Father Song scrub his body in the hall, and Cai spoke in a high voice and a low voice.
On dog days, everything was hot and sweaty, and the westroom was a little stuffy, so she opened the window to ventilate and ventilate, and after a while, closed it again, and lay down in bed to sleep.
The closer we got to the fifteenth, the brighter the moonlight became, and mercury poured through the wooden window in front of it.
She kept turning over to find a comfortable position, took the fan and fanned a few times, and fell asleep unconsciously.
Half-asleep, Du Ruo opened his eyes and found Song Ju'an standing expressionlessly beside her bed, with his hands behind his back, and the strong moonlight sprinkled on him, even a little dazzling.
The doll puppet given by the goddess hung on the bed net, dangling back and forth, and the puppet's eyes were facing her, as if laughing, which made people panic.
"Have you drunk the Chinese medicine?" Song Ju'an suddenly opened his mouth to ask, and his voice was also cold, without the slightest emotion.
"Drink it......," she replied, but after thinking about it, wasn't she pouring the medicine into the urn?" What are you doing standing here, Anlang? She asked, trying to sit up from the bed, as if she had lost her strength and couldn't move.
Song Ju'an walked towards the bed step by step, Du Ruo suddenly saw that he still had the yellow talisman given by the goddess on his body, his expression was weird, which made people feel worried, Du Ruo hurriedly asked him: "Is it dawn?" Song Ju'an, what's wrong with you? ”
"Didn't you say why you can't give birth to a child......" His voice was low, he had already walked to the side of the bed, stretched out his hand to her, and the doll puppet hanging on the bed tent suddenly laughed weirdly, just when Song Juan was about to touch her, Du Ruo suddenly opened his eyes.
It turned out to be a nightmare!
It was already bright outside, and the early morning wind swept in through the carved windows, and she touched her face, and there was sweat on her forehead.
She sat up, tore off the puppet hanging on the bed tent and took a look, her nose was crooked, and she didn't know how many of them the goddess had wholesaled in order to deceive others, and she threw them to the ground angrily.
I don't understand the anger.
She looked at the ground and found that Song Ju'an's bed on the ground was still there, but it hadn't been cleaned up, and Song Ju'an would roll it up in time every day after getting up, so as not to be found by Cai's that the two were sleeping in separate beds.
She got out of bed, walked up to the quilt and kicked the quilt out, and kicked the pillow again.
She doesn't believe that there are ghosts in this world, but she is often worried that someone is pretending to be a ghost. Song Ju'an in the dream was so terrible, and he didn't know what Song Ju'an was doing so early.
She stretched her waist, silently squatted down to get back the pillow she kicked away, and knelt on the mat to pull the quilt back, and Song Ju'an found her and blamed her.
However, her wishes had never come true so quickly.
Because at this moment, Song Ju'an opened the curtain and came in, still wearing a thin undershirt, black hair draped over his shoulders, calm and relaxed, and even a smile on the corner of his lips.
His gaze fell on Du Ruo's body, and the smile on his lips froze.
Du Ruo also froze.
"Not what you think!" Du Ruo hurriedly explained.
"Don't think about it, I just, I just woke up and saw that you weren't there, and I was afraid that Yinhua would suddenly come into the Westinghouse and find it, so I helped you fold the cover." The lightning really gave her an excuse.
Otherwise, Song Ju'an thought that she lacked a man, Xiao missed him, and thought that when he was away, she sat on his bed and hugged his quilt, obscenely......
In order to confirm himself, Du Ruo pulled the quilt in his hand, folded the bed neatly very seriously, and rolled up the mat before standing up, and under Song Ju'an's gaze, he pretended to turn around and walk towards the bed with a calm face.
Song Ju'an began to officially work as a teacher in the village school.
Today, he was dressed more neatly, with a blue robe, a white belt around his waist, and a long and elegant figure.
He opened the wooden box and took out two books, locked the wooden box again, and said to Du Ruo, who was rummaging through things on the other side: "The bean field in Beishan is almost ripe, you have to take a look, some people have unclean hands and feet, and they go to the field to steal things with no one on their backs, you should be careful." ”
Du Ruo turned his head to look at him, nodded, thought about it, and told him: "Since you are a gentleman, teach well, don't get along with students, don't get along with Liang Xiucai, don't get along with money, you will teach you." ”
Song Ju'an looked at Du Ruo kneeling in front of the wooden box, and the doubts in his eyes resurfaced, was she Du Shi?
Some people are stupid, some people are smart. He had seen a wise man become stupid and conceited in his own right, but he had never seen a foolish man become conscious and alive one day.
After he left, Du Ruo took out the two pennies in the box and the silver hairpin under the pillow and put them in her pocket, and she was ready to enter the city.
You can't let her family know about entering the city, otherwise she won't be able to get out of this door.
She just wants to go into the city to see, the countryside is closed, there may be any opportunities in the city, even if there is not, she can go around, look forward to the future, like hanging a radish in front of a donkey, even if you can't eat it, but there is hope, so as not to stagnate.
Then take the silver hairpin away, buy some embroidery thread and fabric, buy some paper back, although the income is meager, but only a little hope, she will hold on, such a day makes her feel desperate, she does not want to indulge in it and wait for death. It is estimated that the village chief should come to urge the grain to be returned in the past two days, but fortunately, the crops are also ripe, and if it is not green and yellow, he will not be hungry.
"I'm going to Kitayama Field." Du Ruo stood at the door and spoke, picked up the sickle and walked out.
"Rulan, I'll go with you! Ju An went to teach, the strength of the two of us is small, and we will finish it slowly sooner or later! Song Yinhua hurriedly stood up.
Du Ruo turned to look at her, "You take care of your father and mother at home, An Lang just asked me to take a look, maybe it's not ripe yet!" It is not certain that he will not come back to eat at noon, in case he delays cooking and disturbs him to do things, you should still be at home. ”
Song Yinhua answered and sat down again.
Du Ruo left the house and walked until he reached the avenue that winded outside the village before he stopped and looked back.
With no one around, she hid the scythe in her hand in the weeds by the roadside and walked straight into the city. Last time, she went to Song Ju'an and Han Liang once, and she remembered the road.
In the school.
The students shook their heads, leaned forward and backwards, and the sound of reading came and went, which could be heard from afar.
Song Ju'an held a book in his hand, he read a sentence, the students read a sentence, and he slowly walked to the podium from behind.
Han Liang walked over from the other side and stood outside the grass hut looking at him.
After teaching a few more sentences, Song Ju'an said: "Read it a few times by yourself until you memorize it." ”
The student Ula Ulla read aloud, and he walked out of the hut and came to Han Liang.
"What's the matter?" He asked.
"Du Rulan went out alone, and when she left, she probably excused herself from the second elder that she was going to the field, holding a sickle in her hand, and threw the sickle away when she left the village."
"Be careful to follow her and see where she goes!" Song Ju'an said in a deep voice.
After so long, this woman finally can't hold her breath and wants to show her feet?
He was looking forward to it and curious, and if she was really instructed to be sent to him, he really admired her a little more in his heart. After all, what she did was not like acting, and even he believed it realistically.
Han Liang answered, turned and left.
When Du Ruo walked about four or five miles, he heard the sound of a carriage driving behind him, the road was flat and wide, and the carriage was moving fast, and he arrived in front of him in a short time.
She stood on the side of the road, looking at the carriage, trying to let it pass first, but when it came to her, the carriage stopped, and the curtain was lifted.
Su Mingyang, the butcher Han Liang, and the second daughter of the Su family, Su Huiniang, sat inside, all looking at her.
Du Ruo was taken aback, and said in her heart, Han Liang, Su Mingyang and Song Ju'an are familiar with each other, and she may not be able to hide her entry into the city today.
"What is my sister-in-law going to do?" Su Mingyang asked with the curtain in his hand.
"Where are you going?" Du Ruo asked with a smile. A reader is a reader, even if he really dislikes her in his heart, at least not on the surface.
"Hui Niang and I went to Qingyang Temple, put incense on it, and add some sesame oil money to the temple." Su Mingyang replied that his mother, Li, believed in Buddhism and often made wishes.
Du Ruo nodded, "I'll go into the city, then you guys go first!" ”
Han Liang said at this time: "It just so happened that I also went into the city, and I met Ming Yang and Hui Niang halfway, and I went to Qingyang Temple and entered the city on the way, so let them take me." ”
"Sister-in-law, come up too! Give you a ride! Su Ming said.
Since they invited, Du Ruo did not shirk and got into the carriage.
The four of them sat in the carriage to be honest, but fortunately, she and Su Huiniang sat opposite each other, Han Liang and Su Mingyang sat opposite each other, and the carriage was running smoothly.