Qi Su Niang was taken aback when she heard Qi Qiang's name, and she didn't care about the snow, so she hurriedly grabbed a few steps and ran to the courtyard to open the door. The courtyard door opened, and a gust of wind rushed in, blowing Qi Su Niang's eyes, and she choked on the wind and said, "Brother, hurry, come in." ”

The tall man in the cloak raised his head slightly from under the hat, glanced at Qi Su Niang, and nodded. Qi Su Niang hurriedly covered the courtyard door, ran back to the hall and added cotton poles, burning the fire even more vigorously, and watched Qi Qiang slowly take off his robe, revealing his face.

When Qi Su Niangfang saw Qi Qiang, her heart was sour. This Qi Qiang was born very much like Qi Hu. Nose with a wide forehead and a tall and strong body. Or because he saw the world outside, his eyes were blazing, sharp and sharp, and he looked extraordinary, but his eyes were too flexible, with peach blossoms slightly, far less than Qi Hu's real peace.

He wore yellow deerskin oil boots on his feet, and the upper and upper of the boots were mud and snow, but the boots were new. He was draped in a half-worn gray and white filial piety robe, but he didn't have any luggage.

The robe was covered with snow, but when it was heated, it turned into water and flowed to the ground. Qi Su Niang came back to her senses, hurriedly took the robe, hung it aside, moved a chair and asked Qi Qiang to sit down to keep warm.

She poured a bowl of laba porridge, served it hot to him, and said with a smile: "Brother, you make the mat first, and I will go to the kitchen to cook for you." With that, he poured boiling water from the tin hanging pot and poured the wheat husk tea, put it on the small table beside him, turned around and walked towards the stove.

Before the door was opened, I heard Qi Qiang say behind him: "At first, I used a little bit at Uncle Wang's house, but the time for dinner has not yet arrived, sister-sister, I want to see my father and mother first." ”

Qi Su Niang replied in a low voice, and inadvertently saw that Qi Qiang's filial piety clothes were originally a very bright red wool brocade jacket, and there were jade pendants, gold and silver money purses, fragrant tea bags and other fragmentary ornaments hanging on the silver skein belt around her waist.

Qi Su Niang's nose was sour, and when she turned her head to see Qi Qiang talking and was about to stand up, she hurriedly said: "My brother has been walking outside for a long time, and his stomach is cold, so I still drink this bowl of warmth first, and then it's not too late to go, so as not to make my mother feel at ease when I get there." She knew that Qi Qiang was a stubborn person, and she didn't let Aunt Qi worry less since she was a child, and she didn't say where to go, she just said that she wanted to make a lot of money, and left. Now that he has returned in five years, his parents have died, and he feels sorry for him when he thinks about it, so he has to be a little more considerate for Aunt Qi.

Qi Qiang nodded silently, but regardless of the heat, he drank it in two or three sips, then stood up, did not put on his clothes, and strode out. Qi Su Niang also expected this, seeing that he had already arrived at the gate of the courtyard in two steps, looked left and right, took some fruits, incense candles, and coal, and when he was about to pick up his clothes, Qi Qiang was already out of the door, and he was too late for a while, so he had to catch up.

The cemetery of the Qi family and his wife is not far from the village, under the tree where Qi Su Niang dried cotton clothes. Ten steps away is the tomb of Chen Niangzi. Qi Su Niang specially asked a stonemason to wrap the grave, build a tombstone, and write "First test Qi Hu|The tomb of the Song family, Qi Qiang respectfully stands, the third day of November in the 38th year of Kangxi." ”

Qi Qiang stood in front of the grave for a long time, letting the wind and snow accumulate on his head, shoulders, and even his whole body, and in the end, he finally knelt on the ground, howling and crying, and the sound of grief shook his ears, destroying people's liver and intestines.

Qi Su Niang was shivering with cold, but she was also sad when she heard such a cry, thinking of the kindness of the Qi family and his wife, she suddenly shed tears, and then thought of her parents in her previous life, and her heart cramped.

She didn't care about the cold, put the fruit on the table, took a fire fold and lit the white candle in a sheltered place, knelt in front of the grave and held incense and said, "Father, mother, my brother has come back to see you." He is in good health now, and in the future, our two brothers and sisters will love each other and support each other. Your second elder can rest assured that her daughter will pay attention to her brother and choose a good family, let him start a family, pass on the lineage, continue the incense of the Qi family, and have a smooth life. ”

Qi Su Niang said that she swallowed three heads, handed the three pillars of incense in her hand to Qi Qiang, who was still crying bitterly, and said, "Brother, put incense on my father." ”

Qi Qiang slowly stopped crying, choked and took the incense in Qi Su Niang's hand, inserted it in front of the grave, snorted three times, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he was panting again and again, and he couldn't say it, so he had to cry.

Qi Qiang cried on the grave for most of the hour, although Qi Su Niang was cold and hungry, but worried that Qi Qiang had injured his body, hesitated for a while, and could not be persuaded to move, so he had to slowly tell the details of the three people in the flood who escaped from the disaster, and cried: "Daddy is all to save me, he just lost his life, his body was buried under the rocks, and he couldn't find it, so Su Niang had to make his clothes and bury it with his mother." After that, he kowtowed to Qi Qiang.

Qi Qiang hurriedly blocked her, and said in tears: "Since my father and mother have accepted you as a righteous daughter, you are their own daughter, my own sister-in-law." My brother is not filial, he left his parents and wandered away, and his parents' funeral was all handled by his sister, and his brother thanked his sister. After that, he also kowtowed to Qi Su Niang three times.

Qi Qiang was extremely strong, Qi Su Niang couldn't stop it, so he hurriedly wanted to move his body away, but he didn't expect to kneel in the frozen ground for a long time, but half of his body was numb, and he fell backwards as soon as he moved, Qi Qiang hurriedly grabbed it, and saw that Qi Su Niang was already pale, and his whole body was cold, knowing that he was cold, he hurriedly picked it up and went to Chen's house.

Thanks to Qi Su Niang's strong body, she entered the warm house and drank two bowls of thick ginger soup, and she slowly got better, and led Qi Qiang back to Qi's house. Qi Qiang saw that the four thatched houses were extremely clean, the furniture and window stickers in the house were the same as when they left home, the daffodils wrapped in red notes exuded a faint fragrance, and there were two reed-flowered hens in the yard cooing, silent for a long time.

Qi Su Niang stood aside, watching Qi Qiang incense the tablet of the Qi family and his wife in front of the god cabinet, and then left the village and didn't know where he went. Qi Su Niang was slightly uneasy in her heart, but because she met the first day, Qi Qiang was the eldest brother, so she didn't want to ask too much, but fortunately, she saw Qi Qiang come back in the evening, rode a handsome horse, immediately carried her luggage, and settled down at home.

Starting from the second day, Qi Qiang ignored the cold and snow, built a thatched hut at the grave of the Qi couple, dressed in linen and filial piety, guarded day by day, and ate and slept on the grave. Qi Su Niang knew that he was remorseful in his heart, and he couldn't persuade him to do this, so he had to cook the chicken stew he bought for the New Year and send it to the tomb. Qi Qiang only ate cold vegetarian food, and did not move a single chopstick. Qi Su Niang had to make some food such as King Kong ball, tea sa, and laba porridge made at the Cold Food Festival, and sent them to the grave three times a day, guarding Qi Qiang to eat them all.

After 3721 days on the grave, Qi Qiang burned the thatched shed, kowtowed in front of the grave of the Qi couple, took off his filial piety clothes, and went home to live.

Since then, he has drunk wine and eaten meat, fresh clothes and angry horses, three years of filial piety, vegetarian food, vegetarian clothes, vegetarian chopsticks and other rules of filial piety are not in his heart. is so inconsistent and does not act according to the rules, which makes Qi Su Niang look dumbfounded. But Qi Su Niang was only afraid that he would burn his body, and she was happy to see him like this, killing chickens and ducks every day to replenish his vitality.

After a few days, Qi Su Niang was puzzled, because although Qi Qiang came to Chen's house to eat at noon every day, there was no one on weekdays, and a lot of movement could be heard at night, as if someone came from afar, entered Qi's house to talk and laugh with him, and waited until the next day Qi Su Niang went to visit, but there was no one figure.

The Qi family's land has been rented out, she calculated the money and handed it to Qi Qiang, but was pushed back with a smile, only saying that it was the food money. If Qi Su Niang shook his head, he said that his sister would save it and make a dowry in the future, which only made Qi Su Niang speechless. Qi Su Niang saw that he was clearly not worried about money, and he didn't know what to do to make a living outside, so he had to be so sneaky when he was dating, and he became more and more attentive on weekdays.

If Qi Qiang came back in the season, it would be fine, but he returned to Qi's house on a snowy day, so that Qi Suniang saw the flaw in a few days. Although the footprints on the snow were shallow, they were all towards the Cao River.

Caoyun was originally divided into seasons, and the river was closed in winter, and most of the homeless sailors in other provinces lived in some old houses along the river. Although there is no near Qi Chen's house, there are two Baoying at the top and two at the bottom of Changzhou fifty miles.

Qi Su Niang saw through this section, although she was a little worried, but she thought that she relied on her parents at home, her friends when she went out, Qi Qiang had been away for five years, and it was not easy to come back with his whole body, and although he did not look like an official, he did not worry about the money, and there were always some reasons, as long as he did not kill people, he would not ask too much.

Such days passed day by day, it was a big deal to send the god of the stove on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and she had to prepare for the New Year, Qi Su Niang planned to go to Gaoyou City to purchase New Year's goods and send the paper sedan chair, god horse, wine lees, and stove sugar of the god of the stove, but she didn't expect Qi Qiang to hear about it, and actually asked her to enter the city together.