When Liu Zixuan moved the stele to the center of the courtyard, the sun had just climbed to the roof of the east wing, and before he could catch his breath, the Gu stonemason went to the rabbit post with his burden, and when he entered the courtyard gate, Liu Zixuan hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Gu Laohan entered the courtyard, he walked to the side of the stele in a few steps, looked at it a few times, and nodded again and again to praise it as a good stone.

Two people who are not very familiar with each other are together, naturally there are not many topics, just a few simple greetings, and the Gu stonemason rolled up his sleeves and prepared to start work. Not long after, there was an unhurried sound of hitting stones from the rabbit hill, where did the two pheasants in the courtyard hear this sound? I was so scared that I both drilled into the corner.

It was almost noon, Gu Laohan was burying his head in the monument, Liu Zixuan was sitting on the side and watching, both of them were inadvertent, but they saw a big dog suddenly enter the small courtyard. Liu Zixuan looked up and saw that it was the big black dog he saw at the Gu family yesterday. After the big black dog entered the hospital, he ran straight to the Gu stonemason, wagging his tail incessantly, and rubbed the calf of the Gu stonemason with his thick neck.

When Gu Laohan saw his big dog coming, he hurriedly put down the work in his hand, touched its head and said, "The sunspot is here!" ”

When the big dog heard this, like a child who had been rewarded, he obediently lay down at the feet of the old man, stretched out his long tongue to gasp, and at the same time did not forget to look around, until he found the two pheasants in the corner, and immediately jumped up and pounced on the rare thing. Seeing this, Gu Laohan hurriedly shouted: "Be honest! ”

Hearing Gu Laohan's scolding, the big black dog lowered his tail again and obediently returned to his master.

"A good obedient dog." Liu Zixuan praised.

"Don't praise it, you didn't see it disobedient, and I beat it up a lot in the past two years." Gu Laohan said with love, but his eyes were full of love.

After a short while, a person came in outside the courtyard gate, Liu Zixuan raised his eyes and saw that it was the swallow girl who had just met yesterday.

Miss Gu wore a floral gown with a white background, a neat row of buttons buttoned down to her neck, and on both sides of the buttons, a thick black braid hung down in front of her bulging chest; A pair of fat and thin dark blue pants on the lower body modify the two straight lower limbs to be round and slender; At the bottom of the straight seam is a pair of handmade shoes, with a corduroy upper mille-feuille sole, tightly hugging two small feet.

Looking at the dazzling sun, Liu Zixuan was confused for a while, is this the girl who walked under an umbrella with him? In contrast, at this time, she was clearly the same as the two of them. It will take a lot of effort to tie up those two braids! When she took off the straw hat on her head, Liu Zixuan saw the delicate face clearly, her dark eyes reflected the reddish mouth, and under a layer of fine sweat, every part of the face was bright and radiant.

Seeing that Miss Gu had come closer, Liu Zixuan's heart was like a rabbit suddenly jumping out, he hurriedly lifted his ass from the bench and stood up straight in front of the girl, until the big black dog wagged his tail to meet him, only to notice that she was still carrying a bamboo basket on her arm, and the little arm with the cuffs rolled up had already left the abrasion marks of the bamboo basket handle. Glancing at the small piece of skin that was slightly reddened at the end of his sleeve, Liu Zixuan's heart inexplicably burst into pity.

Without waiting for Liu Zixuan to come back to his senses, the girl of the Gu family opened her mouth first: "Heizi heard someone hitting stones, and ran here from afar, as if he knew that my father ......was here, as soon as the words fell, a long cry of a pheasant came from far away in the south of the courtyard, and the big black dog immediately pricked up his ears after hearing it, like a clever sentinel who discovered the enemy's situation, ran outside the courtyard gate in a few steps, stretched his neck and looked in the direction of the mountains and forests.

The big black dog pulled out of the middle of the two, but put Liu Zixuan in embarrassment, and stood face to face with Miss Gu, he hurriedly pondered how to say hello, but the already dull braincase stopped working at this time, and after thinking for a while, he held back a sentence: "The bite on your arm should be clear, right?" ”

Listening to Liu Zixuan's question, Miss Gu was at a loss at first, and then burst out laughing: "On the arm? I've never been bitten by a snake on the arm! The leg injury had already healed. ”

Realizing that he had said something wrong, Liu Zixuan suddenly felt that his head and face were hot, and he hated that he hadn't dug a hole in the yard in advance to get into it and hide. I didn't know what to say for a while, so I had to turn around and go into the house, and took a stool out to cover my shame.

Gu Laohan, who was sitting next to him, listened to the words of the two, looked up at the two of them one after another, and then lowered his head and took out the dry tobacco bag.

Miss Gu took the bench handed by Liu Zixuan, sat down and said to him: "My mother said, it may be inconvenient for your family here, let me send some food over to save you any more trouble." ”

As soon as the girl said this, Liu Zixuan hurriedly raised his head to look at the sky, only to find that the sun was already in the sky, but he had forgotten to prepare lunch. I thought about asking the Gu stonemason to help, and now I have to prepare my own meals, which is really a loss of hospitality, but this person who has never interacted with the outside world, although he is full of gratitude at this time, he does not have a mouth that can speak, so he has to say in a spitting voice: "This, how embarrassing is this, I really can't care about it, I can't go too much......

Seeing that Liu Zixuan was not able to step down for a while, Gu Mason relieved him and said: "What is this, your father picked up her life at the beginning!" Now that the days are much better than before, don't take this little thing to heart. ”

After taking Gu Laohan's words, Liu Zixuan said: "One or two pheasants back then, where there was so much inspiration, they could really save people's lives......

"Zixuan, you don't know, our swallow should have a brother, just because your aunt was weak and had little milk, and the child lost nutrition as soon as he was born, and it was less than a month, and he was gone. You are all young, you don't know about those years, natural disasters and man-made disasters come together, there is no food in the fields, and even the pheasants and rabbits in the fields are much less than in previous years...... If I remember correctly, the child and you were born in a year, and if he survived, he would be twenty-three years old this year...... Fortunately, later, when your aunt was pregnant with a swallow, I heard that the game in the mountains can promote milk, so I came to find your father, and after he was governor, he beat a few pheasants and rabbits every once in a while and sent them over, I cooked soup for your aunt to drink, and the next day it really rose milk...... That's why I said, it was your father who saved her life back then, and it's not a bluff. ”

Gu Laohan's words, the girl on the side was impatient to hear this, so she hurriedly said: "It's not early, it's time to eat, and mention these things about Chen sesame rotten millet again!" ”

Seeing that his daughter said that she wanted to eat, Gu Mason clapped his hands and asked, "Have you brought me wine?" ”

When Miss Gu asked, she pouted and said, "I knew I had to ask!" As he spoke, he took out a tin wine jug from the bamboo basket, dangled it in front of Gu Laohan and said, "Bring it!" If you don't bring alcohol, I'm afraid that your old man won't be able to do a good job! ”

It wasn't until he saw the wine jug that the Gu stonemason smiled with satisfaction: "If you are so sharp-tongued and flamboyant, I don't think anyone would dare to ask you!" ”

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Looking at such a father and daughter, Liu Zixuan couldn't help but smile. Seeing Gu Mason standing up, he immediately said, "I'll go get a basin of water, and Uncle Gu will wash his face first." After saying that, he took the bucket and went out of the courtyard gate.

Liu Zixuan brought the water, Gu Laohan was washing his hands, but he saw the big black dog walking in from outside the courtyard gate, with a pheasant in his mouth, it came to the three people in a few steps, lowered his head and put the pheasant on the ground, and rubbed the calf of the Gu stonemason with his neck.

When Gu Laohan saw this, he opened his mouth and laughed: "Look at our family's sunspots, I know that I still lack a snack!" As he spoke, he lifted the pheasant on the ground: "Count my old man as having a good fortune today, swallow, make a fire in the stove, and add a dish to me!" ”

Liu Zixuan hurriedly said: "I'll clean up the pheasants first." ”

Put the pheasant in the basin, pour it with boiling water, the chicken feathers will easily fall off, pluck the chicken feathers, remove the internal organs, and cut the tips of the toes...... I have never taken care of game before, Liu Zixuan's movements are naturally very quick, and in just a short period of effort, a pheasant will be handled cleanly. However, suddenly remembering the lame wolf, Liu Zixuan beat a drum in his heart, today the big black dog recklessly broke into the forest, fortunately did not meet the wolf, although it was only a wolf with a broken leg, but it has lived in the forest for seven years, and knows the terrain everywhere inside, if it wants to deliberately ambush the big black dog, even if it is lame, it still has an advantage, similar tragedies have not happened, many years ago, the pregnant she-wolf, Isn't it the same thing about putting a well-trained hound to death? What's more, this sunspot is not a trained hound.

In order to avoid the tragedy from happening again, Liu Zixuan said to the Gu stonemason beside him while cutting the pheasant: "Uncle Gu, it's better not to let the sunspot enter the forest in the future, my father dug a few traps in the forest in order to fight wolves, if the sunspot falls in, it will be dangerous." ”

When the Gu stonemason heard this, he hurriedly closed the courtyard door, and scolded the big black dog a few times before he was relieved.

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When Liu Zixuan took care of the pheasant, the girl of the Gu family was not idle, and when Liu Zixuan cut the pheasant into diced meat, she had already prepared the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, onion, ginger and garlic. So Liu Zixuan lit a fire, Miss Gu took the spoon, and after a while, a large plate of oily mountain chicken was served on the table.

The meal was ready, and the three of them sat down at their respective tables. As soon as Gu Laohan extinguished the cigarette pouch in his hand, Liu Zixuan filled the wine glass, and the old man tilted his neck, and the wine glass bottomed out.

Since Liu Zixuan's father passed away, it has been more than three years on the rabbit gang is not as lively as today, this day, his face finally saw a little smile, when he looked at the table full of a large plate of pheasant, but he couldn't help but move his heart, remembering that his mother wanted to eat pheasant that day, sadness came from it, so he sighed: "My mother wanted to eat pheasant before she died, and before I bought it back, the person was gone......"

When Miss Gu heard this, she felt a lot of guilt in her heart, and hurriedly said: "I was to blame that day, if it weren't for me, I wouldn't have let the old man's last wish be disappointed......

Seeing that Liu Zixuan was sad for a while, Gu Mason pushed a full glass of wine in front of him, and Liu Zixuan swallowed the wine with tears in his eyes.

"The days to come are still very long, do you have any plans?" Gu Laohan interrupted and said.

"I haven't thought about it for the time being, let's take one step at a time, live alone, there is nothing to plan."

"You're going to live here? In this barren mountain and wilderness, living alone, is really unrealistic. ”

Taking over the words of the Gu stonemason, Miss Gu hurriedly said, "Before my aunt died, didn't she let you move back to Yanggongjing?" You might as well move back in and take care of it. ”

"Even if I move back, I have to wait until three years later, now my mother has just passed away, I want to mourn her here, I failed to fulfill my filial piety when she was alive, and I must guard the three-year mourning period for her."

As soon as Liu Zixuan said this, the Gu family's father and daughter were not easy to persuade again, so they had to move on to other topics.

After lunch, Miss Gu helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks before going home first. As soon as she got out of the hospital with a basket, Liu Zixuan stopped her. He took out a long strip of cloth from the house, and wrapped it around the handle of the girl's bamboo basket, saying, "If you carry it again, your hand won't hurt......

Miss Gu looked at Liu Zixuan with wide eyes, the mouth that could speak kindly, but at this time there was no sound, as if there was a big basket of words, all of which were said from those eyes.

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After working for another half a day, it was not until the sun set that Gu Laohan left the rabbit hill. Looking at the back of the old man, Liu Zixuan felt a lot of emotion in his heart, thinking of the lovers' ruthlessness and righteousness a few years ago, and thinking of the many comforts that the Gu family's father and daughter had for him...... It was only at this time that Liu Zixuan, who has always stayed away from the crowd, experienced the warmth and coldness of this world for the first time.

(To be continued)