Sister-in-law Zhang pointed to the red-faced man and said, "This is my family, the people in the village call him Zhang Dahe, it just so happens that he has nothing to do this morning, I asked him to go up the mountain to chop more firewood for you to come back, so as to save you from worrying about burning firewood." ”

Rui Xue hurriedly saluted and thanked her, "Then let Brother Zhang be tired, when the family regains the land in a few days, my injuries will be good, and you must call me to help when the time comes, otherwise, I will really have no face to ask Brother Zhang and sister-in-law for help in the future." ”

Zhang Dahe is obviously a shy and reticent person, and most of the daughters-in-law in the family are in charge, and Zhang's sister-in-law pulled Ruixue to speak, so he silently took the axe and rope and tucked it into his waist and went up the mountain.

Ruixue and Sister-in-law Zhang entered the house together, and Sister-in-law Zhang called out to the three children, "Da Zhuang, Er Zhuang, and Third Girl, come and see your master." ”

The three children looked at each other, smiled and stepped forward to salute, two boys, one about eight or nine years old, one five or six years old, both wearing gray clothes and trousers, looking like a tiger, as strong as the name, with patches on their knees and elbows, which should have been naughty and worn out on weekdays, but they were cleanly washed.

The youngest girl is about three years old, with two little horns wrapped in flower cloth strips on her head, wearing a small dress with white flowers on a blue background, staring at a pair of big black eyes, long eyelashes, and smiling with fingers, very cute.

Rui Xue saw that she liked it, so she pulled her to her side and asked in a low voice, such as how old she is this year, and whether she has read a book.

Da Zhuang, who was standing next to him, heard Rui Xue ask his sister like this, I don't know what I thought, his face was happy, he turned around and ran into the room, and after a while, he carefully took out a half-old book, bowed his head and stood two steps away, peeking at Rui Xue from time to time, but he didn't dare to come forward to talk.

Rui Xue saw the book in his hand and the hesitation on his face, so he asked in a harmonious voice, "Da Zhuang, what is the difficult problem to solve, Shi Niang has learned words for a few years when she was young, maybe she can help you solve a question or two." ”

When Sister-in-law Zhang heard this, she immediately smiled and said, "This kid is looking forward to when the school will reopen, and he has almost turned all his books over these days." After speaking, she looked at Da Zhuang with relief in her eyes, and said, "Since your master has said it, you don't have to be shy, just ask whatever you want." ”

Da Zhuang took two steps forward, turned the middle page of the book, pointed to a line of words, and said, "Master, the student can't understand the meaning of this passage." ”

Rui Xue looked down, it turned out to be this "Analects", when she was a child, when she first started to practice calligraphy, it was written in the red character notebook, so she memorized it very well, even if it was twenty years apart, she still remembered it clearly, but she glanced at it slightly, and read, "Zeng Zi said: "My day and three provinces of my body: seeking for others and not being loyal?" Making friends and not believing them? Are you used to it? ”

Da Zhuang saw that Shi Niang really read it, his eyes immediately went to doubt, overflowed with surprise, and he saluted solemnly and said, "Please also ask Shi Niang to teach me, what does this sentence mean?" ”

Rui Xue pointed to the more complicated words in that line and explained, "This is the word 'Mou', which means to come up with an idea." This is the word 'loyalty', which means loyalty. This is the word 'faith', which means honesty. In one place, a person named Zeng Zi said that I reflect on myself many times a day: Is it loyal to do things for others? Are you honest with your friends? Have you reviewed the knowledge you imparted? ”

She explained carefully, Da Zhuang is also a smart person, but after reading it twice, she memorized it completely, and she also understood the meaning, and she was very happy.

So, with a little shyness, he asked, "Master, can I ask you if I don't understand anything in the future?" You know better than my husband, and I carry it much faster. ”

Rui Xue patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Shi Niang has only learned the fur, and the simple ones can be taught to you, but the advanced ones still need to be taught by your husband, everyone has their own different methods, and Shi Niang may explain more straightforwardly, so you understand quickly and memorize quickly, but the methods taught by your husband may be more beneficial to you." ”

Da Zhuang was confused when he heard it, but he still vaguely understood that Shi Niang was unwilling to teach her, so he hung his head in frustration and replied vaguely, "Yes, Shi Niang." ”

Rui Xue likes him to be studious and motivated, and after thinking about it, during the time when her nominal husband was recuperating from illness, she solved his doubts for the students, which should be regarded as sharing his worries, not overstepping, so she changed her tone and said, "In this way, the master has free time every afternoon, if you have any questions, you can ask at that time." ”

This is really a twist and turn. Da Zhuang didn't expect that the master would agree to teach him again, and immediately saluted and thanked him happily.

Sister-in-law Zhang watched from the sidelines, and she was even happier than her son.

Although she has never read, her eyes are first-class. She can see that even if this Zhao Niangzi's knowledge is not higher than that of Mr. Zhao, it is not low, and it seems that her son has learned better from her, thinking that her son may have to come to the door often to ask for advice in the future, and the little awkwardness in her heart has become more and more tingling in the past few days.

She thought about it again and again, and still took a few children to the yard to play, and then entered the back room, turned out a milky white jade pendant at the bottom of the wardrobe, held it out of the house with both hands, and sent it to Ruixue, and said with a smile, "Sister, this fast jade pendant was found in your belly pocket when I changed your clothes after I rescued you back, these days are busy, I have forgotten to give it to you when I put it away, and it happens that you came over today, so take it back." ”

Rui Xue was slightly stunned, raised her eyes and saw that Sister-in-law Zhang's face was slightly embarrassed, and guessed that she must have had a secret intention, the two of them got along well in the past few days, and today they saw that they were friendly to Da Zhuang, so they took it out.

Rui Xue has no anger against this, after all, this jade pendant belongs to the original body owner, she is a foreign soul, as long as she has a "place to stay", she is not greedy for the objects with the original owner. What's more, Sister-in-law Zhang still has half of her life-saving grace, so she should be a thank you gift if she stays.

However, now that Sister-in-law Zhang has taken it out, it is obvious that she has weighed it, and if she refuses, it will be embarrassing for the family.

Rui Xue stretched out her hand to take it and said with a smile, "I thought this thing was lost on the road, but I didn't expect my sister-in-law to help put it away, it's really good." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang's face also improved a lot, and she hurriedly waved her hand and said, "It's just a gesture." ”

Rui Xue rubbed the jade pendant, felt the warm jade body fit in the palm of her hand, opened her mouth and was about to speak, but a picture suddenly flashed in her mind, a pair of young girls stood by the lotus pond, the young man stretched out his hands forward, holding this jade pendant, the girl had a shy and happy smile on her face, she wanted to take a closer look, but immediately a burst of dizziness hit, and everything disappeared.

Sister-in-law Zhang was still glad that Rui Xue did not suspect her private misdeeds, but when she saw that she fell down as soon as she got the jade pendant, she hurriedly stepped forward to support her, patted her cheek and exclaimed, "Zhao Niangzi, Zhao Niangzi, what's wrong with you, but you are not feeling well?" ”

Rui Xue shook her head, finally endured the dizziness, and reluctantly sat down and smiled, "It's okay, sister-in-law, I may have not slept well last night and was sleepy." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang complained, "I see, it's because you are sick and you are tired of going up the mountain to chop firewood, you should have a good rest in the next few days, and I will let your eldest brother chop it for you and send it to you." ”

Rui Xue thanked her, and after a while, she felt that it was no big deal, so she asked for rapeseed according to the plan when she came, borrowed a pickaxe, and said goodbye and went back.

Rui Xue snuggled under the laurel tree when she entered the courtyard gate, patted her chest gently, and comforted herself that since just now, she had no reason to be sour and unbearable, and then carefully looked at the jade pendant, the delicate texture like milk, the warm and soft color, and the exquisite carved patterns, even people like her who have not studied jade can see that this jade pendant is of excellent quality, and I am afraid it is worth a lot of silver.

It's a pity that her eyes are red when she stares, but the strange picture just now did not appear again, but her heart hurts more and more.

She sighed helplessly, sat under the laurel tree and silently distracted, if she guessed correctly, this jade pendant must have some significance to the original owner of this body, so at first sight, she happened to set off the residual memories of this body itself, that is, that picture.

It's just that the original owner died for some reason, which cheapened her soul from another world. Who is the young man who gave the jade pendant, giving it to each other privately? Childhood? Two loves...

After a long time like this, she didn't come up with any clue, so she simply got up and patted the dust off the half-old skirt, hung the jade pendant around her neck, looked up at the scorching sun on her head, and prayed in a low voice, "Little sister, no matter what grievances you had before, you are already dead, so don't be obsessed with nostalgia, reincarnate well, and live a happy life." In the future, I will definitely eat and drink well, and treat your flesh well, please rest assured. ”

After saying that, she opened the backyard door directly with a pickaxe and went to tidy up the vegetable patch. As the saying goes, the sky is big, the food is the biggest, and the most important thing for her for the time being is to fill her stomach, and everything else is based on this.

Zhao Fengnian was in the house, pricked up his ears and listened to the footsteps and turned to the back garden, slowly lay down again, and scolded himself with a little annoyance, such a rude and frizzy woman, even if she secretly left, what does it have to do with him, continue to teach and repay her kindness, practice and cultivate her body, wait for the residual poison to be exhausted, go to the sick, in this remote village, and live the second half of her life peacefully.

Why is she suddenly worried that she won't come back, could it be that she put some poison in the food to make him soften his heart. No, women are not to be trusted, the more gentle and considerate a woman is to you, in fact, the more I want you to die immediately...

He slammed his fist on the bed, forcing himself not to remember, but unfortunately, the green tendons on his temples still jumped suddenly, hating, hating...

Ruixue pulled out the weeds in the vegetable field, re-cultivated five soil ridges, and dug a small pit with a large bowl mouth, and buried a few cabbage seeds one by one in the slightly moist black soil.

In order to reward herself for her hard work in the morning, she reluctantly scooped up a small half scoop of fine noodles, knocked an egg into it, and added half a bowl of warm water, a pinch of chopped green onions, a little salt, stirred into a thin paste and put it aside. The pot first burned the cereal noodle porridge and put it out, then brushed the pot, smeared a layer of vegetable oil, scooped a spoonful of batter and poured it in, spread it evenly as much as possible, cut it golden and soft over low heat, and soon there was a mixture of green onion aroma, egg fragrance and flour fragrance.