A kiss was imprinted on his face, and his voice was a little hoarse: "Ah Ping, why don't we elope?" He rolled his eyes sideways, his eyes fluttering, and he responded gently: "Okay." [”

I buried my face in his neck and waited for the sourness in my eyes to dissipate, or I would be embarrassed to shed tears in front of him. In the past, my definition of gentleness was deep affection, but it was not until this moment that I understood that there is a kind of gentleness in the world that is mentally incomplete, but it says yes to all the requirements you make. This gentleness is more eroded.

When I calmed down, I laughed, looked up into his ear, and said, "Fool, tease you." Do you know what elopement means? Say yes without asking. ”

After listening to this, he really asked seriously: "What does elopement mean?" ”

He laughed, rolled his eyes, and chanted a certain poem: "If you and I elope to him, so as not to make the two places forever embrace the pain of lovesickness, I don't know what Lang means?" "This seems to be in Feng Menglong's "Ancient and Modern" in the Ming Dynasty, I don't remember the specifics.

Seeing Ah Ping nodded: "Listen to my daughter-in-law." ”

Ah, he still understands, I flipped the memory in my mind, and chanted again: "Shi Chonglang changed the green beads, Wenjun left at night, and eloped." This time, Ah Ping asked, "What do you mean?" ”

I was suffering from some literature, but I actually didn't know much about it, so I had to forcibly explain: "There is a person named Shi Chong who met a beautiful woman Lu Zhu and eloped together." Okay, I'll give you more details, elopement is to run away from your lover or run away together, but it usually refers to unmarried men and women. We've been married for more than half a year, so we can't talk about elopement. ”

But seeing that Ah Ping was half-understood, I quickly changed the topic: "Okay, let's not talk about this." Why don't you talk about it...... Apricots? ”

"Don't." Ah Ping refused, his tone firm.

"Tell me about your mother?"

"Don't."

"Then tell me about the letter of resignation?"

"Xu Lan!"

I heard grinding my teeth and was smiling on his back. My eyes flashed and I thought to myself, there is a song called elopement, the sentence in the song, "I want to take you to elope to the farthest town, I want to take you to elope to be the happiest person", that beauty is like a painting. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to throw off the shackles of this world?

But how can man live in the world and be free from bondage? Not to mention this era, even the era of advanced civilization is impossible. So once again, when it was dark, Ah Ping carried me back to Ginkgo Village.

In August, it was scorching heat. On the way, I asked Ah Ping to let me down, but he stubbornly refused, shouting that I was not heavy at all, although the words were listening, but the two of them were really hot, not only hot, but also sweaty.

My underwear was wet, and the hair on my forehead was stuck together from sweat; Looking at Ah Ping more seriously than me, the long shirt on the back of my shoulder is estimated to be able to wring out water, he lifted his sleeves to expose his arms, but the sweat beads are still oozing out layer by layer, not to mention the face, the sweat has not stopped.

So when they arrived at the door of the house, both of them looked very embarrassed, but when they saw the dim light flickering in the room, Ah Ping paused.

Again, I whispered in his ear, "Let me go." ”

He was silent for a moment but only said, "I have no hands, you come and push the door." I scratched at his hair in frustration, how could he be so stubborn? Isn't it added fuel to the fire when his mother sees us entering the door like this?

Still hesitating and suddenly feeling my buttocks loosen, I subconsciously grabbed his shoulders to keep my balance, and the outstretched arms in my eyes pushed the door open, then fell back and padded me up again, and stepped into the door.

The candles in the house were faint and silent. Ah Ping carried me all the way inside, through the courtyard to the back room, and directly into our house. Before entering, I looked into the deep darkness, and I could vaguely see that the door was closed, and after Ah Ping put me down on the edge of the bed, I pushed him down, "Go see your mother." ”

The silence tonight was a little abnormal, I led Xiaotong to go first, and Ah Ping then chased him out, and he didn't return for almost a whole day, according to the past, the widow and woman must be very anxious. But when we returned, there was a lamp in the front room, and the inner room was quiet, which was really strange. But Ah Ping seemed to still be emotional, and said sullenly: "Don't go." ”

I tried to reason with him: "Your mother will be in a hurry when we go out for a day, at least go and see if she is asleep, okay?" ”

Ah Ping thought about it, nodded reluctantly and got up, and muttered as he walked to the door: "She's so long-winded......" I couldn't help laughing, is he still troublesome? Even so, in fact, his heart for his mother can be seen from the recurrence of the old illness of the widow and the woman on that day and fainted, think about it, before I married into the door, their mother and son have been dependent on each other, how can they have a bad relationship?

A muffled sound suddenly came from outside, and my heart jumped. It was obvious that the sound was coming from the widow's room, and I only hesitated for a moment before getting up, and there was a heart-wrenching pain in my knee, which must have been torn open again, but I could not sit calmly in the room and wait after hearing such a loud movement.

When I walked out of the door, I saw a dark shadow sitting in the dark corridor, and I asked, "Ah Ping? ”

But the black shadow didn't move, and his heart sank, what happened to that moment just now? Obviously, Widow Liu is in the room, otherwise there would be no movement. I bumped two steps closer to help Ah Ping, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, the figure sitting on the ground was not Ah Ping's! Squinting his eyes to look at its silhouette, his eyes widening in astonishment, was ...... Widow Liu?

"Mother-in-law? Is that you? I called tentatively, and I could clearly see the dark shadow's shoulders tremble.

I was sure that the person sitting on the ground was Widow Liu, and I was only shocked, because when I came in with Ah Ping just now, I had clearly glanced this way, and I was sure that she must not be sitting here. The door of the room in front of him was open, and the candlelight was still swaying inside, adding a touch of silence and depression to the atmosphere.

I was more worried about Ah Ping than her, and I walked briskly past her towards the house.

When I entered the door, I saw that the candlestick had rolled under the table, no wonder I had been shaking the angle just now and felt weird, and I looked around and saw Ah Ping in the chair in the corner. He couldn't see his face with his back to the door, but it made me feel a little uneasy.

When I came behind him, I reached out and pressed his shoulder, "Ah Ping? What happened? ”

I felt a slight shock of the body under my palm, and even my heart was pumped, and I took a step in front of him, and in the backlight, he buried his head and looked very low and decadent. Secretly relieved, at least from the appearance of him is fine, I squatted down to hold his hand and called softly: "Ah Ping." ”

If you don't ask, don't ask, just let him know I'm around.

At last his eyes rolled, and he gently gathered to look at me silently, and the light shimmered, and I felt that his eyes had turned dark brown, and there was a mist in it. I looked at him quietly, and after a half-ring he shook my hand behind his back, then got up and pulled me out of the house.

At this time, I saw the silhouette of the widow and the woman clearly, and I was secretly surprised, for some reason she knelt on the ground, thinking that her meticulously combed hair was slightly messy, and she had buried her head and heard the sound of our footsteps slowly raised.

The faint light of the candle was blocked by our backs, so that she was completely immersed in darkness and could not see the look on her face.

But I heard her call: "Ah Ping." I couldn't help but be stunned, this tone ...... Like a lament, like a pray?

For a moment, he felt that Ah Ping's breathing was slightly thicker, and he was angry with his mother. I couldn't be appeased when I didn't know what was going on, so I had to remain silent, and for a while, Ah Ping dragged me away. I tried to pull her to stop as I passed her, but he stubbornly used brute force, almost dragging me back into the room, and then, with a bang, the door was slammed shut.

I was dragged all the way to the bed, Ah Ping let go, and lay down on the futon in a daze, seeing him cover his face on the quilt, like ...... Can't get sugar vultures sulking children.

Patted him on the buttocks, "Eh, you're sweating so much, do you smell yourself and see if you stink?" ”

The next moment, he rolled over from the bed, and really sniffed with his sleeve, and then said in disgust: "I want to take a bath." ”

"Then don't get up and boil water." I dragged the man out of bed again, let alone him, and I smelled of sweat all over me, and I had to change my clothes from the inside out.

When I went out again, Ah Ping walked straight to the stove room without worrying, but I couldn't help but look back, and the widow and woman in that position were still kneeling in place and motionless, like a fossil. I twisted my eyebrows, what's the trouble? Knowing that Ah Ping's mind is different from ordinary people, what is she fighting with her son? sighed lightly, glanced at the figure who was about to turn into the stove room, turned around and walked behind the widow Liu and said softly: "Mother-in-law, don't worry about Ah Ping, if Ah Ping does anything wrong, the daughter-in-law is here to compensate you." ”

She didn't scold or snort to express her displeasure, she still sat there stiff with her shoulders and back, as if she hadn't heard me at all.

I bent down to help her, but as soon as my hand touched her arm, it was waved away, paused, retracted to my side, and said, "It's not early, you should rest early." No amount of persuasion was useless, and I didn't bother to speak, so I turned around and walked towards the stove room, but just as I was about to walk to the door of the stove room, I heard the voice of the widow Liu laughing and crying: "It's me who is wrong, it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be." ”

I raised an eyebrow, no matter what the reason, it was not easy to make Widow Liu realize that she was wrong.

In the stove room, Ah Ping was seriously lighting the fire with a fire fold, I didn't let him do this job at first, but he looked at me and was very interested, so he rushed to try. It turns out that every innocent child loves to play with fire, and from then on, whenever he accompanies me to cook, he always rushes to light the fire.

But when I walked to the pot and looked, there was no water in it, and the half-baked thing was usually his "strong point".

The bath room is located in the corner of the stove room, or I proposed it, and before I carried the bucket to the room, and then sent it to the room with a basin filled with water. Later, when I made this suggestion to Widow Liu, she didn't object to me and did it.

The corners near the stove were sorted out and cleaned, a layer of wood was put under the board, and then a rope was pulled on the wall and a curtain was made, and a simple bath room was formed. The main thing is convenience, so you just need to fill the water directly from the pot into the barrel, so you don't have to run back and forth. In addition, I nailed a wooden frame to the wall for clean clothes and bath towels, and put a bamboo basket underneath to throw dirty clothes inside.

At first, I was very emotional when I looked at this simple bath room with a modern style, and I haven't touched those memories like this for many years.