Chapter 13 Spending the night in a mountain village
"Original...... Uncle Lan, you ......"
It wasn't until this moment that Ding Zhuqiang suddenly came to his senses.
"Huh...... cough cough ...... "Uncle Alan, who is happy, is laughing and laughing, or because his injuries have not healed, he covered his chest and coughed lightly, and then took out the two money bags from his arms and said, "Choose one bag and take it!"
Ding Zhuqiang was not polite, out of instinct, he reached out and took the smaller bag, and then handed it to Ruoshui, who was still clinging to him: "Let's take it for you!"
"Give it to me?"
Ruoshui blinked, looking at a loss.
Ding Zhuqiang nodded very seriously and said: "Yes, you know, I don't know the price of goods in this world, so it's more cost-effective for you to be in charge." ”
"Let me have a woman in charge, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?" Ruoshui said, detached and refused: "You better use it yourself! In this world, you men have more places to spend money!"
"That's okay too!"
Ding Zhuqiang thought about it, so he accepted it.
"Let's go! I remember there was a village in the big bay ahead, and we went to spend the night there. ”
It seems that as soon as he stepped into this wild place, Uncle Ah Lan was familiar with it, and he led the way in front.
The purple and blue gauze skirt worn by Ruoshui also fits, but in this barren mountains and mountains with uneven roads, it seems inconvenient to move. But fortunately, after this period of getting along, they have been inseparable from each other with Ding Zhuqiang, hand in hand, like a pair of newlyweds who love each other.
Mo Yo traveled four or five miles, and sure enough, he could only see that in a mountain col, under the hazy night, the lights were faintly flickering everywhere, and the sound of birds and dogs barking could occasionally be heard, like a simple rural scene.
"I ...... I...... I'm going back to my hometown!"
What he saw in front of him suddenly made Ding Zhuqiang's expression in a trance, and he had an illusion. After all, in this back-to-basics world, everything is very primitive and backward, not much different from the villages in the late Qing Dynasty......
"What's wrong with you? Let's catch up!"
Yu Ding was stunned, and Ruoshui only urged.
"Hmm. ”
Ding Zhuqiang, who turned his mind back to his senses, nodded, and immediately held Ruoshui in his hand, and quickly chased after Uncle A Lan, who had walked out two or three feet away.
"Whew......"
As soon as I approached the mountain village, I only heard a roar like a mastiff......
If it had been placed a month ago, Ding Zhuqiang would have been scared to the point that his hands and feet would have weakened. However, now he is not afraid at all, and calmly follows Uncle Alan's side and walks into the village.
"Squeak!"
Or disturbed, before late at night, every household has not yet fallen asleep, in Ding Zhuqiang's eyes, I saw that most of the men, women and children were dressed in coarse cloth and gray clothes, opened the door and walked out, and they all looked curiously at the three people in front of them with different shapes.
"We are visiting relatives from outside, passing by your place, and want to spend the night, is it convenient and convenient?"
Uncle A Lan is still a veteran who is used to walking the rivers and lakes, which Ding Zhuqiang heard, and inexplicably couldn't help but think of the mythological novels he had read, the story of Tang monks and apprentices traveling west to learn scriptures......
In the end, under the negotiation of Uncle Alan, he took out more than a dozen diamond coins and stayed in a relatively wealthy farmhouse.
It is said that there is money to make ghosts grind, and after Uncle A Lan paid, this family of eight people in total was also extremely thoughtful, lighting a fire to cook and greet warmly.
Such a simple and down-to-earth rural atmosphere really made Ding Zhuqiang feel deeply grateful for a long time. Unconsciously, I really thought that I had returned to my hometown......
Uncle Ah Lan may have eaten in the inn, and only Ding Zhuqiang and Ruoshui sat down at the table because they were hungry.
The countryside is not as good as being in the city, if the water is seen a few plates of fried black and shriveled vegetarian dishes, and a plate of slightly better cured bacon, and the crude rice in the bowl is mixed with unshelled grains, it is difficult to swallow when you think about it.
However, on the other hand, Ding Zhuqiang, I don't know if he is really hungry, or because he is not a picky eater, as if he is eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, gobbling up vegetables, eating three bowls of rice in a row, before he asked Ruoshui, who did not use chopsticks: "Why don't you eat? I haven't eaten this kind of hometown food for a long time." ”
"Your hometown!?"
Ruoshui was even more stunned and asked.
"That's right!" Ding Zhuqiang unceremoniously went to the tin can to fill the rice, and then sat down on the table and replied: "In our place, ordinary people eat this, and if the poorer people can't afford to eat grain, they can only cook sweet potatoes or potatoes to satisfy their hunger." ”
"Sweet potato, artichoke, what's that?"
Ruoshui, who had no appetite, had to put down the dishes and chopsticks, watched Ding Zhuqiang eat with relish, and asked curiously.
"Well...... Ding Zhuqiang thought for a while and replied, "It's similar to sweet potatoes, they all grow in the soil." ”
"Big brother, do you mean it grows in the soil? We have it in our family, do you want me to give it to you?"
In this family of eight, I didn't hear that a little boy about seven or eight years old, with a pair of innocent big black eyes, was lying on the edge of the table and suddenly answered.
"Oh!"
Ding Zhuqiang was stunned.
"Little Huzi, don't talk nonsense. ”
However, when she didn't listen, a young but wrinkled peasant woman shouted, and immediately came over, smiled at Ding Zhuqiang, and took the child aside.
Although Ding Zhuqiang was born in a family of officials, he thought that he had also come into contact with many poor families, so he did not take it seriously.
After eating the rice in the bowl, the dishes on the table were basically swept away by Ding Zhuqiang, but the plate of pickled bacon did not move the chopsticks?
Because it was an outsider's stay, the family set aside a room and simply spread two beds in the room with a mattress for Ding Zhuqiang and the three of them to rest.
"You kid, it's such a big night, why don't you go and put your wife to sleep quickly, beware of not being captured in the middle of the night. ”
Uncle Ah Lan joked, and he lay on a relatively small bed and fell asleep.
Ding Zhuqiang blushed for a while, looked helpless, stood in front of the window, stunned.
"This bed is big, you can come and sleep too!"
is still good at water, and a piece is freed up for Ding Zhuqiang.
With Ding Zhuqiang's old-fashioned, a nerdy atmosphere, he has read poetry and books since he was a child, and it can be said that he is deeply ingrained in the difference between men and women at the age of seven, but since Ruoshui allows it, he has to learn from Yanagishita Hui to sit still.
In the end, Ding Zhuqiang still couldn't hold back his nature, and in a daze, he hugged Ruoshui and fell asleep......
In the past half a month, sleeping in the wild, not to mention Ding Zhuqiang and Ruoshui, even Uncle A Lan can't stand it, basically there is no night, comfortable and peaceful sleep.
Not to mention this sleep, I slept really comfortably. It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that Ding Zhuqiang woke up slowly, and when he got up and looked at the room, it was empty and he was the only one still lying on the bed.
Shaking his head, Ding Zhuqiang came back to his senses, got up and got out of bed, and walked out of the house.
In the morning in the countryside, it is full of local atmosphere, chickens and dogs bark, farming people, cattle herding, everyone is busy.
"When you got up, you didn't go to the well in the backyard to fetch water and wash your face. ”
As soon as Ding Zhuqiang walked out of the house, he stood in the sunny yard, and felt the atmosphere of the villagers, but he saw that Ruoshui had already washed up and walked towards him.
"Well, good. Ding Zhuqiang nodded, and didn't forget to ask, "Where is Uncle Alan?"
"How do I know?" Ruoshui pursed his lips and continued, "I didn't see anyone else when I got up." ”
"So where did he go early in the morning?
Ding Zhuqiang was taken aback, and he speculated worriedly.
"You're thinking beautifully. Ruoshui rolled his eyes, and then said, "I think he should go to the city to buy supplies!"
"Oh! that could ...... too."
Ding Zhuqiang nodded, and then went to the backyard with Ruoshui to fetch water to wash his face.
"Here, wipe your face!"
"Is this your handkerchief? ”
"Of course it's fragrant, my mother knitted it for me. ”
"Ouch!"
"What's wrong with you?"
"A little stomach ache......" Ding Zhuqiang, who had just finished wiping his face with a handkerchief, covered his stomach, bowed down and walked away quickly: "It must be that I ate too much last night, I'll go to the thatched house first......"
"Hey, my ......"
But seeing that Ding Zhuqiang had run away, Ruoshui had no choice but to let him go. When Ruoshui came back to his senses, he saw that there were many men in the village surrounding him, staring at him.
After all, with Ruoshui's pretty appearance and wearing an expensive purple and blue gauze skirt, it is really a mouth-watering scenery in this poor countryside.
Being stared at by so many people, Ruoshui was so annoyed that he didn't want to think about it immediately, and hurriedly walked towards the room where he stayed last night.
Seeing that Ruoshui was leaving, one of them wanted a ruffian, and stepped forward and teased: "The little girl is very beautiful!
At this moment, the other men who suddenly attracted onlookers rushed up with courage and stopped in front of Ruoshui, all with squinting eyes.
"Get out of here!"
If the water is a coquettish sound.
But in the eyes of these ignorant and stubborn countrymen, this red face angered their instinct to flirt, and one by one they were even more unscrupulous, hippie and smiling, and even more manipulative......
"Magic - Cover Light Shield!"
Ruoshui didn't even think about it, and cast his own clan spell, forming a light shield in front of him, and bounced these guys away.
"Oh no, it's not good, it actually makes the demon law, it must be a fox spirit. ”
At this moment, these ignorant and obsessed mountain people were so frightened that they screamed, and they fled one after another.
However, after a short time, these villagers all turned back again, and there were many of them, and at the same time, they were all holding shovels and hoes and other weapons in their hands, and the menacing Chao was still standing by the well, waiting for Ding Zhuqiang's Ruoshui to come around.
"This is a fox spirit, and it can make demon magic, everyone must be careful. ”
At the same time, I could only hear the villagers who had just been scared away and shouted loud bewitching words.