Chapter 33: The Fisherman's Lady
On the second day, Wu brought a young lady over to see Zhuang Meiyan. Zhuang Meiyan looked at her, but she was a pretty person, with a narrow face and thin eyes, red cheeks, a loose bun combed behind her head, pinned with a wooden hairpin, wearing a navy blue placket jacket, a pair of cyan pants on her lower body, her knees and the hem of the jacket were patched, and she always hung her head and didn't say a word since she entered the door.
After Wu's introduction, Zhuang Meiyan bowed slightly, Wu turned around and pushed the little lady, she looked up in a panic, bowed, and said in a low voice: "Hello three girls." ”
Zhuang Meiyan saw that she knew the etiquette, and she already liked it in her heart, and asked a few words of homely things, and she answered them all fluently. Her husband's surname is Yang, her mother's surname is Feng, and the country woman is cheap, so naturally she has no name, so Zhuang Meiyan calls her Sister-in-law Yang.
He also asked her about her family's situation and whether she would like to stay here and serve the old lady.
Sister-in-law Yang was not used to talking, so she just smiled shyly, lowered her head and said, "It's good that the third girl is not stupid." ”
"Are you willing to stay with me, there is one thing, I can't do without the wine shop, the old lady depends on you to take care of it - the old lady is inseparable, you have to serve day and night, if there is something at home and you can't leave, don't force it." ”
Sister-in-law Yang opened her mouth, and when Wu saw that she couldn't speak, she smiled and said: "The third girl can rest assured, she is just thin-skinned, stupid, and still very diligent in her hands and feet." What can happen at home, her family has no land in a fishing village, and she doesn't have to be busy making a living, and she still has food and shelter here with the third girl, what a good thing! Good cousin, you have something to say!"
Sister-in-law Yang nodded silently, still looking at her toes, looking cramped and uncomfortable.
Zhuang Meiyan saw that she was an honest person, so she smiled generously, and gently instructed her a few words, and asked Chunju to lead her to the house to see her mother, and she had to teach her how to serve people.
After a busy morning in the winery, Zhuang Meiyan returned to the hall and suddenly smelled a very cool smell, faintly a little fishy smell of seawater, and the tired body smelled this smell unconsciously a little refreshing. Zhuang Meiyan snorted and said strangely: "Chunju, what good things have you done without me?"
Chunju opened the thick cotton curtain and said with a smile: "The slave said, Miss has a smart nose, and she will be suspicious when she comes back." ”
Zhuang Meiyan tilted her body on the rattan chair, Chunju came over to help her beat her legs, Zhuang Meiyan nodded her forehead in annoyance, and said angrily: "You!
Chunju smiled: "The slave maid doesn't dare, it's a good thing that the Yang family's sister-in-law gets, and the slave doesn't recognize it, the taste is strange and refreshing." ”
It turned out that a few days ago, Aunt Li's eldest son went into the mountain to beat a fragrant roe deer and sent them a roe deer hind leg to try. The meat of the fragrant roe deer is fresh and tender, and the old lady is greedy for a while, and she eats more greasy, and her appetite is not good these days, and her constipation is not smooth.
Sister-in-law Yang saw that the old lady was bloated and uncomfortable and had a poor appetite, so she said that there was a home remedy in her hometown to treat this. Chunju was skeptical, and then she took it and gave it a try, half a bowl of belly, but after half an hour, the old lady's belly sounded like thunder, and she let out a few farts, and then she clamored to relieve herself.
Holding on to the commode, the old lady suddenly relaxed, and at noon her appetite was great, eating several bowls of rice porridge and two small cream rolls.
Zhuang Meiyan was happy, she was also worried about her mother's stomach these days, and asked Han Niu'er to ask Jiang Yutang, but Brother Jiang only said that it would be good to eat greasy, and it would be good to be hungry for a few meals, and it would not hinder the big thing. It's just that Zhuang Meiyan is a very filial daughter, and seeing that her mother is unwell and hungry, she is naturally very reluctant.
Now that she heard that her mother was back to normal, she was naturally overjoyed, and said, "What a good treasure? ”
Chunju stretched out her hand to greet Sister-in-law Yang, who was hiding behind the curtain of the door and was slightly shy, and motioned for her to bring the thing to Zhuang Meiyan to see. Sister-in-law Yang replied shyly, took out a bag of black things from her personal bag and handed it over.
Zhuang Meiyan pinched it curiously, leaned under his nose and sniffed it, this thing is a very fine powder, and it smells fishy, not like ordinary medicinal powder. She couldn't guess what kind of material this was made of, so she turned her inquiring eyes to Sister-in-law Yang.
"What kind of panacea are you? Tell me a prescription, I asked someone to buy a few more pairs of materials, so that my mother would not make this mistake again in the future. ”
Sister-in-law Yang blushed and replied in a low voice: "It's not a valuable thing, you can't buy it outside." This is an earthwork on the edge of our sea cliff, a kind of sea vegetable taken from the bottom of the sea, put it under the sun to dry, grind it into a fine powder, and use it to make water to drink, clear heat and detoxify, and it can also relieve the heat in summer. ”
Zhuang Meiyan took a look at it, quite interested, and said: "In this case, you can bring more when you go home next time, and I will give you the money, and I won't let you do it in vain." ”
Sister-in-law Yang's face turned even redder, and she waved her hand again and again, and said: "I can't help it, the third girl doesn't mention the silver, it's really worthless, there is something in the sea, as long as the third girl doesn't dislike this fishy smell." ”
Zhuang Meiyan said on a whim: "Chunju, it smells strange and refreshing, go and brew it, I will taste it too." ”
Sister-in-law Yang hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, no, no...... Three girls, this thing is not a homely snack, this thing is cold, if it is not right, ordinary people will eat it, and they will have diarrhea. ”
Seeing that she was vulgar, Chunju couldn't help frowning, coughed heavily, and said, "Miss, it's better not to mix it up." ”
Zhuang Meiyan didn't mind, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law Yang doesn't say that I don't know, Brother Jiang doesn't often say that medicine is not eaten indiscriminately, and if you eat too much, you will get sick." ”
She said it wittyly, Chunju smiled "fluttering", and Sister-in-law Yang also lowered her head and smiled.
Time passes, and in a blink of an eye, it is already early spring, everything is recovering, and the winter snow is gradually melting.
On the slopes of the rising sun, the ice and snow melted relatively quickly, and the black-brown rocks and swarthy earth had been bare from afar, looking like a bony chest, dotted with a few delicate leaves of grass buds in the soil, and the branches that had withered all winter were glowing with green. The snow melted on the mountain, and the water in the creek became noticeably faster, and the downstream passed through the gentle part of the village, and gathered village girls in twos and threes, giggling and laughing, turning mallets, beating the clothes they had accumulated for the winter.
On the steep stone wall, the tender goose-yellow spring flowers quietly bloom in the steep wind, sending a signal of spring.
Zhuang Meiyan saw that the weather was good today, and was busy directing the whole family to take out the winter clothes to be dismantled and washed to dry, and the yard, the fence wall, and the branches at the door were full of all kinds of clothes, as well as white sheets and dismantled bedding.
In the middle of her busy work, Zhuang Meiyan caught a glimpse of a delicate color faintly revealing behind the fence wall, she wiped a handful of sweat oozing from her forehead, and slowly straightened up.
The goose-yellow spring flowers are inserted in the back of the fence wall, the delicate petals are carefully stretched, dancing in the wind, indescribably beautiful and gratifying, this bright yellow, accustomed to seeing the snow-white eyes in winter, can't help but light up.
The bouquet of spring flowers seemed to be deliberately naughty to tease her, up and down, left and right, dangling back and forth.
Which kind of ghost is this? deliberately making fun of her!