At dusk the next day, Xiaoshan hurriedly ran to Xiangling's house and said to Xiangling: "Sister Xiangling, Brother Xing Zhao has gone to do laundry." ”

Xiangling nodded, took a wooden basin with clothes to be washed, and went straight to the river.

Two women by the river, one of whom is Xing Zhaodi.

Xing Zhaodi's side was full of clothes and quilts, full of a large handful, a bit like the big purge a year ago.

The corners of Xiangling's mocking mouth rose, this Xing Zhaodi must have decided that Ge Changlin would come to the door tomorrow to ask for marriage, wash all his clothes all year round, and want to take them to Ge Changlin's house cleanly.

Xiangling squatted beside Xing Zhaodi and the woman, and washed her clothes with a washing stick.

The strength was called a foot, and the sound of "popping" was not like washing clothes, but like chopping big bones, and the faces of Xing Zhaodi and the woman were gloomy when they heard it.

Xing Zhaodi was annoyed and said, "Chu Xiangling, there is such a big place by the river, why are you washing next to us?" ”

Xianglingyun shrugged lightly and said: "Such a big place by the river, I can wash it wherever I want, you can go to the side to wash it!" ”

"Why should I go? Not for you to go? There's got to be a first-come, first-served basis, right? Xing Zhaodi suppressed the fire for several days and rushed up.

Xiangling didn't refute, stood up as if she was in a loss, and said, "Okay, I'll stay away from you." ”

Xiangling stood up and walked upstream, more than ten steps away from the two of them.

The woman saw Xiangling's bamboo tube full of soaphorn liquid falling, and wanted to beckon Xiangling, but Xing Zhaodi snatched it back, poured some on her clothes, and said in a low voice: "What else do you want to give her?" It was she who fell, so she didn't have to use it in vain. ”

The soaphorn liquid is beaten to foam, and it has a good smell of grass, which is much better than the grass ash used by farmers.

At this time, more than a dozen village men, old and young, came to the river, each holding a small net in his hand.

One of them, Xiangling, is more familiar, is Chu Li, the grandson of the old lady Chu, who has bought fish from him several times.

Seeing Xiangling, Chu Li smiled embarrassedly and said: "Xiangling, Xiaoshan let out a word, saying that you buy river shrimp at a high price, and you will only collect it tonight, and we will collect as many as you want, we are all here to net shrimp." ”

Xiangling smiled at more than a dozen men and replied: "Lang Zhong said, eating shrimp is good for my brother's legs, I am thinking about collecting more at one time and making shrimp skin to eat, I am troublesome to you." ”

A few men smiled: "It's not troublesome, as long as you make money, are you afraid of being late, besides, it's not dark yet." ”

The men scattered and fished for shrimp with nets in the aquatic weeds.

Instantly, at dusk, the quiet riverside was much more lively than usual.

"Ugly people do a lot of weirdness, eat a tiger bone and let people go up the mountain to fight tigers; Eat a river shrimp and mobilize people to net shrimp. Xing Zhaodi's mouth was full of sour mockery.

Xiangling said disapprovingly: "You said less, I still work hard to let people do laundry, some people want to wash it, I still don't let it." ”

"You ......" Xing Zhaodi was so angry that he smashed his clothes.

"Hey, where's my soapcorn?" Xiangling washed her clothes and suddenly found that the soaphorn liquid was gone.

Standing up, he saw that the bamboo tube had fallen next to Xing Zhaodi, who was squatting just now, and immediately went over to get it.

Xing Zhaodi was annoyed by Xiangling, stood up, deliberately deviated his foot, knocked down the bamboo tube, and the soaphorn liquid full of bamboo tube turned over and sprinkled a stone.

Xiangling was annoyed: "Why did you knock over my soap horn liquid?" ”

Brother Xing Zhaodi crossed his waist and said, "You landed here, and I didn't steal it!" I didn't see it, and I knocked it over! ”

Xiangling was so angry that she picked up the clothes pounding stick and was about to rush over, so frightened that Xing Zhaodi took a step back, but the woman hurriedly stopped in the middle and persuaded: "Xiangling, we really didn't see you fall off the soaphorn water, Brother Zhaodi wanted to stand up and stretch his waist, but he knocked it over without seeing it, it's wrong for you to be so unrelenting......"

It's really a raccoon dog, Xiangling squinted lightly, the soaphorn liquid was deliberately dropped by her, and it was mixed with lard, so I was afraid that Xing Zhaodi would not knock it over, and kindly return it to her.

Xing Zhaodi saw that Xiangling refused to leave, and he was still holding a clothes pounding stick in his hand, so angry that he also turned his waist and took the clothes pounding stick to be strong, but what he stepped on was the smooth stone that women often washed their clothes, plus the soaphorn liquid mixed with lard, which was even more slippery, and with a "plop", Xing Zhaodi fell into the river.

The woman was startled and immediately beckoned: "Hurry up and save people!" Someone overboard! ”

Many of the men who were familiar with the water were familiar with the water, and they immediately jumped down five or six, and all of them swam to Xing Zhaodi.

Xiangling frowned and looked at Xing Zhaodi in the river, and found that although she was fluttering, it was a little different from the blind fluttering of landlubbers, and a bold idea immediately popped up in her mind.

The five men worked together to drag Xing Zhaodi to the river, and was about to drag it up, when Xiangling suddenly said: "Going into the water to save a woman is equivalent to ruining a woman's reputation, which of the five of you wants to marry her?" ”

"Huh?" Only then did the five men realize that they were saving a widow who wanted to be falsely accused......

Men, some have already married a wife, some have not yet become engaged, and one has just gotten a big fat grandson.

The men were stunned, instinctively withdrew their hands at the same time, and saw that the rescued Xing Zhaodi was alone again, splashing blindly in the water.

You can't watch people flutter and drown, Chu Li handed the net for fishing shrimp to Xiangling and said: "Sister Xiangling, you hurry up and use the net to catch people, it's not very convenient for us men......"

Xiangling didn't take the net, her eyes looked intently at Brother Xing Zhaodi in the river and said, "Let's see." ”

Everyone followed Xiangling's gaze and looked at the river together.

As a result, an unbelievable thing was discovered.

After Xing Zhaodi drank two mouthfuls of river water, he finally played dog planing by himself and swam back to the shore with an ugly posture.

Xing Zhaodi's face was blue from the cold, and his clothes were wrapped around his body, reflecting the bumpy figure.

Brother Xing Zhaodi couldn't handle this, panting heavily, and yelled at Chu Xiangling: "Chu Xiangling, you deliberately sprinkled soaphorn liquid to cause my feet to slip into the water!" You are a rotten, bad-bellied thief mother-in-law, you can't die well! ”

Chu Xiangling said with a shocked face: "Sister-in-law of the Wu family, where did you start talking about this?" You didn't return my soaphorn liquid to me, and you also knocked over and slipped and fell into the river by yourself, but I didn't even touch a single strand of your hair, what did you have to do with me when you fell into the river? It's you, who can swim and let people save you, can't you have some bad intentions? ”

All the men immediately turned pale and ran home like a low tide, and there were two young people who were not married, and they covered their faces as if they were stealing bells, for fear that they would be remembered by Xing Zhaodi.

Xiangling indifferently picked up the wooden basin, pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled at Xing Zhaodi: "Sister-in-law Wu, who do you want to marry now?" There's a lot of choice. ”

Xing Zhaodi's face turned pale, and it was only now that she completely understood that all this was Chu Xiangling's calculation.

She deliberately let herself fall into the river and let herself swim in public, if she let someone else marry her in the name of being rescued in the water, it would be a conspiracy to calculate, it would inevitably cause public indignation, and she would be poked in the backbone by the whole village.

Xing Zhaodi suddenly felt very desperate, compared to the painless chewing of Jiang's tongue behind her back, Chu Xiangling's move was not a little stronger than her.