Early in the morning, in the silence of a mountain village.

Liu Ningqing had already gotten up early.

She took a broom and swept the yard that had been swept clean over and over again.

The sheets and quilts were all replaced with new ones and re-laid.

It was almost ten o'clock inside and out.

After that, he put on a coat and carried a basket of vegetables and prepared to go out.

"Qingqing, it's still early at noon, why are you going?"

Grandma also got up and sat at the door moving slowly, although her legs were connected, but they would be a little sore in winter.

"He's coming at noon, I'll pick some food and come back."

"Isn't there one in the cellar, chicken and fish, and your father bought it yesterday."

Grandma said at the door.

"It's okay, he said he likes to eat our own vegetables, I'll pick some back."

Liu Ningqing smiled softly and walked out of the door.

"Look at this child happy, this is the engagement, and when I get married in the future, I guess I won't go back to the family."

Grandma looked at her granddaughter's back and smiled with a sigh.

Grandpa also appeared at the door and took a puff of dry tobacco.

"When my granddaughter grows up, she will marry away sooner or later, so she can't always stay with us two old guys."

"Yes, when I grow up, I'm going to get married......"

Grandma said, remembering what happened before: "I don't know how the little girl named Xiaomi is doing now, she suffered such a big crime at a young age." ”

In fact, after this engagement, the man's family should come to his in-laws' house to sit.

But considering that the child named Xiaomi was so sick, and the relationship between the two families was so good, he didn't say anything.

But after all, it was about their granddaughter, and they couldn't help but think about it a little more.

"Don't think about it, Zhimu's family is very good, as long as these two children can live well." Grandpa took a puff of his cigarette and remembered the first time he met Xu Zhimu.

It was already the summer harvest two years ago, and I also harvested two acres of corn together, and every holiday after that will come.

Including his wife who broke his leg, he also took Ning Qing back to visit, including Liu Jun's work, Xiao Wu's school, and the house in Kyoto, and took them to check their health......

These things, among all the true sons-in-law in Shili and Eight Villages, I can't find a second one who can do so hard.

Of course, Grandma remembered this incident, but they were quite worried at first.

Their granddaughters are introverted, and they are afraid that they will be deceived after going to college, so they specially told her not to fall in love when they are in college.

But I didn't expect that before the first year was over, I had already visited here several times.

When Xu Zhimu drove here, they were worried that this kind of rich man in the city would just look at his granddaughter as beautiful, and when he really wanted to get married in the future, he would give up Qingqing again.

Ning Qing's character, if he is really abandoned, he may never like the second person again in this life.

But one by one, it proved to them that this young man named Xu Zhimu was serious.

They also gradually put their minds at ease, especially after this engagement.

His family did not dislike Qingqing for being a single-parent child, as well as this poor family.

Instead, it gave the most luxurious engagement banquet.

All this made the hearts of the two old men settle down.

"Yes, as long as the two of them can be well, we can rest assured even if we leave."

Grandma also smiled, walked to the staircase, and gently kicked the rhubarb who was still napping: "Go." ”

Rhubarb stood up, shook his hair, and followed out of the gate quite humanely.

……

Winters in mountain villages are particularly cold, and the snow in the mountains may not completely melt until after spring.

Liu Ningqing walked out of the house alone, although she was wearing cotton clothes, but the cold wind still blew her whole face hurt.

But when she thought of the look of enjoyment when Xu Zhimu ate the food she cooked, Liu Ningqing's heart couldn't help but rise with a burst of happiness.

She tightened the scarf around her neck, which was a very coarsely woven scarf.

Xu Zhimu personally knitted it.

Liu Ningqing looked in the direction of the intersection and smiled lightly.

Either way, as long as he came to see her, she was so happy.

The vegetable patch was reclaimed in the grove at the back of the house, and a simple greenhouse was made with plastic wrap, so it was no problem for the family to eat some vegetables every day.

The main thing is that there is really zero addition, and there is no technology added at all.

And I don't know if it's because of the irrigation of mountain spring water, the taste of the vegetables grown here is really good.

Of course, the main thing is that he likes to eat.

So before winter, the family deliberately reclaimed a small greenhouse vegetable patch.

Liu Ningqing picked the most tender new vegetables and placed them neatly in the vegetable basket.

The shed is very low, Liu Ningqing is bent over to pick, half an hour, this winter, she was stuffy with a fine sweat.

And found that the winter melon in the shed was also ripe, Liu Ningqing was struggling to prepare to move it out, just in time to stew pork ribs and eat.

It's just that the winter melon is very heavy, and the fluff on it is also very prickly, Liu Ningqing picked one off and hugged it aside.

I was thinking about how to go back with the food basket for a while.

Two dog barks came, and Rhubarb came over in good spirits.

Liu Ningqing smiled and touched its dog's head, and after covering the vegetable basket with a cloth, she handed it directly to Rhubarb.

Rhubarb is also very humane, and he directly grabbed the handle of the vegetable basket and walked to the side and waited.

Then he used a small hoe to remove the weeds from the vegetable field and watered them, and it was almost noon inside and out.

Liu Ningqing wiped the sweat from her forehead, saw that the time was almost up, patted Rhubarb's head again, and then hugged the winter melon and began to walk in the direction of home.

Rhubarb held the vegetable basket in his mouth, wagged his tail and led the way in front.

The mountain road was slippery, Liu Ningqing almost fell down several times while holding the winter melon, and finally came to the main road.

……

At this moment, in the direction of the head of the village, a black Maybach slowly drove up.

"Here you go again, I heard that the granddaughter of the old Liu family is not engaged to someone else? This girl has been back for half a month, why did this man's family come back as a guest. ”

"You see, I said it a long time ago, this woman's family is poor, in fact, it is easy to be looked down upon, maybe something will happen when you get engaged."

"Come on, I looked at people's cars on the Internet, and I heard that they are worth millions, if such a rich family can marry it, even if it is a little angry, it is better than marrying into a poor ghost's family."

The people at the head of the village began to whisper again, Xu Zhimu couldn't hear it, but he was used to these people gossiping, anyway, no matter how good things came to their mouths, they didn't know how many versions.

There is gossip all day long, and if you don't listen to it, there is no nature.

Whatever.

The vehicle drove all the way to the corner of the mountain road, and after this corner, you could see the small courtyard under the hillside.

But Xu Zhimu suddenly saw that familiar figure.

"Zhimu, do you see if the front is clear?"

Mother Xu also saw it.

Just downhill, the slender figure, carrying a big winter melon at the moment, walked forward slowly, followed by a big yellow dog shaking his head.

Really.

Xu Zhimu saw that she was struggling to carry the winter melon, and immediately drove over, dripping twice in advance.

The sound of the car echoing in the mountains was obvious, Liu Ningqing was startled, and when she looked back, the familiar car had stopped in front of her.

Xu Zhimu pulled on the handbrake and drove the door directly.

The moment he saw him, Liu Ningqing's panic flashed, followed by a smile of surprise and excitement.

"Chiki!"

She really wanted to throw herself into Xu Zhimu's arms at this moment and tell her thoughts these days, but she suddenly remembered that she was still holding a winter melon, and she was covered in dirt after weeding just now.

She stepped back slightly.

Rhubarb was enthusiastically rubbing back and forth around Xu Zhimu at this time.

"You behave like this when you see your husband, don't you want me?"

Xu Zhimu walked over and looked at her closely.

"No, no, I'm going to have dirty ...... on my body" Liu Ningqing's gentle eyes were like a pool of warm and quiet water, and the joy flashing in her eyes seemed to melt people.

She smiled silly, but she was afraid that the dirt on her body would get on him.

Xu Zhimu also saw that Liu Ningqing was carrying a big winter melon, the soles of his shoes were all dirt, and his body was also stained with a little dust, and even his white little face had a little trace.

It looks like a bit of the unique beauty of the primitive tribes painting on their faces.

"Give it to me."

Xu Zhimu stretched out his hand to pick up the winter melon, which is generally sixty or seventy centimeters long, and the big one is more than one meter, almost the same weight as the bucket of water in the water dispenser.

Looking at Liu Ningqing's thin shoulders, I don't know how many mountain roads I have walked.

"No need, I'll be home soon, it's dirty..."

Liu Ningqing refused to give it to him, Xu Zhimu was dressed cleanly today, and he couldn't let his clothes get dirty.

"Anyway, my wife will wash my clothes if they are dirty, and if my newly married wife is tired, I will lose a lot of money."

Xu Zhimu smiled and snatched the winter melon directly from her shoulder, this thing is quite prickly, the white fluff looks fine, but it can be uncomfortable for a long time when it is pierced into her hand.

Xu Zhimu carried it with one hand, and with the other hand, touched Liu Ningqing's pretty face, wiped the mud stains on her face to his face, and looked at her shining eyes.

"You see I'm also a little flower cat, can I hug your husband now?"

Liu Ningqing felt the temperature of his palm, since she got engaged, she had been separated for nearly half a month, and she had to wait until after his phone call every day to fall asleep.

Even if it was just a few hurried words, she was already used to life with him now, not even for a day less.

She looked at Xu Zhimu with a doting smile at the moment, and the thoughts she had been hiding all these days finally didn't have to be suppressed anymore at this moment.

She was like a milk swallow returning to the forest, she fell into Xu Zhimu's arms, breathed his taste deeply, listened to his heartbeat, her shoulders trembled slightly, and her voice was soft and gently wrapped around Xu Zhimu's ears.

"Zhimu, I miss you so much..."

She is a girl who can't be coquettish, or even say love words.

But a simple "I miss you" is enough to answer everything.

Xu Zhimu gently hugged her waist with one hand, smelling the faint fragrance of lotus flowers on her body, which was particularly reassuring.

"Wang..."

Rhubarb screamed twice, and Liu Ningqing suddenly remembered something, just now in the car, she seemed to see a person!

She rolled her eyes slightly, and saw Xu Mu, who had gotten out of the car at the moment, was standing on the side with a motherly smile.

"Yikes..."

Liu Ningqing suddenly felt as if she had been burned by fire, her beautiful face suddenly turned red, and she left Xu Zhimu's arms like an electric shock.

As if it was the feeling of a young couple in early love when they were caught by their parents, she looked at Xu's mother a little helplessly.

"Mom, Mom, why are you here too..."

Liu Ningqing hurriedly went to say hello, but this shy expression made Xu Mu couldn't help but smile again.

When he came today, Xu Zhimu deliberately didn't tell Liu Ningqing, just to surprise her.

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about me, keep going."

Mother Xu replied with a smile, she always felt that if she continued like this, it would be a matter of one or two years for her grandson to be held.

Liu Ningqing's face turned even redder now, and she was at a loss for a while, after all, she was not completely familiar with the feeling of living with her family, and it was always a little shy to be so close in front of her elders.

"My mother specially came to graduate school to study your daughter-in-law's cooking skills to see if she can have the ability to take charge of the spoon."

Xu Zhimu smiled and grabbed Liu Ningqing's little hand.

"I... I'm ready, Mom, what do you like to eat, I'll prepare it now! ”

Liu Ningqing listened to Xu Zhimu's joking words, but she was extremely serious, as if she had really accepted the test.

"You dead child, people are already shy, and you still tease her."

Mother Xu walked over and kicked Xu Zhimu, then touched Liu Ningqing's head with a smile, and there was love and deep distress in her eyes: "Don't listen to his nonsense, Mom just came to see you, Mom will cook for you in a while." ”

Liu Ningqing also reacted, but she was not annoyed at all, and lowered her head and smiled stupidly.

"It's okay Mom, I like to cook......"

"Good, good boy."

Mother Xu looked at her prospective daughter-in-law, with mixed feelings in her heart, and said softly: "Let's go, go back to our house." ”

A sentence from our family made Liu Ningqing's heart warm, and she nodded heavily.

"Uh-huh!"

Xu Zhimu was carrying the winter melon and holding Liu Ningqing's jade hand with one hand, Liu Ningqing Qingming had a lot of things to say to him, but now she just saw him, as long as she could hold hands like this, she was already very happy.

Obviously as a girlfriend... No, it's an engaged fiancée!

I haven't come to see myself for so long, and I'm still with other girls... If you change to another girl, you will definitely be jealous for a long time, and you will have to be coaxed by him for a long time before you can forgive him.

But for her.

She doesn't need to be coaxed by him, she will coax herself.

Rhubarb is still holding the vegetable basket in his mouth and walking in the front.

Mother Xu drove the car and slowly followed, the noon sun was shining, and shadows were reflected.

This scene is also extraordinarily warm.

came, going around and around is still a primary school sister.

Tomorrow continues, thanks for the support.

(End of chapter)