At night, Jiang Hongguo lay on the kang, listening to the wind whistling outside the window, tossing and turning but couldn't sleep, a heart was always hanging, unable to fall to the ground, his mind was full of Wang Chong's shadow, and scenes from the past appeared in his mind like a movie.

Thinking about the past few days, just a few days after entering the wax moon, I was almost frozen to death outside, and from time to time I raised my head to look out of the window and listened to the movement, but unfortunately it was fruitless, and I stayed up until the second half of the night, I was really sleepy, and the two eyelids didn't know how many times I fought, I couldn't hold on, and I fell asleep in the misty lake.

didn't sleep for long, when the sky was a little brighter, the bright light sprinkled into the room through the window, shining on his body, Jiang Hongguo woke up immediately, lifted the quilt and turned over and got off the kang.

But he slept in his clothes all night, and he didn't even untie his clothes.

I didn't even care about breakfast, I went out and went to the entrance of the village, the village began to smoke one after another, the cold wind hunted, Jiang Hongguo put his hands in his sleeves, curled up, and walked around on the way into the village, but he waited left and right, and still did not see the shadow of Wang Chong.

The people in the village had breakfast and began to go out one after another.

"Isn't this a fruit girl! What are you doing here early in the morning? Sister-in-law Jinhua saw Jiang Hongguo wrapped in a headscarf, curled up and standing on the side of the road, and enthusiastically leaned up to talk.

"Sister-in-law Jinhua!" It's a pity that Jiang Hongguo couldn't squeeze out a smile on his face: "Brother Wang said early yesterday morning that he went into the mountains to hunt, and he never came back after he went out. ”

"Hey! I thought something was wrong! Sister-in-law Jin Hua held Jiang Hongguo's hand, smiled and patted it: "My silly girl, the captain is going into the mountains to hunt, not into the city to buy things, Xu is chasing prey in the mountains and running away and delayed, let alone one night, it's not strange to go out for a few days." ”

"Really?" Jiang Hongguo's eyes flashed with deep worry.

"Silly sister, look at you like this, let me tell you, as soon as the farm is idle, our captain often goes into the mountain, although he generally goes in the morning and returns in the evening, but there are also a few times, staying in the mountains for a few days, although our Maixiangling is not a big place, but it is not small, a radius of more than 100 miles, even if you have four legs, you can't walk in a day!"

Jiang Hongguo didn't speak, only raised his eyes to look at the location outside the village.

Sister-in-law Jin Hua looked at Jiang Hongguo carefully, and saw that there was a faint blackness near her eye sockets, the corners of her eyes and eye feces had not been wiped, and her worried eyebrows were still a little tired, so she couldn't help asking, "Sister, when did you come over?" ”

"I'll be here as soon as I wake up in the morning!" Jiang Hongguo said.

"Didn't you eat breakfast?"

Jiang Hongguo nodded.

Sister-in-law Jin Hua couldn't help but shake her head when she heard this, and sighed: "Okay, okay, it's a cold day, don't leave it here to dry the pestle, it's time to come back, the captain will naturally come back, if you can't come back after walking far for a while and a half, it's useless for you to wait here for a day." ”

As he spoke, he took Jiang Hongguo and went to his house, not even picking up the dung, taking out a few yellow steamed buns that were steamed in the morning and still hot, and giving them hot water to Jiang Hongguo to eat.

Jiang Hongguo ate two, and was in danger for a while by Sister-in-law Jinhua, and she was much less worried, remembering that the chickens at home had not been fed yet, so she hurriedly said goodbye to Sister-in-law Jinhua and prepared to go back.

Sister-in-law Jin Hua saw that Jiang Hongguo was a little unrelenting, so she couldn't rest assured, so she went to Wang Chong's house with her.

Accompanied Jiang Hongguo to feed the chickens, cleaned up the house, and then the two sat on the kang, chatting while wearing sweaters.

It's Jiang Hongguo who pops up from time to time: "Sister-in-law, when will Brother Wang come back?" ”

Sister-in-law Jin Hua was speechless, and she didn't know how to answer, so she could only change the topic.

In the same way, in just one morning, Jiang Hongguo asked more than a dozen times, and the worry between his eyebrows became more and more unable to hide.

Looking at the absent-minded Jiang Hongguo, Sister-in-law Jin Hua could only shake her head helplessly.

"Girl, if you really can't let go of our captain, then you have to hurry, the captain is twenty-six this year, and he is not young." Sister-in-law Jin Hua persuaded.

Jiang Hongguo was stunned by these words, and her heart became more and more entangled, full of sorrow and worry in the entanglement, raising her eyes to look at Sister-in-law Jinhua, Jiang Hongguo said: "Sister-in-law, I want to go to the village entrance and wait!" ”

Sister-in-law Jin Hua looked at the expectation in Jiang Hongguo's eyes and sighed: "Sister-in-law will accompany you!" ”

The two put down their work, got off the kang and put on their shoes, and went out holding hands.

Outside, the cold wind hunts, and the unfooted places on the side of the road are covered with a layer of snow.

Most of the villagers are nested at home, and if they don't move, they won't be hungry, so they don't have to eat so much.

But there are also those who carry dung rakes and dung forks with their hands in their sleeves, curled up, and pick up dung everywhere against the cold wind, and there are also those who carry firewood knives and step on the path covered by snow to go up the mountain to collect firewood.

As soon as the two of them walked to the entrance of the village, Jiang Hongguo's eyes instantly straightened, and a smile appeared on Sister-in-law Jinhua's face.

But it turned out to be a tall figure suddenly on the edge of the road at the entrance of the village, wearing an old gray cotton jacket, with a felt hat on his head, a bow and arrows on his back, a long wooden stick with thick arms as a flat shoulder on his shoulder, and things hanging at both ends.

As soon as Jiang Hongguo saw Wang Chong, she couldn't help but let go of Sister-in-law Jinhua and trotted up, stopped in front of Wang Chong, bit her lower lip lightly, her eyes were full of tears, and she looked Wang Chong up and down with concern: "Brother Wang, are you okay?" ”

"What can I do!" Wang Zhong smiled and said: "It's just that I was delayed last night and couldn't come back, which makes you worried." ”

"But the harvest is good, you are short of energy, and it just so happens that this badger can replenish your body."

"It's good to be back! It's good to be back! Jiang Hongguo burst into tears and laughed.

Sister-in-law Jin Hua also greeted her, looking at the prey full of loads, her smiling face was full of envy, she took out her hand from her sleeve and gave a thumbs up: "Captain, you are so good, you have gained so much from this trip!" ”

Wang Chong smiled: "I didn't expect that my luck would be so good, I first encountered a few rabbit holes, tried to dig them, but I didn't expect that there were really two rabbits in the winter." ”

"But you too, you didn't make it clear to Sister Guo'er before entering the mountain, and people had to worry about you all night, if I hadn't stopped me, it is estimated that Sister Guo'er would have gone into the mountain alone to find you early this morning." Sister-in-law Jin Hua looked at the two of them with interest.

Wang Chong turned his head to look at Jiang Hongguo, and said softly: "Guo'er, I'm sorry, I didn't make it clear, which made you worried." ”

"It's best if people are safe!" Jiang Hongguo's big eyes, which were quite bright, were flashing with tears, but there was a smile on his face.

"It's freezing outside, don't dry up here, hurry back and drink some hot water, sit on the kang to warm up, I have to go back to serve the two ancestors at home."

"Sister-in-law, you will go back and talk to the three monkeys, Lao Ganbang, Ma Renli, and a few of them, and come to my house for dinner in the evening, and let's talk about spring irrigation and top dressing by the way."

"I'm going to tell them."

The three of them said goodbye, and the particularly discerning sister-in-law Jin Hua hurried to the house in the west of the village, while Wang Chong and Jiang Hongguo walked to the house in the east of the village.

When he got home, Jiang Hongguo helped Wang Chong unload his burden and hung the hard bow and quiver back to the tool room in the west wing, while Wang Chong took out a few knives and skillfully skinned rabbits and badgers.

The two badgers and the rabbit were smoked and then came out of the hole and were nodded by Wang Zhong with a wooden stick one by one, there was no scar on the body, the fur was very well preserved, Wang Chong's skinning action was even more skillful, and after a while, a whole badger skin was peeled off.

"Guo'er, add some water to the pot later, and cut off the fat on this badger and boil oil later!" Wang Zhong said with a smile.

Jiang Hongguo also looked at the two fat badgers with a smile on his face, "Such a fat badger can boil a lot of badger oil!" ”

Badger oil has high medicinal value, can be applied externally and internally, and can be used to treat various diseases such as lack of qi, uterine prolapse, coughing up blood, hemorrhoids, scabies, scabies, white baldness, scalds, and chilblains.

"The omentum near the intestines was also taken out and boiled together."

"Good!"

Wang Zhong peeled the skin, boiled the ginger red fruit, processed the internal organs, cleaned them, plucked the pheasants and took out the internal organs, such as taking the omentum and cutting the fat meat.

The division of labor between the two was reasonable, and the speed of processing was extremely fast, and in less than half an hour, the two badgers and the two rabbits were all skinned by Wang Chong.

Disemboweling and disemboweling, taking out the internal organs, the rabbit was still handed over to Jiang Hongguo for processing, Wang Chong used a sharp knife to quickly cut off the fat intestine net from the badger, and put cold water into the pot and boiled slowly.

"Brother Wang, what are we going to do to entertain everyone at night?" Jiang Hongguo asked.

"This rabbit is quite fat, take one and cut it into small pieces later, half stir-fry, half braised and half braised for you, and the pheasant will be kept for you to replenish your body, and the badger meat and the rest of the rabbit will be sold in the market early tomorrow morning."

Jiang Hongguo responded with a full mouth, and the smile on her face almost never broke when she saw Wang Chong coming back safely.

On the one hand, it was because of Wang Chong's bumper harvest, and on the other hand, because Wang Chong was safe and sound.

"It's a pity that the big red and the red are still small, when they are bigger, when the time comes, take the two of them into the mountain, and it will be simple to find prey, you don't have to run around like now, it's all up to luck."

The dog's sense of smell is 1 million or even 10 million times that of humans, and even the hearing is 16 times that of humans.

This is also the reason why Wang Zheng bought the two Laizhou red dogs, just waiting for them to be a little older, if they are well trained, they can hunt and go home.

"It's just right, today Da Hong and Erhong can also have a full meal." Jiang Hongguo said.

Wang Chong personally cooked two dishes of rabbit meat, braised and stir-fried, plus a sufficient amount of yellow steamed buns, Jin Huasao and others ate one by one with round belly, and the men divided a bottle of white dry, drank until they were slightly drunk, full of wine and food, and said that they had decided to irrigate everything in the spring, and then dispersed.

Early the next morning, the sky was not yet white, Wang Chong had already gotten up as usual, played a few sets of punches in the courtyard, loosened his muscles and bones, revitalized his qi and blood, and the sky began to see, but there was no movement on the side of the main house.

Wang Chong didn't care at first, after washing, he was about to cook, only to find that there was no residual temperature in the stove, look at this posture, this fire has been extinguished for a while.

Hurriedly walked to the side of the kang, touched the big kang, it was cold, and quickly checked Jiang Hongguo's situation, only to find that Jiang Hongguo frowned, his cheeks were slightly red, but his lips were white, and his body was curled up.

Wang Chong hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover Jiang Hongguo's forehead and touched it, it was really hot, and he couldn't care about it so much, so he took Jiang Hongguo's hand out of the cup, and after a while, his face changed.

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Hurriedly went to the stove to light the fire, lit the stove, took out the medicine pot for boiling medicine, took out the herbs prepared earlier from the space and boiled them, and then took a basin of warm water and walked to the edge of the collapse.

"Fruit! Fruit! ”

With Wang Chong's gentle shaking and calling, Jiang Hongguo opened his eyelids weakly, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly: "Brother Wang, I'll get up and cook for you!" As he spoke, he wanted to get up, but was pushed back by the king.

"You're sick like this, what else are you cooking, lie down first!"

Saying that, Wang Chong picked up a handkerchief dipped in water and wrung it out, ready to help Jiang Hongguo wipe his face, Jiang Hongguo still wanted to refuse, "I came by myself, how can I let Brother Wang serve me!" ”

As soon as his hand stretched out from the quilt, he was grabbed by Wang Chong: "Okay, look at you like this, it's hard to even get up, let me lie down and rest!" Wang Chong's gentle and domineering words made Jiang Hongguo dare not refute, looking at Wang Chong's gentle movements, holding a wrung out wet towel, carefully wiping his face and forehead, his fingers inadvertently touched his cheeks, and an emotion called shyness appeared in Jiang Hongguo's heart, accompanied by the warm current that gushed out like a trickle, overflowing between body and mind.

"Does it hurt to have a headache?" While wiping Jiang Hongguo's face, Wang Chong asked softly.

"Sort of!" Jiang Hongguo's voice was full of exhaustion and weakness.

"Do you feel that your body is very heavy and you can't use your strength?"

"Hmm!"

"Sleepy?"

"Sort of!"

"I'll take a look when my tongue sticks out!"

Jiang Hongguo acted according to the law, and after Wang Chong looked at it, he rolled Jiang Hongguo's eyelids and looked at the whites of his eyes.

After a while, Jiang Hongguo felt a warmth coming from under him, and the originally cold big kang was gradually heated.

"Drink some porridge first, rest well after drinking, and I'll call you when the medicine is ready." Wang Chong first helped Jiang Hongguo to sit up, leaned on the wooden shelf with two layers of soft pillows, and wore an army green coat that Wang Chonggang couldn't buy for more than half a year.

Then Wang Chongcai Wang Chong took half a bowl of white porridge, scooped a spoon, and blew it several times before sending it to Jiang Hongguo's mouth.

"Brother Wang, I can do it myself." Jiang Hongguo bit her lower lip and was about to raise her hand.

"Obedient!" Wang Chong's words that could not be refused fell into his ears, and the hand that had just been raised subconsciously put it down again, Jiang Hongguo obediently opened his mouth and ate the white rice porridge that Wang Chong fed into his mouth.

"It's so sweet!" As soon as the porridge was in his mouth, Jiang Hongguo sensed that something was wrong.

"I added some sugar!" As he spoke, the king scooped up a spoonful again and blew it a few times: "Come!" ”

Looking at Wang Chong, who looked focused, Jiang Hongguo didn't even know how he finished eating a bowl of white porridge. I only knew that after eating the porridge, I was helped by Wang Zhong and lay back, and Jiang Hongguo, who was still silent in sweetness, just lay down for a while, and her consciousness gradually became cloudy.

I don't know how long it took, but the people who were lost in the lake were shouted by the king, fed a bowl of bitter decoction, and then lay down again.

Wang Chong touched Jiang Hongguo's forehead, "The fever hasn't subsided yet, you have a good rest at home, cover the quilt, I'll go to the city, sell yesterday's meat, and by the way, I'll give you some medicine again." ”

"Hmm!" At this moment, Jiang Hongguo is like a child, nodding her head obediently, the two of them have not disappeared, but their dry lips look much better than in the morning.

As soon as Wang Chong went out, Jiang Hongguo, who had drunk the medicine, fell asleep again, and when he was half asleep, he vaguely felt that someone seemed to be folding the quilt for him.

When Jiang Hongguo woke up with urine, he saw that it was Han Chunmei who was sitting on the side of the kang with a shoe.

"My sister is awake!" Han Chunmei saw Jiang Hongguo open her eyes, hurriedly put down the soles of her shoes and came up, touched Jiang Hongguo's forehead, and asked, "It's not as hot as in the morning, how does my sister feel?" ”

"I still have a bit of a headache, and I don't have the strength!" Jiang Hongguo said with some embarrassment: "Sister Chunmei, you can help me, I want to be convenient!" ”

Han Chunmei hurriedly picked up the military coat left by Wang Chong and put it on Jiang Hongguo, originally wanting to bring the toilet, but Jiang Hongguo insisted, so she could only help Jiang Hongguo go to the small room next to the bathroom to solve it.

"My sister has slept for most of the day, are you hungry? There is porridge in the pot, and there are steamed buns! ”

"Hmm!" Jiang Hongguo was weak when she spoke, and Han Chunmei brought everything she ate to the kang table.

"Girl, why are you here?" Jiang Hongguo asked while drinking porridge and eating steamed buns.

Han Chunmei said with a smile: "In the morning, the captain came to the house and said that you were sick, and he went to the city to get medicine for you, and he didn't worry that you were at home alone, so he asked me to come and take care of you." ”

Jiang Hongguo's action of eating was paused, and a warm current gushed out of his heart again, and something called happiness shrouded his heart.

"Sister, I've been married to this Maixiang Village for a few years, and I've never seen our captain care about any girl as much as you." Han Chunmei said with emotion.

The steamed bun in Jiang Hongguo's hand had just been stuffed into his mouth, and before he could bite it, when he heard this, tears couldn't stop pouring out of his eyes.

"Sister, what's wrong with you?" Han Chunmei asked with concern.

"It's okay, I'm okay!" Jiang Hongguo sobbed a few times and put down the steamed buns: "I'm done!" It's just a little tired, a little sleepy, and I want to sleep for a while! ”

"Sister, go to sleep!" Han Chunmei helped Jiang Hongguo to lie down again, looking at Jiang Hongguo who was facing away from her, Han Chunmei didn't dare to say anything more, she was busy and the leftover buns were all collected.

I looked at the stove again, sat on the kang and continued to pick up the soles of my shoes.

And at this moment, Jiang Hongguo, who was facing away from Han Chunmei, had tears like spring water, and couldn't stop pouring out, Jiang Hongguo quietly wiped her tears, sobbing from time to time, Han Chunmei wanted to persuade a few words, but she didn't know where to start.

While he was struggling, Wang Zhong returned.

Han Chunmei and Wang Zhong explained a few words, and then left in a hurry.

Wang Zhong put down his things, walked to the side of the kang and sat down, looked at Jiang Hongguo who was leaning sideways, listened to the intermittent sobbing, and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" ”

Jiang Hongguo didn't speak, only buried his head, Wang Chong didn't continue to ask, and was about to get up to decoct the medicine first, but Jiang Hongguo, who was lying down, suddenly moved, suddenly got up, hugged Wang Chong from behind, and tears fell like rain in an instant.

Wang patted Jiang Hongguo's arm again, turned his head and asked softly, "What's the matter?" ”

"Don't go!" Jiang Hongguo's tired, weak voice had a bit of pleading in it.

Wang Chong didn't move, and let Jiang Hongguo hold him.

"I'm sorry!" Jiang Hongguo spoke again.

"It's me who I'm sorry for you, I didn't make it clear to you before I went out, which made you worried." Wang Chongdao.

Jiang Hongguo's cheek was pressed against Wang Chong's back, "That's not what I said. ”

"What's that?"

"I ······" Jiang Hongguo bit her lip again, since she stayed at Wang Chong's house, this small action has gradually become her habit: "I'm sorry for you!" ”

"I lied to you!"

Jiang Hongguo's eyes were closed, her face was full of bitterness, and hot tears kept pouring out of her eyes.

Wang Zhong grabbed Jiang Hongguo's hand, turned to look at her, and smiled slightly: "If you cheat, you cheat, we have only been working hard for more than a month since we realized it, and it is normal for people to have reservations." ”

Wang Chong's tolerance, integrity, kindness and openness gradually gave rise to a sense of guilt in Jiang Hongguo's heart.

"I'm sorry!" Looking at the bright eyes that seemed to be dotted with starlight, and feeling the clear gaze like a spring breeze, Jiang Hongguo blurted out again.

Jiang Hongguo's eyes flickered, he didn't dare to avoid Wang Chong's gaze, he didn't dare to look at Wang Chong, and without waiting for Wang Chong to ask, he said first: "Actually... I actually have a man. ”

Wang Chong's face was full of astonishment: "Didn't you say that there is no one at home?" ”

"I'm sorry, I lied to you!" Jiang Hongguo said while crying: "Last year, my hometown suffered a disaster, and I couldn't live my life, and the people in the village came out to ask for food, and my man was too sick to go out, and I couldn't go out, and I didn't want to come out, but my man said, you go, you can take a mouth away when you go, if you don't leave, the whole family will starve to death, I think about it or go!" ”

"That's it, here ·····" Jiang Hongguo paused as he spoke, and raised his eyes to look at Wang Chong: "I met you, and I didn't have the strength to run at the beginning, so I ······ ······"

"So at the beginning, I said that there was no one at home, but I just wanted me to keep you to live." Wang Chongdao.

"I'm sorry!" Jiang Hongguo shook her head and cried: "I really didn't mean to lie to you!" ”

"You've treated me so well, I'm ······" I said and talked, but I couldn't go on.

Wang Chong stretched out his hand, took Jiang Hongguo into his arms, and hugged him tightly: "The past is over, our eyes are long in front, and we should be born to look forward." ”

"Your husband said that he asked you to go out to escape the famine and ask for food, but this is not for you to find another way, I am afraid that in his heart, I will not have you as a person a long time ago."

Wang Chong's words, Jiang Hongguo's delicate body trembled, and her heart was sad again, and the tears in her eyes became more and more uncontrollable.

"If you want, stay and be my daughter-in-law!"

Jiang Hongguo was stunned by Wang Chong's words, Fang's heart trembled, his heart was numb, he was entangled, his brain was a little short-circuited, and he even stopped crying, and struggled out of Wang Chong's arms: "I ······"

But before she could say anything about refusal, Wang Zhong said gently and domineeringly: "It's so decided, don't refuse!" I'll give you a stamp first. ”

As he spoke, he lowered his head and held Jiang Hongguo's head, and kissed it.

Jiang Hongguo subconsciously closed her eyes.

For a long time, the lips parted.

Wang Chong helped Jiang Hongguo to lie down again, sat on the edge of the kang, looked at Jiang Hongguo, smiled and said softly: "The chapter is also covered, from today on, you Jiang Hongguo is my Wang Chong's daughter-in-law, born as a member of my Wang family, even after death, you will also enter the ancestral tomb of my Wang family, and it has nothing to do with before." ”

Jiang Hongguo bit her lower lip, listened to Wang Chong's domineering words, and hummed softly like a fly.