The countrymen don't talk about the decency of "hitting people without slapping their faces", and Zhao Rui also received two slaps on his face, which was a little red and swollen. The back of his arms and shoulders were even more blue and purple, and there were a few long red marks from whipping. Qu Qianqian covered the ointment with both hands, covered his back, and rubbed it.

"Hmm."

Zhao Rui pursed his mouth tightly and endured the pain.

Qu Qianqian didn't ask or care.

In the dim room, there was only the sound of rubbing medicine, and it was so quiet that people's hearts were numb. The young couple, who haven't seen each other for half a year and haven't communicated, are in the same space, surrounded by a sense of strangeness.

Accustomed to the pain in his body, Zhao Rui seemed to know Qu Qianqian for the first time, lying on the kang and looking at her seriously.

Qu Qianqian is a good daughter-in-law, her father is satisfied, her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have no contradictions, her sister-in-law is close, no one in the village says she is bad, and he can't find anything wrong with her.

So he had seen everything better, and after he was shaken, he inevitably felt guilty and tormented in his heart....The beating made the guilt in his heart weaken slightly, and also let him see the other side of Qu Qianqian. Zhao Rui always thought that she was attached to him, and she was the responsibility he had to bear. Qu Qianqian's performance when she found out that he was abnormal was indeed even more apologetic, but after that, she ...... Her performance was unexpected.

"Sissi ......"

There was a sudden weight on his back, and the pain stopped Zhao Rui's words.

"I don't want to hear you now, don't say anything." Zhao Rui was silent.

Silence spreads again.

"Sister-in-law." Zhao Yunyun's voice came from outside the door, "Can I come in?" Qu Qianqian's tone changed, "Yunyun, come in."

Zhao Yunyun pushed the door in, and when she saw Zhao Rui, she threw her eyes over, and after facing Qu Qianqian, her expression and tone softened a lot, and she was a little careful, "Sister-in-law, you can sleep with me tonight, don't stay in the same room with him."

Zhao Rui: "......"

I saw that he was not welcomed.

"Sister-in-law?"

Qu Qianqian nodded and put down the ointment, "Okay, I'll sleep in your room today."

Zhao Yunyun immediately picked up Qu Qianqian's pillow and dragged her away, "Go, go back to sleep, leave him alone." Qu Qianqian obediently followed her sister-in-law out.

The door closed mercilessly in front of Zhao Rui's eyes.

Zhao Rui lay in place for a long time before he got up and spread the futon by himself. In Zhao Yunyun's house, the two sisters-in-law were intimate

next to each other.

Zhao Yunyun "explained" Qu Qianqian without the slightest brother-sister friendship: "I said at that time that I would take you to see the young people from other villages, if you don't go, you will suffer, right?"

Qu Qianqian said: "It's not right to be half-hearted."

"Look at what you call 'half-hearted'? Zhao Rui is called half-hearted." Qu Qianqian corrected in a low voice: "That's your brother."

"I don't recognize him as my brother now."

Qu Qianqian was moved, "Yun Yun ......"

Zhao Yunyun put her arms around her sister-in-law and let her lean on her "strong" arms. Qu Qianqian is uncomfortable, not psychologically, but postureally. She is taller than Zhao Yunyun, curled up in Zhao Yunyun's arms, a bit like a big bird.

"Let's go find Zhao Ke tomorrow." Zhao Yunyun patted her chest and promised, "No matter what you think, sister-in-law, we will definitely stand on your side in this matter."

Qu Qianqian shook her head, "I'll go by myself."

Zhao Yunyun was not at ease, "That professor's daughter lives in Zhao Ke's house......"

Qu Qianqian was silent for a moment and said, "I'm not wrong, why am I weak."

When Zhao Yunyun heard it, it made sense, not to mention that Zhao Ke was here, and Qu Qianqian couldn't stand the bullying, "That's okay, then I won't accompany you." Zhao Kejia——

Yu Xiulan and Zhao Jianguo placed Professor Su in Zhao Feng's house, and Zhao Ke took Su He to her house to sleep. Soho was clearly preoccupied.

Zhao Ke didn't say anything, just treated it as an ordinary guest. "Classmate Su, you are casual, I'll go out for a while and come back in a while."

Then, Zhao Ke knocked on the door of his parents' house.

The couple was also talking about Zhao Rui and Soho, Yu Xiulan endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't hold it back, and chanted to Zhao Jianguo: "Zhao Rui, this kid, why is he so unconcerned, if there is really any style problem, can he still be good? You too, young people are uncertain, you are both in the province

City, can't you just go and see him, knock knock?"

Zhao Jianguo was wronged, "I can't wait to break a person in half in the hospital, how can I have time to see him all the time? Zhao Rui also has to study in class......"

Yu Xiulan grabbed his ears and looked like a woman, "Did you go to the city and dislike your wife?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? My daughter is still here. "

Yu Xiulan turned her head and asked Zhao Ke fiercely: "If my father and I are separated in the future, who are you with?"

”

Zhao Ke: "......"

I really didn't expect that she was an adult, and her parents had to fight for her custody after a quarrel... …

Zhao Jianguo also felt ridiculous, "Don't say that I don't have that mind, but I have, I'm not stupid, don't I know how to settle accounts?" Our three children are all out of peace, and I can enjoy the happiness of my children, if I have a little bit of flowers, they are all towards you, I am old and desolate, lack of heart and eyes?"

The old husband and wife, if you are in love, it is better to understand the truth of your words. Yu Xiulan let go of his ears, "You have a bit of a brain."

Who's that brainless?

Father and daughter looked at each other.

The answer is obvious.

Yu Xiulan was also dissatisfied with Soho, "That girl too, what are you doing here, a man with a family, if you talk to her, what kind of fun can it be?"

To Zhao Rui, whatever they scolded, they were not polite, to an outsider, she was still a girl, and Yu Xiulan was not good at saying anything too ugly. Zhao Kedao: "A little girl, it's easy to deal with, mainly Zhao Rui."

"What's so hard for Zhao Rui to deal with, he really wants to do something that hurts his conscience and let your uncle discount his legs!" Yu Xiulan said, feeling wrong, "She seems to be older than you, what is your name 'little girl'?"

Zhao Ke was speechless. Forgot. The main Soho looks like it's easy to deceive.

Zhao Ke forked, "It's really a discounted leg, but it's a drag, there are a number of uncles, my father is back for the New Year, don't worry about this."

Zhao Jianguo said: "I think that Professor Su is very decent, he should be able to take care of his daughter, and the eldest brother will take care of Zhao Rui, and after a few days, there will be nothing wrong."

"It's easy to say." Yu Xiulan didn't have a good voice, "I'm afraid that I will be far away in the future, and I won't be able to reach it."

Zhao Jianguo was helpless, "If you really want to change your mind, no one can stop you, if Zhao Rui really has that heart, that Soho can't come to our village." It's too late to hide.

There are few divorces in the countryside, what happens to husband and wife, whether they should live or live, but only they know the pain of these days.

Don't look at Yu Xiulan's righteous indignation, Zhao Rui didn't do anything actually wrong, no one would persuade him, even if Zhao Rui really made a mistake, maybe there are still many people who persuade Qu Qianqian to do something.

Chuniel was tempered like that at the beginning, didn't anyone say that she should be forgiven as a man? Zhao Ke shook his head slightly, "You guys go to bed early, don't worry about it." Husband and wife

Let her hurry back to rest as well.

Zhao Ke returned to the house, but Soho hadn't laid down yet.

"Classmate Su, sleep, tell me if you are not used to it."

Soho waited for her to lie down, then lay down on the hot kang head, tossed for two days, cold and tired, and fell asleep not long after. Zhao Ke lay on his back on the kang, the quilt was pulled to his neck, thought about things for a while, and slowly fell asleep.

The next day, before dawn, Zhao Jianguo got up to burn the fire, but even so, Professor Su still woke up early. He was very unaccustomed to the cold in the countryside, and he could not lie down, so he could only get up.

"Professor Su, get up so early?"

"I can't sleep." Professor Su had a camera around his neck, "Can I go around the village?" Zhao Jianguo filled the stove and stove pit with firewood and said, "I'll show you the way."

Professor Su was more interested in the dense soil and the large warehouse outside the village, and the snow in the village was very clean, but other than that, he didn't see anything special for the time being, so he didn't waste the film.

Yesterday's interview was only a little bit old, and when he passed by a random house, Professor Su asked Zhao Jianguo to take him in for an interview.

I went to a few stores in the morning, and Professor Su caught some keywords with high overlap, "pig raising", "drainage canal", "Fu Zhiqing", "water wheel", "building a school", "brick house", "sauerkraut factory"....

When the two returned to Zhao Ke's house, Professor Su asked Zhao Ke to take her around. Zhao Ke promised:

"After breakfast, I'll take you there."

Soho had a little stuffy nose and sat next to her, not having the appetite for breakfast. Professor Su felt sorry for his daughter and said, "Xiaohe, don't go." Soho's eyelids were a little heavy, and he slowly raised his eyes and nodded.

Zhao Ke said: "Then lie down in the house, Professor Su and I can't go far, just come back every once in a while to add some firewood." Zhao Jianguo had to treat the people in the village, and the school was on vacation, and Yu Xiulan had been studying in Daku recently.

It's inconvenient for both of them to run back and forth.

After the meal, the four of them went out of the house together.

Zhao Ke led Professor Su to the office first, found a few pieces of paper, and then went to the outside of the village to look at the drainage canal

Clear.

"It's fine."

The outside of the village was covered with snow, and the ditches were not completely buried, and you could see the long ditches that were slightly concave in the snow. Zhao Ke took out the drawings of the drainage canal at this stage, pointed it out to Professor Su, and told him where they were now. Professor Su took a picture of the snow ditch crisscrossing it

Photo. Just on the way, Zhao Ke led him from outside the village to the river.

Professor Su saw the silhouette of the tall waterwheel from a distance, quickened his pace, found a good angle from time to time, and stopped to "click" and "click" to take pictures.

The two walked near the waterwheel, and Professor Su immediately posed for a photo, looked at the camera for a while, and then looked sideways ahead. In the distance, there is a vast snowy landscape, and the waterwheel is still on the ice, and the snow is scattered in various parts of the waterwheel. Under the waterwheel, a group of half-grown children play on the ice.

Some of them slipped and fell a big ass;

Some scoop up the climbing plow, some sit on the climbing plow, and wait for a few laps before changing it; Some are digging snow holes, ignoring the snow in their shoes, drilling in and out....

The cheerful laughter drilled into his ears, and the corners of Professor Su's mouth rose slightly, snapping.

When a child saw the two of them, he blinked his curious eyes, looked at Professor Su and the strange objects in his hand, and got together with the friends around him.

Niu Xiaoqiang heard everyone's words, climbed out of the snow cave, jumped up and waved, Director Zhao, come and see me...... Yes! The soles of his shoes were covered with snow, he slipped on the ground, and he fell on the ice.

Click

Professor Su happened to press the shutter, and when he saw that the child was not moving, he quickly put down the camera and trotted over. He was unsteady on the ice.

And Zhao Ke slid over on the ice and rushed to Niu Xiaoqiang's side first, Niu Xiaoqiang, how is it? Niu Xiaoqiang looked at the face above and blinked.

He was stunned.

Professor Su skated over and nervously asked, "Can you move?"

"Ah......h

Niu Xiaoqiang let out a slow voice, turned over and sat up, scratching his head and laughing.

Active.

Professor Su let out a long breath.

Zhao Ke squatted beside him and asked him, "What do you want me to see?"

Niu Xiaoqiang got up and grabbed her hand, "Look at the snow hole we dug! Extraordinarily long!" The snow in the river is not covered with snow, but is constantly piling up and hardening on the banks. Every winter, a must-do activity for children in the northern countryside is digging snow caves. Zhao Ke also played when he was a child, and he had a lot of tricks.

Professor Su, do you want to take a look? Zhao Ke did not forget the guest, took Niu Xiaoqiang and stuffed a small wooden shovel, turned around and asked.

Professor Su squatted in front of the cave door, looking inside, still thinking about his daughter, Xiaohe had never played......

"When classmate Su is well, you can take her again

Come here. Zhao Ke handed him a wooden shovel, Professor Su, you can try it too. Professor Su tucked the camera into his coat and tried to swing a shovel on the snow wall like Niu Xiaoqiang and Zhao Ke.

Qu Qianqian came to Zhao Ke's house alone and knocked on Zhao Ke's door.

Inside, Soho replied in a sluggish spirit.

Her voice was small, Qu Qianqian didn't hear who it was, she thought someone was there, so she pushed the door in.

The moment the two saw each other face to face, Soho cheered up from his drowsiness, sat upright, and put on a scrappy posture. Qu Qianqian tugged at her sleeves, cheered herself up in her heart, and forced her eyes not to dodge, looking at her squarely. Time seems to stand still.

Soho's eyes were sour, and she blinked uncontrollably. Qu Qianqian gasped quietly, took the opportunity to look away, and looked around the house, Zhao Ke is not here, I will go first.

Wait a minute.

Soho called out to her.

Qu Qianqian stopped, clasped her hands, and turned around calmly, Classmate Su, is there something wrong?

Soho's nasal voice was a little heavy, his chin was slightly raised, and his words were strict: "I know that the countryside is blind marriage and dumb marriage, and my parents introduced me to form a loveless family after only seeing three or two sides, but forcibly tying two different individuals together is a blasphemy of sacred love and marriage!

Love......

Thanks to several months of study and Zhao Ke's recent indoctrination about marriage, everyone in Zhao Cuner is very down-to-earth about the concept of marriage. Qu Qianqian probably understood what she meant, but the emotions rising in her heart were more dazed than sad, So, you love him?

Soho Ka Shell, confusion flashed in his eyes, but the next second he was still confident, "We are communicating with our souls, do you know what it feels like for thoughts to resonate? Do you understand his ideals and ambitions? Do you understand how romantic it is to cross mountains and seas and go to a wonderful dream?

Qu Qianqian has a good temperament, and she refrained from showing her eyes to look at "strange people".

She is really kind, even in her heart, she can't bear to describe it as "neurotic". Qu Qianqian's expression is complicated, So, do you understand? Soho was sure, "Of course I do."

Qu Qianqian tilted her head slightly, puzzled: "But he can learn...... Isn't it pig breeding?" Zhao Ke said that Zhao Rui's professionalism is very helpful to Zhao Cuner's pig breeding career.

And Soho was indignant as if he had been insulted, What are you talking about? He...... Suddenly, the conversation came to an abrupt end.

sue

The lotus face is expressionless. Zhao Rui is a student of the College of Agriculture and studied animal husbandry.

Soho bit his lip, unable to accept that Zhao Rui was equated with pig raising, and argued with reason: "Animal husbandry is just a profession, how can you narrowly understand pig raising? He is a college student, and what he has learned is the enrichment of knowledge, the expansion of his horizons, the liberation of his spirit and the purification of himself!

Not pig farming!

Animal husbandry is animal husbandry, and pig raising is pig raising!!

Qu Qianqian: "It's obviously pig breeding...... There may also be raising cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese......... these are too simple for a young woman full of romantic thoughts...... Soho was irritated and wanted to go crazy, ...... You are blasphemy! Desecrate! She really doesn't get along with the people in this village!

Soho couldn't talk to her anymore, so she hurriedly concluded: "In short, people who don't have a common language live a lifetime, and the future is destined to be tormented, you better think clearly!

Qu Qianqian looked at her sympathetically and kindly suggested: "That...... Think about it, too. ”

"I don't need to think about it!"

All right. Qu Qianqian exited the room, her steps full of confusion.

Sister-in-law?

Qu Qianqian raised her head, like a wild goose that had fallen behind, and her eyes showed surprise and dependence, Zhao Ke! Zhao Ke looked at the courtyard, ...... you Come to me?

Qu Qianqian nodded.

Did you see Su?

Qu Qianqian nodded again hesitantly.

It's not going to be noisy, is it?

Professor Su looked at her expression, not sure, not worried about his daughter, and said to Zhao Ke: "Comrade Zhao, I'll go and see how Xiaohe's spirit is.

Good.

When he entered the courtyard, Zhao Ke turned to Qu Qianqian and asked, "Sister-in-law, have you spoken?"

Qu Qianqian nodded quickly, approached Zhao Ke, tugged at her sleeve and whispered to confirm: "Zhao Ke, has Zhao Rui become a strange person?

Zhao Ke was confused, "Strange?"

Qu Qianqian didn't remember Soho's words, couldn't repeat them, and struggled to describe: "It's ...... It's foggy and empty-headed. ”

Zhao Ke understood. These two words, although simple, roughly summarize the feeling brought by Soho.

Zhao Rui...... At present, we do not have these two qualities, and in the future, it will probably be difficult.

When Zhao Ke replied to her, he made a certain amount

The beautification of one side, one side of the water and soil to raise one side of the people, our village, are more pragmatic.

Qu Qianqian believed her and put her mind at ease, "Fortunately, I didn't delay raising pigs."

Zhao Ke affirmed her, "Raising pigs is the greatest."