(47) "Gossip"
Winter goes to spring.
The snow in Qingshui Village has long since melted, and the weather has warmed up a bit, and I don't know what happened this year, the snow melted so early, and it left so early.
The entrance of the village is lively and lively, chatting about the recent events in the village, it is said that there are two happy events to be done on the ninth day of the first month of next month, it is the old Zhou family in the south of the village, and the Li family at the end of the village.
In the evening, under the big tree at the entrance of the village, several aunts chatted together, and one of them said, "How many dowries did the future son-in-law of the old Li family come?"
The lady who asked took the family to the mother's house in the next village for the New Year before the snow last winter, and it was half a month since the beginning of spring, and she only came back yesterday.
"Hey, haven't you heard? That Qi Heng is a good one, he gave everything that should be given, and he added two more boxes of dowry, I heard that those two boxes seem to be filled with good materials?"
"Tsk, that's not bad, the future son-in-law of the old Zhou family is also a good one. ”
"But isn't it? The old Zhou family brought ten boxes of dowry at the beginning, and sent a lot of things a few days ago!"
"I have known about the dowry of the Zhou family for a long time, but didn't I hear that the girl of the Zhou family had a falling out with her cousin a few years ago?
"I heard that I got crazy, didn't I?"
"What nonsense did you hear? It's just two children having a temper tantrum!" This answer was Zhou Qingwen's own aunt.
"My young maid has played well with her cousin since she was a child, what's wrong with this little couple's awkward and troublesome temperament?
"Where did the madness come from, that young maid is bold and called madness?"
"This, this is also ......."
The young maid girl of the Zhou family has long been married to her cousin, whose name is Xiao Yu.
At this time, the two were sitting on a bench under the eaves in the backyard of the Zhou family.
Xiao Yu was dressed in a long robe, with a thin posture and good facial features, and Zhou Qingwen was sitting next to him.
"Girl, is what you said true?"
"Cousin, how could I lie to you? I felt like I had a nightmare, and when I woke up, I heard my mother say that you were sick~"
Her voice was gentle, and she lowered her head as she spoke.
Xiao Yu stared at his cousin next to him and said with pity: "As long as you don't ignore me, it's all over." ”
When Zhou Qingwen heard this, she quickly shook her head and said, "What nonsense does my cousin say, how can I ignore you? ”
She had a pair of big watery eyes on her delicate face, and she looked up at her cousin, who was full of her cousin.
Xiao Yu stretched out his hand, grabbed her small hand hanging on her left side, held it in the palm of her hand, stared at her and said, "In the future, you can't ignore me anymore!"
Xiao Yu almost choked up when she saw her nodding shyly.
God knows how he came over in those six months, if it weren't for the glimmer of hope in his heart, his life would have been gone.
His cousin suddenly became ignorant of himself overnight, and he didn't want to marry him, his heart was broken, he didn't know what he did wrong, what happened to his cousin?
Why ignore him?
It's obviously the same skin, but it looks like two different people.
Xiao Yu held Zhou Qingwen's hand tightly and stared at her, now it's okay, his cousin is back, this is his cousin.
"In a few days, let's go to the temple in Qingshan to put incense on the pillar and ask for a few peace charms. ”
"Well, it's all up to my cousin. ”
Qingwen nodded, a shy smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she stretched out her other hand and pinched the corner of his clothes, with a hint of coquettishness.
Xiao Yu saw this extremely familiar little action, her heart was shocked, and she held her hands tightly.
In Qinghe Village at night, the breeze blowing from the river is very comfortable, the moonlight in the sky is bright, and there are a few stars dotted on the night sky.
The lovers in the dark night looked deeply at each other.
From then on, one life and one couple, live up to Langjun and live up to Qing.
Far from this week's house, there was a courtyard, and a woman hung her laundry, put the wooden basin back in the stove, and walked to her daughter's room.
Mother Li opened the door curtain and looked at Su Yi, who was embroidering a robe under the oil lamp, "Why are you still embroidering this robe?"
"Mother, I've almost embroidered the wedding dress, I'll make this robe for Brother Heng first. ”
Since the two got married, Su Yi changed his name to Brother Heng.
"What about not marrying him yet?
"Mother. ”
Su Yi raised her head, glanced at her mother, and saw that her mother was looking at her with a smiling face, "Mother, don't make fun of me." ”
"Okay, okay, I won't talk about you, but you also go to bed early, and it doesn't hurt to embroider this robe tomorrow. ”
After Su Yiniang finished speaking, she lowered the curtain.
When winter arrives, the curtains at home are installed to block the wind, although now the winter has passed, at the beginning of spring, although it is spring, but the curtain of the Li family to block the wind has not been taken down in time.
Su Yiniang turned around and went to the hall and said Qi Heng, she had never regarded him as a son-in-law before, God knows, he was going to be her son-in-law.
She thought that that day, Qi Heng's kid was smart, he went to persuade her father first, and then came with her father.
Her father didn't know what kind of ecstasy Qi Heng had poured into him, so he tried his best to help Qi Heng persuade her, she also knew that Qi Heng's kid was good, good for his own family, good for his own father, honest and righteous, but ......
But she didn't want to pay her daughter out, did she?
But that day, his attitude was too sincere.
Most importantly, he promised to buy a field in this Qingshui village.
She thought that since he could buy the land, and if he had the land, he would have food to eat and grow some crops, and it would be better than him risking his life to hunt all day.
In the eyes of the croppers, having a field is a lifeline.
She also went to ask her daughter if she wanted to?
I didn't expect that her girl was a hundred willing, and said that she had already liked Qi Heng!
Su Yiniang was helpless, and discussed with her husband again, so she was relieved.
At the beginning of this spring, Qi Heng really bought three acres of fertile land in the village, and he was cultivating wasteland by himself, and he also renovated the house.
Su Yi's father and mother thought about it for a moment or two, and invited someone to go to the hometown that Qi Heng said to inquire about the situation, and when he saw that what he said was true, he really gave his daughter to him.
Day 2.
It was raining lightly, and Su Yi was worried about the light rain outside the window.
In early spring, there was a lot of rain.
In the afternoon, when the rain had lightened, Su Yi picked up the teal cloak she had picked up in a package this morning, which she had made all night last night, and she thought about making him a few more. In this season, the humidity on the mountain is moderately heavy, and this robe is suitable for him to wear on the mountain, which can block the moisture.
She picked up the package, picked up the oil-paper umbrella hanging by the door and went out, stretched out the oil-paper umbrella and went in the direction of Qi's house.
A figure walked in the light rain, and the cloak he wore swayed and moved, revealing the pale green coarse cloth skirt inside, and the embroidered shoes under the skirt were already wet.
When he arrived at Qi Heng's small courtyard, the figure pushed open the door of the courtyard that was not closed and entered from the outside.
The chimney of the stove room in the small courtyard saw white smoke coming from afar, and when she entered the stove room, she really saw the man in front of the stove.
"Why did you come here when it rained, is it cold?"
Qi Heng heard the sound, hurriedly got up, and walked towards Su Yi, who put away the umbrella and put it on the door frame.
When he turned around again, his little hand was already wrapped in a warm big hand, "Go over and bake the fire." ”
"Wait a minute, you can go to the room first and try the new robe I made for you. ”
"I'll try it later, you bake the fire first, are your shoes wet?"
As he spoke, he directly pulled her cloak and saw the embroidered shoes that were already wet.
"I'll give you some warm hot water to soak your feet, and give me the burden first. ”
"That's fine. ”
She gave Qi Heng the burden hanging on her wrist, and went to sit on a small stool by the fire in front of the stove again, stretched out her hand to roast, it rained and got cold again this day, and I don't know how the aunts who chatted under the tree at the entrance of the village at night resisted the cold.
Qi Heng put the burden on the big kang in the room, went back to the stove room and drew hot water in a wooden basin, mixed it with cold water, took out a clean cotton handkerchief, and said: "Come over and wash your face first, it's windy outside, does it hurt to blow on your face?"
"It doesn't hurt. ”
Su Yi shook her head, stood up and walked towards Qi Heng, who had already pinched a hot handkerchief in hot water and handed it to her.
"Don't go out in this kind of weather in the future, I'll go find you. ”
"Then the wind doesn't hurt when it blows on your face?"
Su Yi wiped her little face, wiped her hands again, and returned the handkerchief to Qi Heng.
"I'm rough-skinned and thick-skinned, so it hurts. ”
Qi Heng took the handkerchief, pinched it dry, and hung it on a hemp rope used to dry the handkerchief in the stove.
"Where is your skin rougher? I think you're much whiter than the other offspring in our village!"
Qi Heng picked up another wooden basin that he usually used to wash his feet, poured hot water into it, and mixed it with some cold water.
"Really?" Qi Heng took a low stool and put it in front of the wooden basin that had just been mixed with water, and continued: "Sit, soak your feet." ”
Su Yi sat down, and Qi Heng helped her take off her embroidered shoes, "Why don't you say anything? ”
"It's okay, just go back and change into embroidered shoes later. ”
Qi Heng helped her take off her shoes and socks, rolled up her skirt and trousers, and put her little feet in a wooden basin to soak, "What do you say? ”
"Know, Luo. ”
"People aren't coming to you?"
"You. ”
"By the way, I'm boiling chicken soup on the stove, and I'm going to send it to you when it's ready, so I think you've already come. After a while, you can drink some soup first, go to the cold, and then I'll send you home. ”
"You want to take me home so soon?"
Su Yi winked at Qi Heng.
"Not really. ”
He washed her feet and crouched across from her tall body.
"When I go home later, I have already told my mother that I want to eat at your place, and I won't go back so soon. ”
"Good. ”
"After a while, I will ask my mother to pack some dried vegetables and sweet potatoes for you, you don't always send things to my house, you can keep some for yourself, this winter food is very nervous, and you are a fool." ”
Throughout the winter, Qi Heng didn't know how much air-dried meat he sent to the Li family.
"Didn't you fill it up last time? I haven't finished eating yet. ”
Qi Heng got up and tore off a dry handkerchief from the hemp rope on the wall of the stove room, she lifted her little feet again, and he helped her wipe her little feet clean.
Then he put down the handkerchief, picked her up and put her on the kang in the room, which had already been burned hot.
"I'll go and roast your shoes and socks by the fire. ”
"Okay, then you go quickly~"
Su Yi pushed Qi Heng.
Qi Heng laughed twice, walked to the stove room, put the woman's embroidered shoes on the stove by the fire, poured out the water in the two wooden basins, dried the handkerchief, washed his hands again, looked at the chicken soup, licked two pieces of charcoal into the stove hole with an iron clip, and then walked to the room.
On the kang in the room, Su Yi had already taken off her robe and put it aside, she took out her robe from her baggage, saw Qi Heng coming in, and said, "Try it, it's done for you." ”
"So fast?" he knew about Sue making him a robe.
Qi Heng obediently walked into the kang, and Su Yi stood on the kang and bent down to put it on him.
"It's so pretty!"
"You're good-looking, too. ”
"Thank you, lady. ”
"Who's your wife?"
Su Yi's clenched fist hammered Qi Heng's chest.
"You. ”
"Be serious, otherwise you would have suffered it, and you would like to be like that?"
"So?"
Qi Heng smiled at the corner of his eyes and opened his mouth to scare her.
"If you seduce me like that, I won't let you go easily, anyway, I'm going to get married!"
When Su Yi heard this, he directly stretched out his hand, pulled him to sit on the big kang together, hugged him again, rubbed him with his body, and said softly: "I'm going to seduce you!"
"How to seduce?"
"You....... Knowingly?"
"Hey, how's your wasteland going?"
"It's almost, there is a lot of rain in the spring, and it is easy to open. ”
"Well, in the future, I will plant a lot of vegetables in the field you opened, I will plant wheat vegetables, I will plant mustard greens, and I will also plant jicama! When the vegetables are cooked, I will pick them, and then we will fry them and eat them!"
"Okay, it's all up to you. ”
"Well, by the way, I still want to plant two peach trees in this backyard and two more orange trees!
"Okay, all planted. ”
"And jujube trees! Jujube trees should also be planted, my maternal grandfather's backyard planted jujube trees in the past, when I was a child, I often climbed trees with Ah He and them to pick dates, and our children can do the same in the future. ”
"Okay, I'll listen to you. ”
This man, who was obviously so tall and had tough facial features, stood with Su Yi, if he made a fierce appearance casually, he would be able to scare her, but what he said was soft.
"After that, I will serve you obediently at home~"
"What are you talking about?" the man reached out and touched the head of the woman in his arms again, silly girl.
"My mother said that when you get married, you must live a good life with your husband and serve your husband well......"
"Your mother doesn't mean to serve, it's to be considerate. ”
The man reached out again and touched the head of the woman in his arms.
"Am I considerate of you, then?" the woman suddenly looked up at him.
The man smiled, "Be considerate, otherwise who made this robe for me?" Who has nothing to do to make a robe for me?" He knew that there was a lot of rain and humidity in this season, even when he went up the mountain on a sunny day, the humidity in the mountain was heavy, and this girl gave him a robe when he first came.
Su Yi stretched out her hand and wrapped the hair around her ear, a smile appeared on her face, "Really?"
"Really. ”
Soe reached out again and thumped him in the chest.