Chapter 428: Going Home
The sky is slightly bright, and a new day is about to dawn.
There is a river that leads the moat into the city as a stream, and the gurgling stream goes around the city, just like the autumn waves in the eyes of a woman.
The brook was babbling under the stone bridge, and a young woman was squatting on the side of the stream to wash her clothes.
Because of the posture, the woman's plump and graceful figure is particularly highlighted, and the young woman picks up the delicate soaphorn made of grass ash at home, dips it into the stream to wet it, carefully spreads it evenly on the bluestone slab, and then rolls it up, and beats the garment over and over again with the mallet next to her hand, and from time to time it needs to be turned over and continued to beat.
The young woman who had been lying for a long time was a little tired, so she stopped to rest for a while, and the well-maintained green onion jade fingers were better than the girl, and she picked up the sweaty green silk that covered her eyebrows and hung it gently in her ears, and occasionally stared blankly at her own reflection in the stream, which was better than a hibiscus out of the water.
She was in a daze for a moment, and continued to wave the mallet in her hand on the uninhabited stream.
Originally, a poor family like her and her husband were not qualified to move here, but since the Ming Jun on Luo Yu Mountain ascended the throne, the officials of the entire Luo Yu City have undergone a round of blood changes, and they are far more incorruptible than the previous ruling team.
After another merit test of the residents of Luo Yu City, she was surprised to find that she and her husband were actually people with great merit, which was different from the test after they had crossed the Nai He Bridge and entered the Yama Palace.
However, the officials did not dare to deceive the superiors and subordinates, and after the report was made, according to the new law of Luo Yucheng, those with great merit could be exempted from miscellaneous labor and assigned a small house, and the young woman, who was accustomed to a poor life before her death, could not resist the kind officials, so she had to live with her husband.
The young woman did not dare to come out to wash her clothes after the third day of the day, for fear that she would be looked at when she washed the shameful underwear. The officials would give them the money on time every month, saying that only those with great merit could be treated like this, and the gold and silver were enough for them to hire domestic servants to work after paying their monthly expenses, but she was not accustomed to the feeling of being served, and insisted on doing it herself, and her husband was equally in favor of it, and her handsome man, who did not want to end up idle in Huangquan after his death, had now found a job in the teahouse.
She couldn't figure out what earth-shattering things she and her husband had done during their lifetimes to make the one on Luo Yu Mountain and the Yama Hall recognize that they had great merits?
The young woman was in a slight trance, and she often asked her husband that since they were husband and wife before their deaths, they wondered if they should have children under their knees, but why didn't they see them?
The man laughed and scolded her, if they had children under their knees before their lives and they couldn't see them at the moment, it meant that the children were still living well in the world, and that was a great thing.
Finally, it was her turn to wear underwear, probably because she was really cumbersome, and the stitches of the red silk material were a little loose and sparse, and she hurriedly washed it after a few beatings.
Perhaps because her mind always mentions, when the sound of wooden branches being trampled on the other side of the stream suddenly sounded, her hands trembled violently when she was putting the cleaned clothes into the bamboo strips one by one, and she hurriedly looked up.
On the slope on the other side of the stream stood a young man in white clothes, whose face she could not see because of the darkness, but she was sure that he had been staring at her.
Her pretty face flushed with her hands clutching her close belly pocket, and she glared fiercely at the disciple who didn't know what to look at indecently.
Annoyed and angry, she saw that the young man stretched out his right hand slightly, as if he wanted to excuse his peeping indiscretion, but the corners of the young man's mouth trembled several times, and he finally did not speak.
The young woman took the opportunity to quickly stuff her belly pocket into the bamboo strips, got up and left the stream, her pretty face was slightly red, she turned a few street corners, saw the door of her house, and finally let go of her heart, but when she was about to take out the key in her arms, the corner of her eye was in the corner of the corner, and she once again caught a glimpse of the disciple who had been on the bank of the stream!
She immediately picked up the broom next to the door of the house and smashed it at the disciple, the rules and regulations set by the northern ghost emperor in Luo Yu City are notoriously strict, I don't know how many powerful people who relied on their backgrounds when they were reformed, and they had never heard for a long time that a thief dared to be a woman on the street, she immediately reprimanded angrily: "You shameless disciple, you dare to chase after you!"
The young man with half of his body exposed under the locust tree in the corner of the wall dodged the broomstick sideways.
The man in the courtyard hurriedly came out when he heard the sound, carrying a rhino horn strong bow in his hand, and saw his wife, who was rarely angry, facing the coquettish scolding in the corner not far away, and swept away with a falcon-like gaze, but did not find anything suspicious, and asked suspiciously: "Qing'er, what do you see, such a big liver fire?"
The young woman surnamed Mu Mingqing bit her lip, her eyes still refusing to give up and continued to search, and she talked about what had just happened by the stream with a slight cry.
As soon as the man heard this, he jumped on his head angrily, he knew best how much his daughter-in-law's figure and posture were, although she was the age of a half-old, but she was very well maintained, even the fairies who served the ghost emperor on Luo Yu Mountain were not as good as their daughters-in-law. But it is precisely because of the daughter-in-law that when they first came to this rich area, the couple was already haggard just to deal with those sneaky unscrupulous people, and they had been born for several years, so why did they pop up a voyeur again?
The man obviously had some worldly kung fu in his body, picked up the rhino horn strong bow that was rubbed into a shiny one, and jumped on the half-zhang high low wall to look around, but still didn't find the white shirt in the daughter-in-law's mouth, Mu Qing opened his mouth: "Chang Feng, forget it, maybe that guy will retreat because of the difficulty, I will be careful when I go out these days, if I see that person again, we will directly report to the guards in the city." ”
The man who was estimated to be a hunter before his death sighed, jumped off the low wall, put down the strong bow in his hand, unloaded the bamboo strip on his wife's back, held her in his arms and kissed her lightly on the forehead, and said gently: "I'll go and talk to the owner of the teahouse later, I won't go to work in the next few days, let's be at home, and never let those crooked guys have the slightest chance." You, life is hard, according to those scholars, isn't it just a thin life? and I, a poor and bad man, have not enjoyed happiness in the yang world, so if we let you still be wronged under the Yellow Spring, then I am still a man?"
Mu Qing raised his head, he was already full of tears, and the old husband and wife, who had been loving in every way from the sun, grinded their ears and temples, complained to each other, and snuggled slowly into the house.
In the corner of the alley outside the house, a young man in white clothes walked out illusory, picked up a broom, and solemnly placed it next to the door of the house.
Upon closer inspection, I found that the young man's face was seven points as handsome and free as the middle-aged man, and seven points as the young woman's beauty.
The young man in the white shirt slammed his knees to the ground, knelt the hard bluestone slab out of the deep pit, his forehead was close to the ground, and his glass-like body under the shirt trembled because of excitement.
This is the home of his dreams.