Sure enough, old Yuan didn't come back until the stall was closed.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Song Qiu took Zhang Lihua and started to pack up.
At this time, Zhou Shitou drove a mule cart out of the village.
When he arrived at the tea shed, he said: "Sister-in-law Huaixiang is still alive! Brother Dali told me that it will be night at least, so he asked me to help you drive the mule cart out. You can use it. It just so happens that I will come to help you close the stall."
As he said that, he helped carry the tables and benches onto the mule cart.
With Zhou Shitou's help, it was much faster. I took everything home in two trips.
As soon as Zhang Lihua came home, she was called to wash her clothes. Zhou Shitou was also about to go home, but he hesitated to leave, looking at Song Qiu who hesitated to speak.
Song Qiu was planning to go hunting pigweed while it was still early. Seeing Zhou Shitou like this, he knew what he was going to say, so he simply put on his backpack and took the sickle and went to the village with him.
Zhou Shitou followed behind, walking all the way through the village. When he arrived at Nanniwan, there was no one there, so he rubbed his head and said sheepishly: "Aqiu, you promised to help me find out Lihua's voice last time, but it's done."
?My father has promised me to find an opportunity to talk to my mother about this matter."
It was only after Zhou Shitou mentioned this that Song Qiu remembered it. She had been so busy recently and had Zhang Yang's trip back to the mountain, so she had even forgotten about it.
"I haven't had time to ask yet, don't worry, I'll ask you tomorrow."
When Zhou Shitou heard this, he didn't ask yet, but he felt impatient. Although his mother promised not to tell him about the girl from that family, she still asked someone to continue looking for others.
If he finds it again one day and he is still unhappy, he may be beaten.
If he finds out Lihua's feelings as soon as possible, once his father talks about it here, it will be easier for him to let go of the stone in his heart.
"Okay, remember to ask for me tomorrow."
Having said what needed to be said, Zhou Shitou thought it was time to come, so he simply helped Song Qiu fill a bag full of pigweed.
The pigs and weeds had been beaten, so it was just a matter of walking a few more steps to help carry it back, so Zhou Shitou simply did it.
He thought that by helping Song Qiu, Song Qiu Ming'er would take his matter to heart.
I didn’t have any other ideas, but someone saw it and didn’t think so.
Zhou Shitou delivered pigweed to Song's house and then came back. As soon as he entered the house, Manju called out to him, "Shitou, help me fetch water and fill the water tank so that I can boil water for your father to come back and take a bath."
Zhou Shitou agreed, but without taking a break, he quickly went into the stove house to carry a bucket, came out to press water, and carried it into the stove house.
Manju stood in the yard playing with the dried long beans that had been drying for several days, and took a look at the situation at Butcher Wang's house next door.
There was still noise in the room. Butcher Wang and his eldest son Wang Dabao had not returned from selling pork. Butcher Wang's wife was helping in the room, while Wang Dabao's daughter-in-law was in the kitchen looking after the hot water.
Wang Dali was pacing back and forth in the yard alone, feeling extremely worried.
Wang Dabao's several-year-old son followed behind and walked around.
The courtyards of the two families were close together, and as Wang Dali walked back and forth, the smell of sweat mixed with the evening wind drifted into the Zhou family's courtyard.
Manju smelled the smell of sweat very clearly and couldn't help but said: "Dali, you have been walking all afternoon, and your feet still hurt. Sit down and have a rest. This woman is giving birth to a baby, and her first child is..."
It's not that fast, Aunt Yuan, don't tell me, your wife didn't hurt the baby in this fall, she will be fine."
"Hey! Sister-in-law Wu Jin, I know, you can't sit still, walk faster, walk faster." Wang Dali responded, but he still didn't stop walking back and forth.
Seeing that Manju couldn't stop persuading him, she simply stopped persuading him.
Collect all the long beans that have been dried in the sun, as well as the extremely dried mountain mushrooms. Put them in clean cloth bags and store them. There is no need to dry them. It is best to store them and eat them in the winter.
OK.
After doing this, he went into the kitchen and saw that the water jars were full. Manju lit a fire and boiled the water first so that the man could wash himself when he came back later.
"Shitou, come in. Mom will talk to you."
After carrying the water, Zhou Shitou planned to go out to play for a while. When he heard Man Ju shouting, he went into the stove room again, "Mom, what are you going to tell me? Lan Hua is embroidering a handkerchief with Tao Zhi at Uncle Tie's house, I guess.
I'll be back soon."
"I'm not looking for Lanhua, I'm telling you something." How could she not know where Lanhua was and what she was doing?
Manju patted the small stool next to her and asked her son to sit over.
The fire was burning brightly in the stove hole, and I was sitting in front of the stove. It was extremely hot. There was a crackling sound of steam coming out of the pot, but no one outside could hear clearly what was being said inside.
Man Ju lowered her voice again, looked at Zhou Shitou and said, "You drove the mule cart first to help A Qiu close the stall?"
"Yeah." Zhou Shitou looked confused and didn't understand what his mother was going to say.
"You came back and helped Ah Qiu hunt down pigweed again?"
"Mom, what do you want to say?"
"Your grandma Yuan is busy, and Aqiu is alone. It's right to help her. At that time, your father and Aqiu's father were the closest to each other. It's a pity that her father didn't live long, so be careful.
A person who died at such a young age."
Manju was talking nonchalantly, which made Zhou Shitou feel like a monk, but he couldn't help but nod his head. What he said was correct, the relationship between their two families was already good.
Man Ju had finished talking about the past, changed her voice, stared at her son's face, and suddenly said, "You are not happy if I ask you to marry this, and you are not happy to marry that. Mom is asking you today, are you with me?"
Mom, tell the truth, do you like Aqiu?"
Zhou Shitou:......
For a long time, his mother actually thought that he liked Aqiu!
Zhou Shitou quickly waved his hand, "Mom, what are you talking about? Why do I like Aqiu? I just treat her like Lanhua. Don't act like this!"
What if his mother gets a muscle cramp and goes to propose marriage to Grandma Yuan?
Isn't this a huge oolong?
Seeing that her son was denying it, and it didn't look like he was cheating, Manju became suspicious.
I really don’t like it, why do I always come to Aqiu?
In the past, she thought that they had grown up together and didn't think there was anything wrong with it. However, when her son got older, he was always reluctant to marry her and always moved closer to Aqiu. Why was there no problem with this?
After all, it was her son. Manju didn't believe that he could pretend to be so serious. After looking at it carefully for a while, she couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's okay if you don't like it. Mom will be relieved."
Zhou Shitou originally thought that his mother was going to mess up the relationship, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but said: "Why do you hear what mother means? I don't like Aqiu and you are still relieved. Why is Aqiu so bad?"
?They are so hard-working and capable."
Manju smiled and said, "Of course, I know that Aqiu is hardworking and capable. If this were my daughter, I would laugh out of my dreams. But asking for a wife is different. You are not young anymore. If you can do it this year, next year
Then you can ask for a wife and come back to have a baby, and I won’t hide some things from you.”
"If you really like Aqiu, my mother will not allow you to ask her to be your wife."