At night, the sky is dry and the cicadas are chirping and the birds are chirping.
The noise outside the house never stopped for a moment, and Liu Sanniang and other women could be heard yelling and cursing from time to time.
Xia Zhaoyi sat in a dry corner of the house. She opened a few windows to facilitate ventilation. The gentle breeze also brought a lot of comfort and coolness to her hot and hot body.
There was smoke from cooking in the yard, busy women were running around incessantly, dishes and pots were clinking, and the huge backyard was like a tight string.
"Sister," Xiao Wu finally couldn't help it anymore and looked back at the small wooden house in the most remote corner. "That person seems to be really about to die. When I went to find her today, she looked weird."
"Don't worry about this." Xiao Rong, who was sitting next to her, pulled her back and continued to clean the dishes in his hands. He said unhappily, "Have you forgotten about the nosy last time? I heard that the wild wolves chewed all the bones.
There aren’t many left.”
"Ah," Xiao Wu opened his eyes in fright, "Who did you listen to? Is anyone going to see it?"
"Don't worry about these things. You won't go if Mother Yu asks you to go." Xiaorong put down the bowls and chopsticks, got up and went to the well nearby, threw the bucket into the well, and said while holding on to the windlass,
"Come on, give me a hand, I'm almost out of strength."
"What's the use of keeping it with you if you don't have any strength! You don't need to eat dinner tonight!" Mrs. Liang cursed casually, passing by with a basket of clean clothes that she had just received, her footsteps hurried.
Xiao Wu glared at her angrily, stood up, walked to the well to help, and said angrily: "You're a worthless bitch, she's just showing off her power in front of our children."
A little girl struggled to hold a bamboo basket also filled with clean clothes and trotted after Mr. Liang. When she heard these words, she looked towards Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu timidly closed his mouth, but after recognizing the little girl as the timid Qian Qianqian, his eyes widened again, filled with warning.
Qian Qianqian quickly looked away, hugged the bamboo basket tightly, and chased forward.
The sky is getting darker and darker, and the rich aroma of food from the backyard is wafting out.
At about 3:30 p.m., a stooped man ran over from the bridge and shouted: "Come back, come back, Master Ba and the others are back!"
"Quick, quick!" a woman with a sharp voice shouted, "get ready!"
"Where's the wine? Let's serve the wine first!" Liu Sanniang also started shouting at the top of her voice.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Wu, Xiao Rong, and the other six or seven girls quickly put down what they were doing, got up and ran towards the wine cellar. No one dared to slow down.
Liu Sanniang stood in the courtyard and watched them. When they approached, she turned to look at the small wooden house in the northwest corner, rolled up her sleeves and yelled: "I don't know if the short-lived one is dead. It's so busy here. She
It’s quite comfortable hiding inside, let Brother Lu kill it and feed it to the pigs later!”
All the girls turned pale after hearing this, and held the wine jars in their hands firmly, fearing they would fall to the ground and break.
"You know you're scared, right? Once you know it, work hard for me! After you deliver the wine, go boil the water. Those guys need to take a shower!"
Liu Sanniang was very satisfied with their reaction. After the training, she turned and went to the kitchen to get a bowl to serve herself porridge.
Qian Qianqian was not among the girls delivering the wine. She was sitting on the bench, making rice balls with the maids next to her.
Seeing the girls carrying the wine jars to the front yard, Qian Qianqian felt indescribable envy, then turned back and looked at the small wooden house on the other side.
"What are you looking at?" Mother Yu saw that she was restless and whispered, "Don't be distracted and do your job neatly."
"Oh." Qian Qianqian nodded, but uncontrollably, he looked towards the cabin again.
"Qianqian." Yu's mother shouted.
Qian Qianqian pursed her lips, not daring to raise her head again, and the speed of rolling the rice balls gradually slowed down.
The girls trotted back after delivering the wine. When they came back, they went to the wine cellar, picked up the wine jar again, and hurriedly delivered it to the front yard again.
Qian Qianqian looked up at them again.
Mother Yu immediately patted the back of her hand: "Rub it quickly."
Qian Qianqian looked away calmly: "Yeah."
But at this moment, there were several sounds of the wine jar breaking, and the girls ran back here screaming.
The servants and women stood up in shock and looked back one after another.
A woman in gray cloth appeared out of nowhere, with a slender figure and disheveled hair hanging down her hips. She was running after several girls holding wine jars.
Xiao Wu tightly protected the wine jar in his hand, not daring to break it, but the woman grabbed it: "Give it to me!"
The woman took away Xiao Wu's wine jar, pushed her away, and looked at the group of servant women who came after hearing the sound.
"Xiaowu!" Xiaorong hurriedly ran to help her sister.
Xiao Wu was a little confused, raising his head and looking at the woman blankly.
"What are you looking at?" the woman kicked them and cursed, "What are you looking at? How can you get better!"
The woman looked around, ran to the nearby wooden frame, pulled out the torch, rushed towards the crowd, and waved it wildly: "Get out, get out of here! Or die with me!"
The girls screamed and ran away, and several were frightened to tears.
The woman opened the lid of the wine and poured the wine in the jar into the crowd, pretending to throw the torch as well.
The servants and women also fled away in panic.
The woman turned around and smashed the wine jar into the kitchen, then ran in and rummaged through the wine jar with a torch.
"I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you..."
She murmured and smashed all the wine jars she could find in the house to the ground.
"She's crazy, she's crazy!"
"Go to the front yard and call someone!"
"You guys try to stop her!"
The servants outside the house were in a panic.
The wine gurgled and flowed in all directions.
The woman squatted down holding a wine jar and placed the torch on the ground.
The wine was ignited and boiled.
The corner of the woman's clothes also caught fire. She jumped up and shook it off, then ran out with the wine jar in her arms.
Three or four servants were holding poles facing her, and another servant was holding a wooden post for bolting the door.
"If you don't want to live anymore, don't drag us into the water!" a servant woman yelled angrily.
"Put down your torch!"
"You can't defeat so many of us!"
Seeing their frightened expressions, the woman laughed, the more she laughed, the more miserable she became, and tears fell from her eyes.
The fire behind her quickly grew stronger, rushing to the rafters and burning through the roof, staining the sky with an orange light.
"You guys should die too." The woman suddenly shouted, throwing the wine jar in her hand at the crowd, and then threw the torch after it.
The crowd screamed and fled in all directions. The two women who were hit were on fire and jumped on the spot, screaming for help.
The woman quickly went aside to pick up another torch and threw it at the drinks that the girls had dropped on the ground.
Another fire broke out.
"Crazy, crazy, crazy," Yu's mother hid behind the crowd holding a large basin of pink rice balls, murmuring as she looked at the fires hunting in the wind and the two burning people rolling and slapping on the ground, screaming incessantly.
