Early in the morning, as soon as the second wife's dog started barking in the front yard, something happened again in the village.
Why.
I turned over and planned to continue sleeping, when I heard Lulu starting to get dressed.
"Lulu, what are you doing up so early?"
"Oh, I'll go to the backyard and clean up my house so that we won't have the inconvenience of having too many people sleeping in our house and not having enough toilets."
"Then I'll go with you." I sat up and touched my clothes twice.
Lulu took it and helped me button it, while asking worriedly: "Can you do it? It's quite cold and there's frost on the ground outside."
"It's okay, I can't do the work, but I can still talk to you."
Lulu smiled and pinched my nose.
Sister Lu next to her laughed out loud, and spoke in a muffled voice as if she had just woken up: "You two ladies have such a good relationship."
Many people have said this.
We said a few words to Sister Lu and then let her go back to sleep. They had come all the way and were very tired.
Originally, Lulu and I just wanted to wake up Zhao Ting and ask him to help, but Zhao Ting didn't get up, but Shen Zhaoshan got up. He pulled Zhou Cheng up again and said he would come with us.
As soon as I went out, the cold wind swirled into my neck. I shrank my neck from the cold. At this time, a warm coat was draped on me.
"Lulu, put it on quickly! It's too cold."
I was just about to scold Lulu for taking off her clothes and giving them to me when I heard Lulu's voice coming from the gate: "What?"
"..." If it's not Lulu, then the person next to me is...
"It's okay, I'm not cold. I'll warm up later when I start working."
It's Shen Zhaoshan...
I hurriedly took off my clothes and gave them to him: "I still have clothes in the house, just go and get one for me."
Shen Zhaoshan hesitated for a while before answering, then went into the house and brought me a piece of clothing.
I put on a heavy cotton coat and it was indeed much warmer.
Zhou Cheng was very weak when he woke up in the morning and insisted on supporting me because he could squeeze into my coat and walk slowly with me.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
The four of us went out and walked back down the street when we heard something hovering in the sky with echoes.
I moved my ears.
"It seems... someone is beating someone?" I don't know where it came from. There were cries of girls, begging for mercy, and a middle-aged woman's scolding, which was similar to the crackling of willow branches or whips.
Uncle Qian asked my mother to leave... couldn't this be the case, right?
Zhou Cheng yawned miserably next to me: "Whoever beats people up early in the morning is not committing any crime."
"...Can you please stop yawning at me? You didn't brush your teeth."
"Hmm, does it smell bad? Smell it again, ha--"
I gave him a slap in the face.
Lulu walked in front, her tone also a little melancholy: "We will find out when Aunt Yun comes back later."
"OK."
We went to Lulu's house, but I couldn't see her and couldn't help her much.
Lulu spread a thick quilt for me on the kang and asked me to sit down. I listened to the three people tidying up. Lulu and Shen Zhaoshan also disliked Zhou Cheng for being clumsy from time to time.
I feel so wronged.
After putting it away, I shrugged my nose and said, "Why does it smell so good? Which one of you lit the incense?"
Zhou Cheng answered me aggrievedly: "This house has been unoccupied for a long time. When Brother Shen and I were cleaning it up, we found many mountain spirits and wild monsters hiding in the cracks in the wall. We just hired a teacher to drive them away.
"
"Oh." I squeezed my palms.
There are so many mountain spirits and wild monsters. When we came here yesterday, I didn't feel them at all. Sure enough, without Snake Eyes, I would be nothing.
...It's quite good, at least we don't have to live a life-or-death life anymore. Once the deal with that god is completed, our family can live a comfortable life as an ordinary person.
I was thinking about it when I suddenly shuddered.
There was a cold wind creeping up my back just now. The wind was so cold that it penetrated into my flesh through my pores.
I touched my back, but there was nothing there. I only felt my thin and rugged spine, and my back gradually became warm again... I guess it was the wild monsters passing by my back when they were escaping.
We went home for lunch at noon. As soon as we entered the yard, we heard Uncle Qian sighing repeatedly: "Sister Jiang is very vicious. Tell me, she is not someone who has been in our village. I don't listen to anything I say, that is, Guizhi."
My sister-in-law helped her yesterday and she only listened to a few words, but there is no way to go on like this."
Uncle Qian must have been squatting in the yard with my dad smoking, and the air was smelly.
"Girl Yun, you are back." Uncle Qian talked to us with a smile.
We all went over to say hello to Uncle Qian and my dad.
Lulu pulled me to sit down at the door and asked doubtfully: "Uncle Qian, we heard this morning, whose family seemed to be fighting."
"The one who came to your house yesterday is the eldest sister who has just moved in."
Zhou Cheng sneered: "She is all I care about."
Shen Zhaoshan chuckled: "You are quite thoughtful."
"Then take a look."
I took the hot roasted sweet potato that someone handed me and took a bite. It was sweet and glutinous: "What's going on? Why did they get into a fight?"
Uncle Qian snorted, took a puff of cigarette, and told us: "Yesterday, didn't your mother ask Sister Jiang to go back and buy those kinds of Chinese medicines to eat raw? But this morning, she made her daughter-in-law stewed with star anise leaves or something like that.
Sister Jiang went to look for medicine this morning but couldn't find it. She only found out after asking, so she beat her daughter-in-law."
Zhou Cheng was cracking melon seeds. Hearing Uncle Qian say this, he stopped cracking melon seeds and said in surprise: "Ah? What about her little daughter-in-law, doesn't she know that the aunt named Jiang has been poisoned?"
"Hum, let's just talk about it here. I don't know what Sister Jiang is thinking. My daughter-in-law seems to be well-behaved and smart. Sister Jiang is still guarding her against everything. We don't dare to ask. But tell me, brother, you also
I saw her little daughter-in-law, does she look like a bad person?"
My dad immediately replied: "It really doesn't look like him. He is fair and clean, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He is also quiet. He doesn't look like a bad person."
"Look, what did I say? As for Sister Jiang, I don't know why I guard against her as much as I guard against thieves. If I don't guard against her, how can my daughter-in-law stew meat even if she knows it's medicine? Just do it yourself."
of."
I listened silently to everyone's words, but I always felt that something was not quite right.
After much thought, I finally realized what was wrong.
"Dad, you said Tian Weiyu is pretty good-looking?"
My dad hummed: "Why do you ask?"
Lulu suddenly realized what she was doing next to me, and immediately slapped my leg with a big slap, giving me a shock.
"Uncle Yun, I have met Tian Weiyu. She is quite good-looking, but with her... looks like this, she won't marry Aunt Jiang's youngest son, right? Didn't she say that her youngest son is a fool? And she's still following her.
This is our place."
"Yes." I nodded in affirmation.
Uncle Qian immediately burst out laughing: "You two girls, someone has asked this question a long time ago. What Sister Jiang said is that her family helped Lao Tian's family and saved Tian Weiyu's father, so the two children
If you hit the pulp of your little finger to get married, now you have to do it even if you don’t.”