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Chapter 268 The Tangle of Jiang Hongguo
In the blink of an eye, nearly a month has passed, and Jiang Hongguo has gradually adapted to life in Maixiang Village.

Gradually understand Wang Zhong's habits.

Wang Zhong's life was very regular. Every night after eating, he had to walk along the ditches. While walking to digest his food, he checked the irrigation ditches and waterwheels along the way.

This point alone is completely different from Jiang Hongguo's cognition. For ordinary farmers, if there is nothing important to do after eating, they wish they could lie down immediately and let the food in their stomachs digest slowly. How could Wang Zhong In this way, you can also take a walk to digest food.

After walking home every night, I would practice boxing, kicking and club skills in the yard. Every three to five days, I would go into the mountain with a bow and arrow. Every time I went there, I would spend a whole day. Basically pheasant-based.

When I was free, I either sat on the kang to read and write, or I tapped in the tool room in the west wing.

Every time Wang Zhong reads a book, Jiang Hongguo likes to sit beside him with a sieve full of needlework, mending and doing needlework.

There is also a beautiful girl named Qiao Yue who often comes to visit. She looks very handsome and dresses like a city person. She always likes to wear a scarf around her neck. Sometimes it is red, sometimes pink, and sometimes white. , the speech is also soft and waxy, and the voice is quite nice, but Jiang Hongguo always feels a little awkward.

On weekdays, the girl named Qiao Yue would always like to discuss things with Wang Zhong that Jiang Hongguo couldn't understand when she saw Wang Zhong holding a book and reading, but Jiang Hongguo could tell that it was basically the girl named Qiao Yue. In other words, Wang Zhong dealt with things casually. Although the disgust in his eyes was not so obvious, it was not invisible if he observed carefully.

Every time I see this, Jiang Hongguo wants to laugh, but every time I can only hold back.

Members of the second mutual aid group also often come to visit, especially one named Laoganbang, who comes the most, but Laoganbang basically stays with Wang Zhong in the tool room in the west wing every time he comes back, and learns carpentry from Wang Zhong Craftsmanship, the two of them tapped and worked together.

Ma Renlian from the front yard, Niu Bold from the side yard, and Jiang Hongguo gradually became familiar with each other. There was a little girl named Xiaozhuan who often came to visit her with Mrs. Jinhua from the second group.

There is also a big girl named Deng'er, who is handsome and kind, and often comes to ask her to do needlework and chat with her.

It is worth mentioning that, three days after Jiang Hongguo moved in, Wang Zhong and Jiang Hongguo changed places, Wang Zhong moved into the east room, and Jiang Hongguo moved into the main room.

Jiang Hongguo was naturally not happy at first, this is Wang Zhong's house, she is an outsider, how could she occupy the magpie's nest and live in the main house.

But Wang Zhong had a good reason. Wang Zhong likes to be clean, but on the kang in the main room, whenever a guest comes, he will sit on the kang. Except for Ma Renli and Qiao Yue who are clean, the rest of the villagers are not Wang Zhong. I despise them a lot, but they really don't pay attention to themselves.

Especially that guy Niu Bold, whose feet are so smelly that it can smother mosquitoes to death.

In addition, Wang Zhong usually looks gentle and docile, easy to talk, but in fact he is a domineering person. How could Jiang Hongguo dare to refute the decision he made? Wang Zhong just gave her a step, let alone this. Back to Wang Zhong, he also specifically found a reason to talk about the past.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, the last episode of the end of the year in the county, Jiang Hongguo followed Wang Zhong in an ox cart, and brought Ma Renli, Mrs. Jinhua, and Han Chunmei, and the three monkeys into the city.

After Wang Zhong settled the bullock cart, he got into the bookstore by himself.

On the other side, Jiang Hongguo, Mrs. Jinhua, and Han Chunmei held hands, carrying a basket, and strolled and looked at the busy streets. Ma Renli and the three monkeys followed behind, acting as flower protectors.

After a while the three women got into the sewing shop.

"Sister, how are you and the captain doing?" The three of them were picking needles and threads when Mrs. Jinhua suddenly changed her voice and asked gossip. Han Chunmei also looked at Jiang Hongguo curiously.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Hongguo's cheeks flushed slightly, but her heart felt dark.

Aunt Jinhua smiled and said, "Sister, what's the matter, you guys are unmarried, and your girls are unmarried, besides, as long as our captain is as capable, let alone our Maixiang Village, it is the whole Maixiangling, the whole county You can't find another one. Such a good man, you live in the same yard with him every day, and eat at the same table, can you not be tempted?"

The more Mrs. Jinhua said that, the more entangled and guilty Jiang Hongguo felt.

A lie that was inadvertently once, often needs to be covered by countless lies in the future. Now Jiang Hongguo, in the eyes of everyone in Maixiang Village, is a poor little girl who has no relatives and no reason, and fled to Maixiang Village alone. Wang Zhong, who had a similar encounter with him, kindly took her in.

"Sister, my sister-in-law would like to tell you a heart-to-heart word. Our captain is in the area of ​​Maixiangling, but he is very attractive. He is young and capable. When he went to his house to propose a matchmaker, he almost broke the threshold of his house.

Let's not talk about those who are far away. Let's talk about Qiao Yue who lives next to you. "

Han Chunmei also took it seriously and said: "Sister, if you are really interested in our captain, you have to hurry up. I went back to my mother's house a while ago, and I heard from my mother that there are families and girls in our village who are ready to trust someone." Going to the captain’s house to propose marriage.”

Jiang Hongguo's white teeth biting her lower lip became more and more forceful, and her heart became more and more entangled.

Seeing this, Mrs. Jinhua stepped forward to add fuel: "It's a good saying, good women don't worry about marrying, and good men don't worry about marrying. To tell you the truth, a man like our captain, if I wasn't a widow, I would have given up Just send it to your door by yourself."

"Sister, sister-in-law Jinhua is right. If a man as good as the captain is missed, he will regret it for the rest of his life."

Mrs. Jin Hua and Han Chunmei talked to each other. The two took turns to fight, and Jiang Hongguo was so confused by what she said.

The gentle and domineering Wang Zhong, who seems to be omnipotent, is completely different from the farmer who has occupied all his cognition for more than [-] years, just like the bait hanging on the sharp fishhook. Just as Heli Yuer has a fatal attraction, Wang Zhong is always attracted to Jiang Hongguo.

If Wang Zhong really wanted Jiang Hongguo's body that night when he first came here, Jiang Hongguo might not have these entanglements.

But Wang Zhong didn't want her. Instead, he justly rejected her offer of dedication, and even more kindly took her in, let her live in the house, provided her with three meals a day and two nights, and also bought her winter clothes and cotton shoes , and went to the mountains to hunt pheasants every three days to help her replenish her body.

Jiang Hongguo already knew from Mrs. Jinhua and others that although Wang Zhong also went hunting in the mountains, he only went back occasionally, basically only once or twice a month.

But since Wang Zhong gave her a pulse, he said that her body was seriously deficient, and the cold air entered her body. The bad thing was that she was still young and could resist it.

After that, Wang Zhong carried a bow and arrow into the mountain every three days, and he went there for a whole day. Every time he brought back pheasants, he added some medicinal materials to stew soup, most of which was given to Jiang Hongguo.

After nearly a month, Jiang Hongguo obviously felt that her energy was more and more full, and she slept more and more steadily every day. Unlike the beginning, she often had nightmares, woke up suddenly at night, and had a back pain. In a cold sweat.

Now I only dream once in a while, and basically sleep until the next morning.

Thinking of Wang Zhong's chewing, Jiang Hongguo smiled wryly and said: "Brother Wang is such a capable person, how could he look up to me!"

Mrs. Jinhua said: "Sister, I have to criticize you. The more capable we are, the captain, the more we know what kind of daughter-in-law we should ask for. That Qiao Yue who lives next to your yard, isn't she pretty? Is it? She can sing, read and write, and is also an educated person, but does our captain take a fancy to her?"

Han Chunmei couldn't help nodding: "Sister Jinhua is right. Qiao Yue is beautiful, but she is not a person who lives a life. I heard from my family's boss that neither of them can cook. They eat batter every day, and men I understand in my heart that the kind of people who paint eyebrows and eyes all day long look beautiful, but they are useless, men are not stupid, marrying a daughter-in-law is to live a life, not to marry an ancestor to go home to pay for."

Sister-in-law Jinhua said: "And that Qiao Yue is not a good person. When I came back with Ma Renli, I heard that the two of them were going to get married. Later, when Captain Zhou and the others came and our place was liberated, she changed her face. He said, no matter how Ma Renli saved her, even if she didn't think Ma Renli was good, she wouldn't be able to add insult to injury."

A few years ago, Mrs. Jinhua would never have said such a thing, but after Ma Renli and Wang Zhong designed the water diversion irrigation system in the past few years, which benefited all the villagers in Maixiang Village, Mrs. Jinhua's attitude towards Ma Renli It slowly changed.

Han Chunmei also smiled and said: "I heard from my family that the dowry gift he came to my house to propose marriage was earned by making windmills and threshers with our captain. If the captain hadn't taken him and taught him the craft He's still a bachelor right now."

"This is true!" Mrs. Jinhua took Jiang Hongguo's hand and said, "Sister, listen to what my sister-in-law said. If you meet such a kind and capable man as our captain, don't miss it. Wait for others to take advantage of you. There is no guarantee that you will regret it for the rest of your life!"

Jiang Hongguo was confused by the two people talking in turn, "Sister-in-law Jinhua, sister-in-law Chunmei, let's go shopping first, don't make Brother Wang and the others wait too long."

Mrs. Jin Hua and Han Chunmei smiled at each other, and said, "Okay! Let's do some shopping first."

Everything can go too far, especially things like feelings, just take your time.

The county seat is not big, and within a short while, the few people had almost bought enough things. When Chengdong and Wang Zhong met, Wang Zhong was sitting on the carriage, holding a thread-bound blue book and reading it intently.

Ma Renli trotted over and lowered his head to take a closer look. There were three large characters of "Biography and Xilu" written on the cover.

Wang Zhong moved his eyes from the book to Ma Renli, and Ma Renli immediately stood up straight.

"Have you bought everything?" Wang Zhong asked the people accompanying him, ignoring Ma Renli's little gesture.

"All bought!"

"Three monkeys, set up the car!"

"okay!"

The ox cart carried everyone and the things they just bought, and headed towards Maixiang Village after leaving the city.

On the carriage, Jiang Hongguo looked at the tall figure sitting in front of the car, pulling the reins and waving a bullwhip, feeling more and more complicated.

Mrs. Jin Hua and Han Chunmei next to each other looked at each other when they saw this scene.

It was almost noon when I got home, Jiang Hongguo returned home with her things first, and Wang Zhong sent the cow and the cart to Mrs. Jinhua's house before turning back home.

When I got home, Jiang Hongguo was already kneading dough.

Wang Chong said: "This is busy work? Why don't you stop?"

"There's nothing to rest, I just went for a stroll in the city, it's not work, I'm not tired!"

"I've washed the meat and burned the skin." Jiang Hongguo said with a smile.

Wang Zhong rolled up his sleeves and walked to the table: "I'll make stuffing, and later you wash some cabbage and radish, and wash some green onions."

"okay!"

Three and a half catties of three-layer pork belly, first cut and then chopped, made into meat stuffing.

Make three flavors of stuffing with cabbage, radish, green onions, and eggs.

Whether the dumplings are delicious or not depends not only on the rubber skin, but also on how the filling is adjusted. Of course, the ingredients themselves are ordinary, and they can’t taste the delicacies of mountains and seas, but through certain methods and methods, the ingredients can be combined The original taste is infinitely magnified. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the monarch and ministers. In fact, cooking is no exception. A good combination can make the original ordinary ingredients arouse a more delicious taste.

After nearly a month of getting along, Jiang Hongguo has already completely admired Wang Zhong's cooking skills.

While making the stuffing, Wang Zhong told her the main dosage, but today's Jiang Hongguo was obviously absent-minded.

Wang Zhong's ten fingers were slender, with well-proportioned skin and flesh, and were very flexible. The three flavors of dumplings were made into three different shapes by the two of them.

After the dumplings were finished, Wang Zhong picked out twelve of the same three kinds of dumplings, sprinkled them with corn flour to prevent them from sticking together, packed them in three layers in food boxes, and went out the door with the food boxes in hand.

The second grandfather's name is Niu Zhonggui, so he has no blood relationship with Wang Zhong, but the second grandfather is kind, never biased towards the younger generations in the village, and he is a bit noble, he is a respected elder, and he has no children. He cares about living a nourishing life, and he doesn't mind taking care of this respected and respected old man occasionally.

"Is Second Grandpa at home?"

"Who is it!" Although Second Grandpa is getting old, he is not yet so old-eyed!
"It's me, Second Grandpa!" Wang Zhong had already carried the food box into the yard by himself.

The second grandfather also opened the door of the house, looked at Wang Zhong who was standing outside the door with the food box, and smiled on his face: "It's Xiao Zhong, why are you here again?"

"Come in the house, come in the house!"

"For Chinese New Year, there are too many dumplings at home. I was thinking about bringing some to your old man." Wang Zhong said as he walked in, and when he finished speaking, he put the food box in his hand on the table.

The Niu family was also a rich family in the past, but unfortunately it fell into decline later on. Somehow, all the family property belonged to the Ma family. Now the second grandpa's house only has these few big houses left. The house is spacious, but it is too spacious.

The second grandpa also went to the kang and sat down: "You send me something in the sky, it's not like I'm paralyzed on the kang and can't move, there is food at home!"

"If the second grandpa hadn't rewarded me with a few meals, I wouldn't have starved to death in which Shangada. How could I be in the current situation." The system arranged that after fleeing from famine and coming to Maixiang Village, I got the second grandpa first. Then he entered the Ma family as a long-term worker.

"It's been so many years, why are you still talking about these old sesame seeds and rotten millet?" The second grandfather waved his hand and said, "If you really appreciate the second grandfather, quickly marry a wife and give birth to a few big fat boys. This old bone is also happy and happy."

"Then you have to urge Brother Bold first, he is much older than me." Wang Zhong said with a smile.

"Hmph!" Speaking of this second grandfather, he put on a serious face: "Isn't it too little? He has to listen to me."

"Boldness is not as capable as you. He just wants to find it, and it's not that easy. But you are different. You are very capable and young. I heard people say that there have been many people who have come to your house to propose marriage recently. If you don't even see him, you reject them all?" The second grandfather's tone was both questioning and a bit blaming.

"Could it be that you have a sweetheart?" Being looked at by the burning eyes of the second grandfather, he would have been timid if he wanted to change to an ordinary person.

But Wang Zhong smiled slightly, with the same expression on his face: "There is someone who seems to suit my heart."

"Oh?" The second grandfather immediately became interested: "Which family is the girl from?"

"Second Grandpa, let me keep it a secret." Wang Zhong clasped his fists and said, "I'll give you a surprise when things are done."

"Then I'll wait!" The second grandfather showed a smile on his face, but he was a little worried, and said: "You have to hurry up."

"Just look at it!"

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At night, three oil lamps were lit in the main room, Wang Zhong was sitting on the kang, holding in his hand the "Biography of Xilu" that he had just bought during the day, and he was really engrossed in reading it.

On the other side of the kang table, sat Jiang Hongguo, wearing the padded jacket she made herself, with her hair pulled back, holding two stick needles in her hand, and using the cotton thread she just bought today, she moved left and right, skillfully. in a sweater.

It's just that Jiang Hongguo is obviously out of shape today, and her movements are not as agile as before. From time to time, she secretly raises her eyes to look at Wang Zhong who is concentrating on the book. What's in her mind is all the words of Mrs. Jinhua and Han Chunmei during the day.

"What's wrong, there are flowers on my face?" Wang Zhong said suddenly, making Jiang Hongguo tremble with fright, then immediately lowered her head, and shook her head quickly, but a few strands of blush inevitably appeared on her cheeks.

She is clearly a 24-year-old woman who has already been married, but at this moment she behaves like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl.

Eyeballs rolled quickly, and Jiang Hongguo hurriedly said: "I'm just curious, it's too expensive for you to light three lamps to read every night!"

Wang Zhong nodded slightly and looked at the kerosene lamp: "It's a bit expensive, but there's nothing you can do about it. If it's too dark and it hurts your eyes, we'll just turn it on later."

Seeing that Wang Zhong didn't pay attention to looking at the oil lamp, Jiang Hongguo breathed a sigh of relief, but after hearing Wang Zhong's last sentence, she couldn't help being curious: "What is electrification?"

"I'll know when I meet you later, but you don't understand even if I explain it to you now." Wang Zhong said.

Hearing the words, Jiang Hongguo looked at Wang Zhong who was sitting quietly on the kang with a book in his hands, his eyes darkened slightly, and he thought to himself: "It would be great if I didn't get married!" Biting his lip, his heart became more and more complicated.

The distraught Jiang Hongguo didn't have the mind to speak, and was lost in thought while pointing at the sweater.

"What's wrong?" Wang Zhong raised his eyes slightly, seeing that Jiang Hongguo's expression was not quite right, he couldn't help frowning, and asked with concern.

"No... nothing!" Jiang Hongguo hurriedly shook her head.

Holding the blue leather-bound book in one hand, Wang Zhong said, "The body is the capital of the revolution. It's not okay to hide your illness and avoid medical treatment. Stretch out your hand, and I'll give you the pulse!" Wang Zhong's words were overbearing and undeniable.

Without even thinking about it, Jiang Hongguo put down the stick needle and spread her hands on the kang table.

Wang Zhong held the book in his left hand, and his eyes wandered between the lines. The three fingers of his right hand were already on Jiang Hongguo's veins.

After a while, Wang Zhong looked at Jiang Hongguo and said, "Stick out your tongue and let me see!"

Jiang Hongguo acted in accordance with the law.

Wang Zhong let go of Jiang Hongguo's hand, and said while reading a book: "The body is almost recovered. Although the Qi in the middle is slightly insufficient, it is not a serious problem, but there is still a little bit of cold air left, and coupled with the stagnation in the heart, the fire in the heart rises. Fire in the heart leads to fire in the liver, and the combination of cold and heat makes it easier to be upset."

"Ah?" Jiang Hongguo was startled for a moment.

Wang Zhongdao: "Don't worry, it's not a big deal, talk to people more, resolve the depression in your heart, keep a good mood, don't stay alone, go out more often, chat, find something to pass the time, It will be fine in seven or eight days, no need to take medicine."

"But remember, don't get cold, otherwise it will be easy for wind evil to invade."

"Hmm! I must pay attention!"

In the final analysis, the body's defense mechanism has not fully recovered, and he is thinking wildly, so there is no major problem if he pays a little attention.

After a while, Wang Zhong got up and went back to the East Wing.

At night, Wang Zhong sat cross-legged on the kang, his upper body was naked, and his muscles seemed to be shaking. With every breath, the real air in his body circulated, and the blood flow accelerated. , what circulated seemed to be not blood, but boiling hot water. Vaguely, there seemed to be white steam rising like smoke and mist.

That is the phenomenon caused by the high heat directly evaporating sweat into steam.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Wang Zhong and Jiang Hongguo greeted each other, carrying bows and arrows, a hatchet, a bag of steamed buns and a pot of water, and went into the mountain.

It's not that Wang Chongque has a little meat to eat, but that there is no work to do now, and it's not like the real world. You can surf the Internet, watch TV, and play with your mobile phone. Sitting at home all day is really boring.

At noon, the sky began to snow. In the afternoon, the snow gradually became heavier. Sitting at home, Jiang Hongguo felt her heart hanging. If the snow was heavier, Wang Zhong would be blocked in the mountains. What can I do.

Fortunately, it only fell for more than three hours before the snow stopped and the road was only covered with a thin layer of snowflakes.

In the evening, Jiang Hongguo kneaded the dough, boiled water in the pot, and rolled the dough into dough cakes. She was going to cut the dough and put it in the pot when Wang Zhong came back, but she waited and waited, but Wang Zhong never came back.

In the past, Wang Zhong came back from the mountain sooner or later, but at the latest it was before dark.

Seeing the sky outside getting darker and darker, Jiang Hongguo couldn't help but worry, whether it was encountering some large beast or something unexpected, it was freezing and snowy, and there was no one in the mountains, anything was possible, if What an accident, and no one was watching.

Seeing that the sky was completely dark, Jiang Hongguo couldn't care less about cooking noodles, so she covered the kerosene lamp with a glass cover, carried it, and went out. After waiting at the entrance of the village for half an hour, Wang Zhong was nowhere to be seen. Anxious, worried about Wang Zhong's safety.

(End of this chapter)