farmhouse ditty

Chapter 61

Xiu Niang took a wooden basin and put it on the ground, scooped a few ladles of water into it, took a rag and squatted aside, soaked it in the water, scrubbed it, and then wiped her face.

Chu Ge was sitting on a small stool with a hoe, he thought about it and said, "Actually, our house is not bad, there are not too many leaks, so we don't need to spend that much money, and if I walk to the town by myself It won't take long, the animal..."

Xiu Niang wrung out the dishcloth and put it on the wooden frame, saying, "Our house is okay, I have to sleep with Xiao Xiang'er in case of rain or something, and I asked Aunt Zhang Oh boy, isn’t her man a mason, and when the time comes, ask him to come to our house to have a look and find out how to fix it. Let’s all live in the same village, maybe they won’t be able to pay us much money.”

Chu Ge was silent for a while, and said after a while, "Then, didn't our family save money before that, it can be used for a while, and you don't have to work on the Erbao Vine anymore. "

After hearing what Chu Ge said, Xiu Niang looked at him and said with a smile, "What's wrong, you're afraid that I won't be able to make trouble. Didn't I carry a basket of these Erbao vines in my basket earlier? I still put them in Tairen's medicine shop. Well, if we get half an acre of land this time around, you'll be waiting to count the money."

Chu Ge raised his eyes, but still muttered, "Xiu Niang, what do you want so much money for?"

Xiu Niang picked up the wooden basin to pour water, her hands paused when she heard this sentence, she turned to look at Chu Ge, only to see him staring at herself blankly, unable to see what was going on.

Anyway, she didn't want to hide it from this fool, so she decided to tell him after thinking about it.

Xiu Niang poured out the water first, then walked back and chatted with him, "Chu Ge, I thought about it earlier, after the new year, I want to send Chu An and Xiao Xiang'er to a private school."

Chu Ge was taken aback, "Private school?"

Xiu Niang nodded and smiled, "Yes, originally I was thinking about talking to you after Erbao Teng sold for money."

Chu Ge mumbled, "But before, Chu An and Xiao Xiang'er had recognized a few big characters with the storyteller in the village..."

Xiu Niang scooped up a new basin of water to wash her hands and prepared to cook for a while. She pursed her lips and gave Chu Ge a look, "Can going to a private school be the same as knowing a few big characters? Do you want to call Chu Ge the same?" Ann and we will plant in the field for a lifetime?"

Chu Gemo stopped talking, he lowered his head and looked at the hoe in silence, Xiu Niang looked at him strangely, but didn't speak anymore, the two were busy with their own affairs.

This man was about to start working, so he had no other thoughts in his mind. Yesterday he was a little loose with the hoe, so Chugo thought about adding a stopper.

He went to the door of the stove, put the pile of firewood, searched for a dead tree branch, used the hatchet to cut off a few thin pieces of wood, and finally picked out some suitable wooden eyes that were stuffed on the top of the hoe. Here, hold it up again, point the hoe blade up, and push the wooden stick to the ground to knock.

After pounding for two or three times, Chu Ge got up and took a look, and fiddled with the hoe, shaking it but it didn't move. This time it was firmly pressed, and it won't loosen after a while.

Xiu Niang made some fodder in the stove, chopped up the vegetable leaves, put them in a dustpan with some breaded noodles, and walked out of the courtyard to the edge of the fence. At this point, she should feed the chickens son.

She walked around the bamboo fence, grabbing the chopped vegetable leaves and slowly shaking them into it, so as to spread out the ground so that the chickens would not grab food.

Xiu Niang held the dustpan on her waist, and "cuckoo-clucked" to attract the chickens to eat. She was pulling the vegetable leaves so that they could be coated with flour, and suddenly thought of a funny thing.

She turned around and called out, "Chugo?"

Chu Ge was using the hoe, but he raised his face when he heard the sound, "Yeah."

She smiled when she saw the man, "Chuge, didn't you say the other day that Chef Wang wouldn't accept the mountain stuff? Where did you get those two wild rabbits?"

Chu Ge paused, "I ran into Uncle Gao when I went back to the village that day. He saw the fat and tender wild rabbit in the basket, so he spared me." He said these things as soon as he came back, why did Xiu Niang ask Lie.

The Uncle Gao that Chu Ge was talking about was Gao's father. Earlier, Tian Xiuniang was planning to go to the family's house to help with embroidery work, but she didn't go because of some problems.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang, "Didn't you send it over the next afternoon, don't you forget?" He heard Hu Zi talk about Xiu Niang that day, and he was very worried, so he only said a few words Son then sent him home and left.

Xiu Niang pursed her lips, of course she didn't forget, she rushed to inquire about the matter before sending it to Mrs. Gao.

She smiled at Chu Ge, "Then do you want to know that Uncle Gao's family has a lot of people, why does he need two rabbits?"

Chu Ge didn't want to know, but seeing Xiu Niang as if she wanted to talk, he replied again, "No... um."

She listened with a smile, "This Uncle Gao is going down the mountain with wild rabbits, that's for bearers. In a few days, isn't her little girl going to get married?"

Chu Ge couldn't understand, "Why did you prepare it for the bearers?"

In the past, there was a family who married a daughter-in-law, and the groom's official asked the bearers to carry the bride across the door, but the road was far and difficult, and eight bearers finally arrived at the bride's house, thinking about asking for wine and meat to pad their stomachs. .

But the old man of the groom's official was very stingy, he didn't prepare anything, he kept yelling for them to go on the road, and the eight porters carried the empty sedan chair with their chests stuck to their backs. It would be fatal to sit in this big living person.

How can they go on the road with the fire on fire? These three steps, two trembling, five steps and one bumping, can make the bride so hard that she won't even go on the road after getting off the sedan chair.

When it's over and wait for people to investigate, the eight big men just talk about it, there is no wine or meat, and the sedan chair is flickering.

"...So in the future, those who have married daughters must prepare delicious food for the bearers, otherwise the new couple will suffer. This is called having wine and meat, and the new couple does not worry."

Xiu Niang laughed after she finished speaking, this time she heard the Gao family talking about it, she thought it was very interesting at that time, the seniors and the juniors are quite good at each other.

Chu Ge looked at Xiuniang's pretty little face, his rosy mouth stretched his dimples, his big watery eyes smiled, looking at it made people feel relieved, and he didn't realize it when he was holding a hoe. laughed.

But after laughing, Xiuniang felt a little empty in her heart. She used to watch people get married on the TV. Along the way, the horns and drums beat the sky, and there was a delicate little daughter-in-law sitting in the big red sedan chair. , looks shy, but the person's heart is full, and he can't stop the joy on his face.

Thinking of this, Xiu Niang closed her mouth, fiddled with the vegetable leaves in her hand, and smiled slightly, this woman has to sit in that big red sedan chair for a while before she can get married .

What she said was heartless, and Na Chugo listened to it. His face turned pale all of a sudden, and his big hand gripping the hoe tightened.

Xiu Niang didn't mind what she said, but saw Chu Ge set up a hoe, went to the corner of the courtyard to grab the bamboo basket and was about to leave.

She looked at the man and asked, "Chuge, what are you doing here?"

Chu Ge walked to the gate of the yard, paused, and put the bamboo basket on his shoulders, "The Erbao vine has just been picked off, so I will move it to the ground first, and I'm afraid it will be wilted leaves in a while."

Xiu Niang also listened, and just said, "Then, you come back earlier, don't stay in the ground for a long time, the sun is shining today..."

Chu Ge didn't turn his head back, and went out without saying a word.

Xiu Niang walked a few steps to the entrance of the courtyard, leaned out and looked at Chu Ge's back, and murmured in her heart, what's the matter with this idiot these two days, at first she said she was chattering, but when she arrived She fell silent when she spoke.

She frowned thinking about it, could it be that Chu Ge still cared about her making a scene in the pond that day?
But that day after she and Fat Sister-in-law had quarreled, she also talked to Chu Ge about the reason when she returned home. Although he had no idea to scare Fat Sister-in-law to himself, he still thought about it, saying it was too dangerous. That big knife and ax is no joke...

Chu Ge was straight-tempered, and everything seemed to be one-sided, so she just followed Chu Ge's words, and she didn't have much to say.

It's just that she was really angry at that time. As the saying goes, you don't slap someone in the face when you hit someone, and you don't expose your shortcomings when you scold someone. I know better than anyone why Chu Ge married his own Xiu Niang. She didn't because of the fat wife She said it was embarrassing to come out, but she was holding her breath in her heart.

It turned out that she liked Chu Ge from the first time she saw him, but for some reason, she was so rare. She was very proud of that straight-faced, small face, and those red ears. .

It was not what she wanted to come to this village, but she felt relieved because of this stupid man. The more important this man was in her heart, the more she would not listen to anything bad, even if the fat sister-in-law said Chu Ge married himself for her father.

Xiu Niang lowered her head and shook the dustpan in her hand, but now that she and Chu Ge are like this, what are they?

She thought about it and sighed, and went back to the house with her small mouth flattened. It seemed that she had to let the relationship between the two of them go further.

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Chu Ge carried the hoe to his farmland, took off the basket and put it aside, and started digging the soil when he found an open space.

Back then, a peasant man saw a small dwarf tree planted in Chuge’s field, but he couldn’t see what species it was from a distance, so he walked over and asked, “Hey, Chuge, what are you doing all the time? "

Chu Ge lowered his hoe to scoop out the clods of soil, and said to the visitor, "What, just plant some flower shelves in the ground, so that they can grow up and block the sun."

This was what Xiuniang told him earlier, if someone asked, he would just say that, anyway, the land is his own, and they can't control the messy people they like to grow.

The farmer listened and nodded, chatting with him at the side before leaving.

Chu Ge inserted all the short tree branches in the back basket into the ground, and stepped on the ground with both feet to compact the soil. Seeing Mosha twisted, he thought about going home.

But thinking about Xiuniang, he stopped again, turned around and sat on the slope behind the field...

(End of this chapter)