Maid of a wealthy family

Chapter 8 I Want to Marry You (2)
At this time, the beggar woman outside the main hall had almost left, only the monks were still enjoying themselves while knocking on the wooden fish, while singing Sanskrit tones.As if afraid of being seen, Chrysanthemum hurried down the steps and hurried to the path outside the temple.As soon as he walked to the edge of the purple bamboo forest outside the temple, a man flashed out from the bamboo forest, holding a cypress torch, and shouted happily: "Chrysanthemum."

Chrysanthemum stopped in her tracks and smiled kindly at the man—this man was Ran Longgui, Chrysanthemum's lover.

Ran Longgui and Chrysanthemum are from the same village. He has broad shoulders like a fan, a full and strong chest, and well-developed muscles carved out like knives and axes. strength.He is only three years older than Chrysanthemum. When he was young, he and Chrysanthemum caught crabs, fish and shrimp in the river, and gouged wild vegetables together on the mountain. They were inseparable. When he was 15 years old, Ran Longgui's parents died unfortunately, and he became an orphan.But the children of the poor have long been in charge of the family. At this time, Ran Longgui is not only able to support himself, but also often helps the people around him who lack labor. The Chrysanthemum family is one of the objects he often helps with.After finishing his work, he sat on the threshold of Chrysanthemum's house and watched the chrysanthemums coming in and out.In the [-]th year of the Republic of China, the whole county set up militia groups in accordance with the order of the governor.Take ten households as cards, ten cards as armors, and ten armors as regiments. All young and strong men must be trained to practice swords, spears, guns, and shooting skills.During the slack season this winter, Ran Longgui, who was already in his early twenties, carried his luggage and went to Liujiang Field for concentrated training.There was no sun on this day, the crops had just been sown and had not yet been unearthed, and it seemed that the sun was not needed. The north wind was blowing gently, and there was silence all around. Also a little lonely, lonely.But as he was walking, he suddenly heard "tap, tap" footsteps behind him.When he walks fast, the footsteps behind him are heavy; when he walks slowly, the footsteps behind him are soft.Ran Longgui was surprised. Looking back, it turned out that it was Chrysanthemum with her head down, like a child following him, not far or near.

Ran Longgui stood down.But Chrysanthemum also stood down behind.

After a while, Ran Longgui couldn't bear it anymore, so he asked loudly, "Chrysanthemum, where are you going?"

Chrysanthemum didn't answer, she still lowered her head and bit her lip.

Ran Longgui stood for a while, saw that Chrysanthemum didn't answer, turned around and left again.Chrysanthemum panicked now, and said "Hey" to Ran Longgui.

Ran Longgui stopped again.Chrysanthemum finally plucked up the courage and ran up. The 17-year-old Chrysanthemum has grown into a lovely and charming girl.Her duck face did not turn blue from the cold, but flushed red on the contrary.Her phoenix eyes gave Ran Longgui an infinitely charming look, which immediately made Ran Longgui's soul go out of his body, and he was embarrassed for a while, not knowing what to say.

After a while, Chrysanthemum suddenly stretched out her hands from behind, stuffed a pair of coarse cloth shoes into Ran Longgui's hands, and said, "Here you are."

After finishing speaking, before Ran Longgui recovered, Chrysanthemum turned around and ran away.

After a while, Ran Longgui woke up and looked at Chrysanthemum.I saw a long braid behind Chrysanthemum swinging back and forth, the end of the braid slapping her plump buttocks.

A golden sun rose immediately before Ran Longgui's eyes.

Ran Longgui practiced in Liujiang Field for two months, and was ordered to transfer to the county parade.When Chrysanthemum heard the news, she rushed to the county seat.Ran Longgui achieved good results in all skills in the parade.Especially shooting, no matter the long gun or the short gun, Ran Longgui fired when he lifted it up, but his bullets hit the bull's-eye. He was very happy to learn that the adults praised him on the spot.When Chrysanthemum saw it, she felt unspeakably happy.

On the day Ran Longgui came back, Chrysanthemum went to wait on the road again.It was a sunny day, and the afternoon sun shone on Chrysanthemum's patched old coat, but Ran Longgui seemed to see a gorgeously dressed fairy.They were still separated by a certain distance, walking silently, but everyone was panicking, as if a drum was beating.Ran Longgui had no choice but to stop when he reached the point where the road was about to diverge. With a blushing face, he looked at Chrysanthemum and stammered, "Chrysanthemum, I, I, I want to marry you."

Chrysanthemum seemed to be taken aback, and her cheeks turned into burning suns.She didn't answer either, just lowered her head and fiddled with her braids.

Ran Longgui wanted to say more, but Chrysanthemum suddenly said: "You, you are wood." After finishing speaking, he turned around and ran away.

After a while, Ran Longgui suddenly understood.He jumped up suddenly, and then, in a frenzy of excitement, he ran towards his shabby hut.

The next day, someone came to Luo's house to propose marriage to Chrysanthemum.When Luo Luocheng and his wife heard that it was Ran Longgui, they agreed without thinking too much.

In the minds of the peasants, the fence door is against the fence door, and the plank door is opposite to the very plank door. As long as the person is good, strong, hardworking, and able to endure hardships, it will be fine.If you marry a girl to such a person, you will never suffer a lifetime.

Now, holding the torch, Ran Longgui looked at the chrysanthemum kindly and excitedly with his eyes shining.His wide lips were half opened, as if a child was a little surprised to see his relatives suddenly.

The bopi torch radiated red light, illuminating Chrysanthemum's relaxed face.The two looked at each other quietly for a while before Chrysanthemum said, "Let's go."

So Ran Longgui held the torch to illuminate the path under his feet for the chrysanthemum, and walked back along the river bank.While walking, Ran Longgui couldn't help asking: "Why did it take you so long to come out?"

Chrysanthemum said with concern: "Are you in a hurry?"

Ran Longgui said: "That's not true! I have overestimated the road."

Chrysanthemum said: "The old lady and the wife are calling me for questioning."

Ran Longgui was surprised and asked, "Really? What are you asking?"

Chrysanthemum said: "Ask me what my name is, where do I live? And..."

Ran Longgui hurriedly asked, "What else?"

Chrysanthemum's face was blushing, and after a long while, she replied embarrassedly: "Ask when we will hold the wedding."

Ran Longgui became even more surprised, and said, "Did you say that?"

Chrysanthemum said: "Say it."

After hearing this, Ran Longgui didn't ask any more questions for a while, so he fell silent and just held up the torch to light the way for the chrysanthemums behind.The fire shone on the back of the chrysanthemum, and the skin around the neck was extraordinarily fair, with a layer of soft and fine down growing on it.Ran Longgui's eyes were fixed on that piece of skin.After a while, I moved my eyes down the long braid, and saw Chrysanthemum's round butt flicked and flicked, as if calling for something.Ran Longgui felt something swell up in his heart, and his whole body was full of longing. He looked up at the sky, and the night in July was peaceful and gentle.On both sides of the Milky Way, the sky is full of stars.He heard that as long as there is white light in the sky, it means that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are meeting.But there is no white light in the sky, only the rustling breeze passing by the treetops, and unknown bugs singing.Ran Longgui withdrew his gaze, and looked again at the chrysanthemum's white neck, twisting waist, and wind-moving buttocks as if calling out. It's sweet and sad, filling and hungry.His cheeks were burning, his torch-hand was shaking, his lips were dry.He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and finally couldn't help standing down.

Chrysanthemum heard that there were no footsteps behind her, so she hurriedly turned her head and asked, "Why don't you leave?"

Ran Longgui stared at the chrysanthemum fixedly, his eyes were like fire, but he didn't know how to express the desire in his heart.Chrysanthemum also looked at him, the girl's eyes were only full of doubts.

After a while, Ran Longgui blushed and stammered, but what he said was something else: "I, I want to see the clay doll you are holding..."

Chrysanthemum said: "What do you want to see?"

Ran Longgui said, "I'll just take a look."

Seeing Chrysanthemum, she had no choice but to take out the clay doll wrapped in red cloth and hand it over, and went to pick up the torch in Ran Longgui's hand.

Ran Longgui opened the red cloth, revealing the clay doll.Ran Longgui carefully held it in his hand and looked at it.I saw that although this clay doll is small and exquisite, it is well-made and lifelike, which is very attractive.After looking at it for a while, Ran Longgui suddenly pointed to the upturned clay pillar between the clay doll's thighs and said, "Chrysanthemum, do you know what this is?" He salivated, his eyes sparkled, and looked straight at the chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemum's face was flushed red, and she quickly turned her head to one side, looking at the sky full of stars reflected in the river.

Ran Longgui gasped, and the blood all over his body was throbbing.After a long while, he said hastily again: "Yes, it's something that spreads seeds."

Chrysanthemum suddenly turned her head back, her dark eyes had a sacred and inviolable seriousness, and said to Ran Longgui: "If you want to talk again, I will not be with you."

Ran Longgui was startled, and the desire on his body subsided immediately, he looked at Chrysanthemum and asked loudly, "Chrysanthemum, what did you say?"

Chrysanthemum still replied with a straight face: "I don't like to hear you say that."

Ran Longgui said, "Aren't you my woman?"

Chrysanthemum said: "I am still a red silk."

After hearing this, Ran Longgui lowered his head.After a while, he raised his head, and there was some sadness in his eyes.After a while, I said to Chrysanthemum very painfully: "Chrysanthemum, we are getting married soon, can't you...give it to me first, let me ride, ride for a while?" Said, looking at Chrysanthemum with expectation again .

After hearing this, Chrysanthemum also looked up at Ran Longgui. She was startled by the pain and disappointment in Ran Longgui's eyes.She didn't know what to say for a moment, and she panicked inside.Ran Longgui opened the chest of his gown, and his strong muscles were trembling with the strong desire in his heart.Chrysanthemum didn't dare to look into Ran Longgui's eyes anymore, and just stared at his purple chest.Her face was flushed, and her lips trembled uncontrollably.But after a while, she still controlled her emotions, and said firmly to Ran Longgui: "As long as you don't pass the door, don't even try to touch me."

The light in Ran Longgui's eyes completely dimmed.He knew Chrysanthemum was right.A girl won't let a man touch her body easily until the day she gets married.He regretted the strong and vivid desire he had just had.After a while, the fire of desire that had burned his soul gradually subsided.He returned the clay doll to Chrysanthemum, and took the torch again, not daring to look at Chrysanthemum's hairy neck and slender waist, or her charming buttocks.Ran Longgui insisted on sending Chrysanthemum home at the parting point, but Chrysanthemum refused to agree, saying that it was late at night, making people see him gossiping.Ran Longgui had no choice but to give half of the torch to Chrysanthemum, and each left.

When Chrysanthemum returned home, her parents and a group of siblings were still awake.During these days, my mother suffered from heartache and was lying on the bed.Luo Luocheng led a group of ragged children to beg for cleverness in the "begging shed" in the yard.Poor people praying for gods are not as grand as rich people. Juhua's "begging shed" is just a fence-like thing woven of bamboo strips, surrounding the yard with a stool in the middle, and no melons, fruits, incense candles, etc. For fruit.Only a wooden sign was provided on both sides of the stool, one with the name of the cowherd written on it, and one with the name of the weaver girl written on it.When Chrysanthemum came back, the two younger brothers were dragging their noses and wearing brush trousers. They offered a bald brush, an ingot of ink, a broken inkstone, and a few pieces of white paper that they had picked up from no one knew where, and offered them to the Cowherd.The three younger sisters held the sewing baskets and knelt in front of the Weaver Girl tablet to "beg for cleverness".Seeing Chrysanthemum approaching with a torch, the siblings stood up in a swarm and rushed to her side, asking, "Sister, where have you been?"

Chrysanthemum was embarrassed to tell them about going to Niangniang Temple to hold a clay doll, so she thought about it and said, "Sister has something to go out."

The brothers and sisters stopped asking, and the three younger sisters took Chrysanthemum's hand and said, "Sister, come and beg for cleverness! We have all begged before."

Chrysanthemum stopped for a while, and really walked into the "begging skill shed", holding a sewing basket, kneeling in front of the Weaving Goddess, begging for cleverness.While I was begging, I suddenly heard my mother screaming in pain from the room.This cry is particularly miserable in the silent night.Knowing that her mother was ill again, Chrysanthemum hurriedly got up and rushed into the house together with her father and siblings.

When I entered the room, I saw under the dim tung oil lamp, Chrysanthemum's mother pressed her hands tightly to her chest, writhing in pain on the bed, with a thin, wrinkled face, so pale that there was no blood.

Chrysanthemum rushed over and hugged her mother, while wiping the sweat from the pain on her mother's head with her hands, she called eagerly: "Mother, mother..."

The younger brothers and sisters cried out in fright.He was kicked out loudly by Rhodes.

After a while, Lady Chrysanthemum's pain eased a little, but she still kept moaning. While moaning, she looked at Chrysanthemum lovingly and asked, "Is the clay doll in your arms?"

Chrysanthemum nodded.

Tears welled up in Chrysanthemum's mother's eyes, and she stretched out her bony hand, caressing her daughter, and said, "My child, mother made you suffer..."

Chrysanthemum's eye sockets also became moist, she choked up, and said comfortingly, "Mother, don't worry about me, just take care of your illness! I'll go to the 'Taikang Pharmacy' to get you medicine tomorrow."

My mother said: "Why do you still take medicine? I am so sick that I have emptied the house! Let me die..."

When Chrysanthemum heard this, she felt even more painful. She hurriedly grabbed her mother's hand and stroked it, and said filially, "Mother, don't talk silly! People are important things, maybe after taking this medicine, the disease will be cured. "

After a while of consolation, Chrysanthemum's mother finally fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)