Datang beauty walk

"Yeah, how did I forget that?!"

Seeing that Qiqing was going to wash rice again, Tanniang said again:

"Mi, I'll steam it, you go wash the vegetables."

"Oh."

After Qiqing washed the vegetables, she put them on the chopping board to cut. She first took the red carrot on the top of the pot and cut it. After a few knives, she cut the carrot into big and square pieces. , a thick piece, a thin piece.Dan Niang, who was standing beside her, was really hard to see - where was she chopping vegetables?She was clearly chopping vegetables!Can people taste good when they eat vegetables cut like this?

Danniang just watched Qiqing's cooking skills, and she could only breathe in the cool air in her mouth. She couldn't stand it anymore, and walked over to pass the cutter in Qiqing's hand, and said:

"Let me cut it, you go to light the fire!"

When Qiqing brought firewood, lit it in the stove, and watched Danniang lightly cook a few plates of exquisite dishes while lighting the fire, she felt a little ashamed of herself.

Then, the father and daughter ate delicious food with relish, and finally even cleaned the bottom of the plate.

After ten days, Lu Xiaotian invited house builders to tear down his dilapidated house and build three tall rooms and five side rooms.After the house was built, he asked craftsmen to make several pieces of solid furniture with the remaining wood.

When the house was being built, Qiqing and Danniang temporarily lived in the house of Granny Xin's next door. Granny Xin's son, daughter-in-law and grandson had all gone away, and there were only grandma and her granddaughter-in-law in the house.

Grandma Xin has a warm heart, and her house is relatively spacious, so Qiqing and Danniang will not feel crowded when they live there for a few days.During the day, Qiqing didn't avoid the craftsmen and other idlers from outside, but ran over to help her father with this and that.Lu Xiaotian didn't limit to scolding Qiqing and let her do the work.And Danniang is much quieter, staying in the room all day, and will not walk out of the door curiously to look around the busy side.

After the new house is built, the home has a new look, and the inside of the house has become bright and spacious.Now I can take a rest easily. I don't want to, Lu Xiaotian is going to visit the graves of his ancestors again. He invites monks, prepares incense candles for offerings, and goes to his own graves to pay respects to the ancestors.

Since leaving Liang's Mansion in Jingzhou and returning to his rural home in Luoyang, it has been such a busy half a year, and the life of Qiqing's family has finally calmed down.

☆、Seven Sages Village

There are more than 20 households in Qixian Village. There are three roads leading to the village. There are two east and west exits in the north of the village, and another intersection in the west.The villagers' houses are neatly arranged along both sides of a long arc-shaped village road. There are many houses on the east side of the village road, while there are only nine houses on the west side.Qiqing's family is the southernmost one in the row to the west.

There is a canal about two feet wide in the middle of the village road. There is no water in the canal on weekdays, and the water in the canal is full only in rainy days or during irrigation.There are mulberry trees, pagoda trees, etc. planted beside the canal. In summer and autumn, the big mulberry trees in front of each house are full of purple-red mulberries. Ripe mulberries fall from the trees every day, and children often pick them up under the trees to eat. .There is a spring well in the north of the village, where the villagers go to fetch water.

Now, apart from practicing martial arts every day, Lu Xiaotian seems to have nothing to do, so he often goes out to visit those nearby friends.

Once, Lu Xiaotian came back drunk, yelling that he was thirsty and wanted to drink water.Danniang went to the kitchen to fetch water, and after going there for a while, she came back again, and said to Qiqing with a troubled look on her face:

"Qiqing, there's no water in the jar!"

There is no well in Qiqing's house, and Lu Xiaotian fetches water from the well shared by villagers in the north of the village.Not only does her family have no well, but other households in the village do not have one either. The domestic water for the whole village comes from underground springs that flow naturally from the mountain streams.

The villagers dug the mountain spring water flowing out of the rock crevices in the mountain according to the flow trend, and gathered it into the village well - this well is called Longquan well, and they use it for eating and washing clothes.The spring water is gurgling, flowing out of the mountain day and night, and pouring into the stone well. The ancestors of Qixian Village have been relying on this spring well to reproduce for generations.

I heard from the old people that Qixian Village was not originally called Qixian Village, and there was no Longquan Well.A long time ago, the villagers drew water to irrigate the fields from the river outside the village.According to legend, one year, a mountain demon suddenly came to Beishan.The mountain demon stands in the air with a height of more than ten feet, with a mouth as big as a dustpan, and a single eye on its head, which looks like a big copper bell hanging on the eaves of the temple.It has three hands and four legs, and it moves in the air like the wind, breaking the vegetation where it passes, and turning the river black.

This mountain demon often comes down the mountain to harass the people at the bottom of the mountain. It sucks up the water of the small river, so that the villagers can only rely on the sky for water.It also came to the village to stir up troubles, destroying fields and hurting people.The villagers suffered greatly, but there was nothing they could do.

At that time, a pair of brothers and sisters who knew magic came to the village. They were both wearing white robes and swords. They were seventeen or eighteen years old.They saw the mountain demon harming the people, so they decided to eliminate the harm for the people.Following the trail left by the mountain monster, they found the North Mountain and fought against the mountain monster.

When the ground shook and the mountains swayed at night, and it rained cats and dogs, a huge roar came from the mountain to the ears of the villagers—it was the sound made by the mountain demon when the brother and sister were fighting with it.

The two brothers and sisters fought with the mountain demon for two full days and two nights.Later, the rain stopped, and the sound on the mountain disappeared.When the villagers reached the mountain, there was no sign of the mountain monster. They saw huge paw prints and a large pool of dark green blood-like juice on the mountain.A few feet away, they found the bodies of the brother and sister who had died in battle. Not far from where the two of them fell, the villagers saw a trickle flowing out of the cracks in the rocks.

The villagers, who were grateful for the brother and sister's righteous deeds, buried the two brothers and sisters on the spot.Not long after, five white cranes flew from there, waiting at the graves of the two brothers and sisters, and one white crane could speak human language, telling that the brother and sister were transformed by white cranes and were their siblings.

Therefore, the villagers changed the name of the village to Qixian Village, and the well built in the north of the village was named Longquan Well in order to thank Baihe for saving them from adversity and find a sweet mountain spring for them.

This morning, Lu Xiaotian forgot to fetch water before going out, and when Danniang went to boil water under the stove, the tank had already bottomed out.She was going to fetch water by herself, but she didn't want to meet the villagers after she went out, so she had to turn around and talk to Qi Qing.

When Qiqing heard about it, he turned around and walked out the door, saying:

"I'm going to fetch water."

She picked up the bucket, took the pole and went out.

After a while, Danniang heard footsteps and knew that Qiqing was coming to fetch water, so she went up to meet him, but when she saw Qiqing who had entered the house, she was surprised and hurriedly asked:

"what happened?"

"Accidentally fell!" Qi Qing said.

The front of the clothes she was wearing were almost completely soaked in water, and a lot of muddy water was also stained; her hair and face were also splashed with water.

Just now, Qiqing went to the well to fetch water. She filled two buckets with water and carried them home with a pole.Although she usually has strength in martial arts, she easily picked up two buckets, but because it was the first time to carry water with a pole, she only walked two steps, and the two buckets hanging on both ends of the pole did not listen to her. The ground shook violently back and forth.Qiqing couldn't hold on to the two buckets that were shaking so wildly, the water in the buckets spilled out, her feet slipped again, and with a "plop", Qiqing fell to the ground with the buckets, and the water splashed She was covered, so she had no choice but to go home and change.

Qiqing went into the room and changed into clean clothes. When she came out, she saw Danniang standing outside the door. She saw that there was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth when Danniang looked at her.Qiqing felt even more ashamed and angry, and she hurriedly walked outside the house.

Walking halfway, Qiqing thought to herself: "This is the first time I see Danniang smiling!" With this thought in her heart, half of the unhappiness just now disappeared.

She fetched water again, and this time learned from experience, she lost her pole and returned home with two buckets of water in both hands.Seeing her coming, Danniang hurried over to help her carry a bucket, distributed her weight, and asked:

"Where's the burden?"

"At the well."

As Qiqing said, she walked to the water tank, put the two buckets of water on the ground, breathed a sigh of relief, then she held the handle of one of the buckets with one hand and lifted it up, and lifted the other hand from the bottom of the bucket. Water is poured into the jar.She put the empty bucket back on the ground and poured another bucket of water into the jar.Then, she picked up the empty bucket and went out again.After running three times in this way, she turned around and took the pole home when the tank was full.Danniang also boiled water and sent it to Lu Xiao's Tianfang.

Leaving the bustling and hustle and bustle, the life in the countryside is quiet and peaceful, full of different life interests, and their life does not lose color just because they leave the city.

One day at noon, Qiqing brought a large sieve from outside, and there were a few little yellow fluffy things standing in the sieve, which were chicks that had just hatched, and they looked very cute.Qiqing put the basket sieve on the ground in the yard. Seeing this, Danniang came over, squatted down and looked at these cute little guys, and couldn't help reaching out to caress their fluffy feathers.

Lu Xiaotian stood aside and watched, and asked Qiqing where these chickens came from. Qiqing told her father that these chickens were newly hatched by A Xiao’s hens in the village. The negotiated price is ten Wen.

"Can these chickens survive? What do you feed them?" Lu Xiaotian walked to the basket and asked Qi Qing who was teasing the chicks.

"Father, don't we have two unused vegetable fields behind our house? I'm also idle at home. I grow some vegetables in that field, which can be eaten by chickens!"

After hearing this, Lu Xiaotian thought it was feasible, so he gave Qiqing Shiwen money to buy chickens, and said:

"In this way, we won't have to buy other people's chickens by the end of the year."

He built a coop for the chickens with bricks at the corner of the backyard, thinking about raising the chicks inside when they grew bigger.

☆、one penny

Qiqing spent the whole morning loosening the small field behind her house with a shovel, then sprinkled rapeseed and watered it.After more than ten days, shoots grew in the land, and a piece of greenery appeared.One month later, the green shoots in the vegetable field have grown taller, and the leaves have also formed, which can be eaten by chickens.

Qiqing waters the vegetable bed every two days, then picks off the grown vegetable leaves, chops them up, and then mixes them with old broken rice or bran from other places to make chicken food.She took the chicken food to the backyard and poured it into the long trough in front of the fence of the chicken coop for the chickens to eat, while she watched the five chickens sticking their heads out and pecking at each other impatiently. Eat.Then, under her attentive feeding, the chick grew up day by day.

The sun is warm, and it shines through from the east, spreading into the courtyard, reflecting the walls, doors, and ground with brilliance.Attracted by the morning sunshine, Danniang took a few feet of cloth and sat under the eaves outside the hall to sew.

Qi Qing walked out from the back yard after practicing martial arts, turned around and entered the main room.She ran back and forth in the main room, rummaging through boxes and chests for a while, but she turned over the chests in the main room, and then ran to the side room.After tossing around in the wing room for a while, she came out, went to her father's bedroom in the main room, and searched for a while.Lu Xiaotian was not at home, and Danniang heard her rummaging through the cabinets outside, so she went in and asked:

"What are you looking for?"

Qi Qing was getting under the wide couch, prostrated on the ground and stretched out one arm to the corner. Hearing Danniang's question, she replied:

"Looking for copper coins."

"What are you looking for copper coins for?"

"Use it."

Qiqing crawled out from under the couch, her clothes were covered with dust, she went to the courtyard to pat, Danniang also followed, saying:

"How much do you want? I have a little, I'll get it for you?"

"No, I've found it."

Qiqing raised a copper coin in her hand and said happily, then she ran to the wing room again.

Danniang didn't know what she was going to do with that penny, and she didn't care about her, she still sat on the mat and did her own thing.

After a long time, Qiqing came out of the wing room. When Danniang looked at her, she saw something extra in her hand - more than a dozen red feathers were neatly inserted vertically on a small piece, gathered into a blooming red flower. flower. ——No wonder I heard the rooster crowing in the backyard earlier, the pinch of red brocade feathers was obviously pulled from the rooster's tail.

Qiqing weighed the "chicken feather flower" in her hand and walked to the open space in the courtyard.

"What is that?" Tanniang asked curiously.

"Shuttlecock! Don't you know?" Qi Qing kicked the shuttlecock she made twice, and she felt satisfied.

Danniang had never seen this thing before, she was very curious, moved her body, and walked up to Qiqing to look at it.I saw Qiqing throwing the shuttlecock in her hand upwards. When the shuttlecock fell, she stood upright with one leg, raised the other leg and bent inward, and at the same time exerted force upwards, and the falling shuttlecock was bounced by the raised foot. Get high.

Qi Qing kicked the shuttlecock lightly, and the beautiful chicken feathers spread out as they flew up, which was really beautiful.

After kicking more than a dozen times, she changed her left foot again, lifted her left leg and turned outward, and the colorful chicken feather shuttlecock was kicked from her foot and flew into the air.After kicking it twice, she lightly caught it with her toes, and the shuttlecock fell down, before it could stop, it quickly flew high.

The next time, when the shuttlecock kicked to a high place was flying down, Qiqing jumped up, raised her right foot, and pushed the shuttlecock with the tip of her foot, and the shuttlecock was bounced to the other side. He turned around and kicked the shuttlecock high with his left foot.

She kicked very deftly, and every time the shuttlecock touched her shoe, it made a rhythmic sound.Listening to this crisp voice, watching the shuttlecocks flying to and fro, Danniang's mood became relaxed and happy.

The shuttlecock was kicked back and forth by Qiqing on her feet, and she kicked it faster and faster. Every time the shuttlecock fell from a high place, she raised her head, turned sideways, threw her feet, and raised the shuttlecock again. Fly, fly to the same height as last time.

Qiqing kicked the feather shuttlecock back and forth in different patterns under her feet. Danniang watched her body move from left to right, and the shuttlecock also went up and down, making rhythmic and crisp sounds from her feet.Her body danced closely with the shuttlecock, twirling around, Danniang was dazzled by seeing it, and wanted to try it in her heart.

After kicking more than 100 times in a row, Qiqing took the shuttlecock with his hands and said to Danniang:

"Tan Niang, you kick one too."

Danniang took it and looked at the small shuttlecock in her hand - the rooster's feather was inserted into the hole in the small half of the bamboo. The bamboo was stitched with rags and connected to the bottom seam, only the bamboo hole on the top It is still exposed, and it can be seen that it is half of bamboo, and some rags are stuffed in the bamboo hole to fix the chicken feathers; the bottom is a small round piece wrapped with cloth. It was the copper coin that Qiqing was looking for not long ago; the copper coin was wrapped with two or three layers of old cloth, and the twisted stitches on it were clearly visible.

Danniang saw it, and handed the shuttlecock back to Qi Qing, saying:

"Kick it, I won't kick it."

"It's easy, you can kick it a few times, come on..." Qi Qing bent down, put the shuttlecock on the front of Danniang's shoe, and said, "Come on, try it, kick it up."

When Danniang bowed her head, she saw the shuttlecock on top of her cloth shoes.She slightly kicked the foot on which the shuttlecock was placed, and the shuttlecock was kicked out two or three steps.

Qiqing picked up the shuttlecock again, put it on Danniang's shoe, and said, "One more time, kick up!" She said, taking a step back.

Danniang did as she was told, and this time kicked him waist-high.

Qiqing asked Danniang to take the shuttlecock again, and asked her to throw it out and kick it with the inside and outside of her foot.After Danniang kicked the shuttlecock to the ground, Qiqing picked it up for her and handed it to her, and asked her to continue kicking. Repeated this several times, Danniang gradually kicked seven or eight shuttlecocks from one, two, three. .A few days later, Tanniang had already mastered the angle and strength of kicking the shuttlecock, and she was able to flexibly kick dozens of shuttlecocks.Therefore, kicking shuttlecock became the main interest of the two of them during this period.

For the convenience of martial arts practice, Qiqing usually wears Hu trousers on her lower body, a mid-length jacket that goes below the knees, and a cloth belt tied around her waist, while Danniang has always worn mostly short jackets and long skirts.Now, Danniang is wearing a pink top and a white skirt. When she kicks the shuttlecock, her graceful figure dances flexibly.

Qiqing couldn't help being a little obsessed with watching it. She thought to herself: "Why do we feel completely different when kicking the shuttlecock? Danniang's kick is as beautiful as a dancing butterfly. What about me? I can't change into a butterfly. It's just a real wild girl!" She laughed at herself in her heart.

The two were kicking shuttlecocks in the yard with undiminished interest, when they heard a knock on the door, Qiqing went to open the door, and when he opened the door, it was Cuizhu, the daughter of Aunt Ergui from the same village.

☆, green bamboo

Hearing the knock on the door, Qiqing went to open the door, and when he opened the door, it was Cuizhu from the same village who was one year younger than her.Cuizhu's father passed away several years ago, and there are only their mother and daughter in the family, and their life is not rich.

Cuizhu's mother, Aunt Ergui, is short and fat, with a round face. Although she has small eyes and a small nose, her facial features are delicate and well-proportioned.And Cuizhu is tall and thin, her appearance does not follow her mother's appearance, she seems more like her uncle and third uncle with big eyes, big face, straight nose, her usual clothes match her name, What they wear are all bamboo green but light-colored commoner skirts.

This Cuizhu seldom goes out and is always alienated from others, but she has a certain degree of closeness and trust in Qiqing. Every time she meets Qiqing, she will stop and talk to her.Even so, Cuizhu seldom came to clean the door of her house.

Every spring and autumn, the village will hold a grand worship activity, namely the Spring Society and the Autumn Society.

Wherever there is land, there is a place dedicated to offering sacrifices to the land god. This place is called a society, and the same is true for Qixian Village.The land is the lifeblood of a farm family. Planting a grain of millet in the spring and harvesting thousands of seeds in the autumn is the hope of the farmers. Whether the crops are growing well in the land, and whether there is any harvest from the busy work all year round, people think this is a gift from the God of the Land. and theocracy.

In Qixian Village, villagers will hold sacrificial activities in spring and autumn in order to pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year or after autumn, and a full warehouse of grain and rice.Before the sacrifice, the villagers will go to the commune to make various preparations for the sacrifice. At that time, those who have money will contribute money, and those who are powerful will contribute.On the day of the society, the elders or the head of the village will lead the villagers to pray and sacrifice together in the society.After the sacrificial ceremony, every household in the village can share the sacrificial offerings. For the poor, who cannot eat a meal of meat all year round, they can get a portion of cooked pig and mutton sacrificial offerings on the festival day. It is said that this is a special festival for poor people.Therefore, everyone attaches great importance to this sacrificial activity at any time.The whole village will participate in the worship activities, and the scene is both solemn and lively.

Qiqing followed her father away from home, and hadn't seen that kind of worship ceremony for more than three years.She and her father both went to the autumn club last year.

That time, Cuizhu's mother went to the commune two days in advance to help with work. Like the men and women in the village who went to work together, she worked hard for three days.But after the sacrificial activities were over, when the animals were distributed to every family in the village, the meat that Cuizhuniang received was much less than that of others, and the meat was not good.

Cuizhu Niang brought the food she got, went home sullenly, and then sat in the thatched hut to mourn for herself.Seeing this, Cuizhu, who was waiting for her mother to come back, felt indignant and aggrieved. She mentioned the poor thing her mother brought back, and went to the club to find Lu Dagui who distributed the animals—her uncle—to argue.

Lu Dagui, who has not yet returned home, was having wine and food with several people in the club. He looked at the green bamboo with a pair of red eyes. He grabbed a piece of meat from the desk, threw it on the ground, and said:

"How much can you eat?! Take it!"

At that time there were still many people in the club, Cuizhu, who was humiliated by Lu Dagui in front of everyone, couldn't bear the humiliation and indignation for a moment, she stepped forward and suddenly overturned Lu Dagui's food case.

Lu Dagui, who used to be stern and soft-hearted in the past, suddenly changed color, he swayed and stood up, about to explode, seeing the fire-breathing eyes of the green bamboo, made him feel stunned.But seeing everyone around, he wanted to reprimand this disrespectful niece in order to save his face.So, he used the wine to boost his courage, and even shouted such words as "crazy" and "against the sky", angrily yelling at Cui Zhu.

Cuizhu, who is usually reticent, seemed to be a different person at that time, and she told how her uncle Lu Dagui bullied her mother and daughter in the past - depriving them of everything her father left them, and even robbing her. The threshing ground shared by the uncle's three families was occupied, and they were not allowed to use it.

Cuizhu spoke eloquently, turning Lu Dagui's yelling and scolding into a powerless roar.In the end, the distraught Lu Dagui walked away resentfully.From then on, Cuizhu's uncle and third uncle cut off contact with Cuizhu's family at the same time.

On that day, Qiqing went to the club to receive food, but before he left, he encountered this scene.After Lu Dagui left, Cuizhu's mother had to pick up the piece of cooked meat that Lu Dagui threw on the ground.Cuizhu stopped her mother from picking it up, but her mother still insisted on picking up the piece of meat and wanted to take it home while scolding her for arguing with her uncle.Cui Zhu ran away crying because of her mother.

After Qiqing opened the door, he warmly greeted Cuizhu and said:

"It's Green Bamboo, come in!"

"Qiqing, do you have any salt in your house? Lend me some, my house is out of salt, and I will pay you back when I buy it next time." Cui Zhu stood at the door and said.

"Yes, come in and I'll get it for you."

Cuizhu walked in and saw Tanniang standing in the yard holding a shuttlecock in her hand, so she said, "Tanniang, are you kicking the shuttlecock?" The red golden pheasant feather shuttlecock kicked by itself.

Seeing Cuizhu's cheerful expression, Danniang was a little surprised.She has seen Cuizhu several times, but she has never seen Cuizhu have such a cheerful expression, it can be said that this is the only time, it is a rare and true expression of Cuizhu.And look at the green bamboo shuttlecock kicking like Qiqing, it is also very skillful and light.

"Cui Zhu, let's compare the two?" Qi Qing said after filling a small bowl of salt from the kitchen.

"Okay! I'll come first." Cuizhu said happily.

Qiqing and Cuizhu fought to win or lose by kicking shuttlecock, while Tanniang watched from the sidelines, and the morning passed quickly.

Later, Danniang used the copper coin to make a new shuttlecock, and the newly made shuttlecock was much more beautiful than the one Qiqing sewed.When Danniang has nothing to do, she will take the shuttlecock and kick it a few times to relieve boredom.If Qiqing saw Tanniang kicking the shuttlecock over there, she would go over and kick the shuttlecock with Danniang several times in turn to exercise her legs and feet.

Time flies, and the past two years have passed quickly.The days passed away silently like running water, making it difficult for people to notice.But Qiqing and Danniang are still living peacefully in Qixian Village, but the life is different in the ordinary.

In the morning Lu Xiaotian got up earlier than usual because someone asked him to meet him in Luoyang City today.

Danniang hadn't gotten up yet, when she heard the sound of her Uncle Lu walking in the yard after getting up early, she also got up, washed and washed, and went to prepare breakfast.After Lu Xiaotian ate, he went out.

☆、Qiqing's fear

In the morning, after Danniang had breakfast and boiled a pot of hot water, she didn't see Qiqing getting up, so she went to the window and shouted:

"Qiqing, the food is cold, why don't you eat it? Don't you practice martial arts at this time every day?"

Danniang listened carefully to Qi Qing who was in the house and did not respond to her call, so she went into the house to have a look, only to see Qi Qing sitting in a corner of the bed, holding the quilt in her arms, her face pale.

"What's wrong? Are you uncomfortable?" Tanniang approached her and asked.

"Dan Niang, I'm going to die!" Qi Qing raised his head with a look of panic and uncertainty.

Dan Niang was startled and asked, "What happened?" How sensitive she is to death!

"..." Qi Qing didn't speak.

"Say it!" Dan Niang said anxiously.

But Qiqing still refused to speak. After a pause, she slowly lifted the quilt, looked at Danniang, and then at the side of the bed.

Danniang followed Qiqing's gaze and saw a bloodstain the size of a mulberry leaf on the mattress on the side where Qiqing was sleeping.

Danniang immediately understood in her heart, it was really funny and angry, she had been visited by this uninvited guest since she was 13 years old—her mother had lectured her about it when she was alive.Therefore, when it appeared unexpectedly, she adapted without fear.

Today, I think it was Qiqing's first time here, a person who is usually fearless, but now he was frightened into such an appearance, which really showed her how extraordinary Qiqing is.

Danniang looked at Qiqing's pitiful appearance, sat down and said patiently:

"Don't be afraid, this is what happens to us girls. Do you know that women have to bleed like this for a few days every month when they reach a certain age, and everything will be fine after the bleeding. You are not sick, and you will not die .Like the moon in the sky, it is full and then disappears, and when it is short, it becomes full again, and it appears on time, and it goes back and forth naturally.”

Qiqing seemed to understand, but looked at Danniang sadly and said:

"Then you will come every month?"

Dan Niang blushed and nodded.

"Then why didn't I know?" Qiqing asked stupidly, she slept in the same room as Danniang, why didn't she find out?

For Qiqing's question, Danniang was a little annoyed because of her shame, but she still said:

"At this time, our women's privacy cannot be known by others." After a short pause, she continued: "Even if you marry someone in the future, you can't let your husband see it. If your husband sees it, would be considered unlucky."

After hearing what Danniang said, Qiqing became more and more demented. She raised her head and looked at the roof and began to think.

"Okay, get up, I'll make you two cotton pads, you use them first." Dan Niang urged her.

Qi Qing dawdled down to the ground, turned around and tore off the soiled quilt, and took it to the courtyard to wash.

Tanniang took the needle and thread, quickly sewed two small cotton pieces for her, and told her:

"You have to remember the date of each incoming letter water. From now on, the time it comes every time will be within two or three days of the last time. When the letter water comes, wash your hands with hot water, wash your clothes and vegetables, don't catch cold, don't drink cold water..."

"Hey! What a hassle!" Qi Qing sighed after hearing this.

Danniang just smiled when she saw her like this, and ignored her again.

After lunch, Tanniang sat under the eaves and began to thread needles.She held the embroidery needle in her hands, picked up a piece of white cloth, and continued to embroider flowers on it.

Qiqing took a book that she dug out from her father's room and read it.After reading for less than half an hour, suddenly someone knocked on the door, Qi Qing got up to open the door, and asked:

"who's that?"

"I, Cui Zhu Niang." The outside replied.

"Aunt Ergui, are you here?" Qi Qing opened the door and said.She thought: "This Ergui aunt also likes to run to my house. In the past two years since we returned home, Ergui's aunt has been working very hard. She came to my house every few days, and now she walks smoothly."

Today, Aunt Ergui was wearing a half-new dark red dress, and her hair was combed slickly, which was brighter than usual.Although the second noble aunt is relatively short in stature, she will not miss any of the farm work in the field.There are many women like her who go to the fields to do farm work, like Xiao's mother in the same village, who is also a good farmer.A few years ago, when the emperor ordered the construction of the new Luoyang city not far from the old city, Aunt Ergui and Ah Xiao's mother, together with other men in the village, were conscripted to build the city wall intermittently for a year.However, Ergui's aunt is a widow, and A Xiao's mother went to work in the field because A Xiao's father was sick all the year round and could not work in bed.Fortunately, the green bamboo has grown up now, and can share half of the family's work.

"Qiqing, is your father there?" Wang's widow asked as soon as she entered the door, looking inside while speaking.

"My father had eaten in the morning and went out."

"Where did you go?" Aunt Er Gui asked as she walked in.

"I don't know, he didn't say."

The widow of the Wang family seemed very disappointed when she heard that, but she became happy again when she saw Dan Niang who was welcoming her, and said:

"Danniang, the clothes you embroidered for me last time, others were praising me! I'll send Cui Zhu over tomorrow, and you'll teach her?"

"Okay. Auntie, sit down." Danniang took a round pier and placed it in front of Widow Wang.

"Ah, don't sit down, don't sit down! I asked Qiqing's father about something. Since he is not there, I am leaving. I will go back to my mother's house now. I will come back in two days. We will talk about it when I come back." She After finishing speaking, he left without looking back.

When Qiqing sent Aunt Ergui out of her house, she still thought it was funny, and turned back to the courtyard, only to see Danniang stop what she was doing and look sad.Qiqing walked up to Danniang and asked:

"Tan Niang, what are you thinking?"

Danniang came back to her senses, smiled wryly and shook her head, and continued with her work.

Qiqing squatted down, shook Danniang's arm and said:

"Tell me?"

"I just thought of my parents!" Tanniang said sadly.

Hearing what she said, Qi Qing felt sad, and she said:

"I miss my mother too. If you feel sad, shall we go to the temple to burn incense for them in two days?"

When Qiqing's mother was alive, she also knew a little bit of martial arts.When Qiqing was three years old, when her parents took her to visit her grandfather who was a martial artist in other places, her mother unfortunately fell ill and died.

Before Qiqing's mother died, she asked Lu Xiaotian to bury her in her hometown in Luoyang after her death. She hoped to be with their father and daughter all the time.Lu Xiaotian agreed to her wife's request, brought back the coffin, and buried his dead wife at the foot of Fushen Mountain not far from home.

Qiqing seldom mentioned her mother, and now that Tanniang said that she missed her parents, she couldn't help feeling sad.Hearing Danniang say "No matter how much incense they burn, they will never come back", Qiqing became even more sad.

Both she and Tanniang bowed their heads, silently thinking about their own relatives.Qiqing grieved for a while, and seeing Danniang's depressed mood again, she comforted her:

"Danniang, don't be sad, you won't be alone, I will be with you, I will always be by your side!"

Danniang felt better because of her reassurance, and joked with her:

"Really? You must keep your word!"

Qiqing looked at Danniang and said seriously:

"Of course it counts, you have to believe it!"

"Okay, I believe it."

Seeing Danniang walking out of her sorrow, Qiqing seemed to have relieved herself of the heavy pressure. She picked up the book again and read it easily on the sidelines.

☆, go to Jingzhou

Back then, when Lu Xiaotian returned home, he built five or six new houses with the money he saved when he was working as a nursing home in the Liang Mansion, and most of his savings have been used up.Later, when he was living at home, he often went out with his friends from the rivers and lakes, gathering with each other to treat guests and drinks, and he spent a lot of money. After three years, there was not much money left in his family.

Coupled with the fact that the government collects more and more taxes from the people every year-the rent and labor borne by the people has not only increased a lot, but also has a variety of names, which is annoying.However, Lu Xiaotian didn't cultivate the few mu of Susukida in his family himself, but rented the land to a family in the same village with little land to cultivate, and he only got some rented grain from that tenant every year. Not much left.The family couldn't make ends meet, which made Lu Xiaotian gradually feel financially tight.

At this time, Lu Xiaotian suddenly thought that before Tanniang's father Chen Tong passed away, Chen Tong had said that he would sell his house after his death to pay for Danniang's maintenance.At that time, due to the rush of time, the house was not sold.

Now that the family has no money, the house should be sold to solve the urgent need.After making up his mind, Lu Xiaotian told both Qiqing and Danniang, and after two or three days of preparation, he took the house deed and set off for Jingzhou.

This time when Lu Xiaotian went out, he found that it was quite different from the past: Along the way, not only were the gates of the cities tightly guarded, but the people entering and leaving the city were carefully checked by the guards. As a thief, he did see the headshots of several criminals who were to be arrested by the government pasted on the city wall; moreover, he often encountered a large group of soldiers and horses passing through the street, and the common people had no choice but to retreat.