Embracing the ancient times with roses

Lixiu opened the letter paper, and on it was his master's notes. It said, "My child, you have grown up, and your master is also old. It's time for you to fly high. Go and find someone who loves you and loves you." Well, no matter you are a man or a woman, you have to live a good life with him, don’t worry about me, probably when you read this letter, the master is no longer alive, the master is old, and his body has cancer, I know it won’t be better, I am writing this letter to you in the hospital. If one day you get married, remember to toast the master. I put a USB flash drive at the bottom of the box. The contents in it may be useful to you , when you are free, take a look, well, master, if you are tired, you must be happy!"

Li Xiu looked at the letter, feeling bitter and unbearable, carefully put the letter away, put it in the box, wiped his tears, and put things away. As soon as Comrade Da Zhuang entered the room, he saw Li Xiu crying there. do not know what to do with it?

He walked over and carefully hugged Li Xiu from behind, saying, "Brother Xiu, what's wrong with you?"

"No, it's okay, I just miss my master, I'm afraid he's... gone now, wow..." After speaking, I started crying again, this time really loudly.

Da Zhuang was taken aback and said, "Brother Xiu, don't cry, you still have me now, don't cry, be good, tell me if you have anything to do in the future, I will definitely find a way to get it done."

Li Xiu nodded, and cried for a while, raised his head and wiped the tears with his hands, raised his face and said, "I'm sorry, I made you laugh, I was just excited, but Brother Zhuang, from now on I really only want to You are left, you have to be nice to me, don't leave me."

"Well, don't worry, I won't leave you, you still have to be my wife." Da Zhuangle couldn't even close his mouth.

Li Xiu calmed down, he hadn't cried for a long time, this time he let it out, he felt much better, "By the way, Big Brother, look at these things I brought, are they worth money?" After speaking, he opened the bag that he had loaded.

When Da Zhuang saw it, his heart trembled, and he hurriedly said, "Wait." Then the man ran out, and Li Xiu stretched his neck to look out the window, and saw Comrade Da Zhuang rushing to the gate of the courtyard, and opened the gate to the courtyard. It was closed, and after entering the room, the door was closed again with a serious expression on his face.

Then he walked into the room and said: "Brother Xiu, these things of yours are worth a lot of money here, so don't reveal them easily, otherwise it will attract people's attention and cause trouble."

"Then what should we do? How about we exchange all these things into money, so that we can put them away carefully so that no one will miss them, is that okay?"

"Well, when your foot is healed tomorrow, when we go to the town's yamen to apply for household registration, we can take another one and see how much it can be exchanged for." Da Zhuang thought for a while and said.

"Well, what about these things now?" Li Xiu was also afraid, in this world, if someone knew that he had these things, it would be bad if he caused trouble.

Da Zhuang put these things directly into a jar, and then he was about to go out, but was stopped by Li Xiu: "Wait, Brother Da Zhuang, there are still more, what should I do about these?"

As soon as Da Zhuang turned his head, he saw that Lixiu's box was full of gold and silver jewelry. He was a little dumbfounded; "You brought such a dowry here?"

Li Xiu listened: "What dowry?"

"In our place, only people who go out to get married will wear gold and silver jewelry, which means that this is the dowry given by the mother's family. You, you are really bold, and you are not afraid of being robbed. Quick, find a place to put it away " After finishing speaking, he found a wooden box to wrap the jewelry, then turned around to see if there were any conspicuous things from Lixiu.

"I don't know the things you have here, can you put them away first? When you have time in the future, we are looking at them slowly. Now you have to hide them first, so that no one will see them. In addition, no matter who asks you Let’s say, you’re here to get married, you know?”

Knowing the seriousness of the problem, Li Xiu nodded, "Then do I need to put these clothes away?"

"No, people here wear very mixed clothes, because there are a lot of foreigners, and the clothes are messy, no one will notice, but don't be too conspicuous, let's go to town tomorrow, I'll buy you a few for us Wear the clothes here, okay?" Da Zhuang let out a long breath.

Li Xiu nodded: "Okay, let's go to town tomorrow, hurry up and get the household registration, it's better than anything else."

Da Zhuang nodded: "Let's go, put all these eye-catching boxes in the cellar first, don't see people coming later."

Li Xiu nodded, got off the ground, and put all the things that are not needed for the time being into a large bag, even the notebook, mobile phone, and p3, leaving only some clothes, pants, and I haven’t forgotten the slippers I can wear now. From the jar Da Zhuang is holding, I took out some of the goods he bought. As for the unused toiletries, he put them all in the bag directly. There were still some on the kang table. By the way, he was still in the pile of medicines. He found an aspirin tablet and put it aside. He will use it later.

After packing up all these things, Da Zhuang helped him take them to the east room. He first put the things on the ground, then ran to the northeast corner, moved the farm tools away, and then moved a floor brick in the corner to the side. There is an iron ring under the floor tiles. When he pulled the iron ring, he heard a "rumbling" sound, and then a tunnel appeared. Da Zhuang said: "This is where our family hides things. Put it here, put some on the big surface, inconspicuous, and others will not be able to find out that our family is rich."

Li Xiu nodded, followed Da Zhuang into the tunnel, and saw that the inside was quite big, surrounded by brick walls, and plastered on top, maybe to avoid insects, he didn't understand this, Looking at several large vats in the corner, Li Xiu walked over curiously, opened the lid of one of the vats, and found that it was full of white rice. He looked back at Da Zhuang, and found that Da Zhuang was also looking at him, and then explained: "I like it. When you have nothing to do, prepare more rice grains. You know that these days, people rely on God to eat. If there is a disaster year, you will be hungry. So prepare some rice grains. necessary."

Li Xiu nodded: "Well, be careful, be prepared." Then he opened another rice vat, which was filled with corn, and the other smaller one was filled with wheat.

He now admires Comrade Da Zhuang infinitely, "Brother Da Zhuang, you are so powerful, you have saved so much food, when will you be able to eat it all?"

"It's okay to eat slowly, it's really not good, it's autumn, we are selling these old grains, replacing them with new grains, and eating them in exchange. Don't talk about those grains, come here, you see, I will sell yours first. Put these dowries in this jar, don’t take them out when you have nothing to do, and wear them when we get married.” Comrade Da Zhuang moved a cabinet in the corner, and there was an iron cover underneath, he opened the cover, Inside is a pit, which contains two jars.

Da Zhuang opened a jar, showed it to Li Xiu, and said, "This is the place where we store our money. It's full of silver, each of which is one tael. This jar is 200 taels. The bigger one is filled with money. Copper coins, I haven’t counted them, but there should be about twenty coins. I’ll put your dowry in it. In the future, if you want to spend money, you can come here to get it yourself. From now on, you will be responsible for managing the money. I will be responsible for earning money, supporting my family and you, okay?"

Li Xiu was so touched by Da Zhuang's trust, but he wanted a bite for Mao, a dowry or something, I just thought it was the one who was suppressed, Li Xiu felt depressed, but still nodded.

After Comrade Da Zhuang put the things away, he put Li Xiu's boxes on top of the cabinet, led him out of the tunnel, put the farm tools away, and went back to the house with Li Xiu, and went to the house. Kang, take the quilt off the box and put it on the bamboo pole outside to dry clothes. Fortunately, the sun is still strong in the afternoon, so it’s good to get rid of the moisture.

Turning around and entering the room, he saw Li Xiu was putting things away, and he saw Li Xiu worrying about where to put his clothes, Da Zhuang smiled and said: "Come and put the clothes in the cabinet inside, there are a few quilts in it, take Just come out."

Li Xiu nodded, opened the box, and saw that there were new quilts inside, which seemed to have not been covered, and the back was red, and the mattress was also new, so he carefully took it out and put it on another box .

Seeing him looking at the new sets of quilts, Da Zhuang said: "Ama made these for me when he was alive, and said that it would be useful when I married a wife in the future, but he didn't wait for this day. "

When Li Xiu saw what he said, he couldn't help but sighed and said, "It seems that we are all children without parents' love!"

"How could it be? My father died of an epidemic in the village the year before last. It's different from being abandoned when you were young." Comrade Da Zhuang couldn't help but reply when he heard Li Xiu said that no one cared about the two of them. He shut his mouth, but regretted it when he said it, looked at him hurriedly and said, "I'm sorry, I, I didn't mean to say that."

When Li Xiu saw him like that, he smiled and said, "It's okay, what you said is the truth. I've thought about it over the years. At least I have Master who loves me. That's good." After finishing speaking, he turned back He continued to pack the box and put the clothes in one by one, but he suddenly remembered something, and immediately turned around and said, "What did you just say, eh? You don't have a mother, but you have an aunt? You were born by your aunt ?”

"Well, I was born by my grandma, weren't you? Besides, what is mother?" Da Zhuang was curious.

In Lixiu's mind, a group of grass and mud horses crossed the border. What kind of a world is this? episodes that just happened.

"Yes, but can you tell me what a mother is?" Da Zhuang still wanted to know what a mother was.

"Mother is the one who gave birth to us." Li Xiu got a headache when he asked him, why is this child so obsessed with this question!

"Oh, it seems that you call me a mother." Comrade Da Zhuang admitted the truth.

Li Xiu twitched the corner of his mouth and didn't say anything, but he asked again: "How do you know that I belong to my brother?"

"It doesn't matter. Only my brother has pierced ears here, and only my brother will come out to get married with a bouquet of flowers. I saw you at a glance when I was on the mountain, and you don't I know, when I first saw you, I knew you would come home with me."

Li Xiu touched his pierced ear, and was surprised. Just such a pierced ear made him a brother?

"Why are you so confident that I'm the one who wants to be with you forever?"

"This has to start when I was a child. Everyone in the village knows that when I was a child, a wandering monk told me that in my whole life, only when I was 20 years old could I meet someone who truly loves me, and that People will give me children and brothers, otherwise I will be alone and have no wife in my life."

"Then when you meet all these people, you don't fall in love?" Li Xiu didn't believe his words.

"You don't know. I usually don't leave the village when I have nothing to do. There are many people in the town. Where can I meet so many people? Besides, if I can't meet one, I will go up and ask if I want to live with me for the rest of my life." ?”

"Then why did you dare to go up and talk to me when you met me?" Li Xiu was a little curious.

"You know, when I saw you for the first time, my heart was pounding, and I just followed your figure, and I didn't know what happened to my feet, so I started to follow you until you found me Come on, brother Xiu, you can live a good life with me, okay?"

Li Xiu rolled his eyes at him, blushed, and said, "Didn't you see that I went home with you, and my dowry is also in place? Don't you understand?"

Comrade Da Zhuang thought for a while: "That's right, you see I'm confused?" Then he was happy.

Li Xiu turned around by himself without looking at him, and started to take out the new sets of quilts, and let him take them out to dry in the sun, in case fleas were caught, it would be bad.It's impossible to find lice or anything. Da Zhuang looks like a man, but he's not lazy or dirty. You can tell from the thin quilt he covered in the morning. It doesn't smell at all, and it looks like it's been cleaned frequently.

When Da Zhuang sent the quilt outside to make it up, when he came back, he saw Li Xiu wearing a pair of shoes (slippers) with exposed toes and heels, walking around the room, as if he was looking for something.

He walked over and asked, "What are you looking for?"

"Is there a pot for water, a smaller one, I want to put these flowers in water, or they will wither?"

"Yes, why did I forget this? There is another saying. The longer the roses brought by the brother who got married last longer, the longer the love between the two will last."

Li Xiu gave him a deflated look. If in modern times, those flowers bloomed in the nutrient solution all day long, wouldn't they be invincible? But just to make him happy, he didn't say anything.

Da Zhuang ran to the back kitchen, found a small unused jar and handed it to Li Xiu. Seeing that it was filled with water, Li Xiu casually threw the aspirin into the jar, then opened the wrapping paper of the rose, and put it in the jar. Put the yarn aside, it will be useful later, so Da Zhuang handed him the scissors, he cut off the root of the flower, put it in a jar, and put it on the window sill.

Da Zhuang looked at these flowers and said: "It's so good, it blooms beautifully, we will be like these flowers in the future, let's live a good life."

Li Xiu nodded and said, "Are there any nails at home?"

Da Zhuang shook his head and said, "No, I'll buy some tomorrow. By the way, why do you need nails?"

"I want to nail the rest of these yarns to the windows, so that flies and mosquitoes will not come in, so as to save the two of us from being bitten."

Da Zhuang nodded: "Brother Xiu is still smart, why didn't I think about it, I bought some rough cloth early and stapled it to the windows, these years, I have been bitten every summer."

Li Xiu raised the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: "That's right, I don't even look at who I am." In fact, this is common sense, and they, the ancients, don't know it!