Four Foods in the Mountains

In the side room, hearing the sound of the door being pushed, Cen Ning's heart tightened, and his hands on his knees were twisted together.

The candle flames danced, and he watched Lu Yunchuan approach slowly from under the hijab, and the hijab was raised.

Cen Ning held back his shame and looked up, seeing Lu Yunchuan in a wedding dress in front of him, his face was flushed red, and he said in a low voice, "Sir."

The husband in front of him had a face like a peach petal, his eyebrows were affectionate, and under the candlelight, his whole body was shrouded in a soft light like warm jade.

Lu Yunchuan stared blankly, not knowing where to put his hands and feet for a moment, he rubbed the material on the outside of his thighs with both hands, and said in a low voice, "A-are you hungry?"

Cen Ning shook his head and said, "I'm not hungry. Brother Zhi brought me sugar-watered eggs and noodles."

Lu Yunchuan nodded, fearing that the smell of alcohol on his body would suffocate his husband, he didn't dare to get too close, so he just stood by the bed and talked: "I must be tired after sitting for a day. Hot water was boiled in the kitchen, so I carried it into the room. You, scrub it off."

Hearing this, Cen Ning blushed even more, and lowered his head, tightly clutching the wedding dress on his body.

Lu Yunchuan carried a bucket of hot water into the house, and put the new wooden basin and cloth towels he bought specially beside him, and said to Cen Ning, "I'll wash it in the yard, and call me if you have anything to do."

He said and closed the door.

The sound of washing water soon resounded in the yard. Cen Ning pursed his lips and stood up, untied his clothes and began to scrub.

Tired but not tired. When he got up early, his second sister-in-law cooked a bowl of sour plum water for him to drink, and let him chew a plum. She said that the most painful thing for a bride to get married is not sitting in the new house and waiting for the hijab to be lifted, but sitting in a sedan chair. .

The roads in the countryside are not smooth, and sitting in a sedan chair can cause your internal organs to run out, and you will feel dizzy all day long.

But on the way to Yunxi Village in a sedan chair, he heard Lu Yunchuan instructing the person to carry the sedan chair to walk slowly, so he went to the side of the sedan chair and stretched out his hand to stabilize the sedan chair. He didn't stand back in front of the sedan chair until he entered the village and heard voices from people. .

Cen Ning lowered his eyes and thought, as long as his husband can always treat him well and don't behave like those scoundrels, even if life is a little bit harder and tiring, he will live comfortably and feel happy.

After washing up, there was still half a bucket of hot water left in the bucket. Cen Ning poured it into the basin. Hearing the sound of water disappearing outside the courtyard, he pushed open the door and whispered to Lu Yunchuan, "I walked a lot today, and my husband came in to soak feet."

Lu Yunchuan was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly said, "Okay, okay."

Soaking your feet in some scalding water relieved your fatigue a lot.

Cen Ning was sitting on the edge of the bed in a white undershirt, with a pair of tender white feet touching the water surface.

Seeing this, Lu Yunchuan raised his instep and said, "The water is hot, put it on my feet to go to the bar."

Cen Ning gave a soft "hmm", and carefully probed Lu Yunchuan's instep with the tip of his toe, and then slowly pressed it firmly.

The night is hazy, and the moon hanging in the sky tonight is extraordinarily bright.

After washing up, Lu Yunchuan took the water outside and poured it out, and Cen Ning sat on the bed in his white undershirt, feeling uneasy.

The oil lamp in the main room was blown out, Lu Yunchuan walked into the room, closed the door, and sat down beside the bed.

Even though it was summer, it was still cold in the mountains at night, Lu Yunchuan pulled back the quilt, and the two of them lay down on the bed, both silent.

It wasn't until a tall and warm body was pressed down on him that Cen Ning couldn't help but let out a small exclamation.

But he quickly fell silent again. Before getting married, A Niang asked his sister-in-law to teach him about this.

The inner garment was unbuttoned, the waist was firmly grasped, and the skin was pressed against each other. Cen Ning held back his embarrassment and wrapped his arms around the neck of the person on his body, feeling somewhat dependent, and tremblingly said: "My lord, I, I'm a little scared."

Looking at the fair nape of Fulang buried in his arms, Lu Yunchuan's deep eyes showed undisguised tenderness, he patted Fulang's back with his big palm, and said hoarsely, "I'm not afraid."

In the dead of night, surrounded by red waves, the shadows of candles by the window flickered, and in the end even the wicks were slowly burned out...

The next day, when Cen Ning woke up, it was already high in the sun.

The bed beside him was empty, so he got up hastily, endured the discomfort and put on his clothes, and when he opened the door, he saw Lu Yunchuan sitting in the yard weaving bamboo baskets.

Seeing Cen Ning come out, Lu Yunchuan put down his work and said, "Are you awake? I'll fetch you water to wash up, and eat after washing."

Cen Ning whispered, "I got up late."

"It's not too late, I just woke up too." Seeing that Cen Ning was a little uneasy, Lu Yunchuan paused and said, "It's just the two of us at home, there are no rules, it's okay to rest for a while, I do all the work at home."

On the first day a bride enters the house, she serves tea to her parents-in-law. The mother-in-law has to set the rules. Lu Yunchuan and the other side naturally have no such rules, and he didn't marry Cen Ning to make her husband work.

The breakfast was made by Lu Yunchuan, a basket of white flour steamed buns, a pot of white rice porridge and two side dishes.

Lu Yunchuan touched the tip of his nose and said, "I'm not good at cooking, so I eat two bites to fill my stomach."

He doesn't pay attention to food, and he doesn't want to go to the front room to bother his sister-in-law before he gets married. He often deals with it by eating a few cold steamed buns alone at home.

The white rice porridge was almost cooked. Cen Ning picked up the bowl and smiled, and said in a low voice, "I'll make it for you in the future."

Lu Yunchuan raised his eyes and said with a smile, "Okay."

After eating, Lu Yunchuan hurriedly took the bowls and chopsticks to the kitchen to wash. Cen Ning wanted to argue with him, but when Lu Yunchuan said, "You are not feeling well, take a rest", Cen Ning sat down with a blushing face.

After washing the dishes, Lu Yunchuan went into the room and took out a box, opened it and handed it to Cen Ning.

"Here are the land deeds and money from the family, and I leave them to you for collection."

There were a few pieces of paper and three taels of silver in the box. The marriage cost a lot of money, and there was not much money left in the family.

Lu Yunchuan rubbed his legs. After all, he was young. When he was alone, he didn't feel anything, as long as he could eat enough, but with Fulang, he inevitably began to worry that Fulang would suffer if he followed him.

When the village chief's wife came to the house for the first time and offered to help him propose marriage to the Cen's family in Meiling Village, he refused without thinking.

The village head's wife was puzzled: "The brothers of the Cen family have good looks and personalities, why don't you want to? Did you fancy a girl from another family?"

Lu Yunchuan shook his head, thinking of his elder brother whom he met that winter, and said in a muffled voice, "Auntie, you know the conditions of my family, it's not good for people to suffer with me."

It was the village chief's wife who advised him: "You will suffer here, do you eat less or wear less at home? But it's just that you don't have parents-in-law. Isn't your sister-in-law living well when she marries your brother?" Cen's family said I just want to find a brother-in-law who is down-to-earth, and I don't care about anything else.

"If you really want to marry a rich man in the village, you will suffer if you meet that man who is dishonest and wants to find a concubine outside after marriage. Auntie also knows who you are, so she wants to help you propose in front of the Cen family. Mention."

Only then did he nod his head, but he still had no hope in his heart, thinking that such a brother should find a better family instead of marrying a farmer like himself.

Now that Fulang was sitting in front of him, Lu Yunchuan said with some embarrassment: "There is not much money, but it will be better when the wheat is harvested and sold, and I can make some money by working in the town when the farming is off. I...will not let you follow me." I suffer."

Reaching out to close the box, Cen Ning said with a slight smile, "Give it to me, sir, and I will keep it safe."

Eyelashes lowered again, the voice was soft but serious: "I'm not afraid of hardship."

Days can always get better and better.

Early in the morning, as soon as a high-pitched cock crowed outside, Cen Ning opened his eyes. The room was dark and quiet, with only the sound of steady breathing coming from his ears.

Cen Ning's hand was held by Lu Yunchuan, and Cen Ning broke away with a blushing face. After seeing the sharp-edged profile of the person next to the pillow, he put on his clothes and got off the bed lightly.

In summer, it dawns early, and it is already bright outside the house.

After washing up, I went to the kitchen to light a fire to boil water, then opened the door and went to the chicken coop in the backyard to feed the chickens and pick up eggs.

There are not many chickens raised at home, and I can get two or three eggs a day. If I don’t sell them, I fry or cook them at home.

After watering the vegetables in the small vegetable garden, Cen Ning went into the kitchen and started preparing breakfast.

Breakfast is always simple, boil a pot of multigrain porridge, stuff a few cornbread and steamed buns into the stove, and boil two white water eggs.

Originally, he only cooked one egg. Recently, he had to work hard during the busy farming season. Cen Ning thought about cooking an egg for Lu Yunchuan every morning.

But every time Lu Yunchuan peeled the shells, he stuffed them into his mouth. He had no choice but to cook two, at least so that Lu Yunchuan could eat them.

When the porridge was being served, Lu Yunchuan also got up and washed with the water Cen Ning had prepared. Cen Ning brought the breakfast to the stone table in the yard, and took a cloth towel from the shelf beside it and handed it to Lu Yunchuan to wipe his face.

"It's still early, so you don't have to get up so early in the morning, just squint for a while." Lu Yunchuan took the cloth towel and wiped off the water drops several times.

"It's okay, I'm not sleepy." When Cen Ning stretched out his hand to take back the cloth towel again, the palms of the two of them inevitably touched. They were both hands that had done work, but the hands of a man like Lu Yunchuan who often do heavy and rough work are much rougher than Cen Ning's. Yes, the palm is broad and full of calluses.

Cen Ning withdrew his fingertips and lowered his head to cover his flushed face. He and Lu Yunchuan had only been married for a few days. Although they got close every day, they were still not fully used to such distance and physical contact.

Sitting at the stone table for breakfast, Lu Yunchuan picked up the egg and peeled the shell and asked casually, "Did you forget to serve some side dishes?"

As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I remembered something, and my face suddenly darkened.

Seeing this, Cen Ning hurriedly said, "The cucumbers in the backyard are ripe. I'll pick a basket of pickled cucumbers later, and I can eat them in two days."

Realizing that his complexion was not good, Lu Yunchuan hurriedly calmed down, handed the boiled egg to Cen Ning and said, "If she comes over again, you can go to the field and call me, or go to the front and call sister-in-law."

"I see." Cen Ning nodded.

The two were talking about Wang Fengyu. It turned out that the day before yesterday was when Cen Ning returned home. Lu Yunchuan and Cen Ning rushed to Meiling Village early in the morning. They were full of caramel, red eggs and wine. Two catties of pork ribs.

When the villagers saw it, they said that the second boy of the Lu family cared about his husband, and he had arranged everything carefully for the bride price, banquet and homecoming ceremony.

On the day of Lu Yunchuan's marriage, she remembered Lu Yunrui's words in her heart and did not persuade Lu Dexing to make trouble, but she heard that the villagers were full of praise for Ximian and the new husband when they came back from the banquet. She didn't fall asleep all night, angry that she couldn't go Look through the bridegroom's dowry and bring back some good things.

She thought simply, if it wasn't for the generous dowry from the Cen family, how could that poor boy Lu Yunchuan be willing to spend so much money?

Suffering at home for two days, taking advantage of Lu Yunchuan going to harvest wheat in the field yesterday, Wang Fengyu thought that Cen Ning, a newly married brother, would not dare to refute her as a mother-in-law, so she ran to Lu Yunchuan's yard and made a big fuss.

After entering the door, go to the side room to open Cen Ning's dowry box.

Mouth yelling: "Whatever, I am also his stepmother, your mother-in-law, it's fine if you don't invite us to dinner if you don't know etiquette when you get married, know how to pick things up at your mother's house, but don't know how to honor your parents-in-law?"

Cen Ning had nothing to do with her, in the end it was Yao Chunling who came to Cen Ning to take out the soles of the shoes together and saw, thinking that Wang Fengyu had also taken a piece of cloth from her dowry in the same way, she put her hips on her hips and scolded Wang Fengyu away.

"Old shrew, look at Brother Ning, who has a good temper and comes here to piss off. How many years have the family been separated? A cowardly and incompetent father, a harsh stepmother, whoever gave you face, still have the nerve to turn over the dowry, save you That old face. Are you going to go? If you don't go, I will call the village chief."

Wang Fengyu was so scolded that she couldn't speak, and she was afraid that the village chief would be called. When she got home, Lu Yunrui would accuse her, so she overturned the pickle jar in the yard and ran away.