Chapter 29 third quarter

As soon as it was dawn, he got up.Liu Sanjin was still in a sound sleep, and a slack in Yangzhou kneaded on the pillow, covered with a printed foreign satin quilt, and snuggled up to his neck.Although there is some residual fat and powder, but when the sun shines in the daytime, her bluish-yellow face finally reveals her unbearable life experience, and the slightly raised eyelids reveal her fatigue. The windows of the room were tightly closed, and the smoke from the night and the fire from the vegetable oil lamp were very heavy, so he opened the door and came out, rolled a bag of leaf cigarettes and smacked it.

There were some clouds in the sky, so I knew it was a sunny day.There is a little blue frost on the roof tiles.The north wind stopped, and I didn't feel very cold, but my fingers were slightly stiff.A flurry of jackdaws flew over the treetops. The guests from Shanxi in Shangguanfang are about to get up. They are all high-ranking gentlemen from ordinary pawnshops. After their employment period expires, they will go home for the New Year as usual.They have a rule that when getting up from the car, take a pair of sedan chairs, and try to carry as much as you can, completely stuffed inside and tied to the outside of the sedan chair, and are not allowed to be added to the specified weight poles and poles.About one sedan chair, even the people are always about 160 to 70 catties, and the porters who carry Shaanxi guests on this route also know the rules. Not to mention heavy.I always endured it and lifted my shoulders out of the north gate. It must have been past noon.Then I rested my shoulders every five miles, rested my feet every ten miles, and walked twenty miles to Tianhuizhen Luodian. It was almost dusk, and then I mentioned to the sedan chair guests that the sedan chair was too heavy to lift.Because of the experience of twenty miles, the passengers in the sedan chair believed that this was the truth, so they agreed to take out the contents of the sedan chair and hire another pick.So when I got up early the next time, I argued over the light and the heavy, and I had to make a fuss for a while.

Luo Waizui suddenly felt a little hungry, and then remembered that he only drank two glasses of soju last night and did not eat.Then he walked to the front yard, where the guests from Shaanxi were getting up, and Master Yao was being checked and covered.He originally wanted to ask Master Yao to buy a bowl of glutinous rice balls to eat, but after a second thought, he might as well go by himself, and the food would be more luscious. As soon as he stepped out of the inn door, he walked to Xingshun without knowing it.Fool Cai has already taken off the planks and piled them up in the interior cargo room. He is sweeping the floor with a broom in his bow.He went to sit on the short-legged throne outside the shop, and knocked the Monkey's Head pipe to the ground, knocking some gray-white soot on the ground.

Only then did Fool Cai see him, stretched his waist and said, "Morning cousin!" "It's too early for you to open the shop!" "On rush days, we always wake up at dawn." "Running?... Oh! It's really twenty-two today! You see, I've forgotten the date....Haven't you already had breakfast?" "It's about to eat, have you eaten yet?" "There are such early ones there! I was going to buy glutinous rice balls to eat, but I didn't eat last night, and I was a little hungry when I got up early...." Jinwazi suddenly cried out from behind.Mrs. Cai's high-pitched and clear voice also called out: "When you recited the earthen plate! Tripped him!...My dear, don't cry soon! I'll beat him!..."

Cai Xingshun remained silent, as if nothing had happened, and continued to sweep his floor. Luo wrinkled his mouth and stood up involuntarily.Holding the cigarette rod, he opened the door curtain, walked through the dimly lit inner goods room, walked to the door of the kitchen room, and asked loudly, "Is Jinwazi tripped?" Mrs. Cai was standing in front of the stove with her sleeves rolled up high and her apron tied, with a spatula in one hand and a cabbage filled with a small shaukei in the other; up. "Wow!" The dishes were put into the pot, and the water on the dishes was boiling and frying, and the pot was full of shouts.Mrs. Cai's spatula skillfully stir-fried the vegetables, sprinkled salt, and turned her head to talk to Luo Waizui with a smile, but her voice was covered by the cries of the vegetables.

Jinwazi flung herself on the fire bench, and stopped crying, with a few tears still hanging on her face.The earthen plate took a clay bowl full of rice on the small chopping board and held it out with both hands. After the water on the dishes was driven away by the boiling oil, she heard her last sentence: "... Let's have breakfast here, okay?" "Okay! . . . I just haven't washed my face yet!" "Wait a minute, when I cook the vegetables, I'll bring you some hot water." "Why wait for you to do it? I'll scoop it myself, won't I?"

When he entered their bedroom, he saw that the beds had been neatly made, the furniture had been polished to a shine, and the floor had been swept clean; even the tin lamp on the cupboard table was well placed , her royal red lacquered washbasin was placed on a round stool beside the canopy bed. When he took out the washbasin, he felt a little emotional in his heart: "Compared with women who live at home, they are really different! If only my house could be folded up a little bit!" I took hot water from the tile hanging pot in front of the stove, put it on a bench by the way, grabbed the original kudzu towel in the basin, and washed it.Mrs. Cai rushed to fetch a tile box, put it in front of him, and said, "Here is fragrant soap and mung bean powder." Then asked him whether he washed his teeth with salt or raw gypsum powder?

He said: "I just washed it with firewood ash yesterday, rinse it, and that's it." The kitchen was still cooking, so he washed his face and rinsed his mouth. When he came to the square table in the shop, he saw a bowl of fried eggs besides two side dishes. Luo rubbed his hands with a crooked mouth and laughed, "It's still troublesome, why?" Cai Xingshun was already eating with his rice bowl, and Mrs. Cai filled a bowl of rice and handed it to Luo Weizui, saying, "Old Cousin came to have a meal every once in a while, and I'm afraid you won't be able to wait. I know you're busy, so if you delay for a while, you won't be able to finish the meal. The scrambled eggs should be quicker, if there's still time, there's only a little less lard, and there's no chopped green onion, so it's not fragrant, so just eat it! "

These words are the humble words she is used to saying, and no one will be surprised when they hear them; for some reason, Luo Weizui now hears it, as if there is something in the words, thinking that instead of frying scorpion seeds, scrambled eggs, It was she who clearly expressed her concern for him, and he replied excitedly: "Excellent! I have never eaten eggs that are so tender as scrambled elsewhere!" So cooking became a topic of conversation between him and her during meals.She spoke very vigorously, and he often stopped his chopsticks and looked at her and said. Her oval face is thinner than when she got married two years ago.The two cheekbones gradually protruded.When I laughed before, the two deep dimples were now very shallow.Although the skin is still so delicate, on the forehead, after all, there are a few thin lines engraved on it by the years.Although I have dressed up today, I have put on some makeup and powder, my hair is combed smoothly, and a narrow kerchief of bleached cloth is spread across the head. It looks darker and blacker, whiter and whiter, and redder than usual. , naturally more playful; but the thin bridge of the nose and the freckles under the eyes can't be concealed at last, and I feel that they are more than two years ago; On the spring water, some flowers and leaves are dotted, as if it is necessary to feel the beauty of the scenery.The eye sockets are also bigger than before, but those two jet-black eyes are extraordinarily bright and exquisite.The most different thing from before is that when you were not a mother before or when you became a mother not long ago, try to be generous when talking to you, and even though you don't look like ordinary country women, you can't help but have a timid look!Now, Gu Zhan looks very bold, dares to look at you without blinking, and smiles forcefully. When the eyes flow, it is natural and interesting.

The dirt plate carried Jin Wazi out, and as soon as he saw his mother, Jin Wazi rushed over to ask her to hug her, but she refused, saying, "I'll hold you after dinner!" The child was disobedient, and burst into tears. Aunt Cai got angry and slapped his buttocks twice. Luo Weizui hurriedly blocked it and said: "Wa'er's house, seeing mother is going to make trouble....Hug away the earthen plate! Don't knock your teacher's hand away!" Mrs. Cai snorted, spewed out all the rice, and pointed at him with her chopsticks: "Old Cousin, you really like to joke today! My hands can be used for ironing, and you still speak so tenderly?" Bowed his head to eat Then, he glanced at him again with a smile.