Chapter 42 Section 42

The old jujube tree outside the window has lost all its leaves, and its bare, thorny branches poke at the leaden sky. The other is a black cypress, with the last few purple leaves trembling on the slender branches.On the first day of the first day, he received a reply from Qian, saying that her rural elementary school would leave to see him during the winter vacation. The letter was very short, with a few words and neat handwriting. Living together, but finally decided to come, presumably also thought deeply.He saw hope and turned it into a practical plan. The late rice was harvested and dried, and stored in the granary of the production team.The water in the field is drained, and the grass seeds used as green manure are sown, and the field will be plowed to raise seedlings in the spring.The year's work in the fields is over, and the farmers are doing their own things. They go to the mountains to cut firewood, repair pigpens, and build houses with earthen walls. Most of them are for marriage or separation of brothers. Qian.But the walls made of soil in his house can only be plastered and whitened after the summer is completely dry. There is nothing to do except to block some mud on the sides of the door and window frames and the ventilating gaps in the rafters.Qianlai naturally slept with him in this room, and in the eyes of the villagers, he had to get married. He had to let the villagers know that he was going to marry a wife first.It would be easy for Qian to agree, just go to the commune to get a marriage certificate, and there is no need to prepare banquets according to the customs of the village, and all the old rules have been abolished, the problem is that she did not clearly say in her letter whether she will come to get married.

On the edge of the town, the two houses repaired on the site of the old temple that had been burned down by fire in the early years are the bus station, and there is a bus every day, coming from the county and returning immediately.It was difficult for him to remember Qingqian's face, but when the bus arrived, he recognized it immediately from the people who got off the bus.Qing was carrying a travel bag that the locals didn't have, and she wore two short braids, but her face was tanned and she seemed to be getting fatter, maybe it was because she wore a lot of clothes for a long time.He immediately stepped forward to take the bag and asked, "Is the journey going well?"

Qian said where to transfer to a long-distance bus, then got on the train, changed another car, and then took a long-distance bus. Fortunately, Rong bought a ticket at the county bus station and waited for her, and immediately picked up the bus to this town.Qian Shu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's already the fourth day on the road!" Qian was still very excited and seemed very natural. Walking on the field ridge into the village, she stood side by side with him, close to each other, as if they had been in love for many years, and they were his relatives.This girl will live with him, become his wife, and depend on each other for life. Does it need to be explained?

Qian sat on the straw-padded wooden bed, the most comfortable position in the room, and he sat opposite, on the only chair in the room, and said, "Take off your shoes when you're tired, and you can rest on the quilt .” He brewed a cup of green new tea for Qian, the best local product in this mountain village. Qian looked around at the bumpy earthen walls and the gray-black tile roof without a ceiling.He had said to plaster it in the summer, or buy some lumber to put up the ceiling, and have a carpenter make some furniture, and she could arrange it however she wanted.Qian said that she lived in Saidong, also with earthen walls, but it was very dry, but it was much poorer than the countryside here. There was a piece of loess, and there were few trees. At this time, the stick stubble was cut for firewood, and there was a little green Can't see it either.Her elementary school is decent. There are three teachers including the land, and those two are locals. The school is managed by the village cadres of the production brigade. She managed to win such a school, with a household of about two hundred The big village is thirty miles away from the county seat, and there is no bus access, so you have to take a farmer's mule and horse-drawn cart to enter the city.He said that the elementary school in this town was about to resume classes, and he could talk to the cadres of the commune and the county to transfer her here.Qian also admitted that there is no fantasy, it is very realistic.

They went to an old teahouse in a small town and ordered two dishes of stir-fried vegetables.This is also the only breakfast shop and restaurant in the town. On the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year's Eve, when there is a big market, farmers from the four villages sit upstairs and downstairs at more than a dozen square tables, resting their feet, drinking tea and eating loudly.Usually, especially this afternoon, the two of them are alone, walking on the creaking wooden upstairs, looking down from the window, a narrow bluestone street, the windows of the upstairs houses look at each other, and the windows downstairs are open. of several pavements.There are a butcher shop, a tofu shop, a cloth shop that also sells department stores, a grocery store that sells grass rope lime ceramics and oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, an oil and grain store that is also a workshop for oil pressing and rice milling, and a wood, bamboo and ironware cooperative that sells bathtubs, buckets and hoes. , and a Chinese medicine shop that also sells some western medicine.This is also the location of the commune. There is a veterinary station, a health center, a savings bank, and a police station that also manages several surrounding communes. There is a policeman.The necessities of life are all available, and the most basic regime issues marriage certificates with portraits of leaders.

After eating, he walked all over the street in two minutes. He asked Qian what he wanted to buy, but she was noncommittal.He led her back to the cloth store that also sold department stores, and bought a round mirror with a nickel-plated wire lining on the back that could be placed on the table.I also bought a double bed sheet, which requires payment of a cloth ticket, and a pair of nylon blended pillowcases, but the price is higher and the cloth ticket is not charged.Qian didn't object and chose together with him.Some of the bed sheets in the store were all made of big red flowers, and the pillowcases were also embroidered with Double Happiness. The villagers only bought them for their dowries, so there was no choice. He bought them all, and there was no objection.

Back in the earthen house in the village, he closed the back window.Outside is a pond, covered with duckweed, and there are a few smooth stone slabs beside the pond, where village women wash clothes with sticks in the morning and evening, and men wash their feet and body there in summer nights.After a long time, the frogs could not be heard anymore. Qian said she was tired, so he changed into the sheets he had just bought. Qian made the bed with him, and also changed into Double Happiness's pillowcase. He only had one pillow, and the other pillowcase was stuffed into his sweater. Some of her clothes were also tucked in.

Qian lay down first, and he sat on the edge of the bed, holding her hand, and then Qian said to turn off the light. He only remembered her body, everything else was strange, a woman he didn't know, except for a few letters, she sent him either pleading for help or lamenting, she was the same person who had fallen in the world, sympathized with each other.does he love herHe thought so.And what about Qian?He has no way of knowing, isn't he looking for someone to rely on from thousands of miles away?She handed it over to him and let him do what he wanted to do on her. She didn't react, get excited, resist, or speak, and then fell asleep. He thought she was asleep.He has a woman, a woman who belongs to him by name, a wife who can build a common life, and in the future, he can have a common voice and trust each other.In short, he would not really marry a village girl as his wife.In this village, the women who gave birth to babies breastfeed in their arms in summer, and they went off work in the fields to tease and fight with the men. He couldn't stand the rough coquettishness, the swearing, and the fact that they didn't care about anything.He has also learned to tease the women in the village, but he still keeps a distance, unlike the men in the village who fight with the women, either pulling on the women and eating tofu, or telling the women to rush forward I took off my trousers, and amidst the yelling and laughter, I pinched my trousers and ran away. The farm work in the countryside is endless, and there is nothing else to be happy about, but it is also a joy. The sisters-in-law said: "I don't like our sister. What's the matter? How can girls in the city be so juicy? You just look at Maomei's complexion, fresh peaches can squeeze water out! You can do all kinds of farm work, so clumsy like you, it will save you a lot to find a water girl Heart!" The little girl, Maomei, poked her mouth out, grabbed the man's skirt, and hid behind her back.He wasn't indifferent to this juicy little girl, but when he saw those village women, he saw that this was not the life he wanted in the future.

In the morning, Qian opened her eyes, her face was rosy, and she also smiled.And he was indeed happy.Qian couldn't be called charming, but she looked cute, snuggling into his arms, knowing that he was looking at her, she closed her eyes again, and he held her breasts, stroking the ground.Qian was obedient, letting his fingers move on her body, and her curly legs separated.He missed her again, but restrained himself, he didn't have to be so eager to have sex, they wanted to live together, there was plenty of time.He kissed her, and Qiansong responded with his tongue with his open lips. For the first time, he felt that she was forcing him to be happy, and he thought that Qian loved him, not just relying on each other in adversity.

"Shall we register?" He asked Qian. Qian's soft body pressed against him, buried in his arms, nodded, and he was touched. "Get up and go to the commune right away!" He wants to start a family with her, establish a loving relationship between husband and wife, prove that he loves her, register for marriage immediately, and then try to transfer her here. They want to settle down in this mountain village safely, and no matter what the world is like, they just live their own lives. . Qian brought a certificate of unmarriage, which was issued by the commune where she worked, that is to say, she had thought about it before coming here.He knew all the cadres of the commune, so there was no need to show any documents.They each signed the form, filled in the date of birth, stamped it with a document, paid five cents for the paper fee, and it took only one minute to complete the formalities.

Passing the butcher shop, half a piece of pork was hung on an iron hook, and he wanted a big elbow.There is no need for meat tickets to buy meat in this village, and the produce is also abundant!Usually people don't starve to death.But in the years of the "Great Leap Forward", it was also an order of the party, and even the rations were handed over to the public, and some villages starved to death.The people in the village have learned to behave themselves. Every family grows sesame or rapeseed in their vegetable gardens for oil extraction. Every family raises pigs and eats their own bacon. What they lack is money.He said, let's raise pigs in the future, and Qian rolled his eyes at him, not understanding the joke. The newlyweds were still happy. He lit the charcoal stove, and when the smoke cleared, he moved the glowing charcoal stove into the house and built a big pot of elbows.Qian began to sing softly, an old song from before the Cultural Revolution.He encouraged Qian to sing loudly, and he followed suit.Qian actually has a good voice, and the timbre is quite bright. This is a discovery.Qian smiled and said, "I practiced my voice, and it's a soprano." "Really?" He excitedly. "What is this?" Qian said lazily, and her voice was also sweet. "No, it's very important. With your singing voice, I can get by!" This is what they have in common.He said, "Qian, please sing well!" "What do you want to hear? Order it," Qian said proudly, her head turned to one side, and she became charming. "Then sing an Italian folk song—return to Sodato!" "It's a song in male voice." "Sing the drinking song from *La Traviata*!" "The lyrics are not easy for people to hear," Qian was still hesitating. "It doesn't matter in this country, who knows? You don't have to sing lyrics," he said. Qian stood up, took a breath, but stopped again, and said, "It's better not to sing those foreign songs." He" couldn't think of anything to sing about. "Then sing the old folk song Thirty Mile Pu!" Qian said. The voice came out, and Qian's eyes lit up.A bunch of children came out of the window—and then some women.The singing stopped, and a sigh came from outside the window: "How well sung!" It was Mao Mei who said this, and she was caught in it.The women also chattered: "Where is the bride from?" "Do you want to stay for a while?" "But don't go!" "Where is your mother's house?" He opened the door, simply invited everyone to come in, and introduced: "This is my wife!" But the crowd just blocked the door of the room and refused to come in, so he took out a large bag of hard fruit candy bought in the town, gathered everyone together, and said: "Revolutionize, new things, new things, I'm married!" He immediately led Qian to the party branch secretary of the production brigade, the production team leader, and the accountants to take a photo, followed by a group of children eating candies.Some women said: "Hurry up and catch an old hen!" Some want to give eggs, and some old people also say this: "If you want to eat vegetables, come to my home to pick them!" "It's all nice to say, then give the money, don't, don't—just push it, and I will accept it. You can't owe favors on credit, but favors are still available. I am not an outsider here!" He told Qian Said, quite proud, and said, "With your good voice, which school in this village doesn't welcome you? You don't need to come here with muddy legs and soak in paddy fields for many years. Of course you can sing to me." .” If you have this day, you should be content and always happy, and have a good night.Qian is not as hot and lingering as Lin!So greedy, so beautiful, but what he embraced was his own legal wife.Don't worry, you don't have to worry about the walls having ears, and not being afraid of prying eyes from the window, this is the minimum happiness of being a human being.Hearing the sound of wind and rain on the roof tiles above his head, he thought, the rain will stop tomorrow, so he will take Qian to play in the mountains.