Chapter 5 chapter Five

It hasn't been many days since Yuexiang came back, and she already feels completely settled down, as if she has never left here. In the morning, Jin Gen was working in the yard, splitting the green bamboo poles in half and peeling them into thin slices.Then he took a short break.He dragged out two completed large bamboo baskets from the house, picked up a chair, sat down, smoked dry cigarettes in front of the two bamboo baskets, and admired his own works.The bamboo baskets are woven into large blue and white squares with blue and white strips, which is very beautiful. He sat on the ground and put long strips of bamboo into the basket to make a handle.Let's do it, it's hot, take off the padded jacket and pile it on the chair.

A distant cousin, carrying a dozen trembling bamboo poles several feet long on his shoulders, came down from the mountain, walked into the gate of the courtyard, and threw the bamboo poles to the ground.Gold Root was busy weaving his basket without looking up.Yuexiang came out and sat under the eaves to mend the padded jacket he had taken off; both of them sat facing the sun, one in front and one behind.The sun came and went in and out of the clouds, and the couple just didn't talk. The sun was warming her body, Yuexiang felt itchy in her waist, she lifted her padded jacket to take a look, revealing a large piece of yellow-white flesh, she scratched it for a while, her skin was red, then she suddenly became suspicious, He spread out Jin Gen's cotton-padded jacket again and looked carefully, but there was nothing there.So she pulled out his sleeve again and continued to mend.

Jin Gen made a handle for a basket, put one foot in the basket, and tried to lift the handle up, and it was very strong.Boss Tan hurried over with his muffs in his sleeves, but when he saw the new basket, he stopped, kicked his foot in, and took the handle to try it out.After the trial, he left without saying a word.The other brothers and uncles of the same family passed by in the yard, and none of them stopped. They all put their feet in the basket to test whether the handle was firm, and then left without saying a word. Yuexiang placed the dishes and chopsticks on an open-air board table.A bowl of black pickles was placed in the middle of the table, and a tall wooden barrel next to it contained porridge.Ah Zhao didn't know why he was so well-informed, so he suddenly appeared and walked around the table.

"Hey, let's eat!" Gold root called out cheerfully to the child, but it was unnecessary, and she couldn't wait to bring one of her stools.With the first chopsticks, he picked up some pickles and put them in her bowl. Yuexiang barely touched the pickles.It seems that a woman should not be gluttonous, and people want to laugh at her.But when Jin Gen finished his bowl and turned away to serve the porridge, she quickly picked up some vegetables, including two chopsticks. A yellow dog crawled under a gold root chair in search of food.A fluffy tail swayed behind the golden root, just like the golden root's tail.Aunt Tan walked by, and specifically poked her head to find out what they were eating.Then he left without saying a word.Recently, Aunt Tan has been relatively indifferent to them,

Because she suspected that Jin Yousao was always complaining to Yuexiang behind her back, saying bad things about her, hating her for nagging, and hating her for making troubles all day long.Jin Yousao complained behind her back, of course it was true. There are several small ink strokes painted on the high part of the whitewashed wall.A fan-shaped one showed a cluster of orchids; a hexagonal one showed a qin-pouch and a sword--things as remote from their lives as the moon.The top one is a rectangle. After half a century of wind and rain, it can no longer be seen clearly, just like the faint moon in the sky in the morning.

Jin Gen finished eating first, and he turned the chair, as if on purpose, turned his back to Yuexiang, and smoked a long cigarette.