spring cloud warm

Chapter 8

Before dawn when the night is darkest.

In the darkness deeper than midnight, Xu Chunjun was kicked awake.

She didn't know where she was for a while, but mother Pang's scolding woke her up.

"Sleeping like a dead pig!" Pang's mother cursed while coughing, "Hurry up and get up and work!"

Xu Chunjun's whole body was not sore, and his throat was a little hoarse from the smoke: "Wake up so early, don't everyone else fall asleep?"

The lights in the room are like beans, and only the outline can be seen clearly.

"You know how to grab people!" Pang's mother was even more displeased. "Every day at this time, the slop pullers come, and someone needs to help. Today it's you and Thimbler's shift. Don't be naughty, go! It's too late." , break your spine!"

At this time, the thimble on the other side also rustled up, and the hair was disheveled, as if holding a pile of straw.

Xu Chunjun got up and put on his shoes, and tidied his hair while walking.

The two of them went to the outside room, lit the lanterns and went to the kitchen.

At this time it was quite cold outside, Xu Chunjun couldn't help shivering, and Thimble shrugged and sneezed several times.

At this time, only Xu Chunjun and her, she dared not play tricks, but just walked forward honestly.

Xu Chunjun asked her, "Where is the swill going?"

"Zhuangzi raised the pigs," said Thimbler, "Wangzi's sister-in-law is in charge of the keys, so let's go and help carry them."

Wangzi's daughter-in-law didn't live in the same place as them. There was a small courtyard on the street behind the mansion, just a few steps away.

Swill buckets lined up at the back door of the kitchen, more than a dozen large buckets, sour and smelly.

Wangzi's daughter-in-law, with her hair half covered and a jacket with white flowers on a blue background, snorted when she saw Xu Chunjun.

The rear corner door opened, and a hunchbacked man in his 40s tied the cart and walked in coughing.

Wangzi's daughter-in-law tucked the key of the corner door around her waist, and said to Xu Chunjun, "Stop pretending to be a lady, can't you see the work right in front of you?"

The man glanced at Xu Chunjun and said: "Is this girl new here? I haven't seen her before."

"You hunchback, your eyes are not blind, you can still see clearly in such a sky!" Wangzi's daughter-in-law curled her lips and said.

"Look at what you said, I'm just asking." The man laughed a few times.

Xu Chunjun pretended not to hear, lowered his head and carried the slop to the car with Thimbler.

Wangzi's daughter-in-law didn't come forward to help, she hugged her shoulders and leaned on the threshold to make fun of the hunchback.

Having just lifted two buckets, the thimbler, a lazy donkey, started to grind, hugged his belly and said, "No, I have to go to the latrine first." Then he ran away.

Xu Chunjun took a breath and walked back. At this time, it was just dawn, and the morning breeze was blowing on his face, which was cool.

The hunchback squinted at Xu Chunjun's slender figure, and said to Wangzi's wife in a low voice, "How did such a beautiful girl end up in the kitchen to do hard work?"

"Why? Are you distressed?" Wangzi's daughter-in-law said with a smile: "Then go ask your wife and point her to you as your wife!"

"Hey, I don't have that kind of blessing," even though the hunchback said so, he couldn't take his eyes off Xu Chunjun for a moment, "I'm content with being ashamed."

"This is a soft persimmon, if you want to pinch it, pinch it as soon as possible," Wangzi's daughter-in-law encouraged in a low voice, "After this village, there will be no such shop."

"Really?" The hunchback felt itchy when he heard it, "I'm a solid person, don't lie to me."

"What did I tell you to do?" Wangzi's daughter-in-law rolled her eyes and said, "Just remember this."

When Xu Chunjun came to him, the two stopped talking.

The hunchback came forward and said: "Sister, let me lift it for you!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and took the opportunity to touch Xu Chunjun's arm.

Xu Chunjun dodged suddenly, his eyes became vigilant.

"What are you doing? I don't eat people." The hunchback smiled salivatingly, and was going to pull her again, "Get up early and it's cold, brother will give you a hand."

Wangzi's daughter-in-law watched the fun from the sidelines, like watching a cat play a mouse.

"Slap!" Xu Chunjun slapped the hunchback across the face.

The hunchback was stunned by her, and he froze in place covering his face.

Xu Chunjun's cheeks were flushed, and his voice trembled a little, but his tone was sharp: "Stop moving! Don't ask for trouble!"

"Tuozi, you trash!" Unexpectedly, Xu Chunjun would be like this. Wangzi's daughter-in-law was quite surprised, and hated the hunchback, "Why should she beat you?! It's useless to give birth to a man!"

What she meant was to let the hunchback look good to Xu Chunjun. Anyway, there is no one around at this time, so what can she do as a weak woman.

"Don't fan the flames." Xu Chunjun turned his face to Wangzi's daughter-in-law, his eyebrows were frosty, "I didn't want to be as knowledgeable as you, if I make more progress, I will not be polite."

"Oh, what a breath!" Wangzi's daughter-in-law stepped forward with a sneer and said, "You little whore, it's easy to bully me when you look at me! What can you do to us? Today I will strip you naked, just say It was you who seduced the hunchback and see if anyone can speak for you! Let the manager know that he will give you a good beating and drive you out! If you don’t believe me, try it.”

She made up her mind that everyone here doesn't like Xu Chunjun, not to mention that there are no witnesses, so it's always hard to tell the difference between a man and a woman.

Xu Chunjun was thin-skinned and didn't dare to make a noise at all. Even if she went to sue, she couldn't bear the vine between herself and the hunchback, and blamed Xu Chunjun for everything.

How could Xu Chunjun not understand the calculations in her heart, and said with a cold face: "I didn't want to be as knowledgeable as you, but you are deceiving people too much! You think I am weak and easy to deceive, I am afraid that I have misjudged the person. I will advise you again In a word, it is best that the well water does not violate the river water."

She came here only at the request of Mrs. Hou Ye, and she will not stay here for a long time, so she just wants to pass these few days in peace, who wants the tree to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop.

"Such a big tone, it really scared me to death." Wangzi's daughter-in-law pretended to be afraid and patted her chest and said, "What will you do to us? Do you really think you are a rich lady? You can't touch it, you can't say it."

"I have no holidays with you, but you keep teasing and humiliating me." Xu Chunjun doesn't like to argue with others, but that doesn't mean she is easy to bully, "Believe it or not, I will invite the mother in charge, so that you can't eat and go around .”

"Oh, it's amazing! The sky is blooming in this yard!" Wangzi's daughter-in-law used all her tricks and tricks, sat on the ground and patted her thighs and shouted: "Stinky girl, why don't you tell me about it today?" Clearly, I will never end with you!"

Then he said to the hunchback: "You are a hunchback, and you are not dumb! Didn't you hear that he wanted to show you and me?! Why don't you kneel down and beg her for mercy!"

Of course what she said was ironic, the hunchback knew it, and said to Xu Chunjun with a smirk: "Little sister, my brother wanted to love you, but who would have thought that you don't know how to flatter you. Do you think anyone will believe what you said? We are here The house is full of old people, just relying on your empty words. The mother in charge can believe you? Stop dreaming!"

(End of this chapter)