wife and husband

Chapter 12

Aunt Shoucheng said with a sigh, "Orion is a good man, hardworking and caring. You marry him, and you will have many happy days in the future!"

Shanzao's face was as red as an apple, "Auntie, I..."

"Why didn't you see Dashuan and Ershuan? Where's Juanzi?" Chu Yunfeng picked up his cup and took a sip, interrupting Shanzao's unspoken words.

Aunt Shoucheng said with a smile, "Da Shuan took Juanzi to their uncle's house, and he won't come back today. Er Shuan went to the field with his father. Didn't you see me just now?"

Chu Yunfeng nodded, "Just now I only saw Uncle Shou Cheng, but not Er Shuan."

"Maybe he ran away first, and his father walked slowly. By the way, Orion, there is something that my aunt wanted to tell you last time, but I forgot about it because of an accident. You are here today, and my aunt has something to ask you." .” Aunt Shoucheng smiled happily.

Chu Yunfeng looked at Aunt Shoucheng, "Auntie, tell me, what's the matter?"

Aunt Shoucheng couldn't close her mouth with a smile, "Your brother Dashuan is also 23 this year. His uncle told him about a girl in their village. Today he asked Dashuan to go to his in-laws to pay respects, and next month he will prepare for it." After getting married, I have to ask you and your daughter-in-law to help."

Such a happy event, if people ask for help, they cannot refuse. Chu Yunfeng and Shanzao looked at each other, and Chu Yunfeng smiled slightly, "Auntie, what do you need us to do?"

Aunt Shoucheng nodded, "Although there are only a dozen or so families in our village, the restaurant has to be decent. I discussed it with your uncle. Can you see if you can get a wild boar? Then get some other things." Wild things, the price is easy to negotiate. My aunt married her first daughter-in-law, and it has to be done in a lively manner."

Chu Yunfeng nodded, "Brother Dashuan marrying a daughter-in-law is a great joy, wild boars are trivial things, it depends on when you want them?"

Aunt Shoucheng rubbed her hands, "The fifth day of the first lunar month next month is a good day, just watch the day arrive, and I would like to ask your wife to help me, I don't need to do anything, just accompany the bride, young daughter-in-law in our village There are not many children, Shitou's daughter-in-law is pregnant and cannot enter the new house, because she is afraid that the bride will be bored and panic, so she wants to make a fuss."

Chu Yunfeng turned his head to look at Shanzao, Shanzao looked at him and then at Aunt Shoucheng, who asked tentatively, "Orion daughter-in-law, can you come?"

"It's a good thing to be able to come and come." Shanzao hurriedly agreed, and seeing her agree, Chu Yunfeng also had a smile in his eyes.

Aunt Shoucheng looked at these two people left and right, and asked Chu Yunfeng jokingly, "Orion, you still owe us all a meal, how good are you going to invite?"

Chu Yunfeng nodded again and again, "Please please."

Shanzao sneaked a look at his side face, feeling like a deer was bumping his heart, and his face was also slightly red.I have reached my age, and other people are really nice, besides...he has seen his own body, if I marry him...wouldn't it be nice?
Seeing that both of them agreed, Aunt Shoucheng stood up happily, "You haven't eaten breakfast yet, I'll go and make you something to eat."

Chu Yunfeng hurriedly stopped him, "Auntie, don't be too busy, we will leave after sitting for a while." Shanzao also declined.

Aunt Shoucheng pushed Chu Yunfeng, "Sit down and sit down, we also have breakfast, so let's have some together when we come, don't think that Auntie is not good at cooking."

Chu Yunfeng couldn't refuse, and seeing Aunt Shoucheng leave the house, he went back to the stool and sat down, picked up the water glass on the ground and handed it to Shanzao, "Why don't you drink water?"

"Oh, drink." Shanzao hurriedly took the water glass, took a shallow sip, glanced at Chu Yunfeng secretly, and quickly looked away again blushing.

Chu Yunfeng looked down at her feet. The ten toes were white and tender, and the nails were shiny and beautiful. He couldn't help being stunned.

Shanzao sensed his gaze and shrank his feet unconsciously. Chu Yunfeng hurriedly looked away and coughed, "Today is twelve, and there are still twenty days before Brother Dashuan will get married, so soon what."

Shanzao remembered that Aunt Shoucheng said that Dashuan was 23 or [-] years old this year, and Chu Yunfeng said that he was a brother. She couldn't help asking, "How old are you?"

Chu Yunfeng looked up at her, "25."

Shanzao was a little surprised, "It doesn't look like it."

Chu Yunfeng laughed lowly, "Why doesn't it look like this? I'm already an old bachelor."

"You are not old." Shanzao said angrily.

It's not that she said, Chu Yunfeng really doesn't look like 25 years old, let her look at 22-[-] at most, he doesn't look old at all.

Chu Yunfeng's eyes lit up, "You don't think I'm old?"

Shanzao remembered that others called her Orion's wife, and immediately became shy when she heard this, and she lowered her head and refused to speak. Chu Yunfeng also realized that what he said was wrong. Others didn't know, but he knew it very well in his heart. Nothing happened, nothing happened.He unconsciously coughed again and changed the subject.

"I'll buy you a pair of shoes in a while. These straw sandals are rough on your feet. I'll buy you a pair of cloth shoes that are comfortable to wear."

Shanzao looked at his feet, and felt that from his toes to his face, everything that Chu Yunfeng had looked at seemed to be on fire, scorching hot.

"Yeah." She replied in a low voice, still refusing to look up.

Chu Yunfeng rubbed his hands uncomfortably, "I'll buy you another hair rope. You can tie it up when your hair grows. Think about what else is missing at home. The shopkeeper only comes every tenth day. We'll get everything done at once."

Shanzao suppressed her embarrassment, thought carefully, and counted one by one, "There are many things missing in the house, such as mirrors, needles and threads, condiments...these are all missing."

Chu Yunfeng asked strangely, "Didn't I take back some needles and threads?"

"Those are not enough, and those kind of embroidery needles can't sew leather jackets and quilts, and they will bend when they are stuck in." Shanzao argued.

It's only spring now, does Chu Yunfeng think of winter right now? Chu Yunfeng feels warm in his heart. It seems that she doesn't plan to leave.

"Well, then I'll buy some more, but the condiment peddler may not have it, so I'll ask someone else if they have it."

Shanzao nodded, after thinking about it, she asked Chu Yunfeng a question that had been lingering in her heart for a long time, and she whispered, "Brother Chu, do you want to... make another bed?"

Shanzao immediately turned his face away after speaking, it's really embarrassing!But she really couldn't bear to see Chu Yunfeng sleeping on the cold straw mat every day and rubbing his shoulders in the morning.

Chu Yunfeng looked at her shy look, but didn't say anything.

The two of them were silent for a while, Shanzao peeked at Chu Yunfeng's face, she was right...

After a while, Chu Yunfeng said slowly, "The room is too small to fit in."

Shanzao was stunned, and wanted to say something, when Aunt Shoucheng's voice came from outside the house, "Come, come, have breakfast, don't dislike the bad food at Auntie's house, Yingzi, come out and serve the meal."

Following the sound of the words, Aunt Shoucheng had already come in with a pot of stick porridge. Yingzi opened the curtain and got out from the back room. When she went out and came in again, she was holding some corn buns in her hand.

Chu Yunfeng quickly stood up and helped move the dining table out, Shanzao also went up to pick up the bowl from Yingzi's hand, Yingzi stepped aside slightly, and said in a low voice, "Sister-in-law doesn't need it, I can serve it myself."

Aunt Shoucheng greeted them to sit at the dining table, a pot of stick porridge, a bowl of corn bread, and a small bowl of homemade sauce. Boasting, my aunt makes the best sauce in the village."

Chu Yunfeng and Shanzao looked at each other with a smile, took the wotou and ate with Aunt Shoucheng, mother and daughter.

Yingzi ate slowly, and Aunt Shoucheng couldn't stand it any longer, and knocked on her rice bowl, "Eat quickly, and send some to your father and Ershuan to the field later, eat quickly."

Yingzi carried the bowl and moved it to the side, still chewing slowly, and Aunt Shoucheng wanted to say something, but Chu Yunfeng hurriedly said, "Don't rush, Auntie, I'll send Uncle Shoucheng to the field in a while."

Aunt Shoucheng smiled embarrassingly, "How dare you?"

Chu Yunfeng shook his head, Xilihulu finished the porridge in the bowl, stood up and asked, "Auntie, give it to me, I'll take it."

Aunt Shoucheng glared at her daughter, and handed the prepared meal to Chu Yunfeng, "Then I will trouble you, Orion."

Chu Yunfeng nodded and went out with the basket.As soon as he left, Aunt Shoucheng greeted Shanzao more enthusiastically, "Eat more, see how thin you are, eat more."

After eating and clearing away the dishes, Aunt Shoucheng invited Shanzao to talk to them in the inner room, and went into the house to go to the kang, Aunt Shoucheng was doing needlework, Yingzi was winding the thread beside, Shanzao was free, so she also picked up a reel of thread help wrap.

"Orion daughter-in-law, how long have you been with Orion?" Aunt Shoucheng chatted with Shanzao while doing her work.

Shanzao thought for a while, "About ten days."

Aunt Shoucheng had a smirk on her face, "Orion hid you really well, and didn't bring you down for such a long time to let us big guys meet. I really feel sorry for you."

Shanzao smiled shyly, lowered his head and said nothing.

Aunt Shoucheng is still saying, "Our place is remote, deep in the mountains and old forests, and there are few houses. It is only a few dozen steps from the village head to the village tail, and there is not even a Lizheng. When the war began to collect taxes, there were officials. Come to collect it, and no one will take care of it in the end. That’s fine. We’re more happy if they don’t think it’s too far away. Although this place is far away, it has avoided a lot of disasters. My mother’s village is very big, and I have to pay taxes. Those who pay food again, how can our life be better than ours."

Shanzao was not familiar with the situation in the village, so he smiled and listened quietly to Aunt Shoucheng.

"Orion is an old resident of this place. He came here with his father more than ten years ago. I don't know why, but he wants to live in the mountains. We all persuade him, it's good to live in the village, and there is a care for everything. Even his father agreed and he didn't agree. Later, when his father died, he didn't go down the mountain either. Marry and go home, hey, you are still unfamiliar with us." Aunt Shoucheng said with a sad face, sighed and shook her head.

Shanzao hurriedly explained, "He's not that kind of person, he's just...just..."

Aunt Shoucheng interrupted her funny, "Daughter-in-law of the Orion, don't worry, Auntie is quick to talk, that's what he said, Orion is a good man, although he doesn't like to talk, but if every family has any red and white things to ask him for help, he will definitely be able to do it." Well, he is also a kind man, he often brings wild animals to the village to exchange things, and he doesn't care about it, and everyone says he is good."

Hearing people say that Chu Yunfeng is good, Shanzao felt sweet in his heart. He talked a lot with Aunt Shoucheng, and heard her talk about what happened when she fled. The eyes of Yingzi, who was silent at the side, also changed, and the attitude of talking to Shanzao became much closer.

There is only one thing that Shanzao didn't mention, that is, she and Chu Yunfeng were not married, and for some reason, she didn't want to clarify this matter.

Let them misunderstand, anyway, the two of them live together, it is not good to talk too much.

Shanzao secretly thought so in his heart, but he didn't know what Chu Yunfeng was thinking?Thinking of this, Shanzao felt a little uneasy again.

(End of this chapter)