There is a white bone spirit in the village

Chapter 8

When Lin Jiao came out from Yang Taigong's house, her mood was the same as the sun on the west mountain, a little depressed.Even if she is a time-traveling person, when she encounters all the people who take you as a target, she will inevitably feel that she is weak with two fists and four hands.While walking with his head down, he slowly thought about something on his mind.When she passed by the side of the road and climbed the broken bamboo fence of morning glory, a hand suddenly reached out from behind and grabbed the back of her clothes.

Lin Jiao was taken aback, and when she looked back, it was Chun Xing whom she met on the road at noon. Judging from her previous appearance, she should have a good relationship with the previous Chun Jiao.

"A-Jiao, people in the village have been saying for the past few days that your grandfather is going to drive you away. I heard Second Aunt Li say yesterday that your father already knew about it, and she was so angry that she thought you would embarrass him and refused to let you in. I also heard from Second Aunt Li that your sister-in-law has already interviewed someone, and she will marry you as soon as you go back. She said it was Ding Laowu from Wuheli. I know that person. The woman in front was killed by him. Tortured to death..." Chun Xing pulled Lin Jiao behind the bamboo fence and said hurriedly in a low voice, "If this is really the case, what will you do in the future?"

Lin Jiao said vaguely, "Let's think of a way slowly."

"A-Jiao, we both came from the same village, and we both became miserable people without a man. I feel bad for you like this. I'm afraid that if you go back without knowing anything, you will be tricked again like this..."

On the opposite road came two women with big baskets on their backs and grass scythes in their hands.Chun Xing seemed a little afraid of being seen, let go of Lin Jiao's hand, turned around and dodged into the side road.The woman spotted Lin Jiao behind the fence, looked suspiciously at her, and went away, biting her ear.

Lin Jiao returned to her home under the stone bridge at the entrance of the village. She saw Nengwu waiting outside holding the broken door, and hurriedly stepped up.

"Sister-in-law, what did they call you to say?"

Neng Wu asked a little nervously.

"Nothing, let's go in."

Lin Jiao didn't want the child to worry, so she reached out to pull him, but his hand was tightly holding the door, and her voice was a little louder: "Sister-in-law, does my uncle want me to go with him? Then what do you do? No, I'm going to find my grandfather! I'm going to live with my sister-in-law!"

As Neng Wu spoke, people were about to go outside.Lin Jiao hurriedly grabbed him, saw that tears were hanging on his face, and felt a little sore, she thought for a while, and said softly: "Don't worry, since my sister-in-law can say it, she will definitely do it, and she won't ignore it." Yours. Your sister-in-law let's think about it carefully, and we have to come up with a good idea to deal with them. "

Neng Wu still had doubts in his eyes, but he raised his hand and wiped his face with his cuff.

"Look, wipe it with your sleeves again, and the sleeves are so bright that they will look like a demon mirror."

Lin Jiao wanted to ease the atmosphere, she joked, and reminded him to get rid of this habit by the way.

Neng Wu burst into laughter, followed Lin Jiao in, and said, "Sister-in-law, if it's really impossible, you can take me to ask the grandpa, the grandpa will definitely take pity on us."

Lin Jiao answered casually twice.Nengwu is no more than a child, even if he falls on the ground and rolls around, no one will take his wishes seriously.They will only put what they think is justified on his head.Thinking of that Yang Dahe, he asked Nengwu in a tortuous way.

"Oh, Uncle Jingxuan..."

Lin Jiao finally knew the name of that "Brother Dahe" and his background, and a thought slowly surfaced in her heart.But it's still vague and requires careful consideration.

For the rest of the day, Lin Jiao was basically leaning on the pit in her house, staring at the dilapidated roof above her head, thinking about something.

The rice porridge under the wok cover in the kitchen was already smoking. Seeing that it was getting dark, Lin Jiao went into the room and picked up the cloth bag that had been wrapped and left on the table before, and walked out from inside with the curtain lifted.

The first thing she has to do now is to return the piece of cloth that Shi Qingshan sent, and try her best to dispel Widow Shi's doubts, so that she won't even find someone who can help her talk tomorrow. no.She gave Neng Wu an order, told him to eat first when he was hungry, and went to the yard by herself to blast two little hens that were circling in the dark into the chicken coop and shut them up. From a distance, he saw a person coming dodgingly from the dirt road, as if he was coming towards his home, and then he looked, who is it not Shi Qingshan?
Lin Jiao turned around and hurried back to the house, and gave Neng Wu a few words of advice.Neng Wu was a little puzzled, only to hear Shi Qingshan's low voice calling outside the door, so he went out to answer the door.

Shi Qingshan waited for a month, and finally waited until today when he came home from the academy holiday. When he arrived, his buttocks were still hot, and he was urged to go back by the widow Shi. For the few piglets who have just been born in the pigsty at home, she probably escorted them directly to the gate of the academy.

Shi Qingshan is not a fool, so he naturally knows what Widow Shi is up to.In the past two years, she also prevented him from going to the house under the stone bridge at the entrance of the village to help carry water and chop firewood like before. He retorted that he was repaying his kindness, and she persuaded him with snot and tears.He is a dutiful son, and he knows that his mother is not easy.But I don't know when, when I close my eyes at night, Chunjiao's eyes and her figure will appear in my mind, and I can't even fall asleep thinking about it.

Shi Qingshan is not young anymore, a man of his age in the village would have already married a wife and had children.In the first few years, Widow Shi tried to get married for him. Several well-to-do families nearby, named Mu Wen Quxing, sent a matchmaker to come to their door to bring their daughter, but Shi Qingshan stopped her, saying that a man who has not established a career can get married. We must first pass the examination and then discuss this matter.Widow Shi couldn't hold back her son, and she was both happy and worried. She was happy because her son had such an ambition, but worried because she was afraid of delaying her age.Later, when I found out that the wife of the head of the academy had such a thought, my heart was relieved. Now I only hope that my son will get a good grade in the exam, and I will be able to make it through my life.Unexpectedly, at some point, gossip about her son and Chunjiao would spread in the village. She woke up in shock, checked coldly a few times, and complained secretly.In the past half month, Chunjiao's affairs were the most exciting. When she saw her son coming home, she was afraid that he would mess with him and cause more gossip. She took out the year-end bacon and tender meat picked from the mountain Artemisia chopped it up, mixed it into stuffing, baked a stack of pancakes, put them in his son's bag, and took him back to the academy in person.

Shi Qingshan had just returned today, when he heard about Chunjiao jumping into the river half a month ago from the grumpy old lady next door, he was startled and scared.Thinking of meeting her carrying water for her, she looked fine, but she was still full of concern.He was sitting on the mule cart driven by the stone widow, but all his thoughts flew to the family under the stone bridge at the entrance of the village.On the way, he persuaded the stone widow to go back, and when the shadows of her and the mule cart turned into black dots, he turned around and left.When approaching the entrance of the village, although it was already dark and there were not many people on the village road, I was afraid that if an acquaintance saw and recognized her, it would cause trouble for her. come over.

Shi Qingshan had already made up his mind on the way here.He wanted to muster up the courage to tell Chunjiao to reassure her that he must pass the exam this time, and then he would definitely marry her.He imagined the excitement and happiness she felt after hearing his confession, and his eyes were filled with excitement, and his whole body even trembled slightly as if suffering from malaria. For almost ten miles, he walked like flying, without feeling tired at all.However, all his excitement and passion disappeared when Nengwu who answered the door told him that his sister-in-law was too tired from working during the day and had already washed up and slept. without a trace.

Disappointed and unwilling, he looked around the dark room behind Nengwu, but he couldn't hear the slightest movement from the person inside. After a moment of silence, he finally took off the bag on his back, and took out the stone widow branded for him. The stack of pancakes, said in a low voice: "Awu, this is a pancake mixed with bacon stuffing. I can't eat so much, so help me eat it." Then he stuffed it into the hands of the bewildered Nengwu, turned around and left silently.

Lin Jiao hid in the door, and saw Shi Qingshan's receding back through the gap, and for some reason, she felt a little sad in her heart.She attributed it to her lamenting for her predecessor, Chunjiao.I lamented that this hazy and beautiful green love affair had not had time to break ground, but was ruthlessly pinched by her, a counterfeit.Of course, the sadness soon disappeared.Even if Chunjiao is still Chunjiao, these two will soon become Romeo Juliet Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai.As for my own tomorrow, this is a tricky matter.

"sister in law……"

Holding a stack of pancakes, Nengwu entered the room foolishly.Chunjiao sighed secretly, told Nengwu to stay at home and wait for her to come back, and then went out with a cloth pocket.

The cloth must be returned, which is a powerful prop for her to show her heart to Widow Stone.I dare not return this stack of pancakes, it is better to eat them secretly.If Widow Shi finds out that his son also sent over the bacon cakes that she personally baked, even if she is lucky enough not to leave Taohua Village tomorrow, she will not be able to live in peace in the future.

Shi's house is not far from Lao Yang's house. Like most of the houses here, it is a one-story house with a mud-rammed courtyard.Now that the road was still visible in the sky, Lin Jiao arrived at the door of Shi's house, and saw that the door of his house was half closed, there was no one in the yard, and the black dog he raised was lazily lying on the foot of a eucalyptus tree in the corner of the yard.Lin Jiao called her auntie, and pushed the door open. When the black dog saw her, he regained his energy and rushed over, barking at her and grinning.

Widow Stone was feeding the pigs in the pigsty, when she heard a noise coming from the front, she saw that it was Lin Jiao, she was stunned for a moment, she untied her bib and slapped the black dog that kept barking, "You don't have any winks!" An acquaintance who sees the sky, and still screams when he sees it, what are you shouting for!"

After the black dog was scolded, his voice died down, but he still squatted there vigilantly staring at Lin Jiao, with a low whirring sound coming from his throat.

Lin Jiao bypassed the black dog and followed Widow Stone into the house.The stone widow struck flint in the dark, lit an oil lamp on the table, and by the faint light of the fire, picked up a half-woven bamboo basket on the ground, sat on the stool and continued to weave, while calling Lin Jiao to sit, and said with a smile : "Have you eaten yet? If you haven't eaten, eat at my aunt's house."

Lin Jiao got close to her, opened the cloth bag she had brought, handed it to Widow Shi and said, "Auntie, I was carrying water at noon, and I happened to meet Qingshan. I broke my leg and foot yesterday, so I asked Qingshan to help me pick some water." Carrying water. After Qingshan finished picking, he didn’t even take a sip of the water. He said he wanted to go home to see you. He left in a hurry and forgot this bag at home. It’s for my aunt, no, I’ll send it over as soon as the family’s affairs are settled.”

Widow Shi was a little surprised, took the cloth from Lin Jiao's hand, and looked at it in front of the oil lamp. Just about to stretch out her hand to pinch it, she suddenly remembered that her hands were still dirty, so she quickly retracted and said with a smile: "This child, with How many times has he told you to concentrate on studying and not to copy for others to make money, but he just doesn’t listen and says I’m working hard..." Suddenly he stopped, stretched out his hand to turn on the lamp, and looked carefully at the next step. He looked up at Lin Jiao suspiciously.

The muslin was dyed a powder blue, obviously for young women.Widow Stone didn't pay attention to it just now, but now that she thinks about it, she naturally became suspicious, and if her son bought it for herself, why didn't she mention it at all?

Lin Jiao didn't change her face, she smiled and said: "Auntie, Qingshan asked me once, sister-in-law, I want to buy a piece of fine cloth for my mother to make a good dress, but I don't know what color is good. Ask my mother, she will definitely They will stop me from buying it. I told Qingshan, brother, my aunt was good-looking when she was young, but now she has worked hard for many years, but when she comes out, she is still top-notch compared with the women of the same age in the village, and the blue color complements her skin Qingshan must have remembered this, you see the cloth is blue, and the color is a bit tender, but he must think that this color is good, so he picked it for you, thinking that you will be refreshed, auntie Woolen cloth."

Widow Stone was dubious.

The Chunjiao in her impression was one who asked questions and answered each sentence. It was really rare for such a quick series of words to come out of her mouth.Taking a look at Chunjiao and seeing her sincerity, she definitely didn't look like she was lying, so I believed her a bit.She thought that as long as she stopped thinking about her son, everything would be easy. Even if her son had thoughts that she shouldn't have, the hot men and women who have always shaved their heads would not last long.It's just that the grudge in my heart is still there, and I thought that since she delivered it to her door today, I should directly confront her and see what she has to say.So he put the piece of cloth on the table, looked at Lin Jiao seriously and said: "A-Jiao, your aunt called me, I see you grew up, and our two families have such a relationship, that aunt today Let's talk. My Qingshan, what are you thinking?"

(End of this chapter)