warm and deep

Chapter 5 Female Red
After a heavy rain, the weather started to cool down.Gradually, more and more fallen leaves can be seen on the ground.The tips of the leaves of the grass began to turn yellow, and even the sound of insects became faint.

Only the long-legged mosquitoes are still in the final madness.Even when walking, they can also stare at you, stick the long and thin straw into your blood vessel, and suck blood with all their strength.

Guo Zisu is very fond of mosquitoes, so her arms and legs are always covered with mosquito bite marks. The red and swollen mosquito bite bumps and dark brown mosquito bite scars are particularly shocking on her snow-white skin.

On the first night when she came to Qingshi Village, Liang Shi, who was careful, wanted to light mosquito coils for her. She waved her hands repeatedly and said, "You must not light this thing, I am allergic, and smelling this smell makes me feel like I am about to die." generally.

The next day, she put all the short sleeves and short skirts into the suitcase, and put on a thick long-sleeved shirt with long pants, but the mosquitoes still penetrated her skin and sucked her blood.Sometimes she reached out to pat, and slapped down, wiping her own blood, making people unbearable to look at.She simply didn't pat the mosquitoes that occasionally succeeded, but unexpectedly the mosquitoes were extremely greedy, as long as you didn't pat them, they would surely die on the ground due to too much blood sucking.

It is said that mosquitoes are caused by God not being used to human nakedness and shamelessness, so he released a large number of vampires to force people to wear clothes and skirts to resist.Guo Zisu had nothing to do, so he chatted with Chunhua when he remembered the legend of his hometown.Chunhua was cutting pigweed with her head down.She slowed down the saber technique and listened quietly, then slowed down the saber technique even more.After a while, he raised his head, opened his big eyes, and said in an unquestionable tone: "Mr. Guo, you won't be bitten by mosquitoes and suffer from unconsciousness, right? Just say these weird and meaningless words. I understand Let me find some wormwood, and smoke a pile of smoke in your room, the mosquitoes will definitely die, and they won’t dare to come back for many days.”

Guo Zisu was speechless for a moment.She couldn't help but miss her classmates in distant places. It would be great if they could talk together by her side.The young students are heartless, chattering nonsense when they have nothing to do, and pass the time for fun, how can they be like Chunhua who don't understand that you are chatting.

The next morning, when Guo Zisu got up together, she saw a lot of fresh mugwort drying in the empty lawn in front of Chunhua's house, exuding a unique fragrance.It should have been mowed on the ridge by the ditch before dawn, the grass blades were covered with dew, and there were bits and pieces of fresh soil.

Standing in front of the wormwood in a daze, Guo Zisu's eyes were moist.It's autumn, although it's the golden season for harvesting mugwort leaves.But people in Qingshi Village don't grow mugwort leaves themselves.The soil here is highly acidic and prone to hardening, which is far from the loose, fertile and humus-rich soil required for the growth of mugwort leaves.Aiye is a rare item, extremely difficult to find.Spring flowers were picked to dry the ground in front of the house.

Guo Zisu suddenly realized that although Chunhua had a lot of barriers with her culturally, emotionally she was a sister worthy of her lifelong friendship.

When it was dark, when Guo Zisu came back from the school cafeteria, he could smell a strong smell of medicine coming from the wooden house from a distance.Could it be that the spring flowers are smoking mosquitoes?She hurried all the way home, only to see that the grass on the ground was still there.

She followed the smell of medicine suspiciously into the room.As soon as she stepped into the main room, she saw Chunhua rushing out of the miscellaneous room with a big apron in her hand with red eyes, and closed the door tightly.

Seeing Guo Zisu, Chunhua said happily, "You're back? I wanted to smoke the mosquitoes in the miscellaneous house while you were away, but I didn't expect you to be so fast."

"What did you smoke it with? Isn't the wormwood dried outside? I don't think it's dry yet."

"I used dried wormwood. It hasn't dried outside, so I can't use it. I exchanged a bundle of fresh wormwood for dried ones." Chunhua said, pointing to the door, "Look, there is another one hanging on the wall. That door frame is enough for the past few days. Then, our own will be dried.” Chunhua smiled, with a satisfied expression on her face.

Guo Zisu was so moved that she kept saying thank you, and bent over, almost wanting to bow.

Chunhua said bluntly: "Don't thank me, I just want to please you to help me learn the minced meat."

"Minced Meat is a student in my class, and it is my responsibility to take care of him." Guo Zisu said emotionally.

Chunhua changed the subject and said, "I just rummaged through the things in your room to let the smoke get into the corner and smoke out all the mosquitoes. I'll go in and rummage again later, so that none of them will be missed." I promise you a good night's sleep tonight."

"I'll go in and look through it myself in a while, I'm sorry to bother you so much."

Chunhua raised the big apron in her hand, and said, "This time, I'll take all of them. Anyway, I'm in this outfit. From now on, you just need to order a wormwood stick every day."

She took Guo Zisu's hand and said, "It will take at least half an hour before the doors and windows can be opened to release smoke. Come, sit in my sister's room, and I will show you my sewing."

On Chunhua's dressing table is a half-embroidered pillow cover, on which a pair of mountain magpies are roughly sketched with a pencil, kissing each other on a zigzag plum branch.

Guo Zisu picked it up and looked at it carefully, full of praise while watching: "How can the needle and thread be so evenly embroidered? It seems to be embroidered by a machine."

Chunhua smiled, "My embroidery is very ordinary. You haven't seen the aunts and daughters of my mother's family embroider, so that's good embroidery."

"Do the women in your natal family know how to embroider?"

"Yes, we Yao people have an old saying that if you don't know how to embroider, you can't find your husband's family." Chunhua smiled and said, "I watched my mother embroider since I was a child. When I was eleven or twelve years old, I could embroider small purses, small hands, Pa."

"You are so ingenious, Brother Shitou is so lucky to have found you."

Chunhua shook her head, and said sadly: "Afterwards my father died, and my mother also married off the mountain, so my skills didn't improve much."

Guo Zisu put her arms around Chunhua's shoulders, and comforted her: "Sister Chunhua, don't be sad. You are still much better than us. I can't even sew a button crookedly. Besides, you don't rely on embroidery for a living anymore. .”

Chunhua nodded and said, "Yes, I'm the daughter-in-law of the Han family now, but I'd like to embroider something when I have time. I think the embroidered things are very beautiful and strong."

As Chunhua said, she opened the cabinet and brought out a large wooden box from the bottom of the cabinet, and said, "I asked Stone to make this big wooden box for me when Shitou went to propose marriage. All my things are stored in it."

Chunhua opened the big wooden box, and there were half a box of embroidered aprons, scarves, handkerchiefs, purses, etc. in various colors. Guo Zisu was dazzled by the sight and was full of praise.

There is also a plastic box in the big wooden box.Chunhua said: "I bought this after I gave birth to minced meat. I am afraid that the wooden box will be damp. I use this plastic box to store the things I have made for my children over the years."

There was a thick stack of insoles and a pile of shoes of different sizes in the plastic box. Chunhua picked them up one by one and showed them to Guo Zisu, her eyes glowed with kindness, and her tone was full of happiness and yearning that could not be concealed: "Look, These are the shoes I made for minced meat while doing farm work, and the insoles. I usually make them as substitutes, enough for him to wear until he graduates from elementary school. He is in junior high school. If he can take the exam and go to the city, he has to buy fashionable ones Put on your rubber shoes."

Guo Zisu nodded affirmatively in agreement.Chunhua picked up a faded little flower hat from the bottom of the plastic box and said, "Minced Meat wore this when I was young, and I didn't want to throw it away. He was born with a big head, and the hat was embroidered too small, so he didn't cover it up." Forehead, he got cold during confinement, and his nose is still runny for several years. Alas," Chunhua said, tears rolling in her eyes.

Guo Zisu stroked her back and said, "Don't think about such unhappy things, look how cute the minced meat is now, clean and handsome."

Chunhua burst out laughing, and said, "Mr. Guo, you really can talk, hehe, but this child still has a runny nose after being cold, so I never dare to be careless."

Chunhua picked out a purse with the most exquisite embroidery, took out a dollar from her pocket, stuffed it in, and put it in Guo Zisu's hand.Guo Zisu said: "Sister Chunhua, I'll take this purse, but I can't take the money in it."

"Silly girl, there is money in the new purse, which can bless you to make a lot of money, and the purse will never be empty."

(End of this chapter)