The Sweet Little Fulang

Lu Gu would wink. From the words and expressions of Shen Yaoqing and Wei Lanxiang, he knew that the family didn't want to be involved with the Zhang family, so he didn't dare to tell the family when he took the steamed buns. Xuan Qing said.

As for these two steamed buns, he secretly gave them to the little Zhang family so that the Zhang family would not know.

With only two steamed buns, Shen Xuanqing probably wouldn't say anything about him. Even though he thought so, Lu Gu was still a little nervous.

Everyone in the village swept the snow in front of the door, and the mountain road was not cleaned up. He specially went around the house and walked up the mountain, for fear of being seen by the villagers. Come on, you must be terrified.

The dog followed him out, and his limbs were caught in the snow. He wanted to let the dog go back, but when he looked forward to see the white snow on the mountain, he was a little scared to find Xiao Zhang by himself, so he called out a good boy and let him follow him. .

It is convenient to find someone in the snow, as long as you can see the traces that Xiao Zhang stepped on.

Lu Gu climbed up the gentle slope, the mountains were too quiet, which made him a little scared, but after taking a look at the puppy beside his legs, he still pushed forward, trying to find the road that Xiao Zhang had walked. He didn't take a few steps, puppy Suddenly, a few trees next to him shouted.

The traces in the snow over there originally continued to go up, but he found that there were people behind those trees. Who else could it be if it was not Xiao Zhang? Thinking about it, she ran up first and then turned back, hiding behind the trees and didn't dare. down the mountain.

He was often in the mountains with Shen Xuanqing, and he didn't have much dealings with the villagers. When he saw Mrs. Zhang, he recalled how Wei Lanxiang called her, and then he said cautiously, "Wan Yun, it's me, Gu Zi, no. other people."

There was snow under his feet, but fortunately, Lu Gu was wearing cotton shoes, so it wasn't so cold. He took out the two steamed buns in his arms and whispered, "I will give you two steamed buns, not hot but soft."

Li Wanyun slowly poked her head out from behind the tree, and at first glance, she didn't look at Lu Gu, but looked behind him and wiped the tears from her face when she saw that there was no Zhang Zhengzi.

It was too cold, and she was dressed so thin that she didn't feel warm. The tears on her eyelashes turned into white frost. Because of the beating, her hair was torn, her hair was disheveled, and her face was covered in tears and blood.

Shen Xuanqing and Zhang Zhengzi were the same age and generation, so even if Zhang Zhengzi got married first, Lu Gu didn't need to call Li Wanyun's sister-in-law or something.

"Wang!"

The dog barked, causing Li Wanyun to shrink in fright. Lu Gu hurriedly imitated Shen Xuanqing and stopped the dog.

Dogs are also observant. When the dog faced Zhang Zhengzi, the dog kept biting. When he saw Li Wanyun, he felt her weakness and stopped barking afterward.

Lu Gu waited on the spot for a while before Li Wanyun came out, took the two steamed buns in his hand and devoured it. After being choked, he couldn't care about anything else, grabbing a handful of snow and stuffing it into his mouth.

"Don't tell people that I will give you steamed buns, otherwise..." Lu Gu frowned and whispered, "Otherwise I might suffer too."

Li Wanyun's mouth was full of food. Hearing this, she nodded her head desperately. She didn't know if it was choking or something, and tears flowed out of her eyes.

Lu Gu didn't dare to stay on the mountain, for fear of being seen, so he couldn't help whispering when he was about to leave: "Then do you want to go back, it's too cold on the mountain."

After he said this, his face was full of gloom, what would he do when he went back, if Zhang Zhengzi didn't like her, he would hit her again.

Li Wanyun ate quickly, swallowed the last mouthful, and said in a hoarse voice, "I don't know, if he doesn't calm down, he will be beaten again when he goes back."

Who doesn't want to live if they can live? Why starve to death and freeze to death in the mountains. She ran up the mountain and saw that Zhang Zhengzi didn't come after him because she didn't want to freeze to death on the mountain. Zhang Zhengzi often beat her, knowing that she was timid and afraid of death, so she went back without looking for it. .

But even if they go back at this moment, Zhang Zhengzi and the old Zhang's temperament are not smooth, and they want to beat and scold her what to do.

It's not that she never returned to her parents' house after being beaten, but every time Zhang Zhengzi went to pick her up, her parents said that she was married, and it was hard to control her. At most, they scolded Zhang Zhengzi. , her family even beat Zhang Zhengzi, but it was still useless.

Whenever he was at his mother's house, Zhang Zhengzi looked like a man. He said with a smile on his face that he didn't dare. He came back to live in peace for a few days. Once his mother had a seizure, he would beat her again. He was also rubbed and gradually accepted his fate.

Aunt Miao once wanted to help her, but was run and abused by the old Zhang Clan. When she saw Lu Gu now, Li Wanyun didn't dare to ask him to take her in. Besides, Lu Gu was a new husband, and he couldn't speak to the Shen family.

Just left, leaving Xiao Zhang on the mountain alone, Lu Gu felt uneasy, he couldn't think of a good way, he gritted his teeth and said, "Why don't you hide behind the house, don't stay on the mountain, I'll find you at noon I'll give you some food to take advantage of."

Li Wanyun looked at him, wiped her tears and nodded: "Okay, I think they will go back at night when their anger has calmed down. It's quiet at night, and I'm afraid he won't hit me if people hear jokes."

After that, Lu Gu took the dog down the mountain first, and Mrs. Zhang waited until she could not see him before carefully going to the back of the village.

Lu Gu was also very cautious when he came back. When the Shen family built the house, there was no back door to prevent thieves. He could only go around from the back of the house to the front yard. As soon as he came out, he met Shen Xuanqing and was so frightened that he stopped immediately. , eyes widened.

Shen Xuanqing, who was carrying a basket, came back from buying tofu. He didn't expect to see him coming back from the back of the house before entering the door. He asked, "What are you doing behind?"

"I, I..." Lu Gu was not good at lying, he hesitated for a long time without saying a word.

Shen Xuanqing frowned slightly, wondering what happened to him, but seeing that he was not dirty or injured, he asked again, "Can't you tell me what you did?"

The wind picked up again, and the pestle was not a problem here. He walked home while talking, and Lu Gu came back with him.

Seeing that Lu Gu was only flustered but not afraid, and his body was not injured, Shen Xuanqing didn't worry too much, and said: "I bought a lot today, I can go back and fry tofu, stir-fry spicy tofu or make tofu soup, and I also bought tofu skin. , cut it into shreds, stir fry it, and mix it with cold and cold. First of all, there is no bean skin steamed bun in Brother Yang Xian's tavern. If you want to eat it, try to wrap it, and it doesn't matter if you don't wrap it well."

Putting the bamboo basket on the chopping board, he didn't go out, waiting for Lu Gu's words.

"The Zhang family has beaten someone again." Lu Gu's voice was very low, and he told the truth about the little Zhang family being beaten up the mountain. Because of his trust and reliance on Shen Xuanqing, he finally took himself two steamed buns from the family. I told Shen Xuanqing.

Afraid that Shen Xuanqing would say that he stole the steamed buns for others, he lowered his head and did not dare to look at him.

Seeing him like this, Shen Xuanqing guessed what he was thinking, sighed helplessly, and said, "This is our house, you can take as many steamed buns as you want, who can say you can't?"

our home.

Lu Gu raised his head, his eyes and nose were a little sour. It could be seen that Shen Xuanqing was laughing, so he didn't want to cry. He just stretched out his hand and squeezed the corner of Shen Xuanqing's clothes. Dare to go back, I asked her to hide behind the house and said I would give her something to eat at noon."

The husband looked at him with hopeful eyes, Shen Xuanqing thought to himself that if he didn't agree, he would be a big man. Besides, Mrs. Zhang is pitiful, he can help him if he can, and there's nothing wrong with stuttering, so he said, "Okay, everything. According to you, I will help you to walk around the door of Zhang's house and see if the two are in a good mood."

"Okay." Lu Gu clenched the corner of his clothes again, and promised to be very obedient.

After lunch was ready, Lu Gu looked outside the kitchen. No one came. He took a steamed bun and opened it, and put a piece of fried meat in it. It was fried for Ji Qiuyue. He didn't dare to add more meat. It was not too small, and there was a steamed bun. He put a piece of pickles in it and was about to cover it in the hot pot when Wei Lanxiang came in, wanting to see if the rice was ready.

"Mother." Lu Gu shouted timidly, keeping his eyes open and not daring to move.

Wei Lanxiang wondered: "This is not about to eat, why do you still put it in the pot?"

"I, I..." Lu Gu stuttered and found an excuse and said, "I'll keep it to eat when I'm hungry."

He looked restless, he knew something was wrong, Wei Lanxiang glanced at the two steamed buns, they were both sandwiched, no matter how their family was, they would never miss Lu Gu's food, and he never saw Lu Gu eat it. Said to be hungry after lunch.

After thinking for a while, she smiled and said, "Okay, it's hot when you cover it in the pot, you can cover two more if you like it, it's up to you."

After speaking, Wei Lanxiang went out with two bowls of soup and called Shen Yan as she walked.

Lu Gu paused on the spot, thinking that he should not have been discovered. Hearing Shen Yan's footsteps, he covered the steamed buns in the pot before she came in.

After eating, under the cover of Shen Xuanqing, Lu Gu sneaked out of the house with steamed buns and went to the back of the house to find someone.

The stewed bean curd with sauerkraut has a lot of water. If it is sandwiched in steamed buns, he will dirty his clothes in his arms, so after thinking about it, he will put a piece of meat in it.

The Shen family didn't talk about others, Wei Lanxiang saw it clearly, and she felt like a mirror in her heart, but she didn't expose it, so let it go. In the winter, it was a life.

The wind was blowing from time to time, Li Wanyun hid behind the Shen's and Miao's houses, and did not dare to go to Zhang's house. She stomped her feet and rubbed her hands in the cold. She had to run quickly, but she probably knew that Zhang Zhengzi would not come out to find her on such a cold day.

When Lu Gu found her, she had her hair tied up, no longer loose, but because there was no comb, it was very rough.

The water is not easy to get, but the ground is full of snow, and if you pick up the ground that no one has stepped on, you can put it in your mouth.

Li Wanyun took a big mouthful of the hot steamed bun, and before she could swallow it, she opened her eyes wide and looked at Lu Gu in amazement, and said inarticulately, "Meat."

"The other one has pickles." Lu Gu whispered, seeing that she was eating deliciously, and felt that even if she went back and was scolded for this piece of meat, it was worth it.

Before leaving, he said again: "You hide first, and Erqing said to turn around at the door later and see if their anger disappears."

Li Wanyun didn't finish swallowing the steamed buns in her mouth. When she heard Shen Xuanqing's name, she wanted to ask him how he could help. It was clear that Lu Gu's eyes were clear. She had never heard the two sons in the second room of the Shen family beat his wife and wife. Fa'er nodded gratefully when he spoke.

The wind was blowing cold, and the Shen family were all sitting on the bed, with the hot Madam Tang covering the bed, which was much warmer than the outside.

It was the same after Lu Gu came back, and Shen Xuanqing entered the room after a while.

"Zhang Zhengzi went to Dayang's house for a drink. If he doesn't get drunk, he probably won't come back. Even if he is drunk, his mother is weak and can't beat anyone. He goes back to sleep as a drunkard, and can't move if he wants to."

The family is so close, and they are of the same age, Zhang Zhengzi's morality is clear to Shen Xuanqing. He loves to drink and eat too much. He is always drunk and full of nonsense before he comes back. There is a leisurely feeling to go to drink, this is not to care about the life and death of Xiao Zhang at all.

"Then I'll go tell her." Lu Gu sat on the edge of the bed without taking off his shoes. He only covered his legs with the thin quilt, and then he lifted the quilt and stood up.

"Well, come back as soon as you say it, it's too cold outside." Shen Xuanqing said, the other party was a woman, it was not good for him to go with him, so he could only ask Lu Gu.

Fortunately, the Shen family was at the back of the village, so few people came out at this time of the wind, otherwise Lu Gu ran to the back of the house again and again, and maybe it would reach the ears of the old Zhang.

Li Wanyun hid by the back wall of Shen's house, the wind behind her was blocked by a mud wall.

Lu Gu learned Shen Xuanqing's words from her, and seeing that she was really freezing, he handed over the sleeve he put on his wrist to warm her hands.

The sleeves were hot because he had worn them before. Li Wanyun felt that her hands were dirty, so it could be seen that Lu Gu didn't dislike it.

Seeing that her fingers were red and swollen, and there were several scars, Lu Gu looked away and asked, "Are you going back now?"

But Li Wanyun didn't answer, she only asked anxiously, "He really left?"

"Well, what Er Qing said, he won't lie to me." Lu Gu nodded and replied.

Li Wanyun was hesitating, obviously still afraid, he thought for a while and said in a low voice, "Or, you can secretly hide in the firewood room to avoid the wind.

This is an idea, Li Wan Yun said: "Damn... my mother-in-law is afraid of the cold, it's time to go back to the house."

Lu Gu was always driven to sleep in the firewood room before, and he was willing to stay in the firewood room when it was cold, no matter how broken it was, it would still be able to cover the wind and snow.

As for Li Wanyun's name for his mother-in-law, he just pretended he didn't hear it. After coming out of the Lu family, every time he thought of Du Hehua, he also didn't recognize the stepmother. He mentioned to Shen Xuanqing once that he called her by her first name. Speaking of Shen Xuanqing, the rest of the Shen family would not speak of him when they heard it.

After Li Wanyun was returned to him by the sleeve, the two of them walked from the back of the Shen's house to the front one after the other.

Lu Gu looked in front of him. The stronger the wind, the snow fell. No one came out at the moment, so he turned around and shouted in a low voice.

"Go back quickly, I'm leaving." Li Wanyun told him and hurried to Zhang's house.

There was a gap in the door of Zhang's house, which was left by Zhang Zhengzi, so that she could not get in after drinking. She gently pushed the door open and squeezed in through the slightly wider gap. , or slipped into the woodshed with the door half open.

If the door is not closed, the wind keeps blowing in, but the door of the firewood house is old and old, and it creaks when touched, causing Li Wanyun's complexion to change.

"Zhengzi?" The old Mr. Zhang heard the door creaking and shouted in the room, thinking it was Zhang Zhengzi coming back, but he didn't hear any voice, it was windy outside, so he thought it was the wind and didn't take it seriously , I thought of Xiao Zhang again, cursed a few words in a low voice and didn't feel relieved, I turned around and asked Zhengzi to clean up again.

Lu Gu saw that she went in and never came out, and there was no scolding in the yard, so he entered the yard.

After noon, it snowed again, the sky was overcast, and it got dark earlier. After dark, there is nothing to do, so I can only go back to my room. People who are reluctant to light oil lamps go to bed early.

Afraid of sleeping and accumulating food after eating, Lu Gu made dinner earlier, and after eating, he was still writing the words he learned today under the oil lamp. Shen Xuanqing sat next to him and watched, and he taught him if he couldn't write well.

Lu Gu was shy by nature, and his ears and cheeks were hot when he was caught writing, but he did not refuse.

The candles flickered slightly, warm and reassuring.

It was getting dark and the snow was not too heavy. Most of the people closed their courtyard doors to rest, but there was a staggering figure walking towards these houses in the back of the village. It was Zhang Zhengzi.

He drank wine. Although it wasn't good wine, he also drank so much that his face was flushed and his whole body was hot. He didn't feel cold. He kicked a stone while walking. Block kicked out.

It was dark at night, and he barely recognized that he was at the door of the house. After drinking too much alcohol, he felt the urge to urinate, so he unbuttoned his trousers belt and stood by the mud wall to urinate. .

The drunk man's eyes were half-squinted, his feet were sluggish, and his hands were not very strong. After urinating, he shivered. He casually tied the waistband of his trousers, turned around and was about to enter the house, but he stepped on the big pool of urine with one foot. , and immediately slipped.

After drinking too much alcohol, his reaction was slow, and he still fell backwards. It was inevitable that he would hit the back of his head, but the stone he kicked away just now was under his head, and the angular side was facing up. Knocked up, there was not even a sound in his throat, and he lay on the ground and didn't move.

It just so happened that Mrs. Zhang saw that her son hadn't come back, so she went out to look outside. Before she got out of the yard, she heard a muffled "bang" outside, and hurriedly went out. She didn't carry any lamps and candles. There was a person lying in front of the door, she crouched down tremblingly, touched the rough jade pendant on Zhang Zhengzi's waist, and cried out at once: "Here, help."

While crying, the old Mrs. Zhang tried to help her son up, but who knew that she also stepped on the urine, slipped her feet, and fell to the ground. Her right leg was just pressed by Zhang Zhengzi's back. She was old and frail, and it was winter again. It was brittle, but it was broken all of a sudden, and the right leg felt a sharp pain, and I almost fainted.

Even if her old eyes were dizzy, she knew that if she fainted, it would be bad, and she was afraid of death, so she gritted her teeth to support, and shouted at the top of her voice, begging someone to save her mother.