Zhang Gongzi handed the bowl to Granny Zhong and saluted Junsheng, "Hello girl, my surname is Zhang Mingrui, I live next to it, and I am the neighbor of the Zhong family." ” Jun Sheng thought about Cui Yu in his heart, he didn't come back to his senses for a while, and when he saw him saluting himself, he woke up like a dream, and hurriedly returned the salute, and said in his mouth: "I am Jun Sheng, and I am fortunate to have my mother-in-law to help me today, otherwise I may not be able to go home." ” Granny Zhong poured the dumplings into her bowl and put them into the vegetable cover, while muttering, "Zhang Rui, you still reported yourself to the house, do you want to ask more questions for you, to see if this Junsheng girl has a marriage contract." ” When she said this, where could that Zhang Gongzi still sit still, he was so anxious that he was sweating, "Mother-in-law, what are you talking about, I'm just" He was just several times in a row, but he couldn't say what he was just going to do.
Granny Zhong was amused by him and laughed, and slapped him on the back, "I'm joking, you still take it seriously, even if you take it seriously, the girl's family won't take it seriously, you still die of this heart." ” Zhang Rui's face was red and white, he secretly glanced at Jun Sheng, only to see that she was still standing there, with a faint look, and suddenly became disheartened, he saluted again, and walked out of the yard in a hurry, and even forgot to take the bowl containing dumplings.
Seeing that he was far away, Granny Zhong turned to Jun Sheng again, "The girl is not angry, I just laughed casually, I didn't offend the girl." ” Jun Sheng even said where and where, she took off her shoes and handed them to Granny Zhong, who took the shoes, the needle and thread in her hand flew, and after a while, the stitches of the cracked hole were fine and strong.
"Mother-in-law's hands are so skillful," Jun Sheng put the shoes on his feet and walked a few steps on the ground, "I can't feel that they have been mended at all, I thought that these shoes were terrible, so it seems that it is not a problem to wear them for another year." ” Granny Zhong put away the needle and thread one by one, and sighed softly, "It's not skillful, I've been used to doing work since I was a child, and I've practiced it unfortunately, I'm just tired of life, I can't help it." ” Hearing her say this, Jun Sheng suddenly felt a little pity in her heart, she sat down next to Granny Zhong, looked at her wrinkled face, and asked softly, "I have been wanting to ask just now, but I am afraid that you will be sad," she took her hand, "Mother-in-law, do you have no children?"
Why does a person live in such a remote place?
” Granny Zhong looked sideways at her, "Child?
Alas, it's long gone, I raised such a total of one, but I didn't expect to be the same as his old man, a short-lived ghost. ” Jun Sheng was speechless for a while, and after a while, she hugged Granny Zhong's shoulders, "I will often come here to see you in the future, okay?"
Help you grow vegetables, fertilize and do household chores. ” Granny Zhong smiled, "That's not necessary, look at your little hands with fine skin and tender meat, at first glance, you are a child of a rich family, let you grow vegetables, isn't it causing me trouble?"
” Jun Sheng lowered his head embarrassedly, "Mother-in-law doesn't want me to come." ” "Of course I'm glad that such a girl is like a flower, I can come to see me often," Granny Zhong looked at her with a smile, "but remember not to wear out your shoes next time." ” Jun Sheng nodded, "Mother-in-law, I see that your umbrella is very exquisite, I want to buy one and bring one to my sisters in the city." ” The reason why she said this was to find an excuse to help Granny Zhong a little more, she couldn't give her the money directly, so she could only repay her by buying an umbrella.
"Okay, okay," Granny Zhong brought the bamboo basket, "You pick one, see which one you like?"
” Jun Sheng walked over, took out two handfuls at random, and just wanted to dig out the silver, but squatted down again, picked the smallest one, and held the thinnest umbrella bone in his hand, "This one is bought for Cuiyu, she will definitely come back safely, and then she will be able to watch the rain and swim with us at that time."
She whispered in her heart as she put the silver on the table.
"Mother-in-law, it's not too early, I'll go back, I'll come to see you when I'm free."
Jun Sheng bowed deeply to Granny Zhong, and then stepped out of the threshold and walked into the courtyard, where Granny Zhong followed closely behind her and came to the courtyard with her.
"Woo woo woo" A vague cry mixed with the autumn wind drifted into Jun Sheng's ears, this sound seemed to come from the vegetable patch behind the house, and Jun Sheng was tense when he heard it, and stopped going out.
"Girl, what's wrong?"
"Mother-in-law, did you hear the cry?"
Jun Sheng turned his head and looked at the green vegetable field, now that the sun had set halfway, it was obscured by the shadow of the front room, and it was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
"Hey, I'm this age, it's good if I'm not completely deaf, where can I expect to hear anything."
Granny Zhong followed behind her and said, "Girl, go back quickly, don't worry your parents." ” Jun Sheng nodded, shook Granny Zhong's calloused big hand again, and walked straight in the direction of the path.
When passing by the courtyard next to her, she saw Zhang Rui beating a woman's back, and the two were talking and laughing, very intimate.
As if feeling that someone was looking at him, Zhang Rui turned his head suddenly, facing Jun Sheng's eyes, he blushed all of a sudden, raised his arms in the air, and seemed to want to greet Jun Sheng, but after a while, he put it down again.
Jun Sheng nodded at him, but the steps under her feet did not stop, she wanted to rush back to Xin'an City before dark, now that the sunset had fallen most of it, she really had to hurry up.
As the last rays of the setting sun disappeared on the horizon, Jun Sheng stepped into the city gate, and she breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the street lights in front of her.
I don't know why, she was restless all the way, although there was no shortage of people coming back from the autumn tour around her, but she was still hairy in her heart and numb in her back, because, after coming out of Granny Zhong's house, she could always hear a strange sound, like footsteps but not like, not far behind her, not too close, but not too far away.
Jun Sheng turned her head back countless times, but each time she was blocked by the people behind her, only once, when she was about to turn around, she looked down at the ground, but found that not too far from herself, there were four hooves mixed in the legs of several pairs of people who were in a hurry, the hooves were large and covered with mud, and when she turned around, they stood still, as if they were deliberately keeping a distance from her.
But when she wanted to see more clearly, the hooves were gone, and they seemed to disappear into the twilight, blending in with the darkness, or rather, they belonged to the darkness, and it was only by chance that they came to this world that did not belong to them, to the lights of the world.