The Little Widower (farming)

36

On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Xin got married.

Although Chen Qing repeatedly said that he would not go to Li Xin's wedding, on the 25th, Li Tiejiang and Zhang Yin came to deliver invitations and told their family to attend. They also took Chen Qing to his home and said Let him sleep at home at night and talk to Li Xin.

So at night, Chen Qing packed up the chores at home and told Aunt Sun to go out. But when he passed by the door of Zhou Yuan's house, he met Zhou Yuan coming out of the house.

"Going out so late?" Zhou Yuan glanced at him.

Zhou Yuan has been very busy these two days. Li Tiejiang's family does not treat him as an outsider. It is rare for Zhou Yuan to experience such a lively time, so Zhou Yuan helps set the table, buy vegetables, and do all kinds of work.

Chen Qing replied in a low voice: "Li Xin asked me to sleep with him at night."

Zhou Yuan hummed: "Let's go, I'll go with you."

Chen Qing raised his head and looked at him: "Are you okay?"

Zhou Yuan Nodding: "Go and check with them about tomorrow's process."

It got dark very early in the winter. Chen Qing didn't light up the lamp and walked a little slowly. Zhou Yuan's legs were already a little longer than his, so he had to stop after walking a little. Come down and wait for him.

Because it gets dark early, people in the village also go to bed early. At this time, except for a few barking dogs, there is almost no sound outside.

"This is my first time to participate in such a happy event, it's very lively." Zhou Yuan said.

Chen Qing looked at his tall back and felt that Zhou Yuan looked a little lonely at this moment.

His pace was a little faster, and they happened to reach a small road. After Chen Qing looked around, he gently held Zhou Yuan's hand.

Zhou Yuan's smile bloomed in the darkness, passing through Chen Qing's fingers and interlocking with his.

When he reached the door, Chen Qingcai broke free from Zhou Yuan's hand.

Li Xin was waiting in the yard. When she saw Chen Qing, she pulled him into the room. Their yard was already so full that there was almost no place to set foot.

Zhou Yuan was talking to Li Tiejiang in the yard. From the corner of his eye, he saw Chen Qing entering the house and said, "I'll come over early tomorrow."

Li Tiejiang thought for a while: "Why don't you go directly to Shu Ning's place tomorrow morning? He doesn't have anyone." It's not like that for relatives and friends to come alone to pick up the bride."

Zhou Yuan nodded: "Then I'll call a few more people to make it more lively."

Li Tiejiang said, and then thought of something: "I think your knife is already there. There are a few gaps. Bring it over when you have time, and I'll forge it for you."

After all, Zhou Yuan had been with Zhou Yuan for many years, and he still took good care of it and would take it out every now and then to wipe the dust off.

"Then thank you foster father."

Li Tiejiang patted his shoulder: "We are all one family, as we should. Are you really not going to learn blacksmithing from me?"

Zhou Yuan shook his head: "I'm really afraid of the heat."

Li The blacksmith stopped persuading him and asked him to go back and rest early.

In the room, Li Xin didn't look like a man about to get married. Oil lamps were lit in the room, and there were earth dragons in their home. The room was warm. Chen Qing leaned on the bed and looked at Li Xin.

Li Xin looked at him: "Why are you looking at me?"

Chen Qing shook his head: "I just feel that you don't seem to be getting married tomorrow."

Li Xin laughed: "I really don't feel this way, because I Even after getting married, I won't leave home, and my life will be the same as before."

"Besides, Qi Shuning is not bad, except for the scholar's ​​tendency to be reasonable."

Chen Qing looked at him: " What happened these days? I remember you didn't like him before."

"After contacting him, I found that he wasn't that annoying anymore." Li Xin squeezed Chen Qing in.

At this moment, Zhang Yin was wearing a big cloak and was holding some kind of pamphlet in her hand.

"Come, Mom, let me tell you something."

Chen Qing shrank to the bedside. After all, this was a night talk between mother and son, but he didn't expect Zhang Yin to wave to him: "A Qing, come and listen too.

"Ah?" Zhang

Yin laid a pamphlet on the bed. Chen Qing saw the things drawn in the pamphlet through the light of the oil lamp. He only saw it once, and something exploded in his mind. The aftermath of the formation made his hands and feet numb, and his ears roared.

Li Xin was different from him. Li Xin was very interested. He exclaimed: "Mom! You actually have this!"

Zhang Yin patted his head: "You don't even look like a brother! This is what I did when I got married. Your grandmother gave it to me when I was young. This is suitable for you to see. Take a look today and you won't be at a loss tomorrow."

Li Xin leaned over and said, "That means if you have anything else, show it to me. "

Zhang Yin slapped him: "Shameless."

After spanking him, Zhang Yin turned his head and coughed twice. Li Xin immediately became nervous. Zhang Yin comforted him: "It's okay, my throat is itchy, don't worry."

Li Xin felt relieved and then talked about the booklet again.

But she did not leave Chen Qing behind: "Qing, don't be so shy. You are about to get married. Your mother will definitely tell you then. If you look at it now, you won't be so shy then."

Li Xin raised his eyebrows . At first, he met Zhang Yin's eyes. The two of them looked at Chen Qing together, only to see that Chen Qing's whole body was red.

Li Xin laughed: "Oh, what will we, Qing, do in the future?"

Chen Qing buried his head in the quilt, and Zhang Yin talked to Li Xin for a while, and then asked the two of them to go to bed early.

Zhang Yin walked out of Li Xin's room, took out a handkerchief and covered her mouth. After suppressing her cough, she saw a touch of red on her white handkerchief.

Zhang Yin held the handkerchief in her hand and walked to the kitchen. Water was still boiling in the kitchen. She threw the handkerchief into the fire and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the handkerchief was completely burned.

She looked at the flickering candlelight in Li Xin's house and took a deep breath, determined to wait until Li Xin completed the wedding.

Li Xin wanted to tell Chen Qing if she had a wheel. Chen Qing finally poured out what he had just seen out of his mind. Then he heard Li Xin say: "Qing, do you think it will hurt?"

Chen Qing said. Qing turned over and ignored him.

Li Xin came over again: "I see in that picture, there is a posture like that. Is it really possible for people to do it? It's already like that."

Chen Qing couldn't bear it anymore. He turned over and covered Li Xin's mouth, his voice trembling. : "Stop talking, it's such an embarrassing thing."

Li Xin whined. Chen Qingcai let go of his hand and looked at him: "Stop talking."

Li Xin nodded.

Then the room became quiet: "Aqing, I have decided that when I get married, I will learn blacksmithing from my father."

Chen Qing:!

"I thought you were joking!" Chen Qing turned to look at him, "Forging iron is so tiring. You have thin arms and legs. Uncle Li will definitely be reluctant to let you do this."

"I'm already married. He can still control me." Li Xin didn't care.

Then there was silence in the room again, and then Li Xin spoke again: "My mother, she doesn't want me to be like her. She said the sky is very vast, why can women and brothers only stay in the yard?"

No one followed . Chen Qing has said this. It is already difficult for Chen Qing to have a stable life, so he has never thought about what else he can do, not to make money, but just for his own enjoyment.

"Then do you like blacksmithing?" Chen Qing faced him.

"I don't know. You won't know until you try." Li Xin closed her eyes, "What do you want to do in the future?"

Chen Qing looked at the dark roof: "Me, I used to think that it would be good to settle down."

Li Xin reached out and rubbed his hair: "It's also very good."

The winter day dawned not early, and Chen Qing felt a little uncomfortable in bed. He felt that he had just fallen asleep, and the next second the room lit up, and he felt a little uncomfortable. He opened his eyes in confusion, took away Li Xin's hand from his face, and lifted Li Xin's legs from his body.

He said why he felt so tired from sleeping that night, as if he was carrying hundreds of kilograms of corn up the mountain. He was so tired that he was panting.

Li Xin also woke up, but she still didn't want to move lazily. The custom of getting married in Luohe Village is to have a late-night ceremony, and the ceremony is only held at dusk.

So Li Xin didn't need to get up too early today, but at dawn, there was already a lot of noise in the yard.

Naturally, Li Xin couldn't sleep and yawned. Chen Qing followed him and saw that people from the village had already come to send gifts.

Those people looked at Chen Qing behind Li Xin, and their expressions changed slightly. Li Xin noticed that he was standing next to Chen Qing, blocking those people's sight.

The morning passed quickly, and when it was approaching noon, Li Xin was detained in the room, put on wedding clothes, and was pressed on the embroidery stool by Zhang Yin.

Chen Qing was helping outside, and from time to time he could hear Li Xin's voice shouting in pain in the room. Chen Qing smiled, and soon someone asked someone to hand over something, and Chen Qing hurried over.

His first wedding was not so lucky. He stayed at the village chief's house. The red clothes didn't fit him well, and no one told him anything about his inner life. If the village chief's wife hadn't paid for the money Aunt Sun gave his family, she wouldn't have done anything. Chen Qing would not be allowed to stay there.

After Li Xin finished talking and Chen Qing finished his work, he went into the room to see him. Li Xin, who was originally very dashing and handsome, now looked a little shy against the red wedding dress.

"It's so beautiful." Chen Qing said sincerely.

Zhang Yin's eyes were a little red. They must have said something personal just now. Zhang Yin stood next to Chen Qing: "It's A Qing's skill that is good. The mandarin ducks and lotuses embroidered on them all look like they are alive."

Chen Qing was a little embarrassed: "It's not that good. It's because Li Xin was born well."

After a while, he heard the lively sounds outside. It was a banquet. At noon, acquaintances came to eat at Li Xin's house. In the evening I went to Qi Shuning's place to eat, and the ceremony was also held there.

Chen Qing didn't go out. He stayed with Li Xin in the house and ate with him.

After all, Li Tiejiang's family was well off, and the banquet was top-notch. Although it was placed outside and it was winter, the dishes on the table did not have any lumps of oil or look bad.

By the time we finished eating, it was almost dusk.

When the auspicious time came, I heard the sound of blowing and beating outside. It was Shuning, my relative, coming to pick up my relatives.

Chen Qing went to see Li Xin and found that Li Xin had no expression, as if he was just a friend visiting his home.

According to custom, there is a custom of blocking doors in Luohe Village.

Many of the brothers they used to play with have already married elsewhere, and their newly married husband and sisters-in-law are just acquaintances. The ones who helped to block the door now were Meng Qi's newly married wives Wang Xuemei and Li Xin's younger brother Niu Niu.

Li Xin wanted Chen Qing to go with him. He knew that Li Tiejiang had wrapped a lot of red envelopes for Qi Shuning, all of which were used to give out when he was welcoming the bride. Of course, he couldn't forget Chen Qing about making money like this.

But Chen Qing said nothing and didn't go. After all, he came here today and stayed by Li Xin's side, which already made many people point fingers at him.

"No, you have to stop me for a while." Li Xin held his arm, "I'm getting married today, and you have to meet all my conditions today."

Chen Qing had no choice but to stand with Meng Qi's wife At the same time, Wang Xue's face is a little round, and her two tiger teeth are exposed when she smiles, which makes people very approachable.

Qi Shuning is a literati, but most of the people in the village are illiterate, so the steps of making up poems and poems for going out are omitted.

Next to him were the tall Zhou Yuan, the muscular Meng Shuanzi, and the very clever Meng Qi.

When Meng Qi saw that the person blocking the door was his wife, he laughed three times and took his wife away before anyone could react.

Meng Shuanzi lifted up Niu Niu without any effort, and in the end only Chen Qing was left.

Zhou Yuan smiled at him and said to him: "Are you going to get out of the way yourself, or are you going to be like them?"