A good little husband

Chapter 36

The mountains in northern Yunnan are still green, and Nianzhou is now an ice field.

"Father, eat something." Tu Yu dug out two potatoes from the fire, and handed one to Sui Yunchang and the other to Sui Shi, "Sister eats too."

"It's much colder here than in the capital." Sui Yunchang gently peeled off the potato skin, broke off half of it and handed it to Tu Yu, "Is Yun Kuo still asleep?"

Tu Yu nodded: "The colder it is, the later he gets up."

Suijing's health is not very good. In previous years, she would take care of her during the winter. Now in Nianzhou, there is not enough medicine and the house is not warm enough. There is very little chance for Suijing to get out of bed.

"I don't know what's going on with Suiyu." Sui Yunchang sighed, "Is Yunxi also so cold, and he's not in good health, so I don't know if he can eat enough and wear warm clothes."

"Don't worry about Daddy, I have already asked my friend in Yunxi to take care of Xiao Yu'er." Tu Yu's heart felt bitter, and he only hoped that there would be good news before the new year.

"Yu'er is so delicate, without the care of her family, I don't know if she can do it." Sui Shi also saved half of the potatoes and put them back next to the stove, "Ayu, is your friend reliable?"

"Don't worry, it won't be as cold as it is here in Yunxi." Tu Yu sighed, "Father, sister, let's go to the market tomorrow and buy some new year's goods, it's almost New Year's Eve."

"Do we still have any money?" Sui Shi glanced at the humble house, after she and her father came here, Ayu had renovated the house again, so he probably didn't have much money.

Tu Yu laughed: "It's okay, my husband and I have been copying books for the bookstore in the town, and it won't be a problem after a new year."

Tu Yu smiled on the surface, but his heart was cold. He really couldn't take it any longer. Suijing didn't have heart-protecting grass. What he was taking now was the medicine that he grabbed from the medicine shop in the town. It cost a few pennies. Going down has no effect at all.

If he couldn't buy the heart-protecting grass again, Sui Jing might have difficulty in surviving this winter, but the price of the heart-protecting grass is too expensive, and all the money on his body is not enough to buy that one plant.

At this time, there were conversations outside the door, and Tu Yu frowned. Their house was too remote, and it was almost impossible for villagers to come to their door.

"That's right here. Their family came here before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Not long ago, a father and daughter came here. The family of four lived in such a dilapidated house." The village chief was leading the way, wearing thick fur clothes. , with a leather hat on his head, "Follow the family, follow the family, someone is looking for it."

Hearing the shouts outside, Tu Yu lifted the curtain and went out, and saw a tall man standing beside the village head, and behind him was a carriage with two horses on it. The mud prints should be from a fall, and the spirit of the horse is not very good. It is a little thin, and it looks like it came here with a whip.

"This is from Yunxi, looking for you."

After the village chief finished speaking, the man took out a piece of broken silver from his purse and handed it to him, and then the village chief left happily.

"I am from Captain Zhong, and I was ordered to deliver a letter." He spoke with a strong accent, and took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to him, "The carriage is what Captain Zhong ordered me to deliver. "

Tu Yulen stayed where he was, wondering if he had misheard what he said, and he was about to open the letter after receiving it, the things inside were related to whether their family could live a good year.

"Lieutenant Zhong means to ask you to write a reply letter, and I'll take it back for business." The man's voice was low and hoarse, and the long journey made him look not in good spirits, showing a strong sense of fatigue .

"Okay, I'll write right away. Please come in and have a sip of hot tea." Before Tu Yu finished opening the letter, he put the letter back in his arms, hurried back to the room, and quickly called Sui Shi and Suiyun Chang, let them quickly entertain the guests, and went into the house to write a reply to Captain Zhong.

The man just stood at the door, looked around the room lowly, and saw that the room was very empty, with a small stove in the middle of the room, and a smoke pipe protruding from the window. Several people were sitting lame. There is a bench with legs, and the window over there is nailed with a piece of broken wood, but there is still cold wind blowing in.

When Tu Yu returned to the room, Sui Jing still had his eyes closed and his face was pale. He opened the letter in his arms and looked at it. On it were written the words Sui Yuping Ping An.

Tu Yu felt the depression in his heart dissipated in an instant, and wrote a reply with red eyes and tears.

After taking two sips of hot tea, the messenger left with the reply letter written by Tu Yu, but he only untied one horse, and the remaining one stayed here.

Tu Yu led the horse in a daze, but found that there was no place to tie the horse at home.

"Ayu, who sent this?" Sui Shi also came out, watching Tu Yu wanting to get into the carriage, "It can't be some kind of trap, right?"

"Probably not, I'll find out when I go up and have a look." He climbed into the carriage and found that the carriage was full of brown rice and flour, and there was a wooden box in the corner. He opened the box and saw that the box contained There is a box full of heart-protecting herbs. Under this box, there are some other medicinal materials, many of which are eaten as usual.

But the medicine they couldn't afford now, and in the far corner of the carriage was an inconspicuous wooden box. When Tu Yu opened it, he found that it was neatly stacked with silver ingots.

"Ayu, what kind of friend is this?" Sui Shi's eyes were full of tears. These things are life-saving straws for them now, especially the heart-protecting grass, which has saved their lives.

Their family was in distress, and all the friends in the capital who could talk to them avoided them, but they didn't expect that a friend who was far away from the world would save their family's life at this time.

Tu Yu replied: "This is what I told you. A good friend in the Yunxi Frontier Army, he sent news about Xiao Yu'er." Although there are only four words, these four words mean a lot to them. Like a life-saving medicine.

"Sister, hurry up." He took out the two boxes from the carriage, "Hurry up and make medicine for your brother, there is medicine."

Sui Jing had been ill for a long time, and the whole family knew the dosage and decoction method of the medicine, so Sui Shi hurried into the house, went to the medicine stove, and started to decoct the medicine.

After the initial ecstasy passed, Tu Yu realized that something was wrong. The person who came to deliver the letter was very wrong. That person didn't come out of the military camp at first glance, and he didn't have the bloodiness of the people in the military camp.

Zhong Wenhan is not such a careful person. With his brain, he can only think about giving money, and he can’t think so thoughtfully. The things he sent are rice and noodles, and on the bag of rice grains, there are charcoal pens. It says Moyang, so it was not sent from Yunxi, but bought in Moyang City not far from here.There is also the life-saving heart-protecting grass, which is an important place in the military camp, and the medicine is not cheap. How could there be so much left over for them? This is not what he can think of as a warrior. Maybe these things are not Zhong Wenhan at all delivered.

But seeing that both Sui Shi and his father looked happy, he could only suppress his doubts, secretly thinking that he would finally have a good year.

Time flies so fast, Suiyu feels as if he just came back from the county seat, and the time has already come to the 23rd year of the twelfth lunar month. According to the customs of Yunnan, this day is to fight dust, wash bedding, make tofu feast, and worship the kitchen god.

Lin Muqing went to the mountain early in the morning, and found a Fuchen tree from inside, picked the leaves from the tall trunk and made a broom for sweeping the dust. He just ran into Lin Ping who was walking over.

"I knew you must be the first one to come." Lin Ping was carrying a machete. Not only did he want to dust the leaves, but he also had to cut down a tree to make a broom handle.

"Is Lin An coming back for the New Year this year?"

"Back, back on the 28th." Lin Ping thought of something, and said, "Lin Wanxia, ​​I'm going to Yunxi."

"Understood." Lin Muqing said lightly.

"Usually, doesn't he always celebrate the New Year at your house? This year..."

"If he wants to guard his brother, let him guard it." Lin Muqing waved at him, "Go back, I have a lot of work to do today."

The house is also working hard. Lin Hua is standing by the stove to heat hot water. Today I have to wash the bedding. Although the well water is not too cold, it will still be cold after washing for a long time, so Chun Niang asked Lin Hua to boil hot water.

Suiyu was following Chunniang to remove the quilt covers, there were three beds in the family of four that needed to be replaced, it was not an easy task.

Lin Muqing came back carrying the broom, and took Lin Hua to cover the cabinets and beds in the house to prevent the dust from falling and making it difficult to clean. Suiyu accompanied Chun Niang to wash the bedding in the yard.

"Xiao Yu'er, what customs do you have for Chinese New Year?" Chun Niang sprinkled a handful of saponin powder on the wet quilt while chatting with Yu.

Suiyu took off her shoes and stepped on washing the quilt in the big basin, saying, "I don't even have any memories, I just remember that on the day of 23, I will go out to offer incense. But that was when my mother was still alive, and my mother left After eating, we just have a tofu feast as a family on this day."

"It seems that tofu is eaten everywhere." Chunniang smiled.

Suiyu also laughed, after they finished washing the bedding, Lin Muqing and Lin Hua over there had already cleaned up the dust in several rooms, and Lin Hua was cleaning every room with a broom.

After scanning, he volunteered: "Brother, sister-in-law, I'm going out to buy tofu!"

Lin Muqing took the money for him and let him run out to play by himself.

As the Chinese New Year was approaching, many children were wearing new clothes and running around playing wildly in the village. As soon as Lin Hua walked to the door of Zhou's house, he saw Daniel and Erhu carrying tofu, as if they were going somewhere.

Lin Hua used to play with them often, but after what happened last time, Lin Hua seldom played with them anymore, and he didn't even talk to them much.

"You're here, we were talking about delivering tofu to your home." Daniel smiled.

"No need." Lin Hua handed them the money in his purse, and ran away with the tofu, saying as he ran, "I'll return your bowl later."

At noon, Lin Muqing made a whole tofu feast, tofu and cabbage soup, stewed tofu balls in chicken soup, tofu custard, and braised tofu.

"What are you doing this afternoon?" Lin Muqing held a ball for him, "Did Yunxiu and the others come to invite you out?"

Suiyu shook his head: "No."

Suiyu thought that he would have nothing to do in the afternoon, but he didn't expect things to be rushed one after another.The first one to come was Yunxiu: "I want to trouble you with something."

When Suiyu saw the red paper he brought, he already knew what she wanted him to do.

"Do you want me to write Spring Festival couplets with blessing characters?"

Suiyu is actually a little eager to try. Every year when I was at home, my father wrote the Spring Festival couplets at the gate at home, and the ones in the house were written by my elder brother and Brother Yu. The writing of Spring Festival couplets has never happened to him, okay? When it is easy for him to show his talents, he must write well.

In fact, his handwriting is not grand enough, rather boudoir-like, and he doesn't know what it will look like on red paper. He couldn't write directly, so he practiced on other paper first, and then formally wrote.

"Families grow rich and noble people prolong their lives, and their fortunes reach peace and happiness at the door." Hengban "The door welcomes a hundred blessings"①

"It's really well written." Yunxiu clapped her hands, "I can still understand the meaning."

Suiyu blew the ink, and then wrote a blessing on another piece of paper: "This blessing is my gift to you!"

"What? Are you going to charge me for the Spring Festival couplets?" Yunxiu pinched his face.

"You told me before, where is the embroidered thing for me? I haven't seen it yet." Suiyu still remembered that Yunxiu taught him how to embroider before, but she never came to the door.

"Okay, okay, I'll give it to you as a New Year's gift." Yunxiu returned home with several Spring Festival couplets, and after a while, Suiyu was surrounded by people, all of whom wanted Suiyu to write Spring Festival couplets.

The people who spoke for Lin Wanxia last time felt ashamed and flustered, especially those who said that Suiyu set fire to escape, when they saw the Spring Festival couplets brought back from other people's houses with lace, they secretly complained that the first person to say The person who said this.

Although going down the mountain to buy Spring Festival couplets is only a few pennies, it is always good to save some money. Now I can only slap my tongue in my heart, secretly hating myself for believing the rumors.

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① The Spring Festival couplets searched by Baidu are not original.

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