farmhouse ditty

Chapter 36
Xiuniang tied up the chicken fence, and when she couldn't get out, she went into the west room, took out the lock and closed the two door panels, holding a bunch of keys in her hand, and walked through the two door knockers. Ring, clap your hands together, and "click" is locked.

Standing outside the door, Chu Ge watched Xiu Niang finish locking the West Room, the main room, and even the inside and outside of the house. He called her thoughtfully, "Xiu Niang?"

Xiu Niang came out of the stove, she just went to check if the fire in the stove was extinguished, "Hey, what's wrong?"

Chu Ge looked at the man and said in a muffled voice, "Xiu Niang, let's just lock one on the gate, and don't need to lock the one in the courtyard."

The corners of Xiu Niang's lips curled up when she heard this, after a few months, this foolish man finally knew how to say "we" to her, she bent her watery eyes to look at people, and stepped out to play havoc She squeezed him away, turned her back and closed the door without saying a word.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang's delicate figure and said, "Our house was originally locked, so we shouldn't lose anything."

Xiu Niang took the key and took off the lock on the door knocker, "You can still lock those two hanging boards?"

Chu Ge nodded and said, "Well, it can be locked, why can't it be locked?"

Xiu Niang clapped the lock back and forth, looked at him with a smile, and tied the key in her hand around her waist, "You said that the lock can be locked, but the wooden door was changed, why didn't you see the lock? I didn't see one or half of them in the house."

She thought it was funny when she said it, thinking about the dilapidated house of Chu Ge's house, only a few pieces of clothes in the west room were worth a few copper coins, and the rest were plainly unreasonable.

Following Chu Ge's frugality, he didn't buy a lock at all, and there was no need to worry if there were people in the house, so don't leave the door empty.

But Chu Ge is Chu Ge, Xiu Niang is Xiu Niang, men don’t pay attention to small things, and women don’t worry about everything. She wanted to wear a lock as early as when the wooden door was replaced, but at that time, the money was not enough and she just wanted to lock it. With a little thought, I'll wait until I have more money on hand before picking it up.

Fortunately, the recent days have become more and more relaxed. When she went to buy chickens, she called Chu Ge to bring some locks, and he and herself held the keys. Chu An and Xiao Xianger were still young, and they were playful It's so big, if I give it to them, it will be lost.

Chu Ge said firmly, "I did it first, but I didn't unlock it because I recruited thieves later."

Xiu Niang asked strangely, "Why are you recruiting thieves? Don't you say that it's okay if you don't lock it?"

Seeing Xiu Niang lock the door, Chu Ge said dully, "It's the lock that attracts thieves."

Xiu Niang glanced at her, then turned around and walked, "I don't believe it, you are trying to coax me."

Chu Ge walked up to her in a few steps, "I didn't think about coaxing you, first I was locked, but when I came back, I was recruiting thieves."

Xiu Niang looked at Chu Ge, and said with a smile, "I really don't know, the decoration in our courtyard can also attract thieves, so what are you talking about?"

Chu Ge was silent, and after a while he choked out a word, "Lock."

Xiu Niang was stunned for a while, then looked at Chu Ge and said in a trembling voice, "Here, first let you leave on the big wooden box...that key without a lock...that's how it came about?"

Chu Ge felt that Xiu Niang's voice was strange, and said, "Well, that little Xiang'er, Chu An, has gone to live in the fields and is not at home. When I come back from the mountain, just, just..."

Xiu Niang said with a sullen face, "I see, the lock is locked, isn't it?"

Chu Ge looked at her, and finally responded softly, "Pfft, hahaha..." Xiu Niang couldn't hold back now, and smiled straight out. She really liked the sincerity of this straight fool. son.

She covered her mouth with a smile and said, "In our house, only that broken and drooping board can bluff people, you, you even put a copper lock on it, you told people not to steal the lock, what the hell. "

Seeing the people laughing happily, Chu Ge didn't know what to say, so he walked forward in a state of boredom.

Xiu Niang smiled slowly as she watched, ran up a few steps with her little feet tight, and took Chu Ge's hand along, "Okay, I won't laugh anymore, let's go to the fields." The road outside the house went down.

At noon, Chu Ge and Xiu Niang were walking in the shade next to each other. At the end, he didn't know whether he wanted to make Xiu Niang forget what happened just now, or if he really wanted to tell a story. Anyway, he just walked slowly and pulled Xiu Niang. He held her hand and talked about Xiayang Village.

There is a humming tune between Xiayang Village and Shangyang Village mentioned in the previous work, the earth pits, the waterways, and the upper and lower villages.Strange to say, strange to say, for a long time to cut open not rare.In this tune, there are actually jokes.

The big dirt road at the east end of Xiayang Village leads straight to the town, passes through the village and leads to the fields. All the people put it aside to cultivate.

There are a few households who live on the mountain, so they will make some dry land, and then raise some livestock. After that, they will rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, and rely on the water to drink water. This is Xiayang Village.

On the other side of Shangyang Village, the dirt road is big, wide enough for carriages and horses. There is also a big river in the village, and the fish and shrimps in the water are scooped up into baskets and baskets. They rush to the main road and reach the town in a short time. , You can sell it for fresh money.

Shangyang Village is rich and Xiayang Village is poor. It seems that they have settled down like this from the very beginning. If no one tells them, people from other places will not know that these two villages used to be the same household.

In the early years, Shangyang Village and Xiayang Village had not yet been separated, and they were considered a large village with a radius of hundreds of miles. town.

Now that big dirt road was nothing more than a mud pit path at that time, it was okay in Shangyang Village, but it will become worse as it goes on, and it will be impossible to get to Chu Ge’s village ), and directly behind is Tupingzi.

But although the people in Xiayang Village are said to be poor, fortunately there are many farm men, hardworking and energetic, and they have reclaimed a large number of fields along the big dirt road. Acre by acre.

The elders in the village looked at it with joy, and said that these young men had carved out a way out for themselves.

Seeing that their side was doing good farming, the ones from Shangyang Village thought about intervening, but of course the ones from Xiayang Village disagreed, and the two sides fell apart like this.

Since everyone has resentment, and now they can’t get along with each other, the original village head separated the two sides. Chu Ge and the others looked at the boundary where the sun was setting, so they called Xia Yang The village, which is the boundary of the rising sun, was drawn out and called Shangyang Village, but no one knows the name of the original village.

In this way, later there was that tune singing, leading the upper and lower villages, and for a long time separated the not-too-distant places.

(End of this chapter)