On the afternoon of the day before the Mid Autumn Festival, the fifth uncle drove an ox cart to pick up the fourth uncle and fourth aunt.
After they left, Gu Zhen locked the gate of the courtyard.
She sat in her room, Bai Xian was in the guest room, and there was only one door between them.
Gu Chen didn''t lock his door, for fear that he would be careless.
Bai Xian walked around the room as if he were packing up. Gu Chen''s heart couldn''t calm down.
All kinds of tastes in her heart.
Later, Bai Xian came and knocked on her door.
Gu was surprised and was sewing a pair of socks. The needle went straight into her finger.
She quickly wiped away the blood, stood up and opened the door.
"... what would you like to eat at night?" Bai Xian asked her, "I''ll help you cook."
"No, I''ll do it myself." Gu Chen said.
Bai Xian said, "then I''ll light a fire for you."
Gu said no, but Bai Xian insisted.
Her kitchen is very big, but Bai Xian''s head can still touch the beam.
Gu Juan turned around a little, and he was there, which made her feel that the space was too small, so small that her every move was in the eyes of others, and Gu Juan didn''t know where to put her hands and feet.
Bai Xian saw the cock tied in the corner of the kitchen and asked her, "do you want to kill the chicken?"
"Yes." Gu said, "kill it tomorrow and eat it tomorrow night."
Bai Xian sat in front of the stove.
He was too tall to fit in front of the stove, so he stuffed some firewood and stood up.
Gu Chen endured discomfort and slowly cut vegetables for fear that he would cut them.
Bai Xian said, "Miss Gu?"
"Huh?"
"Just this afternoon, what were you talking about with your fourth uncle in the yard?" Bai Xian asked her.
Her face was very red.
Bai Xian felt very mean. He wanted to ask tentatively.
"Nothing." Gu Chen said.
She was cutting potatoes. Suddenly, her hand slipped, and the potatoes rolled away from her palm. The knife cut on the chopping board, and Gu burst into a cold sweat.
Almost cut his hand.
Bai Xian picked up the potatoes.
Gu Chen came to pick it up, and his finger touched her finger slightly.
Gu Qian quickly withdrew his hand and the potato fell to the ground again.
The atmosphere was awkward for a moment.
She looked at Bai Xian.
Bai Xian, like a child who did something wrong, silently stepped back and said, "I''ll set the table."
After he left, Gu Zhen quickly prepared a table of food.
After dinner, Gu Kun simply washed and went to bed.
Bai Xian also lay on the bed and silently looked at the roof. The mid autumn moon shines in from the glazed tiles, and there is a slight light in the guest room.
Neither hot nor cold, the air is particularly fresh, and the insects in the distance do not appear lonely.
Bai Xian has never lived in the country.
If he had come from a peasant family, he might have been much better than he is now.
He thought of Gu Chen, who was separated by a door, and his heart was sweet and sour.
He was thinking wildly when Gu came out of the inner room.
He sat up in a hurry.
Gu was stunned and stopped at the same place: "did I disturb you?"
He was in the dark, breathing heavily, and all his thoughts rushed to him.
He wanted to rush over now and hold her tight.
However, he thought again that he was really vulgar, and she had already written with Luo. Even if he possessed her by force, he couldn''t get her favor.
If she despised him, he would rather die than cut off his hands and feet.
"No." Impulsively, he asked her in a low voice, "what are you looking for?"
"I forgot to fill the thermos. I''m a little thirsty." Gu Chen said.
Bai Xian said, "I''ll help you."
In the kitchen, the door needs to be opened.
Gu Zhen hurriedly said, "it''s really unnecessary. Go to bed. I locked the gate of the yard. What are you afraid of at home?"
Home?
Gu Kun went out, went to the kitchen, filled the thermos, and came in again.
He didn''t move. He stretched his body tightly to keep his desires from haunting him.
The phrase "own family" almost killed him. His idea of trying to suppress it began to haunt him again. He wanted to keep her firmly in bed and turn them into a family.
These thoughts are terrible.
When he was awake, he despised himself, when he was out of control, he went crazy to imagine, and the whole person was tossed up all night without sleep.
He didn''t sleep until it was almost dawn.
There was a rooster''s fierce chirp in the yard.
After he woke up, he hurried to get up, and then saw Gu Kun, standing in the yard at a loss, holding a kitchen knife in his hand. He didn''t know how to catch the chicken.
The chicken was tied to its wings and legs, but as soon as Gu Kun approached, it fluttered desperately and scared Gu Kun to death.
Bai Xian stepped forward: "I''ll come, Miss Gu."
Gu Qian hid behind him.
Bai Xian quickly killed the chicken, put the chicken blood in a small bowl and said to Gu Kun, "OK, Miss Gu, you go and burn some hot water."
"It''s done." Gu Chen said.
She went to pick up the motionless cock.
Fade the chicken''s hair. The smell is fishy and smelly. Bai Xian avoided her: "I''ll come."
"No, no, I''ll do it myself. Why do I always ask guests to do rough work?" Gu Qingrou said.
Her words made Bai Xian''s body a little stiff again.
He is an outsider and a guest.
Is it a family
When she said "home" last night, she meant her own home, not theirs.
Bai Xian felt unworthy in his heart.
When he fantasized about her, he was mostly wild and presumptuous, but when he really faced her, his inferiority complex began to haunt him, making him unable to move forward.
Gu Chen is not happy, but he is down-to-earth.
The rooster handled it cleanly. She cooked rice porridge slowly and called Bai Xian out for breakfast.
After breakfast, she will begin to prepare the food for the Mid Autumn Festival.
"I''ll go out and get a fish later." Gu said to him.
Bai Xian was slightly surprised: "collar? How to collar?"
"There is a fish pond in the family, which is shared. A lot of fish fry are put in it. It will be played once every new year and festival. Each family can receive five kilograms." Gu Chen said.
"Fry don''t need money?" Bai Xian doesn''t quite understand.
Although he came from a humble background, he didn''t understand the rural clan very well.
"If you need it, come out of the family." Gu Chen said.
"Where did the family get the money?"
"I have to pay the money for sacrifice every year." Gu Zhen said, "pay it during the Chinese New Year. My land is planted for my fourth uncle and fourth aunt. They don''t charge their land rent, but they have to help us out of the expenses of the family every year."
Bai Xian thought about it and thought that life in the countryside was very interesting.
"Not bad." He said. Gu que smiled: "it''s not good to stay for a long time. My mother hates them very much. The people of the clan don''t read or read, and they don''t understand culture and reason. They have to worry about trivial things for a long time. My mother has always hoped that my sister and I can go out.
If it hadn''t been for the war, I probably wouldn''t have come back. "
Her words suddenly hurt Bai Xian''s heart.
He is also illiterate.
Bai Xian''s face was a little pale.
The rice porridge in the bowl was tasteless in his mouth.
Gu Chen knew later and felt that he was wrong.
She wants to make up a sentence.
But she was not a smooth character. If she said something wrong, she didn''t have the ability to describe it. She had to eat silently.
Unexpectedly, after Bai Xian was silent for a long time, he suddenly said to her, "Miss Gu, i... I can read newspapers now. There is no big culture, and I know a lot of words."
Gu Chen went down the slope and said, "I don''t mean anything else."
"I know." Bai Xian stirred the porridge in the bowl with chopsticks. "I just want you to know that I learned words with my heart later..." When he said this, he paused. The last sentence "for you to learn" didn''t say anything.