Sheng Anning glared at Zhou Shixun: "Hurry up, it will get swollen soon."
Zhou Shixun could only reach out and hold Sheng Anning's wrist, pinching her palm with one hand and rubbing it gently, with his eyebrows slightly lowered and his expression focused.
Standing face to face like this, Sheng An Ning could clearly see Zhou Shixun's thick eyelashes, slightly red ears, and his eyes curved as he smiled. Are all men so innocent at this time?
Or is Zhou Shixun the only one so innocent? He probably has never even touched a woman's hand.
Zhou Shixun had indeed never touched a girl's hand so carefully. It was soft and delicate, as if it would melt in his palm. If it weren't for her slightly dark face, it would have been extremely red by now.
Sheng Anning felt that Zhou Shixun's skills were pretty good. After rubbing it a few times, his wrist didn't hurt so much, so he stopped making things difficult for him: "Okay, it doesn't hurt now. I didn't expect your skills are pretty good."
Zhou Shixun let go, still feeling his palms burning, and silently put it behind his back, going home with Sheng An Ning.
When I got home, Zhou Changlin and Zhou Changyun, who had gone out to do farm work, had already returned and were squatting in the yard talking. Niu Chunying and Chen Qiaolan were also there, talking about Luo Caixia's suicide.
Zhou Changyun rarely spoke, mainly because he was afraid. Luo Caixia would actually commit suicide and now she was rescued. Would she tell others about their affair?
Now I was squatting on the ground, feeling as uncomfortable as if I was being scratched by a cat.
Seeing Zhou Shixun and Sheng Anning entering the courtyard, Niu Chunying went to greet them first: "How is Caixia? Is she feeling better? We can't all go over to see her."
Sheng Anning nodded: "Well, it's okay now."
Niu Chunying breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that she's fine, it's good that she's fine, this girl is the same, if she has nothing to worry about, she can just take medicine."
Chen Qiaolan interrupted, "Why can't you let it go? Look at what she did. She fooled the whole village. We all thought she was dating my second brother."
Zhou Changyun cursed with a dark face: "If you shut up, it will make you look capable, right?"
Chen Qiaolan relied on the fact that everyone was there and Zhou Changyun didn't dare to hit her, so she retorted unconvincedly: "I didn't lie, why are you protecting her so much?"
Zhou Changyun said: "If you keep talking nonsense, I will slap you to death."
Zhou Changlin quickly stood up: "Old Third, what are you doing, you bastard?"
Seeing that the topic was going nowhere, Niu Chunying quickly tried to smooth things over: "Okay, okay, I've prepared the meal, hurry up and wash up and eat."
Sheng An Ning saw Zhou Shixun calmly wash his hands, so she followed him and asked in a low voice: "Shall we have dinner together tonight?"
Zhou Shixun was a little puzzled: "Why not eat? I have given money to our family over the years, so it is only right that they provide us with two meals."
Sheng An Ning thought about it and it made sense. It seemed that this wooden man was not someone who only knew how to suffer losses. She immediately washed her hands with peace of mind and followed Zhou Shixun into the house to eat.
It was a time of famine and there was no white flour at home.
Niu Chunying grated the potatoes into strips, rinsed them with water, rolled them in cornmeal and steamed them. Finally, she mashed some garlic, poured some vinegar on them and ate them with a plate of shredded pickles.
It was the first time for Sheng An Ning to eat this kind of rice. Although there was no oil, it tasted good.
Except for Zhou Erni, the whole family sat around the big kang table in the kitchen and ate their meal. The only sound was the sound of chopsticks hitting the edges of their bowls, and no one spoke.
Sheng Anning sat next to Zhou Shixun, and on the other side was Niu Chunying.
Seeing that the atmosphere was too quiet, Niu Chunying picked up some pickled vegetables for Sheng Anning and said, "We don't have any meat at home. Tomorrow I'll ask Jianhua and the others to go to the mountains to catch wild rabbits. Now that the weather is warm, the rabbits are out."
Sheng Anning was a little embarrassed: "No, this is good enough."
Niu Chunying shook her head: "What's good about that? I know you city people eat white flour every day, so you definitely can't get used to this."
It's a pity that she is not in charge of the household, otherwise she would have gone out to buy some flour.
Zhu Guihua was eating her meal while listening to Niu Chunying's words. She snorted coldly but said nothing.
Zhou Mancang was not giving up. He glared at Zhu Guihua and smiled flatteringly, "Yes, your sister-in-law is right. Let Jianhua and the others catch wild rabbits tomorrow. If they can't catch any, go buy some meat and bring some flour back. It's rare for the second brother and his wife to come back, so we must make some dumplings for them."
When the two children heard that they were going to eat dumplings, they immediately shouted, "We want to eat dumplings, we want to eat dumplings."
Zhu Guihua glared at the two children but didn't dare to say no. She just ate in silence.
Sheng An Ning saw that Zhou Shixun was eating without changing his expression, and she felt a little impressed. This man has a good psychological quality.
After dinner, everyone went back to their rooms, leaving Niu Chunying alone in the kitchen to wash dishes and pots. Sheng Anning thought about going back to her room and staring at Zhou Shixun, so she stayed to help Niu Chunying wash the dishes. It would also be interesting to listen to her gossip.
Niu Chunying refused to let Sheng Anning intervene: "No, I can do this job by myself, you sit aside and take a rest.
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Sheng An Ning helped to clean up the dishes on the table: "It's okay, I'm just sitting around doing nothing."
Niu Chunying was no longer polite, and happily chatted with Sheng Anning about random things, and suddenly changed the subject: "People in the village said before that Caixia and Lao Er were dating, and I was wondering about it. When I got married, Lao Er was just fourteen, and he was quiet and didn't like to talk. He liked to read books when he had nothing to do. He didn't get too close to Caixia until he went to the army."
She said this only to give peace of mind.
Sheng An Ning was curious about how Zhou Shixun lived in the Zhou family during those years: "You got married quite early, so what was Zhou Shixun like when you came?"
Niu Chunying is straightforward and doesn't think too much. She knows what to say: "When I got married, the second son was already quite tall, but as thin as a stick. Those years were the hardest years. There was famine all over the country, and many people starved to death in our village. But we were fine at home because the second son was smart. He always managed to catch some food when he went into the mountains."
"You can imagine that at that time, all the tree barks were eaten up, and all the edible things in the mountains and water were eaten up, but it was the second brother who always found food."
Niu Chunying was grateful to Zhou Shixun because when she was pregnant, Zhou Shixun came back from the mountain and secretly gave her a roasted wild rabbit.
Sheng Anning had only read about this period of history in history books, but she didn't expect that Zhou Shixun had actually experienced it.
Niu Chunying still has many regrets when she thinks about those years: "I still remember one time, the villagers saw that Lao Er always brought back food, so they had bad intentions. Several young men stopped Lao Er on the way and asked him to hand over the things in his pocket. You don't know, Lao Er was just 14 years old, as thin as a bean sprout, and he beat five or six young men in their twenties half to death."
"From then on, no one dared to mess with the second brother. Even the third brother was beaten by the second brother."
After saying that, he was afraid that Sheng An Ning would think Zhou Shixun was too violent, so he quickly added: "But the second brother has the best heart. Some elderly people in the village can't get food, and the second brother will share some with them if he has it."
Sheng An Ning's blood boiled as she heard this, as if she could see the fourteen-year-old boy standing in the crowd like a lone wolf.
Suddenly I wanted to hug him.
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