Chapter 206 Proposal
It was almost evening when Shen Lie and Shen Jin returned to the village outside the village.
The Xu and Lu family members who lived at the entrance to the village saw this and hurried out of the cave. They saw that both of them had returned neatly. They looked at Shen Jin and saw that his eyes were slightly red, but his brows were clear, and it was obvious that he had walked a lot away from the county town. Manager Xu and Uncle Xu felt relieved.
No one asked how those people dealt with it. Lu Erlang looked at Shen Lie and Shen Jin, who were covered in snow, and said, "If you have anything to say, tell us tomorrow. It's been snowing in the mountains all day. Go back and warm up."
Chen Lie was indeed thinking about his home. He nodded to the others and strode towards his own cave with Shen Jin.
Everyone in the family was waiting. Sang Luo, Chen An and Shen Ning saw them from a distance. When they stood up to greet them, Chen Lie had already arrived at the door. He brushed off the snow foam on his head and body outside and then walked in.
The dishes were already prepared, Shen Ning went to cook, Shen Lie and Shen Jin put away their weapons, went to the mountain spring to wash their hands again before returning to the cave.
Seeing Chen An making a fire, Chen Ning and Sang Luo preparing to cook quickly, Chen Lie approached and asked the three of them, "Were you scared this morning?"
I have been practicing martial arts for several months and have also practiced hunting a lot, but this is the first time I have attacked someone, and in such a situation.
To be honest, I have practiced bows and arrows and sticks for a long time. When I really fight, I don't care about being afraid. I am even excited that I can finally use my skills after long-term practice. But Zheng Danniu's move is more or less frightening. However, if there is no deep hatred, how can it be stimulated like that? Thinking of this, Shen An shook his head.
Chen Ning was the same as her second brother. She was a little scared at first, but when she thought about those evil people, she felt better. She was even a little excited because it was her first time fighting with such evil people. She said, "Brother, there was a man with a knife coming at me and Sister Wen Yin. We, together with Brother Wen Hong, beat him down."
Seeing that she really didn't look scared, Shen Lie smiled a little: "Then work harder and practice well."
When they encounter people with ulterior motives outside, their favorite targets are women and children who have the least ability to fight back.
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Sang Luo was a man of few words. After dinner and washing up, the children returned to the wooden house next door and closed their doors. Then she asked Chen Lie, "Did you go to the village over there when you came back later?"
On the way back, we will pass by the village where the Zhou and Feng families live.
Chen Lie nodded and looked at Sang Luo: "You want to ask about the Zheng family?"
Sang Luo thought of Zheng Danniu's reaction when she saw the three men and one woman, and suddenly she didn't want to listen anymore and didn't dare to listen.
She shook her head, wrapped her arms around Shen Lie's waist, and buried her face in his shoulder.
Chen Lie reached out his hand and embraced her. Thinking of the things that Zheng the Butcher had not said in the afternoon, he hugged Sang Luo tighter. After a long silence, he lowered his head and asked, "I only have the last hundred words left in that volume of the book. Ah Luo, do you want to teach me?"
In response, a pair of hands climbed up to his neck.
Sang Luo slept completely nestled in Shen Lie's arms that night. At first, Shen Lie was just pitying and protecting her, but Sang Luo was particularly clinging to him that night. Later, when she took the initiative to ask for a kiss, everything changed and became a mess.
It was extremely cold outside the cave, but extremely hot inside. At one point it was so hot that tears welled up in Sang Luo's eyes. Except for the last step that did not cross the boundary, there was really no distance between them.
In the end, he embraced Sang Luo, who had turned limp like a puddle of water, and begged in a hoarse voice in her ear: "A Luo, will you marry me? I don't really want to do anything, but I want to pray to heaven and earth with you and tell heaven and earth that we are husband and wife, okay?"
Chen Lie had always been thinking about the fact that they had never performed a grand ceremony together, so even though his parents were not around, he wanted the gods of heaven and earth to be witnesses.
Sang Luo was completely out of strength and distraction. She didn't even have enough energy to lift a finger. After a while, she moved closer to him. When their noses touched, a vague "good" was heard between their lips.
Sang Luo thought that it didn't really matter if they consummated their marriage. She wanted Chen Lie, and her feelings were certain. Her emotions and desires were intertwined, and it was getting harder and harder to suppress them day by day. She kept suppressing them, and it seemed like she was about to burn herself out.
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After what happened yesterday, the people from the village outside the village, the small village of Zhoujia and the scattered mountain people between the two villages paid more attention to training. The three parties still maintained the original distance, but everyone knew that the cohesion between them was stronger, and if they were really in danger, they could be partners who could help each other.
There were seven more broadswords in the village outside the village. Together with the ones brought back by Chen Lie and his men, and those confiscated when they rescued people outside the county town, there were more than a dozen military swords.
The children are still learning stick techniques, and the talented teenagers, Chen Lie and Chen Dashan, have started to teach sword techniques.
Also because of that confrontation, Shopkeeper Xu, Uncle Xu, Chen Youtian, Zhou Dalang, and Gan, who were much more enthusiastic about collecting than practicing martial arts, also joined in the fight. There was not much work to do in the winter, so they also joined in the daily training.
Chen Lie had a new worry and waited for several days until the snow had melted and he could enter and leave the valley at night without worrying about leaving any traces. So Chen Lie found his way into the entrance that night.
Old Man Chen and Old Man Lu are old, and Zhou Cunzheng is the one guarding the valley most of the time now. It is more appropriate to say that he lives in the big cave at the entrance, which has all the necessary daily necessities such as a thatched hut, a bed, bedding, etc.
Chen Lie came in at night, but he didn't bring anything in, but asked Zhou Cunzheng to borrow a Da Gan History that he had collected at home.
Zhou Cun was stunned for a moment and was a little unresponsive. He subconsciously asked about its use. Because it was impossible to do it in the mountains, and Sang Luo didn't want to make it known to everyone, Chen Lie didn't elaborate.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Zhou Cunzheng didn't ask any more questions. He just tied the rope and went down. Not long after, he came back again, holding the calendar in his hand. He stared at Chen Lie for a few times and suddenly said, "Your aunt reminded me that you and A'Luo haven't performed the ceremony of ceremonials yet?"
Women are always much more careful in this matter. The original thatched house of the Shen family only had one room to live in. It was not certain how a family of four would sleep. After taking refuge in the mountains, the whole family lived in one cave. Moreover, Sang Luo seemed to have never tied her hair up.
Why did he suddenly come to borrow the almanac? What could the almanac be used for? Didn't ordinary people just pick dates and look at farming seasons? The Chen family had a wedding before, and now Shen Lie came to borrow the almanac. It's not hard to guess.
Chen Lie saw that he had been guessed, and smiled a little: "Yes, but we don't have parents or elders anymore, and it's not convenient to do it in the mountains. Ah Luo didn't want to make it public, so we just worship the heaven and earth by ourselves."
Zhou Cunzheng smiled as he handed the calendar to Chen Lie, and also gave him a bag of red dates and a bunch of brand new red ropes, saying, "Just flip through the calendar. The red rope is a gift. This red rope was bought by my second son's wife a while ago. It's brand new and has never been used. Your aunt asked me to bring it to you. The conditions in the mountains are not good, but don't forget the gift of tying the knot."
When Shen Lie saw the red string, his eyes lit up with joy: “Thank you, Uncle Zhou.”
Zhou Cunzheng smiled and patted him: "Let's go, live happily with A Luo and grow old together."
Chen Lie smiled as he carefully put away the red rope. Then he went out and returned to the cave. With shining eyes, he asked Sang Luo to pick a day with him.
Seeing that he was eagerly waiting for the snow to melt, Sang Luo ran to borrow the Zhou family's almanac. She laughed so hard that she put her arms around Chen Lie's neck and leaned over to kiss his lips. She had no choice but to be taken over, held in her arms, and opened the almanac and asked Sang Luo to choose one in a serious manner.
Face to face, ears close to each other, so sweet.
The day of selection is near, only three days later.
Originally, no one was notified. The plan was to pick up Shen Yin and Chen Tie the night before, and have their family members serve as witnesses when they worshipped heaven and earth.
But would the Zhou family keep it a secret? On the night that Chen Lie borrowed the almanac, every household in the valley knew about it, and that night they prepared the gifts and asked Zhou Cunzheng to send them out at night, without letting Chen Lie and Sang Luo know. They only gave them to the people living outside the household and asked them to ask for the date and send them out.
As for the Chen family, the gift that Chen Lie had given was so good. The first thing Chen Youtian did when he received the news was to find his son and quickly confirm the date so that Chen Dashan could find a way to get some good things back.
When Chen Dashan heard that Chen Lie was getting married, he was stunned.
Forget about etiquette and go to Chen Lie, pull him to a secluded place: "Are you getting married? No, you are not married yet? No, you are not..."
He wanted to say, didn’t you get married a long time ago?
I realized later that Chen Lie just got a wife when he came back, but he never had a proper wedding ceremony with Sang Luo.
He slapped his head and laughed: "Hey, it turns out I'm still ahead of you."
At that point, he was just short of putting his hands on his hips and laughing wildly.
Chen Lie was in a good mood, and his A-Luo was so nice, so he didn't bother with Chen Dashan, the fool, and just asked, "What did Uncle Zhou say?"
He just borrowed the almanac last night, and Chen Dashan came early this morning. It is not hard to imagine that Zhou Cunzheng had notified every household.
Sang Luo's idea of just performing the ceremony quietly was obviously not going to work, but Chen Lie was quite happy. The only thing that made the two of them a little uncomfortable was probably that everyone's subconscious reaction was probably the same as Chen Dashan's - you didn't consummate your marriage?
Chen Lie felt that this might be one of the reasons why Sang Luo was unwilling to inform the public since it was impossible to handle the matter in the mountains.
But it seems okay now, everything is fine.
Chen Lie was in a good mood, and Chen Dashan was also particularly happy: "Which day did you choose? I'll also go get some good things for you and your sister-in-law."
Chen Lie smiled and told the time. Chen Dashan smiled and said wait, then went home and told Chen Youtian about Chen Lie's wedding date, told Zhou Ge that he was going out, took his knife and bow and arrow, called Xu Wenqing and ran away.
The night before the wedding, Shen Lie picked up Shen Yin and Shen Tie. Only then did the Shen brothers and sisters know that their eldest brother and sister-in-law were going to hold a wedding ceremony.
Shen An and Shen Ning were so happy that they turned around and asked Gan what they could do to help. Gan was really stumped by this question. Now that she was hiding in the mountains, she really had nothing. After thinking about it, she asked Shen Ning to sprinkle more red dates on Sang Luo's bed and taught the brothers and sisters to say more auspicious words.
So, Sang Luo thought that the ceremony would be witnessed only by her family. But on the actual day, every family sent gifts to her early in the morning, and she realized that everyone knew about it.
Everyone gave their blessings, and Sang Luo also smiled, accepted the gift and expressed her gratitude.
Chen Dashan and Xu Wenqing came back in the afternoon. They happily carried a deer. Xu Wenqing didn't understand much. Chen Dashan took Chen Lie aside and said with a smile: "Don't say that your brother treats you badly. You heard it when you were in the army. Deer meat is a good thing. Eat more at night."
Shen Lie almost choked. He felt like his blood was rushing to his nose every day, and there was venison.
He wanted to give Chen Dashan some advice, but he felt that as a man, it was not right for him to say anything about what goes on between a couple in their bedroom, so he thought about asking Sang Luo to talk to Zhou Ge in private one day.
Little did he know that Chen Dashan had the same idea as him. He returned home and found his wife, asking her to secretly teach Sang Luo the method that her mother-in-law had taught her.
Zhou Ge: “…Okay.”
Under Chen Dashan's earnest urging, they had to go to Shen's cave.
When Sang Luo found out that Zhou Ge was urged by Chen Dashan to teach her the contraceptive method taught by 'Zhou Ge's mother', she couldn't help but burst out laughing. There were only her and Zhou Ge in the cave, and their shoulders were shaking with laughter.
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