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When they got home, the sun had already risen to mid-heaven. Dong Wu was afraid that Song Li would be uncomfortable in the sun, so he put a straw hat on him.

The courtyard door was half-closed, and Granny Li was at home. Song Li took off his straw hat to fan the wind when he entered the main room. It was already the beginning of May in the lunar calendar, and it was still quite hot in the sun at noon.

Dong Wu placed the basket on his back on the table, and put the coir raincoat on the wall in the firewood room to hang. Granny Li came out of the kitchen and said, "I'm back, the meal is ready, and it's just right to eat."

Song Li took the teapot and poured a glass of water, gulped it down, and then quickly ran to the yard to scoop up water to wash his face. The scoop for scooping up water was made of a gourd that was cut in half. Comfortable.

Granny Li frowned when she saw his unrestrained appearance, thinking that this baby is not like a daughter-in-law married to someone else's family, she is simply an uncertain child.It's also thanks to Dong Wu's love for her, otherwise if she married into someone else's family, she wouldn't be rejected.

Dong Wu put away the coir raincoat, put a basket of apricots in the corner of the main room, and scooped water from the water tank in the yard to wash his face, hands and feet.

He took off his shoes on the eaves, and walked to Song Li, who was washing his face, because he forgot the wound on his forehead for a moment, and the pain caused him to grin his teeth as soon as the towel was wiped off.

Seeing him like this, Dong Wu rubbed his head with his hands, and it seemed that the scab on Song Li's forehead was scabbed with blood, but it was not serious, and there was no bleeding. He asked with concern, " Does it hurt?"

Song Li shook his head while the pain was so painful that tears rolled in his eyes, "It's not very painful, it will be fine in a while."

Dong Wu had no choice but to take the handkerchief in his hand and wipe his face carefully, then asked him to go back to the house to change into a pair of clean and dry shoes. The shoes on his feet were already half wet.

Song Li had no choice but to go into the house quickly, and found the shoes he wanted to change in the bedroom. These shoes were made by Granny Li and Chunying, and Song Li didn't know how to make shoes.

When Song Li finished changing his shoes, Dong Wu had already washed them, and Granny Li brought rice and vegetables to the table.

Dong Wu married a daughter-in-law, so he was not afraid that others would gossip about him and Chunying, so now he called Chunying over for dinner every day, and there was no fire at Granny Li's house. Sit at the table and eat.

Song Li ate too much apricot, and after a few mouthfuls of rice, he couldn't eat any more vegetables.

Granny Li looked at him and said, "Why do you eat so little, you haven't finished the rice in the bowl!"

Song Li was quite embarrassed, so it was Dong Wu who brought his bowl over, poured the rice into his own bowl, and said, "He ate too many apricots on the mountain, so he definitely won't be able to eat much."

Granny Li immediately nagged again, "It's not good to eat too many apricots. You are really a child."

Song Li casually said "hmmm" and sat down on the side of the basket where the apricots were placed with a low bench in his hand.

He took a small bamboo basket and picked out the sweet apricots inside. It was easy to separate the several kinds of apricots inside. The sweet apricots were smaller, with orange-yellow skins; the sour apricots were much larger, yellow and green Apricots are unripe sour apricots with a blue color.

Dong Wu saw him sitting in that small corner picking apricots, so he got up and moved the basket to the middle of the room, and said, "I picked a lot of sweet apricots, and my mother-in-law will bring some back later. The sour apricots are used to make apricot jam. The green apricots are used to make wine, if these are not enough, I will carry some back when the apricots come down from the tree."

After Song Li picked out the sweet apricots, he picked out the green apricots and put them in the big Shau Kei. Granny Li saw him playing with the green apricots, and reminded him, "The apricots are so green that they can't be eaten without a mouthful. People who are full of peaches can eat apricots." Hurting people, carrying the dead under the plum tree. This is no joke."

Song Li looked at her suspiciously, Dong Wu saw his curious look, and explained, "Apricots and plums are poisonous when they are not ripe, and they will be poisoned if they are eaten too much."

Chunying also interjected, "In the past, there was something about poisoning her mother-in-law with unripe plums in Lin County, and everyone in Yunzhou knew about it."

Song Li was very educated, and quickly put Qing Xing into Shau Kei.

Granny Li went to wash the dishes, Chunying also came to help separate the apricots, and then took the green apricots out to wash in the well water in the yard, and most of the remaining yellow sour apricots in the basket, Dong Wu picked up the basket, saying , "I mentioned to wash in the pond."

Song Li hurriedly said, "I'll go with you."

Then Song Li put on a straw hat and followed Dong Wu out the door.

Go out and walk a few steps to the west, walk down to the stone bridge, there is a large pond, beside the pond are several wide steps made of big stones, extending into the water, Dong Wu asked Song Li to stand On the bank of the pond, I put the basket into the water with bare feet, and then shook it vigorously. The apricots kept turning in the basket, filled with the midday sun, as beautiful as big gems.

Song Li leaned on the trunk of a big willow tree by the bank, feeling that it was so shady here, it would be nice to sit and fish.

A woman came over to wash vegetables with a shauke in her hand. Seeing Dong Wu washing apricots, she said, "Wu Lang is washing apricots. Are your apricots ripe?"

Dong Wudao, "The garden is more sunny, and it's almost ripe, so let's plant the trees in these few days."

The woman walked up the stone steps, turned her head, and then saw that there was another person under the willow tree. She was taken aback for a moment, then said "Yo", and said, "Is this Dong Wu's wife, sir? It's so handsome!"

Song Li was embarrassed and didn't know what to say, Dong Wu smiled and said, "He's always shy, and he didn't want to go out before, but today he is willing to go out for a walk."

The woman smiled and said, "New daughters-in-law are like this. After a few more babies are born, they will be almost like me. Why should you be ashamed? You will be ashamed."

Listening to her saying that having more babies would make Song Li even more embarrassing, Dong Wu smiled happily.

Song Li thought, what the hell is Dong Wu happy about? He is a man, how could he give birth to a baby.Song Li thought this way, but he didn't realize at all that he had been domesticated by everyone's words in such a short period of time, and subconsciously admitted that he was already Dong Wu's family and wife.

After Dong Wu washed the apricots, he grabbed a lot of apricots and put them into the woman's Shau Kei, saying, "Auntie, this apricot is sour, soaking it in salt is quite good."

Dong Wu carried the basket, and Song Li walked back after him. He had come to see what the pond looked like, but now he went back feeling bored, mainly because the woman made him uncomfortable.

To make apricot wine, you need to remove the core of the green apricot fruit, then put it in the shade to dry to a certain extent, then put it into a wine tank, add sorghum wine, and soak it for a while.

To make apricot jam, you must first remove the ripe sour apricot core, then dry it in the shade until there is a certain amount of moisture, then cook it, add sugar and boil it to a certain level, then put it in a jar and seal it well, and leave it for a while. have eaten.

At noon that day, Song Li was so excited about cutting apricots to get the cores that he even forgot to take a nap.

Dong Wu washed the big dustpan made of bamboo strips and put it on the stool under the eaves, and spread the cut and pitted apricots on it. After all the apricots were processed, more than an hour had passed.

After doing this, Song Li felt sleepy, and lazily walked to the bedroom to take a nap.

When he woke up, the sun was already going down.

Granny Li picked the vegetables and came back and waited for him to cook. Chunying sat at his house embroidering shoe uppers.

Walking to the door of the main room, he saw Dong Wu carrying two loads of new tiles under the peach tree, washing his hands at this time, Song Li asked him, "Is that tile?"

Dong Wu nodded and replied, "Well, tomorrow I have to pick up the tiles on the house. If the bad rain comes, I'm afraid the house will leak."

Song Li said "oh", and went into the kitchen to cook.

After dinner, Granny Li and Chunying went home. Song Li sat in the yard digesting food, playing with the dried apricot pits in a dustpan. Lizheng was bored, the courtyard door was pushed open, a teenage black boy ran in and said loudly, "Brother Wu, my mother asked me to bring you gardenias..."

Song Li stood up and looked at him curiously.

That boy was going to rush into the house, but when he saw Song Li, he seemed to have been frightened, his footsteps stopped instantly, and his face immediately turned crimson. Even though his face was swarthy, he could still see Seeing the traces of blush spreading on his face, he quickly put the small basket of gardenias in his hand on the ground, then turned around and ran like a frightened deer, and ran to the gate of the courtyard just in time to meet another The little girl who ran in bumped into each other, and both of them fell to the ground. The little girl was still crying and said, "Brother, don't wait for me..."

Song Li couldn't understand why the little boy ran away when he saw him. He went to help the little girl up, and asked concerned, "Does it hurt from the fall?"

The little girl stared at him blankly, and then her brother grabbed her hand and ran out.

Song Li was left standing there in surprise.

At this time Dong Wu came out of the house and said, "I heard the voice of Lin Wa'er in Aunt Six's house, where is he?"

Song Li picked up the basket dropped by the child, and said, "He sent a basket of gardenias, and then ran away."

Dong Wu looked at the flowers and smiled, and said, "Aunt Six is ​​the one I saw in the pond at noon, she must have given you a basket of gardenias because you didn't wear any flowers in your hair. Come Zihua."

Song Li hesitated for a moment, and said, "The flowers are very beautiful and fragrant, but I won't get them on my head."

Dong Wudao, "If you don't wear it, don't wear it. I didn't say you should wear it."

The gardenias inside are very beautiful, as white as white jade, and they are three-tiered gardenias. Except for a few fully bloomed flowers in the basket, most of them are half-buds and fully-enclosed buds.The fragrance is strong and tangy.

Seeing that he liked the flower, Dong Wu said, "This flower can grow for more than half a month in water. I'll find something to raise for you."

Dong Wu went into the house, and after a while, he found a small ceramic basin, which was actually made of celadon, very beautiful and delicate. Song Li looked at it, and it was clearly a brush washer. Dong Wu scooped some water into it, and brought it Sitting on a stool next to Song Li, he put the gardenias in the basket into the brush.

Song Li said, "Isn't it a waste to use this brush to arrange flowers?"

Dong Wu smiled and said, "My father passed it on to me. I rarely use it, and it's useless to keep it there. It's better to arrange flowers for you."

Dong Wu is very skillful in arranging flowers. He put the unopened blue-green buds on the outermost edge, and the ones that bloomed bigger as they went inward. Then when everything was arranged, it became a white in the middle and green on the side. Big flowers, very beautiful.

Song Li happily held the brush wash in his hands, smiled with eyebrows crooked, and said, "I didn't expect you to be good at arranging flowers."

Dong Wudao, "If you like it, bring it in. I'll return the basket at Aunt Six's house tomorrow, and thank you."