Chapter 2 Settlement
When she finished eating the dry food, Tongshan was urged to go out. Before leaving, Guan also repeatedly reminded her many times, asking her to ask more places to fetch water nearby and nearby towns.
After all, she is just a bun seller, and it’s not OK to have no good place.
Tongshan walked out of the yard, and the man followed behind him, muttering constantly to tell her not to forget.
If it weren't for inappropriateness, I'm afraid he would want to go with her.
In fact, Tongshan felt that even if she forgot to ask, it would be fine. There are many people in the village who can ask, right?
Although she thought about it this way, there was no trace of impatientness on her face. She always kept her mind whenever the man said something. Until her back walked away, the man's nagging stopped. Looking at his grown-up daughter, he sighed with relief and turned around and entered the yard.
As soon as I came out of my home, I saw a path along the village. Tongshan was brisk and turned two turns along the road. The shade of the trees suddenly shone brightly in front of me.
The fields full of crops, although it is the time for the sun to reach the sun, you can still see the people in the fields busy. The air is filled with the soil and the fragrance and simplicity of the crops, which makes the Tongshan who has lived in the town bent her lips.
I was about to say hello to the busy people on the road near the village, but I could hear the familiar nursery rhymes in my ears.
Tong Shan couldn't help but turn his head to look over.
I saw a group of girls lined up one after another, holding each other's clothes with their little hands, jumping on the village road. When I passed by Tongshan, my big eyes looked up at her, full of pure curiosity.
Tong Shan bent his eyes and smiled at them friendly. His white teeth flashed in the sun. His originally ordinary facial features were like candlelight lit in the dark that caught people's eye-catching. His smile was purely free of impurities, making people feel good.
The woman's kind smile instantly infected a group of girls. Their innocent faces were as smiling as her, and they were not afraid of being angry. They jumped around her and still sang the nursery rhymes just now.
An adult and a group of children were instantly happy. From a distance, it made people feel no incongruity, just because the woman's aura was too friendly and pure, making people unable to help but get close.
The girls sang around her twice, slowly jumping and walking along the road.
Tongshan looked far behind them until the girls' backs disappeared, and the tender childish voices did not stop. Nostalgia appeared in her eyes. I remember that although she was very obedient when she was a child, she would occasionally be greedy. Every time she wanted to eat snacks, she would not tell her father, but just jumped around him while singing the nursery rhyme.
Every time my father, who loved her, would obey her. The family was obviously compact, so he forced a little bit of money to buy sugar for her.
But after growing up, I realized that it was not easy. I never sang around my father like that, nor did I sing this nursery rhyme again.
"Which girl is you from there?"
While recalling Tongshan, a loud female voice pulled her thoughts back. She turned around and saw the middle-aged woman who was just working in the field looking at her with some hoe handles.
Seeing Tongshan, the middle-aged woman said again: "I think you are so nervous, but which family is from?"
Tongshan reacted and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello to her: "I just moved to the village, so I'll just call me Tongshan."
The aunt had a kind face. She couldn't help but be surprised when she said this: "It's been a long time since the foreigners moved in in this village." After that, she looked at her and laughed: "Since you've moved in, I'll call me Aunt Liu in the future. All the people in our village are easy to get along with. If you don't know where you go in the future, just ask."
"Okay, thank you Aunt Liu."
"Hi" Aunt Liu waved her hand indifferently: "I am just a rough person. I'm not used to being so polite." After that, her eyes suddenly stopped on the young woman's face and did not move.
Tong Shan was stared at her a little unnaturally, and scratched her head without interrupting her.
Just now, when she saw Tong Shan who was smiling brightly in the field, she felt that the girl was very handsome. Now she looked at her facial features, but she had no surprise for a moment. Seeing that she had already stared at someone, Aunt Liu laughed and said, "You girl is handsome, I can't help but stare at her."
After hearing what she said, Tong Shan couldn't help but blushed slightly embarrassedly. This was the first time that someone other than her father praised her for her good-looking appearance.
"Miss Jun, where are you going?" Aunt Liu held the top of the hoe handle with both hands and called her humorously.
Tong Shan was thin-skinned, and her face turned even more embarrassed by her screams. She said to her truthfully: "I want to go to the village chief's house..." She glanced at Aunt Liu, pursed her lips and said shyly: "Aunt Liu can call me Tongshan or Ashan." She was so thin-skinned that she couldn't stand it.
Her shy look made Aunt Liu laugh happily, and she couldn't help but praise: "This man is handsome and handsome!" She stopped after laughing sourly that the corners of her mouth, her eyes full of joy for Tong Shan: "This is the first time I have seen such a shy girl."
Knowing that she should have something urgent, Aunt Liu didn't joke with her anymore and pointed her a way: "You walk towards that road and walk straight and see the first fork turn right. The village chief's house is the one with a loquat tree outside the door."
Tongshan had been to the village chief’s house a few days ago, and he knew where the location was, but he thanked her before leaving and walking along the road.
Aunt Liu stood in the fields and looked at the young woman's upright back and whispered: "This girl is a good girl." Unfortunately, there is no man in her family who can get married.
Tongshan came to this loquat tree, glanced left and right before raising his hand to knock on the door.
"Here's here, who?"
As soon as the knock on the door fell, a man's slightly sharp voice came from the door. Tong Shan was slightly stunned. He didn't realize how it was a male voice. He scratched his head at a loss, and his voice was a little bumpy: "I am here to find Village Chief Liu!"
The wooden door opened from inside, and a middle-aged man with a mentally dark face and skin about thirty years old poked his head out and looked at her: "What are you asking for her?"
"I just moved into the village and came to find the village chief to settle down."
The middle-aged man nodded as if it was like this, looked her up and down: "Are you Tongshan?"
These days, I have heard his wife tell him how this person is, but now he looks quite tall and upright.
"Yes." Tong Shan nodded and looked at the inside of the wooden door: "Can the village chief be there?"
"You're here, come in." The middle-aged man leaned against the door and asked her to come in. At the same time, he opened his throat and shouted inward: "Old Liu is looking for you!" He shouted very casually.
Tong Shan looked at him in surprise. Although he had guessed that this person should be the husband of the village chief, he was so novel and frightened to call the village chief.
"It's all old couples. After getting along for a long time, I will never be as young as you." The middle-aged man seemed to see through her thoughts, and his eyebrows were all peaceful and peaceful. He took her into the house while talking.
As soon as she entered the yard, she saw Village Chief Liu sitting on a rocking chair in the middle of the yard. At this time, she closed her eyes with a comfortable face, holding a palm-leaf fan in her hand, and she looked like she was asleep.
The middle-aged man walked up and stole the palm fan from her hand without hesitation, and gently patted Village Chief Liu's head: "Don't get up if you shout so loudly, don't faint again." Although there was a complaint in his words, there was a smile and tenderness between his eyebrows and eyes.
This light pat was effective. The corners of the eyes of the person on the rocking chair were wrinkled, and the habit of raising his hand was to pat the middle-aged man's hand, sit up and stretch, stretching his waist, but the half-closed slit saw the tall and young figure in front of him.
"Tongshan, you are here."
Village Chief Liu yawned and pointed to the stool next to him with a smile: "Sit down, I just thought about snoring, but I fell asleep." She pressed her hand on her shoulder: "Oh, I'm old."
Tong Shan sat on the stool opposite her, took out a purse from her pocket and handed it to her: "Captain Liu, this is ten taels of silver, please count it."
Village Chief Liu glanced at the purse on Tong Shan's hand in sleepy eyes, pinched his fingers indifferently and threw them on the table beside him, picked up the palm-leaf fan on it and patted the middle-aged man beside him: "Adan, go to the room and take out the wooden box beside the stove."
The middle-aged man called A Dan pinched Village Chief Liu's arm and said angrily: "I will call people." After that, he obediently turned around and went back to the room to get the wooden box.
Village Chief Liu's hair was covered with a few strands of snow on his hair, and his eyes were covered with smile patterns. She shook her fan and looked at Tong Shan kindly, and asked slowly: "You just came here today?"
"Yes, I just moved here with my dad." Tong Shan sat upright on a low stool, with his long legs curled in front of him.
Village Chief Liu nodded slowly and looked at the door and suddenly became immersed: "For a long time, no foreigners have moved in from our Shitou Village. It used to be too chaotic outside. Some people from other countries like to move here to purify. After a long time, they have taken root here." As she said that, she turned her eyes to Tongshan: "If you don't know anything about it, just ask directly. People in our village are very easy to get along with."
I heard this sentence twice today in Tongshan, and Aunt Liu, who was just in the field, also told her like this.
Chapter completed!