Chapter 9 The stilt building

Ning Sanmei smiled sweetly: "I have to go back and say to my parents. I will follow my husband from now on. They must be very happy to hear it. You go to bed, I will go to sleep next door." After that, he went out of the kitchen door in the dark.

Soon, Ning Sanmei came back and did not go into the kitchen. She said through the door: "Sir, I'm back. My parents and brother heard that you promised me to eat and live with you. They were very happy and asked me to serve you very much."

Gu Yezhou nodded: "Go to bed early!"

Ning Sanmei agreed and went to the granary next door to sleep.

It's late at night.

Gu Yezhou was not sleepy at all. Such a thing happened to him when he traveled through time. He probably would have been destined to suffer from insomnia that night.

There is another important reason why I can't sleep, that is, the mattress and the quilt covered are very thin, and they rub against the skin like sandpaper, causing pain. The things inside do not seem to be cotton. The history of Guyezhou tells him that cotton only appeared after the Song Dynasty. Before that, only silk cotton made of silk sprouted by mulberry silkworms, and that price is expensive and not affordable for ordinary people. If you have a little money, you can only buy some wild cotton from the mountain and put it in it. This wild cotton cannot be compared with real cotton. It can only be slightly better than single-layer fabric. For Guyezhou, who is used to the delicacies of mountains and seas in modern society, it is very unaccustomed to it. Fortunately, there is a fire in the fire shop, and although it is a little cool at night, it still doesn't feel cold.

Because Gu Yezhou was injured in the headrest, he could not lie on his back, but could only lie on his side or lie on his siding position. This position would be very uncomfortable after a long time, and he could only turn over with difficulty and caution.

The fire in the fire shop has gradually become smaller, and Gu Yezhou's thoughts have flew back to modern times. In this life, I don't know if I can go back. In modern society, I encountered a car accident and may have died. My parents, relatives and friends don't know how sad it is. Alas...!

Thinking of the sadness, Gu Yezhou's eyes were moist.

All night, Gu Yezhou spent this while being sad, sad, and worried.

The next day at dawn, Ning Sanmei got up, and walked into the kitchen like a kitten and started to make a fire to cook.

By dawn, her breakfast was ready. She squatted beside the Gu Yezhou's pavilion, looking at the sleeping Gu Yezhou, hesitating whether to wake him up.

At this time, Gu Yezhou opened his eyes and saw the pretty face as bright as the morning glow. Hearing her soft voice: "Sir, breakfast is ready. Do you want to get up?"

Gu Yezhou quickly withdrew his gaze and nodded. Ning Sanmei helped him put on his clothes. Because he had bandages on his head, he couldn't comb his hair, so he could only do this.

Ning Sanmei put in hot water to wash his face. There was very little water, which was only enough to moisten his face. Gu Yezhou already knew that the water was precious now, so he didn't want much.

Breakfast was porridge and kimchi. After eating it, Gu Yezhou felt a little pain in his head, so he took a golden needle and acupuncture for a while, and soon relieved the pain. Ning Sanmei served him and took medicine again. He helped him lie down. Then, Ning Sanmei went out again, not knowing what to do. However, not long after, he heard a rhythmic sound of "Ding Dong! Ding Dong!" coming from downstairs.

Gu Yezhou was a little curious and didn't know what the sound was. So he tried to get up and slowly stood up with the wall.

Logically speaking, it is impossible for him to get out of bed with such a serious injury in such a short time, but he didn't know why, his injuries were healed very quickly and he could get up.

He groped through the wall, walked to the back window, gently pushed open the window, and saw the rice fields with sparse rice fields outside the fence.

He held the window and looked out and saw Ning Sanmei stepping on a sees something like a seesaw under the window. On the other end, there was a stone mortar chiseled out of a stone mortar, and there was some rice in it. This end of the seesaw was a thick downward vertebra. As Ning Sanmei stepped on it, she smashed and beat the rice in the stone mortar one by one.

Gu Yezhou had never seen such a device, but he immediately guessed that it was for pounding rice. He just heard the ding dong sound, which was exactly the sound of Ning Sanmei pounding rice.

Ning Sanmei had only one body exposed downstairs, and she couldn't see her whole movements clearly. The sound of dingdong and dingdong continued.

Gu Yezhou was willing to help, but after walking just a few steps, he felt dizzy. Now his body is afraid that he will not be able to go downstairs. He should not cause trouble for her.

Gu Yezhou closed the window and slowly returned to the bedding and lay down. He listened quietly to the ding dong outside the window.

About an hour later, Ning Sanmei returned to the kitchen. Her hair was a little wet. Obviously, the job of pounding rice was not easy. Especially for a half-aged girl who was only fourteen or fifteen years old, it was even more difficult.

Ning Sanmei wiped her sweat with her face squid, went to Gu Yezhou to the fire shop, and whispered: "Sir, I'll go downstairs to cut pig grass and feed the pigs. You're so lying down."

"You go, don't worry about me."

Ning Sanmei looked at him softly, nodded, then took a hoe, rake, and left.

Gu Yezhou lay down for a while, he was really bored.

He slowly got up, held the wall, walked to the side of the fire shop, and worked hard to get down to the middle of the lobby, slowly walked to the middle of the lobby, looked left and right, there was a door on each side, and then he slowly walked to the door on the left and pushed open the door. There was a warehouse inside, a large rice jar with a wooden lid on it. There was a small hole missing in one corner of the rice jar, and a spinning wheel, some farm tools and debris. There was also a large wooden box, which had faded so much that it could not be seen. There was a small bed and a thin quilt. This should be where Ning Sanmei slept last night.

He stepped in and opened the rice jar. Inside was the bag of rice and the pounded small bag of white rice.

Is this my food ration for the next year?

Gu Yezhou smiled bitterly, turned around and came out of the room, slowly touched the wall and came to the door on the other side, and opened the door and looked inside. Inside was a simple study room, an old wooden table with no original paint color was placed in front of the window. On top was the four treasures of the study and a stack of books. On the opposite side was an equally simple bookcase with only a few book boxes on it. Behind the inside was a wooden bed, no bedding, only an empty bed frame, and a cool mat was placed. There was also a brick at the head of the bed, which was probably used as a pillow.

He felt his physical strength and seemed to be able to support himself and walk around again. He slowly left the study room, moved to the corridor, held the railing, walked to the entrance of the stairs, and slowly went down the stilt house.

The faint smell of shit dung was smelled downstairs. He looked at the side and saw that the downstairs of the stilt house were shacks for captivity and cattle and sheep. However, there was only one small pig in the several shacks. The others were empty.

He stood on the stairs. Ning Sanmei saw her and hurriedly ran over and supported him: "Sir, why are you coming downstairs? You have to lie down and recover from your injuries."

Gu Yezhou smiled and said, "I'm very bored when I lie down. I try to get up and walk around. I'm not too dizzy yet, so I'll come down to take a look."

"What's the best thing? I'll help you go upstairs and lie down."

"No need, I'm fine, I'll sit downstairs with you."

Ning Sanmei couldn't resist, so she had to help him sit on the stairs first, then ran upstairs, took a stool down, placed it on the ground, helped him sit down, and then cut pig grass.

Gu Yezhou said: "You..., you haven't gotten married yet?"

Ning Sanmei's pretty face turned red and she looked at him with some resentment: "Who can look down on us as a poor family like us?"

Gu Yezhou immediately felt her warmth. It seemed that this woman was in love with the scholar who resurrected her. However, judging from the current situation, the scholar did not intend to marry her. Maybe he was devoted to reading only the books of sages.

Gu Yezhou lowered his head, avoided her hot gaze, and said, "Where is the private school where I teach?"

"It's right upstairs of Uncle Mo's house." Ning Sanmei pointed to a huge stilt house with a bamboo fence not far away.

That is the Lizheng family in Gong'e Village? Look at the house, it is several times bigger than my own. It has a style of Lizheng.

He was looking at Uncle Mo's house in Lizheng, suddenly, he saw two villagers running over in the distance panting. He went downstairs of Lizheng's house, opened the bamboo fence, ran upstairs, and ran upstairs while running, yelling: "Uncle Mo! Uncle Mo!"

Uncle Mo appeared in the second floor corridor, holding a steamed bun in his hand and was eating: "What's the matter?"

"Not good! Luo Jiacai, Li Dongzi and a few others went to the rock cracks on the mountain to fetch water. The rope broke and they all planted into the rock cracks!"

Morri was stomping his feet and said, "Didn't I say that the rock crack is too dangerous, so please don't go there to fetch water!"

"There are too many people waiting to carry water at the entrance of the village. It is too far to pick up the river in the county town at the foot of the mountain, so they said they couldn't wait and said they couldn't pick up the water anymore. The children and elderly people at home were thirsty. So they went up the mountain."

"Hi!" Morrie was slapping the railing hard, "Go! Hurry and ask someone to find them and pull them up, - Alas! I'm afraid it's too late. The rock crack is so deep. If you fall down, how can you still have life? It's good to get the body back! Go quickly!"

After saying that, Morrie was following the two villagers and hurriedly went downstairs.

Gu Yezhou stared blankly at their backs as they walked away and asked Ning Sanmei: "What's going on with that rock crack?"

"It was a rock gap in the back mountain that was as wide as two people. It was very deep, about ten feet long. There was a pool of water below, but there was no way to just use a bucket to lift it, because there were several twists below. People had to go down to lift the water. But the bottom was very steep and dangerous. Morrie had said a long time ago that he would not go there to pick up the water. As a result, some people didn't listen and had three of them killed. Two of them couldn't even pull up the body because they were stuck between the cracks of the stones. That's it, some people didn't want to wait in line for the water, so they would go there to pick up the water."
Chapter completed!