Married Iceberg is a little sweet

Chapter 68

"Does your leg hurt?"

Gu Ying rubbed her knees and calves. Xiao Ran had been kneeling alone for four to ten minutes just now, but now his knees were cold, and the patterns on the mat were printed into his skin.

"fine".

Thanks to Xixi for the cushion, Xiao Ran sat and stretched his calves and knees for a while, and the discomfort gradually dissipated, and he recovered faster than Gu Ying.

"Where is the filial son! Come up the mountain with me!"

One of the middle-aged uncles presiding over the etiquette shouted in a particularly loud voice, as if he was going to get some water from the mountain at some time, and he had to change into straw sandals and walk all the way with a kettle in his hand.

"coming".

Putting Gu Ying back in place, Xiao Ran told his sister to take care of her, then bent down to change the pair of straw sandals that looked very fragile, got up and walked with him.

Gu Ying was still worried, but both Xiao Ke and Zhu Minxi comforted her and asked her to rest where she was.

"Sister Gu, you have to guard the mourning hall at night, you need to raise your spirits first, then you will need to take care of the captain."

"Well, my sister is very strong, she will be fine."

In Xiao Ke's eyes, Xiao Ran can handle even big things, her sister and brother are the protectors in her heart, even if the sky falls, they will support her.

Gu Ying really envied her. With a sister like Xiao Ran, it doesn't really matter if the family is good or not. Xiao Ke grew up carefree all the time. He is much happier than many wealthy young ladies.

"Sister Gu, you can be content. If the captain is your sister, who will be your wife?"

How could Zhu Minxi fail to see what she was thinking, how old she was, and she was jealous of Ke Ke, who was in high school.

Over there, Xiao Ran followed all the way up the mountain. The mourning clothes on his body were not very thick, he only wore a sweater underneath, and the straw sandals on his feet... leaked the wind, but she was not cold, and she was sweating a little. Is it too much?

If Gu Ying was allowed to come and crawl, he might be stuck in bed for a month without getting up.

He half filled a jug with water by the river, and threw a few copper coins into the river at the man's words. He read a bunch of local dialect that Xiao Ran couldn't understand to the river bank.

"Okay".

The man glanced at her, there were several other villagers accompanying him all the way, Xiao Ran sent them the red envelope prepared by President Yue just now, and the dangerous intuition flashed by.

She should still be afraid of her. Apart from the suppression of her height, she has not seen her panting after climbing the mountain for so long. To outsiders, she is still a beautiful woman, so it is hard not to have wrong thoughts. If you don't follow Gu Ying this time, what will be the consequences?

"You can go back."

Xiao Ran randomly picked up a wrist-thick tree trunk on the ground. With so many people, she could beat them, but she didn't want to let herself suffer, as there was still a lot of physical work to do here.

"Don't just pick up things on the ground, it will break the etiquette."

"Oh".

In front of several people, she put the kettle on a stone beside her, split the wood into three pieces with a little strength, and then inserted them into the soil one by one,

"This is a small custom where our elders die."

She looked at those people with cold eyes and half a smile, as if the tree trunk just now belonged to them, then she picked up the kettle and walked forward.

The few people should have rested their minds, knowing that she had noticed, weighed the red envelopes in their hands, and said nothing more.

Halfway there, Gu Ying might still feel worried, and called his bodyguards to pick her up, Xiao Ran smiled.

Still quite defensive.

Seeing her return to the mourning hall safe and sound, Gu Ying felt relieved, took a hot towel and wiped her forehead and neck,

"Why did it take so long?"

Because of attending the funeral, Gu Ying didn't wear any makeup today, her face was upright, she was not as monstrous as usual, she was a little bit of Xiao Ke's youthful student spirit, she looked a bit small.

"The mountain road is difficult to walk".

Suddenly feeling an impulse, Xiao Ran raised his hand and pressed his relatively clean left ring finger on her pale pink lips.

"I just ate something, and there was something on my mouth."

After touching it, he acted as if nothing happened, and went over there to kneel down for Lin Shouyue and the others in turn.

Is there something?But she didn't eat anything, and she didn't even drink water. Gu Ying touched her lips, a little worried that she didn't look good with something on them just now.

After thinking for a while, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, and went to the hall to pour a glass of water with a blushing face.

When having lunch, there are more than ten or twenty tables in the yard outside, all of which are big bowls of dishes. The chef is the most famous chef in the village. All kinds of meat are piled high, and the aroma is overflowing.

Now Xiao Ran invites all the neighbors who are familiar and unfamiliar around him, and those who are far away from the Shen family are also invited. The more unfamiliar people, the better for Gu Ying .

Many villagers who accepted this kind of favor spoke highly of Gu Ying, saying that she is filial, and that it is very nice for Mr. Shen to have such a granddaughter, who helped persuade Shen's relatives to comply with the national policy of equality between men and women.

Although there are not a few words of sincerity in these words, it is better to just talk about begging for a meal when it has nothing to do with yourself. It is better than poking Gu Ying's back with the people of the Shen family. As for what is said behind the scenes, she and Gu Ying don't care. After the funeral, they will never come back here again.

Everyone sat down to eat, Gu Ying stayed alone in the mourning hall, Xiao Ran ordered some food and took it to eat with her.

Gu Ying doesn't like meat very much, and she has no appetite in the face of these white fish and meat, so Xiao Ran breaks the meat into small pieces and feeds them to her mouth.

"Eat to give you strength. In the afternoon, ask someone to buy you something else to eat."

The tone of coaxing children has a miraculous effect on Gu Ying.

"I want to eat instant noodles."

"Haven't you had enough before?"

It’s about the period when the group first formed, because the schedule was in a hurry, and there was no takeaway at that time, and they could only eat instant noodles and ham for meals. Now Xiao Ran feels like throwing up whenever he smells the instant noodles.

Gu Ying shook her head, she doesn't like to eat instant noodles, she just loves to eat instant noodles with Xiao Ran, because she is afraid of being hot, so Xiao Ran always soaks two buckets at a time, eats the first half first, and then secretly puts away the rest when the noodles are colder. Give her half of the bucket, and eat both buckets together.

"Is there something on my lips?"

After eating, she suddenly asked Xiao Ran, and saw that Xiao Ran's hand holding the chopsticks stopped obviously, and raised her eyebrows.

"no".

Xiao Ran hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of rice, turned around and ran away with the bowl in hand.

What are you running, can you run?

Gu Ying still wanted to be irresponsible after teasing her, so she squinted her eyes.

After the meal, Xiao Ran and Xiao Huai took turns kneeling all afternoon. Finally, they stayed up until night. There were many fewer guests, and the mourning hall became quiet. Everyone was exhausted.

"Sister Gu, let's guard the mourning hall with you tonight."

The two of them have to stay here inseparable for the past few days. Zhu Minxi and Yu Sheng have agreed to accompany Gu Ying alone for a day. After all, this village is gloomy and the door cannot be closed at night. Who knows what the Shen family is doing? idea.

"It's okay, you all go upstairs and sleep well. Mr. Yue must be very tired after a busy day. I didn't do anything during the day. I can hold on. If I am sleepy, I will sleep for a while."

When she came here earlier, someone told her that this place was haunted by ghosts, and the people from the Shen family probably wanted to scare her on purpose. Zhu Minxi and the others would still help her during the day, and Gu Ying hoped that they could have a good rest at night.

"That's fine, anyway, we're upstairs, if you need anything, just call, Shengsheng and I don't turn off the phone."

"Ok".

I really want to say thank you, but this will appear to be unreasonable. The few people agreed before that they would not say thank you to each other.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, only Gu Ying, Xiao Ran, and Xiao Huai were left in the hall.

"There are still rooms above, you take turns to sleep."

Originally, the few of them insisted on guarding outside the door all night, and slept outside directly if they wanted to sleep, Xiao Ran disagreed.

"Don't worry too much, I asked Qi Bo to arrange people to watch, and I will call you if there is any movement."

Even if it's a young guy, it's not good for his health if he stretches his nerves all the time. This is a society ruled by law, and there are quite a few people around Gu Ying and the others. Walking along, but to make her afraid that's all.

"Well, we take turns guarding the yard, sister, you can call us anytime you need anything."

Xiao Ran nodded, and asked them to move the wooden bed out, which was larger than the bench, and it was more comfortable to lean on with pillows.

After everyone left, Gu Ying went upstairs to get their toiletries, Xiao Ran took boards and nails and nailed up the windows at the back of the hall. In every corner, make sure there are no strange things.

I asked the villagers when I was eating before, the only scary thing here is that there will be wild cats meowing at night, it sounds like a child crying, and the timid ones will be scared to death. Xixi was frightened on the spot, but President Yue should accompany her.

"Checked?"

Gu Ying is holding an electric toothbrush and two clean towels. It is winter now, there is no need to take a bath every day, and after taking a bath, you have to wear this mourning dress. It doesn’t matter whether you wash it or not, only some places that girls pay special attention to. clean up.

There are restrooms and hot water downstairs.

"Ok".

Xiao Ran brushed her teeth with her, washed some parts of her body, and then the two of them sat on the bench and started to watch.

The mourning hall was a bit gloomy and cold, with a dark coffin, those inexplicably bright wreaths, and elegiac couplets written in black and white, at this moment it was very scary.

"Afraid?"

Thinking of the appearance of old master Shen at the moment of his death, Xiao Ran still asked her worriedly, even though he knew that Gu Ying was not afraid of ghosts.

"You are not afraid here".

With no one else around, Gu Ying's eyes softened, this kind of gaze made Xiao Ran a little unnatural,

"Ok".

"Today was tough".

"fine".

"Really, do you still have strength?"

"Have".

"That's good, I'm afraid you don't have the strength."

"What do you want me to do?"

Today's things should be busy, Xiao Ran can't think of anything else to do.

"What? Of course..."

Gu Ying smiled softly, then got up and sat on her lap, and whispered a word in her ear.

Xiao Ran's eyes widened instantly, speechless.

"Here...you are really...how do you..."

"How dare I".

"Of course I dare."

Gu Ying helped her finish her sentence and gave her an answer.

"Because you are used to it, Xiao Ran, you have to be responsible for me when I become like this."

"I'm sweating, maybe a little dirty."

Xiao Ran started to get nervous, and couldn't help but want to back up, but she was sitting on the bench, there was no way to back up.

"It doesn't matter",

Gu Ying took her hand and wiped it carefully with a wet towel.

"It's clean here."

Ever since Xiao Ran put on this filial piety dress, she has already been thinking of rebelliousness. Seeing her sweating in and out of the bustle, and smelling the smell of green grass and dirt on her body, Gu Ying's heart has long been out of control. Jump around.

She finally waited until dark.

"Don't you hate the shackles of these feudal traditions the most?"

"Don't you... hate all of this?"

"Release them all, I will accompany you, okay?"

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Gu Ying: Me.