I slowly turned my head and wanted to take a look at Liu San'er who was sleeping on the ground. I wanted to see him to prove that all this was true. I really got the life I wanted most, a reliable husband.

, an ordinary family, and a down-to-earth warmth.

But when I turned around, I found that he was also awake, and he was still tossing and turning, as if he was a little anxious.

Could it be wine rash?

I gently said: "Is it still itchy?"

"Huh?" He seemed startled, and quickly turned to look at me: "Are you not asleep yet?"

"Well, I see you tossing and turning. Do you feel uncomfortable?"

"No, it's not."

"Then what's wrong with you?"

"No - it's okay."

Seeing him stammering, I frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

When I asked him, he seemed a little shy. He pulled up the quilt, was silent for a while, and then said with some embarrassment: "I, I am happy.

"..." I leaned sideways and held the edge of the bed, smiling and saying, "Why are you happy?"

When he said this, he seemed to blush, scratched his hair, and then whispered: "I never thought that the two of us could really get married."

"..."

"At that time, when I saw you gropingly leaving the inn, I thought, I might never see you again in this life."

"..."

"Later, when I rescued you on the river beach, I thought I was dreaming."

"..."

"Light, I really feel like I'm in a dream. You won't be gone when I wake up tomorrow morning, right?"

I wanted to laugh, and I really did, but as soon as I smiled, the blur in my eyes immediately became hot and almost dripped.

It turns out that, like me, he was afraid that all this was a dream.

In fact, everyone is the same. They experience ups and downs and scars on the road to pursuing happiness, but these are not really bitter. No matter how hard it is, as long as you think about the day when you will be happy, you can still persevere and persevere.

.

What is truly painful is the loss and despair that comes after finding happiness and discovering that everything is fake and illusory.

Seeing me not speaking for a long time, Liu Saner himself felt embarrassed. Just as he was about to shrink back into the quilt, I suddenly stretched out my hand to him: "San'er."

"Huh?"

He looked at my hand and was stunned for a moment, but he understood immediately and hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold my hand. His hand was very rough, with thick calluses on the fingertips and palm, and it felt rough when he held it.

It feels like a feeling, but there is also a warmth belonging to him that penetrates from the palm of my hand, soaking into every inch of my skin, making me infected with his breath.

I solemnly said word for word: "This is not a dream, this is real."

As he spoke, he seemed to be blurred. He didn't know whether the words were spoken to him or to himself. The voice was clearly coming from himself, but it seemed as if it was far away and came from the sky——<

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"Let's live a good life."

Liu Saner looked at me, smiled, and nodded vigorously: "Yeah!"

Although all this is not a dream, after marrying Liu Saner, every day is like every dream I have had in the past.

Calm and plain.

Although taxes have been reduced and increased, giving southerners a lot of excuses, if people really want to live, they can actually survive no matter how difficult the life is.

Suddenly there are two more mouths in the family, Queen Yin and I, which really makes it a bit hard for him. He has to spend most of the day cultivating and taking care of the more than ten acres of land he leased from the foot of Niangniang Mountain. In his free time, he will also go to the river to fish some.

The fish, together with the chopped firewood, will be sold at the market on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month.

As for me, I returned to my old job soon after my wedding and took over some jobs from the embroidery workshop. Because I was stable, my boss also gave me some good jobs. The money I earned supplemented my family income. Plus Huang Tian

With the private money Ba gave me, I can live a comfortable life.

Days like this may be completely different from before.

In the past, when I became a concubine in the palace and enjoyed the glory and wealth, I never thought that one day I would be spinning in a pile of firewood. But after I really lived such a life, I found that this kind of life was nothing like that.

Strange. After falling from the clouds to the mud, I feel more at ease. I will no longer worry about whether I make the wrong step and the world will collapse.

With a leg full of mud, I became the most ordinary housewife. After sending Liu Saner out every morning, I started to do housework. At noon, I met my mother-in-law and aunt (for convenience, Liu Saner and I both called

Empress Yin) would eat together. Sometimes Liu San'er would come back to eat. Sometimes the fields were too busy with farm work, so I would send the food to him in the fields.

This kind of life is not comfortable, and it is not compatible with leisure. Sometimes it is still very tiring, but my health is getting better and better. The cold syndrome and some weak symptoms left after the previous miscarriage have not recurred.

, sometimes I stand by the pot and watch the soup stew for half an hour, and I don’t feel weak at all. However, my belly gets bigger quickly, as if a big pot is attached to my body, and I rush in and out.

Everyone has to hold on to their waists.

At noon that day, Liu San'er said he would come back for dinner, but he didn't come back from the fields until my mother-in-law and others had finished eating and I had washed the dishes.

There was still a fire in the kitchen, so I fried the leftover rice for him while the pot was still hot. While I was busy, I asked, "Why did you come back so late today?"

He said: "Two people came to ask for directions, like scholars. After giving them directions for a long time, they didn't understand, so I took them for a while."

"He is a scholar."

"Yes. More and more scholars are passing by here recently."

I smiled, said nothing, poured the rice into the pot and fried it.

Although that man returned to Beijing, the earth-shaking changes he left behind in the south are still going on. It is said that this year's provincial examination is also opening the door to students from the south. Although it is not completely liberalized, it is compared with the previous layers of barriers.

It was still much better, so scholars from the three provinces of Jiangnan flocked here.

Liu San'er said with a bit of envy: "They are here to take the exam, and they will be able to do big things in the future."

I looked up at him.

Maybe he wouldn't know that his father and brother had struggled for decades for today's situation, and even paid the price of their lives. They never regretted it until they died, but they never waited for the day of amnesty in the south.

I was slightly stunned, but Liu San'er had already walked over: "I'll do it, just be careful."

He reached for the spatula, but I slapped his hand and said with a smile: "Don't make trouble, you want to burn the house down again?"

As soon as he mentioned this matter, he immediately blushed.

It was a day not long after we got married. Every day, he had to go out to farm, fish in the river, and chop firewood. He was often so tired that he collapsed. But when he got home, he would fight with me to go to the kitchen and say

My belly is too big and my feet are swollen, so I can’t stand in front of the pot for too long.

I ignored him the previous few times, but that day it was because I was too tired from doing needlework the night before and I really couldn’t stand up. Besides, the food that day was all ready-made and you could eat it just by heating it up.

So she handed the pots and pans to him and went back to the house to seize the time to embroider a few more stitches.

Unexpectedly, I had just finished embroidering a flower when I smelled a strong smell of burning. I hurriedly walked out and saw billowing smoke coming out of the kitchen door and the chimney. I was so scared that I broke into a cold sweat.

, hurriedly ran over holding her belly and pushed open the kitchen door, only to see Liu Saner fell asleep sitting on the small stool in front of the pot because he was too tired.

The rice in the pot was burnt, and the fire broke out on the pot platform and burned through the dry firewood piled next to it. The entire small kitchen was filled with thick smoke, but he was half tired and half fainted, but he didn't even notice.

Unaware.

I hurried over and closed the stove door, calling him loudly: "San'er! Liu San'er!"

He shook his head vaguely, and then slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were hazy for a moment, and he immediately woke up and opened his eyes wide: "Ah?!"

"Come and help!"

The pot was already red hot and I didn't dare to touch it. Liu San'er jumped up and hurriedly scooped up a spoonful of water and poured it on the pot table. Hearing a sizzling sound, there was a burst of heat and smoke from the pot.

The fire there was finally extinguished.

But the matter was not over yet, the pile of firewood piled in the corner of the house also ignited several flames, and it was about to burn. Liu Saner was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he shouted: "My——"

I was startled, but before he could finish his words, he had already pounced on me, took off his coat and vigorously beat the burning firewood.

Fortunately, the fire was not big and was extinguished within a few seconds.

He grabbed his clothes, which were already burnt in several places, and stood there panting, sweat dripping from his forehead. After a long while, he turned back to look at me in shock.

I was very frightened just now. At this time, I was holding on to the still hot pot and panting slightly. He glanced at the pile of firewood again, then walked to me: "How are you? You're not hurt, right?"

?"

"It's okay."

"Does your stomach hurt?"

Although I was still in shock, I couldn't help but smile: "My stomach hurts somewhere."

"That's good." He rolled up his clothes and wiped the sweat from his face, then held my arm and said, "You go back to the house first, I will clean up here."

After saying that, he helped me to go out. When I walked to the door, I couldn't hold myself back any longer. I looked back at the messy small kitchen and then at him: "San'er, what were you talking about just now?"

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To be continued...