The door to the backyard, open,

Through the backyard door, only a part of the backyard can be seen.

On the top of the backyard, covered with tiles, only some light penetrated through the top of the courtyard wall.

On the eaves of the roof, there is an incandescent lamp, and the bulb is stained with some smoke and dust, and along the wires, some cobwebs are entwined, and it is not opened.

The whole backyard is a little dark.

After the middle-aged man stepped into the backyard, he walked to the side and disappeared into the range that could be seen through the backyard door.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of water followed the breeze, through the backyard door, and sounded in Lian Ge's ears,

It seemed that the middle-aged man was rinsing a glass of water, or a somewhat awkward apple.

......

"Brother, are you from outside?"

The little girl propped up the stool with her hand and didn't sit down, looked at Lian Ge, and asked a little timidly,

Hearing this, Lian Ge turned his gaze back to look at the little girl, smiled slightly, and nodded,

"Yes. ”

"Is it in the county seat?" the little girl straightened up,

"Last time, I followed my parents to the county seat, and there were so many people in the county, it was so lively, and everyone was wearing new clothes for the New Year...... I just went once, and then my parents didn't take me there...... But I remember it clearly, I had a dream the other night. ”

The little girl smiled happily and said, with longing in her eyes,

"Brother, are you from the county seat?" Looking at Lian Ge, the little girl looked forward to it and asked again,

Hearing this, Lian Ge looked at the little girl and paused,

"It's farther than that. ”

"Is it farther than the county seat, where is that? Brother, do you live in a place that is as lively as the county seat?"

The little girl raised her head with anticipation in her eyes,

"I live in a quieter place, but I also have a county seat. ”

Smiling slightly, Lian Ge said to the little girl,

"Where's that...... Is it that far away from the other side of the day?"

The little girl tiptoed and looked out of the open door,

It's just the end of her sight, and it's just a mountain not far away,

“...... Last year, an uncle passed by and told me that as long as I study hard and go to school well, when I grow up, I can go farther, far away, farther than the other side of the mountain. The little girl turned back and said,

raised his head again and looked at Lian Ge,

"But what is going to school?"

The little girl's clean eyes were full of doubts, and she looked at Lian Ge suspiciously,

Looking at the little girl's clean eyes, Lian Ge didn't answer.

“...... That day, I heard my parents say that when I am older, they will send me out to work."

It didn't seem to want an answer, the little girl continued, but her eyes became more and more confused,

"What is a part-time job, can you go far away, to such a lively place in the county?"

"Dad also said that if I go to work, I can let my younger brother go to school, is it really that important to go to school?"

"If it's that important, then let my brother go to school. ”

The little girl spoke, her voice echoing through the hall,

......

"Yunyun, don't think like that, if you can go to school, you must go to school. ”

With a dish of washed apples and a cup of tea in it, the middle-aged man re-entered the hall and said to the little girl,

“...... But my father said that I would marry into someone else's family in the future, and I would be from someone else's family, and I wouldn't have to go to school, and my younger brother would be a member of our family. ”

"Nonsense, you and your brother are the same, you know?"

"Is it really the same?" the little girl asked, looking up with confusion in her eyes,

Hearing this, the middle-aged man opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything,

But in silence, he put the plate of apples on the table,

“...... Yunyun, eat apples. ”

"Hmm!"

As if forgetting what she had just said in a blink of an eye, the little girl ran to the table with some joy and the two ill-fitting slippers, and on the way, the shoes fell off again.

"Young man, give it, there's nothing to entertain at home, drink a glass of water." ”

The middle-aged man looked at the little girl's happy appearance, with a smile on his face, and then took the cup of tea, turned around and handed it to Lian Ge,

"Thank you. ”

After thanking him, Lian Ge took the teacup and didn't drink it, just held it in his hand.

Turning his gaze, Lian Ge looked at the little girl again,

......

After running happily to the table, the little girl stood on tiptoe and looked at the plate of apples with some intent.

"Yunyun, wait a minute, I'll wipe your hands first. ”

The middle-aged man also looked at the little girl, and after looking at the little girl's dirty hands, he stepped forward,

As he spoke, the middle-aged man picked up a wet handkerchief from the dining table, and was just about to squat down to wipe the little girl's hands.

Looking at the wet handkerchief in his hand, the middle-aged man put it aside again, pulled out a few pieces of paper from the side, and wiped his hands first.

Only then did he take out a tissue, squat, and wipe the dust on the little girl's hands.

On the side, Lian Ge took the cup of tea, looked at the wet handkerchief that was put down by the middle-aged man, and paused.

On Lian Ge's shoulder, the mouse also stared at the wet handkerchief, his eyes motionless.

......

"Alright, let's eat. ”

The middle-aged man smiled, threw the tissue aside, stood up again, and said.

"Thank you, Fourth Uncle. ”

The little girl was still staring at the apple, and when she heard that it was ready to eat,

Then he lifted up his hand, put his feet on it, and picked up an apple from the plate of the table.

Holding it in her hand, the little girl looked at it and swallowed her saliva, but she didn't eat it herself.

Instead, he turned around, raised his head, and handed the apple in his hand to Lian Ge and the middle-aged man.

“...... Fourth uncle, and elder brother, let's eat first. ”

"No need, the fourth uncle has eaten, Yunyun eats it. The middle-aged man bent down slightly, smiled, and said to the little girl,

"That brother eats ......"

The little girl handed the apple to Lian Ge again,

"Yun Yun, right, Yun Yun, you eat, I have a cup of tea here, I can drink tea. ”

Lian Ge stood up from the seat, smiled, and said to the little girl,

"That'...... I ate. ”

The little girl hesitated, withdrew her hand,

Looking at the apple in his hand, he swallowed his saliva again, and then he was careful and took a bite.

“...... Yunyun, are the apples delicious?"

The middle-aged man looked at the little girl and asked with a smile,

"It's delicious, it's so sweet, it's sweeter than sugar. ”

The little girl smiled and looked up happily in response,

The middle-aged man looked at the little girl and smiled,

"Then Yun Yun ate slowly, and after eating, there is still something here. ”

"Well, the fourth uncle eats too. ”

The little girl nodded emphatically, hugged the somewhat awkward apple, and began to eat it in one gulp.

"Good, good ......"

The middle-aged man smiled in response, standing at the dining table, looking at the little girl, his eyes were a little distracted.

......

Looking at the middle-aged man and the little girl, Lian Ge turned his gaze back and looked out of the open hall door,

And at this very moment,

Outside the hall, by the courtyard, on the village road in the village,

A figure hurried, approaching quickly from a distance,

“...... Wu Si Ge, Wu Si Ge. ”

The figure approached with some eager shouts,

"Wu Si Ge ......"

The person who came was the older woman who had been persuaded to fight at the entrance of the village before.

"What's going on?"

When the middle-aged man heard the sound, he hurriedly walked to the door of the hall.

"The matter of the daughter-in-law of the old Chen family, didn't it mean that the old Chen family didn't do anything a few days ago, and the daughter-in-law was angry and went back to her parents' house. I didn't care about the old Chen family, I didn't care about it for so long, I thought, how can it be a matter in the village, or ask, so I made a phone call to the old Chen family's daughter-in-law's mother's house, but her mother's family said that she never went back at all......"