The fourteen-year-old uncle is developed like a normal child, except that his body is slightly thin and thin. Grandma has been earnestly hoping that the uncle can get better one day, even if it is a little better, it can make grandma happy, but the uncle is still the same as before, expressionless all day long, except for eating, drinking, pulling, sprinkling, sleeping, but he has never had any illness, not even a cold.

Grandpa is making the third set of dining tables and toilets for the uncle, and the ones that the uncle used before have been collected by the grandfather in the firewood room and not burned as wood, and the crutches are also the fourth, which is obviously a little thicker.

It is said that the golden phoenix flew out of the ravine, and the second aunt and the third aunt are the two golden phoenixes in our village, and if the two golden phoenixes are compared, the third aunt is more outstanding. Both of them inherited the advantages of grandparents, grandpa has small eyes, and grandma has big eyes. Both of them have duck-egg-shaped faces, big eyes, long eyelashes, high nose bridges, and small and cute mouths. The skin of the third aunt is fairer than that of the second aunt. At that time, the third aunt was still in high school in the town.

The second aunt is already twenty years old, and like her father, she helped the family work after graduating from junior high school. There are not a few people who come to the door to propose marriage, and grandma never refuses, but every time the second aunt is unwilling, and when she asks her the reason, she just has three words: I don't match.

This winter, the weather was unusually cold, and the family was busy in the house. The room is warm on the fire, and grandma is making cloth shoes for my uncle, who has been wearing cloth shoes made by my grandmother since he was born.

Grandma said to the second aunt: "Your brother's remittance slip has arrived, you take the time to go to the town to get it back in the past two days, your brother in the south I don't know what happened for several years and came back for a year, although every time I called, I said that it was good to wear a class, but my mother knew that it was good to be at home for a hundred days, and it was difficult to go out for a while, he said that the class was to coax my mother to be happy, I was afraid that my mother was worried, in fact, I didn't know how much he suffered and how tired, and each time he sent back most of his salary, let him send less, he said that people have enough pocket money for food, I asked Erdanniang, Erdan, and only sent back a hundred eggs every month. Hey, your brother will be twenty-five in the blink of an eye, and when he comes back this time, he will hurry up and give him a daughter-in-law, Xiaofuzi became a father last year, and he is one year younger than your brother. ”

Listening to her grandmother's nagging, the second aunt answered: "No, brother will come back this year, don't let him go, anyway, our family's foreign debts have been paid off, or I will go out for a few years." The second aunt said this more than once, and this time she was also pushed back by her grandmother: "No, a big girl runs out to work, who can rest assured." ”

Then he said: "Erya, you will be twenty-one years old after the New Year, what do you think about your own affairs?"

The second aunt said: "My eldest brother is not married yet, and I am in a hurry." ”

Grandma put down the work in her hand, as if talking to herself, and as if to say to everyone: "In the future, you will all be married, and you will take care of yourself, and then you will be left with me and your father with the four children who don't understand personnel." To put it mildly, sometimes I think it's better for someone to marry both of you and give your fourth son a daughter-in-law. ”

Grandma said that there was a bad custom in the countryside at that time, and she wanted to marry her aunt to a brother, provided that they had a sister who was willing to marry her uncle, and they were a pair of brothers and sisters, but grandma meant that two girls would change a sister to the uncle as a daughter-in-law.

The third aunt, who was doing her homework, pouted when she heard it and said, "Mother, why are you saying this, what is the change, what is the change, use us as snacks and bowls." "In those days, snacks and daily necessities could be exchanged directly for the equivalent value of grain.

Grandma immediately rushed at her: "What's the matter? You are still not happy to change your fourth brother's daughter-in-law? Besides, this is just a little Jiujiu in your mother's belly, thinking that your father and I have gone west (died) and your fourth brother still has a care, right?" I haven't taken this matter seriously, and I will invite you to oppose it by chatting at will, three girls, I will tell you when I talk about it today, my mother has already thought about it, and I will not force you to change your parents, it is the meat on the mother's body and you can't lose anyone, when it is the turn of the fourth son to find a daughter-in-law, I must not make up and find a disabled person because the fourth son has a disability, anyway, it can't be invisible, can't take care of itself, at least you have to be able to cook and take care of people, you can be dumb, lame, Deaf, but you can't be without legs, no matter how much dowry people want, what kind of conditions they mention, I will agree. can't let us close our eyes and let Si'er be left unattended for the rest of his life. Grandma shook her thoughts out with a slightly angry breath.

The second aunt saw that her grandmother was a little angry, and hurriedly said: "Mother, what do you mean by this? Can we ignore the little four? Isn't he our own brother? Don't think so far, our sisters can't lose the little four." ”

Grandma was just about to continue, but grandpa interjected: "You said that you are less than fifty, why do you learn to nag like Mrs. Wu in the west of the village, why don't you feel at ease with your children? But you said that it is reliable to find a daughter-in-law who can take care of Si'er. ”

After listening to Grandpa's words, everyone was silent, worried about the future of the uncle.