Before the holiday, he called the village committee to tell his grandfather: The overtime pay for the Spring Festival has risen again this year, and it is difficult to buy tickets, so he wants to save the travel expenses and send them back to his family, and then go home when he is not busy.

The old lady next door I called Mrs. Zhang died just out of the New Year, and the old couple were the five guarantee households in the village. Originally, the only son, when he was eleven or twelve years old, was killed in a bomb while hiding from the Japanese sweep.

Grandpa's family helped Zhang Luo handle the funeral, so he discussed with Grandpa Zhang to let him move over and spend time with our family.

Grandpa said: "Uncle, my father and mother passed away early, I grew up eating hundreds of family meals, and I went to your house to eat the most, it can be said that you and the villagers raised me as an adult, and you found me someone to help me marry the daughter-in-law, without you I am afraid I would not be able to live now." In the days when the fourth child was sick, you two helped take care of the three children, and I always wanted to help you do something, and now that my aunt is gone, you are the only one left, so let's just move over and live as a family together."

Grandpa Zhang was reluctant to trouble our family at first, but later the second and third aunts came up together to persuade him, and the old man agreed and proposed to tear down the walls of the two courtyards and merge the two families, so that it would be more convenient to come and go.

The sun is bright and warm in spring, and as soon as the third aunt arrives home this weekend, she will take her uncle to the village entrance to play.

The third aunt carried a chair on her left shoulder, and supported her uncle with her right hand to walk slowly towards the entrance of the village.

Since the last time my grandmother mentioned the change of parents, the third aunt began to feel uneasy in her heart, for fear that grandma would really change her and her sister to her brother and her daughter-in-law one day, because she had already quietly fallen in love with a tall and handsome boy who lived in the town in the same class, and there was always a lot of suitors for beautiful girls.

The third aunt chatted with the uncle while walking, in fact, this is also a habit of the third aunt. Since she was a child, the third aunt has often spoken to her uncle, and she has never hidden some of her little secrets from her uncle, and regards her uncle as her closest confiding partner, and today is no exception.

The third aunt said: "Si'er, it's not that my sister doesn't want you, I don't care what my mother said that day, what age is this and you still change relatives? How can you find someone to marry casually for a lifelong event in this life? Sister also has someone she likes, he also likes me, and my sister has thought about it, and when my sister graduates and finds a job, I will definitely help you touch a suitable one, I don't believe that we can't find a match for you in the town, if you can't do it, you can always meet it." ”

The two sisters and brothers just said like this, and walked to the entrance of the village without listening.

Under the three huge jujube trees at the entrance of the village is the gathering place of the people in the village when they have nothing to do, where no matter the national events, the village and the outside of the village, the parents and some rumors and anecdotes they know, they must be stewed and fried here, and sometimes even carry out motivational arguments, and they can't convince each other even if they are red-faced and red-faced.

There are not many people today, the fifth grandmother is chatting with her grandson and two women, and when she sees the third aunt and uncle coming, she takes the initiative to greet the uncle, and this unwritten rule has become natural.

The third aunt helped the uncle sit firmly, and went to hug the child in the arms of the fifth grandmother to play, just hugged over for a minute, the child began to cry, the fifth aunt said: "This child just stopped for a while and started again, crying eighteen times a day, the mother can't sleep well all night, why is this crying endless? Sanya coaxed me for a while, I went to a toilet." With that, he walked to a neighboring farmhouse.

The third aunt held the child who was a few months old, coaxed her body and shook it gently, and after coaxing for a while, it didn't work, so she came to the uncle with the child's little hand, and took the child's little hand to touch the uncle's hand, and her mouth kept coaxing.

Uncle felt the baby's pink little hands, and slowly reached out to touch the baby's little hands, and then stretched out two hands to make a hug look, the third aunt looked at it and said: "Si'er also wants to hug him?" put the child into the uncle's arms, helped the uncle wrap his right arm around the baby's head and neck, and held the baby's buttocks with his left hand.

When the hug was stable, the uncle looked down at the baby and 'looked' at him in his arms, and looked at the third aunt who was holding the child like a decent uncle standing next to him and pursing her lips.

The baby stayed in the uncle's arms for less than a minute, and gradually stopped crying, but grinned at the uncle, and the pink little face smiled like a blooming flower bone, and even made a gurgling sound.

The third aunt looked at this strange scene, looked at the uncle's still calm facial expression, and was a little confused by the second monk, and thought to herself: Why do I hug and cry, and the fourth brother laughs when he hugs?

At this time, the fifth grandmother came back, and when she saw the uncle holding the child, and the little grandson stopped crying, she said to the third aunt: "Sanya is not simple, as long as this child cries for an hour, he can't stop, why are you so fast?"

The third aunt listened and said embarrassedly: "Fifth aunt, it's not me, I can't coax for a long time, I will let the baby touch Si'er, and Si'er will hug him, but Si'er won't cry if he doesn't hold the baby for a while, you see that the baby is happy." ”

The fifth grandmother listened and said: "Then I still thank the wrong person, I should thank Xiaosi." After speaking, he stretched out his hand to take the baby from his uncle's arms and said, "It's a baby to see (like) Xiao Simi." ”

This matter did not attract people's attention, but the third aunt felt strange but couldn't say why.

The outbreak of the incident was that the next day, the fifth mother came to the village with her grandson in her arms, and when she saw people, she began to boast that the fourth child hugged the little grandson, and the child's crying and fussing was cured.

The child has not cried since Xiao Si hugged him yesterday afternoon, and he often laughs happily. Last night, the daughter-in-law slept for the first time in several months since she gave birth to the baby, and kept asking the fifth grandmother how to get the child right, and the fifth grandmother told her that the uncle laughed and stopped crying after holding the child.

Most of the people who heard it were skeptical, and some were surprised.

The fifth grandmother suddenly remembered something and said: "By the way, I heard Boss Xu say that his daughter also gave birth to a male baby, and she cried all day long, so I went to him and asked him to ask her to bring the baby to her, and it was okay to try it if it didn't work." ”

In the afternoon, the grandmother sent the uncle to the entrance of the village and went back, and the second aunt would come to pick him up when it was a little later.

Boss Xu is also from our village, and his daughter married in the next village, not far away.

Just when a few people at the entrance of the village were chatting, Boss Xu and his daughter holding the child came back. The child is still crying in his daughter's arms.

Boss Xu walked up to the people and said, "This kid is really capable of making trouble, he doesn't stop all the way, and the family can't do anything about him." ”

The girl said, "I've tried anything, but it doesn't work." In addition to breastfeeding, sleeping and not crying, when you wake up, you will make trouble, but you are in a hurry. ”

The fifth grandmother immediately answered: "Then hurry up and let Xiao Si hug you, maybe it will work." ”

The girl agreed, walked to the uncle with the child in her arms, and first shouted, "Fourth brother, this is your eldest nephew, you can also help me hold the child." After speaking, he also took the crying baby's little hand and gently touched the uncle's face twice, the uncle first raised his hand and touched the baby's hand, and immediately reached out to take the child and held it in his arms, without the slightest expression on his face, tilting his head and the baby's face to face, 'staring' at the crying baby. The adults all gathered around and watched with great curiosity.

The baby cried for less than ten seconds, and then it stopped abruptly, a sweet smile slowly overflowed on his face, and he stretched out a small hand to rub his uncle's chin.

Everyone was stunned by this scene, no one spoke, and they all watched the uncle and the child in their arms one by one.

The child's mother was the first to cry out happily: "Oh! Okay! Don't cry, the fourth brother is a god!"

The baby was smiling happily in the uncle's arms, and it seemed that he had already thrown away his crying all the way.

The adults began to be amazed, and began to express their feelings, chattering and guessing the reason.

When the second aunt took the uncle back, people told the second aunt the ins and outs of the matter, and the second aunt also took the uncle home with a confused smile.

In the evening, Boss Xu came to his grandfather's house with two packs of snacks and two bottles of canned food to express his gratitude and said a large basket of good things. Grandparents have also learned about this from the people of the village, and they are resolutely not to accept gifts from Boss Xu, grandpa said that they are all villagers in the township and have not done anything big, and the child is not a good one, and he can't accept other people's gifts casually.

In the end, Lao Xu still left a bottle of canned food and left happily.

This is the second time that Uncle has made a name for himself in this mountain village.

Hearing the discussion of the villagers about the uncle, the grandmother had her own unique opinion on this matter: "Don't say that my fourth child can cure the problem of children who love to cry, how old is the fourth child, who in our village does not know? ”

Every time grandma talks about the poisoning of the uncle, she says that the uncle is sick.

When people heard Grandma say this, even if they disagreed with her point of view, they all nodded their heads in agreement, and it is understandable how much a mother does not want her child to have such and such skills, and she is satisfied with just hoping that he can be a normal child.

The news is always faster than the footsteps, and soon there are people who come to the village to look for the uncle with crying children.

Not to mention that it's really strange, the crying child was immediately hugged by the uncle, and immediately burst into laughter!

In those years, I don't know how many children my uncle has held, and those who came to express their gratitude were rejected by our family, and the later people left at the entrance of the village or at home with a thousand thanks.

Until now, there are still people who come to the uncle with crying and crying children, and they all leave happily without exception.

When people talk about this matter, no one knows the reason, and they don't understand how such a severely disabled person can have such skills, all kinds of analyses and speculations are available, and even rumors began to be that Uncle Xiao has special abilities.

No matter what outsiders say, the family still treats it as plain as always, and they don't particularly take this matter too seriously.

Uncle also added a habit of scribbling that year, about 14 years old.

After eating, he used his right index finger to draw on the dining table, and when he was sitting fine, he used his cane to paddle around on the ground.

One night in the summer, the cattle that Wu Lao's family had worked hard to raise for several years in the east of the village were stolen last night.

At that time, the ploughing cattle were the lifeblood and pillars of the peasant family, and the heavy physical work was inseparable from this diligent and good labor.

After the public security officers came, they seriously investigated for a day, but because there were very few clues, they had to return in vain.

The next day, Wu Laobo, who had not slept all night, rode his bicycle to the police station again to inquire about the progress of the case.

It was close to noon, Wu Lao Bo came back with a helpless face, and when he got off the bicycle at the entrance of the village, someone immediately asked him: "Old Bore, what's wrong?"

Wu Lao took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it on the ground, and said: "What's wrong, the police station will let you come back and wait for the news, and notify us when there is progress, and also said that there are checkpoints on all traffic arteries, and if you detain the cattle, call me to recognize it." Hey, I didn't recruit anyone and didn't provoke anyone, why did this thief target my cattle?"

The people who heard this talked about it one after another, and most of them comforted them and went home to cook one after another.

Wu Lao was bored and didn't have the heart to eat, so he squatted and smoked one cigarette at a time, and when he felt that the surroundings were quiet, he looked up and saw that everyone was gone, leaving the uncle sitting alone and rowing on the ground with a cane.

He moved a few steps to the uncle, and said to the uncle with a sad face: "Little four, the family hasn't come to pick you up yet?" Hey, you are also a hard-working child, but we are deaf and clear-sighted people also have a lot of suffering, I have never done anything bad in my life, and I have never harmed anyone, but why did I break such a big fortune, I feel aggrieved and uncomfortable, and I can't tell others, complain to you, and I am afraid that I will be sick if I don't say anything in my heart. As he spoke, his eyes were still red.

Wu Lao smoked a cigarette and lowered his head to see his uncle gesturing on the ground, thinking about troubles. Looking at it, Lao Bo began to stare at the place where the uncle painted on the ground, and then looked up at the uncle, and muttered in surprise: "Little four, can you write? Who taught you?"

After finishing speaking, he blinked his eyes quickly and said to himself, "Back mountain, back mountain?"

At this time, the second aunt was walking quickly towards the entrance of the village.

The second aunt and the old man greeted him and ignored him, and he was there in a daze with his eyes straight away, not paying attention to someone coming at all. When Lao Bo woke up from his daze, there was no one at the entrance of the village, Lao Bo threw the cigarette butt to the ground, his eyes were shining, and he walked quickly to the bicycle and rode home like a fly.

It was dinner time, the quiet small mountain village Wu Lao Bo's direction suddenly full of people, the sound of half of the village can be heard, people who like the lively have already heard the sound to see the lively, all of a sudden the whole village knows that Wu Lao Bo's cow has been found, and not one is two cows!

The next morning, everyone who finally had a new topic was chattering at the entrance of the village, and while everyone was happily laughing, the topic owner returned from the police station on his son's bicycle. The old man with a spring breeze on his face waited until he got to the entrance of the village, jumped out of the car and said to his son: "You go back first, I'll be back in a while." ”

When everyone saw that the old man was back, some people quipped: "Look at the old stuffy mouth, it's almost grinning on the cheeks." ”

The old sullen walked up to everyone, stretched out his hand and took out a pack of good cigarettes and said, "I bought it for the public security, but people don't want it, come and smoke one." ”

The two women who loved to take advantage also took a cigarette, and said that the cigarette they gave to the family was also tinged with old joy.

When the men lit their cigarettes, someone asked, "Did you get the cow back?"

Wu Lao Bo said: "I found it back, and it is indeed two heads, this is not sent to the police station early in the morning, let them quickly send it back to the owner, we know the taste of the lost cow, it is too uncomfortable, I have not bought anything in my life, and the cow at home is considered to be the meat of the heart." ”

There was a burst of laughter. Lao Bo continued: "I didn't come back from the police station yesterday at noon, and I felt so uncomfortable that I didn't even have the heart to eat. You're all gone, and I'm left here. Speaking of which, he came to the uncle's side, put his hand on the uncle's shoulder and patted it lightly, "If it weren't for the fourth nephew who wrote two words to me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have thought of going to the back mountain to find it." ”

After listening to the old boring words, people were very surprised, and immediately some people were surprised and asked: "Little four can write?"

The old man held the uncle's shoulder: "It's not good, yesterday I was thinking about the bitterness of nagging and nagging in my heart for Xiaosi, and I felt a little better to say it, so I squatted and nagged and looked at Xiaosi on the ground, and looked at it and suddenly saw Xiaosi write the word 'back mountain', I was still stunned, and I was also thinking about when Xiao Si would write? Yesterday was also a dead horse as a live horse doctor, thinking about it with the attitude of looking for a look called his son and two relatives to go to the back mountain, a whole search for several hours, only to find my family cow and another in a cave, I was excited to hold the cow and not let go, really like lost my son suddenly found back. On the way back, a few of us analyzed it, and estimated that the cattle thief stole the cow in the middle of the night, and did not dare to take the road, and it was not far to walk the mountain road, so he hid the cow in the cave, and last night I don't know where to steal one, and prepared forage for the cow. We didn't see the thief either, and we probably saw us coming and hiding, so we guess we'll have to find a way out of the mountain in the next day or two. Thanks to the reminder of the fourth nephew, otherwise you will never be able to find it back when you get out of the mountain, it's really hanging. ”

After everyone listened attentively to Lao Bo's speech, they all looked at Uncle Xiao with disbelief, and then someone said in an unbelievable tone: "Lao Bo won't be mistaken, why can Xiao Si write?"

The old man glared, "What's the matter? When did I get bored? I saw it with my own eyes." After saying that, he smiled and took out a cigarette and handed it to everyone.

"Tsk, it's a good life, it's lost and regained, why are you thanking the little four?

"Hehe, just set up two tables, my own cattle have been recovered, and I am panicked if I spend money to set up a table?" ”

In the evening, Lao Bo went to his grandfather's house with snacks and two bottles of liquor, and repeated the matter to the family, and the grandfather listened to a piece of music, "Lao Boying, when will Xiao Si write? We often see Si'er drawing there, but they are all random and unorganized, I think you are lost in your mind, when will Xiao Si write, it must be that your mind is too concentrated to see the dazzling, and you should not break the wealth, Xiao Si does not have that ability, we can't accept things." ”

Later, I still dragged my grandfather to his house to drink.

Despite the suspicions, the people talked about it for several days, after all, no one was there, and no one could have a convincing reason, and the people who believed it simply summed it up in two words: Strange! Those who didn't believe it should have heard a joke. However, as long as the uncle is on the ground at the entrance of the village, some people will watch attentively, as for whether they see it or not, they don't know, anyway, there are fewer and fewer people who come to see it, and they slowly lose interest.

What really caused an uproar was what happened during the Spring Festival this year.