Xibei's officialdom is turbulent, just like the weather changes in Kushan.

The bitter mountain that has entered the winter solstice ushered in the first rain of winter, this rain has the majesty of late autumn, and the chill of early winter, so that the temperature of the bitter mountain is lowered by this cold rain. The people of Kushan began to rummage through the boxes and cabinets, finding sweaters and pants pressed at the bottom of the boxes, and put them on their bodies.

Early in the morning after the rain, Lin Ping went downstairs to wash, and was so cold by the cold water that he couldn't help but shiver, and when he was washing, he saw Ah Suo walking over with a shrunken head.

Lin Ping smiled and said, "What's the matter?"

Asuo shook his head, and then said, "I got up earlier than the teacher, and I have already washed." ”

Lin Ping smiled and said, "Really? ”

Lin Ping gets up at six o'clock in the standard, while most of the students who live in the school get up at about half past six, he gets up half an hour earlier than the students, and Ah Suo gets up half an hour earlier than Lin Ping, that is because Ah Suo lives with Ma Zhongguo, Ma Zhongguo always gets up very early, and then goes to help Feng Chunxiu feed the chickens, feed the rabbits, feed the old donkey he raised in the chicken shed, and then help a few women in the room make breakfast.

Old people like Ma Zhongguo's generation always get up very early and wake up at the end of the day. It is rare to sleep in. In their words: people are old and can't sleep. Unlike most young people nowadays, they can't sleep at night, can't wake up during the day, and always feel that they don't get enough sleep every day.

And Ah Suo was influenced by Ma Zhongguo, and he would get up very early every day, and then like a little heel, wherever Ma Zhongguo went, he would follow him. Whatever Ma Zhongguo does, Ah Suo will follow.

Ma Zhongguo fed the chickens with a food bowl, and Ah Suo would also stand on tiptoe to grab a handful of feed in the food bowl.

Ma Zhongguo feeds the rabbits, and Ah Suo will also squat there to watch the rabbits eat grass, and then pet the rabbits.

And Ma Zhongguo would always half-jokingly say: "Don't touch rabbits when they are eating grass, they will bite." ”

"Really?" Ask, looking up in disbelief, "but they've never bitten him, and I don't think they will bite either." ”

Only when Ma Zhongguo was feeding the donkey, Ah Suo didn't dare to approach, and always looked at the old donkey from a distance.

Ah Suo is afraid of this behemoth, with rabbit-like ears, a big long face, a crooked face when chewing things, and the big teeth also make people feel frightened.

Once Ma Zhongguo smiled and asked Ah Suo to touch the old donkey, Ah Suo plucked up the courage to approach the old donkey, but the old donkey shook his head and cracked his mouth, and his nostrils spewed out rough air, and he also made a low cry, which frightened Ah Suo and ran away, and then said aggrievedly: "Grandpa, he wants to eat me." ”

"Donkeys don't bite, they kick. Rabbits bite. Ma Zhongguo touched Ah Suo's head and watched the old donkey chew slowly in the corner of the chicken shed.

"But the rabbit is so small, Ah Suo can beat it, this donkey is so big, and its mouth is so big, it can swallow Ah Suo in one bite. Ah Suo said with a somewhat exaggerated gesture.

Asso's words made Ma Zhongguo laugh, and he didn't force Asso to touch the donkey again.

"Ugly, gray, stupid and scary long-eared donkey", at this time, Ah Suo exhausted the vocabulary he had learned to evaluate the old donkey.

And since Ma Zhongguo and Ah Suo lived together, dry tobacco has rarely been smoked.

In the past, when Ma Zhongguo got up in the morning, the first thing he did was to squat at the door with his clothes on, and he smoked a dry cigarette first, and after being discovered by Ah Suo, he asked curiously: "Grandpa Ma, is this thing you eat delicious?"

"It's not called eating, it's smoking. ”

"Is that a good smoke?" asked curiously.

"It's hard to smoke. ”

"Then why does Grandpa smoke it every day?"

"Hmm. Ma Zhongguo swallowed half of the smoke in his mouth into his stomach, and then knocked the unfinished tobacco in the dry tobacco gun to the ground and said, "Grandpa won't smoke anymore." ”

But Ma Zhongguo's old smoking addiction for more than ten years is not something that can be quit, he has to secretly smoke behind Ah Suo's back every time, for fear of being seen by Ah Suo.

"Ever since this kid has been following me, every time he smokes, he's like a thief. ”

This is a joke that Ma Zhongguo told Lin Ping.

The picture was pulled back from memory to the present, Lin Ping smiled and praised Ah Suo, and then looked at Ah Suo's hesitant and hesitant appearance, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ah Suo thought for a while and said, "Teacher, Grandpa Ma is crying, crying so sadly. ”

Lin Ping frowned, and Grandpa Ma in Asuo's mouth had nothing to do except Ma Zhong, so he asked with concern: "Why is Grandpa Ma crying, where are you crying?"

Ah Yong pointed to the location of the chicken shed, and then said: "Grandpa Ma's donkey is dying, and Grandpa is crying very sadly. ”

Lin Ping looked at the location of the chicken shed, and Ma Zhongguo and his old donkey came to mind, a year ago, it was Ma Zhongguo who used this old donkey to pull Lin Ping into the mountain.

Lin Ping hurriedly wiped his face with a towel, and then said to Ah Suo with a smile: "Let's go, let's go see Grandpa Ma and ...... His donkey. ”

Lin Ping took Asuo's little hand and walked towards the chicken shed, the chicken shed was outside the school, against the wall against the house, in order to facilitate Feng Chunxiu to feed her chickens and rabbits, a small door was opened on the school wall next to the house.

After passing by the room, Feng Chunxiu was cooking, and when he saw Lin Ping, he walked out, and then said, "Are you going to see Teacher Ma and the old donkey?"

Lin Ping nodded, and Ah Suo also nodded.

Feng Chunxiu sighed and said, "Go and comfort Teacher Ma, he has not had a relative in this mountain for so many years, and such an old donkey has accompanied him for many years." Now that the donkey is no good, Mr. Ma can't stop crying there, crying very sadly. ”

Feng Chunxiu chattered again: "This rain came suddenly, the weather is cold, this donkey is old and can't stand it." You should comfort and comfort Mr. Ma, after all, he is also old, and the weather is cold, he also has to pay attention, don't be so sad. ”

Saying that, Feng Chunxiu shook his head, returned to the room, and continued to cook.

Lin Ping took Asuo's little hand and went out from the small door next to the room, facing a faint smell of and rabbit, and turned a corner to the chicken shed, Lin Ping rarely came here, but often emphasized the hygiene of the chicken shed with Feng Chunxiu. And Feng Chunxiu did clean the chicken shed very cleanly, but no matter how clean it was, it was difficult to completely remove the smell of and rabbit.

The chicken shed has been expanded several times in the past three months, and now it is very large, almost as big as the room inside the wall, there are rabbits on the left, chickens on the right, and the innermost is the old donkey of Mr. Ma, which seems to have lost its use value with the completion of the new school, and Lin Ping feels as if he has not been out of the chicken shed for a long time.

Lin Ping entered the chicken shed, because of the cold weather, he saw the old hens on the right huddled in groups in a few corners to keep warm, and the rabbits on the left were also clustered together, with their heads stuffed and buttocks pressed their heads.

Seeing someone coming, the old hens clucked a few times, and the rabbits also looked at the strange Lin Ping.

And Ma Zhongguo, the innermost part of the chicken shed, was sitting next to the old donkey quietly giving his donkey a hair, the old donkey was already lying on the ground, but his eyes were not closed, just looking at his master Ma Zhongguo motionlessly, only the air coming out of his nostrils and not the air entering.

Obviously he was just a livestock, but the old donkey's eyes were full of emotion when he looked at Ma Zhongguo, and even moist tears seemed to hang in the corners of his eyes, flickering slightly in the morning light that passed through the chicken shed.