Six

As soon as a few pleasant rains fell, the crops in the field grew like crazy. The forests and grasses on the mountain are also densely packed.

These days, Mai Hua often stands beside her own fields stunned, this year's difficult days are over, and then only the autumn harvest is left, Mai Hua gritted her teeth, and she can survive the autumn harvest. In short, the autumn harvest is not as urgent as the spring sowing, and Maihua will be much more relaxed regardless of whether someone helps her or not.

As soon as Mai Hua stood in front of the field, she was sad, and the days to come were still long, she was a woman's family, and such a large piece of land pressed on her body, and she couldn't breathe when she thought about it. When there was no land before, she was so longing for the land and loving the land, but now, she looked at the endless crops, and she hated these lands a little.

Just when Mai Hua was stunned, she inadvertently saw a man not far away looking at her. She looked up at the man, this was a man from Henan Tun, he was also standing in front of his own field, the two pieces of land were not far apart, and there was only the ditch dug by Yu Sanshu in the middle.

The people of Shandong Tun and Henan Tun calmed down temporarily after several fights over the land, but they still did not let their guard down. The autumn harvest was in sight, and each of them was doubly vigilant as they patrolled their fields.

In the spring, Mai Hua seemed to have seen this man, and this man looked not much older than Da Kui. At that time, Mai Hua didn't have the heart to observe the man opposite, she always felt that the man opposite often looked at her. All this did not leave much trace in Maihua's heart.

As soon as a few rains fall, the grass and trees on the mountain are verdant, and it is the season to grow mushrooms. At this time of year, men and women go into the mountains to pick mushrooms, which they dry under the eaves of their homes and save for the winter.

Mai Hua went up the mountain, the black soil was still small, and she couldn't take the black soil with her, so she tied a rope around the waist of the black soil and handed one end of the rope to Da Kui's hand. When Heitu reached the age of running wildly, she didn't worry about Heitu running outside.

The mushrooms in the wheat basket were already abundant, and at this moment, she found a large circle of mushrooms in a bush, and the mushrooms all grew together, and when she found one, she would see a group. Mai Hua thought to herself, after picking this mushroom, she could go down the mountain. She threw herself at the mushroom with some excitement. Just as she reached out to pick the mushrooms, she suddenly saw a poisonous snake spitting out a snake and spitting a snake letter at her. Maihua has been afraid of snakes since she was a child, she can not be afraid of tigers or wolves, but she is afraid of snakes, and she can't tell why she is afraid. Especially when she looked at the snake so closely, it was the first time for her. She had seen snakes when she had gone up the mountain before, but it was far away, and before she could be afraid, the snake had crawled away. The snake looked thick and fierce, and Maihua screamed and fainted.

I don't know how long it took for her to wake up, only to find that she was being held in her arms. The man was trying to reach out and pinch her man, and she pushed the man away and sat up. She saw the Henan man she had seen, but she still subconsciously said: Who are you?

The man shook his hand and said: Don't be afraid, I am from Henan Sixi.

Mai Hua panted and said, "What are you going to do?"

Sixi smiled and said: You don't have to be afraid, the snake has been killed by me.

Sure enough, Mai Hua saw the dead snake hanging from a branch of a tree.

Mai Hua also saw that the mushroom on the ground had been picked by Sixi and placed in her basket, and the mushrooms in the basket were already like a hill.

She looked at the Henan people Sixi half gratefully and half warily.

Sixi said: I know you, your name is Maihua, and the land of our two families is next to each other.

Maihua didn't want to say anything, she stood up and picked up the basket to leave.

Sixi also said, "If you are afraid of snakes, I will wait for you under that tree tomorrow."

After Sixi finished speaking, he pointed to the oak tree on the hillside.

Mai Hua walked away in a heartbeat.

Sixi still said behind Maihua: Don't forget.

When she went up the mountain the next day, Mai Hua had almost forgotten Sixi's words, she thought that she and Sixi were just a coincidence, and besides, he was from Henan. When she walked into the mountain and saw the old oak tree, she remembered what Sixi had said. When she saw the oak tree, she saw Sixi under the tree, and Sixi was smiling at her.

Sixi said: I know that you hate Henan people, your family Dakui was injured by a blind bear in winter, which was seen by our Henan people. They didn't save your man, and I looked down on them.

Mai Hua heard this and took a serious look at Sixi.

Maihua turned around, ready to walk in the other direction.

Sixi said: There will be no mushrooms over there, a few people have picked them over there just now, and there are mushrooms on this side. Maihua changed direction, and sure enough, Maihua found the mushroom. Sixi also bent down to pick mushrooms, but put the mushrooms he picked into Maihua's basket, and Maihua looked at him in surprise.

Sixi said: I am alone, I can't eat much.

Maihua's heart skipped a beat again, but she didn't go to see Sixi anymore.

Sixi still said: Everything outside the house depends on you as a woman, and it is not easy to do it.

Mai Hua listened to Sixi's words, her heart warmed a little, and then she was a little sour, but she still didn't go to Sixi.

Sixi said again: Such a large piece of land is enough for you, even men are tired and bent over.

Maihua really wanted to cry at this time.

Soon, with the help of Sixi, the wheat blossom basket was already full of mushrooms. Mai Hua walked back, she walked a way, and when she looked back, she saw Sixi standing there looking at her, she turned around and walked forward quickly.

In the days that followed, in order to avoid Sixi, she changed directions when picking mushrooms. A few times she had seen Sixi from a distance, and Sixi was rushing towards her, and she ran away. She also couldn't tell why she was so reluctant to see Sixi.

In the blink of an eye, autumn has arrived.

The harvest season suddenly became hectic. For a time, the fields were full of men shouting, women screaming, children crying, and the harvest season was exciting and tiring.

In Maihua's field, Maihua was the only one busy, first cutting down the crops, and then going back and piling them together. When she took a breath and looked up, the sixth sense she knew that Sixi, a native of Henan, was looking at her. A large patch of crop had been cut down in the midst of them, and their eyes were unobstructed.

Mai Hua didn't have the heart to ponder Sixi's gaze, and her heart was already full of anxiety and chaos. She looked at the ripe crops, and she didn't know when she would be able to harvest them on her own.

The tiredness of the day made Mai Hua's back and legs hurt, and she walked home to be busy with the family's dinner. After eating, she couldn't lift her head, so she went to sleep. When the next day, she dragged her tired body towards her field, she could hardly believe her eyes, at first she thought she was in the wrong place, but when she looked left and right, she was sure that the ground in front of her was undoubtedly her own, and she was stunned by the sight before her.

Overnight, large chunks of her family's land were cut down, and the crops were stacked neatly on top of each other. At this time, she noticed Sixi's gaze not far away, she looked over and saw Sixi smiling at her tiredly.

It was Sixi who helped her mow the ground at night, and her heart warmed up, this time she looked at Sixi for a long time, but Sixi turned her head and was busy with her own field.

On that day, Maihua's heart was filled with gratitude. When she was gasping, she subconsciously looked at Sixi, who was also looking up at her. She said to Sixi in her heart: Thank you, Sixi.

That night, Mai Hua lay on the kang after eating and did not fall asleep, and after thinking about it, she walked towards her field. As a result, she saw Sixi, who was burying his head and cutting quickly on her field.

She shouted: Sixi.

Sixi turned around, smiled at her under the starlight, and said: You go home and rest, I'll cut it all night.

Mai Hua stood behind Sixi and didn't know what to say for a while. A Henan man helped her, what did she say?

Sixi saw that she didn't move, and said while busy: Maihua, go back.

Mai Hua thought that Sixi must have finished working on her family's land during the day and came to work on her family's land again. She thought, Sixi must not have eaten the rice yet. Thinking of this, she quickly walked home. She was outside, carrying two hot cakes in her arms, and picked up the sickle. Da Kui heard the movement and asked in the house: Maihua, are you still not stopping?

Mai Huadao: I'll cut it for a while.

Da Kui sighed, and his fist smashed again.

When Mai Hua handed the cake to Sixi, Sixi devoured it without any politeness. Sixi said while eating: Maihua, the cake you pasted is really delicious.

Sixi finished eating the cake and sweated again, Maihua looked at Sixi's back in a daze, and wanted to call Sixi, but she didn't call out, so she also waved a knife and cut it.

Sixi said: Maihua, you go back and rest, you will be busy tomorrow.

Maihua didn't answer, and cut forward next to Sixi.

Sixi raised his head and wiped his sweat, and Mai Hua also raised his head and gasped. Under the moonlight, the two looked at each other, and Sixi smiled and said: Maihua, you are so handsome.

When Mai Hua heard this, her heart moved. She even closed her eyes for a moment, and she thought that no matter what Sixi wanted to do, she would agree. Sixi is helping her, she is just a woman, and there is no other way for her to repay Sixi.

When she opened her eyes, Sixi had already cut out a long way away.

At daybreak, another large crop fell.

Seven

Mai Hua can't refuse Sixi's help no matter what, and Sixi helps Mai Hua sincerely.

Mai Hua once asked Sixi: What are you trying to help me?

Sixi was stunned and said: Don't say anything about Maihua, you are a good person, I help a good person, and I feel comfortable.

Sixi entered Maihua's heart bit by bit, if Sixi only wanted her to be a woman, just like Uncle Yu pressed her on the edge of the field to ask her, she wouldn't think about anything, and willingly let Uncle Yu help her, and if she helped, she would help, and she would not leave any traces in her heart. Sixi is different, Sixi has taken root and sprouted in her heart like a seed.

In the blink of an eye, winter is coming.

During the entire autumn harvest process, it was with the secret help of Sixi that Mai Hua completed the autumn harvest. During this period of communication, Mai Hua knew that he was the only one in Sixi's family, and his parents were starving to death on the way to Kanto. Sixi is twenty-five years old this year, and it has been five years since he came to Kanto, and he has not been married without a suitable woman.

That winter, Sixi went to the city, pulled a cart of grain, and exchanged the grain for a shotgun. So, throughout the winter, Sixi carried a shotgun into the mountains to hunt every now and then. Because Sixi has a shotgun, people are bold, and he can go all the way to the depths of the icy old forest, and Sixi's harvest will be great.

Every time Sixi came back from the mountains, he would carry a lot of prey on his back, including pheasants and hares, and once Sixi even hit a fox. Later, he gave the fox skin to Maihua. Sixi said: This thing is cold-resistant, take it back.

Mai Hua and Sixi's relationship, in fact, Da Kui has long been aware of it. Da Kui's mood was very calm, he knew that he was a wasted person, and he had long been unhappy in his heart if he dragged Maihua down like this. If it weren't for Mai Hua and his son Heitu, he wouldn't want to live a long time ago, and he wouldn't have let them go.

That night, Mai Hua spread the fox skin sent by Sixi under Da Kui. Hei Tu was already asleep lying between the two, Da Kui coughed and said: Mai Hua, you marry him, I won't stop you, it's not easy for you to do this.

Mai Hua didn't say anything, she was thinking about Sixi, she didn't know what Sixi was doing on a night like this. After listening to Da Kui's words, she didn't know what to say. Before this, she also thought about the kind of result with Sixi, but she felt sorry for Da Kui, Da Kui was her man after all, and they still had black soil.

Da Kui said again: Mai Hua, just listen to me once, it's not a way to go on like this, you are a woman's family, and you are less than twenty this year, so you are wronged.

Mai Hua's voice choked, and then said: Da Kui, don't say it, I feel uncomfortable when I say it.

Da Kui was silent for a while and said: Even if you help me and the black soil once, we always have to have someone to support.

This sentence said to Mai Hua's heart, she could not think about herself, but she couldn't help but think about Heitu and Da Kui.

Da Kui saw that Mai Hua was no longer angry, and said: As long as the people are good, don't dislike us, and don't give you grievances, you can agree to come down.

Maihua said, "He is a good man."

Da Kui said: Who is he?

McHua: You don't know.

Da Kui said: It's Henan...... Nephew.

Maihua was silent.

Da Kui smashed the kang with his fist, knock knock. Da Kui gasped and said: I hate the people of Henan, if they had helped me at the beginning, there would not be today.

Mai Hua knew that Da Kui hated Henan people, and she was afraid that Da Kui would not be able to accept it, so she didn't take the initiative to tell Da Kui Sixi that he was from Henan. Even if Da Kui can accept it, the old and young masters of Quantunzi will not accept it. For a few years, since there was Shandong Tun and Henan Tun, the people of the two Tun have not interacted. Mai Hua knows all this, so she has never been able to make up her mind about her relationship with Sixi.

I don't know why, after not seeing Sixi for two days, her heart was empty and helpless. So, she walked out of the tun again and again and looked into the distance. She knew that every time Sixi came down from the mountain, he would always appear in that direction.

Sixi saw Mai Hua from a distance, blew a whistle, strode over, picked the prey from his shoulder and stuffed it into Mai Hua's arms. Maihua refused every time, and Sixi said: Take it back and give it to the child, it's not a rare thing.

Mai Hua said that time: Sixi, you save up the prey and sell it in the city, and you can save money to please a woman.

Sixi looked at her deeply, looking a little disappointed, and left without looking back.

Maihua somehow made Sixi unhappy. Looking at Sixi's tall and big back in the distance, she sighed and walked back with her prey.

Again, when Sixi came back from hunting, she saw that Sixi's padded jacket had been cut through a big hole, and the white cotton wool was exposed.

Mai Hua said: I'll help you make it up.

Sixi said: Okay, you go to my house.

Mai Hua shook her head, no one from Shandong Tun has ever walked into Henan Tun, and it is daylight, she goes to Henan Tun, and she must not be drowned by spittle.

Sixi also seemed to realize this, so he said: If you don't go at night, no one will see it.

Mai Hua shook her head again, and she saw the stacks of straw piled up in the field, and after the autumn harvest, the straw was stacked there, and it was used to burn the kang in winter and use it as firewood.

After Mai Hua thought about it, she said, "I'll be waiting for you there at night."

Sixi nodded.

Mai Hua came to the straw stack early, she dug a hole in the straw stack with her hand, and then got into it, which was enough for her and Sixi to be two people, and it would not be noticed, Mai Hua was happy for her invention.

When Sixi arrived, the two of them got in. Maihua borrowed the moonlight, and the moonlight shone first on the snow, and the snow reflected the moonlight into their nest. Mai Hua took out the needle and thread that had been prepared a long time ago to mend the clothes for Sixi.

Sixi said: It's so warm here.

Mai Hua smiled.

The clothes were quickly mended, and Sixi turned around, and the two of them were almost half-lying in the straw nest talking.

Sixi said again: It's so good here, I don't want to go back.

Mai Hua smiled and blushed.

Sixi looked at Maihua's face through the snowlight, and Sixi hurriedly said in a voice: Maihua, you are so good-looking.

Maihua covered her face with her hand, and she felt her face burn badly.

Sixi grabbed Mai Hua's hand, put it on his chest, and held it like that.

Sixi's breathing became even more rapid, and Sixi changed his tone and said: Maihua, you marry me, I really like you.

Mai Hua looked at Sixi with a heartbeat on her face.

Sixi mustered up the courage to hold Maihua in his arms. Maihua didn't struggle, it was Sixi she liked who was hugging her, how could she struggle.

Sixi said again: Maihua, you marry me.

After a while, Mai Hua shook her head in Sixi's arms.

Sixi stared wide-eyed and said: Why, you don't like me?

Maihua shook her head again.

Sixi said: Why is that?

Mai Hua sighed and said: Because you are from Henan.

Sixi understood this time, and said in a loud voice: What's wrong with the Henan people, I didn't participate in the fight, Henan people and Shandong people are all people.

Mai Hua stretched out her hand to cover Sixi's mouth, Sixi took advantage of the situation to take Mai Hua's cold fingers in her mouth, and said in a whining voice: I want to marry you, I like you, my Mai Huayo.

The two hugged each other, and the straw stacks were gently swaying and trembling.

Maihua has never been so willing. When she married Da Kui, because Da Kui was her man, men and women lived under the same roof and had children, so they had this world. When Uncle Yu asked for her, she needed help, she exchanged her body, and she had no other way.

Now, Sixi held her in her arms, and she also reached out to hug Sixi. Her whole body trembled, willingly, and her heart was full of pleasure. She gasped and sighed softly as she accepted Sixi.

After the two calmed down, she buried her head in Sixi's arms and sniffed Sixi's manly smell deeply. Sixi said contentedly: Maihua, you are so good.

Mai Hua took a bite of Sixi, and Sixi screamed softly and hugged Mai Hua in his arms hard.

Sixi said: I really don't want to leave, I really want to sleep here with you all night.

Mai Hua sighed and said: Stupid words.

Sixi said again: Really, Maihua, marry me, I will treat you well in the future. The land of our two families is planted together, and I will not treat Dakui and Heitu badly, and I will treat them like family.

Mai Hua listened to Sixi's words and was so moved that she sobbed softly. If Sixi wasn't from Henan, she would not hesitate to agree to Sixi, Sixi is a good person, and he will do what he says. But she can't promise Sixi at the moment.

Since then, Mai Hua couldn't control herself, and went to the straw stack again and again to have a tryst with Sixi. Sixi brought a wolf skin and spread it on the straw, which was warm and comfortable. Sometimes she lay in Sixi's big arms, and she really wanted to sleep like this, but when she woke up, she was deeply tormented by her guilt.

Every time she went back, Heitu was already asleep, and she didn't know if Da Kui was asleep. She crawled into the bed gently, and there was no sound from Da Kui's side. At this time, she really wanted Da Kui to say something, even if it was to scold her. But Da Kui just didn't make a sound at all.

During the day, she didn't dare to look into Da Kui's eyes.

Da Kui said: Mai Hua, you can find a man in our Shandong Tun, you can find anyone, I won't stop you.

Maihua lowered her head, she really wanted to cry.

Da Kui said again: Dealing with Henan people, we are afraid that we will not be able to stay in Shandong Tun.

Mai Hua's head lowered, and she felt more and more confused about the future of herself and Sixi.

Eight

Maihua couldn't grasp herself anymore, and the warm straw stack became a paradise for her and Sixi to linger.

The weather is getting warmer, the snow is quietly melting, and the geese flying to the south are quacking and flying back to the north. Spring in the north came quietly.

An unexpected thing happened. After a winter of gestation, Mai Hua and Sixi have a child - Mai Hua is pregnant. First there was a pause, and then there was a reaction. Mai Hua and Da Kui are both from the past, and this can't be hidden from Da Kui. Da Kui immediately thought of that Henan man. Since Da Kui was injured in the lower limbs by a black bear, he has long lost the capital to be a man.

Da Kui looked at the vomiting Mai Hua, who looked at Da Kui with a pale face and helpless eyes. Between them stood the confused Black Soil, who was more than three years old.

But Da Kui said, "Spring is coming, and the land should be planted again."

Mai Hua looked at Da Kui's gaze, pitiful. She was a woman after all, and she didn't have any claims at all.

Da Kui said: When will you bring him to the house, let me see it.

Suddenly, Mai Hua's tears flowed out.

Da Kui also said: It's all like this, paper can't contain the fire.

Da Kui's eyes fell on Heitu's body, Heitu looked up at this, looked at that, wanted to cry, but didn't cry.

Da Kui said again: There is no man in this family, it's really not good, if not for anything else, even if it's black soil.

After Da Kui finished speaking, he closed his eyes, and two lines of tears flowed down his cheeks.

Heitu burst into tears. He was terrified by his father's appearance.

Sixi came to Da Kui in the evening of the next day. Sixi's appearance was a little timid, but his expression was excited.

He stood in front of the kang, Da Kui sat in the corner of the kang, and he straightened his body.

Mai Hua took Hei Tu's hand and sat outside, as if waiting for the verdict to be announced.

Da Kui said: Your name is Sixi.

Four happy answers: Hey......

Da Kui didn't speak, and looked Sixi up and down, and watched it again.

Da Kui then said: You and Mai Hua have children.

Sixi didn't know what to say, and looked at Da Kui in a daze.

Da Kui said again: Maihua is a good woman, your vision is not wrong.

Da Kui seemed to be panting, his hands propped up on the kang, keeping his body straight.

Da Kui also said: I don't say anything else, the days are all over here, what else to say.

Da Kui's voice choked, but he held back the tears.

After a while, Da Kui said: I have only one request, in the future, you must be worthy of the wheat flowers and the black soil.

Sixi was also moved, he sniffed and replied: Hey, this must be.

After Da Kui finished speaking, he leaned his body against the wall.

Sixi came to Maihua's house with the cover under his armpit on another night.

It turned out that Da Kui, Mai Hua and Hei Tu lived in a house on the east side, with a kitchen in the middle and a year's worth of food and sundries in the west. Before Sixi came, the house on the west side was cleaned up by Maihua.

Sixi lived in the west room. Before Sixi came, Mai Hua said to Dakui: I will sleep in a room for a day.

Da Kui was lying on the kang, his eyes closed, he didn't speak, and his appearance seemed very calm.

The four joys are coming.

It was supposed to be a happy event, no one congratulated or congratulated.

In the evening, Mai Hua stayed in Sixi's room. Before that, she laid a kang for the black soil, took off her clothes, tucked the corners of the quilt for Da Kui, and then hesitantly walked towards the West House.

Hei Tu opened his eyes and was about to call his mother, but Da Kui suddenly covered Hei Tu's mouth with his hand.

Da Kui hugged the black soil in his arms, and snot and tears flowed out.

The news of Sixi's residence in Maihua's house soon spread throughout Shandong Tun. Third Uncle Yu took a few people and came to Maihua's house with his hands behind his back. Mai Hua and Sixi are sitting in the courtyard selecting seeds and picking out those seeds that are full of growth.

Third Uncle Yu put his hands behind his back, clicked on the cigarette pouch and said: Maihua, there is an extra foreigner in the family, why don't you tell me.

Mai Hua seemed to be prepared in her heart, and her attitude towards the third uncle seemed neither soft nor hard.

Mai Hua said: The situation of my family, the villagers all know, I want to live, the black soil wants to live, Dakui also wants to live, there is no man in the family, this life can't go on.

Third Uncle Yu snorted a few times and said: What is the matter that our Shandong Tun people are dead, why is it the turn of the outsiders to follow and mix.

Da Kui coughed loudly in the house at this time, and after coughing twice, he shouted: Third Uncle Yu, you come in, I have something to say to you.

Uncle Yu waited for the others, glanced at the wheat flowers, and then looked at the four joys, and finally walked into the house.

Da Kui rushed to the third uncle and others and said: Third uncle, you don't have to worry about my family's affairs, so be it, it's better than Mai Hua suffering alone.

Uncle Yu said in a ruthless voice: Da Kui, you have lost the face of Shandong people, and the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, he is a Henan nephew......

Uncle Yu and the others looked very indignant.

Third Uncle Yu took someone and shook his hands and left.

The door of Maihua's house was first smeared with cow feces at night, and then some stones were thrown into the yard, smashing the ground with a clang. Gradually, no one talked to Mai Hua in the tunzi, no one was willing to lend her anything else, and the men and women walked opposite Mai Hua, Mai Hua greeted people, and the others hurriedly turned their heads to the side, and no one paid attention to her.

When Heitu was playing with the children outside, he was beaten by a group of children, crying and running back, he cried and said to Maihua: Mother, they scolded you for finding a wild man.

Maihua was furious, and she slapped the dirt on the child's body while saying in a loud voice: "In the future, they will beat you, and you will beat them to death."

Da Kui coughed again in the house.

One day, Mai Hua and Sixi were preparing for spring plowing in the field, and Heitu suddenly cried and ran, crying as they ran: Mother, my father is going to die.

When Sixi and Mai Hua heard this, they were stunned. When they left the house, Da Kui was fine. When they came to their senses, they hurried home.

Da Kui was lying in the courtyard, and he tied his neck with the belt of his trousers, and tied the other end to a stump. Unable to use his strength, Da Kui was struggling on the ground with his hands and feet.

When Mai Hua saw it, she screamed and pounced, she first untied the belt around Da Kui's neck, and then carried Da Kui into the house with Sixi. Da Kui had already breathed a sigh of relief, he opened his eyes and said: Maihua, you let me die, I am uncomfortable to live.

Mai Huawa cried, and she said while crying: Da Kui, am I not good to you? Why do you let me and Heitu live, if you die, what is the point of me living, I will not live.

So, Mai Hua and Da Kui hugged each other and cried, and Hei Tu hugged her mother's thigh and helped out.

Sixi was also uncomfortable standing aside.

Mai Hua cried and said: Da Kui, you don't want anything else, you have to live for the black soil, are you so willing to throw down the black soil and me?

Da Kui saw the black soil, he hugged the black soil and cried. Then he slapped himself with his hand, and cursed while pumping: Da Kui damn it, black soil, dad can't stand you.

Since then, Da Kui has quieted down.

During the spring ploughing, he climbed to the edge of the field again and watched Mai Hua and Sixi bury the seeds into the ground.

Sixi saw Da Kui and said: Da Kui, what are you doing here, you are not resting at home.

Da Kui smiled and said: I am happy to see the farming.

Since then, every day when he goes to the field, Sixi has to carry Da Kui to the edge of the field and let him watch the farming.

When I went to bed at night, Mai Hua really stayed in the East House for one night and the West House for the night. That day, Da Kui saw Mai Hua move the quilt to the kang in the east house again, so he said: Mai Hua, don't come here in the future.

Maihua didn't answer, took herself off, got into the bed, and lay down peacefully.

Da Kui said again: I don't pick anything, I'm a useless man.

Mai Hua said firmly: No, you are also my man.

Da Kui's heart was hot, and he stretched out his hand to catch Mai Hua's hand, and the two hands held it like that.

Nine

Henan Sixi lived in the home of Tun Dakui, Shandong, and the people of Shandong Tun talked about it for a while, saying everything. Those who sympathized with Mai Hua said: It is not easy for Mai Hua to be a woman's family, and it is nothing to find a man to help, but you can't find a Henan nephew.

A man said: Maihua's woman is sassy, she can't help it, find a wild man, phew.

Whether it is sympathetic to Maihua or not sympathetic to Maihua, Maihua does not feel sad because of such a situation. On the contrary, since she had Sixi, her heart has been steady and happy, her face has become more moisturized, and she has become more vigorous than before. Her heart was filled with joy like never before, she wanted to sing and she wanted to dance.

When the cuckoo chirps again, the sowing season has arrived. Maihua and Sixi appeared in their fields in time, Sixi was young, and there was inexhaustible strength all over his body, oxen and horses were ploughing in front, and Maihua was planting in the back. When Maihua saw the black soil, burying one golden seed after another, her heart couldn't stop jumping, she really wanted to pounce on the black oil and laugh for a while.

The black soil was sometimes a little helpful, as he staggered behind Wheat Blossom, stomping the seeds with his little feet. People who don't know the inside story will envy such a happy farm scene when they see the scene in front of them.

Sixi sometimes carried Da Kui to the edge of the field and let him see the scene of farming. Da Kui reminded from time to time: bury the seeds deeper, the frost is heavy at night, don't freeze the seeds.

Da Kui saw Sixi's sweaty face, so he said: Rest, I don't care about that moment.

Sixi smiled and said: It's okay, the work is done by people.

After Sixi finished speaking, he buried his head again and walked into the depths of the field. Mai Hua also smiled when she saw Da Kui and said: This year, our family's land must not be wrong.

Da Kui also smiled.

When the sun was setting in the west, the family of four left the fields and went home. Sixi walked in front with Da Kui on his back, and Mai Hua walked behind with Hei Tu's hand. The Shandong Tun people, who finished work and rushed home, pointed their fingers at the family. Mai Hua's expression was still happy and beautiful, and she straightened her waist up again, revealing her newborn belly.

After returning home, Mai Hua was busy cooking, and Sixi was not idle, he squatted on the ground to help Mai Hua light the fire. The firelight made Mai Hua's face red, and Sixi stared at Mai Hua's pretty face vigorously. Mai Hua saw Sixi's infatuated gaze, her face became more and more red, she walked over and pointed at Sixi's head with her finger and said: Die. Sixi lowered his head and said while lighting the fire: I just can't see enough of you, I want to watch it during the day and at night.

Mai Hua coquettishly rolled her eyes and looked at Sixi.

Da Kui, who was lying on the kang, felt that the kang was heating up little by little.

Running inside and outside the black earth house.

Sixi said: Beware, black soil, don't fall.

Black Earth answered, still running busily.

During the meal, a family of four sat around the kang in the east house. In the beginning, Mai Hua always set aside a part of the rice for Sixi to bring to Westinghouse to eat. He and Da Kui Heitu ate around the table, and the atmosphere was very dull, Mai Hua was afraid to see Da Kui's gaze, and Da Kui seemed to be avoiding Mai Hua. After Da Kui finished eating a bowl, Mai Hua lowered her head and took Da Kui's empty bowl, and walked outside to serve another bowl for Da Kui. After a meal, the food was dull and dull. Later, Da Kui broke this deadlock first, and Da Kui said: Let Sixi come over.

Mai Hua glanced at Da Kui.

Da Kui said: It's all a family, so it should look like a family.

Da Kui has now thought about it, and at the beginning, emotionally speaking, he couldn't accept Sixi no matter what. But he couldn't bear to watch Mai Hua and Hei Tu suffer with him. When Sixi first entered the house, he really wanted to die. But when he saw Maihua's despair, he once again felt that this family could not do without him.

That night, Mai Hua lay beside him, choked up and said: Da Kui, you are so stupid, if it weren't for you and Heitu, I wouldn't have found another man. Think about it, this family doesn't have you, what's the point of our two lives. Are you willing to leave us alone?

Da Kui was sincerely persuaded by Mai Hua to want to open. As long as Maihua lives well and the black soil is not wronged, it is stronger than anything else. What he can't give wheat flowers and black soil, Sixi can give, and he will be satisfied. After thinking about it like this, he gradually accepted the four joys in his heart.

As the family of four sat around for dinner, the two men talked about farming.

Da Kui said: The ground is planted, and if it rains again, the seedlings should emerge in the ground.

Sixi also said: This year's New Year's scene must not be wrong, and it will be another bumper harvest year.

Mai Hua took over and said: In the autumn, the grain is sold, and our family makes a new dress.

Da Kui said: You can do it, if I don't go out, forget it, this dress is enough for me to wear for a lifetime.

Sixi said: What is going on, just listen to Maihua. In autumn, our house is also fresh.

Da Kui didn't say anything.

As soon as a few rains fell, the crops in the fields grew wildly, and summer came again.

Maihua's body is becoming more and more visible, and she is struggling to walk.

At night, she lay down next to Sixi, and Sixi reached out to touch Maihua's belly.

Mai Hua said happily: Sixi, do you want a son or a daughter?

Sixi said: I want a son.

Mai Hua put her head into Sixi's arms, her face was hot, and she grabbed Sixi's hand on her stomach and rubbed it. In the middle of the night, Maihua said: I will give birth to you, and I will give birth to a room.

When Mai Hua said this, she suddenly remembered that she had said such things to Da Kui, but now Da Kui has become a waste. Thinking of this, she burst into tears. Sixi was puzzled, and hurriedly hugged Maihua's shoulder and asked: Maihua, what's wrong?

Maihua shook her head and turned away. After a while, she said faintly: Sixi, you will be good to Da Kui and Heitu in the future.

Sixi heard Mai Hua say this, so he hugged Mai Hua's body behind him and said: Didn't I say it, we are all a family, what are you talking about? In the future, if I eat dry, I will not let Da Kui and Heitu drink thin.

Maihua nodded in satisfaction.

When Mai Hua was lying next to Da Kui in the East House, Da Kui looked at Mai Hua's stomach and said: You are stupid, so you should do less work in the future, don't move the fetus.

Mai Hua said with tears in her eyes: I am not so delicate.

Da Kui also said: What do you want to eat, let Sixi go to the city to buy it for you, don't lose your body.

Mai Hua buried her head in the crook of Da Kui's arm again, and Mai Hua felt that she was the happiest person in the world, and there were two men who loved her so much.

Mai Hua said: I have a child with Sixi, you don't blame me, right?

Da Kui was stunned, and then said: How come, the black soil is his (her) brother. I like that there are a large group of younger brothers and sisters in the black soil, and there will be someone to help me in the future, fighting my own brothers, and going into battle as father and son soldiers.

Mai Hua said: Da Kui, you are really a good person.

Da Kui said: Sixi is not bad.

The summer nights are hot, and the sweat is sticky on the body. Sixi took Da Kui on his back every night to bathe in the river. Every time, Sixi first helped Da Kui rub his back, wash his hair, and then wash it himself. That day, Sixi was rubbing Da Kui's back, Da Kui opened his eyes, listened to the sound of water flowing into the river from Sixi's fingers and said: Sixi, in the autumn, our family will add people to the mouth, and you will be tired in the future.

Sixi said: I'm not afraid.

Da Kui said again: Maihua is not easy, you must be worthy of her in the future.

Sixi said with an excited look: A man can't stand a woman, what kind of man is it, Da Kui, don't worry, I won't treat our family badly.

When the two men talked about this, their hearts were hot.

Ten

Another autumn harvest season has arrived, and Mai Hua and Sixi's son was born.

That day, Mai Hua was leading the black soil to dry the mushrooms she had picked on the hillside, and Mai Hua's stomach hurt for a while. Mai Hua is a person who has given birth, she knows that she is about to give birth, so she said to Heitu: Heitu, go to the field and call you Uncle Sixi, my mother is going to give birth.

Hei Tu picked up a pair of little feet and ran down the mountain, and he shouted as he ran: My mother is going to give birth, my mother is going to give birth.

When Sixi returned, Maihua had already given birth. She was exhausting and rubbing her child's body, because the child was born on the mountain in autumn, and Sixi named the child Akiyama.

Akiyama came to the world with the autumn harvest season, and the excitement of the four joys goes without saying. Heitu was also excited, and he shouted as he ran: I have a younger brother, I have a younger brother, called Akiyama.

Da Kui was also happy. At that time, when he and Mai Hua got married, his wish was that the people would prosper and that the whole house would be full of children and grandchildren. Later, his hope died, although the child was not his, but he was still happy, after all, this is the half-brother of the black earth.

Sixi was busy in the field alone for the autumn harvest, and Maihua was confined at home. Da Kui sometimes couldn't help but climb down from the kang in the east house, lie down at the door of the west house and say to Mai Hua and the child: Mai Hua, Qiu Shan is crying, feed the child quickly.

Maihua stuffed the ** into the child's mouth, and the house and the house suddenly became quiet.

Da Kui also looked very satisfied.

While nursing the child, Mai Hua said happily: When Heitu and Autumn Mountain grow up, our family will add two more strong laborers.

Da Kui also imagined and said: At that time, our family will open up another piece of barren land and plant a lot of land.

Da Kui was almost intoxicated by his imagination.

When the sun shone overhead, Mai Hua went down to the field to cook, and Hei Tu was busy in the field with Sixi, Mai Hua didn't want the family to go hungry, she always went to the field on time to cook. Da Kui sat on the threshold, and Mai Hua put Akiyama in Da Kui's arms, and Da Kui babbled and teased Akiyama to play. Maihua was busy and steaming hot.

When Sixi and Heitu returned, Maihua's rice was almost ready. Sixi happily took Akiyama from Da Kui's hand, and kissed Akiyama at once, and he kissed Akiyama while talking about farming with Da Kui.

Sixi said: This year's harvest is good, and the grain laid is enough for our family to eat for two years.

Da Kui squinted at Sixi.

Sixi said again: Da Kui, next spring, I want to open up the wasteland on the eastern slope of Shandong.

Da Kui said: I'm afraid you can't be busy alone.

Sixi said: It's okay, while I'm still young, it's nothing to exert more strength.

Da Kui lowered his head and said: I can't help you with anything, I make you tired.

Sixi said: Da Kui, what are you talking about, why do our family still say this.

Da Kui was silent for a while and said: In a few years, when the black soil is big, he will be able to help you.

In the midst of the discussion between the two men, Mai Hua brought the meal to the table, and then the family sat around and ate steamingly.

With a beautiful vision and hope, the family ushered in the first winter after Akiyama was born.

As soon as winter came, Sixi found the musket again, and he said to Maihua while wiping the gun: I will go into the mountains tomorrow, and strive to get a few good skins before the New Year, and sell them in the city, and our family will pull a new set of clothes.

Mai Hua still has lingering fears about hunting, and if it weren't for hunting, Da Kui wouldn't be where he is today. Mai Hua thought of this and said: Sixi, you have to be careful, those wild things are not people.

Sixi said while filling the barrel with **: Maihua, don't worry, this musket is not a vegetarian.

Since then, Sixi has been carrying a shotgun to the mountains all day long. Sixi's shotgun is really extraordinary, and every time he comes back, he will not be empty-handed.

That day, something finally happened.

It wasn't the prey that hurt Sixi. That day, Sixi found a wolf. No sooner had he shot two pheasants with a musket, and was filling the empty barrel than he saw the wolf. When he found the wolf, he doubled the musket, thinking that this shot would kill the wolf. In this way, you will get a wolf skin, and a wolf skin will be sold, which is enough for Maihua to buy clothes. He couldn't wait to aim at the wolf, and shot at the wolf, and with a bang, the gun exploded.

The wolf ran away, Sixi screamed miserably, and fell in a pool of blood.

When Sixi was dizzy and walked home, Mai Hua saw Sixi's tragic situation and screamed and fainted. Even Da Kui couldn't help but gasp when he saw it. Sixi's face and chest were covered in blood, and his hands were gone. Sixi fell.

In those days, Mai Hua ran to the city again and again, and she went to seek medical treatment for Sixi. The Qian family pharmacy she went to, the medicine of the old shopkeeper of the Qian family specializes in treating "red injuries". Every time Mai Hua went to look for medicine, it was the money shopkeeper who prepared the medicine, and then Mai Hua took the medicine back in a hurry, half of it was applied to Sixi's wound, and half of it was boiled and drunk.

In only half a month, Maihua sold out the family's grain, and Sixi these medicines were exchanged for a year's grain.

Sixi saw Huang Chengcheng's grain disappearing from home little by little, and he screamed bitterly. His hands were blown off, and he didn't call it that.

Seeing that Sixi's wounds are getting better day by day, the family's food has been sold. Mai Hua could no longer bear to sell the rest of the rations, which were their food for the winter, and the seeds for next spring.

But Sixi's injury still had to be treated, and she had no choice at all, when she appeared in the Qian family's pharmacy, she knelt down pitifully for the money shopkeeper.

The money shopkeeper was a scrawny old man, with a fox skin around his neck, sitting behind the counter, calculating the month's income.

Mai Hua said: Money shopkeeper, give some medicine to my family Sixi.

The money shopkeeper raised his head, and he glanced at Maihua, and then at it. Before this, Mai Hua had dealt with him countless times. At that time, the money shopkeeper didn't even lift his eyelids, he only knew how to dispense medicine and collect money. This time he took a serious look at Maihua, and then at it. Then he came out from behind the counter, and looked at Wheat Blossom back and forth with his hands in his hands. He stretched out his hand again and lifted the wheat blossom up, and he looked at it again and again like a cattle dealer.

Then the money shopkeeper said, "You just gave birth to a child."

Maihua nodded, Akiyama hadn't been weaned yet, and her chest was swollen.

The money shopkeeper asked again: How many children do you have?

Mai Hua replied: Two.

Again: Is it a man or a woman?

Mai Hua replied: It's all boys.

The money shopkeeper raised his head this time and looked at Mai Hua's face seriously. Maihua has just turned 20 years old, and her natural white skin and tender flesh are still fresh.

The money shopkeeper seemed satisfied, and he hummed comfortably. This time he sat down at the counter again, and then he said, "Your man is red."

Mai Hua said: Yes, the first few times you have been dispensing medicine, so that you can make miles. My family has no money now, I want to give a little credit to the shopkeeper's medicine, and when my man recovers, I will repay you as a cow and a horse.

The money shopkeeper rolled his eyelids and said: Your men are all crippled, what can you do with me?

This sentence stopped Mai Hua at once. These days, she is busy and dizzy, and she is thinking of ways to cure Sixi's injuries. It was only then that she realized that when their family was over, could the injured Sixi still be able to farm? Not being able to farm meant that their family of five had to go to ask for food, otherwise they would have to drink the northwest wind. It was only then that Mai Hua felt complete despair, and she began to cry in front of the money shopkeeper.

The money shopkeeper said this for a purpose, the money shopkeeper is almost sixty years old, and he has been taking over this pharmacy from his ancestors for decades. He has everything in this life, but he lacks a son and an heir to a pharmacy. When the money shopkeeper was young, he married a five-room woman in one go, but these five-room women gave birth to a bunch of children, but no one gave birth to a son for him. Seeing that there was no one to inherit this pharmacy, the money shopkeeper was anxious and hateful. In the past, he also thought about marrying a yellow flower girl again and giving birth to a son for himself, but who can guarantee that this time he will not give birth to a daughter. A year old like a year's money shopkeeper, anxious.

Today he met Maihua, he looked Maihua up and down, and when he saw this woman's round and plump breasts, he knew that Maihua was a woman who could give birth and raise, unlike his five women, who were either as thin as matchsticks or as fat as a female duck, and none of them were useful. He spent most of his life on these five women, but still no one gave him a son.

As soon as the money shopkeeper saw Maihua, he wanted to borrow Maihua's belly to give birth to a son for himself.

Maihua wept mournfully in front of him. Seeing that the time had come, the money shopkeeper asked Mai Hua to sit down, and poured a bowl of brown sugar water for Mai Hua with his own hands, and then said slowly: It's easy to give you medicine on credit, but you have to promise me one thing.

Mai Hua looked up at the thin face of the money shopkeeper.

The money shopkeeper said: In the future, I will cover all the expenses of your family, as long as you give birth to a son for me, you can say anything.

At that moment, Mai Hua fainted, and she looked at the money shopkeeper in a daze, feeling that she was dreaming.

The money shopkeeper smiled, turned around, wrapped a few medicinal papers, stuffed them in Maihua's hand and said: You go home and think about it, I will wait for your letter, and if you think about it, you will come to me, if you don't think about it, you won't come, this package of medicine will be given to you.

Eleven

Maihua has no way out, she is just a woman, what better way out is there in front of her?

The two men who experienced it were crippled, a Da Kui who had to lie on the kang in winter and summer, and Sixi who lost a pair of arms, a four-year-old black soil, and a nursing Akiyama, and the burden of life for the four men in the family was on her thin shoulders.

That night, she ran to the snow on the hillside and shouted at the reckless mountain forest: God, what should my family do, open your eyes and show my family a way out......

The wind is blowing, the snow is drifting, and the mountains and forests are whimpering......

Mai Hua hates and loves this land, and it is the black soil here that accepts them batch after batch of Central Plains people who have entered the eastern part of the country. At the same time, it is the land that is devouring those of them who have wandered here.

After thinking about it, she really wanted to kneel there and never get up again, and let the wind and snow bury her, but she couldn't give up her relatives no matter what. In the land of Kanto, Dakui, Heitu, Sixi and Akiyama are her relatives, she abandons them, maybe she will never suffer for them again, but how will their path go?

After waking up, Maihua had to face the reality in front of her again, she stood up, patted the falling snow off her body, and walked into the house.

She first took Akiyama into her arms, and Akiyama, who was so hungry that she cried, stopped crying with her mother's nipple in her mouth.

Da Kui sat on the corner of the kang with a sad face, Hei Tu sat next to Da Kui with his head down, and Sixi lay on the kang, constantly ** because of the pain. Sorrow has long enveloped the family. Mai Hua faced the relatives in front of her, she really wanted to cry at them, but she couldn't, she was their pillar now, she could only put tears into her stomach.

Mai Hua said her plan while breastfeeding Akiyama, and at this moment, she made up her mind.

Da Kui buried his head deeper, and he shook his head all at once, and his head made a clattering sound like a kang.

Sixi cried, he turned sideways, his shoulders twitched, and he said in a choked voice: It's all my fault, we are incompetent as men.

Mai Hua has no sorrow at this time, she only has a kind of tragedy that sees death as home, she said to the man on the kang in a loud voice: What are you crying and mourning, you have to live your life, it's not that I won't come back, isn't it just three or two years, gritting your teeth and coming over.

The men on the kang were silent.

Da Kui suddenly hugged his head and cried: Maihua, you let us die.

Mai Hua said with a cold face: Don't talk about dead or alive, life has to be like this, in a few years, the black soil will be bigger, the autumn mountains will be bigger, and we will have a good life again.

The two men faced Maihua, and they didn't know what to say, and they looked at her with wide eyes.

The next day, Mai Hua went to the city again, and she came to the Qian family pharmacy with all her familiarity. The money shopkeeper was still sitting in the drugstore, and as soon as Mai Hua entered the door, the money shopkeeper smiled, and then said, "I know you will still come."

Mai Hua leaned on the counter and said, "Let's take the medicine from the shopkeeper, and I will come back as soon as the man is well."

The money shopkeeper asked Mai Hua to put his handprint on a piece of paper he had written, and then put the bag of medicine in Mai Hua's arms. When the last bag was placed, the hand of the shopkeeper of the money was in Maihua's arms and said: I can give birth to a son as soon as I see you, a girl, and your man will be good in half a month, and you will come then.

Half a month later, Sixi's injury really healed, he didn't hurt or itch anymore, but he lost his hands forever.

Mai Hua had no choice but to come to the Qian family pharmacy and live in the Qian family.

The old shopkeeper couldn't wait to have his own son right away, and he was busy with Maihua's body every night. When Mai Hua came to experience again, the money shopkeeper was extremely sad, and he fell on Mai Hua's body and said: I let you give birth to a son, why don't you give birth quickly.

Mai Hua faced the money shopkeeper, and her body was numb. This old thing, she thought, was useless.

Every half a month, Sixi has to come to the Qian family pharmacy once. Each time, instead of showing his head in the drugstore, he was outside the courtyard walls, first kicking two stones with his foot into the courtyard, and then coughing a few times. Mai Hua knew that Sixi was coming, so she took out half of the prepared bag of grain from the small door and put it at Sixi's feet, Sixi lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Mai Hua.

Mai Hua said: Are the black soil and Akiyama okay?

Sixi said: Okay, they are both fine, how are you?

Mai Hua didn't talk about herself, but said: I just want to have children.

Sixi said again: Which time did I bring the black soil and autumn mountain?

Mai Hua stopped talking, looking at the half bag of grain in front of her and was stunned, she knew that this was their family's life-saving food.

Sixi said: Other people's land has been planted, but our land is barren. Sixi said this, and tears flowed again.

Mai Hua said again: Don't think about it, you want to live.

At this time, the money shopkeeper shouted in the courtyard: Maihua, why don't you come back, what are you talking about with that man, I don't want a wild seed.

Mai Hua bent down and put the half bag of grain on Sixi's shoulder. Sixi straightened his pockets with his stump arms, still bowed his head and said, "Then I'll go."

Mai Hua looked at Sixi's back and disappeared little by little.

The money shopkeeper was anxious and painful, he desperately wanted to give birth to a son, and the pain was that Mai Hua stayed here for one more day, and he would have to pay more expenses to support Mai Hua's family.

The money shopkeeper prepared medicine for himself, boiled it in smoke, drank it squeakily, and toiled on the wheat blossom at night until he lay panting on the kang.

The next time Sixi came, he really brought black soil and Akiyama. She first held Akiyama in her arms, Akiyama had already been weaned and had already grown a few teeth, although he was dark and thin, he was in good spirits. Mai Hua put her mind at ease, looked at the black soil again, freed up a hand, squatted down and pulled the black soil over, and the black soil said: Mother, I came by myself.

Mai Hua said: Black soil, good boy, be obedient at home.

Heitu said again: Mother, I am obedient, when will you go home?

In a word, Mai Hua shed tears.

She kissed the black soil and kissed Akiyama, which is all her heart.

It wasn't until Sixi took the two children away that she squatted on the ground and cried loudly.

The money shopkeeper's efforts were not in vain, and finally Maihua's stomach moved. For two months, Mai Hua did not come to the experience, he personally gave Mai Hua a pulse, and when he was sure that Mai Hua was really pregnant, the old shopkeeper smiled. Since then, he has moved out. Mai Hua's mood also relaxed.

When Sixi came again, he also saw the change in Maihua, and this kind of waiting finally had hope. He smiled and said to Maihua: Maihua, when you go back next year, I can farm again.

Hei Tu said on the side: Mother, Uncle Sixi is possible, he can do anything, no worse than someone with hands.

Mai Hua saw Sixi's shiny broken arms.

Sixi smiled and said: I thought this life was wasted, but it was nothing.

Sixi finally came out of the shadows, and she was happy for Sixi and this family from the bottom of her heart.

Heitu said again: My father made you worry about your body, and he said that he missed you.

Mai Hua stretched out her hand and touched the head of the black soil, and the black soil grew up day by day, and she was happy to see it. She thought that one day, Heitu would definitely be able to grow into a man like Da Kui.

Akiyama will call her mother. Every time they broke up, Akiyama lay on Sixi's shoulder, looking at her mother and screaming. Her heart was going to break at that moment.

Gradually, Maihua could feel the fetal movement of the child in her belly, and next summer, it would be time to give birth. After the full moon, it was time for her to leave the Qian family and return to Shandongtun, and she was looking forward to that day. But when she thought of the child in her womb, her mood went bad again. It was as if she had heard the child in her belly calling her mother again and again.

With tears in her eyes, she watched Sixi, the black soil, and the autumn mountains go away little by little, and finally turned into a black spot staring in her sight.

Mai Hua felt the fetal movement again, she covered her stomach with both hands, and walked towards the Qian family step by step.