The smile on Shi Gui's face disappeared, and Xizi sat on the stool, looking up at her uneasily, his hands clenched tightly, he thought about it all afternoon, and he did see the stone, and said again: "I saw my father on the dock." ”

After all these years, the appearance has long been unrecognizable, Shi has not been able to recognize his son, Xizi has changed the most, Shi Gui can still find a little shadow of his childhood, but Xizi can't see it at all.

He went to the melon stall with the pine basket, Suizhou was hot, at this time all kinds of melons and fruits in season had been on the market, two and a half children went to buy melons, pretending to pick a few, the melon seller took the net pocket for them, Xizi Songluo took two melons alone, he took the big one, let the pine basket take it, and returned to the restaurant after one day.

Halfway through, he wanted to use the rest of the money to buy two bowls of bamboo tube ice soup, put the sour plum soup five-flower tea in the bamboo tube, and came back with a rope to quench the thirst of Qiu Niang in the summer.

Herbal tea is a penny a bowl, add mint and licorice to cool off, people here take this as water to drink, three or five groups next to the stall, some sit on the ground, some sit on the small pestle, and some take off their shoes and sit on straw sandals.

Xizi didn't notice that there were many such coolies on the dock, and when I looked at it again, I saw that it was different, and the man looked up and used a straw hat as a fan to fan the wind, and it was clearly his father.

After many years, Xizi was stunned for a while, he wanted to admit but didn't dare to admit it, he stood still, and he didn't dare to move, he looked at him with his eyes, pulled the corner of his clothes with one hand, and asked him what was wrong.

Xizi knew that his father was going to find him, but his mother and sister said so, saying that his father had gone back to his hometown, and when he returned to his hometown, he knew that they were not there, so he would definitely find it, so he was happy, and he saw that the stone and the people on the herbal tea stall borrowed a bowl, took half a bowl of herbal tea, and went back with it.

Xizi took two steps forward to follow, and when she wanted to open her mouth, she couldn't scream, and her father hadn't shouted for five years, and she was afraid that he would go away, so she followed the stone behind her, walked two steps, and saw that the stone gave the herbal tea to an old woman to drink.

The mother-in-law sat on the bamboo chair, there were two long straps behind the bamboo chair, and an umbrella was tied to the back of the chair, covering the mother-in-law in the whole body, not exposed to the sun, she was full of gray hair, and her clothes were hanging on her body empty, and she was shrunk in a ball, humming in her mouth and not knowing what she was talking about.

Xizi stood still and didn't go forward, the person stepped on the steps, watched the stone father hold a bowl of water, Yu Pozi's mouth couldn't be closed, drank half and shook out and half of it, looked at it in a daze, looked at Xizi in a daze, turned around and ran back, people panicked, the two melons in their hands rolled down, down the steps, and fell to pieces.

He knew that it was the grandmother who sold his mother, Qiu Niang didn't say that her husband was bad in front of her son, but how could she not say that Yu Pozi's was not, seeing that he was beaten, tears fell like broken beads, hugged him and cried, saying that if he had woken up earlier, he would not have been called a kidnapper to cheat and sell.

I didn't say it once, and I couldn't go back and don't say it, Xizi was less than six years old at the time, and she was so frightened that she couldn't believe that Qiu Niang didn't want him, and she took him with her when she went back to her parents' house, and she cried endlessly at that time, but now that I think about it, it's really wrong, my mother is gone, and my grandmother made two fish, and they rarely ate so well on the road.

As long as Qiu Niang and Shi Gui talked about Mrs. Yu, they didn't have a good face, and Xizi remembered bits and pieces about being abducted, but she also remembered that Mrs. Yu protected him in the cabin and didn't ask traffickers to sell him.

Xizi lived a stable life with her mother and sister, and when she saw Yu Pozi at first glance, she was frightened, for fear that they would come with her, and she didn't want the broken melons, but she still picked up half of the big ones and came back, and the two of them hurried back all the way.

Xizi closed her mouth tightly and didn't say a word, but when the group of people finished their work and were about to go to see the fireworks, he was afraid again, so he pretended to have a stomachache, saying that he had a frozen stomach, Qiu Niang really didn't go anymore, and guarded him to let others watch the fireworks, as long as she didn't go, the rest of them had never seen it, whether it was a stone or Yu Pozi, they couldn't recognize it.

He hid Qiu Niang, but he couldn't hide it from Shi Gui, coaxed Qiu Niang to sleep, and slipped into his sister's house, panicking and unsure of his idea, if he recognized his father, Grandma would have to live with them.

Even if he didn't remember it at first, he later knew that Qiu Niang would occasionally mention Shi Gui when he was a child, how he was bullied by Yu Pozi at that time, and how he wanted to sell his sister as a child daughter-in-law, so Xizi was so good to Songluo, and she was almost sold as a child daughter-in-law.

The pine basket was sold to a secret prostitute, and Qiu Niang was inconvenient to sue him, so she said that she was a child daughter-in-law, how did her mother-in-law beat and scold, how could she live her life, and how many didn't grow up, so she tossed and died first. Xizi also knew something from Mingyue, and she didn't dare to admit it, so she let her sister have an idea.

"Did you see clearly?" Shi Gui came back to his senses, he didn't expect them to come so quickly, and he was afraid that Xizi wouldn't see the truth: "Is it really Dad......?" With grandma?"

Kiko looked at her and nodded, "I recognized them, they didn't recognize me." He wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, looked at Shi Gui's solemn face, and waited for a long time before asking, "What if, what if they find it?"

Shi Gui patted him on the shoulder: "What do you think in your own heart? If they come, let my mother forget that my grandmother sold her, and let me forget that she almost killed my mother and my brother?

Xizi hung her head, stopped talking for a long time, but knew in her heart that it would not work, her mother and sister were different from the original, he didn't remember what happened to her sister when she was a child, but he knew that she was very capable, and the family opened a restaurant and bought a house, everything was her idea, and her mother also secretly told him, saying that don't think that her sister is amazing, and she won't support her in the future, and the daughter who married out is bullied, and her mother's family is the most important.

also added: "If your uncle was competent, I would not have been grinding for more than ten years, and I would not have had a day of peace, either short of firewood or less food, and there was not a day that did not toss me." ”

Xizi couldn't open his mouth, he read the book, and he knew more and more that if his father threw away his grandmother, he would be unfilial, and if he couldn't throw away his grandmother, the family would no longer be able to be together, my sister would not be willing, she would not, and my mother would not be willing.

Xizi still remembers the original days, when her father was away, her mother and his life were not good, and now she finally lives a stable life, even Xizi doesn't want to see Qiu Niang being rubbed anymore.

Shi Gui touched Xizi's head: "You tell me where you saw it, I'll go and take a look tomorrow, you have to pull your mother, you can't ask her to go to the dock." ”

No matter how bad it is, I pretend to have a stomachache for a day, the two sisters and brothers look at each other, and Xizi responds: "Plan and then act, I know." He didn't want to see Qiu Niang sad, and he was afraid that his hard-won stable life would be gone, so he simply listened to Shi Gui's words.

He went back to sleep, but Shi Gui couldn't sleep, it seems that the two of them just arrived in Suizhou, asking everywhere, sooner or later they will always come over, Shi Dad doesn't know what to do to make a living, the book says that he took out all his pockets and used all the money on his body to atone for the sins of Mrs. Yu, mother and son

The two of them came all the way to Suizhou, and I don't know how hard Daddy Shi worked.

Shi Gui thought about it all night, and when he got up the next day, Xizi was going to study, and suddenly said that his stomach hurt, Qiu Niang was anxious, and he was relieved to see him last night, so he was relieved, and it hurt again, so he lay on the bed, adjusted the pill and flushed him with water, and had to go to school for him to take leave.

Shi Gui smiled: "Let the green calyx go, today my mother will look at Xizi and cook him some porridge to drink, and it is enough to have me in the restaurant." I called the green calyx to go to the school, and told her about it: "I'm going to find someone, don't tell Sù Niang first, Xizi saw her yesterday." ”

Green Calyx nodded, and didn't have time to say two words, yesterday's Duanyang banquet, the women's school hall was very lively, Mrs. Ji also sent a load of food and drink, and asked Ye Wenxin not to add money to her own family, she went to the Duanyang banquet of the political envoy's wife to eat wine, and talked during the banquet, and the master gave a piece of food, and several ladies added wine and food.

Let's not talk about these, Lu Calyx lifted her skirt and ran out, and hurriedly went to Mr. Xizi to say goodbye, Shi Gui and Ah Zhen went to the restaurant, and the stalls and shops were not open at this time, Zhang Sanniang Wang Niang took the remaining oil from yesterday to make tiger skin eggs.

It's a pity to pour such a pot of oil, boiled meat sauce, fried eggs, and there are a lot left, and today I will fry the eggplant with meat foam, that cost oil, and the fried tiger skin egg is added, and today it is enough meat.

Shi Gui ordered twice, asked Ah Zhen and Dafa to go to the herbal tea shop to sell rice, and then hung out the flag of bamboo rice, and the family hurriedly went out, all the way up the alley steps that Xizi said.

It's a house here, and I don't know if I rented a house here, I looked around, but I didn't see anyone, and I didn't dare to ask, for fear that if I asked, I would show my stuffing, so I ran around outside, and my body was soaked with sweat, and I didn't see the shadow of the person.

Turning his head to drink a cup of tea in the foot shop, he heard the mother-in-law of the stall say that there was a filial son yesterday, carrying a paralyzed old lady on his back, and came here to find his wife and daughter.

Shi Gui closed his mouth more and more and didn't ask, but the mother-in-law said that she had a nose and eyes, saying how her son was filial, how the two came to Suizhou all the way, and she took a bowl of noodle soup on credit, and more than half of it was eaten by her mother, and she only drank soup at home.

"I'm looking for a job right now, and I'm sorry for you. The mother-in-law shook her fan, and spit out the skin of melon seeds while talking: "I also asked if I had any work to do not go to sea, and I had to take care of his mother, if half of my son who was not a good man, he would wake up laughing in his dream." ”

Several old people were eating tea and chewing their tongues in her shop, and when they heard her words, they laughed out loud: "There is no certain thing in the world, you haven't gone to listen to the book? ”

Shi Gui bought a bag of roast meat buns and went back, and didn't ask where the tea shopkeeper Shi Dad was, and when he went back, his face was not good-looking, and Ah Zhen still thought that she hadn't done anything, she smiled and took the buns and let them share them.

Shi Gui looked at her shrunken shadow and was stunned, and before noon arrived, he let Wang Niangzi watch, hurriedly went back, and pulled Qiu Niang out: "I'll take my mother to tea and dinner and listen to the book." ”