That night, two loads of rice were packed in four small (50 catties) burlap bags and stuffed into a frame, with salted ducks and salted geese hanging at each end of the flat poles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Wang Hongying also put all the toffee that Liu Yujin bought for Taoxiang in a small cloth bag, and asked Xie Chengshu to take it back to eat fresh for the children of the Xie family.

Liu Yujin sells livestock in the county seat, and he got to know a few salesmen in the mall. He doesn't pick his hands, he will spare a piece and eight cents every time, and it will take effect when the number of times is too much. This White Rabbit toffee is only sold in large shopping malls, and it is also a limited product with a ticket. At the beginning, when Liu Yujin bought small candy, he never had the luxury of White Rabbit toffee, because he knew that he couldn't buy it even if he had money. Unexpectedly, the salesman who Liu Yujin knew that she was from the candy counter and asked her to pay three times took the initiative to help him get half a catty of White Rabbit toffee.

After that, Liu Yujin repaid Li, and when he often saw her in the vegetable market, he would take a dozen eggs or four or five salted duck eggs from Hong Shun and take them home for her. After that, Liu Yujin only needs to buy White Rabbit toffee, and he can ask for it within two catties, and there is no limit. Because of this, Wang Hongying dared to take the peach-scented White Rabbit toffee back to Xie Chengshu. Otherwise, Liu Yujin would definitely be angry that she gave away the child's things. Her mother-in-law said that she was used to having no children, but in fact, the two of them, Liu Yujin was used to children, and that was too much.

In addition, I made some pumpkin baba, glutinous cakes, egg cakes and other food for them to bring, and put the oil soup pot from the previous meals in an empty biscuit iron box and hung it on the rope of the basket. It wasn't until seven or eight o'clock that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law felt that it was almost over.

After they were done, the two of them checked it carefully, thinking that they had packed everything they should have brought with them, and then they went back to sleep. It had been said before that they would have to walk at three o'clock in the morning the next day, and their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would not get up to send them.

When he went back, it was different when Liu Baiquan led the way, this road was very familiar to him, and it was different from the vague memory that Xie Chengshu only followed his grandmother when he was four or five years old. Where the road is close, where the road is easy to walk, where there is a river that cannot be crossed, where the river has a bridge to pass and can take a shortcut, he knows it well. The four of them picked two picks and took turns, but they were not very tired. As soon as the sun showed a faint red light, they had already walked out of the area of Shiqiaoqiao Town, and passed through Wangmuqiao Town, and then arrived at the area of Zhangjialing Town, where the Xie family was located. Because Zhangjialing Town is located in a large mountainous area, the area is very large, even if they arrived at their own town, in fact, the whole distance was only a quarter of the way.

However, after dawn, they could see the road clearly and walked much faster, and finally at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the four of them arrived at the foot of the Xie family's mountain. Liu Baiquan's father and son stopped and stopped sending Xie to his uncle and nephew: "Chengshu! Uncle Cousin will only send you here, the mountain road is too difficult to walk, Uncle Cousin can't climb with the burden, so he won't send it up." You both have memorized this road, and if you come back again, it should be okay, right?"

Xie Shounan is young, but he memorizes the road faster than his uncle, Xie Chengshu is still thinking about whether he remembers, so he replied to Liu Baiquan: "Uncle cousin, don't worry, I have written down that road." Every time you go to a corner, you take a flashlight to show us around, and I remember it! When I come back in two days, I will make sure that I will not take the wrong way. ”

"Oh! That's good! We're going to turn back. Hurry up and try to get home before dark. Otherwise, it would be dark and the mountains would be full of dangers. ”

Liu Baiquan didn't dare to delay the time of the Xie family's uncle and nephew, urging them to go back quickly, and he hurried back with his eldest son.

Put it down first, but said that the Xie family, since Xie Shounan's quasi-brother-in-law sent a load of rice that their family got from exchanging corn to the Xie family, and said that Xie Shounan's uncle and nephew carried two loads of corn to inquire about the Liu family, everyone in the Xie family was looking forward to and worried. At the beginning, after the brothers and sisters of the Liu family left, no one went to the mountains, and several mothers-in-law gossiped about Liu Baiquan's ungratefulness. But a few of them were uncles, and when they heard how many people starved to death under the mountain, they were afraid that those children would starve to death and make their nephews take revenge, and they didn't have the face to go to Liu's house to inquire about the news. The two sides have not moved for more than ten years due to their own reasons.

Xie Chengshu's uncle and nephew's trip can be regarded as reopening the connection between the two relatives. The older generation of the Xie family is looking forward to the good news that their grandsons and great-grandsons bring back the children of the Liu family who are all alive and well, but they are also afraid of bringing back the bad news that they don't want to hear.

I looked forward to it every day, was afraid, waited for seven or eight days, and finally waited for Xie Chengshu's uncle and nephew to come back with Shi Tuotuo and a burden full of things at both ends.

Xie Chengshu's father, Xie Zhishan, saw that his second son and eldest grandson were tired and sweaty and arrived home, and after instructing his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to boil water and make corn cakes for the two children, he couldn't wait to talk to his son, so he excitedly ran to the inverted shed next door where his father lived alone.

By the way, I would like to explain: The rules of Xie Quanzhong's family and Liu Baiquan's family are not very different, Liu Baiquan's two sons go out separately and live in the back. For example, Liu Yujin lived in the last three rooms, re-supported the courtyard wall, and the courtyard gate was facing southeast. The second Liu Yuyin lived in the middle three rooms, and set up a small courtyard, with the courtyard door facing east. And Liu Baiquan still lives in three main houses, facing south and north, which indicates that even if the family is separated, he is still the head of the family.

However, Xie Quanzhong's family gave the main house to the eldest Xie Zhishan and his wife to live in, but he himself built another inverted shed house on the east side of the main house. The inverted shack had no ridge, and leaned down to one side, and the eaves were very low, only the height of a normal adult man. The entrance door is in the same direction as the main door, but the windows are open on the lowest wall. Xie Quanzhong likes to put the bed on the window, so that when he wakes up in the early morning, he can look up at the window and know what time it is, or what weather it is today, and he can still get dressed in the bright light. Anyway, there are a lot of conveniences!

Xie Zhishan slapped the door with his hand: "Dad, have you slept?" Ershu and Danan have returned, and the old man Baiquan has given my family a lot of things. ”

"What?" Xie Quanzhong was lying on the bed, sleeping in a daze, when he heard his son knocking on the door, as if he had also mentioned his nephew, and the old man, who was already old, was afraid that he would hear it.

Xie Zhishan heard his father speak, and moved to the window next to the bed where his father slept, and said to the window: "Dad! Ershu and Danan picked a handful of rice, as well as salted ducks and salted geese, and said that they were all brought back by Baiquan Dabiao. Would you like to get up and ask them about it?"

"Well, I'll get up!"

He was already in his early seventies, not as agile as Xiao Young, and he said 'just get up' here, but he didn't dare to move too fast, only dared to lean on the bed with his elbows, and slowly raised his upper body and sat up. I fumbled for the cotton jacket pressed on the quilt, and then felt the cotton pants pressed on my feet and put them on, and then I felt the door with a black hole.

Xie Zhishan, who was waiting outside, was anxious to go back and ask his son, but he had to wait patiently for his father. Seeing that his father finally opened the door, he couldn't help but complain: "Dad, why don't you light the lamp? No wonder this black light is so slow!"

"What are you doing with that oil?!"