On the day of the new year, Yuan Si took the old lady to make a table of delicious food, and specially steamed a pot of rice.

Since Yuan Si went to the country of Suzhou, the white noodles at home are enough to eat, but the rice she bought in the country is not much, and it is only enough for an occasional tooth sacrifice.

"Si'er!" the old lady affectionately called out to the little girl who was immersed in hardship, and there was relief and melancholy in her eyes.

"Hmm, what's wrong?" Yuan Si looked up.

"Now that I'm looking at the New Year, I think our family has gone now, I just want to go to your two sisters' house to see, what do you think?" The old lady now listens to the little girl, especially the wealth of the family is still brought by the little girl, if you want to send something to the other two girls, don't you have to ask.

Afraid that the little girl would not agree, she hurriedly said: "In previous years, your two sisters came all the way to see me, at that time our family was poor, I just knew that they were in difficulty, and I couldn't help them, now our family has your master to help, much stronger than before, I want to bring something to see them, let their in-laws take a look, and support them." ”

The old lady hadn't heard the little girl mention a few brothers and sisters for most of the year, and she was afraid that she would say that she would use the little girl's things to help other children, and she had any ideas in her heart, so she was a little cautious.

Although Yuan Si is a little unique, but it is not so much that the old lady cares about taking something, and she recalls the two sisters who married far away, every time she comes back, she tries her best to give her something delicious, sometimes it is just a piece of fruit candy that is about to melt, although the thing is not very valuable, but it can be seen that they tried their best. To sum up, they are good to the original owner, and they are much more decent than the second sister in the city, so she agreed to give them something.

"You can do these things, I have no opinion. ”

The old lady was relieved to hear what her daughter said, she thought that when the little girl was born, the two girls had already married and had children, and after that, several foreign-married daughters couldn't come back once a year, so the sisters didn't have much contact, and the little girl was divided with the two sisters.

"Haha, that's good, I don't need to take too many things when I think about it, we have a lot of noodles, give them twenty catties of white noodles, aren't there still a few pieces of bacon hanging in the firewood room, I see that you don't like to eat either, just bring it to them." You don't eat the old candy you bought, and you can also give it to your niece and nephew. The old lady began to think happily of what to bring to the girl.

"Let's prepare one for the second sister too. Yuan thought about it, as if she had said that if she had food, she would return the food that Li Yuan loved her family.

"Huh?" the old lady didn't react, the second family lived in the city, and the food was richer than theirs.

"Didn't I go to her house for two months, and after eating other people's food for two months, I have to return the food, you can just mail her twenty catties of white noodles. Yuan Si carefully calculated how much food she ate in Li Yuanai's house, and ruthlessly made up a whole for her, preferring to give one or two halves more than let the family say that she was not particular, she was not the one who took advantage of others.

That night, the mother and daughter began to pack up their things, and put the food brought to the three daughters into two back baskets, and the next morning, after Zuo Daya went to talk to Chen Fengzhen, she locked the door and took the little girl out of the village.

First of all, the two of them went straight to the county seat, and after arriving at the county seat, they went to the post office to mail the twenty catties of white noodles for Li Yuanai, and by the way, there was a letter from the old lady begging someone to write, which clearly stated that these grains were the food she gave to Xiaosi for two months. This was specially requested by Yuan Si to be added.

After paying the postage, Yuan Si took the old lady to the bus station, bought a ticket and went straight to the house of her third daughter, Li Yuanshan.

Li Yuanshan married far, and it was not easy to go on a trip, and she had to go through the arduous journey of walking, taking a car, and walking, and it took a day to get there.

The noon car, after an afternoon of chatting in the car, finally arrived at the place before the sun set.

After the old lady got out of the car, she spat at the tail of the car, "What kind of broken car, it's going to crash me, it's a few dollars for nothing, it's better to walk comfortably, and I won't do it in the future." ”

The road was all dirt roads, pimples, the car was very bumpy, the old lady sat in the car for a while and flickered, flickered for a while, this road was not less sinful.

Yuan Si didn't speak, and she wasn't very used to this kind of "ox cart", but compared to walking, she would rather take a car.

When the others recovered, the old lady led her daughter to continue walking.

After walking for more than an hour, it was completely dark, passing through several villages, and then we arrived at our destination.

"Your third sister married into this village. The old lady introduced to the little girl as she walked, and after so many years, Si'er had never been to her third sister's house. "This village is poor, poorer than our family, your third sister was desperate at the beginning, she had to marry here, or I said that she couldn't marry her. ”

Yuan Si looked at this hazy little village in the moonlight, and just from the appearance, she understood that what the old lady said was true, the houses in this village were all relatively low mud and straw houses, and they looked relatively dilapidated. It's only past six o'clock, and the whole village is not bright at all, and it is pitch black.

The two walked to a small farmhouse courtyard in the dark, and the old lady stopped, "This is your third sister's house." ”

Yuan Si looked carefully, a small courtyard made of ordinary fences, and there were three large mud and straw houses in the middle, and the yard was cleaned up, and it could be seen that the hostess of the house was capable.

The old lady directly pushed open the courtyard door and went in, shouting into the house: "Is Li Yuanshan at home, is the third child at home?"

This is not to disturb the people, this is the old lady is afraid that everyone inside is sleeping, so she shouts a few times outside to give the people inside a time to get dressed.

Sure enough, after a while, a little light came out of the small window on the left side of the mud and straw room, "Who?" asked a male voice.

"Xiangguo, I'm here. The old lady still valued this son-in-law very much, so the tone of her voice unconsciously slowed down.

"Mother, why are you here? Is there something wrong at home?" Soon the door of the mud and straw room opened, and a big man in clothes came out inside, his face full of surprise.

"What's the matter, I just miss my daughter, it's just about the New Year, I'll take you sisters to see my daughter and grandson. The old lady rolled her eyes, she really couldn't speak, what happened to her family?

"Mother, do you still need you to come here in person when you miss us, bring us a letter, and we will take the child back to see you. The child is her mother, you come out quickly, my mother is here. Zhao Xiangguo's mouth was quite sweet, and he coaxed the old lady in a few words.

"Mother, why are you here, I'm about to get up tomorrow to see you. A woman in her thirties came out of it and was very excited to see the old lady.