Chapter Twenty-Three: Moonlight He De (II)

The yard of the eldest cousin was very wide and clean, and the three cellar holes lined up were carefully penetrated with red bricks, and white ash was rarely used in the countryside at that time, coupled with the problems of voltage and wiring, the wattage of the bulb was not enough, and the house seemed a little dim. The hole www.biquge.info the pen and the pavilion are three or four meters high, and the light bulb seems to be hanging far in the sky, glowing faintly.

We sat in the courtyard and ate the farmer's meal. The sunset is getting farther away, the sound of frogs is beginning to appear, this long-lost tranquility, simple and natural. The eldest cousin is still easy-going, but Shijie has fully recovered, toasting and picking vegetables, and he doesn't treat himself as an outsider. My eldest cousin didn't talk much at the dinner table except for a few words of homely chatting with me while cooking. Seeing that her face was not good, she wanted to say a few words of condolences, but she had already hurriedly packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went back to the house. "Your cousin-in-law has been in poor health recently, so she rested early", the eldest cousin took out a cigarette and accompanied Shijie to light it, and I could see that the eldest cousin also had eyelids fighting.

Just after nine o'clock, the eldest cousin said goodbye and went back to the house, and before getting up, as if he wanted to tell me something, when he saw it, Shijie picked up the small half bottle of leftover wine on the table, brought the words to his mouth, swallowed it back, and turned around the courtyard for half a circle, and entered the house.

After a while, the eldest cousin came out with a kerosene lamp, turned it on, put it on the table in the courtyard, smiled at us, turned off the headlights in the main house, and went back to the east room. The courtyard was dark, and the kerosene lamps were suddenly dancing with low flames, but the sound of insects and frogs was suddenly sounding.

Shijie and I began to enjoy the two-person world of the small courtyard, from Taiyuan to Beijing, from the school compound to the small courtyard of Sweet Water Garden, I could feel the flow of time, and two hours passed. Maybe this is the brightest starlight I've ever seen, I was leaning my head over, and he suddenly said, "I know what my eldest cousin wants to say to us when he leaves", and the moment the words came out, the wind began to blow in the small courtyard, a small strand, a small strand, intermittently. "He told me before eating that we must plug in the door when we go to bed at night and lock it from the inside. When Shijie said this, I remembered that my eldest cousin arranged for Shijie to sleep with him in the east room, and arranged for me to sleep with my eldest cousin in the west room. "Aren't you afraid that you'll touch me in the middle of the night?" My Noya was completely ineffective at that moment, and I could feel Shijie returning to his previous cold depression. He didn't look at me, he just lowered his head and muttered, "It's not that I'm afraid of you coming in, it's that you don't want me to go out..."

The wind in the courtyard finally merged into a small whirlwind, swirling around the table. "Your yard is really big enough," Shijie looked forward with a hollow look in his eyes. Only then did I notice that in the dim flames of the kerosene lamp, the darkness had completely engulfed the small courtyard, and the originally high courtyard walls were no longer distinguishable, as if they had disappeared, and in front of us, there was an endless pitch-black wilderness.

At this moment, the whirlwind suddenly jumped on the table, as if full of curiosity about the kerosene lamp, and bent down to look around it. The flame of the oil lamp was frightened, and it hid to the side, more and more crooked, and the kerosene under the lamp was black and bright, like a sleepy and hazy eye, and then there was a "horn", and the flame was extinguished, and everything was drowned in that eye.