Gradually, the persimmon leaves that fell to the ground dried out. Early in the morning, you can hear the sound of "hmm-hmm-" with a bamboo rake holding persimmon leaves. When the green and yellow are not harvested, this dried persimmon leaf is also the best feed, feeding sheep, livestock, rabbits or something, all croaking. Although it is said that it has already been spring, the weather is still quite cold, there is a thin layer of ice in the pond, and the bare poplars and willows on the shore are swaying in the cold wind.

That night, Yingzi's eldest brother Liwa came to Ye Zi's house. As soon as Liwa entered the door, she asked, "Is Gen'er there?" and "Oh, Liwa." It's in the house. Zhen'er had just come out of the hut to answer. "Roots. Liwa shouted as she walked towards the house. "Well, who?" replied Gen'er from the house. "Yes. Liwa said as she entered the house.

"Hey, it's almost the New Year, let's get some fish?" "Fish?" "Hehe, I guess the fish in the reservoir are also bigger." Let's contact a few people and get fish!" "Is this okay? "Oh, I've seen it, no problem. It's getting dark, let's go to the culvert and get it. "Really?" "Hey, I'll tell my mother, oh." "That's for sure. ”

The next evening, when he came back from work, Gen'er urged his mother to eat early. As soon as the meal was finished, Gen'er went out with a pocket. Gen'er, the Sun family's Pingwa, and the Xing family's cousin followed Liwa along the ditch, and soon touched the Yunling Reservoir.

The northwest wind was whining, dogs barking were heard in the distance, and a thin layer of ice had formed on the water at the mouth of the culvert. As soon as Pingwa's legs entered the water, she jumped up with a cry of "oops". "Be quiet, you!" reprimanded Dowa. "The water was quite deep, and my socks and trouser legs were wet. Pingwa bared her teeth. "It's useless! Then you look out for the wind here, and go down. Gen'er said. "Then hurry up, I'm dying of cold, my forehead and trouser legs are wet. Gen'er, Liwa, and Tangwa pulled up their trouser legs, endured the biting cold, and slowly flowed into the culvert.

After a while, Pingwa trembled and whispered to the cave: "Hey, people are coming, come out quickly." "Forget it, you!" the cave whispered. After a while, Pingwa shouted again, and no one in the cave answered, only the sound of "poof, poof" touching the fish. After a while, Pingwa shouted to the inside, "It's really coming, come out quickly!" Gen'er hurriedly came out of the culvert, changed into shoes, picked up wet pockets and boots, scattered his legs, and ran home along the ditch.

There is relatively little surface water in this area, and there are still twenty or thirty miles away from the Fen River, and the villagers rarely can eat fish. Liwa's efforts to get these fish back naturally brought joy and joy to the family's difficult life. In fact, Gen'er and the others went to the reservoir several times later, but they were not caught, but the root of psoriasis fell on Xing Jiatangwa's calf, and he was often scratched blood-red, and he never was cured. Of course, that's another story.

Before you know it, the annual Spring Festival has arrived. In the second half of the third day of the Lunar New Year, the wife of the Wang family from the neighboring village walked into the door of the Wu family. "Where's Jen?" and "Who's there?" Zhen'er came out of the house in response: "Oh, his aunt, you are here, come into the house." You'er smiled and made a pot of hot tea. Wang's wife took the tea bowl and beckoned, "You didn't go to work?" Sit down, it's cold outside, take a sip and warm up. "Hmm. "You see you've cleaned up the house so well. "What about Lisuo, Hu Guoli. "What are you talking about, how old are your roots?" "After this year, it will be twenty-three, not some, it's in a hurry." "Oh, that's not small. "Oh, not yet, thanks to you. "Ah, I said that the situation in your house is better, and his father is working outside, and he is honest and sincere, so he will say to the baby Zhang Luo Zhang Luo." "The amount is almost ready, and the amount is also said to take advantage of this year, hurry up and talk about the last one." ”

"There is a suitable one, my parents are righteous people, but the woman is a little dark, but the needlework is good. "We are a farmer, white or black is nothing. How old is the woman?" "Oh, it's five years old, so it's better to be younger. "In today's new society, every household is almost the same, and there is nothing to inquire about. Then let the two babies meet each other one day?" "Well, that's it. You tell people to go, set a date, and see each other. "Look at you're in a hurry. "Once married, it's a matter of time. "Ah, too. In today's society, it is easy to get married, and when you meet, you want to be willing, so you go to the commune to get a marriage certificate, choose a day to hold the ceremony, and the marriage is over. "Then he said, if you can do it, you will marry in the first month." "So fast. "Well, the roots are older, and people are married to him who is usually a year old. In this way, the wife of the Wang family said it and went back. Of course, there is everything for the New Year, and Zhen'er did not forget to bring a gift to the matchmaker.

Knowing that the object of the eldest brother has a score, this dowa is naturally happy. Isn't it? If my brother is going to become a family, won't he be next to his younger brother? Speaking of Dova, this is a bit long. When they gave birth to many babies that year, the Wu family still lived in a cave along the ditch in the east of the village, which can be said to be a family with four walls. In desperation, Zhen'er gave Dowa, who had just reached the full moon, to a Henan family in Xicun. Later, that is, after You'er went to the county canteen to work as a master, the family's situation gradually improved, Zhen'er doubled the return of the wheat and corn given by the people back then, and asked Duowa back from the Henan family. Of course, this was a few years ago.

Zhen'er is in such a hurry, and she has been prepared for a long time. As early as last summer, the Wu family built a house. Gen'er led his sister Ye Zi and his younger brother Dova to pull soil, adobe, wood, and bricks, and invited craftsmen to first tear down the restaurant in the northwest corner of the courtyard and build it to the east side of the courtyard. Then, on the west side of the three north buildings, that is, on the base of the original restaurant, two north buildings were built, and the north buildings were expanded to five. These wives of the Wang family also saw it just now. How to say it, to make a long story short, it is a blessing to be blessed, and I have met with someone's daughter, and both parties are willing, and this family affair is quite smooth.

On the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month, Gen'er was dressed in brand-new blue Chinese-style clothes, a blue hat decorated with strings of silver beads and small flowers, a pair of brown glasses, and a big red silk flower draped from her left shoulder to the bottom right. The two jujube red horses were also dressed properly, with red strings wrapped around their halters, paper flowers on their foreheads, and small white cotton mattresses with red backgrounds on their backs. The press is also dressed up. Catch the sun up, have a simple breakfast, the groom official rode on the jujube red horse, pressed the horse to sit in front of the horse, greeted the bride price, blowing and beating, and went out of the village to pick up the bride in the neighboring village. At noon, I had a banquet at the bride's house, and in the afternoon, I took the bride to Liuwan. The bride entered the village, and the gate of Wu's courtyard was crowded with men, women and children.

"Coming, coming," a group of children ran from the alley. After a while, the bride and groom rode one after the other. When they were about to arrive at the door of Wu's house, the bride and groom dismounted. The bride-in-law, dressed in brand-new pink Chinese-style clothes, holding a flashlight wrapped in red gauze and wicker to ward off evil spirits, bowed her head under the escort of the bridesmaids and her mother's family, stopped a few steps, and landed behind the groom. The sound of suona, firecrackers, and laughter was lively. The one who greeted the relatives urged the new daughter-in-law to leave quickly, but the one who sent the relatives didn't let her go quickly. Finally, in the middle of half pushing and half working, the bride slowly entered the courtyard gate of the Wu family.

According to the habits of the villagers, the Wu family set up more than a dozen tables of banquets, and relatives, friends, people from the same alley, and even a representative of each household in the whole village came. After the principal read out the marriage certificate in public, bowed to the chairman's portrait, father and mother, and guests, the banquet began, and the toast and laughter were all lively. Only those who have smelted steel and repaired reservoirs, the conditions of the village are limited, the banquet is not thick, although it is also called seven plates and eight bowls, but there are many vegetables and few meat dishes. Either way, the wedding was done.

Gradually, the spring flowers at the root of the city wall spit out new shoots in the residual snow, and the villagers also began to work in earnest, sending manure to manure, ploughing the land, tying knots, raking the ground, spring plowing and spring sowing busy.

Just after February 15, the matchmaker came to Liu's house and said that the family affair mentioned to Yingzi during the New Year had not been completed, and the man was unwilling. Although Yingzi is still young, only fifteen or sixteen years old, most of the one-year-olds in the village are engaged. Although it has been more than half a year since the incident in the flower field, the first time the marriage proposal was not successful, and it was very uncomfortable for Yingzi.

On this day, the lazy sun has not yet come out, the bell of the production team has sounded, and the farmer has seen the farm work arranged by the captain in front of the blackboard, so he went home and prepared to work. Yingzi's brother and sister-in-law took a small cloth bag and filled it with a nest head made of persimmon leaves and flour, said it to her parents, and left. Yingzi said she had a headache and didn't want to go. Before going out, my parents told me to cook a bowl of noodle soup and drink it while it is hot, and the sweet noodle soup will nourish people. Ying Ziguang let out a "hmm" and didn't move.

At noon, the family came back from working in the field, and Yingzi was still wrapped in a quilt and lying on the kang. When the rice was cooked, he shouted to eat, but Yingzi didn't eat it. Xia'er, that is, Yingzi's mother, touched Yingzi's forehead, but she didn't have a fever, so she didn't go to her heart.

After the family left, Yingzi didn't cook noodle soup to drink, and was still half-sitting on the kang covered with a quilt and leaning on the quilt, too lazy to move. Indeed, in the past few months, Yingzi has been worried about the sky-high price, afraid of pregnancy, unable to sleep well at night, and having nightmares. In the past few days, I am often in a trance, with golden flowers in my eyes and dizziness. And what about that Shengwa? I heard that she just said that she had a daughter-in-law, and the family was very happy, and they were preparing to marry in the second half of the year. Shengwa not only didn't apologize to Yingzi at all, but even occasionally mocked Yingzi a few words. Thinking of this, the more Yingzi felt that life was boring. When it was almost half a day, Yingzi got up and got off the kang, confused, brought a bottle of pesticides, leaned on the quilt, closed his eyes, and drank it all......

In the evening, when the Liu family came back from work, they smelled a pesticide smell at the entrance of the alley. The Liu family thought to themselves, probably which medicine bottle made the cat beat. But the further you go inside, the bigger the smell of medicine. The Liu family took two steps and pushed open the door, the smell of medicine was even greater, and they shouted two sentences of Yingzi, but they didn't agree. Hurriedly pushed open the door of Yingzi's house and saw that everything in front of him was stunned: the quilt and the kang sheet on the kang were in a mess, Yingzi fell there, white foam was flowing all over the kang, Yingzi was already hard, and he must have been dead for a while.

The Liu family wailed. My brother and sister-in-law hurriedly called the neighbors and helped Yingzi scrub her face, hands and feet, change into clean clothes, and comb her hair. The father of the Liu family asked people to carry the coffin that was originally prepared for him, and the sister-in-law of the Liu family swept it clean with a thin broom, and Yingzi entered the funeral and closed the coffin that night.

Yingzi died before he left the cabinet. According to the customs of the persimmon bay area, no ceremony is held, and no Liu family's cemetery can be entered. So, the next day, with the help of neighbors, a small kiln was dug on the root of a remote cliff. In a hurry, the coffin was pushed in, the mouth of the kiln was sealed with adobe, and a tomb was piled up in front of the kiln, which was regarded as raising Yingziqiu, everything was so hurried and simple. Otherwise, Yezi, Huan'er, and E'er all gave Yingzi a gift. After Teacher Feng learned the news of Yingzi's suicide, he frowned and sighed. I heard that some people saw Teacher Feng running to Yingzi's grave and standing in front of it for a long time. As for the Shengwa, he didn't see any guilt, and he was still his foreman in five and six places. Later, I heard that he also became a team leader.

At the beginning, the village still talked about Yingzi, but as the spring plowing and spring sowing became more and more busy, it gradually became indifferent. Later, I heard that a young man in a village was crushed to death when the production team went down the cliff, and some people wanted Yingzi to marry the young man, but the parents were unwilling, thinking that Yingzi's family was not good. Later, I heard that Yingzi was destined to an old man who had been dead for many years in the distance, and he was no longer lonely, so it was over that Yunsheng and his wife had a matter on their minds. Of course, that's an afterthought.