Let's say that Sun Renyi's wife, that is, the belly of the pretty man, is gradually bulging again. Her son Pingwa had already married at this time and had also given birth to a baby. That is to say, Qiaozi already has a grandchild. However, there is no fuss about this, in this era, it is common for mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in the village to have babies together.

That afternoon, the pretty man was washing clothes at home, and felt a stomachache, so he went to the kang and lay down. Hurriedly sent E'er to call the midwife, and asked the second baby An'er to call his father Renyi back and boil a big pot of hot water. After a while, the midwife came, and she was busy for a long time, only to hear the pretty moan, but she still couldn't give birth. The midwife said it was a fork. Renyi hurriedly put on the carriage, laid out the mattress, took the quilt, and sent it to Qingxi Hospital. The baby was born, a daughter, but the pretty child died of hemorrhage.

I don't have a mother, and I feel that my home is not warm all of a sudden. Unexpectedly, E'er, who had not yet left the cabinet, pulled her face and counted down her father and said: "Really, it's not a shame to be born at such an old age." "You woman, why do you want to talk to your father?" "Do you dare?" "It's not a fool!" "I don't feel ugly on my face." "What's this ugly?" "I feel embarrassed. "Ghost style, you still talked about it. "What do you want so many babies to do, they all suffer with it." "Shut up, talk nonsense, see I don't smack you." ”

"It's not a matter of keeping your mouth shut. The baby wants to eat milk, what can I do?" "Look at your frying." Boil a clear water and rice soup outside, and use the thin feeding on the top. "Oh. "Don't you dare to feed the rice inside, it will choke the baby." Even if you don't choke, you can't digest it. "The fire burned all day and night!" "Let's make do with it, buy a dairy sheep tomorrow and feed it with goat's milk." "Oh, then don't you have dairy goats, you can buy them early tomorrow morning." "Oh. "It's okay now, my mother is dead, what will happen to this family in the future?" "What should I do, you are suffering." Then Renyi squatted there, and said no more, but smoked his dry tobacco. There was no way, her mother died, and her father's daughter-in-law, who had not yet left the cabinet, had to take on the responsibility of feeding her infant little sister. Because Qiaozi died in childbirth, and because she was too young, according to the attention of the persimmon bay area, this funeral was very simple, and it was buried on the third day. I won't go into detail here.

At this time, a large-scale sanitation campaign began in the Persimmon Bay area. Each village also drew some people from each team, including masons, carpenters, and well-written characters, who were busy with the appearance of the village at a sky-high price. The earthen walls on both sides of the alley were plastered with wheat mud and the wall skirts were painted with lime water. The public toilet next to the square of the big stage has been renovated, not only adding a wooden door and a thatched pit cover, but also connecting the thatched pit cover and the wooden door with rubber, automatically showing "someone" and "no one", and the villagers are more fresh. Gone are the slogans on the earthen walls, replaced by large slogans with lime water or paint brushes, or even small pieces of lime plaster, and written with a brush. The villagers get up every day before dawn to clean the streets and alleys, level the road, the streets and alleys are called a neat, in the words of the villagers, just like a dog has licked, walking in the village is more refreshing. I heard that when a big chief came to Fenwan County to inspect, he happily wrote down the inscription "A sun star in the sky, a sun village on the ground, the sun in the sky shines on people's faces, and the sun on the ground warms people's hearts". Of course, that's more than twenty years later.

Persimmon Bay has a warm temperate monsoon climate, and most of the rain in the year is concentrated in summer. The summer of this year seemed to have come very early, and the wheat had just been harvested, and within a few days there was lightning and thunder and torrential rain. In the past, the flat loess avenue was interrupted from time to time due to heavy rain, either by the flood to break out of a big water hole (water hole is the name of the persimmon bay area, in fact, it refers to the relatively high plot on the loess that was washed down by the flood and collapsed into a big pit or hole), or the high cliff collapsed to block the road, and the road construction took up a lot of man-hours of the production team.

At this time, the general meeting of the members is often held in the evening to convey the above documents. There was a vigorous scene in the village that had never been seen before, and the young and middle-aged people were lively, and even the middle school students and even the elementary school students were also brought together, one by one, some literate, some martial, and they couldn't figure out what was going on. Husbands and wives quarrel, and even brothers turn against each other, and fathers and sons become enemies, isn't it? Hong'er in Nantou Lane, Liuwan, often quarrels with her father-in-law Yongwa, in Yongwa's words, his daughter-in-law does not distinguish between menstruation, and she has a face all day long, so she says that she is filial, and he is simply an enemy in the previous life. In this regard, Hong'er's mother, Qing'er, had no choice, she didn't dare to talk about her daughter, and she would quarrel when she said it. But insiders understand that Yongwa and Qing'er have gone too far, the two say that they are their children's in-laws, but in fact they are getting along, not husband and wife are better than husband and wife, regardless of their eyebrows, making the village gossip, but it is ugly, and even the children's faces are not nested. So much so that when the people of Liuwan mentioned looking for relatives for their children, they all used this as an excuse and didn't want to talk about their daughter-in-law and mother-in-law's family in the village. Also, they are all in the same village, chickens and dogs smell each other, and the two families know about the big fart, and they don't see each other when they look up, so how can they be born.

From Liuwan Dongtou Lane to the south, past the old locust tree in the old well platform, and then go a little south, there is a small alley in the east side of the soil gate. Walking east along the alley, when you reach the edge of the ditch, there is a small dirt slope on the south side. There is a thick apricot tree at the top of the slope, and there is also a thick apricot tree at the bend at the bottom of the slope. The earth slope is down the earth cliff that is level with the alley on the south side and goes to the kiln courtyard. This kiln courtyard is more than one zhang and five feet lower than the alley, and there is a half circle along the rammed courtyard wall along the ditch.

That afternoon, a few children were playing there at Little Podi'er's place. Boys and girls were having fun digging holes in small mounds, building houses out of sorghum straw, and counting relatives. But just as the child was playing, an old man in his sixties walked down from the top of the small slope. This old man, with a shaved head, is dressed in Chinese-style clothes, a black clay cloth jacket, a white clay cloth shirt, black clay cloth pants, a trouser cuff, white clay socks, and pointed black clay cloth shoes. However, it seems that this old man does not seem to live in this kiln courtyard.

When the old man walked to the bottom of the slope, he looked at a few children who were playing and said nothing. Then, walk along the mound to the junction between the courtyard wall and the earth cliff on the south side, climb up, and stand at the head of the wall, just level with the earth cliff on the south side. The old man took out a piece of paper from his jacket pocket, looked at it, and pressed the paper with a clod of soil on the top of the earth cliff, where there happened to be a jujube tree, and pressed it on the root of the jujube tree. In the end, the old man jumped down, only to see a stream of dust floating up from the ditch.

After a while, a middle-aged man came up from the top of the small slope. The man ran to the bottom of the slope, climbed from the mound of dirt to the junction of the courtyard wall and the earth cliff on the south side, first looked down into the ditch, and then looked up and took down the piece of paper that the old man had pressed on the root of the earthen cliff jujube tree just now. Coming down from the wall, he squatted on the ground, opened the paper with trembling hands, and looked at the words on it. Then, he lit a cigarette, folded the paper and put it in his jacket pocket, and walked uphill.

After a while, I heard someone in the village shouting: "Oh, it's not good! Hurry! Liwa's father jumped into the ditch!" People often say that it is better to die than to live. What made the old man think about it and do such a stupid thing.

The people of the village are simple, no matter what the plain is, if something really happens, it is still the care of the villagers. I heard that Liwa's father jumped into the ditch, and everyone hurriedly called the village doctor, resisted the door board, and trotted all the way from the slope to the ditch to save people. In the wide ditch, dozens of people rushed to the root of the cliff and found Liwa's father, who was covered in dirt and covered in bruises. This ditch is more than ten zhang deep, jumping down from it, how can you still be alive, you are already unconscious.

Everyone carefully put the person on the door panel, covered it with a quilt, tied it up again, climbed the slope and lifted it up, and changed several groups of young men along the way, and then carried the person to Liu's house. Xia'er and several children cried together. A few days later, he simply sent Liwa's father. This Yunsheng family first killed their youngest daughter Yingzi, and now he himself has jumped into the ditch and died, and Yunsheng's wife Xia'er, who is in her fifties, has suddenly aged a lot.

On the day of burying Yunsheng, the weather was sunny, but when people were carried to the ground for burial, there was a strong wind, like it was going to rain, and everyone worked together. However, from beginning to end, Uncle Liwa, who is also a tiger and a tiger, can be regarded as a younger brother. Of course, this has something to do with the group of babies passing on to him.

The words are divided into two ends. said that since Ye Zi returned to Liuwan after the divorce, the people in the village gradually knew about what she had been ruined before marriage, but no one knew which one did it. Many people sympathize with Ye Zi, saying that a good girl will let the harmful spirit become like this, how can she live the rest of her life? But some people say that it is all caused by the good-looking appearance of the leaf, and if you want to be ugly, there will be no such thing. Some people even said that maybe Ye Zi wanted to hook up with a powerful master, stealing chickens and rice, but he ended up putting himself in, there is nothing to be sorry for. Anyway, each has a mouth, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and there are discussions and everything.

Although no one said it to Ye Zi in person, based on experience, Ye Zi thought that people were talking behind their backs. She didn't want to argue about anything, because the more she depicted it, the darker it became, and it was useless to say anything now. There is a lot of faction in the village, fighting this and criticizing that, Fanwa no longer cares about the village, and the matter of leaves is fading day by day.

Fortunately, Ye Zi still has a few childhood friends. No, E'er sometimes comes to Yezi's house to play with her little sister and comforts Yezi. As for Huan'er, she married into the village and came to see the leaves. In fact, since the hot day of the New Year, Ye Zi has not taken the initiative to play with her two good friends for many years, as if the relationship of many years has disappeared all of a sudden. Of course, it was not until this time that Huan'er and E'er understood the reason why Ye Zi was in a hurry to get married.

A divorced woman has no intention of living in her mother's house for a long time. Grievances, sadness, helplessness and embarrassment made Ye Zi's life in her mother's house boring and uncomfortable, and she even felt that her family didn't want her to live for a long time. What's more, the family is worried about the marriage problem of multiple children. Yes, my younger brother is also older, it's time to start a family, Ye Zi doesn't want to delay her younger brother because of herself, she wants to leave her parents' house as soon as possible and start her new life. As for how to remarry, she has no bottom in her heart.