Tie Dan nodded and said, "Okay, if you can walk, you can go with me." ”

Tie Dan saw that this ugly girl was thin, with a yellow face and thin muscles, and she was shaking when she walked, and she was really worried about whether she could follow her all the way to the mass grave outside the city, because the road was still a little far away.

The ugly girl didn't say much, just held on to the frame car bridge, and the iron egg pulled the frame car forward, the ugly girl was beside the car, dripping water with difficulty, and the frame car was moving in the stagnant water, making a noise.

Along the way, Tie Dan turned his head from time to time to take a look at the ugly girl. She walked more and more slowly, and her wheezing sound became heavier and heavier, and her feet in the stagnant water were almost dragging forward when she reached the back, and her eyes began to lose concentration. His body swayed, and he almost collapsed into the water.

Tie Dan knew that she might not have eaten a good meal for many days, so he had no strength, so he stopped the cart and said to her, "If you don't want to sit on the cart, I'll pull you." ”

In fact, there were already several corpses on the cart, and it was very difficult to pull the iron eggs. If only one more girl. It was even more tired, but he saw that the girl was really pitiful, and it was estimated that she couldn't go out of the city, and he was a little distressed, so he offered to let her sit in the car.

But the ugly girl shook her head, gasped and said, "No, I can walk." ”

Tie Dan didn't say much, and continued to pull the cart out.

After walking for a while, he heard a plop behind him, and Tie Dan quickly looked back and saw that the ugly girl had fallen into the water, splashing everywhere, struggling and even having no strength to get up.

Tie Dan quickly threw off the rack car and ran over and helped her up from the water. The ugly girl has choked on several mouthfuls of water and keeps coughing.

Tie Dan didn't say a word, lifted her up and threw her directly on the cart, sat next to the corpse, and then said, "You just stay there and don't move, I'll drag you away." ”

The ugly girl didn't even have the strength to get out of the car, so she could only look at him gratefully and cough incessantly.

If in the past, Tie Dan pulled a cart and walked to the mass graves outside the city, mostly stopping and not hurrying. And now, there was a young girl sitting in the car, he seemed to be in the mood all of a sudden, and he didn't stop halfway in one breath, pulling the corpse of the cart and the girl out of the city, and stopped when he arrived at the mass grave more than ten miles away. He himself was a little surprised why he was so violent.

Along the way, the girl had recovered some of her strength, slowly got out of the car, and wanted to take her father's body down, but her body was too thin to hold it at all, so she still went up to move his father's body down, and then said: "I'll dig a pit for your father's corpse and bury it separately, and then make a mark, and in the future, you can go to the grave alone, and I will find another place to dig a pit and buy the other corpses, do you think it's okay?"

The girl nodded sadly, looking helplessly at her father's corpse and weeping.

Tie Dan found a place with a slightly better terrain and no water, dug a deep pit, and then helped the ugly girl wrap his father's body in a straw mat and put it in the pit, bury it alive, and pile up a tomb.

The ugly girl knelt in front of the grave and cried, which really made people listen to the liver and intestines.

Iron Egg went to find a branch and stuck it in front of the grave, so that the girl could make a mark. Later, Tie Dan took the hoe to another place to dig a pit and buried the rest of the corpses in the pit.

After he had buried the corpses, he came back and saw the ugly girl sitting in front of his father's grave, her eyes glazed over, as if her tears had dried up.

Tie Dan took out his own package of dry food from his bosom, opened it, took a cooking cake, handed it to the ugly girl, and said, "Come, I'll give it to you." ”

The ugly girl looked at the cookcake, her eyes suddenly lit up, she turned her head to look at the iron egg, and shook her head again.

Tie Dan knew what she meant, and said, "I have another one here, you can eat it, don't worry." ”

Tie Dan took out another cooking cake from his bag, he did manual work, and the amount of food was quite large, usually at least two cooking cakes at a meal, he actually gave half of his rations to this ugly girl.

The ugly girl nodded gratefully, took the cooking cake, her hands trembled a little, and then opened her big mouth and chewed desperately to eat, as if she had nothing to pad her stomach for several days, but, thinking about it, these days since the flood in Xuanzhou, there have been a lot of disaster victims and beggars in the city, and the probability of getting food has decreased a lot. And those who are kind-hearted will generally give their food to the old people and children, and rarely to the young and middle-aged, even young women. Except, of course, for some people with evil thoughts, so it is difficult for an ugly girl to get something for begging, and her mother and her younger siblings are begging for much more than her. And first fill her stomach, and then give the rest to the ugly girl, so sometimes the ugly girl can only eat one meal a day, and sometimes she can't eat one meal for a day or two. No wonder I'm hungry like this.

Seeing that she was eating violently, Tie Dan looked distressed, and hurriedly said, "Slow down, slow down, don't choke." Then he took off his gourd containing water from the cart from his waist, pulled out the stopper, and handed it to the ugly girl.

The ugly girl was really choked because she ate too violently and the cooking cake was very dry. Quickly took the water hyacinth, and poured several mouthfuls of water, and then rushed down the cooking cake in her throat, still choking her to roll her eyes, but she couldn't care about anything else, and poured all the remaining cooking cakes into her stomach.

Tie Dan saw that she was pitiful, she only ate half of it, and Tie Dan's stomach was still rumbling, but she thought about going home and eating it, so she handed the rest of the cooking cake and half a cooking cake to the ugly girl.

The ugly girl took the cooking cake, looked at the iron egg gratefully, and said, "Thank you." ”

Seeing that he was holding the half of the cooking cake and not eating it, Tie Dan was a little curious and asked, "Why don't you eat it?" ”

"I want to keep it for my mother and siblings. ”

This is still a filial son, Tie Dan sighed, and said: "You get on the rack car, I'll pull you back, anyway, the car is empty, your body is too weak, you will be very tired when you walk back, this is still far from the city." ”

Niu shook her head firmly and said, "I'll go back." ”

Tie Dan didn't say anything, so he pulled the cart and walked to the city, the ugly girl followed him, it turned out that Tie Dan walked very fast, but because the ugly girl walked staggeringly, he didn't dare to throw her a girl's house into the wilderness, so he also accompanied her to walk slowly. After walking for almost an hour, I returned to the city.

The ugly girl saluted him gratefully, and then walked down the alley with her head down, and Tie Dan also pulled a cart and returned to her home.

Tie Dan, after throwing the rack car to the yard, he went to the kitchen when he entered the house, he only ate half a cake, and he was tired all morning, so hungry that his chest was close to his back, and he just walked to the kitchen door, and was stopped by his mother: "Tie Dan, you come here." ”

Tie Dan originally wanted to say that I was hungry and looking for something to eat, but when his mother said something later, he immediately blocked his words back, and Fei also appeared in front of his mother. Because what his mother said was: "Mrs. Liu is here, tell you about your daughter-in-law." ”

Tie Dan is two years older than Yang Xianmao, and seeing that his partners around him have become relatives one after another, but he is still a single person, he can't help but be very anxious. Of course, his parents were even more anxious than him, begging the matchmaker to find him a daughter-in-law. But the matchmaker didn't agree with a few of them before, it's not that they pick and choose, their family situation is barely passable by ordinary people, the key is because the iron egg is a yamen, others are not very happy, or the bride price is very high, and their family really can't afford it, so it always doesn't work, this time, I don't know which daughter-in-law is talking about.

Tie Dan's surname is Tie, his mother is talking with a shrewd old woman at the moment, after Tie Dan entered the house, the old woman said: "I said Tie Dan, this time Grandma Liu I found this daughter-in-law for you, if you are not satisfied, then I can't help it, in the future, you should entrust others yourself, I am the last one to tell you." ”

The income of Tie Dan's family is mainly earned by Tie Dan and the master collecting corpses, plus Tie Dan has always been relatively strong at home, so if his father wants to find him a daughter-in-law, he must first ask for his own opinion, this time the same is the case, for fear that he will not be satisfied, and when the time comes, they will quarrel with his parents, and they will not have more money to remarry him to a daughter-in-law, let alone take a concubine. Their family's standard of living is still far from that. Therefore, this daughter-in-law must marry satisfactorily.

The iron egg urn asked Mrs. Liu angrily, "Which daughter-in-law are you talking about?"

"Just three streets away from you, the old lady of the cobbler. ”

As soon as he heard this, Tie Dan turned around and left the house and went to the kitchen to find cooking cakes to eat.

Tie Danniang was very anxious, and when she saw her son's posture, she knew that he was not happy, so she quickly chased him out, went to the kitchen and said, "What's wrong? ”

Tie Dan rummaged through the cabinets, finally found a piece of cooking cake, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, picked up half a gourd and scooped a scoop of cold water, poured it into his stomach and chewed it, ignored his mother, turned around and went out, went to his room, and began to undress, her clothes were already wet with rain, wet and sticking to her body.

When his mother saw him changing clothes, she didn't avoid it, but turned sideways, and then said, "You can't say a word about this child? What's wrong with him? What do you not like? Granny Liu, this is a heart-wrenching woman who has come to talk about your daughter-in-law." ”

Tie Dan turned his back and changed his clothes, chewed a few more bites of cooking cakes, and then said: "Mother, don't you know? That girl used to be Sister Yao, such a person married home, can you rest assured?"

Tie Danniang sighed and said: "That's no way, their family can't live like this, isn't it good now? And she wants very little bride price, as long as two taels of silver, our family still takes it out, those other people's families, the glory gift will be a large sum, just our family, marry a girl back, marry a daughter-in-law, it's already good, how many people have a lifetime of singles and no money to marry a daughter-in-law, you don't choose." I see that this girl is kind and kind, and her ass is also big, a kind of can give birth to a son, and you don't care about the previous things. ”