Chapter II

Zhou Yiyi dreamed of Uncle Ge again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He still appeared in front of her with blood on the corner of his mouth, waiting for her to follow him to the Zhoujia Reservoir, and then his eyes darkened, and he jumped into the lake.

Another nightmare.

It was dawn again.

Zhou Yiyi finished washing and started to go to Ge's house, she promised Xiaohu yesterday that she would go to play with him today.

As soon as I came to the door of Ge's house, I heard voices coming from inside, both male and female.

The male voice Zhou Yiyi recognized that it was Xiaohu. There are several female voices, except for Aunt Ge, she is not familiar with the others.

Zhou Yiyi pushed open the half-hidden door and walked in, and at a glance saw Xiaohu squatting on the ground with a stone to draw circles on the ground, turning around and shouting to the people behind him from time to time, nodding perfunctorily to the convenience, um, two sounds are considered to be over, but his eyes are staring straight at the mother and daughter who are talking under the eaves of the porch in front of him.

"Auntie. Zhou Yiyi shouted, "I'm here to play with Xiaohu." ”

Several people in the courtyard heard Zhou Yiyi's voice and looked over in unison.

Xiaohu jumped up happily and shouted: "Sister Yiyi, you are here! Xiaohu has been waiting for you for a long time!"

Hui Niang nodded lightly when she saw her, smiled and said softly: "Yiyi is here, Auntie has something to do, you and Xiaohu play by yourself, ah." ”

The other two were initially stunned and then immediately showed a look of disgust, their eyebrows were tight, wrinkled together, and the middle-aged woman who was standing beside Hui Niang and holding her hand said in her mouth: "Hui Niang, it's not that my mother said you, why are you so relieved." This...... How can this kind of broom star still allow her to come to the house? Have you forgotten how Ge Song died? Oh, why do you still let Xiaohu play with her? Really, I'm not afraid that she will kill everyone else in the family...... I'm tired. Tell her to go, go back and sprinkle some wormwood water on the house, and go to get rid of bad luck. ”

Hui Niang frowned and looked at her mother and said, "Mother, how can you say such things in front of your children." Tell the child what he thinks when he listens. ”

"I don't care what she thinks. Aunt Zhu said, "Mother is all for your good." You see that you are now alone with Xiaohu, the more I think about it, the more I feel at ease. You don't know how hard it is to live without a man in the family. This spring planting, autumn harvest, which one can lack a man? Xiaohu is only four years old, you say that you are a girl's family, what do you rely on to support yourself and support your children?" Aunt Zhu said while looking at her daughter's expression, and when she saw that her face did not loosen, she continued, "If you want your mother to say, women still have to rely on men to live." There are no examples of widows remarrying in our village. You are still young, and if you don't find someone to marry at this time, it will be difficult to find it when you are older. Huh?"

Zhou Yiyi and Xiaohu squatted together to watch him draw stone paintings, but their ears were erect high.

"Yes. Mother is right. Hui Niang, you have to listen to your mother's words, our own family is always looking forward to your good. Another woman also stepped forward and persuaded Hui Niang to echo.

"Sister-in-law is also here to persuade me?" Hui Niang looked at her sister-in-law and said.

"I'm doing it for your own good, too. Sister-in-law Zhu said, "For your business, your brother doesn't know how many times he has talked to me." ”

Hui Niang watched her mother's family start to persuade her to remarry just after the full moon after her husband's death, and she couldn't help but feel sad and disappointed.

That's her husband.

It was the husband who rescued her from the mouths of these jackals, tigers and leopards in her mother's family, and it was the husband who gave her stability, gave her children, and gave her husband.

And now, these relatives who are good for her stand in front of her with calculating thoughts and bitterly persuade her to let her remarry.

She only felt bitter in her heart, and bitter in her mouth.

"Who does my mother think would want a widow with a child to remarry?" asked Hui Niang, looking at her mother.

Aunt Zhu thought that Hui Niang was moved by her, so she immediately blurted out: "Liu Yong! Liu Yong's wife died in childbirth, his father-in-law has passed away a long time ago, and there is only one two-year-old child at home." You married in the past, but you are the proprietress of a ready-made silk shop. And Liu Yong said that he agreed that you would marry Xiaohu with you, so that Xiaohu would be a little tiger, and he would immediately become a little master if he followed you. ”

"Yes! Liu Yong is now the big boss. He inherited his father-in-law's silk shop, and I heard that he had bought a new house in the town. Aunt Zhu added.

Hui Niang glanced at Aunt Zhu and Sister-in-law Zhu lightly, and said, "Have you forgotten who ran away from marriage and ran to the town to be a son-in-law for others? Who caused me to be laughed at by the people in the village and our family couldn't hold up my head by jokes? And who caused me to almost commit suicide by jumping into the river in desperation?"

"That's all in the past. Aunt Zhu patted Hui Niang's hand and sighed, "Now that he is back, isn't it okay for him to take care of your mother and son and let you live a good life." ”

"That's right, Hui Niang, you can't be stubborn again at this time. Sister-in-law Zhu also added.

"You have forgotten me, but you remember. Hui Niang withdrew her hand, "What good did he give you this time, so you agreed to sell me again?"

"What are you talking about!" Aunt Zhu glared at Hui Niang and said, "You are my daughter, will I treat you badly?"

"Has my mother treated me well?" Hui Niang turned her head and stared at Aunt Zhu suspiciously, "Mother has you forgotten who forced me to commit suicide by jumping into the river in the first place, and who used me as a cargo to force my life-saving benefactor to take fifty taels as a gift?"

"You!" Aunt Zhu pointed at Hui Niang and said angrily, "That's how you talk to me!

Xiaohu stood up in fright and tightened Zhou Yiyi's hand.

"Go back. Hui Niang rubbed her eyes tiredly, "I won't marry him." ”

"Hmph! You have to marry if you marry, and you have to marry if you don't marry. I've said all the good things and bad things, think about it yourself. Aunt Zhu left this sentence and left angrily.

"Hui Niang, think about it again, we are all thinking about you. You just don't care about yourself, you have to think about Xiaohu. After Sister-in-law Zhu said this, she also chased Aunt Zhu out.

"Auntie. Zhou Yiyi led Xiaohu to Hui Niang's side. "Auntie, do you miss Uncle Ge?"

Hui Niang might as well ask Zhou Yiyi such a sentence, and was stunned for a moment before smiling slightly, and said, "Yes, why don't you want to?" I think about him every day and every night. ”

"Did that auntie dream of Uncle Ge?" Zhou Yiyi continued to ask.

"Did you dream of him?" Hui Niang was a little stunned, her eyes were far away, and she shook her head with a wry smile for a moment, "I want to dream of him, even if I talk to him in a dream." Not once, however. I haven't dreamed of him once. He didn't come to me in his dreams once. ”

"Auntie, do you believe that Uncle Ge was killed by me?" Zhou Yiyi looked up at Hui Niang and said.

Xiaohu tilted his head and looked at Zhou Yiyi in confusion.

Hui Niang was stunned for a moment, touched Zhou Yiyi's head with some distress, and said softly: "Yiyi, Yiyi is a good boy, your Uncle Ge's death is none of Yiyi's business." Don't believe what the people in the village say, and don't listen to them. Some people like to blame others for some accidents or misfortunes, but that is not true. ”

Zhou Yiyi's eyes lit up, and she continued: "Does that aunt think that uncle fell into the reservoir and drowned as everyone said?"

Hui Niang's eyes darkened, she slowly lowered her eyes, and said in a low voice: "I watched him being carried back by others, and he was still wearing a new summer shirt that I made for him, and he was soaked from the inside out, and water was dripping down the wooden board." His eyes were kept closed, and I couldn't wake him up no matter how much I shouted. I touched his face, and it was ice, and when I touched his hands, it was ice. After soaking in the water for a long time, my fingers are soaked and wrinkled, and it is really uncomfortable to touch. Others don't know, but I know. The kung fu of Atsutsu is very good. He used to talk about calling me Xiaoshui, and he said that if he was gone one day, I would be able to save myself. He was the one who brought me up from the river, and he was the one who saved me from hell. He is such a good person, such a good person......" Hui Niang said as her eyes slowly turned red, and she slowly squatted on the ground, covering her face with both hands and feeling sad to the bottom of her heart, "I miss him so much, I really miss him......"

Xiaohu walked over and stretched out his short arms to hug Hui Niang, he didn't understand why his mother was crying sadly, but he was also sad, he gently leaned on Hui Niang's shoulder, and cried faintly: "Mother doesn't cry, Xiaohu is good, Xiaohu is obedient, Xiaohu protects mother." ”

Zhou Yiyi looked at Hui Niang, looked at Xiaohu, and looked at their mother and son, and suddenly felt very sad in her heart, that sadness was like a stone pressing on her chest, pressing her sullen, stuffy, stuffy.

Uncle Ge is a very good person, she has always known it.

"Auntie, I have dreamed of Uncle Ge, every day and every night. Zhou Yiyi said.

Hui Niang raised her head slowly, and the eyelashes around her eyes were all wet with tears.

"Uncle didn't drown. Zhou Yiyi suddenly said, "I don't think my uncle drowned." ”

Hui Niang's eyes widened suddenly.