In the forests on both sides of the mountain road, the chirping of unknown mountain birds and the roars of wild beasts can be heard from time to time.

Maybe her sister Tian Liyu wanted to make her father Tian Hezhuang happy, and she said: "Dad, tomorrow morning, Uncle Wang Yu, the 'pig killer' in Ertaiping, will come to help us kill the New Year's pig!" ”

"Kill the pig tomorrow morning? Who invited you, Uncle Wang? Father Tian Hezhuang asked.

"Mom asked me and my brother to invite it!" Sister Tian Liyu replied.

"Are you going to invite your grandparents and your uncle and aunt?" Father Tian Hezhuang didn't ask if he invited his grandfather, grandmother, uncle and second uncle, but he asked if he invited his grandparents, uncles, and aunts, maybe it was because his grandfather, grandmother and uncle and second uncle lived close to each other, and they could be invited at any time!

"My brother mentioned it to my mother, but my mother said that I went to invite the New Year pig to be killed every year, but my grandparents and uncles and aunts never came once, and my mother also said that this year's New Year pigs were killed later, and my grandparents and uncles and aunts were even more busy when they were busy!" Sister Tian Liyu replied.

"Your mother said, your mother said, neither can say anything, killing the New Year pig should go to invite your grandparents and your uncle and aunt, please not invite our business, whether to come or not is their business, how can we not invite it?!" Father Tian Hezhuang's tone was obviously dissatisfied and reproachful!

Although the three of them walked at night and used flashlights, but because their minds were not used on walking, although it took a lot of time to walk, they felt very fast, when Tian Limai and his father Tian Hezhuang and sister Tian Liyu returned home, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, and their mother Yang Meizhen had already cooked the meal and was waiting for them!

"I'm back!" Mother Yang Meizhen walked over to greet her father Tian Hezhuang.

But his father Tian Hezhuang didn't even look at his mother Yang Meizhen, let alone agree.

Mother Yang Meizhen looked embarrassed in front of her two children.

"Scoop up the rice and eat!" Mother Yang Meizhen said to Tian Limai and her sister Tian Liyu.

Tian Limai and her sister Tian Liyu helped her mother Yang Meizhen set up the table, smoked chopsticks, took bowls and served vegetables, and her father sat at the dinner table without saying a word, and his face was always gloomy!

Tian Limai handed the scooped bowl of rice to his father Tian Hezhuang: "Dad, eat!" Father Tian Hezhuang also took it without saying a word.

Tian Limai glanced at his father Tian Hezhuang, he didn't know what was wrong with his father when he went to Jinziao Danduo's family, which made his father become so melancholy and depressed, and he seemed to be suppressing the fire in his heart.

This dinner was late and dull. Her younger sister Tian Liyu knew that her father Tian Hezhuang would not be angry with her no matter when and under any circumstances, so she asked, "Dad, why are you so unhappy?" ”

"Yu'er, hurry up and eat, is there anything wrong with Dad?" Father Tian Hezhuang wanted to smile at Tian Liyu, but no matter how hard he tried, he didn't even squeeze out a smile on his face!

After dinner, his father Tian Hezhuang put the bowl down, sighed and said, "Tomorrow morning, I will pick up the little baby's grandparents and their uncles and aunts to eat 'soup'!"

Mother Yang Meizhen heard it and wanted to stop it, but Tian Limai saw it and hurriedly said: "Dad, tomorrow morning we will kill the New Year pig, how can you go, I will pick up my grandparents, uncle, and aunt!"

"Mai'er, are you going? Can you pick up your grandparents and your uncle and aunt? Father Tian Hezhuang's face seems to have improved slightly, maybe father Tian Hezhuang thinks that in the past, it was his lame son-in-law who limped back and forth to invite, but he didn't invite, this year let his son Tian Limai go to invite, maybe he can really invite the grandparents and uncles and aunts of the fine baby? When his father Tian Hezhuang thought about it, he didn't feel a hint of cheerfulness on his face, and this cheerfulness diluted the gloom on his face!

"Dad, I'll try it, maybe grandpa, grandma and uncle and aunt they say they may not really come, if they don't come, I won't leave!" Tian Limai said.

"Well, Mai'er, if you can invite your grandfather, grandmother, uncle, and aunt, how dare you be affectionate!" Father Tian Hezhuang said.

Since he followed his father Tian Hezhuang on the mountain road before, Tian Limai saw his father's gloomy face, so he didn't dare to talk to his father, thinking that his father Tian Hezhuang heard something bad about himself in the Danduo family, and now it seems that his father Tian Hezhuang's face was gloomy not because of his Tian Limai, but because of his father Tian Hezhuang's face was gloomy because of something else, so his father Tian Hezhuang had a gloomy face because of something else?

Father Tian Hezhuang went to Jinziao Shan Duo's family, father Tian Hezhuang didn't say it, mother Yang Meizhen didn't dare to ask, of course, Tian Limai and sister Tian Liyu didn't dare to ask, and Tian Limai thought that as long as his father didn't mention "saying Shan Duoyi as a daughter-in-law", there was no need to ask!

Tian Limai saw that his father's gloomy face was not because of himself, he decided to tell his father that he had accepted the things sent by his grandfather, grandmother, uncle and aunt, maybe he had won the initiative, and his father would have a different attitude.

He walked up to his father Tian Hezhuang and said tentatively: "Dad, I have something to say, this-"

"Mai'er, what's the matter? You say, Dad promises not to blame you!" Father Tian Hezhuang interrupted Tian Limai and said.

When his father Tian Hezhuang said this, his mother Yang Meizhen glanced at him, which made Tian Limai and his sister Tian Liyu even more unexpected!

"Dad, that's the case, this afternoon my mother asked me to invite grandpa, grandma and uncle, aunt to eat 'soup' tomorrow, grandpa, grandma and uncle, uncle gave us apples, sunflowers, cone chestnuts, etc., at that time I didn't refuse to accept it, Dad, I know you don't let us take grandpa, grandma and uncle, second uncle's things, because we don't have the money to buy those delicious food to honor grandpa, grandma and with uncle, second uncle's family gifts, Dad, I was wrong, you punish me, right?!" Tian Limai's eyes looked at the ground, and his voice was so soft that only the family in the house could hear it!

Listening to Tian Limai's words, it was almost unexpected by his mother Yang Meizhen, Tian Limai and his sister Tian Liyu, his father Tian Hezhuang not only did not blame Tian Limai, but also seemed to have a smile on his face and asked: "Second uncle, second uncle didn't hand you anything?" There should also be, I know your second aunt's temperament!"

"Dad, the second uncle and the second uncle handed it over, and they handed over oranges and peanuts, I didn't dare to take it, it was the second uncle who sent it to the house!" Seeing that his father Tian Hezhuang did not have the slightest sense of blame, Tian Limai hurriedly said.

"Alas, Mai'er, in the past, my father had overthought some things, your grandfather, grandmother and your uncle, aunt, second uncle, and second uncle sent us things, which is a family affection, and we don't need to deliberately reciprocate!" Father Tian Hezhuang sighed and said leisurely.

Mother Yang Meizhen looked at her father Tian Hezhuang with a gaze that she had never seen before, and her mother Yang Meizhen's eyes were clearly saying: What is wrong with this person today? So abnormal!

Seeing that the whole family was looking at him, his father said again: "Mai'er, Yu'er, it's just that we only have this condition, you and your sister don't have any dependence thoughts, even if it's your grandfather, grandmother, uncle, and second uncle, after all, other people's things are other people's, and others have not handed them to you, you can't force them, people must have ambition and backbone!"

In the evening, the family of four also ate two apples handed by grandpa and grandmother, half of each person, Tian Limai and his mother Yang Meizhen ate one together, and his sister Tian Liyu and his father Tian Hezhuang ate one together, this collocation was proposed by his father Tian Hezhuang, and his father also designated the person who divided the apples, Tian Limai and his mother Yang Meizhen's apples were divided by Tian Limai, and his sister Tian Liyu and his father Tian Hezhuang were divided by his father Tian Hezhuang!

As a result, Tian Limai gave his mother Yang Meizhen a little more than half of the apples, Tian Limai himself wanted to give his mother more than half, but his mother stood by his side to supervise, and his father Tian Hezhuang gave less than one-third of his own half, and his sister Tian Liyu's half was better than two-thirds!

After eating the apple, the whole family rested, Tian Limai couldn't sleep in bed anyway, many things during the day made him unforgettable, especially what made him puzzled was the gloomy face when his father first came back, what made his father like this?

Tossing and turning, Tian Limai thought that he was going to his grandparents' house tomorrow morning and invited his grandparents, uncles, and aunts to eat soup, so what if his grandparents, uncles, and aunts didn't come?

I have been going to my grandparents' house for half a year, or during the summer vacation, Tian Limai remembers very clearly that when I was a child, my favorite house was my grandparents' house!

Tian Limai forced himself to sleep as much as he could, because he wanted to leave early tomorrow morning, and strive to invite his grandparents to come at noon tomorrow!

Because of something in his heart, Tian Limai fell asleep in a daze for a while, and he heard the sound of his mother Yang Meizhen and father Tian Hezhuang getting up, and he got dressed and got up!

Tian Limai had just finished getting dressed when he heard a knock on the door outside the house.

"Which one? So early!" Father Tian Hezhuang asked.

"It's me, Third Brother Zhuang!" The person outside the door was the cousin of Wang Linsheng, the "pig killer" of Ertaiping.

"It's Uncle Wang, why are you here so early? You didn't sleep last night, did you? Father Tian Hezhuang said as he went to open the door.

"Third brother Zhuang, you have to be early, there is a lot of work today, you have to kill the New Year's pigs of three or four families, you know that there is no end to the New Year, and every family has to be busy with the New Year, so you can't delay!" Pig slaughterer," Wang Linsheng said outside the door.

Father Tian Hezhuang opened the door and let the "pig killer" Wang Linsheng into the house, and put the back basket on the back of the "pig killer" Wang Linsheng next.

"Pig killer" Wang Linsheng hadn't sat down yet, looked left and right and asked, "Third Brother Zhuang, the person who helped you catch pigs hasn't come yet?" ”

"Uncle He, sit down and drink cigarettes first, I have a 'top old shell' (referring to the best in dry grass tobacco), I have a lot of energy, drink a rod, and then say, 'busy people don't get old, eat grass when they're old', don't be too anxious about things!" Father Tian Hezhuang asked the "pig killer" Tian Linsheng to sit down, and took out a few pieces of dry tobacco wrapped in a plastic bag from his purse.