It is also a picturesque sunset, but today's sunset is like a copper mirror placed on the dresser by the big in the eyes of Ziqing, who is only seven or eight years old, in fact, the dresser is some age, even older than the copper mirror, but this dresser is spotless, and the wooden hairpins are neatly placed, but the copper mirror is full of dust on the small corner of the table, and it can no longer shine half a figure.

Ziqing tiptoed and wanted to wipe it clean with a rag, but unfortunately, Ziqing could see it but couldn't touch it, this dresser was equal to her height, Hua Da Milk brought out a bowl of steaming broth from the kitchen, and asked casually: "Zi Qing, what are you doing wiping that mirror, hurry up and taste the porridge that Grandma Hua boiled for you, make sure you, I've never eaten it!" ”

Ziqing flashed a pair of big moist eyes, and asked curiously: "Hua Da, your things here are polished brightly, why is this mirror full of dust, if you don't want it, put it away and put it here, I saw it, if I don't wipe it for you, I will be uncomfortable." ”

"Hahaha..... "Hua Da Milk covered her chest and leaned back with a smile, and said for a long time, "What a filial granddaughter, do you know why Hua Da Da is reluctant to wipe this mirror?" ”

Ziqing shook her two pigtails, looked at Hua Da Da Milk with an exaggerated smile, and also giggled: "Hua Da Grandma, tell me, I guess, you must be too lazy and looking for excuses!" The small mouth came to the edge of the bowl and took a small sip happily. Hua Da' wrinkled old hand gently stroked one of Ziqing's pigtails, sighed and said: "I don't know when I don't like to look in the mirror anymore, if I go to wipe it, I always can't help but look at it twice, seeing that I am no longer young and has become a yellow-faced old woman, Hua Da' heart is very uncomfortable, and gradually I don't want to care about it anymore." ”

"Like me, an old man in his last years, to say this to you, a little baby who has just been weaned, it seems too far away, and it is too ridiculous, Ziqing, do you tell me if Grandma Hua is very old and ugly?" After speaking, Hua Da Ma added, "What comes out of the child's mouth is the truth, and I am most willing to listen to your answer." ”

Ziqing wiped the scraps from the corners of her mouth, and said with a serious face: "Grandma Hua is the best-looking, and she is the best-looking old woman here." ”

"Hahaha......." Hua Da Milk twisted her nose and laughed, the whole sunset flashed into a cloud of tears in her eyes, no one could stop the pace of the years, and when the last bit of afterglow dissipated in the sky and became a bright moon, Zi Qing woke up from Hua Da Niang's bed in a daze.

At this time, Hua Da Niang also lit a lamp in a daze, opened the curtains in a daze, looked at the bright moon left between heaven and earth, and said with some displeasure: "It's time to get to the second watch so soon, Ziqing, do you want to go to the toilet?" ”

Ziqing shook her head and said, "No, I just heard a person coming from a long distance, looking very tired." "When I say that, it's like I'm telling a terrible joke.

Hua Da Granny fell asleep again, patted Ziqing's back lightly and said, "What kind of dream words do you say this kid, you haven't slept in Grandma Hua for a day or two, what's going on tonight, go to sleep!" Grandma Hua lit the lamp for you, no one dared to come, go to sleep, good. "Cover the futon with purple and green before closing your eyes.

Ziqing also closed her eyes, but couldn't sleep, suddenly, the candle flame in the house flickered, she sat up again with a "suddenly" sound, Hua Da Milk felt a cold in the bed, felt that this little girl was a little strange tonight, suddenly did not sleep, put on her coat and got out of bed, listened carefully with her ears against the door, and asked: "Ziqing, you just said that someone came from a far away, Hua Da Milk asked you, are you dreaming?" ”

Ziqing scratched her shaggy hair and said, "I don't know, I don't know what's going on, I always feel that something is not right, Grandma Hua, why don't you open the door and take a look, maybe someone is really coming tonight, it may be a person who asks for food, or it may be a passerby, oops, I always feel ...... My little heart is messed up. ”

Hua Da Milk said: "When did you become so frightened when you talked at a young age, I see what kind of dream you had." As she spoke, she pulled the latch, and the wind in the night seemed to blow from the ice cellar, and the originally warm hut became cold and lonely, Hua Da Milk lit a lantern, and slowly walked into the yard, and took a big turn in the yard, and looked at all the corners, I was really afraid that Ziqing A child would see something that should not be seen, Hua Da Milk never believed in evil, and carefully checked that there was no abnormality, so she shook her head and walked back, closed the door and said: "Ziqing, there is no one in the middle of the night, don't make trouble with Hua Da Grandma, Grandma Hua is going to sleep. He was about to take off his coat when he heard a low cough coming from outside the door.

Ziqing was so frightened that she didn't dare to gasp, and Hua Da's heart also hung up, and she boldly asked, "Who is outside?" ”

The man outside the door coughed again, followed by a "bang", as if he was exhausted and sat down, and the not very strong door panel trembled with this sound, "Open the door, help....... I'm ......", after hearing this, without waiting for Hua Da Da to speak, Ziqing jumped out of bed and opened the door, and an old man in tattered clothes closed his eyes tightly, and half of his body fell in.

"Ahh Ziqing was so frightened that she took a few steps back, hiding in Hua Da Niang's arms, Hua Da Milk saw that it was an old man, and she looked like she was dying, she didn't expect to pose a threat to herself and Ziqing, so she kicked him in the head and asked coldly, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? ”

When the old man's seemingly stiff body felt an unprecedented warmth, he opened his eyes in a daze, and shrank in inch by inch of half of his body that was still outside the door, "Okay, help me, I haven't ...... for half a month" His eyes fell on the old woman and child in front of him, and finally saw the remaining half bowl of meat soup on the table Ziqing drank, suddenly swept the ground, pounced on the edge of the table, and swallowed the half bowl of cold soup in one gulp, Ziqing was so frightened that he trembled, closed his eyes tightly, and saw him like a hungry wolf predatoring, The movements are not as fast as an elderly person, but, to be precise, an elderly person has such fast skills, it is easy to be favored by women of the same age.

He wiped his mouth, didn't know how to put down the empty bowl in his hand, and after a long time, he apologized to Hua Da Niu: "I haven't eaten or drunk for half a month, and I have some ...... Gaffe. ”

"It's nothing, or you sit down first, and I'll make you a new bowl." Hua Da Milk looked happy and took the bowl in his hand, "Seeing that you don't look like a bad person, I'll take you in for one night, fortunately, I have Ziqing, a little girl, to accompany me, otherwise, I can't keep you a big man by saying anything....... Spend the night here. The voice grew quieter, and the man was already in the kitchen.

The old man sat at the table with a heart, a pair of eyes were bright, although he was over sixty years old and full of white hair, but in Ziqing's opinion, there seemed to be a motivation that did not match his age, he glanced around the room, saw Ziqing's eyes staring at him, and smiled gently: "Your name is Ziqing, how old are you this year?" His voice was still old.

"Eight-year-old, what about you?"

"I ...... I do not know. The old man looked at his big wrinkled hands, and suddenly couldn't help but tremble, "I don't know, I don't know." ”

"What don't you know? Come and drink porridge. Hua Da Milk came out of the kitchen, the broth in her hand was steaming extremely temptingly, and the old man quickly got up and said, "I'm tired." ”

Hua Da Da said happily: "You're welcome. As soon as these four words were finished, the old man had already drunk most of the bowl of soup, "This has just come out of the pot, you slow down, be careful of the hot!" ”

Ziqing covered her small mouth and snickered a few times, and said, "Grandma Hua, why do you have a strange voice when you talk today, just like the bride that the second brother in the village just married, hehe....."

Hua Da's face was still filled with a girlish flush, and when she heard Ziqing say this, she shouted with her hands crossed: "Little age, what are you talking about, hurry up and go to sleep!" When Ziqing got into the bed, Hua Da Milk sat opposite the old man without any worries, and said, "I just asked who you are, and you haven't answered yet." ”

After drinking the soup, the old man felt a lot of energy, and said gratefully: "In the lower Ye Zongdu, thank you for the life-saving grace of the seniors!" As he spoke, he got up and bowed to Hua Da's.

Hua Da Da stood up very unhappily and said, "Are you bullying me for being old?" Predecessor? I don't seem to be much different from you! You've finished your soup, so please get out of here! As he spoke, he kicked the door open, pointed to the gradually shining mountain, and sneered, "Please! ”

Ye Zongju realized his negligence at this time, and escaped from the mausoleum, exhausted, and didn't care why he became so old, if he hadn't been thirsty one day, and saw his aging appearance in the shallow water, he really thought that he was still a handsome son, as for why he was old, Ye Zongju didn't understand, but now he saw Hua Dada's face annoyed, and hurriedly changed his words: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I can't ..... No, girl. ”

Hua Da has been a long time and no one calls herself a "sister", her heart is hot, and she said with a smile: "I'm playing with you, it turns out that your name is Ye Zongdu, so Brother Ye, where are you from?" Why are you so embarrassed? ”

was called "brother" by an old woman who was so many rounds older than himself, Ye Zong couldn't cry or laugh, but helplessly, who let himself also have white hair and folds, "I ...... From there, the businessman lost his entanglement, so now he has no human appearance. ”

"What kind of business?" Hua Da propped up her head and stared at him with a pair of wrinkled eyelids, like a young girl looking at her lover.

"I ...... Doing some small business, now that I have no belongings, I can say that I am homeless. Ye Zong never knew how to make up a lie to deceive her, as soon as he saw Hua Da Da's weather-beaten face, he remembered that he was afraid that he would not have long to live, and his heart was sore and sore.

Hua Da Da patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, you can live here as long as you want!" "When a person reaches her age, what else do she have to worry about, day by day, as fresh as she can be.

"This ......" thought that he still had a lot of things to do, and the death on his body was still in an ethereal state, not completely controlled by himself, but he couldn't be in a hurry, and he muttered for a long time, "Okay, I'll stay for the time being." ”

In the early morning, the blades of grass were full of dewdrops, and as soon as Ziqing finished washing her face, she saw a middle-aged man standing in the yard, staring at her with a serious face: "Ziqing, in the future, you are not allowed to come here again, go back with your father!" Turning around as he spoke, Hua Da Da crossed her waist and shouted: "Stake, what do you mean by this, Ziqing came to me, is it missing hair or wronged, tell me?" ”

The head of the pile replied without replying: "Ziqing is my daughter, I should tell her to understand some rules, what can I learn from following you?" He glanced at Ye Zongdu, who was fetching water by the well, took Ziqing's hand tightly, and strode away.

"What kind of madness did this pile make early in the morning?" Hua Da Granny frowned, and reluctantly watched Ziqing's little figure go farther and farther, before she looked at Ye Zongzhu with a smile on her face and said, "Brother Ye, take off your clothes, and I'll wash you!" ”

"Good!" Ye Zong replied decisively, filling the kitchen water tank, and suddenly felt a cold arm, and a few lines of blood flowed down his arm, dripping into the water and quickly melting, "Oops! Hua Da Ma screamed, and hurriedly helped Ye Zongdu to sit down, and pulled Ye Zongdu's clothes off layer by layer with both hands like peeling zongzi, and saw a blood hole in the front chest and back, "poof" blood, Hua Da Yang had never added such a "miserable state", patted her thighs like a dead man, and yelled: "Oh, what can I do about this, my God......"

Ye Zongju was dizzy by her crying voice, and hurriedly persuaded: "I'm not in the way, you boil some hot water, apply medicine and you'll be fine, I'm here, I'm ...... I was stabbed by a sharp branch, and it didn't get in the way. He endured the pain and tried his best to persuade himself to survive until the end when death was completely controlled.

"I thought you were quite sturdy, but I didn't expect to pick up a few buckets of water to become like this, if I had known, I wouldn't have let you do anything." Hua Da rubbed Ye Zongdu's body, like a very kind mother, Ye Zongju suddenly remembered his grandfather, when he was very young, grandpa rubbed himself like this, and now everything has come to naught, he sighed and asked, "Is there anyone else in the family besides you?" What about your children? ”

Hua Da Milk carefully rubbed the medicine for him, and said absent-mindedly: "I liked a man when I was young, and after this man married another woman, I never married, where is the child?" ”

"You're really infatuated, you have given your life for him, do you think it's worth it?" Ye Zongzhu got dressed, looked at her and said, "It's really hard to endure for such a long time. ”

Hua Da Milk smiled sadly and said: "I am not living day by day, I still remember what he looked like twenty years ago, and I can't remember what he looks like for the rest of the time, I had an illness that year, but I forgot what he looked like, it's really ridiculous, even God gave me a trace of beauty, I don't know how I lived until now." ”

"Live well, you will always meet another him, let it be!" Ye Zongjie secretly took a breath of true luck, and felt that his body was not as bad as he imagined, so he gradually relaxed, and continued, "By the way, that little girl named Ziqing likes you very much, does she often come to you?" ”

Hua Da Granny sighed: "I'm not afraid of your jokes, Ziqing's grandfather is the man I have been thinking about for a long time, and I have also expressed my heart cheekily, but he took it as a deaf ear, but unfortunately, he died very early, don't say it, don't say it....... Seeing that you are not in good health, I will get you some good supplements. ”

"Thank you." Ye Zongju was very grateful, and wanted to touch some silver from his arms, but he didn't touch anything, and smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say.

After staying for three days, his body was almost recovered, Ye Zong wiped the bronze mirror on the dresser when he had nothing to do, and this wipe really scared himself, "I look like I am in my twenties now, obviously an old man, if my grandfather is still alive, I am sure to not recognize my grandson, even the master is afraid that he will not recognize it." I was stunned, and I heard someone outside the hospital laugh crisply: "Hua Da Niang, your old man is in good spirits these days, is there anything particularly happy?" ”

Ye Zongju raised his eyes and saw that it was a woman carrying a bamboo basket, and Hua Da Niang was also walking back from the town with a package, and said with a smile: "This person is in good spirits on happy occasions, the old woman has few days to live, and she can be happy every day!" ”

The woman said: "It's better to spend big and have a good mentality, people live like you." After saying this, he squinted and looked into the room, but he didn't know what he saw, and left with his lips pouted.