was stared at by the three of them, Tang Tang reluctantly went to talk to Ma about life. She lowered her voice, touched the horse's face soothingly, and said, "Dear, do me a favor?" Take us home peacefully, and you will definitely be offered good grass and food. ”

The dark horse glanced at her, and immediately hit it off and reached an agreement. Tang Tang took Lu Xiangyang on the horse together, and the two sat one after the other, which was inevitably a little embarrassing.

Seeing that Lu Xiangyang behind her had nowhere to catch, Tang Tang said, "Why don't you sit in front?" ”

Lu Xiangyang couldn't cry or laugh, and replied: "I'm in front, can you still see the road?" ”

Tang Tang said with a smile: "The old horse knows the way, this horse will follow the old captain's horse by himself later, don't worry about me." ”

Unexpectedly, this sentence stung the fragile little nerves of the black horse, and it stepped on its hooves angrily and said, "Who do you say is old?" Master, I'm obviously tall and strong, shiny and shiny, and young! ”

The horse next to him sneered unceremoniously: "Just you? Come on, who is it! Teeth are getting old, haha! ”

The black horse was furious, stretched out his leg and tripped over, "Recover, dare to laugh at the master, look at me!" ”

Immediately, the two horses whizzed into a mess. By the time the old captain finally calmed down the two horses and finally started on the road, night had quietly fallen. Along the way, the cold wind was bitter, and the black horse made a twitch from time to time, and he ran too happily, spreading his hooves and leaving the other horse behind.

The horse wanted to cry without tears, nagging all the way about why the dead fat man behind him was so heavy?

By the time the two horses ran back to the village, everyone's heads were messed up, their clothes were cold and cold, and even the expressions on their faces were stunned like statues.

After the old captain dismounted, he stomped his feet fiercely and said to everyone: "Hurry up, don't freeze!" Then, he reached into his arms, took the oil cake that had been warm, and asked the people to go back to rest early.

Tang Tang walked to the back of the yard with the oil cake smear, the old dog and the little milk cat were napping in the nest, and when they saw her coming, they couldn't help but be overjoyed, and they circled around her body. Tang Tang smiled and divided half of the oil cakes to them, looking at them eating sweetly, his heart couldn't help but iron.

After eating the other half of the oil cake, she wiped her hands and walked into the house. At this time, Wang Min and Sun Shuping had already fallen asleep, so they cleaned up immediately, and lay down on the kang with their eyes closed.

On the morning of the second day, Wang Min and the others suddenly discovered that Tang Tang had returned. Wang Min didn't have a good face for her as usual, didn't say a word about her like air, washed up and walked out. On the contrary, Sun Shuping quietly came over and asked her where she went yesterday, Tang Tang said with a smile that the relatives in the county were in a hurry, and went over to help take care of them.

After dealing with this matter, Tang Tang went to the canteen for breakfast, and soon saw the old captain call his son and a few young people, ride a horse together, bring tools, and rush to the place where the carriage was thrown in the middle of the road yesterday. In recent years, it has been quite difficult to build a carriage, and it is not a habit to throw it away if it is not broken. Niu Jianhua and others went with tools, just to prepare to repair it on the spot, and then tinker for another three years to bring the carriage back again.

For a few days, Tang Tang worked in the village while working in the fields, and he couldn't help but remember Uncle Rong and Xiaozhuzi. Whenever there was a car in the brigade to enter the city, she would follow the trip, sometimes to Uncle Rong and they brought a handful of firewood, sometimes to send a handful of wild vegetables picked from the ground, and sometimes there was really nothing to send, so she smiled and went to the door to ask for a glass of water to drink, and helped the two wash and scrub and do housework.

Fortunately, Uncle Rong and Xiaozhu still had a lot of food in their food books, so they wouldn't let the two of them break off the cooking.

But this still can't stop Uncle Rong's body from deteriorating, he has less and less time to wake up, and more and more time lingering in the hospital bed. Even several times, Tang Tang quietly felt Uncle Rong's gaze lingering on him, as if he had something to say, but he didn't say it. This made her slowly have a vague feeling in her heart, I'm afraid Uncle Rong's time is running out.

In the early autumn, when the Niujiatun brigade finally barely scraped together enough to pay the share of public grain, and when a dozen or so men escorted the car to send the grain to the county seat, Tang Tang finally had another chance to go to Uncle Rong's house.

This time, she knocked on Uncle Rong's door, but she didn't see the small pillar to open it, but a strange woman opened the door. The woman's face was sour, and she looked at Tang Tang with a wrinkled brow, "Who are you?" ”

Tang Tang's heart sank, and he still asked with a smile on his face, "Auntie, is Uncle Rong here?" ”

Unexpectedly, this ordinary question made the woman's brows furrow even tighter. She waved her hand impatiently, almost hitting Tang Tang's face, and said in a very bad tone: "Yo, this old man has been dead for a while, and now this is our family." With that, he pushed Tang Tang out and prepared to close the door again.

Tang Tang was shocked, she didn't have time to come for some days, but she didn't expect such a big thing to happen, so she stopped her movements at the moment, grabbed her arm and asked tightly, "What about the little pillar?" ”

The woman immediately glanced at her vigilantly, and her expression became a little nervous, "What did you tell him to do?" ”

As soon as Tang Tang heard this, she knew that Xiaozhuzi must be in the courtyard, and she said calmly: "Uncle Rong once told me to come to see Xiaozhu regularly before his death, and he was not allowed to suffer the slightest grievance. It just so happened that the nephews and nieces from the countryside had come to deliver food today, and they sent me to come over and take a look, and they would be there in a moment. Where are the pillars? If we can't see him, our country nephews and nieces won't be leaving today! ”

The woman was frightened by what she said, and her face was panicked and disgusted. She couldn't help it, for fear of delaying time and provoking a bunch of country men again, so she simply pushed the door open and scolded sharply: "What is Uncle Rong trying to do?" Since you have given us people, how can you be so uneasy? ”

Tang Tang ignored her dissatisfaction, walked into the yard quickly, and saw a little baby dressed in old clothes, dirty and ill-fitting, as if it hadn't been replaced for a long time. Even the originally round face was thin and small, and it became more and more obvious that a pair of eyes lined with a small face were extraordinarily large.

At the moment, her heart was in pain.

The little pillar struggled to carry a small basin of water and put it under the tree. However, the little bird of the tree has already been driven away by the family, and only one starling still follows him, flies down from a high place with a face, stands on the edge of the basin and pecks two mouthfuls of water.

Suddenly, at this moment, a stone came out from the side and hit the starling who was drinking water with his head down.

It immediately let out a cry of pain, and a few handfuls of feathers were even struck down by the stones, and fell to the ground in a staggering manner, and its whole body struggled to fall into the water.

A fat boy suddenly ran out of the room, raised his voice and shouted excitedly: "Mom, come and see, I hit!" I've hit this bird in the basin, grab it. ”

When Xiao Zhuzi heard this, he hurriedly stood up and stopped in front of the starling, and said anxiously and fearfully with his small chest: "You are not allowed to hurt him." ”

"Wow, get out of here!" The fat boy looked at him with a sneer, and with a "bang" he violently pushed him to the ground, reaching out to grab the starling behind him.

However, as soon as his hand reached out a little, he was squeezed tightly by a hand.

"Whew!" He suddenly felt a pain, and looked up at Tang Tang with a gloomy face. "Stinky bitch! Where did you come from, get out! ”

Tang Tang was angry and endured, but stared at him with a smile and said, "Don't swear children." ”

"Ahhhh The fat boy suddenly yelled in pain, and hurriedly hugged his arm with his other hand, shaking around, "Let go, it hurts me." ”

When the woman saw that he was deflated, she rushed to him. Tang Tang didn't do much entanglement, he was very aware of his strength, he didn't pinch him at all, and he didn't even leave a red mark in the fat boy's wrist, he was completely acting!

She suddenly let go of her hand, and Zhan Ran walked over and helped the small pillar that had been pushed down.

When Xiao Zhuzi saw her, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and his eyes were rolling with tears. He wanted to pounce but didn't dare to pounce, so he stood where he was, and shouted, "Sister." ”

Tang Tang was so softened by his trembling and aggrieved cry that he shouted. She couldn't wait to leave with Xiaozhu right away, but when she thought about it, she was also a young man from the countryside who had left her hometown, where could she have the ability to take good care of him? I can't help it, I have a lot of worries in my heart.

She opened her arms to hug Xiao Zhu's soft body, and was just about to comfort him a few words, but she didn't expect an overwhelming curse to follow. The woman angrily took the fat boy aside and cried out bitterly, "What's the matter with you! What do you want to do? Come to our house and don't look at what kind of place this is? ”

She glared at Tang Tang fiercely, turned her head and suddenly shouted at the house: "Dead ghost! Where have you been? Hurry up and come out, everyone is bullying the door! ”

"Who bullied you?" As soon as her words fell, a man rushed out with a kitchen knife. The face is full of flesh, and the face is evil, and it makes people tremble when they look at it. He shouted in an open voice: "That bastard is here to cause trouble? ”

The woman raised her hand and pointed, "She! ”

The man was stunned, stared at a pair of tiger eyes, and walked over step by step, "What do you want to do?" If you are playful, you have to see if the kitchen knife in my hand is willing or not! ”

Tang Tang immediately protected the little pillar behind her, her heart was beating like thunder, but she still said in a steady voice: "Uncle Rong entrusted the little pillar to you, and that's how you treat him?" Is it true that there is no one in our house? ”

The man's arrogance suddenly withered, and he opened his mouth with little confidence and said, "What's wrong with our family? Is it because he is missing to eat, or is it because he is not drinking? There are a lot of clothes to wear, a lot of food to eat, and to be able to feed him safely and steadily, it is already a lot of love! You have the ability to take it over and raise it, we are not uncommon for such a drag oil bottle! ”

Hearing these unsightly words on the spot, Xiao Zhu's face turned red. He grabbed the edge of Tang Tang's back shirt tightly, hiding his whole body behind him without saying a word.

Tang Tang held his little hand, and suddenly felt hot tears falling on it, burning her heart. She knew that the family's attitude was arrogant, and there were knives and men, so she was holding the small pillar in her arms for a while, and she didn't dare to act rashly. You have to find their sore spots and weaknesses in order to pinch them fiercely so that they don't dare to get carried away.

didn't expect her silence to make the other party think it was a soft persimmon. Immediately, the fat boy's attitude became arrogant again, glaring at Tang Tang and Xiaozhuzi viciously, and said, "Idiot! Give me the birds, or I'll call me daddy to beat you up!" ”

When the starling who fell into the basin heard this, he immediately ignored the pain, fluttered his wings and flew to the top of the tree, making it impossible for the fat boy to reach for a while. He stared at the starling angrily for a long time, and then slammed under the tree and played tricks, "No, no! I just want birds, go up to the tree and get them for me!" ”

He wiped his tears with a shout, and his clothes were black on the ground, not ashamed. Seeing this, the snarky woman also became angry, grabbed him with a black face and slapped him hard a few times, and said angrily while counting: "What your bird? Now don't mention the birds, people are white-eyed wolves, what is there to worry about, recruit them home and be angry! ”

The insinuation in this passage made Tang Tang tremble even more. She didn't expect that Xiao Zhu's life would be more difficult than she imagined. Under the hands of this family, how will he live in the future? At that moment, she left with the little pillar, ready to find the street to reason and suppress the arrogance of the family.

However, as soon as they went out with their front feet, the door of the back foot "slammed" and the door was tightly closed. A tall and deep scolding came out through the door panel, "Get out, get out of here!" Don't be an eyesore in front of us! ”

Xiaozhu stood outside the door in a daze, looking at the familiar door, his eyes were red, and he didn't know what to do. He held Tang Tang's hand tightly and said with a crying voice: "Sister, I can't go, this is grandpa's house, I want to keep this home." ”

His well-behaved and sensible appearance is more and more distressing. Tang Tang lowered his body and stroked the top of his head, even more sad that his withered yellow hair without a trace of nutrients did not look like a child.

Just as she was about to leave with the little pillar first, the starling flew out of the yard with its wings, and suddenly spoke in this secluded back street alley: "Girl, Uncle Rong has something for you." ”

Tang Tang was taken aback, listening to the hoarse chirping of the starling, he fell silent for a while, but there was a storm in his heart.

This was the first time that a small animal had spoken to her spontaneously, and had been asked to help her pass the word. This inevitably made Tang Tang guess that Uncle Rong and Starling both knew the fact that she could understand the fact that animals spoke, and they also communicated freely with each other. Tang Tang stared at the starling in horror without saying a word, not knowing if it was testing itself or what.

Xiao Zhuzi quietly pulled the corner of her clothes, looked up and said, "Sister, why don't you speak?" Grandpa asked Starling to leave you a message. ”

Tang Tang was shocked in his heart, and blurted out and asked, "Do you understand what it is saying?" ”

Xiaozhu nodded softly: "I understand!" ”

This sentence made her heart stop beating for a beat. She suddenly recalled that when she came to Uncle Rong's house before, she subtly noticed Uncle Rong's gaze lingering on her several times, and it turned out that he was observing herself quietly at that time.

Tang Tang's heart was full of doubts, and countless questions were blocked in his heart. Since she was seen through her specialness, she simply said directly to the starling: "What did Uncle Rong say?" ”

Starling flapped his wings and flew up, leading the way in front, "Follow me." ”

It took Tang Tang and the little pillar around the street, almost to the back street of Uncle Rong's yard, where there was a large locust tree with lush greenery, and the tree was full of sparrows and birds. Looking at the past, many of them were old acquaintances, who had seen them in Uncle Rong's yard before.

As soon as they saw the starling, the birds in the tree immediately became energetic and jumped up and down the tree.

"Chirp, starling, are you here?"

"We take a good look at things, don't worry!"

"How's the little pillar? Hey, he's in the back? ”

Xiao Zhu's face suddenly grinned, and he ran to the bottom of the tree with his short legs, and looked at the little bird in the tree excitedly and was surprised and delighted, and said again and again: "I thought you were all gone!" ”

As soon as they heard this, the birds in the trees all burst into laughter, revealing indescribable cunning.

Starling said to the birds, "Take the things down." ”

Immediately, more than a dozen birds worked together to pass a bag of things flying, Tang Tang opened it and saw that it was full of documents, food and a small amount of money.

Starling looked at this pile of things, sighed, and said to Tang Tang: "Uncle Rong said, these things are left for you, please take good care of the little pillar." ”

Even if he expected this, Tang Tang couldn't help but be surprised, and asked, "Uncle Rong, isn't he looking for a good family?" How can it be entrusted to me? ”

Unexpectedly, this sentence suddenly poked the starling's pain point, and it jumped up angrily, "I have been with Uncle Rong for so many years, and I didn't know that there was such a family." Uncle Rong left suddenly, and before he had time to explain anything to you, the family immediately came out, took care of Uncle Rong's funeral in the name of relatives, occupied his house, and volunteered to take care of Xiaozhu, which was done without even saying anything on the street, acquiescing to their behavior. ”

If this is the case, then it is not difficult to understand their attitude towards Xiaozhu, they don't really care for him at all, so how can they talk about being good to him?

Seeing that Tang Tang was silently thinking about countermeasures, the starling didn't say a word, so he decided to take another dose of fierce medicine. It flew up violently, stood on the shoulder of the little pillar, and said to her: "Look at him, his clothes are full of wounds, can you bear to let the little pillar live in this house again?" ”

Tang Tang was startled, suddenly came back to his senses, lifted the sleeves of the small pillar, and sure enough, he saw several red and purple whip marks inside, like traces drawn out with small sticks, bamboo poles, etc., deep and shallow, new and old, some have even been bloody, lined with white and soft skin is particularly conspicuous, people can't help but be shocked.

Holding his arm, Tang Tang immediately stood up suddenly, shoved the revenge into Xiao Zhuzi's arms, and said with a calm face: "They are too much!" Today, justice must be done! ”

However, Xiao Zhuzi was cowardly and didn't want to cause trouble, he hurriedly hugged Tang Tang's head and neck, and shouted, "Sister, don't go." ”

Tang Tang touched his little head, but a mouthful of anger was blocked in his heart, and he couldn't get rid of it, so he immediately threw off his stride and walked back. Unexpectedly, when I turned an intersection, I met two acquaintances head-on.

Pang Yingwu saw that she suddenly held a child in her arms in broad daylight, and couldn't help but squeeze her eyebrows and smile strangely: "Yo, auntie, I can get a doll out in half a day, it's fast enough!" ”

Tang Tang ignored him, his face sank like water, and he rushed straight past the two of them.

Suddenly, Pang Yingwu couldn't figure out the second elder's head, and said curiously: "What's wrong with her?" ”

However, at this time, the person next to him was not Lu Xiangyang, but Xu Changlin, who was dressed in civilian clothes. His eyes sank, and he replied simply, "Follow me and have a look." ”

When the two of them followed Tang Tang's faster and faster pace and walked into a small alley, they suddenly saw a little baby waiting outside the gate of the courtyard, and in the open courtyard gate, there were already earth-shattering shouts and noises, and all kinds of guys were crackling.

Pang Yingwu and Xu Changlin were both frightened, and they didn't care about anything else at the moment, so they directly pushed the door and ran in.

"What for?" As soon as he entered the door, Pang Yingwu shouted angrily.

After seeing the situation in the yard clearly, he immediately gasped and couldn't help but say, ", this little aunt is too fierce, right?!" ”

I saw a middle-aged woman and a big man, chased by Tang Tang with a big broom, and a starling also flew in the air to cheer her on, pecking at the two of them from time to time, and the pain made the two cry and run all over the yard. A fat boy squatted in the corner of the yard, holding a big water tank and crying breathlessly, howling to make noise, while scolding fiercely: "Stinky mother-in-law, get out of our house!" ”

Pang Yingwu was immediately amused by the angry look on his face, walked over in two steps, grabbed his back collar, and lifted the person up. The fat boy's two short legs kicked and kicked in mid-air, but he couldn't touch the ground, and immediately remembered that his face was full of fear and redness, and his dry howl completely turned into a ghost crying wolf howl. "Let go of me! Let go of me! Mom-Dad-Help! ”

The woman and the man who were chased and beaten by Tang Tang saw this scene, and their eyes immediately cracked, but the starling's peck rushed directly to Pang Yingwu.

Pang Yingwu was taken aback by their desperate momentum, and couldn't help but feel nervous, blocking the fat boy's body in front of him, and shouted: "Don't move!" ”

Xu Changlin also shot and stopped in the middle. His sharp eyes swept over Tang Tang, and then focused on the two strangers, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Tang Tang was sweating profusely, and replied with an angry face: "They abuse children!" ”

"Oh?" Xu Changlin's eyes suddenly deepened, and he said quietly, "How did they abuse them?" ”

As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves and untied something that was wrapped around his waist.

"Smack!" There was a crisp sound, and the long whip thundered.