Just when Tian Guo was about to slap Xu Qiang's sallow sickle face, behind him, the door of the Niu family opened, and a person walked out, looked at them, and said in an extremely cold voice: "Xu Qiang, take your hand down." ”

Everyone turned around, and in the sunset, Niu Huanran stood at the door of his house wearing a navy blue crewneck sweater and black cloth pants, smoking and looking at them with a cold expression.

Xu Qiang's body shook and immediately withdrew his hand.

Tian Guo looked at Niu Huanran.

Niu Huanran also looked at her.

He smoked slowly, looking at her carefully.

It's also strange to say, since she was reborn, Tian Guo has always had a sense of unreality living in this world, she always feels that this qiē is just a dream, it is fake, it is on the set, maybe where the performance goes, the director will sound in her ears with a horn shouting "stop", and then she can call it a day and go home.

However, every time I see Niu Huanran, this sense of unreality disappears immediately. She will understand that the world is real. She is a part of the life here and has never been born again.

She is the original Yoneda fruit.

In this long-term star-to-eye meeting, Niu Huanran took the lead in retracting his gaze, turned his head to Xu Qiang and Tadpole and the others and said, "It's all idle and have nothing to do, right?" ”

He was not angry, everyone gasped, Xu Qiang was the most scared, and the cat waist hurriedly ran over to flatter: "Brother Ran, it's not what you think, we're just chatting blindly." ”

Not far away, Tian Guo turned his head and continued to walk slowly towards his yard, as if he didn't feel at ease about the teasing.

Niu Huanran stared at her back in the sunset, I don't know what she was thinking, and I didn't take a puff of the cigarette in my mouth for a long time. When Xu Qiang got very close, Leng Buding raised his foot and looked at his stomach.

Xu Qiang was unprepared and was kicked to the ground.

"Oops!" He screamed, his face pale with fright.

Tian Guo in front heard it, and glanced back at Xu Qiang, who had fallen to the ground, his eyebrows and eyes were slightly bent, and he smiled invisibly.

The smile on the corner of her mouth was also dyed with the light of the setting sun, and Niu Huanran took a deep puff of cigarette, her eyes narrowed slightly.

"Brother, I was wrong." Xu Qiang slowed down for a while before getting up from the ground, holding his stomach and hanging his head to Niu Huanran.

Niu Huanran squinted at him: "Is it me who apologizes?" ”

The tone was cold.

Xu Qiang was stunned, and hurriedly shouted at Tian Guo, who was pushing open the courtyard door: "Guo'er, I was wrong just now, you don't care about the villain, forgive me, I will definitely not dare next time." ”

Tian Guo glanced at him coldly, didn't speak, pushed open the courtyard door and walked in.

"Brother Ran" here, Xu Qiang didn't dare to raise his head, Niu Huanran's kick was not light, at the moment he was so painful that his brain was full of sweat, but he gritted his teeth and endured it, for fear of being looked down upon by tadpoles.

Niu Huanran shook the ashes, and his voice was like cold water: "Next time, let me see your hairy hands and feet with women, no matter who you are or how old you are, don't call me brother anymore." Moreover, I saw you once and beat you once. ”

"Yes, yes, I won't dare in the future." Xu Qiang nodded like pounding garlic. Niu Huanran raised his hand, he was so frightened that he took a step back, and only after he reacted did he realize that the other party was just about to suck his mouth. Xu Qiang wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Seeing that Niu Huanran's face was gloomy, the tadpoles didn't dare to talk nonsense.

After smoking a cigarette, Niu Huanran asked, "Is there something wrong with a few of you?" ”

"It's fine!" Several people spoke in unison.

Niu Huanran smiled: "I see that a few of you are also idle eggs." He put the cigarette butt against the wall and extinguished it, and when he threw it away, he said to them, "Since you are idle, help me move the cabbage out of the vegetable cellar and move it somewhere. ”

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When Tian Guo pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, Yadan was squatting next to the water pipe to wash clothes.

As Yang Xiaohong said, this courtyard was once a part of the Niu family's three-in-three-out quadrangle, and it was changed to today's small quadrangle in a special era, with seven or eight households, more than a dozen people, and the ground is bluestone bricks, but because of the age, the ground that should have been flat has now become pitted, covered with a layer of dark green moss.

There is a begonia planted in the middle of the courtyard, which is just in early spring, so the branches are bare and cannot be seen. If you want to see the beautiful scenery of Lu You's "scarlet parrot green is extremely ingenious, and the stacked calyx is heavy and dizzying", you have to wait patiently for a few more months.

Next to the begonia tree is a cement pool, half a meter high, and a water pipe stands in the middle of the west side. It was cold, and the water pipes were wrapped in burlap to protect against freezing.

Yadan is the only one in the family who eats idle meals, and he just graduated from technical school last year and has not yet joined the work, so the housework is all-inclusive. At this time, he was squatting in front of a large aluminum bathtub and rubbing his clothes vigorously, and the soap foam splashed on the ground.

On one side of the pool is Tian Guo's house, and when she walked over, she deliberately glanced at the bathtub, which was full of clothes, and the texture was fashionable and good.

Since ancient times, eating mountains and relying on mountains, and draught relying on water. Working in a grain store does not worry about having no food, and working in a garment factory naturally does not have to worry about running out of clothes.

Seeing Tian Guo's eyes looking straight into the basin, the girl looked up and asked her, "What are you looking at?" The tone was full of vigilance, as if he felt that Tian Guo was not good.

Tian Guo ignored her, and turned back to his own home.

The □□courtyard next door was busy at this time, and the tadpole pulled the gong and said, "Brother Ran, your family is too wasteful, give me the cabbage that you can't eat!" ”

"But no, this good cabbage is frozen, if you leave it at my house, you won't be able to eat a meal." Xu Qiang agreed.

After about three or four seconds, Tian Guo heard Niu Huanran say: "Don't be poor, hurry up and work, I have other things to do after finishing this." ”

"Okay!" A few boys responded with hip-hop, and the sunset above their heads was a little thicker.

Tian Guo's house sits east and faces west, the sun is shallow in early spring, and a tall begonia tree in front of it is blocked, and after noon, the light is basically not reflected in the house.

It's cloudy and cold inside.

This room is not big, more □□than 20 square meters, the outhouse is the kitchen and the grocery room, a few winter storage cabbage stands in a corner of the house, and the outermost leaves have turned black and green due to too long.

Tian Guo's house is shady, and the house is cold, so he has always bought cabbage and put it in the house.

At that time, supplies were in short supply, and families began to prepare for the 39-day meal before and after the beginning of winter. Tian Guo filmed this section during filming, and the whole family went into battle together, staring at the three wheels and running to the vegetable station to buy Chinese cabbage.

After buying it back, it is neatly stacked along the root of the wall of your house, one side is honeycomb coal, one side is cabbage, and then several layers of cold-proof plastic sheeting are covered outside, and the top is pressed with bricks.

The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is to count first, and then I start brushing my teeth and washing my face to get ready for work.

"Is it a fruit?" Hearing the sound of the door opening, Grandma asked in the back room.

"It's me." Tian Guo rubbed his hands and walked over, opened the curtain and saw his grandmother sitting on the kang peeling garlic.

"Where did you go, it took me so long to come back." Grandma asked casually.

"I went to the toilet, there were a lot of people, I waited for a while." Tian Guo walked to the stove and roasted his frozen hands, feeling the blood flow again, before he sat on the bed, picked up half of the garlic on the kang table and said to his grandmother: "I'll come, you can rest for a while." ”

"It's okay, I'm not tired." Grandma said with a smile. A pair of rough hands peeled the garlic skin neatly. The garlic skin is crispy and white, and it is brushed like kneading paper.

Tian Guo peeled garlic while peeking at his grandmother opposite. Although he is over sixty years old, the old man is still dressed neatly, not like the gang who sit in the alley and bask in the sun, all of them are unkempt, and they give people the feeling of being in their last years when they are just fifty.

Grandma is very particular, the slender gray hair is coiled into a small bun at the back of the head, a gilded hairpin is horizontal on the bun, one end of the hairpin is a jade seed the size of a grain of rice, the hair is smeared with jasmine-flavored combing oil, and the lips are vaguely smeared with pale red rouge. Although there are five or six patches on the small black jacket, the clothes are ironed very neatly and cleanly, with a smile and a smile, and there is a calmness in his eyes after the wind and moon.

At such an age, he is still dignified and exquisite, meticulous and elegant in appearance, which is the nobility brought out by his bones.

Tian Guo peeled garlic while peeking at his grandmother opposite. Memories rolled, she knew that her grandmother was born in a wealthy family, her ancestors practiced medicine for generations, and her grandfather was invited to the palace to see Cixi Lafayette, opened five pharmacies in the capital, and lived in a house bigger than the Niu family.

But since ancient times, men have been afraid of choosing the wrong line, and women have been afraid of marrying the wrong man. Grandma's mistake was to marry her grandfather's uncompetitive loser, who lost all her property for smoking, and finally died in the Qinglou, leaving her grandmother, who was just nineteen years old, and the baby in her belly.

That baby is Tian Guo's mother.

Genes have always been strong, planting melons and planting beans and beans, Tian Guo's mother's temperament just followed the restless grandfather, who had a child in his early twenties before he got married, and the child's father was still a Japanese.

The Japanese is also like a copy of his grandfather, who ran back to Japan in 1964 and never came back, Tian Guo was born the next year, and his mother died of tuberculosis in the countryside the next year.

At that time, Tian Guo's family had been driven to the countryside due to identity problems, and after the death of his mother, all the heavy work of the family was pressed on the shoulders of his grandmother, who was a three-inch golden lotus's little feet, and when she hoeed in the field, her feet were like an awl, and she fell into it when she stepped on the soil. When she was a child, she squatted on the edge of the rice field, and the lively farmers around her pointed to her grandmother and whispered, "Look, old lady with little feet." ”

"Oh my God, her feet are so small, not as long as my little fingers."

"I heard that she was a lady from a big family."

"Her daughter gave birth to a baby before she got married, what a sin!"

Then their eyes will shift from the grandmother hoeing in the field to the fruit of the field that is gnawing on the head of the nest. In their eyes, Tian Guo is the most unfortunate child in the world. After moving back to the city, sometimes I went to the grocery store to buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and the salesman at the counter pointed to her and said: "Yo, aren't you the granddaughter of the old lady with small feet." ”

What happened to Little Feet? As for sinister laughter?

It seems that every relative around Grandma is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Let's just say that this granddaughter Yoneda Guo, who earns less than 30 a month as an apprentice in a barbershop, is willing to spend seventy or eighty to go to Xiushui to buy clothes, where does the money come from?

Hehe, if you sell your grandmother's jewelry, you will naturally get rich.

What a bastard.

Tian Guo sighed while peeling garlic, probably God let her be reborn just to see that this old lady is too pitiful. I have never bullied anyone in my life, but I am always played by fate. Time and time again, the fragile estimation of a different person's heart has long collapsed. But the old lady was still calm and calm, smiling at the impermanence of the world.

Thinking about it like this, the anger in Tian Guo's heart due to rebirth faded a lot, and she thought that she must be better to her grandmother.

She wants to work hard to earn money, she wants to change her fate, and she wants her grandmother to live a happy life.