6. Heavy snow melts

In the evening, Cheng Linghui's two arms began to hurt. The pen and fun pavilion www.biquge.info first dull pain, and then it sank so much that it couldn't move. The slightest movement makes me shiver in pain. She was afraid that her father would worry, and she didn't dare to tell him.

The next day, when I went to play with Su again. She seemed much quieter than she had been in the previous two days. Children don't pay attention to this. Cheng Linghui doesn't like to move. Su Tong and Sun Xinglong played for a while and felt bored. The three of them lay on the kang and ate to pass the time.

After a while. Su Houye, who lived next door, didn't hear the three of them playing, so he sent someone over to take a look. only to find that the three of them were asleep covered with a quilt.

By the time the three of them woke up, it was already getting dark. Su Tong frowned and looked at Cheng Linghui and Sun Xinglong: "You two can't wash it clean, and you will dirty my quilt." ”

Sun Xinglong scratched his head, a little embarrassed: "My mother said 'stinky boy' and 'stinky boy', how can you be called a boy if you don't stink?" ”

Cheng Linghui lowered her head and did not speak. She was already a nine-year-old girl. Although she often plays like a wild boy, it is still very shameless for such a big girl to be disgusted and dirty. She couldn't say what Sun Xinglong said so reliably.

"Are you angry?" Su Tong tilted his head and quickly put his face on her nose.

Cheng Linghui shook her head, climbed down the kang and said, "I'm leaving." ”

At this time, Su Tong decided that she was angry. Annoyed: "Let's go, let's go." I don't play with such stingy people. ”

Cheng Linghui raised her head: "I'm not stingy." ”

Su Tongdao: "You are not happy, and you are not stingy." I'm not stupid. ”

Cheng Linghui said: "If you don't play, you won't play, who is rare." He turned around and walked away.

Su Tong shouted angrily: "You are just stingy." When he turned around and saw Sun Xinglong, he pushed him hard and said, "Go, you all go." I'm not going to play with you anymore. ”

Sun Xinglong was unexpectedly pushed to the ground by him, holding his sore buttocks and shouting, "What are you pushing me for?" I didn't mess with you? ”

Su Tong covered his head with a quilt and shouted, "You go." I don't want to see you. ”

Sun Xinglong pouted and muttered, "Let's go." ”

Cheng Linghui returned to the guest room and sullenly got into his father's arms.

Officers and soldiers were guarding the door, and everyone was locked in the room and was not allowed to move around at will, let alone make noise. A room full of old and young people huddled together, and although the smell was not good, it was still warm. Barely able to survive the cold at night. At first, there were still whispers. After these seven or eight days, although now every day officers and soldiers come in and give a bowl of gruel. can only barely hang his life. Who has the heart to speak?

Cheng Linghui slept during the day. Although her father's arms were warm, she couldn't sleep now. Her father finally noticed her strangeness and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Cheng Linghui was a little aggrieved and said: "Su Tong doesn't play with me anymore, he thinks I'm dirty." ”

The father seemed to let go of a heavy burden and said, "It's okay not to go." ”

I don't know why, Cheng Linghui suddenly stopped being aggrieved when she heard this. He arched in his father's arms, found a comfortable position, and fell asleep again.

The next day, Sun Xinglong did not call her outside. During the day, she sat around the quilt with her father. Her father rubbed her hands and feet, which were a little cold. Like those adults, I drank a bowl of gruel sent by officers and soldiers. At night, he slept in his father's arms as usual.

The next day, she was bored. I thought about how nice it would be if I could play. But thinking of Su Tong's disgust with herself, she still felt very shameless.

On the third day, she was already hungry and limp, and she was in no mood to think about anything else. Suddenly, her father shoved something into her mouth. She chewed it and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a multigrain pastry. Her father covered her mouth and whispered in her ear, "Don't speak." ”

She turned, burrowed her head into her father's arms, and chewed slowly for fear of making a sound. I just feel like I've never eaten anything so delicious. It's better than Sutong's lotus seed candy.

Later, they were held for a few days. Cheng Linghui can't remember clearly. All she remembers is waking up one morning. The door to the house was wide open. The people in the room almost walked out. She went out with her. The officers and men were gone. The snow has almost melted. Overhead, the sun was warm. The sun makes people's backs sticky. In a trance, it seemed that the heavy snow was as unreal as a dream.

Everyone suddenly regained their vitality like a dry seedling encountering rain. Joy, anger and sorrow suddenly came alive.

The first thing people remember is, of course, their own livestock. Everyone poured into the barn like a tidal wave. I saw that the barn that had collapsed had been cleaned up at this time. The animals were leisurely eating grass at the head of the trough, which was more nourishing than the life of the master. Then the hearts of the people were put down.

Sun's second sister-in-law stood on a stone mill in front of the livestock shed, carrying a broken copper basin in her hand. 'Dangdang' knocked on it and attracted everyone's attention.

She held a copper basin in one hand and a rolling pin in the other, and said loudly, "Do you see your own livestock?" How's it going? ”

Someone said: "Thank you, second sister-in-law, but you saved my family's life." Some people chimed in, and the words of thanks rose higher and higher.

Sun's second sister-in-law raised her rolling pin: "Listen to me." Then he glanced around the crowd. Cheng Linghui, who was mixed in the crowd, only felt that Sun's second sister-in-law was extremely majestic at this moment. is very similar to Mu Guiying in "The Female General of Yangmen" staged on the stage.

Sun's second sister-in-law said: "Let's not thank the wrong person." Thank you for being wrong, and I don't dare to take it. This is Marquis Su, I heard that all of us are trapped here by heavy snow. People lack food, horses lack fodder. They have sent men to clean up the barns and have brought fodder from their grain and grass for you to feed your cattle. The porridge you drink every day is also Su Houye's. These are all given for free, and you don't need to pay for a big son. ”

"Is there such a thing?" In an instant, everyone suddenly forgot about the fact that they were locked in the room and almost died of thirst. Forget about the people who disappeared because of the noise. They wept excitedly, knelt on the ground and shouted: "Hou Ye is a thousand years old, a thousand years old." Cheng Linghui stood in the midst of kowtowing adults, and had a strange feeling in her heart. These people who kowtow to thank them don't necessarily know who Su Hou Ye is.

After that, the Sun family's shop seems to have returned to the way it was before the heavy snowfall. The footman began to gather his goods and prepare to set off. The merchant who carried the burden left first when everyone was busy.

The father decided to stay another day, eat and drink enough before heading away.

This time, they were going to SX to transport old vinegar and send it to grocery stores in Shaxi County and Zhuanshui City. It's not a long way to go, and there's plenty of time. This is also the reason why my father is willing to bring Cheng Linghui here.

's father led Cheng Linghui out of Sun's store, saying that he was taking her to eat delicious food.

Cheng Linghui went out for the first time and saw everything fresh. Her father was also very patient in answering her questions. The father and daughter walked and stopped and came to the famous Tianjia donkey meat shop in Shilipu. I bought ten donkey meat for the fire, and asked the shop for two bowls of soup for boiling bones. Pick up a bench and sit down and eat.

The fire of the Tian family was round and big, and it was almost catching up with Cheng Linghui's face plate. Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, take a bite and drop the slag. Inside, however, it was very noisy. The donkey meat sauce is fragrant and fragrant, and it is enough. The bite was so fragrant that I wanted to swallow my tongue.

While eating, the two of them came in from outside. One of them saw his father and said, "Yo, it's quite a coincidence." ”

The father hurriedly put down the fire, stood up and clasped his fists and saluted: "It's you, it's quite a coincidence." ”

The man saw Cheng Linghui and asked, "Where is Ling Gongzi also there?" ”

The father waved his hand again and again: "I can't afford it." It's just a country kid. Just call her Sanhuizi. ”

The man said, "That's a coincidence. He said to the young man next to him: "The third child, give your uncle a salute." ”

The young man hurriedly held his hand and saluted: "I've seen my uncle." ”

Seeing this, my father was at a loss and said, "How can this be done." While pulling Cheng Linghui, he reprimanded: "Why are you so ignorant and don't know how to call people?" ”

Cheng Linghui patronized and ate. At this time, when he raised his head, there was still a lot of donkey meat sauce sticking to his face. looked at the extra old and young in front of him a little blankly. Her father pushed her: "It's called Master Chang." ”

Cheng Linghui looked at the old man. He wears a man's hat and a few wisps of beard. She had seen this person at Su Hou Ye, and immediately said, "I have seen him." ”

The father was a little embarrassed and said, "If you want to call you, you will call." ”

Cheng Linghui reluctantly put down the fire, stood up and respectfully shouted, "Hello Master Chang." "She often went out with her grandmother and asked people she would. She just couldn't let go of the fire in her hand.

Then she sat down and continued to eat. She didn't listen to what her father said to the man. Then my father went to drink with the man. Leave the teenager looking at her.

She was full, and generously gave the leftovers to the young man to eat. The boy frowned and said, "You can stay, I'm not hungry." "The sound is like the call of an old duck, how ugly it is.

After Su Tong's disgust with her dirty, Cheng Linghui sensitively found that the young man didn't eat it, but he actually thought she was dirty. She wrapped all the fire in oiled paper, put it in her arms, and said angrily: "Don't eat and pull down." "But she's bored. I was so bored that I stared at the boy for a long time. The teenager was found to be very white, with thin eyebrows and long eyelashes. With the blinking of his eyelids, 'flicker, flicker' was funny.

His clothes are clean and his sleeves are wide. The hands with their sleeves exposed were as white as their faces. The ten fingers are clean, slender and long. There was no dirt in the nails. Cheng Linghui looked at himself with oil and black hands. There is also a small chapped cut on the back of the hand. Subconsciously pulled a shiny oil, barely able to see the original color of the sleeve, trying to cover his hands.

The boy glanced at her, and she hurriedly turned her head away. For staring at others, my heart is still a little empty. But after a while, she couldn't help but look at the young man. This time, she found that the bridge of the teenager's nose was very straight and the wings of the nose were round. I can't help but think of the garlic hanging on the wall. The young man's mouth was not big, his lips were bulging and red, like the eldest sister had dyed lipstick. Then, I suddenly remembered the appearance of the eldest sister embroidering in my mind. Shaking his head and secretly saying, "I can't learn such troublesome things." ”

The boy noticed her shaking her head and looked at her again for some reason. Cheng Linghui didn't find out this time. She finished thinking about the eldest sister, and then looked at the young man. Suddenly, he found that the boy had a bulging bag around his neck, and it was still moving with his breathing. I couldn't help but look at it twice. Secretly said: "Such a big bag must be very painful." Thinking of the young man's ugly voice, he said secretly: "No wonder the voice is so ugly." "I felt that the boy was quite pitiful. Decided not to be mad at him.

The whole afternoon flew by in Cheng Linghui's cranky thoughts. She didn't know that the boy was staring at her while she was thinking.

Father was very happy this afternoon. I drank a little drunk. Cheng Linghui found out later. The man with the long beard is what my grandmother often says, the famous good man in the bridge village - Master Chang.

Master Chang runs an oil mill. He has been a rich man for several lifetimes. In his life, he doesn't know how big the family business is. Aunt Guang married seven or eight rooms. But there were only three sons.

The reason why my father was so happy was because he married his eldest sister.