The cold night is like ice, and the new snow is falling. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info sleeping, and the Liaoliao wilderness is covered in silver. Before the winter months, the snow has penetrated deep into the north. The land of the dead, forgotten in the deep snow by the hustle and bustle.

The goose feathers and snow were wrapped in the wind, and the night was presumptuous. The lonely inn was deeply trapped in it, and the soft and white snow froze people's hearts. With the arrival of heavy snowfall, Dou's Inn entered the solar term of Xiaosu as scheduled, and there will be no more guests for the next three months. The snow began to fall at dinnertime, one by two, three by five, and by a hundred and a thousand. The proprietress cooked a large pot of pork soup to ward off the early cold for the family. A small table, five people, the boss and the proprietress sit on the north side, next to the boss on the left is Ah Ming, next to Ah Ming is Xiang'er, only Ah Kun is alone on the right, there is still an empty seat left next to it, Ah Kun poured pork soup into the empty bowl next to him, although no one will drink it. The five of them seemed to have made an appointment on purpose, and no one ever mentioned red beans again.

The days are still dull and fulfilling, but the words are becoming less and less, and the smiles are becoming more and more reluctant. Because of the departure of red beans, everyone's heart is empty, and they can only use complicated trivial things to make their hearts smaller and smaller, so as not to make that piece empty hurt.

After eating, Ah Ming stayed in the kitchen to clean up the table, and Ah Kun went outside to feed the remaining swill to the pigs. In the heavy snow, Ah Kunshen walked with one shallow foot and one foot shallow, holding a bucket of swill in his left hand and hanging the lamp on the pigsty shed with his right hand. The lights were blown by the wind, and a few fat pigs who had been hungry for a day snorted and ate deliciously. Kun sat on the stone next to the pigsty, watching the snowflakes fall from the lamp and fall on his face.

"Naughty melon seeds, don't you go back quickly in the ice and snow, what are you doing here stupidly frozen?"

"Hey, look!" In the blink of an eye, Ah Kun had already pinched a big snowball and was about to throw it over, only to find that there was no one in front of him. The tricks played in previous years, no one will be fooled again. She left, not even saying goodbye to herself. She left everyone behind and went to be a little Taoist aunt alone, and she had to give an old man a person in the wind and rain, and Ah Kun couldn't read what her heart was thinking.

"Damn, put down your work and go to sleep." The boss counted five new winter coats on the bed and had been cut, but the boss's hand was still not idle. "There's still time, it's snowing, you have to get your clothes out quickly, the children still have to spend the winter, and you can't always wear old clothes to fool around." The proprietress moved the sewing kit and the boss sat on the bed.

"Enough new clothes. Everyone has one, do you want to give Xiang'er two? This one is too big, and it will take a few years for Xiang'er to wear it, and it will become an old dress by then. "The boss snatched the uncut clothes from the hostess. The proprietress held the needle and thread and trembled, and said to herself: "Dou'er is walking in a single dress, it's freezing outside, how can she be next to her?" "Don't be stupid, we only have one daughter's life, how can there be no beans?" The boss turned around to turn off the lights, holding the clothes that had just been put on the new cotton in his hand, and he didn't feel good in his heart.

"Xianggong, we left her alone back then, does she still hate us and refuse to come back for so many lifetimes? As long as I can be her mother again, once. The proprietress had sorrow in her eyes.

"Our fate with her as a family has long ended, you just adopted more girls, no matter how many beans you called, it won't be her after all." The boss was a little impatient in his words, but he couldn't bear to look back at his wife's heartbroken expression.

"So, you're going to send them away one by one?" The proprietress choked up. "I'll stay here, you go to her quickly, don't let others bully her again!"

The boss was silent. The daughter who broke into a monstrous disaster, where does the boss still hate it. Outside the fire, her daughter's heart-rending wail has become the boss's eternal nightmare. Where is the daughter who betrayed herself, obviously she took the family with her, and tore off the last family relationship with her daughter horizontally, leaving her alone.

"What do you mean by giving Dou'er to Kuzen?" The proprietress held back her words for a long time and finally spit it out. Today is October 19, the day of the first snow, the day when the boss brought back the red beans sixteen years ago, and it is also the birthday of her first daughter.

The boss sat down at the table, his left hand on his head, and the nail of his right hand was firmly embedded in his scalp. It's been sixteen years, and it's time to find out the truth and falsehood.

"If I hadn't been looking for many years, where would you have seen you again?" The boss said lightly. The proprietress burst out of bed with a buzz in her head, her eyes were red, and she slapped the boss's back like crazy, "Bastard!" Scoundrel! It's a waste of our husband and wife! Do you care about enjoying your family alone, and you have suffered my heart as a mother in vain! ”

The boss remained motionless, letting his former gentle and weak wife sprinkle.

After a long time, the proprietress stared into the boss's eyes and asked pleadingly, "Is this the last life?" The boss hesitated and nodded. The proprietress sat down on the ground, and the boss hurriedly helped his wife to the bed.

"Why did you let Kuzen take her? You don't know......" The proprietress pulled the new clothes in the boss's hand, tears raining down. "Even if it weren't me, she wouldn't have stayed. While Dou'er is not in the depths of the world, let Kuzen take it away, and the master and apprentice are commensurate, and maybe they can save Kuzen's life. Otherwise, Dou'er will have another evil root on his hands, is this what you want to see? "The boss wiped his wife's tears.

"It's not easy for the family to get together, do you have to push your daughter into the fire pit again to get rid of your hatred?" The proprietress slumped beside the bed.

"Sixteen years, God's favor, how can you still be greedy for me? From now on, we will live this life quietly, and when the children are gone, we will have no worries. The boss took his wife in his arms and said calmly.

"I should have guessed a long time ago. Why was she picked up by you that day, why Kun'er spoiled her so much, why did she desperately try to catch that flint. I should have guessed it...... "The proprietress was crazy, repeating it over and over again. The boss recalled the scenes of Hongdou from childhood to adulthood, but he could only think of her cold eyes. Where did the well-behaved daughter of that little padded jacket go, and what did she go through, so that she came back this time so cold. No one wants to admit that no matter how warm the sixteen years are, they can't warm the heart that was cold thousands of years ago. "She's in her prime, and we're going to have to let go. If she still thinks about our good this time, maybe she can come back and see it. Family? We're not worthy of it for a long time. The boss said.

The cups and plates on the broken table were neat, and Ah Ming carefully washed the dishes and chopsticks and put them in the cabinet, especially the bowl of red beans, which was always polished the brightest, and was stacked on top of his bowl, for fear of getting a little dust. When I turned around, I saw Kun leaning against the door frame with a toothpick in his mouth, looking at him coldly. The distance between Ah Ming and Ah Kun is very delicate, Ah Ming is sensible, Ah Kun has a stubborn temperament, one is the small pillar of the inn, and the other is the troublemaker of the inn. Although the boss appreciates Ah Ming, there is always an ingredient that Ah Ming uses as a person, although the proprietress has always said that the six people are a family, but she always spoils the red beans like a daughter, and she is much lighter to Ah Ming.

"You're the only one in the family, how long are you going to stay here?" Kun's words have the usual smell of gunpowder.

"When it comes to eating dry rice, the first one can't count me." Ah Ming closed the lid of the water tank and was about to leave the kitchen, but was stopped by Ah Kun.

"Do you know what day it is?" Kun casually spat the toothpick on the lid of the water tank.

"It's not a day for you to eat." Ah Ming glanced at Ah Kun, he didn't want to quarrel with Ah Kun on the good day when Ruixue first fell, he just wanted to go to the room to rest earlier.

"Today is our birthday, Xiang'er remembers, you won't really forget Dou'er, right?" Kun stared at Ah Ming viciously.

"What do you remember? She couldn't come back. Mother's pork soup tonight is considered to be fed to the dog? Ah Ming didn't want to entangle more, so he pushed Ah Kun away and walked out.

"I'll just ask you one last thing. You must tell me tonight, or I'll go back where you came from!" Kun grabbed Ah Ming's clothes and yelled in a suppressed voice. What are your intentions when you come to the inn? Don't tell me I'm here to beg for food, I'm not stupid. Even digging manure in the Central Plains is more than eating in a place where the bird doesn't. Red beans are here, I don't want to ask you, today you can make it clear! ”

"Hmph," Ah Ming was happy. "I'm here to pay the debt."

"You bastard, don't play dumb riddles!" Kun picked up his arm and slashed it towards Ah Ming's head. Ah Ming smiled bitterly, grabbed Ah Kun's arm, and muttered: "There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Turned into a bird, its name is Peng. ”

"Less nonsense!" Kun was annoyed. Ah Kun has never liked to read, and when he heard Ah Ming talk about these words, he thought he was humiliating himself.

"Young Master Peng, don't be petty. Let's rest. Ah Ming patted Kun's shoulder, not wanting to dwell on it any longer.

"Let's go find her and come back." Ah Kun couldn't get Ah Ming's words, so he had to tell the truth. "She's only been gone for a month, and we have three months to chase her back. Anyway, there's nothing going on in the inn, so what's the matter if the two of us don't have it? ”

"If you want to go, don't get involved with me." Ah Ming looked at Ah Kun's eager look coldly, and his heart chuckled. In the dark, Ah Ming only felt that it was right for Hongdou to leave, and she had her own things to do. However, from the moment she left, Ah Ming faintly regretted it, the behavior of the Kuzen Mountain Man seemed to touch a unbearable past in his heart, maybe before coming to the inn, he had seen the Kuzen Mountain Man; Or perhaps, someone who is very similar to the Kuzen Mountain people has given himself a very bad memory. Ah Ming didn't dare to think about it, because, in the few years since he came to the inn, he had forgotten all the previous things, and only vaguely knew that he was here to pay off the debt, and the creditor had not yet appeared.

Ah Ming dumped Ah Kun and walked out of the kitchen. Xiang'er stood in the corridor woodenly, her father and mother were arguing in the bedroom upstairs, Ah Kun and Ah Ming were arguing in the kitchen downstairs, and Hongdou left to change the whole family. In other words, cracks have long appeared in the whole house, and it is only because of the red beans that they are barely glued together.

Seeing Ah Ming come out of the kitchen, Xiang'er made a lot of determination, walked to Ah Ming's side, and whispered softly in Ah Ming's ear: "You and Ah Kun go to find red beans, Dad said that she will kill the people of Kuchan Mountain, and what 'fire pit' and 'burial', I don't know what it means...... I want her to come back alive and continue to be my good sister. Brother Ashen, I beg you. ”

Ah Ming saw that there was no trace of lying in Xiang'er's eyes, and his mind quickly turned the face of the Kuzen Mountain man, from a wrinkled beard to a young and immature face. "It's him." Ah Ming hurriedly rushed back to the kitchen, and before he could catch his breath, he said to Ah Kun, "We'll leave at dawn." It's almost too late! ”