Gu Ran took the bowl and took a big bite of the glutinous cake, and Aunt He told her on the side to eat slowly and not burn her mouth. She swallowed a bite and exclaimed: "This is the taste, the taste when I was a child, sometimes I dream of eating a bite of A-Niang's fried glutinous rice cakes." ”

She ate to her heart's content, and Aunt He looked at it with a smile on her face.

"Ah Da, Ah Niang, I gave myself a pen name, called Jiang He. I also published an article in the magazine "My Adoptive Father and Adoptive Mother", and when I came back, I brought the magazine to us and read it to us, and I also wrote about the memories of the glutinous rice cakes. ”

"Oh my God, I'm still in a magazine with you?" Aunt He's eyes widened, and Jiang Fuhai was also slightly moved. "What's your pen name?" Aunt He asked again

"It's the name you use to write your article." Jiang Fuhai glanced at Aunt He, and his back unconsciously straightened, "Ran'er, what are the two words?" ”

Gu Ran smiled, "The river of the river is rich in the sea, and the river of the river." Taken from your and my aunt's last name. ”

Aunt He said: "Then I am He Xiangu's He, why don't you call him Jiang He?" ”

"It doesn't matter if it or the river doesn't all sound the same?" After Jiang Fuhai murdered Aunt He, he asked Gu Ran again, "So you and I have both become people in the book?" ”

Gu Ran said with a smile: "Yes, you and my aunt are the kindest and most simple people in the world. ”

Jiang Fuhai knocked the cigarette stick on the back of his shoe and said, "Although what you said is the truth, I still say what I said before, and my old Jiang family and your mother's enmity can't be solved in this life." Don't bother with this. ”

Everyone understands this when they say it, but few people can let go of things when they fall on their heads. Gu Ran also knew in his heart that it would not be a day's work to reconcile Tu Bamei and Jiang Fuhai, and only by handing over to the long river of years, time is the best medicine, so he didn't say much about it at the moment.

At night, Gu Xi and Gu Ran slept in the back room, and the two of them chattered as if they had endless intimate words. Tu Bamei, who slept in the outhouse, fell asleep with the whispers of the two of them, she hadn't slept so peacefully for a long time!

Time is like an arrow, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Lao Wu was released from prison two days early, and she wandered outside the hole into the town with her simple luggage.

For three years, she returned to the town in her dreams and returned to the riverbank where she played as a child. Now outside the town, she has no courage to go back.

Lao Wu wandered to the T-junction.

Eighteen years ago, it was also at this intersection that she stood at this intersection with Gu Xi and a few classmates on her back, undecided, not knowing whether to go left or right.

In the end, Lao Wu chose to go south to the left and go to Guangdong as he did eighteen years ago.

"Mom, what about my fifth sister, didn't you come back with you?" Gu Xi met Tu Bamei in Lijiaping after class, she asked about the fifth child, Tu Bamei shook her head, "The one who killed a thousand knives without conscience was released the day before yesterday, and I don't know where to go, and I don't even say hello." ”

In order to welcome the fifth child out of prison and go home, Tu Bamei cleaned up at home yesterday, and replaced the bed where the fifth and sixth children slept in the past with new sheets and bedding from head to toe. But I don't want her to even go home.

"Fifth sister must have gone out to work, she will call back when she gets a foothold outside, don't worry too much." Gu Xi is three months pregnant, her husband is her normal classmate, and now she teaches in the town's primary school with her, and both of them live in Tu Bamei's place.

"What kind of job can she get as a junior high school graduate? Alas! It's really a heart. ”

Gu Xi said: "The big collective is bankrupt, and she has nothing to do when she comes back." Now there are not a few young people in the town, and those who have a little ability have gone out. Let's talk about our school, half of the students in a class are children from the nearby countryside, and most of the children in the town go to study in the city and province. Our town is almost empty. ”

As most of the young people in the factory went out to work, doctors and teachers with some qualifications in the town's hospitals and schools also went out to work on a temporary basis. The loss of teachers has correspondingly prompted parents in the town to send their children out to study.

Accompaniment has become a fashion in the town these days. In the past, no matter when and where people in the town met, the first sentence they said must be: Have you eaten? Now it becomes: Where is your child studying, do you go to accompany him?

"This man will always live in comparison." Tu Bamei said: "In the past, it was better than work, and when looking for a partner, I paid attention to a formal worker and a collective worker; Now compared to the school that the child attends, compared to the teacher's qualifications, compared to the county, city or province. If you want me to say, no matter how good the school and teachers are, what is the use of children not studying without work? Look at your third sister, you have to get the bamboo to study in the province. Mao Zhuzi lives in Chunfang's house alone, even if she still follows herself, isn't this causing chaos for Chunfang? ”

Jianxin handled the internal retreat last year, she originally went to the province to see Mao Xiaozhu, but she didn't come back as soon as she went. She worked as a manager in a hotel, and after gaining a foothold, she called Mao Sijie again. The two rented a house in the province and took Mao Xiaozhu to their side, and the family of three began a hard work career in the province.

When her child was one year old, Gu Xi was admitted to teach in a primary school in the city, and she and her husband moved to the city with their children.

After their family left, only Tu Bamei and Yongjun were left in the family, and the mother and daughter began to quarrel endlessly.

During the Spring Festival, except for Gu Ran, they all called and said that they were busy with work and that it was difficult to buy tickets and they couldn't get them back. Gu Ran only stayed at home until the third year of junior high school, and she asked Yongjun to the river for a long talk before leaving.

"Eldest sister, when I was young, you treated me the best in the family, I remember that it would be you who dressed me and washed my face......"

Yongjun interrupted her without waiting for her to finish, "It's hard for you to remember, I thought you had forgotten about it." Little white-eyed wolf! ”

"Big sister! Don't be so sharp, your misfortune is not entirely caused by your mother, but to a large extent it can be said that it is caused by your own sexuality. What kind of mind you look at the world will determine what kind of life you will have. If you continue to live with hatred, then your life will always be gloomy. ”

"Isn't she who she is? I will torture her for one day if I live, and I will let her live in guilt and remorse! ”

"Why bother? After so many years, you think that you are punishing our mother, but in fact it is yourself. You have spent all your youth in endless hatred for your mother! But ask your heart, are you happy? Are you happy? Does your own heartache hurt while you hurt your mother? Sister, stop being obsessed! You're only halfway through your life, and it's still too late to wake up, so don't let the rest of your life continue to live in the dark. ”

Gu Ran pointed to the dry riverbed, "Look, the river is dry, is there no end to your hatred?" I remember my mother said back then, you want to marry Brother Mao'er unless the river is dry. Now the water is dry, but Brother Mao'er has already started a family, and the family of three is happy and happy, you are so stuck in the past and can't get out, what makes sense? Don't let yourself live in hatred, live in the memories of the past, wake up, big sister! ”

Yes, the river is really dry, when will it be dry? The army never noticed that the water in the creek had long since dried up.

Her eyes stared straight at the mossy riverbed, and the past and cat ears were so distant that they seemed to be memories of a previous life. She couldn't even remember what the cat's ears looked like. She panicked inexplicably, desperately trying to think desperately, but could only piece together a vague outline. In an instant, something seemed to collapse in the heart of the supporting army, and she fell to her knees on the riverbank with her legs weak, crying against the riverbed......

Yongjun finally married himself when she was forty years old, and the man was the object that her master introduced to her when she was twenty years old - Xiang Zhonghua.

Xiang Zhonghua's wife went out to work after being laid off, and during the part-time job, she had feelings with a foreigner, so she quarreled with Xiang Zhonghua to divorce her family and abandon her children to marry away from home.

The day after Yongjun and Xiang Zhonghua got married, Maoer came back, and Zhu Ying died of illness in Guangzhou half a month ago. Maoer handed Yongjun a yellowed photo, and Yongjun ran to the river with the photo on his back and cried again.

Maoer set up a film and television company in Guangzhou in the past few years, and he was also an empty shell at the beginning, but he was well-connected and good at speculation, and when he got a good script, he went around soliciting investors under the banner of a famous actor; With investors, you don't have to worry about finding a director to direct the play.

After a few plays, Maoer became famous in the entertainment industry, and the shell company was implemented at once. Since Maoer set foot in the film and television industry and was surrounded by beauties all day long, Zhu Ying gradually developed a sense of crisis, and she developed from looking at Maoer's mobile phone to tracking and investigating day and night. Due to her long-term anxiety, she suffered from severe insomnia, and after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she concealed her condition and did not take active treatment, and finally died of the disease.

When Mao Er was sorting out Zhu Ying's relics, he found a yellowed photo, in which Mao Er looked stiff and his eyes were full of horror. When they were taking wedding photos in Master Zhu's photo studio, Tu Bamei rushed to the door and appeared, Master Zhu unintentionally pressed the shutter at that time, and afterwards Zhu Ying went to develop the negative and found that the photo of the two of them was quietly developed.

In the second year after Yongjun married Xiang Zhonghua, Lao Wu and Maoer pulled the marriage certificate. After being released from prison, Lao Wu traveled to most of Guangdong, successively worked as a restaurant waiter and nanny, and finally met Maoer in Guangzhou.

On the wedding night, the fifth child suddenly "giggled" and laughed, and she asked Maoer, "Do you remember a joke I told you when I was a child?" ”

Cat Ear shook his head.

Lao Wu stretched out his finger and poked him on the forehead, "I said that if my eldest sister is not good to you, I will be good to you." ”

The cat's ears grinned and sighed.

As groups of people go out to work, the army of bicycles in the town has been drowned in the torrent of history with the changes of the times.

Tu Bamei came out of the big hospital after seeing a doctor, passed by the gate sentry and was catching up with the factory to pull off the guards, glancing at the cold gate sentry, she shook her head and sighed secretly in her heart.

Now Tu Bamei is a big idler, and the government does not allow private individuals to mine coal kilns again, and her coal kiln was closed the year before last. In the past, she was so busy that she was in good health, but now she is free and everything is wrong, and she runs to the hospital at five the next day.

At the crossroads, Yongjun and Xiang Zhonghua were cleaning up the tables, chairs and benches, they took over from Xiang Zhonghua's mother to set up a breakfast stall here, and Tu Bamei occasionally came over to help in the morning. This would bring her down from above to the crossroads, and the army would stop her.

"Mom, I have discussed with Zhonghua, and we plan to move back to Gongxiang Village. We don't feel at ease if you live alone. ”

Tu Ba Mei nodded again and again, "Okay, let's move, I'll clean up for you first when I go back." ”

Back in the industrial and rural areas, when Tu Bamei beat Cai Butcher's house and walked in front of the house, Cai Butcher happened to come out to dry his clothes.

Looking at each other, Cai Tuhu's lips moved.

The death of Tu Bamei's man for saving the boss of Cai's butcher family reached Tu Bamei's ears last year. The news was spread by Aunt He in the village, and Aunt He spread it everywhere after hearing what her eldest told her. After supporting the army and getting married, she once stated that she no longer objected to Tu Bamei and Cai Butcher being together, but Tu Bamei herself broke off this idea and no longer took care of Cai Butcher.

At this moment, Cai Butcher saw Tu Bamei stop, and his face was slightly moved. No, Tu Bamei glared at him, and walked away without waiting for him to speak.

Tu Bamei went around from the front to the back, and when she walked through the back door of Cai Butcher, Cai Butcher opened the back door and shouted with a red face: "Big sister!" ”

Tu Bamei's footsteps slowed down, and after a few seconds, she slowly turned around and squinted at Cai Tuhu.

Cai's back was hunched and his hair was gray.

Through the dust of the years, Tu Bamei seemed to see him raise the butcher knife high, chopping the meat vigorously, and loudly soliciting customers; And she walked through the crowd of people carrying vegetable baskets, and was hurrying towards his butcher's shop......

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