Ban'er sighed, closed the door and pushed her grandmother into the yard, telling her everything that Sister Qiao said on the way in the future. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After hearing this, Grandma also felt very uncomfortable, and patted her shoulder and said: "I can't complain that she is uncomfortable, what a beautiful mansion in the past, but now there is not even a person to worship and sweep." Well, go back to the house and rest, and wait for your father and your mother's house to come, and then come out to eat." ”

Ban'er nodded helplessly, washed his hands and went back to the room to sit in a daze, the half-open door was just opposite the room where Qing'er and Sister Qiao lived, but seeing that the felt curtain was silent, the four walls were silent, and it became more and more bleak and lonely. Ban'er's intuition was very blocked, and he couldn't tell what was wrong for a while, which was a rare thing in the past. Stunned for a while, Ban'er exhaled lightly, got up and opened the door and went straight to Sister Qiao's room, standing outside and calling softly: "Qiao'er, Qiao'er, you come out." ”

Sister Qiao heard the call, hurriedly wiped away her tears, got up from the kang and said, "Is my brother outside?" ”

Ban'er said: "It's me, you come out, I have something to tell you." ”

Sister Qiao raised her eyebrows invisibly, not understanding what he had to say, so she had to lift the curtain and come out and ask, "What did you say?" ”

Ban'er winked at her, raised his hand and shouted, "Don't make a noise, come with me first." As he spoke, he didn't ask Sister Qiao what she meant, pulled her to a secluded place in the courtyard, and said in a low voice, "Aren't you going to sweep the grave?" I just thought about it, as the old saying goes, people have seven emotions and six desires and three souls and seven spirits, so after death, the soul must be scattered, even if it is buried in the ground, it is just a pair of skins buried. If my sister is really sincere, no matter where she worships, if your mother has a spirit in the sky, then the three souls and seven spirits will definitely understand my sister's current difficulties. According to my idea, after the day after tomorrow, it will be Qingming, and my sister may as well set up an incense case under the peach blossom tree and worship from afar. When the rumors of his year have passed, it is not too late to go to your mother's grave to pay respects. ”

Sister Qiao suddenly raised her head, looked straight at a pair of apricot eyes on the board, and said in disbelief: "What you say is true, will my mother know my mind?" ”

Ban'er nodded heavily, and Sister Qiao vaguely raised her lips and said with a slight smile: "Brother bothered." ”

Ban'er let out a long breath, as if she had unloaded the burden of her daughter, and smiled softly: "As long as my sister is not so sad, this little bit of thought is nothing." ”

Sister Qiao covered her mouth with shame, Qing'er in front of her listened to her grandmother's instructions, and was waiting to come over to see how Sister Qiao was doing, when she came out and saw the two of them standing in the yard, she hurriedly walked over and said, "What do my brother and Sister Qiao'er say, let me listen to it." I followed my grandmother to work at home for a day, and my sister and brother went outside, and I didn't even have anyone to talk to in front of me, so I was very bored, so I said to my grandmother, I will be like you another day, just go out and walk around. ”

Ban'er and Sister Qiao looked at each other and smiled, and each other knew enough to hide what Fang had just said, pulled Qing'er left and right, and walked into the gray shed while smiling and saying some other gossip, and perfunctory in the past.

Before the arrival of the 戌 time (7 p.m. to 9 p.m., belonging to the time of the 戌 . After a day's labor, the bolt is ready to rest. The dog lies in front of the door to guard, as soon as there is movement, it barks, so it is called "the dog", and the dog couple took the hoe home to rest. Since the two of them knew about the fall of Jiafu, they paid special attention to the rumors in the city, and today they heard another news, and the two of them had already discussed it on the way when they came.

Wang Liu made him impatient to watch, and he was embarrassed to open his mouth, so he had no choice but to look at Qing'er and the board, and then looked at Sister Qiao and Grandma Liu left and right, everyone made her suspicious, and they put down the dishes and chopsticks, and Grandma Liu said: "Girl, do you have something to say?" ”

Wang Liu held the bowl in his hand, covered half of his face, and said for a long time: "I really can't hide anything from my mother, I have something to say, but I'm afraid that if I say it, your old man will blame your daughter and your son-in-law for doing things inappropriately." ”

Grandma Liu saw that she was speechless, and said with a hearty smile: "What's wrong with it, you and your son-in-law are not without major events, just say what you have to say." ”

When the dog heard this, he smiled and said, "Grandma is right, it's just that it's not difficult to say this, and it takes the girl's consent to do it, so I told my grandma that I was afraid that it would be inappropriate." ”

Grandma Liu was surprised: "Why did you get involved with Miss Qiao again?" ”

Wang Liu said: "There is something I want grandma to know, when the people in the house over there sent the girl that day, they gave Qing'er two ingots of silver to keep for the girl's daily expenses. Qing'er didn't dare to accept it, so she handed it to me and took it, I think since this silver is clearly said to be spent on the girl, we can't use it privately. It just so happened that when I was plowing the field with your son-in-law today, I heard that there were a few acres of good fields in the Black Mountain Village not far from us to be sold at a cheap price, and the equivalent of one acre of land was less than seven taels of silver. Three or four acres of land, no matter how you say it, you have to get twenty or thirty taels of silver, and our family has only ten taels of silver, and if you want to buy it, you must not touch the girl's twenty taels of silver. In this case, the girl has to suffer some grievances, and this is where we are embarrassed. ”

Sister Qiao heard what she meant at this time, and said with a smile: "Auntie, don't be polite, now I eat and live in your house, and the twenty taels of silver are what you deserve, if you want to buy anything and add something, your aunt and uncle can just take the idea, don't ask me what I mean." Besides, there is such a good thing, and it can't be delayed, if someone else sees it and buys it, won't we miss the opportunity? ”

Gou Er and Wang Liu thanked her with a smile, and Grandma Liu pursed her lips and touched it, but she seemed to be a little uneasy and said, "Have you listened carefully?" Nowadays, it is not easy to buy acres, just here, the general good land costs seven or eight taels of silver per acre, not to mention the best fields, don't be deceived by others. There is also the Black Mountain Village you mentioned, although it is not far away, after all, there is a river between the two villages, we bought it, and it will be troublesome to cultivate it in the future, not to mention that the family can't afford so many people to sow seeds and plant seedlings. ”

Ban'er Qing'er said that what her grandmother said was reasonable, and the dog smiled and said: "Your old man is too worried, do you dare to do such a big thing if you don't want to be thoughtful?" I asked clearly, the few acres of land in Heishan Village were originally put there by the officials in the city and sent a housekeeper who specialized in managing the farm houses to take care of it, and then the housekeeper was old, and the master gave him a few acres of land for his old age. The housekeeper's son and daughter thought that Heishan Village was far away from the capital, so they asked the housekeeper to sell the fields here and go to the suburbs of Beijing to buy a few more acres. Grandma said about the lack of manpower, I have also thought about it, now I and your daughter are still very tough, and the bottom Qing'er and Ban'er have also grown up, and it is feasible to take out some broken silver to hire short-term workers to harvest seeds when they are not busy. ”

Grandma Liu made sense to cut what he said, and the smiling chin stopped talking, and the dog and Wang Liu agreed with this, so they made an appointment on the matter, and said that they would take the silver tomorrow to buy those acres of land. The family sat in a circle, planning how to cultivate the land after purchasing the acre. Because Sister Qiao didn't understand the things in the field, and envied them for being happy and happy, she was so sad in her abdomen that she hurriedly picked up a bowl and pulled a few mouthfuls of rice to cover up the past.

On the second day, the dog couple said they would go, and the two went out early with silver and two. Grandma and Qing'er also knew that they were busy, so they took over the Qingming Festival and prepared incense, candles, and paper money. After Ban'er and Sister Qiao's appointment, they hid from their grandmother and Qing'er, and Ban'er secretly took a bowl, scrubbed it clean, and put some local soil in it, chatted about making incense burners, and found some paper money from grandma. On the day of Qingming, the Wang family was ready to go out to sweep the tomb, and grandma was worried that it would be difficult for Sister Qiao to go out and attract the eyes of others, so she had to persuade her to rest at home, and said that she would go out for her to burn incense paper for Sister Feng and the deceased people in Jiafu. Sister Qiao couldn't bear the grief and thanked, and watched their family close the door and go out, so she hurriedly took out the incense burner stuffed by Ban'er, took another handful of incense, and carried a string of paper money, and really worshiped under the peach blossom tree.

The first is to pay tribute to the ancestors of Jiafu, then to pay tribute to the deceased mother Xifeng, and then to pay tribute to Daiyu Qingwen and Mandarin Ducks who were seen on the day of rebirth. Because I thought that Daiyu was already a concubine of Xiaoxiang, and Qingwen had also become the god of hibiscus flowers, I was afraid that my sacrifice was too vulgar, and I saw that the three or two peach branches were blooming, so I stepped on my feet and folded a few branches, turned around and scooped a scoop of water from the tank, took the flower branches as the incense, and the pure water as the wine, and bowed to the sky three times. said in his mouth: "On that day, thanks to the rescue of the fairy aunt, I was allowed to be reborn as a human being, and Qiao'er was grateful. Qiao'er knows that her mother must be with Xiangu now, he will offend in the future, and I hope that Xiangu will look at the old family affection, forgiveness, Qiao'er will be pious and kind in the future, and repay one or two. Then there are people in the family who are suffering, Qiao'er is under the fence, and there is no power to support, if the fairy aunt and mother see it, please take it as such. After that, he inserted the flower branch into the incense burner, sprinkled a bowl of clean water, and cried again, Fang hurriedly packed up the paper money of the incense burner, lest the grandmother and the grandmother come back and see it, and add to the trouble.

was about to put away the flower branches, but Sister Qiao was stunned for a moment, only to see that the branches were originally stacked buds, and I don't know when they all bloomed, and there were pieces of pink petals fluttering all over the sky. Sister Qiao raised her head unconsciously, but saw that the tree was green and green, and the little red tassels gradually opened, and when the wind blew, it seemed to have an overwhelming momentum, and all of them fell away, chaotic and empty.