When the seven old men went out in the morning, Qiuqiu was still sleeping soundly in his shoebox. Last night's cruise had left it a little tired.

The seven old men gently stroked the white hair on the top of Qiuqiu's head. Qiuqiu purred from his mouth, stretched his legs, turned around and continued to sleep, like a child lying in bed.

The seventh old man remembered the way the children were huddled in bed when they were children, and his eyes were a little moist.

The seven old men sighed, how could this person become more and more like a child as he got older, and he was sad at every turn. Once, the seven old men were also iron-clad men, just like the stones they quarried out of the mountain field, with edges and corners, and now, why are they like some old ladies at every turn.

The seven old men pushed the chicken cart out of the door.

The moon is still slanting on the top of the mountain, the stars are blinking dimly, and Checheshan shows its huge figure in the dim morning light......

The frosty ground was a little hard, and the wheels creaked as they rolled on.

The seven old men pushed the cart past the outside of Liu Xiaosi's house.

The village was still silent, and the lights of Liu Xiaosi's house were already on. White cooking smoke floated from the roof of Liu Xiaosi's kitchen.

The curling smoke rippled in the water-colored morning light, and it also rippled the hearts of the seven old men.

"Seventh brother, it's so early!" Liu Xiaosi came out to splash his face and saw the seven old men.

"Little Si, on such a cold day, you don't hug the mother-in-law you picked up on the bed, what are you doing when you get up?" The seven old men stopped to talk to Liu Xiaosi.

Liu Xiaosi smiled, and there was some ostentatious self-satisfaction in his words: "Today, I went to the ancient Buddha field and bought some New Year's goods." This year, there is one more person in the family, so I have to buy more things. ”

"Hmph, you'll be fine, you've been single for a lifetime, and you'll pick up a mother-in-law when you're old." The seven old men said that there was actually a little pantothenic acid in their hearts.

"Seventh brother, you go first, and then I will come to the field to play with you." Liu Xiaosi turned around and entered the house with a basin.

Ge turtle son, what a fucking blessing! The seven old men pushed the cart forward.

Liu Xiaosi's Laozi and the Seven Old Men's Laozi are both stonemasons of the older generation in the village. This Liu Xiaosi is also a hard-working person, he has no mother when he is young, and he grew up with a man who loves to drink and play crazy. Less than twenty years old, Lao Tzu is gone. Since he was a child, Liu Xiaosi has grown thin and thin, like seedlings in a dry day.

Liu Xiaosi, who is alone, naturally can't say that his mother-in-law can't start a family, and he has always been a difficult household in the village. The three brick houses were also repaired for him by the government to take care of the needy households.

Liu Xiaosi and the Seven Old Men have a very strong relationship with the two families, and the children of the two families naturally get close. Later, Liu Xiaosi recognized the father of the seventh old man as his godfather.

The relationship between the two has been good since childhood, and the strong and strong seven old men treated Liu Xiaosi as if they were his own brothers when he was a child.

Liu Xiaosi has always taken the Seven Old Men as his protector, and always follows the Seven Old Men like a small tail. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, the two of them often roll into the same bed, sticky as a ball of mud.

The old lady of the seven old men laughed at them, saying that if Liu Xiaosi was a woman, she would stay and be her daughter-in-law.

Liu Xiaosi was not shy, saying that if he was a woman who could have a baby, he must marry a man like Seventh Brother.

The young seven old men were so ashamed that they turned red, stretched out his hand to pat Liu Xiaosi's buttocks, and said, what is good about Brother Seven. When you marry your mother-in-law, I also have a baby, so let them follow suit, and our two families will be so good for generations.

Later, the seven old men became a family, but Liu Xiaosi has always been single. The seven old men who became a family did not forget the godbrother Jì and took care of him all the time.

The seven old men are not worried about Liu Xiaosi's marriage, but who wants to marry a man like Liu Xiaosi who has a bad body and a bad family background.

Later, Liu Xiaosi said, Seventh brother, don't be cāo for me. In this life, with you and my sister-in-law taking care of me, I am very content.

One sentence made the seventh old man's heart sour, he hugged Liu Xiaosi in his arms, and said, don't worry, you can't freeze if you have the seventh brother to wear, and you can't be hungry if the seventh brother eats.

The seven old men turned around, and the lights of Liu Xiaosi's house were a little blurry in the morning fog that was gradually rising. It's like those childhood memories, hazy into a distant and warm back.

Phew, little fourth baby, you turtle son, with a mother-in-law, you forgot your dear seventh brother.

"Qiu'er, let's celebrate the New Year and let Seventh Brother spend it with us. The seventh sister-in-law is gone, and the babies have not returned, and the seventh brother is quite lonely alone. Liu Xiaosi looked at the woman under the light with a bowl.

The woman raised her head, her eyes full of tenderness: "Fourth brother, you say it." ”

Liu Xiaosi was drunk with the woman's gentle gaze. When he was old, Liu Xiaosi realized that it was good to have a woman by his side. It's really a mother-in-law to have a home.

The woman wore the new clothes that Liu Xiaosi bought for him, her short hair was smooth and draped behind her head, and she was clean and tidy, much more temperamental than those old ladies in the village.

The woman was picked up by Liu Xiaosi.

After the Spring Festival this year, Liu Xiaosi came back from the market and met a wandering woman on the side of the road.

At that time, the woman was dressed in a dress that could no longer be seen, her hair was like unkempt weeds, her eyes were demented, and her whole body exuded a foul smell.

The woman stood on the side of the road, holding out her hand and asking for something to eat. The people who rushed to the market said that she was a madman and avoided her.

Liu Xiaosi himself is also a hard-working person, and he felt a little unbearable when he looked at this poor woman, so he gave her a piece of sugarcane in his back.

The woman chewed sugar cane and followed Liu Xiaosi home.

No matter how Liu Xiaosi drove her, she wouldn't leave. Perhaps, in the days of wandering, women suffered too much suffering and disgust, and Liu Xiaosi's sugarcane warmed her and sweetened her heart.

The tooth dog made fun of Liu Xiaosi and said, "Little Fourth Dad, this is your old man's blessing." The pig comes to the poor dog to bless, you have a wife, let you be the groom tonight. Do you want to have a drink? ”

The words of the tooth dog made Liu Xiaosi's old face red, and it also made his heart move. He is over 60 years old, and he really wants to be a groom.

I heard that Liu Xiaosi picked up a crazy woman, and everyone in the village came to see the excitement.

An enthusiastic woman brought water to wash the woman's face, and the seven old men also brought the old clothes of the seven old ladies to the woman to change into.

The crazy woman who cleaned up and stopped really changed, and standing with the thin Liu Xiaosi made Liu Xiaosi a little ashamed.

"Maybe this woman is from the city, you see how white her skin is."

"Liu Xiaosi, this is your blessing. You've got to hurry, maybe someday someone will find you. ”

The words of the people in the village made Liu Xiaosi hesitate again.

"Little Fourth Dad, there are so many balls. Be a groom for a day and enjoy a day. It's better to don't need money than if you spend money to find a lady. Tooth Dog's words were a little teasing, "Your old gun has a place to use." Maybe I'll hug an old man. ”

Everyone laughed, and Liu Xiaosi's face turned red like a hairy young man.

Liu Xiaosi really left a crazy woman and lived a life like husband and wife with her.

Women aren't actually crazy, they just can't remember where their home is. When asked what her name was, she just muttered, Mingqiu, Mingqiu.

Liu Xiaosi called the woman Qiu'er, and the woman called him the fourth brother. The two are intimate like those young people in love, like the sunset in the western sky, although they come late, they are just as gorgeous and as warm.

With Liu Xiaosi treating Qiu'er like a baby, Qiu'er's condition slowly improved a lot.

Qiu'er is not as demented as when she first came, she shows a different side from the old lady of Checheshan.

She can read and write, clean up, do housework, and cook well.

She can also sing opera, singing Huangmei Opera, "Tianxian Pei", "Female Concubine".

With Qiu'er's tactful singing voice, Liu Xiaosi fell into the love story in those dramas.

"The birds in the trees are in pairs, and the green waters and green mountains bring smiling faces......"

"In order to save Li Lang from his homeland, who expected the champion in the emperor list ......"

Liu Xiaosi sometimes felt that God really pitied him, and gave him a baby in his twilight years.

During the day, Qiu'er cleaned up the house, took care of Liu Xiaosi's daily life, and at night someone talked with her, and someone hugged each other to sleep. Liu Xiaosi felt like he had fallen into a honey pot all of a sudden.

Liu Xiaosi felt that he had accumulated virtue in his previous life, and he had met the fox fairy in Liaozhai, and he had encountered all the blessings he had never enjoyed in his life.

Liu Xiaosi felt that happiness was a little unreal. He was a little worried, this woman might really be from the city. Maybe one day her family will find her. This night's happiness may be a dream.

Liu Xiaosi sometimes relieved himself, just like the tooth dog said, being a groom for a day and enjoying a day. Anyway, I'm still earning it.

After eating and cleaning up, it was already dawn.

Liu Xiaosi carried the backpack on his back and took Qiu'er to the ancient Buddha field to buy New Year's goods. After so many years, Liu Xiaosi feels that this year's Chinese New Year is the most festive. The magpies were all chirping in the peach trees by the bamboo forest outside.

Qiu'er took Liu Xiaosi's hand and walked on the road. She always clings to Liu Xiaosi like this, which makes Liu Xiaosi, an old man in the countryside, a little shy, but he is reluctant to let go of her hand.

Liu Xiaosi looked at the white sun in the mist. There was also a sun shining in his heart, gently, warmly, and dangling.