As soon as the summer rain began, it was unstoppable. For several days in a row, it rained and sunny. Spring rain is as expensive as oil, and summer rain flows everywhere.

The rain made every qiē in Checheshan look wet, with a heavy dampness, and also made the delicious cockfighting cocks in the mountains grow wantonly.

The stilt pole can pick up a basket full of cockfighting cocks every day, and it can be sold for one or two hundred yuan, which makes many people envious.

On this day, the stilt pole carried a basket full of cockfighting cocks, humming a song, and passed in front of Liu Yishui's house.

The singing of the high pole and the fragrance of the fighting attracted Liu Yishui's wife.

Liu Yishui's wife is almost seventy years old this year, the man died many years ago, and now she lives with her son Liu Yishui.

Liu Yishui is a rake ear, he can't straighten his waist in front of his mother-in-law, and the old lady also suffers, and she doesn't dare to speak loudly in front of her daughter-in-law.

The old lady remembered when she married Liu Yishui and his son. At that time, the daughter-in-law was the maid of the family, and the mother-in-law was either beaten or scolded when she was unhappy. Thirty years of daughter-in-law to become a mother-in-law!

But now, women are fiercer than men, and the current daughter-in-law, Zhu Yuqun, she doesn't even dare to say a word of weight, let alone beat her.

"Oh, in the tooth dog house, you are really capable, you have picked up so many cockfighting cocks." Liu Yishui's old lady held on to the door frame and looked at the stilt enviously.

"Auntie, you see how popular this cockfighting is." The high pole stretched the basket in front of Liu Yishui's old lady.

The old lady stretched out her hand and gently stroked the tender and smooth umbrella cover of the cockfighting, which felt like touching the skin of a baby.

"I haven't eaten cockfights in years." The old lady sighed.

"Auntie, if you want to eat, let your Liu Yishui buy it for you. It's not expensive, it's only more than 50 yuan a catty. ”

Liu Yishui's old lady pursed her mouth, more than 50 yuan a pound is not expensive! No one bought this cockfight for the first decade or two.

"High pole, your mother-in-law went to pick up the cockfight early in the morning." Zhu Yuqun walked out in pajamas and unkempt hair, "Now this cockfighting has become a rarity, and this was all eaten by rich families at that time." Where can we afford to eat? ”

Liu Yishui's mother stopped talking, and the daughter-in-law here clearly spoke to her.

"Pigs, your mother-in-law still said that there is no money, then we can only go and beg for food."

"Where's the money? This son is going to get married when he is older, you don't know, now everyone is going to the city. If you don't buy a house in the county, you can't even talk about your daughter-in-law. The down payment for the house we bought was more than 200,000 yuan, and we have to repay the mortgage every month. ”

Zhu Yuqun began to complain about the bitterness with the stilt. The two women chattered and opened the dragon gate array.

Liu Yishui's wife walked away silently. But the fragrant smell of the cockfighting attracted the old lady so strongly and evoked many memories.

When I was a child, in those bitter childhoods, the cockfighting was the most delicious memory. This treasure of nature will come every summer. At that time, every child would go to the field early in the summer morning to look for this delicacy. Regardless of your luck, there are always a few times a year to see cockfights.

At that time, there was no such complicated practice, and finding a fighting was to boil it in clear water, and then dip it in a little spicy watercress to eat.

Liu Yishui went to another village to buy pigs. Zhu Yuqun also went out after breakfast. The grandchildren are all working in other places, and they only come back once during the Chinese New Year.

The old lady was left alone in the empty yard. The temptation of the cockfighting has always lingered in the old lady's heart, lingering. The taste of memory made the wife never forget, and such thoughts together became a heart disease, making the old lady fidget.

Maybe people are like this when they are old, they have some pathological attachments to certain things, and they seem stubborn about certain things. The old lady thought that she must eat cockfighting today.

The old lady took a bamboo pole and held it, pushed open the courtyard door and walked out.

The village road after the rain was a little slippery, and the old lady walked very carefully.

Qiuqiu saw Liu Yishui's wife go out, so he quietly followed her.

Qiuqiu has treated all the people of Checheshan as his family. That time, Qiuqiu caught Zhao Quan, who stole the chicken, and its status in the hearts of the people in the village has been greatly improved, and no one said that it was an ominous filial dog. Seeing Liu Yishui's wife walking towards Checheshan alone, Qiuqiu was a little uneasy.

Sanhua'er has become Qiuqiu's loyal follower, and she also followed with her tail wagging her tail.

The old lady first walked around the fields at the foot of the mountain. The rain had made the soil on the ridges soften, making it difficult to walk on your shoes. The old lady simply took off her shoes and walked barefoot on the ridge.

The old lady's feet were a little thin, and her wrinkled skin wrapped around her jagged bones. The slippery dirt came out of the toes and covered the instep of her foot.

The old lady did not feel uncomfortable, but had some intimacy, some childlike happiness.

Crackling on the mud, letting it get covered with the instep of the foot and the hem of the trousers.

The old lady looked up at the fields after the rain, those trees and crops, and the bamboo forest cottages, which were so familiar. She used to work on this land and raise a group of children. The land was soaked in her sweat and nourished her body. But now, she is too old to work in the fields and get close to the land.

Now she can only step on the mud on the ridge in such a way, like a child. The slippery mud made the soles of her feet itch a little, and she wanted to laugh, laughing out loud, just like when she was a child. As a child, she was a notoriously crazy girl.

"Let's go, Qiuqiu, Sanhuaer, let's go to the mountain, there is a cockfight on the mountain." Look at my memory, it's really old. Liu Yishui's old lady beckoned the two dogs and took them to the Cheche Mountain.

The road on the mountain was even more muddy and slippery, and the old lady almost fell down several times. Qiuqiu and Sanhua'er were so anxious that they screamed.

Every time she was about to fall, the old lady was like a skilled acrobat, always able to find a support point with the bamboo pole in her hand, and then shook a few times and stood still.

The old lady really couldn't help but laugh this time. She was able to go up the mountain, albeit with some difficulty. Think about when she was young, she carried a burden of more than 100 catties, and she also walked freely on this mountain road.

Qiuqiu smelled the scent of the freshly cut trees again. Following the scent, Qiuqiu found a large cockfighting in a clump of pumpkin vines. The open lid of the umbrella sparkled in the sunlight after the rain, like a translucent diamond.

Qiuqiu screamed. The old lady also saw the cockfighting and walked over with a bamboo pole.

"What a big cockfighting, the size of a basin. I've never seen such a big cockfighter. The old lady sighed and reached for the cockfighting.

It was a pumpkin vine growing on a steep cliff, with a large leaf with tiny burrs and a few golden trumpet-like flowers. The cockfight grows at the base of the pumpkin vine.

The old lady tried several times, but it didn't reach it. She simply threw the bamboo pole and lay down, ignoring the dirt after the rain and the dew on the blades of grass. She wanted to pick that cockfight so much.

Finally, she was able to reach the cockfighter. She wanted to laugh out loud with joy. But before she could laugh, she fell down with the cockpit and the soft soil.

For a moment, the old lady felt like a bird flying. Blue sky, white clouds, and the sun all swayed overhead. Then, she fell like a stone to the bottom of the cliff.

The blue sky, the white clouds, and the sun are still overhead, but they don't shake anymore. The old lady heard Qiuqiu and Sanhua'er's cries. Then she couldn't hear anything, she couldn't see anything, and she felt like she was falling into a state of confusion.