In the golden autumn of October, the fields of Yangjiawan are covered with yellow carpets. A gust of wind blew, the sycamore leaves fell all over the ground, and the golden paulownia swayed like wind chimes; Even the green pines with green coats have yellow pine needles rolling off along with pine nuts; The ripe ears of rice bowed their heads modestly, the arrogant corn cobs exploded, and the tobacco leaves cut in the ground were also burned golden by the scorching sun......

Xie Guoqiang buried his head and raised the Gu target, without a single superfluous word. Both Shufang and Shufen are wielding scythes in the field. The sad faces of Xie Guoqiang and his wife let Shufen's song suffocate into their stomachs, and the solemn atmosphere spread in the dull air.

Shufei struggled to move around the paddy fields, handing her brother-in-law and mother the targets that her sister had cut on the stumps, and occasionally reminding her brother-in-law that there was still full millet on the ears of rice that had not been cleaned.

Everyone can see that the contradiction between Guoqiang and Shufang, who is preoccupied, is becoming more and more intense, and they begin to show Xiàn on their faces.

Guoqiang's gambling addiction is like the mud in this well paddy field, which makes him deeply trapped and unable to extricate himself. Old Xie stonemason had already turned his face with him more than once, and even waved the flat and threatened to beat him to death.

Guoqiang's mother was reluctant, and secretly gave money to his humble son. However, the old lady also had a handful of snot and tears, and bitterly advised him not to gamble anymore.

But this ignorant old lady supported Guoqiang to take Begonia to "worship Baoye". For this reason, Guoqiang and Shufang made a big fuss many times, and Shufang was angry and returned to her parents' house with Xiao Haitang.

Yang Zegui and his wife were noncommittal, and could only persuade Shufang while looking forward to Guoqiang's prodigal son's return. Xie Guoqiang's impression on them is absolutely impeccable, whether it is for people or work, he is dedicated. But on the matter of Xiao Haitang worshipping Yang Guiyong as a godfather, the family's opinion is unanimous - everyone knows what Yang Guiyong is!

Guoqiang has finally come.

The dejected Guoqiang stiffened his face, and stayed up all night to destroy the young man to the point of exhaustion, and the enthusiasm was gone, and even his father and mother did not scream, and took out a handful of change from his pocket and returned it to Shufen - this was the last time Shufen threw it to him in the fork of the river. He didn't eat breakfast, so he ran to the well and paddy field with the threshing bucket and the shade on his back. Shufang hugged the child, and when she saw this Guoqiang looking like she was going to die, she cried again.

Shufen comforted her sister for a long time, and then went to comfort her mother who was secretly wiping her tears. No one could eat the breakfast they had just made, so they came to the field with a basket.

The one-legged Yang Zegui is at home with his little granddaughter. This well-behaved little girl, except for the marks on the bridge of her nose, is white and clean everywhere. Yang Zegui put her in the bamboo cradle against the wall, and the little girl didn't cry, but played with a piece of bamboo by herself.

Xie Guoqiang picked up a load of millet with water vapor and poured it into the stone dam. Yang Zegui is sorting out bamboo rakes in the bamboo forest. When Guoqiang saw his daughter in the corner, his heart was sour.

He hadn't seen the child for more than ten days. Yang Guiyong had a gambling den at the pass of Xiejiaba, and unknowingly, Guoqiang also became a frequent visitor there. His daughter-in-law and children are not around, and he runs to the pass every day. Yesterday, his father and eldest brother followed him there and turned the gambling nest upside down, Yang Guiyong didn't say a word, threw out an IOU of 800 yuan, and asked the old stonemason to pay back the money, Xie Jingfeng almost fainted!

Lao Xie really didn't have the face to run to Yangjiawan, scolded Xie Guoqiang with his head and face, and forced Guoqiang to take his wife and children back with an axe.

Guoqiang couldn't wait to grab the axe and chop it with his own hands. It wasn't until he saw the note thrown out by Yang Guiyong that he knew how much loan shark he had borrowed and how much interest he had rolled out. Even if he Xie Guoqiang is more than 2,000 yuan with interest, even if he Xie Guoqiang hits stones every day for 365 days a year, it will take two or three years to pay it off! What's more, after a few years, how many times will have to be turned over - of course, this account is calculated by the eldest brother!

The old man behind his ear was listening to the commentary on the radio in the room, and his voice was fully turned on, and the others listened to it deafeningly. This old stonemason, who has been in the same house for four generations, doesn't know that his humble grandson has ruined the honest family style of the old Xie family in just two months!

"Bad luck at home!" Xie Jingfeng was so angry that he vomited blood again.

Guoqiang knelt on the ground and slapped himself fiercely, even if the old lady couldn't pull it. He hated himself, hated himself for foolishly believing in some fortune teller; hating oneself for greedily thinking that gambling can make you rich; Hate yourself for not listening to advice! It's all over, it's too late! The strip in black and white, with his own handprint on it, wants to pay back, it is really bankrupt!

There are also Shufang and Begonia. He remembered that he slapped Shufang in the face more than ten days ago, and he completely ignored his tearful wife and the crying child, and actually ran to the gambling den that could not see the light of day, and gambled in the dark.

Guoqiang spread out the millet, walked to the cradle, looked at the sleeping begonia, and stretched out his hand to drive away a fly that was green all over. Then he wiped his stained hands from his shirt, and then leaned down and picked up his dear daughter. Guoqiang's tears wet the child's clothes, maybe too hard, and the startled Begonia suddenly cried......

Yang Zegui heard Begonia's cry, almost trotted over with a cane, and saw that it was Guoqiang, so he went to work with peace of mind!

Guoqiang gently stroked Begonia's hair and sang the out-of-tune "Lullaby", and the child finally stopped crying and gently closed his eyes. He kissed his daughter's forehead with tears in his eyes, then turned away.

Guoqiang picked up his father-in-law's sharp knife, hid it under the basket of picking grain, and walked towards the well paddy field......

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Fushun, who has been looking forward to the start of school, returns to school, but he can't be happy. The Yang Guiying that Li Xiangyu found was not his childhood sweetheart Sister Guiying, just a person with the same name!

Wang Guangwen returned to school very happily. Dr. He, recommended by Shufen, was almost cured of his mother's illness; Since Dr. He went to his house for a visit, he would go to Shiqiao to grab medicine almost every time Shiqiao was fair, and he was already quite familiar with Shufen, who bought a broom on the street; And he also agreed with Shufen that he would also keep correspondence after he arrived in Jiangyun.

Guangwen feels that Shufen is not only beautiful, but also thinks differently from ordinary rural female dolls, she reads a lot of books and insists on reading newspapers. Although Shiqiao is a very small place, that small place has given birth to many wonderful people, such as self-taught and self-taught geniuses like Fushun, and doctors with excellent medical skills and noble medical ethics like He Pan. Guangwen believes that Yang Shufen will also be a great character.

Yang Shufen always vividly describes the future of the countryside - the stone bridge, which is now closed, will not be long in all directions; In the future, Yangjiawan will also be a flower and fruit mountain full of peaches and plums! Guangwen yearned, and suddenly had an urge to drop out of school and go home to become a farmer.

Fushun and Xiangyu received Guangwen at the bus station together, taking the sun-dried bamboo shoot slices that Guangwen brought to him from Shiqiao, the mustard made by Shufenniang, and a letter written by Shufen.

"Fushun, guess what this is?" Guangwen held an iron stationery box in his right hand and pretended to fiddle with it mysteriously!

"What else can a rusty stationery box be?" Xiang Yu, who had just snatched the mustard from Fu Shun's hand, smelled the sour smell and drooled greedily.

Fu Shun frowned, "I don't know!" ”

"Listen!" Guangwen brought the box close to Fushun's ear. Xiang Yu also followed.

"Haha, I'll listen to it again!" Fushun laughed. There was an irregular clatter of the box, with the occasional buzzing of its wings, which closed because the space was too small.

"What the hell, make you two like this!" Xiang Yu smoothed her short hair with her hand and jumped up in a hurry! grabbed it in his hand and uncovered the iron box.

Xiang Yu was taken aback. Seven or eight golden-yellow hard-shelled insects lay at the bottom of the box, their sharp claws twisted into each other, their hard mouths thin and long, and their two eyed tentacles swaying back and forth.

"What the hell!" I didn't expect this "tomboy" to have insects to fear!

"Bamboo shoot shell insects, also called bamboo insects!" Fushun hurriedly covered the box, for fear that the treasure would fly away. For Fushun, these little guys are childhood memories, happy childhood, and the best gift given to him by the bamboo forest in front of the door.

"Can you eat it?" Xiang Yu still restored her female nature, returned the mustard to Fu Shun, took the box and grabbed one to see what was going on.

"It's delicious!" Guangwen added.

"Let's go, anyway, tonight is self-study, let's not go, go to the dock to get bamboo worms to eat, here is very close to the dock!"

"Or!" Xiang Yu's idea attracted opposition from the two boys.

"Liu Tiancai, you didn't plan to go to self-study in the first place, don't you want us to go to your dock!"

"No, I'm afraid of Guangwen...... People have been in the car for a day and a night, and they want to rest! ”

"I didn't finish my homework!" Guangwen added.

"Ha, did you go home and forget!" Xiang Yu will not understand that this rural doll with a seriously ill mother can't wait to carry all the burdens of the family on her shoulders, and she has no time to do her homework.

"Let's go, go, I have a place to do my homework, and I'll eat on our stove in the evening!" Fushun suddenly changed his mind, leaving Xiang Yu aside, Guangwen, as a fellow countryman, also helped him bring things, and he should be grateful.

Guangwen was still hesitating, Fushun picked up Guangwen's semi-snakeskin pocket luggage, pulled him up and walked to the dock. Xiang Yu followed behind, playing with the bamboo shoot shell worm, and was suddenly pierced into the index finger by its sharp claws, and the box fell to the ground with a tremble, and a dozen or so insects fluttered their wings and scattered in all directions......

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