No matter how long you walk in the fields, there is still a time to finish. When the sun gradually shone from the east to the west, the yellow light revealed between the leafy leaves of the ancient tree at the head of the village, and the fifth brother and I tacitly followed the route in our memory and walked to Jinhua's house.

I'm okay, what the fifth brother saw and heard today has already subverted his cognition, especially when he saw a septuagenarian walking past us with a large pile of firewood on his back not long ago, he clenched his fists but still held back the action of stepping forward.

Climbing up the yellow mud ladder along the path to the courtyard of Jinhua's house, I saw at a glance that the little girl was sitting in the courtyard with a stool, and was first surprised to see us appear, and then rushed into the house happily, and pulled her father out after a while.

When the old man saw us, he said happily: "Young lady, you are back, old man, I thought you were lost and were about to look for it!" Now that we're all back, let's go into the house and sit down, I've got a good day today, I caught a meat rabbit in the field in the afternoon, and we'll eat rabbit meat tonight. ”

After speaking, he waved his hand and pushed the golden flower forward a little, and said with a smile: "You and the young lady will play in the yard for a while, and Dad will clean up the rabbit and clean up the house." ”

Jinhua didn't rely too much on her father this time, let go of her father's hand and watched him enter the house and bite his fingers to stare at us, a small face because of long-term malnutrition looks emaciated, so a pair of eyes are particularly brilliant.

At that time, I thought that if I have a child in the future, my eyes must be as good-looking as Song Yuan.

"Jinhua, come, come." I beckoned to the golden flower, perhaps after the morning's events, she was no longer timid, but still moved cautiously and in small steps.

The fifth brother stood aside with his arms crossed, and I squatted down just to be shrouded in his shadow, only to hear him tease: "I didn't expect that you still like children." ”

I snorted, there are so many things you can't think of. In my previous life, I was the leader of the kindergarten as an older leftover girl, although I didn't have my own children, but I was called mother by dozens of children, thinking about this, I felt a little sad in my heart.

Dinner was a pot of roast rabbit meat and two bowls of porridge, and the old man was ready to take the golden flower to dodge, I saw the fifth brother with a look of forbearance and discomfort, so I kept it for him.

"Don't go, let's eat together, you should abide by your rules in your house, and you should not exist as us." Seeing that Jinhua's father was still reluctant, I set my target on Jinhua again.

"Jinhua, come and sit down and eat with your sister, okay?"

Jin Hua has not turned her eyes away from the moment the pot of roast rabbit meat without oil and water was brought into the house. When I heard this, my face was full of reluctance and struggle.

I pressed Jinhua on the bench and sat down, and pretended to be angry and said to the old man: "Just have a meal with us, why don't you want to!" ”

Jinhua's father rubbed his hands helplessly, and said with a smile: "Being able to eat at the same table with the two nobles is already a blessing that the old man and the little girl have cultivated for several generations. ”

"Then if you don't sit down, Jinhua will be hungry."

The old man was still a little uncomfortable, looking restless, I didn't care about him, beckoned the fifth brother and stretched out his chopsticks to clip a piece of rabbit meat to Jinhua, but found that the old man didn't have his and Jinhua's portion at the beginning.

He apparently found out, so he stood up so violently that the bench was almost overturned by him, and he straightened it and hurriedly said, "I'll go serve two more bowls of porridge." ”

After the old man left, Jinhua kept staring at the piece of rabbit meat on my chopsticks, and I looked down at her hand that was placed on her knees. I couldn't put the rabbit meat back, and I couldn't eat it in front of her, so I kept holding the piece of rabbit meat until the old man went out with two porcelain bowls.

The old man put the two bowls on the table, and I clearly saw that the bowl in front of him was only thinly covered with a layer of base, and there was not much, maybe even enough for a mouthful, and it was still not very sticky rice soup.

The fifth brother obviously saw it too, and I caught a glimpse of his body moving.

Jinhua also saw that she was too small to reach, so she jumped off the bench and bypassed the corner of the table to adjust the bowl in front of her and the bowl in front of her father.

Without waiting for Jinhua's father to change it again, I hurriedly poured more than half of my bowl into the Jinhua bowl.

"Sister eats less, Jinhua, help my sister eat some. If I eat too much, it will be difficult to eat at night. "The first sentence I said to Jinhua, and the latter sentence was naturally said to her father, hearing me say this, he squirmed his lips a few times and did not refute it.

The meal was not too joyful, and almost no one spoke except for the occasional golden flower. After eating a few pieces of rabbit meat and drinking the half bowl of porridge in the bowl, I stared at the small half of the meat left in the basin, in fact, how much meat a rabbit can have, it is only a little bit, and a few pieces of meat for each of the four people are gone. But it just so happened that among the four of us, except for me who actually ate a few pieces, the rest of us didn't move much.

It was the fifth brother who drank the bowl of rice soup that belonged to him. I was amazed by that.

There are only two houses in Jinhua's family, I live in the same house with Jinhua, the fifth brother lives in the old man's house, and the old man lives together in the firewood house. I met the old man's apologetic gaze and put my arms around Jinhua's thin shoulders.

"I just want to be with Jinhua, does Jinhua like my sister?"

The muscles between the fifth brother's eyebrows have never relaxed, he stood at the door of the house, and still hesitated to speak: "Let you go to sleep in the firewood room, how embarrassing is this, otherwise, we will ......"

“……”

I still hugged Jinhua, but the whole person seemed to be frozen, oh my God, is this person still my fifth brother, he is so understanding, but, what kind of ghost are you proposing, don't say you are willing, Jinhua and her father are still unwilling.

Jinhua's father was obviously frightened as well, and hurriedly waved his hand.

The night in the mountains is very cool and silent, except for the occasional animal cry and the howling of the mountain wind, speaking of the howling of the mountain wind, the old man's house made of mud is really not warm, and the cold people shiver and tremble.

I lay on the kang with my clothes, and I refused to put on the quilt, for fear that the golden flowers would be cold, so I covered her with all of them. Well, actually, I'm just a little resistant to the hard and indistinguishable cover of the bed.

Even though I can pretend to be very comfortable with all this, and be careful not to hurt Jinhua and her father's self-esteem, but in my bones I am actually not comfortable. I don't know what the fifth brother in that house thinks.

I put it under my head and nodded slightly, and said to Jinhua: "Jinhua, do you remember the person who came to your house to borrow the carriage a few days ago?" ”