Zhao Linger's grandfather, Zhao Bianjiang, is 50 years old this year, and when he was eight years old, there was a drought and most of his relatives died, leaving only him and his father. The next year, his father married his stepmother, and his stepmother also brought two children, which made the situation at home worse, and he lived a life of starvation. In this way, thirteen-year-old Zhao Bianjiang began to wander outside, which can be said to have endured all the hardships. Later, he came to Hongsongtun, but he fainted at the entrance of the village because of heavy snow, and was rescued by Zhao Shouyi, who was in a hurry, and later learned that he was taken in by his background, and then recruited him to be his son-in-law. Therefore, the head of the Zhao family is the Zhao family, who is flying and domineering.

The two have two sons and two daughters. Ten years ago, the nineteen-year-old eldest daughter Zhao Hong married in Yangliu Village in Baihua Town, at the foot of the mountain. Seven years ago, the eighteen-year-old eldest son Zhao He married Wang Yun of Wangjiazhuang behind Dongshan, because he gave birth to a daughter for the first time after entering the door, and invited Lang Zhong because of dystocia, which was not loved by the Zhao family. Six years ago, the seventeen-year-old second son Zhao Hu married Li Lamei, the eldest daughter of the Li Da vernacular family of Bentun, because his mother's family is in Bentun, and the living standard is slightly better than that of the Zhao family. In addition, he gave birth to a boy in one fell swoop when he entered the door, so it was quite embarrassing in front of Zhao. Four years ago, the seventeen-year-old youngest daughter Zhao Cui married the village chief's youngest son, Liu Dabao.

Last year, after Zhao saw that Wang was pregnant, he divided the family of four into a single house with a vigorous attitude, and only gave two taels of silver without a house or land, and proposed that he must move out within a month. As soon as this incident came out, Zhao He was heartbroken, and the mother and son had a disagreement, of course, they were still a family on the surface, but they might not be able to say it in their hearts.

Because of the tight time and the lack of money in his hand, Zhao He had to take his wife and children to live at Zhang Laohan's house at the foot of Dongshan. This old man Zhang is a lonely old man who has been living alone in a stone house at the foot of Dongshan Mountain, some distance from the village. Later, he died in the house in the winter, and was found in the spring, and the village chief presided over the burial of the old man, and the people of the village were afraid of the house. Now that five or six years have passed, everyone has forgotten about it, Zhao He was forced to have no way to come to this house, and spent 500 Wen from the village to put the all-stone house equivalent to 200 square meters and the yard surrounded by thorns about one acre before and after.

As soon as this matter spread in the village, it hit a thousand waves, and there were all kinds of things, some said that the Zhao family was eccentric, some said that the house was dead and had been unlucky for so long, and there were also those who said that Zhao He finally lived by himself and escaped from his mother's control, and there were also those who said that the house was haunted, in short, it was varied. Thinking about who the Zhao family is, she doesn't care what others say. In her opinion, Wang's pure brand is a mourning star, sick every day, maybe one day she will die of illness. Plus she is pregnant again, can she still give birth to a child with her body? One is sure to have a difficult birth, if it is not good, it is a corpse and two lives, in order not to get stained with bad luck, I endured the pain of cutting the flesh and sent them away with two taels of silver. Of course, Zhao He and the Wang couple are clear in their hearts, so they will be a little sad, and they would rather live in the haunted house that everyone said.

Lao Zhangtou made great efforts when he built a house, Zhou Zhouzheng's stone masonry and stone tiles, and the doors and windows of a hundred years of red pine can live for a hundred years without breaking. Because there are few adults in the red pine tundi, the homestead is generally not small, plus the stone, wood, and yellow clay are on the east mountain, as long as the artificial wants to build as big as you want. At that time, he spent four taels of silver on labor costs for half a year to build this four-bedroom, one-living room and one-kitchen house, which is the common pattern here in Hongsongtun. The door of the house is open in the middle, and the entrance door is the place where the guests are entertained and eaten, because the winter here is cold and long, and there is a large kang that can accommodate four or five people in the hall, and in the kang is a fire wall, and there are two hooks on both sides of the fire wall, which is used to put clothes poles in winter. On both sides of the kang is a half-meter-high low fire wall that people can lean on, and on top of it can also be placed oil lamps and other miscellaneous items. The left side of the kang is the kitchen door, and the right side is the utility room door, of course, if there are many people in the family, you can also live in it, but there is no pan kang inside. Mainly place rice, grain, firewood, etc., there is also a kiln dug in the middle of the ground, because of the heavy snow in winter, sometimes the heavy snow seals the door for ten days, so the people here are set up in the kitchen and utility room. There are two doors on the walls on both sides of the hall, the inner layout is basically the same, half of the room is the kang, the kang can accommodate three people to live, the kang is against the window, of course, the two rooms are the back window, the two rooms are the front window. When Lao Zhang's body was found, it had not been thawed, so the body was not **, but the ancients were more superstitious, and basically no one dared to buy this house. The village chief took charge of selling Old Man Zhang's farm tools and sold them in Baihua Town, and got five taels of silver for Old Man Zhang's funeral expenses.

Zhao He took his wife and children to move to this veritable empty house on the same day, and there was nothing, and he removed the gate outside the window and found that all the window paper was broken, but fortunately, it was summer, and there would be nothing overnight. In Hongsongtun, every family in winter is on the gate outside the window, one is to keep warm, and the other is to prevent the beasts that come out to seek food and enter the room by mistake.

Looking at this house that was much better than the original home, Wang finally showed a smile, this was the first time since she gave birth to Min'er that there was a smile on her face, Zhao He felt sour in his heart, and said with a little choked up:

"Still laughing, you're going to live in this obscure house in the future, aren't you afraid?" In fact, Zhao He didn't believe in those ghosts and gods at all, plus Old Man Zhang also had some friendship with him during his lifetime, and the two occasionally went into the mountains to hunt together, so he didn't care about what others said, but he didn't know what his wife and children thought, and it was not good to ask directly.

"What's unlucky, which family hasn't had an old man pass away? Which house hasn't had a dead person? This house is uninhabitable at first glance? Besides, we haven't done anything wrong, what are we afraid of? "The first time Wang has been married for so long and said it with such confidence, it made Zhao He very happy in his heart, it seems that he did the right thing. Turning his head to look at six-year-old Zhao Min and four-year-old Zhao Shu, he asked softly:

"Are you two afraid?"

"I'm not afraid, as long as I'm with my father and mother, I'm not afraid to live in the mountains" In Zhao Min's heart, as long as she doesn't live with her grandmother and second aunt, it's a good place, besides, she likes this house very much, it's much better than the grandmother's house she used to live in.

"Zhao Shu is not afraid, Zhao Shu is a man, protect his little sister" Four-year-old Zhao Shu said this for the first time, a little gasping slightly.

"Who said it was the little sister? Maybe it's the little brother? Zhao He was in a good mood and also teased his son.

Brother Bolt said that it was her mother who said it, "Bolt is the eldest son of the second aunt Li, who is one year older than Zhao Shu." When the couple heard it, they knew that the younger siblings were chewing their tongues behind their backs, and they were heard by Zhao Xuan, and the two looked at each other and began to divide the labor, cleaning and cleaning, packing luggage, collecting firewood, running crazy all over the yard, and the family was happily preparing for a new life......