The more they walked into Nanshan, the less words the three brothers and sisters had, and finally they all fell silent.

The Zhou Chen brothers thought of their mother who was buried here and their sister who almost froze to death here last winter. Zhou Wanwan remembered all kinds of things in her previous life.

In his previous life, Zhou Wanwan also came to Nanshan after his death, and stayed here for a long time. Because the eldest brother is buried here, along with his mother and second brother.

Zhou Wanwan was looking forward to seeing the soul of her eldest brother, she had no impression of her mother at all, and she had no memory of her second brother. All she wants is to see her eldest brother, she can immortalize her soul after death, maybe her eldest brother can too. So she has been waiting here for a long, long time, at least two or three years, the grass and trees are withered, people come and go for nothing to her, she just sits on the grave of her eldest brother and waits, stubbornly looking forward to it, and then slowly swallows herself up completely with despair and unwillingness in her heart......

"Are you afraid?" Zhou Chen woke Zhou Wanwan up from her memories, and at some point, she was already held in her arms by the second brother, and the second brother wiped her face with his hand, and Zhou Wanwan saw her hands full of tears. It turned out that she was crying.

Zhou Wanwan didn't speak, but just hugged the second brother's neck. At this time, she was full of grief and did not know how to tell it, and she could not tell it.

"Don't wear it from the mountain, go around the bottom of the mountain. Your eyes are clean, don't see anything. Fortunately, although Zhou Yang was very worried about his sister, he didn't think much about it, and took his younger brothers and sisters around the foot of the mountain and walked towards the small temple on the south side of the mountain.

It is said to be a small temple, but it is actually completely different from a temple in the general sense. It is just a small wooden house next to two large stones, one meter high and no more than one meter long and wide, which enshrines the tablets of the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the land.

Next to the small temple grew an old elm tree, half dead, but the remaining half was still flourishing, with a thick trunk and a high crown, five or six meters above the ground.

On the branches, the tender elm money grew one after another, and it was swallowing saliva when I saw Zhou Wanwan.

Zhou Chen found a sunny and clean place for Zhou Yang's old padded jacket and laid it out, and put Zhou Wanwan on it to sit. Zhou Wanwan honestly listened to the arrangement of the second brother and sat there pretending to be a good baby. Now her brothers still have no confidence in her ability to walk or even stand, and she is protesting now, except for being ruthlessly suppressed, and delaying the progress of her brothers' elm money, nothing will come of it.

Zhou Chen saw that his sister was obedient, straightened her curly hair, and gave her a few more words before going to help Zhou Yang.

Zhou Wanwan looked at the old elm tree, the trunk of the tree was five or six meters, and there was no extra branch below, and it was bare without a little grip. Moreover, its trunk is very thick, and a person can't hold it, and it is even more difficult to climb up.

Zhou Yang could easily climb up, he discussed it with Zhou Chen, and brought a few straw ropes as tools. He had climbed up with his bare hands before, but Zhou Chen was right, if he could save a little effort, he would save some effort, and it would be safe if he had tools.

Zhou Yang first wrapped a few loops of straw rope around the soles of his shoes with the help of Zhou Chen, and then took a long and thick one to wrap around the big tree, and began to climb the tree. He tried twice, found the right angle, pulled the straw rope around the big tree with both hands, and stepped on the trunk with the soles of his feet, because the soles of his shoes had the friction of the straw ropes, it was easy to stand firm on the trunk, and in this way, he quickly climbed to the canopy.

Zhou Wanwan happily clapped and cheered for his brothers. She really admires these two brothers, they are still so young, they are so organized, and they are willing to use their brains, which is really rare.

Zhou Yang also happily sat on the branch and waved to his sister. He used to climb up and grind his palms to the ground, and his arms were shaking so tired, how could he come up so easily like this time.

"Big brother is amazing!" Zhou Wanwan's little hands clapped more happily.

"Is the second brother powerful?" Zhou Chen came over to rub his sister's soft little curly hair, and couldn't help but kiss her again, it was soft and sweet, it was so cute.

"Second brother is smart!" It's really not that Zhou Wanwan avoids the important and light, these two elder brothers, the eldest brother is flexible and coordinated, can endure hardships, has good physical strength, and the second brother is smart and keen, willing to use his brain and talent in everything, he is really a very good teenager.

Zhou Yang began to throw elm money down, Zhou Chen first caught a few branches that did not fall to the ground, picked a good quality and gave it to Zhou Wanwan, and let her eat it first.

Then he didn't let Zhou Yang break the branches, for fear of hurting the tree, so he asked him to pick it up directly with his hands and put it in a big bag of flour that he had prepared.

Zhou Yang took out a pocket full of elm money, pressed and pressed, and finally stopped when he couldn't hold it anymore. Zhou Chen asked him to come down, don't masturbate, the branches on it are thin, I'm afraid I can't help people, and it will be bad if I fall down again. It was much easier to come down, Zhou Yang wrapped the straw rope around his hand, slid the trunk of the tree, and came down with a whoosh.

After coming down, he grinned at Zhou Chen with a mouthful of white teeth, "Xiao Er, what do you think, this trick is really good, it won't be difficult to climb any tall tree in the future." ”

Zhou Chen pursed his lips and smiled, and took out two small cloth pockets in his arms to pack elm money, "Last winter, it was a letter sent to us by Aunt Liu's second dog, and I haven't thanked others, so I'll send some elm money to her family in a while." And Chief Shen, people may not be able to look at our little things, but we also have to let people know that we haven't forgotten his great kindness, and we will repay him if we have good things in the future, now let's send some Yu money to show our hearts. ”

"Yes, it's time to send some. If we didn't have these two, we would ...... now" Zhou Yang paused, unable to continue.

"Whoever is good to us, we will never forget it for the rest of our lives, and if it is not good for us, we will remember him for a lifetime." Zhou Chen wiped his eyes and said hatefully.

Zhou Wanwan clenched her little fists in approval. To repay virtue with virtue and repay grievances with grievances, everyone must know that their brothers and sisters know it in their hearts.

After Zhou Chen was busy, the brothers sat down and ate a lot of elm money, and the sun had just risen in mid-air, Zhou Wanwan looked at the time with his consciousness back to the space, it was only half past nine in the morning, it seemed that they really got up early in the morning.

The three brothers and sisters discussed it for a while, and planned to send the elm money home first, and then go to the big bubble on the wasteland north of Tunzi to take a look, I heard that there are hairy roots at the water's edge, and there are small fish in the bubble. It's just that they can't find anything, and it's good to be able to play for a while in such a good weather, it is estimated that with this pocket of elm money at the bottom, Mrs. Zhou will not be so difficult for them, and it will be easy to let them out.

According to Zhou Chen's distribution, Zhou Chen first took a big bag and a small bag of elm money from the east end of the village, and Aunt Liu's family lived at the east end of the last street, he first sent the elm money to Aunt Liu's family before going home, otherwise Mrs. Zhou knew that they had to scold people for sending things to other people's homes, that is, they didn't care, and it would not be good if it reached the ears of Aunt Liu.

Zhou Yang took Zhou Wanwan and took a bag of elm money to see Chief Shen, "People saved us, and we have to let people see what kind of child they are saving." Zhou Chen couldn't help but take out his sister to show off, "I also want to thank Chief Shen in person, I can't forget the life-saving grace of others for the rest of my life, you know?" The latter sentence is the evening of Education Week.

After sending things, Zhou Chen went directly to Peking University to find Zhou Yang's brothers and sisters to meet, and didn't let Zhou Yang go home, "As soon as the milk sees you, she won't let you be idle." ”

The three siblings set off separately.

Lying in Zhou Yang's arms, Zhou Wanwan has been thinking about Zhou Chen's precociousness. After the New Year, Zhou Chen was only eleven years old, and it was really rare to be able to see so clearly and do so thoughtfully. At the same time, Zhou Wanwan couldn't stop being sad and resentful, in his previous life, such a smart and sensible second brother ended up like that, and in the end he didn't even get the body back, but only buried his set of clothes next to his mother's grave and made a well-dressed grave......

Chief Shen's home is in the center of the tunzi, next to the well in the tunli, and there are three red brick houses. In addition to the school, the brigade department, and the supply and marketing cooperative, this is the second all-brick house in Quantunzi, and there are only two in Tunzi, except for four or five half-brick houses with bricks in front and adobe on the other three sides, the other houses are all houses with thatched on top of the whole adobe.

I heard that this house was built for him when Chief Shen was not in good health and wanted to return to his hometown, so the township specially came to Sanjiatun to build it for him. When he came back, he was very angry and felt that he had done something special, but the house was built, and he couldn't push it, so Chief Shen bought the house with his own money.

Later, for some reason, he only came back for a few days and then left, but since last winter, Chief Shen has occasionally come back to stay for a few days, and he doesn't know if he is at home now.

When the Zhou Yang brothers and sisters came to Chief Shen's house, the door was hung with a big lock, and it seemed that they were not at home. Zhou Wanwan took a look at the courtyard, this courtyard is the same as the Zhou family, there is an aisle in the middle, and vegetable gardens on both sides. The vegetable garden is very clean, and there are tender seedlings growing on the fluffy ground, which shows that someone has carefully served them. Except that there are no pigsties, chicken coops, and livestock sheds, this small yard is no different from an ordinary farm yard, and Zhou Wanwan even saw a hoe and a shovel hanging under the eaves of the barn.

"Sanle, are you looking for Chief Shen?" There were a few members of the seventh team on the well platform, who were also resting today, and were sitting together chatting, and one of them greeted Zhou Yang, "Chief Shen has gone to the county, come to the car to pick him up, and he said that he will be back in a few days." ”

"I know, Third Uncle Gui, you're busy, I'll go first." Zhou Yang didn't stay, and went to the big bubble behind the village with Zhou Wanwan in his arms.

"What are you busy with, kid? What's in your arms? Bulging? Third Uncle Gui hurriedly asked Zhou Yang, a few of them had been watching the old man for a long time, and they didn't see what he was carrying.

"My sister!" Zhou Yang talked to Uncle Gui San while walking, and after answering his words, he had already walked out dozens of meters.

"This kid! Why are you holding your sister so hard? Who can snatch ......" Uncle Gui's words gradually became inaudible, and he heard a few words from a few people intermittently.

"Competent...... He's a good lad in the future......"

"It's not a good life...... Poor ...... children."

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When Zhou Yang came to Peking University with Zhou Wanwan in his arms, it happened that Zhou Chen also came over. The three siblings converged and walked towards a group of children on the edge of the bubble.