"Where did it come from?" Zhou Yang really asked about the calendar.

"I promised to make a slingshot for Zhao Dazhuang, and he gave it to me." Zhou Chen then smiled, "His family Zhao Xiaosan'er saw our sister once, and every day he wanted to take him back to be his sister, and he wanted to sneak away from our house, his mother couldn't stand it anymore, and was beaten by his father several times." ”

"This kid thinks beautifully!" Zhou Yang also smiled, "But he has a lot of vision." ”

Zhou Wanwan secretly rolled his eyes next to him, big brother, that little kid bullied your sister, why are you still laughing?

"But no, I heard that this hairy root is for Nannan to eat, and he also gave two of them, saying that he will find it again and send it to our Nannan."

"What are you talking about?" Zhou Yang hurriedly asked.

"Of course I can't ask for it, let's send him a few hairs to eat?" Zhou Chen raised his eyebrows, "It's just that the team has been too busy these days, and when I'm free, I'll go find him, can I use him?" Besides, if I accept it, Aunt Zhao doesn't think that we will take advantage of other people's children. I didn't want to accept these two of them, but later I saw that the little fart child was about to cry, and Aunt Zhao also persuaded me sincerely, so I took it. ”

"No, I can't." Zhou Yang was afraid that his younger brother would be anxious to find food for his sister, so he took advantage of other people's children and let the neighbors poke their backbones. "I see that the old elm tree next to the small temple in Nanshan is still alive, and we will have elm money to eat in two days, so let's take the girl and give her elm money to eat."

"Do you see clearly?" Zhou Chen couldn't believe it, "This spring, I haven't seen a single living tree." ”

"I went around on purpose, and half of it sprouted, and it was growing pretty well. It's no wonder that Liu Blind said that the small temple holds the dragon vein of our tunzi, and not a single tree is alive in other places, so it lives next to the old elm tree in the small temple. ”

Zhou Chen is not interested in the dragon vein or the dragon vein, he cares about Yu Qian, "You watch more these days, let's go when you get out of Yu Qian, Quan Tunzi doesn't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at it, don't let others take the lead." ”

"I can't rob it," Zhou Yang smiled, "If others go, they're in a hurry, and they can't go up." ”

Zhou Chen also smiled, rubbing Zhou Wanwan's little curly hair, "You have to have elm money to eat." Let the eldest brother go and pick the nannan, and the eldest brother will climb the tree and be the first in the team! ”

Zhou Wanwan went upstairs to her eldest brother's neck with her little arms open, "Big brother first!" ”

"Little pony!" Zhou Chen pretended to be angry and patted Zhou Wanwan's little buttocks, "What is the second brother?" ”

"When the eldest brother is away, the second brother is the first." After Zhou Wanwan finished speaking, she hurriedly hid in her eldest brother's arms, and as expected, her second brother's slap then chased after her, and then was successfully blocked by her eldest brother.

When sleeping, Zhou Wanwan refused to come out in Zhou Yang's bed, and was scolded by Zhou Chen a few more words, "Little white-eyed wolf, if you have a big brother, you won't be good with the second brother", Zhou Wanwan stretched out her little head and kissed her second brother several times before she was happy, and the brothers and sisters made a fuss for a while before falling asleep.

In the dream that night, Zhou Wanwan smelled the long-lost aroma of elm money, sweet and warm, with the smell of love.

A few days later, in the silent grief of her brothers, Zhou Wanwan ushered in the first Qingming Festival since her rebirth.

In her previous life, every year during Qingming, she and her eldest brother would go to sweep the graves of her mother and second brother. The eldest brother that day was always unusually silent. After silently talking to his mother and younger brother for a long time, he would ask Zhou Wanwan to wipe Zhou Chen's tombstone and place incense and candles as tributes. Every year, I will say to Zhou Wanwan: "Your second brother loves you very much, don't forget him." ”

It is only today that Zhou Wanwan really understands the weight of this sentence and truly understands the heartache of the eldest brother at that time......

The Zhou family on this day was no different from the past. Old man Zhou came to the Northeast alone, and he didn't even know if his exact surname was Zhou, where he remembered any ancestors, and there was no ancestral grave to worship.

Zhou Chunliang, the only one who should have something to say, is also fine, except for Zhou Yang's three brothers and sisters, the whole family has forgotten Li Xiuhua, who has just left for a year. Maybe some people haven't forgotten, but they don't want to remember either.

Early in the morning, it was still dark, and Zhou Wanwan was taken by his brothers to Nanshan's mother's cemetery. Because they can't ask for leave to sweep the tomb, the three brothers and sisters can only come to worship their mother when there is a glimmer of light the day before work. Of course, if the brothers forcibly took half a day off, Mrs. Zhou had no choice. But that would have to affect the mother was taken out and scolded by Mrs. Zhou for many days, for the sake of the mother's peace, the brothers discussed whether to come at this time.

There were no sacrifices, no incense and candles, Zhou Chen placed a bowl of water in front of his mother's tomb, and the three of them kowtowed respectfully, even if they worshipped.

Before leaving, Zhou Yang choked up and assured his mother: "Mom, don't worry, I will take care of my younger brothers and sisters." ”

"Mom, the three of us will be fine." Zhou Chen said that it was the three of us, because Zhou Xia refused to come. Last night, Zhou Yang went to her specifically for this matter, hoping that she would come with her this morning, Zhou Xia turned her head silently and ignored Zhou Yang.

Zhou Chen shook his sister in his arms and motioned for her to speak to her mother, Zhou Wanwan thought for a long time, and only said: "Mom, don't worry." "Don't worry, I will take good care of my brothers, and we will be happy in this life, don't worry.

After the Qingming passed, the tender green in the eyes secretly turned into emerald green at some point, and the sky became blue and clear, and even the few white clouds that occasionally floated by seemed to have risen a lot, which made people's minds widen up.

After intense land preparation and wheat planting, we began to prepare for planting grain, millet, and corn. After the rain in the valley, it is good to plant beans, which is what I am talking about at this time.

In the past few days, the seeds are still soaking and waiting to germinate, the ground is finished, the production team has rarely lived for a day or two, and the people who have struggled for a spring in hunger and toil can finally stretch their hands and feet and rest on their own kang for a day.

After breakfast early in the morning, while Mrs. Zhou was sitting on the kang and scolding again, and before she could even bother assigning work to Zhou Yang and the brothers, Zhou Chen gave Zhou Yang a look and asked him to prepare to sneak away. Zhou Yang looked at Mrs. Zhou in embarrassment, in fact, he was really not afraid of being scolded by Mrs. Zhou, but he was used to being honest, and he suddenly wanted to avoid labor, and he couldn't get over it on his conscience.

Zhou Chen pointed to the other brothers and sisters of the Zhou family: They are all older than us, can no one do that little work at home? He pointed to Zhou Wanwan again: My sister is waiting.

Zhou Wanwan cooperated with her second brother very much, and sent brain waves and eye attacks to Zhou Yang: I really want to go out to play, I want to think about it......

Zhou Yang saw his sister's expectant little eyes and immediately surrendered. put on his old black cotton jacket for Zhou Wanwan again, and took his sister into his arms, and the three brothers and sisters escaped from the gate of Zhou's house with a few swishs.

walked out of the gate of Zhou's house, and threw away the abuse of Mrs. Zhou, Wang Fengying's white eyes, Li Guizhi's temptation, Zhou Hongying and Zhou Xia's suspicious and gloomy eyes, and other uncomfortable things, and the three brothers and sisters felt more relaxed than ever before.

Zhou Wanwan hid in Zhou Yang's arms, and only dared to show a pair of eyes when he didn't get out of the tunzi, and the Zhou Yang brothers also knew what their sister was afraid of, so they didn't talk much, so they only quickened their pace and hurried out of the tunzi, so that their sister could come out and have fun.

It's really not their brothers and sisters making a big fuss, if they don't hide now, then if they want to get out of the tunzi smoothly, it is definitely not something that can be done in a short time.

There were two days ago, Zhou Chen left work early and took Zhou Wan out late to let out the wind. Directly surrounded by the aunts and aunts in the village, Zhou Wanwan transferred from this hand to that hand, and turned a big circle and couldn't return to Zhou Chen's arms, and there were uncles and uncles and little children who came over one after another waiting to see the beautiful little doll......

Although the younger sister is cute, everyone wants to hug and pinch when they see it, their brothers feel happy, they can see the little appearance of the younger sister being rubbed into tears, and when they go home and see her little face and small arms that are a little broken by those rough big hands, the Zhou brothers regretted it and decided not to take their sister out again. Then, I saw that I don't know which one didn't know the severity of the sister's little buttocks, and the two brothers simply went berserk and never hugged others again! No one!

So when they went out this time, the two brothers were fully prepared, they didn't stop talking to anyone, at most they passed by to say hello, and they definitely didn't give anyone a chance to get close to their sister.

Zhou Chen also repeatedly told Zhou Yang that he must take a firm stand, no one will stop calling, and whoever wants to hug his sister will not give it, if he dares to hand over his sister because he can't pull his face, he will not hug him in the future. Zhou Chen was really worried, if he wasn't as tall as his eldest brother, he was afraid that his sister would be uncomfortable, so he would carry it himself.

Zhou Yang promises that he will definitely do what he says. No one's safety is as important as my sister's, what's not to pull down your face?

The three brothers and sisters walked smoothly through the two streets, walked to the road that runs through Tunzi, followed the road to the east of the village, and then went south on the field road for more than a mile to reach the small temple at the foot of Nanshan.

Out of the village, Zhou Wanwan is considered safe. Zhou Yang took her out, took off her old cotton jacket and handed it to Zhou Chen, lifted Zhou Wanwan above her head, and let her sit on her shoulder.

Zhou Wanwan hugged the eldest brother's head and giggled. She vaguely remembered that in her previous life, when she was six or seven years old, she was taken out by her eldest brother like this, which was one of the few happy times for their siblings.

The three brothers and sisters walked south along the field path, laughing and laughing all the way. The ground on both sides of the path is planted with wheat, and the wheat seedlings have just emerged, and the tender green color cannot cover the ground, which makes people look soft in their hearts, and full of vitality, and they want to shout and laugh twice for no reason.

This is the first time I have seen Nanshan in this life.

Nanshan is said to be a mountain, but it is actually a small mound with a small area on a slightly higher ground. When the drought was not hit, hundreds of trees grew on the mountain, mainly poplars, willows and elms, and some pine trees that were planted when they were buried. Trees vary in size, are of a variety of species, and are very unlarge. In addition to the trees, there are some shrubs on the mountain, the highest is more than two meters, one grows from the ground, and the people from the surrounding villages come to cut down, and take the house to clip the shovel, build beans or cucumber racks, and also use them to light the fire.

In Zhou Wanwan's memory, Nanshan in spring has always been verdant, completely different from the scene in front of him.

Now in Nanshan, hundreds of dead trees stand there sluggishly with black and gray branches, incompatible with the vitality of the surrounding fields, and the shrubs on the mountain are no longer lush and luxuriant, half dead, half mixed with withered companions, and the green branches stretching out everywhere show the strength of their vitality, and they cannot erase the traces of the struggle to survive in the past three years. Tifs of grass grew messily on the bare ground, like a bald leprosy dog.

This small hill is a microcosm of the land, scarred after three years of drought, but it is tenacious and alive.