The kerosene lamps are not lit.

Wang Li took off the lampshade, cooled it for a while, then took a piece of straw paper and rolled it up and put it on her fingers, carefully reached into the glass lampshade, and carefully wiped off the black oil smoke stuck to the lampshade little by little.

When I finished wiping it, I saw that there was still a lot of kerosene in the oil lamp, and I found scissors to cut off the burnt part of the wick, and then put the lampshade on it, and the room was really bright.

Wang Aiguo sat against the wall, holding a book in his hand, turning it from front to back and back to front. Wang Lao struck the hookah on the ground and knocked off the ash inside, but did not continue to fill the tobacco shreds.

Lin Guizhi made a gloomy face, and took a thread gauze gown in his hand to hook a few stitches from time to time.

In the kitchen, Ah Fang and Ah Xia huddled under the stove, burning the fire on one side and keeping warm on the other. Seeing that the water in the pot was about to boil, the two of them pushed me and I pushed yours, but they didn't dare to go outside to call someone to scoop water and wash their faces, and in the end, Ah Fang was twenty minutes older, and she had to be an example as a sister, so she had to move out of the kitchen timidly and shouted in a low voice: "The water is good." Dad, I'll pour you water. ”

Wang Laozhuan nodded, Wang Fang hurriedly retracted back to the kitchen, and Wang Xia took the footbasin and poured the water, and brought it to the hall.

Lin Guizhi watched her two daughters pour water for their father, and she didn't know where the anger came from, so she scolded when she caught someone: "Pour so much water, do you want to soak your feet or just dip your feet!" Whether there is less firewood or less water at home, your father is reluctant to add more! ”

Wang Laozhuan glared at her: "What are you angry with Ah Fang and Ah Xia, if you want to find her, you can find her!" ”

Lin Guizhi said curtly: "It's not so late. He turned his head and shouted loudly to Wang Aiguo: "Aiguo, you go to find your eldest sister, it's been here for a while, and you haven't come back yet, and you don't know where to go crazy." ”

Wang Aiguo put the book in his hand on the stool, stood up and said, "Well, I'll go now." ”

Wang Li hurriedly stood up and said, "I am also with patriotism." ”

Lin Guizhi didn't raise his eyelids or make a sound. Wang Laozhuan glanced at Wang Li and said, "Okay, you go too, you two can look for it casually, and if you don't find it, you'll come back." ”

Lin Guizhi was so anxious that he wanted to say something, so he stopped Wang Laozhuan, but finally shut up.

Wang Li didn't care about her mother's attitude, and went out with Wang Aiguo.

As soon as she went out, Wang Li shivered, the weather was too cold, I hope Wang Mei is playing at which house, otherwise, in this weather, if you really go outside, you will freeze to death.

Wang Aiguo didn't feel cold, he looked around and asked, "Second sister, where can we go to find the eldest sister." ”

Wang Mei thought for a while and said, "Isn't she the best with Sister Xiaomei?" Let's go to these places first, if it's not there yet," she paused in distress, and really didn't want things to be like this: "Let's go to the educated youth to take a sneak look." ”

When Wang Aiguo heard the end, he was silent.

The two of them went to a few houses in silence first, and found an excuse that Wang Mei called to pick them up, but they all said that Wang Mei had not been there, and the two of them looked at each other, and their hearts were heavy.

"I know that the educated youth can't be trusted, how can Wang Mei be, how can I" Wang Aiguo couldn't go on.

Wang Li comforted him and said: "It's not necessarily where it is, don't talk nonsense yet, maybe we have a fork in the road with her, or maybe she has already gone home." ”

In the end, the two of them walked to the edge of several warehouses in the southeast corner of the Wang family's cottage where the educated youths lived.

Before they could get to the side, the two of them heard what seemed to be a quarrel in the house.

The two of them didn't go in, but they just went around to the side of the wall, stuck to the wall and listened for a while, and heard that there was no Wang Mei's voice inside, and left quietly.

After all, the intellectuals inside quarreled, and it was not good for them to go in, and besides, the eldest girl's family would not go home at night and ask the family to find her, and it would be difficult to hear it.

There was no one anywhere, and both of them were in a hurry.

"Or, go home first, maybe she's home now." Wang Li suppressed the anxiety in her heart and comforted her younger brother, who was already sweating in a hurry.

She knew that the younger brother was blaming herself for running away from Wang Mei before, after all, it was a family, and the noisy and noisy would pass, but if something happened to Wang Mei because of this, he would definitely blame himself. It's herself, she clearly knows what kind of person Wang Mei is, but now she hasn't done anything sorry for herself and her family, Wang Mei really wants something now, and she is just as uncomfortable.

Wang Aiguo nodded, walked a few steps quickly, and walked home.

The two of them hurried home, but saw Wang Mei sitting on a stool soaking her feet, her mother was talking to her with a smile, her father sat on the other side with a straight face and didn't speak, Ah Fang took a scoop and was adding water to the foot basin, and Ah Xia took a porcelain jar and came out of the kitchen.

The discomfort in Wang Li's heart flew away!

Sure enough, you don't have to expect much from Wang Mei and her mother.

Wang Aiguo was as uncomfortable as he was, he couldn't imagine that as soon as he got home, he would see Wang Mei there again, and her mother was still smiling! He also wanted to come twice hehe!

As soon as the two of them entered, all the movement in the house was gone.

Wang Mei glanced at the two of them with slanted eyes, turned her head and ignored the people, only stepped on the foot basin and splashed the water outward, Wang Fang took the scoop and immediately took a few steps back. Lin Guizhi glanced at the two of them in a daze, and then at Wang Mei, and wanted to speak, but Wang Mei pulled him and stopped talking, or Wang Laozhuan made a sound first.

He coughed, cleared his throat and said, "You're back." ”

Wang Li had no strength, so she didn't say anything, Wang Aiguo said sullenly: "Well, I looked for several houses, and I went around to the educated youth and didn't find it, and the second sister said to come back first to see if it was wrong." ”

Wang Mei screamed: "Zhiqing, what are you doing to Zhiqing?" Why, I want to sue my parents again, falsely accusing me of finding educated youth? ”

Before the two of them could say, she shouted again: "Didn't you just come back with Zhao Bingcheng once?" As for holding on to it like this, when will I mention it, I haven't done anything, why are you all treating me as a thief, now it's okay, I'm just going out to hang around, and you have to rely on me to find the educated youth? ”

said, with a look of grievance, she said to her mother: "Mom~ Look at them, I obviously only walked around outside, and I froze to death when I came back, and they still want to say that I went to find the educated youth!" Look at them, if you hadn't seen me come back early, when they came back, and told them this, it would have been me secretly meeting with a knowledgeable youth in the middle of the night! ”

Wang Aiguo was so angry that he couldn't do it, and Wang Li was also so hateful, so he simply said directly: "Then you should tell me where you went!" We looked for Sister Xiaomei's house and four or five other families you frequent, all of them said that you hadn't been there, and then we found no one from the east end of the house to the west end of the house, and there was only one educated youth left who didn't look for it, so we just went around and didn't look for it? What if you're here? Mom, you said it yourself, if you were me, would you go to the educated youth to find it? Also, where the hell are you hiding? ”

Lin Guizhi blinked, and said with a snort: "Ami, Ali and Aiguo are also worried about you, where is what you think, okay, it's late, let's wash and sleep." You kid, you don't know where to hide in the night. ”

Wang Mei snorted, but she didn't say where she stayed in the past two or three hours and what she did, these were her secrets, and she would use them to jump the dragon gate in the future.

She finished washing her ping-pong, and didn't go back to the house to sleep, but sat there, wearing makeup and drinking water from the porcelain jar brought by her little sister, her heart was full of excitement, thinking of the smugness, she wanted to say it but couldn't say it, she was panicked in her heart, she looked at Wang Li for a while, and then looked at Wang Aiguo, and she was full of ambition in her heart, so her face took turns showing contempt, ridicule, and complacency.

Wang Li thought that Wang Mei had regained the upper hand, and she was demonstrating against herself, but she didn't care. This kind of thing didn't happen all at once, my parents have always loved Wang Mei the most, how could she really not hurt her for the sake of her grabbing patriotic eggs in the past? It's just that if things are always like this, once my parents are annoyed, this love will be discounted.

Just like my son said, I can't stand any feelings, and if I do it for a long time, I won't have it, and if I don't do it, I won't die. Just let her go ahead.