Compared with the bustle of the surrounding neighborhood, the Xu family seems a little quiet. The small courtyard is said to have been built with the help of Old Man Xu's father when Old Man Xu got married. In a blink of an eye, it's been almost forty years. The once warm courtyard is almost dilapidated now. At least, in Li Junran's eyes, there is no need to add five cents of special effects for any ghost movie requisitioned to shoot.

"Is there anyone in the house?" After Baozi's father helped Li Xu and a pair of children off the mule cart, he went straight to the gate of the courtyard and knocked on the rusty copper ring on the courtyard door.

"Where?" Baozi's father didn't knock for long, and an old female voice came from the courtyard, "The door is unlocked." (The door is not locked)"

Daddy Baozi gently pushed the courtyard door and found that the wooden door on the right was indeed unlocked. In the village, as long as there are people in the house, most of the time the courtyard door is not locked. At most, as it is now, one side of the wooden door is fixed (locked), and a small door is left next to it, which is hidden.

"Where have you been?" Before the old woman's words fell, Li Xu's slightly excited "mother" was heard. Li Junyang carefully helped Li Xu into the courtyard, and Li Junran followed behind with a large bag in his hand.

Mrs. Xu, who was on crutches, heard Li Xu's "mother", her body shook obviously, and she trembled and stretched out her black and thin hand, leaving only a layer of skin and bones, full of age spots and wrinkles, and said uncertainly: "Yes, it's Hui Niang, back?" ”

In the years since Mrs. Xu's accident, life has been very difficult. So much so that Mrs. Xu and Li Xu look six or seven points similar. Look older than your actual age, at least in your teens. Not only Mrs. Xu's hair has turned gray, her waist is also bent, her whole person has shrunk and thin, her eyes are cloudy, and her complexion is dark and dull.

Li Xu's personality is soft, and this aspect is definitely from Mrs. Xu's inheritance. Since more than two years ago, Li Xu's family quietly returned to his parents' house, wanting to borrow money but in vain, Xu Lao Taiyuan has become more and more bad because of the injured eyes of embroidery every day. According to Li Junran's modern statement, it is a common "cataract" for middle-aged and elderly people. In fact, all you need is a small cataract surgery. Even on the side of the Apocalypse. You can also take medicine. Treat it slowly. It's a pity that the Xu family is too poor, and they live all year round by pointing to those few acres of medium-quality fields in the field, because there are many people and little land. I can't save much silver. How could he buy medicine for Old Man Xu?

"Mother. I'm Hui Niang, Hui Niang. Li Xu took a few steps forward and generally hugged Mrs. Xu's left hand. As soon as the nose soured, the reservoir, which had an astonishing amount of water, began to flood again.

"Hui Niang, Hui Niang...... It's you. You, why are you here? Mrs. Xu also didn't want to believe that she would be able to see her favorite old girl again in her lifetime. Remember two years ago...... It's a pity that she is old now, useless, and her eyes are not good.

"Mother, what are you talking about? Today is not the second day of the Lunar New Year, the day when the married girl returns to her parents' house. Li Xu saw that Mrs. Xu's expression was a little wrong, so he hesitantly stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Mrs. Xu's eyes, "Mother, your eyes, your eyes ......"

"When you're old, your eyes aren't very good." Mrs. Xu waved her hand disappreciatively.

"Willow ...... Xiao Jiu, come here, take a look at your grandmother......" Li Xu almost missed his mouth because of a momentary panic, but fortunately, the entire Xu family was at home alone at this time. The first two brothers of Li Xu's family took their respective daughters-in-law and children back to their father-in-law's house.

"Hey." Li Junran responded.

"Xiao Jiu?" Mrs. Xu is obviously very unfamiliar with this milk name, "Liu'er girl and Liulang are also here?" ”

"Grandma, I'm called 'Nian'er now." Li Junyang grabbed Mrs. Xu's shriveled old left hand at the same time, and put his little face up by the way, "Grandma, touch me, grandson, have I gained weight and grown taller?" ”

Mrs. Xu closed her eyes slightly, touched Li Junyang's face and small body for a while, nodded her head again and again, and said, "It's grown taller, my grandmother remembers, it turned out to be so big, and the crying voice was like a kitten." In the blink of an eye, he grew so tall. ”

"Liu'er, where is Liu'er? It's not that she has already ...... from that Cheng Mansion" Mrs. Xu finished touching Li Junyang, and then thought of her own granddaughter, the only granddaughter, "Did you come out......"

"No, no, mother. Qiliu's girl had indeed gotten rid of her slavery a few days ago and came out of Cheng's mansion. It's just that she worshiped the doctor as her master and asked her master to take her back to the mountains to study medicine. Bao Zi Dad spontaneously drove the mule cart into the courtyard of the Xu family, and then took down the gifts brought by the mule cart.

Li Xu supported Mrs. Xu and walked slowly towards the main house, while talking to explain to Mrs. Xu why her little girl Qiliu didn't come over today.

"Then, I just heard that there seems to be a person ......" People with eye diseases generally have sharper ears than ordinary people. What's more, although Mrs. Xu has long passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, she is not so old that she can't remember things.

"Jiu'er has seen her grandmother. My surname is Yin, and I am the godson of my godfather and godmother. Because it is the ninth birth in the first month of September, it is called Jiu'er. Li Junran said unhurriedly.

"Ah......" Mrs. Xu was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, groped in her arms for a while, took out a thin small silver piece of safety lock, and stuffed it into Li Junran's hand, "Grandma has nothing to get her hands on, this, it's not worth any money, Jiu'er, you take it, you should keep a thought." ”

The small silver piece safety lock is not big, and even a little pitiful, that is, half the size of an adult's thumb, a thin small piece. At most, it weighs as much as two or three pieces of silver. The production is quite exquisite, with "peace" engraved on one side and "wealth" on the other.

Li Junran was still hesitating to accept it, and a sharp and mean voice came from the gate of the courtyard.

"Hey, hey, I'm going to be back. Isn't this our aunt and grandmother? Let me think about it, what did you say back then? It seems like...... It's not that even if you starve to death, you will never take a copper plate from the Xu family. What's the matter, in the blink of an eye, with ......"

"Shut up!" Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a scolding voice.

"Okay, Xu Lao Er, you dare to yell at me? Isn't it? You are a wreck, my wife has been married to you for more than ten years, and she doesn't even have clothes for your body. Serve the old, serve the young, and serve you! More than ten years of hard work......"

Li Junran blinked, she didn't plan to accept the small silver piece that Mrs. Xu gave her, but now she saw that Xiao Xu's firepower was open as soon as she came up, so she naturally didn't take it for nothing. It's a big deal, so I'll take Mrs. Xu back to Lijiatun, no, take it back to Yuezhen. (To be continued.) )