The small landlord Zhao Dahai and us got back together, and the children of Sanlitun no longer rejected Zhao Dahai.

Originally, Zhao Dahai was the most authoritative person among the children in Sanlitun except for Xiao Wu, but after this lesson, he became much more honest, no longer arrogant, and occasionally took out a few pieces of maltose sold in the store at home for us to eat.

A few days later, on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every household in Sanlitun prepared a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and it was snowing lightly and slightly cold.

These days, Jiang Sheng would take some food every day for the crazy woman hiding in the haystack in the wheat field, and the crazy woman was still not approached by anyone except Jiang Sheng.

Xiao Wu saw that Jiang Sheng had been taking things for the crazy woman to eat for several days, and he occasionally carried a steamed bun and some pickles when he went out, and asked Jiang Sheng to hand it over to the crazy woman.

Jiang Sheng mentioned to his mother during a meal that he wanted to give a crazy woman a padded jacket, but it was freezing cold, and he might die one day if he froze out. Mother hesitated at first and did not agree, because the countrymen of that year wore a padded jacket in winter, and they didn't have to change it if it was dirty and torn, but her mother was a soft-hearted person, and finally found a padded jacket that she wore old and sent it to Jiang Sheng.

Jiang Sheng was very excited when he came back, saying that the crazy woman could speak, and he just said thank you to him.

For so long, the madwoman disappeared and appeared, never saying a word, and everyone thought she was crazy or deaf and dumb, and no one thought she could speak.

On that day, my father got up early in the morning to work in the Japanese gendarmerie, and returned home before four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Why did you come back so early today, and Little Japan will leave early?" Mother asked.

My father said: "Recently, when the construction deadline was rushed, there was no way to leave, but the people from the police station came forward to let a few of our members of the construction team go home for the New Year first, and some laborers were left behind, and they were homeless during the New Year." ”

"Aren't these little Japan too old?" Mother asked.

My father said: "Eighty percent of them have passed, and firecrackers were set off in the morning, which frightened me, thinking that the battle had come to Beiping." ”

"It's okay if you're fine, go into the house to warm up first and then come to help, I'll fry a few more dishes so that the children can let go of eating, and our family won't have croquettes this year."

When my father heard this, he went to the house to dry the padded jacket, and then helped my mother to make a fire and add firewood, and soon the table was full of dishes, mostly meat.

Jiang Sheng took the bowl, picked up a bowl of meat on the table, took a bowl of dumplings and put two hot eggs in his pocket, turned around and went out.

Seeing Jiang Sheng's actions, his father wondered, "What is this kid doing?" ”

Mother said: "Didn't we have a stupid eldest sister in Tunzi last time, and now it has appeared again, Jiang Sheng usually brings a little bit of food to send over, and the stupid eldest sister is also homeless in the New Year, anyway, the dishes at home can't be eaten for a while, and it's nothing to send some." ”

The father said: "How can there be a stupid woman who sends meat and dumplings, I have to say a few words when I come back, you are also a mother, just let the child's sympathy overflow?" He is used to living in Shanghai, and he can't see the poor, and you can't see it either? ”

Seeing that my father was a little unhappy, my mother said, "Okay, I'll talk to him when I get back." ”

Jiang Sheng went out with his front foot and I followed behind with his back foot, and Jiang Sheng blocked the dumplings with his hands along the way, for fear of chilling the dumplings. When he arrived at the wheat field, Jiang Sheng lifted the straw mat of the haystack, and the crazy woman at that time was sleeping in the straw stack of wheat, and when she heard the movement, she slowly got up and looked at Jiang Sheng with sleepy eyes.

Jiang Sheng said: "Auntie, today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I will send you some dumplings and meat to eat, you quickly eat while it is hot, or it will be cold in a while." ”

The woman's expression was a little shocked, she didn't know how long she hadn't eaten meat, let alone dumplings.

The woman took the dumplings from Jiang Sheng's hand, no longer gobbling up the appearance like before, but chewing one bite at a time, Jiang Sheng said: "Auntie, don't worry, there is dumpling soup in it, you can also drink it, I still have two eggs here, you don't have a home to return to in the Chinese New Year's Eve, don't go hungry." ”

Jiang Sheng's voice was immature at that time, and I was behind him, and I don't know why my heart suddenly became sour. I then remembered that the original Jiang Sheng's name was Chen Sheng, in a sense, he and the madwoman were both uprooted people, so Jiang Sheng couldn't see the madwoman's homeless appearance, he didn't even tell anyone about the sadness in his heart, just vaguely confided in a strange woman.

But what no one expected was that after the woman heard Jiang Sheng's words, her tears suddenly fell down her eyes, and I realized that from beginning to end, women can hear and understand what others are saying.

Jiang Sheng stood up and was just about to leave, when the woman suddenly spoke: "My surname is Shen, and my name is Shen Xiumei." ”

Jiang Sheng heard the woman suddenly speak, and also said her name, and laughed happily at the moment, he said: "I know that you are not stupid, Aunt Shen, you are the same as my mother's name, you are called Xiumei." ”

The woman snorted, seemingly a little emotional, she hesitated and asked, "Then can you call me A-Niang?" ”

Jiang Sheng shouted without thinking about it: "Ah Niang, Shen Ah Niang." ”

The woman nodded in agreement, pulled Jiang Sheng to her, she choked up and said, "If my son hadn't starved to death on the road, he would have been able to speak and scream Ah Niang by now." ”

That day, the woman hugged Jiang Sheng and cried for a long time, and she said that she remembered it, and everything came to mind.

The woman's name is Shen Xiumei, and she has the same name as my mother, and her hometown is in Henan.

A year ago, there was a great famine in Henan, and Shen Xiumei's husband learned from his relatives that Beiping was temporarily peaceful, so the family fled north, never thinking that there would be natural and man-made disasters along the way, and diseases and hunger were continuous. Shen Xiumei first buried her husband with her own hands, and then buried her son who had just turned one year old. Alone, she has become crazy since then, stumbling all the way to Beiping.

That day, Shen Xiumei remembered everything because of Jiang Sheng, she left Sanlitun after eating dumplings under Jiang Sheng's attention, and she said that she would come to visit Jiang Sheng from time to time. No one expected that Shen Xiumei would marry Sanlitun soon after, and she would be associated with Sanlitun for the rest of her life, take root here, and become the Shen A-Niang that everyone will call in the future.

When Jiang Sheng went home that day, he told his father and mother about what happened in the wheat field, and his father naturally scolded Jiang Sheng a few words.

Shen A-Niang did not appear for a long time after leaving, until one day in the spring of the following year, a beautiful woman suddenly appeared on the wheat field in Sanlitun.

At that time, a group of our children had already gone to school in the town, and there was only one class in the first grade, but because many children from nearby villages were concentrated in the town's school, there were nearly 100 children in one class, and there were seven or eight children in the same class as us in Sanlitun.

A group of our crazy children suddenly saw a stranger appear on the wheat field, and they all showed vigilant expressions, and the woman greeted Jiang Sheng in the crowd, calling his name. Jiang Sheng was slightly puzzled, stared at the woman for a long time before he asked uncertainly, "Shen A-Niang?" ”

Shen A-Niang nodded and said, "It's me, Jiang Sheng." ”

In our Sanlitun, the most beautiful and well-dressed person is the landlord's mother-in-law Liu Lanying, followed by my mother, but Shen A-Niang is more beautiful than Liu Lanying, she is wearing simple and clean clothes, and her hair is also neatly groomed, even Jiang Sheng is not sure whether he recognizes the wrong person.

"Who is Shen A-Niang?" A group of children asked, confused.

"Stupid, it's the moldy woman who hid in this haystack before." Xiao Wu pointed to the haystack next to him and said.

After Shen A-Niang left, Jiang Sheng told Xiao Wu everything that happened that day, and said that Shen A-Niang would definitely come to see him in the future, and now Shen A-Niang finally appeared again.

Shen A-Niang carried a large bag of sugar in her hand, asked each child to grab a handful, and then gave the rest to Jiang Sheng. Shen A-Niang told Jiang Sheng that he was now working in a textile factory in Sanlitun Town, and he ate and lived in the factory, so he couldn't take a half-day break, so he rushed to Sanlitun to visit Jiang Sheng as soon as possible.

That day, Jiang Sheng led Shen A-Niang to the house, and his mother was also a little surprised, and chatted with Shen A-Niang for a long time, and Shen A-Niang did not return to the town until the evening.

Since then, Shen A-Niang will often come to Sanlitun, every time she comes, she will bring some candy, the children in Sanlitun ate Shen A-Niang's candy, and when they go home, they naturally talk to the adults about Shen A-Niang's goodness, and Shen A-Niang has become a beautiful good person in the mouth of the children in Sanlitun, and some villagers will come forward to tell her a few words when they see Shen A-Niang coming.

Only Zhao Zhuang's group of teenagers would deliberately avoid Shen A-Niang when they saw him, and sometimes Zhao Zhuang would hide in the dark and secretly stare at Shen A-Niang for a long time.

I am the only one who knows what they did to Shen A-Niang that night under the big stone bridge.