When the old lady saw me, she smiled at me and pointed to a plum tree next to her: "Eat, eat......"

It was a May plum tree, with a thin layer of hoarfrost on the green and red rounds, and it looked lovely against the green leaves and sunlight.

"No more, thank you." I put the black plastic bag on the cart with the chicken in it.

In the afternoon, I felt the coolness of the air.

Thinking that Ye Dequan is dead, but he is not a ghost, and he eats chicken blood mixed with fragrant gray rice, it seems that he is the legendary "living corpse" who is dead but not stiff.

Thinking about zombies and stuff like that, and sucking human blood at night, I feel a little hairy.

After all, I'm not afraid of snake bites, but zombies are still a bit scary.

Hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Thank you, I'll go first." ”

But Ye Dequan, under the urging of his wife, had already climbed the plum tree, and with the newly woven bamboo basket, he had already begun to pick it: "Plum sour, we don't eat it, and now there are no dolls in the village, you are young, take it back and eat it." ”

He spoke very clearly, and as he spoke, he lay on his stomach on a tree and looked down at me.

If I don't want it, he will pounce on me and bite me to death, so I have to stop.

He picked them quickly, and in a few moments he was covering the bottom of the basket, and he grabbed a few bright red plums, shook them at me, and motioned for me to continue.

I hurriedly tugged at my shirt and caught it.

The plums grow very well, bright red with hoarfrost.

"Eat, eat." The old lady smiled and waved at me, her eyes full of love.

I sat on the small bench next to her and looked at her, "Hello grandma. ”

She smiled and looked up at Ye Dequan picking plums on the tree, those eyes were actually very clear, and they did not become cloudy like the old people.

The hair is also meticulously combed, the clothes are clean and tidy, and even the fingernails are neatly tied.

Not to mention the peculiar smell on the body, even with the fragrance of laundry detergent.

The sun fell on her, with a faint shadow, but it seemed a little wrong.

I couldn't think of anything for a while, but I vaguely felt that Qin Mipo didn't say anything, maybe there was something hidden.

"Whoa." Ye Dequan picked a basket full of plums, handed it to me along with the basket, and said, "If you can't finish eating, wash it, salted it and eat it again." I made the basket myself, and you can use it to pick vegetables or something. ”

"Don't eat too much ......, tooth acid." The old lady trembled her hands and pulled a white-washed handkerchief to wipe Ye Dequan's sweat: "Wipe it." ”

Ye Dequan took the handkerchief, smiled at her, and actually took out a few red and blackened plums from his pocket: "This is ripe when the sun is ripe, it's not sour, I'll wash it for you." ”

I looked at the blue and red in the basket, and then looked at the red and black plums in Ye Dequan's hand, and instantly felt that I was fed a mouthful of dog food by these two people.

But the world of the two of them, it seems that I can't get involved, and when Ye Dequan came out, I thanked him, and went back with the basket of plums.

The road was full of them sitting quietly in the shadow of the trees, looking at each other and smiling.

When I got home, Ah Bao was helping Qin Mipo pick up grain, and when he saw me coming back with plums, he ran over with drool.

He was already walking steadily, but he was running so fast that I was afraid he would fall.

Busy carrying the basket in one hand and holding him in the other.

Brought the chicken in again and asked Qin Mipo to clean it up.

Only then did I remember: "We eat chicken every day." ”

"It's from the village." Qin Mipo changed the briquettes, looked at me with heavy eyes and said, "I know that you are here, and you still have a doll, although I have never seen it, but I still send a chicken over from time to time." ”

"They didn't dare to touch you, so they secretly sent me." Qin Mipo's voice was embarrassed, and she said with a deep smile: "People are like this, sometimes they are afraid, but they also have compassion. ”

It seems that Mo Xiu and Qin Mipo talked about my situation, and the resentment was too much, which caused my heart to change a little.

So Qin Mipo is now deliberately telling me about the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature?

Ah Bao in his arms looked at the plums, smelled the fruit, and whined to eat.

I put him down and washed a basin for him: "What about Ye Dequan and the old man?" ”

"They're all dead." Qin Mipo chuckled and said in a deep voice, "Which one do you feel is more powerful?" ”

I bit on the plum, thinking about those two mouthfuls, but they both died.

I only felt that the plums in my mouth were sour and astringent, and I couldn't even open my mouth.

"It's supposed to be an old lady." I thought about the two of them being in the sun.

As soon as Ye Dequan was exposed to the sun, smoke and dust came out of his body, but the old lady didn't.

"Hmm." Qin Mipo snorted lightly and said to me: "Ye Dequan is a good person, his mother-in-law married him for less than two years, and his waist was broken. He took care of her like this for decades, and he cleaned up neatly. ”

"In the past, the old lady liked to eat ** or something, so she planted fruit trees in front of and behind the house. In fact, it was said that he took care of the old lady, but without the old lady, he would not be able to live. Qin Mipo picked up a plum, took a bite, and sighed: "Alas, it's a pity." ”

The one she picked up was only half red, it was definitely not sweet, and it was so sour that her eyes narrowed.

I picked two red ones, one for her and one for Po: "I'll clean up the chickens." ”

The kitchen was dimly lit, so I moved the scalded chicken under the eaves outside, and Qin Mipo came out with Ah Po in her arms and sat on the side to talk to me.

Ah Bao didn't know if he was not afraid of acid, or if he only ate a few Zhu Guo in Mo Xiu's bowl last time, and this time he held the fruit pot and gnawed hard.

I'm shedding chicken feathers, and he stuffs one into my mouth every now and then.

While I was doing it, I heard the sound of a car.

I thought it was Xiao Xingye coming back, but when I looked up, I saw Li Bo driving a small car parked directly in front of Qin Mipo's house.

Aunt Li sat in the car, just leaning on the window and looking at me, not getting out of the car, with a white veil on her wrist.

But Li Bo turned around and came down from the back seat with two large barrels of wine and put them directly at my feet.

I hurriedly raised my voice and called, "Lieber." ”

But I saw that there were several barrels of such wine in the trunk of his car.

He gasped for breath and directly moved all the wine down.

Then he said to me, "Your father said that if you soak snake wine, you have to get my wine." Didn't you say last time that young and strong people have to drink snake wine to be good? I'll ship them all to you, you go to the snake bar. ”

"You sit." I looked at the white yarn on the side of his arm, hurriedly grabbed the stool, and washed a pot of plums out.

Uncle Li pinched the plums, looked at Aunt Li in the car, did not eat, and did not speak.

Just pinching and pinching, tears came down: "Your Aunt Li said that she wanted to meet you, saying that you are as old as Li Qian." She just wanted to come and see you, thank you. ”

I looked up at Aunt Li in the car, she was still lying by the window, and she had already shrunk in.

Smiling at Lieber, I looked at the wine and said in a deep voice, "Is there any difference in this wine?" ”

Li Bo took a breath and clicked the plum: "It's the steamed bud grain wine." But your dad used to say that our water is different, so the wine is good, and the snake wine he brews is good. ”

"Water?" I looked at Li Bo in confusion and said softly, "Aren't they all using tap water?" ”

"There is a lot of water used to steam wine, and there is an old spring behind my house, and the water is gurgling outward, and the water is sweet, so we use that steaming wine." Li Bo bit the plum, his face was calm: "If you want to drink, I will bring you two buckets of water tomorrow." ”

"Okay." I saw that his eyes flashed, and I felt that I had not found something to do, and perhaps I had been quietly sad.

He said in a deep voice: "I'm going to use a lot of wine recently, Li Bo will help me steam some wine, okay." At the previous price, I want to steam as much as I want. ”

"No money." Li Bo waved his hand at me, raised his eyes, and smiled bitterly: "I will give you as much as you want." ”

As he spoke, his eyelids turned red again, and he reached out and grabbed the plums: "Give it to your aunt, it's late, I'll go back to cook." ”

"Let's eat one piece." Qin Mipo hurriedly got up and said, "I've killed the chickens." ”

"If you want to go back and set up a meal for Li Qian, you won't eat it! When we are free, we will come back and ask for your help if we have something. "Lieber didn't say anything, just glanced at me.

turned around and opened the car door, handed a few plums in his hand to Aunt Li in the back seat, and then started the car.

Our rule, after the death of a loved one, we still have to add a piece of chopsticks, before eating, pretend to open the pot of rice, the chopsticks are neatly placed in the middle of the bowl, calling the name, calling the person back to eat.

I didn't expect him to come and go in a hurry, looking at the eaves full of wine barrels, and I was a little embarrassed for a while.

It's just that according to Lieber, his wine can be used to make snake wine for my father, and it must be because of that spring.

It's a pity that Lieber is from the next town, otherwise, I could have gone and see the spring.

After putting away the chicken, Qin Mipo went to stew.

Po is still gnawing on plums, and I'm afraid that his teeth will be sore, so I won't let him eat them.

Holding him and teaching him to speak, thinking that he should go to the town to buy some children's toys, tutoring books or something.

Thinking about it, he called Xiao Xingye again, he seemed to be nibbling on bread, and said vaguely: "You're okay, I'm looking here, I will also know that I am afraid, and I will start crying, but unfortunately it is useless." ”

"Thank you." I thought about it for a moment and tried, "Is that well filled?" ”

"The well is filled, it's useless. They all urinated in their bodies, and earthworms came, and they went to the hospital one by one to check them, but they couldn't find out. Xiao Xingye grunted with water.

He said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about me, I'll come back when it's done." ”

I listened to him as if he had taken the matter over, so I had to hang up the phone, thinking that when Po fell asleep, I would go and see.

Po will smell the fragrance of the kitchen, and he doesn't need me to hug him, and goes directly to the kitchen with his little short legs.

I thought about carrying the wine to the house and waiting to study the herbs for the snake wine another day, or to find a Chinese medicine shop where my dad used to buy herbs, and see if I could find a recipe.

As long as I soak in snake wine, I can at least make some money or something, and maybe I can know what my parents are up to.

But when he stretched out his hand to lift it, he heard a "hiss" and shrank it back.

I saw that under the wine barrel, there were actually several snakes in the basin.

The serpents seemed to smell wine, and as if they were drunk, coiled on the ground.

He just hissed snake letters from time to time at the wine barrel, but he didn't hold it high, just coiled like a dead snake.