Gu Tianya was finally caught up by the woman.

To be precise, there is a certain tacit understanding between chasing and being chased.

Gu Tianya was subconsciously waiting, so he was chased up. And the woman is because of her strong physical strength, so she can easily catch up with him.

Between the wind and snow, the woman joked, as if she wanted to deliberately look at the world, and teased him: "What's the matter? Reluctant to aunt? It's distressing! Still worried! ”

Gu Tianya turned his face away, and said in a cold voice: "Don't be sentimental, I'm just afraid that something will happen to you, after all... It was night, after all. ”

"That's worry and distress!" The woman blinked narrowly, her face full of amusement.

She circled around Gu Tianya with her little hands behind her back, her eyes constantly staring at Gu Tianya's eyes.

Gu Tianya hurriedly turned his face elsewhere, and continued to say coldly: "I said, after all, it's night, the wind and snow are very strong, it's dark everywhere, and you are a weak woman, it's not good to throw you outside, that's all, don't guess." ”

"Uh-huh, yes, yes!"

The woman nodded like a chicken eating rice, but the words she said almost made Gu Tianya's angry face bulge, only to hear her giggle and say: "It's obvious that I feel sorry for my aunt, but the man's mouth is hard." I know everything. ”

Gu Tianya was very helpless, so he only heard a wry smile and said, "I really can't imagine what kind of family can get used to a character like yours." ”

The woman immediately asked trickily, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to beat me three times a day?" ”

"Yes!" Gu Tianya almost blurted out.

Fortunately, he held back in time, feeling that he was being teased again. There is only the saying of beating wives in the world, how can there be a precedent for daring to beat the elders, and her so-called aunt was almost thrown into the ditch by her again.

When I went to see the woman, she suddenly sneered, and doted on him with the white of her eyes, as if the elders were coaxing the child, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, if I continue to make trouble, my good nephew will be angry, go for a walk, go home, I am very hungry, and I want to taste the fish made by my sister." ”

She deliberately bit the word 'sister' very hard.

Gu Tianya was really puffed up by his angry face this time.

He picked up the cage vigorously, walked in the direction of home without saying a word, suddenly felt a light place in the crook of the arm, and was stunned to find that the cage was weightless, he subconsciously turned his head to look, but found that the woman helped him lift the cage.

I saw the woman easily carrying the cage with one hand, the smile on her face had become serious, and she said solemnly: "Seriously, don't think I'm playing tricks on you, you have to eat meat every day in the future, otherwise your physique will not be called a man." ”

With a slight tug, he actually put the forty or fifty pound cage on the crook of his arm, his appearance was very relaxed, but his face was more serious, and he said solemnly again: "From now on, your meat cannot be broken." ”

Gu Tianya couldn't cry or laugh, so he could only sigh and said, "Listening to your solemn tone, it doesn't look like you're teasing me, but these words you say are more heart-wrenching than sarcastic me." As I told you before, I don't even have food at home for the night. ”

The implication is self-explanatory.

There is no food, let alone meat.

Unexpectedly, the woman became more and more solemn, and said in a deep voice: "If there is no food, then plant, if there is no meat, spend money to buy it." In short, I don't want you to look like a sick man. If you are hungry and weak all year round, you will not live too long. ”

Gu Tianya was stunned, looking at the so-called 'aunt' with a blank look, he already faintly felt that this so-called aunt was really good to him.

But......

"Alas!"

He sighed softly, looked at the snowflakes floating in the sky slowly, and said softly: "I don't know if you have heard an allusion, the name of that allusion is why not eat minced meat." ”

The woman was obviously hesitant, and it took a long time before she asked curiously, "Do you want to tell me about the ancients?" ”

Gu Tianya suddenly shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Forget it, I'll take you to see it directly, the allusions that come out of my mouth are better than what I see with my own eyes." ”

After he finished speaking, he raised his feet and left, as if he was going to lead the woman to a certain place, but suddenly stopped again, stretched out his hand and grabbed the cage suddenly, and said in a deep voice: "I'll pick up something." ”

The woman glanced at him and whispered refused: "I'm more relaxed to carry it, you see that you are tired and sweating." ”

Gu Tianya still grabbed the cage, and said in a deep voice again: "I'll pick up the things." ”

The tone was unprecedentedly solemn.

The woman was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to understand something, so she turned white at Gu Tianya with her eyes, and snorted in a low voice: "This stinky temper, this stinky face, mention it, my macho nephew." ”

Gu Tianya turned a deaf ear, carried the cage with one hand, and then collapsed on the crook of his arm with difficulty, and then led the way again.

It is said that the leader leads the way, but in fact, the direction is to go home, walking slowly along a winding path, and gradually entering the windy and snowy village.

It is said to be a village, but it is actually a dilapidated settlement, but after entering the village, there are many broken walls, and some small grass houses are built next to some broken walls.

The night is dark, and the sight is naturally not good, but standing in the middle of the village and looking at it, you can take advantage of the snow to see through the whole village, which shows how small this village is, and the radius is only one hundred and ten steps at most.

The woman counted carefully along the way, and found that there were only thirteen lights in the village.

It was not a light, but a firewood for heating, and thirteen fires meant thirteen households.

"There are only thirteen families in your village?" She asked Gu Tianya with some surprise.

Gu Tianya carried the cage in front of him, walking forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and suddenly he stopped and let out a faint sigh in his mouth.

He didn't speak, just looked at a small grass hut. After a long time, he said softly: "Fifteen households." ”

The woman was slightly stunned, and subconsciously said, "Fifteen households? How can it be? I counted carefully just now, and there are only thirteen lights......"

Before he finished speaking, he stopped suddenly, and a pretty and heroic face suddenly showed a look of shock and realization.

Gu Tianya glanced at her and said bitterly: "Looking at your expression, I'm afraid I've already thought of it, you guessed right, there are two families who can't even afford to make a fire for heating." ”

After he said this, his eyes looked at the small grass hut just now.

The grass hut was dilapidated and small, as if it was about to collapse at any time in the wind and snow, and suddenly the pupils of the woman's eyes shrank, and she faintly saw a trembling little figure at the door of the grass hut.

"Gu... Look at... Brother Gu, is it Brother Gu? "In the midst of the snow, there was a faint voice.

The voice was weak and small, giving people a feeling of timidity and cowardice, as if hungry and weak, but still struggling to shout.

Gu Tianya sighed lightly, and walked over with great difficulty.

The woman behind her heart moved, and hurriedly raised her heels.

The two of them arrived at the door of the grass hut in a blink of an eye, and their eyes fell on a trembling figure.

It was a girl of about thirteen or fourteen years old, her face was blue from the wind and snow at this time, she was trying to stomp her little feet to keep warm, but a pair of eyes were staring at Gu Tianya's figure.

She didn't wait for Gu Tianya to speak, she had already whimpered and said very cowardly: "Gu... Brother Gu, my mother, my mother, she ......"

He was only halfway through his words, and he was already crying, but the crying was very small, obviously hungry and he didn't even have the strength to cry.

Gu Tianya rushed into the grass hut in one step.

The woman followed closely behind.

It was very dark in the thatched hut, and the temperature was not much different from the outside of the house, only to see some thatch in the corner of the house, and there seemed to be a faint figure curled up there.

When a person is dying, the body will subconsciously shrink into a certain posture, which is said to be the beginning of wandering in the mother's body, so it will involuntarily imitate it when he is dying.

This kind of curled up posture, Gu Tianya has seen many of them!

So you know what that gesture means.

He threw his head up, as if unwilling to let his tears flow, and after a long time had passed, he asked softly, "When did you leave?" ”

The girl at the door struggled to climb into the door, whimpering very weakly and crying, "God... When it's almost dark. ”

Gu Tianya continued to tilt his head, his voice had become choked, but he tried to hold it back, and said softly: "If it doesn't snow tomorrow, I'll dig a pit for your mother." ”

After thinking about it, he said softly: "I still have a reed mat at home, bring it to wrap your mother's body." ”

The girl was full of tears, as if she was weak even nodding her head to thank her, but she still knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to Gu Tianya very solemnly, and then cried: "Brother Gu's reed mat, one can be sold for five cents, my mother said it, my mother said ......"

"It's borrowed!" Gu Tianya suddenly spoke, his face was full of solemnity, and he said: "People are gone, we can't bury the ground alone, even if we can't afford to buy a coffin, we have to get a reed mat to wrap her body, Ah Yao, you don't have to feel guilty, I lent you this reed mat!" ”

"But my mother said, but my mother said......" The girl was still kneeling, whimpering and crying: "My mother said, Brother Gu's family is not easy, my mother grabbed my hand when she was angry, and asked me not to go to you to ask for a reed mat, she said, a reed mat costs five cents, and Brother Gu has to rely on selling the reed mat to buy food." She also said that everyone goes to borrow your reed mat every time, but you weave every day but rarely can sell it, and they are all ......."

"I said, it's borrowed!" Gu Tianya roared suddenly, as if there was a huge grief and indignation in his heart, he suddenly pulled the girl up from the ground, and roared again with a blue face: "It's borrowed, understand?" Wrap your mother in your body, and you can't bury yourself in the ground alone. ”

The girl finally burst into tears.

There was an inexplicable relief in the sour cry.

If a person has been poor for a long time, she even feels guilty about borrowing things, but now Gu Tianya fiercely told her that she borrowed it, and she could be regarded as letting go of the heavy burden in her heart.

Counted as borrowed.

What you borrowed must be returned.

But even if it needs to be returned, it is a great gratitude for the girl.

Gu Tianya suddenly put the cage on the ground, looked straight at the woman standing with a stunned face, and said in a deep voice: "I really don't have the strength this time, auntie, you can help me carry it home." ”

He finally opened his mouth and called out to his aunt.

He finally put down his face and said that he didn't have the strength.

The woman was feeling abrupt, but she saw Gu Tianya suddenly bend down, and then hugged the girl with difficulty.

The woman only listened to him in a very domineering tone, and gave an order to the weak girl: "In the past, you were pitifully squatting at the door and waiting, waiting for me to come back from catching fish and ask me to ask for a tail with a flattering face, this time you don't even have firewood for cooking at home, Brother Gu can only take you to my house to eat......"

After speaking, he carried the child out with difficulty.

The woman looked at his back in a daze, and then looked at the girl who was almost starved to death, and suddenly she slowly exhaled a breath and said softly: "Although you are staggering, you are more heroic than countless people, such a man, such a man...... ......"

She picked up the cage full of fish and shrimp, and rushed into the wind and snow to catch up with Gu Tianya's figure.