After a long time, Xiaobao heard a sound of rustling, accompanied by the old man's panting.

I'm getting older, and I'm struggling to even get dressed.

After a while, Xiaobao heard the sound of a clangling at the door. The door creaked open, and Xiaobao hurriedly flashed in with his pocket.

"On the bar," a rickety old man whispered in the dark.

Xiaobao fumbled for the rope on the doorknob, inserted a wooden stick into it, twisted the wooden stick, tightened the rope and carried the wooden stick on the wall on both sides of the door.

"Why don't you light the lights?" Xiaobao asked.

"Oil," replied the old man.

"It's too cold in the house, why don't you make more fires?" Xiaobao asked again.

"Loser, Fei Firewood!" The old man was getting a little impatient.

Xiaobao reached into his arms, and the baby took out a paper bag, and when he opened it, there were two boxes of matches.

With a stabbing sound, Xiaobao struck a match, and in the faint firelight, Xiaobao showed off and said, "Old man, look - foreign fire!" ”

The old man's gaze softened in the firelight, and he muttered "loser" in a low voice.

Xiaobao quickly found the oil lamp and lit it, and then took the oil lamp to the outhouse to refill some oil. The old man frowned.

"Second Master Qi, are you hungry? There are nest heads and sticky bean bags in your pocket, and I give you hot spots? Xiaobao asked.

The old man's bearded face twitched, "Then let's hot sticky bean buns." ”

After speaking, the old man unconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Xiaobao's eyes were a little damp when he saw the old man like this, and he thought that the famous character back then had become the depressed person he is today.

Corn stalks were burning at the bottom of the stove, steaming in the cauldron, and the house was warm.

"Tomorrow, I'll go up the hill and chop a little more wood – the corn stalks aren't hard at all, they don't burn." Xiaobao sat on a bundle of corn stalks in front of the stove and said.

"I'll go to Baishan to buy some meat, wine, and a few handfuls of Yabuli tobacco leaves for you. Let's have a good New Year this year. Xiaobao said.

The old man sat on the kang, smoking his cigarette pouch one by one, and sighed for a long time and said, "It's still a lot of people."

The sticky bean buns were quickly heated, and the old and the young sat on the kang and swept away the sticky bean buns with salted cucumbers. Another person drank a bowl of boiling water at the bottom of the pot, and everyone was sweating profusely.

After Xiaobao cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, he brought a basin of hot water into the house with an iron basin and put it in front of the old man.

"Soak your feet in hot water, and see what your feet are dirty." Xiaobao said unceremoniously.

Second Master Qi has been a beard for half his life, and it is the first time that he has been served by an old bachelor for decades.

With his two feet in the basin, Qi Erye grinned burned, and then he felt warm and comfortable. The water in the basin soon became muddy, Second Master Qi's eyes were dizzy and he couldn't see, and Xiaobao pretended not to see it.

Xiaobao waited for the second master to wash his feet, and then changed the water and washed his feet.

The two of them blew the lamp and lay on the kang.

Xiao Bao tucked the old sheepskin jacket on his body, looked at the ceiling and said to himself: "Old man, let me tell you something-the big cabinet is dead." ”

Second Master Qi snorted, "Where did you die, how did you die?" The voice was neither sad nor joyful, as if it had heard the most ordinary thing.

"I just heard about it, five or six days ago. Died in Pingyang Town, where he pulled a gang. Xiaobao said.

"It's a fucking woman again, it won't die at the hands of a woman again!" This time, Second Master Qi became excited.

"How do you say it again? I heard that it was killed by the Japanese Kwantung Army raiding team and the Jenin police. Xiao Baoqi said.

"Humph! Nine times out of ten, he died at the hands of a woman. Obviously a bandit, but he learns what kind of love he should be! The more Second Master Qi spoke, the more angry he became.

Xiaobao didn't know how to answer.

"Do you know how your big cabinet father died?" Second Master Qi asked.

"Didn't the other bearded dreadlocks kill him?" Xiaobao replied.

"Fart! His father died at the hands of a woman, and the man of the. Your big cabinet should be ashamed to say it, so you didn't say it, why didn't you even tell you about Liu Dascar? So that you don't know anything. Second Master Qi said.

"The big cabinet and his father died at the hands of a woman?" Xiaobao rolled over and sat up.

The old man hummed, and then fell silent, as if reminiscing about the past.

"Eighteen years, when your cabinet was only twenty, and his father was not yet forty years old. He was obsessed with a girl who lived in Dunhua, and went to the girl's house in Dunhua every winter to spend the winter. For the first two years, I was very careful, and I took two gunners with me every time I went. Later, he thought that the gunner was in the way, so he went alone. The old man stared at the faintly snowy window paper and recalled.

"It's April that year, and your big cabinet hasn't come back yet, so I'll send two cubs to Dunhua to find it. As a result, the cub came back and said that the would be back in March. I thought it was black eating black that was done by people from other mountains, so I asked around. But there was no news at all. I suspected this, and went to that's house with a few gunners, and guess what? The old man said.

"What's wrong?" I don't know why Xiaobao has a chill on his body.

"When we went to their house, an outsider was talking to the lady about buying land with her man, and it turned out that they were going to sell the family's land. It seems that this is going to go. I felt something was wrong, so I looked around. No matter how you look at it, you feel that the quilt they put on the kang is familiar. There were four or five patches on the quilt, all of which were sewn with cloth of the same color, exactly the same color as your big cabinet and his father's trousers. The old man looked gloomy at this time.

The northwest wind blew on the window paper, making a popping sound.

Xiaobao couldn't help but shudder.

"After the people who bought the land left, a few of us tied up the two of us without saying a word. At first, the two of them were very hard-mouthed and resolutely refused to admit it. After a beating, the girl's teeth were very tight and she still didn't recognize it, but she was a bear and said everything. The old man paused, swallowing.

"It turned out that her man saw that his father brought a lot of money in your big cabinet this time, so he told his woman that he had gained a lot of money in the past few years, so it was better to kill someone, get all the money on his body, and then sell the gun and fly away. He had three guns with him at the time, and guns alone were worth a lot of money! Women are all bitches! The old man said hatefully.

He saw that the woman did not speak, and knew that she had agreed in her heart. That night, the big cabinet and the bitch slept like pigs after tossing and turning, and the man quietly entered the house with a kitchen knife and slashed indiscriminately. His father died at that time. Then, the two of them threw the eight pieces into the cauldron of boiled pig food, and stewed the man. After the stew, they fed their pig. ”

The old man gasped a few times like pulling a bellows when he said this, and then said, "After the man finished speaking, he kowtowed his head and begged for mercy, and was willing to spit out all the money." The woman was tied there, gritting her teeth and not saying a word. ”

"After I asked for the money, several gunners looked at me and asked me what to do. I gritted my teeth and killed their pigs and threw them into the vegetable cellar, and the two of them were also thrown into the vegetable cellar with their mouths gagged. The two stoves were lit at the same time, and two large pots of boiling water were poured into the vegetable cellar. "Speaking of this, the old man was very calm.

Xiaobao is on the pendulum.

"That girl didn't say a word until she died, she just stared at me with her eyes." Second Master Qi said.

"Remember, boy, women are woe! Be careful! Second Master Qi finally concluded.