At the intersection of the village not far from Wang Xiaoqin's house in Liantang Village, there is a house. The courtyard is surrounded by a blue brick wall to shelter from the wind, rain and prevent thieves from entering the house and stealing, and the wall is two or three meters higher than the houses in the courtyard, which looks very magnificent.

However, there was no one living in the house, and an iron lock on the gate had long since been rusted, and I don't know how many years it had been locked, and it felt like a cemetery. On a spring night and autumn morning, Wang Xiaoqin faintly heard cats calling from the empty house in her house. At that time, the male cat was afraid that he would not be able to find a wishful mate to sow seeds, and the female cat was also worried that she would not be able to fertilize and get pregnant, so she wasted their good time. Wang Xiaoqin felt scared at night, and couldn't understand why the cat was screaming fiercely in this season, calling the silent night so terrifying, out of curiosity, she wanted to find out.

Wang Xiaoqin asked Ya Niang.

The mother glared at her and said, "What is the child asking for this?" ”

Wang Xiaoqin saw that the more her mother didn't want to say, the more she wanted to know, so she took her mother's hand and kept asking.

The mother said in a toneless tone: "That's because the cat is hungry at night and can't catch mice to eat." ”

After the mother finished speaking, she seemed to be a little unusual, and said: "In the future, you are not allowed to ask the night cat to bark, and you are not allowed to ask the adults in the village!" Remember? ”

Unexpectedly, once, Wang Xiaoqin and Liang Zhaozhong, Liang Shurong, Liang Xiaoying and a few of them went to hide and seek in the mountains behind the village, she and Liang Xiaoying pretended to be soldiers, Liang Zhaozhong and Liang Shurong pretended to be thieves, she and Liang Xiaoying searched for a long time and couldn't find them, so she shouted loudly. I only heard Liang Zhaozhong hiding at the mouth of a nearby cave, pretending to be a cat barking.

After Wang Xiaoqin walked over and caught him, she forgot her mother's words for a while, so she asked Liang Zhaozhong. Liang Zhaozhong said that it was the cat's "troubled spring" that made it so bad. Of course, Liang Zhaozhong didn't know what it meant to make a spring at that time, but he just listened to what the adults said, so he casually told Wang Xiaoqin.

Wang Xiaoqin likes to play with Liang Zhaozhong, Liang Shurong, and Liang Xiaoying since she was a child, playing hide and seek. In the past, they never dared to go into the empty house in hide and seek, and the mother often warned the little girl: Do not enter the haunted house, for fear of bad luck and foul gas.

The more things adults don't allow children to do, or places they don't allow to play, the more likely children are to be curious and want to experience it for themselves. Liang Shurong was bold, and when he was playing hide and seek, he led Xiaoying through the hole in the wall behind the house. This hole is mostly dug by cats and dogs, who like to go into the house to breed and give birth to their young. After that, the two of them went in and climbed out with a few kittens in their arms, saying that not only were there no demons and monsters in the house, but they were also fun.

Then Liang Zhaozhong and Wang Xiaoqin followed the two inside, and they saw that the floor, furniture, and bed in the house were covered with dust and cobwebs; The utensils were thrown all over the floor, and the clothes in the cabinet were crushed by rats and thrown in a mess; The rats also made many holes in the ground, making the ground pitted; Some mice are about the size of cats. There are wild honeycombs built on the beams of the houses, and the children can eat bee chrysalis when they pluck the honeycombs; You can also go to the hole in the wall to catch sparrows, or dig out sparrow eggs. The empty house used to be home to animals, but now it's a playground for children.

Liang Zhaozhong and Wang Xiaoqin felt that the house was quiet, especially no one to disturb them, and then when they got something delicious or fun, they liked to hide in the house to share. Once, they climbed into the house with a pile of bricks and mud, trying to play with the clay doll of the bride, or knead the mud into a bowl shape and smash it on the stone slab as a cannon to see who could smash it the loudest. Once, when the two of them entered the house, they did not notice that there was a female cat squatting on the threshold, and she was disturbed on the spot, and ran away with a scream as if she had been stepped on by her tail, which alarmed the wasps on the beam. The wild bees buzzed and flew around, so frightened that Wang Xiaoqin retreated and drilled straight into Liang Zhaozhong's arms.

Liang Zhaozhong only cared about protecting Wang Xiaoqin with his body, and he was stung with a blue nose and swollen face. Later, the two climbed out of the hole in the wall and were seen by the paparazzi. The paparazzi told Wang Xiaoqin and her mother about this, and Wang Xiaoqin and her mother taught the two a hard lesson that night.

Wang Xiaoqin didn't know why adults didn't allow children to enter the empty house to play, but when she grew up, she realized what happened in this house, which made people sigh.

The owner of this house, Liang Debiao, turned out to be born poor, lost his father since he was a child, and his mother and son depended on each other. When he grew up, he married Li Wumei, the daughter of Li Guangliang, a big family in the village. A year later, Li Wumei gave birth to a son for his Liang family, named Fusheng. This year, Liang Debiao and the two descendants in the village went out on a boat and crossed the ocean to Nanyang Jinshan to make a living. A few years later, he sent money back to build the house.

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, in a blink of an eye, Fusheng is already 3 years old, but his father Liang Debiao has never come back since he went to Nanyang Jinshan to pan for gold. Poor Fusheng's mother, who was young and alone in the empty room, couldn't sleep. Whenever there is a third watch in the middle of the night, stand in front of the window and look up at the night sky.

There were many stars hanging in the dim sky, and the moonlight was faint, just like her mood at the moment, faintly missing her distant husband, and the young woman on the floor died of sadness......

How many springs come and go, the wind blows up the broken years like flowers, the rain falls on the sad years like water, and the days when her husband is gone and never returns, how can she, a young woman who is thinking of spring, live?

Li Wumei often can't comfort her loneliness because her husband is gone, so she resents her husband's ruthlessness. "I send my sorrow and the bright moon, with the wind until the night is long." This ancient poem should be a portrayal of Li Wumei's situation at that time.

How many lonely and unbearable long nights, how many days of spring flowers and autumn moons have passed, Li Wumei has spent her days like a year in torment, staying alone in the empty house, silently raising Xiao Fusheng, and silently maintaining this family.

A few years later, on a sunny afternoon in spring, a young man wearing a white top hat on his head, a white suit, a pair of white leather shoes on his feet, and two suitcases in his hands, about 23 or 4 years old, appeared at the intersection of the village to ask for directions, and then walked straight towards Li Wumei's house.

At this time, Li Wumei was picking some vegetables from the vegetable garden at home and preparing to go home to make lunch, when she suddenly saw a fashionably dressed man walking towards her door.

She thought that her husband was back, and she couldn't help but be overjoyed, and she couldn't take care of picking the vegetables, so she took three steps and made two steps, and hurried forward. Then he asked, "You...... Aren't you Wei Cheng? ”

Wei Cheng involuntarily turned his head away, and at a glance recognized that the person who asked him was Li Wumei. So, he stopped and replied: "Sister-in-law Biao has good eyesight, I am Liang Weicheng, I just came back from Nanyang Jinshan, and Brother Biao asked me to bring some things back." ”

Li Wumei asked anxiously: "Didn't your brother Biao come back with you?" ”

"Brother Biao really wants to come back with me, but he can't take leave, so he bought a suitcase of things for me to bring back to you." When Liang Weicheng said this, he carried the light black suitcase with his right hand, looked at Li Wumei, and said, "This box of things is what Brother Biao asked me to bring back to you." ”

"Look at you all the way, you're tired, go home and have a cup of tea and rest your feet." Li Wumei carried two boxes of luggage as she spoke, and led Liang Weicheng to his home.

After Liang Weicheng drank tea at Liang Debiao's house, he briefly talked to Liang Debiao's mother about the situation when he arrived at Nanyang Jinshan, and then got up and said goodbye: "I have been away from home for several years, and I want to go home to see my father and mother first." ”

Liang Debiao's mother and Li Wumei originally wanted to leave Liang Weicheng at home for lunch before letting him go back, but seeing that he was in a hurry to go back to reunite with his family, they felt that it was human nature and it was inconvenient to take up too much of his time. So, he got up and sent Liang Weicheng out to the door of the house, and when he was leaving, Liang Debiao's mother took Liang Weicheng's hand and said: "Yacheng, you will come back in a few days when you have time, and tell me in detail about the situation of Yabiao in Nanyang, okay?" ”

"Auntie, please rest assured, I will definitely come in two days." After Liang Debiao said to the eldest lady sincerely, he parted, touched Fusheng's head standing beside Li Wumei, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Brother Biao's sons to grow so big." ”