Tao Zhenkun and Liu Xingmei stopped aside, and both of them had helpless and sad expressions on their faces.

I saw Qiu Lanzhi plunging into the bucket, and the water inside overflowed in all directions.

"Mother!" Tao Zhenkun exclaimed in surprise and was about to step forward to pull.

When Qiu Lanzhi lifted her head from the bucket, she saw that there was something in her mouth.

I heard Liu Xingmei shout in surprise: "Goldfish, it's a goldfish!"

Tao Zhenkun was stunned when he saw it. I saw that my mother was really holding a goldfish in her mouth, the same size as the one that had melted in the hail, and the wings on her tail were swinging back and forth.

How can there be a goldfish in a bucket? Could it be that it has come back from the dead?

"Let my mother spit it out!"

As soon as Liu Xingmei's words fell, before the two of them stepped forward to take rescue measures against the goldfish, they saw that the mother swallowed the goldfish as fast as she could. When the two of them want to step forward to stop or pull it out of their mouths, I am afraid that it will already be incomplete and difficult to piece together.

Tao Zhenkun believes that as long as the mother is in front of something that has returned to the light, she can see the ubiquitous figure of her dead father. He wants to move everything in the house that can return to the light out of his mother's sight, such as things like mirrors and water tanks, but he can't bear to brutally strangle a person's spiritual dependence and sustenance!

The bizarre and incredible supernatural events that appeared in the Tao family are happening at the time, and they are overwhelmed and endless.

A large flock of swallows clamoured and circled overhead, weaving into a silk net that enveloped the Tao family's courtyard, a flock of mountain swallows rather than house swallows.

But from this day on, Liu Xingmei was doubly careful with her mother-in-law, she secretly hid sharp weapons such as scissors, knives, awls, and kitchen knives, for fear of being disfigured by her mother-in-law if she was not prepared for a while!

Once, Qiu Lanzhi played a game of hide and seek for the two of them, searched the whole village under the anxious anxiety and found no trace of them, mobilized some enthusiastic men, women and children to help find them, and finally said with frequent pointing:

"I was far away in the morning when I saw a man cross the wooden bridge and go up the hill over there."

As a result, Qiu Lanzhi was found lying asleep in front of her husband's grave. There were so many identical graves, and there were no monuments, and she could accurately recognize it as her man's grave.

I didn't expect that a living person would still have that affectionate attachment to a dead person!

Liu Xingmei, who was surprised and moved, wanted to wake up her mother-in-law at that time, but was stopped by Tao Zhenkun.

He, the son, quietly went over and slowly carried his mother on his back, and walked back without saying a word, and his mother was still sleeping soundly on his back.

When he passed in front of everyone, everyone found that he was already in tears.

It was quite a heart-wrenching and touching scene, and almost all of them burst into tears in an instant.

After witnessing this scene, Wu Yuanzu, who was on the side of the bridge, couldn't help but burst into tears, and said to everyone: "His filial piety is commendable, and he should be a teacher!" ”

That night, Tao Zhenkun made a decision, that is, to pick up the futon and pillow and move to the east house to accompany his mother to sleep, he was afraid that his mother would leave "without saying goodbye" like his father. In this case, Liu Xingmei is not easy to stop-

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Another time, during the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the seedlings in the field were almost waist-high, and they had not had time to grow barnyard grass and weeds. When Tao Zhenkun went, he found that more than half of the two acres of land had been scavenged, because the family had to leave someone to take care of her mother, and Liu Xingmei did not come to do it. Could it be that Wu He helped do it behind his back? When he saw the clear footprints of a man, he thought that it was someone else who recognized the mistake and helped him wrongly, maybe it was not enough, otherwise who would be so kind and silently help him? As for the angry Tao Zhenzong, he didn't even bother to do the work at home, and teaching became what he was most passionate about, so it couldn't be him. There was meat that could not be buried in a bowl, and he was grateful, and after several inquiries, no one admitted or knew. If someone admits that the land is wrong, who will do so much and not know that it is the wrong land? On the second day, he found that some of the grass in the field had been removed again, and judging from the damp and fresh place where the soil had been plucked, it was evident that it was not dried during the day. But what kind of good eyes do you have when you pick up grass at night? Judging from the barnyard grass and weeds that were taken out of the field, not a single millet plant was mistakenly removed. This became an insoluble mystery, encouraging him to find out, and to express his gratitude if he saw someone again.

A few ridges apart is a field of buckwheat.

In mid-May, in a large field where the wheat was growing heavier and heavier, people planted several scarecrows in their fields, some dressed in ragged and shabby clothes, and some even wearing tattered straw hats. They stand there pretending to be ghosts and offering soulless loyalty, tireless and pretending to guard the fruits of people's hard work, in order to scare the birds and fear that they will spoil the food. However, under the scorching sun, in the trees in the fields, flocks of gluttonous sparrows still gathered, and with a noisy noise seemed to praise the delicious food. As soon as they are alarmed, they form a black and overwhelming web and fly up, but they do not fly far, and they still perch on nearby trees and are full of covetous greed for food. When the hatchlings follow behind their parents' buttocks, they open their slightly yellow beaks and are waiting to be fed. After a long time, the secrets of those scarecrows who were motionless but showed a mighty and hideous spirit were also seen through by shrewd birds, and the courage that was once frightened and feared was restored in bravery, so that some people who cherished food were allowed to beat gongs or break pots and demonstratively drive away these small but many ghosts in their eyes with rocks, but the unwilling birds adopted the strategy of "the enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy retreats and I advance" to tirelessly wrestle with people, using this persistent "guerrilla tactic" Provoking the bottom line of patience of those who hate and hate them so much, those who can't reach the whip can only sigh in anger and sigh, but the scolding and curse paid will not be rewarded!

Now, however, it has been stored in the granaries of each family.

After harvesting the wheat, the people planted buckwheat again, and now the buckwheat spread out by the low red stems is dotted with fine clusters of pink and white petals, and the fruit is blooming and withering, and the fruit is growing in gestation.

Tao Zhenkun and Liu Xingmei also worked in it, and they also had the joy of being harvested.

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It was during this period that a strange thing happened.

The sunset lifted the dark quilt, the sun was embraced by the night, and the moon was squeezed out from the other end of the quilt. The stars were like tears thrown into the sky, as if they were embedded in the sky.

On this day, the gentle night, the lights were dim.

So, Tao Zhenkun couldn't sleep at night, so he lied to Liu Xingmei, saying that he was going to the river to hook and fish, and he got up early to see it, which is not a strange thing. Hooking in the river during the day for fear of being stolen by the children is a good and good reason.

In the middle of the night, for safety, he carried the double-barreled shotgun, but he did not bring anything for fishing, nor did he bring the black tiger, and left it at home for the company of two women.

On this night, the crescent moon was like a hook, lemon-colored, dissolved like water, the stars were scarce, and the sky seemed to be shrouded in a thin veil of clouds. The breeze is blowing, and the toads are chirping. Leaving the stuffy room made him feel comfortable and comfortable.

The moon seemed to have been bitten off by a greedy tengu, two white clouds floated in the blue sky, and shooting stars could be seen streaking across the sky like fireworks.

What he saw in the valley during the day made him curious, and he wanted to find out if he was lucky. The reason why he didn't dare to tell Liu Xingmei about this was because he was afraid that she would nag him to be lazy again.

As he left the village, he heard the crying of a child who didn't know whose family, and the word "child" made him feel entangled in his heart! When I looked back, most of the houses had turned off their lights and gone to sleep, and only a few were still on. At night, there is always an ambiguous imagination that there will be some couples looking for fun in the bed. Working in the fields during the day, and also needing physical cultivation in the bed at night, this is the most primitive expression of love, this is the human beings in the world!

On such a night, he couldn't help but have a little romantic reverie, if he could hold his wife's little hand and stroll under the moon in front of the flowers, how good would it be for me to be like this? But in the calamitous real life, he rejected his wonderful idea, even if it can be realized, but he is not in the mood to enjoy it!

It has been a few months since his father left, but he still can't let go of his sadness, especially when he sees his mother's crazy appearance, which makes him even more uneasy and sad, and even a little incomprehensible about the love between men and women!

He walked among the ridges with the hope of luck, across the winding ditches, in a field of green crops, and when his eyes passed through the wheat field, the still scarecrows were still doing their duty, but they did not know that the birds were accustomed to their deterrent power. In the grain field of his house, he really found the back of a person, bending over to weed, and the back in the haze brought him such a familiar and shocking feeling, which he was used to seeing since he was a child. He hesitated, his heart pounding, and in excitement and excitement he stumbled towards the familiar back, shouting with ecstasy:

"Daddy! Father! Could it really be you?! ”