It was almost dusk when Du Liu left, he refused Xu Si to go out to see him off, and stood at the door and looked out for a while before secretly walking out.

After Du Liu left, Xu Si ate the rest of the roast chicken cleanly, and played with the gun in his hand for a long time, then found a rag to wrap it up and put it on the sorghum, came down and stood to see, how to see that the thing was placed there to look particularly conspicuous, so he took it down again, weighed the place left and right, and finally stuffed it into the stove, and buried it with the ashes of the grass and trees inside, so I was relieved, who in June was going to burn the kang?

After doing this, Xu Si lifted up the broken kang mat again, lifted up a piece of kang on it, dug a small hole in the kang pit full of black charcoal soil, put three pieces of ocean into it, thought for a while and took out another piece and put it on his waist, buried the remaining two pieces with charcoal soil, put the kang table back in place, filled the gap with dry soil, looked carefully, and found no flaws at all, so he put the mat flat and lay on it.

It was already dark outside, there was not a single star in the dark sky, there was silence, even the barking of dogs could not be heard, but the invisible heat wave did not abate in the slightest, drifting everywhere, agitating, surging in all directions, swinging back, filling the entire space but making people helpless.

Xu Si fell asleep in the chaos, dreaming bizarre dreams, and heard a woman ask him in a daze, "Little Liu'er, do you miss me?" ……”

Xu Si wanted to open his eyes and take a look, but his eyelids were as heavy as a mountain, not only his eyelids, but his whole body would not move, even a little finger could not move, and the woman's question over and over again in his ears was difficult to answer, and finally the voice actually whimpered and cried, and the more he cried, the more miserable he became.

"Don't cry!" Xu Si sat up suddenly, all the sounds in his ears disappeared, and his whole body was as if he had been fished out of the water, he gasped heavily, and silently recited Amitabha Buddha more than a dozen times in his heart, Fang is the ghost pressing the bed, it must be!

Xu Si couldn't sleep anymore, so he simply came to the door, it was dark and frightening, and the heat was still rolling in the air, but he lost the depressing and dull feeling of the day.

Xu Si sat down, waved his hand a few times to beat the flying mosquitoes away, the weather is so hot, there are many fewer mosquitoes, but there are still a lot of flies in the daytime, buzzing and flying to isolate the itchy person, Xu Si opened his eyes and looked at a certain place in the dark, he couldn't see anything, he didn't think about anything in his head, but there was a faint pain in his heart, and he didn't know how the person was doing?

Xu Si bit his lip and shook his head desperately, not wanting to. Don't want to! Suddenly something seemed to pour into his eye sockets, and his nose began to sour.

Xu Si stood up and wiped his eyes with his hand, and at this moment, there was a faint sound of a rooster crying in the distance, Xu Si touched the silver dollar on his waist, raised his legs and walked towards the south of the village.

Ying Ying saw a low courtyard wall in front of him, and the door of the courtyard wall was made of wattles, and it was loosely there.

The house in the courtyard is a tiled house made of black bricks, of course it can't be seen at night, Xu Si often comes during the day, from the grass and trees in the yard to the needles and threads in the house, Xu Si knows it clearly.

Xu Si walked to the door, stretched out his hand and pushed it, it was inserted to death, he frowned, and patted the door gently, "Who?" The person inside asked alertly.

"Me!" Xu Si responded.

"Fourth brother, it's so late, what's the matter?" The tone in it softened a lot, and when he saw Xu Si, he hummed and continued: "You wait a while, fourth brother, wait a while." ”

After a while, the door opened, and a tall thin man walked out, saw Xu Si standing at the door, but turned around and closed the door again, and then turned around and asked Xu Si, "What's the matter?" Four hands? ”

Xu Si asked in a low voice, "Nizi is here?" ”

"You be quiet, so that she can hear how shameless?" The man nervously stretched out his hand and grabbed Xu Si and whispered.

"King Five, King Five." Xu Si lowered his voice and said, "What do you want me to say about you?" How good do you think it would be for you to find a yellow flower leap girl to come back openly? You have to look at a widow who is several years older than you. ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Wang Wu stomped his feet anxiously, "What do you know?" Nonsense! What are you looking for me for? 〞

Xu Si heard the fear in his tone, and couldn't help but feel funny, a widow, although she has no children, is never the original goods, as for being afraid of that?

Widow? Xu Si's heart couldn't help but ache, he calmed down and asked Wang Wu: "Have you been busy in the past two days?" ”

"Well, what's the busy? After so long of chaos and drought, what can I do as a cook? Wang Wu's tone was full of helplessness.

"Is it possible that the war is in chaos, and even the red and white ceremonies will not be done?" Xu Si was a little puzzled,

"Alas!" Wang Wu sighed and squatted down, and said dejectedly: "Fourth brother, you don't know! How beautiful did I do in the first two years? My father and mother died early, and those people in the clan didn't care about me, I gambled and went out to learn a cook, and it was only a few years since I came back? I built this tiled house, this good day has just begun, who would have thought that the Japanese could call him? How thin have you seen me? How can I, a cook, lose weight like this? How many years has this house been built? This courtyard wall can't be put up! I've been with Nier for two years, but I don't dare to marry her and let her come over to eat bran with me? Am I still a man? But how can you talk about the past like this? ”

Xu Si was speechless when he spoke, and a woman's suppressed cry came from the room.

Xu Si really didn't know how to persuade Wang Wu, so he had to take out the silver dollar from the waistband of his trousers and stuff it into Wang Wu's hand, "Wang Wu put the silver dollar in front of him and looked at it, and asked in surprise: "Fourth brother, what are you doing here?" ”

"It's fine." Xu Si said: "Use this money to help me set up a banquet." "What?" Wang Wu was surprised: "Hold a table? That's ten tables! ”

"Make a table." Xu Si said with certainty: "If you have more, count your wages." "How good is that? How good is that? Wang Wu was a little at a loss, "Why is it bad?" Who called us brothers! Xu Si patted him on the shoulder.

"The fourth brother, when will you use it?" Xu Si was just about to leave, Wang Wu asked in the back, Xu Si stopped, thought for a while, and said, "Let's go two days." "That's the day after tomorrow?" Wang Wu asked,

"Hmmm! It's set for the day after tomorrow! Xu Si said as he walked out of the Jingtiao Gate and closed the door with his hand. Said to Wang Wu behind him: "Go back!" After saying that, he walked towards the village without looking back.

After walking two streets, Xu Si stopped and hesitated for a moment before walking towards the east of the village.

At this time, there was another rooster cry in the distance, and it was almost dawn!