On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month in 1932, it is the sacrificial stove festival in the traditional festival, also known as the small year. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoLegend has it that the prince of the stove was originally a commoner Zhang Sheng, and after marrying a wife, he spent all day drinking, losing his family business and begging on the street. One day, he begged to his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang's house, was ashamed, and burned to death under the stove. After the Jade Emperor found out, he thought that Zhang Sheng could change his mind and not be bad to the end, and since he died at the bottom of the pot, he made him the king of the stove, and reported to the heavens on the 23rd and 24th of the lunar month every year, and returned to the bottom of the stove on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. The common people feel that the king of the stove must be respected, because he has to report to heaven. Therefore, people will prepare some tributes to worship the Lord of the Stove. The Han people have the "Little Year" of the 23rd and 24th days of the lunar month to pray for peace and fortune in the coming year.

Soon after dark, Yu Tiesuo went to the town to get a drink for his grandfather. Looking at his age of twelve or thirteen, his long eyebrows are delicate, his complexion is a little yellow, his short hair stands up and looks energetic, his thin body is wearing a cotton black coarse cloth cotton coat that leaks cotton, his wide trouser legs are patched at the knees, which looks a little funny, and there is a small hole in the toe on the outside of a pair of shoes that are worn backwards, presumably he is afraid that his thumb will make the hole bigger so he deliberately wears it like this! It is already very common for him to walk at night when he is only a teenager, because his grandfather has the habit of drinking two sips after dinner, and he will let him fight when he runs out of wine.

The winter night in the north is particularly cold, he carried the wine gourd for a while, hoping to get rid of the cold by running, when he ran to the vicinity of Liujia Village, he suddenly heard a woman's cry and help, which frightened him, and listened carefully as if a man was bullying a woman, he pretended not to hear and then continued to run forward, and ran more than a dozen steps The sound is clearer. It turned out that the man and the woman were right in front of him. He saw a man riding on top of a woman and stripping her clothes. This is the first time he has encountered this kind of thing, and he doesn't know whether to care about it or not.

Having admired ancient and modern heroes since he was a child, he began to contradict himself in his heart. If you don't care, that woman will definitely be insulted, as a manly husband, if you encounter such an injustice and ignore it, you will have a troubled conscience for the rest of your life. But if he does, he's only a half-grown child, and it's a bit scary to deal with a physically strong adult.

After a brief struggle of thoughts, he decided to save the woman.

Just do what you say, and make a decision right away. He quietly hid behind a pile of corn stalks, picked up a stone and threw it at the man, who was struck in the left arm. "****** which **** is going to disturb Lao Tzu's Yaxing, get out of here", the man pressed the woman and turned around and scolded.

After waiting for a while and seeing that no one was silent, he continued to lie down and kiss the woman.

Yu Tiesuo wanted to smash him, but after he got up, the woman could take the opportunity to escape. But the man didn't get up, and the woman didn't get out of the way.

So Yu Tiesuo picked up another stone bigger than the head of the nest and threw it over. This hit the fat man's back, and the man was smashed in pain, screaming in his mouth, and slowly stood up. In the night, I saw that he was fat and round, and he didn't look like a good person at first glance. He looked around, but still didn't see anyone. Then he scolded two more sentences in his mouth: "Which son of a bitch raised me to smash Lao Tzu?" Get out of here. ”

The woman on the ground took advantage of this gap to get up and was about to run, but as soon as she took a step, the fat man turned around and grabbed her arm. "You little girl still want to run, give Lao Tzu back," he said, dragging it and throwing it into the pyre. The woman's thin body was dragged and thrown by him, and fell into the pyre just now.

The fat man saw that no one came out, and just wanted to pounce on the woman's body again. Suddenly, a man's voice sounded from behind: "Wait, there is a hero here, you don't want to bully that woman." ”

Hearing the voice, the fat man turned around, looked the half-grown child in front of him up and down, and said with a contemptuous smile: "Who should I be, just you big child, like Yaxing who disturbs your uncle?" Hurry up and get away from Lao Tzu, or Lao Tzu will kill you. ”

Yu Tiesuo listened to the fat man's words and was not angry, nor was he afraid, he looked the fat man up and down and said: "You dead fat man, there are still fat pigs like you these years, it's really surprising, there has been a big drought in the past few years, even the grass roots have been dug up, and when you look at the street, everyone is skinny and skinny, whose pig food is so rich?" Eat you like this? ”

When the fat man heard this, he did not care about the insult that the iron lock gave him, but was complacent because he had food to eat. He smirked, "Do you know who I am? Even if the people in the county are starving to death, my family will not be hungry, I am a rich man of Zhou, a well-known rich man in this county, and my family's food will not be eaten for 5 years in a great drought. (In the local area, if anyone is the eldest, then his children will call him the elder, and his younger brothers will be called second, third, and fourth...... ）。

After listening to the fat man's words, Yu Tiesuo's eyes were red, tears slowly filled the entire eye socket, and then slowly poured out, he didn't say anything, as if he was thinking about something, and only after a long time gritted his teeth and asked fiercely: "You are Zhou Dafu?" Are you Zhou Tianliang? ”

The fat man was stunned for a moment and asked, "How do you know my name?" ”

Yu Tiesuo pondered for a moment and suddenly turned into a smile, and said with a stammer: "It turns out that it is really Brother Zhou?" Finally let me see you today, don't you know me? I'm Yu Tiesuo, we met two years ago, I went to your house to beg for food, and you gave me half of the nest, thanks to your half of the steamed bun at that time, otherwise I would have starved to death. ”

Zhou Tianliang thought about it, and never remembered who he had given to the steamed buns, in his impression, he only had to rob other people's steamed buns, where would he give to others! Especially called Hanako, he will fight when he sees it!

Before he remembered where he had seen this Yu Tiesuo, Yu Tiesuo said with a hippie smile: "Brother Zhou, you continue to be busy with yours, right?" I'll give you the wind and make sure no one will disturb you."

When Zhou Tianliang heard him say this, he looked back at the woman who was shrunk into a ball on the pyre, and he didn't think about whether he really knew this half-grown child who claimed to have been given by himself. Chong Yu Tiesuo smiled and said: "Your kid has a good eye today, Lao Tzu will give you a good show how to clean up women." ”

With that, he turned around and pounced on the woman. Yu Tiesuo saw that he was defenseless, so he returned to his original face that had gritted his teeth, looked around, found a stone with a large bowl mouth on the side of the road, quietly walked over, picked up the stone and quietly walked behind Zhou Tianliang, raised the stone and smashed it on the back of Zhou Tianliang's head.

Such a big stone is smashed on a person's head, no matter who he is, he can only say goodbye to the world. Zhou Tianliang was no exception, after he was hit by this big stone, he climbed down without saying a word and never got up again.

Yu Tiesuo saw that the woman under Zhou Tianliang was pushing Zhou Tianliang's body away, but this Zhou Tianmin was too fat, and she couldn't push it no matter how she pushed. Yu Tiesuo saw this scene and hurried over to help.

After the two worked together to move Zhou Tianliang away, Yu Tiesuo helped up the woman on the ground and asked casually, "Sister, are you okay?" The woman timidly replied, "Thank you for saving me, I'm fine."

Yu Tiesuo suddenly heard a woman's yellow bird-like voice, and his heart trembled. Although he was still young and didn't know much about the relationship between men and women, the voice was so crisp that he couldn't help but want to look at this girl a few more times.

He didn't care about the difference between men and women, so he directly leaned his face closer and stared at the woman up and down.

I saw that this woman had fair skin, willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, and a small cherry mouth under her delicate and tall nose, which looked exceptionally pure on a white goose egg face. The washed white floral cloth coat and black coarse cloth pants, although there are patches of various colors in many places, this does not affect the woman's beauty, but it is easier for people to fall in love with her.

When the woman saw the iron lock coming over, she took a small step back to see that he didn't step forward again before standing still. He asked softly, "What are you going to do?" ”

Yu Tiesuo did not shy away from saying: "I heard your voice is very good, I want to see what you look like, it's too dark to see clearly, so I'll get closer." Don't worry, I'm not a good person, but I'm definitely not a bad person. ”

The woman was a little relieved to hear what he said, but she still stood still and did not speak. Yu Tiesuo asked again: "You should be about the same age as me, right?" Are you from that village? How could the big night be here? ”

The woman said: "I am not a local, I am 15 years old this year, my father and I fled from southern Shaanxi, our hometown can not survive, we plan to go to Shanxi to join relatives." We begged and sang for a living along the way, and we spent the night in this village tonight, but I didn't expect to meet this brute, and he pulled me out of the village and bullied me when he saw how good I looked. Oh, no, his men were still beating my dad when I was pulled out, I need to go back and see. ”

At this point, she couldn't care about anything else, so she pulled out her legs and ran desperately to the village. Yu Tiesuo quickly caught up, grabbed her and said, "Don't worry, let me see how he is doing first." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and tried it on Zhou Tianliang's nose, his hand retracted like an electric shock, and his voice trembled a little and said, "He...... He died. ”

"Huh? You've killed someone," the woman exclaimed, almost screaming. Yu Tiesuo was startled by her exclamation, and quickly covered her mouth and said, "Don't shout, no matter how much you shout, neither of us will survive." ”

Yu Tiesuo, who calmed down a little, said to himself: "Great, my son avenged you today." After speaking, he hurriedly hugged some firewood and grass to cover Zhou Tianliang's body, and then said to the woman: "Let's go, I'll send you back." So saying, he took the woman by the wrist and walked towards the village.

Not long after entering the village, they saw a group of people talking about something together, and the two hurriedly ran over, rushed into the crowd to see, and there was a thin middle-aged man lying motionless, this person was none other than the girl's father.

When the girl saw her father lying on the ground, she jumped up and picked her up and cried out, "Dad, what's wrong with you?" Dad, wake up, Dad? An old man next to him said, "Little girl, don't shout, your father is dead." After speaking, he sighed, and muttered in a low voice: "The Zhou family's inhuman things, I don't know how many more people will be killed!" ”

Although the old man's voice was very small, it was still heard by the girl and Yu Tiesuo. Yu Tiesuo gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "The Zhou family is a group of scum, I don't kill them and swear not to be human." After speaking, he put the two copper plates that he was going to buy wine for his grandfather, stuffed them into the old man's hand and said, "This grandfather can help us, help us bury him!" After speaking, he whispered in the woman's ear, "Let's go quickly, or we will all die here." After saying that, she didn't agree or not, took her hand and left, the girl was dragged by him, and turned back to cry and called her father as she went.

Walking out of the village, Yu Tiesuo sent the girl through an intersection, and then said to the girl: "You go along this road all the way, wait for me at the entrance of the village in front, and I will set a fire and burn the Zhou family's litter of pigs and dogs to avenge our family." ”

After speaking, he didn't care whether the girl agreed or not, and went straight to the Zhou family's compound. By the time the girl reacted, Yu Tiesuo had disappeared into the night, and she said softly: "Be careful." Thinking of his situation, there was nowhere else to go, so he had to cry while following what Yu Tiesuo said, and walked beyond the village entrance in front.

Yu Tiesuo came to the shortest part of the outer wall of the Zhou family's compound. He was already very familiar with the environment of this Zhou family, because before that, he had been wandering around the Zhou family many times. The purpose is to remind myself from time to time that the enmity of my parents is not shared. This account between him and the Zhou family will have to be settled sooner or later.

He climbed the wall with ease. Looking inside, there were no night patrol families here, so I quietly turned in, and then found the Zhou family's warehouse with a familiar car, carried most of the half barrel of cotton oil in it, bypassed the side room where the families lived, and went straight to Zhou Dafu's bedroom.

When he arrived at the door of the bedroom, he saw that the light in the room had been extinguished, and he said to himself in doubt, "Could it be that these beasts have slept so early?" It's better to be sure, so as not to waste your efforts. Thinking of this, he quietly leaned on the window and listened for a while, and heard that there was indeed snoring in the room, so he was relieved.

Then he poured cotton oil on the doors and windows of the bedroom, and carefully checked it to make sure that everything that could be burned was poured with oil, then he took out a match, and threw one on the door, watching the flames get bigger and bigger, he spat at the door, and then climbed the wall, patiently waiting for the spread of the fire, he looked at the raging fire heart as if he saw his parents' hearty and loving smiles in the past, he silently said to his parents in his heart: "Great, mother, my son has avenged you." ”

After leaving Zhou Dafu's house, he soon came to the entrance of the village agreed with the girl, who looked at the fire in the distance and asked, "Did you really set the fire?" Yu Tiesuo nodded fiercely and said in a slightly relaxed tone: "Of course it's me, I've wanted to put this fire for a long time." Let's go, I'll take you to my grandfather first, and we'll have to run away tonight." ”

On the way home, the girl stared at Yu Tiesuo from time to time, with fear, doubt, admiration, and gratitude in her eyes. Because this boy, who is about the same age as himself, not only saved his life tonight, but also avenged his father's murder for himself. This kind of bravery and ability was not found in boys his age he had seen.

Yu Tiesuo took the woman home, and after seeing his grandfather, he told his grandfather everything that had just happened. After hearing this, the old man looked at the girl and said, "Poor girl, don't be afraid, you will follow our grandfather and grandson in the future!" You will never be wronged again. ”

What the girl needs most at this time is the care and consideration of others, after listening to the old man's words, with tears in her eyes, she quickly knelt down and kowtowed, and said excitedly: "Thank you grandpa for taking me in, you will be my grandfather in the future, I will be filial to you." ”

"Hurry up, girl." After the old man picked up the girl, he asked, "Girl, what is your name?" ”

At this time, Yu Tiesuo, who was standing on the side, rushed to say: "Her name is ......" Suddenly he remembered that he didn't know the woman's name. So he hurriedly asked, "Yes, what's your name?" I forgot to ask. ”

The girl replied, "My name is Huang Baolian." ”

Yu Tiesuo listened and said: "This name is good, not like my name, it is ugly to death, and the iron lock of the dog is bolted." ”

The old man listened to his words and said with a smile: "You kid have to be chained all the time, otherwise you will have to turn the sky upside down?" He turned back to Baolian and said, "His name is Yu Tiesuo, I think it's very good, hehe, he's a restless stinky boy, someone has to leash him." ”

After speaking, the old man paused and said, "It seems that the two of you are about the same age, which of you is older?" ”

Yu Tiesuo hurriedly said: "I'm big, I'm sixteen, she's fifteen." She'll have to call me brother in the future. When Baolian heard that the iron lock was bigger than her, she hurriedly called out to her brother.

The old man smiled and said, "Stinky boy, do you want to take advantage of others again?" It's only been one night and you're 3 years older? Huang Baolian lowered her head shyly when she heard this, and said softly: "I don't look like 16 anymore." ”

After being exposed by the old man about his lies, he didn't care, and said with a smile: "Old man, you love to expose my old bottom, anyway, I can't call her sister, I am still his savior, let the benefactor call her sister, she is not comfortable." ”

Huang Baolian hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, I can't get used to it." ”

The old man smiled and said, "Okay, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and pack your things, let's leave here overnight." ”

Yu Tiesuo hurriedly asked, "Grandpa, where are we going?" The old man said, "Cross the Yellow River and go to Shanxi." ”