The sunlight slowly moved from the window, because the lattice was removed by Mi Bao and Sister Fu to wash it, so the light poured in unobstructed, bright and transparent. The big strong man chased his little fluffy tail in the light, round and round, tirelessly.

Sister Fu experienced two heart-rending pains, and saw the color of blood under her body.

Mi Bao's heart was still a little nervous when he saw the blood, and Sister Fu asked him to avoid and go to the stove to boil water. Mi Bao kept renewing the firewood, burning the fire in the stove red, and the tongue of fire burst out arrogantly, burning his eyebrows and the hair on his forehead, he ignored it, but still burned, the water was urged to roll and roll, and the white steam was rushed up in a hurry, changing all kinds of shapes.

Sister Fu's irrepressible cry came again, Mi Bao hurriedly added a thick dry tree root, the fire was smaller, but the cyan smoke came out, choking Mi Bao coughed and suppressed Sister Fu's cry.

The coughing stopped, Mi Bao wiped a handful of tears from his coughed up, leaned over and asked, "Sister Fu, are you ready?" ”

"Silly brother, how can it be so fast, you think it's dumplings! Don't hide, come here! Sister Fu's voice was weak, but listening to the tone, it seemed that the pain had passed again.

Mi Bao scooped the boiling water into the coarse porcelain bowl by the stove, blew it with her mouth, and brought it to Sister Fu.

Sister Fu was still half-lying and half-sitting, her lower body was covered with the still damp furoshiki that Mi Bao had just collected from the yard, sweat dripping down her sideburns, and she kept wiping it with her sleeves, but she still wet the water-red collar.

She took the water, took a sip, looked at Mi Bao apologetically and said, "Originally, women and men couldn't be in front of them when they gave birth, but now there is really no way to be a sister, wronged brother!" ”

Mi Bao shook his hand again and again and said, "How can Sister Fu say such a thing, if I hadn't met you, I might have died." ”

Sister Fu put the water bowl on the edge of the kang, grabbed Mi Bao's hand and sighed and said, "Sister is still a burden to you." Actually, my sister is most grateful to you, all people, even my own father and mother, as long as you don't dislike me! ”

Mi Bao's hand was clenched tightly, and he looked at Sister Fu, her belly bulging high in such a sitting position, like a hillside, motionless. He pulled out the sweaty hand that was held by Fuzi, and carefully pressed it lightly on the bulging "hillside", feeling as hard as a stone, he couldn't imagine what the child looked like inside, whether it was lying on his stomach or lying down, he felt that the little thing must be too aggrieved inside, and the black couldn't see the day, so he was struggling to figure it out, otherwise how could it hurt so much. He suddenly remembered a question he asked his mother when he was a child:

"When I was a child, I often asked me where I came from and how I got to this house, and my mother always smiled and told me that you were picked up by your mother from the ravine and peeled from the cabbage. Sister Fu, you said, how good it would be if the child really got it like an adult, you don't have to suffer so much here. ”

Sister Fu listened, her bloodless lips curled, and she squeezed out a smile and said, "You are really still a child." ”

"No, I know. That's what the mother said was to coax the child to play. "She said that the child is the flesh that fell from her mother's body. It hurts to say that! ”

Mi Bao remembered the scene when the sister-in-law of the neighbor of the third mother's house in Gudi Town gave birth, it was a night without stars and moons, and the third mother also went to help, and he didn't bother to cook dinner for them, he and his cousin sat in the yard and waited. The shouts of the eldest sister-in-law could be heard on half the street. They saw the aunts and aunts coming in and out, carrying basins and bowls, and in the room in addition to the voices of the eldest sisters-in-law, there were also the voices of the three mothers and other women, and they shouted: "Hard, hard! Also: it's coming, it's coming out or something, it's messing up like a quarrel. At that time, the second cousin asked the eldest cousin, did my mother also call like this when she gave birth to us? Brother Lobby was not happy when he heard it, and shouted, who is the pig? Who is a pig? The second cousin who chased was running all over the yard, running and running, and suddenly heard the cry of the child "wow" from the neighbor's house, and the cry of the eldest sister-in-law stopped, and the pine torch illuminated the yard, and the laughter came, and the third mother came back with a smile on her face, and stuffed one of them with a hot boiled egg. That was the first time Mi Bao saw the third mother smile, and she didn't forget it for a long, long time. And now Fuzi, who loves to laugh, doesn't smile, she bites her lower lip with her white teeth, twists her body, and makes Mi Bao overwhelmed, all he can do is to tell Sister Fu what he saw and heard about the scene of the neighbor's sister-in-law giving birth, he learned the tone of the women that night and said, "Hard! Pull it out!

Sister Fu really listened to Mi Bao's words, she breathed rapidly, and with her strength again and again, the blood burden spread out under the skin, dyed half of the pants and the straw mat under her body, and the belly like a small hillside seemed to be nailed there, and she didn't move. The pain made her unable to control her emotions, and she began to raise her fists and pound her stomach, screaming:

"Son, come out quickly, come out quickly! Don't torture my mother! ”

Mi Bao pressed Fuzi's frantically dancing fist hard, Sister Fu's hand couldn't move, her head swayed back and forth, and her hair was scattered, covering her snow-white round face. Mi Po was completely panicked, and he said with a crying voice:

"Sister Fu, how long can you endure it? Shall I go out of the mountains to the town to find the grandmother who delivered the baby? Otherwise, I'll go find the third mother, right? ”

Sister Fu listened, suddenly stopped calling, her eyes widened, Mi Bao felt that she had become less like her, as if someone had torn up the New Year's doll that was pasted on the wall, making the smiling New Year's doll's facial features displaced, which made it unbearable to look at directly.

"Baozi, you forgot how you got into the mountain!" Sister Fu's voice was hoarse, she grabbed the edge of the kang with one hand, beat Mi Bao's shoulder with the other, and cried and said, "You give Sister a good listen, it's not easy for us to escape, it took our lives to find the place where the fairy lives, you can't go out if you don't grow up, no, even if you grow into a person, you have to live here like the fairy grandfather!" ”

Mi Bao was stunned by Fuzi's words, he didn't expect her to lose her temper and discipline him like a mother.

Sister Fu paused, calmed down, stopped her hand and slowed down her tone and said, "Don't blame Sister, Sister hopes that you can live well, Sister also wants to live, how good it is to be alive!" ”

Mi Bao's tears fell, and he said: "Sister, I remember, I won't go anywhere, just guard you, and when you give birth to the child, we will live like a fairy grandfather." ”

Sister Fu stopped making a sound, she was exhausted. She looked at the blue sky outside the window and thought for a long, long time. She turned her face sideways and called Mipo's name, gasping and said, "Don't you know how to write, you go to the stove and get some burnt charcoal." ”

Mi Bao asked puzzledly: "What do you want that thing for, if you are hungry, I will find you some cakes you made in the morning, and they are still on the edge of the stove, not cold." ”

Sister Fu didn't answer, but still stubbornly pointed at Mi Bao and said, "Quick, take it!" ”

Mi Bao ran to the stove, took out the wood that was still a little hot and had not burned through, pinched it with his hands, and ran back to Fuzi.

Fuzi said: "Baozi, sister said, you write on the wall." ”

Mi Bao didn't dare to ask any more questions, bent down and picked up the big strong man who was humming at his feet with one hand, and stood by the wall with charcoal in the other.

The wall is pasted with flat yellow mud, Mi Bao painted on it, leaving a clear black road, Sister Fu looked at it and nodded with satisfaction and said: "Write, plant potatoes in spring every year, harvest when the seedlings bloom in summer, no drought and no watering, bud rice is sown when the weather is warm after spring every year, and the sticks are harvest......ed when the sticks are ripe in autumn."

Sister Fu gasped heavily, beads of sweat rolling down her forehead.

Mi Bao turned around and shouted to Fuzi, "Sister Fu, why are you asking me to write this?" ”

Fuzi ignored Mi Bao and continued his words: "Is it finished writing, write it quickly!" ”

Mi Bao only wrote stroke by stroke according to Sister Fu's words, and a few lines of black words jumped on the wall, Fuzi squinted and nodded. She tilted her body with difficulty and said:

"Baozi, I put the needle and thread I brought from the baggage on the table, you can bring it for me!"

Mi Po hurriedly ran to get it. Sister Fu said: "Come, sit here, the shoulders and sleeves are torn, and the sister will sew them." ”

Mi Po sat obediently beside her, watching her tremble fingers sewing stitch by stitch. She said as she sewed: "Grandpa Fairy still left a few big clothes, I have washed them, hang them on the tree outside the yard, and when they are dry, you put them away, and you will be able to wear them when you grow taller in two years." ”

Mi Bao choked up and said, "Sister Fu, what are you doing with this!" ”

Fuzi still ignored Mi Bao's words and continued: "Sister's words, remember? “

Mi Po nodded. Sister Fu leaned over, bit off the thread, and pressed her face on Mi Bao's shoulder, tears soaking Mi Bao's clothes. She nudged Mi Po and said:

"Brother, let me hold the big strong son, my sister is cold, it is hot, and it is comfortable."

Mi Bao handed the big strong man into Sister Fu's arms, Sister Fu hugged it tightly, and kept kissing its little head with her mouth, and the big strong man stretched out his pink little tongue and licked Sister Fu's face. Sister Fu put it on her high belly, raised her eyes and looked at Mi Bao seriously for a while, and said softly:

"Bao, sister is tired. I want to sleep for a while. You go boil water, and I'll get up and wash up in a while. ”

Mi Po sat down in front of the stove again, the fire in the stove had been extinguished, and a few sparks were jumping and flashing. Mi Bao continued some dry branches, blowing, and the flames gradually ignited, burning the branches and licking the bottom of the pot.

The water boiled again, and the white vapor came out of the edge of the wooden lid and scrambled upward, turning into winged birds that rose to the heights, and the phantoms below spread out the deer running with four hooves, and then quietly dispersed.

Dashan is surprisingly quiet today, as if he is afraid of disturbing Sister Fuzi. The birds do not know where they have flown to, the wind does not blow, and the leaves do not move.

Mi Bao held his cheeks with both hands and no longer added firewood. The red tongue of fire stretched and contracted, and Mi Bao felt that it was the color of blood, and for some reason, he didn't feel nervous when he saw this color.

He stood up and walked over to Sister Fu.

Sister Fu lay quietly, her snow-white round face and eyebrows stretched, without any pain, as if she was sleeping deeply. The blood beneath her body spilled over the edge of the kang, gurgling down like a stream, stretching across the land in the house.

The sun moved to the west, reluctantly reluctantly closing its strands of gold. The last few wisps just dotted on Sister Fu's body and face who was lying quietly, beating and pulling, as if she wanted to pull her up and go back together.

Mi Bao sat next to Sister Fu, grabbed her thin white hand that was gradually cooling under the edge of the kang, and walked lightly, for fear of disturbing Sister Fu's dream......