Full moon, stars.

The brothers Chen Ping and Chen An bundled the rice in the field, and one of them returned to the village first with the small bundle of rice on his back.

"Brother, slow down." By the moonlight, he could see the land under his feet, Chen Ping was worried about the wild ducks at home, he didn't go back for a day, and he didn't know if his mother had fed him, so he walked very fast, Chen An fell behind, looking at the grass on both sides of the road, a little panicked.

Chen Ping slowed down and let Chen An walk in front and follow behind.

"Brother, what's the use of asking for that thing with Erniu when you eat?" Chen An turned his head, rubbed his head against Dao He, and sneezed.

"You want to know?" Chen Ping lifted the inverted rod on his back, and helped Chen An drag it, "Help me wash my clothes, and I'll tell you." ”

"Isn't it just a piece of broken iron, I don't know." Chen An's own clothes were all washed by Liu, and he asked him to wash Chen Ping's clothes, but he refused.

After entering the village, there were occasional voices from the houses on both sides, and Chen An was not so afraid and walked faster.

"Woo ......"

A black dog rushed out from the side, hunched over and barked at Chen An.

"Brother, save me." Chen An was so frightened that he threw away the rice harvest on his back, turned around and ran towards Chen Ping.

The black dog melted into the night, its eyes were shining, its body was very strong, and it was threatening, circling around the Chen Ping brothers.

"Xiao Hei, be good, go back." Chen Ping grabbed Chen An, "Don't run, just stand beside me." ”

This black dog is the guard dog of the Wang family, and he has always been locked in his home, and he didn't know why he came to the village.

"Crazy?" Chen Ping saw a broken hemp rope around Xiao Hei's neck, this dog was not stimulated to break free from the rope and run out.

Chen Ping pulled Chen An and let his body block Chen An. Then he slowly put down the rice he on his back and hugged him in front of him.

In this era, there is no rabies vaccine, and Chen Ping doesn't want his life to die on a dog.

"Follow me, don't make a sound, don't run, move slowly." Chen Ping instructed Chen An in a low voice.

Always keeping the direction facing Xiao Hei, Chen Ping slowly retreated.

"Woo ......"

Squeaking his teeth, Xiao Hei followed a few steps and stopped.

"Let's go, let's go." After leaving a distance, Chen Ping pulled Chen An into a house, got out of Xiao Hei's sight, and went back home by a different way.

The brothers broke out in a cold sweat on their backs, and Chen An had tears on his face.

"Brother, I lost my rice harvest." After entering the yard, Chen An felt that his back was much lighter, and the small bundle of rice he was carrying was thrown on the road.

"I'll pick it up later." Although there were not many small bundles of rice, they could not be wasted, and Chen Ping thought that the black dog should also leave later, and it should be okay to go again.

The rice in the yard has been dried and is tied up in the hall by the Liu family, and it will be threshed tomorrow.

But now Liu is not idle, sitting at the entrance of the hall with a table in front of him, and is holding a handful of sun-dried rice with both hands and smashing it on the edge of the table.

"There's hot water in the pot, you two go wash it first, and put the dirty clothes in the house, and I'll clean it up when I'm done." There was a shallow layer of rice piled up under the table, and Liu was kind to the brothers.

Chen Ping put down the rice stalk on his back and spread it in the yard, and then spread the rice that his father had picked up before he had time to spread it, and then entered the hall.

Two wild ducks were napping in the chicken coop, and some rice and rotten vegetable leaves were sprinkled in front of them, which Liu had already fed.

"Mother, do you have scissors at home?" The flying ability of wild ducks is not weak, and Chen Ping thinks it is safer to cut off the long feathers on its wings.

"In the east room, in the bedside cabinet." Liu said.

After taking the scissors, Chen Ping carried the chicken coop out of the hall and cut off the long feathers on the wings of the two wild ducks by the moonlight.

"In this way, even if you run out of the chicken coop, you can't fly away, so let's hatch the eggs obediently." Chen Ping ignored the protests of the two mallards and stuffed them back.

"Hug." Chen Zhen didn't sleep, she sat quietly at the entrance of the hall, grabbed a handful of rice stalks and played by herself, and when she saw Chen Ping coming out, she opened her hand to ask Chen Ping to hug her.

"Little lady, I'm dirty." Chen Ping took out a few feathers and handed them to Chen Zhen, "Play by yourself." ”

"Mother, there are rice stalks left on the road, I'll pick them up." Chen Pingdao.

"Go ahead, be careful."

The atmosphere in the village is quite good, Chen Ping is not worried that the rice harvest will be picked up, and he doesn't know if the black dog is gone.

The autumn night was quite cool, and as soon as the cold sweat on his body passed, Chen Ping's steps were faster, and he turned around the foot of a house, then slowed down and looked around.

"I guess I'm leaving." More than ten meters away, you can see the rice crops scattered on the ground, but Chen Ping didn't see the black dog.

Walking over, picking up Dao He, not wanting to hear a bark in his ears at this time, Chen Ping saw a black shadow rushing over from the dark out of the corner of his eyes.

"Is the capacity of the dog's brain in this era so large that it can play ambushes?" The thought flashed out in Chen Ping's mind, and Chen Ping could only instinctively lift Dao He in front of him.

The black dog, which was nearly one meter high at the shoulder, put its forelimbs on Chen Ping's body, and directly brought him down, and the rice he was scattered on the ground, seeing the black dog biting him, Chen Ping indiscriminately smashed the remaining rice in his hand towards the black dog's face.

"Blackie, come back."

When my fingers touched my wet tongue, I thought that it was inevitable that the skin would be broken. There was a sharp cry in the distance, and Chen Ping's body suddenly lightened, and the black dog let Chen Ping go with a low cry twice.

"Are you hurt?" A young woman in her twenties walked over quickly and helped Chen Ping up, "Where does it hurt, tell Aunt Wang." ”

This young woman is the Wang family who has lost her husband and her mother-in-law, her body is well-proportioned, her voice is friendly, her small sleeves are on her sleeves, and there is a familiar fragrance on her body, which is the same as the smell on Chen Ping's clothes, and her hair is sticky.

"No, fortunately, Aunt Wang came in time." Chen Ping was now afraid for a while, and when he saw the black dog following behind Wang, he couldn't help but retreat.

"Don't be afraid, Xiao Hei just gave birth to a litter of puppies, so he will be like this." Wang pointed to the dark place, where there were a bunch of rice stalks, "It's there, do you want to go and have a look?" ”

The rice stalks are freshly beaten, and after a day of sun exposure, they are comfortable and tight, so it's no wonder that this black dog chooses to lay down here to give birth to cubs.

At the edge of the rice stalk pile, next to the root of a corner of a house, there is a litter of five newborn puppies, whose meat is very cute. There was also a little girl squatting by the kennel, petting the puppy.

"Mother, there are five." The little girl was the girl by the old willow tree that day, the daughter of the Wang family, Chen Ya, with her mother, at a young age, she was already a little beauty embryo, but she was born tightly, and when she saw Chen Ping, she shrank by Wang's side.

"Yes." Wang rolled up the hem of his skirt and put the puppy in, "This dog is still small, I'll give you one when it's older." ”

The latter words were said to Chen Ping.

"Okay, thank you, Aunt Wang." Chen Ping is very happy to be able to adopt a puppy.

Wang took a litter of puppies back to his house, and Chen Ping cleaned up the scattered rice and went back.

Liu had already mixed the bath water and waited for Chen Ping to come back, and Chen's father was spreading rice.

It was still the old place in the corner, Chen Pinggan rubbed his body, washed away the sweat stains and the hard work of the day, and then washed his dirty clothes and dried them, and entered the west room.

"Hoo ......"

The push-ups were as usual, the sit-ups didn't stop, and the bed squeaked again.

This night, the bed did not collapse, although the quilt was dilapidated, but it was also very warm after the sun. Chen An was still shrinking in the corner, with a dream, as if he had dreamed of meat.

But Chen Ping couldn't fall asleep quickly, the toilet and the west room were separated by a wall, the sound of the dong dong was too violent, and occasionally with the sound of Chen's father's hey, Chen Ping squeezed his thoughts, and wanted to give care, but after holding it for a long time, he laughed with a poof.

"One time...... Twice...... Three ......"

……

In the early morning, when Chen Ping got up, he found Chen's father handing dead branches to the small stove in the yard, and the water in the clay pot above was steaming white.

At Chen's father's feet, there was a wooden basin and a bamboo tube, which was used to hold water.

"Well, why did you get up so early?" Father Chen's hand twisting the burlap towel stopped, and coughed, "It's a little cold, it's better to take hot water." ”

"It's a little cold." Chen Ping hesitated, and felt that it was still necessary to ask, "Grandpa, are you okay with your stomach?" ”

"Huh? It's okay, it's okay. Father Chen walked a little embarrassed, and the water in the wooden basin was spilled a little.

Chen's father drank a lot of cold water yesterday, although it may not necessarily cause a stomachache, but it happened to happen, and it happened that Chen Ping said something about bacteria before.

Now Chen's father not only boils hot water to wash his face, but also thinks that the water in the bamboo tube is also to be brought to the field to drink.

"It's a good start." Spitting out the scraps in his teeth, Chen Ping trotted out the door.

Exercise is important in persistence, in the past, it was to soak girls, but now it has one more purpose - to save life.

Along the village road, passing by the door of Wang's house, there were two dog barks inside, thinking that there would be a puppy in the near future, adding a new member to the family, it was really a little exciting.

The old willow tree appeared in sight, Chen Ping subconsciously looked towards the river, it was still that point, there were still figures, and the water was rattling.

But this time Chen Ping did not take a detour, there was no fog, Chen Ping saw much more clearly than yesterday, it was clearly Chen Ya, the daughter of the widow Wang's family, who was bending down to wash her clothes.

Chen Ping walked over: "Do you wash your clothes so early?" ”

The little girl glanced back at Chen Ping, then pulled the corner of her clothes and continued to swing there.

"You can wait until the sun comes out to wash it, the water is cold in the morning, and your hands will be frostbitten." Chen Pingdao.

Chen Ya is not very old, three years younger than Chen Ping, and like Chen Erniu, the children of poor families are precocious, which is not false at all. However, I don't know if it's because of shyness or other reasons, although they are in the same village, Chen Ping doesn't meet him many times.

"At that time, the laundry will not dry." Just when Chen Ping didn't get a response and was about to leave, Chen Ya turned around and said seriously.

"Well, that's what you said." Chen Ping nodded, and raised his hand, "But pay attention to your hands, it's best to boil hot water to wash." ”

Knowing that yesterday's scene was a misunderstanding, Chen Ping no longer shy away from the riverbank and ran along Tu Shui.

When he arrived at a river beach near ** Mountain in the west, Chen Ping stopped.