At night, Meng Tao followed Zhou Cuiling to live in the Zhou family's wing.

Zhou Cuiling rummaged through the box and found a light blue small floral short-sleeved shirt and a pair of gray and blue straight pants, and gave them to Meng Tao: "I made this set of clothes last summer, and I only wore it twice, and then I became fat and couldn't wear it, you can wear it." ”

Now it's the seventies, the material is scarce, the cloth tickets are issued according to the head according to the plan, the number is not much, especially in the countryside, if you want to make a new set of clothes, you have to save the whole family for a year, even if Zhou Cuiling's family is relatively well-off, you can exchange money for cloth tickets in private, Meng Tao can't accept it for granted, but it's not good to brush off her enthusiasm, so she caught it first and said: "When I have money, I'll pay you back." ”

Zhou Cuiling smiled: "No need to pay it back, this is what I can't wear, I have younger brothers under me, no sisters, my mother is stronger than me, she can't wear it, it's the most suitable for you." You can rest assured to take it, I have a salary now, my parents let me save it by myself, I have money and tickets in hand, so I love to make new clothes, and it's no problem to make two or three sets of clothes a year. ”

Meng Tao heard her say that she had no sisters, and suddenly remembered Zhou Cuilian, thinking that it would be more appropriate to raise some warnings as soon as possible, so she said: "Zhou Cuilian is your cousin, I saw her follow Tian Yalan to Tian's house today, the two of them got together and said a lot of bad things about you, and later heard that Tian Yalan wanted to leave Zhou Cuilian for dinner." ”

Zhou Cuiling's face sank when she heard Zhou Cuilian: "Zhou Cuilian said bad things about me, can it be less?" I have long known that she and Tian Yalan's ghost Chongchong must not be good, I share a grandfather with her, she is not emotional, and has helped others calculate me several times, I don't recognize such a sister! ”

Meng Tao said: "I heard it all, they are indeed calculating you. Tian Yalan hated you for snatching Zhang Guoqing, so she asked Zhou Cuilian to spy on you and secretly go to the brigade headquarters to intercept Zhang Guoqing's letter to you. ”

Zhou Cuiling was happy: "I robbed Zhang Guoqing? What a joke! I and Guoqing are baby relatives, we have known each other since we were three or four years old, Zhang Guoqing comes to my house to give gifts during the New Year's holidays, how many times do you have to run to our village every year, Zhou Cuilian Tian Yalan can not know? ”

Tian Yalan said that she liked Zhang Guoqing, and she swore that if you can't marry Zhang Guoqing in this life, they want to partner with you to harm you, anyway, they want you to not be able to marry for the rest of your life, and ...... You must remember that the river in front of our village, when the water rises every summer, you must never go near that river, it will kill you! ”

Under the light, Zhou Cuiling's face flushed with anger: "What they said?" ”

Meng Tao nodded happily, anyway, he couldn't find an excuse, so he pushed it to the two of them: "You say I'm superstitious, sometimes the good ones are not good and the bad ones are very spiritual, you have to guard against the two of them, within three years, be careful when crossing the river, the wooden bridge is not too strong, it's best not to cross the river in the summer, if you have to go over, then you have to find a strong person to send you." ”

Zhou Cuiling: "......"

She was almost dizzy, how could there be so many despicable and shameless people?

The next morning, Zhou Cuiling went to work at the grain station, and Meng Tao was supposed to go back to Tian's house by herself.

Although there will be nothing to do in broad daylight, Meng Tao still has to be careful, it is a snake and scorpion nest, not to mention that the incident that happened to the Tian family last night was led by her, others don't know, Tian Shuifeng and Tian Yalan must have already figured it out, and they are eager to pick her skin and pull her tendons.

Zhou Shi'an wants to go to the brigade headquarters, and then go to the Tian family, since Meng Tao has decided not to live in the Tian family, he has to make an explanation.

Meng Tao followed the memory of the original owner and went back to the courtyard of the Meng family first.

Linshui Village is a large place, the houses of the villagers are relatively scattered, the Tian family is in the center of the village, the Meng family is in the east, the distance is not close, and it takes more than ten minutes to walk.

Meng Tao quickly found it, from the outside, the small courtyard built by Grandpa Meng is not big, but it is firm, the lower part of the wall is about one meter and a half high, and the upper part is a large adobe brick mixed with straw.

There is no one in the yard, but the doors of each house are locked, and it is not clear whether the educated youths are going to work to earn a share of the work, Tian Xianglan's family.

There is a persimmon tree in the courtyard, three main houses and a row of four low chambers are all brick and tile structures, now this small courtyard is blocked in half by a bamboo fence, the main house is for the educated youths to live, the wing room is occupied by Tian Xianglan's family, and the backyard vegetable garden is also divided into two halves, various sides.

Obviously, the educated youths are more tidy here, and even the toilets have been remodeled.

Meng Tao walked around the courtyard, had a number in his heart, and covered the courtyard gate and left, going to Tian's house.

The courtyard of the Tian family is not silent as imagined, it is quite lively, the chickens and dogs are crying, the pigs are howling, and the children's cries are sharp and piercing, it seems that the two daughters of Tian Baoshan are hungry, crying without eating or drinking.

Meng Tao walked to the door and heard Zhou Shi'an's voice and the current captain Bao Shunfeng's loud voice, so he quickened his pace.

When I entered the courtyard, I saw that in addition to Zhou Shi'an and the captain, there was also the women's director, and three other young men were looking at something on the side of the firewood and grass pile that burned most of it last night, as if it was a large group of militiamen.

Meng Tao felt that the cloth he threw was soaked in kerosene and should have been burned clean, otherwise they would find out, which would be terrible.

The yard is quite clean, and even the hall doesn't look messy, I asked someone to clean it up last night, and in the kitchen and stove, all the cooked food that can be found in other places is collected and buried deeply, after all, there are "poisonous" things, and I can't be careless.

Tian Agui and Tian Xianglan were sent to the commune health center overnight last night, and the rest of the Tian family did not show up at this time, the two girls sat on the wooden bench and cried screaming, and there was a person squatting next to them, wrapping half of their head and face with a black cloth towel, holding a bowl of rice paste in their hands, and holding a small spoon to feed, but the child refused to eat.

Meng Tao looked at it twice and realized that this woman who wrapped herself like a witch was Wang Shuifeng.

As if sensing something, Wang Shuifeng turned his head, and a pair of gloomy eyes under the cloth towel immediately doubled in size, bursting out with all kinds of hatred, he straightened his waist suddenly, grabbed a piece of firewood on the ground and threw it at Meng Tao, gritting his teeth and scolding: "I'm going to kill you!" You ...... with a thousand cuts."

Captain Bao Shunfeng pulled Meng Tao away, and the firewood fell short.

Bao Shunfeng shouted: "Wang Shuifeng! I caught you today, you really abused Peach Blossom, so many of us are here, you dare to do this, I don't know what it will be like to kill people in the future! ”

Wang Shuifeng gasped, the cloth towel covered half of her face, she deliberately lowered her head again, she couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, and said for a while: "I didn't abuse it." ”

"And what do you say about this firewood? I saw you quibbling. ”

"I'm angry with her, there is such a big thing at home, but she doesn't come home at night, and she doesn't know what wild man she went with."

Bao Shunfeng: "......"

was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while: It's obvious that your Tian family is making waves, but you are biting others.

The women's director walked over: "Wang Shuifeng, you don't talk nonsense." Last night, Peach Blossom went to the literacy class to learn culture, something happened to your family, she came back, I didn't let her in, you know why, the situation in your house last night was not safe, so I arranged for Peach Blossom to live with Zhou Cuiling. ”