Hongdou couldn't help but tug at the corners of his mouth: "My father will not be at home, just tell me what the second uncle has to say." ”

Her second Bo'an Guangdao suddenly raised her triangular eyes and shouted: "No wonder Butcher Zhang said that you are a dead girl, and you dare to talk back to your elders?" ”

Hongdou said patiently: "I just told the truth, and I didn't talk back to you." ”

An Guangdao finally jumped up, stretched out a hand and pointed at the red bean and scolded: "Huh? You're going to be a monster now, aren't you? Yes? ”

"You dragged your second sister into the Linglong Pond and almost drowned, and it was okay to break your second aunt's two front teeth."

"Do you dare to be nosy, offend your neighbors, beat and scold Butcher Zhang, and protect his little mother-in-law? People don't want to come to my shop? ”

"Your father's useless thing, I don't know how to discipline you, I can't say that I have to discipline him with him today!"

An Guangdao shouted, and a few villagers gathered around the door of the leather goods store to watch the excitement.

There were also a few hunters who came down from the mountains to sell skins, and when they saw an old man and a girl arguing, they also came out to see together.

Hongdou saw that there were many people coming, so his face suddenly turned cold, and his hands were on his waist.

said sharply: "An Guangdao, I call you a second uncle, but because you are my grandmother's son, you have given you face, right?" ”

"You have never cared whether my father and I live or die, now what qualifications do you have to discipline me?"

Hongdou's shout, not to mention that the villagers were stunned, and An Guangdao was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.

I was stunned and didn't wake up for a long time.

"You...... Dead Nizi, are you against the sky? ”

"It's a mistake, it's a mistake! Watch me today...... Don't kill you, no old or young! ”

An Guangdao was so angry that he trembled, and as soon as he jumped up, he stretched out his hand to grab the red bean and beat it.

"Dare to go wild here?"

Seeing An Guangdao, he was annoyed and angry, and wanted to do it.

Mi Houjun, who had been standing on the side watching for a long time, stepped forward and shouted.

As soon as he raised his hand, he unceremoniously pushed An Guangdao out of the distance.

An Guangdao staggered and almost fell.

It was easy to stand on his heels, and when he turned his face and saw that the person who did it to him was actually Shaodong, a leather goods store, he was so angry that he went crazy.

Regardless of the fact that Hongdou is his own niece and nephew, he jumped to his feet and scolded: "Dead Nizi, shameless, dare no one want it, so I thought about finding a wild man to support you?" ”

Mi Houjun shouted angrily: "Who are you bear man? Less nonsense here! ”

Clenched fists, a posture of about to hit someone.

Mihou Jun is tall and big, and An Guangdao knows that he is not his opponent.

Besides, he didn't dare to really offend him, so angry that his lips trembled.

Hongdou was intent on making a spicy scoundrel who was rolling all over the ground, so he simply scratched his face.

"What's the matter?" Are you not convinced? Then call your red rice to find a wild man to support you! ”

Carpenter Wang, who was wearing sleeves, couldn't look at it, and shouted to Hongdou: "Hongdou, you little child, don't talk nonsense!" ”

He said contemptuously to An Guangdao: "An Guangdao, you are also a croaking person, how can you say such things to your own Nizi?" ”

In an instant, An Guangdao suddenly came to his senses.

His white face was so angry that he suddenly turned red to the root of his ears, and he wished he could find a crack in the ground to get into.

He understands that his face is completely lost in Longshan Pass today.

How can I be confused for a while, shouting at the red beans if anyone wants it, and if you can't find a wild man?

is Hongdou's own uncle, and when he says such a thing, he really needs to be ridiculed by someone pointing at his back.

There is a saying in Longshan Pass, which is called boiling a hundred rolls of pig's trotters and paws, and bending inside.

It means that no matter how big the grievances in your family are, you can't do anything to promote your family's ugliness.

Screaming and scolding like this is tantamount to becoming a fool who grabs and sticks it in his face.

Sure enough, in the crowd of people, there were immediately mutters of disdainful schadenfreude.

"Hmph, a pro-second uncle, do you say such words? I don't know who Nizi is anxious to find a wild man......"

"The Present World...... I didn't expect An Guangdao and his wife to have today. ”

"Xiucai was pushed to the ground by Zhang's when she was pregnant, didn't she also break a front tooth?"

"Shhh, don't say it, you look at the red beans like that, it's weird and terrifying......"

The audience was talking strangely, so Carpenter Wang did a good job, grabbed An Guangdao, dragged him up, and left.

"Forget it, what's the matter with her little child?"

"Brother Guangdao, it's important to be your own livelihood......"

In front of a group of people who watched the excitement and had not dispersed, Hongdou already had a cold face and looked at Ding Mi Houjun.

said in a heavy tone: "I repeat, please leave me alone in the future!" ”

As he spoke, he clenched two small fists as if threatening.

Mi Houjun looked at the red bean little beast and bared his teeth at himself, and his heart was happy.

But the man shrugged his shoulders, pretended to be indifferent, and grinned: "Who cares about the girl's business?" ”

"In the future, please don't make trouble at my door, I will take care of it!"

Hongdou glared at him angrily, knowing that he couldn't win with this person.

With a shake of his hand, he walked away.

Everyone stared wide-eyed, secretly handed over their eyes, and stuck out their tongues.

My mother-in-law, red beans, dare to be evil.

This is not the usual An Xiucai Nizi at all!

Although he scolded the second uncle fiercely, Hongdou still held his anger.

Seeing that the big black son of Zhang's butcher's family was wagging his tail and meeting the intersection, Hongdou hurriedly quickened his pace.

When I got home, I saw that only the Wang family, who was protruding from her pregnant belly, was really in front of the house.

"Sister Wang."

Looking at Wang's thin little face, a pair of gentle eyes full of compassion, Hongdou's heart softened unconsciously.

Wang was only seventeen years old when he was sold to Zhang Butcher by his family, and he is only nineteen years old this year.

The poor life was too hard, and she was pregnant and tired, and it was not an exaggeration to say that she was thirty years old.

grabbed Wang's hand and felt that her hand was cold and cold.

"The eldest woman scolded you again?"

Wang shook his head and said softly, "When will you not scold?" My life ......"

Hongdou pulled Wang into the house.

couldn't help it, and touched her big belly with his hand again.

Suddenly, she felt that under Wang's thin jacket, the little thing in her stomach rolled cutely.

And, as if she was still lying in her mother's belly, her head and feet moving together, rolling to the left and right respectively.

"Sister Wang, he knows that I touched him."

Looking at the surprised look of the red bean, Wang wrinkled his eyebrows tighter.

"He's been moving in my stomach for the past few days."

Hongdou said: "Sister Wang, are you about to give birth?" ”

Wang shook his head: "Calculate carefully, it won't be considered full-term until the first month of next year." ”

Hongdou looked at her big belly: "Sister Wang, did you miscalculate?" ”

Wang smiled bitterly: "My sister knows a few words, and she won't even be bad at this." ”

Hongdou knew that Wang's needlework was very good, but she didn't know that she was literate.

Come to think of it, it may be that the red beans in the past didn't know how to read.

Therefore, even if Wang wrote on the embroidery, she couldn't tell the difference.

Then he said: "My sister must have had a fetal gas, just lie in bed and take care of it." ”

Wang sighed and said, "How can I have that life......

"It's so easy to come out today, just to tell you, I won't have to come out tomorrow."

Hongdou was worried and asked anxiously, "Why?" ”

"It's winter, I'm going to spin."

It turned out that for those who had fields at home, the hemp skins had basically been rubbed and dried.

In the homes of spinning wheels, women are about to start the annual work of staying up all night spinning.

Hongdou stomped his feet and said hatefully: "The child in your belly is also the flesh and blood of Butcher Zhang, why is he not distressed at all?" ”

Wang seemed to be about to cry: "How can the little woman who bought it be considered a person?" ”

couldn't help but stroke his stomach with his hand, "I just pity this child...... Reincarnated into my womb. ”

Hongdou grabbed Wang's hand: "Sister Wang, don't worry, with me, your mother and son will be safe." ”

Wang looked at Hongdou's boyish face and thin little body, and his heart was both sad and moved.

The eldest sister of the loving mother touched the red bean face and smiled reluctantly: "I don't care, you must be good...... Yes. ”

The corners of his lips smiled, and the tone of advice was almost the same as parting with life and death.

Watching the weak Wang leave in a hurry, the red beans were fried in the same heart.

This feeling of being helpless and powerless in the face of one's own and others' hardships is terrible.

She sat silently in the broken hut, and began to think repeatedly in her heart.

She had to save herself.

A person who is too busy to take care of himself has nothing to do to protect others.

"Red Bean, don't be busy walking, I have something to say to you."

Mi Houjun had just sent away a few hunters from the mountains and was keeping accounts.

Seeing Hongdou coming out of the kitchen, he hurriedly shouted.

Hongdou stopped, but his face was cold, and he looked like the boss didn't want to deal with people.

Mi Houjun smiled: "You help me pick up these skins, how about I add your usual money?" ”

Hongdou said in a deep voice: "These skins can be picked up by Shaodong himself, and there is no need to spend more money." ”

When that's all that, I'm leaving.

Mi Houjun had already lost the pen in his hand, stepped forward, and grabbed Hongdou's hand.

Hongdou retreated slightly, and instantly dodged Mi Houjun's hand.

Mi Houjun was defenseless, and his body couldn't help but lean forward slightly.

Red Bean raised his elbow and pressed heavily on his shoulder.

Mi Houjun couldn't help but let out an "ouch", and suddenly knelt down on one knee.

After a little groaning, he simply knelt down on his other leg.

Hongdou was so amused by his shameless behavior that he couldn't help it, and pursed his lips and took a few steps back.

"I can't afford such a big gift as Shaodong......"

Mi Houjun knelt on the ground upright, and his tone was sonorous: "It is said that men have gold under their knees, and they only kneel to heaven and earth and their parents." ”

"I don't care, Hongdou, you have to be my housewife today."

Hongdou wanted to step forward and kick him away, looking at his face, but he didn't laugh.

I had to hold back my temperament, leave this scoundrel and go out of the shop.

Mi Houjun finally couldn't hold it back, and stood up with a smile.

Running forward in a few steps, stretching out his arms to stop the red beans.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, Red Bean, I'm kidding you."

Red Bean said angrily: "Get out of the way!" ”

Mi Houjun said kindly: "Why are you so tough? Look at your ......"

"Red Bean, it's not that I have to meddle with you."

"It's going to be freezing right now, can you survive it, what about your father?"

"You don't want to buy him a thicker coat? Forget it, forget it...... When I didn't say anything. ”

Looking at Hongdou's increasingly cold face, Mi Houjun was finally a little deflated.

Hongdou said in a deep voice: "You have already said it. ”

Mi Houjun was overjoyed: "Red Bean, have you agreed to pick up the skin for me?" I'll get you the money. ”

Hongdou sneered: "Mi Shaodong, how much money do you have in your shop?" ”

Mi Houjun stood still and looked at the red beans: "How much do you want?" ”

Hongdou said: "There are more than 30 large and small families in this Longshan Pass, and after the winter, it is not only me and my father who are short of food and clothing. ”

"The widow Fang in the north of the village is pulling three children by herself, and now the little Nizi is sick again."

"The carpenter Wang had his fingers cut off by an axe, and his wife had a fight with him yesterday......"

"My family next door to Aunt Chen's family can only eat two meals of thin batter every day."

"Uncle Yue has already gone out to beg for food with his lame son."

“……”

The red beans are like a few treasures, and Mi Houjun has already been stunned to hear it.

After a while, he said slowly: "Hongdou, I really don't have so much money to care about others for the time being." ”

"I just want you and your father to be fed and clothed, and I feel sorry to see you so thin every day......"

As he was talking, he heard a woman crying outside.

"I can't live, my little grass...... Grass, my heart and liver......"

Hongdou was so panicked that he left Mi Houjun and ran to the door of the shop.

It turned out to be oligarchical. Aunt Fang's Xiaoni Xiaocao has a high fever that does not go away, and she will suddenly turn her back on her breath.

Aunt Fang's husband fell ill and died last year, and the family already owed a basket of debts.

The two sons, Dahuzi and Xiaohuzi, are only eight or nine years old, and Xiaonizi Xiaocao is just over two years old, and they are all useless.

Aunt Fang guarded the three or four acres of meager mountain fields left by her husband and worked hard.

After a busy year, the money earned has long been forced away by creditors.

This will not even have the money to drink thin batter, how can you have the money to show Xiaocao Langzhong?

The mother was guarding Xiao Ni who was covered in coals, and she was in a panic, but she saw Xiao Ni's legs and feet twitching, and suddenly she didn't move.

Aunt Fang couldn't care so much anymore, hugged Xiaoni, cried and ran to Ye Langzhong's house outside the village.

Red beans stopped Fang Widow. Woman: "Auntie, what's wrong with the little grass sister?" ”

As she spoke, the stumbling Widow Fang hugged the grass in her arms.

The big tiger only cares about crying, and the little tiger is smarter.

"My little sister is dead......"

Hongdou stopped and said, "Don't talk nonsense. ”

As he spoke, he reached out to touch the grass's heartbeat.

Aunt Fang cried even more.

Mi Houjun, who came out of the red beans closely, said to Dahuzi: "You and your brother don't follow, show me the shop." ”

Said to the red bean: "The child will give me a hug." ”

"Auntie, don't cry patronizing, go to Lang Zhong and see if there is any help?"

Under Aunt Fang's anxious leadership, the three of them ran and ran together, and it was easy to run to Ye Langzhong's house more than ten miles away.

Along the way, Mi Houjun refused Hongdou's request to hold Xiaocao for him several times.