After dinner, Qinglian and her aunt went to Xiaowu's house with the old cotton clothes given by the eldest mother.

Qinglian's family lives in the first alley in the west of the village, and the fifth alley in the village where the Xiaowu family lives, there is still a distance away. The streets of the village were deserted on a winter night, and the people who were blown by the cold wind shivered, and the aunt and nephew wrapped their cotton jackets tightly, tightened their headscarves, and walked briskly.

The aunt and nephew arrived at the gate of Xiaowu's courtyard and patted the door of his house.

Xiao Wu, who came out to open the door, saw Aunt Qinglian and her nephew, and immediately asked in surprise: "Sister Qinglian, Aunt Dahong, why are you two here?" ”

Qinglian subconsciously looked down at his feet, and found that he had changed into the pair of shoes with his toes exposed.

She instinctively questioned him: "What about the new cotton shoes, why don't you wear them, look at what your feet are frozen." ”

Xiao Wu whispered: "Sister won't let me wear it, saying that it is dirty." ”

Yes......

Qinglian patted the burden in her arms helplessly and angrily and said, "Let's go, enter the house." ”

Entering the house, his paralyzed mother was lying in the quilt of the outhouse, and his sister Simei was packing up her things in her inner room, and saw Aunt Qinglian and nephew pretending to greet them warmly.

He Dahong sat on the edge of the bed of the little fifth paralyzed mother, first said a few words to her, and Qinglian explained to the mother: "Auntie, fourth sister, I met my little five brothers in the market this morning, thinking that I would have to let him help with some work in two days, we are not outsiders, and he was embarrassed to ask him for money, so I bought him a pair of cotton shoes and a few pairs of socks." Auntie, Sister Simei, don't dislike it, let him wear it. ”

She thought about finding a reason to buy shoes for Xiao Wu, so as to block her Simei's mouth.

At noon today, I saw Xiao Wu coming back wearing a new pair of cotton shoes, Xiao Wu Niang thought he was stealing from others, and pulled his ears and scolded him where the shoes came from.

Xiao Wu said that Sister Qinglian bought it for him, and his fourth sister interrogated him endlessly, and ordered him to take off his shoes. Xiao Wuniang wanted her son to wear it, but she couldn't resist her daughter, so she had to swallow her tears in her stomach.

Simei now heard Qinglian say it herself, and said in a weird way: "I was saying that I would buy him a pair of cotton shoes tomorrow, but I didn't expect you to buy them for him." It's not that I said you Qinglian, or I asked my brother to do some work, what shoes do you buy for my brother, as if we can't afford to buy him a pair of shoes. ”

Qinglian asked with a cold face, "Then why don't you buy it for him?" Look at his feet are frozen into rotten persimmons, I really can't stand it. ”

Simei's face froze suddenly, and then she said: "Qinglian, you don't know, his feet are like teeth, and no matter how strong the shoes are, they are rotten on his feet, and he can't make shoes for him......"

Qinglian sneered: It's like it's true, I almost believed it.

But she didn't break it, but echoed and said: "Fourth sister, you're right, half the eldest child, it's like this, the third girl in my family is the same as him, not to mention how wasteful the clothes and shoes are, and I can't do it for her as much as I can." ”

Then he said to Xiao Wu: "Xiao Wu, the cotton shoes I bought you are military, they are very strong, you can wear them, don't put them away and can't find them, I won't buy them for you." ”

Simei suddenly looked embarrassed.

Xiao Wuniang looked at her daughter timidly, and said to Qinglian with a grateful face: "Qinglian girl, thank you so much......"

The four girls glanced at her, and she lowered her eyelids in fright.

Qinglian shook the burden away, and pretended to say casually: "Auntie, fourth sister, this is my aunt tidying up the house to sell rags, I saw that I can still wear a few cotton clothes and shoes worn by my cousin, it's a pity to throw it away, so I brought it to the fifth brother, don't dislike it, don't dislike it, it's not an outsider, I don't dare to give outsiders to others." ”

He Dahong looked at Simei's expression nervously.

Simei laughed dryly and said: "Then thank you Sister Qinglian, I see that you are still thinking about him, it would be good if he was a well-known person, he has eaten for more than ten years in vain, bullshit is not understandable, and it is useless to see him." ”

said that he slashed at Xiao Wu fiercely.

Xiao Wu lowered his head, standing still like a wooden stake.

This home should not stay for a long time, the aunt and nephew said a few words and put their things down and said goodbye.

Xiao Wu has so many clothes, shoes and socks for the first time, although the shoes and socks sent by Qinglian just now are not new, but they are all good and similar to new, the most important thing is that they look big, thick, and they must be a hundred times warmer than the small and rotten tattered cotton clothes on their bodies......

Qinglian arrived home with her aunt and found that Meiling had been waiting for her for a while. She brought her little sister here, and her little sister was having fun with the three little girls, Xiao Lianlian and Xiao Zhaodi.

After Meiling greeted He Dahong, she came to the back room with Qinglian, and the two girls whispered.

Meiling told Qinglian that her father tried his best to please their sisters, and also reviewed his previous mistakes with his mother, begged his mother to forgive him, and said that he was a man and the head of the family, if they treated him like this, this family would be ridiculed by the neighbors, and the villagers would laugh at it if it was spread out, there was no boy in this family, and her sisters would not want to find a good in-law after seven years, and they would be ridiculed by their in-laws when they arrived at their in-laws.

And Meiling also said a thing: "Yesterday, my second sister-in-law's family came, and it was really for this to withdraw from the marriage, Qinglian, look at this ......"

Qinglian solemnly persuaded Meiling: "Meiling, don't listen to your father, your mother has finally turned over, don't be deceived by him again in less than two days on this good day." Besides, isn't the in-law that your second sister is looking for not very good, your second sister is so beautiful, are you afraid that you won't be able to find your in-laws? ”

Meiling listened to Qinglian's encouragement, and the hesitation in her heart disappeared, she let out a long breath and said: "What you said is, I still don't believe that there is a big girl who can't find her mother-in-law's family, but she can't find it, it's good that our mothers live together, and when my mother leaves, our sisters will live together for the rest of their lives." ”

Qinglian looked at Meiling and began to have a rosy little face, reached out and pinched it and said, "That's right, you have ambition." ”

Meiling suddenly asked: "By the way, your second stubble of garlic should have grown, let's take a look?" ”

Qinglian said with great interest: "Let's go, take a look." ”

The two of them took a flashlight and drilled into the greenhouse of Qinglian's house, and found that the two garlic crops had grown to the height of chopsticks, and they could be sold in two days.

"Qinglian, I dream all day and night, and my garlic has grown so tall, Gegege......" Meiling said with envy in her eyes.

Qinglian smiled at her: "I am more obsessed with money than me, wait patiently." ”

Meiling asked again: "You should also have all the land, it's two acres of land, you have to pay attention." ”

Of course, she didn't dare to slack off on the two acres of greenhouses in the field, she went to see them two or three times a day, watered them on time, and they all had seedlings......

Qinglian said: "Of course, my father and I go to see it several times a day, and my father goes for a spin before going to bed at night, for fear that the wind will blow the grass felt, and the naughty child will tear the plastic sheeting." ”

Meiling whispered, "You have to watch it closely." You know, the local dog in our alley is very cheap, specializing in destroying the crops in the field, and there are no crops in the field this winter, so you have to force him to attack your greenhouse. ”

Qinglian thought of the rogue earth dog in the village who was eating and drinking, frowned, nodded and said yes.

The next day, the weather was exceptionally clear, the sun was shining, and the slight south wind was blowing, which was a rare good weather in winter.

He Dahong happily looked at her stack of incense and said, "God has mercy on me, so that my incense can dry up quickly." ”

Under such a good sun, the incense made yesterday dried up before noon.

He Dahong broke one open and couldn't wait to light it, and then reverently inserted it into the incense burner at the door of the house, waiting earnestly for its smell to float out.

Qinglian and her father came over and stood in the center of the room as calmly as her, nervously looking forward to the smell of the incense after it was lit.

A thin wisp of green smoke slowly rose into the air from the top of the incense stick, and all three of them closed their eyes in unison, waiting for the aroma of their memories to enter their noses.

Qinglian shuddered suddenly, and the fragrance buried in his memory penetrated into his nostrils in wisps...... She just wanted to scream, but Da Hong shouted excitedly: "Second brother, Qinglian, it's this smell, it's this smell, when I smell it, I see a mother's appearance......"

The three of them cheered.

Qinglian hugged her aunt and said, "Aunt, then let's hurry up and press the incense, start sealing it at night, and start selling it tomorrow." No, no, no, I will help you press the incense noodles with my father. ”