The afternoon sun is not very strong, leaking in through the car window, spreading warm on people, and the bus swings and swings, making people drowsy.

When the car arrived at the station, the driver came to an emergency stop, and the dozing Rong Guanguan knocked his head on the seat in front of him, he rubbed his head, his eyes rolled around, yawned, and woke up from sleepiness.

The passengers in the car got out of the car one after another, and Rong Guan turned his head to see that his brother was still sleeping.

"Brother."

Rong Li's head was covered with sweat, his lips were white, slightly open, and his breathing was very rapid.

Rong Guanguan tugged at his clothes: "Brother." ”

He woke up suddenly, his eyes open, and his pupils were bloodshot.

Rong Guanguan held the glass candy jar and tilted his head to lean over: "What's wrong with you, brother?" "He ate the sugar, and his whole body smelled of milk.

Rong Li pushed his head away, unscrewed the lid of the mineral water with one hand, and poured a few sips: "Not much." ”

"Oh." Rong Guanguan said, "We have arrived. ”

The car has arrived in the county, and I have to transfer to the countryside again.

Rong Li stuffed the empty mineral water bottle into Rong Guanguan's hat, then got up, directly picked up Rong Guanguan, and got out of the car.

At about six o'clock, the women of the village carried their vegetable baskets to the cement field in the alley, and several people sat around and picked vegetables to chatter.

No, I talked about Rong Hai and Su Min.

The woman in the floral skirt is the daughter-in-law of Rong Jinqi's family, called Zou Jinxi, she is not bad, but her mouth is relatively broken, she is short and fat, and she looks very blessed: "Really sentenced?" ”

Next to him is Rong Yonghua's daughter-in-law Wu Peiyao, who is very young and dressed quite foreignly: "No, I was sentenced to eight years." ”

Zou Jinxi pinched the beans into paragraphs: "Didn't you say that you don't have to go to jail for legitimate defense?" ”

Wang Yuelan continued: "What kind of legitimate defense, the police have evidence, Su Min is intentional homicide." She had a holiday with Rong Li, and it was not pleasing to look at Su Min, "The people in their family are all dangerous elements, and they can't be provoked." ”

Wu Peiyao was terrified when she heard this: "This Su Min is too bold, everyone dares to kill." ”

"If you want me to say, Rong Hai is also innocent, a big man beats his wife all day long, what kind of thing, I have also seen him do something to Guan Guan." The two families are not far away, Zou Jinxi has met a few times, "Although it is not biological, but Guan Guan is only how old, that beast can also do it, if it is me, whoever beats my son, I will also fight with him." ”

The older Aunt Hongzhong also took a mouthful: "Don't you beat your own child, I still remember that Rong Li didn't like to be silent when he was a child, and if his father beat him, he wouldn't cry or hum." Speaking of this, Aunt Hongzhong sighed with emotion, "Isn't Bai Qiu blind, Rong Li's child was beaten and deliberately kept silent, for fear of making his mother cry." ”

How old was Rong Li at that time.

"Bai Qiu was really killed by Rong Hai?" Zou Jinxi was curious.

Wang Yuelan said: "Who knows, you can't see people alive or dead, and you can't see corpses." ”

Sixteen years have passed, when Bai Qiu was gone, Rong Li was also missing, and Rong Hai said to the outside world that Bai Qiu did not abide by women's morals and ran away with his son.

However, many people didn't believe it and thought that Bai Qiu was killed by Rong Hai, because the day before Bai Qiu disappeared, Rong Hai drank wine and made a move.

At this time, the dog barked a few times, and the women turned back.

It was Rong Li who came back, he led Rong Guanguan, dressed in black, walking in the orange-red alley where the clouds were paved, and a large area of sunset sprinkled behind him, burning the whole sky.

Xu Tanxi stood in the courtyard, watching him pass by before knocking on the door, watching him hesitate and frown. She heard all the women's gossip, and she wanted to stop him, to give him a piece of candy, to touch the fold between his brows, to hug him.

She went to the door and lit the lantern that had been replaced today, and she asked the master electrician to install many light bulbs in the lantern, which was brighter than the setting sun.

Rong Li paused for a moment, glanced back at the lantern on the eaves, and his brow loosened slightly.

Seeing the main lord appear, the village women looked at each other and were silent.

There is someone at the door of Rong Li's house, it is an old lady.

"Didn't come back until now?"

This old lady is Rong Hai's mother Qian, Rong Hai has a bad temper, and she is not doing her job, so she doesn't like Qian. Over the years, Qian and his eldest son Ronghe have lived together, opened a grocery store at the old station, and did not live in the village.

Qian is seventy and three, and his body is very tough.

Rong Guanguan obediently called: "Grandma Rong." ”

Although Rong Guanguan changed his surname, he was not born to Rong Hai after all, and the Qian family didn't like Rong Hai in the first place, let alone Rong Hai's cheap son.

Qian glanced at Rong Guan Guan with the tail of his eyes, how to look at it and dislike it.

Rong Li pushed the courtyard door open: "You go in first." ”

"Oh." Rong Guan is locked in.

Rong Li closed the door.

"Why do you still have that oil bottle with you?" Qian's voice was very loud, with a stinky face, and he had a lot of dissatisfaction with Rong Li, "That mother who dragged the oil bottle killed my son and killed your own father, and you still have such a little enemy, don't you think you should do it?" ”

Rong Li was lukewarm: "Finished?" ”

He pushed the door straight into the house.

Qian was angry, and said with a red face: "I haven't finished talking yet, the funeral home always calls and asks us to get the ashes, and now the case is over, if the ashes are brought back, you have to hold a funeral, you don't want to worry about it, but that's your father, you have to get the money." ”

Rong Li had already stepped over the threshold with one foot, and one foot was still on it, leaning his back against the door: "Don't go out." ”

Qian was already mean, elongated his face, and became even more scathing: "What about the funeral?" ”

"You guys look at it," Rong Li said the second half of the sentence without being salty, "I'll watch the smash." ”

With that, he closed the door.

Qian was so angry that he jumped to his feet and scolded outside with his throat pulled.

"Brother."

Rong Guanguan heard it all, he felt that Grandma Rong was too much, and scolded him for dragging oil bottles, why did he still scold his brother for being a little brute.

Rong Li buttoned up his sweatshirt and hat: "You cover your ears." ”

"Oh, good."

Rong Guan obediently pressed his ears with both hands, and the world was quiet.

Rong Li entered the house, washed his face with cold water, and poured some hot water for Rong Guanguan with a basin and put it in the yard, he confessed before going upstairs: "Wash it first, eat by yourself when the takeaway comes, don't come to disturb me." ”

Rong Guanguan covered his ears and followed behind, but he didn't hear it.

Half an hour later, the takeaway was delivered, Rong Guanguan went to the door to get it, he put the bag on the table, and shouted upstairs: "Brother." ”

His brother didn't agree.

He shouted louder, "Brother." ”

His brother still didn't agree.

My brother said that you can't go upstairs casually without permission, Rong Guanguan looked at the takeaway box, hesitated for a long time, and went up lightly.

He probed his brain: "Brother, it's time to eat." ”

The bedroom door on the second floor was unlocked, so he went to the door and called, "Brother." He didn't hear a sound, so he pushed the door and went in.

His brother was sleeping.

There were no lights on in the room, the windows were nailed, and in addition to a bed and a table, there was only an old-fashioned cabinet, the quilt was black, and so were the sheets, and the room was empty and depressing.

Rong Li's whole body was firmly covered by the quilt, and only his hands were stretched out.

"Brother."

Rong Guanguan gently pushed it and found that his hands were so hot.

"Brother."

Rong Guanguan pushed again, but seeing that Rong Li still didn't react at all, he pulled out his legs and ran out.

He ran to Grandma Yin'e's house, shouting as he ran: "Sister Xu! ”

"Sister Xu!"

Xu Tanxi came out of the courtyard: "What's the matter, Guanguan?" ”

Rong Guan Guan said breathlessly: "My brother is sick. ”