Chapter 14
After the old aunt fled to Lin Hanmei's house, after everyone talked for a while, they lay down and fell asleep. When I got up the next morning, because I was afraid that the man would come looking for her, after eating, my grandmother sent my aunt to the neighbor's house in the front yard. Grandma and Dad told Lin Hanmei and her brother that if the man came to look for her, they would say that the old aunt didn't come.
After a while, the man came looking for him on his bicycle. As soon as the man entered the house, he asked his grandmother: "Mom, is Fenghua here?" "My aunt's name is Lin Fenghua. Grandma said, "You didn't come, what's the matter, you're fighting again?" The man said, "I didn't fight, usually I was afraid that she would wrap the door with wire at night when she left, and last night I wanted to wrap it, but she wouldn't let me wrap it, and if she didn't leave, I didn't wrap it, and she left." Grandma said, "That didn't come." Then he said, "Didn't you go to your second sister's house and your third sister's house to see it?" The man said, "I have all gone, and I have said that I have not gone, but I have come here?" Grandma said, "No, I didn't come here." Because my brother went to school, the man secretly asked Lin Hanmei: "Did your aunt come here?" Lin Hanmei was told by her grandmother and father, so she said, "I didn't come." Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, the man stayed for a while and rode his bicycle back.
After the man had walked for a while, the grandmother took the old lady back. My aunt stayed at Lin Hanmei's house for a few days. One day, I forgot why my brother hit my sister, and my brother hit people with his fists when he was angry. The old lady was very sad, crying and packing up a few of her clothes and saying, "I have to go home, I can't do it in anyone's house, and adults can't do it for children." Grandma didn't let my aunt go back, and said, "What are you talking about with a child?" When my brother saw my aunt crying, he lowered his head and stopped talking. So my aunt didn't go back.
Because he was worried that the man would come to find her, after the aunt stayed at Lin Hanmei's house for a few days, her father sent the aunt to Lin Hanmei's aunt's house. The man had never been to his aunt's house before.
Sure enough, as soon as Dad sent the old aunt to the aunt's house on the front foot, the man on the back foot came to him. As soon as I entered the house, I still asked my grandmother if my aunt had come back, and my grandmother said that she hadn't come back. The man asked, "What about my eldest brother?" The eldest brother he said was Lin Hanmei's father. Grandma said, "Your eldest brother is in the county." The man searched in front of and behind the house, but found nothing, so he rode his bicycle back again.
Since then, the man has been coming back from time to time. One day, the man came and asked his grandmother: "Mom, do you think Fenghua can go to my eldest sister's house?" Grandma said casually: "Then who knows, you go to your eldest sister's house to have a look." The man said, "I haven't been to my eldest sister's house either." Then he said, "I'll come early on a cloudy day, and let my eldest brother come with me to my eldest sister's house." Grandma said, "Then let your eldest brother go with you on a cloudy day." "The man stayed for a while because he still had two children to take care of, and then rode away on his bicycle again. At that time, the eldest child of his family could be five or six years old, and the younger one was only two or three years old. After the man left, the grandmother went to the field to find the father and told the father about the situation, and the father borrowed a bicycle and went to the aunt's house to pick her up.
The next morning, after eating early, my grandmother hid my aunt. There were a lot of sunflower poles from last year in the garden, and they were placed there vertically for fire, and my grandmother moved the sunflower poles a little away for my aunt to squat in, and used the sunflower poles to block them, so that there was no one inside at all.
The man didn't look carefully when he came the next day, and went to his aunt's house with his father full of hope.
After Lin Hanmei finished eating with her grandmother and brother at noon, her grandmother took advantage of the lunch break in the tunzi to see that there was no one outside, and took some food and sent it to her aunt. In the afternoon, my brother also picked a handful in the garden and secretly sent it to my aunt. The fruit is small and sweet. Yoyo is green when it is not ripe, and when it is ripe, there are black and yellow, Yoyo is not planted, it grows on its own in the garden or in the ground.
In the afternoon, the man and his father came back from the aunt's house, but they still didn't find the old aunt, the man still didn't give up, and he went straight to the house, but he didn't do anything, so he had to ride a bicycle and go back.
My aunt stayed at Lin Hanmei's house for a few more days. In fact, my aunt is very capable, and she can do all the work in the field and at home. My aunt is a left-hander, but her hands are very skillful, and she can cut the noodles very finely, and Lin Hanmei and her brother love to eat the noodles made by the aunt. My aunt has never learned how to cut clothes, and she will change adult clothes into children's clothes. My aunt washes her clothes very cleanly and works very fast.
After my aunt stayed at Lin Hanmei's house for a few more days, because I was worried that the man would come to find her, my father sent my aunt to my aunt's eldest cousin's house. Because she didn't bring any clothes with her when she left home, my aunt took away a padded jacket that she had left with her grandmother.
The eldest cousin's family and Lin Hanmei's family are in the same province, but not in the same region. It is more than 400 miles north of Lin Hanmei's house.
That man still often comes to Lin Hanmei's house to find his aunt. Sometimes I play the sad card: I say to my grandmother: "Mom, last night my eldest child got up to go to the toilet, and I said it was too cold outside, so you can go inside." I asked him to be by the stove, but when he lifted his butt and stuck it to the stove, it burned a big chunk. Once he played the family card again: while talking to his grandmother, he knelt down for his grandmother and said, "Mom, you just let Fenghua go back with me, I promise to live with her well and never beat her again." Grandma said, "She's not with me, how can I let her go back with you?" ”
Once he said to his grandmother: "Then you take out the padded jacket when we lived in the team for a month and show it to me, I believe that Fenghua has never come back." Lin Hanmei was still nervous enough next to her, because the padded jacket had been taken away by her aunt. Grandma said casually: "Who remembers that you have a padded jacket, where can I find it for you for so long?" ”
Once he came to threaten again, saying: "I will hack this boy from my eldest brother's family to death with an axe one day, and even the two boys from my third sister's family will hack to death with an axe to the boy from my fourth sister's family." My brother happened to be at home on vacation that day, and my brother didn't say anything, but Lin Hanmei was taken aback, thinking that he was really going to hack his brother to death one day. Grandma didn't say to herself, "Then you will be hacked to death one day." Later, when the man left, and when Dad came back from the field, Grandma told Dad that the man was going to hack his brother and the two boys of the third aunt's family and the boy of the fourth aunt's family to death with an axe, and Dad said disdainfully: "He bragged!" ”
The man sometimes said, "I lost Fenghua last time, why did you work so hard to find it, why didn't you look for it this time?" Grandma said, "I found it for you, you are still not having a good time, who always looks for you?" ”