The small village in the middle of nowhere, nestled in a large area of closely connected mountains, each house is built with a line, built along with the mountain, but it is not connected, scattered among the mountains.

Compared to the village near the cemetery, it is much poorer, the sheep intestine path, thin and tactful, the scrapped taxi can barely pass, the terrain is undulating, and the car jolts three times.

The jagged buildings, some low-rise houses, even Bei Bei had to lower his waist to get in, the dilapidated gatehouse, the even more dilapidated door panels, and the iron plates were warped.

It was perhaps the most down-to-earth place she'd ever seen, and she had never been so close to the land. Mountains are mountains, and there is no difference between this and that, and the black land, with its white snow, chocolate, and milk, is so boring and beautiful. The village was very different these days, and it seemed too simple and casual.

"Girl, you contact your object, this is the twelfth team, where is his house?" The driver spoke, and the car kept driving fast, deep and shallow, and he always complained.

Bei Bei got out of the car, and on the face of the low door next to him, there were big characters written in red lead oil, selling points, and the two words were wrong, and the wrong one was written bigger. If it weren't for the fact that the door was still open, it looked like an abandoned store, she took out her mobile phone, called Peng Cheng, and walked into the store.

Even the snacks are knockoffs that mimic those in the city, and there are no barcodes. Herbal black tea, what the hell is this kind of play. Bei Bei looked at it, and the packaging was the same as iced tea, but with a different word. She was so thirsty that she bought two bottles, came out to give one to the driver, unscrewed it and took a sip, none of which tasted like iced tea.

After crossing a small bridge and turning two more corners, I arrived at Peng Cheng's house, which was poked into the village closest to the mountain, like a distant view on an oil painting, the lonely three houses.

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The three-room house, the highest one at the back, must have been many years old, and the façade was so low, the color of the soil that had been dried up, like a matchbox. The walls on all four sides were the same as those of the houses I had just seen, all gray-black adobe, and on the eaves hung a row of bud sticks, which were becoming more and more dehydrated from the sun and more dazzling yellow, like the scene used in a photo studio.

The two houses side by side in front are new and beautiful, probably the prettiest in the village, with pure white tiles on the outside. There is a large dirt slope in front of the door, which is extremely steep, leading directly to the dirt road below.

The taxi drove slowly, and the old guy didn't have the strength to drive up the dirt slope. Peng Cheng stood at the edge of the intersection, he leaned against the mountain, the snow-capped mountain reflected his delicate appearance in a coat, and this village, this mountain was incompatible.

The gauze on the young man's face has been removed, and everything that was originally stuffed in his nose has been taken out, but I don't know why, Bei Bei still feels weird when he looks at him, like two overlapping faces, there are always some differences, but no one else can see it. Peng Cheng said that it would take a while to remove the meat line, so his mouth was still a little swollen, but he looked much better, and his already delicate little face seemed to be really invulnerable now.

When he saw Beibei's car coming, he involuntarily leaned forward, his eyes sparkling, but he didn't dare to laugh very much. Bei Bei sat in the co-pilot, the transparent windshield, they looked at each other, she looked at him in a daze, he almost burst into tears.

He walked eagerly towards her, stumbling on his feet, and she hurriedly stopped the car.

Peng Cheng pulled the car door and said, "Daughter-in-law, you're here." He diligently led Bei Bei out of the car, looked back at the people behind him, the strange woman in the hospital, and the other people who were even stranger, he couldn't hold back his smile, he was not proud, but he couldn't say a word.

Bei Bei was a little embarrassed, she didn't know any of those people, she looked at him, he just looked at her beautifully, noncommittal, as if she came, everything was fine, everything was fine.

"Well, there's something in the trunk of the car. She said timidly.

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"Babe, you're sitting. ”

The short woman suddenly came into the house, muttered a word and went out again, roughly this is what it meant, Bei Bei didn't hear too clearly, and didn't have time to respond in a hurry, and the woman went out. She sat on the kang, the kang burned so hot, she was coaxed warm when she sat up, she glanced at Peng Cheng, he looked at her silently with joy, and she was even more overwhelmed.

This is one of the two white houses in front, Peng Cheng took off his shoes and got on the kang, he took a cloth mat, covered Beibei's feet, held it with both hands, and raised a smile to face her: "Daughter-in-law, are you cold?"

"It's not cold, it's okay, it's just that it's been delayed for too long. Bei Bei also tucked her hand under the mat, feeling the pain between her fingers ease a little.

"What do you want to eat, Beibei?" Coincidentally, the short woman came in again, and she took a bamboo dustpan, a delicate little dustpan, smaller than the ones Bei Bei had seen before, and it was full of walnuts and hazelnuts. The woman lowered her head and muttered in her mouth, saying that walnuts don't know if they are good or not, so let Bei Bei taste them and pick them up to eat.

"Daughter-in-law, don't you like walnuts?" Peng Cheng said, moved the dustpan over, put it in front of the girl's eyes, thought about it, and complained: "I didn't buy tongs!" He frowned slightly.

"Daughter-in-law, you eat hazelnuts first, and I'll go out and smash them for you. He grabbed a handful and stepped off the kang in one step.

"Don't, be, don't ......" can't stop him.

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This house must be a house for a small couple, and now only Bei Bei is left, and the hazelnuts are still good, not like this country thing, big and fragrant. On the wall on the right, there is a photo of the young couple, a wedding photo, the woman is pretentiously scratching her head, obviously getting married for the first time, and she is very unfamiliar.

"Daughter-in-law, you taste it. In a blink of an eye, Peng Cheng came back with walnut kernels, he climbed onto the kang, knelt and moved in, holding walnuts in both hands, and held them up in front of the girl's eyes, those walnut kernels that had been broken were lying properly in his hand socket, and he licked his lips.

"Why don't you eat it!" Bei Bei took one and put it in her mouth, there was a click, crisp, her bright eyes were full of joy, in the end, it was delicious, but it was far inferior to his handful of hearts.

"I'll buy it for you when I eat it, and no one in this family eats walnuts. Peng Cheng saw that she loved to eat, and smiled even more proudly.

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"Why don't they come in, who is that woman?" Bei Bei leaned on the window, looking at the people who were busy outside the window, the young woman in the flower cotton jacket, leading a child with a high tank, standing in front of the new house, she was the woman in the wedding photo, the same skinny girl, the flower cotton jacket seemed to be hanging on her life jacket, and it didn't fit well.

Peng Cheng pointed to the photo on the wall: "This house is her house, and the man is my brother." ”

There was a gray-necked duck in the wooden cage in the northwest corner, and a tall, emaciated man was pulling something out of the cage, and he was crouching there, just a big back.

"Then the older man is your father!"

He is still a lean old man, he is slumped, and the family is very thin. The old man walked through the middle of a pile of wooden squares with his hands behind his back, and he did not enter the house, nor did he say anything, as if there was no one around. The sound of scooping water in the outhouse startled Beibei, and she hurriedly sat down on the kang again.

"Well, I just brought in walnuts, that's my mother. Peng Cheng said very easily, but he stared at her eyes tightly, kneeling on the kang, the muscles of his arms were stiff, he was so nervous that he refused to relax, Xu was afraid that with this sentence, he would really lose the girl in front of him.

Beibei's pupils really dilated: "Ah, are you your own child, but you are not like them!" The girl tried her best to cover up another shock with one kind of shock, which shocked her even more, and she couldn't calm down in her heart. The little woman didn't look like a cosmetics seller at all, she was like a countryman from the mountains next to the vegetable market, who came from the mountains to sell Goubao pickles.

"I don't know. Peng Cheng stretched out his hand and scratched his head, thought about it, and smiled himself.

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Bei Bei was confused by this sudden mother, although she didn't say it, she was suspicious in her heart. She never thought that Peng Cheng's mother would be such a person, they are too different, whether it is appearance or personality, in her head, she thinks that Peng Cheng's mother is generally a charming woman wearing a floral shirt that tightens her body, drawing her eyebrows and eyes.

The short woman also seemed embarrassed, and her accent was vague, as if she couldn't understand something in her mouth, and she came in again, and brought in some fruit, and only said, "Babe sits, you sit, you eat." She avoided Beibei's gaze back and forth, as if she was a child daughter-in-law who raised Peng Cheng since she was a child, looking at her man, and finding a learned and capable young female soldier from outside the mountain, timid and restrained.

The girl's gaze seemed to be a great test for the family, and Peng Cheng's sister-in-law never entered the house. The man in front of the duck cage was really Peng Cheng's brother, he said that his brother's name was Zhang Chao, a dark, lean peasant, and he was very old. In terms of age, he is two years younger than Beibei, but he has a good face.

Peng Cheng's little slap face is so delicate, but that person is by no means like Peng Cheng's brother, to the point that he is a slightly stupid uncle who goes to the field to farm.

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"Daughter-in-law, that's the monkey I told you. ”

I don't know when the child ran out, he ran back again, ran into the house, pushed the door and saw Beibei, raised his eyelids and looked at her embarrassedly, the little eyes, very shy, Peng Cheng smiled from ear to ear, he deliberately looked at Beibei, saw that the girl also smiled, he beckoned the child to come over.

"Young man!" Peng Cheng frightened the child, and his face turned cold: "Come here, come and see the second aunt." He was about to say this, sneaking a glimpse into the girl's reaction. No matter how much he called, the child only glanced down at Beibei, and did not call anyone, nor did he take a step forward.

"Why are you so cowardly, what did you tell me just now, what did you say about it?"

Hearing Peng Cheng teach him like this, the child lowered his head embarrassedly, he pursed his lips and smiled, shook his head, and agreed with Peng Cheng not to speak again, and turned around to run.

"Where have you been?" Peng Cheng grabbed him by the collar, pulled the little boy over, and pulled it onto the kang.

The child struggled and called: "The old aunt and my third uncle are here, as well as the second aunt and the third aunt." ”

"Don't talk about those, who are you talking to?

"Second aunt, second aunt......" The child hurriedly shouted, Bei Bei hugged him, and as soon as he let go, he really jumped to the ground like a monkey, went to the sofa and sat down, lowered his head, his face was flushed, and he didn't come close again.

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"After a while, my aunt came over, and my aunt. ”

Peng Cheng looked at Bei Bei with a smile, he looked very happy, and Bei Bei also looked at him with a smile. Maybe she doesn't know what Peng Cheng means when he says his aunt is here.

Those people came to see the new daughter-in-law, to see what this different child could bring back. She laughed, but she didn't understand, it didn't just mean politeness, she simply thought it was just a smile, and even Peng Cheng didn't understand.

The sister-in-law in the padded jacket entered the house, and when she entered the house for the first time, she seemed reluctant, and she ignored her and said, "Beibei, you sit, you sit." ”

The sister-in-law had a cold face, forced out a smile, and smiled fakely, she only prevaricated Beibei, then turned her head and spoke to Peng Cheng again: "Er'er! My second aunt is here, my aunt, and my third aunt." She raised her eyebrows and nodded, and between her uncle and sister-in-law, it seemed that the meaning was clear, and she hurriedly went out, and when she was leaving, she took the little boy down and took him out.

All this made the girl on the kang look like a fool, and she was always a little strange and ignorant when she first arrived.

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After a while, there were more people in the room, as if in an instant, those old ladies who didn't know who it was, all with their voices high, had just walked up the dirt slope below, and the sound was blown into the house. Sitting high and low from the kang to the sofa next to her, so many people, sitting in a large area, Bei Bei felt like a peacock with a flower tail in the park, they were all looking at her, very rare.

Those people seem to look exactly the same, Peng Cheng said that she is called Auntie, she is also called Auntie, and when she says that she is called Second Aunt, she is also called Second Aunt, and when she looks back, she can't tell which one is the old aunt and which one is the second aunt.

Most of them have bloated bodies, thin arms and legs, round bellies, and dark faces, and shiny cheekbones, except for Peng Cheng's cousin, the only young man in this group of old women, who is not as similar as them.

My cousin was tall and strong, like a young mule, with thick shoulders and broad shoulders, and was generally engaged in the heavy physical work of the upper limbs, and the muscles in his arms were unusually developed, like the extra piece of sausage, and the man was squeezed out of shape, and did not match the two legs well.

As soon as he entered the house, he sat on the edge of the kang, eating melon seeds with his head bored, and his back to the girl in the kang, he was very shy, after all, it was his sister-in-law. There are so many people, only he didn't look at Bei Bei carefully without a smile, his head was so low, so low that he couldn't see any head from behind, as if there was only one body poked on the edge of the kang.

After a long time, he swallowed a large handful of melon seed skins and held them in his hands, and suddenly, he turned his head from the gap between the two women and said to Beibei: "Second sister-in-law, my second brother told me that you can drink three bowls of mutton soup." ”

Bei Bei swallowed a mouthful of spit, her eyes widened, she glanced at Peng Cheng as if asking for help, and smiled awkwardly when she saw that he looked indifferent. She just heard the little monkey tell the second aunt to be less uncomfortable, and she was not very used to the title of second sister-in-law, the girl's standard smile froze on the side of her mouth, and she felt that her throat was hot and unbearable.

"Really!" The cousin seemed to be surprised, pushed and shoved and ran into the kang: "I still count my second brother to meet me! Generally, how can a little girl drink three bowls, then the second sister-in-law, you can really drink." "My cousin told the truth very clearly, so straightforward that there was nowhere to hide the shame in people's hearts, and Beibei's face turned red all of a sudden.

"Oh, by the way, second sister-in-law, my second brother said that you are old. He threw the melon seeds whole into his mouth, made a clicking sound, and then spit out the peel of the melon seeds, he shook his huge brain, his hair was like a nail nailed to the scalp, it looked black and hard, and his eyes were squeezed with laughter: "He said that for you, he would rather go and dig out the dung, and he made me sick." ”