Cai Jianguo and Chen Lianhua, who returned home, looked at the basket full of pig's hair vegetables, both of them were stunned, and Cheng Xiaodong looked at them quite proudly.

"Stinky boy, it's really good!"

Cai Jianguo picked up Cheng Xiaodong and spun around in the air several times, causing Cheng Xiaodong to laugh again and again.

Taking the pig's hairy vegetables into the kitchen, Chen Lianhua looked at Cai Jianguo, Cheng Xiaodong, and Cai Dani playing happily, and also looked at them while cleaning up the pig's hairy vegetables, and their mouths couldn't close their smiles.

After dinner, Cheng Xiaodong sat on the stone mill, staring at the yard of his house, Cai Jianguo took two biscuits and handed them to Cheng Xiaodong.

Cheng Xiaodong took it, but he was not in a hurry to eat, but still looked at his yard.

"Dongzi, what are you looking at?"

Cai Jianguo also followed Cheng Xiaodong's example, sat on the grinding plate, and looked at him along his line of sight.

Cheng Xiaodong turned his face sideways, looked at Cai Jianguo, and thought for a long time before he slowly spoke: "Uncle, I want to turn my yard into a vegetable garden." ”

This sentence made Cai Jianguo stunned, and looked at Cheng Xiaodong and raised his eyebrows.

"Uncle, you see, now we are poor, something is wrong, the food rations at home are gone, and we have to eat wild vegetables, I think since my yard is not lived, then keep the house, and we will change it into a vegetable garden in other places, so that there will be a lot of vegetables to eat?"

Cheng Xiaodong stood up and pointed to the courtyard of his house and said.

"No way!"

Cai Jianguo's face sank, he got down from the grinding plate, and looked at Cheng Xiaodong and said with a serious face.

"Why?"

Cheng Xiaodong looked at Cai Jianguo very incomprehensibly, isn't it a good thing to have more rations to eat.

Cai Jianguo put his hands behind his back, frowned, picked Cheng Xiaodong off the grinding plate, pulled him and walked outside, and led Cheng Xiaodong back to the courtyard of his house.

"This yard is your father's hard work, this cowshed, he went to the mountain to cut down trees to make this pillar in the rain overnight in order to build this cowshed, and when the shed was built, he also fell ill."

When he said this, Cai Jianguo paused, pulled Cheng Xiaodong to the farm tool shed next to him, pointed to the inside and said: "The stones laid in the past few years were brought back from the outside by your father one by one, and his hands were worn out, and he didn't say a word of pain. ”

Hearing Cai Jianguo say this, Cheng Xiaodong's heart was a little uncomfortable, he felt sorry for his father, looking at the yard, he also missed him.

"This yard was built by your father brick by brick, and you can't ruin your father's hard work just for the sake of stuttering, I don't agree."

Cai Jianguo's tone was resolute and tough, and Cheng Xiaodong choked up, with tears in his eyes.

"Uncle, I'm not a glutton, I just thought, since my parents are not there, you and my aunt don't dislike taking me in, I want to reduce your burden in my own way, I don't want to be a drag oil bottle."

"What nonsense are you talking about, if you have a bite to eat from me, you have a bite to eat!"

Cai Jianguo's voice was quite loud, Cheng Xiaodong was startled, and eased his emotions, Cai Jianguo squatted down and touched Cheng Xiaodong's head.

"Dongzi, Uncle is not yelling at you, nor is he angry with you, you must know that although there is no food to eat at home now, it is not because you came, even if you don't come, the family is still in this situation, not to mention that Dongzi also cut so many pig hair vegetables, enough for us to eat for a few days, I know that Dongzi has this heart is enough, this yard, I want to keep it for you, leave a thought, miss your parents, come back and see, you can still remember the time before."

Cai Jianguo's words made Cheng Xiaodong can't help but cry, Cai Jianguo hugged Cheng Xiaodong, and there were tears in his eyes.

Cheng Xiaodong promised Cai Jianguo, he would never have the idea of changing the yard again, lying on the kang at night, he couldn't sleep over and over, and his mind was full of scenes on the slope behind the village.

What is there, it can't be a snake, maybe it's a wolf, or something else that eats people?

Thinking of this, Cheng Xiaodong shrunk his neck, his back was cold, and he quickly wrapped the quilt, and when he heard the movement in the east house, Cheng Xiaodong got up, walked over and knocked on the door.

"Uncle, auntie, haven't you slept?"

The kerosene lamp was on, there was light through the crack in the door, and then there was the sound of going to the ground, Cai Jianguo opened the door and let Cheng Xiaodong in.

"Dongzi, it's late, what's the matter if you don't sleep?"

Chen Lianhua sat on the kang with her clothes on, leaned against the gable, looked at Cheng Xiaodong and asked in a low voice.

Cheng Xiaodong was carried to the kang, looked at Cai Jianguo and paused, and said, "Uncle, when I went to dig pig hair vegetables today, I didn't know what I came across, scurrying around in the barley bushes. ”

Hearing this, Cai Jianguo and Chen Lianhua glanced at each other, hurried over, and asked Cheng Xiaodong about the specific situation.

Listening to Cheng Xiaodong finish the matter, the two of them looked flustered, and the first thing Cai Jianguo said was, don't go to that place again.

"But there are a lot of pork hair vegetables there, enough for us to eat for a long, long time."

Cheng Xiaodong didn't realize the danger yet, and looked at Cai Jianguo and said.

"That's not going to work, you're honestly at home from tomorrow onwards, and you're not allowed to go to that place alone, do you hear?"

Cai Jian's Chinese language was flustered, and he looked at Cheng Xiaodong with a warning and said.

Cheng Xiaodong sighed, he didn't think so in his heart, he felt that there was nothing wrong, since he didn't run out during the day, it must be that thing must be afraid of people, if it is really a wolf, his life may be gone.

"There are a lot of pork hair vegetables there, and it is estimated that it can be eaten for three months, why don't you come with me?"

Cheng Xiaodong didn't say it strongly, he retreated and looked at Cai Jianguo and asked tentatively.

"I told you weren't allowed to go, I'll go myself."

Cai Jianguo pinched Cheng Xiaodong's nose and said.

"Do you know the place?"

…………

Cheng Xiaodong smiled, looked at Cai Jianguo, and raised his eyebrows: "Even if I tell you how to go, you can't find that place, so I go with you, and if something happens, I am not afraid of two men." ”

Cheng Xiaodong patted his chest and raised his chin as he spoke.

Cai Jianguo was worried about it, but when he saw Cheng Xiaodong, a little adult pretending to be a man, he couldn't help laughing.

Chen Lianhua next to her pinched a handful of cold sweat, pulled Cai Jianguo's arm, and asked if it was dangerous there, don't go.

"Dongzi said so many pig hair vegetables, I will go with him again, if there is anything wrong, I will not be greedy, just come back, rest assured, I have tools, so many years of walking in the mountains, nothing has been seen, rest assured."

Cai Jianguo comforted Chen Lianhua, he has followed Cheng Qian and the two of them in the past few years to haunt the deep mountains and old forests, picking mushrooms or cutting branches, he was so anxious just now, he was afraid that Dongzi would make trouble, if he really went by himself, he would not have so many worries.