Yang Xinghe's wife was sitting on the stone platform at the gate to choose vegetables, and saw Er Miao coming over from a distance, she shouted: "Er Miao! Big niece, come, sit down for a while! ”

Yang Xing and his wife are called Ding Guilian, in their 50s, their hair has turned gray, and they have combed a bun at the back of their heads, she is thin, her skin is yellow and dark, and her face is already full of wrinkles.

"Pick the vegetables, Auntie." Ermiao took a few steps and sat down next to her: "Eat beans next night." ”

"Yes, this time is the time to eat beans, your uncle likes to eat this, he grows a lot every year, this thing may be finished, and he will be old if he picks it a day late, so he has to eat it quickly." Ding Guilian's subordinates didn't stop, tilted their heads and glanced at Er Miao: "What are you doing here?" ”

"If you don't want to go, it's from my aunt." Er Miao handed the dim sum in his hand to Ding Guilian: "I went to my sister's place a few days ago, I will leave a copy of the dim sum given by my sister, and take a few of the rest for my aunt to taste, aunt, don't be too little." ”

"Oh yo, how do you say this, look at your eldest niece, you still think about your aunt when you have delicious food." Ding Guilian's eyes lit up with joy, and she was busy putting down the vegetable basket in her hand, Er Miao took it and put the snack in Ding Guilian's hand.

Er Miao then chose the dishes, but Ding Guilian didn't open the paper bag in a hurry, and smelled it through the paper first: "It's really fragrant, a sweet fragrance, what is delicious?" ”

Er Miao smiled slightly: "It's not anything delicious, just a few peach cakes." ”

"Isn't the peach cake delicious? This snack is not cheap, it sells for a few cents a pound in the city, so I'll try it first. Ding Guilian untied the string on the paper bag, carefully opened the bag, broke off a small piece and put it in her mouth, the golden dim sum was crispy in her mouth, and after eating, she suddenly felt that her teeth and cheeks were fragrant, and her mouth was full of relish, she smacked her lips: "Tut, it's delicious, the dim sum in this big city is better than ours in this small place, our peach crisp here is hard and pouty, and it is hard to bite it." After speaking, he didn't continue to break the dim sum and eat, but reluctantly wrapped the peach cake again, and didn't forget to explain to Ermiao: "This has to be kept for my grandson, just taste it at my age." ”

The sugar-coated cannonball was sent out, Er Miao's heart was a little relieved, and he pursed his lips and paused before saying: "Auntie, I just went back that day, I met my uncle on the road, and I heard my uncle say that whose child was lost?" ”

Ding Guilian usually likes to gossip the most, and she likes to talk to everyone about any new news, but this question asked by Er Miao is the latest topic in the past two days, she immediately refreshed herself and said: "My mother, eldest niece, I don't know if you are not at home in the past two days, but it's amazing, we have human traffickers here, and there is a child lost in the family courtyard of the unit on the railway." A few days ago, there were several people in our village, and for several days, the public security also came, all holding a photo of a little girl and asking from door to door. After Ding Guilian finished speaking, she pointed to the missing person notice posted on the wall and said: "Just the little girl on it, I saw it, the little girl is that handsome, it's a pity, it's just lost, the child's father and mother don't know how to pluck the heart and liver." ”

Er Miao didn't notice that there was also a missing person notice posted on the wall in this village, Ding Guilian pointed like this, she looked up and looked up, and immediately felt uncomfortable, where is this missing person notice, this is clearly a pair of accusatory eyes are full of resentment and pierced her heart.

Er Miao's heart was empty, and he didn't dare to raise his eyes anymore, but pretended to have just heard about it: "Auntie, when is this?" ”

"When will it be, I have to think about it." Ding Guilian thought for a while and said: "On that day, you went home with something, and I greeted you the next day when you ignored me." ”

Ermiao's heart first "chuckled", and then jumped up "suddenly", and sweat also "brushed" out of his body, it turned out that he really saw it! Her hands began to shake uncontrollably, so frightened that she quickly put her hands behind the basket and sandwiched them between her legs. Her mind was spinning rapidly, and she waited for her heart to calm down a little before saying: "I said how do I feel someone calling me, I thought I heard it wrong, I was in a hurry to go to my sister's house that day, to catch the train at 4 o'clock, my sister had already written to say that she wanted to eat sweet potatoes from her hometown, so I hurriedly went to the market to buy a big bag of sweet potatoes and brought them back." The lie began, the more Er Miao spoke, the smoother it became, in order to increase credibility, she also added all the words that Da Miao had said: "My sister said, I like to eat sweet potatoes in my hometown, sweet noodles and sweet noodles, it tastes like boiled chestnuts, we are poor, and we can't afford to bring good things, that is, this native sweet potato." After Er Miao finished speaking, he stared at Ding Guilian with a sincere face.

Ding Guilian did not doubt him: "I said, I saw you go home with something that day, and you ignored me when I called you, it turned out that I was in a hurry to go to your sister's house, Da Miao is a good child, this is not forgetting the roots, I heard your uncle say, when you come back, your sister packed a bunch of things for you." ”

"Yes, my sister took pity on me for having a hard time, and packed six burdens, thanks to meeting my uncle to help me carry it that day, otherwise I don't know when I can come back." Er Miao had been secretly observing Ding Guilian's expression, and when she saw that she was not unusual, she said again: "By the way, aunt, my sister brought me some old clothes, all of them belong to her and my brother-in-law, if you don't like it, go pick two." ”

"That's a good feeling, it's good to have some of our Zhuang households, how can you still be suspicious, I'll take the time to go to your house when I'm clear." Speaking of this, Ding Guilian looked at the sky, only to see that the sunset had long disappeared, leaving only a piece of afterglow to reflect the western sky red, seeing that the sky was about to darken, she hurriedly got up: "Oh, it's all like this, my aunt has to go home to cook, delay your uncle's dinner, and your uncle has to lose his temper again." ”

Er Miao handed her the vegetable basket: "Then you have to hurry, auntie, I'll go home first." ”

"Let's eat at my aunt's place in a while." Ding Guilian put the dim sum in the vegetable basket and picked it up.

Ermiao's legs were still a little weak, and she barely stood up with her hands holding the stone platform: "No, Auntie, I also have to go home to cook, don't forget to come to my house tomorrow." ”

Er Miao forced his weak body to float home, and the first thing he did was to take a good rest on the bed to stabilize his mind. The second thing is to pick out the good materials in the old clothes given by Da Miao first, and put the rest of the ones that he and his parents can't wear, and wait for Ding Guilian to come home tomorrow to pick them up.

It's sickle! Early in the morning, the iron bell under the big locust tree at the head of the village sounded a series of "bells and bells", and all families gathered on the threshing floor for a short meeting, and the captain cleared his throat and made a simple speech: "Folks, I see that the crops are almost ripe, today we will have a small meeting during the three summers to grab the harvest and grab the seeds, in fact, the big guys are the old masters of planting crops, when to harvest and when to plant, have their own set of regulations, this year is the first harvest year of the package production to the household, and the original time to earn labor is different, After the harvest of grain is handed over to their own family, this year, I paid attention to observed, the enthusiasm of the villagers is very high, the original lazy skin hurts, hit a stick to move, this year also know to pounce, take the initiative to work in the field, this is a good thing, there is a saying that is good called 'pay will be rewarded', there is a local saying called 'people are not lazy', I will not say much, I wish the big guys are a bumper harvest, as soon as possible to complete our village to pay the public grain task. ”

After the meeting, everyone went home to get tools, and then rushed to their own wheat fields.

Ermiao's family was walking on the road following the big guy, and suddenly saw a woman on the side of the road holding a piece of paper and asked, her footsteps were suddenly paused, suspecting that the child's family was inquiring about the child's whereabouts, she wanted to turn her head and run, but she didn't dare to be so ostentatious, if she really ran, it wasn't three hundred taels of silver here, and it was plain to attract suspicion?

Ermiao stubbornly walked up to the woman, and sure enough, she was indeed looking for the child.

There were many people on the road today, Wang Ying was full of hope to inquire one by one, but he didn't expect that the person who asked either waved his hand or shook his head, Wang Ying was not discouraged, and still asked when he saw people. Er Miao walked up to Wang Ying, looked at Wang Ying a few more times with a weak heart, Wang Ying felt it, could it be that this person has some clues? She grabbed Er Miao's sleeve and handed the missing person notice to Er Miao: "Eldest sister, eldest sister, take a look, have you ever seen this child here?" ”

"Nope! No! Er Miao was so frightened that she struggled and pulled her sleeve out of Wang Ying's hand.

"Really? You take a closer look. Wang Ying didn't give up, and handed it forward again.

"Really, I went to my relatives, and I haven't seen any children in the first few days since I came back." Er Miao said in his mouth, but his footsteps did not stop, and he seemed to run away.

Wang Ying looked at Er Miao's back in disappointment, but didn't think much about it, and still persistently continued to consult everyone who walked by him.

Er Miao walked out of a distance, secretly glanced at Wang Ying behind her with her eyes, and asked when she saw that Wang Ying was still seeing people, her whole body fluttered, and she didn't pay attention to her feet, and she stepped on the edge of the ditch and fell into the dry ditch on the side of the road with a grunt.