The black clouds in the sky for a long time, watching the dark clouds in the sky more and more thick, heavy like a mountain to press down, lightning like a silver snake dancing wildly interspersed from time to time, rumbling thunder in the sky like a burst of roar, look at this posture this rain must not be small.

It's not June, so why is it still changing? In the morning, the breeze was still light, but by this time it had become more and more intense, as if it had turned into a violent wind, and in an instant the sand and rocks were flying, and the sky was dark. The branches of the trees swayed wildly in the wind, and the small trees that were weak were overwhelmed by the strong wind, and their waists bent towards the earth, as if they were about to break in the next moment.

It stands to reason that in such weather, if you can try not to go out, there is such a family, two adults with children in this strong wind.

Wang Youyuan and Xiuzhi gave birth to a total of six children, four boys and two girls, the eldest son Wang Shanfeng is fourteen years old this year, and the eldest daughter Wang Yueya is also ten years old.

At this moment, Wang Youyuan held the handle of the wheelbarrow tightly, pedaled hard under his feet, tilted his head, squinted his eyes and pushed forward step by step, Wang Shanfeng stood on the right side of the wheelbarrow, holding the family on the cart with his left hand, and helping his father push hard with his right hand. Xiuzhi was afraid that one of the children would be blown away by the wind, so she was so frightened that she beckoned several children and tightened the children's hands. The wind contains a lot of sand and dust, and the face is painful, and the eyes cannot be opened, and the family squints, covers the face with their hands, and has to bend slightly to compete with the strong wind.

Eventually, the clouds could no longer bear the moisture in the clouds, and poured the rain down.

Wang Youyuan and his family staggered with their children, hurried slowly, and fortunately rushed into the earthen temple when the rain just came down. Outside the temple, heavy rain was falling, and a rain curtain was formed on the eaves after a while.

Wang Youyuan's figure is long but not strong, years of smoke corrosion, so that his already tall posture has become slightly curved, the angular slender face has a high nose bridge in the middle, the whole person is full of polite temperament, only in his thirties, in order to avoid the national army to catch the laborers digging fortifications, but he dressed himself as old and weak, a strand of long hair hung on the chin, and he must go out with a cane, don't say, this image really frightened the national army who arrested the laborers several times, and every time he arrested someone, he walked in front of him and turned a blind eye.

At this moment, he was gasping for breath, sitting on the hay nest left by an unknown pedestrian in the corner of the wall, leaning against the wall and looking around, only to see a clay fairy draped in a tattered red cloth, his hands folded on his chest, smiling and sitting on the altar, looking at the people under the seat with half-closed eyes compassionately. I don't know what kind of god it is, the oil paint on the face has been mottled, and it is a little terrifying under the light of lightning, the ash on the incense table in front of the altar is one finger thick, and there is no incense in an incense burner for a long time, only the gray and white incense ash is piled up with the incense burner, it can be seen that the incense of this small temple is still in its heyday for a while.

Wang Youyuan looked at the altar and thought regretfully: Why didn't he even have any sacrifices.

Li Xiuzhi was busy checking the child, the peaks, the moon buds, the moon e, the mountains, the mountains, where did the mountains and rivers go? I didn't look at the sixth person who was in a hurry, and shouted to the peak: "Boss, where is the little six?" ”

When Wang Shanfeng heard this, he quickly put down his hand to pack his luggage, looked at it like his mother, and smiled: "Mother, aren't you carrying it on your back, Xiaoliu." ”

Li Xiuzhi suddenly realized, and said while untying Xiaoliu: "I really rode a donkey to find a donkey, and I forgot about it in a hurry." ”

Slowly, Wang Youyuan rested, snot and tears began to flow out, and he started to fight one after another, he was in a hurry just now, and he forgot everything in a hurry, this will be a little better, and the addiction to smoking is committed again.

Wang Youyuan blew his nose, rubbed his face with his hand, and shouted: "Hurry up and unload the pot to cook, I'm starving to death." ”

When Li Xiuzhi saw her husband like this, she knew that he was addicted to smoking again, so she didn't dare to make a noise, so she hurriedly greeted the child: "Shanfeng, Dani, and Ernima, hurry up and unload the pot." ”

"Hey!" The three children unpacked their luggage, and Shanfeng picked up a few rocks to build a simple stove and sit on the pot.

"Mother, what are we going to eat." Dani rummaged through the grain bag, trembled and said to her mother: "We have no food at all, we are digging wild vegetables and eating all the way, and now it is raining, and we can't dig wild vegetables." ”

Li Xiuzhi cautiously glanced at Wang Youyuan, and said, "Dad, look, we don't have anything to eat, or when the rain stops, I'll take the children to dig wild vegetables?" ”

Wang Youyuan's temper was good before he smoked a lot, but since he became addicted to smoking, his temper has also become irritable, and he will do it if he has a verbal discord, because he persuaded Wang Youyuan to quit smoking, Li Xiuzhi was beaten up and did not block it, and the property accumulated by a good family of Chinese medicine has been lost, this is good! has no money to smoke a lot, and Wang Youyuan can only endure it if he becomes addicted to cigarettes again.

Wang Youyuan was addicted to cigarettes, and he was angry, and shouted: "Wait for the rain to stop, who knows when the rain will stop, now the fields are full of crops, and they are almost ripe, let Dani and Erni go and break some points, it rains so hard, and no one is watching." ”

Li Xiuzhi looked at the pouring rain outside the temple, and said worriedly: "Dad, look at the thunder and lightning outside, how can the child go out." ”

"Where are you going? Walking, do you still have to take a sedan chair! Wang You shouted angrily at the child: "Dani and Erni hurriedly took the cloth bag to break some sticks and came back with a few pumpkins." ”

Yueya and Yue'e looked out at the door frame, and Yue'e retracted her head and said to Wang Youyuan: "Dad, I'm afraid, wait for the rain to be a little bit lower before you go." ”

Wang Youyuan got up, walked to the door, and said, "Still waiting for the rain to lighten up?" Girl, delicate you! As he spoke, he stretched out his foot and kicked at Yue'e.

Yue'e was looking out of the temple, caught off guard, and rolled down the steps with a grunt.

"Wow...... Mother. When Yueya saw her sister being kicked out, she was so frightened that she quickly ran to the bottom of the steps, hugged her sister and cried.

Yue'e sat at the foot of the steps in a daze, the heavy rain poured down her head and face, fortunately she was not injured, and her sister hugged her and cried.

Xiuzhi was very distressed when she saw that Wang Youyuan kicked the child out, and ran out with her, lest the child be broken, and trembling while crying and touching the child's head and body: ", Erni is only eight years old, how can I do it to my child." ”

The rain was heavier, and it hit his face straight like this, the rain and tears were together, and in the hazy eyes of tears, Yue'e looked at her mother stupidly, and her heart was even more desolate: How could I have such a father.

He gritted his teeth and said to his mother: "Mother, don't cry, get me a cloth bag, I'll go to the field and go around, or my father will go crazy again after a while." ”

At this time, Shanfeng came over with a cloth bag, looked at his mother and sister, and said, "Mother, you take my sister back, and I will go to the field to have a look." ”

"I'd better go." Yue'e came up vigorously, and at this time she was determined to stay away from her father, even if it rained heavily, she was not afraid, she just wanted to stay away from that father, and never look at him again.

Shanfeng knew that this sister had always been stubborn, and arranged for his mother: "Mother, you hurry up and go in with Yueya, the fourth, fifth, and sixth are still waiting to be taken care of, Yueya, you see that there is still firewood in the temple, make a fire and bake clothes with Niang, and I will go with Yue'e." ”

Yue'e washed her face with the rain, wiped away the tears welling up in her eyes, grabbed her brother's hand and stood up, and rushed into the rain and fog first.

"Second sister!" Shanfeng shouted at Yue'e's back, and seeing that Yue'e didn't respond to him, he hurriedly chased him out.

The wind swept the rain and whipped Yue'e's thin body, and the big drops of rain poured down like a waterfall splitting her head and covering her face, and she couldn't open her eyes when she was impacted, and her clothes were already soaked and stuck to her body like this, and the wind blew cold and made people shiver. How old is Yue'e in the end, and he caught up with Yue'e in a few steps with his height and legs, he tightened his sister's hand, motioned for Yue'e to walk behind him, and tried to use his not strong body to help his sister block the wind and rain.

Wang Youyuan was lying in the hay nest, sleepiness hit, and gradually fell asleep.

A fire rose from the moon buds, and after a while the smoke of firewood and grass rose, and although the door of the temple was wide open, the smoke still filled the entire hall.

Between breaths, Wang Youyuan, who smelled the smell of smoke, did not feel choked, but let him taste the aroma of a little smoke, in the dream he was staying with He Mengyao at the moment, He Mengyao handed him the lit cigarette gun, and a seductive smile appeared on his face again: "Brother Youyuan, smoke one, it's fragrant." ”

Wang Youyuan resisted in his heart, knowing that he couldn't suck anymore, but his hand couldn't control it and stretched out to pick up the smoking gun, just in his hand, the picture instantly became the scene before his father's death, the dying old father grabbed Wang Youyuan's hand tightly, and muttered: "Da Yuan, Da Yuan, you can't suck it anymore, if you suck it again, your family will be ruined, and you can't smoke it anymore." ”

Wang Youyuan was heartbroken, tears flowed down his face, and he buried his head in his father's palm and cursed and swore an oath: "Dad, I will never suck again, I quit, if I suck again, I will not be a person!" ”

Wang Youyuan woke up suddenly, in the smoke, Xiuzhi was taking care of the youngest son, the eldest daughter was sitting by the fire and baking clothes, and the two younger sons were buried in their heads and didn't know what to play.

Wang Youyuan's eyes were dull, his eyes were scattered and staring at the front motionless, but his thoughts had drifted away, returning to the time when he first met He Mengyao.

He Mengyao reclined on the chair, took a puff of smoke from the mouth of the cigarette pouch, the smoke entered his lungs, and he exhaled for a long time, his eyes were blurred as if he was muttering to himself, and said to Wang Youyuan, who was sitting next to him: "Comfortable, Brother Youyuan, why don't you take a sip?" Take a sip! You don't know how comfortable it is, it's like floating in the clouds, you can see what you want. ”

Wang Youyuan pursed his mouth and sneered: "You pull it down, won't it become a panacea?" I want gold ingots, can I drop a bunch of gold ingots in front of me? The elixir doesn't have this effect. ”

"Don't believe it! You know that Big Smoke also has a name ***, listen! Listening to the name is a good thing, smoking this thing can increase blessings and longevity, and besides, this thing can only be smoked by people with status, which is a symbol of status! There are a few mud legs that can smoke a lot, such as Brother Youyuan, you and those mud legs are not of the same grade, right, why don't you try one? He Mengyao handed the mouth of the cigarette pouch to Wang Youyuan's mouth.

Wang Youyuan's head was slightly off, and he flashed the cigarette holder: "There are still people with status to smoke, do Wei landlords smoke it?" You are a housekeeper with him, you know best, why haven't I seen Landlord Wei smoking a big cigarette? I don't smoke, I don't have any money, my family's money is in my father's hands, give me some pocket money a month, and I want to buy some snacks for my children to eat. ”

"Can my lord's house not smoke! Not only did he smoke it, but his wife and aunt also smoked it, and you said you hadn't seen it, and you could see it when they smoked? When my lord's house smokes, they are lying on the couch, and the maid and wife are waiting, just thinking about that scene, tsk, it is the days of the gods. He Mengyao showed disdain, and squinted at Wang Youyuan with disdain: "Let's talk about you, you have been a Langzhong for so many years, and all the money you earn is handed over to your father, like a child who has not grown up, and he can't be the master of the house at all." ”

Wang Youyuan frowned and shouted, "What's wrong with my father?" My dad is just me, and the money he saved will not be mine in the future! ”

Hearing Wang Youyuan say this, He Mengyao's heart twitched as if his property had been seized by the Wang family. Wang Youyuan's family has practiced medicine for generations, and opened a Renxintang pharmacy in the county town ten kilometers away from the village. The huge courtyard of the Wang family in the village, as well as the pharmacy in Cao County, he has been red for a long time, and he has been dreaming about how to draw all Wang Youyuan's family wealth into his name, but the Wang family is also a prestigious family in the village, and it is impossible to find an excuse to rob it, and it took a long time to think of the good idea of letting this Wang Youyuan become addicted to smoking.