Wang Youyuan lowered his head, hugged his knees with both hands, and did not take the mountains and rivers.

"Mother, give it to me." Yueya took Shanhe and gently touched Shanhe's cheek with her lips.

Under the moonlight, the original white and tender little face before the illness became charred and dull, and the little arms were limp and drooping. The breath that had been there was also disappeared.

Yueya's heart tightened violently: "Mother, look at Xiaoliu!" Then he lowered his head, put his ear on Xiao Liu's chest, and listened intently to the heartbeat of the mountains and rivers: "Mother, why can't I hear Xiao Liu's heartbeat?" ”

"I'll see!" Xiuzhi hurriedly put her fingers under Shanhe's nose and quietly felt Shanhe's breathing.

In the middle of the sound, Xiuzhi rushed at Wang Youyuan like crazy, and beat her head and face: "I blame you, it's all you, you return my son, you return my son!." ”

Wang Youyuan sat with his head down numbly, did not resist, and let Xiuzhi beat.

Xiuzhi was tired, sat on the ground with her buttocks, patted her thighs with both hands, and wailed: "My good boy, my poor six, why are you ruthless and don't want your mother, you are picking your mother's heart, my life is hard....."

Shanfeng and Yue'e also hurriedly walked to Yueya's side and grabbed Shanhe's little hand: "Sister, what's wrong with my brother?" ”

Yueya cried whining: "Xiaoliu is gone, wow... My brother is gone. ”

"No, why is it gone, aren't you holding it?" Yue'e said suspiciously.

"Xiaoliu is dead, second sister, Xiaoliu will never call our sister again, wow... Brother. ”

The cry woke up the sleeping Shanling and Shanzhuang on the kang, and the two climbed down the kang and looked at the five people crying outside, and they were also frightened and cried.

The crowing of the rooster rang out with each other, and before I knew it, the sky was white, the sun had not yet risen, and in the distant sky, the morning star was staring at the family alone.

Crying hoarsely, Xiuzhi sat on the ground tiredly, her messy hair scattered on her face. Yueya hugged the mountains and rivers that had dissipated their body temperature and snuggled up with her brother and sister.

"Get up, we have to hurry." Wang Youyuan first broke the dull atmosphere and spoke.

Xiuzhi was sluggish and let the mountain peak help him up, took the mountains and rivers, returned to the house and put it on the earthen kang, took out a cloth towel, went out and poured half a basin of water, wet the cloth towel, gently scrubbed the mountains and rivers, and muttered in her mouth: "Mother wash the six white, look at my son's brain, he must be very smart when he grows up, my mother is waiting for my son to go to school and become a big official." ”

Then his hand brushed the nose of the mountains and rivers: "My son's nose is really good, like your father, tall and straight, the nose is not with the mother, the mother's nose is not good-looking, my son grows up and I don't know how to charm a few little girls, my mother can tell you well, you can't be attentive when you grow up, you must be single-minded to others, and you can't bully others." ”

The cloth towel wiped the face of the mountains and rivers again: "Mother, these two dimples are with you, your brothers and sisters don't have them, and the little mouth looks like a mother, woo..... My son! Why are you so unlucky, your father said that he will give you good treatment as soon as he arrives in Shangqiu, why can't he stick to Shangqiu? ”

Xiuzhi fell on Shanhe's body and cried for a while, then cleaned up Shanhe's body, found Shanhe's best clothes from the baggage, put them on and hugged them.

Outside the house, Wang Youyuan had already packed up his luggage and tied it to the wheelbarrow with his children, and Shanling and Shanzhuang were also sitting on both sides of the car.

"Mother, I'll hug it." Yueya stretched out her hand to take the mountains and rivers.

"Mother, hold it, you just take your brother well." Xiuzhi walked past Yueya on one side and took the lead out of the courtyard. Wang Youyuan led the child and followed Xiuzhi without saying a word in the cart, and the family hurried away silently.

6. Burial

The morning sun gradually dyed the sky red, and slowly climbed overhead, the scorching heat began to sway, and the family walked near a small stream.

Wang Youyuan put down the wheelbarrow, lifted his front placket and wiped his sweat, looked around, and shouted at Xiuzhi: "Damn, it's okay, let's do it here." ”

Xiuzhi, who was walking numbly, suddenly stopped when she heard the shouting.

"Damn, I think this place is very good, with a small hillside at its back, and water in front of it, it is a good land according to feng shui, I think, just here."

Xiuzhi looked up at Shino as if awakened, and then sat down on the ground.

"Boss, you take two medicine shovels and go uphill with your father, Dani and Erni, you two take off the pot and cook some food." Wang Youyuan commanded.

"Hmm." Hearing this, Shanfeng and Yueya hurriedly hugged Shanling and Shanzhuang out of the car, and Shanfeng took out two medicine shovels from the side of the car and followed Wang Youyuan towards the hillside.

Wang Youyuan has been in contact with books on feng shui, and knows a little about feng shui metaphysics, so he led the mountain peak to look east and west, and finally chose to be next to a big willow tree on the slope of the mountain.

"Boss, that's it, it's easy to find this big willow tree, and we'll take Xiaoliu back when we go back to our hometown in a few years."

"Hmm." Shanfeng agreed, tears rolling in his eyes.

Wang Youyuan chose a place, and the two of them dug it with a medicine shovel, and after a while, a small dirt pit appeared, "Boss, you dig it yourself, and Dad will break some wicker and weave a small coffin." Saying that, Wang Youyuan walked towards the big willow tree.

After a while, Wang Youyuan came back with a bundle of wicker, sat on the edge of the pit, and made it up while watching the mountain peaks dig the pit.

"Alas, I didn't expect your father and I to see the woodland for the first time, and it turned out to be for my own son."

"Hmm." To be honest, Shanfeng resented Wang Youyuan in his heart, and he didn't want to talk to Wang Youyuan at all, but ignoring his father was not the same thing, so he had to hum.

Wang Youyuan could also see the family's attitude towards him, just nagging to himself: "I know you all complain about your father, your mother doesn't pay attention to me, you don't want to pay attention to me, you all just "um" what you say, Dad already knew that smoking ** was wrong, but you don't know how uncomfortable it is to be addicted to smoking, just like thousands of ants biting all over the body, snot and tears can't control and flow down, it turns out that the family has a little money, and I don't want to suffer from that crime, I smoked as soon as I committed it, but who knows that the family can't help but spend, and I don't think it's going to be anything. The house asked me to sell, your grandfather and your grandmother are also angry, as soon as I go out in my hometown, people will say me behind my back, I don't want to be instructed by that, they all say that the tree is dead, and the person is alive, and we have no place to live, thinking that our family will go to Shangqiu to break through, and when we break out of the hall, we will also return to our hometown. ”

"Hmm."

"You remember that He Mengyao is the enemy of our family, your father and I just called the turtle to be bad, he always said that *** is smoked by people with status, and the poor can't afford to smoke at all, and he also praised his father for being a person with status, and said that *** incense, smoking a mouthful can be happy like a fairy, there is more time, my father's curiosity rose and tasted it, how could I think that this taste could not stop, and gradually became addicted."

"Hmm."

"Fortunately, my father still has this body of medical skills not lost, when I get to Shangqiu, find a shop, become a doctor, earn a few dollars, and return to my hometown in a few years."

In this way, Wang Youyuan chattered, and the mountain peaks listened quietly, making a "hmm" from time to time. Time passed imperceptibly, the earth pit was dug and the simple coffin was made.

"I'll call you mother." Wang Youyuan stood up, patted the soil on his cheek, and walked down the slope.

"Alright, give me six." Wang Youyuan stood in front of Xiuzhi and stretched out his hand to take over the mountains and rivers.

Xiuzhi twisted her body with Xiao Liu in her arms, avoiding Wang Youyuan's hand, stood up by herself, and walked in the direction of the mountain peak.

Yueya and Yue'e saw it, and they also followed behind their mother with Shanling and Shanzhuang respectively.

"Mother." Shanfeng looked at Xiuzhi and shouted sadly.

Xiuzhi looked at the small dirt pit as if she didn't hear it, and said to the mountains and rivers: "Little Liu, your father has found you a new home, you live first, you have suffered in this life, and you must keep your eyes open in the next life, but don't throw yourself into a family like your father, you have to find a rich and noble family, and enjoy the blessings that you haven't enjoyed in this life." ”

Xiuzhi stroked Shanhe's little face again, as if she wanted to engrave the appearance of Shanhe in her mind, and then gently put Shanhe, who was already stiff, into the small coffin.

Wang Youyuan picked up the coffin and put it in the earthen pit, covered the lid, and said to the mountain, "Bury it." ”

"Wait a minute!" Xiuzhi said: "I'll try again if Xiaoliu is still angry, in case this will ease up again." ”

"... Alas... Try it, try it. Wang Youyuan took the lid away again, and said in his heart: Xiaoliu is all hard, if he can be relieved, then he will become fine.

Xiuzhi actually understood this truth in her heart, but she was unwilling, her hand trembled and put it under Xiaoliu's nose again, tried it, and said half-loudly: "Cover, my sixth is a miserable person, I don't have to suffer anymore, my son......"

Wang Youyuan and Shanfeng covered the pit with soil, Xiuzhi and Yueya and Yue'e cried mournfully, and Shanling and Shanzhuang hugged their sister's neck and howled.

After a while, a small mound popped up, and Wang Youyuan said to several children: "Remember here, remember this big willow tree, and when we go back to our hometown in the future, we will come to pick up your brother." ”

The family continued to move in the direction of Shangqiu, fortunately, the autumn grain harvest was imminent, so they were hungry, full, stolen, and cooked together with the wild vegetables dug on the road, so they were not hungry, and when they met the herbs Wang Youyuan, they dug them down, dried them when they rested, and sold them to the pharmacy when they were ready to go to Shangqiu. When he saw a national army passing by from a distance, he hid with his family.

Wang Youyuan didn't lose his temper when he committed ** addiction again, and when he felt that the addiction to cigarettes hit, he leaned on a place casually, hugged his knees, buried his head in his knees, and let the pain of eroding bones invade him wave by wave.

Besides, Wang Youyuan, carrying a large basket full of medicinal materials, came to Shangqiu City, and after a while, he saw a pharmacy in front of him, which was much larger than the pharmacy he originally opened, and there were several vigorous big characters on the door plaque 'Anhetang'.

What is the best business in these years is the hospital, people eat grains, and after the four seasons of cold and warm, how can anyone not get sick. In the 21st century, medical care is so developed, and hospitals are also the busiest places, and there are long queues to pay for money. If you go to the provincial capital or capital, it is even more terrible, and you may not be able to buy a number for a few days.