Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and the old horse went to open the door with a cane. It turned out that it was Zhou Zhou's mother in the morning, and after simply saying hello, Zhou Zhou's mother directly took Zhou Zhou to the open space in the living room, and after chatting with Lao Ma awkwardly, she saw that the two children were very engaged in reading the album together, and Zhou Zhou's mother greeted Lao Ma and left.

"This is Bai Ciniao, my mother said!"

"Hey, this rabbit is up the tree!"

"It's not a rabbit, it's a squirrel!"

"This is a mother sheep and a baby sheep!"

"This bug has six legs, and I only have two!"

"This little bird is so beautiful!"

"It's a parrot, it can speak human words!"

"White clouds!"

"This is Baiyun! This is the sea! ”

"Ducks singing in the water!"

"Little snakes swim in the river!"

"All birds build houses! It's just a round house! ”

"I love this little fish...... Because it spits bubbles, but I won't! ”

"I also like little fish, and I don't spit bubbles!"

"The Hedgehog ...... in the Forest"

"This hedgehog is so cute......"

In the midst of a child's voice, Lao Ma's mind entered a dreamlike long painting, in which he walked and walked all the way, and suddenly he returned to Majiatun - Majiatun 60 years ago. The dog's tail ears swaying everywhere, the various melons and fruits on the slope that are half-hidden and half-exposed, and the flowers waiting to be put in the valley of the warbler...... He walked quietly in the valley, and his body became light and heavy, like a feather floating, like a stone precipitating. He grazes the three souls in the unhindered heaven and earth to please the seven spirits...... The old horse, who had not slept well last night and had not taken a lunch break at noon, soon began to snort like thunder.

The two children only covered their mouths and giggled, and they put down the album in their hands, and tiptoed up to the old horse to watch him sleep. Yangyang poked the old horse's toe, and seeing that the old horse didn't move, he only nodded and smiled at Zhou Zhou. Zhou Zhou gently lifted a strand of the old horse's white hair over there, and pointed it to Yangyang with a smile. The two children poked and teased each other, but the old horse did not react at all. Yangyang took out her puppy and began to "walk the dog" on the plaster on the old horse's right leg.

Suddenly, there was only a thud - the crutch fell on the smooth porcelain floor, and the mighty and handsome dragon head fell without a jaw. Zhou Zhou's open mouth was also like a drop in his jaw - it couldn't be closed! Just looking at Yang Yang stunned, Yang Yang was also frightened, staring at the old horse.

When the old horse heard the bang, he opened his eyes, and the seer looked surprised! Then he turned to look at Zhou Zhou and the dragon head crutch with his chin dropping under his feet, and his heart was full of fire.

"Did you fall?" The old horse sat up and pointed to the cane and asked Zhou Zhou.

Zhou Zhou shook at first, and then nodded with a demented expression.

"What did you do when you broke your good crutches? You're a coward! The old horse picked up his cane while the lion roared. Zhou Zhou gasped for air, and had already adjusted his breathing to the rhythm of crying.

"Go and call your parents, and talk about it!" The old horse held a cane in one hand and a rosewood dragon chin in the other, and shouted at Zhou Zhou angrily.

"Wow, wow, wow......" Zhou Zhou couldn't help but cry!

"I'm going home to my mom! I'm going to find my mom! Zhou Zhou wiped his tears and walked towards the door.

"Humph! Something broke and the man left! Lao Ma said to Zhou Zhou at the door.

Zhou Zhou opened the door by himself, closed the door, and left.

The old horse saw that Yangyang's right hand was clasped on the nail of his left thumb, holding his breath, pouting, and not daring to speak—he looked like a coward. The old horse was afraid of scaring Yangyang, so he immediately changed his face, suppressed his anger and said to Yangyang with a smile: "Zhou Zhou is gone, what should I do?" Are you having fun with grandpa? ”

"Not good." Yang Yang lowered his head and whispered.

"Why?" The old horse moved to Yangyang, bowed his head and asked her.

"Because you're the big bad wolf, you're the villain!" Her eyes were filled with tears.

"Then I'm the big bad wolf, what's your mother?"

Yang Yang was stunned for a moment, and thought for a moment before answering: "My mother is a hen!" ”

"I'm afraid your mother isn't a black crow, croaking all day long!" Sure enough, laughter can dispel anger, and the old horse's mood is thunderous.

"It's not! My mom is a hen and a hen protects the chicks! Yang Yang collected her tears and debated with Lao Ma seriously.

"Then you're a little chick!" The old horse asked with a smile.

"Hmm!"

"I think you're a rabbit, so timid that you can scare to death!"

"I'm not a rabbit, I'm a chicken!" Yang Yang repeated his identity and position with a serious face.

"Hey, hey, hey...... So what's your dad? ”

"Daddy, it's a little goat!"

"Why is your dad a baby goat?" The old horse was puzzled.

"Because the little goats stay in the house and never go out!"

"Oh! So what is your brother? ”

"Hmm...... He's a gorilla. ”

"Why?" Lao Ma became a confused second monk.

"Because gorillas like to reach out and grab things – that's how my brother speaks......" Yang Yang picked up the gorilla posture and stretched out his hands to grab in the air.

"Hahaha! Yes, yes, your brother is a gorilla! Na...... What is Zhouzhou? ”

"It's a piggy!"

"Why?"

"Because when he laughs, he's like a pig!"

"Actually, grandpa is not a big bad wolf!" The old horse shook his hand in front of Yangyang to defend his image.

"And what are you?"

"Grandpa doesn't know, what do you want Grandpa to become?"

"Hmm...... Turn into a spider. ”

"Why?"

"Because of the spider mother, she always carries the baby spider on her back, they are good friends, she also weaves webs, and the webs she weaves catch bad insects for breakfast, and the mother spider always gives breakfast to the baby spider!"

"Oh! That grandpa has become a spider, do you like to play with grandpa or do you want to play with Zhou Zhou? ”

"Hmm...... Jojo! ”

"But Zhou Zhou is going home!" The old horse pointed to the door with his chin.

"We can play together forever when we grow up!"

"Hehehe...... You little man thinks long-term! ”

"What is the long term?" Yang Yang asked with his little head tilted.

"Long-term...... Farsighted...... What is the long-term ......" The old horse was in a predicament, and it took a long time to come up with the answer: "The long-term is what happens after you grow taller!" It's a pity that Yangyang doesn't need this answer anymore, she sits on the ground and looks at the album alone.

The old horse looked at the broken cane, let out a long sigh of distress, and then sat there thinking of all possible ways to recover it with the mind of an old carpenter.

The three of them went to the eye hospital to register and wait for the number, and then checked their eyesight and examined the fundus, fortunately there was no problem with the fundus and no change in their vision. On the way back, suddenly Gui Ying received a call - it was Zhou Zhou's mother, who cried and angrily accused Yang Yang's grandfather of how to train Zhou Zhou, Gui Ying was speechless when she heard it, and only smiled vigorously. hung up the phone and talked to Zhiyuan, Zhiyuan shook his head in a loud voice, Gui Ying hugged his chest and puffed up, and Zai Zai added oil and vinegar to the side.

As soon as she entered the door, Gui Ying shouted at the old horse: "Why do you train other people's children?" Zhiyuan saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly signaled Tsai to take Yangyang away.

"He broke my crutches, and I can't lecture him for a word?" The old horse spread out the dragon's jaw in his hand.

"The kid is crying and wants to go back, why don't you send him home?"

"What should I do with him in two steps!"

"What are you sending him for? Have you ever thought about what to do if your child is lost? Gui Ying bared her teeth and grinned menacingly, like a boiling oil pot, just waiting for the old horse to spray some water in.

"How can you lose it upstairs and downstairs?"

"What if there are kidnappers who deliver takeaways, decorations, and deliveries in this building every day, and if there are kidnappers involved in them, take the children away?"

"It's a police business, what can I do?"

Gui Ying exhaled a breath of cold air and said, "You are seventy years old, and you don't have any consciousness at all!" Zhou Zhou's mother cried and scolded when she called me, she was in her forties and was just such a child, what kind of baby she was! You've also trained other people's children away! ”

"Shouldn't he be disciplined for doing something wrong? dozens of years old, there's a kid who cares about my! The old horse wondered in his heart, how could any bad thing be spread on his head.

"If Zhou Zhou loses it today, I will not be able to compensate for a child if I sell my whole family! It's a shame that you're a grandfather! Gui Ying viciously left the last sentence and turned back to the house in a huff. The two children were playing in the house, Gui Ying couldn't control it, and she was so angry that she quietly wiped her tears.

Why is such a big child, upstairs and downstairs will be lost! Is there no one in this building, this neighborhood, and this street? Majiatun's children can't be lost in the ravine! For so many years, I have never heard of a child in the village being abducted if he visits the door! The old horse sat on the sofa with a gloomy face, and he was stingy and angry all day long—very annoying!

Zhiyuan saw the old horse frowning and sat next to the old horse.

"Dad, you haven't lived in the city, and this is ...... today You're not wrong, but...... I'll tell you something, last summer. A child in this neighborhood plays with her grandmother in the yard downstairs every day. There were many children and adults downstairs, and it didn't take long for everyone to get acquainted with each other. Among them is an old woman, about 50 years old, who plays with her children every day, and the children know each other, and many parents know each other. Then one day the child and her grandmother went to the house to pick up things, put the child under the play, the old woman saw that the adult was not there, and said to the child I will take you to find your grandmother, directly led the child out of the yard of the community, out of the community door, another old aunt knew the child, she did not know the old woman, she asked the child what you are doing out, the child said to find grandma, the old aunt said your grandma at home, why did you come out, the child was stunned, the old woman saw that something was wrong and quickly strode away, and never came to this community again, You say terrible no! ”

Zhiyuan swallowed his saliva, and then said: "The shopping mall opposite our community lost a child the year before last!" You said that the mall is full of surveillance cameras, and it is not for the traffickers to take it away! In the end, I called the police and couldn't find it! Dad, you don't know how vicious this person is in the city now, and there are so many children in the community, and those search websites have new posts every day! Children are also crutches, and Alzheimer's is also crutches! The environment in the city and the township is different, and who in the township doesn't know anyone in the same village? But there are many door-to-door people in the city who have never met! We have lived here for so many years, and we only walk around Zhou's family and another fellow countryman, and we don't know anything else! We really don't know the door, the upstairs and downstairs neighborhoods! ”

"How do I know these things! The children in the village will play together, even if they are two or three years old, they can't lose it! The old horse's tone softened a lot, and only then did he realize the seriousness.

"I know, I know! Now in town, it's different! Yingying's mouth is fast, don't be angry, the main thing is that Yangyang has only had two friends since she was a child, one is Zhou Zhou who has played together since she was a child, and the other is a new friend in Miaomiao Kindergarten, except for these two, she has no friends! The key is that Zhou Zhou and Yangyang's personalities are compatible, you see how timid our family Yangyang is, she is afraid when she meets a slightly stronger child! Zhou Zhou has a strong personality, but he likes to protect Yangyang, and the two play well! ”

"Okay, okay, I got it." The old horse waved his hand, feeling a little heavy.

"Dad, can you still use this crutch? If you don't need it, I'll buy you a new one right away! It's also with a faucet! ”

"It's okay, my jaw dropped, it doesn't affect the use! You're busy! "The old horse just wants to be alone for a while.

At this time, the old horse's mood was the same as the dried artemisia grass in the Song Valley of the October Warbler - a mess. I really didn't expect that such a good big city would lose children! almost made a big mistake, and the old horse sighed. In the summer, the villagers slept on the wheat field unharmed, and they would not lose anything when they opened the door on weekdays, and the pigs, cattle and sheep were kept outside the house without worrying that someone would steal them. There are often rumors of all kinds of strange things in the square circle, but in Majiatun and its surrounding villages—there are few. Perhaps the nourishment of the Weishui River makes the family full, and people do not have to make a living by being a traitor.

There are bad times, there are bad people, and it's just a bad one! In such a bustling big city, it is not good to make a living to abduct children, and Lao Ma 10,000 can't figure it out. Since they can't get along in the city, why should these poor kidnappers with no background, no culture, and no brains do evil, it's better to go back to their hometowns! Thinking of this, Lao Ma was depressed again, and he knew too well: not everyone's hometown is called Majiatun - there are many people and land, and the soil is fertile and easy to raise. There are so many girls who have gone to Majiatun in the past 20 years to marry that they have to queue up, who is not here for the good water and soil of Majiatun? Times have changed, and no matter how good the water and soil are, they can't save the general trend of the hollow of the village. Lao Ma teased in his heart: Even the abductors have given up on the countryside, let alone ordinary people!

Zhiyuan went to the house to comfort Gui Ying a few words, and then the two prepared a lot of fruit gifts, and hurriedly went upstairs to apologize to the Zhou Zhou family. Tsai Tsai went back to the house to do her homework, Yang Yang was bored alone, and came to the living room to find her new friend.

"Grandpa, are you an elephant?"

"It's not." The old horse looked down at the ripples.

"But your legs are as thick and stiff as an elephant."

"Have you ever seen an elephant's legs?" The old horse asked, propping up his eyelids.

"Nope."

"Then how do you know that an elephant's legs are hard and thick?"

"The teacher told me."

"Adults deceive children! That one...... It's not grandpa's leg, it's a plaster. The old horse shook his right leg and told Yangyang.

"Grandpa, is your foot hurt?"

"Yes, how do you know?"

"Because you walked the same way as the puppy on the road that day, Dad said that the puppy had a leg injury!"

"Hahaha...... All right! Grandpa didn't have a leg injury, he had a foot injury. The heaviness of the old horse's heart was taken away by the rippling joke.

"The teacher said that timid animals don't get hurt, only bold animals do."

"Why?"

"Because the timid animal doesn't look good, it ...... It's staggering! So it never hurts. ”

"Isn't that an escape?"

"What is escape?"

"To run away is to run away."

Yangyang lowered her head and continued to "walk the dog" on the sofa, and the old horse saw that she didn't speak, so she lay on the armrest of the sofa and was comfortable. Suddenly, the "dog walk" walked on the old horse's shoulder and asked such a question: "Grandpa, don't you like my mother?" ”

"Who said that?" The old horse squeezed out the white eyes and asked in surprise.

"Then why do you keep ...... Always training my mother? "Ripple fluttering big eyelashes.

"Grandpa didn't train your mother! It was her dog who bit Lei Gong and caused the disaster! It was she who took the initiative to quarrel with her grandfather! The old horse pointed to the tip of his nose and said.

"That's not right! You're lying! ”

"Oops! Well, I lied! The old horse continued to lie on the handrail, what did he have to talk about with the old pine of Huashan and a spring grass.

"Then can you stop arguing with my mother in the future?"

"Hey...... It's your mother, she has to quarrel with me! The old horse corrected weakly.

"No, you're lying!"

"Well, it's me lying! It's me who quarrels with your mother! It's grandpa training your mother! It's grandpa bullying your mother! How? Are you going to be angry for your mom or what? The old horse turned his head to look at Yang Yang and asked.

"Yes!"

"Huh...... How do you get angry for your mother? The old horse showed a smile like that of Maitreya Buddha.

"Pull out your hair!"

"Haha...... Well, then you pull a few more! The old horse tilted his head sideways and plucked Yangyang.

"Grandpa, why is your hair white?" Yang Yang tugged at a strand of hair and looked curiously.

"Uh...... Because winter is coming! ”

"Why does my hair turn gray when winter comes?"

"Sizzle...... Well, because...... It snows in winter. ”

"What is snow?"

"You don't know it's snowing? Haven't you seen snowflakes? The old horse asked with a glare.

"I haven't seen it!" Yangyang shook her head sincerely.

"What is a snowflake...... Snowflakes are the tears of God. ”

"Then my mother's eyes just snowed!"

The old horse was silent.