After eating and watching the movie, it was half past nine after the group went home. Zhong Xuemei settled her younger brother and went back to her aunt's rental house by herself. Xuecheng followed the boy into the room to talk and laugh. The old horse was tired, his mind was sleepy, his right foot was slightly swollen and painful, and as soon as he entered the house, he sat down at the dining table closest to the door and gasped.

In the cardboard box next to his feet is stacked with his most cherished Xifeng wine. The old horse pondered for a few seconds, bent down to take a bottle, unscrewed the cap, poured half a sip into the cap, raised his head and drank it, and drank seven caps in one go. Only then did he realize that there was qi in his body, and there was a spirit in his mind, and although his body swayed slightly, his arms and legs had some strength. I really had to serve the old, I went out and walked less than three kilometers, and I ate a big meal, and I didn't stop and go halfway, but I didn't expect to be a little paralyzed when I entered the gate of the community.

Zhong Neng in the farmer's market had just finished dinner, thinking of the old horse's expression, and his smile was still on his chest. He couldn't help but pick out seven or eight of the funniest emojis and send them to Lao Ma. Lao Ma listened to the sound of the mobile phone, opened the smartphone and clicked on WeChat, when he saw that his life was solemn and righteous by the children spoofed, the old horse was first angry, and then was suppressed and dissolved by a strong emotion like evil spirit, after a burst of laughter, the old horse also began to appreciate his various miserable expressions.

A heavy day was crossed in a joke – and it was good. All happy endings are good. Life is humble and bitter, the world is absurd and vicissitudes, and it is good to have a happy ending. Lao Ma Lede raised his head and drank three or five more caps of Xifeng wine, and suddenly felt that the qi and blood in his body were slightly active.

The slightly drunk old man opened the fan and fanned himself with red faces. The older I get, the more greedy I get, and I want to drink some wine in the village, especially in winter, and I have to take a few sip before going to bed almost every day. It's been a month since I arrived in Shenzhen, and the old man hasn't drunk it a few times. Thinking of this, Lao Ma put down the fan and poured down five or seven sips of thick Xifeng wine.

The old man shook his head dizzily, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned. Suddenly, he hadn't listened to Qin's voice for a few days, he opened his mobile phone and clicked on a song "Going to the Meeting with a Single Knife", listening to Guan Yu and Zhou Cang go to Dongwu with a single knife, holding a knife in one hand and Lu Su in the other. There is wine and drama in life, and the children in the ears are happy, and the old horse is enough.

After a day's meeting, Gui Ying was already tired. I wanted to go home early in the evening, but Meng Qingcheng from the business department made a special trip to Gui Ying, the business manager, to submit his resignation after his colleagues left. Gui Ying was very disappointed when she read the resignation letter, and then spent two hours chatting with Qingcheng, talking about salary and bonuses, the company's business, and the industry environment...... In the end, Gui Ying still failed to keep Meng Qingcheng.

The general environment is not good, the company's business has shrunk seriously, the salesman's commission has been greatly reduced, Meng Qingcheng's daughter is going to primary school this year, how can Gui Ying not understand all kinds of expenses. It's a pity that a business expert, who has been in the company for three years, has just gotten some oil and water, and has not caught up with the industry dividends and quickly withdrew. Recently, Li Jiamin and Wang Han have left, and now Qingcheng is also leaving, the people in the business department are in turmoil, and Gui Ying, the business manager, is also very worried.

Ma Guiying, who drove home, regretted along the way, the market was shrinking, although her position and income were not affected much, but an invisible pressure and anxiety always enveloped her, and she felt depressed as soon as she arrived at the company.

As soon as I opened the door after returning home, a familiar smell of wine came to my nose, and the Qin drama that turned on Gui Ying's childhood switch echoed in the house, and the middle-aged woman seemed to have returned to the small courtyard thirty years ago. The old man was lying on the chaise longue, not knowing whether he was humming or snoring, Gui Ying didn't want to disturb and turned to look at the children. The two children were watching a video in front of the computer, and Gui Ying and Xuecheng chatted a few words and went back to the room. After returning to the room, Gui Ying closed the door and dialed Zhiyuan's video phone, and the husband and wife chatted on the phone.

It was another sleepless night, and Bao Xiaotang still couldn't sleep at two o'clock in the morning. Seeing that August is coming, the belly will get bigger and bigger. After the autumn and winter of this year, the child will be born. Spring is a good season, and when I was a child, I often heard people say that children born in spring are very smart. If it is a female doll, name it Bao Chunmei, Bao Xuexin, and Bao Xueer...... followed the name of the eldest sister Xuemei; If it is a male doll, it is named Bao Dacheng, Bao Xuekun, and Bao Xueyuan...... The name that I learned from my little brother. Fantasizing that in twenty years, he will have a sensible and handsome child like Xuemei, Bao Xiaotang couldn't help but laugh in the night.

Recently, Xiaotang always dreamed of her mother, in the dream her mother knew that she was pregnant, she told her mother about her difficulties, and her mother also comforted her gently and lovingly, supported her, hugged her and cried, but unfortunately woke up crying. She vaguely remembered that her mother said in her dream that she would help her take care of the children, help her cook and wash dishes, and help her wash and sweep the floor...... The beauty was in tears, and she couldn't remember her mother's appearance even if she tried her best. Xiaotang stroked his belly, wondering if his children would not be able to remember their appearance in the future many years later.

The child was born in March, after the sting, before the vernal equinox. If it's okay to be a boy, he will be a big man in the future, and if he gives birth to a man, he will have a head to rely on in his old age; What if you give birth to a daughter? In the future, if you get married, you will take care of the children for your daughter - not bad! It's a pity that it's an illegitimate daughter, and I'm afraid it won't work if I want to marry someone with a little lintel...... Infinite worries were pressed on Xiaotang's chest, and the tears that were worthless and worthless flowed down one by one.

Xiaotang wiped his nose and tears with his clothes, looked at the dim light outside the window, and imagined that his children would be born, grow up, and go to school in such a dilapidated rental house...... On weekends, their mother and son clean up the dirt in the hut and do housework together, when they pay their salaries, their mother and daughter dress beautifully and go shopping, and during the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and the New Year, their mother and son make dumplings and eat hot pot together...... Xiaotang covered his face and whimpered again, which woke up Zhong Xuemei next to him.

After Xuemei fell asleep, Xiaotang continued to imagine, sometimes happy and sometimes worried, sometimes laughing and sometimes crying, where can she sleep? Graceful and poor woman, how can she be like this tonight? Since she became pregnant, Xiaotang has been tossing and turning night and night.

It's not bad to have a child to spend the rest of her life with, she works hard to earn money to support her family, the child is responsible for going to school and taking a prestigious university, and if you can't get into a famous brand, you can take a heavy book, and if you can't get a heavy book, you can take a three-book exam like Mei Mei. When she is old, she takes care of the children to marry or get married, and then takes care of the children wholeheartedly for them, even if the marriage is not right, the wife is not virtuous, she can still help her children in her lifetime. But if you ...... She died early like her mother and father, so what should her children do?

Bao Xiaotang thought of this, she couldn't bear it, she slowly moved out of bed, went to the bathroom, closed the door, and cried alone at three o'clock in the morning. Wealth has a life, life and death are in the sky. Are there still few people in this world who leave their children and return to the West early? When one of the parents dies and leaves one behind, the child's sky can't fall; But she is the only one with her child, she is her child's day, if one day she is fragile, falling, and gone...... Even if God pities her and is fortunate enough to marry with her child, the non-biological one is separated by a veil after all—this has always been the case.

Xiaotang leaned her head against the wall and cried unadultly, she turned on her mobile phone, shook her head and covered her mouth, tremblingly opened the app for making an appointment for gynecology, and then shook her hand to make an appointment with the doctor tomorrow afternoon. After the appointment, she sat on the floor of the bathroom, holding her stomach and crying in pain. She slammed the wall with her fists, slapped herself hard, bit her lip with her teeth, she was so anxious that she stomped her foot and hit her head, she cried and shouted to call her mother in Shaanxi dialect...... She is punishing herself to atone for her sins, she is creating pain in her body in order to divert the pain in her heart.

At half past seven in the morning, Zhong Xuemei woke up. When she got up, she didn't see her aunt, so she looked for her in the house curiously. When she finally opened the bathroom door, the little girl was almost stupid - her aunt was curled up on the floor of the bathroom on a square meter, her eyes were straight, her body was messy, her body was covered in blood, and her mouth was sobbing softly. The little girl cried and hurried to hug her aunt, and finally helped her to the bed, covered her with sheets, wiped the water from her hair, the tears on her face and the blood on her body.

When Bao Xiaotang arrived at the bed, he was still crying, sometimes intense and sometimes gentle, and the tears never stopped. She is a thin woman who has no support, how can she refine a pair of fiery eyes to distinguish between good men and bad men, how to deal with the ruthless and unrighteous lover Li Zhiquan, and how to pull a baby who can only cry into a sensible and ambitious adult...... Women in the world are bitter and sweet in the end.

When I woke up early on Wednesday morning, the call from the village came. Most of the people in the village know the habit of getting up early, and the phone calls are mostly made in the morning. A three-to-five-minute phone call instantly pulled Lao Ma's thoughts to Majiatun. It's time for the dogtail grass in the valley to tassel, is his old Ah Huang as old as him, and no one cares if the artemisia grass on Yingying's mother's grave grows taller or not......

The old horse exhaled a thick puff of smoke, he put down his hookah, got up and tore the calendar. What he tore off was the twenty-first day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, which was the last solar term of June - the great heat, and the next solar term was the beginning of autumn. Time moves fast in the city, so fast that you can't find a shadow. In the countryside, everything is a proxy for time, from the earth to the sun and the moon, from the branches to the weeds, from the fruit to the seeds, from the birds to the insects......

Every autumn harvest, the northern farmhouses are full of harvest fruits, and the yard is occupied with nowhere to stay. Peanuts freshly pulled from the ground, freshly broken corn, red vines piled up in the straw house...... White sesame seeds and soybeans were covered under the plastic paper on the side of the firewood pile, and green peppers, cotton, mung beans, and sorghum were distributed in the open space of the kitchen room...... I'm afraid that an autumn rain will be damaged, and I can put it wherever I can at home.

Farmers rarely have leisure, picking peanuts, rubbing corn, peeling cotton, and grinding sorghum seeds...... Which year's autumn harvest wasn't a mess? The messiness of the harvest is the romantic poetry of the earth, and infinite joy and emotion are gathered in the hearts of farmers. This year's autumn harvest, Lao Ma may not be able to catch up. The old man threw away the calendar paper that he had torn out in his hand, shook off the ashes in the cigarette cellar, and refilled a pot of good cigarettes. In the past seventy autumn harvests, he has never missed one.

Gui Ying went to work in the morning, and there were only old horses and two dolls at home. It was nine o'clock, Tsai Tsai and Xuecheng were still sleeping, and the old horse was so hungry that he screamed, so he directly amplified the sound of his mobile phone to listen to Qin's play. After about ten minutes, Xuecheng woke up first and went to wash up by himself.

Lao Ma's phone rang again, and Zhiyuan called. It turned out that the prosperous express arrived, all of which were Gui Ying's favorite food, and the people of Zhiyuan were not in Shenzhen, and the phone was turned off, so they could only call Lao Ma. Lao Ma hung up the phone, with a Guan Gong's face, and went directly into the house and knocked on the bed leg of the boy with a cane, only then did he wake up a sleepy bug.

The little brothers carried the trolley and went downstairs in a daze. It was almost ten o'clock when the two children came back with breakfast and two large boxes of things. The old horse was so hungry that he had a good face, and he didn't have the energy to give half a good word. If something like snubbing him had been left in Majiatun, the old horse would have been cursing people across three alleys, and he wouldn't be able to stop talking if he didn't scold until the village was full of sensations. Now I can't scold it, my child is really tired from going to school and taking exams, and I can only sulk.

Zhiyuan, in Hunan, woke up at seven o'clock in the morning from the small guest room of his mother's house. Zhang Mingyuan, the son of his stepfather Uncle Zhang, said hello and drove to the company at half past seven, and Zhiyuan's mother and Mingyuan's wife prepared breakfast for the whole family. Yangyang slept in the guest room for two nights at first, and then got acquainted with Mingyuan's son, seven-year-old Doudou, and the two children slept in Doudou's room together.

Lao Zhangtou got up early at half past six, and was scratching the little doll's feet by the bedside of the two children—telling them to get up. The two children who learned last night that they were going to be separated are inseparable, and I don't know how to say goodbye today. Zhiyuan's mother specially bought a larger pink cartoon suitcase for Yangyang, which was more than twice the size of the small suitcase Yangyang before, which was specially used to store the various gifts that Yangyang received in Hunan.

"Just carry it in a bag, Mom, you even bought a special box!" Zhiyuan touched the expensive box and said.

"I've already weighed it, and I can't finish mentioning it! Buy her a box and she will be able to use it in the future, and she can remember that I bought it. After Grandma Yangyang Dong Huifang finished saying this, her nose was sour.

Dong Huifang turned around and took out a small pink kitten-like leather purse from a drawer that she had spent two hours selecting for her precious granddaughter yesterday morning. She held her wallet, opened the zipper and said to her son: "Far away, this is a red envelope for Yangyang, your uncle gave 8,000, Doudou's parents gave 2,000, and 50 or 20 of them were given by relatives, I stuffed them all into her wallet, and in the future, she enrolled in classes to learn to paint, dance, or something, you can use it." After Dong Huifang finished speaking, she wiped her tears with a dark green shawl.

"Mom, keep this money for you. I've brought you money this time. Zhiyuan took the wallet, took out all the money, and handed it to his mother.

"No, no, no, this is for the doll, she has been born until now...... Haven't been with me yet...... I haven't been there for 20 days. Dong Huifang choked up and said, "You give it to her!" Let her know, let her buy toys and snacks so that she can remember grandma and she will be happy to come next year when she is called. The old man put the money back into Yangyang's wallet, zipped it up, and solemnly handed it to his son again.

Zhiyuan silently wiped his tears and took the wallet, and then took a thick letter from his bag, which was prepared by her and Gui Ying to honor his mother, he took out the envelope and said to his mother: "Mom, you take it, this is given to you by Yingying." ”

"I don't need this, your uncle's pension is thousands a month, Mingyuan earns a lot, people have a thick background, you don't have a job, you keep it, I don't lack money!" Dong Huifang refused to accept it, and Zhiyuan did not let it, the mother and son had tears on their faces, and they were working hard. When the family Lao Zhangtou had expected this scene, he hid in Doudou's room first and let their mother and son have a good chat. After all, the road is far from coming often, and they are less than once at a time.

Zhiyuan insisted, and finally Dong Huifang cried and accepted the envelope. In terms of the actual situation, Dong Huifang is indeed not short of money at all, but she often accepts her son's money, first, to save for her son's future, and secondly, to let the Zhang family also see her son's filial piety. The harmony of the combined family needs to be comprehensive and balanced.

The mother and son packed the box for Yangyang with red eyes. A small purse, a pair of silver bracelets, a scooter, two watermelon hats, three or four picture books, five or six puppets, seven or eight skirts, eight or nine bags of snacks...... Two children's suitcases, an adult duffel bag, and a cartoon schoolbag can't fit all the gifts that Dong Huifang bought for the children. The mother and son laughed and cried, and cried and laughed as they cleaned up a large stall of red, green and green toys on the ground.

After breakfast, Doudou's mother drove and the whole family went to deliver Yangyang. The little girl carried a newly bought puppet schoolbag, which was full of beloved toys, and the little man curled up in her grandmother's arms regarded her grandmother as a gold owner, chattering and saying good things non-stop. Although it is a parting, the four-year-old child has no sorrow, all the way from getting off, to the station, to the separation, to the high-speed rail all the way to the whole process of smiling and jumping, and when saying goodbye to grandma, he patted his grandmother's shoulder like a small adult to comfort grandma not to cry, and when he said goodbye to Doudou, he was also bold and free.

Zhiyuan, sitting on the high-speed rail, listening to Yangyang happily and describes her new toy there without a preface, the villain is so proud as if he has done some great things, his hands are constantly gesturing in the air, and the eyes of the middle-aged man who listened to it wept silently.

After sending the child away, Doudou's mother drove the car with the second elder and Doudou to go back, and Dong Huifang, who had been depressed, suddenly couldn't hold back and whimpered in the car. Old man Zhang hugged Dong Huifang, patted his shoulder, and was speechless and relieved. Doudou's mother saw that her mother-in-law was sad, and kept telling jokes and persuading along the way.

Although she is a later mother-in-law, Dong Huifang has a gentle temperament, reasonableness, diligence and virtuousness, Doudou's mother likes this step-mother-in-law more than her ex-mother-in-law, not to mention that Dong Huifang has always treated Doudou wholeheartedly, and she never complains about her hard work like her own grandson, and the Zhang family sees it in their eyes, and the family also loves Dong Huifang. This combination of families is not close, but in general harmonious, friendly, and worry-free.

In other words, today is the master of the house. I ate it until ten o'clock early, and the steamed buns I bought were terrible, and the old horse threw the stuffing of the buns and ate the bun skins of four buns, and only an hour later, the old man in the north was hungry again. The two children were so greedy that they kept eating the green dates sent by Ma Xingsheng, and the old horse was too lazy to take care of it.

Tsai Tsai noticed that his grandfather was displeased early in the morning, and he also knew that he was not used to eating southern buns, so he ordered lunch at eleven o'clock, and ordered two servings of his favorite food for Lao Ma. After a full lunch, the old horse looked at all things and felt much more satisfied, his belly was full, his expression was indifferent, and his mood was also pleasant.

At half past two in the afternoon, Tsai Tsai held a notebook and said that he was teaching the old man to learn to surf the Internet, but he really wanted to test whether his grandfather was still angry. Seeing that the grandfather was full of interest regardless of his previous suspicions, the boy was also energetic. Knowing that grandpa is interested in the reclining Buddha, Tsai Tsai searched Taobao in front of the old horse to order the store of the reclining Buddha. After finding the store, the young man made a phone call, and the old horse heard that the master could go to the designated place to make, and brought his own materials, he was very happy, and finally heard that the price was going to be hundreds of thousands, so he waved his hand and quickly closed the computer and gave up.