Runye didn't know why, thinking about the rotten horse meat she was holding in her hand, the corners of her eyes seemed to be scraped into the sand, and her nose was sore and she endured it for a long time. It was only when I designed the bulletin room with my sister that I forgot my emotions, and my blood gradually returned to calm.

But when she was busy, the senior sister asked, "Do you know Teacher Cao?" ”

"Huh? I'm not impressed! ”

"It was the June Day celebration that year, the time you performed the show, there was a first prize in the Cararace."

Runba stopped drawing chalk on pine leaves, trying to think about it without being impressed. But I suddenly remembered that during the internship on November 11 in previous years, once the school organized all the teachers to go to Beijing to climb the Great Wall, and it seemed that there was a male thief with eyebrows and mouse eyes. When he got in and out of the car, he always peeked, which made Runye very annoyed.

At that time, he was with Teacher Chen, and Teacher Chen always begged Runye to introduce his brother to her, but Runye tried his best to dodge and refuse, so he didn't use his brain or look at Teacher Cao's eyebrows at all, especially in the face of the opposite sex, Runye was even more cautious. After all, he was originally innocent, so he really had to avoid suspicion and not be misunderstood for no reason. She tried to gather the smoky fragments of the past, but she still couldn't find a trace.

"Oh, why are you so stupid, the wind has spread outside, and it is said that Teacher Cao pursues Runye, didn't you also participate in the performance on behalf of the teacher of the internship group?"

"Oh, I'm done with the show and I'm leaving."

After Runye answered, he suddenly remembered his second sister-in-law, and his heart tightened, so he said resolutely, "No, I don't know about it, and no one has ever mentioned it to me." ”

But it is not difficult to see from the tone and facial expression deliberately mentioned by the senior sister that there seems to be a trace of sourness and concern. So he tentatively said, "Whoever likes it, go for it, and that person has nothing to do with me." And I am studying hard to prepare for the university entrance examination, and my family has a low education, so I am not here at the moment. ”

Runye had actually heard of her senior sister for a long time.

She has been working for several years, with outstanding performance and a strong career. But she looks like a boy, speaks simply and directly, has dark skin, rough facial features, short dundun, thick arms and legs, so she is still an old girl.

Hearing Runye say this, the 29-year-old senior sister finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Runye also breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, the senior sister was happy and energetic, and she felt that everything in the world was brilliant and bright.

She said to Runye in a loving tone, "Good girl, this board is a piece of cake, you sit by and watch, and the task of pedaling the ladder to climb is all left to me." So she rubbed her hands, waved her arms, and the colorful chalk swirled and fluttered, and Infinitus unleashed the power of an old leftover woman.

An hour and a half later, he was done, and Runye rushed home.

It's lunch time again.

At home, I heard my mother say that after I went to school, my eldest brother-in-law, who was a teacher, came and brought a few fish. As soon as the fish was half-fried, Runye returned. Entering the outhouse, Runye deliberately calmly and naturally greeted Meng Yao simply, "Second sister-in-law." ”

Mengyao happily agreed.

Unexpectedly, in this family, everyone is humble and polite. So in the face of greetings, I quickly nodded and smiled, and I was greeted with a sense of respect. In just a few days, she fell in love with the family, and even more so with the family.

Half an hour, after the rice of Runye is another bowl.

Runye hurriedly went back to the East House to check the papers and all the review materials. I just wanted to leave, but my mother saw that Mengyao went to the thatched house in the corner of the courtyard, and then nagged Runye.

"Look at your neighbor Xiaoru, who is the same age and in the same class as you, and she got married after graduating from junior high school, and she has already picked a family to live. Look at the second sister-in-law, who is only two or three years older than you, and they are all picking families to live. Look at you, why are you always childish and stupid, you don't understand anything about the world, and you don't do any housework. You're about the same age as others, so why are you so different? is so old, there is no sense of sharing, the work of a family will never have anything to do with you, or your eldest sister will sue you every time you come to sue you for not eating the fireworks in the world. However, you were born in the mortal world and do not eat the fireworks of the world, can you really do it? ”

"Humph!"

Runye was not convinced when he heard it, and he was too lazy to quarrel fiercely, but just one word "hum" represented a complete denial of what his mother said. Runye, who used to be extremely obedient and weak, has become sensitive and suspicious in the past two years, which seems to be an adolescence. Even if it was my mother's words, I was disgusted.

The second sister-in-law came in with a curtain.

Runye also turned around and went back to the house, still pushing her job, no matter how her mother sighed and worried about herself, she just didn't care anyway. She is not like her parents who came back from working in the fields when she was seven or eight years old a long time ago, carrying firewood to make porridge. Anyway, she doesn't know why, but she is extremely disgusted with the boring housework of cooking and sweeping the floor.

Housework?

It's really meaningless and worthless, just like my mother doesn't mean anything, and she didn't start doing these things when she married her father? And passively. She cooks every day, she cooks anything, but the taste is not authentic. I don't know what to think, how could such a beautiful face marry a poor father, and irresponsibly gave birth to a large litter of children. As a result, when the second daughter was a child, in order to coax her younger brothers and sisters to play, she also used the abacus as a cart, pushing her younger brothers and sisters, and finally the abacus beads were sprinkled on the ground.

Even more outrageous.

The second daughter actually cut hundreds of photos of her mother when she was young into playing cards to coax her younger siblings to play. Isn't my mother also so sad about the destruction of old photos that she beat her chest for months? It's a pity that I was born as a capitalist lady, and I really don't take myself seriously.

If it weren't for getting married, why bother living a mess?

I lost my ego so early, and I dug a pit and buried myself purely by myself. The sorrow is infinite, I don't know how to reflect, and I still count others, trying to pull me into the pit a day earlier, don't think about it. While Runye thought about it, the little nose hummed unconvinced. It wasn't until I spread out a scroll that my heart calmed down, and my cultural knowledge was so good, at least it could save the surging soul.

The second sister-in-law had already returned and continued to talk to her mother.

After just talking for more than ten minutes, suddenly the second sister-in-law wanted to go to the thatched house again, which made Runye's mother a little vigilant, "What's the matter?" ”

She shouted loudly to Runye, and Runye hurriedly came out to ask.

"Why did your second sister-in-law go to the thatched house several times in the past few days, this? Nothing will happen, right? The mother was anxious and anxious to let the old girl have an idea.

Runye pondered for a moment, "Could it be that you eat fish and spoil your stomach?" ”

When my mother heard this, she thought about it, "That's not right, it's a live fish with scales I scrape, probably not." Besides, we've all eaten, aren't we okay? ”

Runye also fell into deep thought.

"People have big bellies, why don't I go to the village doctor's house?" Runye asks for her mother's opinion.

The mother nodded, after all, the village doctor's daughter and Runye used to be classmates, so it was convenient to talk and please, and people always had stomach trouble with big bellies, if they slipped the fetus, it would be a big accident. Without waiting for the second sister-in-law to come out of the thatched house, Runye quickly ran out of the hospital, passed by more than a dozen houses, and soon invited the village doctor.

At this time, Mengyao went a few more times.

The experienced village doctor in his forties repeatedly looked at Mengyao's face and measured her temperature, and found that she did not feel the slightest discomfort except for always going to the toilet, and it was not gastroenteritis at all, it was a false alarm. But going to the toilet all the time is also bad for the child, and I am worried that something unexpected will happen.

The doctor observed at Runye's house for 2 hours and finally determined the cause, and he actually asked, "It's really a problem with eating fish, but it's not bad." Forgive me for my bold guess, pregnant women should always eat vegetarian food, and they will not be stained with meat all year round, right? ”

Everyone listened and looked at each other.

Meng Yao nodded in approval when he heard this, and lowered his head and didn't dare to reply anything, but his eyes were a little red.

The doctor continued, "Don't be afraid, eat a few times a week, learn to get used to and adapt, you are old and your stomach adjusts quickly, and it will get better soon." Moreover, if you don't eat meat, it is also extremely detrimental to the growth of the fetus. ”

Meng Yao listened and kept his head half-bowed, and when he nodded again, salty and sour tears rolled out along the inertia, dripping wet the chest of the sweater. She didn't dare to show embarrassment and embarrassment, and she didn't dare or want to say that she had committed a crime because she couldn't give birth to a male child, so she was punished by her family and was not allowed to eat meat, not even an egg, for several years. The mother-in-law at home insisted that eating meat would give birth to a female fetus, and a vegetarian diet would give birth to a male fetus, and I don't know where the absurd theory came from, however, Meng Yao was the one who bumped into the absurd.

If the reason is widely publicized, it will not only be laughed at by people for being poor, but also ridiculed for being sanctioned by the family for not being able to give birth to a male child, no matter which one is said, it will be a shame. So for the sake of thin noodles, she still insisted on lowering her head, continuing to hide and cover up, swallowing all the bitterness that could not be explained and scratched her heart. In the end, I couldn't help choking up and feeling wronged, and my cheeks and nose were flushed.

Later, she was in a hurry, got up and picked up a ball of paper and pretended to go to the thatched house, temporarily avoiding the specifics and details that could not be expressed in depth, and resolving her embarrassing situation.

Runye and her mother sent the village doctor away.

After that, the third uncle's family must have meat stuffed buns and dumplings every week, or meat stuffed boxes alternately. I also bought red apples and green radishes that are all over the streets in the north, and invited Meng Yao to eat them. Plain and interspersed with porridge and stir-fried vegetables, the food is simply full of tricks.

Mengyao's stomach quickly adapted, and as the doctor expected, she no longer had stomach trouble because of eating meat, and her face became more and more ruddy.

This day flies so fast!

In the blink of an eye, it was a few months, Mengyao's belly was bigger, and suddenly one day, Erxi, who was half-crying and not smiling, came to Runye's house again, he snorted his black lips and black teeth, "hulahula" and smoked dry tobacco.

From the day he met him, Runye always felt that Erxi and his father couldn't tell whose age was younger. Although Erxi's generation is young, but looking at him black, old and ugly, Runye always thinks that he is older than his father, and he smokes more often than his father.

At this moment, I saw Er Xi sitting firmly on the chair at the tea table, and explained to the second elder that he wanted to take Meng Yao home, because he was almost born.

Meng Yao sat silently on the eaves of the kang.

In fact, she was reluctant to leave, and after only a few months of living here, she fell in love with the family. The family is humble and polite, never fights and scolds the street, speaks softly, knows how to respect people, and always eats well. But she is not from this family, and she has to leave, so she is very unhappy, but what can she do?

After dinner, it was about eight or nine o'clock, taking advantage of the darkness, for fear of being discovered by the village cadres. Runye also came out, only delivered to the door, and went back to the house to read. The parents had to follow the group closely and escort them out of the village.

these months.

Mengyao hasn't changed a single piece of clothing, it's still the rubber powder sweater woven with thick wool, the cuffs are full of balls, the lower body is the broken army pants eliminated by Erxi, and the feet are still 5 yuan a pair of purple snow shoes in the bazaar. The coat is still heavy pork liver and rotten horse meat, and this dress is very long, which can successfully cover the belly.

The Runye family didn't seem to care much about this, after all, Erxi had been relatives for many years, so they didn't think deeply about what had a different meaning in their hearts. Moreover, it may also be thought that her clothes are just special clothes because of the special period of pregnancy.

Mengyao followed everyone and continued to be silent.

In front of her husband, she just blinked her eyes and let it go, and she began to be tortured by her mother-in-law and husband at such a young age, and she was used to being cleaned up. Once she opposes it, there will be a war, and every time it doesn't end with her complete defeat and self-deprecation? Therefore, in front of her husband and mother-in-law, she can only be docile, but she still can't get the slightest benefit. At every turn, my mother-in-law and husband will scold, look at your stupid look! What is useless, everything is suffocated.

Including single.

She doesn't have the right to educate, because she is stupid, she is stupid, she is uneducated, she is young and ignorant! So just follow my grandmother to learn to burn incense and worship Buddha, and she, a complete pit goods, is not qualified to say a word to her daughter at all.

During the day, the wind was very strong, the ground was blown unusually clean, and at night, the wind stopped.

The surroundings are exceptionally peaceful.

The door of the house and the back eaves of the house are still full of locust trees, which are bare branches this season. In fact, every April, the silver wind chime-like locust flowers will bloom one after another, hanging one by one, caressed and trembling by the spring breeze, swaying and shaking the fragrance. But no matter how much you fantasize about the fragrant fragrance of April, you can't shake your cold mood at the moment, and there will be no trace of mist in your heart. Because there are white and fragrant acacia flowers full of branches in April every year, after ten days, the acacia snow falls and covers the streets and alleys of the whole village, which is the origin of Huaihua Village.

But it is also called 300 Huaihua Village, so when the village was built, there were only 300 households? Is it really as the legend goes, is it a temporary gathering place after the dissolution of the harem people at the end of the Qing Dynasty?

After all, there are still a hundred households around, and it has been ten hundred...... It can't help but make people reverie.

I think of the lotus pond again, because 60 years ago, a hundred acres of lotus pond were filled in to build a village, so today's lotus pond does not have too many lotus flowers.

After taking a deep breath, Mengyao looked up at the vast starry sky and frowned, which made her suddenly think of her past days in Beijing. Erxi mentioned in the first letter that they would look at the stars together. But today, isn't it also the same as the stars shining in the black sky? But who can think of looking up?

The past is like yesterday, with tears in my eyes.

That night in Beijing, she held a sugar gourd, smiling carefree like a flower, and he also instructed her to teach her to identify the Beidou, and also searched for the constellation Ursa Major and the Milky Way......

But now?

In fact, the Milky Way, the Beidou, and the constellation Ursa Major, all the stars have naturally not changed, and only the uglier and uglier ones have changed. She touched her clumsy belly, and the bald peasant woman's hair, and remembered the snowball fight that five people were playing together in the snow at night.

She had a high ponytail at that time, a red gauze hairband, beautiful and eye-catching and sassy and heroic, moving her long legs in the snow, laughing and running, more than forty two joys, blocking snowballs for herself...... He was afraid that the loach's snowball would be thrown in the wrong place, and he was afraid that she would be cold and that she would hurt. Long legs, at that time, attracted countless praises from Erxi. But later, when he used to know that he was cold and hot, he and his mother-in-law said in unison that if he had long legs and big heads, he would go to the field to be a mule and a horse.

Thinking of this, she suddenly became sour.

In fact, what has changed is not only oneself, but also people's hearts.

Yes, the same night sky, the same stars, the same people, but this person's heart is drifting away and even shattered.

And the night in Beijing, where have all the wishes made under the meteor gone? Let me ask, have all the unspoken beautiful secret wishes been fulfilled? Can the emotions of being together last for a long time? I just remember that I also looked at the starry sky carefully.

That night, the starry sky was as bright and clear as it is today.

Half an hour later, we arrived at the entrance of the village.

Runye's mother said, "Go back and live a good life, don't think too much, give birth to the child smoothly, and you will have multiple companions in the future." ”