Erxi was helping the old woman feed the chickens at home, and the water for washing vegetables was splashing on the peach tree that was already the thickness of a child's arm.

Is it again?

He muttered in his heart, if he had, he would not be able to go out, for fear of being caught. So, Erxi didn't let Mengyao go out and did some housework at home.

The work in the field, the old woman appeared again.

Meng Yao was busy feeding the chickens, cooking, tidying up the house, tidying up the kitchen, and taking care of the children.

In the empty courtyard, Mengyao often stared at the peach tree in a daze, remembering that in early spring, it had one or two flowers, but it was quickly blown off by the wind. It is said that the peach three apricots and four pears have been five years, could it be that I have been married for 3 years?

Ay! It's a long time!

When I was in a daze, my mind flashed the joy of rolling on the ground when I first received my marriage certificate. And the winter when he was pregnant, he made a snowman for himself...... Hey, the past is still as vague as yesterday, but time has passed, and the clouds and mud are different. Where has the snowman who held hands gone?

The group of hens in the corner, after eating the food that Meng Yao fed, came to the corner to bathe.

"Giggles, is she going to be the master?"

"Why isn't the old woman coming to feed us?"

"Did she increase her status because she laid an egg?"

"Why does she have to lay eggs again?"

"Don't talk nonsense, it's a villain, don't you see that you always carry a villain on your back?"

"Giggle......

In October, Mengyao's stomach has rumbled out, and it has already shown mountain dew, what should I do? After all, the paper can't contain the fire.

Suddenly, one day, Erxi had just come back from the field and saw more than a dozen women of childbearing age lying on their stomachs in a 55 tractor. There were tear stains on the women's cheeks, some were stupid, some were howling hoarsely, and some were resisting and wanted to break free and escape. But as long as they catch dishonest and attempt to escape, they will be doubled.

Erxi saw that a cadre was pulling and dragging a woman who fell to the ground and pretended to be dizzy in the car, her clothes had already been torn, and several people dragged her back and forth, and finally, she was finally thrown into the tractor. With a wave of his hand, the village cadres went to the back streets, and all women under the age of 55 must be seriously and seriously investigated one by one.

Seeing this, Erxi quickly turned around and ran home.

When she got home, she came in in a panic, and Mengyao, who pulled up her big belly, picked up her coat, pushed the bicycle violently, and ran out of Lotus Pond Village with her.

He suddenly thought that it should be okay to go to the Huaihua Village next door to hide. There is a third uncle there, and the third aunt is usually calm, and she can raise her belly for a few months until she is born.

He hurried towards Huaihua Village.

Meng Yao hid behind Erxi, holding his stomach for fear of being bumped and causing fetal gas, this fetus should be a boy.

Ay! She sighed helplessly.

An hour and a half later, we arrived at the entrance of the village, because the small alley is not easy to walk, and there are several huge irregular stones blocked at the entrance of the village.

In the back room of every house in this village, there are several tall locust trees, every April, there are white locust flowers fluttering their wings and about to fly, hanging on the branches in bunches in bunches, the whole village will be smeared with the fragrance, refreshing people's hearts, the fragrance of peach blossoms floats for several miles along the spring breeze, and the peach blossom fragrance in the soil on both sides of the canal is intertwined, and the fragrance of flowers is diffused in the air for half a year, and it does not disperse for a long time. Legend has it that the lotus pond and Huaihua Village are the ruins of the palace people who moved over during the Qing Dynasty, and the palace people are familiar with the atmosphere of life, so the villages and villages have left many beautiful scenery for future generations......

In addition, both the stones and locust trees here are also used to prevent the homestead from being washed away by rain during the rainy season, which can prevent soil erosion.

Face the boulders.

He and Mengyao pushed the cart and chose to walk, but fortunately, more than a dozen households were the third uncle's house.

At present, it is winter leisure, and there are almost people in the family.

The third uncle's house is a white Yang iron gate, and there is a brick wall and an atmospheric gatehouse, Erxi stepped forward to smash the door, it is already afternoon, after a while, only to hear a fake cough in the courtyard.

It should be the third uncle who came out.

The iron door creaked, and the small door opened.

"Third uncle." Erxi hurriedly shouted.

"Oh?"

The third uncle looked at the two of them, and although his face was full of questions, he still got out of the way and signaled to come in and talk.

"Third uncle." Meng Yaowei followed and shouted in a low voice.

"Good!"

The third uncle is in his fifties, a veteran, and when he was in the army, he was a tank company commander. He has an excellent body and bones, and his figure with the same font is standard and handsome. At this age, he still has a straight back, often wears a navy blue tunic, and is extremely respected in the village.

In particular, there are four children in the family, three of whom are college students, the eldest daughter is a middle school English teacher, the second daughter has worked in the city, and the son is studying in college. Only the youngest daughter, Runye, is currently studying at a nearby normal school and will also be a teacher in the future. It is precisely because of these that the people in the village look up to the third uncle and the third aunt.

When he came to the Westinghouse, Erxi came in and sat down.

Mengyao also followed in, and the pregnant person was afraid of the heat, and after she entered the house, she quickly took off the tweed coat that had faded, and it was obvious that her belly had been several months.

Needless to say, the third aunt, who was sitting on the kang and making shoes, already understood it at a glance.

Erxi holds jasmine tea.

didn't speak, squeezed his eyes first, and the look of raising his eyebrows and twisting his nose really made people can't bear to look at it more, otherwise they would be sore and panicked, or they would want to beat him up.

"Third uncle and third aunt, today I ran into a village cadre who was going into the tractor, grabbing and lifting a woman with a big belly. She is now the second child, and I am afraid of being arrested and taken to the hospital at a critical moment, so I didn't have time to greet you in advance, so I can't hide with you for a month first. ”

Erxi is full of losses.

The third aunt saw that he was in his forties and was running for five, and it was easy to marry a daughter-in-law, and he was anxious to have a second child, so he felt that this was also a reasonable thing. And it's been 3 years, and I haven't seen Mengyao.

It's not an easy day to look at.

The years have made her less handsome, she used to look like a fairy, but now in comparison, she is a little inhuman and not a ghost. And looking at the dodgy trance and unconfident eyes, I know that maybe because the first child gave birth to a girl, I was not less angry and suffered. My mother's family was not here, and there was no one to speak, so I suddenly felt pity.

So the third aunt, who looked exquisite, not tall, and looked very young, almost agreed with a headache.

Erxi was grateful, and his face was even more half-crying and not smiling.

Finally, he got up and scared Meng Yao, "I can also see here with a long eyesight, don't be so greedy and lazy, I don't know how to be grateful for eating and drinking for nothing, and the housework is more tidy for the third aunt." ”

Meng Yao also stood up, silently, lowered his eyebrows, didn't dare to say a word, just lowered his head, and wrapped his two calloused hands and fingers together.

The third uncle and the third aunt also got up to put on their shoes and sent Erxi out of the courtyard.

Erxi rode back to the lotus pond.

It's another year of winter leisure, and after the old woman is busy with three meals a day, she still hides behind the door and prays, "Guanyin Bodhisattva, bless many children and grandchildren." ”

Repeat the chatter while making a fuss.

Just fell asleep on the kang, she grew up a lot, and the cyan birthmark on her back was gone, and her white and delicate skin was very similar to her mother, but there was no peach blossom birthmark on her sideburns.

The smoke of the incense of plants and trees is still lingering, but I hope that burning incense and making a wish today will work. Next, she closed her eyes again, knelt on the battered mat with her legs, and said the same sentence over and over again.

Erxi returned home and was busy with dinner with the old woman.

"I eat half full for every meal, and I've never eaten meat and eggs, and I eat Katou pickles every meal, this time it's time to be sure that I'm pregnant with a boy, right?"

"Almost." Erxi smoked a dry cigarette and nodded in agreement.

"Hey, that's good, the god who should ask also asked, Aunt Liu, the head of the village, said that she gave birth to 7 sons because she was a vegetarian. We haven't gotten used to her this time, and we shouldn't be wrong, and we should give birth in three months, and we'll know when the time comes. Alas, it would be bad if there were another girl. ”

After the old woman finished speaking, she frowned and became sullen.

"Don't say it, rebirth girl, see if I can't kill her," Erxi hated.

"Well, if it's a woman again, we won't spare it, you see." The old woman moved her feet, took a small jar, and slammed it into the wall cabinet.

"What is this?"

"I even had a toothpick ready, and I stabbed her to death immediately after giving birth to a baby girl." After speaking, it was as if the dream in front of him had resurfaced.

"Hah, awesome!" Erxi praised his mother's tricks.

I don't know why, now not only my mother, but even Erxi herself thinks of her extremely unhappy. In the past few years of marriage, she is not good-looking, she lacks heart, and she often does not speak aggrieved, always putting on an innocent and bullied demeanor, sparing herself that she has no ability to make money, and she still asks for money at every turn.

And he still has a great appetite, and he only wants to save the poor mother's family, and he is bloated when he thinks about it.

"Hey, forget it, don't mention her, let's stop for two days, if you think about the benefits, another boy, even if it's a boy and a woman, and I'm willing to be fined. I also heard that the family in the east of the village gave birth to a second child and was picked up by the cadres, but the boy born by the family is also worth recognizing. ”

The two of them were eating dinner, and suddenly the electricity ran out again, so they continued to light the kerosene lamp.

I didn't wake up all the time, I was taken by my grandmother first, and I slept in the bed at night. She can walk, and occasionally imitates the old woman kneeling behind the door to burn incense, and she also knows that while her mouth is full, she kneels and nods and prays, and occasionally helps the old woman burn grass wood incense in advance.

Since she could just call grandma and walk, the old woman didn't seem to hate her so much, and often tied a feather shuttlecock pigtail on the top of her head, and occasionally made a flower cotton suit. In the summer, I also make a big belly pocket, and I am not afraid to go through the trouble of sewing a flower to decorate.

In the evening, Huaihua Village.

Runye rode the oblique beam Kun car into the house, and from one to six o'clock, the family would inevitably leave the door for her.

Today is no exception.

Opening the corner door, she pushed the bicycle into the carport, and when it was ready, she carried her schoolbag and walked thoughtfully into the house. Runye wears a ponytail and a motorcycle-style cold-proof suit, which is a mixture of yellow and green, and it is definitely good-looking in the countryside. The clothes were bought by the second sister, who was a cadre in a big city. Because of her sister, although Runye is studying in a rural school, she dresses slightly differently, and is naturally much more fashionable and avant-garde than other girls.

When she entered the outhouse, she heard her mother shouting, "Runye, Runye, come into the house." ”

As if he hadn't heard, Runye put his schoolbag in the east room first, and then came to the west house to see his mother, and he also had to eat.

When I lifted the curtain, I saw a person sitting at the dining table, and I was stunned.

"This is your second sister-in-law, Erxi's family."

"Oh, hello, second sister-in-law!"

Runye suddenly, muttering mechanically to respond.