Since Chunsheng's grandfather Tong Youcai moved to Baidi City with his wife and children, the Tong family has lived here for three generations, and at the beginning he followed the Ma family to pick tea, and was the old man among the many tea farmers of the Ma family.

It's just that since the beginning of this year, Chunsheng has been a little depressed, and the people in the same village are not as talkative as usual, but the people in the same village have not paid much attention, because this depression is often accompanied by rainy weather, if it is dry for a long time, Chunsheng will also be happy, which is also the situation of some tea farmers from time to time. And because of the increasingly busy tea mountain, naturally no one noticed that Chunshengniang hadn't appeared in front of everyone's field of vision for half a year.

Wu Qing, the guy who brought Pinyuan and Wang San to Chunsheng's house, is also from Pure Land Village, and unlike Chunsheng, this guy works in the gatehouse of the Ma family, and often does this errand and guard the door.

Coming out of the Majia Courtyard, along the road to the tea mountain, when you reach a diagonal forked path, turn right into the increasingly rugged path, after seven bends, eight turns, three or four miles, you arrive at the entrance of the Pure Land Village, a large stone monument covered with moss is very conspicuous. Pure Land Village is like a porcelain bowl with a missing mouth, facing mountains on three sides, only the place where it comes in is flat, the village is sparsely populated, Chunsheng's home is leaning on the junction of the gap and the tea mountain, which is the best location in the Pure Land Village, and Wu Qing's house is farther away, across a few field paths to arrive.

Just past the entrance of the village, Wu Qing, who was driving the car in front, opened the curtain of the car, pointed to a low thatched house in front and said, "Shaodong's house, there is Chunsheng's house." ”

Through the mist, Pin Yuan couldn't see the low thatched hut clearly, and when the carriage got closer, he found that it was a four-room thatched hut, and the house where the small leader of the tea farmers lived was so dilapidated. asked Wu Qing, "What is the position of this Chunsheng family's house among the tea farmers?" ”

Wu Qing hesitated a little, not knowing what this young owner meant, so he replied decently, "It's good in the tea farmers in Pure Land Village, but it's not good in other villages." ”

"How does it compare to your house?"

Wu Qinggan laughed a few times, and said, "My brother's third brother has three earthen houses, if they all marry daughters-in-law in the future, the eldest brother and his parents will have to live in one each, and my younger brother and I will have to build another one to live, which is naturally not as good as the four thatched houses in Chunsheng's family." ”

"Chunsheng doesn't have a brother in the family?"

"I heard earlier that there was a...," Wu Qing said in a slightly mysterious whisper when he said this, "but I heard that he died during the flash flood, he is an old man, maybe when we enter the house, we can still see Chunsheng Niang." ”

Wang Sanben wandered away from the conversation between the two, and when he heard the torrent, his body was obviously shocked, the torrent 22 years ago changed many things in the Ma family, and also changed the trajectory of the fate of many people, and he was one of them, could it be that this spring was too.

The sound of the horse finally sounded, Pin Yuan shook the folds on his clothes, and after taking the hat, he jumped directly out of the carriage, splashing the stagnant water on the ground, and smiled a little embarrassedly after realizing it, and was about to walk towards the door with a big stride, but was suddenly stopped by Wang San, who was still in the carriage.

Pin Yuan collected the steps he was walking forward, turned his head and asked in a low voice, "Third brother, what's wrong?" ”

Wang San ignored him, and after getting out of the car, he directly swept the pin far to look ahead, and said after a long time, "This shoe print should only be available today, and the new mud around the shoe print indicates that it came back from outside, and there may be people in the house." ”

With Wang San's gaze, there was still a dripping hat by the door of the thatched house, which became particularly conspicuous after Wang San's reminder, and the two of them retreated to the back of the carriage and motioned for Wu Qing to shout.

The errand boy had gained experience for many years, so he naturally understood what the two meant, so he opened his throat and shouted, "Is Chunsheng at home?" My dad asked me to come and see you. ”

There was no response, there was silence in the house, only the sound of rain hitting the hat could be heard, Wu Qing smiled awkwardly behind the carriage, as if the person in the house was his brother, and the usual intimacy was pierced by outsiders, all of which were paper-paste friendship.

"Chunsheng Niang, Wu De's family has come to see you." It's another throat, using up the friendship of several generations, just to pull the person in the house out to talk about family life.

There was no response, just as Wu Qing looked at Pinyuan, a coughing sound suddenly sounded in the room, but the coughing sound was old as if it came from the coffin board, which made people feel cold in their backs.

Ahem... Ahem... Ahem, there was a continuous coughing sound, this sound was like an unstoppable torrent, once it broke out, there was a sound of landslides and earth cracks in an instant. The three people standing outside all subconsciously touched their throats, as if they were infected, and Wu Qing, who was at the front, finally couldn't help but cough lowly, phew, a mouthful of phlegm spit on the ground, and was instantly washed away by the rain.

A voice finally sounded in the room, but it was not to the people outside, with some crying, "Mother-in-law, you really killed Chunsheng, you can bear with it again." With that, there was another cries of collapse. When the old woman heard this, she began to cough again, and became more and more unable to help herself, and began to lose her breath, which caused the crying little woman to beat her back again.

The three people outside the house looked at each other with some guilt, not wanting to cause such an incident, and were hesitating. The guy who ran the errand finally took his due responsibility, and said to the house again, "Chunsheng's family, open the door and let us go in and see Chunshengniang." ”

It was a fenced yard, and it was extremely easy to get in, and it was the style of a gentleman on the beam to come uninvited, and the three people outside the door had to be invited by the master to go in and sit anyway.

There were a few more shouts, and the voices were a little hoarse, and no one in the house came out to see. Wu Qing looked at Pinyuan, and he was also helpless. That's it, just wait, maybe God has mercy, the rain has a tendency to get smaller, and the three of them got into the carriage again, and they can still pass.

Half a sound, the room finally couldn't hold back, squeak, some years old wooden door was finally willing to open to see, a woman in her thirties went out, and shouted at the three people outside, "You three big men are here, what kind of ability, bullying my orphans and widows, there is no one in the house!" Then he began to cry again, and when he spoke again, he was choked up.

"My Tong family is not so sorry for your Ma family, it's not all forced, you people who live in big mansions and big yards understand the difficulties of our families, and I'm not sorry for you..." At first, he was still roaring, but by the last few words he had become quieter, whimpering low like a wounded beast, and only repeating 'I'm not sorry for you', which was probably just to convince myself.

Wu Qing was a sensitive, and shouted, "Sister-in-law Chunsheng, that's not what you said, if there is anything you can sit down and talk to the owner, you open the door first, don't let the owner keep getting out in the rain, come to your house, and it will be bad to go back and get sick." ”

But the woman was unmoved, and when she heard the word open the door, she wanted to turn around and go back, so that Pinyuan, who thought she could go in, was a little anxious, and she didn't care about anything else, and said directly, "I'm not here to trouble you, I just want to know the truth of the matter." ”