Night replaced dusk, and a bright moon appeared in the eastern sky.

Su Qingtong pedaled his bicycle and returned home in the moonlight.

The door was closed, the side door of the mother's bedroom was still open, and under the dim light bulb, the mother sat under the "creaking" ceiling fan and blowing the wind to cool off.

In the days when there was no TV to watch, her time seemed particularly depressed, and there was a sense of twilight.

"Mom, have you eaten it?"

"I'll wait for you to come back and eat together." Wang Xuemei raised her eyes and glanced at her: "Why are you late to come back today?" ”

"I watched the excitement on the road for a while."

"What's going on?"

"A young woman died in a family, and she said she had committed suicide."

"So filthy things, don't look at them next time, now in the middle of July, there are a lot of evil things, don't get contaminated with unclean things."

"I see."

Su Qingtong said and put down the cross bag and walked into the kitchen next to him.

In the kitchen, near the cupboards, there is a simple briquette stove with a pressure cooker on the front side of it, hot rice, washed vegetables on the adobe stove by the window, chopped peppers on the cutting board, and a little garlic and a handful of black tempeh.

This is the dish that the two mothers and daughters ate tonight, water spinach and fried tempeh with green peppers.

Wang Xuemei came over to light the fire for her daughter, but she drove her away, afraid that she would be hot.

My daughter seems to be a different person these days, doing things more and more refreshingly, and now she is becoming more and more considerate, in short, she is extremely satisfied.

She couldn't bear to see her daughter in a hurry, so she talked to her beside her, while stuffing firewood into the stove from time to time.

"Sister-in-law Liang of Banziling introduced you to an object, who can do carpenter work, and her home is in the mountains, so I refused."

Su Qingtong did not speak.

Wang Xuemei glanced at her daughter, and said tentatively: "If you want to see it, I will go to Liang's sister-in-law's house for a trip, that boy is two years younger than you, said that he is not tall, only studied in junior high school, I thought that if you live with him for a lifetime, you may have to work hard, but you can't starve to death, the adults in his family said, if there is a girl who falls in love with him, his family will grit his teeth and build a house, but the debt will have to be borne by you." ”

"No need."

Su Qingtong has no interest in such a boy, and she has no plans to get married.

Wang Xuemei breathed a sigh of relief and said: "I don't like it either, it doesn't sound good, my daughter has studied in college, how can she find a man and marry her?" There must always be something that the other party can handle. ”

Su Qingtong smiled: "That's it, if I want to find a good one, you will refuse to me." ”

Wang Xuemei opened her mouth, and the following words were a little unacceptable.

What she didn't say was that ordinary boys now don't look down on her, alas! I'm afraid that if I say it, I will break my daughter's heart.

I knew that my daughter would go back to the countryside one day, and I really shouldn't have sent her to college desperately, and when I graduated from college, I would be older, and I was not as good as those girls who had not studied and found a man who was not bad looking to marry and have children early.

Su Qingtong quickly fried the vegetables, looked at the lack of lard in the oil tank, and thought that it was time to weigh some fat meat and go home to refine the oil.

Wang Xuemei suddenly remembered something and asked her: "The day after tomorrow, I will take my ancestors home, don't you take two days off?" ”

"I'll take a day off, aren't there still Su Zitong and Su Tianhua at home? By the way, where did Su Tianhua go to play again? ”

"I don't know, I'm about to play cards."

Su Qingtong was silent, his younger brother was busy with farm work during the summer vacation, and he was usually at the card table.

There is such a culture in the countryside, and the younger brother also has his likes and dislikes, and he can't be forced to live a life he doesn't like.

The mother and daughter were eating, and the younger brother Su Tianhua came back, and as soon as he entered the door, he hurriedly said, "Eldest sister, give me a hundred yuan." ”

Wang Xuemei glanced at her eldest daughter.

Su Qingtong refused in one bite: "No, you will need 100 yuan to open your mouth, you should be easy to pick up?" ”

"Sister, then give me seventy or eighty, you can save the emergency, and I will return it to you later."

"I don't have any money, and it's useless for you to beg me."

Su Tianhua glanced at her suspiciously, suddenly grabbed her bag to turn over the money, and just opened the zipper, she was slapped open by Su Qingtong: "Who let you turn over other people's bags?" ”

"You're no one else, it's my own sister, can't I go through my sister's bag?"

"No, no one can rummage through my bag without my permission."

"Sister, you can help, I'm really in a hurry to turn over the book."

"No is no, forget if you lose, play less cards, read more books, exercise more, you will graduate next year, and you are not thinking about finding a good job."

"I know what to do in my studies, so you should save my immediate urgency first."

Su Qingtong didn't bother to pay attention to him, and ate the rice in the bowl by himself.

Wang Xuemei saw that her son was so anxious that she felt like she had burned her buttocks, and she felt sorry for him, so she took out twenty yuan from her body and said, "This is the twenty yuan that your eldest sister just bought me for fatty meat, you can use it first." ”

Su Tianhua was happy at first, and at the same time a little disgusted, but the eldest sister couldn't get the money, so he had to run away with the twenty yuan.

Su Qingtong glanced at her mother and didn't say anything, her mother is a loving mother, and she is the same for any child, she can't say anything about her.

After Wang Xuemei gave the money to her son, she felt that she had done it against her eldest daughter, so she said to her eldest daughter: "You just let him go and turn over the book, he usually rarely loses money." ”

Su Qingtong didn't care, she had long known that her mother would do this: "You gave it to him, what else can I say?" ”

Wang Xuemei said: "I knew you were duplicitous. ”

After the mother and daughter finished eating, Su Qingtong washed the dishes, cleaned up the house again, and then went back to the bedroom at the back.

The moon on the tenth day of the first month is already bright and bright, the warm moonlight is quietly pouring on the roof, and the bamboo forest behind the house is sometimes blown by the night breeze, making a 'salalala' sound.

It was a quiet night, but Su Qingtong's heart was not quiet, she was thinking about what happened on the way home, thinking about Mo Zhitang, thinking heartbreakingly, wanting to see him, but she didn't dare to see him, for fear that he wouldn't recognize her.

"Ah Tang, I'm here, can you find me?"

No one answered her.

And she always felt that he was by her side, quietly waiting for her.

On a quiet country night, the moon was dim outside, and only the sound of her fingers turning the pages could be heard.

She is like a flower that blooms late at night, fragrant alone, quiet and peaceful, and indisputable from the world.

"Aotong, Qingtong"

Suddenly, she heard someone calling her, and listened attentively, but she couldn't hear it anymore, and on impulse, she went out of the door to check, and under the moonlight like water, everything was as in the past, and there was no trace of a visitor.