After about half an hour, the old lady walked out of the village chief's house on crutches, and the happy appearance and the clapping hand at the mouth of the heart were done.

"Ah Zhi, let's go home and pack our bags and go to town."

"Grandma, it's going to town now, and it's getting dark when you come back!" Ah Zhi was puzzled.

The old lady blinked her eyes and took a heavy deep breath, "No, if you don't come back, our ancestors and grandchildren will live in the town in the future, and if you don't come back, you will survive in this yellow earth." ”

"What's going on," Ah Zhi was surprised, and his blood welled up in uneasiness.

"I sold the house, the two acres and three points of land, to the village chief, now not only can I pay off the debt, but I can also have the spare money to buy you some clothes, and then go to Aqi, and I can also buy some medicine to hang my life as a step into the loess."

The old lady trembled and took out the square silk from her bosom again, and the square silk that was washed so hard that she couldn't recognize what color it was, was heavier than before.

Ah Zhi's heart is trembling, just a broken jade porcelain gourd, it makes people sell their property and become homeless.

Ah Zhi can't be the master after all, these house deeds belong to the old lady, how to dispose of them, and who to sell them to, the old lady has the final say.

But now, Ah Zhi really has nothing to say, what else can he say.

"Grandma, you sold your life, what will you do in the future?" Ah Zhi was worried about the old lady.

The old lady smiled: "Don't be afraid, what about the town, there is a small mansion, which is the dowry given to me by my mother's family, I haven't seen it for a long time, let's go, hurry now, maybe I can arrive before the forbidden city." ”

The stone hanging in Ah Zhi's heart fell suddenly, and the old lady should have made up her mind to make such a big move.

When they returned home, they packed up some clothes and utensils, and then they stood in the courtyard and took one last look at the house.

The old lady was also surprised why this Tang Tang didn't ask how much it was sold: "Ah Zhi, today is the fourteenth, the day after tomorrow is the opening of that son's restaurant, I will go to pay off the debt tomorrow, and we will be able to live in peace in the future." ”

"Okay," Ah Zhi whispered, full of doubts, is a jade porcelain gourd really worth ten taels? And this old lady has changed her stinginess, and she can want to sell her house and land, that's her life!

The old lady noticed that Ah Zhi did not have some bad thoughts about her Yinliang, and she was full of tears, if those people were in front of her, I am afraid that they would have fought a long time ago.

Although fate is destined, but this time, it has to be changed, and it can no longer guard the land that is enough to fill her stomach, Ah Zhi is still small, the world is big, and she has not seen the beauty of the world, if it is really as she saw in her dream, the old lady closed her eyes, and she must not let the real scene, the icy and stiff corpse appear in front of her.

At night, the grandfather and grandson staggered into the city, and almost spent the night outside the city.

Ah Zhi followed the footsteps of the old lady, turned the street from the east of the city and walked through the alleys, bypassed many passers-by, and saw the prosperity of the city, the bright lights of every house, the hawkers shouting on the street, and the acrobatic artists.

The rich in Tongping Town are so rich that they are oily, and the poor are so poor that they are clanging. The difference is so large that it is to be expected.

When I arrived at an alley, the moonlight sprinkled like water on the vicissitudes of life that was taking out the key from the sleeve, and the old lady opened the small house that had not been cleaned for a long time because of the stability of the heart.

As soon as I opened it, the musty smell came to my nose, choked the old lady and coughed a few times, and did not forget to say to Ah Zhi with a smile: "Ah Zhi, this is it, and it will be our home in the future." ”

"Grandma, then you can rest first, and I'll clean up," Ah Zhi opened the door and took out the fire fold to light the prepared candle.

She had never used the fire fold, and it seemed a little clumsy, but she still lit it, and the cobwebs were intertwined, desolate and cold, and the house covered with gray crumbs was as bright as day in an instant.

I opened the door of the backyard, and by the moonlight, the backyard was full of dead branches and leaves, and the depression could not be more depressed.

Ah Zhi turned his head and looked at the old lady who was already dusting off the dust with a feather duster.

"Grandma, how long have you not been here?"

The old lady lamented, "It's been half a year, and I still have the mental strength to take care of the cleaning before, so I often come, but then I got sick and rarely came." ”

"Oh," Ah Zhi looked around at the room, although the sparrows were small, they were all in order. It is also excellent to shelter from the wind and rain and have a place to stay, but will the old lady regret selling the land on impulse in the future.

There is water in the well, but not a lot, and it has not been used for a long time, and the hemp rope that draws water by the well has been weathered, and there is a lot of green moss growing on the side.

The old lady saw Ah Zhi staring at the well with a fire fold there, so she shouted: "Come here, don't be in a hurry, fetch water again tomorrow, and it will be there tonight." ”

"Here," Ah Zhi knew that she was not sure, so she looked at it to determine the depth of the well.

Under the moonlight, the old lady's sideburns became whiter, and her face was much paler.

Ah Zhi was a little worried, took out the quilt and made a bunk, and let the old lady lie down and rest.

Then he took out a small stove and lit a fire in the house, put a small casserole, boiled some water, took out the kang cakes on the road, baked them on the fire, and when they were soft, he filled a bowl of water and handed it to the old lady.

The old lady lost a tooth, and the hard food could not be bitten, so she soaked it in hot water and ate it.

It was midnight when they were washing up and resting, when they heard some movement in the next room.

It was the cough of the patient who had been in bed for a long time, the soft sound of crutches on the ground, and the sound of the window being opened.

Hearing the babbling, the grandfather and grandson held each other's hands tightly, looked at each other, looked at each other, and their faces were full of horror.

This house is generally counted as two small rooms, a small garden, and a small pavilion.

Now that someone else lives, how can the old lady not be anxious?

But both of them are women, how can they be able to resist the thieves who forcibly moved in.

I heard the coughing sound, it was a man.

The old lady looked nervous, holding Ah Zhi's hand tightly, and she repeatedly lost her voice: "What should I do, what should I do?" ”

Ah Zhi held his breath and patted her shoulder: "I'll take a look." ”

Ah Zhi, a person who died once, where will she be afraid, she is worried that she can't find a chance to go back, if she can go back after her accidental death this time, then she will be able to see Lao He every day.

Ah Zhi picked up the wooden stick about 1.12 meters long that he had found earlier, and walked to the small garden, where the faintly visible candlelight in the next room flickered and the emaciated back.

On the ground, an iron object with a flickering cold light was close to Ah Zhi's neck, and he gasped in an instant, not daring to move at all.

"Don't make a noise, don't mean to occupy it," the man masked, revealing a pair of cold eyes.

Ah Zhi's hand holding the wooden stick was nervously breaking out in a cold sweat, and she tried not to move: "Are you a thief?" ”

"No," the man retracted his iron weapon, put it back in its scabbard with unmistakable accuracy, and looked condescendingly at the emaciated hairy girl.

"Don't make a noise, or you'll ......"

"Gotta get it," the hero didn't suffer the immediate loss, and Ah Zhi gave in: "As long as you don't hurt me and the old lady." ”

The man snorted, turned and strode away, pushing open the door next door.

It's really her own home, if she hadn't seen another person holding a knife to the old lady's neck, would she still be able to compromise?

The old lady was dizzy.

I was stunned by the man in black who suddenly appeared with a knife and a neck.

Ah Zhi stayed awake all night, just to guard the old lady, and squatted in the corner at the same time, but he could only hear coughing and wheezing, and he couldn't hear anything else.