Shan Tiezhu had already sent someone back to repair his house and decorate the mourning hall. After Mrs. Shan had stopped working, Yao Hei'er, Zhong Cuiling, and three daughters came to Yao's house, which was not far from Shan's house.

The compound was devastated.

The mud on the courtyard wall was washed down a lot by the rain of previous years, and a thick layer was piled up at the corner of the wall; The doors were covered with cobwebs, dust, and mud from the storm, the paint on the door frames was mottled, and the iron locks on the knockers were rusted. The wild grass in the courtyard scrambled out of the crack in the door, and a fluffy dog's tail flower, under the blowing of the autumn wind, shook its head proudly at the group of people in front of it.

Before coming back, Zhong Cuiling once asked Yao Hei'er if she wanted to send someone back to clean up the house first. Yao Hei'er thought about it, but still didn't send anyone back. She wanted to see with her own eyes what this yard, which had been abandoned for more than ten years, had become? In this courtyard, how many traces of the past are left?

Thinking of this, Yao Hei'er's heart couldn't help but hurt. Is there anything left by my mother in this yard? I was in a hurry and was too sad, but I was afraid that there would inevitably be places that I would not notice.

She gently ripped off the cobwebs on the door frame, looked at Zhong Cuiling, and said, "Is the key still there?" If I remember correctly, Zhong Cuiling insisted on putting away the key on the door and installing it.

"Oh, oh." Zhong Cuiling agreed, and sure enough, he took out a key from his purse.

Yao Hei'er smiled lightly and said, "You really put it away." So I took the key, put it in the keyhole, and twisted it vigorously, but I couldn't open it at all. This weather-beaten iron lock has rusted to death from the inside out.

Yao Pei tugged at her mother's arm and said, "Mother, let me come!" ”

Before the words fell, she had already "smacked", pulled out a sword from her waist, and smiled at Yao Hei'er and the others, "You all get out of the way, I don't care if I cut you." ”

Yao Hei'er shook her head helplessly, this daughter is a tomboy after all, if she is as dignified and elegant as her sister, perhaps, she will not break up Yao Qiong and Shan Tiezhu.

With a loud thud of iron, the knocker was broken in two. Yao Pei shook her head proudly, blew the sword body distressedly, and said, "What a sword, it's a pity to use it for such useless things." ”

Yao Hei'er was shocked in her heart, and hurriedly said, "Pei'er, what kind of sword do you use?" ”

Yao Pei handed the sword to her mother indifferently, and said with a smile, "Mother, it's my sister's seven-star Longyuan sword!" My sister doesn't like to fiddle with this, so she gave it to me. ”

Yao Hei'er's face sank, and she said, "You're messing around again!" This is the dowry that the Holy God gave to your sister back then! How can you take it! ”

Yao Pei muttered dissatisfiedly, "Sister, I don't need it, I'm just borrowing it for a few days." Oh? Sister? Isn't that so? As he spoke, he peeked at Yao Hei'er's face, and said with a smile, "Mother, if you are not happy, wait for me to go back, and return it to my sister." ”

Yao Qiong also hurriedly said softly, "Mother, when I go back, I will ask my second sister to come over, just take it away." Don't be angry, old man. ”

Yao Hei'er looked at her two daughters, didn't speak again, she gently pushed open the courtyard door, and what greeted her was artemisia grass, arrow grass, plantain, dragon ball grass, and cow tendon grass that was more than half a person tall in the yard...... The center is also dotted with yellow and purple wildflowers. A brown-yellow weasel straightened up from the grass, stared at two black eyes, looked at the group of people in front of him, was stunned for a long time, and suddenly came to his senses, "swooped" into the grass, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Sister, why don't you call a few soldiers to clean up this weed? I'm afraid this yard can't live in it today. Zhong Cuiling said softly, she looked at this courtyard with some regret, the stove, firewood, stone bench, and chicken nest of the year have all been submerged in this barren grass.

Yao Hei'er didn't speak, she went straight through the grass and came to the door of the room, hesitated for a moment, she said, "Pei'er, you still cut off the lock on the door!" ”

Yao Pei made a smug face at Yao Jiu, and Yao Jiu immediately complained to her mother, "Mother, the second sister is squeezing her eyebrows and making eyes, mocking you!" ”

"Heh, you little thing, begging to beat again!" Yao Pei glared at Yao Jiu. Yao Jiu immediately rushed behind his mother like a rabbit.

The two sisters were too young when they left Shanjia Village, and they didn't feel the same way as their mother, Aunt Zhong and sister about this courtyard, they were more curious and fresh about the desolation here.

"Stop making trouble!" Yao Hei'er frowned, and urged impatiently, "Pei'er, hurry up!" ”

There was another loud bang, and the knocker on the door also fell.

Inside the room, there was a thick layer of dust. The tables, chairs, cots, water tanks, rice urns, and collapsed clay kang have all lost their original color and are covered in thick dust.

Yao Hei'er's fingers slid lightly over the tabletop, and a clear line immediately appeared.

Yao Jiu frowned, and said unhappily, "Mother, are we going to live here today?" How can this live in people? ”

Yao Hei'er didn't speak, she carefully searched every corner of the room with her eyes, except for dust or dust, her feet on the ground, she could shake up a thin layer of dust.

Yao Qiong guessed her mother's thoughts, and said softly, "Mother, if your old man doesn't want outsiders to move this house, let your daughter clean it, we have a futon in the car, and this bed is also ready-made, clean it, spread the futon, just like we did back then, there is nothing to do." ”

Yao Hei'er turned around and looked at her eldest daughter. Today, Yao Qiong is wearing a yellow coat with gold makeup, a wide long skirt with green orchid wisps of gold, and she is full of bright and uneven silk. Her identity is already King Ning's fiancée, how can she be allowed to do such a thing?

That's it!

Yao Hei'er said to Cuiling, "Call a few servants to come over and clean the room, let's rest at night." ”

Yao Jiu dragged out his voice unhappily again, and shouted, "Mother-are we really living here?" ”

Without waiting for Yao Hei'er to speak, Yao Pei grabbed it and said, "Mother, your little daughter is spoiled, just beat her." Your old man said, hit the hand board or hit the head? I got it! As he spoke, he pretended to roll up his sleeves.

Yao Hei'er glared at Yao Pei, touched the third daughter's bun again, sighed, and said, "Jiu'er, you don't understand." My mother is determined to stay here for a few more days. We could live in it back then, why can't we live in it now? ”

Yao Jiu didn't dare to say anything more, but pouted dissatisfiedly.

A few slaves came over, and Yao Hei'er took Zhong Cuiling and her three daughters to the outside of the courtyard.

It was already evening, and the remnants of the sun were like blood, shooting through the low treetops and slanting on the dirt road of Shanjia Village. This road has also been repaired by the single family in advance, and it is not as potholed as it was back then. A few homing birds, chirping in the treetops.

Several other villagers in Shanjia Village also prepared sacrifices to worship Mrs. Shan. The sad sound of suona, mixed with intermittent crying, came from the single family.

A few thin sheets of white paper money, rolled up from the ground by the autumn wind, jumped in the air.

A mother-in-law ran out of the yard and said with a smile, "Madam, when we were just cleaning, we found this in the kangtou, but the lady left it back then?" As he spoke, he handed the item he was holding in his hand to Yao Hei'er.

In the light of the setting sun, the object emits a blinding glow.

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