Shanjia Village, Yao's Family.

For the Yao family and the Shan family, this is a very important discussion, the purpose of everyone getting together is to discuss, where the Yao family is going, and whether the Shan family should go together.

Tie Zhu was the first to shout to go with Aunt Hei and Aunt Zhong, firstly because of the curiosity of children, and more importantly, because he was unwilling to lose Qiong'er's little friend.

Second Sister Zhang is a little reluctant to leave, after all, her mother's house is also nearby, and if she leaves, it will be difficult to see her parents' relatives again.

Shan Hulu squatted in the corner alone, biting a grass path in his mouth, without saying a word.

For the Yao family, they hope that the single family will go with them in their hearts, after all, the journey of only a few women and children will be very difficult. It would be very helpful to have a man by your side.

However, Yao Heier also knows that it is difficult to leave her homeland, "the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as your own grass nest", not to mention, where they are going, whether it is a wolf's den or a tiger's den, it is simply a matter of shadow. Thinking of this, she reluctantly smiled and said, "Auntie, Brother Hulu, sister-in-law, you better stay, we will have a chance to come back in the future and come to see you again." ”

As soon as he heard this, Tie Zhu immediately jumped up, pulled the placket of his grandmother's clothes, and tears fell from his eyes: "Grandma, no! Let's go with Aunt Hei! ”

Mrs. Shan finally spoke, and said, "According to me, let's go with the Yao family, and our good days in the past two years have been brought to us by the Yao family." Now that the Yao family is in trouble, we can't sit idly by. Besides, I believe that with Miss Yao's intelligence, she will definitely be able to bring us a good life. ”

The taciturn single gourd also said angrily: "I listen to my mother." ”

Second Sister Zhang hesitated and said, "It's not that I don't want to go, it's just that my parents are older......

Tie Zhu immediately ran from his grandmother's side to his mother's side, rolled into Second Sister Zhang's arms, and said coquettishly: "Mother, let's go!" Mother-"

Second Sister Zhang rubbed her son's hair helplessly and said, "Okay, okay, depending on you!" ”

But where do we go from here? Everyone is out of ideas.

Yao Hei'er looked at the two families who were at a loss and said, "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, don't think about it so much first." Cuiling, you cook a good meal, invite several families in our village, and say goodbye to everyone, everyone has helped us at the beginning, tomorrow I will go to Dongyin, transfer the restaurant to others, how much there is a few money. ”

Several chickens raised by Zhong Cuiling were taken away by officers and soldiers that day, and two of them ran away, and they came back at this time. Cuiling asked a single gourd to kill the two chickens, stewed a pot full of chicken soup, steamed a pot of steamed buns, boiled a large pot of dishes, and Mrs. Shan and Second Sister Zhang went to invite the mountain people.

Hearing that the Yao family was leaving, the mountain people all hurried over, some took the dry goods from the family, and some took the saved furs to see off the Yao family.

They also vaguely knew what was going on, gathered in the small courtyard of the Yao family, some sighed, some were sad, some were reluctant, and some sighed.

The next day, Yao Hei'er arrived in Dongyin and transferred the restaurant to the money shopkeeper at a low price of two hundred taels of silver. When Yao Hei'er and the shopkeeper said goodbye at the door of the restaurant, she could faintly feel that there was a cold and vicious gaze, staring at her proudly from behind the window of the Gao family restaurant opposite.

"Be proud! I just don't know, how many days can you be proud! Yao Hei'er said secretly in her heart.

Yao Hei'er turned to the East Market, which sold cloth, and bought two coarse white cloths, back then, he didn't give filial piety to his father and brother, and now, how can he not wear filial piety to his mother?

Zhong Cuiling and Yao Heier, the two of them were busy all night, and they rushed to make a filial piety dress for the whole family.

Yao Hei'er looked at the three beautiful but frightened daughters, and said slowly: "From today on, you are no longer surnamed Du, you are Yao Qiong, Yao Pei and Yao Jiu." ”

What does it mean that three incomprehensible children saw a cluster of flames jumping in their mother's eyes? They didn't understand, but they all nodded obediently.

After a long overcast day, it finally cleared, and a dazzling ray of sunlight shone in through the window lattice.

It's a little hot, and it's going to be May soon.

In the courtyard, there is a pomegranate tree planted by Cuiling last year, and now its branches are sparse, full of green and jade-like branches and leaves.

I can't wait for the pomegranate to bloom, and I can't wait for the pomegranate to bear fruit.

Zhong Cuiling said in a low voice: "Sister, everything is packed up, shall we leave now?" ”

Yao Hei'er gently arranged Jiu'er's hair, and said in a low voice: "Cuiling, I saw him the day before yesterday and asked him, how is Tai'er?" ”

Zhong Cuiling's body shook suddenly, and a burden in her hand fell to the ground, and after a while, she was heard trembling: "That's it, that's it!" I'm relieved. ”

An ox cart stopped at the door of Yao's house, and Tie Zhu jumped out of the car with an excited face, shouting loudly: "Aunt Hei, Aunt Zhong, when are we leaving?" ”

At this time, only this stupid child can still be happy.

Yao Hei'er shook her head helplessly, but said with a smile on her face: "Let's go, we'll clean up too." ”

When the family went out, Zhong Cuiling wanted to lock the door, Yao Hei'er said lightly: "What are you doing when you lock the door?" Are you afraid that someone will come and steal something? ”

Zhong Cuiling's hand paused, but he still locked the door, carefully installed the key, and said, "Are you accurate?" Maybe I'll be back. ”

Out of Shanjia Village, there are two roads, one to the south, which can lead to Dongyin City; One to the north, twenty miles to the north, and another fork in the road, one to the west, which can lead to the cold city, and one to the east, which Yao Heier has never walked.

The wagons and ox carts of the two families walked on this road that had never been walked before. I walked more than ten miles forward, and there were two forks in front of me, where to go?

Yao Hei'er hesitated, jumped out of the car, and took off the gold skein bracelet on her wrist, which was given to her by her mother back then. Looking at the bracelet, her name was Cuiling: "You take a handkerchief and blindfold me." ”

"Hey." Zhong Cuiling agreed suspiciously, but still did as Yao Hei'er said.

Yao Hei'er, who was blindfolded, held the bracelet and secretly blessed in her heart: "Mother, your old man has a spirit in the sky to guide her daughter on a path." After wishing over, he turned around a few times and threw the bracelet out.

When she tore off the handkerchief, Yao Hei'er saw the gold twisted silk bracelet, shining on a road to the north, under the reflection of the sun.

The two families walked on the road for more than half a month, and when they met an inn, they stayed in the inn, and if there was no inn, they rested in the car. Fortunately, it is summer, and it is not cold; When you come across the market, you buy some food and store it in the car; When you come across a stream, you use the clay pot on the car to get some water. When you encounter a fork in the road, you don't know how to go, so you use a gold twisted bracelet to decide.

Tie Zhu is tired of this game, and the later roads are almost all chosen by Tie Zhu to throw bracelets.

When the two families felt exhausted and disheartened, there was an old lady who was not in a hurry to stabilize everyone's emotions. People say that "there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure", and it is true. The old man has experienced an unknown number of hardships, and his state of mind is more peaceful than anyone else.

Although Second Sister Zhang was reluctant to go at first, now that she has come out, she has also shown her open-minded and cheerful nature, and the loneliness on the way depends on her to pass away, her big voice is always joking with everyone, diluting a lot of Yao Heier's sadness.

The taciturn single gourd is actually the most important pillar of this team of old and weak women and children. He barely said anything, but he did all the work, fetching water, buying food, pitching tents at night, chopping wood for hot water...... On a mountain road, he also hit a hare. Roasting rabbit meat over a bonfire at night has become the happiest thing for the two families on their journey.

They crossed plains, climbed ridges, stepped over streams, and crossed towns. Where exactly they went, no one knows. But Yao Hei'er knew in her heart that they had been walking north for the most part.

On this day they came to a wilderness full of grass and trees; At the end of the wilderness is a high mountain with a forest of trees, and not far away a white training belt, which should be a mountain stream. There are no villages in sight around, and no pedestrians in sight.

It seems that you can go anywhere, and it seems that there is no way anywhere.

Yao Hei'er took off the bracelet on her wrist again, very strange, the iron pillar did not rush to throw it this time, but quietly snuggled up to her grandmother, without saying a word.

The bracelet "snapped" and fell at Yao Hei'er's feet. Yao Hei'er tore off the handkerchief that was blindfolded, and was a little surprised in her heart, why did it fall at her feet when she threw it out?

All three times.

Mrs. Shan spoke: "Child, I think this is what your mother meant, let's settle down here!" ”