After coming here for so long, Sister Qiu followed the Mei family for the first time and went to the tomb of Mei Lao Xiucai. Mei Lao Xiucai's tomb is better to recognize a little, there is a stone tablet in front of the tomb, on the top of the inscription red paint is written "the tomb of the beloved son Meiliang", there are two lines of small characters on one side, "Father Mei Tang stands", the side is the time when the monument is erected.

Although Mei Liang has a daughter, but in the eyes of people at this time, he has no son, which is equivalent to being the last, Sister Qiu has no right to erect a monument to her father, and the Jia family has no status in the Mei family, so the person who erected the monument became Mei Laosuo.

From the morning, the sky was gloomy and rainy. Jia Shi selected a few wild peaches and put them in front of the monument of Mei Lao Xiucai, Mao found a wooden stick, drew an unsealed circle under the wild land in front of Mei Lao Xiucai's tomb, lit the yellow sorghum paper with flint, and took it in one after another to burn.

Accompanied by burning yellow sorghum paper, one of the most important steps is to cry the grave, if any woman burns yellow sorghum paper and does not cry, it is not graceful and affectionate, and it is necessary to poke people in the back.

While burning, Mao wiped away his tears, "Liang'er, my mother has sent you money......" Before the words were finished, he couldn't cry. Jia even knelt in front of the tomb, cried loudly on the stele, as if he wanted to vent the bitterness and grievances that had been pressed in his heart for many days.

The sky was gloomy and it was going to rain, and the Mei family came to burn paper early, and only at this moment did the villagers carry bamboo baskets to the post to burn paper, listening to Jia's sad cry, many people stopped and looked at it for a while, and then shook their heads and gradually moved away.

The black paper ash burned from the yellow sorghum paper floated with the wind, like a black moth flying one after another, and Sister Qiu knelt beside Jia's side, with two lines of tears on her face. It's not that she has any deep feelings for this old Xiucai father who only appears in the memory, the tears seem to be the spontaneous reaction of this body.

Second Uncle Mei led the two sons, stood in front of the tomb with his hands crossed, and pretended to speak: "Big brother, don't worry, you are gone, we still have me at home, with me and your two nephews, our old Mei family is not good!" After speaking, in order to show his sadness, he blew his nose vigorously and wiped his eyes.

He performed hard, but his two sons didn't understand things like this, broke a few willow branches and began to chase me, and finally ran to the grave next to him to play, and the frightened Mao couldn't care about crying, and said with a wide eyebrow: "Come down!" You little bunnies, beware of the ghosts coming looking for you at night! ”

The two children stuck out their tongues, grimaced, and ran down from the grave.

The child has no taboos, but frightened the superstitious Mao, when the big cow and the second cow came down, she hurriedly walked three steps to the grave that the big cow and the second cow had run over, and made amends to the deceased.

gave Da Niu and Erniu such a trouble, and Sister Qiu's original only sadness was gone. Mei Laoxiucai's most painful thing before his death was these two nephews, all the delicious food was left to them, and Mei Laoxiu, who didn't know, had a soul in the sky, and looked at his nephew who was like a lifeline to go to his own grave, what would it be like.

Looking at the cold tombstone and the bulging grave, the departure of the old Xiucai father, who Sister Qiu didn't know, was good or bad for Jia and Sister Qiu. He left, leaving the orphans and widows to be oppressed by the Mei family, but even if he was there, he did not fulfill his responsibility as a father and husband.

Jia Shi dug a shovel of soil on the side, the soil was full of weeds, and put the soil embryo on the shovel on Meiliang's grave, which was regarded as adding a grave to Meiliang, and pulled out a few handfuls of weeds growing on the grave. The graves were all piled up with loess, and if there was not even a single person at home who burned paper to add to the grave, it would take three or three years of work at most, and the rain would not be able to find it.

Mao was tired after crying for a long time, wiped the tears on his face, turned his face and looked at the bamboo basket, and a few remaining pieces of yellow sorghum paper, seeing that Jia was still chopping, this work was in front of his son's grave, it was not good to urge her to hurry up, so he said to Jia: "Let's go and burn paper for your grandparents first, you cry for Lao Xiucai after the grave, go home and make lunch." ”

The "your grandparents" in Mao's mouth are Mei Laosu's father and mother, according to the rules of Xiaohe Town, Sister Qiu wants to call them "grandpa and grandma", they died long before Jia's marriage, I heard that it was because of the vulgar and spicy, unforgiving Mao couldn't get along, so they simply separated, and built another yard for their son and built a house.

Their house is in the west of the village, and there have been no people for more than ten years, and the original few mud houses are even more dilapidated.

When they returned home, a light rain began to fall, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and the temperature seemed to drop several degrees in an instant, and it was back to the beginning of spring.

Mei Laosu stood under the eaves, frowning and smoking a cigarette, and his black, thin, wrinkled face was full of worry.

"Master, what's wrong with you, what are you doing all the time?" Sister Qiu asked.

Mei Laosuo shook his head and sighed, "It's cold this time, and it is estimated that it will be cold for two days...... I am afraid that the wheat harvest of this year is not as good as before. ”

Sister Qiu also raised her eyes to look at the gloomy sky, as if a dark cast iron cauldron was buckled on the top, Mei Laosuo is an old master of crops, he said it all, I am afraid that the current year's food harvest is really not good.

At night, Sister Qiu listened to Jia's tossing and turning sighs again. The next morning, Sister Qiu listened to Jia's suppressed coughing sound in a daze, opened her eyes, and Jia's quilt was covered with the corner of her mouth, coughing all over her face.

"Mother, why are you coughing so badly?" Sister Qiu hurriedly got up.

Jia Shi waved his hand, coughed so badly that he couldn't speak, and it took a long time to calm down, and said: "It's nothing, it's just that I choked on my saliva." However, before he finished speaking, he coughed a few more times.

"Was it because it was raining yesterday?" Sister Qiu was a little worried, and patted Jia's back to calm down, at this time, there was a lack of medical treatment, if she caught a cold, she didn't have cold medicine to eat.

"It's not." Jia Shi shook his head, "It's just choking, just swallow your saliva." ”

"Then I'll boil you hot water to eat." Sister Qiu put on her shoes and went out, the east side was already lit up with fishy white, Sister Qiu carried a bucket of water, filled a melon scoop and poured it into the cauldron. In the past few days, it has rained, and all the dry firewood is damp, Sister Qiu rubbed the flint several times before she led the fire, and after the wet bud rice stalk was filled into the rice stove, in less than a moment, a large amount of white smoke gushed out from the mouth of the rice stove.

After the water was boiled, Sister Qiu took a bowl out and brought it to Jia's, Jia's coughed, his face was slightly red, he slowly blew, and after eating a large porcelain bowl of hot water, he sweated a lot, and his complexion gradually improved.

"It's fine." Jia Shi smiled and touched Sister Qiu's head, "It's good for my mother to eat a bowl of hot water." ”

Sister Qiu is at ease at this point, Jia's health has always been very good, almost no illness, all the Zhuang families are frugal and frugal, unless it is a serious illness, only go to the town to see Lang Zhong in the medical hall, take a few medicines, and go to see a doctor without headache and brain fever.

After breakfast, the rain slowly stopped after almost a day, and the clouds in the sky didn't seem to be as thick as yesterday. Sister Qiu brought the pot water from the small kitchen to mix pig food with the grass pig, and this time the big seal ran in, ran to Sister Qiu in a few steps, and said to Sister Qiu with a smile: "Sister Qiu, my brother is going to take me to the gutter to pick up fungi, and you want me to ask if you are going?" ”

It had just rained, the air was damp and warm, and the fungus came out of the soil overnight, opening the fat umbrella cover, which was a good time to pick the fungus. Sister Qiu thought about the straw mushroom meat slice soup that she often made in her previous life, and the chicken boiled white mushrooms, if she was lucky enough to pick up truffles, cut them into slices and roast them on the fire, it would be a difficult delicacy. Just thinking about it, Sister Qiu was so hungry that she almost didn't salivate, and nodded hurriedly, "I'll go, go!" ”

Even if there is no meat, just the mushrooms, the soup and stir-fry are all very delicious, and the freshness is extremely high.

"Where are you going?" Mei Yindi opened the curtain of the west side room and asked.

For a while, when Sister Mid-Autumn Festival and Dayin were all there, none of the two who thought about it wanted her to know, and no one replied to Mei Yindi's words.

Mei Yindi simply walked over to the two of them, smiled affectionately and kindly, and asked Da Yin, "Da Yin, where are you and your brother going?" ”

Dayin grinded his feet back and forth on the ground, didn't look at Mei Yindi, and reluctantly said, "My brother is going to take me to the gutter to pick up fungus." ”

"That's good!" Mei Yindi exclaimed in surprise, "Let's go together!" I just want to pick up the mushrooms, too! ”

Da Yin crooked his mouth, who is "we" with you! "I'll ask my brother, he just needs me to call Sister Qiu."

Mei Yindi was a little unhappy in her heart, when she couldn't see what the baby was thinking in her heart, when she became the sister-in-law of this dead boy, see how to pick him up! However, there was a joke on his face with a smile, "What is there to ask about this?" What's the matter, Sister Qiu is your sister, and I'm not your sister? Why is Sister Qiu only allowed to go, but not me? ”

"Not really." The Great Seal hurriedly preached.

"Then it's settled." Mei Yindi was afraid that the big seal would regret it, "You stay with me for a while!" As he spoke, he ran to the West House, picked out two baskets, handed one to Sister Qiu, and carried it on his back, "Let's go." ”

Dazhun stood by the door of Jiang's house with a basket on his back, and looked at Da Yin leading Sister Qiu and Yindi over with two girls, a little surprised, but it was not obvious on his face.

"Brother Quasi." Yindi walked to Dazhun in three steps and walked forward side by side with him, "Sister Qiu and I will go with you to pick up mushrooms." ”

"Okay." Da Zhun nodded with a smile, took a step to the side slightly, widened the distance between him and Yindi, turned his face to smile at Sister Qiu, and glanced at Da Yin again.

Receiving the eldest brother's smile with a "knife" gaze, Dayin pouted, and unhappily snorted at Yindi, all of whom Sister Yindi was cheeky and wanted to follow, and it was none of his business.