In the afternoon, the master kept talking and laughing with the old man...... Comforting the old man, I watched the old man lying on a slightly rough rattan chair made of kapok strips, looking at the vast distant mountains, the corners of his mouth kept overflowing with a comfortable smile, a very contented look, the breeze was blowing, and the old man's white hair covered her vicissitudes of life......

The hustle and bustle of the world was quiet at this time, and we all stopped talking, not only a little tired, but also did not want to disturb the old man......

In the evening, the old man was even more enthusiastic, Zhang Luo made dinner, she instructed his eldest grandson to kill a chicken stew and eat, no matter how I and the master could not stop it, the old man said, so many years all year round the family can not come to the family of three relatives and guests, this time to the distinguished guests, killing a chicken is not too much.

His eldest grandson Xiaofeng is also Mali, my master and I are persuading the old man, he poured three times and divided five by two to let the rooster bleed, I see, this guy is really a cook's material.

The chicken was feathered, made a piece, got a big pot and put it on the earthen stove and simmered slowly, Xiaofeng and I went to the vegetable field outside the courtyard to pick some vegetables, and there were some hare bacon in the house, and the master did not see outside, so he made a few dishes......

Xiaofeng took me to the creek to wash the dishes and chopsticks, when I came back, the chicken was also stewed, the old grandmother was boiling the pot to hold the meat, smelling the fragrance from afar, Xiaofeng and I moved the table from the house to the courtyard to set it up, and brought the dishes fried by the master to the table, the old grandmother put the whole chicken into a big basin and served it, she beckoned us to sit down and returned to the house to take out a barrel of sorghum wine back to the table.

"Little baby, you can't drink, I'm with the master, have a drink"

"Auntie, don't call the master, we are all children under your hands, this wine can't be poured by you, Xingze is poured, we must be happy to drink" Master knows, you can't be polite to the old man, the more polite she is, the more angry the old man is, since this is the case, it is better to make the old man happy, the big white bowl in front of the master and the old grandmother is full of wine, the master is also moved by true feelings today, he usually does not drink.

"Come, auntie, let's take it up, Xingze will punish himself first, thank the eldest lady for killing chickens and slaughtering geese for her hospitality to our master and apprentice" The master picked up the bowl and drank half a bowl!

"Should, should, happy, happy" The old grandmother also took a sip, overjoyed.

"Baby, eat vegetables, eat chicken, we are fragrant in the mountains"

"Okay, grandma, it's so fragrant, it's really fragrant," I said while eating, and the old man was even more happy, this should be the first time in my life to see a person happy from the bottom of my heart.

Xiaofeng and Junjun are very sensible, they watched the master and the old man move the chopsticks, they also took back the vegetables or meat, the master put down the chopsticks, they also put down, it can be seen that the old man has a deep education for them, the children of the poor are in charge of the house early, and the children of the poor are sensible early, which is really true.

On the whole table, I don't think I'm a second egg, and I will gnaw out a bunch of bones for a while, so that my mouth and hands are full of oil, "You guys eat too" I sandwiched a few pieces of meat to Xiaofeng Junjun, Xiaofeng ate a few bites, and was busy feeding his brother, after all, it was a mother and a child.

After a while, the little army came up sleepy while eating, and fell asleep with his chin on the table, the old man was drinking with the master, and saw the army in such a hurry to take him into his arms, at this time the army raised his head in a daze:

"Grandma, I miss my mother, when will she come back?"

The old man was lovingly afraid of fighting the army, and two lines of hot tears fell from his face to the ground.

"I'm coming back, I'm coming back"

The old man couldn't cry as he spoke, Xiaofeng also cried, the master put down the wine bowl and didn't know what to say, I saw this situation and I just ate the chicken in my mouth I couldn't swallow it.

"Grandma, why are you crying, Junjun is making you angry again" Junjun rolled over from the old man's arms and was sleepy again.

"Master, I'm sorry, let you come so far, you can't eat well" The old man didn't dare to cry again.

"Auntie, don't get in the way, we're all ready" The master lowered his head, not knowing whether to wipe his tears or drink too much, and he didn't lift it up for a long time.

The moonlight was cool, Jun Jun fell asleep, the old man restrained his body, put Jun Jun on the bed in the house, sat back at the table, took the master's hand, and talked about the past of her family and her daughter.

I don't know how long it took me to talk, but I was sleepy, and I was shocked to hear the crying in the distance from far and near:

"My mother, my mother, what's wrong with you" I don't know when I became particularly sensitive to women's cries, and I suddenly lifted my spirits and stood up from the table.

Under the blur of the moonlight, I saw a figure fluttering straight into the courtyard, I subconsciously shook the master, and the master took the old lady's hand and didn't even look at me.

"What are you afraid of, it's a human being, not a ghost"

The cry was closer, and the old man reacted, isn't it my hard-working daughter who is back, I calculated that I should come back tomorrow, and before the old man finished speaking, a woman had broken into the hospital.

"Yes, grass, you're back," the old man greeted the door.

"Mother, aren't you fine, why did you call me and lie to me that I was paralyzed" This is the bitter woman in the old man's mouth.

"You stupid girl, you really hope that your mother is paralyzed"

"Mother, are you lying to me coming back to look at a man? How can you do this," said the middle-aged woman named Cao, pointing at the master and looking at me.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" The old man was a little angry.

"You want to marry someone, but they are not willing to marry you, everyone has a family and a hospital"

"Mother......" The woman stomped her feet and was so angry that she couldn't look good.

"This is Master Shao Xingze from the west side of the mountain, that is his apprentice Dandan," the old man introduced to the grass.

"I've heard, aren't they Mr. Yin and Yang?" The woman was confused.

"Yes, that's why your mother and I came to them."

Master got up to greet her, I also followed, I looked up and down this woman was dressed appropriately, but her appearance was really not flattering, it was not that my second egg intended to laugh at people, and said that she looked, her face was white and could not see any blood, not to mention, her eyes were godless and white, her black eyes were few, the cheekbones on both sides of her cheeks were surprisingly high, her nose seemed to be sharpened with a knife and pressed her face, sharp and long, her lips turned out, and her buckteeth leaked out, oops, my mother, there is a curse saying 'dead ghost' This Nima is a living ghost! Looking at the old man's upright facial features, I really don't believe that she can give birth to such a daughter! And how can such a woman give birth to two eccentric and upright-looking sons, it is really puzzling, I look at the master again, he also looked at it a few more times, and his old man may also be shocked.

"That's it, you better eat first, don't go hungry"

"Well, when I got to the county by car, there was no car to the town, so I walked all the way back."

"Okay, it's not too far to walk back, what are young people afraid of when they walk?"

Hearing the noise outside, the two brothers in the house didn't sleep anymore, they all ran out and threw themselves into the arms of the woman's grass, the woman still had the heart to eat, the four mothers, all of them cried into tears, and the master and I were not easy to go up to persuade them, so we had to retreat to the side!

The night is cool, quiet and deep, distant mountains, lonely birds whimper, coyotes wailing...... The forty-five-watt light bulb in the house was dimly lit, and Xiaofeng lit a bonfire at the door of the house, emitting a strange smell to repel mosquitoes and insects, but the moths couldn't help but desperately put out the fire, and they didn't know what to ask for

After the meal, the table was placed under the light, I had already made tea, and the old man's daughter Cao sat opposite the master with her head bowed and did not speak......

"As the saying goes, parents are alive and well, not to mention that there is an eighty-year-old mother at home," Master took the lead in opening up.

"Master, how can I not know this truth, but I don't go out to work, there is no way out for this family, life is forced, what can I do" I should call her Aunt Cao, she didn't finish speaking, she couldn't cry anymore, tears like beads with broken curtains, kept falling.

The old man couldn't bear to sit in the house anymore, and at such a late hour, she picked up the small bench and went out of the house.

"The purpose of the old man inviting me here is to let you have another family, find a man to help you raise two children, she has suffered from orphans and widows all her life, and I don't want you to go along the road she has walked again"

"Master, I understand my mother's suffering, I also know my own situation, I still don't marry, I don't want to let people poke my backbone and scold me for being a scourge, marry whoever dies, let the two children also be scolded and affected everywhere, besides, as a woman, I just want to marry a man, I know that if I marry this living man, he will die in a few years, do I still want to marry him? How many men will die for me in this life? Master, I can't do that."

"Hey......" the master sighed repeatedly, the poor woman's experience and helplessness.

"Everything has cause and effect, since I have been entrusted by the old man and agreed to the old man's request, Xingze must give you an explanation tonight, you write your birth date on paper and give it to me, see if you can marry in the future"

Master spread out a piece of white paper to Cao, and handed over a pen, Cao took it with both hands, pressed the white paper on the table, after a moment of thinking, carefully wrote down a row of numbers and handed it back to Master without waiting for me to see it clearly, she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at Master with anticipation, as if she wanted to know the answer immediately! She really wanted to know how the three men who had given her love and warmth from his father to her two husbands died, and what caused the three originally happy families to suffer so much.