Outside the house, under the dim oil lamp, Zhao Dashan was standing at the door in a daze.

Seeing the two of them coming from afar, they hurriedly greeted them: "It's so late, where have you gone?" There was a lot of concern in his tone.

Zhao Dahai's daughter-in-law pursed her lips and smiled, turned around and walked towards the hall, saying as she walked, "I'll go and see if the children are asleep." ”

Soon the figure entered the house, which was the time for Zhao Dashan and his family to leave a narrative.

"My second sister-in-law and I went around in circles, and we also went to the fifth aunt's house in the east of the village." Huang Dou stopped, stretched out her hand to help Zhao Dashan stand, and she was already a little tired after walking around.

"The fifth aunt in the east of the village?" Zhao Dashan thought about it and suddenly realized: "Oh, Zhao Dalin's house, why did you remember to go to his house." ”

Zhao Dalin is the eldest son of the fifth aunt's family, and he is one or two years younger than Zhao Dashan, and he has also played together since childhood.

"Today, I was guarding my grandfather's spirit over there, and the fifth aunt came to look for me, probably because she wanted to find us because of something, and was dragged away by the second aunt. At night, I heard from my second sister-in-law that his family had been in great difficulty in the past few years, and she spent a lot of money on treating her child. So ......"

Speaking of which, Huang Dou hesitated, Zhao Dashan had been wronged and suffered in Zhaozhuang, and he was good to the second uncle and the third uncle's brothers, and that was because of his grandparents. Others, I don't know what to do to him, whether it will be inappropriate to lose it recklessly.

"You." Zhao Dashan helped Huang Dou to the side of the public field, sat down on a stone roller, and patted his thigh: "Tired, come, rest." ”

It was late at night, the houses were dimly lit, and the small villages were immersed in the silence of the night. Only at the door of Zhao Dashan's grandmother's house, because of the funeral, two angry white lanterns were hung at the door, and they were still lit.

At this time, the big guys all went home, and the careful people were reluctant to even light the oil lamp, for fear of wasting oil, so they went to bed early.

Huang Dou looked around, and then sat on Zhao Dashan's lap without scruples, if he was seen by the Zhuang Shangren, it would be immoral.

Zhao Dashan cautiously reached out and walked around her abdomen, supporting her already big belly.

The belly of more than seven months has been obviously pregnant. Soybeans have been walking a bit like a bulky elephant lately, stomping step by step.

The older the month, the more nervous Zhao Dashan became, and he looked at her every day, for fear that she would bump and fall.

"The fifth aunt and the fifth uncle are both honest people, and the people of Dalin are also honest, at that time, my father had just died, the second uncle and the third uncle were clamoring to split the family, and the fifth uncle also helped to speak."

Zhao Dashan looked up at the bright starry sky, probably remembering that period of the past, sighed softly and continued:

"The fifth uncle's family is not rich, and at that time, it was my family and the patriarch's family who could eat and clothe. My father also had a good relationship with my fifth uncle when he was alive, and sometimes when he got too much in the mountains, he would lose a chicken or send half a hare over.

Later, we separated, my mother didn't know how to farm, and I was only a half-old. In the first year, several of my uncles and aunts took the time to help plant it, including five uncles and five aunts.

In the second year, my mother thought it would work, and the four of us went to the ground, and even Xiaoyu could carry a small basket to pick up grass. Our brother is a little older, and he is full to get better.

The fifth aunt often sent vegetables to my family, all of which grew at home, and taught my mother to pickle vegetables for the winter. Once, Dalin caught a fish, and the fifth aunt cooked it and asked Dalin to bring us a bowl. As a result, Dalin fell on the way, the bowl was beaten, and the fish was spilled, and he was eaten by the dog who followed.

Dalin cried home holding the bowl that was broken in half, and was beaten by the fifth aunt. There are only a few bowls at home, and he beat one, and the five aunts have to wait for them to finish eating before they can eat.

Later, my mother found out about this, and when I hunted the prey, she asked me to buy two large bowls and send them to my fifth aunt's house in person. She said, I didn't eat the fish, the essentials. ”

Zhao Dashan's voice was low and soft, as if he was telling a story, but Huang Dou's eyes moistened when he heard it.

"Then let's help his family." Huang Dou finally said this sentence: "I went to his house today, I was too poor, the mushy food at his house, and the bowl of food given by the second sister-in-law, the adults were not willing to eat it, and they were all distributed to the children." ”

"Okay, let the Dalin brothers go to the dock, and the fifth uncle and five aunts will let them help manage the orchard. The fifth uncle is very good at planting fruit trees, and when he was a child, his peaches ripened earlier than ours.

At that time, I was not sensible, so I ran to pick it before it was cooked. I was also beaten by my father, saying that the peaches were not ripe and could not be eaten, and they would have sores on the top of the head and pus on the soles of the feet. In fact, the fifth uncle thought that he could sell it for money because he was precocious, but he was mistaken by a few of our boys.

The fifth uncle knew that we were beaten, and he was not angry, and the peach tip was just right, so he sent us from house to house, one for each child, and my family got three. But to our delight, it was the sweetest peach I've ever tasted. ”

Probably because the night breeze is gentle, probably because the mood is heavy, probably because the wife in his arms is too warm.

Zhao Dashan's desire to talk today is very strong, and he remembers bittersweet memories. The two of them chattered. Shrinking into Zhao Dashan's arms, it was not cold at all, until Huang Dou was drowsy, and he realized that the night was already deep.

When Huang Dou entered the house, Huang Xiaoyu hadn't slept yet, and was watching the child sleep. Brother Hang and Brother Jing did not sleep here, but kept vigil in the mourning hall with Zhao Dashan and Zhao Dachuan.

Seeing Soybeans coming in, Huang Xiaoyu leaned in and gave up the hot quilt to Soybeans.

"Where did you go at night?" Huang Xiaoyu slept well and turned his head to look at the soybeans.

"Go to the fifth aunt's house at the head of the village, her family is really poor. The house was collapsing, and the children were wearing thin and shabby clothes. Hey, it's really hard to think about. ”

Huang Dou slept to the other end and moved her position outside, she has always been used to sleeping in a big bed, this bed is about one meter two, and it feels a little crowded for two people to sleep with children.

"It's not a family or two, and life has been good in Huanggang in recent years. You still remember when Huangjiawan was in Huangjiawan, Wang Da had a home. A family only has a cotton jacket and a pair of cotton pants in winter, Wang Dayou's mother wears it when he gets up to cook, and Wang Dayou's father wears it when he goes out to pick up firewood.

Their whole family had a quilt, and the whole family covered it in the quilt. Once Wang Dayou wore it out to play, and accidentally cut a big hole, and the flocculent inside was full of reed flowers, which was not warm at all.

It was the third aunt who sewed it for him, and he was beaten when he went home after sewing. ”

Huang Xiaoyu said that Wang Dayou and Huang Dou also had the impression that they didn't remember that their clothes were torn.

"Can reed flowers keep warm?" Soybeans have heard of it, but they have never seen it.

"Of course not, what can be done, it's better than an empty shell." Huang Xiaoyu simply sat up: "Sister-in-law, do you want to find something to do for the fifth aunt's family?" ”

"You put on a garment." As she spoke, Soybean was about to reach out and get her clothes.

"No, I'll take it myself, don't move, be careful of falling." Huang Xiaoyu leaned over and picked up his padded jacket and draped it on his body.

Neither of them was sleepy, so they simply sat up and chatted.