Huang's second sister-in-law stepped into the house at the last moment of sunset, probably because she has been running back and forth on the road recently, and she has to work in the field, and the second aunt, who was already thin, looks even thinner.

Waiting for Huang's second sister-in-law to wash her face, she took the bowl and started eating, and the soybeans rubbed to the table: "Second mother, has the land been planted all out?" ”

"It's out, but the seeds haven't been planted yet, and your aunt and your mother originally wanted to go home together to help plant them. As a result, isn't the business in the store busy, your father said that the family and land will be cleaned up by their father. Saying that, Huang Er's sister-in-law sighed: "Now I can only plant some late corn and late soybeans, and the wheat has to wait." ”

"Second mother, the field is not too busy, you let my father come back to rest. How old is my grandfather, don't be tired. Huang Dou said that the little adult generally learns from the second aunt and sighed.

"You, you're a big ghost, no wonder your grandmother loves you, okay, the second mother will talk to your grandfather tomorrow and persuade him to come back." Saying that, Huang's second sister-in-law drank cornmeal porridge in two sips, cleaned up the bowl and got up to go to the stove room to help.

Huang Dou, who had completed the task, also ran back to the room with joy, and when she came back, she secretly wrapped the pearl in a torn jacket and stuffed it into a torn quilt. Look at it now, it's going well, and hopefully everything will be fine until Grandpa comes back.

Early the next morning, Huang's second sister-in-law boiled the pickles, packed the steamed multigrain cakes in a basket, and set off to the village.

All day long, Huang Dou never left the yard, and as long as someone entered their rooms, she followed in as if there was a fire behind her buttocks.

Fortunately, everyone was busy, although they felt that something was wrong with her, they didn't think it was too strange, and finally stayed up until dusk.

At dusk, Huang's second sister-in-law stepped into the house alone, and Huang Dou's neck stretched out so long that she didn't see her grandfather's figure, so she couldn't help but be anxious: "Second mother, where is my father?" ”

"Your father said that there are still two acres of rape that have not been ordered, and the land for planting wheat after the autumn has to be sorted out, and he will not come back." Huang's second sister-in-law looked at Huang Dou and replied with a smile.

"Oh, second mother, you let my father come back early, just say I miss him." Soybeans didn't blush and began to sell cuteness without a heartbeat.

"Okay."

After three or four days in a row, Huang Laohan did not come back, but Huang Dou stretched his neck every day and waited for his grandfather, which was visited by the whole family. Grandma Huang couldn't help sighing: "This soybean, I really miss her grandfather." ”

Early this morning, Xiaohu Erniu came to find Soybeans to go to the river beach to play, and Sodou felt that it was not a matter to watch at home every day, so he carried the basket and took the excited Huangli and Zhao Xiaoyu to the river beach together.

This time, the soybeans were not idle, and they picked up the mussels, not the small ones, but only the big ones. However, the largest mussel is not very big, and when the shell of the super giant mussel was taken back that day, everyone who saw it was amazed, saying that they had never seen such a big mussel.

When it was almost noon, Soybean picked up a basket full of river mussels, and with the help of Xiaohu and Erniu, he caught two small fish with chopsticks, and prepared to go home and cook and feed Xiaohei.

When I got home, I first asked my grandmother to dissect the river mussels, but unfortunately there were no pearls, and then I went to the street to weigh a piece of tofu and put it in it, and the mussel meat stewed tofu.

Although the mussel meat can't be chewed no matter how it is cooked, it tastes delicious. Soybeans ate a bowl of multigrain rice, a few pieces of mussel meat stuffed between their teeth, drank half a bowl of soup, and walked to the room while burping.

In the room, the quilts stacked on top of each other were gone! Huang Dou's brain paused for a few seconds, and he rushed out of the door: "Mother, where is the quilt?" ”

Probably because Huang Dou's voice was a little sad, Huang San's sister-in-law hurriedly ran out after dropping the unfinished meal: "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”

"Where's the quilt in our room?" Soybeans can't hide their emotions anymore, her pearls, her money, are gone.

"Oh, your aunt saw that the weather was good today, so she took her out to dry, and it was in the open space at the courtyard gate. You kid, why are you making all the fuss......" Before Huang San's sister-in-law finished speaking, Huang Dou had already run out of the hospital.

Outside the courtyard, in the open space across the road, six quilts were neatly dried. But the tattered clothes that the soybeans stuffed in the quilt could not be found.

Soybeans rummaged around the quilt, and then ran back to find the aunt: "Auntie, did you hold the quilt and see a jacket I stuffed inside?" ”

Sister-in-law Huang thought for a while: "Oh, there is one, I fell out of the quilt, and I picked up the bedside where my sister slept casually." ”

Huang Dou steadied his mind and walked into the bedroom unhurriedly.

Sister-in-law Huang glanced at Huang Douhe strangely: "What's wrong with this child, he has begun to walk with the same hands and feet." ”

When I entered the room, there was a torn jacket hanging from the innermost bed. Huang Dou's heart beat faster and he picked it up and reached out to touch it, but fortunately, the thing was still there, and it almost scared her to death.

A few days later, at dusk, Huang Laohan and his five sons and four eldest grandsons all returned.

For nearly a month, several men have been working in the field, obviously dark and thin.

The first thing everyone did when they got home was to boil hot water and take a shower, change their clothes, and it was a busy mess. When all the guests in the shop are gone, the concubine briefly cleaned up and closed the door facing the alley, and the whole family can finally sit down and have a meal in the shop.

Because I didn't know that my grandfather would come back today, and I didn't prepare any good dishes at home, my grandmother simply cooked a pot of multigrain rice, scrambled a few eggs, and cut the unfinished pork head meat and fat intestines in the store into two large plates and put them on my grandfather's table.

After Huang Laohan finished eating a bowl of rice, Huang Dou quickly took the bowl and pressed a bowl of multigrain rice for his grandfather. Huang Laohan hurriedly shouted: "There are too many, I can't finish eating." ”

The soybeans didn't listen, and pressed it again to bring it to grandpa: "Master, only when you are full can you have the strength to work, and our family is not without food." ”

"You can't waste food so badly, just drink some thin food at night, it's all your milk, you have to cook dry rice. You don't know, so many people don't have anything to eat, and if God doesn't open his eyes and it doesn't rain, the seeds planted in the autumn will die! Huang Laohan said as he shared the meal with his grandchildren.

Half-size, eat poor old man, they have a group of half-sized children!

Huang Delei was not too embarrassed, seeing that his grandfather was so resolute, he looked at his father and mother again, and saw that his father and mother didn't say anything, so he quickly lowered his head to eat.

After eating, everyone sat in the shop and chatted, and Huang Laohan took advantage of the fact that the big guys were all there and began to discuss the matter of settling down.

If you want to settle down again, you must either find a piece of land near Huangjiagou to build a village again, or you have to move to find a suitable place.

The people in the village pondered and pondered, and it was very difficult to build a village like the previous one on the existing vacant land in Huangjiagou, and it was impossible to occupy good fertile land.

In Shangjian Village, the site of the original village, the big guys are unwilling. This place, about 40 years ago, has been on the mountain twice. No one wants to put the lives of future generations here.

Boss Huang said: "The village is now living in random shacks, and everyone is busy planting some grain first, otherwise, there will be a famine in the spring." ”

For the villagers, having land and grain is the king, and the rest have to stand behind.

Huang Laohan smoked a dry cigarette silently, and watched his son and daughter-in-law talk about the crops in the field and the matter of settling down in the village.

Huang Dou quietly rubbed to Huang Laohan's side: "Master, you come with me, there is something." Huang Laohan was slightly stunned, this kid, what the hell is he messing with.

Grandma Huang heard it next to her, so she smiled and said, "Three girls, I miss her grandfather, it's like losing her soul for more than ten days, and when I saw her second mother coming back, I asked, why didn't my father come back." ”

Huang Dou didn't refute either, and dragged Huang Laohan to the Westinghouse. Most of the room was piled with grain in the West House, and the floor was covered with straw and straw mats, and it was crowded to the brim.

Last time, because the eldest aunt hugged the quilt to dry, she almost lost the pearl, which scared the little yellow bean a lot.

After thinking about it, Soybean decided to bury the pearl in the grain, and no one would turn it over if the grain was fine, and no child would dare to climb on the grain pile to play and play, so if the grain was ruined, he would be beaten.

Huang Laohan watched his granddaughter climb down from the high pile of grain, excitedly lifted a small cloth bag, and sat cross-legged on the straw mat.

The cloth bag was opened layer by layer, revealing a handkerchief wrapped inside, and the handkerchief was untied, revealing a few pearls with a shimmering light.

"This ...... Where did this come from? Huang Laohan was so excited that his hands trembled.

"I picked it up, master, don't you think it's worth it." Soybean smiled and raised his little face.

Huang Laohan stabilized his mind, stretched out his hand to take the handkerchief handed over by Huang Dou.

Five round pearls trembled in Huang Laohan's hands: "Soybeans, these two big ones are enough to be heirlooms, where did you pick them up." ”

Huang Dou talked about the discovery of the big river mussel on the river beach that day, and was afraid that Huang Laohan would not believe it, so he ran to the yard and dragged the fan of the two river mussels in to show his grandfather.

"I know this river mussel, it is a dozen baskets brought back with the boat before, what is it called pearl mussels, the owner cut more than ten baskets of pearls and did not produce pearls, and the following ones stink, so I unloaded the remaining baskets into the river in a fit of anger." Huang Laohan touched the fan shell of the river mussel.

"Soybeans, do you have any ideas for this pearl for grandpa?" Huang Laohan asked Huang Dou.

Huang Dou looked at his grandfather with wide eyes: "Grandpa, sell it to buy land." ”

"Buying land? Now there is nothing good to sell, the land is the lifeblood of the croppers, and who can be willing to sell it until the time of death. ”

"Grandpa, I have a fancy for a piece of land, you can go and see it." Soybeans looked at his grandfather with big eyes.

"Oh, my soybeans think it's good, it must not be wrong, whose land, grandpa has time to take a look." Huang Laohan doesn't know why, he has a special trust in this third granddaughter, although he is a child, but in his heart Huang Laohan feels that this is not an ordinary child, he is an idea and a blessing.

Huang Dou saw that his grandfather promised to go and see it, and he didn't bother much, so he went back to freshen up and go to sleep happily.