It is said that autumn is the harvest season, but in the autumn of that year, it was overcast and gray all day long.

The rain has been pouring down for more than a month, and it still has no intention of stopping. The villagers all said that God had encountered sad things, and the tears were dripping endlessly, and they were afraid that they would not be able to see the sun until they were in a good mood.

In the field, the cotton peach was rotten, the corn with the cracked skin had turned black, and the pepper fell to the ground, a red layer. The ripe crops were lost, and the big guy felt uncomfortable, looking up at the sky from time to time, constantly shaking his head and sighing.

However, no matter how distressed he was, he had no choice but to go home and lie down, letting his thoughts wander.

Li Zhengyi, the village party secretary, flipped over his sleeping body and rubbed his worried eyes, only then did he remember that he hadn't seen Aunt Wang for many days, and he didn't know what happened to her old man. While getting dressed and getting out of bed, he called his wife to get an umbrella.

"It's getting dark, it's raining heavily, what are you doing out?"

The wife looked at the sky outside and muttered unhappily.

Li Zhengyi glanced at the wall clock on the wall, it was not yet six o'clock, he took the umbrella and walked out the door. Aunt Wang lives in the middle of nowhere, the house is dilapidated, and there are rain leaks in several places. Lee struggled to walk through the muddy water, and after about twenty minutes, he finally arrived at the place. Seeing that the door was open, he stretched out his hand and pushed it open.

"Auntie, aunt" shouted twice, but no one answered, only the dripping sound of "Ding Dong". The black hole in the room couldn't see anything clearly, and Li Zhengyi groped for a long time on the wall but didn't find the lamp rope. Suddenly, he remembered that Aunt Wang never used a lamp. He had no choice but to open the window to let in some dim light.

Looking at the bed through the light, Li Zhengyi saw a plastic basin, and the rainwater leaking from the room fell into the basin, splashing a small splash, and the bedding was completely soaked. He had a bad premonition, so he hurriedly ran outside the door and shouted a few times, but no one answered.

With such heavy rain, where can a blind old lady go? The more Li Zhengyi thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he hurriedly ran to the village leader's house to ask, "Did you see Aunt Wang?" ”

"I don't see it."

"Aunt Wang is gone, quickly call someone to look for it in the village."

Aunt Wang is gone, and people are running to tell each other. It was only then that the numb crop remembered the lonely Aunt Wang, felt guilty, and his conscience was blamed, and only by finding her quickly was the only way to make up for it.

"Aunt Wang, Aunt Wang......"

The calls of men, women and children were continuous, and the light pillars of the flashlights flashed one after another, which was particularly dazzling in the vast rainy night.

Aunt Wang is a hard-working person, and all the unlucky things in her life have been put on the table. When she was five years old, her hometown was flooded and there was no harvest. In order to survive, his father carried her and her sister with a flat pole, and his mother carried her younger brother and fled all the way here.

In those years, no matter where the poor go, their lives were as miserable as Coptis chinensis. Looking at the skinny skinny three children, the parents gave her to an old man surnamed Chen with tears in their eyes. The Chen family is also a poor family, without any land, and lives in two straw huts at the head of the village.

Chen Laohan's wife weaves and spins, and Chen Laohan and his son Dazhu have been working for many years to earn some money, barely making a living. Dazhu is already in his twenties, because his family is poor and has not yet married a daughter-in-law, Aunt Wang has become the child daughter-in-law of the Chen family. At the age of sixteen, she had a round house with Dazhu.

Although Dazhu is 20 years older than her, she also knows cold and heat, and Chen Laohan and his wife also love their daughter-in-law, and they are kind even though their days are hard. At the age of nineteen, Aunt Wang had a son, Huwa, and the family loved her like a pearl in her hand. Later, they opened more than an acre of land in the grass beach, planted grains and grains, and their lives slowly took a turn for the better.

At this time, Aunt Wang's mother-in-law contracted tuberculosis and died without money for treatment. Chen Laohan worked hard and became ill, and soon died. In order to bury his parents, Dazhu borrowed 20 oceans of usury from the rich man Shi Baili. Because he couldn't afford to pay back, Dazhu had to work as a long-term worker for Shi Baili.

After three years, Dazhu was so tired that he was hunched over, and he was seriously ill again, and he died with a whimper. Aunt Wang, an orphan and widow, swept away her husband's emaciated body with a piece of grass, and Shi Baili couldn't wait to collect debts and snatched an acre of thin land on the grass beach.

Aunt Wang was heartbroken and wanted to die several times, but for the sake of the child, she gritted her teeth and survived. Aunt Wang took the tiger baby to beg along the street and survived ten years of hunger and cold. After the liberation, Aunt Wang finally threw away the begging stick and was given three acres of land, and the tiger baby also grew up.

Like his father, the tiger baby can not only bear hardships and stand hard work, but also be a good hand at taking care of crops. Looking at her filial and sensible son, Aunt Wang was satisfied and married him early. In the second year after marriage, Aunt Wang had a big fat grandson, named Panpan.

During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, Huwa joined the army and went to the front line, and a year later, he died on the battlefield of the DPRK. Hearing the news, Aunt Wang cried bitterly, she persuaded her daughter-in-law to hold on, and Panpan was still young. Wiping away her tears, Aunt Wang renovated the house with the martyr's pension and picked up the home with a woman's thin shoulders.

In the battle of steel smelting, Aunt Wang organized women to fish for iron sand, and she couldn't take care of her family at all. The daughter-in-law was also busy participating in labor, and the young Panpan could only go to school by herself. One day after school, Panpan couldn't enter the door without a key, he ran to the river to find his mother, but he fell into the water and drowned.

The sudden misfortune was like a thunderbolt in the sky, and Aunt Wang fell to the ground immediately. Seeing this, everyone present panicked and pinched and shook their arms, and after tossing for a long time, Aunt Wang finally woke up.

She cried and called her grandson's name, and the appearance of her liver and intestines breaking made the audience cry. Pan Pan is the only seedling of the Chen family, and his death hit Aunt Wang very hard, and she was haggard before she saw the sky, and the whole person was much older.

Although her son and grandson are gone, her daughter-in-law is still young, and Aunt Wang doesn't want to delay her, so she persuades her daughter-in-law to remarry. Looking at her elderly mother-in-law, the daughter-in-law couldn't bear to leave, but thinking of the bleak situation in the future, she finally left.

After the daughter-in-law left, Aunt Wang was left alone, and she began a lonely life. After all, she is a person who has grown up in bitter water, and Aunt Wang doesn't feel that life is difficult, but she talks less and less, and she never sees her smile again.

Aunt Wang likes children, and she treats all the children in the village as her grandsons. As long as there are holidays, she uses the subsidy to buy candy for the children. Looking at the sweet smiling faces, she also felt happy, but in the quiet night, she would still cry quietly.

Day after day, year after year, Aunt Wang is getting older and older. For the sake of her health, the village chief and the captain let her rest at home, but she said unhappily: "Although I am old, my body is still strong, even if I can't do heavy work, I can still do some light work."

Aunt Wang does what she says, either to help the team dry cotton, or to watch the yard, in short, she can't be idle.

It is said that age is not forgiving, after all, Aunt Wang is over eighty years old, and her hands and feet are not good. One night, she got up to drink water, but accidentally fell to the ground. Because there was no one around, Aunt Wang couldn't get up, so she could only lie on the cold ground.

It wasn't until noon the next day that someone heard intermittent cries for help and found the dying Aunt Wang. That time, it was Li Zhengyi who carried her to the hospital on his back. Sitting in front of the hospital bed, looking at that weather-beaten face, Li Zhengyi was sad.

He took Aunt Wang's thin hand and comforted him softly: "Auntie, it's all my fault for not taking care of you." In the future, you can tell me no matter what you have, and I will help you solve it. Listening to Li Zhengyi's heart-warming words, Aunt Wang nodded with tears.

Since then, Li Zhengyi often visited Aunt Wang and took care of her diet and daily life. Li Zhengyi's sincerity moved Aunt Wang very much, but unfortunately, he was not her tiger baby and Panpan after all......

On a stormy night, the corn leaves were blown and the calls of the villagers were tired and weak.

"Look, Aunt Wang's crutches!"

In the midst of the rain, I don't know who shouted.

"There's also a shoe."

Immediately after, another voice of surprise sounded.

"Aunt Wang, Aunt Wang......"

People shouted in unison, but there was no response. The empty river, the white waves rolling, only

Hear the roaring waves. Some people couldn't help but complain about Aunt Wang, what did she do when she ran out in the middle of the night. Having said that, everyone knows in their hearts that no matter day or night, it is the same in the eyes of Aunt Wang.

Maybe the rainy night always makes people feel emotional, and the villagers gradually talk more. It is said that there is a wolf in the green gauze tent, and Aunt Wang is afraid that the wolf will be injured; It is said that God saw that Aunt Wang was pitiful, so he took her to enjoy the blessings, and there was no need to suffer......

The discussion of the villagers made Li Zhengyi even more uncomfortable, he knew very well in his heart, out of Aunt Wang's house, there was only this road leading to the river, where else could she go?

Thinking of this, Li Zhengyi looked up at the night sky, the rain fell on his face, and he instantly sobered up a lot.

Looking at the rolling river, Li Zhengyi let out a long sigh and said with a heavy heart: "Let's go, it's dark." ”

As soon as the words fell, he quickly turned around, and a tear happened to fall.