Yi Tianshu arrived at Songlin Slope on time at three o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday. On the Sansheng Stone at the end of the pine forest slope, sat the once amorous girl Huang Lian. Today's Huang Lian is the wife of Wu De, a landlord in Qingfeng Town.

"Teacher Yi." The yellow lotus elephant had eyes behind her, and Yi Tianshu jumped up as soon as she arrived.

"Oh, what's the matter?" Yi Tianshu took a step back and asked coldly. He glanced at her with the rest of his eyes, but in seven years, her once slender and straight waist was slightly bent, and only the skeleton of her plump body remained. The light blue dress swayed around her like a dead leaf in the wind. His hair was long, like a handful of withered grass and scorched yellow. The phoenix eyes that had fascinated countless people were sunken and sunken into two big pits, because they were too thin, their lips were protruding, and their entire face looked like the standard skull of a medical school anatomy class.

She was only twenty-eight years old, how could this be? His heart trembled a little.

"Well, she didn't give me this year's like. It's time for her to read. I made her a school bag, a cloth bag for pens, and a flower skirt, and I hoped that she would wear the flower dress I made and carry the school bag I made to school. Her haggard face glowed with a rosy glow.

"Okay, here's her image. Take care! Yi Tianshu took the burden and gave a sketch to Huang Lian.

"She ......" Huang Lian said a word, looked at Yi Tianshu's suddenly gloomy face, and swallowed the words that followed. Yi Tianshu looked at the stone with his eyes and said, "Don't worry. I'm leaving. ”

He walked away without looking back, carrying his baggage. Huang Lian looked at his back, and suddenly tears poured down. She wiped away her tears with the back of her rough hand, jumped to her feet and shouted, "Yitianshu." Yi Tianshu paused, quickened his steps, and disappeared without a trace. Huang Lian fell on the Sansheng Stone. In the distance, Huang Ju turned from behind a pine tree to Huang Lian's side.

"Yellow Lotus, Yellow Lotus." Huang Ju woke Huang Lian from her coma. She glanced at Huang Ju, stayed for a minute, and then calmly said to Huang Ju, "Cousin, go back." ”

Her steps were a little faltering. Huang Ju grabbed her arm and said indignantly, "We can sue him!" ”

"What about my cousin? What about my aunt? If you want to sue him, I will not drop out of school, nor will I get married in a hurry. If love is the abyss, the abyss is my destination. She stared blankly into the distance.

"What abyss is not an abyss, if it weren't for him, would you be like this? Our Huang family finally got out of you, a college student. Hum! You, you really fulfilled the old saying, you have a thin face. Huang Ju counted all the way.

"Sister, am I not Huang Lian? How bitter Huang Lian is! Huang Lian smiled sadly and answered her cousin.

The sisters wandered the streets before returning to the boat. The remnant sun was like blood, and the setting sun shone brightly on the somewhat mottled gray canopy.

The boat was already filled with river sand. The cousin-in-law sat on the rattan chair at the bow of the boat, took a sip of strong tea with an enamel Gu full of tea stains, squinted his eyes comfortably, looked at the sunset in the west, and wondered in his heart, when will the wife and the others return to the boat.

Their boat will go to the Shuncheng River almost four times a month, and the rest of the time, they will basically fish and catch shrimp in the Qingshui River. So their family's life is quite rich in the town.

Seven years ago, my mother-in-law brought a beautiful cousin and asked my wife to help me find my mother-in-law's house. At that time, he couldn't understand why a fairy-like woman would marry in such a poor place as theirs. The condition of a cousin is that no matter how poor she is, as long as she is educated. The couple instantly thought of Wu De, who was escorted back to the town from the provincial capital, Wu De was originally a cadre of the provincial newspaper, because his family was the son of Wu Youfang, a large landowner who was suppressed in Qingfeng Town, so he was escorted back to his original place, and he was beaten into a cripple during the land reform. As soon as the two of them met, they really didn't dislike anyone with turnip greens, and they got a marriage certificate the day after they met.

Wu De, as a bully landlord, naturally returned his family wealth to the state. The Wu family's younger brother eventually became the town government. After escorting him back to the town, the government gave him two dilapidated houses and a fenced courtyard at the east end of the town. Leakage in the wind, leakage in the rain. In case of strong winds, it will be crumbling. After more than ten years of labor reform, Wu De's bad habits of big landlords have basically disappeared. Seeing people nod their heads became his natural pattern, and most of the townspeople forgot his origins because of his good attitude. When Huang Lian married him, most of the people in the town were happy for him. Therefore, Huang Lian was not humiliated by the landlord's wife in Qingfeng Town.

Wu De is educated, and the town school is just short of teachers. So he was lucky enough to become a regulated elementary school teacher. Huang Lian explained to Wu De the fact that she was pregnant before receiving the marriage certificate. Although Wu De accepted it, he felt like a needle had been pricked in his heart. After marriage, he was hot and cold to Huang Lian. After Huang Lian gave birth to the baby, he intensified his cold violence. Huang Lian suffered from depression after giving birth and couldn't live a normal life at all, but she loved her baby to the extreme. Under the persuasion of her aunt, her cousin Qian Mei finally moved her compassion and agreed to take the baby back to her father's house after Huang Lian wrote various guarantees. Since then, Huang Lian has been recuperating for the sake of her baby, and she has lived in half sober and half confused. But she never forgets her baby ....... She will do housework, whether she is confused or sober, she will keep the house in order. In her free time, she sings and paints. For some reason, she is getting thinner and thinner, and she is now too thin to be an adult. Huang Ju took pity on his cousin and helped her, originally he didn't object, but later, one son after another in their family was born one after another, and even they couldn't open the pot if they helped her.

At the end of the day, the two sisters finally returned to the boat. "What are you going to do? So long. The river sand has long been filled. Dine. The cousin-in-law gestured to the small table. On the small table, three bowls of green mung bean porridge, a plate of fried beans with sauerkraut vegetables, and a plate of soybean sprouts with cold noodles.

"Alas, what about the eggplant sauce? Are you done eating? Huang Ju saw that there were only three little butterflies on the table, so she asked.

"Oh, I forgot." My cousin-in-law came out of the stern with a plate of puff pastry.

"Have a little wine?" Huang Ju pulled out a small glass bottle from his handcloth bag.

"Drink some. My cousin also came to the mouth. "My cousin-in-law was in a good mood when he saw the wine.

"Thank you, brother-in-law." Huang Lian politely excused herself.

Huang Ju looked at Huang Lian's expression from time to time, and she had an indescribable feeling for this cousin. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to think about it because of Yi Tianshu's affairs. She tried her best to persuade her, but Huang Lian was indifferent. Don't know what's going on in her head? "Huang Lian, Yiyi has grown taller and drawn, although she is thin, her spirit is okay." She had nothing to say.

"Like this?" Huang Lian took out a portrait from her body somewhere, handed it to Huang Ju and asked.

"Well, it's true. That's it. This is what Yitenshu gave you? Huang Ju looked at her and asked.

"Go back, as long as she's good." Huang Lian was in a good mood and finished the rice in the bowl in a few bites.

When he went back, his husband Wu De was sitting under a kerosene lamp, holding a yellowed book and reading it with relish.

"Came back, the water in the tank was gone. Go pick up the tank of water. Wu De's voice dragged on for a long time.

"Okay." Huang Lian answered and walked to the inner room. Inside, there is a bed with a shelf next to the wall, which is the only decent piece of furniture in the house. She sat on the bed for a while, her mouth was dry, and she took the portrait of Yiyi from her cloth bag and put it in a small wooden box under the bed before leaving the room.

"Did you have dinner?" She asked lightly.

"There was no water, so it wasn't cooked." Wu De didn't even raise his head.

"Oh." Huang Lian sighed, then turned around and went to the courtyard dam to pick up a bucket.

There are two wells in the town, and the well at the east end is next to Qingfeng Primary School, not far from their house, so Huang Lian is there in ten minutes.

The moon was bright and the wind was clear, and when Huang Lian put the bucket in the well, her heart was sour, and she quickly twisted her face to the side and vomited a few mouthfuls of sour water. After calming down, she put down the bucket again, and after bringing the water up from the well, she only felt dizzy, and took several steps back before standing firmly, and the bucket of water was spilled for most of it. She thought that maybe she was sick, how could she pick up this water! She rested against the yellow cypress tree by the well.

"Uh, Huang Lian, hehe, it's a big night, and I'm still here to fetch water." The fifth second-rate son of the town, with his clothes open and his dry chest exposed, approached Huang Lian and asked maliciously.

Huang Lian ignored him and twisted her head to the side.

"Hehe, such a beautiful marriage to a cripple, it's really a pity that flowers are inserted in cow dung! Pity! Wang Wu turned to Huang Lian's front and breathed, and as he spoke, he reached out and touched Huang Lian's face. Huang Lian exerted all his strength, and he pushed it over. And he sat down on the ground weakly.

"What are you, don't think Lao Tzu doesn't know. Bitch, don't you have someone in your belly, will you marry a cripple? No one in the town knows, no one knows! Pack high! What is it! Lao Tzu is rare, you are just lifting you...... Come on! Wang Wu rushed up violently and lifted Huang Lian to the bud valley behind the well like a chicken......

Seeing that it was almost ten o'clock, and Huang Lian hadn't picked up the water yet, Wu De put down the book in his hand and walked to the yard thinking that she was making trouble again? After looking outside the courtyard for five minutes, but there was no one in sight, he blew out the kerosene lamp and swayed slowly to the well with his hands behind his back and limp behind his back.

The barrel is there, but the person is not. Blame!

"Huang Lian, Huang Lian! ......" He shouted a few times, but no one answered, what was going on. He panicked, climbed on the edge of the well and looked into the well, a few leaves floated on the water under the moonlight, and he couldn't see whether there was anyone or not, he put the bucket in the well and kept shaking, as if there was no one in the well. Where did it go?

His empty stomach growled, filled two buckets of water, and swayed and limped back. All the way, all the way muttering, did she run to her cousin's house? No, where has she gone? Regardless of her three-seven-twenty-one, let's talk about it when she is full.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Wu De had eaten enough before running to the west of the town to find Huang Lian. Because of the hot weather, Huang Ju's family was still in the courtyard to cool off.

"Yellow Lotus, Yellow Lotus." Wu De shouted as soon as he entered the courtyard.

"What's it called, what's it called." Brother-in-law Liu Ping held a pu fan in his hand and knocked it Wu De's head a few times to stop him.

"She's not at your house. Where did she go? Wu De's eyes were rolling around in the courtyard. Your wife came to me and asked, strange thing? Liu Ping angrily pushed him back.

"Uh, Wu De, what are you doing here when you're not at home?" Huang Ju walked up to Wu De from outside shaking a fan and asked.

"Oh, I thought Huang Lian had come to your house." After Wu De finished speaking, he looked at Huang Ju's eyes carefully. "Hey, where will she run in the middle of the night, did you hit her?" Huang Ju shook the fan and sealed the collar of Wu De's clothes with his left hand.

"Sister, sister, you let go, I didn't beat her, I didn't beat her, she went to fetch water, the bucket was by the well, and the person was gone." Wu De shouted with red eyes......

"Did you jump into a well?" Huang Ju put down his hand as soon as he heard this, and ran out.

Wu De and Liu Ping also ran out.

"Yellow Lotus, Yellow Lotus." Huang Ju climbed on the edge of the well and shouted into the well.

Huang Ju's voice swirled in the well, one after another, desolate and hoarse. The dogs in the town also barked wildly, and for a while the dogs barked and the roosters crowed. The whole town was in chaos.

Some people took torches and shone them at the mouth of the well, and some took long bamboo poles and stirred them in the well, but there was none. Wu De stood behind Huang Ju, pulled her clothes, and whispered, "Let's go separately to find it." Huang Ju turned around and gave Wu De two slaps, and shouted with red eyes, "I can't find anyone to settle accounts with you." ”。

Huang Ju bowed to everyone and pleaded, "Please help find my cousin Huang Lian." ”

Almost the whole town was dispatched, and groups of three or five were divided into groups in the east of the town, the west of the town, by the river, in the grass, and in the fields.

Wu De was lame, no one walked with him, he sat alone with a torch to the edge of the well, and from time to time called out "Yellow Lotus, Yellow Lotus." ”

In the second half of the night, people looking for people returned disappointed, and no one wanted to help them find it again. Huang Ju did not give up and went farther to the lower river dam to find it.

In the second half of the night in late autumn, the wind carried cold air on Wu De, and he always turned around the edge of the well. Whenever he wanted to leave, there was a voice in his heart that told him not to go, not to go. He tapped his head with his hand and limped along the edge of the well to search again. A wild cat snorted out of the bud field to the left of the well, followed by a faint moan. Wu De was startled, he almost threw himself into the bud valley field, and the moaning sound started again, this time he heard it clearly, it was Huang Lian's moan. He found a voice and shouted, "Yellow Lotus, Yellow Lotus." When he lifted the bud pole covering Huang Lian's body, he was stunned .......