[Everything has a lot of appeal to me. But what I was most curious about were the shelves covered with cloth, and my eyes were staring up and down at the shelves, and my eyes were eager to grow their hands to uncover them.

The man walked a few steps to a shelf covered with a white cloth, pulled a corner of the white cloth, and pulled it. Now the sun was high, and it was crawling through the small wooden window on the side. The white cloth was removed with a "bang", and the dust in the air exploded like fireworks, and at the center of the fireworks was a painting.

I excitedly stepped forward and found that I couldn't stand up even higher than the shelf where the painting was placed, and I had to tiptoe to see that the painting was black, and the background was only a little pale green, and I couldn't see anything else.

I glanced back at the man, and he looked casually generous, in fact, he must have known that I couldn't see clearly, and that he was laughing at himself. I took two steps back and bowed slightly, jumping up, down, and up again...... I was stunned to look at the painting in this toad posture, turned around and puffed out my cheeks and looked at the person in front of me: "I saw it." ”

The man couldn't help but laugh and reached out and touched my head: "What do you see?" ”

"People, you're drawing people," I said, my eyes gurgling, trying to remember what I had just seen, "a woman, still ...... There is a small child. ”

"You ......"

The wooden door was suddenly pushed open and the two of us were startled, in fact, my father didn't see me when he came back from selling breakfast, and he saw that Chen Om was not looking right, and only then did he know that he came to the "haunted house" to find me. What I didn't expect was that this man and my father turned out to be old acquaintances, and the two of them pulled and sat down on the stool outside and began to catch up. I took a closer look at this man, obviously much younger than my father, and he had the air of a person on TV, and at first glance he was different from us countrymen.

The two of them were talking about the past, and I didn't dare to interject, so I quietly got up and walked around the house. I didn't see it clearly, but there was a small wooden table and four small wooden stools in front of the door, and a bright yellow book strip with a strong rural flavor of more than 2 meters was placed against the wall, with a lot of miscellaneous items on it, and it was also a thick layer of ash. On the wall hangs a set of very old landscapes in the middle, with poems or couplets on both sides. The painting itself is not complete, and the heavy ash falls on the foot, and it is even more difficult to put on the table.

On the left is the place where some waste has been piled up, and it can be seen that it has just been piled up, and a cabinet with a glass surface is mostly covered by the waste, presumably this person has just cleaned it.

"What? You're not leaving? Live here? ”

My eyes were staring at the red cotton cloth swaying in the wind on the roof, and I was distracted by my father's astonished voice, and turned my head to look at my father with a surprised face, and then at Hu Yi, who was still smiling kindly.

"I don't have a place to live, why don't I be welcome in Xiangyang Village? Anyway, this is also my grandmother's house, where I grew up. I don't occupy land, I just live and leave. ”

"No," the father said, his face was full of confusion, "who won't let you live?" Your grandmother is your mother's daughter, and this house is also your mother's name. What are you doing here if you don't stay in the city? Learn to farm? ”

Hu Yi smiled and said no more. It just so happened that there was a shout outside: "Xiang Yuan has eaten-"

"Hey—it's coming—" my father agreed, got up and pulled Hu Yi, "Let's go, let's eat." ”

Hu Yi's dirty and white robe was pulled into noodles, and after stabilizing his figure, he politely withdrew his hand: "No, I still have to clean up, another day." ”

"What can a meal do? Walk around ......."

"I've done it well, don't waste it."

"That'...... Come and eat at noon. My father had to change his tune.

"It depends, just came, it's too busy."

"Xiang Yuan—can you eat?" My father's words were interrupted by a soprano outside, so he smiled apologetically and dragged me out.

"Wait." Hu Yi turned his head and went into the house, and quickly got out again, and stuffed me with an extra handful of candy in his hand, "My daughter bought it when I came, I won't eat it, give it to the child." ”

I swallowed my saliva and looked up at my father's face, and only then did I happily put it in my pocket when I got permission: "Thank you, uncle." ”

"Hey."

I was dragged out of the house with a handful of candy I had never seen before. My mother was standing on the bridge a few dozen meters away, looking at us father and son with a gloomy face. I clutched the candy tightly in my pocket, and my fingers secretly stuffed the candy into my sleeve.

When I came to my mother and son, I was slapped on the head: "What are you doing when you don't eat, do your homework, or write or run around?" He pointed the finger at his father, "Is there anyone in that house?" ”

The father took the lead and went home, and answered, "Ah...... Hu Yi is back. That's it...... The child of a rich family who grew up here, a native of the city, and the one who came back to the first place in the exam. ”

The mother obviously remembered it at once, and looked back at the dilapidated house, the corners of the eyes of the no longer young who were oppressed by life had been wrinkled, and the wrinkles were changing from shallow to deep, and her mouth was full of words: "Who doesn't know him?" ”

"Huh?" The father, who had left in front of him, did not hear clearly, and then the mother asked, "Isn't he doing well?" What are you doing back? ”

The father pushed open the wooden door that had been painted half green, turned his head and bent down into the small kitchen on the right, and lifted the lid of the two wooden pots to serve the rice, "Oh, what's good?" They are all gone, and now they have nothing but to come and live here. Come over to the sea and serve the bowl—"

I washed my hands and picked up my dishes and walked out of the dimly lit kitchen, where I vaguely heard what my father was saying, but I couldn't hear it clearly. But he was always worried about the candy in his pocket, so he secretly hid a few pieces of shoes under the bed before his parents came. I went to eat.

When I was a child, the most common thing on my table was white porridge with steamed buns and a pot of fried leeks. I was a little panicked about secretly hiding the candy myself, but my parents still didn't come. I secretly took out a small piece of candy, peeled off the candy paper and threw it into my porridge bowl, full of joy.

The sound of talking behind me was getting closer, and I sat in a very standard posture because of my thief's heart, and my hand sneaked into the small candy in my pocket. I thought that this action was very hidden, but I didn't expect to be seen by my mother, and she coldly ordered me: "Xiang Hai, take out the little candy in the small pocket." ”

I shook a little, the steamed buns in my mouth stopped chewing, my eyes looked at my unhappy mother, and my voice pleaded: "This is the ...... my uncle gave me"

Standing next to her mother was Yang Cuihua, Han Chunlai's daughter-in-law next door. People in their fifties are walking like flying, with a pair of excited green eyes wrapped in the corners of their drooping eyes, and their slightly pointed lips are constantly licked by their tongues, as if they see that I am disobedient, and frown: "Oh, auntie, you can't be soft-hearted, can you eat what people give?" Don't eat it yet! Don't look back and be contagious! She said and took two steps back.

The mother was completely furious, and her attitude became tough: "Take it out!" Put it on the table. ”

I have learned my mother's tough way many times, and if I don't obey again, I will be beaten. Swallowed the steamed bun in my mouth, aggrievedly took out all the candy in her pocket and put it on the table, my mother saw that I stopped moving, reached out and checked: "I'll see if there is a private ......" She rummaged through my empty pocket, and finally made sure that the small candy given by the person was completely confiscated.

Actually, I didn't like to eat sugar at the time, but for the sweet potato stalks that were almost all leeks and sprouts at that time, candy was a rare thing, and I wanted to have it even if I didn't like it. Besides, who likes to be controlled, coerced and unexplained? It was a frustrating feeling. I waved off the candy on the table and ran away with my porridge. 】

"Hahahaha"

Lin Yilan smiled and leaned back, imagining the scene of Xiang Hai running with a porridge bowl when he was a child. Laughing again: "High! It's really high! ”

Xiang Hai smug: "Of course! I made that friend with that bowl of porridge! ”

"Who? Hu Yi? ”

"Well," Xiang Hai squinted his eyes as if recalling the burned cigarette between his fingers, "I ran out angrily with the bowl, in fact, I wanted to ask him what was wrong and whether he could be cured." I sneaked into the house, but I didn't see anyone, and went to the small kitchen next to look for him, and I saw him washing the dishes, and his hands were red from the water. I thought he was washing dishes and serving rice, but he just opened the water tank and scooped cold water from it.

I screamed, so scared that he almost dropped the bowl, and when he saw that it was me, he laughed again. I rushed over and gave him my porridge in exchange for a meal of meat. ”

"You're in business?" Lin Yilan smiled.

Xiang Hai also smiled: "Maybe it's true?" But who knows? ”

"And he...... What exactly is the disease? ”

"Tang Seng is sick."

Lin Yilan was stunned.

Xiang Hai smiled: "It's eight o'clock in the evening, I'm hungry!" ”

Lin Yilan recalled what she heard, and asked casually by getting up:

"Huh? Do you hide candy in your shoes? ”

"The heavens have a great responsibility for the people, and they must work hard for their hearts and bones......"

"Hahahaha......"

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For dinner, vinegared cabbage and a variety of diced cold radishes.

Lin Yilan took out the lamb from the Xiaoice box, thawed it, and stuffed a pot of mutton soup. At the request of the employer, I put a lot of sweet potato flour and cabbage in it. The time is right, and when the sweet potato flour comes out, it is shiny and elastic, beautiful and delicious. The employer was very generous, scooped up two bowls of cabbage and sweet potato flour and pushed them in front of Lin Yilan:

"It's all yours, I can't even take my turn, eat quickly, eat quickly......"

Lin Yilan watched him eat meat and drink soup in a big gulp, so he had to pick up the vinegar cabbage and eat it, hmm...... Not bad.

After the meal, Lin Yilan cleaned up the kitchen, and Xiang Hai only asked her to boil tea and put it away.

Before going to bed, she put her own card on her mobile phone, but there were no missed calls, and there were more than a dozen text messages. After looking at it, six urged her to take money, two spam text messages, and two had insufficient balances. She stared at the few that urged her money repeatedly, and couldn't help but feel irritated, and picked up a reply casually: I was fired and currently lives in Qiaodong. If your mother has money, please help her.

She put down her mobile phone and turned off the light and prepared to go to bed, when the untimely voice of Mr. Employer came again: "Quick, the tea is too much to boil and drink, the rivers and lakes are in emergency, hurry up!" ”

Lin Yilan wondered, can this person's problem of drinking water before going to bed not be passed on to her? If you can't finish drinking, you have to boil a pot, I don't believe you won't be edema tomorrow! But complaining and complaining, Lin Yilan still went to open the door.

Xiang Hai smiled at her with a cup in a jug, and didn't come in, standing at the door and began to pour water, and handed it to Lin Yilan:

"Drink it."

Lin Yilan took the cup suspiciously and looked at the mouth of the cup.

"You...... Didn't get drugged, did you? ”

His face was full of disdain: "I drink the rest." ”

Lin Yilan was still suspicious, Xiang Hai was impatient, took the cup and took a few sips, stuffed the cup back into her hand, and looked at her with her mouth crossed.