Dark night, same location, unchanged operating habits. The tricycle driver, who returned at night, pushed the cart into the house and went to the well to fetch water to wash off the stinky sweat on his body.

The broad and thick back of the tricycle driver was like a wall, casting a tall shadow in the moonlight on the edge of the well. The sound of gurgling water rolls out from between your fingers under the squeezing. A towel with a refreshing coolness was placed on a hot and almost chapped face. Call! The towel soaked up the heat on his face and became rough, mixed with a smell of sweat, and rushed into the breath and breath. Gently pulling down the towel, his vision suddenly widened, and his mind became confused after the scorching heat, and gradually sobered up under the refreshing coolness.

In the miserable moonlight, cold, and for a moment, he remembered an incident that had happened to his partner a week earlier.

The tricycle driver is a native of the Northeast, and is temporarily called a Northeast man.

The Northeast man has a partner who escaped the famine and lived in this hotel temporarily. A few years younger than him, his name is Little Northeast.

That day, the two of them stayed in the small county town for most of the day and did not get a deal. Some of them were disheartened, their stomachs were filled with two cold steamed buns, and they hardly ate any other food except for the well water they brought.

Hungry, smelling the smell of food wafting from a small snack shop in the county seat, the two swallowed their saliva. Glancing at each other, Xiao Dongbei licked his lips, lifted the kettle from the front of the car, and raised his neck to grunt for the fourth time because he was hungry to fill the temple with water.

At this moment, the last train came from a long distance, with a car full of dust, and slowly drove away. Because the train was late, the other tricycle drivers couldn't wait, or left to go home, or went to other places to find business, so there were only two people on the platform, Big Northeast and Little Northeast.

When the car approached, the two of them looked at the door expectantly. The door slammed open, and two people got out of the car in disappointment. They seem to be a husband and wife, one is a pregnant woman with a big belly, and the other is a Confucian scholar with elegant manners and a white face.

Yes, it's better than nothing! According to the habit, the tricycle driver shouted to the two people who got out of the car as usual: "Take the car!" By car? ”

Hope is always at that moment, after the Great Northeast shouted, the scholar glanced at the two of them and said, "Take the car ......"

As soon as Xiao Dongbei heard that the other party was going to take the car, he wiped the wet corners of his mouth, and stabbed the car forward and stopped. said with a smile: "Where is the uncle going?" ”

The scholar of Wenru held his wife, who was unable to move, and said to the two of them, "Go home." ”

"Good Lat! Get in the car! ”

In front of the couple, two tricycles! The two of them hesitated, not knowing for a moment which one or two cars to ride.

Da Dongbei grinned, showed a mouthful of white teeth, and smiled at Xiao Dongbei Nunu and said, "You guys take his car!" ”

Seeing that Big Northeast took care of himself so righteously, Xiao Dongbei couldn't help but feel ashamed of what he had just done. also hurriedly said: "You can take my eldest brother's car, you can rest assured that he will send you home safely." ”

Da Dongdong, his face sank, and he blamed: "Don't be reckless, you kid, hurry up and eat after this trip." ”

"......" Xiao Dongbei didn't say anything, and could only silently cast a grateful look at the other party. At the urging of the two couples, they straightened up and left the station with the bell ringing.

What I didn't expect was that Xiao Northeast pulled people this time, and later lost his life.

Great Tohoku still has no waiting for guests who need to take a tricycle. I had to pedal in frustration and return to my temporary residence.

The two of them were staying at the small hotel on the side of the road.

The small inn was run by a husband and wife, and the business of this small inn was not bad on the side of the only mechanized road leading to the north and south counties. Its business mainly comes from long-distance stations that travel between the north and south counties twice a day, and passengers who can't return within a day get off the train.

These long-distance travelers come here without any relatives. The only way to do this is to rely on the guidance of the tricycle driver to take them to a safe hotel for one night, and then change trains or go home the next morning.

As soon as Xiao Dongbei came back this night, he washed the car vigorously, as if there was something unclean on the car.

Dadongbei felt strange and asked him.

Xiao Dongbei told him with a slightly sad look and told him the cause of the incident.

It turned out that the pregnant woman was going to the county seat for a check-up, probably a long journey and bumps, and the pregnant woman cried out for a stomachache on the tricycle. Xiao Dongbei has never witnessed the scene of a woman giving birth to a child, but this time he witnessed the whole process of a woman giving birth.

It's miserable! The blood was like water, flowing in streams. The woman's husband was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and was helpless. The woman covered her stomach and screamed bitterly, and the man knelt on the ground, there was no other way than to beg Xiao Dongbei to pull the two of them to the county seat again.

Little Northeast is scared! He was most afraid of seeing blood in his life. When he saw the woman screaming, he trembled and didn't dare to approach, if it weren't for the fact that the car was mortgaged by himself with dozens of banknotes and ID cards, he would have fled away from the couple.

There is no village in front of it, and there is no place in the store behind. Xiao Dongbei had no other way than to have the idea of leaving the couple behind.

In the end, Xiao Dongbei ruthlessly let the couple get out of the car. didn't dare to ask the other party to pay or anything, so he didn't want to pedal and escape back to his temporary residence.

When Da Northeast, who is upright by nature, heard Xiao Northeast's words at first glance, he was immediately angry. scolded him for having no morality and no sense of responsibility, and actually did such a thing that violated his conscience.

Xiao Dongbei felt that he was really fucking wronged, when sending this couple. It took all the strength of the whole body, not to mention, and the car was dirty. No matter how he washed it, the blood stains on the car just couldn't be washed. This has to be despised, scolded and looked down upon by the Great Northeast, who has always taken care of him.

After asking about the location of the couple, Dadongbei didn't care about saying anything. I hurriedly pushed the cart out and hurriedly went to find them, thinking that I could make up for the mistakes made by Xiao Dongbei.

When the Great Northeast finally found the couple, the wife had bled profusely and died after giving birth to a baby boy. When he sent the family of three to their home, it was already two o'clock in the morning.

The home of the scholar of Confucianism is not bad, and it is also the most honest household in the local area. The dead daughter-in-law was placed in an empty room, her miserable white face still retained the pain of childbirth, her long black hair, wet and sticky to her forehead, and her unclosed half-spread eyes, as if crying about the unfairness of her fate.

Just because, the concept of preference for sons is rooted in the mother-in-law's mind, and the mother-in-law strictly orders her son to have a daughter-in-law who has a handle, otherwise he will divorce his wife and remarry. Because of this, the scholar took his wife to the county seat for inspections, and had abortions again and again, until the last time he was found to be a male fetus, he was relieved......