"Someone in the village slipped in the snow and sprained his waist and had been lying down for several days and couldn't get up from the kang. In the morning, someone came to his house and invited my father-in-law and father to go and see. ”

"Then your father-in-law went to the city a few days ago, and everything has been fine since he came back? Do you feel sad? ”

After thinking about it, his father-in-law Ye Shifang was indeed not at home on the 27th, so he got up early in the morning and went out, and only came back in the evening. The next three or four days were nothing but a little worse in his mental state, but on the night he came back from the city, in the middle of the night, he slept in a daze and heard a dull cry.

"Uncle, my father-in-law seems to have cried in the middle of the night."

Cultivator told Niu Yongfeng in detail what he had observed, he was a small child and didn't understand the big things of his elders, but he still had an advantage in memory.

"And how is your grandfather? Is he okay? Did your father-in-law say anything to him? ”

"Uncle, grandpa is pretty much the same as usual. As for what my father-in-law and grandfather said, I don't know. I basically read and write in this room, and if my father-in-law used to talk to my grandfather, I wouldn't be around. ”

Niu Yongfeng listened to these words, nodded, took off the hat that was wearing to cover the wind, put down his gloves, took the leather bag and turned around and walked out of the hall. Cultivator saw that the direction he went out was to go to his grandfather's room, and he looked back and was startled. The two younger brothers finished drinking the bottles, and at this moment they both rolled and crawled to the edge of the kang, and if they didn't stop them, they would fall down.

"Dodo...... Dodo! ”

"Pot and pot...... Pot pot! ”

"It's not a dodo, it's not a pot, it's called brother! It's been more than ten days since you both grew up, why can't you call it clearly? ”

Cultivator moved the two younger brothers to the middle of the kang angrily, he sometimes feels very strange, obviously it is difficult for twins to tell who is who, but why do parents still buy them the same everything? Doesn't that make it more confusing?

He himself knows how to distinguish, a mouthful of "dodo" is the cow ploughing, constantly calling for the "pot" is the ox ploughing, or there is a mole behind the left ear of the ploughing, but the ploughing does not.

"What do you say? The old prefect died? When was this? ”

"Dad, you don't know that? I thought my uncle had told you about the 26th of this month. My uncle went to me on the 27th, and I was saddened by the obituary I saw in the newspaper. ”

Through the wall, I heard the sound of my grandfather and uncle talking here. In fact, the sound insulation effect of the wall between the two rooms is still okay, but the cultivation knows that Uncle Niu Yongfeng has always spoken with a high throat and a big voice, and the grandfather has some back of his ears, and he usually speaks in a loud voice, which makes their conversation over there sound more clear here.

I have heard the word "old chief" hard work, and grandfather Niu Chuanqing often talks about this old chief when he tells him stories of the past era. The old chief and grandfather are Hunan villagers, he is more than 20 years older than his grandfather, and in his grandfather's heart, the old chief is a person like his father.

The old commander was originally a general of the Kuomintang troops, and his grandfather was an adjutant of his retinue, but later he made a mistake and left the army, and then the old commander became a general of the People's Liberation Army. Cultivating listened to his grandfather Niu Chuanqing say that although he had left the army for many years, the old commander still remembered him, and in the early eighties, someone in a police uniform came to investigate, and the old commander also proved it for him.

Niu Gengxin remembered that when his grandfather told these old things, he was grateful to the old chief, and he was also ashamed. It's just a pity that since I left, I haven't had the opportunity to see each other again, and now all this gratitude and guilt can't be let go.

"Mom, I'm back."

"Big sister!"

There was a conversation in the courtyard, and when he heard that it was his aunt Niu Xiaoling coming back, he climbed to the window and shouted out.

"Auntie!"

Looking through the glass window, my aunt had short wavy hair, a black coat, and a big red scarf around her neck. She was not tall, her whole body was neatly tidied up, and when she walked into the hall with her things, her steps were compact and rhythmic, and the heels of her leather shoes hit the ground, making a rhythmic "ooh ooh" sound.

"Dad, the old man is ninety-seven-year-old Gao Shou, don't be too sad. If you don't wait for my uncle to come back, you two old people will have a sad time together, and you are getting older, so you should pay more attention to your body. Listen, my sister Xiaoling is back outside, and she will probably come over to greet you soon. ”

Niu Chuanqing burst into tears, he let out a long sigh, suppressed the grief in his heart, turned around and tore some straw paper from the side of the bed behind him, wiped away his tears, and blew his blocked nose.

"Daddy!"

Niu Xiaoling opened the curtain and came in and shouted, and when he saw Niu Yongfeng sitting next to the old man, he smiled.

"Big brother, you arrived before me on your own, and it seems that you started from the city much earlier."

"It's not too early, mainly because the weather is good these days, and the snow on the road has melted away, so it's easier to walk."

Niu Yongfeng also said with a smile, stood up, and pointed to the stool he was sitting on just now.

"Xiaoling, you sit with your father for a while, I go out to see my mother, do they want to help?"

As soon as Niu Xiaoling came in, he found that the atmosphere in the room was not right, and when he saw the eldest brother say this, he walked over and sat down, stretched out his hand and held the old man's hand and asked, "Dad, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Xiaoling, you just talk to your father, don't ask so much, it's nothing. Dad just remembered the old days and was a little sad. Niu Yongfeng walked to the door, turned around and explained.

The old ladies in the courtyard, Wang Ying and Tian E, had already heard the situation in the room, they didn't worry about it on weekdays, and the men of Lao Niu's family wouldn't tell the women too many things.

After two sacks of wheat were washed all morning, they were finally packed up and cooled on the mat, so that they could be bagged and pulled to the mill until about two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

Ye Shifang and Niu Yonghou both came back at lunchtime, saying that the person who twisted his waist belonged to a hip dislocation, but fortunately, there were two people who went, plus the son of the family, and several people worked together to recover, which took a lot of effort.

After lunch, Niu Yongfeng and Niu Xiaoling accompanied Ye Shifang and Wang Ying to talk in the room. "Catch, in addition to farming, she also loves these two grandsons the most.

After the two sacks of wheat had been washed and cooled, nearly five snakeskin bags were filled. Niu Yonghou filled the rack car with air, loaded it and pulled it. Daughter-in-law Tian E and son Niu Geng followed on both sides, helping to push a cart when they reached the uphill level.

Cultivators usually pull wheat in a cart to go to the next door Hongshuigou Village, about two miles away, just on the side of the road. There is also a mill in the middle of Yuchi Village, but my grandmother says that their noodles are not polished carefully enough.

The cart went down the road from the dirt road into the village, and walked along the sidewalk drawn on the side of the road in the direction of the city, which is also the lower reaches of the Jinling River. This highway is Provincial Highway 212, but more locals call it "Baoping Road", which is the main road from Baoji in Shaanxi Province to Pingliang in Gansu Province. Sometimes it is also homophonic "Baoping Road", which means to ensure the road of peace.

In this era, there are not many cars running on Baoping Road, mainly from the two places of Gansu and Shaanxi to pull coal trucks, and there is the 16th bus that is convenient for the people to enter the city along the way, the starting point is the old station in the urban area, and the end point is the county Gong Town, and the total distance fare is 3 dimes. If you only take the station from the city to Yuchi Village, it will only cost 1 dime and 5 cents.

The road is asphalt and very flat. Niu Yonghou pulled the car relatively easily, so he allowed his son to sit on the frame car, and he asked Tian E to walk to the inside of the roadside. The road is wide, but the occasional coal truck always whizzes by, which makes people's hearts flutter. The bus was slower, "humming", like a tired old cow, dragging its heavy body.

Cultivating sat on a pile of wheat bags, his legs drooping forward, there was a sense of condescension, he had basically been confined to his home for a year, and today was the first time he had gone out, and he had such a comfortable treatment. He was bathed in the warm winter sunshine, and his heart was very happy.

"Heaven to earth, rain to wind. Continents against the sky. Mountain flowers are ...... to sea trees, and the red sun is to the sky. ”