Xiuhan had a dream. She dreamed that she was sitting on the kang where Grandma He had slept, holding an ancient thread-bound book with an ancient typesetting in her hand, and she was reading it carefully with her head down. At this time, the curtain of the door was lifted, and someone walked in, and the sunlight was projected onto the ground through the crack in the curtain he opened, outlining a tall and toned figure. Xiuhan stood up and looked at the person who walked in front of him in a daze. It was a blurry face, and it was almost impossible to see what he looked like, but you could feel that his eyes were deep, his eyelashes were thick and long, and even the eyebrows that were obscured by the mist made people feel very manly. The man spoke, his voice was low and gentle, and he seemed to have a magnet in his throat, which sucked Xiuhan's heart into it at once. Xiuhan's heart thumped and jumped up, and he stepped forward to hug him, but he didn't watch out for a trip under his feet and almost fell. She stood still on the kang and looked down to see what had tripped over her. But there was nothing on the flat brick floor, but the delicate embroidered shoes on her feet stepped on the intricate and ornate pleated skirt. She reached out and lifted her skirt, and when she looked up at the man again, she saw the man holding the book she had just read, and the white psychedelic fog on his body was gone, replaced by a dark and dirty muddy water. The turbid water flew around him, and he tore the thread-bound book with a sinister smile on his face, as if tearing Xiuhan's thin body......

Xiuhan exclaimed "wow" and jumped up from the kang. Her eyes quickly roamed in the darkness, and in the haze she seemed to see the man standing on the edge of the kang, staring at her coldly and fiercely, and tearing the scarred book in his hand. Xiuhan shouted again and raised his hand to cover his face. Hedi was awakened by her screams from her sleep, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Xiuhan standing straight on the pit, still screaming in her mouth. He Di stood up and hurriedly put her head in his arms, patted her back and comforted, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm here." Don't be afraid to have nightmares. ”

"It's really scary." Xiuhan whimpered and cried. Because of Hedi's side, she became a little bolder, and when she opened her eyes and looked out through the gap between her fingers, she saw that there was nothing on the side of the kang, only that the charcoal fire in the stove was still burning, emitting a faint red light. Her heart settled, but she held Hetu and refused to let go: "You go and light the candle, I'm afraid." ”

"You hold me, what do I do." He sneered, pulled her to sit down, draped the quilt over her, and went down to the kang to light the candles. The room was illuminated by the dim light of the candles, and Xiuhan let out a long sigh of relief.

"What are you dreaming about? Scared me, I was munching on a leg of lamb in my dream. He slipped into the quilt she was wrapped in, and turned his head to look at her suspiciously.

Xiuhan raised his eyes and thought about it seriously, but he couldn't think of anything. She vaguely remembered dreaming of a person, but what that person had done, her mind went blank, so she had to shake her head.

"Yes, I had a scary dream." He Tu knelt on the kang and lifted the curtains to look out, and saw that the sky was hazy outside, so he put on his clothes, "It's dawn, and I'm sleeping." I changed my clothes and went home to pack up first. Come up to me when you're done. ”

"Don't!" Xiuhan hurriedly grabbed her, "I'm with you, I'm still very scared." ”

"Okay." He Tu smiled helplessly, "Then you are not allowed to lie in bed, now get dressed immediately." ”

He Tu returned home to prepare breakfast for the whole family, and he and Xiuhan ate two bites casually, and then went to the sheepfold to drive the sheep. The sheepfold was enclosed with simple branches, and in a clean and clean open space was swept away, and three rams, a ewe, and a young lamb cub were lying or standing. He opened the low door of the ring and went in with a branch to herd the sheep. Xiuhan stood not far away, holding her hand in her pocket and watching Hetu shouting inside, both curious and afraid, there was a ram with a curved hard horn on its head, she was really afraid that it would put Hetu on top with its horns. The five sheep were successfully driven out of the pen, and walked down the aisle towards the back door, and as soon as they arrived at the door, Hefu jumped out, holding a flower roll in his hand and gnawing on it, and shouted loudly to Hedi: "Sister! Why am I going to herd sheep? It's very boring for me to go there, you stay at home, I'll go herd the sheep. ”

"You Sister Xiuhan want to go. In this way, I'll go today, and you can go and play with them. ”

He reluctantly turned around and went back. He Tu and Xiuhan looked at each other and smiled, and walked slowly forward in the warm sun.

After walking a long way, I finally entered the steeper ravine from the uneven slope. Under the harsh cold of winter, most of the trees have already entered the hibernation period, and there is not a single leaf on the bare branches, shivering slightly in the breeze. He drove the sheep to a flat field, where there was a green and yellow lawn, and the sheep walked to it and hung their heads to eat, and the little lamb cub jumped up and down beside the ewe, occasionally raising its little head and arching towards the ewe's belly. Before sitting down, Hedi found a handful of hay and spread it under Xiuhan's buttocks, for fear of staining her clean pants with dust. Xiuhan waved his hand indifferently and said, "I don't care if my pants are dirty or not, I only care if my ass is cold or not." ”

He laughed out loud, patting Xiuhan's shoulder while laughing, barely straightening his waist. Xiuhan looked at her inexplicably, but couldn't help laughing, "What are you laughing at?" Why are you laughing so low? ”

"The ass is not cold." He repeated, laughing again. Xiuhan laughed with her for a while, then turned his head to look at the scenery in front of him. The sun is dimly scattered in the sky, and in the cold temperature of winter, the sunlight seems to have been deprived of layers of light, and when it hits people, it has long lost its original hot temperature. A few sheep walked slowly not far away, occasionally bowing their heads, occasionally raising their heads, although the surrounding area looks desolate and decadent, but compared with the green plains of the south, there is another taste of beauty. Xiuhan stood up, couldn't help but spread his arms and shouted, "The strong man will never return once he is gone!" ”

"What are you shouting?" He Tu looked up at her. Xiuhan said: "Shouting nonsense, to express my heart that I am now full of pride and ambition." ”

"Why are you full of ambition again?" He Tu pulled Xiuhan to sit down and looked at her curiously.

"The view here is so beautiful." Xiuhan didn't seem to answer Hedi's question, but in fact, he had already answered, "I will never see such a beautiful scenery in the city, it is too beautiful, a bold beauty." ”

"Is it beautiful?" He Tu turned his head to look around. She has seen it countless times here, and she has watched it for more than ten years, but she doesn't think it's beautiful, maybe it's because Xiuhan hasn't seen it many times and thinks it's strange, so she will say so.

The two of them were chatting about the day, Xiuhan complained to Hetu about the school system, the strictness of the teacher and the heavy homework, Hetu complained to her about her daily boredom, and even said her own thoughts, saying how much she was looking forward to Xiuhan's coming, her eyes were almost straight, but she just didn't come. Xiuhan was very moved when he heard this, and held Hedi's hand tightly and said: "In the future, I will never break my word, I said that I will definitely come next time, if I don't come, I won't have the surname He." ”

"Bah, what are you talking about?" He Tu took a sip on the ground, and also pulled Xiuhan to let her spit on the ground, "If you really have something to delay and can't come, you really want to leave your ancestors." ”

Xiuhan smiled embarrassedly, and said solemnly and seriously: "I mean seriously, I'm so sorry for you, I can't do it every time I promise you." ”

He Tu was a little embarrassed by Xiuhan's serious apology, and his face suddenly turned red, "Forget it, it's not a big deal, anyway, we're all good friends, aren't we?" ”

"That's right!" Xiuhan suddenly remembered something, "I'll go back and copy my phone number to you later, if you want to talk to me, you can call me." ”

"There is no telephone in my village."

"Then call me when you have a phone call in your village."

He nodded with a smile, and his heart was as warm as the sun on his face. At this moment, there was a sudden rough shout from the side of the slope, and the sheep who were grazing on the ground were so frightened that they ran around. He hurriedly got up and ran around to get the sheep together, holding a branch in his hand and standing high and looking down the slope.

A dark-faced boy stood at the bottom of the slope and looked at her with big eyes open, and beside him were hovering two sheep, both with long, hard horns on their heads.

"Why are you yelling at my sheep!" Hetu shouted, anger and menace in his voice. Xiuhan ran to her side and looked at the boy down the slope.

"This piece of grass is not your family, why did I yell at you? My sheep will also eat grass. Not to be outdone, the boy shouted back, his thick eyebrows raised high towards his forehead, his long eyelashes flickering in the sun.

"Then your sheep can graze with my sheep, why do you want to roar at it?" He Tu became even more angry, and pointed to the little lamb cub that was hiding under the ewe's belly and said, "Look at the little lamb that scared me. ”

The boy snorted and laughed, turned his head and waved at her, "Forget it, good men don't fight with women, I'll go." ”

"Don't go!" Annoyed by his contemptuous laughter, Hetu quickly ran downhill and grabbed his arm, "I haven't settled the account with you yet!" ”

The boy looked at Hetu in surprise and grabbed his hand, a pair of dark and clever eyes like deer eyes looked straight at her, and his complexion was so dark that he couldn't even tell if he was blushing, "Aren't you ashamed that a female doll grabs a man's arm like this?" ”

Xiuhan, who had just walked next to them, laughed when he heard this, pointed at the boy and said, "You? Man? Let me guess, you're only fifteen or sixteen, right? You're not as old as me, and you call yourself a man? ”

The boy's face could finally be seen to be a little red, he shook off his hand, and said angrily: "Okay, I'm not, you are, I'll go." ”

"Oops, forget it." Xiuhan hurriedly grabbed his arm, and the boy stopped with a snort, "You just let it go here, let the sheep eat grass together, anyway, there is such a big piece of grass here." ”

He Di glanced at Xiuhan, as if reproaching her for compromising with the boy. When the boy heard this, he seemed to be less angry, so he drove the two sheep up the slope, sat down under a tree not far away, and threw the stone in his hand forward in boredom. He Tu and Xiu Han continued to go back to their original place and sat down, Xiu Han said with a smile: "Didn't you notice that you have a hot temper?" ”

"I just can't stand people talking to me well." Hetu was still angry, glaring at the boy with his eyes, "Look at his expression, it's obvious that he looks down on me. ”

Xiuhan looked at the boy's expression seriously, shook his head, and said, "I didn't find that he looked down on you." ”

"That's because he didn't show that look to you."

"Do you know him?"

"Where do I know?" He Tu took his gaze back and stopped looking at him, and poked the loess on the ground with the branch in his hand, "I don't know where the wild boy came from." ”

"Hey! I can hear what you say! The boy screamed, and the two of them turned their heads and snorted coldly. Xiuhan really felt very funny when he looked at this scene, but when he saw that Hetu was so angry, he had to try to hold it back, and his shoulders shook.

"You're still laughing!" Noticing her trembling, he threw away the branch and shouted angrily.

"Don't laugh, don't laugh." Xiuhan said while laughing, but the smile couldn't be contained, and it became stronger and stronger.

When the sun hung in mid-air, Hetu stood up and prepared to herd the sheep. Xiuhan asked, "This is going back?" ”

"Go back, there is grass in the circle, just let them come out and relax, they are not cold in the winter, I am cold."

The two men drove the sheep together and walked back along the circuit. When the boy saw that they were leaving, he quickly stood up and shouted, "Don't come here tomorrow!" ”

"Why!" He Tu turned around and roared.

"This is my territory!" The boy shouted triumphantly, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at them. Unfortunately, the distance was too far, and the stones fell to the ground halfway through. He's face turned red, and he turned back to Xiu Han and said angrily: "Listen to you, his territory, I'll come tomorrow!" I see what he can do! ”

When he got home, Hefu was standing at the door looking forward to it, and when he saw that his precious sheep had finally returned, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Oh, I'm back, have you been bullied?" Have you been wronged? If the sheep could speak, they would have been so moved by him that they complained about the process of being frightened. It's a pity that the sheep are just sheep, and the only two who knew that the sheep were frightened did not tell Hefu about it, but said with a cold face: "I will continue to herd the sheep tomorrow, and you stay at home." ”

"Why?" He stomped his feet angrily, turned his head and prepared to call his father.

"Have you finished your homework? Have you memorized the text? Are you ready to be beaten by your teacher at the beginning of school? He Tu asked aggressively one step ahead, and Hefu's arrogance was immediately extinguished, and he turned around and walked towards the house listlessly with his head down, muttering as he walked: "That's the sheep my dad bought for me, that's my sheep......."

"Oops, it's fun, it's fun." Xiuhan clapped his hands and said, showing a happy expression, "I never knew that herding sheep was so fun. ”

"Aren't you cold?" He Tu rubbed his frozen flushed face, looked at Xiuhan's still white and tender cheeks and asked.

"It's not cold, the passion inside will beat all the cold outside!" Xiuhan raised his head and said emotionally. He didn't understand what she was talking about, but when she was hanging her books again, she drove the sheep into the pen, put the forage in the trough, and turned around and walked into the house. Xiuhan was sitting at the table instructing Heyi and Hefu on homework, and Cuiying was sitting on the kang in the back room to teach Herui how to make shoes, and when she heard Hedi walk in, she shouted loudly: "Hedi, hurry up and cook!" Your dad is in a hurry to eat and go to your second uncle's house! ”

He Tu agreed, and asked while lifting the lid of the pot, "What are you doing at the second uncle's house?" ”

"Say there's something you need your dad to help with."

"He still needs to invite us, huh?" He Tu listened to the yin and yang and said angrily, "When our family was poor, I didn't see him help." ”

Cui Ying snorted and reproached: "How can you talk about this kid, no matter how you say it, it's your second uncle." ”

He closed his mouth and stopped talking, scooped water from the pot and poured water, and then squatted in front of the stove to add firewood. After the water boiled, she carefully poured the water into the thermos pot, covered the lid and put it away, and then took the basin and began to mix the noodles. Xiuhan watched curiously as she did all this, as if she was born to be very skillful.

"You're getting this question wrong." Xiuhan pointed to a math problem in the workbook and said. Cuiying just walked out of the back room, and when she heard this, she said with a smile: "Xiuhan, you watch them do their homework carefully, my family doesn't understand it, and I don't know if what they wrote is right, you just happen to be here to guide and guide well." ”

"Okay auntie." Xiuhan was very excited and happy that he had a place to use. Lunch was soon ready, and Jiafu threw down the finished and semi-finished products in the yard and walked into the house, he had always been silent, and only listened to the family chatting while eating. While chatting, Cuiying asked Xiuhan's parents, "Why didn't your parents come this time?" ”

"They're busy." Xiuhan's mouth was stuffed with noodles, and he said vaguely, "My dad opened another factory and travels every day." My mom was always on duty in the hospital, and I was the only one left in the house, so I thought it was boring to come. ”

"Are we busy with the croppers?" Emerald Shadow was very curious. Xiuhan shook his head and said with a smile: "Auntie, I don't know what kind of busy you guys are." ”

"If you have time to call your parents to come too, be guests at our house, and stay for a while, the air here is much better than in the city."

Xiuhan nodded affirmatively, "The scenery here is really good, I went to herd sheep with Hedi in the morning, and what I saw was something that I couldn't see in the city." ”

"Oh, don't run blindly with Hedi, be careful where you get scratched." Cui Ying said hurriedly, turning her head and glaring at Hetu. Before Xiuhan could explain, Jiafu said: "You listened to what you said, such a big baby, you can't take care of yourself when you go out to play?" ”

"It's okay, auntie, I insisted on taking me there."

"Don't listen to your aunt, women have long hair and short knowledge, you can have fun here." Jiafu smiled kindly, lowered his head and continued to shave the noodles in the bowl, after eating the bowl of noodles, he threw down the bowl and walked outside, Cuiying hurriedly shouted, "You don't eat it?" Can you be full after just eating a bowl? ”

"It's almost enough to eat, why are you so full? White grows a belly fat. Jiafu lifted the curtain, took off his coat from the jujube tree in the yard, put it on his body and walked outside the yard.