"Sister! I'm here to bring you an umbrella! He Yi said breathlessly, shaking the muddy water splashed on his trouser legs. He Yi stood up embarrassed and shy, hurriedly took the umbrella in He Yi's hand, and hurriedly said without even looking back, "I'll go first." He put his arm around Heyi's shoulders and carried an umbrella into the rain. Zhu Hai stared at her back blankly, and couldn't come back to his senses for a while.

When Hetu returned home with Heyi, the rain was still falling, and it was getting bigger and bigger. Cui Ying leaned against the door and said distractedly: "Why does this rain continue, I'm afraid that the crops in the field will be watered." Jiafu couldn't do wooden work because of the rain, and he was bored repairing a small wooden bench on the ground that was accidentally broken by Hefu, and when he heard Cuiying's words, he said: "No one can say for sure what God does, and we can't do anything about the rain even for another month." ”

"You're the crow's mouth." Cuiying reproached, still staring at the rain. He Tu pulled He Yi into the back room to change clothes, even with an umbrella, the two of them were drenched, and they were both trembling slightly. After changing clothes, Heyi ran to Hefu to play, Hedi felt bored, so he moved a bench and sat next to Cuiying, and also looked at the rain blankly.

"I don't know if he's gone back." He Di secretly thought in his heart, and the scene in the broken pavilion instantly appeared in front of him. She couldn't help blushing and lowered her head, for fear that her mother would see her abnormality. Listening to the sound of Jiafu banging on the small wooden stool, she couldn't help but wonder how her mother and father met back then, and how they got together and started a family. She wanted to ask her mother, but she held back.

The rain did not subside until late afternoon. He Tu was absentmindedly cooking dinner, but his mind was full of wondering if Zhu Hai had gone back. After the meal was served, she ate two bites casually, and then excused herself by saying that she was going to buy vinegar at the village store. Cuiying looked up in surprise and asked, "Isn't there still one?" ”

"There's only a little left, I'm afraid I'll run out of spare ones by then." He said while wearing his coat. She walked to the door and saw the wet umbrella standing by the door, hesitated to pick it up, and said slowly, "Wait for me to come back and wash the bowl, I'll be back in a while." ”

The roads in the village were so muddy from the rain that there was barely a place to put your feet. He ran to the storage room to find a pair of worn-out rain boots to put on, and then walked out of the courtyard door with a tap. Cui Ying lifted the curtain and shouted, "You just ran to buy it after the rain, you can't wait for tomorrow when the road is dry, otherwise your pants will be stained again." ”

"I just remembered it, and I said that I should consume it after eating." He Tu shouted loudly, not wanting to give his mother a chance to continue shouting at him, so he quickened his pace and went downhill. It wasn't until she walked on the potholed path that her heart became stable and happy, and she even hummed a little song and happily stepped on the mud and walked forward.

A road that usually takes twenty minutes to complete, she took ten minutes to complete this time. The cloudy sky darkened early, and only the shadows of passers-by could be seen in the hazy surroundings. He Tu went to buy vinegar first, and then hurriedly walked in the direction of the broken pavilion, and when she was about to arrive, her steps slowed down, raised her hand to arrange her hair that was blown by the wind, patted the corner of her clothes, and walked towards the broken pavilion with a twist.

In the darkness, it was impossible to tell if there was anyone in the Broken Pavilion. He Tu looked around for a long time, but he couldn't see clearly, and he walked closer timidly, and suddenly ran over a few children chasing and playing, and splashed a line of mud with laughter. He quickly dodged and trotted into the broken pavilion.

The pavilion was empty, and there was no one except the dry grass that was blown all over the place by the wind.

He sighed in disappointment and said to himself, "It seems that I have already gone back." She laughed mockingly, feeling ridiculous that she even came to see him on the pretext of buying vinegar. She slowly turned around and stepped on the mud on her way back. This time, she walked for more than half an hour on the twenty-minute journey, and when she got home, it was already dark, and Heyi was standing at the uphill entrance waiting for her. As soon as he saw her, Heyi immediately ran over to take the vinegar pot in her hand, and shouted as he ran back, "Sister is back!" ”

He Rui's figure flashed at the door, and sneered: "It's been a long time since you bought vinegar." ”

"It's raining, and the road is not easy to walk." He Di was not in the mood to raise the bar with her, so he replied listlessly and went into the kitchen. The dining table has been cleaned and the dishes and chopsticks have been washed. Seeing that he had nothing to do, he stood his umbrella by the door, bent down and laboriously took off his small rain boots.

"I brushed the pot today." Harry leaned against the wall and continued, a haughty look on her face that looked like a charity. He Tu glanced up at her and said slowly, "When I was six years old and could cook, I never spoke in such a tone. ”

"Who let me have a sister, you don't have a sister."

He Di's brows furrowed, and he turned his head to glare at He Rui, "Where did you put the eldest sister?" ”

"She has already been married, and she is not a member of the family, of course she has ruled it out."

"What do you think? Even if my sister gets married, she is still my sister and your sister, what does it mean that she is not a member of the family? Does it matter to us if she gets married? Hedi's tone became stern, and his eyes flashed with anger.

"This is what my mother said, if you have the ability, you can argue with your mother." He Ruipi said without smiling, and swaggered into the back room. Cuiying was sitting on the edge of the kang sewing clothes, and when she heard their quarrel, she shouted: "Noisy and noisy, Hedi, you are always arguing with your sister when you are a sister, you are so old that you are a little younger, how can you not understand this truth." ”

"Then she said it wrong, can't I educate her?" He Tu lifted the curtain angrily and looked at He Rui with a smug face.

"What did she say wrong?" Cuiying put down the clothes in her hand, revealing an expression that I want to see what you have to say, "She's right, you see that your sister married out and she can't do the work at home, and she can't help, but she will become an outsider?" ”

"I-" Hetu was momentarily speechless, she didn't know how to refute, her face flushed and purple. He Rui said proudly on the side: "You still say that I am wrong, you ask your mother who is wrong." ”

He turned around angrily, lifted the curtain and went out, sitting alone at the table sulking. She thought about it for a long time, but she still didn't understand why her mother said this, where was the logic of those words? At this time, Heyi led Hefu to run in from outside the door, and the two children surrounded her, screaming and jumping.

"Oops, it's noisy, quiet!" Hetu shouted, suddenly feeling disgusted with this environment, and she covered her ears. Collapsed on the table weakly.

The two children were so frightened that they quieted down. He pouted dissatisfiedly and ran into the back room. He Yi leaned in her ear and whispered, "Sister, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Heyi, do you think the eldest sister has become an outsider now?"

He Yi looked at her suspiciously, "How so?" My sister will always be my sister, Sister Xiuhan said, even if no one in the world kisses you, the family will always kiss you. ”

"Is this what your sister Xiuhan said?"

"That's right." He Yi nodded, "She also said that you and she are the same as the family, and they will always be good sisters, the kind of people who share blessings and hardships." ”

He Tu snorted, touched He Yi's sweaty forehead, and said, "You know more and more now." ”

"Sister Xiuhan also said that I should go to the city to play with her." He Yi lowered his head and fiddled with a small branch in his hand, "But I don't even know where her house is." ”

He Tu thought for a moment and said, "I'll call her when I'm going to ask." ”

"Sister, do you have any money to call?"

"There's still a little bit of money." He Tu smiled and took his sister into his arms, and all the bad mood suddenly disappeared again. Zhu Hai's face resurfaced in front of her eyes, and Xiu Han told her countless beautiful futures, like a fog in front of her that covered everything in reality, covering everything with a beautiful and dreamy color.

At the beginning of autumn, Jiafu sent Heyi Hefu to study in the city. He stayed in the city for two days, and after taking care of everything, he returned with a bag of belongings. Herui excitedly searched inside for a long time, but did not find what she was looking for. He looked funny, still doing what he was doing, but he didn't rummage excitedly like his two younger sisters. She knew that it contained all the household necessities that her father had bought from the city, and he would not spend money to buy them what they wanted, after all, the family did not have extra money. After tidying up a little, Jiafu went to the ground. Every day, she would go to the fields with her family to harvest the crops, after all, there were three people in the family at once, and the manpower seemed to be obviously insufficient, and when the sun was almost in the middle of the day, she would put down her work and rush home, trying to get lunch ready before the family returned. There were several days like this, and she was almost so tired that she didn't even want to speak, all she wanted to do was sleep a little more, lie in bed a little more, so that her tired body could be released a little, and this was also the happiest time of the day. There is also a beautiful picture of being with that person who crept into her head when she closed her eyes, although it was young and speechless, it was the most romantic scene in the girl's heart.

It was an unusually hot day, and it seemed like it was summer again. After working in the field for a while, he felt a little unwell, dizzy, and sweat soaked through his clothes. She sat down staggeringly with the bulging field on the edge of the ground, closed her eyes and gasped for a while, trying to recover herself as soon as possible, but she didn't expect people to tremble more and more. He Rui saw it not far away, and said coldly: "When you finish the work in the field, sit and rest, and treat yourself as a princess." ”

He Tu was so uncomfortable that he didn't reply to her malicious words. Jiafu heard it in front, glanced back at Hedi, hurriedly walked over and touched her forehead, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"I'm dizzy......" Hetu said slowly, her pale lips open. Jiafu waved at Herui and asked her to bring the kettle. Herui pouted and reluctantly took it in her hand and kicked it over, and Jiafu asked her to pour water into Hedi's mouth. He felt a cool liquid slip into his stomach, and the dizziness that seemed to be dry and on fire immediately lessened a little. She opened her eyes and looked at her father and sister in front of her, as well as at her mother who was far away, and nodded slightly.

Jiafu looked up at the sun, his head and face were covered with sweat, he picked up the corner of his shirt and wiped the sweat on his face, and said, "You go back first." ”

"However, I didn't cut much ...... today."

"It's okay, you go back first and cook for us first." After Jiafu finished speaking, he turned around and continued to work. He Tu looked at his father's thin back with some emotion, slowly stood up, turned around and prepared to walk back.

"If you don't want to work, you don't want to work, what kind of illness are you pretending." Herui spat hard behind her. Anger surged up in Hedi's heart, but the boundless fatigue suppressed this anger, so that it could not be released in its own way. She sighed softly, put the kettle back under the tree, picked up an empty bag of dry food, and set out on the thorny dirt road that had been trampled down.

After walking for a long time, he had just rounded a corner, and he could no longer see his family working in the fields behind him, and he only felt a tap on the shoulder, and then a light breeze circled around him. She looked up and looked around in surprise, a finger already on the bridge of her nose and gently scraping it.

"Ahh He screamed and took two steps back, his eyes wide to see who this presumptuous man really was.

"What a coincidence." Zhu Hai stood in front of her with a red face and smiled. He was wearing a shabby shirt with a little dirt on it, and he knew at a glance that he had also come back from the field.

As soon as He Tu saw that it was Zhu Hai, the surprise and anger in his heart disappeared cleanly. It's just that she still wants to save her face, so she said with a straight face: "Why do you do something to people without their consent." ”

Zhu Hai was stunned for a moment, he scratched the back of his head, and smiled embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I see that you are walking listlessly, I just want to joke with you......"

He Tu covered his mouth and laughed, and said angrily: "I walk listlessly, so you do something to me?" ”

"I'm sorry, I was wrong, I won't do this again." Zhu Hai saw that he was smiling, so he also smiled and said, "Why did you go back so early?" ”

"How did you know I was back so early?" He asked him rhetorically, looking at his reaction with amusement. Zhu Hai's face turned red again, "My home is not far from your home, I passed by one day and saw ...... occasionally"

"You're not stalking me, are you?"

"How could it be! I'm not a hooligan......" Zhu Hai was anxious, but the more anxious he spoke, the more he stammered.

"Who knows if you're not?" He Tu turned around and continued walking, while turning his head slightly and looking at Zhu Hai's figure with the corner of his eye.

"Oh, I'm not." Zhu Hai took two steps and followed, "Where do you see me?" ”

He Tu didn't want to embarrass him anymore, so he shook his head with a smile and changed the subject, "You asked me why I went back so early, so why did you go so early?" ”

Zhu Hai saw that Hedi's originally pale face had become a little ruddy, and he was relieved. He had just seen from a distance that Hedi was about to faint on the ground, and he was anxious but he couldn't step forward in time to take care of her father and sister beside him, so he followed after Hedi had already left. But if he didn't say this, it would be counterproductive, so he shook his head and said, "The water is gone, I'll go back and get the water." ”

"However, it doesn't seem to be the way to go in your house." He Tu pretended to be surprised and looked back, and his gaze was once again focused on Zhu Hai's face.

"Do you weigh anything? I'll take it for you. As if he hadn't heard, Zhu Hai reached out and grabbed the bag from Hedi's hand. He was unprepared for a while, and he snatched the swaying bag, so he covered his mouth and smiled: "There is nothing again, what are you robbing?" ”

Zhu Hai almost fell backwards, and laughed for a while, the faces of the two of them turned red, and the laughter was like a crisp ringtone.

"Alright, I'm going back." He Tu straightened up, her face flushed, like the most beautiful morning glow in the sky. Zhu Hai was stunned, and muttered unconsciously: "You are so good-looking." ”

Hedi's face turned even redder. She peeked at him, wringing her hands around the corners of her clothes at a loss, and finally turned around and said, "I really want to go back." Her heart was pounding, as if it was about to jump out of her throat.

"I'll send you!"

He didn't speak, just walked slowly forward. Zhu Hai followed behind her, his eyes gently caressing her long black braids and slightly thin body. He knew what was going on in his heart, he fell in love with her, he fell in love with this sometimes grumpy and sometimes gentle and lovely girl, even if he didn't do anything, just quietly by her side like this, he also felt very satisfied.

The sun fell on the two of them hotly, but they didn't feel the sun at all. The road became so short that it came to an end all at once. He stopped beside a clump of weeds, looked up at the gate of his house on the slope, hung his head and said, "Don't send it away, I'm here." ”

"Then tomorrow, I'll send you home again." Zhu Hai hurriedly said.

"I don't want it." He hesitated slightly, "In case it's not good for others to see." ”

"I won't show it to anyone else, and they're still in the field and haven't come back." Zhu Hai was afraid of being rejected again, so he was anxious and almost used all his strength to explain. He Tu smiled slightly, glanced at him quickly, and said, "Whatever you want." Then he turned and walked away, and ran uphill to hide himself behind a pile of hay, and poked out half of his head to look down the slope.

I saw Zhu Hai stand in a daze for a while, then lifted the hem of his clothes, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and turned to leave. He was about to step forward to see better, but he suddenly turned his head and stared blankly at the place where she had disappeared. He Tu was startled, and hurriedly shrank back, only to see him turn around three times, the beads of sweat on his arms reflecting the glittering light in the sun, and finally gradually disappeared into the distance.