After eating, Xiu Han ran to his yard to get his schoolbag. She didn't feel that the house was strange now, and after a day of getting along, she suddenly felt that they had become amiable, and how warm the little kitchen and back room were, with the stove burning, much warmer than the beautifully decorated courtyard of her own. Hedi put away the bowl, wiped the table clean, Heyi Hefu continued to lie on it to write homework, as soon as Xiuhan entered the door, there was another person who was writing homework next to the table, an adult, two dolls, and three hairy heads together, the picture seemed discordant but very warm.

After brushing the bowl and sweeping the floor, he took the sewing basket and sat down next to Xiuhan. She threaded the needle, pierced a hole in the thick upper with an awl, and threaded it with a thick sewing needle. Her needlework feet are so fine and neat that they look as if they had been sewn with a sewing machine. After two stitches, she glanced down at the three people's homework books, and the satisfaction on her face was as if she had written those beautiful fonts herself. Occasionally, she would stare at Xiuhan's side, look at her eyes, nose and mouth, and feel that with such a good friend by her side, the days would suddenly not be boring, her body and mind exude vitality and enthusiasm from the inside out, this is the state that a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl should have, she likes this state, and therefore likes Xiuhan who let her have this state even more.

At night, Xiuhan finally agreed to sleep at home. He Di ran to Grandma He's house and brought up all Xiuhan's luggage and put it on top of a slightly old big box used to hold old things in the corner of the kang. She rummaged in the cabinet on the kang, turned out a clean futon and spread it on the kang, and took out a clean red quilt with a satin quilt from the cabinet in the big room and spread it on top of the clean mattress. He Yi was very happy to see it, and when he took off his shoes, he was about to jump and step on it, but he was slapped away by He Di, and reproached: "This is your sister Xiuhan's cover, you go with Hefu to sleep at the end." ”

Heyi was standing with his hands behind his back unhappily, Xiuhan hurriedly pulled her to his side, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just a quilt, Heyi, do you sleep with Sister Xiuhan at night?" Before He Yi nodded, He Tu said, "Oh, let the two of them sleep inside, and I'm afraid of falling out of the sleep." Xiuhan didn't speak again, grabbed a handful of candy from his pocket like a trick, and said to Heyi: "Look, there is candy to eat!" ”

He Yi jumped up happily, and shouted through the window to Hefu who was dancing with sticks and sticks in the yard, "Hefu!" Come on in! Eat with sugar! He Fu threw down the stick and ran into the house, He Yi counted the amount of candy in his hand, divided half of it among him, and the two of them sat on the kang and ate it with relish.

Xiuhan saw Herui standing on the threshold hesitating in a blink of an eye, and had long forgotten the stubborn impression of this child before, but when she was a lively and laughing child like Heyi Hefu, he hurriedly beckoned her to come in, took out a few more candies from his pocket, handed them to her and said, "You eat too." ”

He Rui glanced at Xiu Han with a little timidity and indifference, stretched out a cold hand and quickly grabbed the candy from her hand, turned around and ran out. He Tu smiled and watched her figure disappear behind the door, and said, "Don't care, her personality is like that, I'm used to it." ”

Xiuhan is no longer a twelve- or thirteen-year-old child who is easy to hold grudges, she is already eighteen years old, and she has everything in her heart, so she smiled and said when she heard Hedi's words: "Children, their nature is good, it depends on how the adults teach them the day after tomorrow." ”

"My family has a very good personality, but Herui's personality is not good." He Piping was stepped on by Heyi's wrinkled quilt, "It's a pity that you didn't come back last time my sister got married." My sister is the best, and if my sister is here, we will definitely have a good time. ”

"I'll see you next time." Xiuhan peeled off a piece of candy and handed it to Hedi, and put another piece in his mouth, "By the way, where does your sister live in the city, I have time to see her." ”

"I don't know, I just know that she lives in the city." Hedi's face suddenly showed excitement, "When the family is not busy, I will go to the city to find you." ”

"Yes, yes." Xiuhan clapped his hands happily, "I wish you came, you must come to my house when you come." ”

The two of them nodded solemnly as if they had agreed on something, and fell on the warm and comfortable kang together.

After staying in the countryside for a while, Xiuhan has long been accustomed to the routine of the croppers resting at dark and getting up at dawn. In previous years, when she was at home in her own house, as long as it was a holiday, she didn't sleep until eleven or twelve o'clock before getting up, and now she slept with Hedi, and when she got up at four o'clock, she screamed for her younger brothers and sisters to get up. Even the children younger than him got up, and Xiuhan was even more embarrassed to continue sleeping, and rolled over and got up.

"Eh, you go back to sleep." He Tu smiled, "I'll go make breakfast, and I'll call you when I'm done." ”

"No, I'll do it for you." Xiuhan said as he put on his sweater and kicked his legs into the thick cotton pants.

"What will you do?" He Tu thought for a moment, "Why don't you help me light the fire, you go and pull the bellows, so that I can be busy." ”

Xiuhan agreed, very curious about this thing she had never been exposed to. She sat in front of the stove door and was choked by the smoke that came out and coughed all the time, but her hands did not stop, and she kept pulling the bellows, the fire was so strong that the pot of noodles in Hetu was almost cooked. After a while, Jiafu and Cuiying stepped into the door, and after the family finished breakfast, they went their separate ways. He went to the sheepfold to drive the sheep as usual, and prepared to go to herd the sheep.

Xiuhan followed Hedi's side like a little follower, and said in a dumb voice: "Don't scold people when you go today." ”

"It depends on whether he listens or not." He Tu raised his head and said proudly. The sheep had been left in the meadow for a week, and the boy seemed to be against her, and every time he came, he frightened her sheep cubs. He quarreled with him every time, and the boy also quarreled with her, but unfortunately his mouth was too stupid to say a few words, so he had to sit under the tree and sulk. At this time, Hetu felt very happy, as if he had won a battle. Later, almost every day she began to look forward to that moment of victory, which made her life seem to have a new color, an incomparable color that made her feel very powerful.

The two men came to the meadow one after the other, drove the sheep over, and sat down again in the old place. He Tu and Xiuhan chatted nonsense, but their eyes kept glancing at the position down the slope, until the sun reached the wall against which their backs were, and the boy did not come. He felt a sense of loss and sadness, and his interest in speaking was gone, so he stood up and was about to go to herd the sheep.

Suddenly, she heard a whistle, and a figure jumped up next to her. The sheep who had been well-behaved around Hetu were suddenly frightened and scattered, standing far away and looking at the uninvited guest. He Tu was also taken aback, she looked at the person in front of her in a daze, and didn't react for a while.

"Hey!" The man snapped his fingers at her, "Wow? ”

He Tu finally came back to her senses, her eyebrows immediately rose up, her eyes widened, and she took a deep breath with her hands on her waist and was about to scold. The boy was prepared, stretched out his hands and gently poked the two swollen faces, and grinned.

He Tu looked at him in surprise, not knowing what kind of road this was. The boy hunched over with laughter, almost out of breath. His pretty eyes smiled into a narrow slit, long eyelashes casting deep shadows on his lower eyelids. There are two deep dimples on both sides of the face, and the curvature of the corners of the mouth is very beautiful. Hedi blushed all of a sudden, and she wanted to turn her head away, but her eyes were fascinated by his deep eyes and deep dimples, and she was reluctant to turn away. The boy finally laughed enough, reached out and rubbed his sore cheeks, and asked proudly, "Why don't you scold me?" ”

He was embarrassed and didn't know what to say. Her face flushed, and she looked very pink in the sunlight. The boy was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, "Are you stunned today?" Why don't you scold me? ”

"Who's going to scold you!" He Tu snorted angrily, turned his head and left. Xiuhan stood not far away and looked at them funny, but his heart was like a mirror, and he saw Hedi's thoughts clearly.

"Catwalk Han, let's go home." Hetu drove the sheep, pulled Xiuhan's sleeve and was about to go back. She strode absentmindedly, but all that flashed in front of her was the boy's smiling face, and her heart was pounding, as if she had run dozens of miles in a row, and she couldn't breathe. Xiuhan followed behind her, letting her pull herself, but she only smiled and didn't speak.

When he got home, he handed the sheep to Hefu, who was waiting at the door, and Hefu entered the house with a red face and sat down on the bench in a daze. She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she was so caught up in this beautiful feeling that she couldn't extricate herself, and she didn't even hear Cuiying tell her to hurry up and cook.

"Hey." Xiuhan took her homework and sat down beside her, "What do you want?" ”

He Tu suddenly came back to his senses, glanced at Xiuhan with a red face, and shook his head.

"Your mother told you to cook." Xiuhan said again, with a teasing smile on the corner of his mouth. He Di felt that she seemed to see through her thoughts, and couldn't help but blush, and hurriedly stood up and went to the pot to prepare, and persuaded herself to stop thinking about it in her heart, but the boy's face kept shaking in front of her eyes as if she was playing on the stage. When washing vegetables, that face is in a basin filled with water, when kneading the dough is in a flat dough sheet, when the noodles are cooking, that face is in a steaming pot. He Tu shook her head violently, but she still couldn't shake off the face, she wondered in horror that the boy couldn't be a ghost, so she invaded her state of mind and made herself stunned.

After eating lunch absentmindedly, Hetu still sat on the edge of the kang in a daze, holding a half-embroidered insole, but he didn't move for half a day. Cuiying came in and went out, and looked at her with suspicion and reproach several times, but Hetu didn't notice it. If it was normal, when a stern gaze from others threw it over, Hetu would have reacted a long time ago and made the work beautiful. But now her mind is dull, and her movements are sluggish, and she doesn't know what's wrong.

"Xiuhan, what's wrong with Hedi?" Cuiying stepped out of the threshold and asked, "Stunned, the noodles were boiled at noon." ”

"I don't know." Xiuhan pretended to be stupid and shook his head, lowered his head and continued to write his homework with Heyihe. Cuiying sighed, twisted her neck and shouted a few times into the inner room, which was silent, and no one responded at all. She said angrily: "The devil is stunned, and I don't know what I'm thinking about all day long." ”

He faintly heard the sound of Cui Ying shouting, but he didn't know that he was shouting himself. A flash of lightning flashed in her head, and she jumped off the kang and walked out. Seeing this, Xiuhan hurriedly stepped forward to grab her and asked in a low voice, "Why are you going?" ”

"I'll go to that meadow."

"What are you going to do now?" Xiuhan pulled her into a corner, for fear that others would hear it.

"I ......" Hetu couldn't answer for a while, "I'll let the sheep go!" ”

Xiuhan snorted and laughed, "Didn't you let it go in the morning?" ”

Only then did he remember the events of the morning, but he remembered the boy's smiling face as well. She clutched her head in pain and crouched down the steps.

"What's wrong with you?" Xiuhan looked at her worriedly.

He Tu glanced up at Xiu Han, looked around again, and saw that there was no one around, so he quietly said to Xiu Han: "I feel like I've been ghosted." ”

"What?" Xiuhan's eyes widened in surprise, not because he was surprised by the ghost, but because he was surprised that there were still people so superstitious in this era.

"Just the guy on the slope, I've been in his head since the morning, and I feel like I'm being by him." He Tu thought about it, and said seriously, "No wonder I don't know where his family lives, what is his name, I have been here for more than ten years, and I know all the people in the village, but I don't know him, is he a lonely ghost?" Damn! He Tu suddenly hugged his body and shivered heavily.

Xiuhan looked at her with tears and smiles, in fact, she knew and understood Hedi's state of mind, and she herself had experienced it. When she met Xing Siyun for the first time, when she came home, her head was full of him, and his voice kept echoing in her ears, sometimes making her feel red-faced, and sometimes making her think about it. Where is this ghost upper body?,This is obviously the appearance of liking someone.。 Xiuhan turned her head to look at Hetu, who was still a little immature, she was four years older than Hetu, she was completely a big sister, she had to think about Hetu. When you like someone when you are young, it is easy to put moths to the fire for him, Xiuhan doesn't want the moths to put out the fire, especially in this environment in the countryside, the strict style of family education, feudal conservative thinking, will burn a slightly out of line at any time, even in the city, there are such stubborn people. Xiuhan sighed and said in a low voice, "You should be a ghost, right?" ”

He Tu turned her head to look at her, her eyes were full of disbelief, she shook her head, and said, "Xiuhan, you have seen a lot, tell me, whether I am a ghost or not." ”

Xiuhan pursed his lips and thought about it seriously, "According to me, you don't care about what you're thinking in the future, he will appear when he appears, and you will continue to do your own thing." How old you are, these are the things that adults should think about. ”

"Are you an adult?" He asked curiously. Xiuhan nodded and said, "I'm an adult, so I'm an adult." ”

"And when am I going to become an adult?"

"When you're eighteen."

He Tu counted on her fingers, she is fourteen and a half years old this year, and she will become an adult in three and a half years, wow, she suddenly became happy, and began to look forward to becoming an adult in the future, and the boy's smiling face in her mind disappeared all of a sudden.

For the whole afternoon, Hedi was running around looking for a job. She even swept away the sawdust from the sawwood in the yard, and poured some water in the vegetable garden, just to prevent herself from being idle. She found that as soon as she got busy, the ghost stopped on her body, and it was not until the sun went down and the thick night enveloped the whole mountain that she dragged her tired body to fetch water and wash her face. The kang is burning, Xiuhan is in the quilt, holding Heyi and telling stories. Herui sat on the ground and washed her feet, but she also stretched out her ears and pretended not to care, eavesdropping, hearing the horror, her body shook, and a few drops of water splashed out of the footbasin, she hurriedly looked at everyone's reaction, and saw that everyone was immersed in the story and no one noticed her, so she continued to rub the instep with the soles of her feet.

He waited for Herui to finish washing, poured out the water, refilled the hot water, and sat down on the bench to wash his feet. Xiuhan had already started a story again, and deliberately said in a gloomy tone: "There was a strange thing that happened in our school dormitory, which is scary. I heard that one day, a girl got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, and she was halfway through the toilet when she suddenly heard someone crying, and the voice was at her feet. But there's a toilet under my feet—"

"What is a toilet, Sister Xiuhan?" He Fu asked with wide, curious eyes. Xiuhan thought for a while and explained: "It's the place where the poop is pulled, and as soon as the water is flushed, the poop goes down." ”

He Yi Hefu nodded as if he didn't understand, and Xiu Han continued to speak. She was terrified when she heard this story, so she hurriedly lifted her feet from the footbasin and wiped them clean, and ran out with the basin. She stood outside for a long time, letting the fresh cold wind blow her hot cheeks, and the boy's smiling face appeared in front of her eyes again, a pair of dimples dangling in front of her eyes, every time she shook, her heart moved, and every time she shook, her face was red, and even the cold wind could not lower the temperature on her face. After standing for an unknown amount of time, her bare feet were already frozen and unconscious, so she turned and lifted the curtain and went in, pinned the door, blew out the candles in the kitchen and went into the back room.

Xiuhan is no longer telling the story, and is coaxing the two children into the bed to put them to sleep. Heyi Hefu was still immersed in the ghost stories she told, pestering her to tell another one. Xiuhan smiled: "I can't tell you ghost stories, otherwise I will have nightmares at night." Shall I tell you a fairy tale tomorrow? ”

"What is a fairy tale?" Hefu asked again. He Yi stretched out his elbow and poked him, and said, "Don't you usually listen well in class, there are fairy tales in the textbooks." ”

Hefu nodded as if he didn't understand. Xiuhan said: "Then close your eyes now, if anyone doesn't sleep, I won't tell him a story tomorrow." The two children hurriedly closed their eyes, and the eyeballs rolled and turned under their thin eyelids, and in a moment they stopped and fell into a deep sleep.

He Rui lay down next to He Yi and closed her eyes and slept without saying a word. He Tu came in from outside at this time, took off her shoes and put on the kang, and the warmth in the quilt melted her cold feet at once. She lay down comfortably on the kang and said to Xiuhan, "Don't tell ghost stories in the future." ”

"Why?"

"I just listened to half of it, and it scared the hell out of me."

Xiuhan laughed quietly, she tucked the quilt corner for Herui, lay down outside Hedi, and whispered in her ear: "You are not a ghost, you have a ghost in your heart." ”

"I didn't do anything wrong, why do I have a ghost in my heart?" He retorted dissatisfiedly. Xiuhan didn't speak, blinked at Hedi, blew out the candle, lay down and fell asleep. He couldn't sleep, and looked at the dry branches that swayed on the window, and his heart suddenly became happy. She searched for the reason why she was happy, but she couldn't find it. The boy's face was still dangling in front of her eyes, and she looked at his face and felt more and more happy in her heart.