Not being able to go to Cheng Xiuhan's house that afternoon has always been a knot in Hedi's heart. So when Xiuhan didn't come to her house the next day, she felt that Xiuhan was angry, angry that she didn't go to Xiuhan's house the afternoon before. All day, whether it was when she was taking Heyi or working, Hedi was absent-minded, and finally after the family went to the ground at noon, she couldn't help but go to Xiuhan's house. She wanted to see what Xiuhan was doing, what the family was like, and she had never been to Grandma He's house.

After sweeping the floor, he sat on the bench and watched the happy game he was playing. She had a small piece of white linen tied to her tiny arm, the same as on Hedi's arm, and she heard her mother say that they were giving filial piety to her grandfather. At this time, Herui was probing her brain outside, she was hungry and wanted to come in to find something to eat, but she didn't want Hedi to see it.

"Herui!" He Di shouted, and He Rui walked in unhappily, looking at He Tu with a small red face hanging her arms down.

"You look at Heyi, I'll go to Xiuhan's house." He Tu said solemnly, her voice was immature, and her face was still childish, but she instructed like a little adult.

"Nope! See! He Rui said word by word, squinted at Heyi, turned around and ran out.

He had no choice but to find the belt, control the combination on his back, and bend slightly to walk out of the house. She didn't see the shadow of Herui in the yard, so she probably went to some family's house to play again. She locked the courtyard door so that no one would enter, and walked slowly downhill with peace of mind.

He Yi rarely goes out, mainly because no one takes her out to play, so she is very excited, twisting around on Heyi's back. He Tu drank softly several times before she reluctantly quieted down. Soon, the dark gray iron door of Grandma He's house appeared in front of her eyes, and the stone lions on both sides of the door seemed to demonstrate with her, standing there majestically and proudly.

Grandma He's family is the richest family in the village. I heard that Grandma He's son went out to work in the city very early, made a lot of money, and was very filial, half of the money he earned was given to Grandma He, and he also renovated the house inside and out. Although he doesn't come back very often, every time he comes back, he brings a lot of things, all of which are city gadgets, and they are very novel. Some of the food used by Grandma He felt that it was redundant, so she gave it to other people in the village, so her popularity in the village was also very good. When Grandma He's son doesn't go back, she is the only one at home, and others are willing to come to her house to chat with her in their spare time. She also has a few acres of land at home, but she never planted it, in fact, she didn't have any manpower, her wife died early, she was the only one left, and her son's family was still in the city, and the land was abandoned for several years. Later, when the son came back, he wandered around the field, and felt that it was okay to just throw it away, so he paid a few villagers to help them clean up, and divided half of the grain harvested after the autumn and gave them their wages. This welfare is already very good, and the family has a good temperament and treats people well, so the few people who were hired to work in her house are even more dedicated, and almost take care of those few pieces of land as their own.

He Tu patted the little butt on the back with his backhand, stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door. She waited for a while, but did not hear anyone open the door, so she stood on tiptoe and pulled the iron ring on the door and slapped it a few times.

"It's coming, it's coming." An old voice shouted tremblingly, and then someone pulled the latch, and an old woman appeared from behind the door.

"Ouch, this is not the granddaughter of the Zhou family?" Grandma He hurriedly called Hetu in, and said with a look of pity, "Why do you still have one?" What about your family? ”

"They went down to the ground." He Tu looked up and said, reversing the game on his back. Grandma He trembled and tried to hug Heyi, but Hedi saw that she was unstable on her feet, for fear that she would fall together with Heyi, so she didn't untie the strap on her body.

"Hedi! There you are! Xiuhan walked out from behind a blue brick shadow wall, and took Hedi's hand affectionately.

Grandma He's eyes were sharp, and when she saw the filial piety on Hedi and Heyi's arms, her face was slightly gloomy, but she didn't say anything, she still enthusiastically let her in the door, took two plates of candy and melon seeds, put them on the table, and let the two sisters talk by themselves.

"How's your house?" Xiuhan sat down and asked, looking curious.

"That's it, bury my grandfather." He Tu bit the dead skin on his mouth and said vaguely.

"Yesterday scared the hell out of me." Xiuhan patted his chest and said, as if this was what happened a second ago. At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and a couple of fashionably dressed men and women walked in from outside.

The man was very tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a smile on the corner of his mouth all the time, and he never lowered his face. The woman was wearing a pair of jeans with small feet, a chiffon shirt on her upper body, and her long black hair was draped behind her shoulders.

"Hey, this is the Zhou family above, right?" The man said, and walked over quickly, half-crouching down and teasing the candy.

"Ah, yes." Grandma He sat on the circle chair on the other side of the room, holding the insoles in her hands and embroidering, "Lao Zhou just passed away yesterday, and I heard that it seems that he has tuberculosis or something." ”

"Tuberculosis?" When the man heard this, he was startled and hurriedly stood up. The woman snorted, patted the man's shoulder, bent down and hugged Heyi, and said with a smile: "Look at what scares you." ”

"No, I've heard it's contagious." The man looked at Hetu and said in a low voice. He looked at them timidly, not daring to say a word.

"Contagion is also conditional, not everyone who gets this disease is contagious. Besides, these two little girls are in good health, their faces are ruddy, and they don't look like they are sick. Do you want to eat this candy? She picked up a toffee and teased Heyi, who reached out and grabbed the candy in her hand, and she giggled.

After they finished speaking, they walked over to Grandma He and sat down. He Tu and Xiuhan were far away from them, so they asked in a low voice, "Is that your parents?" ”

"yes." Xiuhan nodded.

"It's so pretty." He Tu looked at Xiuhan enviously, I really wish I had such a father and mother.

Xiuhan shook his head proudly and boasted: "My dad sells toys, and he runs a big factory. My mom is a nurse and works in the hospital, so if you have a cold, you can see my mom in the future. ”

He Tu opened his mouth wide, as if he suddenly thought of something, "In case you are not there, who should I go to see a doctor?" ”

"Then you'll have to find a doctor." Xiuhan threw himself on the homework book in front of him, but he didn't have much heart to write. She was very excited, and took Hedi's hand to go to other rooms to visit, so that Hedi could have a good visit. It's just that the little guy on Hedi's back is a little older and heavier, and Hedi has a little hard to carry her, so Xiuhan jumped up to her parents and said coquettishly: "Mom, look at Heyi, I'll go out with Hedi." ”

"Yes." The beautiful woman clapped her hands towards Heyi, and her smiling eyes narrowed, "Come here, let Auntie hug you." ”

He Tu untied the strap on his body, turned around and let the woman hug He Yi. He Yi was not afraid of life, giggling in her arms, waving two candies in his hand.

"Let's go!" Xiuhan took Hedi's hand and jumped out the door.

"Look!" Xiuhan stood in the courtyard and pointed to the left, "This is what my dad newly repaired last year, it's beautiful!" He pointed to his right again, "There's a vegetable garden here!" My mom was going to plant some flowers in it, but my grandmother couldn't take care of it, so she planted all the vegetables. ”

He Tu looked around at this exquisite courtyard house, and his mouth was full of surprise. The room she had followed Xiuhan into just now was ordinary, no different from her home, except that the roof tiles looked more beautiful and advanced, and the steps and corridors were covered with delicate mahogany railings, and there were carved flowers on them. But the newly built big house next to it was like the big family's house she saw on the neighbor's TV, bigger than the room she had just entered, not only the railings were carved with flowers, but even the blue brick walls seemed to be carved with something. He Tu took two steps forward, carefully stepped on the two white and clean steps, and looked carefully, there seemed to be some kind of animal carved on them, but he couldn't see the shape.

"Let's go, let's go in!" Xiuhan jumped over, took Hedi's hand and was about to go inside. He stood still, looked back at the room, and said, as if he was afraid that someone would be angry, "Is it okay?" ”

"Why not, there's something fun, I'll take you there!" Xiuhan smiled mysteriously and went in.

"Now, look!" Before she could stand still, she ran to the other side, a crimson couch covered with a thick mattress made of silk and four pillows beside it, which looked bulging and shaped like ingots. Xiuhan grabbed a large box on it and removed a humanoid object from the box. When he looked up, he saw that the white and delicate thing had a human head, human eyes, a human nose and a mouth, as well as long golden hair, and the eyelashes looked very long. Hetu's mouth opened wide in surprise, remembering the doll that Heyi was in, that doll really didn't look like a person compared to this doll, but like a ghost.

"It's so beautiful." He Tu wanted to take it and look at it, but he didn't dare, with some fear of blasphemy.

"It's okay, I'll give it to you." Xiuhan handed it to her generously, pulled out a lot of beautiful little dresses from the box, and handed them to her, "These are all for you." ”

"Really?" He was so pleasantly surprised that he could barely believe his ears. She carefully held the doll, looked at it seriously, and then took the little skirts and flipped over them.

"Really, I have a lot of toys anyway. Didn't I tell you that my dad sells toys? Xiuhan leaned back on the couch and said with a smile.

That afternoon, Hetu stayed at Xiuhan's house for a long time, it was the happiest and happiest time she had grown up for more than six years, and she still can't forget it, and that doll, until she was old, was still kept in her old box, and together with Xiuhan's cute little face, it became the best memory in her brain.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was already setting in the west, ready to go down. He Tu returned to the wing, took the woman's hand, and prepared to say goodbye and go home to cook for the adults. The woman touched her messy hair, which was tied into two braids, and said with pity: "Poor child, you have started doing housework at such a young age. ”

"You don't understand." Grandma He said tremblingly, "You are from the city, so you are more delicate." We, the children of the countryside, have been helping to take care of the household chores since we were five or six years old. ”

The woman pursed her lips dissatisfied, and said, "At this age, it should be the age of going to school, what to cook." She bent down and whispered to Hedi, "You go back and tell your father that you want to go to school, you want to read and study, just like us Xiuhan." ”

He Tu nodded vigorously, she had already made up her mind, she would say it, from the time Xiuhan told her this, she had made up her mind that she must go to school.

Bypassing the blue brick carved shadow wall, Xiuhan sent them out of the door, and made an appointment to come back to play the next day, and when she left on the third day, she would not see her for several months. He Tu nodded, turned around and walked uphill with He Yi on his back.

In the distance, the sound of people getting off work could already be heard. He Yi first put He Yi on the kang, and then carefully took out the dolls and little skirts that Xiuhan gave her, and hid them in his own clothes in the depths of the wardrobe, and then hurriedly scooped water and washed rice, cooked rice, and then washed and chopped vegetables. As soon as she poured the oil into the pot, Jiafu and Cuiying came in from outside.

"Why are you stir-frying so late?" Emerald Shadow struggled to sit down on the stool, her belly bulging out a lot.

He Di didn't speak, but He Rui poked her head out of the door and said, "She went to Xiuhan's house!" I also locked the yard door, I couldn't get in, and I kept waiting outside. ”

"You too, you know how to play, and you also have to help your sister and see the game." Cuiying stood up again, "What about Heyi?" My good match. She went into the back room, picked up Heyi, returned to the bench, put Heyi on her lap and shook it gently, and asked, "Have you gone to your grandmother's house?" ”

"Hmm." He got off his stool and brought a plate of food to the table.

"How's your grandmother's house?"

"Beautiful." He Tu narrowed his eyes, as if he was reminiscing about what he saw, "It's very foreign." ”

Cui Ying pursed her lips and smiled, turned her head to Jiafu and said, "A rich person is a rich person, and if you have money, you can do anything." She pointed to the hole in the ceiling and complained to Jiafu, "You should also repair our house, it will leak when it rains, and it will leak when it rains, and it will make people uncomfortable." ”

"Got it." Jiafu stood up from the stool, scooped a spoonful of water from the tank and drank it without stopping, "I'll take a look after eating later, and make up for it." ”

The children ate a small amount of food, and it was finished in a while, and the adults were still chatting with their teeth picked. He Tu pulled Hexin and ran to the back room, and found the doll from her clothes to show her. He Xin had a surprised expression on her face, and kept turning around with the doll in her hand, exclaiming: "It's so beautiful." ”

"Looks good, right? It was given to me by Xiuhan! He Tu said proudly, "She also asked me to tell my parents to let me go to school?" ”

"Going to school?" Hexin turned her head to look at her and sat on the kang, "Grandma said that girls can't study, and their temperament changes as soon as they study." Besides, our family can't afford to go to school. ”

Although He Tu didn't understand why the girl's temperament changed after studying, she still became very angry because of this sentence, "Why can boys read it, but girls can't read it, it's not fair!" ”

"That's what Grandma said, you ask Grandma to go." Hexin still played with the doll in her hand, looking reluctant. At this time, Herui suddenly rushed in from outside the door and snatched the doll over.

"Hey! You give it back to me! He Tu hurriedly went to grab it, but He Rui ran left and right, but he didn't let her get it. Hetu is very angry, usually Herui can snatch anything for herself, but this doll can't, it was given to her by Xiuhan! He ran desperately, screaming desperately, and he must get his doll back. Seeing that he couldn't hide from the small house, Herui turned around and ran outside.

"Where are you going?" He Tu stepped forward and pushed Herui hard. Herui fell forward, her forehead slammed against the wooden threshold, and she only heard a "bang", and she lay on the ground and didn't move.

The sound frightened everyone. Cuiying and Jiafu hurriedly came over to pick up Herui, checked the wound on her head, and saw that Herui's eyes were closed, her face was white, and she had fainted. Jiafu picked up Herui and ran outside, Cuiying straightened her waist and turned her head to glare at Hedi, pointed at her and gritted her teeth and said, "Wait for me to come back and clean you up!" Then he ran out with Jiafu.

He watched them blankly until they disappeared in the doorway, then staggered over, picked up the doll from the ground, patted it off the dust, and held it in his arms and whimpered and cried.

Hexin stood on the side of the kang, constantly coaxing Heyi, who was scared and crying, and then saw that Heyi was also crying, and suddenly she was at a loss, not knowing which one to coax. I had to say two words to this side and two words of comfort to that side. But Hetu didn't listen to a word, she was frightened by the cruel words that Cuiying said through gritted teeth, and felt that her parents would definitely beat her up when they came back. She turned around and took out her small clothes from the closet, turned around and ran outside the house, until she ran outside the gate of Xiuhan's house, patted the big iron door, and tears were still flowing freely.

"What's going on?" It was the woman who opened the door, and when she saw that Hedi's face was full of tears, she was frightened, and hurriedly squatted down and asked. The woman looked at the doll in her arms, suddenly smiled, touched her head pityingly, and said, "It's okay, it'll be okay, I'll go to your house, I'll see how Herui is." She stood up and took Hedi's hand and walked uphill, and Xiuhan also ran out and stood behind her mother.

When they arrived at Hetu's house, Jiafu and Cuiying hadn't come back yet, so they probably went to the village doctor. There were only Hexin and Zhou's mother sitting at the kitchen table, Zhou's mother was holding Heyi, and when she saw the woman walking in with Hedi in one hand and Xiuhan in the other, she stood up suspiciously and asked, "Are you?" ”

"Hello." The woman smiled and said, "My name is Hui Rui, and I am the daughter-in-law of the old He family." I heard that Herui had fallen, and it happened that I was working in the hospital and had some knowledge, so I came over to take a look. ”

"Oh, please sit down, please take a seat." Zhou's mother hurriedly asked her to sit down, and Hui Rui sat on a wooden bench. Xiuhan was still standing beside her, looking around a little scared, and reached out to hold Hedi's hand tightly.

"Kid?"

"I'm going to see the doctor." Zhou's mother gently patted Heyi, who was already asleep in her arms, "I saw that the fall was quite heavy, and with a bang, I fainted immediately." ”

Hui Rui frowned, "It should be a concussion, the medical conditions in the village are not good, and when the child comes back, he will have to lie in bed and recuperate for a few days." ”

"This one is natural." Mother Zhou nodded and smiled. She didn't have a good impression of this trendy-dressed woman, and felt that Hui Rui was like a city person, although Hui Rui always had a smile on her face and a kind voice, she still didn't like her.