At night, Xiao Yao couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and had a dream that he slept in her bed with Xiuxiu and did something that made people blush. After this, I didn't see Xiuxiu for a few days, Xiao Yao wanted to show off very much, I had dinner that day, and when it was dark, I couldn't help but go to the village to find Xiuxiu, walked to the door of Xiuxiu's house, and hid behind a maple poplar tree on the edge of her rice field to watch secretly, he wanted to see Xiuxiu, and then go home to sleep, if the person who came out was not Xiuxiu, he could jump from behind the big tree to hide behind the straw stack. Xiao Yao was thinking like this when he heard the door creak.

The person who came out was Aunt Huang, Xiao Yao saw it, and was so frightened that he slipped behind the haystack like a rabbit, leaning on the haystack, he just sat there like that, staring blankly at the moon in the sky. I don't know how long I sat down, and suddenly heard the voice of someone talking on the other side of the maple poplar tree, a man and a woman, Xiao Yao didn't dare to come out, he heard it, the woman was Xiuxiu, and the man was Sanmao, the teacher of the village elementary school. Xiao Yao didn't care about being discovered at this time, and ran from the other side of the haystack with his waist bent, and his tears flowed down his eyes as he ran.

When Xiao Yao was 10 years old, an incident happened in Xiaojiawan, and the daughter-in-law of Yu Keming's family, who had just passed the door for less than a year, hanged herself in the middle of the night. Keming died of his wife when he was young, and he didn't continue the strings, so he brought up his son Sanmao alone for him to study as a teacher. After graduating from Sanmao, the state assigned him to teach in the village primary school, and he taught Xiao Yao, who was the only public teacher in the village school, and he was delicate in his appearance and speech. Keming also married his son a wife, but he never thought that this would happen in less than a month. Sanmao's wife is Xiuxiu.

Keming found Xiao Laosan to sing and sing according to the old habit in the village, Xiao Yao also followed, and when he entered Keming's house, he saw Xiuxiu wearing new flowers lying on the door panel. Xiuxiu's face was delicate, her eyes were slightly closed, as if she was just asleep, and the pale face on her face made Xiao Yao feel a chill.

Sanmao, who was kneeling next to him, was crying, tears flowing, and he looked very sad. Sanmao saw Xiao Laosan coming, so he stepped forward and hugged Lao Xiao's thigh and howled: "Third master, please show my daughter-in-law quickly!" Xiao Laosan went up and checked the pulse first, shook his head, and said, "There is no way." The person next to him was persuading Sanmao: "Sanmao, people can't be resurrected after death, you are still young, take care of yourself, it is not easy for your father to pull you, you still have to give your father filial piety." ”

Sanmao howled: "I'd rather die for Xiuxiu!" Yu Keming scolded with a dark face: "Do you really want Lao Tzu to be a lonely old man?" If it's dead, it's dead, I'll find another one with you! Xiao Yao stood aside, his eyes staring at Xiuxiu, there was a faint white mark on Xiuxiu's neck, his hands were pinched tightly, his nails were neatly cut and clean, Xiao Yao noticed that a hair stubble was exposed in Xiuxiu's left hand.

At night, almost all the people who came to pay their respects were scattered. Xiao Laosan changed into a linen robe, stood in front of the door panel to see off Xiuxiu, Xiao Yao cooperated with the small drum on the side, but his eyes kept looking at Xiuxiu, he always felt that Xiuxiu seemed to be just asleep. Although Xiao Laosan had words in his mouth, his eyes were always closed. Xiao Yao suddenly saw the little finger of Xiuxiu's left hand move, put one hand on his chest, and slowly sat up with the other hand. Xiuxiu looked at Xiao Yao, chuckled, and everyone watched, got up and walked towards the back door of the hall, and disappeared in less than two seconds. The back door is clearly closed.

Xiao Yao was stupid, hugged the small drum and hid behind Xiao Laosan, and after a while, he stretched out his head to look at the door panel again, Xiuxiu was still lying on the door panel. Xiao Laosan suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Let's go home." After returning home, Xiao Yao kept thinking about Xiuxiu's beautiful pale face, but he didn't dare to ask Xiao Laosan what was going on, he was so young, he just thought that it might be his eyes.

Xiuxiu's death made Xiao Yao unhappy for a few days, and this Xiao Laosan also saw it, and he said to Xiao Yao: "Let's go fishing together tomorrow, you go fishing rod." Xiao Yao took his grandfather's knife and went to the bamboo forest in the back mountain to cut two water bamboos, which are very tough and very suitable for making fishing rods. The next day, the two of them got up and went to a wild pond in the west of the village. The thatch of the wild pond is very abundant, the water in the pond is clear and transparent, and the pond grows wild lotus and wild water chestnut, which is very pristine.