The front yard of Liu Wuye's house in the village is also a family surnamed Liu, although it is also surnamed Liu, but it has nothing to do with Liu Wuye, but it is the same family as Liu Zhuzi mentioned above.

The head of the household is named Liu Wen, about 50 years old, and works as a farmer in the village with his daughter-in-law. They have a son who has been working in other places and rarely returns. I heard that he made some money outside, but it is impossible to investigate whether it is true or not, but whenever others ask Liu Wen, his face is full of pride.

The standard of living of this family was okay at that time, and they had just rebuilt their house a few years ago, and this was one of the only few families in the village with new red tile houses. Because it is the front and back yard with the fifth master, they are also familiar with each other. When Liu Wen was fine, he often went to the fifth master's house.

The village lives on a few acres of thin fields, solving the problem of barely having food and clothing, and being able to live a relatively rich life, there must be other ways to make money, and this Liu Wen's family is no exception. In addition to planting those few acres of land, the two also raised an old sow at home. This old sow is amazing, with Liu Wen's daughter-in-law's fine feeding, she can give birth to piglets twice a year, which was a lot of income at that time.

Relying on the two of them to be diligent and thrifty, life is getting more and more prosperous. Slowly, with the reform and opening up, the gap between the rich and the poor in the countryside has also begun to become prominent.

And for Liu Wuye's industry, one day is not as good as one day, sometimes running outside for several days, and not necessarily making much money, but the money is less and the craftsmanship cannot be lost, and the fifth master is still running back and forth with a pick.

It is said that one day this winter, Liu Wuye returned to the village after running outside for several days. In winter, the days are short, and it is already dark at the entrance of the village. The fifth master walked to the archway at the entrance of the village, and was already out of breath at this time. Finally arrived home, the fifth master put down the pick, sat on the stone platform under the archway, took out his pipe and took a few puffs, which was also a breath.

When he was lowering his head to smoke, he suddenly noticed that not far away, several people came from a distance, talking noisily, it seemed that there were men and women.

The fifth master wondered, how could there be such a group of people at such a late hour, and when he was stunned, those people had already come to him. They also saw Liu Wuye. They also stopped.

At this time, the fifth master saw the people clearly, there were a total of five people in this group, three men and two women, all of whom were about twenty years old. I saw these people, Liu Wuye looked at them all faces, and he hadn't seen them at all. The dress is also very special, unlike the people who live in the village. All three men were dressed in black, while the two women, one dressed in white, and the other woman dressed in black and white.

After the fifth master finished looking, he was about to speak, but he didn't want to be in the group, but the man led by him spoke first, "Uncle, let's inquire about a family with you." ”

Liu Wuye looked at the other party and spoke very politely, so he said, "Child, who are you going to inquire?" ”

"The family's surname is Liu, and the head of the household is Liu Wen. Do you live in this village? ”

As soon as Liu Wuye heard about Liu Wen's family, it was too familiar, so he said, "Yes, it's from this village." Then he asked, "Do you have anything to do with his house?" ”

The man paused for a moment and said, "Our brother and sister are relatives of his family, so let's stop by and have a look." ”

Liu Wuye turned around and pointed in the direction of the village, and said, "It's not far ahead." ”

Those people thanked Liu Wuye and walked through the archway into the village.

The fifth master stayed for a while, still muttering in his heart, Liu Wen's family is very familiar to him, and he has not heard of distant relatives, it is Liu Wen's son who works outside, and his son's friend is here. I couldn't solve it for a while, so I picked it up again and walked in the direction of home.

Because Liu Wuye was going home to pass by Liu Wen's house, the courtyard of Liu Wen's house was covered with a high wall, and the fifth master stopped and listened when he passed by, but he didn't hear any movement from Liu Wen's house. Because I was tired, I didn't think much about it, so I went home.

Early the next morning, Liu Wuye got up and walked around, just passing by in front of Liu Wen's house, at this time Liu Wen also opened the door and walked out humming a little song.

When the fifth master saw it, he hurriedly greeted: "Early in the morning, what's the joy?" ”

Liu Wen saw the fifth master talking to him, and said happily: "Of course I'm happy, my pig has made meritorious service again, and there was another litter last night." ”

The fifth master also followed the joy, and suddenly remembered what happened last night, so he said to Liu Wen: "What can I say, didn't you have relatives at home?" ”

Liu Wen was stunned for a moment and said, "What kind of relatives?" ”

The fifth master was also taken aback when he saw Liu Wen stunned, so he said, "I rushed home last night, and I met a few people at the entrance of the village, saying that they were relatives of your family. I watched them enter the village, huh? ”

The more he talked, the more Liu Wen couldn't figure it out, "Big brother, where did my relatives come from, and they came at night, it's even more impossible!" Liu Wen said for sure.

Then Liu Wen said to the fifth master: "What do they look like?" ”

The fifth master described the specific appearance of the five people he met yesterday to Liu Wen.

When Liu Wen heard what the fifth master said, he was suddenly stunned, then scratched his head with his hand, and said to himself: "It can't be such a coincidence, right?" ”

After speaking, he called the fifth master over and asked the fifth master to go to the pigsty with him, and when the two came to the pigsty, they looked inside along the fence.

I saw the old sow of Liu Wen's family lying in the nest, and the five little piglets under the belly were biting the sow's milk and smacking the milk. And take a closer look at these little pigs, three of them have black hair all over their bodies, without a little variegation. And the other two, a small white pig with a whole body, and the other a small black and white pig.

The fifth master was shocked and asked again. Liu Wen told the fifth master that the three black furs were boars, while the white and colored fur were sows.

After reading this, the fifth master completely understood what was going on.