The leopard cat bared its teeth and showed its might, and Qiu Shishi's eyes sharpened: "Huh? ”

It picked up its fur, curled its tail, and the ferocity just now turned into a pitiful baba, and it let out a "whine".

The wilting Xiaobao became excited instead: "Really, is it really for Xiaobao?" ”

Qiu Shishi was obviously still angry, and glanced at him: "If you are caught by the bad guys again, I will confiscate it." ”

"No, if the bad guys come again, Xiaobao will arrest him!" Xiaobao said as he took out his little paw and scratched it in the void.

I thought of the five scratches on the sloppy man's face, and hurriedly grabbed Xiaobao's hand and examined it, the short, white and tender little paws were soft, how did he scratch an adult man's face like that?

Xiaobao saw me looking at his hand, and was very proud: "Mom, Xiaobao is amazing, next time the bad guy comes again, Xiaobao will definitely protect his mother!" ”

I jokingly said, "Catch them with your hands?" ”

He also nodded really seriously: "Yes, Xiaobao can still bite them, but Dad said that biting is not healthy, and you can't bite them with your mouth." ”

Me: "......"

I always think, I have a very strange son?

"Ahem, give it a name?"

"Mom, what's your name?"

"It's got black spots on it, or it's called ...... Black eggs? ”

"Whew~"

A feline that let out an angry wolf howl!

……

The next morning, I arrived at Q City without incident.

We "a family of three" got out of the train, followed by a "cat".

The "cat" was particularly reluctant, and his eyes kept rolling, still thinking about how to escape.

Then, we also met Xiao Nan Cai'er and the three of them, and at their request, Xiaobao took a group photo with them.

There is still a long distance from the city to Lichun County, so we have to take another hour or so by car, but as soon as we went out, we met my cousin Chen Qingyun, my grandmother's grandson, who knew that I was coming back to pick me up.

My grandmother has two daughters, one is my mother, the younger daughter, and the eldest daughter is a son-in-law, so my cousin has the surname of my grandmother.

When I saw him, I happily greeted him, and he teased me that I was willing to go back to my hometown during the eleventh long vacation, and wanted to take me in the direction of his parking.

At this time, Xiaobao, who was following my buttocks, shouted, "Mom, you wait for me." ”

Then he trotted over and hugged my thigh, he probably saw that I was too involved in talking to Chen Qingyun, and he was afraid that I would forget him and feel uneasy.

But when he called it like this—

Chen Qingyun looked at me in horror.

Me: "......"

Xiaobao, blinking curiously: "......"

The old god is here, and the enemy poet with one hand in his pocket: "......"

"No," Chen Qingyun finally came back to her senses, shocked and a little incoherent, "This is your child, when did you give birth, I saw you during the New Year, and you didn't have a big belly?" ”

I had a black line on my face: "I'm going to be pregnant during the Chinese New Year, and it is impossible to have a child right away!" ”

"That's right." Seeing that I was about to go violently, Chen Qingyun hurriedly said, "Get in the car first, get in the car first, and then talk slowly when you go back." ”

Then, he invited Qiu Shishi: "Sister-in-law, come to us, you're welcome, these two days have been fun." ”

Me: "......"

Qiu Shishi: "Yes! ”

I glared at him hard, didn't it be messy enough.

He glanced down at me, "But you insisted on me coming." ”

So it's none of his business to be misunderstood.

I...... Speechless!

In the car, my cousin chatted with Qiu Shi quite enthusiastically, and introduced him to our humanities here, famous and interesting places, Qiu Shi is not enthusiastic, but he is polite, but even if he is arrogant, it will make people think that he should be like this.

After all, I didn't treat my other family members like I treated Pei Xin.

When I got home, I got out of the car and saw my grandmother waiting outside on crutches.

Grandma had white hair, but her face didn't look too old, giving people the feeling of no more than fifty or sixty, but she had her eyes closed, and she couldn't see them as early as when she was young.

"Grandma!"

I shouted to her and ran towards her, and she turned to me with a smile, and then, she paused, and the smile on her face was retracted, as if she had been struck by something, first in disbelief, then in pain.

Seeing her like this, I put away my smile and walked up to her cautiously: "Grandma? ”

She faced me and slowly reached out to touch my cheek, tears streaming down her closed eyes.

I was a little panicked, okay, what's wrong: "Grandma? Are you feeling unwell? ”

I come back at least three or four times a year, and every time I come back, she smiles, never like today.

And, why, I feel that she is "looking" at me, "staring" at me.

"Grandma?" Chen Qingyun pushed me to salute and came over with Qiu Shishi, who was holding Xiaobao, and was also very nervous when she saw her grandmother's appearance, so she hurriedly came over to support her grandmother, "What's wrong?" ”

My grandmother's hand ran down my face and took me on the shoulder for a long time.

Then, she wiped away her tears, pinched my arm, and restored her friendly smile: "Lanlan, I've lost weight, I want to eat more." Grandma is very happy to see you, very happy. ”

But you don't look happy at all?

I swallowed these words silently into my stomach, and when my grandmother didn't want to say it, it was useless to ask, so I glanced at my cousin and chose to reveal it for the time being.

"I miss you too, grandmother, don't you come to see you?"

As I was talking to my grandmother, the hem of my clothes was ripped off, and when I looked down, Xiaobao's dark eyes looked at my grandmother: "Mom, is she too grandma?" ”

"Who is this?" Grandma asked in Xiaobao's tone, and her hands also touched down towards Xiaobao.

Xiaobao clutched my clothes tightly to my legs and didn't back away, letting my grandmother's wrinkled and calloused hands touch his little head.

I thought about it for a while, but I still introduced: "Grandma, he, he's my son." ”

"Oh? Is it? Grandma was not surprised, but happily touched Xiaobao's face again, "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Qiu Xiaobao." Xiaobao's little face was very serious, "It's good grandma." ”

"Okay, okay." Grandma didn't have the sudden pain and sadness just now, and smiled with a wrinkled face, "That's good." ”

Xiaobao hurriedly took out the little zombie doll he had prepared from his small zombie backpack and handed it to his grandmother: "Grandma, this is a gift from Xiaobao to you!" ”

"Really?" Grandma took it, touched it twice, and accepted it without asking, "Thank you, Xiaobao." ”

I also introduced the Qiu poet who was standing silently behind me to my grandmother: "This is me...... My friend, who is also Xiaobao's real father, I invited him to play with us. ”

I think my grandmother should be able to understand what I mean.

Grandma didn't know whether she understood or not, so she nodded in the direction of Qiu Shishi, and used non-standard Mandarin: "It's also a good boy," she stretched out her hand to Qiu Shishi, "Thank you for taking care of my family." ”

Qiu Shiren still had a straight face, but he held my grandmother's hand very respectfully: "You are polite. ”

When Chen Qingyun saw the little zombie doll, his eyes flashed, but he didn't say anything, only said, "Don't stand at the door, come into the house." ”

He first helped his grandmother to go to the house, the times are developing, although it is a small village in a small county, his grandmother's home is also a beautifully decorated three-and-a-half-story building.

I picked up Xiaobao and Qiu Shishi and walked behind: "Thank you, I'm afraid that you will have no one in my eyes on my grandmother." ”

He did not object to my words "no one in my eyes", he said: "Respect should be given to those who are worthy of respect, your grandmother...... Very good. ”

"You just came here today, what do you know?"

"More than you know."

Why does that sound so much like mockery of my ignorance?

In the house, the meal was already prepared, and the aunt next door came out of the kitchen and greeted her warmly.

My aunt died five years ago, and my aunt also married another woman who is not in this city, but my cousin Chen Qingyun is very filial, so he stayed in his hometown to accompany his grandmother, speaking of which, I don't know what work he does, I only know that sometimes I have to go far away, it seems that I can earn well, I have a house in the county and the city, and I bought a car, but I don't look for a girlfriend.

When he is not at home, the aunt next door will come over to take care of his grandmother, such as in the current situation, he will also invite her to come over to cook, and his cousin will not treat her badly, and will give her a certain subsidy.

After saying hello, my aunt went back to her house, and our family, plus Qiu poet Xiaobao, sat at a table.

Qiu Shishi sat on my left, Qiu Xiaobao sat on my right, right next to Chen Qingyun, Chen Qingyun is grandma again, and grandma is Qiu Shishi.

This was requested by my grandmother, and she wanted to sit with the poet.

All of them are mysterious.

Even the ocelot has a seat, and there is another bowl for it to carry a lot of meat, saying that it is a pet, but in fact it is similar to treating it as a person.

The main reason is that it has intelligence, and maybe it can become a human, so there is no way to let it eat on the ground like an ordinary cat.

Its existence only made Chen Qingyun look at it twice, and praised it for being spiritual, so he didn't say anything, and he didn't look very surprised.

Will the average person react this way?

I used to think that my grandmother and cousin were quite normal, why don't I look at them now?

"Uncle, I want to eat that." Qiu Xiaobao pointed to a meat dish in the distance and asked Chen Qingyun to help him.

Chen Qingyun's body stiffened for a moment, and then said quickly: "Okay, okay, my uncle will clip it for you, and my uncle will clip it for you." ”

Listening to Chen Qingyun calling himself "uncle" two times in a row, a look of excitement when he was drunk, and the smile that couldn't be contained at the corner of his mouth, all showed that he liked the title of "uncle" very much, and he also liked Xiaobao very much, and after giving him what Xiaobao wanted to eat, he also asked him what he wanted to eat and drink, and the smile was a little obscene.

Contrary to the Qiu poet and the Qiu family, Qiu Xiaobao is simply loved by everyone.

I was almost done, I bit my chopsticks, hesitated a few times, and asked, "That, my aunt's Pei Xin......"

"I heard," Chen Qingyun put down her chopsticks and took a sip of wine, "I committed something and was imprisoned, right?" I don't know much about the rest, but my aunt has been so angry that she has fallen ill in the past few days, and I haven't asked much. ”

"Sick? You okay? ”

"It's okay, I just went to see it last night and it's much better."

I put my mind at ease: "Then I'll go see her later." ”

Chen Qingyun's eyes were a little strange, and then nodded.

Listening to our conversation, my grandmother sighed, seeing this, Chen Qingyun hurriedly changed the topic: "Speaking of which, you came back by coincidence, in the past two days, the village has a festival, and you have invited the opera troupe to sing, you can go to the theater at night, I remember that you liked to watch the theater the most when you were a child." ”

"Where does she like it, she can't sit still at all," Grandma smiled a little at the mention of this, "I kept drilling into the place where other people's backstage makeup was, and when I saw that people were painting beautifully, I went home by myself, painted myself with a paintbrush, and painted myself as a big-faced cat!" ”

"Hahahaha......" came from Chen Qingyun's unceremonious laughter.

Me: "...... Grandma, what are you talking about? ”

peeked at the poet and saw that he was also grinning, and suddenly felt that his old face was lost.

Xiaobao also came to pull my clothes and asked, "Mom, I also want to draw a big-faced cat!" ”

"Go, draw your black egg, what kind of cat." I'm angry, old lady.

The black egg "quacked" and slapped the table with its front paws.

Well, even a pet laughed at me.

……

My aunt's home is in Lichun County, after the lunch break, Chen Qingyun's cousin took me to visit my aunt, my aunt doesn't seem to be in good spirits, fortunately, she is in good health, she is more open, since it is her granddaughter's own choice, she has to suffer, she is even more sad that she did not teach her next generation.

"Lan Lan," she held my hand, the deep folds of the palm print scratched my hand a little painful, making people deeply remember the appearance of the old man, "Maybe my grandmother and I are wrong, we want to keep our children and grandchildren away from the torture of fate, away from the curse of our ancestors, and let you live the life of ordinary people, but as a result, your ignorance has harmed you, probably, life is life, no matter what, you can't avoid it!" ”

These words...... What do you mean?

I listened with wide eyes, but my aunt didn't plan to continue to talk about this, and after a few words, she said that she was tired and wanted to go back to her room to rest.

I was sent back by Chen Qingyun in a circle.

As soon as she arrived at her grandmother's house, Chen Qingyun answered the phone and hurriedly left, her grandmother was not there, she went to the ancient house in the village, because of the festival, her grandmother was quite respected here, and she was going to the town.

I took Qiu Shishi and Xiaobao to visit the ancient house, and the ocelot named Hei Dan disguised himself as an ordinary cat and followed Xiaobao.

Of course, it won't be so well-behaved, but Qiu Shishi doesn't know what to do, so that there is an invisible line between it and Xiaobao, and the control of this line is in Xiaobao's hands, and it can't be too far away from Xiaobao, it can only compromise temporarily.

The ancient house is quite large, a large house with a few entrances and exits combined by many small courtyards, and there are still several families living in it, and the central hall is dedicated to Buddha statues, Bodhisattvas and land lords.

There is a cement ground outside the big house, there are two or three hundred square meters, a certain side of the cement floor has set up a temporary stage, the cement floor goes out again, it is an acre of land, now it is the autumn harvest season, a yellow and green scene, not as spectacular as the prairie, but also has a beautiful scenery.

When the old neighbor's aunts and uncles saw me, they wanted to greet me, so they just asked me when I was coming back, and if I was still in the magic capital, how was my mother, what kind of work did I do, and ...... The person next to me is not my object?

I said, I'll be back in the morning, in the magic capital, my mother is very good, do something casually, what about your family? The one next to me, ahahaha, a friend of mine.

Then he hurriedly dragged Qiu Shishi away, glad that he shouldn't understand the hometown dialect here.

I also met a few people of the same age who came back from the same holiday, but I just lived in my grandmother's house when I was a child, and I have been in the magic capital since I grew up, and I come back occasionally, and I have almost no friends here, so when I met my childhood friends, I either didn't see them, or I greeted each other.

However, it didn't take long for Qiu Xiaobao to make a lot of friends.

He is very cute, and he is accompanied by a cute "cat", which also adds a lot of points to him, and several children take the initiative to play with him with food and drink, including little boys.

"Is this your cat, can I touch it?"

One by one, they stretched out their hands to the black eggs, and the black eggs, who were very resistant to humans, immediately dug the ground with their front feet, and the hair on their bodies exploded, baring their teeth, and whoever dared to approach it would bite to death.

Even if it becomes a pet, it still has its dignity as a demon!

But it is also afraid that if it hurts these humans, its new owner will torture it fiercely, and it has heard many legends about human beings, many of which are stories about how cruel human beings are, and likes to pick their skin and eat their flesh!

Who knows, Qiu Xiaobao, who was still very shy to other children just now, suddenly blocked in front of it, and said to the other children with a straight face: "The black egg doesn't like it, don't touch it." ”

"Don't you like this?" A certain girl saw that the black egg was too cute and liked it, so she took out a beautiful toy, "You touch it for me, and I'll give it to you." ”

Think like this to know how to trade? I was stunned.

What was even more unexpected was Xiaobao, he didn't even look at the toy that made him feel novel, his small body picked up the black egg that was not light, turned around and ran towards me.

I could see from his pursed little lips and firm eyes that it was his thing, and he couldn't be bullied by others.

I am very pleased that the growth and education of children is a very serious issue.

"Why do you want Xiaobao to raise a demon?" I asked the people next to me who looked like they were patrolling the territory.

"It's not good." The corners of Qiu Shishi's mouth twitched slightly, "It is said that demons are cunning, but often, demons are much purer than humans." ”

I looked at his resolute side face with a smile on his face that I didn't even consciously have.

I want to put more protection around Xiaobao, although he never told me who was going to rob Xiaobao, but I knew that he was worried about Xiaobao.

I also took Xiaobao to the neighbor's house to borrow two chairs, hugged one with Xiaobao, and snorted with a group of five or six-year-olds, even fifteen or sixteen-year-olds.

Qiu Shishi seemed to be very disgusted, but when I saw Xiaobao and I crusade against the child who stole our chairs, and even the black eggs were jumping around, I turned around and found that he was looking at us with a soft gaze.

Although he sneered arrogantly when I found out that I was looking at him.

Set up the chairs, go home and heat up a lot of leftover meals at noon, take care of grandma to rest after eating, and when we come to the stage again, the gongs and drums have shaken the sky, the whole cement field is very lively, adults and children have it, especially a lot of old people who love to watch the play.

Leaving Hei Dan and Qiu Shishi to look at the chair, I took Xiaobao to the backstage to watch the actors put on makeup, and when I turned around, I saw Qiu Shishi's face stinky sitting in the middle of a group of children, and it was the front row, and there was a cat squatting on the chair next to it, with its front paws side by side, squatting on the chair, and there was a look.

A person and an animal, with the same arrogant demeanor, a different face in joy, and ...... It's funny.

There is a small hall behind the stage, which is specially vacated for the troupe, the costumes are hung in a row, several boxes are placed, and the actors are putting on makeup, and the performance will start in a while.

This kind of folk troupe must not be compared with those big names, whether it is costumes or props, they are relatively rough, and one or two beautiful costumes are for the masters.

Many children have come here, and the people of the troupe are in and out, so it is very lively and noisy, even if there are stewards who come out to clear the scene, drive away idle people, etc., and after a while, it is crowded with people.

In this case, it is easy to bump into people, when I was holding Xiaobao and wanted to leave, I bumped into a little girl who wanted to come in, the little girl looked thin, but dragged a heavy box, looking eighteen or nineteen years old, the actual age is not clear.

What impressed me more was that she had a big scar on the left side of her face, which had clear facial features and beautiful eyebrows, but this scar ruined her entire face.

"I'm sorry." I saw her holding her arm, as if she had been hurt by me, and hurriedly apologized.

She shook her head, lowered her head without speaking, and dragged the box inside.

The boss of the troupe was losing his temper because of a bunch of trivial matters, and when he saw the little girl, he scolded even more: "Why are you so grinding when you get something, why don't you just wait for the play to start singing and come again, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up!" ”

The little girl nodded again and again, without any rebuttal, but started a new round of busy work.

I sighed in my heart, hugged Xiaobao and wanted to leave, but I saw Xiaobao shaking her little nose in the direction of the little girl and sniffing something.

"What do you smell?" I nodded his nose.

"That sister smells so good," Xiaobao was still looking over there, "the smell of fragrant food." ”

I laughed and patted his little buttocks: "Glutton, didn't you have enough for dinner?" ”

Holding him, I left the makeshift dressing room.

When I went out, I met my neighbor Uncle Dasong, who was not far from my grandmother's house, a typical rural man in his early fifties, and a son who was two years younger than me.

He didn't know what had happened to him, and he was grinning so hard that his mouth was almost in his ears.

"It's the granddaughter of Aunt Chen's family, I haven't seen her for a long time, but she's getting more and more beautiful." His eyes wandered around me without a trace.

To tell the truth, he is an old uncle, and he praised me in this tone, which made me feel that I was being teased by him, and I felt uncomfortable, so I nodded to him, and hurried away with Xiaobao in my arms.