The setting sun hung precariously in the western sky, surrounded by brightly colored clouds that seemed to hold on to the sunset that had made them so colorful.

At the foot of the south mountain of Hongwan Village, there are three or four families lined up, and the door frame of the house on the far right is pasted with the word 'Xi' in big red, but the courtyard is deserted at the moment, and there is no festive atmosphere of happy events.

A man in his forties sat on a chair under the eaves of the porch, holding a dry cigarette encircled by a worn book in his hand, slowly bringing it to his mouth, taking two hard puffs, exhaling the thick smoke ring, and then letting out a long sigh.

A woman in her forties sat on a table beside him, looking at his bandaged right leg, and then looked back at the room on the west side with the word "囍" on it, her brow furrowed, and she sighed in the same way.

"Daddy, what do you think we should do now?"

"What else can I do, I can only keep it!" Perhaps before he had spit out the smoke in his mouth, as soon as he spoke, a series of coughing sounds came out.

The middle-aged woman hurriedly stood up, walked behind the middle-aged man and patted him on the back, "Daddy, bear with it, don't you dare to break the bones you just connected again." ”

Although the leg could not be restored, it could not be re-entered into the hospital to have the bone replaced, and the family had no money.

The middle-aged man pressed his injured right leg with one hand and covered his mouth with the other, trying to restrain himself from coughing.

On the clay kang in the two-bay hut on the west side lay a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman, dressed in a bright red new dress and navy blue pants with patches on her knees.

The woman's forehead was wrapped around several strips of white cotton cloth, and red blood was faintly visible oozing from the right side of her forehead.

A man in his early twenties sat on the edge of the kang, his brow furrowed, and his eyes unblinkingly stared at the motionless woman on the kang.

Hearing the movement in the courtyard, he seemed to wake up suddenly, glanced at the woman on the kang, and then strode out of the house.

"Dad, bear with me, I'll pour you a glass of water." The man swallowed back what he wanted to blame his father for not smoking.

After a few moments, the man brought out a cup of hot water from the hall and handed it to the middle-aged man who was still coughing.

"Haocheng, is your daughter-in-law still showing no signs of waking up?"

The middle-aged woman was worried about why she didn't think to pour a glass of water for your wife, and at the same time she was worried about the one lying on the kang.

Ruan Haocheng took the empty cup from his father Ruan Yongsheng's hand and shook his head gently, "Mother, I'm afraid what Dr. Yang said is true, I'm afraid she really won't wake up." ”

Marry well, how did the donkey cart turn over into the ravine?

Besides, it looks like it's just a broken head, why can't you wake up?

Ruan Haocheng's mother, Wu Fangying, suddenly had a flash of inspiration in her mind, "Daddy, could it be that when she fell, she was so frightened that she lost her soul, or should she call her mother over to call Haocheng's daughter-in-law a soul?" ”

Ruan Haocheng's brows furrowed tightly, "Mother, why do you follow grandma to believe this?" ”

Although he can't continue to study, he is also a person who has gone to high school, and there is no such thing as a soul in this world, and where can a soul wake people up.

Wu glared at Ruan Haocheng, "Don't believe it, you kid, once your little sister was scared, she cried all night long, as long as your grandmother called her soul, she would stop crying." ”

Ruan Yongsheng looked at his mother-in-law with an embarrassed face, and then at his son, "If you don't let your grandmother try it, you will be treated as a dead horse doctor." ”

Ruan Haocheng shook his head helplessly, took the cup and walked towards the hall, "Let it be!" ”

Speaking from the bottom of his heart, he also hopes that his grandmother will really call back the soul of his daughter-in-law, otherwise when he goes to the army, there will be only his mother left in the family, and his daughter-in-law will have to be taken care of by someone.

Ruan Haocheng muttered in his heart, walked into the hall, and put the cup on the table.

The crisp sound of the porcelain cup colliding with the Eight Immortals Table made him wake up instantly, looking at the cup that was still shaking, Ruan Haocheng suddenly remembered in his heart that it seemed that he had welcomed his daughter-in-law into the door since Tianma Ma Liang, and he had never fed her a sip of water or a mouthful of food.

Maybe she was hungry or thirsty, so she didn't wake up.

knew that he was looking for self-comfort, but Ruan Haocheng still poured a glass of water and walked towards his happy house on the west side.

The clouds in the western sky still failed to hold back the footsteps of the sunset, and finally lost their colorful colors, and gradually dyed the black of the night.

The Wu family in the courtyard was afraid that he had gone to invite Ruan Haocheng's grandmother Sun Guihua Sun, Ruan Yongsheng looked at the walnut tree that had just grown in the courtyard in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

Ruan Haocheng walked into the room, touched the lamp rope by the wall, and with a "click", a 25-watt electric lamp with a dim yellow light lit up.

Ruan Haocheng put the teacup in his hand on the big red lacquer box printed with peony flowers on the kang, and did not notice that the eyelids of the people lying on the kang moved slightly a few times when the light suddenly turned on.

Ruan Haocheng took off his cloth shoes, climbed onto the kang, sat on the woman's side, took the cup with one hand and stretched it to the woman's mouth, but when the cup reached the woman's mouth, he couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth bitterly.

How could he forget that his daughter-in-law was unconscious.

Ruan Haocheng's free hand reached under the woman's neck, slowly lifted her upper body, and then put the water cup to the woman's mouth.

The woman's mouth was tightly closed, and the water he raised his hand to feed her mouth slipped into her neck.

Ruan Haocheng hurriedly put the cup on the box and quickly wiped the water stains on the woman's chin and neck with his hands.

Gently touching the woman's slippery skin, Ruan Haocheng's heartbeat unexpectedly disrupted the rhythm.

Hurriedly wiped off the water stains and withdrew his hand, Ruan Haocheng looked at the woman who seemed to be half-hugged.

He had met her once, probably more than a month ago, and because he had been conscripted into the army, his father and his mother felt that they should marry him a daughter-in-law.

After he left, there was one less strong laborer in the family, and he married a daughter-in-law and came back just enough to help his mother, and secondly, they all said that he had been a soldier for several years, and when he came back, he was old, so it was not easy to say that he was a daughter-in-law.

It just so happened that the neighbor's Aunt Cui's house was on the green grass ridge deep in the mountains behind Hongwan Village.

Cui Shi said that the girl in the mountains was honest and down-to-earth, so he introduced her named Tian Xinmiao in front of him.

At that time, he did not take a closer look, thinking that as long as the body was strong and able to work, it would be good.

Now if you look closely, in addition to her dark complexion because of the wind in the mountains, she is actually very attractive.

The face is not very large, perhaps the conditions in the mountains are not as good as those in the river, so the face that should be round is a little thin.

The eyes are tightly closed, and the long eyelashes cover almost the entire lower eyelid.

He vaguely remembered that it seemed to be a pair of big eyes that should be inner pairs, and at this moment, the lines of the double eyelids were so clear.

There are two shadows on either side of the face that seem to be dimples, and under the stiff and small nose is a slightly curved mouth, but the lips are slightly pale and chapped.