It was winter again, and the two rows of dead grass outside the city gate fell on both sides. The setting sun stained half of the sky red, and some of it shone lifelessly on the potholed dirt road, and a horse-drawn carriage passed by, and the dust was raised. fell on an old man and a young man who were hurrying.

The old lady walked very slowly, sixteen's legs had no strength to walk even slower, he had no hope of living, but for some reason he grabbed the old lady's clothes at that time, and from then on he followed the old lady to hurry, the old lady knew that he was dumb, and asked him what he would not say or write, and then he did not ask, and took out the dry food on his body and divided him a little.

This child is really pitiful, "Sixteen, let's go to Xunyang to find my eldest girl, she is a kind person and will definitely be able to take you in", the old lady wiped the sweat on her forehead and assured him.

Sixteen looked up at the city wall with two big words written on it, 'Xunyang', and the city gate made of gray stone bricks, in and out of it, the old lady took him into the city gate, and settled in front of a house with a closed gate, the house had no plaque, and the old lady stepped forward and patted the door.

Someone in the door immediately answered, the old man in the house opened a crack in the door to look out, he looked at the old and the young, opened the door wider, and said with a puzzled face: "You are"?

The old lady responded: "Your family's wife's maiden family, come to visit relatives."

The old man also had a memory, and he remembered that his wife had seen her when she passed by the door: "You are someone from my wife."

The old lady stroked her hair and replied embarrassedly: "Count her second mother, she has been close to me since she was a child."

"Oh, come in," said the old man, opening the doors on both sides again, making way for them to enter, and leading them all the way through an attic with one after another, which was really big, bigger than the house where he had gone to the landlord's house sixteen years before to sing at his house.

The old man led him to the lobby where the host was entertaining, and when the old man saw Sixteen looking dirty, he went in and did not get in with him, so he asked him to wait at the door of the lobby. Sixteen people were also obedient, and he did whatever he was told to do, and he stood still in the corner of the wall outside the lobby door, and the voice in the room came through the crack in the wall.

The old lady said to the people in the house with a greeting tone: "Girl, I haven't seen you for half a year, Yunsheng is okay now, and my uncle is okay with you." After the old lady finished speaking, she laughed humbly twice.

The person who spoke to him replied with a cold tone: "It's a blessing to drag you, it's all good, don't worry about Erniang."

"What are these words", the old lady was a little unhappy: "Although you are not my own child, but I will take care of you, I have no fertility, and I also have nurturing feelings, and I often miss you at home."

The man first sneered, and listened to the old lady spit out the bitterness in her mouth one by one, before saying: "Erniang, don't pretend to be pitiful in front of me, you forced me to marry into the Luo family without asking me if I agreed。。。。。 ”

Sixteen didn't hear the other words clearly, the sound of the child chasing and fighting outside the house covered up the whispering in the house, only to hear the child's voice getting closer and closer, Sixteen turned around curiously, and was unconsciously pushed.

He stumbled a few times and almost fell to the ground. A basin of water from heaven fell coldly behind him, and a few drops of it were still firmly attached to his filthy clothes. He took a breath and looked back to see a little girl standing with a gray face covered in water, and in front of her were two terrified little boys, one of whom held an iron basin with muddy dirty water in his hand.

The boy's eyes widened, they both looked at each other, and shouted in unison, "It's a big game this time", and they all pulled out their legs and fled, and after a while, the kung fu was gone. Sixteen saw that it was the little girl in front of him who pushed herself away and took the basin of sewage alone.

The girl stood and blinked her eyes a few times before she opened her eyes comfortably, and the dirty water in her mouth was choked by her for several rounds before she vomited it clean, he looked at the girl's gray face and wanted to pick up his sleeves to help the girl wipe it clean, but after thinking about it, his sleeves were not much cleaner than the girl's face, so he had to give up.

The door in the house was opened, and in addition to the old lady, there was also a woman with Buddhist beads in her hand, a serious face, without any heavy decorations, a plain white, clear soup and little water, she looked at the girl, frowned and said sharply: "Luo Yunsheng, what do you look like, raunchy, rude." You're the eldest lady of the Luo family."

The girl spit out the last mouthful of dirty water, faced the hippie smile of the woman who scolded her, pointed to the direction where the two boys ran and said: "Mother, it was the two boys of the Duan family who splashed me with water, I am like this, mother, don't be angry, next time I splash the dirty water back on them."

After saying that, she stretched out her index finger and pulled out the dirty water in her ear indifferently, and the woman looked at her daughter in front of her, and she was even more angry, in front of the old lady and Sixteen, she pointed to her daughter's head and scolded angrily: "They splash you with water, will you splash it back, is there a little bit of the upbringing that the eldest lady should have, and I will take care of it and kneel in the ancestral hall for me, reflect on it in front of the ancestors and ancestors of the Luo family, and only allow me to eat when I know that I am wrong."

"Then I know it's wrong now, can I not kneel", the girl still smiled, without the slightest attitude of reflecting on her mistake.

Her mother was even more angry with her, "You don't have to kneel in the ancestral hall, you don't have to eat, and when it snows later, kneel outside."

The old lady stopped with a worried face: "How can this work, how can this child's body and bones endure", the woman ignored her and turned her head to look at Sixteen: "Call Sixteen, you will follow my surname Shen in the future."

The old lady looked hopeful, stretched her neck and whispered to the woman, her eyes were firmly fixed on Sixteen: "This child is mute and can't speak", the woman's frowning face calmed down a little: "There is no shortage of people who can talk in the Luo family, take him down to take a bath."

Turning his head, an old mother took Sixteen's hand and took him down, he turned around and glanced at the girl, still not worried about the upcoming corporal punishment, smiled at him heartlessly, the only white thing in her gray head was her white teeth. And the old lady beside the woman has not seen it since this time.

Sixteen followed the old mother into the bathhouse, twisted and didn't let her touch herself, the old mother was anxious, grabbed his head and ripped off his dirty clothes, and said in her mouth: "Girl, just be clean and good." As soon as the cloth on his body was taken off, Sixteen had been thrown into the bathtub, and the old mother picked up a rough cloth towel and wiped it tightly for him.

As soon as the cloth towel was rubbed, many small long strips of shape and mud rubbed off her, and her skin was still flushed. The old mother was quick with her hands and feet, and after she rubbed his dirt so rudely, she did rub it clean, and by the way, she also rubbed off a layer of his skin.

The old mother rubbed more and more down, rubbed down, reflecting the water waves, she seemed to have rubbed something, looked at the muddy bath water, and immediately blushed, and Sixteen also blushed, picked up the cloth towel hanging on the bathtub and covered herself, making enough of her daughter's shy posture.

In addition to feeding the little master of the Luo family before, the old mother has seen the whole body of the baby boy, and since then she has not married in the Luo family, she is an old virgin, she asked herself that she is a good example of a woman in this era.

So don't talk about the man's body, I haven't even looked at her, but now not only does she see it, but she also touches it, she exhales, her brain rings, she pushes open the door and runs out of the house and shouts: "Madam, Madam, that child is a handle."

She had a loud voice, and the news spread at once, saying that the second mother of the wife of the head of the family brought a fake girl back, and the fake girl was still a mute, what was the use of not being able to carry her hands and not mentioning it, what could she do in the Luo family.

The woman holding the Buddha beads is the wife of the main house of Luo Yunsheng, the current head of the Luo family, Shen Guan, a member of the Shen family in Yuhang, and Luo Yunsheng's mother-in-law. Counting with her fingers counting, according to the economic and political status of the Luo family, Shen Wan said something in the Luo family, she said that she would leave Sixteen, then she would leave him, and in the Luo family, she gave Sixteen an identity as her brother-in-law, and was considered a member of Shen Guan's mother's family, and the descendants of the Luo family wanted to call Sixteen as the Sixteenth Master.

But my sister is thirty-six years old and my brother is sixteen years old, twenty years apart, and I can be a mother and son. But that's okay, it's okay to be blindfolded and still call my sister.

Sixteen couldn't shout the word 'sister', Shen Wan didn't tell him to shout, Shen Wan asked her to follow him to the Buddhist hall to serve him to recite the scriptures.

The general routine is to give her the lit incense, wait for Shen Wan to take the incense to the Bodhisattva in the Buddha hall and bow down, and then hand it back to him and let him solemnly insert it into the incense burner, and then listen to her chanting on the side, because Sixteen can't speak, and she won't be lazy to sleep when she chants, and do anything disrespectful in front of the Bodhisattva, so she is very satisfied with this younger brother.

That's all she uses for Sixteen, and Sixteen sits in front of the Buddha Hall with her every day, occasionally thinking about the past, thinking about his senior brother, and thinking about the play, but everything is detached from Shen Wan's chanting. He will now think about the girl who took the basin of dirty water for him when he first arrived at Luo's house that day, the night when Shen Wan punished her for kneeling in the snow, he went out to pay attention that night, and it was fortunate that there was no snow.

But he hadn't seen the girl since then, maybe because he had never been anywhere else in the Luo family except in the Buddha hall or in his room.

On that day, he went out and walked to the gravel road carved with soft stones, and the people who passed by knew him even if they had not seen him, and he was a boy with short hair and a blue gown, but he was indeed a twisted little girl when he walked, and this unique feature immediately made people recognize him in the crowd.

The subordinates passed by him one by one, some respectfully called: Sixteenth Master, and some hippie smiling faces called Sixteenth Master, as if they were teasing a shy girl.

Sixteen also nodded in response when they greeted him, his sister, Shen Wan wanted to read the Buddhist scriptures, so he had to touch the terrain to go to her house and hand him the Buddhist scriptures.

Luo's family is really big, he ran and jumped for a while, and unconsciously walked into the plum blossom forest, and was blocked by the plum blossom trees that bloomed beautifully one after another.

He wanted to turn around and walk away again, but he heard the familiar sound of frolicking, and the first time he came to Luo's house! Hearing exactly the same, he turned around, and several children looked at him as well.

Three or five children gathered around, and the two children of the Duan family who splashed him with water at that time were also there, and Luo Yunsheng, who blocked the dirty water for him, was also there.

The eldest son of the Duan family is called Duan Yuangeng, and he led the way and pointed to the sixteen pairs of Luo Yunsheng and joked: "Ah Sheng, isn't this the fake girl, you blocked the water for the fake girl at the beginning, and now he is your uncle, it's really a good both."

Luo Yunsheng obviously couldn't get used to the prickly character in Duan Yuangeng's words, snorted unconvinced, and looked away from Sixteen, as if he didn't admit that he, a girly person, had become her uncle, and his eyes on Sixteen were also disgusted and dissatisfied.

Sixteen also wanted to leave with a timid face, he pretended to be dumb, a dumb person who couldn't understand human speech, and ignored the child who laughed at him behind his back, saying that he was a fake girl.

He wanted to go, and the children went up and surrounded him, and he went to the left, and the children came to the left, and he went to the right, and the children came to the right, and finally he was surrounded by a few hooligans.

The scriptures in his arms were hugged tightly, and several children also sensed his nervousness and wanted to reach out and grab his scriptures, but sixteen was a lot taller than them, so he raised his hand and grabbed it a few times but didn't take it down. Sixteen opened his mouth and screamed, and the sound that came out was an ugly crow, and he looked at Luo Yunsheng with helpless eyes, and he had been protecting the scriptures in his hands.

Luo Yunsheng couldn't bear to look at it, she didn't join the bullying of this group of people, but she watched it outside the court for a long time, she really didn't like this uncle, she looked like a girl, she just regarded Sixteen as a girl, and instinctively blocked the water for him. Even if she was watching Sixteen badly, she also aroused her instincts, and yelled at the group of unobtrusive boys: "Duan Yuangeng, what is the strength of you bullying a person who can't speak, there is a kind of looking for the river god along the river tonight, do you dare."

The corner of Duan Yuangeng's mouth in the lead flashed a slight smile: "If you don't dare, just go, Luo Yunsheng, this is what you said, if you don't go, it's a puppy."

There was a little chubby dun next to Luo Yunsheng, who didn't join the group of children to bully sixteen, but relied on Luo Yunsheng very much by his side, looking at Luo Yunsheng's confident promise and quickly pulled her sleeve with her chubby hand, as if she was worried about something.

"No problem, gather in my backyard tonight", Luo Yunsheng confirmed the time, beckoned, and asked the group to continue playing.