At noon, the sun was in full bloom, Chen Dabang returned to Dongpo under the gaze of me and Li Huaishan, he saw us from a distance, smiled and waved at us, Li Huaishan also waved his hand, it was a return salute, I glanced at Chen Dabang, and then stared at the village side of the distraction.

When I entered the fort, Chen Dabang still asked me under the wall: "Have you eaten lunch?" ”

I didn't want to pay attention to him, but Li Huaishan responded: "Not yet." ”

Chen Dabang shouted again: "Come down and eat something, I happen to have a lot of steamed buns here." ”

Li Huaishan was probably hungry, so he wanted to go down on the spot, but he moved two steps towards the wall, and when he saw that I didn't move, he shrank back again.

Chen Dabang waited at the bottom for a while, and when he saw that Li Huaishan and I had no intention of going down, he sighed and went back to the house stupidly.

When the door of the east room squeaked, Li Huaishan leaned over and asked me in a low voice, "Why are you here, why don't you go down and eat something?" ”

I glanced towards the East House and said to Li Huaishan, "If you want to eat yourself, I don't want to have any intersection with Chen Dabang and them anyway." ”

"Hey, I said you're ......" Li Huaishan said half of his words, and then he didn't know why he couldn't say it anymore, so he sighed, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and sat down in front of the wall.

I knew he hadn't finished his sentence, and sure enough, after a while, he asked me again, "What are we going to eat at noon today?" ”

I smiled at him, "Have you ever heard of Bigu?" ”

Li Huaishan: "Huh? "What are you doing, you're going on a hunger strike?" ”

I still smiled, then I looked up and looked in the direction of the village.

If I hadn't been worried that Widow Wang would have run away without permission, I wouldn't have stayed here, and if I hadn't been disgusted with Chen Dabang and Widow Wang, I wouldn't have even wanted to get close to the door of the East House.

Anyway, if it weren't for Widow Wang, Li Huaishan wouldn't have been hungry at noon today.

If you want to blame, go and blame the widow.

Li Huaishan definitely couldn't think about it so much, and when he saw that I didn't continue to pay attention to him, he spit out a whole mouthful of smoke with a resentful face, and stopped talking.

The castle suddenly became quiet, and there was nothing to see in the village, and I was bored, so I sat down against the wall, and smoked a cigarette.

Not long after, the door of the east room was opened again, and Chen Dabang walked out with a basin sealed with plastic sheet.

At first I thought he was here to deliver food, but when I stared at him, he raised his face slightly and gave me a very gloomy look.

This look was fleeting, and in this moment, he lowered his head and walked out of the fort quickly with the basin, and not long after, I heard the sound of splashing water outside the earthen wall.

It wasn't until Chen Dabang returned to the house with the basin that Li Huaishan frowned and said to me: "I greeted him with a smile just now, why did it become like this in the blink of an eye." Hmph, it must be the widow who said bad things about us. ”

I flicked the cigarette butt in my hand away: "Don't worry about them, you can't turn the sky up." ”

Li Huaishan leaned against the wall with his head in his arms and sighed: "Alas, I thought he came out to deliver food just now." ”

"I guess I don't have lunch left, you go back to Chen Laohan's house in the afternoon and get something to eat, otherwise we will starve at night." While speaking, I also followed Li Huaishan's example, raised my arms, and hugged the back of my head.

Li Huaishan: "Otherwise, I'll go to Old Han's house now, anyway, there's nothing to do right now." ”

I glanced at him: "When you return to the village, Chen Laohan and Boss Huang should start eating, for you, Chen Laohan has to cook a large meal, let's not bother others." ”

Li Huaishan nodded thoughtfully: "Yes." ”

As we were chatting about this, there was a sound of "clang" on the dirt slope outside the fort, and Li Huaishan and I glanced at each other, and immediately got up and looked outside the fort, and saw Chen Laohan pushing a single-wheeled cart and panting up the slope.

In the past two days, in order to guard the rhubarb, Chen Laohan did not close his eyes for a moment, his body was very weak, and now he was walking on the dirt slope, his forehead and neck were covered with sweat, and even a faint wisp of steam could be faintly seen on the top of his head.

Seriously, looking at him like this, I was really worried that he wouldn't be able to wear it in one breath and suddenly die, so I quickly jumped off the fortress wall and ran towards Chen Laohan.

Chen Laohan was also not polite, and when he saw me running towards him, he stopped, stood in place and wiped his sweat with his sleeve.

I quickly approached him and glanced at the cart, and saw a large jar on the body, and on the handle of the cart hung two bags of hemp, which, judging from the outline, should have contained a lot of dry food.

I grabbed the handlebars and pushed the car towards the fort, and said to Chen Laohan: "You can take it easy, you haven't slept for two days in a row and still do this kind of heavy physical work, don't kill you?" ”

Chen Laohan was happy at me: "Hehe, I'm idle anyway, I guess the two of you don't have anything to eat at noon, so you can come over after eating something." ”

I haven't seen him all morning, and I feel like he's in a much better mood than the previous two days.

Generally speaking, Chen Laohan's mood changes should be related to rhubarb.

Thinking of this, I casually asked, "How is the rhubarb?" ”

Chen Laohan sighed: "The condition is getting worse and worse, I didn't eat or drink yesterday, and today I fell into a coma." Alas, in fact, it's good to pass out, at least not to be guilty, and seeing it sleep in a daze, my heart is also relaxed. ”

I nodded, pushed the cart and continued to walk in the direction of the fort, Chen Laohan followed me, every two steps, I had to look at the fort twice, I felt that he seemed to be looking for someone, but did not ask much.

Chen Laohan has been following me into the fort, Li Huaishan saw that there was something to eat, and immediately jumped off the wall and ran towards me, while running, he also shouted inappropriately: "Uncle Chen, why did you still get food, look at it, I'm bothering you again." ”

This guy is probably hungry too, and after seeing the food, his tone of voice to Chen Laohan has become much kinder.

Old Man Chen just smiled at him, and then turned his gaze to the door of the East House, looking there with a sense of gravity.

"Squeak-" With a long sound, the door of the east room was pushed open, and Chen Dabang stepped out of the threshold with a burning stick.

As soon as Chen Laohan saw him, he subconsciously took a step back, and Chen Dabang glared at Chen Laohan fiercely, picked up the burning stick and rushed over.

Li Huaishan saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly stood between Chen Dabang and Chen Laohan, staring at Chen Dabang's face.

Chen Laohan silently lowered his head, Chen Dabang stared at Chen Laohan fiercely, Li Huaishan stared at Chen Dabang, after I put down the cart, I stood in the distance, looking at these three people with interest.

Li Huaishan didn't care about it for the time being, my eyes shifted to Chen Laohan and Chen Dabang several times, and I felt more and more that the reason why Chen Laohan shrank back was not because he was afraid of the stick in Chen Dabang's hand, but because he felt guilty, or there was a ghost in his heart, and although Chen Dabang deliberately put on a look of wanting to kill, he didn't take another step forward after all.

Although Li Huaishan blocked him, if he really wanted to kill someone, he probably had to try to put Li Huaishan away.

While the three men were confronting each other, I saw in my peripheral vision that a small crack had been opened in the window of the east house, and the widow took advantage of this gap to glance quickly into the courtyard of the fort, and then closed the window with great speed.

The first person to come into contact with the confrontation was precisely the most fierce Chen Dabang, he opened his eyes wide, concentrated all his anger in his eyes, scolded Chen Laohan with a very dirty swearing, and then turned his head angrily and returned to the house like a gust of wind.

Next, Chen Laohan also sighed, and left the fort sullenly without even saying hello.

As soon as these two people left, Li Huaishan also put on a puzzled expression, looked at the east house, and then looked at the earthen gate on the fort wall, and finally turned his head to me and asked, "These two people, what kind of way?" ”

I first waved my hand to signal Li Huaishan not to meddle in my affairs, and then untied a sack of dry food and threw it to Li Huaishan.

According to my thoughts at the time, no matter what kind of grievances Chen Laohan and Chen Dabang have, it is their family matter, and Li Huaishan and I, as outsiders, are inconvenient to interfere.

That's right, the matter between Chen Laohan and Chen Dabang is indeed a family matter that is inconvenient for outsiders to intervene in, but I have ignored a few things, one is the change in Chen Dabang's attitude towards us, and the other is that Widow Wang also saw the scene just now.

Nothing happened while I was eating at Li Huaishan, but when we finished eating and were about to go back to the wall to continue looking at the wind, Widow Wang finally began her revenge.

At that time, I climbed to the top of the wall one step ahead of Li Huaishan, and then leaned down, intending to pull Li Huaishan when he came up.

Just as Li Huaishan took a few steps back, ready to rush forward quickly, the window paper in the east house was pierced by a black pole.

The pole was the size of a thumb and had a very smooth appearance, and when I first saw it, I wondered what it was.

But soon, I smelled a faint smell of gunpowder.

Although my marksmanship is very bad, but after all, I am a person who has played with guns, as soon as this smell appeared, I was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly shouted at Li Huaishan: "Get down!" ”

In normal times, Li Huaishan didn't listen to my instructions much, but this time he also seemed to feel the danger behind him, and as soon as the words fell, he fell to the ground without thinking about it.

First I heard the muffled sound of Li Huaishan falling to the ground, and then I heard a "pop" sound from the window of the east house, and the earthen wall under my feet was hit by a certain force, and there was a faint tremor, and a small amount of dust was raised on the inside of the wall.

It's a real gun!

If Li Huaishan hadn't been lying early, he would have said that he would have lost his life now!

At this moment, the barrel of the gun that had reached out of the window retracted into the room, and then a dark eyeball leaned against the hole in the window, and looked into the courtyard of the fort.

(End of chapter)