At that time, I saw that the fingerprints on my hand were crawling towards Xiao Ying's hand, so I hurriedly shook Xiao Ying's hand away.

My actions made Xiao Ying stunned, and I thought I hated her, so I flattened my mouth and looked at me and said, "Cousin, why are you like this, don't you like Xiao Ying?" ”

I was embarrassed for a while, and hurriedly sneered: "Ah, no, my cousin likes you, it's just that my hand scratched the skin yesterday and hurt a little, this hand can't be held, let's change it." ”

"I see," Xiao Ying burst into tears and laughed, then took my left hand and dragged me out.

When I came to the yard, I found that the sun was shining golden, the weather was fine, my mother and my grandmother were cooking in the pot house, and when they saw me coming out, they asked me how I felt.

I said much better, and went out with Xiaoying to the back of the house.

Behind my grandmother's house was a vegetable garden, and no one lived there.

Probably because of its proximity to the village, the environment here is a bit desolate, full of woods and grass layers, and it doesn't look like a village but a wilderness.

As for the family who lives next to his grandmother's vegetable garden, it is more powerful, his house is a small three-story western-style building, and the yard is also very large, which is completely configured as a garden villa.

The man who lived in that house used to be a poor man, but then he went to the city to do business and made a fortune, and when he came back, he built this big house.

I heard that the women of that family are officials in the city, so they are very powerful, and they are also very arrogant, they rarely walk around with the people in the village, obviously they are born in the countryside, and they are dressed in five people and six tall clothes every day, and after a long time, the people in the village do not like to take care of them, so their family is a single family, basically isolated from the whole village.

If there is anyone in this family who communicates more with the people in the village, it may be a precept.

The head of the ring was a year younger than me, and he was an adopted child from the family, and he was about five or six years old when he came, so we grew up playing together.

However, the family is not very good to the ringhead, and they give him leftovers every day and do not buy clothes, so although the family is very rich, the head of the ring is very miserable, not only that, I heard that the head of the ring is often beaten, and his body has always been blue and purple. The head of the ring also knew that he was a child who was picked up, and he didn't dare to resist, and he has been silently enduring this pain.

However, although the life of the head of the ring is not satisfactory, but the person is very cheerful, especially when playing with us, they are all talking and laughing, and very responsible, so we children, in fact, still like him, if his clothes can be worn a little better, not full of patches, dirty, it would be better.

As we spoke, my cousin and I came to the back of the house, and sure enough, we saw a large flock of white geese grazing on the grass, and we also saw the ringheads.

I haven't seen him for two years, he has grown taller, but his appearance has not changed much, his clothes are still tattered and dirty, he is herding geese, and the white geese are his family.

When we arrived, the ring head was sitting motionless on a stone with a thin bamboo pole in his arms.

I shouted to him from afar: "Ring head, ring head, I came to my grandmother's house, are you okay?" Let's play together. ”

To my surprise, when the head saw me, he did not show the same enthusiasm as before, he just turned his head to look at me, did not say a word, and then went on to take care of his white goose.

I was a little curious, so I asked Xiaoying to pick wild flowers by herself, and I walked up to the ringhead, looked at him and said, "What's wrong with you?" Did you encounter something unhappy? ”

"When have I ever been happy?" The ring head replied lukewarmly, stood up and drove the geese to the side, then turned around and looked me up and down, and sneered: "Yes, the clothes are very new, you will go to junior high school during the Chinese New Year." ”

"yes, what the hell is wrong with you? Why do I feel like you hate me? I asked, looking at the head of the ring with some confusion.

"It's not that I hate you, but I hate myself," the ring shook the whip in his hand, looked into the distance and said, "They don't let me go to school anymore, I only read to the fifth grade, and I still can't read all the words." ”

"Why would they do it? His family is so rich, is there a lack of your tuition? I looked at the ring head and asked sympathetically.

"It's not a lack of tuition, it's a lack of manpower, his daughter has a child and needs someone to take care of it, and this group of geese also needs someone to manage it, and they don't want to hand it over to outsiders, for fear that their hands and feet will not be clean, so they asked me not to go to school, go home and take care of their children," said the head helplessly.

Hearing this, I kind of understand why the ring head is unhappy, indeed, in such a position as him, there is indeed no way, but to be at the mercy of others.

After a long time, I had a whim, so I asked him, "Then have you ever thought about leaving their house?" Anyway, you are not their own child, or you can run away and save yourself from suffering here. ”

"Run?" The ring head looked at me and said, "You think it's that easy?" I'm a little child, how can I survive when I run out, I don't even have a hukou, so it's strange if I don't starve to death. ”

"Then are you just patient?" I asked, looking at the ringhead.

"Then what else, but they don't wait for me to grow up, I'll give them a good look when the time comes," as the ring head spoke, he grabbed a branch and broke it, the look was a little fierce, which made me stunned, I felt that the head of the ring had changed, and the hatred and resentment that had accumulated in his heart should have exploded.

"Don't talk about that, what are you doing at your grandma's house? Is it to live? Ring head turned to look at me and asked.

"Well, I'm in a bit of a situation, I'm here to avoid evil," I don't know how to say about myself, and I can't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"Hit the devil, huh?" The ring looked me up and down, and the thick eyebrows and big eyes seemed to be able to emit light, which made me a little nervous, and I couldn't help but say to him: "Don't look at it, you are a year younger than me, what can you understand?" ”

"Hehe, this maybe, let me tell you, they have a secret room at home, which contains Buddha statues, and a small box, it is said that the small box is stored in treasures, which can ward off evil spirits and make money, hum, how about it, if we get that small box, are you not afraid of hitting evil spirits?" The ring head looked at me and asked with a smile.

When I heard this, I thought that I was now haunted by ghosts and miserable, so if that family really had such a treasure to ward off evil spirits, maybe it could really save my life.

"Do you know how to get that box?" At that moment, I couldn't help but ask the head of the ring.

"Even if I knew, why should I help you? They found out, and they didn't want my life? As he spoke, he stood up, and while chasing the geese, he said to me in a long voice: "Go back, they should finish eating, it's my turn to pick up some leftovers to eat, I have to wash the dishes and sweep the floor after eating, and I have to take care of the children, I don't have time to accompany you, you can play by yourself." ”