It wasn't until the child's footsteps had disappeared that I was still standing in place, nodding my head blankly and numbly, a gust of wind blew, and the sand I quickly lowered my head and rubbed it, and then I came to my senses, pulled on my cloth shoes, and sat down at the stone table in the courtyard.

This is a small courtyard, one south and one north, with white courtyard walls on both sides, and in the middle of the small courtyard, in addition to the stone table and stone bench where I sit, there are also a few pots of wildflowers scattered that I can't name but are very neatly packed.

The main hall on the south side is open at this time, and I can see the dishes and chopsticks on the table from my angle, and the door of the small room next door is locked, which should be a utility room for storing idle things, and the north room is the bedroom I just came out of, and there is a small hut in the corner of the wall connected to it, judging from the firewood pile outside and the thick oil mud on the window, it is the kitchen.

The whole yard is paved with green bricks, judging from the dust accumulated on the eaves and the faint musty smell of the old house, this house has been living here for some years? Is this my home? That kid named Obuchi is my son? I can't remember anything.

Stood up and paced around the yard a few times, took a few deep breaths of the cold morning air, and some pictures began to emerge in my mind, intermittently and vaguely, as if like a photo, suddenly popping out without a head or tail, there were a few men and a few women in it, I began to grab one of them hard, and tried to identify it, a stout and tall man surnamed Cui, yes, he is the big Cui brother who is coming to check out today, the thin and tall, wearing a pair of tortoiseshell glasses The man surnamed Li is Xiao Yuan's teacher, The woman next to him seems to be surnamed Li, who is his wife, and the woman next to Chunxiang is the wife of Brother Cui, called Lotus, and is the proprietress of the Lotus Wine Shop.

Thinking of this, I confirmed that I did live here, this is my home, Haruka is my wife, and Xiao Yuan is undoubtedly my son, but this did not make me feel relaxed, but I felt as if something was missing, and my heart was empty, but I couldn't figure out what it was.

Chunxiang's words were still lingering in his ears, so he simply strode to the main hall, drank white porridge with cold salads, finished washing, locked the door and went to the street, and carried it by his legs, as if walking aimlessly in one direction.

It was still early, there were only a few sparse pedestrians on the street, but they were all smiling and greeting each other, and I smiled at everyone, but I didn't know what I was laughing at, they nodded and I nodded, they beckoned, and I beckoned, like a marionette.

In this way, Xinma walked to the door of the Lotus Wine Workshop, Brother Cui was squatting on the steps outside the door smoking a cigarette, and when he saw me coming, he shouted from afar: "Yo, it's early to get up today."

I smiled at him, walked to the door of Chunxiang Restaurant, neatly took out the key from my arms, opened the door, habitually walked to the cabinet, skillfully opened the account book, which clearly recorded the accounts of the coming and going, I turned directly to the page where the wine account was recorded, and looked at the neat handwriting of the line, are these really written by me?

Stretched out his hand and picked up the brush on the side, took some water, and wrote a few words casually on the side of the account book, compared and looked, sure enough, every word in the account book came from my hand, but this word has an indescribable strangeness, I stared at this line of clear water words, "Zhang Xiaofeng" Yes, this is my name, this is the only thing I can be 100% sure of this morning.

was stunned, Brother Cui flashed into the store, sat down at the table at the door, and said while rolling a paper cigarette: "I said shopkeeper, why do you see that you can't give up today?" Could it be that you drank too much last night? ”

I hurriedly covered the handwriting with my sleeve and said with a smile, "Why, I just didn't wake up." ”

"Let's just say, those bowls of wine, no, look at your eye circles, okay, they're all old husbands and wives, and they're quite tired." He looked at me with a wicked smile, I shook my head helplessly, hehe, and hurriedly took the abacus and counted the wine account one by one.

"A total of twenty-six pieces of money, you are right." ”

"Okay, yes, what's right, every month is all this, you don't have to count, or you scholars are dead-eyed"

I opened a small drawer under the big cabinet, counted out the money and handed it to him, he took the money, and was about to sit back to continue chatting, when I heard a woman's voice outside: "You got up early in the morning and ran here to chat, and you don't care about your little cub?" ”

Before the words fell, the lotus walked into the house, and Brother Cui looked at me, and shouted with a stiff neck: "What my little cub, you don't have a share?" What happened to him? ”

"What's the point, I still can't get up, can I still read this book?" What kind of father there is, what kind of son he has. Lotus stared at Brother Cui and shouted.

"Hey, little bunny, I can't take care of it." Saying that, Brother Cui got up and left, and when he passed by Lotus, he saw Lotus twisting his arm at lightning speed, "Oops", Brother Cui covered his arm and walked out quickly, Lotus smiled at me embarrassedly, and then went home.

They left, the store was completely clean, I poured a pot of tea, carried the pot and held the tea bowl, sat in the position where Brother Cui had just sit, and looked idly at the street, at this time Mr. Li's wife walked in, I hurriedly got up and let her sit, she smiled at me and said, "Shopkeeper Zhang, Sister Chunxiang hasn't come yet?" ”

"Oh, she sent Xiao Yuan to the academy, what's wrong? You didn't see it? ”

"I met at the gate of the school, she left earlier than me, it seems that she may have gone to buy other things, please bring me a bowl of beef noodles and a plate of side dishes." ”

I should make a sound, hurriedly ran to the back kitchen, there is a big pot on the stove in the back kitchen, after uncovering, there is a whole pot of beef, it is still slightly warm to the touch, it seems that Chunxiang just stewed last night, I hurriedly set up the pot to make water, mix side dishes, just a bowl of beef powder to make me in a hurry, sweating profusely.

As soon as she was served, Chunxiang entered the door, and when she saw that she was there, she greeted warmly: "Sister Mei is here, hey, you don't say anything at the door of the school, you said that I will come back early to do it for you, and you will wait." ”

Sister Mei said a little embarrassed: "Don't worry, this is delicious when it is just cooked." ”

"Hey, it depends on who cooks it, my family, there is a set of accounts, but the cooking powder is not as good as my Xiaoyuan's cooking, hahaha"

Sister Mei was also amused to cover her mouth and laugh, I followed and smirked twice, and simply hid out and stood on the street, at this time I looked at the proprietress of the lotus wine shop opposite, I don't know why, and I am counting down Brother Cui, and it is rare for Brother Cui to have a good temper, although he is five big and three rough, he doesn't scold back, he can't fight back, at most he hums a few words unconvinced, and he definitely doesn't dare to fight against it.

I stood far away with my arms in my arms to watch the excitement, and suddenly a ragged beggar came from the front, this beggar walked to the door, stood still, and looked at the store blankly, Chunxiang handed out a glutinous rice ball from it, he reached out and swallowed two bites, turned around and walked towards me, and when he passed me, he whispered: "Go away!" ”

"Let's go? Where to go? I thought for a moment, turned my head to ask more, but the man was long gone.

Haruka came out of the store at some point, stood behind me and asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

I shrugged my shoulders, said nothing, and pulled her back to the store, Sister Mei had finished eating, paid, and the two women sat together and chatted for a short time in the house, until the store was full of people, and Sister Mei got up to say goodbye.

Busy at noon, although only to collect money and keep accounts, but also tired of my back pain, finally free, sit down to catch my breath, only to see a person dressed as a person run in, Chunxiang called: "Fugui", Fugui said: "The master asked the young lady and the aunt to take the young master to the house for dinner at night."

Chunxiang replied: "Got it", and Fugui turned around and left.

In the afternoon, Chunxiang put out the fire in the back kitchen early, I went to the door panel, and the two of us picked up Obuchi together and went straight to Chunxiang's house.

Walking through the deep alleys, I was surprised to find that I had no memory of everything in the vicinity, and what was even more surprising was that I didn't get lost, and walked calmly to the gate of Chunxiang's house, but along the way, another thing has always hovered in my heart, Chunxiang's father, what is my father-in-law's name?

Fugui opened the door, said that the lord was waiting in the main hall, bypassing the shadow wall, it was a huge courtyard, the corridor on both sides was painted with the story of the Three Kingdoms, burning the red cliffs, the grass boat borrowed arrows, etc., vivid, lifelike, there were several sauce-colored large water tanks on the road, and several bright red carp swam around.

As soon as Xiao Yuan entered the courtyard, he shouted: "Grandpa! Grandfather! A long promise came from the main hall, and then ran out of an old man with white hair and white beard, Xiao Yuan pounced directly, the old man held it in his arms, an old man and a young man were happy, the scene was full of warmth, and the moment I saw the old man, a name suddenly flashed in my mind: Lei Yuhao.

Could this be the old man's name? How could it suddenly flash out? The name sounds familiar.

I was stunned and still thinking, Haruka gently tugged me, pulled me back to reality, stepped forward, and with Haruka, called respectfully: Abba.

Lei Yuhao smiled and nodded full of praise, four people walked into the main hall, the wall of the main hall hung a picture of mountains and flowing water, under the picture is the red sandalwood case, the case with a knife frame with a sword, this sword is antique, the whole sword is more than two feet long, about a palm wide, the top of the sword head is a big flat round brass ball, carved with a small dragon and many similar patterns carved on it, the hilt of the sword is black iron, the sword axe is also made of brass, the same cast into the shape of a small dragon, the scabbard is made of wood lacquer, and the black lacquer is embedded with luodian, Reflect the colorful colored light, like the colorful light of ten thousand, extremely gorgeous, the sword nose is with two fingers wide, a long whole piece of mutton fat white jade carved dragon pattern, the end of the scabbard is a huge brass sword, the sword is antique, at a glance you know that it is not an ordinary thing.

Entered the main hall, the elders sat down, Fugui brought tea, Lei Yuhao hugged Xiao Yuan and sat on the Taishi chair next to the table of the Eight Immortals, Chunxiang accompanied and chatted about the recent situation in the store and what I saw on the street, I tasted tea with nothing to do, but my eyes involuntarily glanced at the sword, somehow, as long as I saw this sword, I felt a sense of uneasiness in my heart.

Lei Yuhao saw that I was peeking at the sword, and said with a smile: "When did the virtuous son-in-law become interested in this kind of thing of fighting and killing?" ”

I smiled embarrassedly and said: "This sword looks antique, extraordinary, really good-looking", the old man smiled and said: "I, I recently got a treasure knife, everything is good, but the knife is mottled with black spots, these days I am polishing carefully, and after polishing, I will show you, that knife is also a rare thing." ”

Talking, Fugui informed everyone to open the meal, a group of people came to the side hall, the marble round table was full of all kinds of dishes, although not to talk about the delicacy, but also chicken, duck and fish all kinds of meat, everyone sat down, Fugui was waiting on the side, everyone pushed the cup to change the lamp, laughter, looking at the scene in front of me and happy scene, I couldn't help but have a feeling of happiness in my heart, sighed Although this life is dull, but full and happy, the old people are healthy, the children are smart, the wife is virtuous, our small shop, Although it is not possible to be rich and expensive, it is also not worried about food and clothing, this is the real joy of heaven and man, what more can the husband ask for.