After the beginning of winter, the days are gradually shorter and the nights are longer, and the sky is numb and dark after six o'clock, and it is darker on rainy days. The street lamps in the streets and alleys of Pen, Fun and Pavilion www.biquge.info were lit up early, and a dim soft light was emitted. The playchildren were playing under the lamp, and the little girls were crying, the voice was crisp and sharp, and the adults' rebukes came at the right time. The sweet and spicy smell of food flowed through the streets and alleys, and from time to time people came out to call people home for dinner.

Liu Deyong and I walked in the shadow of the lights and went to the house of his relative, Tan Jianjian.

I was discharged from the hospital in the evening of the day I woke up, along with Liu Deyong and Yujiao.

Tan Jianjian's mother Zhang Xiuhe and Liu Deyong's mother are cousins, but they recognize Liu Yingguo, the patriarch and secretary of the brigade who was once in the same hall for five generations.

Of course, this kind of thing can't be forced, so she has to do it. Saying a thousand things and ten thousand should not be put in front of the facts, and when Liu Deyong recovers, she will naturally come to the door.

For a patient like this who is bewitched, the difference between treating a few days earlier and treating a few days later is not too big. Only two more days of hardship.

Sure enough, when she saw Liu Deyong and Ou Yujiao who were jumping around, she regretted it greatly. This afternoon, she was a little embarrassed to find her mother-in-law and wanted to invite the drunkard to her house. My mother told her that the drunkard had returned to Xinghua Village early, but she would come to find her, and left two spirit runes with me, and explained that I would do it for me.

So after dinner, Liu Deyong accompanied me to her house.

The puncture wound on my right palm was healed, but it was still scabbed, and my left hand was too badly injured, but my four fingers were still wrapped in gauze. The two of us staggered into her house.

Tan Jianjian's father's name is Tan Weiming, a porter in the town's Baidai shopping mall, a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard, and he was sitting at a small table drinking with a young man in his twenties when we entered the house. Liu Deyong called his cousin, Tan Weiming responded, turned his head and shouted at the back room: "Xiuhe, Yong is here." He turned his head to Liu Deyong and said, "Your aunt is in the back room." The attitude is lukewarm, holding the wine cup and drinking it to himself.

I glanced at him coldly, and then glanced down at the young man sitting next to him drinking with him.

The young man felt my gaze, looked up, and met his eyes, and even if they were staggered at the touch, I felt a trace of coldness.

This is an unusual young man, I thought to myself.

At this time, Zhang Xiuhe came out of the inner room and let the two of us enter the inner room, and I asked casually, "Aunt Zhang has a guest at home?" It doesn't matter, right? ”

Zhang Xiuhe replied: "It's Uncle Jian's cousin, who came to chat if he had nothing to do." Don't worry, it's okay. ”

I groaned. The social atmosphere is like this, and it is under the nose of the district government, no more than in the countryside, and if you believe in superstition and are caught, you can't eat and walk around, and I am still a junior high school student, so I can't be careless.

Zhang Xiuhe looked at me and said with a smile: "This classmate, you are really bold enough, you are hiding in the temple and sleeping alone, everyone thinks that you are missing, and your family members come all the way to find someone, so your grandmother will not scold you?"

This is the reason that the school announced to the public, and I can only passively accept it. I smiled and replied, "Scolded." If I hadn't broken my hand, my ass would have bloomed. ”

Zhang Xiuhe smiled: "That's! If my family construction dares to be naughty and disobedient, I will definitely make his ass bloom. I heard that you are Teacher Yang's own cub, right? ”

"Yes, Mr. Yang is my mother." I replied.

As we spoke, we went into the back room. Zhang Xiuhe suddenly remembered and asked, "Look at my memory, I forgot to ask if you have eaten?" If you haven't eaten, I'll do it later. ”

I deliberately smiled and didn't say anything, and Liu Deyong quickly replied, "I've eaten it." School starts at half-past five. ”

Zhang Xiuhe didn't say anything more, leading us inside.

It is a well-established fact that the people on the streets of the town are generally snobbish and stingy than those in the country, and the people are less humane. Their residence is more prosperous than the village, and it is also a bazaar market, and there are all kinds of vendors and pawns, and over time, they are contaminated with the philistines. For example, every market day, there are always distant relatives or acquaintances from the surrounding villages to rush to the scene, and you just want to say hello with a smile from afar, but some people pretend not to know or see, and turn around and go into the house or go elsewhere, for fear that you will come into his house and want to eat a meal at his house. This is impossible in our village, no matter raw or cooked, as long as you arrive at the meal, there will always be someone to greet you warmly.

What's more, he is blind behind his ears and eyes at the door of the street and home, if he meets him elsewhere on weekdays, he can always have sharp eyes and sharp ears, and he will greet him from afar, and he will say something like not seeing him for a long time, why don't you go into the house to eat when you go to the bazaar, but you are not affectionate enough.

Of course, this is a minority, and later I also had the experience of living in a bustling town, every market day, there are always acquaintances to look for it, many times back when others came to the side and did not see it, until people shouted suddenly found out, so I understood that the neighbors may have wronged them. The streets are bustling with people, maybe people really don't notice, and they don't want to have a meal and deliberately avoid you.

The town street is often the center of a radius of dozens of miles, the district government, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, etc., there are more than ten or twenty large and small units, and it is also a bazaar market, and relatives, friends and acquaintances in the countryside have to come to the town street to do business, and they can meet almost every day. Nowadays, everyone is not rich, food and clothing are still a problem, if everyone comes to stay for food, I am afraid that my family will have to drink the northwest wind.

At the moment, I don't understand these truths, maybe it is due to the influence of my neighbors, I also have prejudices against the residents of the town, and I am very disdainful of Tan Wei Mingming sitting at the dinner table eating and drinking, but he refuses to say hello by the way, Zhang Xiuhe is also expected to be Ai Ai, which makes me a little disdainful.

I have been nurtured by my mother since I was a child, and I know more or less about the hardships of life, and I rarely eat at other people's houses in the village, let alone unfamiliar towns. And we've already eaten, and even if we don't, I may not be willing to sit at someone else's table unless it's a sincere invitation.

Of course, I won't show this kind of cautious thoughts, and follow Zhang Xiuhe into the innermost house.

The houses on the town street are not as good as the small courtyards in the countryside, and they are crowded one after another with the walls and stacks, and they are staggered. The walls are made of blue bricks, mud bricks and wooden boards, all kinds of doors and small pages, and the houses are all extended backwards, which is very deep.

Zhang Xiuhe led the two of us to the house, and Tan Jianshe sat crookedly on the bed, looking at us blankly.

I didn't talk nonsense, so I asked Zhang Xiuhe to call a bowl of water and recite a mantra. took out a talisman paper and burned it in a bowl, let Tan Jianshe drink it, and wrapped another talisman in a handkerchief and placed it under his pillow, telling him to sleep well and get up tomorrow without incident.

After that, he went to another hut and did the same to Tan Xiaoyan. Zhang Xiuhe had seen the whole process, and after leaving the house, he said in a hurry: "This is okay?"

I smiled and said to her, "yes, that's it." Make sure the siblings will be able to go to school tomorrow. It's just that I haven't eaten anything these days, so I'd better get some delicious food and give them some nutrients or something. ”

Zhang Xiuhe nodded and promised: "That's it." To-morrow I'm going to cut some meat, and I'll slaughter the old hen and give them a make-up. ”

Sure enough, people are more popular than dead people. The people on the town street are different, how can a small girl like this in the countryside have such enjoyment after being sick? It's meat and chicken, go dream! Huang Shiren broke his leg in a fall last year, so he ate a few more eggs, which was so beautiful that he looked like something.

Coming out of the back room, Tan Weiming and the two were still drinking and chatting, and the atmosphere was warm. The young man sat facing the door, and when I came out of the back room, I could see the face, probably because of the wine, and the handsome face was flushed.

Zhang Xiuhe saw me walking out, and said casually: "This classmate is bothering you." You have to sit with your classmates for a while, you can play by yourself, I have something to do. ”

As he spoke, he was about to go out. I glanced at Liu Deyong, and Liu Deyong hurriedly shouted: "Auntie, wait, I have something to say to you."

Zhang Xiuhe looked at him suspiciously, he quickly pulled her aside, I turned around, pretending to look at the carvings on the door panel, and looked like I was studying, but I actually pricked up my ears to listen to Liu Deyong.

Liu Deyong said: "Auntie, that Master Li has confessed, if you look for him, let Xianghong come over." Xianghong is the apprentice of the Liangshui Master, and he has also participated in the teacher, which can completely cure the illness of his cousin and cousin. There are rules of conduct, and the rules of the master cannot be abolished, otherwise some things will not work, I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to my cousin and cousin, and it will be troublesome if the disease continues to root. ”

Zhang Xiuhe pretended to be surprised and said, "There are still rules for this? What rules? Tell me quickly. ”

Liu Deyong said: "They have a jargon that says that the mother and grandfather kiss the fragrant rice for a liter. That is to say, even if you do this for your grandmother, you have to get a liter of fragrant rice. He exorcised evil spirits for his cousin and cousin, you have to show it a little, it means something, otherwise the rules will be broken, and he will not be able to explain to Daddy Li ......"

This is a scene that the two of us discussed when we came. Liu Deyong told that his cousin and his family were very stingy, thinking that they lived in the town street, and looked down on their relatives in the countryside all the way. Especially that cousin, who was lukewarm to him and ignored him. If Tan Jianshe hadn't been kind to him and always dragged him to his house to play, even if he was studying in the town, he wouldn't have come to his door. Liu Deyong joked: "Later, you will go to his house to treat Tan Jianjian's brothers and sisters, not to mention the reward, I'm afraid that I won't pour you a glass of water to drink, don't blame me for not telling you in advance."

I was very unhappy after hearing this, it was pointless to be stingy, anyway, he was not my relative, and I didn't have to deal with his family, I didn't think about rewarding or anything, but I shouldn't look down on people with my eyes above the top. I rolled my eyes, "calculated" to my heart, and decided to make them bleed, make them feel painful, and make them angry.

When I said this to Liu Deyong, Liu Deyong applauded.

If this is the case, I hinted that Liu Deyong did what he wanted, which led to the current scene.