It was drizzling that night. Grandpa walked out the door without an umbrella. Luo Buzhai thought that his grandfather was just going to do something under the eaves, but they didn't know that he went to Laohe.

Grandpa didn't use an umbrella because he was afraid that when he walked next to the old river, Xiaomi's spirit would hear the sound of rain hitting the umbrella. Daddy was worried that she would hide away from him.

When he first went out, his father thought that the rain was specially arranged by God to prevent him from going to Laohe to find millet.

When he was about to walk to the Laohe Bridge, his father suddenly thought that the rain was not a means for God to prevent him from seeing millet, but a means for God to help him see millet. Because the sound of rain can drown out his footsteps, so that Xiaomi does not know that he is coming.

Grandpa later said to my grandfather that some things don't matter if they are good or bad, and they don't matter if they are arranged by God, the key is how you think about it, you think it's good, it's good; You think it's bad, it's bad.

He walked to the old river, and instead of going up to the bridge, he went down the embankment of the old river and went under the bridge.

After walking under the bridge, he saw the familiar man.

Millet grabbed a straw and tossed it around in the water. It is very dark under the bridge, and although Daddy can see Xiaomi's figure at a glance, it still takes a lot of eyesight to see her face clearly.

Millet didn't know that Daddy had walked behind her, still fiddling with the straw in boredom.

Daddy didn't bother her, and sat down quietly on a rock behind her. The old river is not deep in this season, so there is still space under the bridge that is not cramped. But the clothes on his body were already wet and cold, and my father shivered.

He just stood behind Xiaomi, looking at her quietly.

I don't know how long it took, but due to the invasion of the cold, my father finally couldn't help but sneeze.

Millet was startled, threw straw and turned around. Blood.

The moment he saw his father, the horror on Xiaomi's face immediately subsided, and what appeared in his turn was surprise. For a moment, her eyes were full of tenderness, like the water of an old river, and it was as comfortable to look at. But soon her face showed anger again.

She shook her hand and turned to leave.

Daddy coughed.

The cough made Xiaomi immediately stop.

Millet turned around and said, "Why didn't you come out and play an umbrella?" You're already this age, don't you know how to protect yourself? Didn't that Sister Hua take good care of you? Whether there was anger or pity in her eyes, I am afraid she did not know.

"Am I not afraid that you will hear me?" Daddy said.

Xiaomi's eyes rolled and she asked, "Who told you I'm here?" ”

"I don't know what that person's name is." Daddy said.

At this time, the bamboo slipper appeared at Daddy's feet, and it squeaked a few times. Its fur was wet from the rain and looked a little embarrassed.

"Looks like I'm going to change places." Millet looked at the bamboo slipper and pursed her mouth.

"Come back with me." Daddy stretched out his hand to Xiaomi.

"Nope. I'm not going back with you. Unless you kill that flower sister. Millet's eyes suddenly glowed red, like burning charcoal.

"You know I can't do that." Daddy said.

"Humph! In that case, what are you doing here? You're still huddled in a bed with her like this! Have a litter of torturers with her! The red light in Millet's eyes flickered, like burning charcoal blown bright and dark by the wind. With that, she turned and walked towards the other side of the bridge.

Daddy shouted, "Don't go! "Grandpa knows that Xiaomi's spirit is her resentment during her lifetime, and it is reasonable to speak ugly. But he wasn't angry, he wanted to bring Xiaomi's spirit home and let the spirit and soul come back together. He was afraid that Xiaomi's spirit would leave again, and as long as she left, it would be even more difficult to find her again.

Therefore, when Grandpa shouted "Don't go", his voice was more stern and a bit of a commanding tone.

The tone of this command did not frighten Xiaomi, but after hearing his father's shout, Zhu Liuzi immediately jumped in front of Xiaomi and ran around Xiaomi a few times.

Xiaomi took another step, but her body shook and she fell to the ground.

Millet angrily grabbed the bamboo slip and threw it into the old river. Millet said angrily: "You dead bamboo slipper! How dare you use Silk to deal with me! ”

It turned out that the bamboo slipper was biting the silk and running around the millet, causing the millet to trip.

This situation is somewhat similar to Xiaomi's previous running around the weak king.

Grandpa knew that Zhu Yuzi had heard his shouts before doing so. It wants to help Daddy keep Xiaomi. However, he didn't expect that Millet would throw the bamboo slip into the old river, intending to drown it!

Grandpa hurriedly jumped into the old river and scooped the bamboo slip out of the water.

About fifty or sixty years later, a few children in Thrush Village were fishing and playing under the old river bridge. A child who poked a spider's web found a long, solitary spider silk, almost transparent. He pulled it with his hand, but the hair did not break, but the finger was bleeding. The boy didn't expect a spider's silk to be so strong, so he stoned it, but it couldn't be broken. The other children found it novel and tried to tear the silk off in various ways, but all failed. The kid took the spider silk back and used it to cut soap, wood, everything he could think of.

When a tattered collector from a neighboring village heard the news, he immediately rushed to the child's house, hoping to buy the strange spider silk at a high price.

The boy was immediately disappointed when he saw that the one who was willing to pay for his spider silk was willing to pay for him. He told the collector that less than half an hour earlier, he had tried to burn the impossibly strong spider silk with fire, and it had all burned up in one fell swoop.

Collect the rags and scold, I know that you are working together to deceive me, these torturers!

My grandfather later heard about this and said that it was probably the silk that my grandfather left under the bridge.

Millet untied the silk wrapped around her feet, and then walked away without looking back.

Grandpa looked at the direction of Xiaomi's departure, was stunned for a while, and then went home with a bamboo slipper. After returning home, he hurriedly asked Yu Youyang to make a fire and roast the bamboo slips.

Yu Youyang soaked his father, and hurriedly asked his father to change his clothes to roast the fire.

Daddy plunged headlong into the rain again. He ran to the old river and walked far, far along the embankment of the old river. He wanted to get the millet back, but it was as if it had melted into the night air.

The next day, my father developed a high fever and gibberish.

Shang Ruoran stood beside his father's bed, looking unhappy.

Of course she was unhappy, because her grandfather had been reading Xiaomi's name. Mr. Bai's eyes were wide open, and he looked at his grandfather from afar.

Yu Youyang and Luo Buzhai were also a little embarrassed, after all, their grandfather was calling Xiaomi in front of Shang Ruoran.

After Shang Ruoran put three towels on his grandfather, he suddenly said to Yu Youyang: "Yu Youyang, do you think I can never be a part of this family?" ”

Yu Youyang hurriedly comforted: "Sister, don't think about it, he's just talking nonsense, how many times have you seen him pronounce Xiaomi's name in front of you?" ”

Shang Ruoran said: "Don't comfort me. He told me a long time ago that he couldn't treat me like Xiaomi or Zhao Xianyun. It's just that I know that this is the case, but I still feel uncomfortable. ”

Yu Youyang couldn't respond to her anymore.

Shang Ruoran continued: "Yu Youyang, tell me with your conscience, where do I do less than Xiaomi and Zhao Xianyun? Three meals a day, I do it myself, laundry and embroidery, I have never been lazy, every thing in the house, I wipe and wipe, wash and wash, for fear of a little more dust. ”

Yu Youyang said embarrassedly: "I'm afraid this is not something you can get by working hard." ”

"Then tell me, what do I have to do for him to treat me as a normal person?" Shang Ruoran said dissatisfied.

Yu Youyang and Luo Buzhai stopped talking.

"I'm his wife, but I'm not as good as you both in his heart." Shang Ruoran said angrily.

When Luo Buzhai heard this, he felt as uncomfortable as if he had lice on his body.

Yu Youyang was a little angry and said, "How can you say that? Luo Buzhai and Ma Xiucai are simply brothers in life and death, which cannot be compared. If Ma Xiu had a brother, would he have to compete with his wife for whose status was higher? I am the wife of Ma Xiucai's brother, do you still have to compare your status in the family with your sister-in-law or younger siblings? ”

Luo Buzhai comforted Yu Youyang and said: "It's all a family, don't say that." ”

But Yu Youyang didn't retreat, she exhaled and said, "She wouldn't say that if she treated us as a family." ”

Shang Ruoran didn't flinch, she stood up, pointed at Yu Youyang and said, "I treat you as a family?" Are we a family? If it's a family, why doesn't your husband have the surname Ma? You have been eating and drinking in our Ma family for so many years, what did I say? So far, I don't think of you as a family? ”

Yu Youyang was dumbfounded, and didn't say anything for a long time.

Luo Buzhai didn't seem to hear Shang Ruoran's words, so he took off the towel on his father's forehead and put it on instead.

After his father's high fever subsided, Luo Buzhai said to his father: "Ma Xiucai, I've been here long enough, I want to take Yu Youyang back to Radish Village." ”

Grandpa was surprised: "You've lived here for so long, haven't you gotten used to it?" When you go back to Radish Village, what if you are recognized? Your appearance has changed a bit, but I think there are still a lot of people out there who will recognize you. ”

Luo Buzhai said in a sullen voice: "Am I not their Abba Xu?" Even if they would be surprised to see that I wasn't dead, it shouldn't be a big deal if something like this happened to Abba Xu, right? Besides, you didn't let me go back to the carrot village because I was afraid that I would know the truth that I was dead. I already knew what was going on, and I wasn't afraid that the people in the radish village would talk about the things of the past. ”