Instead, the bamboo slipper jumped out from under her feet and ran out of the shed with a puff of smoke.

Yu Youyang guessed that Zhu Yuzi was chasing the dwarf.

During this time, the bamboo slipper rarely came out, and it often hid in places where no one could find it, and even if Grandpa lit a cigarette, it did not appear as usual.

It seems that it is also very sad and in no mood to smoke anymore.

Grandpa saw that it didn't appear often, so he didn't look for it.

But Yu Youyang can't let go of it in his heart, and often looks for it inside and outside the house, sometimes he can find it, sometimes he can't find it. When she couldn't find it, she would complain in front of her father, blaming him for not going to look for it and come back. After blaming, she couldn't bear it, after all, the saddest person was still her father.

Yu Youyang knew that Zhu Yuzi's intuition was very sensitive, and it must have a reason to chase that dwarf. So, she chased after the bamboo slipper.

At this time, there was a shortage of manpower at home, and she couldn't leave, but she couldn't care so much at this time.

As she ran out of the entrance to the shed, her head hit the pine branch hanging in the doorway. There are a lot of pine needles on the pine branches. Pine needles pricked her forehead.

She was already dizzy and dizzy, and her head was a little cloudy. Just now, she stopped her grandfather and asked the dwarf to knock on the coffin, and she also did it in a state of confusion, like a dream. If she was sober, she knew that her father would not do anything to Zhao Xianyun. Everything he did would be for Zhao Xianyun's good, and she would never doubt this.

As soon as the pine needles pricked, she shivered, and suddenly felt that her brain had become a lot clearer.

She perked up and hurriedly ran in the direction where the bamboo slipper had disappeared.

Sure enough, she didn't have to run far before she saw the dwarf's back. He had just walked to the pond, and then walked along the avenue in the direction of the old river. Take-yoko followed him not far behind.

It was already twilight, past dusk but not yet night, and it was already a little dark. The houses and mountains in the distance are not clearly visible and have not lost their silhouettes. The moon was already hanging obliquely, giving off a less bright light. The dwarf left behind a faint and not faint, deep and not deep shadow, as if it were a wet patch on the ground.

When I was a child, I experienced countless such twilight at my grandfather's house, and I have a particularly deep memory of the scenery of Thrush Village in the twilight. Thrush Village would be very quiet at that time, so quiet that I was a little worried. Because by this time the people outside had returned to the house, the cattle had returned to the barn, and the chickens and ducks had returned to their cages. So the village will be very quiet at this time. The moonlight shines quietly and unclearly, and the whole world seems to have reached the boundary of yin and yang.

I think that when Yu Youyang chased the bamboo slipper and the dwarf, he should have been under such a view. What she saw in front of her must have been much different from what I saw later. The trees on the banks of the old river, the bridges on the old river, and the paddy fields on both sides of the old river have not changed much in decades. Maybe the trees were a little lower at that time. What has changed dramatically is the house behind Yu Youyang, especially the huge old mansion of the Ma family.

The bamboo slipper ran in a watermark-like shadow behind the dwarf.

When the dwarf was about to walk to the old river bridge, Yu Youyang thought that he would continue to move forward and leave Thrush Village. At this time, she also thought that he had followed people from other villages to "see the old" here.

But when he was about to step on the old river bridge, he suddenly turned left and walked to the embankment of the old river. Then he walked down the embankment.

Yu Youyang muttered in his heart: Where is he going?

She looked back at the old house of the Ma family in the distance, the light of the white lantern there was brighter than the moonlight, and the sound of the Taoist priest singing lamentations came faintly.

Looking back, the dwarf had gone a long way. The dwarf seemed to be deliberately speeding forward when she didn't see him. It was the same when Yu Youyang first chased him out of the house. Just now, he was still in front of him, and after a slight interruption, he disappeared.

She didn't care so much anymore, and hurried to catch up.

After walking some distance along the embankment of the old river, she noticed that the dwarf had suddenly disappeared.

What's even stranger is that the bamboo slip is also gone.

Yu Youyang turned around in place, but he didn't see half a figure. Unknown bugs in the grass on the embankment began to chirp. The moonlight was a little brighter.

Did you jump into the old river? Yu Youyang thought to himself. She went to the edge of the embankment and looked and found nothing in the water.

Did you go underground? Yu Youyang thought to himself again. If that were the case, I wouldn't have been able to get underground.

She didn't know what to do, and stood there for a while, but she heard neither footsteps nor the cries of bamboo slippers, so she gave up and prepared to return the way she came.

As she turned around, she suddenly saw a tall neem tree not far to her left, and a hut under the tree. The house was no taller than an adult, but it had doors and tiles. Although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs.

Only then did she realize that she had come to the location of the Land Temple.

At that time, every village had a land temple. The land temple is not a normal temple, and it is far less spacious than the temple where the monks live. The land temple is short, a little taller than a child and a little shorter than an adult. One side of the land supports one side of the people, and the land can produce grains, which is the "food and clothing" of people, so people sacrifice to the land.

Could it be that the man hid in the Land Temple? Yu Youyang guessed in his heart. But who has the audacity to occupy the territory of the land god?

Thinking so, she quietly approached the Land Temple.

A couplet was posted on the door of the Land Temple. The couplet reads: "Don't say it's a clay puppet, you must know that it can bring blessings and misfortunes to people." Yu Youyang recognized the handwriting on the couplet, which was written by the old woman who took care of the land temple in the village and asked Ma Xiucai.

She looked inside the Land Temple. It doesn't matter what she sees, the scene inside startles her!

That dwarf is really hiding in the Land Temple! But he was motionless at this time, his eyes were wide, his expression was as angry as if he was happy, and he held a rectangular wooden sign in his hand.

It turns out that he is the father-in-law of the land!

Bamboo slippers were running around under his feet. Perhaps it was still wondering, how did the dwarf suddenly become an immovable puppet?

Yu Youyang gasped. No wonder he seemed to be very familiar with the people in the village when he saw him, he was the father-in-law of the land who guarded this land, how could he not know the people living on this land? It's no wonder that no one in the village knows him, he has never had any contact with the people in the village, and who will know him?

Yu Youyang walked around the Land Temple, confused in his heart. Why did the father-in-law of the land go to Zhao Xianyun's mourning hall? Why knock on Zhao Xianyun's coffin?

She couldn't help but kneel down in front of the Land Temple, kowtowed three times, and then asked the immovable statue of the Land Father-in-law, "Lord Land, why did you go to my house?" Why knock on Sister Zhao's coffin? Do you know something? ”

The moonlight shone obliquely on the father-in-law of the land. The land father-in-law is as quiet as the moonlight.

"Since you've come to my house, why don't you give me a little direction?" Yu Youyang asked.

The father-in-law of the land remained motionless.

Zhu Yuzi crawled out of the land temple and stared at Yu Youyang for a long time.

Yu Youyang sighed, held the bamboo slip with both hands, and then stood up and embarked on the way home. When the moonlight falls on the road, it is like a layer of frost. Yu Youyang knew that it was the illusion of moonlight, but he still felt a burst of coolness.

After Zhao Xianyun's coffin was put into the ground, his grandfather found Yu Youyang and said, "Look at how much money is left in the family, I may have to use a sum of money, if the money is not enough, I will sell some land to make money." ”

Yu Youyang said nervously: "What's the matter, are you going to go far again?" But now Luo Buzhai has not ......"

Grandpa shook his hand and said, "No." I'm not going to go far away. Now that the weak king is imprisoned at the bottom of the pool, I don't have to hide. ”

"Then you're going to ......"

"Prepare the dowry." Grandpa expected Yu Youyang's reaction, and lowered his head after speaking.

"Dowry? Are you going to ......," Yu Youyang said in surprise.

Daddy nodded.

"But Sister Zhao has just entered the ground, can't you wait for a while?" Yu Youyang said indignantly.

"Can't wait." Grandpa turned around and left.

Yu Youyang stood in place in a daze, watching his father go farther and farther.

The next day, Grandpa went to Shang Ruoran's relative's house.

Shang Ruoran has lived here for a while. When her grandfather organized the funerals of Xiaomi and Zhao Xianyun one after another, she went to the Ma family's old house twice, once to kowtow to Xiaomi, and once to kowtow to Zhao Xianyun. Except for these two times, she did not go to the Ma family's old mansion again during this time.

She seemed to have a premonition of something, or maybe she was hiding from something.

Grandpa chatted with Shang Ruoran alone for a morning.

What exactly they said, no one knows yet.

But some people saw Shang Ruoran come out of the house with tears on his face, but he smiled happily. And Grandpa came out with a calm face, as if nothing had happened.

Before everyone could guess what was going on between the two of them, their wedding card was sent out.

Yu Youyang waited for others to receive the wedding card before he knew that his father had made up his mind. She rushed to Shang Ruoran's relative's house three times and twice, wanting to pull Shang Ruoran out for questioning.

Shang Ruoran locked the door and hid in the house and did not come out. Shang Ruoran's relatives pulled Yu Youyang and persuaded her not to do this.

"Men, aren't they all like that? Where is the shortage of women? Many people advised Yu Youyang in this way.

Most people who know Daddy also say that Daddy is too fast.

Daddy didn't explain.

Yu Youyang had no choice, and when he fed the comatose Luo Buzhai soup every day, he chattered in front of Luo Buzhai, blaming his father for being impersonal, saying that he had misseen his father. She deliberately spoke loudly so that the grandfather in the house could hear it.

My grandfather remembered that during that time, almost everyone had to say when they saw him: "Yue Yun, your father is going to find you a stepmother, you won't have a good life in the future!" If your stepmother has a child, you will have no one to care for and no one to raise! ”