In the small alley on the south side of the Sanlian tile house in the county seat, there is a shop specializing in pancakes, this shop has no name, except for the flatbread, there is nothing else, the first is a pair of brothers and two open, until now there is only one younger brother left, and now he is also in his sixties. If you don't know people passing by the door to think that it is a family that is cooking, most of the people who go to buy cakes are local old people, the old people are counting their teeth but fortunately, this cake tastes so chewy, not only around the county there are also a lot of people to buy, and some people buy more at home when they want to eat, put it on the lid of the pot on the fire and heat it to eat, the taste is not too much.

The fourth and seventh didn't get up early, and the other brothers slept like pigs, in any posture and movement. The two brothers put on their clothes and washed their faces haphazardly, and then walked to the county town under the newborn sun.

It's also quite strange to say, that night around the county town in the graves have crawled out of many dead people who have not yet rotted out, but those graves are now in good condition, there is no appearance of being dug up from the inside, but the fourth child has also been a grave mover for a few years, when the soil of this grave was covered, when the round tomb was filled with soil, he can see at a glance. Although these graves are similar to before, the graves are too new, obviously just recently buried, it seems that Li Huan and the soldiers not only took away the corpses, but also the empty graves of the dead crawling out around the county town have also been well buried, and everything has been covered up and not let the county people know.

When the brothers walked to the county seat, they felt that it was still the same as before, but the old bathhouse was sealed, and the front face of the bombing was actually covered with bricks and stones, and the words "Be careful of collapsing, danger should not be approached" were written on the wall, and most of the people walked around. But the fourth child felt that something was wrong. He clearly remembered that night, there should have been a lot of people who saw the dead man come back to chase after him, why did everyone seem to have never seen it after so many days, how did they usually live or how they lived, what was going on? All sealed? Or did you really forget?

The fourth child walked all the way and thought all the way, thinking too much. Xiao Qi is much more broad-hearted, and he looks at the lively place when he is young. I also asked the vegetable vendor who set up a stall on the street where the cake shop was, and the person stretched out his arm and pointed in the direction and ignored him and said, "Over there!" ”

Although the attitude is not good, but they also let them find the place smoothly, in front of a small alley, on the left hand side of the head can see a door in the middle of the courtyard wall, far away you can smell the smell of the flatbread burnt, this paste does not mean that the paste has been baked for a long time, but deliberately burn one side of the flatbread for more time, and eat the place where the paste is burned, which is particularly crispy and refreshing.

When Xiao Qi saw the place, he hurriedly took a few steps first. But as soon as I walked outside the courtyard gate, I suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the house, which seemed to be the sound of a knife falling and chopping bones, which was nothing, but it was accompanied by a miserable cry of an old man, but it stopped immediately after only one scream, and it seemed that someone had covered his mouth with his hand, and then there was a continuous sound of chopping things, which made Xiao Qi startled and did not dare to go forward. Just stop where you are.

The fourth child happened to come over at this time, and he heard it clearly. I didn't feel good at the time, maybe there was something wrong inside, I pulled Xiao Qi aside, and I was just about to go inside, when suddenly the courtyard door was opened, and the person who opened the door was a young man. His eyes were in a trance, and his arms were still trembling slightly. The young man was also stunned when he saw the two brothers outside, and his eyes unconsciously glanced behind him, swallowed his spit and asked them, "You, what are you doing?" ”

Xiao Qi replied while tilting his head sideways to look into the courtyard: "We are here to buy cakes, sesame flatbread" But before he finished speaking, he saw the young man raise his legs and cross the threshold in a little panic. Because he was too flustered, his head was almost tripped over the threshold, and the startled fourth and seventh took a step back.

"It's gone! Gone! The flatbread is gone today, so let's catch up! The young man came out and closed the door so that the two men would not look inside.

Xiao Qi didn't see that something was wrong inside, so he asked the young man, "What?" What's wrong? When is this time? I smell it all! ”

Then the young man kept his back to them, just repeating that there was no more to come back tomorrow, and then hurried away as if he were fleeing.

Xiao Qi shrugged his nose in the direction that the man ran away, raised his leg and was about to walk over to open the door and enter, but as soon as he took a step, he was dragged by the fourth brother from behind, Xiao Qi looked back at the fourth brother and said, "What's wrong with the fourth brother?" Let's go in and have a look! Maybe there's even a flatbread! ”

"Go in and! Hurry up! Come on! The fourth child dragged Xiao Qi away with a little nervousness, and did not let him enter the courtyard, and only then did the fourth child let go when he got out of the alley, and looked around cautiously, it seemed that no one noticed them, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Qi also followed his gaze everywhere, and then asked the fourth brother, "What's wrong with the fourth brother?" What's wrong? ”

The fourth gritted his teeth and didn't speak, then turned around and glanced a few times at the yard of the pancakes, and left in a hurry with Xiao Qi. But when they were far away, at the end of the alley, the young man slowly showed half of his face, frowning and his eyes rolling, gritting his teeth and muttering something, and then he also dodged and ran.

The brothers went elsewhere to buy some flatbread casually, and because there were many people at the banquet in the evening, they bought more than 20 flatbreads, put them on a cloth bag, and let Xiao Qi carry them on his shoulders. Before going back, the fourth child ordered a few sets of quilts in the tailor's shop to save face, and took the old bedding another day, and people had to open it and dry the cotton inside and stuff it in the new bedding.

But when they arrived at the dormitory, Lao Wu sat at the door smoking a cigarette, and said hello: "Come back, you cake" As soon as he said this, he found that the cake on Xiao Qi's back was wrong, not the kind that the village chief Niu wanted to buy, this is a very common round cake on the street, which is not delicious and very hard.

Xiao Qi hurriedly said: "We all went to the door of the place where the cakes were sold, and the fourth brother was not allowed to enter, so he went to the street to buy them." ”

After hearing this, Lao Wu raised his face to look at the fourth child, but found that the fourth child had a strange face, so he waved his hand and asked Xiao Qi to enter the house, and then got up and asked the fourth child, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? What do you see again? ”

The fourth child said with a dark face: "I found out, we must have let something unclean get entangled, you can encounter bad luck wherever you go, it's really damn grandma's life!" If you buy a cake, you can bump into it," the fourth said that he didn't say anything more, but put his hand across his neck and moved it horizontally. (To be continued......)