In the early 50s, when New China had just been founded, after decades of turmoil and war, natural and man-made disasters, according to our current understanding, it should have been the most difficult at that time. But the actual situation is much better than we thought, many things are sold, and many snacks are also sold normally, but the premise is that you have money, and it seems that you can buy anything whenever you have money.

Lao Wu is lonely again, when he ate the cakes made by Xiao Qi in the morning, the reason why he didn't scold Hu Da Arm was that he didn't want to eat the cakes, but unfortunately the kid didn't know how to get anything, and he should be content if he could have a bite to eat. Walking on the mountain road behind the village, Lao Wu suddenly stopped, turned his head to look behind him for a long time and then turned around and walked back, he planned to finish his work today and then go to see Liang's mother, but he was afraid that the old lady would lock the door too late, so he had to take advantage of the early morning to take a look.

The place where Liang's mother lives is quite remote, and there are no people in the surrounding two or three miles, and the single-family courtyard looks a little gloomy. Lao Wu hasn't felt this way so many times before, but I don't know if it's bad luck recently, and he often bumps into strange things, which makes him a little nervous and anxious, and even when he sees a stranger or someone coming towards him, he suddenly becomes nervous, and others feel strange when they see him like this, but they are not very familiar with each other, so they naturally don't want to ask anything, just muttering behind their backs Are these people doing something bad again? How do you see people with thieves' eyebrows? Could it be that he secretly dug up his family's grave? Many people thought so, and hurriedly ran home to the cemetery to see if their grave was still there.

Lao Wu, he felt that he was quite natural, but he didn't know that others were about to take him as a thief, but the more he walked to Liang's mother's house, it would be far and remote, and there were barren meadows everywhere, and there was no half of a figure in sight. It was only at this time that Lao Wu felt strange why this mother lived in such a place. This place should already be outside the village, no matter how you look at it, it is so inconvenient, let alone this old lady who lives alone. Lao Wu thought that he would go for a while, and accompanied his mother to talk about the shortcomings of his parents, and then tell a little about the things he encountered recently, this old man she knows a lot of things. It's not good to let her understand it by dialing it yourself.

It's just that he walked in a hurry, and he didn't even bring anything in his hand, Lao Wu rubbed his hands and dragged his clothes and walked to the door of Liang's mother's courtyard, and naturally raised his hand to push the courtyard door, but found that Liang's mother usually doesn't lock the courtyard door, why did she lock the door in the daytime, this old lady can't sleep and hasn't gotten up yet. Although he felt a little strange, Lao Wu didn't think much about it, and he couldn't think about it much. I'm going to call out to my mother and ask her to come out and open the door. But before Lao Wu could shout, he faintly smelled a strange fragrance, the smell of stewed meat.

Lao Wu sniffed his nose, and suddenly grinned, thinking that this mother actually stewed meat at home, and I don't know if it was given by the county, this old lady has a good life. It's much better than their grave team. But as soon as he thought of this, he suddenly heard a low laugh coming from inside the room.

"Quack"

Lao Wu was stunned when he heard this. Suddenly retracted his body from the door, staring at the wooden door, thinking about what was going on inside? Could it be that there are others in this mother's family? But all her relatives were already dead, and there was no one nearby who could run to her, so how could there be that weird laughter?

Standing at the door and thinking for a long time, Lao Wu rubbed his face and felt that he was really nervous recently, and everyone felt that there was a problem. I thought that those people were smiling and immediately thought about something terrible with a gloomy face after missing it, but the house in front of me lived in Liang's mother, and I really thought too much.

After thinking for a while, Lao Wu was about to raise his hand to knock on the door, but before his fingers could touch the wooden door, the strange laughter inside stopped abruptly. Lao Wu's eyes turned a few times, and he withdrew his hand without knocking on the door. Instead, he leaned his ear against the door, trying to hear what was going on inside.

Suddenly there was a slight creaking sound in the empty silence, like the sound of a thin wooden strip being trampled. Lao Wu frowned and listened to the movement, but suddenly realized that something was wrong, his head kept eavesdropping, and when he looked at it, he found that the courtyard door had been opened at some point, and there was a person standing in front of him.

Lao Wu was unprepared and was taken aback, and suddenly went to the side to dodge, but he forgot his position and hit the courtyard wall of the stone barrier on the side, and he grinned in pain.

"Xiao Wu, what are you doing?"

Lao Wu raised his eyes and saw that it was Mother Liang who opened the door, and immediately took a few breaths and said with a wry smile: "Oh, Mother Liang, you scared me, why didn't you open the door and there was no movement at all, I thought you were in the house!" ”

Liang's mother is very small, she has always been black, her head is wrapped in a black cloth, and her little feet are like hooves, and the only place that is exposed is the sobbing old face, and her eyes are covered with yellow eye feces, but when she saw Lao Wu, she grinned, and quickly vacated herself to let Lao Wu in.

After the courtyard door opened, the aroma of the stew became stronger, and the old Wu who smelled it was about to drool, tilting his head to look along the crack in the half-open door of the room, the cauldron was bubbling, and the furnace was also spraying sparks, it looked like a pot of meat was stewed on a big fire, Lao Wu couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and jokingly said: "Mom Liang's life is good!" Will you eat your own stew? After speaking, he smiled and went to see Mother Liang.

Mother Liang herself is very short and she is still with her head down, so she can't see her expression at the moment, so she only heard Mother Liang say in that old voice: "Wu, Mother Liang hasn't eaten meat for a year, this is the first time I let you catch up, since you have caught up, hurry into the house and eat something!" ”

Lao Wu just teased Liang's mother, but she didn't expect her to really want to go into the house by herself, but since Liang's mother said so, she didn't have to pretend to be polite, so she followed Liang's mother to the house. There were a lot of miscellaneous items piled up in the corner of the door, but Lao Wu stared at the steaming cauldron with his eyes attracted by the smell, thinking about the taste of the meat that had just come out of the pot into his mouth, and then chewing it a few times and swallowing it into his stomach, it was so beautiful. But it was also unintentionally out of the corner of his eye that he suddenly swept to the side, there were some strange things in the clutter, and he didn't pay attention to it at first, and when he saw Liang's mother's little feet walking, he was trembling and afraid that she would fall, as if he was helping her in the past, but as soon as he got behind Liang's mother, Lao Wu was stunned. At that casual glance just now, I seemed to see something strange, there seemed to be a lot of small bones scattered on the ground, just like chicken feet, but not like chicken bones, but a bit like the fingers of the child who had been cleaned of meat. (To be continued......)