As soon as he entered the room and closed the door, he asked, "Why haven't you come back for so long?" I shrugged my shoulders and opened my eyes and said nonsense: "Busy, I have to do all the work of the family, and I have to take care of the whole house, where can I find time?" ”

Xiaotong was very confused, and frowned when he heard it: "Then you must not be tired to death?" ”

"It's not enough to die, it's true that there is still half a life left. [”

"What about today...... Why didn't my brother-in-law come back with you? ”

In the end, he is still simple, he asks if he has anything, and he doesn't hide his scheming. "Didn't I deliberately run back and steal two days of laziness? If he had come with him, he would have had to rush back today. ”

Xiao Tong immediately shook his head when he heard this: "Then don't let him come." ”

Seeing his nervous appearance, he couldn't help laughing again, in the end, there was a difference between intimacy and intimacy, and he hadn't hurt him for five years before. took out a red paper bag from his arms and handed it to him, and when he went out, he thought that he was a girl who had already married out, and it was not good to go back to his parents' house empty-handed. And yesterday, when I was doing laundry, I felt that Ah Ping's robe had some broken silver, so I took two small pieces and wrapped them in red paper as Xiaotong's New Year's money.

Xiao Tong hesitantly took it and opened it to take a look, and asked at first glance, "Why do you want to give me silver?" ”

"Give you the pressure on the year, put it away, don't lose it."

When he heard this, he immediately nodded, turned around and lifted the bed cover, and hid the red paper bag in the innermost part. When he came back after hiding, I looked him up and down, and felt that his complexion seemed to be good, so I asked, "How are you doing lately?" ”

His eyes lit up and he said to me ostentatiously, "I haven't been sick for three months. ”

This is very good, but I just feel a little surprised, because generally his physique is the most prone to disease in winter, so almost every time he arrives at home for the New Year, he is worried and miserable, busy with medical treatment and decoction for him, and he has not thought about it.

Xiaotong then said: "Thanks to my brother-in-law." ”

I was stunned, "Ah Ping? What's going on? ”

"About half a year ago, my brother-in-law asked an old man surnamed Jiang to treat me, and the old man's medical skills are many times better than those Mongolian doctors in our village, and the most important thing is that there is no money for medical treatment and medicine. At first, the medicine prescribed to me was conditioning, and during that period, I also contracted two colds, and after more than three months of conditioning, my physique has obviously improved, and I still have no discomfort or anything. Even Daddy and Auntie shouted miracles and called Dr. Jiang a miracle doctor. ”

I was completely stunned, Ah Ping had never told me about it. Xiao Tong's old Langzhong is obviously Dr. Jiang, his medical skills do not need to be doubted, it is much better than ordinary Langzhong, but there is a ten-mile road from Batou Village to Ginkgo Village, and it is difficult for Lao Langzhong to run back and forth between the two places.

Originally, I went back to my parents' house to avoid thinking about Ah Ping, but when I came back, I heard Xiaotong say something that I didn't know at all, and my heart seemed to be scratched by a cat's claws, a little itchy and a little numb.

Xiaotong didn't know the pain in my heart, he was simply thinking about the good of this brother-in-law, and asked me to be with Ah Ping next time I came back, but fortunately, Ah Niang came to call us for dinner, and he gave up, and I was secretly relieved.

I went back to my mother's house for a day or two to call it lively, but I lived for almost a week, and I found that my mother was not calm, and often stopped talking to me. At this time, I didn't have any eyesight to find myself bored, and I told my mother to go back on the morning of the eighth day of the new year, and I couldn't help but laugh when I saw her look of relief that she didn't know how to hide.

I pulled out two pieces of silver from my bosom and stuffed them into her hands, my wrinkled face looking stunned. In fact, there is nothing bad about my aunt, she is a very ordinary rural woman, with a very old-fashioned concept, and she has worked hard for trivial things at home all her life.

The most reluctant thing in the family is Xiaotong, who is depressed when he hears that I am going back. But when he was really leaving, he came out to send it again, and couldn't help but reach out to rub his hair, but his hand froze in the air, this action ...... It's what I'm used to with Ah Ping.

I retracted my hand, ignored the confusion in Xiaotong's eyes, and smiled and instructed: "Listen to the doctor's words and take care of your body." ”

"Got it, how many times have you been rambling these days." The young man complained in his mouth, but there was no displeasure in his eyes.

"Okay, I'm leaving, don't send it away."

When I walked to the entrance of the village, I was complaining in my heart: Why do you have to go through this kind of parting scene even when you go back to your mother's house? Although it is not sad, it is a little helpless to Xiaotong's dependence on his sister. On the contrary, his expression just now hit me, very similar to when Ah Ping pretended to be a stupid boy at that time.

Well, people say that they think about things, and I think that anyone can think of him, and it can be regarded as poisoning.

When I stepped out of the village, I suddenly felt a burning sensation behind me, and I turned around to search around, and I couldn't help but squint my eyes when I met the sight.

I basically didn't go out when I went back to my parents' house this time, I stayed in the house all day to help Daddy screen fish, help Auntie clean the house, and help Xiaotong decoction medicine. I don't think I'll have anything to do with someone, but when I was about to go back, I ran into it unforeseenly.

Ah Niu stood not far away, and did not approach, but just stared at me deeply. I shivered inexplicably, and I felt very uncomfortable with such a gaze, as if there was not only resentment but also cruelty hidden in it. Perhaps, he counted the account of Uncle Mu's withheld lessons on my head, and finally extinguished the love he once had, and turned to resentment towards me.

I didn't want to have anything to do with him any more, so I turned around and strode away, until I walked far out of the village, and finally felt the shadowy sight on my back disappear. Looking up at the sky, I went out early today, and I should be able to get home by noon. As I was passing through the river, four or five people suddenly appeared in the grass and blocked my way.

I don't know any of these people, and it's unlikely that there will be rogues in the neighborhood because of their simple customs, and they don't look like outsiders in their clothes. Guessing that they might be from another village, my eyes had been looking around the terrain for a while, and suddenly I caught a glimpse of one hiding behind those people, and I happened to see an outline. After a little hesitation, he raised his voice and shouted: "Huzi? ”

I found that those people were stunned and looked at each other, and I knew that I was not wrong: "Huzi, I saw you, come out." Sure enough, the person who came out from behind was Huzi.

Seeing him, I naturally understood what was going on, he was Ah Niu's iron buddy.

I gestured with my hand, "What are you trying to do?" ”

Huzi didn't feel embarrassed when he was called out by me, and said with a ruffian smile on his face: "Alan, you also know that I and Ah Niu are brothers, you used to be his sweetheart, and we all regarded you as a sister-in-law, but later you married to another village." These are all my buddies, and I don't want to do anything, I just want to settle an account with you. ”

"What account?" After listening to him, I had a general understanding, but I still asked quietly.

Huzi's smile was accepted, and his eyes became fierce: "Ah Niu was abolished a leg, how do you say you want to calculate this account?" ”

I was stunned: "What did you say? ”

"Don't pretend to me! Ah Niu was locked up next door to you for a whole week, wouldn't you know? ”

I learned about it by mistake later, but it doesn't matter, the other party won't listen to it, the key is that I didn't think that Uncle Mu would abolish one of Ah Niu's legs! No matter how wrong Ah Niu is, in my opinion, it is enough to be tied up by Uncle Mu like that and teach him a hard lesson, why should he be so ruthless, wouldn't this ruin the rest of a person's life?

suddenly remembered Ah Niu's resentful eyes when he left the village just now, and it turned out that this was the reason.

"What do you want?" Turn your mind back and deal with the situation at hand.

Huzi snorted heavily: "Don't say that I bully women, now you don't have to embarrass you if you go with us, I will let people go to Ginkgo Village to report to that fool in your family, and let him come alone to meet with my brothers for a while." Oh yes, and the old man next door to you, he'll show him what it's like to have broken bones. ”

Does it mean that you want to take revenge on me? But his news is really ill-informed, and the two people who just arrived left home a week ago, and sending someone to summon him will only come to naught.

I didn't say much, just let him lead the way. It is not wise to flee and resist the current situation, it is better to wait and see.

Ah Hu and the two of them were in the front and the three behind, sandwiching me in the middle, walking all the paths, and I didn't know where to go. Maybe it's that I'm very cooperative and a woman, and they are all talking relaxedly, and when they come to a small fork, two of them ask to go back, saying that they will not have time to do the work in the fields if they return late. So Huzi told them to go to Ginkgo Village first to spread the word, and it seemed that everyone knew where the destination was.

But when I arrived at my destination, I was speechless, and they actually escorted me to the woods near the hot spring pool.

I have some kind of indissoluble relationship with the hot spring pool, how can I even be caught here? I glanced at the mountain in the distance, and I guess I had already left after my harsh reprimand last time.

A few people waited in the grove for a long time, but I was fine, except that I was hungry and felt a little cold, but Huzi and the others became more and more impatient, and kept muttering why people didn't come. Huzi arranged for another person to investigate, so there were only four people left in the woods, including me, and secretly calculated that the chances of escape were one layer higher.

I also thought of the route, and when they were unprepared, I ran to the hot spring pool, and when I reached the area where there was a white fog, I would be able to hide myself, and I didn't have to run into the cave, as long as I got into the bushes, it would be difficult for them to find me.

It's best that after Huzi lets one more person go, I'm definitely not good at fighting one-on-two, but I'm still a little sure that one-on-two escapes, who let this forest lead in all directions. But he waited and waited without waiting for anyone to leave, but he waited for the person who was sent out to inquire about the situation before, and it was not only him, but also someone who came over, and it was the initiator - Ah Niu.

Huzi immediately rose from the ground and rushed forward, "Ah Niu? What are you doing here? ”

Ah Niu ignored him with a gloomy face, and instead looked at me. It was only then that I could see that he had a log tied to his right foot, and that he was walking completely supported by another person, and that he was either broken or really had a broken leg.