"Mother-you're at home, that's how you take care of Gao Gao?" Xiu'e squinted at Gao Gao's milk, threw the branch with an extremely ugly face, and stomped her feet like a whirlwind to run outside. Gao Gao's nipples opened a few times, but he still swallowed the words, angrily untied his scarf and fell to the ground, turned around and sat on a stool in the yard and sulked.

The more Xiu'e thought about it, the more she held back her strength, her footsteps made a clattering sound on the ground, shaking her chubby body with the rhythm, and she walked straight towards the big locust tree. The "Evil Old Eagle" was about to get up and go home, Xiu'e walked up quickly, gritted her teeth without saying a word, reached out and twisted the ears of the "Evil Old Eagle", and turned her hand in a circle, to pull off the ears of the "Evil Old Eagle".

"Old eagle, go—go and ask your father for an explanation."

"Oops—oops—" The Evil Old Eagle cried out loud in pain.

Chun Tao heard Mao Mao's shout and said anxiously: "Daddy, you hurry up and see our old eagle" What's wrong?" Liu Ju hurriedly got up from the ground with difficulty and limped out. Chun Tao also hurriedly touched the crutch and stumbled out.

Liu Ju saw Xiu'e viciously pulling her child's ears and shouted:

"Xiu'e, what do you want to do? Loosen the baby's ears. ”

"Loosen up? Liu Ju asked your old eagle, and he couldn't see me taking the bun high, and he grabbed it when he saw it, and robbed it when he saw it. ”

"I said you let go." Liu Ju clenched his fists solemnly and said. "I said you let go."

"Yes, his aunt, Mao Mao is naughty, and you powerful people don't give him general knowledge." Chun Tao also hurriedly walked out, almost stepped on the steps, and hurriedly stood firm, played a round and said: "You let go of the baby, Maomao is too annoying, I can't let you be angry, I will educate him." ”

Xiu'e was arguing fiercely, and the "evil old eagle" squatted on the ground in pain. Liu Ju clenched his fists again, and the big fists were gradually trembling.

Chun Tao knew that his family was poor and his children couldn't bear to be hungry, so she cried sadly. Xiu'e doesn't care about this.

Niuniu dropped Ermao, hurriedly ran out of the house, and saw Xiu'e firmly twisting her brother's ears, tightly pursed her mouth, her cheeks bulging, her eyes widened all of a sudden, staring at Xiu'e, a fire erupted from her eyes, without saying a word, she rushed up desperately to hug Xiu'e's arm is fierce, and Xiu'e hurriedly let go of the pain, Maomao and Niuniu took the opportunity to quickly get into Liu Ju's arms. Facing this fierce woman, Niuniu stared at Xiu'e's face with hatred and fearlessness with her fists clenched. Liu Ju looked down at the bright red little ears of the "Evil Old Eagle", and his eyes were full of anger, as if he was going to melt her.

Xiu'e's mouth became even more powerful, and she scolded Niuniu:

"You dead girl, you're a brute, huh? Biting, why don't you fall into the water and drown. Hurriedly covered the bitten arm, looked at the tooth marks oozing blood, and stretched out his hand to point at Liu Ju's nose and scolded.

"Drowning you—" Niu Niu cursed.

"Don't scold, his aunt, it's our fault that Maomao makes you angry, don't be angry." Chun Tao was still crying and begging Xiu'e to say: "Don't be angry, you all complain that I didn't educate the baby well, dissipate your anger——"

"A litter of damn wolves. Why don't you die? A jar of pickled vegetables. Xiu'e was already extremely angry, and she stomped her arms very badly.

Liu Ju couldn't bear it anymore and rushed towards Xiu'e, who was not to be outdone, and straightened her chest in front of Liu Ju.

"You dare to move my finger, you try?"

Liu Ju gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, Xiu'e looked at Liu Ju although he was very fierce, but he didn't dare to make a move, so he couldn't prevent Liu Ju's face and scratched it twice, and the blood on Liu Ju's face was hung up in an instant, but Liu Ju was still holding two fists that didn't work, standing there strongly, as if he could withstand the scratch.

At this time, the villagers in the village also ran out in surprise with bowls or chopsticks to see what was going on? The children cowered in fear at their father's or mother's side, tugging at their trouser legs tightly, and timidly gazed at the terrible battle scene, but when the villagers understood, they all looked smug and laughed.

"Xiu'e, what do you want to do?" Uncle Gao's silver-white hair, long white beard, came out on crutches, staggered quickly, walked behind Xiu'e, picked up the crutches and pretended to knock hard, and then put down the crutches.

"Crawl home, crazy this?" Who would dare not listen to Uncle Gao's words? If Xiu'e really leaves in disgrace, where will she put her face? Besides, it was his own baby's bun that was robbed. She looked up at the villagers around her, her face suddenly turned red, and she shouted loudly:

"You bad old man don't know anything, so you come out and shout—" Uncle Gao turned around and saw the stone beside him, so he sat down angrily, took out the cigarette pouch from his pocket, carefully and trembled to pinch the tobacco leaves, and then lit it, glanced at Liu Ju on the side, and said in a scolding tone:

"It's all neighbors, just like that for a bite to eat?"

The laborers of several elders in the village moved closer to Uncle Gao's side, and they all glared at Xiu'e angrily. At the beginning, they were all watching Xiu'e clean up the joke of the "evil old eagle", this spearhead was aimed at Uncle Gao, which was absolutely not allowed, and they were all very vigilant to protect Uncle Gao, for fear that Xiu'e would come to parry a few times, and Uncle Gao's body would not be able to stand it.

Uncle Gao raised his cane at Xiu'e again, looking frightened. "Shut up for me."

Uncle Gao turned around again, tried to keep his mind calm, walked up to Xiu'e and said, "Xiu'e, how powerful are you like this?" Oops-you're turning the sky upside down, you dare to hit someone-" Uncle Gao got angry again before he was halfway through his words.

"He, he ......" Xiu'e's temper softened a lot when she saw this situation, and she knew very well in her heart that good hands could not withstand many people.

"He, he, what? He? Liu Ju's family lacks food and clothing all day long, don't you know? Uncle Gao's angry white beard pouted and pouted, and his lips kept shaking.

"If you just give the child a steamed bun, will you die poor?" Uncle Gao was so angry that he couldn't bear it anymore and knocked his crutches on the ground again and again.

"Your family used to be too busy with farm work, so let Liu Ju give you a hand, didn't he go?" Uncle Gao looked around at the lively villagers, and then said, "Now his leg is lame, he can't help you, right?" ”

Uncle Gao walked up to the "Evil Old Eagle" and stroked his head with his hand, and the "Evil Old Eagle" raised his head and glanced at Uncle Gao, lowered his head again, and picked his fingers.

Uncle Gao looked at everyone and continued: "The old eagle has suffered, the spring, summer, autumn and winter doll has not been able to wear a decent dress, and in the winter, she wears a single shoe with her bare feet, and she doesn't even wear a pair of socks. ”

Uncle Gao lowered his voice: "Our crops here have not been harvested well in the past few years, and we have to pay retention funds and public grain, I know that our family is not rich." I don't expect you to help them, but I won't torture the doll like this, right? Let's all go home! The villagers bowed their heads in shame. But the food stored in his own home is only enough to sustain his life.

"Hey—I don't have enough food at home."

"yes—hungry and full."

"Isn't this a trough without food - a pig arch pig?" Uncle Gao still glared at Xiu'e angrily, and scolded again: "Crawl home-"

In an instant, Xiu'e blushed, very unconvinced but had no choice, besides, Uncle Gao was the second uncle of his mother-in-law's family; That anger was swallowed silently, she knew the weight of the respected old birthday star in the village, that crutch was like the sword of Shang Fang in the whole village, she could also see that the second uncle was reluctant to beat her, if it was someone else, this stick would have seen blood a long time ago, but Xiu'e still pointed at Liu Ju angrily and shouted:

"Wait for Gao Ta's father to come back, and then settle accounts with you."

Liu Ju stared, puffed on his cigarette pouch and smoked hard, stood up straight with difficulty, and limped home with the "evil old eagle".

"Daddy came back and beat me." Uncle Gao looked at everyone and said, "I think he Gao Ping dares to take my head off?!" ”

The villagers in the village have been chattering and whispering:

"Liu Ju has a good temper on weekdays, but today he is capable?"

"What do you say? Who is not annoyed that their children are standing in front of them with their ears grabbed? ”

"Even lumps of cow dung will foam."

"Xiu'e went too far today."

At this time, the miserable cries of the "evil old eagle", Niuniu and Ermao came from Liu Ju's house, and the whipping sound, but no one in the village tried to dissuade them.

After being ridiculed by Uncle Gao, she felt that her prestige among the villagers was lost, and she held a grudge against the "evil old eagle" from then on.

However, Liu Maomao is not good at stubble, he quietly slipped Xiu'e's traces, and gradually found that whenever he got up in the morning, Xiu'e ran from the house with his pants to the toilet, Liu Maomao ran to the side, "Hahahaha-" Laughing and holding his stomach, he couldn't straighten his waist, and he had enough to laugh. Laughed thoroughly, picked up a big stone from the ground, aimed at the waist and quietly walked to the back of Xiu'e's toilet, picked up the big stone and smashed it into the thatched pond, and immediately ran away, only to hear the sound of "poof-", the feces splashed Lao Gao, Xiu'e lifted her pants and scolded loudly in the toilet: "That turtle grandson-your grandmother-"

When she poked her head out, there was no one around.

In this way, Xiu'e often encountered this kind of dirty thing, and later learned that Mao Mao was a ghost, but it was more difficult to catch Mao Mao than to ascend to the sky, because Mao Mao avoided it far away when she saw Xiu'e; Chasing over, Xiu'e chased Liu Maomao, who was half tired and couldn't catch up with Liu Maomao, who was as fast as a rabbit, and sat on the ground angrily and cried loudly, there was no way, whoever let himself marry this little enemy, the hatred between them became deeper and deeper, and it had reached the point where water and fire were incompatible.

Both of them are thinking about cleaning up each other.

It's the New Year, other people's families buy big meat chicken, fry and eat under the light at night, stew and eat, the whole village is full of meat fragrance, Mao Mao's family is just stewed potatoes in clear water, Mao Mao looked at Liu Ju with a depressed face, and blamed himself for not wanting to serve rice.

"If you have the ability, you can go out and get meat, cook and eat it."

Mao Mao dropped his chopsticks and ran to the neighboring village, he found Xiu'e's mother's house, looked around, in the cold winter, at night were afraid to dare to come out, Mao Mao took out the prepared match from his arms, held it with both hands for fear of being blown out by the cold wind, and near the wheat straw stack, the fire rose from the ground in an instant, Mao Mao hurriedly hid in the dark and stared, the surrounding light was bright, seeing that the family still had no movement, Mao Mao shouted loudly:

"Xiujun's wheat straw stack is on fire—Xiujun's wheat straw stack is on fire—"

Only then did Xiujun's family be transferred out, and the whole village also came out, carrying buckets, basins, and splashing water on the fire, where can they still splash it? Xiujun is Xiu'e's younger brother, and he also has a donkey temper, and there are a few times when he has to beat his hair; Taking advantage of the chaos to fight the fire, Mao Mao slipped into Xiu'e's mother's house, pulled out the bag from her waist, and put the cooked meat pieces in the stove into the bag.

Maomao has eaten meat.

"The grass to feed the cattle this winter is gone." Xiujun suddenly sat down on the ground.

Speaking of which, there is another thing that circulates that Liu Ju's injured leg is particularly afraid of cold in winter, Mao Mao and Gao Gao went to Gao Gao's grandmother's house to play, Mao Mao fell in love with the blanket on Gao Gao's grandfather's bed, which was very thick, and his hand touched it warmly, so he had a thief's heart.

That night Mao Mao went home with Gao Gao, just arrived at home Mao Mao turned back and turned back, has been squatting at Gao Gao's grandfather's house until dawn, walked into the stove room to open the lid of the pot, dug a bowl of leftovers in the pot, quietly uncovered the quilt covered by Gao Gao's grandfather and his grandmother, poured a bowl of leftover rice into Gao Gao's grandfather's buttocks, the two old people were arguing and complaining to each other that it was the other party A to the bed, and finally the two of them pulled out the blanket and threw it on the ground, Mao Mao easily shook off the leftovers on it, rolled up and went home with a blanket on his back and a smile.

Because of Liu Ju's illness, Xiao Maomao did not worry about it, and by chance he learned to steal chickens.

It was a month and tomorrow high night, Mao Mao was really hungry and couldn't sleep, so he quietly got up from the bed, opened the gate and walked straight to the village, he suddenly saw a woven bag on the side of the road, just about to go to find out, only to see a person thief head thief brain, looking around, still holding two chickens in his hand, Mao Mao rubbed his eyes, hurriedly hid in the dark shadow, only to see the man looking around, touching the bag carefully opened the bag, put the chicken in, and turned around and went over the wall to Hongbin's house, Mao Mao aimed at the waist and followed, Mao Mao lay on the wall and looked in, only to see that the man cautiously reached into the chicken nest with his hands, held up the chicken belly, and when he reached the mouth of the chicken nest, he held it with both hands, and the chicken was very obedient and did not bark, and was caught by the man obediently.

Mao Mao was puzzled, how could this person be so capable? Could he be spelling? Regardless of this, first bring the chicken on the side of the road home, and Xiao Maomao hurriedly jumped off the wall, turned around and picked up the bag and slipped home. Suddenly, he stopped and thought: No, you can't go to your own house, you have to go to the stove room of the second uncle's house, anyway, he can open the door of the second uncle's house, and the second uncle will not find out when he sleeps in the upper room.

He boiled half a pot of water, followed the example of adults slaughtering chickens, poured hot water into the vegetable basin, and then, he found a kitchen knife, and very carefully opened the bag, caught out the chicken, who knew that the chicken suddenly ......, screamed, scared Mao Mao sat on the ground, he hurriedly dropped the knife, covered the head of the chicken with both hands, held the mouth of the chicken, pressed on the ground, lifted the knife and cut the neck of the chicken, the chicken was in pain in the stove room, Mao Mao hurriedly grabbed it, and put it into the boiling water, the chicken gradually did not move, and Mao Mao sat on the ground ...... in fright.

When he calmed down, he cleaned the pot in a panic, very careful, afraid to make a sound to add water, cover the pot, turn around to clean up the hot water in the hot chicken, a few times he was hot water with his hands, blowing on the side of his mouth, still taking advantage of the hot water to pluck the chicken feathers.

He cooked the chicken, began to tear it and swallowed it in his mouth, it was already the third watch, Mao Mao picked up the chicken feathers one by one, in short, cleaned them up, and looked back to see that it was as good as ever; He took the remaining half of the chicken home with the leaves of the paulownia tree, and secretly woke up Niuniu .......

Recently, Mao Mao squatted patiently next to the chicken nest at night, practicing how to quietly take the chicken out of the chicken nest, and soon he mastered this inglorious craft, he was secretly happy, it turned out that the chicken at night as long as it gently supported its belly, it will be extremely cooperative and silently caught, so wonderful, why is this chicken so stupid?

From then on, Mao Mao at night, the three forks to the neighboring village to steal chickens, Liu Ju's condition is serious, Mao Mao will steal chickens at night, Tianma Ma Liang he carried the chickens to the black market three miles away from the market to sell, he ran fast, over the mountain to dawn, he also returned home as if nothing happened, and then to the brigade clinic to buy medicine for his father, except for Niu Niu and Chun Tao pretending to be confused, others, no one found Mao Mao's clues, this matter has gradually become his job, hard work, But whenever he and Niuniu were uncomfortable and his father's illness worsened, he went to work at night.

Zhou Jian of Dahuaishu Village, in his thirties, idle, idle, had a big quarrel with his wife yesterday, saying that the babies had no clothes to wear, and they were all like begging flowers.......

Early the next morning, Zhou Jian went to the market, he saw Mao Mao and the black market transaction of collecting chickens, so he kindly pulled Mao Mao back together, went around the market, and said something from his heart, Zhou Jian was good to Mao Mao, there was food at home, and often quietly stuffed Mao Mao, Mao Mao was shocked at first, and was immediately frightened, but Zhou Jian quickly dispelled Mao Mao's concerns, so Mao Mao was also at ease with Zhou Jian, just begged again and again, don't tell anyone, Zhou Jian smiled and said:

"You also call it ability? Look at me, go, show you a hand today, you just stare from the sidelines. ”

"Okay, let me see what tricks you have?"

"You have to pretend that you don't know me, don't talk to me, remember?" Zhou Jian instructed Mao Mao: "Don't show your stuffing." ”

"Well, I remember."

They walked and chatted, very leisurely, when they arrived at the market, Zhou Jian found a bamboo seller was setting up a stall, so he went up to help, very attentive, very careful one by one on the ground.

"Brother, why would you come out to do business alone? This bamboo work is done beautifully, it's really rare," Zhou Jian smiled with a smile and was extremely enthusiastic while helping to place it, and said kindly: "Hey, the baby is busy at home and can't leave, so I will come out alone, what business are you doing?" ”

"Hey, did you see that?" Zhou Jian stretched out his hand, pointed to the twist stall on the opposite side, and said, "That's our twist stall, if you are hungry, just take it and eat it, it is very crispy." ”

"Okay, I'll try it at noon, I've brought boiling water."

After Zhou Jian and the bamboo seller set up the stall, they sat down to do homework, and they took out cigarette pouches and lit each other, looking very close.

"The one with the headscarf on his head is my family, your brother and sister, that is your niece, our daughter, and I haven't found a partner yet," Zhou Jian pretended to be very sad, and then said: "Worried, seeing that she is not big, she is already nineteen years old, and she will be twenty years old next spring, you have few people, and you need help to scream." ”

As soon as Mao Mao heard Zhou Jian's words, she couldn't help but want to laugh, this old thing is deceiving people, but Mao Mao patiently watched Zhou Jian acting in this wonderful play.

"The girl is still young, she is not panicking, she looks so handsome, and she is worried that no one will propose marriage." The uncle who sold bamboo utensils looked at the twist stall with a real smile and said, "Okay, I need to go to the thatched house, you can just look at it." ”

"Hey, brother, it's the first time I've come to this market, there is a relative in the nearby village, I want to go and see it." Zhou Jian said very casually: "You said this is coming, don't go and let the family know, and then fall into a cheap weird?" ”

"Yes, then you can get busy."

"I want to take a bamboo basket and put the twist on it, and it's not ...... to look at the pomp and circumstance," Zhou Jian said embarrassedly: "I just came, and the twist hasn't been sold yet, ......." ”

"What's that called? Take it, take it ......, I'm still afraid that you won't be able to escape? Really, it just works. ”

This week, Zhou Jian carried a bamboo basket and came to the twist stall on the opposite side of the street, smiling.

"I said big sister, I'm here to sell bamboo goods, that's my eldest brother, I have a relative in my family, I want to go to the door, this bamboo product hasn't been sold yet, I want to pick up some twist flowers first......?"

"Just pick up, just pick up, and you can check out the bill after selling the bamboo goods."

In this way, Zhou Jian smoothly carried a bamboo basket of twisted flowers to the village near the market.

Mao Mao looked back and saw that no one was paying attention, so he hurriedly chased after him, leaned back with a smile, and asked Zhou Jian.

"Uncle, you are really capable, and this deceived a brand-new bamboo basket and a basket of twist flowers?"

"You kid, it's much easier than your job, I have a lot of work on my lips." Zhou Jian looked around very seriously, took out four twist flowers from the basket, handed them to Mao Mao, and said, "Go and eat, stay away from me, I'm working, don't mess up." ”

Zhou Jian walked around the village with a thief's head, but fortunately found the target, because it was a bazaar, and there were few people in the village, Zhou Jian found a three- or four-year-old child playing outside the door, and poked his head out to see that there was an old lady at home.

"Kid, who's at home in your family?" Zhou Jian said and took out a twist flower, handed it to the child, and asked, "Your father, where is your mother?" What's your father's name? ”。

"My grandmother," the child took the twist flower in surprise, tilted his head magically, and said, "My father, my mother went to work in the field, and my father is called a tiger." ”

"Yo, it's amazing, you can play."

"Auntie, at home, where is the tiger?" Zhou Jian shouted loudly: "I wanted to come to see you for a long time, and I didn't work all day." ”

"Let's go, go into the house, you're a friend of my Tiger, right?" The eldest lady hurriedly took the bamboo basket and said, "Come on, it's still a waste of money, so many twists." ”

"Yes, we two, the relationship is very good," Zhou Jian began to make up lies again, saying: "I had a hard time in our market that year, and it was our tiger who solved the crisis for me, and I still remember it to this day." ”

"Sit down, I'll cook for you," the old lady hurried to the stove and got busy.

"Hey, auntie, I'll take the baby to the street to see what to buy for the baby," the aunt looked at such a affectionate person, and she was defenseless, so she waved her hand and said, "Go ahead, don't spend money indiscriminately." ”

Mao Mao poked his head to see it clearly, and saw Zhou Jian leading the child out, he was shocked, thinking of his younger brother, and thinking, should he resell this baby? rushed up to stop it, staring at Zhou Jian's face.

"You sell babies?"

"No, borrow it," Zhou Jian hurriedly turned around to look, afraid that the eldest lady would wake up, so she looked around again, straightened her face very seriously, and explained to Mao Mao: "Go and change something, don't do the cheap thing of human trafficking." ”

The child looked at Mao Mao inexplicably.

Zhou Jian came to the street with the child in his arms and walked in when he saw a store.

"Hey, my wife has opened a sewing shop at home, and she needs a whole roll of cloth, so bring me your orchid cloth," Zhou Jian said with a smile: "Yes, yes, that's it." ”

When the salesperson saw that the big business was coming, he was also very happy to hold the cloth and put it on the counter, and went to work with other customers.

"That's it, my house is very close to here, the river will be there in the past, you help me watch the child, I will let my daughter-in-law take a look, and I will come in a while."

"Okay...... you go."

Zhou Jian picked up the cloth and rushed to his house over the mountains and mountains like a smoke, and the street became a pot of porridge, and the bamboo sellers and twist sellers were put on the shelves; This cloth seller and child finder are on the shelves.

Mao Mao sat on the street, thinking carefully, this week's sharp play is the brain, if it is combined with stealing, wouldn't it be like a tiger with wings? Mao Mao and Zhou Jian had an agreement, and they couldn't tell what they were doing if they were killed.

"If you weren't forced to be helpless, who would do this hurtful thing?" Zhou Jian looked at Mao Mao, lowered his head again, and said with a very painful look: "I don't know yet, how many nightmares I need to have when I am tossed by this incident." ”

In order to survive in the cracks, Zhou Jian gave Mao Mao ideas, no matter what he did, he had to use his brain.