After working in Yunfeng Commune for more than two months, Lilac and they returned home.

When I went home, Ziyang's daughter-in-law, Mr. Yang, from the commune canteen, school canteen, etc., asked someone to get two bags of buns, fritters, etc., and gave them to Xuzong Lilac, and exchanged all the food stamps they earned for cloves, and packed them into two large bags of grain, peanuts, red dates, etc.

When leaving, Ziyang instructed Master Liu, who was driving in the commune, to send them to the Sanli Brigade along the way. After getting out of the car, Lilac carried the heavy stuff home with a flat shoulder.

When I got home, it was already dark, and when I saw Lilac carrying things home, the whole family was very excited, Zou Long ran over and hugged Lilac's legs, and shouted: "Mom, Mom......"

In the dead of night, Lilac secretly opened the grain to Qiusheng, and Qiusheng's swollen and deformed face shot a surprised gaze.

Three watches in the middle of the night, cloves! The couple woke up the children. Looking at the white buns and golden fritters, the children were all overjoyed, and Han Xiang screamed excitedly.

Qiusheng hurriedly shouted: "You shout again, when you wait for your brother and brother, you can only watch from the side!"

At that time, Han Xiang was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything anymore, swallowed his saliva, and looked at those buns, fritters, or something.

Lilac gave each child a bun, fried dough sticks to Qiusheng, and the rest could be eaten one or two times.

Qiusheng saw that Lilac didn't have it, so he said, "Lilac, why don't you eat it yourself?!" Lilac looked at the gobbling children with a sour heart, and replied: "I'm tired of drinking these things every day outside, and when I come back, I'm full, I'm not hungry!"

After finishing the food, Lilac said to the children: "Don't tell anyone else about whether you have buns at home, whoever tells them will take a chance in the future!" You know?! ”

The children nodded sensibly and went back to sleep one by one.

Ding Xiang Qiusheng went to bed and just fell asleep, after thinking for a while, Ding Xiang pushed Qiusheng and said: "It's not easy for my brother and sister-in-law, I have to support my mother, plus a few mouths of Limei." If you don't send four buns to your mother, they won't be easy! ”

When Qiusheng heard this, he got up early and replied: "If you want it, I'm afraid that the child will be too risky, but you don't want to!"

Lilac also got up, groped for his way out of the grain bag hidden in the wall, and cleared only five fritters. Lilac carefully took out the remaining fritters, wrapped them in burning paper, stuffed them on the corner of the bed, leveled them and hid them carefully to rest assured.

When Qiusheng and his wife knocked on the door in the middle of the night to wake up Xiasheng's mother-in-law and give them buns, they were all overjoyed.

Hu Gui'e, who is usually a little estranged from Lilacs, moistened her eyes, and said: "Sister-in-law, you have a lot of people in the house, don't think about us, just give a mother!"

Lilac hurriedly said: "A room of people talk about politeness, everyone who has a mouth to take a sip, as the saying goes, more pickles, less more flavor!"

Lihua picked up the bun and opened her mouth to bite it, her mother-in-law glanced at her with some displeasure, Lihua saw this and hurriedly lowered her head and swallowed it in small bites.

Many years later, when Lihua returned to her parents' house after getting married, she mentioned many times that when she starved to death when she was a child, her aunt gave her the fragrant buns.

The remaining five fritters were eaten in two times, and the cloves first tore the fritters into six parts before waking up the children in the middle of the night to stealthily, and those peanuts, red dates and other grains lasted for several months!

Many years later, Zou Long also developed a problem, and he would wake up on time at one o'clock in the middle of the night, and he smiled and said that it was all a problem that his mother made in the middle of the night!

Other families are not so optimistic, and there are a large number of four or five children in the Chunsheng family. Chunsheng and his wife took the lilac's ability again, and secretly chattered in the middle of the night, and they didn't dare to wake up the children. There are too many children, and they can't share them, so adults have to work hard during the day to earn 10 jobs.

Once when Xianzu woke up in the middle of the night to pee, he peeked at Chunsheng and his wife. Decades later, they have been haunted by it, saying that their parents only cared about them and didn't care about their brothers and sisters.

Accountant Yi Guiyun also used his position to steal a small bag of grain from the team and hide it in his old mother's coffin, and later his nephew Yi Lianyun reported it to Xia Sheng.

Yi Guiyun lost his account and was criticized for this matter, but fortunately, Xia Sheng was forced to suppress it regardless of grievances at that time, and he didn't report it to the team. At that time, Yi Guiyun's five-foot man was so moved that he shed tears on the spot, so that after he died of illness in the autumn of the second year, he knew that he had to repay the favor and gave Youfu a ten-point evaluation, and Yougui rated an eight-point work.

That's an afterword.

In the middle of the night, the adults and children in the team secretly ran to the fields turned over the mountains to find missing peanuts and sweet potatoes or something—some sweet potatoes and peanuts were deliberately only allocated when people worked during the day, and only came to dig them secretly at night.

Even some women on the team got up in the middle of the night and sneaked to the production team to break a few old corn and go home. Sometimes I accidentally made a noise and the male member of the night vigil caught it, but I didn't want to face it, so I got it with the male member in the cornfield, pulled up my pants and hugged the corn and went home.

In those years, people were hungry and faint, but their brain circuits were still quite bright, and they all changed their mouths, and it was a luxury to talk about morality and shame when they were hungry.

The fourth team also killed people because of the squeeze.

When the custodian of the fourth team counted the warehouse, he found that there was a bag of peanuts missing from the warehouse, and in a panic, he hurriedly reported it to the captain Gui Zizheng.

Guizi is 20 years old and impulsive, and held a meeting of members overnight that day to find the members who stole peanuts. The members of the club reported one by one the people who had been close to the warehouse, and only Gui Chongyang's wife Hu Xiulian was seriously suspected. At noon that day, she passed by the warehouse alone, close to the time the custodian claimed to have been lost, and no one could prove what she was doing.

Gui Zizheng was very excited, and was proud of his Sherlock Holmes mind, and called Chen Zhishu overnight to interrogate Hu Xiulian together.

Hu Xiulian did not steal peanuts at all, but she could not prove her innocence. Tossed until midnight, Hu Xiulian just cried to death and did not admit to stealing peanuts from the team. Seeing that there was no way, Chen Zhishu proposed that the trial would be carried out tomorrow and tonight.

As soon as Chen Zizheng saw that he was disappointed, he called several activists in the team to propose to the branch secretary, saying that Hu Xiulian's refusal to admit repentance was an act of resisting the general line, and suggested that she be locked up in the warehouse where the peanuts were lost and locked up for one night, so that she could reflect on herself.

After hearing this, Chen Zhishu felt that there was some truth in it, so he agreed with their opinions.

Early the next morning, when Gui Zizheng and they opened the warehouse, they found that Hu Xiulian had untied her trouser belt and hung herself on the hook on the top of the warehouse, and the pants without the trouser belt had faded to the condyle.

Gui Chongyang's father and son cried sadly after hearing the news, took Hu Xiulian down and took it home and buried it early, but the poor thing is that Hu Xiulian's youngest son is just one and a half years old.

Later, Hu Xiulian's younger brother became the village party secretary after the reform and opening up, and he has always been haunted by his sister's death.

Gui Sanwa, the nephew of Gui Qingshan, a team that stole peanuts after the 80s, revealed that he had stolen peanuts that year. When the words reached the ears of Gui Chongyang's father and son, they were very angry, and since then they have cut off contact with Gui Sanwa's family.

Gui Chongyang has been widowed since Hu Xiulian's death and has not remarried, a big man who is both a father and a mother has raised his five sons with a handful of and urine, and the hardships are beyond words! When he was dying, he looked at his five sons, pointed to the pillow under his head, and said: "Cub, after I die, you open the sheets under my pillow, there is something underneath, you must remember not to burn it, and to bury it in my coffin and put it on my chest, only then will I feel at ease!"

That night, after Gui Chongyang passed away, the sons opened the bed sheet under the pillow according to the old father's last words, and a white shirt was neatly folded underneath. The eldest son recognized at a glance that this was the shirt that his mother had worn back then, and he cried and told his younger brothers about the origin of this shirt.

In those days, the starving and unjust people were like ants on the ground, resigned to their fate.

Later, when Lilac saw her grandchildren eating rice, she picked out the unshelled rice and threw it on the table. Lilac always silently pinched it with her hands, peeled the chaff and swallowed it, muttering in her mouth: "You have taken a loss, and your aunt and they were still chewing straw stalks back then!"

Qiusheng's condition worsened day by day, and by the winter solstice, the belly was swollen like a pregnant woman in labor, larger than the belly of Lilac conceived, the propped belly was shining, and the blood vessels under the skin were clearly visible.

Seeing Qiusheng's appearance, Lilac took Chunsheng and Xiasheng's brothers to the health center. Doctor Liu from the health center pressed Qiusheng's swollen belly, shook his head, and quietly pulled Xia Sheng aside and said to him: "Your brother has been in a situation for three or five days, so you should take it back and take care of it!" Don't be taboo, he wants to get some for him, do his best! ”

Xia Sheng was stunned when he heard it, so he had no choice but to get some painkillers and carry Qiusheng home with Chunsheng.

On the way back, none of the three brothers spoke. Qiusheng also knew that his condition was serious, but he was much calmer, and he opened his eyes to look at the scenery along the road and the people he knew, for fear that he would never see it in the future.

Qiusheng has been in bed since the winter solstice, and he can't get off the ground. Granny Lilac never left an inch during the day, guarding this son who never made her angry and washed her face with tears all day long.

Qiusheng knew that time was short, so he gritted his teeth and endured the pain and didn't snort in front of Lilac's mother-in-law. I couldn't stand it, my body was tired, my hands were stiffly breaking the edge of the bed, the sweat of the bean dripping down the neck and dripping the sheets wet a lot, and the edge of the bed left a deep pinch mark from his ten fingers!

Lilac looked at Qiusheng, who was sick in the bed, and her heart was like a knife, and after thinking about it, she would send Youfu to the commune health center tomorrow to buy some medicine and come back for treatment-Blessed and Gui both dropped out of school to work and serve Qiusheng after Qiusheng was seriously ill.

Before dawn the next day, you were blessed to call the ancestors of the Shangchun family to go to the city to buy medicine.

When passing by an old land temple at the entrance of the village, Xianzu said to Youfu with some surprise: "Brother Fu, just now I saw a man on the side of the kiln entering the land temple, and when he came out, there were two people, a man and a woman, and in a blink of an eye, the man and the woman were gone?!"

Youfu looked at the ruined earth temple that was only more than 1 meter high and somewhat gloomy under the big willow tree in the morning and dusk. Suddenly frightened in his heart, he hurriedly said: "Xianzu, that broken temple is only more than half a person high, where can people get in?" You're dazzled, don't talk nonsense, hurry up! ”

When Youfu said this, Xianzu was also a little afraid, and the two ran away as if they were running.

During the run, the sand from the shoes splashed on the back of the ancestors. Xianzu was even more frightened in his heart, thinking that it was the ghost chasing people that the old people said, so he ran wildly for his life!

Youfu didn't know what was going on, and chased all the way to catch up with Xianzu.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and Youfu panted and pulled the ancestor who was also out of breath and sweating like a bean, and asked with a frightened and pale face, "Xian...... Ancestors, you ...... What the hell are you doing! Why are you running so fast?! ”

Xianzu was shocked and told what had just happened. Youfu shook his head, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The teachers in the school all talk about the ghosts in the world!"

Even so, blessed they still didn't dare to pass by the land shrine after buying the medicine, and they made a big circle before returning home.

Lilac saw that there was something strange about them, especially the pale face of Xianzu, so she asked what happened.

Youfu secretly pulled Lilac outside the courtyard and told Lilac about what happened early in the morning.

When Lilac heard this, he hurriedly went into the house and grabbed a few tea leaves to make a cup of tea, made a few gestures to the place where Guanyin Bodhisattva was hidden, and muttered something in his mouth for the ancestor to drink.

Lilac was disheartened at the moment, she devoutly believed that Qiusheng was gone, and the soul was going to leave her. Thinking of this, tears welled up in her eyes, but the clove didn't wipe it, letting it drip down her chin and splash mud on the ground.

A few days later, Qiu was sick and had to worry about it in bed for many days, but the sister-in-law Yin, who was usually strong in Chunsheng's house next door, died without warning.

At that time, when the spring cried and ran to the lilac mother-in-law's house to complain, the mother-in-law still didn't believe it. Chunsheng cried and said that his daughter-in-law secretly sipped some raw peas last night, and when she got up in the morning, she found that she had choked to death from unswallowed peas in her sleep!

On the night when Lilac and his family helped Chunsheng finish cooking the aftermath of Yin's sister-in-law, Qiusheng's spirit was surprisingly much better.

That night, Qiusheng talked a lot with Lilac.

When talking about the first time they met, Qiusheng invited Grandma Lilac and them to Lilac Fort as guests and was joked about by Grandma Lilac, Qiusheng's face was flushed with a hint of blush and a little proud.

He brushed Lilac's somewhat disheveled hair and said, "Lilac, sister, some things are destined by God, what is yours will always be yours, you can't run away, do you believe it?!"

Lilac listened quietly and focused her head.

Then Qiusheng talked about saving Lilac for the second time and then going to Xinhua with his companion, and later met his father in Huarong.

Qiusheng said a little jokingly: "Lilac, the first time people are sons-in-law see their father-in-law, and their father-in-law is like entertaining guests!" Your father is good, lying on the ground and trying to blackmail my money! ”

Speaking of this, Lilac couldn't help laughing, and replied: "Who told you to look like a big boss back then, he didn't slander you, who did he slander?!"

Then Ding Xiang recalled the past when she was worried and scared when Qiusheng was doing business abroad, and told the past when she was born in Qiusheng and they were bombed by Japanese planes in Yiyang, and their goods were trapped in Chongqing for several years and could not come back.

At this point, both of them were silent, and they knew that this was a temporary parting, and they might never see each other again! Thinking of this, Lilac cried, she was afraid that Qiusheng would see it, and secretly turned her face to the sheets and wiped her head away.

Later, they talked about Uncle Lilac again, and when Qiusheng talked about Yao Yan's bravery, Qiusheng said with some sadness: "Uncle didn't talk about him, although he later regretted and deserved it." But Yao Yan is a hero of the anti-Japanese resistance, and he also saved the lives of me and my eldest brother, how can their bastards pick up his grave?! How can I say that my uncle's mistake shouldn't have made him die without peace! ”

Lilac nodded her head in acquiescence after hearing this, and said, "Yes, I heard that Yao Yan and the Ning Yan people left behind are very smart, and they are very much like Yao Yan when he was young." Last time, when I went to Ziyang to work in their commune, I heard Mr. Yang say that he was quite obedient, motivated, good at studying, and quite filial to Ziyang and his wife. After finishing high school last year, he insisted on becoming a soldier, saying that he would continue his last wish to protect his family and defend the country. Brother Qiu, you said that people can't explain it clearly in this life! I think that my uncle and Mr. Wang taught in the same school on weekdays, but later my uncle betrayed Mr. Wang when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party fought for the world, and my uncle also led people to arrest Ziyang father and son several times, and the price was clearly marked at eight yuan and a pound of meat! In the end, Mr. Wang died tragically on the honey locust tree in the county yamen! When Ziyang and you were in trouble in Changde, Yao Yan didn't remember the grievances of his predecessors who saved the two of you and planted a good fate! Today, Ziyang and his wife adopted Yao Ning in turn, which can be regarded as a strange fate between the Wang family and the Yao family! ”

Qiusheng listened quietly, took a deep breath and said, "Yes, so the elders often say, leave a line in everything, and see each other in the future!" The villagers have a grudge on weekdays, and it is better to turn a big thing into a small thing, and a small thing to turn into a small thing! A village has lived together for generations, and it is a grudge that cannot be resolved! You see that the eldest sister of our brigade Yubi and her husband both passed away, and his elder brother He County Magistrate took the risk to take revenge on the Hu family, that is because he is smart and far-sighted! If you think about it, Second Master Long let Hu Mansheng beat them to death, but he didn't touch a single hair of the county magistrate's cub girl! It's not that Hu Mansheng is a good man and a woman, but he also knows that he owes two lives to the He family, and if he puts the He family to death, he is always a little ashamed! ”

After saying this, Qiusheng suddenly held Lilac's face with both hands, stared at Lilac's eyes, and said word by word: "Lilac, there will be a day when you build a long shed for thousands of miles!" I've been sick for a long time, and I've dragged down the whole family, and I've suffered from you! If one day I do go ......"

Hearing this, Lilac burst into tears, shook her head, choked up and said, "No, no......"

Qiusheng eased his emotions and said calmly: "As the saying goes, only the disease can be cured, but it can't be saved!" I know my business! Listen to me, I'm dying, if you meet a single man with a good character, don't be restrained, you can't carry a baby girl in a room alone, and I will not be at ease in the underworld! I've only seen this kind of presumptuous dynasty, but I don't know what time of year is the end! If you really can't raise it, give Hanxiang and Zou Long away, and give them a way to live! The birth in the belly is still going to be milky, and people want it, I don't worry about you in the future......"

At this time, Qiusheng himself couldn't hold back it, and cried sadly. Lilac wept while caressing Qiusheng's bony back and soothing.

It was a long night, and Lilac stayed up all night.

End of the thirty-fifth round