The door of Xiaobao's house was locked, and the corridor was piled up with straw, wood chips, and dust, one high and one low, and there was no place to put his feet. Everyone in the col has built houses, but only Xiaobao and Qian Aishu's family still live in an old-fashioned civil engineering house, low and dilapidated. Qian Aishu looked around in front of Xiaobao's house, and several wooden planks on the walls of the house had cracked, and the wooden pillars were also a little tilted.

"Dad, where are the little treasures?" During dinner, Qian Aishu asked Daddy Qian.

"Their mother and daughter, they didn't return home for a whole month, and I don't know what Xiaobao's mother thinks, but she just suffers from the girl." Daddy Qian shook his head, "Xiaobao also told me that she envied you so much." I've scolded my little mother many times. ”

"Xiaobao, she doesn't study anymore?" Qian Aishu's chopsticks stopped at his mouth.

"After you leave, she won't be on it, and our little mother can't do it anymore, so she has to go to a distant place." Daddy Qian also stopped his chopsticks, "Xiaobao can't go to school anymore and runs outside with her mother every day." ”

After eating, Qian Aishu went to the brick factory to find dogs.

"Scholar! Got a holiday? Goudan was very happy and put his arm around Qian Aishu's shoulder, "How is it?" The teachers in the city are amazing, right? ”

Dog Dan led Qian Aishu to see the brick kiln. Qian Aishu has seen the big kiln of the brick factory, and Jiangbei Middle School once organized a visit to the brick factory in the west of the city, which is made of bricks, round, very high. However, these brick kilns in Qianjiaao were built like small buildings, about two stories high, with two doors open in front and back.

"The kiln in the col seems to be different from what I've seen." Qian Aishu said to the dog.

"Yes, our brick factory is small, and it is not cost-effective to make the kiln high, so it is more convenient to enter the brick embryo and exit the brick."

"Oh, how many bricks a day can we make?"

"Six thousand, eight kilns added to one. We have a lot of land and a lot of people, so it's cost-effective to get a few more kilns. In this way, the quality of the bricks is also good. "Dogan is right.

"Brother Dog, you've changed a lot,"

"Really? What has become of it? I haven't looked in the mirror in a long time. Dogan quipped.

"Standard farmer entrepreneur."

"Haha, I'm a farmer entrepreneur? Even if there is one of us in the col, it is six beans, and I can't get close to it. ”

The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, and there was a lot to say, sitting in the open space outside the brick factory until midnight. The moonlight was bright, but still not as bright as the red light of the brick kiln. The evening breeze blows from the brick kiln and carries a very strong soot, the brick kiln is not high, and the soot is naturally not easy to dissipate. Qian Aishu suddenly remembered some yellowing and even bare branches of Masson pine that he saw during the day, so he asked Goudan: "Brother Goudan, what's going on with those trees in the mountains behind our village?" ”

"Those trees, no one can understand what's wrong, at first I thought it was eaten by caterpillars, so I asked someone to spray the medicine, but it still didn't work."

"It can't be soot, right?" Qian Aishu asked carefully.

The dog didn't answer immediately, and after a long while, he let out a long sigh and stood up with his hands on his knees.

"Many old people have talked about this to Liudou before they set up a brick factory, but they are poor." Goudan said helplessly, "In this way, it will be impossible to farm, and the brick factory will not know when it will be opened." Dogan looked up at the moon in the sky, "I sometimes think a lot, but ...... I can't think far. ”

Looking at Goudan's serious appearance, Qian Aishu thought to himself, Goudan will definitely be able to build a better village in the future.

Almost half a month after Qian Aishu came back, Xiaobao and her mother came home.

The weather was good, and although it was winter, the temperature was still not low. At noon, Qian Aishu went outside to bask in the sun, the sun shone warmly on his body, after a long time, his hair was hot, his brain was hot and a little sleepy, and his body was soft and didn't want to move, so he fell asleep in a daze.

I don't know how long I slept, Qian Aishu suddenly felt an itch in his ears, and woke up with a thrill all over his body. "Haha, haha......" Qian Aishu opened his eyes, it was Xiaobao. Xiaobao grabbed a handful of horsetail grass in his hand and shook it around his chest.

"Where have you all been? I haven't seen you for half a month since I came back. ”

Xiaobao didn't speak, laughed, a pair of small dimples on her cheeks, she threw away the horsetail, clapped her hands, and said, "How can you look like a little old man, lying here in the sun." ”

"There's nothing to do at home."

"I've got nothing to do, I have something for you to do."

Qian Aishu got up, "Tell me something first." ”

"Let's go, ask so much." Xiaobao dragged Qian Aishu's arm, "It's a good thing." ”

Qian Aishu was dragged by Xiaobao to her house. When he was a child, every time Xiaobao pulled him to play, he swallowed it slowly, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Xiaobao held back his strength like pulling a cow that was stealing crops, stood in a bow shape with his feet, and grabbed Qian Aishu's arm with both hands and moved it back. This time, Qian Aishu was not slow at all, and ran with Xiaobao, not letting Xiaobao exert himself.

"Is your mom home too?"

"No, I'm just coming back to get something, I'll be leaving later."

Po opens the dilapidated wooden door of her house.

"What the hell is going on?" Qian Aishu couldn't help but ask again.

"You'll know later, and it won't hurt you." Little Paula turned on the electric light, but the wattage of the electric light was not enough, and the house was still very dark.

"Come here." Xiaobao walked over to the only desk in her house, crouched down, and took out a puppy from under the table.

Qian Aishu walked over. The puppy lay down on the crook of Xiaobao's arm with his head drooped and whined lowly.

"This dog ......"

"This is the dog I picked up on my way home. You help me raise it. Xiaobao handed the dog to Qian Aishu, "I'm leaving, my mother won't let me have a dog." ”

The most taboo thing to do is the dog, and this money loves books very clearly.

"But I don't know how to have a dog." Qian Aishu is a little embarrassed, not to pick up, not to answer.

"Why are you so stupid? What would it be like to have a dog? "Yes, dogs are the best animals to raise, and the milk names for newborn children are called paparazzi, dog treasures, dog eggs, etc., just because dogs are easy to raise, and there is no disease from childhood to adulthood.

"Are you going to help me?" Xiaobao sent the dog a little more to Qian Aishu. The puppy was still whining with his eyes closed. Qian Aishu had no choice but to take the puppy into his arms, "woo woo......" the puppy barked loudly. His limbs were still moving around in Qian Aishu's arms. "You promise me that you will treat the puppy well in the future." Xiaobao pinched Qian Aishu's nose.

"Okay, I promise you." Since childhood, Qian Aishu has always let Xiaobao, every time Xiaobao has something unhappy, he will always come to him to complain, when it comes to unhappy places, Qian Aishu let Xiaobao grab his nose and lead him away, Xiaobao said while walking in front of him, "Calf, call a few times." Qian loves books and screams "baa". "No, no, that's the roat." Xiaobao strengthened his hand. Qian Aishu shouted in pain. "That's what a scalper barks like."

"You promised me that if the puppy doesn't grow tall in the future, I'll pull your nose." After Xiaobao finished speaking, he picked up a bag from the table and walked out of the house.

"You're leaving, you're coming back."

"My mom is waiting for me to go." Xiaobao stood there, the girl developed earlier than the boy, half a head taller than Qian Aishu, and looked like a big girl. The hair is not as yellow as when I was a child, and it is combed into a long braid.

"You follow your mom everywhere and stop studying?" Qian Aishu was embarrassed and kicked Xiaobao's upper.

"I don't know." Xiaobao's voice was very small.

Xiaobao lowered his head and looked at his upper, which was covered with dust. "Every day I run around, my shoes are dirty." Xiaobao looked up and grinned.

Qian Aishu thought of Li Hongdou, and felt very uncomfortable. Those who have the conditions are not good at studying, and those who want to study have not been able to study.

"Then I'm leaving."

Xiaobao left, Qian Aishu took the puppy home, Qian Dad poured the leftover food from the morning into a small wooden basin and fed the puppy, the puppy may be really hungry, and before Qian Aishu put it down, he broke free from his arms.

Throughout the winter vacation, Xiaobao did not go home again, every time she passed in front of her house, looking at the old house that was about to collapse, Qian Aishu would always think of the scene when she was a child and Xiaobao secretly ate offerings in her house. If he is unfortunately discovered by Xiaobao's mother, Xiaobao will shout to him: one, two, three, run! Then run out first. Thinking of this, Qian Aishu picked up a small pebble from the ground and threw it fiercely, the stone stabbed into the air in a big arc with the sound of the wind, and then fell to the ground, hitting a bit or two of dust, and sometimes falling into the pond in front of him, shattering the sunlight shining in the pond.

Mom, where are you going to take Xiaobao? Every night when she goes to bed, Qian Aishu always dreams of Xiaobao, and dreams that Xiaobao is doing things for others with her mother, Xiaobao is wearing the clothes of a little mage, holding a bowl of "fairy water" that her mother burned a talisman into it, taking a mouthful in her mouth, and spraying it on the head of the person who is sitting directly under the altar "on the body of the ghost". Then he threw the bowl on the ground and danced with his hands. Qian Aishu clearly saw Xiaobao's eyes full of tears. Qian Aishu dreamed that he was watching in the crowd, so he silently recited in his heart: "One, two, three, run." "He ran away, but he ran and ran, and suddenly found that Xiaobao didn't follow, and he ran back, and Xiaobao was still dancing there." Xiaobao, run, follow me to study. Xiaobao heard it, glanced at it gloomily, but didn't move. He couldn't help but rush into the house and take Xiaobao's hand, but Xiaobao didn't move as if he was nailed there. Qian Aishu pulled Xiaobao hard, but Xiaobao didn't leave, and said: "I'm not leaving, I'm leaving, my mother will cry to death." ”

Qian Aishu was so anxious, and then he woke up, and every time it was this dream.