In autumn, the man felt that the sky was much cleaner than before, and the floating clouds were much more swollen, like cotton peaches blooming in his own field and yellowing rice ears in rice fields. How can the ears of rice be the same as the clouds in the sky? The man knew that they were different, but the rice particles he saw in his dreams could really become the size of clouds. He was so happy that he wanted to hold on to them, but as soon as he raised his feet, he woke up from a dream, and all the rice particles in front of him disappeared. He hurriedly got up and ran to his grain tank to lift the lid and take a look, only the bare bottom of the tank remained. The heart was like a thorn stuffed into it, and the man felt a piercing pain.

The guy picked by the girl is called Jinbao, and he is a lot shorter than the girl. His family did not agree, and he was especially disgusted with him. By half-joking, he said to his sister: "When he pulls out the tares, if he goes down to the deep water field, it will not be as tall as the weeds!" ”

The girl suddenly lowered her face, and she was not angry: "Jinbao is not as tall as the hoe, but I just look at him and pleasing him!" ”

The man's eyes drifted over the girl's red cheeks, and he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable again.

I remember the last time I went on a blind date, he saw Jinbao's family: the family lived far away, the road was difficult to walk, and it was separated from his house by several mountains. Jinbao also has an old lady and twin brothers in the family. I heard that his father died early, the family was poor, and the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve was also brown rice taro rice, and it was difficult to even meet brown rice on ordinary days. Others said that his mother had nothing to eat when she gave birth to his two younger brothers, and that she was so hungry that she grabbed the dried bran that had been fed to the pigs and stuffed it into her mouth. Now the three boys have grown up, all of them have followed their mothers, short and dundun tall, with dark skin, short and thick arms, and squinting their little eyes all day long as if they can't open them. Jinbao didn't know how to speak when he saw the living, so he lowered his head and sulked.

"That's a master who can't ram a fart with three sticks, what kind of 'Jinbao'? Bah! I think he's a 'broken copper'! You're not ashamed, I still have an old face! "The father slapped the table and slapped the bench to refuse the marriage, but the sister seemed to have fallen into the evil nature, and she insisted on not marrying him.

Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, his own rice harvest was harvested, and Jinbao also rushed to help. The family was even more tired of him, and his brother said that he was like an abacus bead, not moving, and there was no "eye work", even when he saw the bulging ears of rice falling to the ground, he was stunned and did not know how to pick them up. One didn't pay attention, and the rice ears were trampled into the soft mud by his rotten cloth shoes.

The father hurriedly took out the rice particles in the mud, and it was not easy to attack on the spot, so he sighed slowly: "The young man doesn't know that 'it's easy to eat rice, but it's not easy to harvest rice'!" ”

The next day they didn't let Jinbao go to the field, and arranged for him to herd the cattle. On a dry and lukewarm day, after a few gusts of autumn wind, Jinbao took a nap. When he woke up, he opened his eyes and saw that the surroundings were empty, and he did not know where the oxen had gone. The family put down their work in the field and hurriedly searched for the cow until the rooster crowed three times before bringing the cow back safely. Relieved slightly, he planned to lie down and make up for the chaos, but at this time, Dongfang had begun to turn white, and the whole family hurriedly ate breakfast and went directly to the ground.

Jinbao and the old man and children took care of the dried rice on the morning of the third day. Drying rice is a quiet job, only need to turn over a few times, dry evenly, look around in the leisure time, do not tire the muscles and bones, do not bother. The sun moved overhead, and the old man took the children back to wash rice and cook, leaving Jinbao alone in the open threshing floor. Soon, a hungry white rooster poked his head at the edge of the yellow rice. Jinbao chased away several times, but instead of leaving, the rooster got closer and closer, his pointed mouth slightly open, and he was eager to try it several times.

Jin Bao was angry, and threw the bamboo pole in his hand fiercely, hitting the rooster in the head impartially. The rooster shook its body, clucked a few times, and quickly collapsed without moving. In the evening, no one moved the chopsticks in a big bowl of fragrant braised chicken, only Jinbao took a big bite, and the chopsticks did not pause, and it was full of meat.

His father couldn't bear it anymore, so he put down the dishes and chopsticks and sent him to the winding mountain road. The bright moonlight shrouded Jinbao's stocky back and quietly disappeared at the foot of the mountain, and his father shook his head and muttered to himself, "Go back, I'm not tired of you...... I just feel sorry for my daughter. ”

After the autumn harvest was over, the family quickly told the sister about the family in the village, and the sister resolutely should not, and she didn't even see the face, but the other party recognized the truth, brushed the house, beat the furniture, and rushed out to do a happy event for the New Year.

The wheat grains were sown on the ground, and the days fell into normal, except for the occasional big gathering, most of the time, the croppers were guarding three meals for several days. Life is like the river at the mouth of the village, the surface is calm, but in fact it flows day and night.

Three months later, in the middle of the night, Campbell reappeared at home. This time he was not sitting, he was kneeling, still silent. My father's face was flushed, angry and ashamed. He stared at the girl with a cloak, opened his trembling lips slightly, but couldn't say anything, and the most "snapped" slap fell on his face.

The sister was dragged into the bedroom by her mother, and she didn't care about the cloth buttons of the flowered cotton jacket, and scattered one, and her mouth was unrelenting: "I'm going to marry Jinbao, don't stop anyone!" ”

Mother secretly wept, "You and Jinbao were caught by your in-laws in the haystack, and they were sent to the door in person, where did you put our family's faces?" ”

"Who's your in-laws? Jinbao's mother in the mountains is! ”

"You ......," the mother tried her best to control her anger, "I didn't persuade you once or twice, I said what I should have said and what I shouldn't say." ”

"If you don't get along with Jinbao, I'll die!"

"Get out!" The father yelled outside the door, "Get out of here now!" Roll with Jinbao! Get out of here! ”

The girl stretched out her hand as if she was angry, and pulled Jinbao, who was kneeling on the ground, and the two rushed into the dark and boundless night together.

The man saw the girl once when he was in the big market, she was alone empty-handed, pouting, her face was sallow, and her spirit was not as good as before.

"I'll pack up the old clothes from the beginning, and ask someone to bring them to you, and your things are rare!"

The girl nodded, just wiped her tears, but didn't say a word.

Half a year later, the sister-in-law asked someone to bring a message, saying that she gave birth to a male baby. After hearing this, the father was silent for a long time, "This girl is ashamed, let's not go!" After a while, he said, "Ask someone to send twenty yuan, and no one asks for her dowry money!" ”

In the year of hunger, drought and flood in the crops.

When he was young, someone from the mountains sent a message saying that Jinbao's family had cut off food. The father gathered half a bag of white rice and asked the man to give it to his sister personally. After the man came back, he just wiped his eyes, but he muttered vigorously: That family only knows how to eat, but does not know how to do, my sister works alone, my sister suffers, and the little baby also suffers, and she creates evil......

The family sighed, no matter how distressed they were, there was nothing they could do.

The new rice had just been harvested, and the man hurried to send a bag to the mountains.

The sister's family lives in a remote area, and she hurried around the mountain road until she saw a few cracked thatched huts in the middle of the afternoon. The last time I came, the whole family was there, but this time I saw the girl busy alone. When I entered the house, I saw that it was the same as last time, and Jinbao and the baby were lying on the bed and sleeping.

Seeing the man coming, Jinbao immediately got up and followed with a smiling face, "My mother and my brother went to a relative's house to borrow food, I overslept......"

The man was so angry that he didn't pay attention to him, but only shouted at the girl by the stove: "Sister, what are you trying to do?" ”

The girl diverted from the conversation: "I didn't want to eat a grain of rice you brought in the spring, I will cook a meal today, and you will eat some." ”

"I'll give it to you, why don't you save it?" The man looked at Jinbao in front of the door, and lowered his voice again: "Sister, why don't you take the baby back with me?" ”

The girl was silent, took off the rice bag hanging from the beam, and poured out half a pot of rice. She neatly washed the rice and put it in the pot, then went to the stove to add firewood, and began to cook, "This rice has turned yellow after the summer." ”

"If you don't eat, I'll send it, you are just a temper, and you are not afraid of spoiling the rice and hurting people by eating."

The girl raised the corners of her mouth slightly and did not answer.

"My family has never eaten yellow rice, we have eaten white rice since we were children!" The man deliberately said a cruel word at Jinbao and left in a huff.

The man wanted to leave, but the girl couldn't stop him, so she asked Jinbao to cook, and she chased the man out of several mountains.

I didn't say anything all the way, until I saw the old house I was familiar with, and the girl didn't want to move half a step, "I also thought about going back, but I didn't have the face to go back to see my parents......"

The man suppressed his anger, "Don't send it, go back and look at the little baby." ”

The girl returned the way she had come, and saw from a distance that the front of her thatched hut was full of villagers. A breathless voice came from afar: "Jinbao's family, hurry!" ”

The girl's heart sank, "What's wrong?" ”

"Baby and Jinbao ate the wrong thing, and the barefoot doctor said they had food poisoning and said they were dying!"

The soles of the girl's feet were weak, and she collapsed to the ground in an instant, "Oh my God, it's yellow rice!" ”