At night.

On the dinner table, the stewed mutton in a big pot, the fried scallion and mutton slices, mutton soup, a table of big dishes, a family of three, plus Zhang Youzhi, a total of four people.

Zhang Youzhi used to love meat, and Li Douyu's father raised more than a dozen cute sheep, and these sheep liked to run around the most, such as half of them accidentally ran up on the table.

Zhang Youzhi was flattered.

"Have ambitions, eat and eat." Li Douyu's father is the image of a standard old farmer in Longnan, with a red face and a similar size to Li Douyu.

"Uh-huh, thank you, uncle." Zhang Youzhi nodded stiffly, reluctantly shivered and tore off the mutton in the bowl with his teeth, endured the nausea and forcibly swallowed it, trembling as he ate.

Li Douyu obviously also noticed her boyfriend's abnormality, she put down her chopsticks and looked at Zhang Youzhi with concern.

"Aspiring, what's wrong with this, unappetizing? Didn't you like to eat the first few times? ”

"It's okay, it's okay, my stomach has been upset for the past two days, I'll just eat something light." Zhang Youzhi grinned at Li Douyu.

"Are you alright? You haven't been able to eat for the past few days, have you taken stomach medicine? Li Douyu didn't eat the fish rice, ran to open the suitcase and began to turn over the medicine.

"The medicine is in my pocket, you see." Zhang Youzhi hurriedly stopped Li Douyu and showed her the four small white pills in his palm.

Li Douyu looked at him suspiciously.

Zhang Youzhi swallowed one on the spot, almost visible to the naked eye, Zhang Youzhi became energetic, he beckoned Li Douyu to sit down, and he began to gobble up the bowl of pork ribs. It's not good to eat.

Mixed with rice, it looks like you've never seen meat before.

Li Douyu sat down with confidence, and began to keep sandwiching meat for Zhang Youzhi, and made another bowl of soup.

"Oh, my stupid big man, come, I'll clip it for you, we're a little poor, and the meat tube is enough."

Looking at the two dolls looking greasy and crooked, Father Li also laughed unconsciously, and then turned his head to talk to the old lady next to him.

"Mother, you can show him later, the illness of not being able to eat is not a minor illness."

The old lady just took the stewed tofu slowly, ignoring her son and the two little dolls.

This old lady was a barefoot doctor when she was young, and she was still an old Chinese medicine doctor with a bit of inheritance, and she lived for most of her life, and those veterans don't know how many lives, old ages, diseases and deaths they have experienced.

After eating a meal, Zhang Youzhi felt unprecedentedly relaxed, and at night, he took the can of dog food bought in the city and pulled Li Douyu to the black dog that slept with the sheep.

Li Douyu first woke up the sleeping black dog with a wooden stick, and spread out the small palms, leaking out the round dog food inside.

Zhang Youzhi squatted next to him.

Black Pimple came over and sniffed the dog food in his palm, and then returned to his sheep nest with his head held high and a disdainful face.

Li Douyu and Zhang Youzhi looked at each other under the dimness of the sun's blazing light.

"Why don't you eat the black pimple eggs?" Li Douyu was puzzled.

The black pimple egg is the name of that black dog.

Zhang Youzhi looked at a large pile of uneaten sheep bones in the dog basin, and then looked at the black dog sleeping in the middle of the flock and suddenly realized.

"The dogs in the city can't eat meat to eat this thing, who eats meat and eats this."

"Yes." Li Douyu was distressed and hugged the small can of dog food for dozens of yuan. Then it suddenly occurred to me.

"Do you think people can eat this?"

"Probably not, how can people eat dog food." Zhang Youzhi hesitated.

"You try?"

"I refuse...... Not?! ”

Why do humans have the step of kissing black pimple eggs, and I don't understand why humans touch in front of a flock of sheep.

The black pimple thought of Xiaobai on another mountain, Xiaobai was long and beautiful, with a soft tail, and the butt smelled fragrant. But Xiaobai only stayed in the mountain for half a month, and left in a human car after the New Year.

Before leaving, he was beaten by Xiaobai's owner with a stick, and said that he was going to castrate it or something.

Thinking of this, Erhei looked at the two people in front of him who didn't come and felt a little aggrieved, so he simply rolled up in the flock and closed his eyes with the group of stupid sheep.

It was late at night.

…

Li Douyu was sleepy, Zhang Youzhi hugged her into the house, and the two of them were huddled together on the small bed.

Li Douyu's two small hands locked Zhang Youzhi's neck, Zhang Youzhi finally broke her fingers, and only after getting out did he tiptoe to the yard and close the door.

The pain returned.

Zhang Youzhi came to the courtyard and squatted on the ground in pain and gasped for breath. A moment later, a cup of hot water was handed over and helped him up the steps again.

"Thank you." Zhang Youzhi gasped and squeezed out this sentence from between his teeth.

The man didn't speak, just looked at the doll quietly.

"Uncle, I plan to stay here for another three days, and then I'll leave, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for Yuyu." Zhang Youzhi's tense heartstrings collapsed almost instantly, and he sat on the steps silently.

"Doctor, there's really nothing you can do." Li Douyu's father said very little.

"There's no way, no one can cure it, after I leave, you help me deceive him, I know that only you can deceive her, how long can you deceive her."

"She's too stubborn." Li Douyu's father shook his head and lit another cigarette.

Zhang Youzhi coughed violently and vomited again, and the undigested mutton mixed with the blood in his lungs was all mixed into a ball, not separating each other. It was like a lump of rotting meat slapping into the dirt.

Father Li snuffed out his cigarette in a panic.

"It's okay, it's okay, you can smoke it, and get me one too." Zhang Youzhi grinned again, but it looked quite funny with tears and blood.

"You're a good doll."

“……”

The mountains of Longnan are usually foggy in the middle of the night, but tonight is different, the sky is clean and there is not a trace of fog, but there is no light leaking from any gaps.

The sky and the mountains were all black, and only two small sparks shone after another on the mountainside, as if they were the only two stars left.

Li Douyu didn't know that at this time, the two men who loved her the most in the world were getting together to discuss her future.

……

"After I die, if Yuyu has a new boyfriend, don't stop me."

"I'll see if he can do it, he has half of you, and the family will be relieved."

"Okay."

…

"When the time comes, you can't hide it, just tell her the truth, just say that I disappeared in an accident, and it's okay to say that I'm dead."

"A family can't fool her, she can guess anything."

"Let's say it's dead."

…

"Uncle, Yuyu and I originally planned to get the certificate in the summer, but there is no chance for this, do you think I can call your father?"

"It works."

"Dad."

…

"Dad, you tell me about Yuyu when she was a child, she hid it and didn't tell me."

"When the girl was a child, she liked a son from the outer mountains, but later moved away, crying and making trouble for several days."

"Hey, I'll ask for guilt tomorrow."

…

"Dad, how can you rest assured that Yuyu will go with me."

"The girl is the same as her mother, and the mountains can't surround her."

"You can rest assured of me, too."

…

"Dad, you said that Yuyu can live well in the future, if I am still here, I will definitely let her live well."

"With a home, no one can bully a girl"

"Also, with you always here, I'm worried about something."

…

"Dad, I can't bear to fish."

"Nothing to do..."

…

The faint point of light on the mountain didn't know when it had been extinguished, and after Zhang Youzhi gave himself another injection of morphine, the smell of smoke dispersed, and he went back to sleep with Li Douyu in his arms.

All that was left was a cigarette butt and a rickety old man, smoking.

The older I get, the less I feel, and by the time Li Douyu's father stood up, the sky was already dark. He arched the soil with his shoes, covered the blood foam and cigarette butts from last night, and when he saw the old lady cooking, he went over and took two buns.

"What did you say?" Grandma Li Douyu asked.

"Returning the girl, he has to go by himself."

After a long sigh that couldn't tell whose it was, Li Douyu's father carried the basket up the mountain on his back.

Peppercorns are late to catch up with the season, just these two days can be sold at a good price after drying in the sun, dozens of pepper trees, just Li's father picked alone, hired people can't row, have to go early.

Inside the house, two people hugged each other and were still asleep.

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