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The dwarf man looked at the envelope and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I'm blind, I can't read a single word the size of the basket, Wang Heng's family is long gone, don't you know?!" ”

"What do you mean it's long gone?" Tian Kunrong's heart was cold, and she couldn't help but chuckle, and asked with wide phoenix eyes.

The dwarf man didn't answer in a hurry, and pointed to the letter in Ji Yue'e's hand with his finger and asked, "Fellow, if I guess correctly, this letter was sent to you by Wang Merchant Lang (Wang Heng is a seller who walks the streets and alleys), right?" Not to mention, you also received this letter half a year ago, right? ”

"I received it in Layue this year." Ji Yue'e was so nervous that she answered truthfully, and wondered uneasily, what is the Wang Heng family long gone?

Tian Kunrong, who was beside her, couldn't hold her breath for a long time, and asked anxiously: "Big brother, you just said that Wang Heng's family is long gone, what do you mean?" ”

The dwarf man sighed and said: "Hey, Wang Heng's family is really unlucky this year, the whole family has bad luck, his wife and children died of plague after the year, in March he went to the mouth (local vernacular, the meaning of the mainland, the local people refer to the west of Jiayuguan as Kouwai, the east of Jiayuguan is collectively referred to as Kouli,) to run business, passing through a desolate area that does not care about three things encountered a gang of robbers, things were robbed, people were also killed. ”

The sturdy man turned his head to look at the ruins in front of him, and he didn't see the gray faces of the two women looking for relatives next to him, and muttered to himself: "This Wang Merchant Lang's family is gone, and he has no relatives in Guangren Commune, Zhang Xilin's family in the first production brigade of the commune heard that Wang Merchants' family was out of business, so they took advantage of the night to tear down all the purlins, doors, and wood of his house, and used a donkey cart Hamas (local dialect, all) to pull all back to his house. ”

Tian Kunrong didn't have the time to listen to the short man's broken thoughts, she saw her sister-in-law's gray face, her thin body shook a few times, and quickly helped her sister-in-law, the sister-in-law who was beaten by this bad news forgot to say words of thanks, and the two of them walked back without saying a word.

The sister-in-law staggered back to the same place, and when they saw the mother-in-law sitting at the base of the wall, Ji Yue's suppressed cry finally came out, and she sat on the yellow earth and cried.

Seeing her daughter-in-law and daughter supporting each other and coming back, Mrs. Tian was still waiting for the good news, and was made to chuckle in her heart by her daughter-in-law's brainless crying, and quickly stood up with her support for the wall, and asked her daughter who looked desolate and helpless.

Before Tian Kunrong finished speaking, Mrs. Tian, who understood the meaning of her words, cried with Zhao Xing and Zhang Hua.

The old lady Tian, who had always been calm, suddenly became in a mess, and suddenly lost her mind, crying and howling in despair: "Child, my father, is God going to destroy our old Tian family?!" ”

The four ignorant children saw that the adults in the family were crying, and they also grinned and cried, and the group of women and children standing at the base of the street wall hugged each other and cried, and the cry resounded in the sky.

The Tian family women's army endured hunger and hunger along the way, slept in the open air, and traveled thousands of miles to defect to distant relatives, but this was the end, and when they arrived in this unfamiliar barren land, where is the road ahead? Is there a way out?

The cry startled foraging sparrows and unknown birds to flapping their wings and flying in a hurry, and also attracted many local onlookers.

Among the onlookers, there were men, women and children of different races, carefully looking at this group of people who were crying and wiping tears, this group of women and children were also dressed in rags like their locals, and the thumbs on their feet were also exposed, the same poverty and hardship.

The audience who watched the excitement were either pointing and commenting, or whispering to each other, casting sympathetic or scrutinizing eyes, and more curiously looking at and discussing the little bound feet of the old lady of the Tian family.

A red-faced middle-aged Kazakh man about 1.83 meters tall stands out in the crowd, with a broad forehead, sunken eye sockets, hooked nose, and bright eyes, he is a handsome man.

The Kazakh man in his early thirties, dressed in a black sheepskin jacket and black boots, dressed in a traditional and old-fashioned fashion, stood out in the crowd and looked at the weeping and helpless women and children in front of him with pity.

At the back of the crowd stood a tall and thin Han man of about thirty-five or sixteen, with a small sparrow head on his shoulders, a few sparse hairs on the top of his head, few eyebrows, triangular eyes, high cheekbones, fleshless cheeks, large teeth, and a pergola on his forehand at the base of his eyebrows.

When his gaze fell on the tall and handsome Tian Kunrong, his shrewd eyes glowed greedily and lustfully, and the desire in his eyes was obscured by the shadow of his right hand.

The dwarf man who told Ji Yue'e the truth just now pushed aside the crowd of onlookers with both hands, and walked in front of the old lady Tian, the backbone of this group of women and children, "Fellow, don't cry, it's getting dark, you mothers hurry up and find a place to live." ”

Listening to the words of the dwarf man, Mrs. Tian stopped crying, sobbed and said: "Wang Heng's whole family is gone, and our mother is here to join him. ”

Seeing that the old lady Tian was still crying, the dwarf man introduced himself: "Fellow, my name is Wang Ling, I am from the old Guangren Commune, my ancestors have lived here for generations, if you can rest assured of me, I will arrange it for you." ”

When Mrs. Tian heard this, she quickly bent down and bowed to Wang Ling, clasped her hands together and said reverently, "Brother Wang, I'm sorry for you." ”

Wang Ling turned around and shouted loudly to the bustling man in the last row of the crowd who was holding a pergola: "Zhang Xilin, you dog, this group of young and old are relatives of the merchant Wang Heng's family, you hurry up and return Wang Heng's purlin or something." ”

When Zhang Xilin, who was watching the excitement, heard this, he spit out to the ground, and cursed in a low voice: "Damn, this dog's Wang Zhizi acts as six toes all day long, and the dog is nosy with the mouse, and he is more than drooping (local dialect, talking) a day." Rolling his eyes, he turned around and walked towards home with his hands behind his back, as if no one was fine.

The crowd of onlookers all squinted at Zhang Xilin's back, with a look of disgust, and someone in the crowd shouted: "Wang Ling, you are stupid, this Zhang Xilin has to go through a sieve to find gold, and the things that come to his house can still come back, that is when the sun hits the west, and the old men can have children." ”

"Hahaha......"

"Hehehehehe......"

"Hee-hee-hee......"

"Giggles......

The crowd of onlookers laughed, Wang Ling had no choice but to scratch his scalp and look at Zhang Xilin in the distance, and his eyes fell on the crowd watching the excitement.

The warm-hearted Wang Ling shouted at the top of his throat: "Are you all laughing and begging? Seeing that these old and young ladies are all sleeping on the street, what are you laughing at, is it still the son doll of Quang Non Commune? Let's all pull the handle and do us a favor. ”

As soon as his words fell, there was an uproar, and the crowd was gone, and there were only a few left, only the tall Kazakh men, and two or three women of different nationalities.

"Wang Ling, there is still a bit of a nest at my house, I'll send it over later." A Hui woman with a white turban on her head said to Wang Ling.

A Han woman in her fifties said to Mrs. Tian who was wiping her tears: "Big sister, I have a bedding at home, which is broken and old, don't dislike it." ”

"Sisters from the mouth, I have some milk tea at home, and I'll send it over later." The sturdy Mongolian woman said loudly with full of anger.

Wang Ling looked at the tall Kazakh man and discussed: "Hey, Buick Polati, where do you want them to stay tonight?" ”

Buick Polati said in Chinese, not very fluent: "Your home, Diwozi." ”

"No, no, it's a nest, and people are not used to it." Wang Ling waved his hand.

"Then what to do, what do you say? There's nothing you can do. Diwozi, Ma Da did not (no trouble). Buick Pola said helplessly with his hands spread.

The kindness of the world can always give warmth to the people in distress in the wind and rain, no matter how difficult life is, remember that the darker the sky, the brighter the stars.

Mrs. Tian led her mother's army to follow Wang Ling to his adobe house, and walked all the way to the southwest corner.

A group of women and children looked at Wang Ling who was leading the way in front of them, there were no buildings similar to houses in front of them, where did Wang Ling lead them.

Just as the mother was muttering in her heart, Wang Ling walked to a place half a meter above the ground and stopped, pointing to a hole in the ground, "Fellow, you can live in a nest where you are wronged." ”

Zhang Hua, who was walking in the front, followed Wang Ling's fingers, walked to the entrance of the cave, bent down to probe down, "Oh my God", slapped his thighs with both hands, and sat on the ground with his mouth open and cried.

"Oh my God, what the hell is this place, isn't this a cave where the dead live? Wow wow---" Zhang Hua cried with her face up, her eyes closed, her mouth open, and she was very aggrieved.

Wang Ling thought that the people in his mouth (mainlanders) would live in unaccustomed nests, but he didn't expect it to cause such a big reaction.

He said to the dazed Mrs. Tian with an embarrassed expression: "Fellow countryman, the people in the brigade are poor, and my family only has one adobe house, and there is really no land. ”

Mrs. Tian, who had red circles under her eyes, looked down at the hole that could accommodate a person to enter and exit, and asked cautiously, "Is this nest a place where people live?" ”

"Fellow, I am from the second production brigade, it is a pastoral team, this nest is my family's old house, I have not been willing to pull it out, warm in winter and cool in summer, no one has lived in it for a long time, dirty, and damp. Ah Zi'er (stay for a while), Buick, the leader of our animal husbandry team, brought you his wool felt, spread it on the ground to prevent moisture, it is safer to live here than if you live on the street, and it can also block the wind. The loyal and kind Wang Ling said sincerely.

"Okay, thank you, Brother Wang, thank you." After the old lady Tian bowed deeply to the dwarf Wang Ling, she turned around and scolded the second daughter-in-law who was sitting on the ground crying, "Zhang Hua, get up for me, don't lose the face of our old Tian family." ”

Looking at the middle-aged woman in front of him with standard facial features, tall figure, and charm, Wang Ling couldn't hold back the curiosity and doubts in his heart, and asked tentatively: "Fellow, can I call you an old sister-in-law?" ”

Seeing that Mrs. Tian nodded, Wang Ling looked at no one around her, and asked in a low voice: "Old sister-in-law, are you a big family in your mouth, look at your momentum is not a flat-headed person." ”

Mrs. Tian smiled bitterly and laughed at herself: "What a big family, it's just a grass people." "I thought, hey, a dehaired phoenix is not as good as a chicken.

As he spoke, he saw the leader of the animal husbandry team, Buk Polati, and his Uygur daughter-in-law, Nurgul, walking over with a cylindrical black and gray thing.

"Fellow, wool felt, you use it, flax Yaxi (very good)." The handsome Buick Porati smiled kindly, revealing his white teeth.

Tian Kunrong hurriedly stepped forward to take it and hugged it, suddenly, she held her breath, and with a strange expression, she quickly rushed to the roof of the ground nest with the wool felt in her arms, threw down the wool felt and ran to the side to retch.

Seeing her daughter's abrupt and unfriendly behavior, Mrs. Tian hurriedly covered up her daughter's rudeness, and explained with a smile to the Buick couple who looked unnatural, "My daughter is pregnant with a doll." ”

When Wang Ling heard this, he made a big-bellied gesture to Buick's wife, and Nurgul, who didn't know much Chinese, smiled understandingly, and looked like a kind and beautiful woman.

After Wang Ling, Buick, and the people who sent brooms, bedding and other items left, Mrs. Tian turned around and asked her daughter in a stern tone, "Rong Rong, when did you become so ignorant?" ”

"Mother, you go and smell it yourself, what's the smell of that thing? Why do you smell a fishy smell? Tian Kunrong's innocent expression.

Mrs. Tian bent down and leaned her face to the wool felt to sniff, a pungent and unpleasant smell came to her nose, her mouth let out a fierce cough, her right hand fanned the air in front of her nose, let out a long breath, and wondered: "What kind of strange smell is this?" ”

Wang Ling, who came over with some food, happened to hear it, and he said with a smile: "Old sister-in-law, this is the taste of milk, mutton or something mixed together, the people of our animal husbandry team are grazing on the grassland, just spread this felt, this is the taste of the grassland, you people have just arrived, many living customs are not used to it, and it will be used for the time being." You spread out the slapping first, there must be a lot of fleas and lice on the wool felt. ”

Mrs. Tian smiled bitterly: "Don't be afraid, I'm not afraid of biting if there are more lice." ”

There is no place to scrub her body along the way, not to mention these children, she has always been clean and feels very itchy, her hair is a place where lice gather in large numbers to make a nest, and she feels very itchy on her head along the way, and there will be lice that suck blood when you scratch it.

Sometimes, people's fragility and strength are beyond their imagination, and the women who were crying and crying just now wiped away their tears, ate boiled water, and gnawed on their nests, which was considered to have finished their first meal in Quang Non Commune.

The sister-in-law hurriedly cleaned up the nest, and the rectangular nest with a height of about 1.5 meters is about 5 square meters, which can accommodate several people, young and old.