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The so-called earth nest is to dig a hole in the ground that is one meter and a half deep, two meters wide and three meters long, with a round log on the roof, covered with a straw mat, and pasted with a thick layer of yellow mud, which is simple and practical.

After cleaning up the nest, the aunt and sister-in-law were a little anxious to urinate, and they came to a dense weed bush to relieve their hands.

Wang Ling's cursing voice came from not far away, "Zhang Xilin, Nang Si give (fuck), are you fucking ashamed?" It's the father of two children, and I've never seen a woman pee?! ”

Zhang Xilin, who was crawling in the grass in a prostrate manner, picked up a pile of grass in front of him with both hands, squinted and peeked at Ji Yue'e and concubine peeing, stood up, and retorted with a dry smile: "Wang Zhenzi, which eye did you see me peeing at a woman?" I'm collecting firewood. You don't have to do anything (you don't have to do anything). ”

After Zhang Xilin finished speaking, he turned around and fled in a hurry, Wang Ling looked at his back who almost tripped over the stone under his feet when he fled in a panic, and spat on the ground fiercely, "Improper miscellaneous, it's really a fucking shame for the people of Guangren Commune." ”

The night was deep, Mrs. Tian and her daughters-in-law hugged each other and lay on the ground and whispered, and her daughter Tian Kunrong gently kneaded her sore little feet for her mother, and everyone discussed what to do in the future.

Ji Yue'e, who was lying on the very edge, took advantage of the moonlight sprinkled from the hole in the ground to catch lice for her daughter Tian Ye, and Tian Ye, who was stripped naked, got into her mother's arms and half-squinted her eyes as if she was asleep.

Ji Yue'e found the lice hidden in the seams of the clothes on the collar and armpits, squeezed them with her fingernails, and heard the sound of "popping".

Seeing that there were a lot of lice on the waist of Tian Ye's pants, Ji Yue'e bit the dense white lice with her teeth.

Seeing her little daughter-in-law's busy appearance, Mrs. Tian raised her voice and asked, "Yue'e, do you know that your distant prince Heng has any friends in Guangren Commune?" ”

Seeing that the little daughter-in-law shook her head blankly, the old lady sighed lightly.

Zhang Hua, who was lying next to her mother-in-law, looked at the low ground nest and complained: "I knew that if I slept in a pit, it would be better to starve to death in my hometown." Besides, our Tian family still has two decent rooms with green tiles. This place where birds don't, how can it be as good as the third brother and daughter-in-law say? ”

Seeing that the third sister-in-law, Ji Yue'e, was so aggrieved that she lowered her head and wiped her tears silently, Tian Kunrong said impatiently: "Second sister-in-law, it's all come to this point, don't say anything, can't you learn from your sister-in-law?" ”

Zhao Xing, who was beside Tian Kunrong, hugged her one-year-old son Tian Yang tightly, silently, but her beautiful eyes looked at the small hole with a frightened light.

When Zhang Hua heard her sister-in-law's unkind tone, she didn't say anything more, her mouth pursed, and she turned around and fell asleep with her daughter in her arms.

Leaving their hometowns and traveling thousands of miles from the central region of the motherland to the northwestern frontier, more than 20 days along the way, this group of Tian family ladies were sleepy and tired, and they slept soundly in the nest.

The women in their sleep suddenly felt a burst of stampede sound overhead, not much force, but very loud, followed by a child's immature voice, "Blind stream, blind stream, trample you, blind stream." ”

Wang Ling and the women of Diwozi, who were woken up by the drum noise of Zhang Xilin's family, came out of the adobe house and Diwozi respectively.

Looking at this annoying Zhang family's eldest son Gaqiuqiu, Wang Ling looked around and found a wooden stick and scared: "Gaqiuqiu, you trampled on my family's nest and asked your eldest (Dad) to compensate me." ”

Zhang's son, Ga Qiuqiu, stuck out his tongue at Wang Ling, put his dirty little hands in front of his nose and made a grimace, and ran away like a rabbit.

Looking at the women with blank expressions, Wang Ling pointed to the children who were far away, "The adults in this child's family have not disciplined them well, and the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked." But, hey, forget it, we can't say anything, and everyone can only endure it. ”

Mrs. Tian didn't have the heart to eat breakfast, so she beckoned to her daughter Tian Kunrong, and the two walked to Wang Ling, who was burning the fire in the yard, and Mrs. Tian asked: "Big brother, on the way I came, I saw bare everywhere, there was no water, the grass in this Guangren Commune grew quite vigorously, what, is there a river here?" ”

Wang Ling got up and pointed to the place where the water and grass were abundant in the southwest, "Sister-in-law, you can go there and walk around, and you will know." ”

Accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Tian came to the small hillside in the southwest, only to see that the water and grass were abundant under the hillside, and the sandy and gravel land on the hillside was dry and waterless, with many thorny thorns and unknown thorny broad-leaved plants (Thorn tooth).

She squinted around with a pergola, this is a small village, surrounded by scattered adobe houses, which look very casual, not as particular as the earth-building houses in her hometown, looking at feng shui and the direction in which the houses are located.

Most of the houses here are built casually, and they are as convenient as the weather in the Western Regions, as rough, simple, and reckless, and they go straight to and fro.

With the bottom in her heart, Mrs. Tian returned to Diwozi, took the nest head handed over by Ji Yue'e, and nibbled on it in small bites, Sven was delicate.

Looking up at the blue sky through the hole in the nest, Mrs. Tian muttered to herself: "I don't know what happened to me building a railway in the northeast." ”

Mrs. Tian frowned, looked tired, lowered her head, and pulled out two long nasolabial folds, signs of aging that did not match her age.

Her heart is now playing out memories of the past, fear of the uncertain future, and anxiety about the pressure brought by the people around her in a strange place.

At this time, I heard the angry reprimand of the production team leader Buick Polati from the ground: "Zhang Xilin, do you want your face?!" Like a thief baby, what are you peeking at? Sacs gives (fuck)"

Since Mrs. Tian's family lived in the nest of Wang Ling's house, he was wandering around like a ghost......

23-year-old Tian Kunhe was lying alone in the ditch, he finally woke up from a coma, the loess made the wound on his forehead clumpy, he looked at this yellow world blankly, and struggled to tie the parcels scattered in the loess to his body, and began to struggle and squirm on the loess.

Twilight, the wind and sand gradually rose, the strong wind, so that the flying yellow dust became a tangible thing, Tian Kunhe, who looked a little trance, began to slowly lose consciousness in this empty and desolate wild world, and his eyes that were blown by the loess to only a thin slit were desperately opened.

IN THE WIND, IN THE YELLOW DUST, THE EARTHY SMELL IN THE AIR MADE HIM FEEL THAT HE WAS STILL ALIVE, AND HE WAS LIKE A SHRIMP STRUGGLING TO MOVE FORWARD IN A WATERLESS QUAGMIRE, HIS MIND WAS FULL OF THE LOVING FACE OF THE OLD MOTHER, HIS WIFE'S DELICATE FACIAL FEATURES, AND WHETHER HIS DAUGHTER TIAN YE, WHO HAD NOT SEEN HIM FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS, HAD GROWN TALLER.

Tian Kunhe, who was building a railway in the northeast, was young and strong, willing to endure hardships, spared no effort, and earned more work than his two brothers and brothers-in-law.

Unexpectedly, I met a robber who robbed halfway along the way, and my valuable things were robbed of my body, and I was beaten.

The twilight faded into the night, and crawled forward by will, crawling towards the west, which was the direction in which the wife threw herself into her marriage.

Tired, hungry, thirsty, and covered in wounds, Tian Kunhe's snail-like crawling speed could not catch up with the plantain that was blown away by the wind like a ball, and the plantain that was blown by the wind surpassed the young man.

On the long journey to the west exit, Tian Kunhe was accompanied by a howling wind and clumps of withered yellow plantain, as well as the sun or moon overhead, the light and shadow of the rising and setting sun.

Moving his heavy steps as numb as a machine, he suddenly heard a slight sound from far to near, Tian Kunhe turned his head in the night, and looked at the point on the horizon with a distracted mind, "Oxcart." His scattered eyes seemed to be flickering with fire.

Tian Kunhe, who had not eaten food for three days, struggled to support his hungry body, and was so weak that he waved to the ox cart, and wanted to shout, but his mouth was moving, but he couldn't make a sound, and his throat was as dry as a fire burn.

The ox cart stopped in front of him, he swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and looked blankly at the old man from the Western Regions with deep eye sockets, hooked nose, and a big beard on the ox cart.

"Quang Nhon Commune, Quang Nhon Commune." Tian Kunhe fainted in a shaky state.

With a sound of "driving", the old ox cart, under the traction of the old Uygur man pulling the reins, staggered and slowly rushed towards the streets and alleys of the simple Guangren Commune.

After the ox cart, the heavy loess is crushed by the wheels, the loess is long, under the strong wind, the yellow earth rolls in the air, the old man squints through the yellow dust, and looks up to see the sun in the sky has become a yellow bright spot......

Under the dim oil lamp, Tian Kunhe's chapped lips were torn apart, and a stream of cool water poured into his mouth, and the water gurgled in his throat for a while before slowly passing through his throat.

Watching his lips start to squirm as he cracked his mouth began, the man holding him put him back on the kang of the earth.

Tian Kunhe opened his eyes, and was so dazed that he found the focus of his gaze on the little oil lamp, and then saw the person who saved him.

The thin and tall Zhang Xilin's thin, high-cheekbones face looked at him, risking the essence of calculation, "The old man Aili of the Second Production Brigade has put you in my house." ”

Zhang Xilin's house is the westernmost family of the first production brigade of Guangren Commune, occupying a favorable geographical location and is the only way to pass through the streets and alleys of Guangren Commune.

In his ignorance, Tian Kunhe suddenly understood that the old man in the Western Regions who saved him halfway was called Ai Li, and endured the pain in his throat and said, "Thank you." ”

Zhang Xilin got closer, "Do you want to eat?" ”

Tian Kunhe, who had not yet recovered his senses, looked at him blankly.

"What about you, do you eat? You can't be a fool, right? Zhang Xilin squinted at him, stretched out his right palm and shook it in front of the slightly sluggish bearded face.

Looking at the dirty black palm in front of the tip of his nose, Tian Kunhe nodded in astonishment.

"Pay first." Zhang Xilin's obscene expression opened his right hand and begged.

Tian Kunhe subconsciously put his hand into his jacket pocket, and then stretched out from the bottomless pocket, and the worn-out jacket pocket had already become an ornament.

Zhang Xilin's father, who was sitting on the edge of the earthen kang, was smoking a cigarette, and the wrinkles on his face were like uneven ravines on the wasteland.

The old man sat on the edge of the kang alive, and when he heard the conversation between his son and the strange bearded young man, he glanced at the bag on the kang that was tied crookedly with strips of cloth.

Under the prompting of the old father's eyes, Zhang Xilin got up and grabbed Tian Kunhe's bag, and after opening it, a large number of worn-out patched clothes, saw a five-layer newly washed and faded undershirt, his eyes lit up, and he held the undershirt and spread it out, yes, the fabric is good, there is no patch.

Seeing that the groom's dress that he married his wife Ji Yue'e was taken away by Zhang Xilin, Tian Kunhe was in a hurry and got up to grab it, "No, this is my only good clothes." ”

"You drink water and sleep on my kang, it's not for nothing (local vernacular, not free), it costs money." Zhang Xilin said with his small eyes open, his eyes glowing shrewdly and greedily.

Angry and dazed, Tian Kunhe looked at the other party, a common man with a lust for profit, looking at himself with his greedy and timid eyes, like looking at a commodity to be sold at a price.

Tian Kunhe smiled bitterly helplessly, and he climbed off the kang and walked out of the house, feeling sad in his heart, he was really bullied by dogs in the plain.

Zhang Xilin was afraid that this young, sturdy and tall man would snatch back his undershirt, so he hid it behind his buttocks with both hands, with a lewd look.

Walking out of the earthen house, Tian Kunhe saw a three- or four-year-old boy standing outside the house, with a yellow snot covering his mouth, and all of them formed hard scars.

The little boy Gaqiuqiu saw him and began to jump and shout, Tian Kunhe, who was in a trance, thought that the child was reciting nursery rhymes at first, but listened carefully, "Blind stream, blind stream, male blind stream, female blind stream, there are a lot of blind streams." ”

Tian Kunhe, who hadn't taken two steps, listened to the child's words, stopped suddenly, turned around and looked at the child with happy eyes, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Where is the female blind stream?" ”

Zhang Xilin's eldest son, Ga Qiuqiu, pointed to the east, and was frightened by the strange man in front of him who couldn't find his mouth, and ran back to the house.

Dragging his staggering steps, Tian Kunhe held the bag that was untied by Zhang Xilin with both hands, and walked towards the east with great difficulty, his bright eyes flashing with a light of hope.

Ji Yue'e, who was holding a pile of wood from the southwest of Diwozi, walked to the side of Diwozi and saw a tall man with a figure of more than one meter and eight meters walking over.

The dusty hair on his head was like a nest of grass, and his long beard covered his lips, but the thick eyebrows and big eyes with a smile and the straight bridge of his nose were already engraved in her mind, wasn't this the man she was thinking about in her dreams?!

The wood in his hand fell to the ground with a thud, smashed on the surface of his feet, didn't care about the pain, ran to Tian Kunhe with broken steps, and got into his arms, "Kunhe, woo----"

Mrs. Tian, who was resting in the nest, heard the cry of her third daughter-in-law, thought that something had happened, and climbed out of the nest to look up.

Looking at the ragged young man in front of him, his hair was long to his neck, his beard was more than ten centimeters long, and his face was haggard and dusty.

The moment she saw her son, her hanging and restless heart suddenly relaxed, and she pouted and shed tears.