Archie and Ah Qiao, holding their grandmother's hand left and right, walked in the direction of home.

The two of them scrambled to tell their grandmother what they thought of strangers.

Grandma listened with a smile and didn't say much.

Grandma is a rare tall person among the grandmothers in the village. She is almost the height of an average man, with broad shoulders and thick shoulders, and she is very strong at first glance.

However, grandma's personality is completely different from her appearance.

She is meticulous, patient and more loving. In the yard, there are chickens, ducklings and geese that she raises, and the backyard is planted with endless vegetables, as well as jujube trees, garnets, persimmon trees and pepper trees.

Grandma used her intelligence, meticulousness and diligence to make the front and back yards extremely luxuriant.

"Grandma, grandma, do you think strangers are good or bad?"

"Grandma, why did you say strangers came to us?"

Grandma was pulled by the little brother and sister to the point that she was about to stumble, and then she spoke: "Crescent Mountain, Xingyue Lake, and Xingyue Bay are ours, and we have the responsibility to protect them; It's not ours, anyone can come and see them, use them.

I heard that when people have troubles, the best way to relieve their worries is to go to the mountains and rivers to see the wonderful nature, and the mood will be free and easy.

This stranger, although we don't know who he is and why he came, but after he came, he didn't do anything to hurt the landscape and hurt us. Let's just let him stay in peace. ”

Grandma's answer was not thrilling at all. Archie and Ah Qiao, silently accepted.

In the blink of an eye, the two of them seemed to have forgotten the stranger, and asked what they were going to eat for the night.

Night falls.

The neighbor's chubby chick climbs over the low fence and knocks on the window of Archie and Qiao's room.

Archie opened the window, and the chubby girl brought her own bench, stepped on the bench, and struggled to climb into the window of the brother and sister.

"Duoduo, you seem to be heavy again." Archie muttered.

Duoduo blushed, glanced at Archie quickly, kneaded the corners of her clothes, and skimmed her face.

"Sister Duoduo is so chubby and cute. Sister Duoduo's face is white and red, like a cloud shining in the sun, and I like to touch it. Brother, you can also touch it. ”

Duoduo immediately became happy, picked up Ah Qiao's hand, and generously pressed it on his face. His face was facing Ah Qiao, but his eyes turned to Ah Qi, and he said, "That stranger raised a bonfire on the pebble beach and soaked a bowl of instant noodles. It tastes good. I guess it's brain-dead sauerkraut beef noodles. ”

Archie's eyes lit up again.

He knew about campfires.

During the Begging Festival, a bonfire will also be lit in Sheung Shui Village. The huge fire, the red flames, occasionally crackling, exploded a lot of sparks, like fireworks.

He prefers to look at the bonfire itself rather than the people dancing and chatting around it.

"No brain-dead sauerkraut beef noodles." Ah Qiao corrected.

"Yes! My dear...... Smell it with your nose! ”

"It's the old sauerkraut beef noodles."

Duoduo's face instantly warmed up, but she pretended that nothing embarrassment had happened, and continued to squint at Archie: "My grandfather said that tomorrow he was going to talk to that person and stranger, and tell the stranger about what happened the year before last." ”

"What happened the year before last?" Ah Qiao was curious. Although she is smart, she is young, and the more she goes forward, the more she doesn't know.

"The year before last, there was a tomb robber who went to rob the ancient tomb in Xiangyangpo in the middle of the night and was suffocated to death inside."

Archie and Ah Qiao glanced at each other, and at the same time understood that Grandpa Duoduo was suspicious that the stranger was a tomb robber.

Archie couldn't hide his excited gaze for fear that the world would not be chaotic. For a ten-year-old boy like him, ordinary days are too peaceful, too lacklustre.

"He's not a grave robber." Ah Qiao disagreed.

Duoduo wanted to raise the bar and maintain his grandfather's dignity, but was stopped by Archie. Only Archie knows how smart his sister is.

"How do you know?" Archie asked.

"yes, how do you know?" Duoduo asked. The tone is completely different.

"Tomb robbers will hide themselves well and try not to let anyone see him. But this man set up camp with great fanfare, and even raised a bonfire with great fanfare, lest others not know that he existed. So, he was certainly not a tomb robber. ”

The light in Archie's eyes fell. He even plans to be a little helper for tomb robbers, he doesn't want anything in the tomb, just a thrilling experience.

Duoduo was unconvinced: "Then what do you say he came for?" ”

"I don't know. Grandma said he might have come to relax. ”

Duoduo pursed her lips disdainfully, making an old-fashioned appearance: "There is no such possibility." Let me tell you, the time of the people of the city is precious. They are not like us, their time can be exchanged for money! ”

When Duoduo said "money", his voice was very heavy.

At the mention of money, Archie lowered his eyes. Not yet, he lowered his head again.

My sister didn't know that Mom and Dad hadn't sent money home for a long time. This month, he almost couldn't pay for his meal. Grandma said that spring and summer are the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and when the autumn comes, it will be good if the products in the fields are sold for money.

But he knew that although the output of the fields could be sold for money in the autumn, the money from the sale would be used to survive the winter. If it is used to pay for his meal, it is estimated that they will only be able to eat the Chinese cabbage grown by their grandmother throughout the winter.

Glancing at her sister's thin little face, Archie shrank her shoulders uneasily.

By the way, in the fall, my sister will also be in elementary school, and my grandmother will have to pay for two meals.

"I didn't tell you, and you didn't understand it."

Duoduo twisted her round little body, stepped on Ah Qiao's small stool, turned over and climbed out of the window.

Ah Qiao's little stool is high, and she doesn't suffer when she climbs out. The hard part is the landing.

"Plop."

Sure enough, Duoduo "crashed" every time and never landed safely.

"Brother, why are you suddenly sad?"

When Ah Qiao closed the window, he asked lightly, as if he had no intention of asking.

Archie thought that his sister didn't look back and couldn't see his expression, so he quickly wiped the corner of his eye with the back of his hand and covered it up: "No, I'm not sad." ”

Ah Qiao's watery and beautiful Danfeng eyes looked intently at the reflection of his brother on the glass, and did not ask any more questions.

Grandma said that everyone has secrets that they don't want to tell others.

However, she will know what her brother's secret is.

Even if her brother doesn't say it, she has a way to know.

She has always had confidence in her intelligence.

"Go to sleep, or the electricity bill will be exceeded." A Qiao said.

Seeing his sister change the subject, Archie breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that his sister would continue to ask, and his sister was so smart, he must not be able to hide it. But his sister is so young, he doesn't want her to carry the burden of thought at a young age.

Archie nodded and helped her sister pull down the mosquito net.

They lived in the three-compartment house built when their grandfather was still alive, and their grandmother lived in the east room, together with the granary. He lives with his sister in the west room, with Guoguo and a bunch of farm tools.

The hall in the middle is used as a living room, with a small square dining table, two stools, and four chairs.

After her sister Ah Qiao lay down, Archie shouted to her grandmother that they were asleep, and after getting a response from her grandmother, Archie turned off the lights and went to bed in the dark.

Lying on the bed, all he could think about was the campfire.

If he could, he would like to go to the pebble beach tomorrow night to see the stranger's campfire.