Xiao Guizhou took a bowl of porridge from his mother's left hand.

The moldy tofu placed on the small table was far away from Xiao Guizhou, Xiao Guizhou stood up with the porridge and stretched out his hand, and accidentally, the porridge bowl hit the ground with a "bang", the bowl was broken, and the porridge was scattered all over the ground.

Xiao Guizhou was so anxious that he cried "wow".

The sister-in-law stood up, picked up the broken bowls, and said, "Mao Jing, come here, I'll share your porridge with Uncle Mi." ”

Mao Jing came over with a bowl, and her sister-in-law gave half of the porridge to her uncle.

The sister-in-law said: "Don't cry, don't cry, after eating, I will cook for you in the evening and leave white rice, and don't eat bean leaves." ”

Mom didn't say a word, but walked into the room and quietly wiped her tears with her hands.

In the evening, the family ate the rice with bean leaves, and the sister-in-law left a bowl of clean rice for Xiao Guizhou and Xiao Maojing.

After dinner, the family sat in the bird's nest to cool off.

The third uncle eats leaves and smokes, Xiao Mao Jing watches her mother play the soles of her shoes, the ninth brother and the fourth brother play straw shoes, the fifth brother wipes his back with cold water, and Xiao Guizhou watches Bake and Baming play the gong.

Mom shouted: "Come over from Little Guizhou, I'll tell you something." ”

Xiao Guizhou listened to his mother's shouting and ran to his mother.

My mother said: "In the past two days, the township office has come to ask for money for our family, and there are many people who want to make grain. The people who came with red pockets on their backs were the people who came from the township office to ask for money, and our family had bean leaves and rice for many days, so how could there be money and grain for them. They came back to count a lot, we adults are embarrassed, it's not that they don't give it, it's that there is no money to give, there is no grain to give, you from tomorrow, in addition to eating, you and Xiao Mao Jing go to the foot of the maple tree to play, as soon as I see the person with the red pocket on the back, I ran back and coughed a few times towards the door, I ran out to hide after I heard it. The man with the red pocket asks you, "Where have you gone?" and you say you don't know, remember? ”

Xiao Guizhou touched his ears and said, "Remember, Mom!" ”

From then on, Xiao Guizhou and Xiao Maojing got up every day, and after their mother gave them a hot meal, they didn't need to be told by their mother, they went to the roadside at the foot of the sweetgum tree to play, sometimes picking up stones, sometimes playing with the sow's nest.

Playing the sow nest is popular, Xiao Guizhou often calls a few friends to participate, they first find a good vacant land, dig a pit in the middle, this is called the sow nest.

Put a slightly larger stone in the middle instead of the sow, and dig nine piglet nests around the periphery. Small Guizhou designated each person to cast fifteen small stones instead of piglets, put in the sow nest, they set the order in the way of booing, the first place will be all the piglets in the sow nest according to the clockwise direction of each litter put a small piglet, until the small stones in the hands are finished, put the stones according to the program to get the sow will be teased.

One day at noon, after breakfast, Xiao Guizhou and Xiao Mao Jing had just walked to the foot of the maple tree, and before they sat down, two people with red pockets came from the side of the road, one in front of one was in his forties, wearing a peaked cap, and the red pocket was hanging from the left to the right, carrying a dog-beating stick.

The one in the back, Xiao Guizhou didn't have time to see clearly, so he whispered: "Mao Jing, you play here, I'll run back!" As he spoke, he ran into the house, ran to the door, and coughed more than ten times at the big house.

When the mother heard the cough, she hurriedly put down the pig's food scoop, opened the back door, and ran into a forest of slabs at the back of the stockade, where she rested on the stones under a big tree.

Xiao Guizhou whispered: "The adults have gone to work, and I am the only one at home, see which one you are looking for?" ”

Two people with red pockets walked to the door of the village, Xiao Guizhou turned back to the back of the soaphorn tree at the gate of the village, and quietly looked at a person with a red pocket behind, this person was in his 30s, with a "toilet lid" on his head, and the red pocket was carried from the right to the left, and his left eye was a little scoopy and red.

After the two of them went up the stone stairs, they turned left and walked towards the door of Zhou's house.

On this day, the third uncle took the big black dog to the field, not behind the house.

The two of them entered the gate, and when they arrived at the bird's nest, they saw the small door open and went into the room, and when they saw it, there was still a pig food pot on the fire, and the pig food scoop was placed in the pot.

The one in front said, "Someone, there must be someone, why is there no one in the house when the pig food scoop is put in the pot?" ”

As he spoke, he shouted, "Come out, come out quickly, make it clear, do you pay your family's grain?" ”

There was no response from the house.

The one behind shouted again: "If you don't pay it, you will arrest people!" ”

There was still no response from the house.

There was no way, so they had to turn back to the bird's nest and sit on the small bench and wait for someone.

A couple of roosters and a hen with more than a dozen chicks were pecking in the yard.

The red left eye said: "No one, I'll catch a chicken and we'll have a tooth sacrifice at night, do you want to get it?" ”

Without waiting for the cap-wearer to reply, he ran up and chased after some roosters, which were running around in the yard.

The hen looks at the chicks and runs forward while looking behind the chicks.

The man wearing the cap hurriedly stood up and said: "Brother, stop, stop, although the Zhou family is poor but virtuous, famous far and wide, the old mother treats people the best and wise, don't mess around, I can't meet anyone today, come back in a few days!" ”

Red Left Eye said, "If you want to get a ball, we'll run away like this?" ”

The man wearing the cap said: "Brother, leave some way back, I heard that the Communist Party is coming, and I am afraid that the tail of the Kuomintang will not grow!" ”

"Yes! Yes! Leave a back road, leave a back road, you can only fry dried salt beans when you drink soju tonight! ”

The man wearing the cap said, "Brother, it's better to eat dried salt beans and soju than to lack virtue!" ”

The two of them waited for two bags of leaves and cigarettes, but no one was seen, and they smelled the mushy smell of the pig food pot, and the person wearing the cap walked into the room and lifted down the pig food pot and said: "Brother, go, do less immoral things, and make some connections everywhere!" ”

As he spoke, he swaggered away from Zhou's house.

My mother sat on the stone and thought to herself: On the 10th day of the first lunar month 13 years ago, there were many people passing by on the road, some of them carrying guns and backpacks, some carrying large knives and backpacks, and they could not see their heads in front of them and their tails behind them.

Aunt Liu and Aunt Jiang and I sold Baogu flowers on the side of the road, and some of them bought Baogu flowers for copper dollars.

A man who bought a bun of grain flowers also said: "Auntie, we are the Red Army, the Red Army that fights the rich and saves the poor, and we are the team of the poor, and we will come back!" ”

Will these people really come back? Will you come to save us poor people Mother thought about it, and heard the cough of Xiao Guizhou next to the thorn cage in front of the bansu forest, "Teng" suddenly stood up and walked out of the bansu forest, touched Xiao Guizhou's head on the side of the thorn cage, and trotted back home with Xiao Guizhou, without saying a word, and hurriedly scooped up the pig food and fed the pig.

My mother thought to herself, "When I ran out the back door, the pig pot was still on the fire, who carried the pot off the fire?"

Mom asked, "Little Guizhou, how many people came just now, what are they?" ”

Xiao Guizhou said: "One wears a hat, and the other has a little red eye. ”

Mom "heh", "It's him, it's Brother Lin, it's definitely Brother Lin." ”