On the way out of the Jiangbei shack, Haizi repeatedly thought about how to save Aunt Xiao. He wanted to go back to the Harasnow Hotel for dinner, so he quickened his pace, wanting to arrive before dark.

But when he walked halfway, he felt that something was wrong, Haizi felt that this matter should not be known to Xiaohua, and he was still a little unsure about going back like this.

If you send Xiaohua back to report the news, you will be watching here, such a small tunzi is easy to arouse suspicion, and if you don't get it right, you won't be able to save Aunt Xiao.

In that way, not only is Aunt Xiao in danger, but she will also get in if she can't get it, not to mention that Xiaohua doesn't dare to walk at night.

Since Aunt Xiao asked me to save her, it means that Aunt Xiao knows that I can do it alone, and there is no danger. There are only two people in Sangouzi's family, and Aunt Xiao and I can deal with it.

The most important thing is that Aunt Xiao may not want the master to know about this matter, and the guys at Deyang Hotel have not explained it, so it is appropriate to do this matter alone.

So Haizi decided to secretly go to the Jiangbei shack tonight to have a look, and after inquiring about it, he would rescue Aunt Xiao if he had the chance, and he didn't have a chance to think of other ways.

As the sun was about to set, Haizi was wandering around the edge of a village, and he felt that it was about two miles from the village at most, because he could clearly hear the barking of the dogs in the village.

Haizi wanted to go into the village to find something to eat, but he felt that it was not suitable, and when he was hesitating, he saw a middle-aged woman coming out of the field with a load full of pig food.

She walked very hard, wiping the sweat on her face with her hands from time to time, looking very anxious, but she was a little unmoved, and stopped to wipe her sweat from time to time.

Haizi made up his mind at this time and went to the village. So he hurriedly stepped forward and said politely: "Auntie, this pig food is too heavy, I'll help you pick it." ”

This woman was in her thirties, she looked at Haizi with a puzzled face, and said for a long time: "You hurry your way, I can pick it up alone." ”

"Auntie is outside, and I should meet a help on the way, and I also want to enter Tunzi, by the way. Come on, I'll pick it for you. ”

Haizi didn't wait for the middle-aged woman to agree, so he handed her the fish he was carrying, picked up two baskets of pig vegetables (wild vegetables) and walked towards Tunzi.

"Are you here to visit the door, whose house are you going to?"

The burden on the middle-aged woman's body was taken away by Haizi, and she had to follow behind. However, she had a good impression of Haizi, and thought that this child was quite sensible, so she chatted with him.

"Don't hide it from my aunt, I'm passing by. I was hungry and wanted to go into Tunzi to find something to eat. But I don't eat it for nothing, don't you see that I am carrying fish, fresh, just bought.

I still have a few pieces of bread, just to find a family to give me hot heat, the noon food is cold, the stomach is not strong, want to eat hot, after eating, leave, in a hurry. ”

Haizi said as he walked, and turned back to secretly look at the middle-aged woman's reaction with his eyes. Haizi felt that this woman was very kind, and her words should be able to get her sympathy.

"Let's rest, it's too heavy, and it's almost to my house."

Haizi walked forward very hard, so that the middle-aged woman couldn't catch up with him. So the middle-aged woman persuaded Haizi to put down her burden and rest.

Haizi just slowed down, changed his shoulders, and walked for a while, feeling a little heavy, so he put down his burden.

"Auntie, you go first, I'll catch up with you by taking a little breath."

The middle-aged woman looked at Haizi, who was already sweating profusely, and said to him with some distress: "This child, sincerely." Come on, I'll pick a moment. ”

"It's okay, you can go, Auntie, I'm a big guy who can provoke."

After Haizi finished speaking, seeing that the middle-aged woman refused to leave, and had to pick it herself, Haizi didn't stop, picked up the pig food, walked into the village with the middle-aged woman, and came to her house.

There were three children in the yard, the eldest was a boy, about ten years old, who was busy feeding the chickens and ducks.

A girl of seven or eight years old leads a boy of four or five years old to play on the side. When they saw the middle-aged woman entering the hospital, they all ran over together.

"Mom, you're back, we're all hungry, and the big porridge cooked by my eldest brother is ready, wait for you to come back and eat." Mom, you still buy fish? Stewed fish, stewed fish! ”

"Don't grab it, this fish belongs to this uncle. It was he who helped his mother pick up the pig vegetables, otherwise her mother would have to wait a while to come back. ”

The middle-aged woman handed the fish to Haizi, she couldn't ask for someone's fish for no reason. But Haizi didn't reach out to take it, he generously pushed away the middle-aged woman's hand.

"My brothers and sisters want to eat it, so let's stew it for them, I don't have a place to put it, and it will be bad tomorrow." Haizi looked around, and then said to the middle-aged woman: "Auntie is really good at living, she is a chicken and a pig, it's too tiring." ”

"Alas, there's no way, why don't you raise it. If the eldest brother doesn't dislike it, eat it at my house, and I'll stew the fish for you. ”

The middle-aged woman finally spat and agreed to let Haizi eat at her house. This made Haizi very happy, and he wanted to rest in this tunzi, and then go to the Jiangbei shack.

"Thank you so much! I still have a few pancakes here, take them together and heat them up, and I'll leave when I'm done." Look at what work my aunt still has, I'll help you do some more, and I'll be idle when I'm idle. ”

Haizi was full of joy, and without waiting for people to talk, he carried the pig food to a large pot in the yard, and looked at the pig food in the pig food tank, knowing that the pig had not been fed yet, and he wanted to help feed the pigs.

"Rest for a while, let the child feed, it's quite burying."

The middle-aged woman didn't want to trouble Haizi anymore, so she let him go into the house to rest. But Haizi didn't want to enter the house, since he came to trouble others, he should pay some work.

"It's okay, auntie, don't you do any work at home, and it's still early to eat."

Haizi picked up the pig food bowl and went to feed the pigs. After feeding the pigs, he returned to the yard and saw the middle-aged woman cleaning up the fish and was about to enter the house, so he picked up the broom again and prepared to sweep the yard.

"Don't sweep it, I haven't been in the house for half a day, I'm embarrassed! Let's get inside and have a good meal. ”

The middle-aged woman didn't let Haizi go to work anymore, she felt that people had already helped her so much, and she really shouldn't let people do the work anymore.

"It's okay, I'll finish sweeping it in a while, let's eat together when Uncle comes back."

Haizi insisted on helping to sweep the yard, because in this way she could further gain the favor of others, and she could stay at her house for a while, Haizi didn't want to go to the Jiangbei shack too early.

"Uncle? You mean I'm a man. Alas, short-lived ghosts, they have all been dead for three or four years! Otherwise, why don't I dare let you eat here, for fear of gossip.

There are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, and there are some old men who are willing to smell the fish, and they always want to take advantage of me. There is no way, you have to carry some people on your back and live secretly.

Seeing that you are a very honest child, and you will come to trouble, unlike some bad person, I will keep you. Stop sweeping, go inside and smoke a cigarette and rest. ”

"Okay, I'll go into the house when I'm done sweeping, Auntie, you can get busy first."

Haizi called a few children to him, coaxed them to play, and swept the yard. When the yard was finished, the three children were already familiar with him, and he picked up the youngest child, led the other two, and walked into the house together.

It is a small house, there are only two rooms, the outhouse is the kitchen, and the inside room has a kang in the north and south. The middle-aged woman lit the lamp, let Haizi go to the kang, and brought cigarettes for Haizi to smoke.

Haizi said that he couldn't smoke, so he turned around and teased a few children. The smell of fish stew wafted into the outhouse, several children talked and laughed, and the hut was filled with a joyful atmosphere.

The meal was put on the table, Haizi was let into the kang, and the family accompanied Haizi to eat. This fish is really fragrant, and the middle-aged woman keeps putting fish in the bowl of Haizi.

"Auntie, you and your younger brothers and sisters should eat, I can't eat much, so much, it's enough for a few of us to eat."

Haizi also put fish in the bowls of children and middle-aged women, and she really felt like close relatives, which made the atmosphere of eating more harmonious.

"Call me Auntie? Do you think I'm that old? I'll tell you the truth, I'm just thirty-one years old. If you don't dislike it, call me sister. ”

After the middle-aged woman finished speaking, her face was still a little crimson. And the reason why Haizi calls her aunt is completely because she has the respect of others, but she is not an old man.

"Not old, not old, not old at all, quite young, that's how I get used to it. My mother is only a sister, and when I see an older person than me, I call my aunt, and I think it's so close. ”

"It's tired, hungry and full, and there is no man to nag, can you not be old? Whatever you want, you can scream. ”

With a long sigh from the middle-aged woman, the conversation between the two stopped, and Haizi was afraid of revealing the sore spot of others again, so he lowered his head and only cared about eating.

After eating, Haizi drank some water and pretended to leave. Several children surrounded him and didn't let him go, saying that it was dark and that he would leave tomorrow.

The middle-aged woman also excused herself to stay, saying that since the children were not allowed to go, then take a break for a while, and it would not be too late to leave after the rest, anyway, it would be dark, and it was indeed dangerous to walk alone at night.

Of course, Haizi didn't want to leave immediately, he felt that it was still early, and if he left now, he would have to wander in the wild for a while, suffering from mosquito bites.

But they are widows, and it is not convenient to stay for a long time. But Haizi, who was hesitating, faced the sincere retention of the middle-aged woman's family, so he obediently agreed.

"Auntie, I've been away for a day, I'm really tired, you see I'll sleep for a while, I'll leave when I'm tired, it's really urgent."

But your home is not very convenient, if the uncle is alive, I can stay overnight. I can only rest for a while today, do you see my aunt doing this? ”

Haizi looked at the middle-aged woman with a pleading gaze, he felt that his request was not too much, after all, the age difference between the two was quite large, and there was nothing inconvenient.

"Okay, why can't that? I'm a half-old woman, what are you afraid of? You go to the north kang to sleep first, when you wake up and when you leave, our mothers are in the south kang. ”

The middle-aged woman quickly laid out the north kang and let Haizi go to sleep. Haizi was no longer polite, took off his shoes, lay down on the kang with his clothes, and began to sleep with his burden on his pillow.