"Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and three years have passed in a blink of an eye." If such an old saying is used to describe the days of the big lock and Xiangyu, it is extremely inappropriate. Rather, it is a desecration, even an insult, to the respective emotional worlds of the two of them. Because one is facing the "ups and downs" of the world day by day, and it is not easy to get through; The other is looking forward to it day by day, waiting—always harboring a beautiful vision, and at the same time mixed with the uneasiness that beats at one's heart almost all the time—and has been waiting for more than three years.

It was noon one day in early July, and a soldier with a tall stride suddenly came to Xiazhuang, Da Suo, to go home to visit relatives. The big lock must go home once: it was the "promise" of three years ago that urged him. No, it was the promise of "eight words" that warned him from time to time. And more importantly: he wants to come back and see the current Xiangyu with his own eyes - it is better to hear the voice of the "current Xiangyu": she has not written to herself for seven or eight months, what is the reason? Maybe it's because of my cousin...... And it's been a long time since I received a letter from myself to her. He also wants to take another look at Xiangyu's nominal "husband" - what kind of stupid man he is. Oh, and the daughter who has kissed her several times in her dreams but has never met, and will be three years old in a few months and will not understand anything, alas, your mother is for you......

Before returning home, Da Suo did not write to tell Xiangyu that he was going home. Because he was worried that his cousin was afraid that he still didn't want to open it, and his letter might be "reviewed" by her again and not reach Xiangyu's hands. In that case, my cousin will not only not be able to help, but will add to the chaos. He planned to go to his cousin's house after returning home this time—and then do a good job of doing his cousin's ideological work.

Xia Zhuang, who had been a soldier, knew that he had become an officer as soon as he saw Dasuo's military uniform. The news spread immediately, and even the fool of the "door-to-door son-in-law" knew about it. When he came back from working in the fields, he saw the big lock standing outside the gate of his house, so he walked over with a smirk. The big lock didn't know him, but he said hello first. The fool grinned, tilted his head up and down, looked back and forth, and said: "Great officer, good-looking, good-looking, hee-hee-hee......" Dasuo took out a cigarette, respectfully saluted him, and was bending down to light a fire for him, when Xiangyu, who was returning home from work, happened to be seen by Xiangyu, who was returning home from work: "Jinbao, go home".

Da Suo straightened up, and when he saw that it was Xiangyu, his whole body froze suddenly, and the match in his hand was about to burn his fingers, and he didn't move. Or the fool stretched his neck to blow his breath. The two pairs of hot eyes, which were separated by three years, finally looked at each other, and Xiangyu blushed all of a sudden. Three years apart—no, two young hearts that have been connected for almost a thousand days and nights, at this moment, are jumping extremely excited......

I can't tell how long the two of them looked at each other silently, or Xiangyu opened his mouth first: "Come back?" ”

"It's back......"

Both of them had a stomach to confide in each other, but at this moment, only this short sentence was over—in the team room opposite, two people were sitting on the big abandoned stone plate, smoking cigarettes and chatting.

Xiangyu still reluctantly withdrew her gaze. She suddenly raised her eyes again, and stared at Da Suo again: his already handsome image added a bit of heroism to the straight military uniform. She turned her eyes to look at the cowering fool again, and her heart was sour: "Jinbao, go home and burn the fire......"

"The big officer is back, the big officer is so good-looking, hehe......" The fool was happy as he followed Xiangyu into his yard.

Da Suo looked at Xiangyu, who was haggard and changed into a person, and a fool like a child, and a bitterness welled up in his heart.

When Xiangyu returned home, the image of the handsome and heroic soldier of the big lock flashed in front of her, and then she looked at her foolish "husband" - the fool was still chanting vigorously: "Great officer...... Grand Officer...... Hee-hee...... It's so good-looking......" When she heard this, an inexplicable anger surged into her heart: "Look at what you are happy about, what are you happy about?" Is he your father, or your ancestor? You see that he is good, and you follow him, go-go-go...... Never come back! ”

The fool was scolded so much that he squatted down, hugged his head and cried. Xiangyu scolded and scolded, and also shed tears.

Suddenly she reproached herself again, walked over, took the fool by the hand, and said, "Get up, don't cry!" ”

The fool straightened up, wiped his tears with the corner of his clothes, and admitted his mistake like a child: "I won't call him anymore, I won't call him 'big officer' anymore, I won't call him anymore......"

"Who told you not to scream? When you see him again, you still smile and call him 'big officer', do you hear? ”

"I hear you."

"Remember?"

"Remembered."

At noon the next day, Da Suo seized the opportunity of people to go home from work and went from house to house - to visit the villagers. He walked west to the Xiangyu Gate and stopped for a moment. There was no figure in sight, so it was inconvenient for him to "break in". When he came back, he stood on the road in front of Xiangyu's house again and looked into the courtyard. It happened that the fool was standing in the center of the courtyard, and he didn't know whether to greet him or his daughter-in-law: "Big officer...... The big officer came...... "I was about to go out, but I was called back by Xiangyu, who couldn't see anyone—the accountant of the production team was settling accounts in a room next to the warehouse in the team room."

Puzzled and regretful, the big lock walked away again. He had just walked a few steps when he suddenly heard the voice of a little girl talking from the courtyard. He wanted to turn around and rush straight into the yard - how he wanted to see his daughter - his own flesh and blood, who was already three years old! But reason still controlled the emotional impulse, and he walked into his yard with pride. He walked into the hall and was about to sit down, when he turned around and suddenly found a little girl standing at the gate of the courtyard, staring at him with two big eyes. He recognized at a glance that it was his daughter - those eyes and nose were too similar to Xiangyu! He hurriedly walked out, and said with a smile as he went, "Little friend, come, come......" His daughter did not speak, but still stared at him with those big eyes. When he was getting closer, she turned and ran.

It turned out that when Da Suo had walked more than ten steps west of Xiangyu's house just now, he was seen by his daughter who ran out of the yard, and his green military uniform aroused her curiosity, and she wanted to follow him, but was quietly pulled back to the house by Xiangyu. After a while, when Da Suo walked home, Xiangyu told her daughter that the uncle in green just now had come home......

Da Suo stood at the gate of the courtyard, staring at his daughter's little back: when she approached the courtyard door of her house, she turned her little face and glanced at him again......

On the third day, when it was time to finish work at noon, Da Suo was waiting at the door of his house in advance. I finally saw Xiangyu walking over alone.

A few steps away, the big lock greeted: "Call it a day?" ”

"It's over......" Xiangyu lowered her head, a little cramped and uneasy.

While talking, Da Suo pretended to be in the thatched house, just took two steps, and suddenly stopped walking, wanting to say a few more words to Xiangyu.

Suddenly, from the opposite cowhouse, the voice of the breeder, the old master, shouting at the livestock—although they didn't see the figure, the two of them were still a little nervous—and they went their separate ways as if nothing had happened.

As he walked, he pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and "inadvertently" dropped a roll of paper as long as a thin matchstick rolled up......

Apparently, Xiangyu saw it, and she glanced at the team room smartly, then turned her head and glanced back, then walked over and bent down......

Xiangyu returned to her room and opened it, and there were four lines of words written on it-

Birthday: Heaven and earth

My sister's fruit tree doesn't know my brother

Three years of red dates, three years of pears

Three years of grape sprouts

Xiangyu understood at a glance that these four lines of words contain four meanings: first, "eight characters" is undoubtedly "an expression, a lifetime of proof", "heaven to earth" - "heaven and earth"; Second, "Sister...... I don't know my brother" - "my cousin has changed her mind"; third, "pear" - "divorce"; Fourth, "new branches" - she remembered the "agreement" he made with her three years ago......

In the afternoon, it was time to go to work again, and many people had gathered in front of the team room, waiting for the captain to divide labor. Xiangyu was going to be "late" - she wanted to wait for the people on the field to disperse, and wait to see Dasuo before saying a few words. Even if it is inconvenient to speak, just looking at each other will make you feel better. But the captain turned his head and called her name to her house. Xiangyu had to go out, and in front of the team room, she was the last one to leave. As she walked, she glanced back at the gate of Dasuo's house...... If someone asks her, she has already thought about it: "Resist being locked in the house by me......"

When she came back from work in the evening, Xiangyu glanced at the door of the big lock house from afar. As she got closer and closer to Da Suo's house, her heart became more and more "excited". She deliberately raised her voice to talk to others. When she reached the gate of Da Suo's house, she casually turned her head and glanced into the courtyard, but she didn't even see the shadow of Da Suo. She returned to her yard, a little irritable and fidgeting—but still went out. One moment she went to the team room in front of the door to look for something, and the next she went to a house on the east side to borrow something, and as she came and went, her eyes always wanting to see the person she wanted to see. Before and after dinner, she was absentmindedly picking up inside and out, but she picked up this and lost that, and the eyes and ears were used on the "heart", and finally scolded herself in disappointment: "Why are you so cheap!" ”

- She suddenly remembered: "Oh, he must have gone to his cousin's house." ”

Thinking of "my cousin has changed her mind", she remembered again: No wonder it has been more than half a year, and she has not received a letter from Dasuo......

That night, Xiangyu barely slept all night. When she thought of that note, when she thought that Da Suo wanted her to divorce a fool, she felt a little bad in her heart.

The fool now sleeps in the west room. The fool is like a child, after separating the bed, he will occasionally sneak into Xiangyu's room, and "hee" and smile to sleep with Xiangyu.

On the night of "marriage", Xiangyu was a hundred reluctant in her heart, but she had to "share the bed" with a fool again. She scolded herself in her heart: "Suffer your own sin!" After a few months, my belly gradually grew bigger. Although he was wearing fat clothes, before he arrived in front of people, his bulging belly seemed to "welcome" him, which gave him a reason to take the fool away from the "happy bed". Although the fool is not happy.

The sleeping daughter suddenly grabbed her mother's tits with a small hand. Xiangyu looked at the daughter in her arms, and couldn't help but think of the first time the "father and daughter" met at noon yesterday.

When her daughter came back from her uncle's house, she asked, "Resist, do you see that uncle?" ”

The daughter nodded.

"Did you call him?"

The daughter shook her head.

"Did you talk to your uncle?"

The daughter shook her head again.

Alas, his daughter was almost three years old, and he saw her for the first time. He saw it, but he must have felt more uncomfortable in his heart than if he didn't see it: he wanted his daughter to call him "Daddy", and he wanted to be sooner......

Xiangyu thought about it, and suddenly thought of the fool again. How could a daughter call a strange uncle "Daddy". In her daughter's mind, her father is a fool. As soon as the fool came back, his daughter greeted him and called "Daddy" one by one. The fool just giggled "hee-hee" at first and didn't say anything. Afterward...... Or taught him by himself: whether at home or outside, as long as he is with his daughter, he will say: "Good girl, hee-hee......" He will only say this sentence. A fool is not stupid at this point, as long as you are good to him, what you teach him, teach him three times, and he will remember it.

Fools are pitiful. Since he knocked on the door, his father called him as an animal, and he would call him to do this and that, and as soon as he came home, the fool would almost be out of breath. The fool is a fool in the end, that is, he is tired and sweaty, he wiped a handful of sweat, drank a bowl of water, and continued to dry, not knowing how to be lazy and slippery. For this reason, I also quarreled with my father: "He is not an animal, no matter how stupid he is, he is a human being, and he is your son-in-law." "It's okay, after a quarrel, my father is much better.

Alas, if Dad really had a soul, then he must not feel good in his heart now—he had treated this stupid son-in-law badly. Alas, life is really impermanent, and my father didn't know when he got sick last year, and lay in the cornfield for a day and a night, and later, when the fool carried him home, there was only half a breath left. A day later, when he was lying in the coffin, the fool dressed him in linen and filial piety as a son. The fool took the mourning stick in his hand and led him to the ground and buried him. People say that a son-in-law is half a son-in-law, but the fool is a son-in-law who has changed his surname and made a covenant, and he is the whole son.

Alas, hard-working people often encounter hardships: the mother who has been raising a fool suddenly died a few months ago. The fool cried like a child. Many people say that when you see a fool crying for his mother, you don't look like a fool. Alas, in the final analysis, it is his mother's deep affection for him.

If I leave him, he returns to his hometown, and his mother, who has been leading him all the time, is gone, where will he go alone? How does he live? And what will people do to scold me? "Ouch, that in Xiazhuang, the thief raised a wild man, and then she became pregnant, and she couldn't lay eggs, so she recruited a fool to come to the door to cover up. Now I'm hooking up with an officer again, stretching my legs, kicking the fool, what a lack of morality......"

Xiangyu thought about it, and suddenly twisted a knot in her heart: If you harden your heart now and tear your face, divorce the fool immediately, and then marry Da Suo, will this Xia Zhuang still be quiet? As long as you are not a fool like a person, as long as you connect what happened in our family before and after, and then you can find out the original form! Oh, not only are the Xia and Li families going to fall out, maybe someone will write a letter to the army to expose it, saying that Da Suo has a problem with his thinking, his style of life, and even that he is morally corrupt, so ...... Da Suo? If that's the case, it's not that you love him, but that you hurt him......

Xiangyu thought about it and decided that she still had to go on a secret date with Da Suo, and the two of them had a deep talk face to face. The time and place of the date had been decided, and she decided to seize an opportunity tomorrow and quietly tell the big lock.

The next day, Xiangyu never looked at Da Suo again, who had already left yesterday at noon, after quietly throwing her the small paper roll, probably while she was cooking in the house. When she found out, her heart was sour, and she couldn't stop crying—but in front of others, she still forced her smiling face, and the bitter tears could only flow quietly in her heart. She thought about it, and secretly hated the "troops" in her heart: "Didn't you say that there was half a month of family leave, why did a telegram suddenly come again, urging him to go back?" ”

Xiangyu had to write a letter to tell her "heart knot" to Dasuo, who had left home and returned to the army.

The big lock soon wrote a reply-

Jade:

When I read your letter, I was first surprised, and then I was deeply moved by you: you are so kind! The more you are like this, the more I feel that being able to marry a woman like you as a daughter-in-law is the greatest happiness in my life! However, I have to remind you that your affection for a fool is not the love between a man and a woman, it is your pity for him—that is called love. The reason why you can't make up your mind to leave him is that you want to sacrifice your love to make up for the "lack of morality" in your heart. If you really think so, you're very wrong.

Jade, there are many ways to make up for guilt. I have already thought about it: after you divorce the fool, as long as you get the marriage certificate of the two of us, the next step, I will start to transfer the household registration of you and Kang Kang to my side. When the time comes, you and your daughter will come with the fool, and we will raise him, and even raise him until he is old. Externally, it is said that it is a relative of our family. If you think about it, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?

Jade, as for the fact that you are worried about affecting my future, you can rest assured. If you divorce a fool and marry me again, although you are a little sorry in terms of moral conscience, in law, it is not against the marriage law of the country, because it is what you willingly do.

Jade, for such a big event as divorce and marriage, you must not be too anxious, I will wait patiently for you - good things are grinding.

Jade, when did you figure it out, when did you untie your "heart knot", when did you write to me. I am with you discussing the lifelong issues that we face and must solve.

Jade, our daughter is so cute. When I returned to the army, as soon as I was free, my daughter would appear in front of me, especially the eyes like you. How I want to hug her and kiss her......

Jade, our future must be beautiful! I'm patiently waiting for you – and I've been waiting for you!