"Second brother, where have you been? Have you heard, Daddy has been lifted! ”

Hua Li rushed out to the eaves, looked at the second brother with bright eyes, and said with a somewhat irrepressible excitement in his voice.

Hua Yu lowered his eyes and walked into the empty courtyard.

Hearing his brother's excited words, he didn't pay attention to it, but directly bypassed him, limped into the hall, and walked into the hall.

It hadn't snowed all day, but Hua Yu's messy hair and thin shoulders were stained with a lot of snow.

Hua Shi saw him walking with his head down, and gave way to the side, her eyes fell on his slightly exposed side face, because her hair was obscured and the light was too dark, she couldn't see the expression on Hua Yu's face.

But looking at him with his head down, his eyes down, and his silent appearance, it seems that he is not in a good mood......

Flowers groaned slightly.

However, Hua Yu seems to have been like this all along, and for so long, I haven't seen how high his mood is......

Hua Li's excitement slammed down, although he was sluggish, but he was not stupid.

The second brother is obviously not very happy like this......

Hua Li turned his head in a daze, and shouted in a low voice: "Second brother......"

He looked at Hua Xiao on the side, revealing a puzzled expression.

After Hua Xiao met his gaze, she slowly shook her head.

"Bang! 、”

The open door was closed by the flowers who walked into the house.

Hua Xiao looked at the small wooden door that was closed tightly with some uneasiness, turned her head to look at Hua Shi, and asked in a low voice, "Second brother, what's wrong?" ”

The little girl's voice paused, and then she said, "Second brother won't be like this before...... I go out early and return late, and I don't say anything when I come back. ”

Hua Yu's emotional changes made Hua Xiao's heart very uneasy.

Hua Shi patted her little shoulder and whispered, "Don't think about it, it'll be fine." ”

Seeing the little girl's uneasiness, Hua Shi didn't know what to say, so he comforted dryly.

Actually, she couldn't figure it out herself......

When Fang Caihua passed by her, she seemed to vaguely see his hand hanging by his side, which was tightly gripped......

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Although the rhetoric is far away, in the future days in the Hua family, the uncertainty factor will increase a lot.

Everything has to wait for Li Shi and Hua Ciyuan to come back before they can make the next step, and it's useless to think about it now......

Hua Shi is not optimistic about this, but life still has to pass.

So, taking advantage of Lee's absence, Hua Shi ran back to the house, kneaded a large ball of noodles, and began to make somen noodle soup without distraction.

I have been eating hard these days, and I have eaten all the jerky I have stored in the first two days.

At this moment, there was nothing left in her house except flour and rice.

For more than a month, the meat eaten, or jerky, all relied on the hares and pheasants that Eleven and Xiao Hei brought back when they went into the mountains to forage for food.

For the first ten days, Eleven and Xiao Hei could always bring back meat every day, and after cooking the meat and feeding the three in the house, they would use coarse salt to marinate the fresh meat into jerky.

The salted meat tastes salty and crispy, and when you eat it, it is chewy and full of salty and fragrant meat.

The three people in the house like to eat this kind of pickled jerky, and Xiaohuaying is especially good at it. The jerky never lasted a few days, and a few mouths, one bite at a time, were swept away.

At this time, Eleven and Xiao Hei ran back to the mountains to forage for food, she kneaded the noodles, and when she cooked the noodle soup, Xiao Bai had been around her knees, screaming, and her tail was shaking violently, and she didn't stop after a circle.

"Woo ......"

Hua Shi skillfully cooked the soup underneath, and in less than an hour, a large pot of hot somen noodle soup was freshly cooked.

She saw that Xiaobai was crying happily, so she gave it a bowl first.

Xiaobai smelled the noodle soup that was still smoking, and first tried it with his tongue, but he was so hot that he stuck out his tongue and sighed again and again.

Hua Shi looked at it so silly, and said with a smile in his voice: "It's all made you be careful and burned, and you don't listen." ”

"Woo ......"

Sticking out his big red tongue, Xiaobai looked up at the flower aggrievedly.

Hua Shi ignored it, took the pot on the stove down, pushed open the door and walked out.

Xiaobai wagged his tail and turned his head to look over.

Because Hua Shi has not allowed the three of them to walk out of this house, at this moment, although Xiaobai wants to follow, he just looks at it and sits on the ground without moving.

Hua Shi brought the big pot of somen noodle soup directly to the next room, and Hua Xiao, who was told in advance, had already opened the door to facilitate her to come in.

This is a tacit understanding they have developed for more than a month.

Hua Shi would cook the food in his own house every time, and then take it to the next room with a pot.

Most of the time, the five siblings will sit together, holding the bowl, and eat silently.

After Hua Yucong came back, until now, he is lying on the kang bed, wrapping himself tightly in the quilt, and the whole person is buried in it.

behaves and behaves a little weird......

Hua Shi called him a few times, but he didn't respond, as if he was asleep.

Hua Shi didn't dare to pull his quilt easily, he wanted to ask him to get up and eat noodles, but when he saw his silent resistance, he screamed twice and did it.

Hua Xiao and Hua Li on the side, holding the edge of the warm wooden bowl, shrank on a small wooden chair, silent.

The second brother looked very wrong, and when they saw it, they felt unsteady in their hearts......

A meal of noodle soup, eaten silently, the three of them divided the work and just cleaned up the mess, and before they could return to the house, they closed the courtyard door not long ago, and suddenly someone knocked on it vigorously.

"Knock knock!! ——”

This knock on the door was obviously much more urgent than the last one.

If it weren't for the latch and bolting, the person who knocked on the door would have pushed the door in a hurry.

"Bang bang bang! ——”

The knock on the door kept ringing.

"Who, who?!"

Hua Xiao ran out of the house, and asked loudly at the clanging door.

The knock on the door was too urgent, and Hua Xiaoyuan was not in a very stable mood, and after hearing this messy and hurried sound, her chest also thumped.

"Ouch! Open the door! It's been knocking for a long time, and I thought there was no one in the house! ”

It's a strange male voice, Hua Xiao has never heard this voice, she just feels strange.

"Knock knock!"

The man was so anxious that he knocked twice.

The tight voice and unfamiliar male voice made Hua Xiao feel very uneasy, and she was so frightened that she took half a step back, her face was a little pale, and she pretended to be calm and asked, "Who are you?!" ”

When the people outside the house heard the voice of a girl, they did not answer directly, but shouted through the crack in the door:

"Little sister? What about the rest of your family? What about you? Hurry up and call them out, your father can't find anyone, at this moment, your grandmother just found the village chief, and called the whole village to find your father, you should also come out and look for it together, ouch...... Seeing that it's getting dark, I don't know if it will snow again......"

The man's high-pitched voice was still raised in the first half, and when it came to the back, Xu felt puzzled, and his voice muttered.

Hua Shi put all the pots and pans back into his room, and hurried out, when he heard the voice of the man outside the door.

His words and meanings were also heard clearly.

Hua Xiao's expression softened a lot, especially when she saw Hua, she also walked out, as if she had seen the backbone of the main heart at once.

Hua Shi paused, trotted over, and pulled the courtyard door open.

Standing outside the door was a young man of fifteen or sixteen, dressed a little thinly, and his face was red from the cold.

Hearing that the door that had been closed for a long time was finally pulled open, he pursed his lips, but his expression was still visible, and he was a little anxious.

"Why are you shouting for a long time, slowly, and now I'm coming to open the door."

The young man complained, then glanced at Hua Shi again before saying:

"In short, if there is still someone in the family, hurry up and shout out, your father who was lifted is gone, how can you still have kung fu at home, it's really ......"

Hua Shi only felt strange, and hurriedly asked: "How can it be gone?" ”

The young man shrugged, "How would I know?" Anyway, now everyone is looking for it, I saw that your Hua family was your grandmother alone, so I ran over and called you, where is your father? Why don't you see others? ”

As he spoke, he suddenly thought of the other head of the Hua family, and when he asked, he also stepped his feet and looked towards the courtyard, looking east and west.

The appearance of the young man is obviously very familiar with the Hua family, and he even knows the old man Hua who has not been out for several years.

Hua Shi settled down, frowned at him, and said, "My grandfather has been lying in bed for a long time with hemiplegia, and he can't get out at this time, so I'll go with you to find it." ”

Speaking of Old Man Hua, Hua Shi thought of the last time he saw him, it was nearly two months ago.

At that time, Li and Hua Ci went to the town to try, and on the first day, Hua Shi didn't think of this person.

At that time, after the Li family left home, he didn't tell her anything, so she naturally didn't remember.

It was also the second day, and by chance, my brain flashed, and I suddenly remembered that with the first fright, Hua Shi was actually reluctant to step into the rotten and foul-smelling house of the Li family.

With a worried heart, she pushed the door and walked in, the room was still dark, and only a faint shadow could be seen, and she had just reached the halfway point of the room, and before she got close to the kang bed, she saw a scene that she still wanted to forget......

Thinking about it, Hua Shi couldn't help but get goosebumps again, and his stomach churned.

The half-paralyzed old man was so hungry that he grabbed a lump of black things with both hands and kept stuffing them into his mouth......

Smelling the foul smell coming from the air, Hanashi immediately guessed what it was.

She was startled, and before she could go out, when the old man seemed to find the flower who had broken into the house, he suddenly grabbed a large handful of black and sticky things and threw them in her direction......

She turned and ran out.

If she had run slower, the lump would have been thrown at her......

When he was stunned, the young man scratched his head, and after seeing no more people in the courtyard, he said, "Okay, okay, then you can go with me." ”

Before Hua Shi left, he didn't forget to tell Hua Xiao and Hua Li, stay at home obediently and watch not to run around.

Hua Xiao frowned, but nodded.

Hua Li on the side had a bitter face, and his eyes were full of worry.

When the young man was carrying the flowers, he quickly shuttled through the village road, and on the way, he kept meeting villagers who came to help find them.

The farther she went, the deeper her brow furrowed.

There are hundreds of households in Shoushan Village, and the area is so large that there is no end in sight, plus winding village roads and groves growing everywhere.

If you want to find a missing person in such a large village, if it weren't for the help of the villagers, you really wouldn't know how to find the Year of the Monkey......

I vaguely felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't tell what was wrong.

The two of them went one after the other, in the direction of the village, and the young man also told her that the Li family was over there, and called her to go over and help her, so that the Li family was too old to stand it for a long time in the cold and frozen ground, and she couldn't stand it.

It's just that the two haven't been walking for long, and suddenly two boys about the same age as the young man ran in front of them, panting and shouting at the two:

"No need to go, no need to go! People have found it, in the ancestral hall, go over and have a look! ”

The young man could see at a glance that the expressions of the two companions were wrong, and he asked with some curiosity: "Why do you have such expressions, is it not good for people to find them?" ”

One of them, who was a little fatter, shook his head before he said:

"Alas...... What do you mean by that word... After joy comes sorrow? Happy and sad? Oops, anyway, it was the old man who lifted the man who fell into the well, and he just picked it up, as if he was out of gas......"

The young man was shocked: "What?!" Drowned in a well?! ”

The complexion of the flower also changed suddenly.

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