The laughter still seemed to echo in the courtyard, and the old man looked around reluctantly, and as the sky grew dark, his eyes began to cloud, and after a while, he blinked, and slowly reached out to hold on to the table, but it was empty.

A lonely look appeared on the old man's face, and he stretched out his hand twice, and then he touched the stone table. His fingers moved straight along the edge of the table, as if drawing a straight line, and he followed the line five steps, and in front of him was a grass hut, no more than two feet from the wooden door.

He reached out to the side and touched one of the windows that had been opened, and then he grabbed the pole that had opened the window and removed it.

He seemed to suddenly become slumbered, propped himself on the ground with a short stick that was half a foot longer than his arm.

The firewood house in the corner of the courtyard is about four steps square, with an earthen stove, a water tank and a vegetable rack on the side, a long pole hanging on the top, and a few strips of dried meat hanging on it.

He touched the stove and tapped the water tank with his stick, then took the ladle and washed the stick. At the bottom of the rack was a bag, from which he poured three spoonfuls of rice into the pot, put water in it, started a fire, and boiled it.

There wasn't much water, and it didn't take long for it to boil dry, and he sniffed the smell and took the half-cooked rice out of the pot.

The window was closed, the door was ajar, and the faint moonlight left only some light by the door. He didn't light the lamp either, and although the fire in the stove was blazing, the light didn't spread, and all that was on the stove was a vague outline.

I spooned half a pot of water, rolled out the steamed rice into a paste with a short stick in my hand, added sugar, added eggs, and took a few vegetable leaves into the boiling water in the pot and soaked them, put a steamer, and put vegetable leaves on it.

He took a narrow chopping knife and divided a ball of rice cereal into three portions, each of which was processed before putting it in the steamer to cover it.

The fragrance was overflowing, sweet and glutinous, and he extinguished the fire in the earthen stove, and suddenly there was no light at all.

He didn't move anything, he stood dumbfounded in front of the earthen stove, smelling the fragrance and smiling warmly.

............

"Granny Hu, let's go. ”

"Don't you like rabbits very much?

"But it stinks in here. ”

Mrs. Hu took Cao Yinzhu's little hand, walked out of the house, and closed the door.

"Since Daddy raised these rabbits to make money, why didn't he raise a few more houses, so many houses, if he raised rabbits, he would definitely make more money, right?"

"Even if all the houses were used to raise rabbits, it wouldn't make a lot of money. ”

"Then why does Daddy raise rabbits, and kill them, and use these poor little rabbits to make money?"

"Because we call it a rabbit hutch here. Of course, some rabbits. ”

Mrs. Hu touched her face and smiled and said something she didn't understand at all.

The two walked along the corridor for a while, Cao Yinzhu hugged Bai Xue, pouted and said, "My stomach is growling." ”

Hu Pozi glanced at the door next to him, as if there was something on it that needed to be looked at closely.

"Wait for me, I'll go back and get you some fruit. ”

"What fruit?"

"There seem to be a couple of citrus. ”

"Is it sweet?"

"My mother-in-law hasn't tasted it either!"

"Then you can get one for yourself!"

Mrs. Hu happily leaned over and kissed her little face, "You lovely child, you are so good to your mother-in-law!"

"My mother-in-law is good to me, of course I have to be good to my mother-in-law!"

Mrs. Hu turned around and walked back, turned a corner, pushed the door and entered the house.

Bai Xue, who was in Cao Yinzhu's arms, suddenly jumped up, jumped to the ground, and jumped to a door in front of him several times in a row.

The door slammed open, and Bai Xue jumped to the ground and ran in.

Cao Yinzhu rubbed her legs, the pain was a little numb, she limped in, and secretly wondered in her heart.

In the house, how can there be a smell on Daddy's body?

She chased after Bai Xue, passed through a curtain, and then entered through an open wooden door, and the dark passage made her a little frightened.

"Snow. She called softly, hesitated, gritted her teeth and chased in.

Snow was squatting on the dim ground, as if in a daze, and when she heard her footsteps, she turned around and jumped towards her.

It's a vast space, and the distance around it is all in the dark, and it's hard to see.

Nearby, where the snow had just stayed, there was a pool of fresh blood.

Not yet condensed.

But the sensitive Bai Xue noticed, but she didn't.

She held Bai Xue in her arms, and for some reason, she was a little speechless, and her throat seemed to be blocked by something.

It was so dark that she was frightened, and as she was about to retreat, there was a faint, painful moan from the front, and a woman's murmur.

"Help me. ”

She looked back in a panic and backed away, but the voice came again.

"Help me. ”

She stopped, and walked towards the place where the sound had come from.

Iron pillars appeared in front of her, standing side by side on the ground, and her little head was tilted up, and she saw that the iron pillars led from the top to the top...... The iron pillar is the thickness of two fingers of ordinary people, and the middle is half a finger length, completely sealing the inside.

A woman was leaning on several iron pillars, her face obscured by her long hair.

She looked around, it seemed that there were all such iron pillars, and wondered in her heart, why was there a big sister sitting in it, and behind those iron pillars, was there someone else?

Just as he was about to speak to the other party, a terrible howl came from somewhere, as if it was in the depths of darkness.

She was startled by the voice, and she didn't know what to do.

Someone suddenly hugged her behind her, and she was so frightened that she opened her mouth to scream, and a thin palm covered her mouth and covered all the shouts.

She smelled a fresh citrus scent.

My heart suddenly relaxed.

Granny Hu's face, in the faint light, appeared in front of her.

Granny Hu put her finger to her mouth, and she nodded immediately when she saw it.

Quietly, she was picked up - like snow in her arms.

She followed Granny Hu all the way to the corridor, without stopping, and walked along the corridor for a long time before returning to her house.

"Who's shouting from inside?"

"It should be a woman named Mu Fangqing. ”

"Who is she, and why is she in such pain?"

"Jianghu people, more than ten years ago, became famous, 'Lanying Goddess'. Back then, she was quite beautiful, married to a famous teacher of the Qingcheng faction, backed by the martial arts faction, walked the rivers and lakes, and no one wanted to provoke her. She likes to fight unevenly, she can be regarded as a woman. ”

Hu Pozi peeled off the citrus and handed it to Cao Yinzhu, the little girl's mood changed very quickly, she was no longer afraid, she ate it in her mouth, and said that it was sweet.

She still had a citrus in her hand, but she was already stuck in her memories.