"Brother, let me go quickly, I'll be seen in a while!" Xiao Hongdou saw the ancient cottage in the countryside that was close in front of him, and kept muttering.

"I've been running so far with you in my arms, and you're making a mistake. Xiao Nianxi slowly put Xiao Nizi down.

This is a small old village with flowers and willows, dilapidated and depressed, most of the houses are a little old, and the roof tiles are incomplete, which looks out of place in the current Yueyue Spring.

Because of the rain falling on the countryside, there was no one walking in the village at this time, and even the chickens and dogs that should have been crowing one after another seemed to be drowned in the sound of the rain.

Xiao Nianxi noticed a stone monument standing at the entrance of the village, "Fengxi Village." ”

Xiao Hongdou felt that if he didn't leave, he would be poured into a soup chicken, and his brother still had the heart to pay attention to the stones, so he pulled him and said, "Oh, let's find a family to go in and take shelter from the rain..."

"Gotta get it, listen to the words of the eldest lady, let's start asking one household at a time nearby, see who is willing to stay with us, okay?"

Between Xiao Nianxi's words, he suddenly felt that this time was indeed not quite the same as the comfortable cloud travel that he was lucky to think about, this weather was also strange, a few days ago it was really windy and sunny and beautiful spring and Jingming, on the other hand, once they set off in the past two days, it was either windy or rainy, which really made people feel aggrieved.

Xiao Hongdou ignored Xiao Nianxi's pitiful flattery, and grinned: "Sister doesn't worry about these problems." ”

Xiao Nianxi was puzzled,

"What's the matter, can you let you in for no reason?"

Xiao Hongdou hugged the little dove that was about to fall, and then stared at him with bad intentions, and said mysteriously: "Brother is a god of wealth now, although I don't know everything, but I also know what gold and silver ingots are~"

Hearing this, Xiao Nianxi's vest broke out in a cold sweat, and he secretly said that it was bad.

"How do you know that?"

"Hmph, did you really fall asleep when I was lying on the table that night and listening to you talk to the most handsome brother in the world?"

"Okay, you stupid bean bag! I don't see you so clever when you cultivate!"

"If I don't pretend to be asleep, you'll have to find a reason to break me apart, huh!"

"There is a saying in the saying that wealth is not exposed. You girl... Well, don't shout out there that you're all over the place. ”

"I'm not a fool, of course I know that. However, if I see something in the future, my brother can't be stingy. ”

"The family is unfortunate. ”

"Goo-goo!"

"Woohoo!"

“...”

The little dove and rhubarb also mixed up with the excitement, and Xiao Nianxi was invincible with one tongue, so he had to admit it.

An ordinary farmhouse with a fence closest to the entrance of the village has become the first choice of Xiao Nianxi's brothers and sisters.

Xiao Nianxi took the umbrella and walked in, and saw that the wooden door was some years old, and there were wrinkles on it for a long time, and the thing that attracted his attention was that there was a striking shrine embedded in the short eaves lintel, and in the shrine, there were two peach door gods of Qin Qiong and Jingde.

The door god statue is majestic and not angry, which makes Xiao Nianxi feel a deep sense of oppression.

Xiao Nianxi hesitated for a while, and then slowly knocked on the door.

"Is anyone here?" he said, controlling the pace of his voice.

"Is anyone there, please?" Xiao Hongdou also took the initiative to shout.

"Coo!" "Woooooooo

"We're here to borrow the farmer's house, not to rob, just be quiet. Xiao Nianxi said word by word.

However, the four mouths of Qi Li Gao drank it obviously, and I saw the door of the inner courtyard slowly open. Through the fence, Xiao Nianxi saw that there was only one old and one young inside,

"Who's shouting? The gray-eyed old man asked, and the drooping woman hid behind the door, her head exposed, and her eyes wide blinked.

"Old man, my brother and sister came out to travel from Niuhuo Mountain, and they never thought that they would find this place after heavy rain in the past few days. I wonder if the old man can take my brother and sister to stay in the rain?"

Rich know-it-all - Xiao Nianxi said while planning to give money, but only heard the old man's voice coming,

"That's it. . . Wait a minute!" the old man went into the house, and after a moment came out again, with a broken umbrella in his hand, and handed it to the little girl.

The little girl opened the broken umbrella, looked at the big raindrops, and without thinking too much, she hurriedly ran over.

There was a clattering sound behind the door, and the small door was opened inward.

Xiao Nianxi only found out at this time that she was wearing tattered clothes with patches and sewn sews. But she opened her big clear eyes, looked at his brother and sister intently, and muttered stupidly:

"My brother and sister are so beautiful... The clothes are beautiful, too. ”

At this time, Xiao Nianxi and Xiao Hongdou were just wearing ordinary simple cloth plain clothes. For this reason, the two couldn't help but feel nervous.

"Brother and sister, come in with me, it's raining heavily, and it's not good to catch a cold. ”

Xiao Nianxi stuck her tongue, not knowing what to say. Xiao Hongdou was not much different, but he lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

The little girl turned away.

Xiao Nianxi saw her yellowed hair wet by the rain through the hole in the broken umbrella, so he gently tapped the fan with his fingers, and the girl thought it was a big brother's game, so she was dexterous and didn't look over.

Xiao Nianxi lowered his head and asked, "What's your name?"

"Big brother can call me Qiao'er. The little girl smiled innocently.

"Qiao'er, put away your umbrella. ”

"Huh?" the little girl struggled to fold the umbrella back.

The big black umbrella covered it, and there were no more big raindrops of beans and raindrops.

The little girl looked at her head, "It's not raining, my brother's umbrella is so powerful." ”

"Big brother, come in with me!" she grabbed one of Xiao Nianxi's hands, and Xiao Nianxi held one of Xiao Hongdou's hands.

On the way, the little girl slowed down intentionally or unintentionally, as if it was the first time that she was so excited to walk through the rain without hesitation, wanting to be nostalgic.

"Qiao'er, hurry up and bring the guests in! ”

The old man saw the little girl's slow steps and shouted anxiously.

The little girl hummed and reluctantly quickened her pace.

Entering the room.

The walls of the house are peeling off, and the grass is growing. Xiao Nianxi knew for the first time what it meant to be depressed on the four walls, one poor and two white.

The old man kindly led the two of them to the only table in the hall with missing legs, and on one side, only three blackened chairs were placed in a depressed position.

After Xiao Nianxi and Xiao Hongdou thanked and sat down, he poured two bowls of hot water from floating Liao tea leaves, brought them steadily, and sat down with them. The little girl squatted on the side, teasing the rhubarb and the dove.

The old man was wearing a winter coat and was very thin. But he looked into the distance and hugged the puppy, and kissed the turtledove's granddaughter, and his vicissitudes of life were full of life and love.

After a period of greetings, Xiao Nianxi took in everything mottled in the house, and asked cautiously: "Old man, you are the only one in the family who depends on each other, and you don't see anyone else?"

The old man sighed softly, "There is no baby behind the roof at home, only my old man with half of his head buried in the loess." ”

"This, what about Qiao'er's parents?"

Before Xiao Nianxi finished speaking, he realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, and he wanted to slap himself.

The old man was silent for a while, confirming that Qiao'er, who was teasing and petting on the side, did not notice this, and then whispered,

Qiao'er's parents contracted the wind cold when she was one year old and left. ”

"Wind cold?" Xiao Nianxi had read about this mortal disease in his travelogues, but he had never thought that such an insignificant disease in his opinion could kill people.