Yuebai learned that the mute was also from the Inspiration Village, and said that he was going to mine why he was looking at flowers in the valley. And a dumb hunchback shouldn't be able to do any special farm work. Don't make mistake about it, it looks like we're going to be here for a while.

In the countryside, the rooster crows very early, at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, and the fog has not yet receded. Yuebai got up early, standing in the courtyard and looking at the distant mountains disappearing in the morning light, far and near, high and low. The newly rising sun loomed like an egg yolk under the cover of the mountains.

With a "squeak", the courtyard door was gently opened. It turned out to be the old man, who had already come back with water so early.

One person, two buckets. The light shrouded the human body through the mist like a circle of aura.

It turned out to be an uncle, and he got up early in the morning to carry water.

"Uncle, got up so early?"

"When people get older, it is not easy to fall asleep, and it is easy to wake up. I just saw that there was not much water in the tank. The uncle poured water into the tank, turned around and sat down.

"Let's boil some sweet potato porridge. ”

Yuebai drove the firewood in the stove.

"Uncle, are there many people going to mine in this village?"

The uncle lit a cigarette and lay on the rocking chair and spit out a puff of cigarette: "Many, almost all the men over 14 years old and under 50 years old went at that time." ”

"Do you also go to those who are literate and literate?"

"There are also those who have a bad family background, and they can't eat a few words if they know a few words. ”

"Do you accept everything, like a physical disability or something?"

"There are very few people with physical disabilities in our village. The uncle groaned for a while: "When you ask this, I think of one, the yellow dog is left, he is pitiful, he is a hunchback." There is nothing wrong with the rest. When he was born, his parents were in their 50s, and he had 5.6 brothers and sisters, and only three of them were supported. Not long after he was born, his parents died. It all depends on his eldest brother and sister-in-law to support him. He heard that there was such a way to make money, and it was the most active one to go to. ”

"Oh, what a wretch, too. Yuebai was thoughtful.

"He doesn't have a family, he doesn't look very good? The family background is average, he doesn't ask for a daughter-in-law, and his brother and sister-in-law treat him well. He also put his brother's salary in the past few years, and his brother was going to keep it for him to ask for a daughter-in-law, after all, there were many people who couldn't eat these years. There are not many honest and reliable people. ”

"Where are they, brother?"

"Where can we go? We rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat the water. It's a half-day journey to pick up a little mountain goods to sell in the city, where can I go?"

"Just two days ago, his sister-in-law passed away. The family is still doing white things, and after seven days of parking, the people in our village will see them off. There are not many young people in the village, and those who carry the coffins are still invited from other places. I don't know if this dog is leftover, his sister-in-law is also his adoptive mother, and her biological mother is not as old as her adoptive mother. His sister-in-law is gone, and he should have come to deliver it. ”

"Is his sister-in-law good to him?"

"Very good, although the dog is hunchbacked, he is smart and has a lot of ideas. Since childhood, he has been naughty and mischievous. Later, he herded cattle for the village chief's family, and learned some writing from the village chief's son. Herding cattle far, his sister-in-law is sending him food to eat, cold and summer, who can insist?"

Gou Yu often told the people in the village that when he grew up, he would be filial to his brother and sister-in-law like honoring his father and mother, and his sister-in-law had not yet enjoyed the blessings of the day, so he went like this. ”

"Isn't he dumb?" Yuebai was a little strange.

"Of course not, you know him?"

"No, I knew a hunchbacked man who was mute, so I thought he was mute too. ”

The old man smoked a cigarette, stood up, and walked to the yard with his hands behind his back to chop wood.

Yuebai also saw that the porridge in the pot was a little boiling, so she lifted the lid of the pot and boiled slowly with firewood.

The sweet smell of sweet potato porridge slowly filled the air one by one, and Yuebai took the spatula and stirred the sweet potato porridge, afraid that the porridge would stick to the bottom of the pot and be burnt.

Porridge should be simmered slowly.

"Look at you cooking porridge and cooking, it's all delicious. What did you do before?" the old man walked in with a pile of firewood.

"I used to be a cook for a rich family. Yuebai said with a smile.

"Then it's no wonder. ”

"Send the dog's leftover sister-in-law in a few days, you can also go and help if you can. "The old man is a little embarrassed. "My family will also pass, they are all old women and women, and they don't know what to do?"

"Yes, I'd love to, can I help?"

For white happy events, the village has always had a flowing water feast.

The coffin of the dog's sister-in-law was placed in the main hall. There are houses on both sides of the main hall, and I heard that they are the houses of their grandparents, which are two-bedroom and three-bedroom. The dog leftover house belongs to the third room, on the right side of the main hall. There are about 10 tables in front of the foyer that comes out of the main hall, which must have been put together by each family. Some of them are so old that they can't be seen red. There are several large cauldrons in the open air, and something is being cooked.

The white things in the countryside are also lively, and it is necessary to give people away to eat, and set off firecrackers, so that people can walk more lively.

Yuebai saw the eldest brother of the dog from a distance, who was kneeling in front of the coffin and muttering something.

The old man went over and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be too sad and sad, you don't feel good when you see it." ”

Brother Gou Yu nodded and didn't say anything.

When the moon was not long in the morning, he came out with a large basket of vegetables and went to the stream with a group of women to wash vegetables.

"Big sister, you are the niece of Uncle Wu's family, you haven't been to our village before. "Parents are short, and many people don't know each other, so they like to talk together.

"Yes, how did this sister-in-law get there?"

"Don't tell me, the night before yesterday, I suddenly died. Everyone didn't know what was going on, but that day the dog left his brother Lao Wang happened to go out to sell the game he had hunted in the mountains. ”

"Hurry up and don't want to stay in the store, came back overnight, just arrived home in the early morning, found that her daughter-in-law was dead, her head was gone, Lao Wang's son was still sleeping soundly, what happened I don't know. ”

"Then I don't know why I died, so I was buried?" Yuebai was a little strange.

That morning, Lao Wang went to tell the village chief that his daughter-in-law had died unexplained and did not know why. The village chief and Miaozhu also went over to see it, and Miaozhu said that it was the destiny of heaven, and the head was missing and he had to be buried quickly, or something bad would happen. So it was buried in a few days. ”

Chatting, washing vegetables, time flies.

Yuebai put the washed vegetables in the basket and drained the water for a while.

"It should be the day he escaped from the valley that day his sister-in-law didn't have it. Yuebai secretly calculated the time. How is the dog's leftover note going to be handed over to his brother?

Yuebai followed the group of women who had been talking to each other back to Lao Wang's house, and Lao Wang still sat there in a daze.