Chapter 5 chapter Five

Followed the ten methods that Xiaoqing sent back one by one, but there was no effect in the end, Yueyue no longer believed in the theory of nerve short circuit, and went to the hospital to seek medical treatment and get medicine in person.The doctor said that the disease was very common, and within ten minutes, he prescribed the "impotence prescription" composed of more than ten kinds of herbs: 30 grams of rehmannia glutinosa, 12 grams of dogwood, 3 grams each of Polygala, Morinda officinalis, Cistanche, and Eucommia , 9 grams each of cinnamon and Poria cocos, 15 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, and 9 grams of ginseng.The prescription is simple, but getting the medicine made Yueyue go all over the Chinese medicine shops in Xiema Town, but she couldn’t catch a herb called dogwood, so Yueyue rode to the moon next to Xiema Mountain in the afternoon when there was no class. Look for it on the mountain.Because it just entered summer, the leaf buds of dogwood have just formed two comb-shaped tooth pieces on the surface, and the root used for medicinal materials is just like a sweet potato that has just been born.Yueyue couldn't wait for it to grow up, she used a shovel to dig out bag after bag of dogwood with thick fingers.From then on, the Lin family's compound in Shanghekou, Xiema Mountain Villa, was filled with an unpleasant smell mixed with bitterness.Yueyue hides the process of the national army's illness, but she can't hide the fact that the national army is taking medicine. She was questioned by her in-laws that the national army suffered from appendicitis.However, as long as the national army is taking medicine, the parents-in-law can't help but worry about their son who got sick after marrying his daughter-in-law.Yueyue can no longer take care of so many things, the only thing she can do is squatting in front of the oil stove every night and every morning while boiling medicine, humming a cheerful little tune.The shape of the medicine bubbling in the medicine hanging reminded her of the springs of the Erdao River downstream of the reservoir, so the sweet singing of the spring water ding dong spring water ding dong spring water ding dong made her in-laws feel that taking medicine is not so bad and so much ominous thing.But as soon as she left the Lin family compound, her entire throat and heart were filled with the bitter and sticky smell of medicine. The bitter taste in her body and her clothes lingered in the school's office and classroom for a long time.

There are times when Yueyue ignores the smell of medicine, that is, reading Mr. Lu Xun's novel "Hometown" with students, or explaining to students the prose "A Bridge Built by Mother" by Japanese writer Tsutomu Mizukami.That cold morning in her hometown, the compass with thin legs standing at the door brought her many childhood memories.Every time Yueyue reads "Hometown" and talks about "Hometown", she can always think of Tunjie in Xiahekou's hometown and the daughter-in-law of the gong maker who carries water back and forth on Tunjie.The daughter-in-law of a gong maker who was thrown into prison by a man for stealing mountains was so thin that she was almost a compass; and the mother who built a bridge over a stream in "The Bridge Built by Mother" reminded Yueyue of her mother's childhood memories. silent.Yueyue's mother did not build a bridge between her home and the valley leading to her home, but her mother's silence when others were panicked and unable to stand it was a huge bridge that extradited her fragile childhood heart to a strong one.At this time, Yueyue's face showed the brightness, tranquility and gentleness in the eyes of the students before she got married.In class, Yueyue is often like a mountain peony flower, quietly gazing at the sky outside the window. Through the glass, the sky reflects the lonely daughter-in-law of a gong craftsman with thin feet, and the silent mother with little feet; The distant or complicated past——Qingzhu, Xiujuan, Brother Zheng'an...

Just during a class break, when Yueyue forgot about the sick national army and the bitter medicinal soup, a face as gray and black as locust tree bark was reflected in front of her eyes.Yueyue felt a little dazed at first glance, the flickering light on the glass blurred her cognitive ability.When Yueyue avoided the direct light and fixed her eyes sharply, Yueyue could see clearly that a pair of small black eyes and a mouthful of clean white teeth were staring at her in that dark gray face.Yueyue pushed open the door of the classroom and called Maizi.The sudden appearance of Maizi at the door of the classroom caused Yueyue's heart to twitch for no reason.Yueyue said Maizi, why are you here?What's up?Maizi smiled, grinning lightly on his upper lip covered with black stubble.It was the first time Yueyue saw Maizi smile, and his face was always gloomy at Qingzhu's funeral.To Yueyue's surprise, this face was still cloudy, but with a slight swipe of her upper lip, there was a brilliance after the cloudy rain, and the cracks in the clouds had just cracked, giving people a throbbing that was more thorough than the sun.Because Maizi is at the door, Yueyue was very close to Maizi when she rushed out.Maizi took a step back, looked at Yueyue with small eyes, grinned his upper lip again, and said that I was selling tiles in the town, and when I passed by here, I just...

Yueyue laughed, it was the first time Yueyue heard Maizi speak.Maizi has a Heilongjiang accent, and his pronunciation is very positive, not as rustic as Liaonan dialect, and has a kind of sea oyster flavor.Yueyue thinks the reason is definitely not that simple, it must have something to do with Qingzhu, but for a while, Yueyue doesn't know how to face her dead girlfriend's fiancé, who is in class again. When Yueyue was hesitating, Maizi retracted her smile, like a seam in the clouds closing again.Maizi restrained his smile, lowered his head, his thin yellow hair drooped down, and said, Teacher Weng, I want to talk to you.Maizi speaks Mandarin really nicely, like an announcer on TV.Yueyue looked at her watch and said yes, ten minutes, at the side of the playground, just wait for ten minutes.

The bell for the end of get out of class rang, and Yueyue rushed to Maizi by the playground with her textbooks in her arms.At this time, the sun has cast a long shadow on Maizi in the western sky.Yueyue stepped on the shadow, saw Maizi's big rough hands that had nowhere to put them, and remembered the scene of holding her own hands more than a month ago. This grip extended the friendship between her and Qingzhu. It extends to the side of the school playground which is more than ten miles away from Xiema Villa.Maizi's lips parted again, revealing an imperceptible glow.Maizi said, Teacher Weng, I would like to invite you to the restaurant.

Yueyue has been a substitute teacher for five years, and has interacted with many people in the town, but no one has ever invited her to dinner alone.It's not that the people in the town are old-fashioned. No one in Xiema Town is used to this kind of consumption at this time of year, and no one is used to this way of making friends.Maizi, who had just walked out of the cave for a few years, actually offered to invite him to the restaurant... Yueyue showed a little embarrassment in surprise, but Maizi turned her head resolutely and walked towards the school gate leading to the town street.Yueyue had no choice but to follow passively, watching Maizi's skinny body move there, guessing in her heart what this dark-faced boy could tell her.

In a humble snack bar called Zhongjie, Maizi ordered three dishes.The way Maizi enters the restaurant to order food is very casual and authentic, which doesn't bring any embarrassment to Yueyue.He moved very quickly, in a short while he wiped the table, rewashed the chopsticks, brought the stool, and handed the stool and chopsticks to Yueyue like a thoughtful brother.When he actually sat down, he smiled at Yueyue and said, Qingzhu and I have had dinner many times in this place.Yueyue glanced at Maizi, and the corner of her mouth twitched.Maizi said, Teacher Weng, you are Qingzhu's friend, and I want to talk to you if I have something to say.Maizi started everything he wanted to say to Yueyue in an unusually flat and calm tone.

After Qingzhu passed away, Maizi became seriously ill, with a high fever that persisted and talked nonsense for days, and the paralyzed mother screamed at Maizi with her sunken eyes.Later, the fever subsided, and the mind was a little lucid. A phantom of Qingzhu wearing a green gauze dress that was everywhere in the phantom gradually disappeared, and the empty room was suddenly filled with regret and self-blame—why should you doubt Qingzhu? Torturing Qingzhu, he was the one who forced Qingzhu to death... Regret and self-blame flooded into a flood of water in an instant, swallowing the thatched cottage at the east cliff entrance of Xiema Villa.Maizi struggled and swam, panting heavily, swirling the airflow, repeatedly tossing and turning to block his mother's approach.The mother struggled to get up when her son was lying on the kang, like an old horse with broken legs, huddled and slowly wriggled between the stove and the room, spreading eggs and cooking gruel for his son.Maizi turned a blind eye to the food.He got up tremblingly again and again, and lay down tremblingly again and again. He regretted that he hadn't told the truth to Qingzhu's relatives at the first moment.At that time, if he told the truth, Qingzhu's relatives would beat him to a pulp.And now, the thing he looks forward to the most is that someone will beat him to a pulp.His chest was oppressed like an iron pot, and a cloud of gas accumulated in his chest went straight to the top of his head.He kept asking again and again, why did he force Qingzhu, why did he doubt Qingzhu?for what?Is it because her world is big?Because she mentioned the mayor?he answered himself.When the mayor suddenly entered Maizi's consciousness, his depressed mood suddenly changed, self-blame and regret evaporated like dew, and countless sentences "Why are you not the mayor" suddenly flew into the empty room? !Maizi got up with a groan, and shouted out the window, the mayor is the fart!His yelling disturbed the dog in the yard, which was basking in the sun, and the dog ran to the kang, shaking its head and tail.Meeting the dog's eyes, he suddenly lowered his head and got into bed.His howling could only startle a dog's tail wagging, which made him shy and disappointed. He was blindfolded for three days and three nights, motionless like a dead man.When he woke up again, it was already a sunny morning. He slowly got up, put on his clothes, and carried his mother to the kang. During the few days when he was seriously ill, his mother had not been able to go to the kang, and she ate and slept underground.When he smelled a smell of firewood ash against his mother's face, his tears rolled down. This was the first time he cried after Qingzhu's death.At this moment, Maizi felt that something, a hard and somewhat terrifying thing, crawled into his heart, blood vessels, and bones like a worm.

On the first day after Maizi got up on the kang, he shoveled down the loess at the mouth of the cliff that had not been shoveled for many days, pushed a cart of wet sand into the river loop with a small cart, and stirred it into a sticky cake with the leftover water in the tank at the door. Then use a broom to level the flat ground in front of the door, take down the goose-tail shaped adobes and hang them up one by one.Because of his weak body, Maizi's movements were trembling, squatting and staggering occasionally.On the first day after starting the kang, Maizi only made a small cart of goose-tail-shaped bricks made of sand.And the tiles that can only be filled with a quarter of the earthen kiln did not affect the baking time of Maizi as usual.In the dark night, the firewood burns into a fire dragon like molten iron. The fire dragon rolls and climbs towards the depths of the kiln.The fire dragon ignited the oak stakes one by one, and the oak stakes made hissing moans and beeping sounds as soon as they were lit.Maizi's thoughts crawling in his veins a few days ago followed the sound, and cast a kiln of tiles that were not in large quantities but enough to be sold on the streets of Xiema Town.

As soon as Maizi got up, he put into small batch production, not to test his ability, but to go to town as soon as possible.One day, Maizi made a bowl of noodles with meat sauce for his mother, put them in a basin, and then pushed the bricks on the road with a wheelbarrow.Because there are few bricks, the process of hiring a car is omitted. Before going to town, the rusty red tiles meet buyers at the intersection of the wasteland under Moon Mountain.The buyer surnamed Yao saw a small cart of tiles, as if meeting his own parents, and shouted "come, come, come" with joy.It turned out that Yao's family had just built a new house for their daughter-in-law, and the walls of the courtyards in the village were made of square bricks and hollow flowers.The buyer waited hard, bought Maizi's tiles, and reserved the third kiln.Because the car was empty, the buyer was a little disappointed. It didn't matter whether he sold the bricks or not. The important thing was that he was going to Xiema Town. The empty car made him no reason to go to town.However, after hesitating for a while, Maizi continued to move forward with the empty cart.This time he went straight to the point. He put the empty car in the open space at the entrance of the town bus station, and walked alone to the town government with a plaque in bold "Xiama Town Government, Wenggu County, Communist Party of China". I have never been close to it, and it seems that government places have never been destined for a country bumpkin like him who works hard to live.But when Maizi walked in, he was not stopped by anyone.The town government is a set of courtyards, with a row of tile-roofed houses in the front and a row of tile-roofed houses in the back. There is a flat cement passage between the tiled houses.Maizi wandered around the tile-roofed houses in the front row for a while, and two people in blue and gray uniforms looked at him twice in the door with the words "National People's Congress" written on it. Government Office, Family Planning Office, Agriculture Office, Industry Office, Publicity Office.I was shopping with my sleeves in my hands, and when I looked at the cards one by one, a series of crisp and melodious bells rang, and then I heard someone shouting, "It's me, it's Xiema Town, five people from the province?"Got it, five people.After listening to the phone call, Maizi smiled triumphantly, then walked to the backyard, and walked to the door plate of the corridor that said Secretary's Office and Mayor's Office.There was no one in the secretary's room. He saw a flat-faced man in the mayor's office looking at some materials. He stopped at the door of the buyer, hesitated for a while, and unfolded the note in his hand in his pocket, thinking silently the words on the note: Grown up, be careful of your black hat, just wait, one day, there will be a boy in Xiema Town who will knock off your dog-tailed official.Maizi passed the mayor's gate and walked towards the clerk's office. He stuffed a note with a dozen petite characters into the crack of the door and swaggered out of the backyard.When Maizi walked from the backyard to the front yard, he deliberately took square steps, with his hands behind his back and his neck straight.After leaving the town government, Maizi went to the barbershop that Qingzhu had rented before his death. Nothing had changed there, except that the word Qingzhu was changed to Xiuxiu.The girl named Xiuxiu smiled at him, and the man selling groceries behind him shouted, look, this is the object of the dead Qingzhu.Maizi didn't look back, Maizi kept going, bypassing the department store and coming to Yueyue School.Yueyue always thought that Maizi invited her to the restaurant to talk about her nostalgia for Qingzhu, the hardships of life, and the fatigue of firing kilns. Yueyue knew that every young man in the mountains had a fiery dream.But Maizi asked Yueyue for two bottles of homemade soda in Xiema Town, and asked Yueyue about the school and said nothing, as if there were no ideals in his place, and all difficulties were digested.He looked calm and not as distressed as imagined.If Maizi doesn't say anything, Yueyue can't provoke other people's pain.Yueyue looked at Maizi whom Qingzhu said was a ball of fire, he was already so thin that his square chin was like a wooden shovel for shoveling tofu, the lower throat of the wooden shovel was raised high.He took care of Yueyue for a while, letting Yueyue eat vegetables, and eating by himself for a while, as if he hadn't eaten for many days, a plate of fried tofu, a plate of fried liver tips, and a plate of fried potato balls were reduced by half after a while .Yueyue looked at him carefully, looking for the feeling that Qingzhu passed on to her that was different from the national army.He ate for a while, raised his head and smiled at Yueyue, then picked up the plate with the tip of the liver, regardless of whether Yueyue disliked it, poured it into Yueyue's bowl, Teacher Weng, you eat, I invite you to come Eat, I hope you can eat well.

In the small restaurant, they didn't know how long they sat, Yueyue ate a bowl of red bean rice and cleaned the bottom of the dishes under the guidance of Maizi.Maizi ordered a pack of pig's head meat for his mother and sat across from her.Yueyue finds out that Maizi is indeed different from Guojun. Guojun won't invite her to dinner. It doesn't matter.Maizi does have the kind of passion, slack, and informality that Qingzhu said about flowing freely, and this informality makes people feel ironed and comfortable, with a kind of comforting warmth, a kind of hot air, just like the moon. Yue didn't know how this enthusiasm caused Qingzhu to suffer later.Maizi finished eating and drinking, watched Yueyue finish eating and drinking, wiped the fine beads of sweat on his face heavily, unzipped the old autumn clothes with brick red stains, and said, Teacher Weng Yueyue, today I will It is very important, it is very important for me to invite you out, I will never forget you... You held my hand at Qingzhu's funeral that day, I knew I would never forget you, you are different from others... ...Yueyue didn't know what Maizi said was different, whether she meant that she was generous and open, and that she was able to go out to dinner with him, or that she didn't regard him as a rough person and valued him.In fact, if it wasn't through Qing Zhu, she wouldn't have treated him like this. Of course, she didn't have the slightest regret for treating him like this. He really made her feel like a different person.When we parted, Maizi didn't look back, he carried a bag of pork head and quickly disappeared at the corner in front of the department store.Yueyue watched him off, and suddenly an idea came to her heart, Maizi——the best candidate to take over the official class. A farmer living in a landless country by burning tiles in several kilns was able to treat guests to dinner, which shocked Yueyue's soul. This shock did not show its full picture at the time. I have worked in the town for five years and been in love with the national army for four years, but I have never really been the master of the town once. An indescribable feeling sinks from the beginning of reflection to the bottom of my heart, forming a long-lasting fluctuation.Of course, what shocked me was not the meal itself, but the consciousness that led to this behavior, but another arrangement for life. The days at Xiema Villa should have been arranged in a different way. While Yueyue was shocked, she forgot the bitterness of cooking medicine for her husband's national army, and wished she could go home and see her father-in-law.But things happened by accident, as soon as Yueyue returned to school and sat down at her desk, she found a note on the desk: Teacher Weng, your mother sent a letter asking you to go back to your natal home after get off work.This is a student's handwriting, half script and half cursive, with a lost name.Yueyue rolled up the note and asked Mr. Li at the opposite table who gave it to him?Teacher Li said that it seemed to be a student in Class 4.Yueyue unfolded the note again, read it again, her eyes stopped on the words "return to her mother's house".Yueyue doesn't know what happened at Xiahekou's house, she hasn't been back for a long time, maybe her mother misses herself too much, the kind of round-robin raising must have given her a deep taste of being homeless in old age, Yueyue I couldn't help but feel sour in my heart, and the circles of my eyes turned red.After getting married, whenever she touched her mother, she felt an indescribable sadness in her heart. Because Xiahekou was calling, Yueyue put the matter of buying a child behind her in her heart, she called the national army, took a leave of absence, and went back to her mother's house alone. The summer fan blows heat waves and flows from the remaining veins of Xiema Mountain, and the fields open their hearts to Yueyue with its different green colors.Because it has been a long time since I went home directly from get off work like before, when I walked into Qianchuantun Street, I felt a strange yet familiar breath in my heart. It can be smelled in a trance, but when you look for it carefully, it no longer exists.Walking through Tun Street, there is a small river. On the other side of the small river, there is a lush and green forest. Behind the small forest is the mouth of the lower river.Yueyue took off her shoes and waded across the small river, then put down her bicycle, took off her socks and squatted down on a stone slab across the river to wash her feet.However, when Yueyue was squatting on the stone slab, she only heard someone coming wading through the river.Yueyue turned her head, a huge figure grabbed the bicycle and pushed it away, Yueyue stood up immediately, before she had time to put on her shoes, she kept shouting, why are you pushing the cart?Yueyue yelled twice, the man stopped and turned around, and smiled treacherously at Yueyue, with a pair of canine teeth sticking out of the corners of his wide mouth.Yueyue said it was you, you want to steal a car?The man said not to steal the car, but to steal you.Yueyue stopped talking, lowered her head to put on her shoes, when Yueyue put on her shoes and came up, the man had already walked into the grove. The man walked into the grove, stopped suddenly, pushed the car to Yueyue, and asked Yueyue to pick it up.Because she had to walk to the side close to that person if she wanted to pick up the car, Yueyue hesitated.The man said, Don't be afraid, Weng Yueyue, I won't move your fingers, it's a kind of enjoyment to push the car for you for a while. Yueyue raised her head bravely, and generously met the other party's gaze in the dark, Brother Hu, I'm already married, why do you do this? The man didn't look at her, what did that mean?You and Lin Guojun are actually not happy, and will become more and more unhappy. Hearing this, Yueyue's head buzzed, as if a thunderbolt had exploded deep in her skull, and then her muscles tightened and her lips trembled.This very conceptual sentence made Yueyue touch a terrible specific disaster in an instant. This disaster happened on her and Lin Guojun's wedding night. This disaster was related to the man in front of her. kind of fire.A burst of anger suddenly ignited in Yueyue's chest, she stepped forward and grabbed the car from the left side and rammed it into the man, cursing as she hit, "Tiger's paw, you are a tiger's paw that doesn't learn well, God will repay you." The tiger's claws were neither angry nor speaking, and Ren Yueyue hit him with a car.After a long time, he held the car down and said, Weng Yueyue, you can scold me, I do all kinds of crimes by stealing chickens and dogs, you can scold me... If you ignored me back then, I wouldn't ruin my reputation. If I had a good reputation, I would I won't let you go to Lin Guojun... I thought it would be easy to touch you, but I didn't touch you, you have to thank me, I have loved you for five years and haven't touched you, you have to thank me--Tiger Claw lowered his voice, every time Exporting every word gives people the feeling of a wild wolf eating meat. Yueyue pulled back the car again, and said loudly, I tell you, you don't even want to touch me, you don't know how bad your reputation is in Xiema Villa!Tiger Claw said, I know, I know, Weng Yueyue, I sent a message to call you back today, just to tell you one thing, the fire was definitely not my intention, I am really angry that you married the national army. I heard that the fire really came from the tiger's paw, and today's letter is also the ghost of him. The anger in Yueyue's chest has already met the humiliation, a kind of humiliation of being insulted and bullied, which makes Yueyue wish she could rush forward and use her fingers. Grab his throat.This demon ruined her life with his own hands and told her gleefully!Tears of humiliation mixed with tears of anger rushed down his cheeks in an instant.Yueyue suppressed her crying, and pressed a rising voice to her chest like that night when she was frightened by sparks, her shoulders kept shaking.At this time, Tiger Claw grabbed the bicycle and put it down heavily, saying sorry to Weng Yueyue, I really didn't mean it, but, but I didn't expect to frighten the national army, this is probably destiny, God won't let him get you. After Tiger Claw finished speaking, he walked towards the grove.Yueyue pushed up the car, and her fluttering chest made her breathless. Yueyue shouted at the back of the tiger's paw: "God will repay you too." On the way back to my mother-in-law's house in Shanghekou. Yueyue, who had been greatly hurt, was very anxious to return to the national army at this time. She wanted to tell her husband, her father-in-law and everyone in the Lin family the truth.This well-known scoundrel in Xiema Villa did not receive heavy punishment, which made many people eager to fight. He always wanted to be the captain, but he never became the captain. , sneaked into Houjia Pianxia and stole all the pork, and wrote a note at the gate of Xiamen after stealing: Thousands of scoops of food, ten thousand scoops of bran should be kept for pork knuckles. You try it, and you go door-to-door to collect small money. Whether you eat it or not is the same Everyone knew that he did it, but he was allowed to get away with it because no evidence could be found.He doesn't steal from poor households or relatives and neighbors. Stealing is just an expression of emotion for him.If stealing can't solve the problem, he deliberately provokes the incident and beats him.That year, the first phase of the water diversion project was being repaired in the city downstream of the reservoir, and the remaining 12 bags of cement were taken home by the public security director of the reservoir area.What aroused the public's indignation the most was that after the rise of migrant workers in Xiema Villa, he did not go out to work as a migrant worker, nor did he work on his own land, but only picked women who were not at home. Promise, so that many women were deceived into his possession.This public anger first came from the old men and women in the villa, and then gradually spread to the men who returned from migrant workers.What's annoying is that when the men heard about this wind, they organized to beat him and kill him, but the women shouted at home to stop him.In order not to embarrass his own woman, in the end he had no choice but to beat his own woman severely.People who do evil to the tiger's paws are as uncomfortable as seeing mosquitoes sucking blood on the insteps but unable to reach them.He was walking on the ridges in the mountains, and people saw him as if he saw a ghost. Some old people coaxed their children and couldn't control them, so they shouted loudly, tiger claws are coming!Because the adults usually gnash their teeth and preach, the children are obedient and honest as soon as they hear the tiger's paw is coming. Tiger Claw became a well-known ghost figure in the villa because he has a pair of long arms that can carry two hundred catties of grain. These arms are all scary for stealing and beating people.Yueyue has been hiding from him for several years, not because she is afraid of him stealing, but because of his covetous eyes. He always looks at her with lustful eyes, and often goes to Yueyue to wash clothes or Stopped her halfway while weeding in the field, and said some nonsense to her that made her blush even though she didn't understand it.For a while, he waited for her at the school gate almost every day.It should be admitted that his initial reputation was not very bad, but Yueyue didn't like to catch up with that type.Whether it is because Yueyue has been ignoring him that he broke the pot, Yueyue has no way of knowing.Because in terms of seniority, he is an aunt's nephew and a distant relative, Yueyue has never felt that he is a threat to her, but she never thought that he would hurt Yueyue so viciously. Yueyue walked alone on the dark mountain road.Yueyue vowed to take him to prison to eliminate harm for the villa.All she had to do was tell Guojun that Guojun would never forgive him.The newly lit lights at Shanghekou aroused her resentment, and the steaming heat under the eaves of the Lin family compound influenced her faith far away.But as soon as she walked to Tun Street, Yueyue was changed by an unexpected idea, and there was no evidence to sue.This is not important, the important thing is that the national army has become very sensitive, if let him know that a man ruined his happiness and self-esteem, he will be so angry that he will go crazy until he can't live every minute peacefully, what's more important Unfortunately, the lost self-esteem of the national army cannot be known to everyone.When Yueyue approached the house, her nose got sore and she immediately turned her head. Yueyue walked back to her mother's house with a deep foot and a shallow foot.She didn't know how long she had walked, or how many times she had sprained her feet on the dirt road. When she returned to the third sister-in-law's yard covered in travel dust, the quilt had already been placed on the mother's kang. The greatest luck is that the mother happens to be in the Weng family's old house where the third sister-in-law lives, and Yueyue has forgotten her mother's travel career in desperation.Seeing Yueyue's return, my mother's eyes twitched with joy, and the vein-like forehead lines suddenly flattened.Perhaps it was because my mother had just come back, the old house had a rotten smell that had been airtight for a long time, and the pendulum of the Russian-style wall clock hung there like a cross.The third sister-in-law Xiujuan saw that Yueyue was very enthusiastic, so she hurriedly cooked a meal.The apology that she didn’t eat the meal when she returned home and the three hundred yuan in fertilizer money kept her busy inside and out, and she kept staring at Yueyue’s eyes that had been wet with tears under the light and asked, why did she come back?Yueyue smiled gently, Yueyue said that the classes are too tight these days, and she wanted to come back a long time ago to take a look, and the higher education fund was collected, and I knew there was no money at home. The reason I picked up at random suddenly called out the third brother from Westinghouse.The third elder brother Xing'an yelled, "It's not that our family has no money, no one can resist it. One person gets forty, and a family of five or six people gets two or three hundred."Yueyue said, I will take the share of our mother and nephew.The third brother said that everyone said it was unreasonable, so why should we take it?Yueyue talked about the decision to raise the education fund in Wenggu County that she had heard from the outside world.Just as he was talking, the damper opened, and the second elder brother, second sister-in-law, elder sister-in-law and Feng Bu's nephew came in with a bang, obviously it was the third sister-in-law's son, Feng Long Bao's letter. No matter how much they care about life and pension, at the critical moment, the lingering affinity of the first-milk blood is still flowing. Except for the eldest brother who was a migrant worker, the descendants of Weng's father all came back every month. And gathered at the knees of the mother.They want to talk about the education fund again every month, and then talk about the unwelcome situation that the captain of the village team is so lucky to collect house by house. They said that when he received it from Tiger Claw's house, Tiger Claw let a dog bite him.No one noticed the frown of Xiujuan's brows when the mention of thick fortune was mentioned, nor did anyone notice the change in Yueyue's face when the tiger's paw was mentioned.Later, the sister-in-law brought the topic to Qingzhu, insisting on Yueyue to talk about what Qingzhu looked like when she died, saying that everyone in the village said that Qingzhu had a change of heart when he opened a barber shop in the town, and his maid was pushed to the reservoir to kill him.Before Yueyue could open her mouth, Fu An and Xing An stopped her sister-in-law's words, saying that you must have listened to that West Courtyard again, and you can't talk nonsense, human life is at stake.The second brother extinguished the topic of chatting, and gradually brought up another topic. The second brother said that it is really not good to farm at home now. Qingzhu's father said that Qingzhu made a thousand yuan in less than a month after opening the barber shop.Yueyue said, who in our family can perm his head?Xing'an said that if we don't have a perm and do something else, I don't believe that I have to leave my family and business and go to the city to earn money.Yueyue didn't make a sound, Yueyue finally understood the inner reason why everyone rushed to see her back, they wanted the Yueyue Gang to think about some business in the town.Fu An said, "Yuemei, your third brother has no skills and can't contribute. I want to use my carpentry skills to guide him. You know people in the town. Let's see if you can rent a house on the edge of the town and open a small furniture store." Son…… There was no response for a month and a month.After the Cultural Revolution, their family has been taboo to say the word "business" for many years. It was the father's running business, which made the Weng family feel dishonored as farmers for many years.The land is divided into households, and craftsmen are allowed to work alone. Lin Zhibang in Shanghekou made a lot of money, but they never thought it had anything to do with "business". Never thought of doing "business"... Although Yueyue didn't have any thoughts in her heart, she still couldn't hide her joy. She finally saw a little bit of her father's inheritance from her brother. Yueyue didn't say whether it was okay or not, but only said this idea Very good, let her take it easy. That night, Yueyue's mind was in a mess, buying things, tiger's claws, buying and selling, it was played in front of her eyes over and over again like a movie, but in the end it was the second brother and third brother's business that lasted till dawn.Yueyue discovers that as long as she goes home, returns to her mother, hears her mother's no longer even breathing with slight snoring, and sees the one-milk compatriots born by her mother, her personal experiences and emotions are all stained by seeing laundry. Washed off like powder.Yueyue knows that this is her grandmother's inheritance, her mother's inheritance, her character and her destiny. Early the next morning, Yueyue got up early to open the windows, and cleaned her mother's old house thoroughly for the first time after marriage.When Yueyue was cleaning the facing cabinet inlaid with tiles, her mother took out a red paper bag from the bottom drawer of the facing cabinet and put it in Yueyue's hands.Yueyue looked at her mother in amazement, thinking that the third sister-in-law returned the three hundred yuan to buy fertilizer.A thick piece of yellow table paper was stacked on top of each other, Yueyue slowly unfolded it, and the folded place showed signs of damage. What caught Yueyue's eyes was a painting, a painting of an ancient palace-style house with three entrances and three exits. There is a line of official script calligraphy on it. Yueyue carefully identified it, and then I realized it a little bit. It is a sketch of Weng Zhan'ao Tingfang in Hongya Town. When the mother and her children got together at night, she kept silent.After everyone left, Yueyue was left alone, and her mother didn't ask questions like she used to. Yueyue always thought that her mother was in a good mood when she returned to the old house for the first time, and she had a good night's sleep.She never thought that her down-to-earth was because her elder brother finally talked about "buying and selling". The morning after the children talked about buying and selling, her mother could save how many generations had never taken it out. Taking out the sketch of the Chinese-style courtyard, Yueyue once again saw the broad mind of her mother stored in that frail and thin body, and also understood the hope her mother placed on herself.