Chapter 2 Chapter One

There were more than a dozen sacks on the table, and it was impossible to tell from the outline whether they were filled with humans or animals.The yelling said that if you want to buy it, you can buy it by catty, and you can buy a catty of Japanese women for a dime, and big meat is not so cheap.Two catties was agreed in advance, and the heaviest bag was only seventy catties.The county security regiment in black uniforms sent a squad to maintain order and fair business.The elementary school playground has been crowded with fellow villagers since the early morning, and many bachelors can't afford it.A seventy-pound Japanese woman also costs seven dollars, and a bachelor with seven dollars can afford to marry a Chinese daughter-in-law. Why do you want to bring a female ghost home?

The first snow fell early in the morning, and the road leading to Anping Town was already dark.Others arrived one after another, and if they were young men in groups of three or four, they dared to thicken their skin and asked loudly: "The purchase is not suitable, is it guaranteed to be exchanged?" The answer was always: "No exchange!" "Flower That’s a lot of money, what should I do if I buy an unsuitable one?” There will be a voice in the crowd shouting: “What’s not suitable? Once the lights go out, it’s all the same!” Or: “Whether it’s suitable, dog skin socks-- It's the same anyway!"

People just laugh. The laughter was loud and scary, and the sacks closest to the edge of the table squirmed a few times. The day before yesterday, the security group got into a fire with a group of bearded bearded bearded bearded a few, most of them ran away, leaving behind more than a dozen young Japanese girls.A bearded man with painted legs who was caught confessed that they did not do anything wrong this time, but they just beat thousands of little Japanese who had fled. How many years ago, didn't the students say that "there is no priority in the war against Japan"?The fruits of victory of the beards are half a bag of gold jewelry in the bearded leader's pocket, all picked from the corpses of small Japanese.Later, when they ran out of bullets, they released the remaining eight or nine hundred little Japanese.The security team didn't know what to do with these sixteen or seventeen-year-old female devils. All of them were so hungry that only a skin, a skeleton, and a pair of feet with countless bloody holes were left.The security team had no spare money or grain to support them, so yesterday they notified the chiefs of Baojia in each village, and asked the villagers to buy them back.A donkey is more than seven oceans.

The members of the security team shouted impatiently: "It's too late to buy, it's time to buy a frozen one and go home!" The crowd at the school gate moved and let three people in.They are an old couple and a young man.People who knew them and their companions said: "Stationmaster Zhang and his wife are here! His second child is also here!" Stationmaster Zhang is the stationmaster of the railway station.There is only one person at the railway station, including the staff, the station police and the station master.The small train is a branch line of the Boli-Mudanjiang Railway, and it only stops in Anping Town for one minute.Stationmaster Zhang stood out in a green uniform in a black jacket.People know that the stationmaster Zhang used the train to speculate, and within a minute of the train stop, he was loading and unloading goods, and from time to time he would fill in a person who did not have a ticket. Therefore, his family is not weak, and the Japanese woman who buys the most is not there. Next.The stationmaster's daughter-in-law followed shortly behind the stationmaster, stopping from time to time to stamp her little feet at the second child who fell five steps away.Stationmaster Zhang only called this son the second child, but no one had ever seen his eldest child.

Stationmaster Zhang and Er Hai's mother went under the stage, looked at more than a dozen sacks, and asked the boss of the security team to help.They pointed to a sack in the middle and said, "Straighten this one, let me see." The squad leader of the security team said, "I can't help you straight, don't you see that the sack is not big enough?" He saw that the second child's mother was still talking, so he said, "Don't play tricks, don't you just want to see how tall she is? Tell me Tell the truth, you can go to your pot to wash the dishes!"

It started to snow again.People saw the second child's mother say something to the second child, and the second child turned his face away.A young man in the crowd who was familiar with Er Hai shouted at this moment: "Er Hai, don't you have a wife? Save it for us!" The second boy didn't even shake his eyelashes at this sentence.The second child is very calm, and can't hear what he doesn't like to hear. If you really make him anxious, he can also be an ass.The second child has a pair of camel eyes, which are half-closed to everything, and even when he speaks occasionally, he does not open his lips.At this time, he followed up with his broad shoulders on his shoulders, and said without moving his lips: "Pick a bag, it can still hold food when you go home."

Stationmaster Zhang insisted on the pocket in the middle, but the squad leader of the security team told them not to open the pocket in public, and inspected the goods in private.Otherwise, seeing the Japanese woman inside, regardless of whether she is handsome or ugly, will make it difficult for them to do business below. "Seven oceans, you don't need to be lame or blind." The squad leader said as he counted Zhang's oceans. People stepped aside a wide road, watching Er Hai and his father put the Japanese woman in his pocket among the poles, and walked out with ease. Station Master Zhang wore this headband very well. Before they could load the bags on the cart, the two bags were carried away from the stage.When Stationmaster Zhang's mule cart arrived home, more than a dozen Japanese women had all been sold.People stopped making fun of it: Zhang Zhang's family didn't seem to be messing around at all, they just came to do a serious business.

The mule cart of Zhang Zhang’s family stopped at the post station opposite the primary school, and the mules had already been fed with water and food.They leveled the pocket, there must be something alive in it, you could feel it even though she wasn't moving.The second child was afraid that the mule would be tired, so he let his parents and Pocket ride in the car, and drove the car on the road by himself.The snowflakes became thicker, each piece also gained weight, and it was directly pulled from the sky to the ground by a force.There are three miles from the school to the small train station, many of which are the Zhang family's crop fields.

The bald fields turned thick and white, and people and cars walked in the heavy snow in November 1945.People later said that the snow fell late that year, but it was a good snow, so powerful.People remember everything about that year clearly, and when they tell posterity, everything is an omen, because the devil surrendered.Also because the male devils ran away, a large group of lonely female devils and devil children remained.Even the Zhang family felt that this section of the road was an omen: suddenly heavy snow covered the road.In fact, the heavy snow helped all the people in the pockets. People couldn't bear to have their pockets covered by heavy snow on the stage, so they bought them back home in a hurry.Even the person carrying it in Zhang Zhang's pocket at the moment can feel the power of the snow and the hardship of the journey.But she didn't know that the fathers of people in this area were like this, a car and an animal came from the pass.At that time, as long as anyone could not survive, he would go north.Just like the fathers of the little Japanese woman in the pocket: Whoever can't survive will go west, cross the border, and occupy the great wasteland reclaimed by the fathers there.Therefore, this place called Kanto or Manchuria became the meeting point where their enemies met on a narrow road.

At this time, Er Hai's mother looked at the motionless pocket worriedly, and asked Er Hai if he had a long coat under his jacket.The second child said no.The second child's mother said nothing more.She originally wanted the second child to take off the padded jacket and cover it up with the person in the pocket, but her son was wearing a hollow padded jacket, so of course she was reluctant to let him freeze in the cold.The second boy gave the mule a whip, and the mule started to trot, and he trotted after him.He understood what his mother meant. Stationmaster Zhang’s home is connected to the station.The waiting room and the box office are only as big as six tables for the Eight Immortals, and a side door leads to the kitchen of the Zhang family. Once the boiler is fired, both public and private are considered.Next to the kitchen is the barn, which also piles coal and firewood.After unloading the car, Er Hai carried the bag to the middle of the yard.The snow made him wrinkle his face, a pair of camel eyes squeezed tightly, and the long eyelashes had already made the snow white.

His mother yelled, saying that he hadn't just carried the bag into the house, what was he doing on the snow in the yard? The second child quickly picked up his pocket and walked to the main room.He estimated that the bag weighed less than sixty catties.What's good about the security team?Defrauded them of nearly two oceans.When he entered the main room, he realized something was wrong, put down his pockets, ran back to the yard, and then ran to a room to the west.No one was in the house.Xiaohuan left.The second child didn't even need to open the box to know that Xiaohuan had packed her winter clothes and ran back to her mother's house.The second child thinks that Xiaohuan should run away, to let his parents understand that they came up with a bad idea.Xiaohuan's inability to have a child was not on Xiaohuan's intentions, but the parents wanted to buy a Japanese woman to give birth to Zhang's child for Xiaohuan. At this time, the second child's mother shouted in the main room: "Second child! Second child!" He was sitting on the kang, and the pot of cigarettes was almost exhausted.Mother pressed her face against the glass and tapped her fingers. Mother said: "You two come here!" She was beaming. The second child couldn't hear her at all.Mother just opened the door.She was used to her son not talking to her, but she took a look into her son's room and realized that things were troublesome.She and the second child's father have already told Xiaohuan what they mean: just buy a Japanese woman to give birth, and send her away after giving birth. The mother said that she would go to pick up her daughter-in-law with her son the day after tomorrow, and coax her well so that she could come back.Right now, the second boy untied the bag first and let the man out. The second child half-closed his eyes, glanced at his mother, stood up slowly, and muttered: "What are you and my dad doing? Can't you untie your pockets?" The mother doesn't support him either: it won't be me and your father who will have children with her in the future.The second child's mother knew her son well. The second child was obedient in his actions, but he was not very filial in his mouth. He had already stood up and left with his mother, but he was still arguing.The second child has never done a thing that is obedient in words but rebellious in actions since he was a child.He contradicted his parents from beginning to end about buying a Japanese woman to bring incense to Zhang's family, but he still acted respectfully and filially. The second child and his mother walked through the snow-covered yard and entered the house.Stationmaster Zhang went to the station. There was a non-stop truck passing by at two o'clock in the afternoon, and he had to give a signal. The main room was very warm, and my mother went to the boiler room to add coal, and the kang road passed through the hot air.The figure in the pocket shrank into a ball, motionless.The second child understands that when his mother asks him to untie the pocket, it means "uncovering the hijab".In addition, the mother didn't dare to do it by herself, who knew what would come out of her pocket.Little Japan has surrendered now, but people still have a little fear of them.Not to mention that in the past they were vicious, murderous and arsonous occupying forces, just being a strange foreigner is scary enough.Er Hai felt his heart beating like a drum. When the second child and the second child's mother saw a little man sitting with his knees hugged, they were both stunned.This little man has an inch-long shaved head, and the hair and the second child are still brothers. The neck is only thin, and the face is covered with mud bumps.The second child's mother saw that the little man's legs were wearing half pants, the trousers just hit the knees, and the legs were full of blood, which had just dried up.The little man looked at the second child's mother, and the second child's mother gave her such a look that she felt uncomfortable, and her hands and feet were weak.She said to the second child: "Hurry up and wake her up!" The second child was stunned, his eyes were all opened at this moment. "Second child, wake her up!" The second child said to the little man who was sitting in his pocket: "Get up." He complained to his mother, "Look at what you and my father are doing! We might not survive!" This is exactly what the second child's mother is worried about.If a little Japanese dies at home, I don't know what the consequences will be, not to mention the loss, and I'm afraid it will be troublesome to explain it clearly to outsiders. The second child's mother stretched out both hands, as if she didn't quite understand why she stretched out her hands.She had a hard time and grabbed the little man's arms.She told herself beforehand that it was a thing of a seven-point ghost and three-point person, but when she grabbed those arms, she still felt horrified: they were completely two bone sticks.She pulled the little man up, and as soon as she let go, she fell back again.The security team guarantees that everyone must have a full tail, how can the Zhang family be crippled?A bullet in the leg must have broken a bone and she couldn't stand upright. The two carried her to the kang, the little figure still had her legs curled up.The second child's mother wiped her pant legs to the bottom of her legs, but she did not see any gunshot wounds.Only then did the second child's mother realize that the blood was menstrual blood.The second child's mother is at ease, at least this little person is a girl. "Go, get her some hot water and see if it makes her feel better." The second child quickly handed a bowl of tea to his mother.The fear and dislike in Er Hai's mother's movements were gone, and she put the little man's upper body on her lapped legs, and slowly fed tea into her mouth.Most of the tea flowed out from the corner of his mouth, moistening the mud bump on one side of his cheek, and smearing Er Hai's mother's hands.She told her son to hurry to get a basin of water and a hand towel.Er'er poured out half of the iron pot of water that was warming on the top of the kang, and took off the towel from the washbasin stand. After feeding the tea, Er Hai's mother wet the towel and wiped the mud on her face little by little.She knew this trick all too well: when Japan first occupied the three eastern provinces, sometimes a wagonload of Japanese soldiers would go to the copper mines north of the town, and the mothers of young girls in the town would smear coal ash and river mud on their daughters' faces. The skin and flesh gradually scrubbed out are very delicate, and there is a layer of fluffy lanugo under the ears.The pot of water turned into a muddy soup, and the face can be roughly seen. If it gets fat, the face will not be ugly. The second child watched as his mother washed a face like washing muddy carrots: two wide eyebrows, a bulging nose.Because it is so thin, the face looks a bit grinning. The second child's mother said: "He is very handsome, but don't be disabled. What do you think of the second child?" The second child ignored her, picked up the basin and went out.He poured water into the ditch on one side, fearing that when the courtyard was splashed, it would freeze and slip the mother with little feet.The second child's mother followed, saying that she would make egg soup for her to drink first, because her hungry stomach would not be able to stand dry food for a day or two.She also sent Erhai a bunch of errands: she went to the town to pull a few feet of cloth, and she sewed a padded jacket for her.The second child stuffed his hands into the sleeves of his jacket and walked towards the door.Thinking of something, the mother came over on the snow with little feet bumping, stuffed a banknote into his sleeve, and said, "I forgot to give you the money! It's blue with red flowers!" There are two kinds of grocery stores in the town. Muslin, a red flower on a blue background, and a blue flower on a red background.When the second child walked to the door, the second child's mother said, "It's better to have a red background! Red background and blue flowers!" "What are you doing with that money? Maybe it's disabled!" "Disability does not delay the birth of a child." The mother of the second child waved at her son, "The one with red background and blue flowers, huh?" "Xiaohuan is even more unhappy." "Why don't you like it? After giving birth to a child, throw her out." "Where are you going?" "I also used that bag to pack her up the mountain and let her go." Er Hainiang giggled, looking like she was just playing. The second child pulled the cloth back and saw his mother and father were at the door of the main room, looking into the room through the crack of the door.Stationmaster Zhang heard the footsteps of the second boy treading on the snow creaking in, turned around and waved to him, telling him to come over.He walked over, and his mother hurriedly gave him her place.Through the crack of the door, he saw the little Japanese woman standing up, facing them sideways, and looking at the palm-sized mirror on the wall.She stood about as tall as a town girl.The second child withdrew, and the mother looked like she had taken advantage of it for nothing. "Look, how is she crippled?" she whispered. "It's in that pocket." Stationmaster Zhang also lowered his voice and said, "If outsiders want to ask, just say they bought it and cooked for us." Er Hai's mother shook her chin at Er Hai, telling him to follow her.The second child went into the kitchen with his mother, and saw a large bowl of sorghum rice piled with sauerkraut and fried tofu.Mother said that she poured the bowl of egg soup into her stomach in the blink of an eye, fearing that she would burn her throat.The second child's mother said: "You tell her to eat slowly, there is still more in the pot!" "Didn't you say you can't eat dry food?" Er Hai said. "Can you be full without dry food?" The mother was so happy that she obviously forgot her reminder just now, "Just let her eat and drink a sip of water." "Can I speak Japanese?" the second child said, but he had already gone to the main room as his mother wanted. When he opened the door, he only saw two legs in black cotton trousers.Those are mother's cotton trousers.Looking up slightly, I saw a pair of hands, with short fingers and a childish look.The second child stopped working hard, so he opened his eyes to such an extent that he could vaguely see a waist and a pair of hands.This part of the waist moves back, of course it is walking backwards.Suddenly, a head entered Erhai's half-opened eyes, and it was a head.Er Hai's heart beat again, this was the first time he was worshiped by the Japanese.Maybe it wasn't him who received the gift, the big bowl of rice and fried tofu with sauerkraut in his hand was received by her. The second boy panicked, opened his half-closed eyes, and straightened his head in front of him.The second child blushed, because he actually met the eyes of the opposite.The eyes are too big, like a thief with big eyes.Probably because he became so skinny that he looked like a thief with big eyes.Er Hai felt both pity and loathing in his heart, he put a large bowl of sorghum rice on the kang table, turned his head and left. The second child ran to his own room after leaving the main room.Parents came in after a while and asked him if he had greeted her.The second boy couldn't hear anything, he just turned around the camphor box.The look he met with the little Japanese woman just now somehow annoyed him so much, it made him feel that he couldn't explain himself clearly.The parents were beaming with joy, a little bit of joy to play tricks.Mother said that even if it is a concubine, our Zhang family can afford it. The second child all replied that they could not hear. Stationmaster Zhang told his son not to be afraid, he would go to Xiaohuan's house with his wife to seek peace.Xiaohuan couldn't give birth to a child anymore, so she didn't dare to do anything.In two years, the second child will take over from Lao Tzu, and will be Zhang Zhang again, and Xiao Huan will be replaced by the eldest daughter of Huang Hua as soon as Xiao Huan becomes free. The second child finally found out a pair of dog fur earmuffs. When his mother asked him where he was going, he didn't answer.It wasn't until he took the quilt from the kang that Xiaohuan used to cover his legs in the car, that they realized that their son was about to go to his wife's house. "It's snowing so hard, who will travel far away?" Zhang Zhang said, "Can't your mother and I go tomorrow?" The movement of the second child to put on the leggings was much slower. "Forty miles away, if Xiaohuan doesn't let you stay overnight, you have to drive another forty miles back." "Anyway, I can't let Xiaohuan get off the ground, saying that she's not at home and I'm at home with the Japanese woman..." "That's not talkative." Stationmaster Zhang slapped his hands wide. The second child looked at his father. "That's the truth!" Zhang Zhang said, "What did the Japanese woman buy it for? It was to give birth to a child. Isn't this all the truth in front of her Zhu Xiaohuan and behind her back? Your grandma's second A ten-year-old old man...Okay, okay, you will chase your wife's house in the heavy snow today, and let her praise you for your innocence." The second child's mother is not in a hurry.She never talked to her son as much as her husband did, because she knew that his son was docile to his parents to the point of uselessness.On the contrary, for Xiaohuan, he said he was well-behaved, but actually did what he should do. "I can't see you bullying Xiaohuan like this!" Erhai said, slowly loosening his leggings. It snowed all night.Early the next morning, the second child got up to go to the boiler room to add coal, and saw his mother teaching the little Japanese woman to make coal billets.It seems that she is thin and healthy.The second child's mother turned her head and saw her son, and shouted, "Second child, you come and teach her!" The second child has already gone out, and he is disgusting and funny: old women always want to pimp.It's their nature, and there's nothing they can do about it.Idiots know how to beat coal slabs, as long as they have the energy.On the third day, the little Japanese woman beat the coal slabs alone.Stationmaster Zhang mixed coal powder and yellow mud for her in advance, and mixed them with water.On the fifth day, the little Japanese woman became more energetic, and put on a new padded jacket with red background and blue flowers sewn for her by Erhai's mother, and tied the leftover cloth on her hairy chestnut-shaped head.The style of the turban is Japanese style, no matter how you look at it, you are a Japanese woman.She was wearing this new outfit and knelt at the door to welcome Station Master Zhang back from get off work at the station.Two days later, she also figured out Zhang Zhang's work routine, and knelt down at the door early to tie his leather shoelaces.She was surprisingly quiet doing these things, and her eyes were so serious that Er Hai's mother and Er Hai couldn't make a sound. The snow finally melted, and when the road was dry again, the second child and his mother went to Zhujiatun in a mule cart.Of course the station master Zhang will not go out to negotiate peace in person, who will leave the station to?Besides, the dignified webmaster can't be such a mother-in-law.At that time he said that he would pick up Zhu Xiaohuan, but he just agreed casually. The stationmaster Zhang promised too many things casually, and no one would be honest with him.He asked the people on the train to bring two bottles of sorghum wine, and took out a ginseng that had been stored for many years, and asked the mother of the second child to give it to the two in-laws. The second child's mother told the second child not to worry about the Zhu family's heart. The Zhu family are all sensible people, and they are only afraid that their daughter will let the Zhang family rest. "Why should I give up?!" The second child's temper came up, and the camel eyes were no longer tired. "Who said we should divorce? Are we that kind of wicked people?" Mother said, "I mean the four daughters of Zhu's family, Xiaohuan married well, because they are afraid of us." At first the second child didn't like Xiaohuan, and marrying her was a matter of business.For a while he resented her because the birthday on Xiaohuan's post was fake.After marriage, the second child heard from a classmate in Zhujiatun that Xiaohuan was the old daughter of the Zhu family, she was too used to it, and everyone she knew knew she could make trouble, so no one dared to marry her.The Zhu family was afraid that she would end up as an old girl, so they changed her age to two years younger.Er Hai couldn't remember when he fell in love with Xiaohuan.Xiaohuan was very competitive and became pregnant in the second month of marriage.When she was four or five months old, the midwife in the town said that Xiaohuan was pregnant with a son just by looking at her belly and waist.From then on, not only the second child, but also the station master Zhang and the second child's mother began to endure Xiaohuan's bad temper, and while enduring it, they even laughed meanly and cheered. Xiaohuan's temper suddenly changed after she lost her child.A seven-month-old fetus is as big as a one-year-old child, so complete.The second child has almost no memory of the incident from the beginning to the end. He only listened to his mother and relatives and friends recounting it over and over again: how Xiaohuan met four Japanese soldiers, how he ran away from his girlfriends, how he climbed to the top. The cattle grazing on the side of the road, how the cattle drove her to race with the Japanese soldiers.In the end, I didn’t know whether to put the blame on the Japanese soldier or the cow: the cow ran to pick up the big top, threw Xiaohuan ten feet high, and then threw it ten feet away—Xiaohuan gave birth early . What the second child remembers most is Xiaohuan's blood.Xiaohuan's blood was brought out in pots and pots, and the clothes worn by the old doctors in the county hospital were also Xiaohuan's blood.With his bloody hands open, he asked the old couple of the Zhang family and Zhang Erhai, the man of Xiaohuan: "If you want to keep the adults and the children, you have to give him a word."The second child said, "Stay with the adults." The parents of the second child said nothing.The old doctor didn't leave, he glanced at the second child, and told him in a low voice that even if Xiaohuan survived, he would not be able to have children, all the components were broken.The second child's mother said at this time: "Then keep the child." The second child shouted at the back of the doctor who was about to go in: "Keep the adult! Keep Xiaohuan!" The skin is over.Stationmaster Zhang once again announced on behalf of the Zhang family: If the mother and son can only save one life, they will save the grandson of the Zhang family.The second child grabbed the doctor by the neck: "Who do you listen to?! I am the child's father, Zhu Xiaohuan's boss!" In fact, Er Hai didn't remember that he said these words.These words were learned to him by his wife Xiaohuan later.Xiaohuan said: "You are such a donkey, you almost scared the old doctor to pee!" The second boy thought over and over again later, if he really said those things that scared the old doctor to the point of peeing, it means he loves Xiaohuan .It's not an ordinary love, it's a heart-to-heart love that would rather go against his parents, risking the Zhang family's future. After entering the Zhu family's yard, Xiaohuan's parents moved out some stools for the mother-in-law and son-in-law to drink tea while basking in the sun.Zhu's family is considered an upper-middle-class family in the village, with more than 30 mu of good land, and they also do some oil business.Xiaohuan's mother yelled and scolded repeatedly before calling Xiaohuan out.She called the second child's mother "Mom", and immediately turned her face away, looking at her own mother with surprised eyes, and said, "Who is that one in the new coat? Did we invite him? Why is there such a thing?" What about thick skin?" She bites her words very hard, she doesn't care if it hurts her face or not. The second child only drinks tea.The old couple of the Zhu family laughed dryly with the second child's mother.Er Hai was always relieved by Xiaohuan's profound understanding of righteousness, and she acted out such a big incident as an ordinary couple's anger.Judging from the expressions of the father-in-law and mother-in-law, Xiaohuan did not tell them the truth. There are always two flushed cheeks on Xiaohuan's round face, a pair of slightly swollen single eyelids, which hide the thick eyelashes, so whenever she sees her, she always looks like she just woke up.She has a sharp mouth, but she also likes to smile very much. When she smiles, there is a dimple on her left cheek, and the corner of her mouth is raised up, revealing a tooth covered with a thin gold rim.The second child hated anyone with gold teeth, but on Xiaohuan's face, that tooth flickered in her smile, and it didn't spoil her appearance.The second child thinks that Xiaohuan is not a beauty, but she is very easy to like, and she is affectionate to everyone, even cursing. Xiaohuan's parents took out a pack of pancakes and said they would have enough for the three of them for lunch on the way. Xiaohuan said: "Who are you three? Who will go back with them?" Her mother slapped her on the head and told her to pack up the things she brought back to her in-law's house, which didn't intend to keep her.Only then did Xiaohuan twist her neck and enter the room with her chin slanted.In a minute, she came out with a turban on her head and cotton trousers and leggings.Of course she had packed her things early: when Er Hai and his mother came in, she had already gathered all the things she should bring together.Er Hai's seldom-moving lips curled up slightly. He felt that Xiaohuan had saved him trouble, and the mischief and ending were just right.