Out of the people and the hotel, Li Ran slowed her pace. Her mind was blank for a short time, and then she was full of emotions. As if dreaming!

The rain has stopped. Orange street lights are silent on both sides of the street; a few drops of water drop from the leaves occasionally, and it is cold; Again, scattered and reconciled. The breeze came slowly, and it was extremely cold.

Under the street light, her shadow was stretched old and more graceful. She sighed: You are not ugly, and you are not too incompetent. Why do you fail so badly in your life? The stage of life is wide, and the play is so difficult. A divorced woman can't be said to be perfect, although, for the sake of home, she is exhausted and exhausted.

Thinking of Liu Yuxin just now, his moving singing beautiful her momentary mood, but unfortunately, beautiful things always come and go in a hurry, everything like this blowing wind will go without a trace in a hurry.

For many years, I have only focused on fighting the North and the South in the business field, racking my brains to deal with all kinds of misfortunes, and rarely care about things outside the life circle. Therefore, making friends with him has disappeared, and without any attention, he has become a veritable lonely widow.

As soon as the car stopped at the door of the house, Aunt Wu came out to greet him. As usual, she took the bag in Li Ran's hand and said while closing the gate of the courtyard:

"Hurry up and wash your hands and eat. I haven't seen you coming back. I put the food in the pan and keep it warm."

At home, it must be a warm place, because there is a kind aunt Wu at home.

Aunt Wu is a desperate person. At the age of one, his mother died of rickets (tuberculosis). At that time, just as the Japanese devils were raging in Jinnan, and his father was still young, she often stayed overnight in the damp and cold deep mountain dense forests, eating bran pharynx, and wild fruit to hunger. Pause. At the age of seven, the third year after the surrender of the Japanese devil, his father married his stepmother and assigned her to a family in a neighboring village as a child caregiver.

She has never seen her father-in-law. I heard that he was because his family was too poor, and he didn't know where to get a pair of gray pants, but he didn't know that it was the uniform of the Eighth Route Army. That day, the Japanese entered the village to hunt down the Eighth Route (guerrillas) that had bombed their bunkers. They arrested all the men in the village, just as he was wearing that gray trousers stupidly that day, so he was regarded as the Eighth Route Army by the Japanese. They beat him to death. He had to say who else in the village was the Eighth Route Army. Of course, he didn't say who it was, because he didn't know it at all, but the Japanese didn't believe it. Later, the Japanese still pulled all the men in the village to a cliff and executed them all.

Her father-in-law was the first to be hacked, and a devil cut off his head with a stab. Then, the body with a different head fell down the cliff along the inertia, and then the second, the third ...

The fifth person to be cut is said to be Wang, the second child at home, so everyone in the village called him Wang Er. When Wang Erming knew that there was no hope of survival, he thought that rather than fight against the ghosts, Therefore, while the tall and strong executioner was breathing, he swooped over and turned the devil to the ground. Because Wang Er was too hard, the devil's executioner's head was right on a stone, so he fainted on the spot. past. A ghost behind him immediately became aware, took a gun and fired at him immediately, and he shot a few. The executioner ghost was also shot twice by his companion. When he died, he grabbed the executioner and fell into the cliff. The rest also rose up to fight with the devils with bayonet around them, but, with bare hands and fists, how could you fight the devils with dense guns and ammunition all around, just like this, all 25 strong men in a small mountain village, Except for one person who was chopped on the shoulder by a devil and fell off the cliff and survived, all died tragically.

Because of this, her mother-in-law was always unable to raise her head in the village. Although no one had ever complained to her, she thought it was her husband that affected the whole village.

But she couldn't die because there was a silly son under her knee.

The son was frightened by the devil.

The Japanese pulled his dad out of the crowd in front of the child, beat him hard, and was pulled away. Later, under the guidance of a traitor, he and his mother were also called out, and then forcibly separated, letting them explain separately. His son, who was only two years old, could not resist the fear of the devil wearing a yellow uniform, especially when he saw his father who was in a different place the next day, and then he became reluctant to talk. Prior to this, he was a small and well-known little clever in the village.

However, he has a great advantage. He has been diligent since he was a kid, he is very serious about what he does, he is never lazy, and he always lives like a human being when he works. Let's talk about firewood. As long as the mother tells him, he will go back and forth without stopping. Unless he is stopped, he will back from morning to night, not eating or drinking, until he can't see the road in the dark. He stopped, vomiting blood twice and passed out on the mountain.

He is four years older than Aunt Wu. Because the family is too poor, I have not been to school for a day.

When he first arrived at his home as a child care aunt, why couldn't Aunt Wu understand why her mother-in-law was full of white hair before the age of thirty, and her grandmother's hair wasn't as white. Of course, she knew that this could not be asked.

Her mother-in-law looks very harsh. When she teaches her to do work, she will be punished if she is not careful, but she also loves Aunt Wu, and never treats her as an outsider when she eats, drinks, and dresses. As long as it is owned by her mother-in-law and her son, Aunt Wu There will be, and sometimes even deliberately buy her a flower dress. Although her family is poor, she is still very hungry, and has never experienced any other child rearing at a cooking stove in winter. The mother-in-law used her peculiar simplicity to teach her how to cook and make clothes, how to survive, and how to be kind to others.

Because she had no mother since she was a child, to Aunt Wu, her mother-in-law is her mother.

The second year she married her husband, that is, when she was 17 years old, her mother-in-law finally finished her painful life. Before that, she had prepared Aunt Wu's filial clothes early, and she was less than 40 years old. His Majesty had a poor family.

Although her husband was a little stupid, but because of the hardships, the days came to work peacefully. The fourth year after their marriage, in 1961, they had a pair of children, a pair of dragons and phoenixes. My husband is so happy to be stupid.

Due to the sudden addition of two mouths in the house, in the years after she gave birth to her child, Aunt Wu couldn't keep up with her nutrition, and her health was always bad. Her husband could only go out to work harder, as long as he could make money do.

Relatively speaking, among the two children, Aunt Wu still prefers her son.

His son Xiaolong is not only clever and smart, he has good grades in school, but he is also very sensible. He has been helping his parents do things since he was a child. He often used to do firewood and pigweed work when he was a few years old. Sometimes, parents came back to work in the production team late, and he would prepare the food and put it on the dinner table with a bowl and wait for them. Aunt Wu often cried with tears.

Although her daughter Xiaofeng is also very clever, she is naturally stubborn and delicious. With a little discomfort, I triumphed and cried. The best food in the house, the most beautiful clothes, and the best learning tools should be her, and always look dissatisfied

In the sixties and seventies, for well-known reasons, all Chinese were poor, and this remote small village was no exception.

In addition to sorghum noodles in Auntie Wu's home, they are basically all corn noodles and bean noodles.

That day, her daughter suddenly had a high fever.

Diao Yicheng's daughter couldn't swallow those coarse grains. I usually eat as much as a birdie, skinny, and even eat nothing when I am sick.

This is so bad for Aunt Wu, she hastily found out the only three dollars in the family and went to the commune hospital 15 miles away to buy medicine.

Her husband didn't work that day and was ordered to stay home to look after his daughter.

This day was a Sunday in June. The sensible Xiaolong watched the adults busy, and he took the basket and sickle silently to cut the grass for the pigs. When I came back to wash vegetables by the river, I saw the fishes swimming in the river, uncomfortable. I was imagining, and suddenly I saw a tree wild apricot in the reflection in the water. Looking up, a ripe red apricot on a cliff across the river. He knew that his mother and sister liked to eat these wild fruits, and he jumped over the stones in the river, thinking about picking them down. In the past, his father was always on the way to work. He picked up some wild fruits and came back. He has been busy these days. I am eight years old and I have to take care of my family like my father.

It was only on the other side of the river that I understood why such a good wild apricot was not picked. It turned out that the wild apricot tree was half dangerous on the cliff. However, remembering his toiling mother and sick sister, he resolutely climbed up.

He was holding up some small trees. Of course, those small trees could not bear the body of an adult, but his body was small and light, and he boarded it smoothly. Still, his feet shook steadily.

Finally he filled his pockets.

This red and round wild apricot, Xiaolong seems to see his mother and sister smile sweetly when eating apricot ... By the way, the father has to eat one, although he usually eats few of them.

The comforting thought dilutes Xiaolong's attention to danger, and when he started to move down, one foot suddenly stepped out of air, and his body lost balance. In a panic, he grabbed a small tree one foot long with one hand, but the tree was too small to support the gravity of his body, was pulled up by the roots, and had no time to raise his hand. The child fell off and fell on a huge rock by the river ...