I have a Secret

Huang Dan picked up the branches and went back to the grave, seeing Chen Jinhua with her head down, silently burning paper money, and hot ashes flying down on the back of her hands, she didn't realize it.

Huang Dan went over, "Mom."

Chen Jinhua wiped her eyes, "Hey!"

She took the branch that her son handed over, and plucked among the fiery piles of paper, "Winter, kowtow to your father."

Huang Dan followed suit.

For him without parents, this is a new experience.

Chen Jinhua unwrapped a bunch of banknotes and threw them into the fire, "Dad Dong, you can spend this money, there will be no more."

She suddenly laughed, "Drink less, it's easy to do stupid things."

Huang Dan's eyelids flickered, Chen Jinhua had a grudge against Zhang Mazi.

According to the original owner's memory, Zhang Mazi's accident occurred more than ten years ago today. It was raining heavily at that time. He was not staying at home, but ran out alone and never came back.

No one was there, so I don't know what Zhang Mazi went out for, who he met, and how he fell into the river.

Everyone in the village said that it was raining heavily and the road was slippery. Zhang Mazi accidentally fell into the river and fell somewhere, so he didn't swim up.

Zhang Mazi's death was like throwing a stone into the water. There was a moment of turbulence, and then it returned to calm.

The original owner was still young at that time, crying and asking why his father disappeared, Chen Jinhua said that he was taken away by the Dragon King in the river.

According to the memory of the original owner at that time, Chen Jinhua was only sad, not angry.

A few years later, the original owner brought it up again, but Chen Jinhua didn't answer that way, but beat him with bamboo sticks, as if to vent her anger, and locked herself in the room crying after the beating.

Something must have happened in those years.

For example, Chen Jinhua accidentally found out the cause of Zhang Mazi's death.

A cause of death that broke her heart, and even her son was angered.

Huang Dan's thoughts came back, "Mom, let's go to a hospital in a big city to have a look at your legs next year."

Honeysuckle said, "There's nothing to see."

Her eyes were so blown that she couldn't open her eyes, "Mom can still walk anyway, but your Aunt Wang is paralyzed from the lower half of her body, and she can't defecate by herself, that's a pain, poor thing."

Huang Dan vaguely heard the ridicule, is it an illusion?

He was thoughtful, when he mentioned Wang Yuemei many times before, Chen Jinhua's words, deeds, demeanor, and expression were all like a good sister, and he didn't think of this word at all.

If it wasn't an illusion just now, and there was a real sarcasm hidden, then the person who walks around often, sending this to that, is not necessarily a helper.

Could it be showing off?

Huang Dan's heart skipped a beat, he seemed to grasp something, but he didn't have time to analyze it.

It is difficult to understand what is true and false among women, what is in the open and in the dark.

On the way back, I passed a small road, where there was a large area of ​​honeysuckle, the white and yellow ones were folded into a layer of brilliance.

Huang Dan went to pull some flower branches, took them home and put them in a bottle, he smelled them closely, they smelled so good.

Chen Jinhua said, "Why do you keep this thing, it attracts mosquitoes."

"It's fine in the hall." Huang Dan said, "Mom, let me pull a little and put it on your head?"

Chen Jinhua swept the floor with a broom, "Mom doesn't wear one, she's quite old, and she's not a little girl, so what kind of flowers do you wear?"

Huang Dan frowned, "Oh."

Chen Jinhua said, "There are still a lot of honeysuckle on the table, take it to your Aunt Wang."

Look at the yellow sheets, they are all leftovers, with crooked flowers and branches.

He gathered the flowers and went out, in his mind, he pieced together a few old stories about Chen Jinhua Wang Yuemei that he had heard from the side.

The first one is that when Wang Yuemei was young, she was very good at hooking up men. Her husband was pissed off and she became a widow. If something happened, other men rushed to do it for her.

The second is that Zhang Mazi died unexpectedly.

The third is that the original owner went to other places to work with others in his teens, and when he came back during the Chinese New Year, Chen Jinhua was already crippled.

The fourth is that shortly after Li Dagui died two years ago, Wang Yuemei suddenly became paralyzed.

Is this line related to Li Dagui's death?

Huang Dan came to his senses and was already walking behind the village, in two directions from Li Gen's house.

When he first came here, he would come out for a walk at night, eavesdropping on the parents' gossip.

Too bad I didn't hear anything useful.

So the yellow list has not been done that way recently, after all, it is not safe.

Almost all the villages have dogs, and if they make any noise, they will attract the attention of the dogs. He is afraid of being chased by them.

Huang Dan was about to leave when he heard a loud bang. He stood at the door of a house and looked inside, only to find an old man lying on the ground, unable to get up.

People in the village called the old man a coward, because he was not clear-headed and liked to talk nonsense, so the family locked him in the house and didn't let him go out.

There may be something wrong at this moment, so I neglected it.

Huang Dan went in and helped the old man up, "Grandpa, I am winter."

The old man pursed his mouth, slurred his speech, and had a large bruise on his forehead, "Oh, it's winter, is your mother okay?"

Huang Dan paused for breath, "My mother is fine."

The old man asked Huang Dan to help him to sit on the wooden chair, "The same goes for Yuemei, the two families are together, and they insisted on arguing with your mother about the drainage ditch."

"Just quarrel, why are you still fighting? She looks thin, but she is very strong, and your mother's face is swollen with a slap."

Huang Dan did not find any memory fragments, which probably happened when the original owner did not remember anything.

How did Chen Jinhua and Wang Yuemei reconcile?

The old man asked, "Where's your father?"

Huang Dan said, "My dad is busy in the fields."

"Be busy. When you are busy, your mind won't be on other things."

The old man's mind was not clear, and as he spoke, he began to talk nonsense to the void.

"The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh, Yuemei, how can you say in front of your boss's grave that it would be better if the second child died."

Huang Dan's eyelids suddenly lifted.

"Son, the world is very chaotic, listen to Dad, don't mind your own business."

The old man suddenly shouted, "Young man, who are you? Why are you at my house?"

"..." Huang Dan said, "I am Dong Dong, the son of Chen Jinhua."

He raised the honeysuckle in his hand, "I was passing by and came in when I saw you fall to the ground."

The old man seemed to remember, "It's you, winter, you have grown so big."

"Are you looking for a wife?"

Huang Dan shook his head and said no, he said casually, "Brother Da Gui asked for it."

"He's not dead?"

The old man's eyeballs stared, and he muttered, "No, how could he not be dead?"

Huang Dan was about to speak when a voice came from outside the door. He swallowed the question back and turned to see the person who came. It was Zhang Yingxiong and a few others, who seemed to be passing by by chance.

Unable to ask any more questions, Huang Dan had no choice but to leave first.

But when he came again, the door of the old man's house was locked, and he didn't know where he had gone.

Huang Dan kicked the stones away irritably, and saw Zhang Yingxiong playing cardboard among the children from a distance. He squinted his eyes, went back and took three hundred Tang poems, and sat on the threshold to read aloud.

Good rain knows the season, when spring is here.

Sneaked into the night wind, moisten things silently.

The trails are all dark, and the river boat is bright.

Look at the red wet place and spend a lot of money in the official city.

After reading one poem after another, he flipped through the yellow sheet and saw two poems on the last page, written with a blue ballpoint pen. He read it aloud, raising the volume consciously or unconsciously.

Zhang Yingxiong came over and shouted, "Winter, did you read it wrong? It's not the rumble of thunder, but the bursts of thunder."

Huang Dan said, "It's true."

He asked strangely, "Hero, this seems to be a poem written by Sister Cui Ling herself, how do you know?"

Zhang Yingxiong grinned, "I asked sister Cui Ling to borrow the book."

Huang Dan said, "Hero, Sister Cui Ling is really amazing. I don't understand any of the poems in it."

"I don't understand either." Zhang Yingxiong wiped the sweat from his face, leaned against the wall shaking his legs, and said casually, "Just watch and play, not everyone has that knowledge."

Huang Dan said, "Sister Cui Ling is still very young, why doesn't she marry anymore?"

Zhang Yingxiong gave him a blank look, "You are stupid, of course Sister Cui Ling is doing it for Brother Da Gui."

Huang Dan said, "But Big Brother has been dead for two years."

"Sister Cui Ling can't be a widow for the rest of her life, can she? Brother Dagui knows it underground, and he certainly doesn't want to see her like that."

Zhang Yingxiong said, "Who knows."

Huang Dan asked casually, "By the way, hero, why is there no one at Grandpa's house?"

Zhang Yingxiong shook his head and said, "I don't know."

He smacked his lips, "Grandpa is a coward, can you guys chat?"

Huang Dan said, "I left the honeysuckle at his house."

"It's just honeysuckle." Zhang Yingxiong said, "There are more in the west, as many as you want."

Realizing that the results of the exploration were not satisfactory, Huang Dan got up and left.

He ignored Zhang Yingxiong, and only now pushed him into the suspect's frame.

At present, it seems that Wang Yuemei is still the most suspected.

That night, a rain fell silently, disturbing the whole village.

Huang Dan got up to close the window, and caught a glimpse of Chen Jinhua outside under the eaves, he didn't know how long he stood there.

He didn't make a sound, just watched secretly by the window, saw Chen Jinhua's shoulders shaking slightly, cried, and laughed again.

On such a rainy night, the situation is a bit creepy.

Huang Dan swallowed his saliva, hesitating whether to go out, but Chen Jinhua had already turned back to the house.

The rain did not last until dawn, it stopped before dawn, the sun shone as usual, and the sun was still hot.

Huang Dan got up early to put water in the fields, pick seedlings and targets, and kept his feet on the ground. Fortunately, Li Gen's home was done and he came to help him every day.

The front foot has just finished working in the field, and the back foot is about to harvest corn.

Huang Dan and Li Gen went together.

The cornfields of the two families are next to each other, about an acre wide, and the poles are thin and tall, which can block some sunlight.

Huang Dan carried a basket on his back, held down the corn stalk, grabbed a corn and broke it off, pulling off the beard on it.

Li Gen put the water he brought on the ground, and sat on it himself, "Come here, brother."

The eyes under the yellow single straw hat glanced, "There is a field of corn waiting to be harvested."

Li Gen crossed his legs and smiled, "So it's not too late."

Huang Dan ignored him. He was afraid that his arms would be scratched by the leaves, so he wore long-sleeved trousers. He was sweating all over the distance from his home to the cornfield.

Li Gen went over, hugged Huang Dan's waist with one hand from behind, and stretched out the other hand to the front, "Look what good things I brought you."

Huang Dan lowered his eyes and saw a box of Yashuang in the man's palm.

"..."