peaceful

11.

When the corn is ripe, it is harvested into the granary, and the wheat seeds are sown into the land, so that the long slack time comes.

During the meal, Ning said, "I want to go out and find some work."

"Where are you going?" my aunt asked.

"A friend works in Jinan. I want to visit Jinan first and find some work."

When you are young, you don't want to stay at home.

On the morning of leaving, my aunt said: "If you can't do it outside, come back." Then my aunt, uncle, and Ann sent Ning to the road in the village to wait for the bus.It's still early and it's freezing cold.

Ning quietly said to her aunt: "If you get married, I will give you the new house."

An kept looking at Ning with tears in her eyes.

Ning felt that before leaving, he should talk to Ann.Ning thought, give brother a hug.

Ning walked in front of An, seeing those bright eyes, the purest and most beautiful pair of eyes in the world, Ning's heart trembled.

"Brother—" Ning called out to Ann.

Ann's tears flowed down.

Ning hugged An, but An hugged Ning tightly.An Fang cried bitterly, and Ning also cried.

"The car is coming, don't cry..."

The two let go of their arms.

An grabbed Ning's hand tightly. An's hands used to be slender and long, like a pair of artist's hands, but now they have been sculpted rough and powerful by the years.

"Brother, here comes the car—"

Ann didn't move.

"Brother, here comes the car—"

Ann still didn't move.

"Brother, here comes the car—"

Ann's tears and snot fell together, and she let go of her hand.

The car had been waiting for a while, Ning hurried into the car, the door was slowly closed, and the car sped away.

Ann chased the car and ran until the figures disappeared into the early morning night.

Aunt and uncle went back first, waiting at home for Ann to come back.

"Why hasn't this stopper come back? I'll look for it." As soon as my aunt walked out the door, she saw An sitting on the stone at the door.The corner of the wall at the door was often damaged by cars coming and going, so a stone was simply buried under the wall. From then on, people sat on the stone to talk and cool off when they were free.

An sat on the stone, as if dead, motionless, looking at the opposite door.That winter, An had nothing to do during the day, so she sat on a rock.

12.

Sure enough, something happened in the spring of the second year.

That morning, my aunt got up when she heard someone yelling outside, "Why doesn't An come to light the fire and cook?"

When I walked to the door, the door was still locked, and the door was locked from the outside. Every night, An would lock her aunt’s door from the outside, and then go back to Ning’s house to sleep. The next morning, she came to open the door, and started cooking. .

On this day, Ann came to open the door.My aunt heard a lot of people making noise outside the door, so she climbed up the ladder to the room and called the old man next door on the right, who also set up a ladder from there and went down.

As soon as he got down, the old man patted his thigh and said, "Something happened!"

When my aunt heard the words "something went wrong", her legs went limp all of a sudden, and before she had time to recover, the old man said, "There's been a problem across the door, the house is all burned down, and I don't know if anyone is still alive!"

My aunt regained her composure and thought of An, thinking that as long as An was still around, everything would be fine.I ran to the new house in a hurry, and when I pushed the door, it opened. My aunt was startled and shouted: "An——!" Small huts, east-side houses, south-side houses, huts—none of them.My aunt sat down on the ground all of a sudden, climbed into the house again, and saw the keys neatly placed on the table.

My aunt went home and opened the door, and told my uncle that something had happened, Ann couldn't be found, and the opposite door was on fire.Uncle got up and got dressed quickly.

Then the people from the public security came and said that a dead person was found in the dry well in the east and asked to identify it.

The man was lying in the well, unable to see his face clearly, and the surroundings were cordoned off. The man asked, "Are the clothes safe?"

"The clothes are." Uncle replied.

"Is the belt attached?"

"The belt is." Uncle replied.

"Are the pants fitted?"

The uncle looked at it for a long time and said, "The pants are not."

"Are the shoes on?"

"The shoes are." Uncle replied.

Then let the uncle come back.

At that time, I was still outside, and my mother wrote a letter, saying that something happened to my aunt's house, please don't come back, all the relevant people were taken to the county for investigation, and your father was also taken away.

After a few days, my mother wrote to me, saying that everything has been investigated and that we should come home.Then I came back.

13.

When I heard that An died outside, I couldn’t believe it, it felt so far away, and I was busy with work, so I didn’t have time to think about it, and I didn’t know how to be sad.When I returned to the familiar village, I stood in the yard, and I remembered the way An used to stand at the gate of the yard digging the soil between the bricks, calling my sister, hugging Xiao Ning, going in and out of the gate, In the morning, I took the cows out, in the evening I brought the cows in, came out with buckets, went in with firewood, pulled carts out, and brought grain in again... Tears couldn't stop streaming down my face.

When I entered the house, I saw the paintings all over the walls in the hall, and tears flowed again.There are two stoves on the east and west in the hall, where cooking and cooking are done, and the walls are blackened by the smoke. Then, Ann used the blackened walls as drawing boards, and painted neat pictures one after another.An's painting is very good. It is really that when God closes a door for you, he opens an extra window for you.Now on the lime screen wall of the entrance of a certain house at the west end of the village, there are still landscape paintings painted by An, which are lifelike.

Seeing my aunt and uncle, I picked up a handkerchief and wiped my tears. After wiping, they flowed out again, and asked my aunt and uncle what happened.The two of them cried. I remember my uncle lying on the kang, patting the kang with his hands, crying loudly; my aunt was also lying on the kang, almost fainting from crying.

I heard that that night, Ann climbed up the courtyard wall opposite the door, found an ax from inside, and hit someone, and then only one girl was left calling for help, and then the girl was fucked by the Toxoplasma woman, and then Ann pierced the girl's body. Trousers, hit the girl with an axe too.It happened that the eldest daughter of the opposite door returned to her natal home that day, and the whole family was at home.Catch up with the beginning of spring and prepare to water the ground, the machine belt and diesel oil are ready, and then Ann pours all the diesel oil in the house, and ignites the fire.In the end, he took the pesticide from his family, drank it and ran eastward, fell into a dry well and died.

At the beginning, I didn't believe that things were done by one person, and there must be a party, but in the end, everything was done by An alone.The timing was perfect and things were done seamlessly.No trouble or threat was left for the living.

After the matter was investigated clearly, my uncle wrote to Ning, saying that there was an urgent matter at home and he should return quickly.

14.

"When I got out of the car and ran all the way back to the village, I felt that the village was so quiet that it made me feel scared; I saw the burnt-down house from the small bridge, and I was stunned instantly. I kept repeating, Grandpa Tian bless, Grandma Taishan bless..." Ning said.

At first we didn't know when Ning would come back, but Ann's body had already been sent back.

We looked at my aunt, who stopped crying, frowned with red eyes, and sighed: "Go to the coffin first, when An is alive, he loves his little brother so much, and I don't know when this plug Ning will come back."

But even the coffin was not ready in time.

We looked at my aunt, and my aunt's tears fell again, and she looked towards the south room, her eyes lit up, as if she regained her spirit in an instant, then she sighed again and began to cry.

I helped my aunt carry out an old wardrobe from the thatched hut in the south. After coming out of the house, my aunt coughed and wiped it with a broken rag.After the cabinet was wiped, it was not so disheveled, but the water stains dried up, and the mud marks came out again, which was gaudy.

We carried Ann's body inside.Then I saw Ning came back and stood at the door.

I saw Ning's hands tightly gripping the door panel, looking at each of us.

Uncle is here.Aunt is here.Ann is not there.

Ning loosened his grip on the door, his face twitching uncontrollably, and he walked towards us step by step. We got out of the way, and then the wardrobe coffin was displayed in front of Ning.

He leaned on the cabinet with one hand, glanced at An who was lying inside, and then turned his head, tears flowed out.We helped him to the kang in the house, and he lay on the kang and cried loudly.

"When I saw Ann lying motionless in the coffin, I felt that it was all a dream. I couldn't imagine my brother leaving like this, he was still so young; people died in the village every year, but I never thought One day we too will die..."

"I kept crying. When I was tired from crying, I went to sleep. When I woke up, I continued to cry again. In the end, I didn't wake up from the dream...My brother still refused to look at me again, refused to listen to me, and refused to listen to me. give me another hug..."

Ning cried to death on the kang, no matter how people tried to persuade him, it was useless, and he fell asleep on his stomach while crying.

It was getting late, and we couldn't wait any longer. People carried the coffin to the cemetery.Nothing, no paper cow, no paper horse, no wreath, no ceremony, just buried hastily.

There were no offerings, my aunt only boiled some eggs and burned some paper.

My aunt said: "At that time, I was only thinking about saving money to build a house for An and marry a wife. The chickens at home laid eggs, but they were reluctant to eat them, so they saved up to sell eggs. An loved to eat eggs, so she secretly cooked them every morning when she was cooking. I steamed one and ate it. Later, I found out that after the chickens laid eggs, I arranged them in a row, and he knew that I knew what to do, so he didn't dare to eat..."

"Poor child, he couldn't eat any eggs, so he died; if he had known you were dead, he would have given you as many eggs as he could..."

Ning woke up from crying, it was already getting dark, he was the only one left in the whole room, he ran outside the room, Ann's coffin was gone.He ran to the field north of his home.

People were about to leave, and Ning came running and crawling.

Originally, the funeral was very quiet. Uncles and aunts had already cried too much, and everyone just wiped away their tears.

In the end, Ning came, threw himself on the grave, and cried.Except for women and children, no man has ever cried like this.

The snot flowed into the mouth, hung on the chin, like a spider spinning silk, and fell to the ground tremblingly.

Crying and twitching, the choking was so uncomfortable to watch, I saw the men who carried the coffin to bury the grave, they also cried, and the children who watched the excitement also cried.

The deceased is long gone, and the survivors will steal their lives.

Ning came back and temporarily lived with his aunt and uncle, as if a long, long time had passed.

Uncle went to Ning's new house to tidy up An's belongings, and revealed many letters from the cabinet.