beginning of autumn

Lin Xiujuan saw that Li Qiu was staring out of the car window, so she asked curiously: "Qiu, what are you looking at?" Li Qiu turned around and said with a shy smile, "I seem to have seen Brother Yun..."

"Really? Where is it?" The street was crowded with people, and Lin Xiujuan didn't see the boy in Li Qiu's eyes after looking for a long time. "The one chatting with the girl under the willow tree over there..." Beside the white wall, under the smoky willow tree, a boy and girl who looked like students were sitting on chairs arm in arm, and the girl was leaning on the boy's ear and said with sweet whispers.Seeing this warm scene, Sister Xiujuan couldn't help laughing and said: "It looks like your Brother Yun is in love, right? You are so close on weekdays, why don't you go and say hello to him?" Li Qiu hesitated with a red face He replied confidently: "If it wasn't for that girl beside me, I would have passed by long ago..." Sister Xiujuan seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and she had to swallow the words as soon as they reached her lips.

The brother-in-law happily got into the car with a big bag. In addition to buying a lot of cosmetics for his sister, there was also a set of white designer casual clothes in the bag.He took it out and gesticulated on Li Qiu's body, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, I'm not mistaken. As long as we look like Qiu, you only need to stand in front of the door when you put on this dress, and we will wait to count the money." The elder sister turned her head and spat at him: "You can figure it out, even my younger brother will be spared in order to make some money." The brother-in-law smiled and said, "Don't you think that since autumn came, our business is getting better every day? What's wrong with making the best use of everything, wouldn't it be a pity to waste the ready-made resources?" Li Qiu felt weird when he heard this, but he couldn't say anything, so he just smiled and gave up.

My sister said that she had to go to the west of the city to do some business, so she drove Li Qiu back to the hairdressing center.Taking advantage of the leisure time, Li Qiu went back to his small room to rest for a while.There are a lot of books in the bookcase beside the bed, all of which are from my sister's private collection. Liqiu randomly selected a book "Gone with the Wind" by American writer Margaret Mitchell and read it in his hand.Just after reading a few pages, a black and white photo suddenly fell out of it. He hurriedly picked it up from the ground and held it in his hand. It turned out to be a group photo of Sister Xiujuan and Brother Jianjun when they were in middle school.The elder sister in the photo is wearing a checkered dress, with two braids on her hair, and a green smile on her lips, exuding a natural and pure beauty from the inside out.Brother Jianjun standing next to him wore a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose. He was fair and handsome, full of bookishness, but looked a little reserved.Li Qiu couldn't help but smile slightly after seeing it, sure enough everyone has a little secret hidden in their hearts, even Xiuwai Huizhong's sister is no exception.

In the evening Liqiu was busy in the store when his brother-in-law suddenly opened the door and walked in.As soon as he saw Li Qiu, he said with a smile on his face that he would take him to a good place, and told him to wear the suit he bought.Li Qiu didn't know what kind of medicine he sold in the gourd, so he had to agree.

The brother-in-law took him to the most famous KTV song city in the city. The boss, surnamed Zhang, was a woman in her 40s, with a plump body and full of jewels. distinguished guests.

There are various fruits and wines in the box, and three or five burly men in stylish clothes are performing the popular songs of the moment in front of the big screen, crying and howling.It's strange to say that since entering the door, the woman's eyes haven't moved away from Li Qiu's body. Seeing Li Qiu sitting there a little stiff, she took a glass of wine and walked over to him and said with a smile : "Little handsome guy, people here are here to have fun, it's boring to be so motionless all the time. Come, drink some wine, let go and play to your heart's content." Li Qiu smiled at her with a blushing face: "Auntie, thank you , I... I don't know how to drink."

"Yo! Auntie? Am I that old?..." Seeing the woman's ambiguous smile, Li Qiu couldn't help feeling chills down his back. He secretly looked around and found that his brother-in-law had gone somewhere to hide. Stand up and want to go out.Seeing his timid look, the woman aroused her interest even more. Taking advantage of his flustered moment, she held him in her arms and smiled seductively: "I don't know how to drink, so I can learn slowly. Come on, sister." Teach you." Then she moved the cup to his lips.Li Qiu had never seen this before, his face was flushed red, and his heart was beating wildly like a little rabbit.He only heard the woman slightly part her lips and whisper softly in his ear: "As long as you drink the glass of wine in sister's hand, I will send someone to take you back immediately..." Li Qiu was terrified, the glass of wine was destroyed somehow. She coaxed and tricked it into her mouth.Feeling dizzy and weak for a while, the huge room is like a maze, and I can't get out even if I want to...

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When Liqiu woke up, he found that he was lying in sister Xiujuan's bedroom. His head hurt and his mouth was very thirsty. He got up from the bed and wanted to drink some water from the water dispenser outside.But when he just walked to the door, he suddenly heard elder sister Xiujuan and her husband arguing downstairs for some reason.My brother-in-law was uncharacteristically angry and said to my sister furiously: "Lin Xiujuan, don't be too arrogant, just feel your conscience and think about it, am I doing this for the sake of this family?" My sister argued with reason: " You're right for this family, but no matter how valuable the land in the west of the city is, you can't bet on my brother? Besides, you should know better than me what that KTV song city does in private, right?" The brother-in-law sneered and said, "So what if it's clear? He eats and drinks mine every day, so he should pay for this family. Do you think that every time that sister Zhang comes to our place, she throws a lot of money at us? I’m telling you, she actually fell in love with your brother. No one else could get the place in the west of the city, so why did she leave it to us? I don’t know how much effort she put into it. It’s all right now, after you made such a fuss last night, all the plans were fucked up.” My sister said sharply, “Your plan? It’s your trap! If I hadn’t heard the news last night, I’d rush over there If so, Qiu might be ruined in that woman's hands. You are full of money and money, and other people's innocence and reputation are worthless in your eyes?" The brother-in-law said contemptuously: "If a man is still married before marriage It’s no different from trash. Lin Xiujuan, don’t forget, if I had kept my body like a jade back then, how could you have married me willingly? Fame and innocence are useless to women today, men want them to be What? You see that your brother is not rigid at all. Even if something happens, it is just a life experience. If you still want to live with me, just send Li Qiu obediently to Sister Zhang , everything is negotiable, if not, you take your Yangguan road, and you can go over your grandfather's single-plank bridge, and you can figure it out."

After hearing this, my sister stood there in a daze, watching him with a cigarette in his mouth, and slamming the door arrogantly. For a while, my heart felt like a needle prick, and I couldn't help crying like rain...

"Sister, you should send me there. I'm already old enough to protect myself." Xiujuan turned her head in surprise when she heard this, and it turned out that Li Qiu was standing behind her with tears streaming down her face.She couldn't help but hugged him and cried: "Qiu, don't be afraid, sister can't let you have trouble anymore."

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There was a brand new tricycle parked in front of the Fortune Vegetable Store in the town. The owner of the car was carrying a large basket of eggs into the store, ignoring other people's pointing at him.While he was not paying attention, the proprietress grabbed the corner of the boss's clothes and asked secretly: "It was rumored that the wife who was kidnapped by people from Henan was he?" What's the matter with others? Besides, the daughter-in-law is not a good thing, it's good if she is sold, so she can remember it long." The daughter-in-law stopped making a sound after hearing this.Seeing that the goods were almost finished unloading, the boss hurriedly stopped the man and said with a smile: "Jianjun, you can just send your eggs to the uncle's store in the future, but remember this account first, how about one piece at the end of the year?" Jianjun smiled and readily agreed.

After delivering the goods to each house, Zhang Jianjun drove a tricycle back to the village. When he passed the Wanzi Reservoir, he saw two people standing by the roadside, carrying a big bag in their hands, as if they were waiting for someone.That boy was Li Qiu, and the one standing beside... Zhang Jianjun vaguely recognized the woman's appearance, hurriedly parked the car aside and asked, "Xiujuan? When did you come back?" Standing in front of him turned out to be the gentle and refined boy who often appeared in dreams, but after not seeing him for many years, his handsome face was gradually bearing the marks of wind and frost.Xiujuan had mixed feelings for a moment, her heart was sore, and she asked bitterly: "Jianjun, long time no see, how are you doing?" Jianjun smiled honestly and said: "That's it. You are going to Where is it? Do you want me to give you a ride?" Just as she finished speaking, she suddenly thought of something, and her face blushed immediately: "I'm afraid I'm talking too much, how can you take a car like me?" Xiujuan saw After so many years, his personality has not changed at all, so he said with a smile: "I have never ridden this kind of tricycle when I grow up. If you are really okay, I really want to try it. Let us How about sending the two sisters to Wangzhuang?" Hearing what she said, Jianjun hurriedly cleaned the manger behind the car with a broom, and took off his cleanest coat and put it on the back seat.Seeing this, Xiujuan was shocked and said: "Don't do this, your clothes will be dirty." Jianjun scratched the back of his head and smiled, "It's okay, come on, I'll help you up." Shoulders, stepped into the manger behind.Jianjun also told Liqiu to sit down, turned around and smiled and said, "Hurry up, this is no better than the cars in your city, if you are not careful, you will be knocked down." Xiujuan responded with a smile. Just bumped all the way to Wangzhuang Village.

When passing by the entrance of Xiaohuangzhuang Village, Liqiu suddenly saw a 50-year-old woman on the side of the road, carrying half a bag of millet on her back, limping towards the village.With gray hair, worn clothes, and a slightly hunched back, it seemed familiar yet strange.Xinqiu thought to herself, this place is dozens of miles away from Qiujiagou, so it shouldn't be her, but why are they so similar...

Li Qiu might not have expected that the old man was Zou Xiaohui's mother.Since her son's accident, she has been alone and helpless.The son who stayed at her ex-husband's house took her to live in Xiaohuangzhuang, but not long after, the young couple coaxed and tricked her into taking all the food and money on hand for her own. So he abandoned her aside, leaving only a small broken house for her to live in.After such a toss, her body is no longer as good as before, and she gradually reveals her next life.

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After sending Xiujuan's sister and brother back to Wangzhuang, Jianjun seemed to have something on his mind, and he was depressed for several days.After putting his mother to sleep that night, he took out a bottle of northern shochu that had been stored for many years from the cabinet, poured it in front of the moon, and waited until the fifth watch, leaning on the head of the bed to slow down. Slowly fell asleep.I don't know how long he slept for this sleep, and he didn't wake up until someone knocked on the door of his house outside.He was so panicked that he got up hastily, without bothering to comb his hair and wash his face, he dragged his two shoes and opened the door latch.He tilted his head and took a look out, but he froze there in shock.

Lin Xiujuan looked at his disheveled and stupid look and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law won't be angry with me for visiting today, right?" After hearing this, Jianjun lowered his head and smiled wryly: "Where is there any sister-in-law in this room? ...I'm divorced..." Before he finished speaking, Jianjun's mother hugged two ears of corn in the yard and smiled at Xiujuan: "My dear daughter-in-law, you are finally back. Mom, I look forward to seeing you so hard." Ah." Panicked, Jianjun hurriedly dragged his mother back into the house, so he didn't keep his mouth shut.

The scene just now made Jianjun a bit embarrassed, blushing, he led Xiujuan and Liqiu into the north room, and hurriedly went to the cupboard to fetch cups to help them make tea.Xiujuan smiled and said he shouldn't be so polite, but asked with concern: "You said you are living a good life, why did you get divorced?" Jianjun also looked helpless, sighed and said: "A while ago She met a businessman from Henan outside. Maybe because she saw how much money he had in his pocket, she forced me to divorce her, or just messed around at home all day. I was afraid that my mother would follow suit. Gritting her teeth, she followed her to the Civil Affairs Bureau to go through the formalities. She patted her ass and left when she was happy. Who knew that she had defrauded people of a lot of money in the name of helping the coal mine recruit workers these years, and those creditors got the news and flocked. I came to the door, but now I didn’t make any money, and I added a lot of foreign debts out of thin air. I was forced to do nothing, so I borrowed some money and set up a chicken farm in the village. Don’t be afraid You joked that you had no experience at the beginning, and you added some money, but you persevered, and you just got better recently." He handed the prepared tea to Xiujuan, and asked with a smile: "I heard that you and Wen Bin is married and is living a prosperous life, why didn't he come back with you this time?"

"I... same as you, divorced..." Jianjun was so surprised that he dropped the cup in his hand on the ground. He stared blankly at Xiujuan and asked in surprise, "Why?"

"Because... I won't have children."

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Standing by the side, Li Qiu seemed a little embarrassed, and said that he had to go home for something, and after his sister agreed, she went towards the entrance of the village alone.

The big locust tree at the entrance of the village is still so vigorous and upright, but the yellow leaves falling all over the ground add a bit of desolation to people.Standing under the tree and looking south, Liqiu's eyes were instantly blurred as he could see the solitary mound in the distance.

There was a sound of quarreling not far away, and Li Qiu hurriedly hid behind the tree and looked west along the sound. It turned out that the mute mother, Aunt Feng, had just returned from the field with a hoe, and Uncle Fu followed closely behind, like a criminal. He bowed his head and walked all the way like a child who made a mistake.Aunt Feng scolded at the front: "You old man, you're almost buried, what are you doing clinging to me all day? You don't think it's embarrassing, but I'm afraid of being stabbed in the back." Uncle Fu quickly apologized and said with a smile: "Ye'er, please keep your voice down. Both of us are helpless poor people. Let them laugh at the jokes. If you hadn't persuaded me to come back when I shared that incident, I Qiu Xiao Fu has long been ashamed to live in this world. Now that I help you plant the land and harvest the harvest, I am doing my best, so just stop thinking about it." Aunt Feng was still cursing at him. Yes, the two followed each other back to the village like this.

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Among the wild grass, a small hill stood low, with a string of worn paper streamers fluttering in the wind on the top of the hill.Li Qiu knelt in front of the hill and couldn't help crying.

Brother, Qiu came to see you, how are you doing over there...

The wind blew past, as if someone was sobbing and weeping, the paper banner circled Liqiu three times, and gradually floated into the distance...