beginning of autumn

It has been raining these days and the temperature is getting colder and colder.Qiu Yunfei got up to study by himself early, and felt a little pain in his left leg when he was walking. He thought it might be because he had caught a cold these days, so he didn't tell his mother.It was still dark, and he was limping along the road. When he passed the door of Mrs. Xianglian's house, the door creaked open, and a man in his twenties walked out, with a mouthful of He smoked a cigarette, adjusted his clothes while walking, went around the back of the house and headed north.Yunfei looked familiar at the background, as if it was Zou Xiaohui who was riding a bicycle that day.He felt a little strange, Mrs. Xianglian's man was working in the construction team in Henan, and he was away for many years.

After returning from school at night, Yunfei's leg hurt more and more, and he couldn't get out of bed at all the next morning.My mother was so anxious that she couldn't do anything, and she couldn't contact her father, so she asked her neighbor to take care of her younger sister, Xiaona, and walked four or five miles of mountain roads with Yunfei on her back to the hospital in the town.The doctor checked and said that the disease needs to be hospitalized, so my mother went through the admission procedures.There were almost no patients in the hospital, and the entire backyard was quiet.The mother came to the ward with Yunfei on her back. There were two beds in the room, but there was only one set of bedding. At night, the mother slept on the other bed with all her clothes on to take care of Yunfei.Yunfei had a little leg pain, so he asked his mother to go to the bookstore to buy two books, and read books every day to pass the painful and boring time.

Two days later, the doctor came to check Yunfei's condition.Because the weather was getting colder and colder, Yunfei was wearing thick clothes, which was inconvenient for inspection, so his mother had to take off all his pants.The doctor had just finished the examination and was about to leave when Li Qiu gently opened the door and walked in, asking, "Uncle, is Qiu Yunfei from Qiujiagou Village hospitalized here?" He saw Yunfei lying on the bed with his lower body naked, and hurriedly turned his head away.Yunfei's face also turned red to the base of his neck, his mother covered him with a quilt, and said with a smile: "Everyone is a boy, what are you afraid of?" Li Qiu then turned around and smiled slightly at Yunfei up.The mother glanced at Li Qiu and said with a smile: "Hey, whose child is this? Look at this sweaty head, sit down and have a rest." After speaking, she handed her handkerchief to Li Qiu.

"He is the son of Uncle Chen who makes bricks and tiles at the west end of the village." Yunfei turned his head and looked at Li Qiu, who was wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, his little face was flushed, and hurriedly asked: "How long is it such a long way? Could it be walking?" Li Qiu nodded with a smile.

"Chen Jianguo's son? Is that little Liqiu?" The mother looked at Liqiu, sighed and said, "This child looks exactly like his mother. His mother was the most beautiful daughter-in-law in our village back then, but she was young. It's easy..."

"Auntie, I heard that Brother Yun was ill, so I asked for leave to see him." Li Qiu raised his head and asked Yunfei's mother: "What's wrong with his leg? Can I take a look?" Mother lifted the quilt Seeing that Yunfei's knee was swollen like a big steamed bun, Liqiu frowned and said, "It's all swollen like this, how painful it must be."

"I'm fine, the doctor said that I can be discharged in a few days." Yunfei smiled, took La Liqiu's hand and said: "It's you, who came here secretly to see me, so I'm not afraid that your stepmother will beat you if she finds out. ?”

"Just hit it, let her get used to it in the past two years, it's like scratching an itch, it's okay." Li Qiu deliberately pretended to be indifferent.After hearing this, my mother sighed, said nothing, and lifted the curtain to go outside.

After lunch, the two chatted together for a while, it was getting late, Li Qiu got up to go back, Yunfei's mother hurriedly sent him to the gate of the hospital.

The street is very lively, as if someone is marrying a wife.The firecrackers were ringing, and the band was stopped by the people in front to perform the performance of carrying the sedan chair, followed by several carriages, which were colorfully decorated and very beautiful.In the first car sat a bride with a red head covering, the groom was wearing glasses, he was gentle, and he was wearing a blue Chinese tunic suit, the little red flower on his chest was particularly conspicuous, and he was smiling Yingying distributed happy candies to people on the road.Li Qiu recognized him at a glance as Zhang Jianjun, a "scholar" in the village.Zhang Jianjun loved reading since elementary school, but unfortunately his family couldn't afford it, so he dropped out of school before graduating from middle school.He is proficient in calligraphy and painting, and is a well-known cultural person in the village.A distant cousin of Liqiu was in the same class as him, and had always been in love with him, but his parents thought his family was too poor, and Jianjun's mother was a congenital mental patient, so she finally failed to fulfill her wish.

"Jianjun, are you getting married today? The wife is from a village?" Yunfei's mother greeted him happily when she saw it was him.Zhang Jianjun hastily handed over a few pieces of wedding candy and said with a smile: "Majiahezi's, my father asked Aunt Li to introduce it two months ago. I saw that girl was carefree and thoughtless, and the woman's family didn't pick anything from us, so I agreed. Auntie, I’m strolling in the town today, I’ll go back in my carriage later.”

"No, Xiaoyun is here to see a doctor, and I can't go back today." Yunfei's mother smiled and said, "Look, I can't help you with such a big matter as marrying a wife, I'm really sorry. "

Zhang Jianjun hurriedly said: "Auntie, they all belong to the neighbors in the neighborhood. It's ridiculous for you to say that. Is Xiaoyun sick? What kind of illness is it? Is it serious?"

"It's okay, it will be fine in a few days. Auntie has something to ask you," Yunfei's mother said, pulling Liqiu over: "This kid walked all the way to see Xiaoyun. I don't want him to go back alone. Don't worry. It happens that you have a car, so go back a little bit to save him the trouble of walking on the road."

When Zhang Jianjun heard about it, he carried Liqiu to the carriage, turned around and smiled with Yunfei's mother, "Don't worry, auntie, I will definitely send him home safely."

The band continued to play for more than an hour in the town, and the groom's officer gave them a lot of cigarettes and candies, and the crowd in front of them slowly dispersed.The convoy continued to move towards Qiujiagou, and the sky gradually darkened.Li Qiu huddled on the carriage, unknowingly fell asleep while staggering along the way.

The crackling sound of firecrackers woke up Liqiu from his sleep. He opened his eyes and saw that it was completely dark and the convoy had arrived at the entrance of the village.Li Qiu was about to get out of the car and say hello to brother Jianjun before going home. It is estimated that the whole family was turned upside down by that woman right now.

There was a sudden noise of people in front, and the band stopped playing, as if something happened.The carriage was surrounded tightly, and Liqiu couldn't get out of the carriage, so he had to stand on the carriage and look forward. It turned out that Zou Xiaohui was drunk and squeezed in front of the carriage to take off the bride's red hijab.He wrapped the red square scarf around his neck, squinted at the bride and said, "Beautiful, she looks really beautiful. I'm going to make trouble with my bridal brother tonight." As soon as he said this, the people around Then they started discussing in a hurry.The daughter-in-law was not frightened, she looked at Zou Xiaohui generously, smiled and took off the red hijab from his neck and put it on herself.Zhang Jianjun broke out in a cold sweat, afraid of losing face in front of everyone, so he took a bottle of good wine from the car and handed it to Xiaohui, and said with a smile: "You drank too much today, you should go home early and rest, another day Brother, I will treat you to another pot." Zou Xiaohui took the wine and threw the bottle on the ground with a wave of his hand, and said with a sneer: "Brother thinks highly of you for making a bridal chamber for you, don't be shameless, get out of here Go!" After speaking, he pushed the bridegroom aside, smiled and sat in the car to kiss the bride.Zhang Jianjun was in a hurry, and stepped forward to hold Zou Xiaohui desperately, preventing him from molesting his new daughter-in-law, but Xiaohui got up and kicked him to the ground.The little red flower on the clothes fell off, and the glasses were still hanging crookedly on the bridge of the nose.He got up from the ground and wanted to rush up to fight the opponent, but was held back by the people around him.Relatives and friends from both sides rushed forward to protect the bride, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

Li Qiu was secretly worried about Zhang Jianjun, but suddenly someone grabbed his ears and dragged him out of the crowd. It turned out that his stepmother accidentally saw him while watching the fun, and vented all her anger.The woman scolded: "You little bastard, why don't you go home all day and watch here? Why don't you die outside." While cursing, she also kicked Liqiu fiercely with her feet. , kicked Liqiu back home from the entrance of the village.She didn't give Li Qiu any food that night, and made him kneel outside the door all the time.Later, Li Qiu was really sleepy, so he secretly hid in the small firewood house to the west and fell asleep with his body curled up.Dazedly, he seemed to have eaten the white rice he had dreamed of again, but when he was eating sweetly, his tongue was pierced so painfully. He looked up and saw that his stepmother was smiling sinisterly beside him. A few needles were secretly placed in the bowl, and blood flowed from his mouth.He woke up suddenly from his dream and found himself lying in his father's arms.It turned out that my father was worried that his body would be frozen, so he secretly carried him into the house while the stepmother was asleep, and fell asleep with his arms around him.

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Half a month later, Yunfei's leg gradually recovered, and his mother was discharged from the hospital and took him out of the hospital.It had just snowed two days ago, and the grass on the side of the road was still covered with a thick layer.The north wind was blowing. Although the weather was clear, it was very cold.Uncle Fu was driving a mule cart back from the town, and when he met their mother and son, he stopped by for a while.My mother chatted with him in the car, and the two of them were talking and laughing when they suddenly saw a young man in his 20s coming out of the pine forest in front, humming a pop song, with a cigarette in his mouth, looking defiant .A woman of similar age followed closely behind, her face smeared with frost.She trot forward a few steps, hugged the man from behind, but didn't want to be pushed away by him coldly.When they walked over, my mother smiled and said: "Young people nowadays are really open, how dare we dare to do this at that time." Uncle Fu spit on the ground and cursed: "A pair of immoral things, what the hell? Son." Yunfei's mother asked: "I think that man looks like Zou Xiaohui, the son of the old Zou family. I haven't seen that woman before. Is he a new one?"

"What object? That woman is Zhang Jianjun's newly married wife in the village. I knew she was a vixen, Pan Jinlian, just by looking at her appearance." Little Uncle Fu said indignantly: "On the day of the wedding, the child Jianjun paid her back for her. Let that little bastard beat her up, she is fine, she just left the man aside just a few days after getting married, hooked up with such a prodigal thing, this son of a bitch will be struck by lightning sooner or later of."

"This is Jianjun's daughter-in-law?" Mom didn't quite believe what Uncle Fu said.

"It's not that bad. Who else is there besides her? I haven't seen such a shameless thing in Qiujiagou for hundreds of years." Hearing what Uncle Fu said, my mother couldn't say anything more.

The car came under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, and Yunfei saw a little boy sitting under the tree from a distance, with his cheeks resting on his hands, staring at the opposite pine forest in a daze.Yunfei greeted Uncle Fu and got out of the car early.He tiptoed and quietly walked behind him, covered his eyes lightly with his hands, Li Qiu was startled, and grabbed those hands covering his eyes, at the moment of touching, Li Qiu already guessed Seeing who it was, he asked with a smile, "Is it Brother Yun?" Slowly loosening his hand, Li Qiu turned around and saw that it was really Yunfei, overjoyed, and said with a smile, "It's really Brother Yun, Why did it take you so long to come back. Is your leg completely healed?" Yun Fei smiled and nodded, not seeing each other for more than ten days, feeling that Li Qiu is much thinner than before, looking at his little face flushed by the wind, He said with a bit of distress: "It's so cold, aren't you afraid of catching a cold sitting here?"

Li Qiu said with a smile: "You haven't come back these days. I'm a little worried. I'm afraid that your illness will become more and more serious. I also think that I will go to the town to see you when I am free in a few days. When I am free, I will Waiting here, I didn't expect to really wait for you back." Hearing these words, Qiu Yunfei felt warm in his heart, and didn't know what to say for a while, so he just gently pinched his small face with his hand .

At this time, a green jeep slowly stopped on the side of the road, and a 25-year-old young man walked out of the car. His hair was blown high and he was wearing a pair of sunglasses. He didn't look like a good person. Fei then pulled Li Qiu to leave.

"Xiaoyun? You've grown so tall, don't you know Uncle?" The man took off his sunglasses and looked at the two of them with a smile.Yunfei took a closer look, and it turned out to be Uncle Li, his father's friend, so he smiled and took Liqiu's hand and walked over.

Uncle Li told him that he came here this time to take a few photos of the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, as if it was used for some publicity brochures in the county.Hearing what he said, Yunfei was so happy that he took his hand and begged: "Uncle Li, since this is the case, can you take a photo for us too, just one." Little Uncle Li deliberately lowered his face and said: "No, no, I use this camera for work, so how can I just take pictures for others, Minister Qiu knows he has to fire me." Yunfei couldn't force himself to hear what he said, so he smiled and said: "It's okay, if you can't take pictures, just do it." Stop taking pictures, I will go back and tell my mother, remember to come to my house for dinner at noon." After speaking, he took Li Qiu and prepared to leave.Uncle Xiao Li hurriedly smiled and called the two of them to stop, and asked them to stand under the big pagoda tree hand in hand, and wanted to take pictures of them.Li Qiu has never been photographed at such a young age. Although he is happy, he has a sullen face, like a wooden man.Seeing his embarrassment, Yunfei stretched out his hand to scratch under his armpit, Liqiu couldn't help laughing.Uncle Xiao Li clicked the shutter at the right time, leaving a precious group photo for the two brothers.

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