beginning of autumn

The small shop next to the village primary school was extremely lively. Gangzi and three daughters-in-law gathered together to play poker, losing all but his trousers.San'er jokingly said, "Look at you playing poker so shamelessly." Gangzi looked at the three daughters-in-law with a smirk and said, "It's okay, if I lose again this time, I don't believe they are so embarrassed. Pull off my trousers." After hearing this, Qiaofeng's wife threw the card in his hand at his face, then jumped up and pulled down his red flowered trousers. Although Gangzi had seen some people in the world, she had never Thinking that she was so sophisticated, she was so frightened that she dropped the cards, lifted her trousers and ran out, San'er and everyone around her burst into laughter.

Qiu Yanyan walked in from the outside wearing a low-cut dress, and accidentally bumped into Gangzi.Qiaofeng's wife saw that Director Qiu's daughter was coming, she stood up from the chair with a "yo", took Yanyan's hand to look up and down, and praised repeatedly: "It is said that Jianjun's daughter-in-law is very good-looking. Peugeot, if you compare it with our Yanyan, you will look like an old-fashioned fool who has never seen the world. You see, this one has a good appearance and a good figure, just like the model in the TV. The skirt The style is so unique, it’s the first time I’ve seen it, where did you buy it?” Yanyan smiled and said, “This is what my cousin brought back for me when he went to the provincial capital last time, I heard it’s very valuable, I just got the first one today Second upper body." San'er said with a smile: "It's almost autumn now, don't you worry about freezing a layer of skin if you wear a skirt? Let me see where it is from my cousin, is it from my old friend?" Qiu Yanyan raised her eyes and scolded, "You silly bastard, don't you feel itchy when you're idle? Your mother just found an old friend." Qiaofeng's sister-in-law hurriedly pointed to Gangzi who had just put on his pants and said with a smile: "Three It’s too much to say, it’s so cold in the sky, when Gangzi played poker, he was only wearing shorts, and I didn’t see how he was. I really don’t have a decent skirt. Otherwise, I'll put it on for you guys to take a look at, and I'm sure you'll be blinded." Qiu Yanyan was intoxicated in the mirror, with a hint of disdain on her face.

Suddenly I heard someone laughing outside and said: "It's a good thing you didn't wear it. If you put it on, you would be similar to the bone spirit in "Journey to the West." Everyone in the room burst into laughter after hearing this.Qiaofeng's sister-in-law couldn't help but just wanted to get angry, when she turned her head and saw that the person was Zou Xiaohui through the curtain, she hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a long time, why do you have the time to hang out with me today?" Zou Xiaohui reached out to take the lighter from Gangzi, lit a cigarette and said leisurely, "I'm here this time, and I want to ask you for help. Can you spare me some time to help me find a wife and put my mother's I've given up on this matter." Qiaofeng's sister-in-law smiled and said, "On your condition, as long as you nod, don't the girls rush to your house? Blame it on yourself I have never been upright. Tell my sister what you want, and I will help you find it." Zou Xiaohui blew a smoke ring at her, pointed at her casually and Qiu Yanyan said half-jokingly: "It looks like her Just make do with it." Qiaofeng's sister-in-law knew that Qiu Yanyan usually had a petty temper, and she was afraid that something might happen to her if she got angry, so she gave Zou Xiaohui a look, hurriedly took Yanyan's hand and said with a smile: "Don't listen. He's talking nonsense, let's go, let's go to the back room with my sister, let's ignore them and these boring people." But Qiu Yanyan thought she was the daughter of the village head, and she was pampered and brought up since she was a child. He could tolerate other people's teasing, so he immediately said angrily: "Zou Xiaohui, you don't take a piss to see who you are, and you want to take advantage of me in public. Who in these villages don't know that you are an idiot?" Shameless rascal who still wants to marry a wife, don’t you just have a ready-made one at home now? Why are you in such a hurry, can you marry another daughter-in-law and come back to be a baby mother?” Zou Xiaohui thought at first. It's okay to let her lose her temper, but she didn't expect that she not only talked badly, but also got Li Qiu involved.Immediately furious, he spat the smoke from his mouth on the ground viciously, hugged Qiu Yanyan into his arms, and kissed her directly mouth to mouth.Qiu Yanyan was terrified, she didn't expect that he would molest herself in front of everyone, she hated her own strength is too weak, no matter how hard she struggled, it was useless, she let her cold lips stick tightly to hers.She was ashamed and angry, and she covered her face and left crying amidst the exclamation around her.

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It was the annual Erxian Temple Fair again, and there was an endless stream of pedestrians on the street.There is a dilapidated theater stage in the east of the town, where the traditional drama "Fishing and Killing" is being performed. The actors on the stage are performing hard, and the audience is crowded with people watching. In addition to watching the theater, there are many fried bean cakes and meatball vendors around. , Sellers of candied haws, gongs and drums, and all kinds of cries are connected together, so it is very lively.

Liqiu saw a yellow-brown warm hat on a small stall not far away, so he pulled Xiaohui's clothes and shouted happily: "Brother, look quickly, isn't my aunt always wanting such a hat?" Is it?" Xiaohui looked back and found that it was exactly what Aunt Huang said, so he gave Liqiu some money to buy the hat.

Xiaohui turned to the back of the stage, lit a cigarette and smoked.Not far away, a young couple was choosing windmills for their children in front of a small stall. The happy appearance of the family made him fascinated.Zheng Wu was in a daze when a familiar figure suddenly flashed past the stage, Xiaohui felt a little strange, so he pretended to be nonchalant and continued walking forward.

The earth dog hid beside the stage for a while, but Xiaohui was nowhere to be seen when he raised his head. While he was wondering, he was patted heavily on the shoulder twice. When he looked back in a panic, he saw Zou Xiaohui flicked it lightly with his index finger. Yan Ash asked coldly: "What are you doing with me?"Zou Xiaohui sneered a few times, and as soon as he was picked up, he was about to shake his fist. The earth dog hurriedly stammered and begged: "Brother Hui, please be merciful. ...Looking for Wei Ge, saying that you bullied... bullying their precious daughter for no reason, and asked Wei Ge to help teach...a lesson for you. I didn't expect Wei Ge to agree readily, and even confessed to us that the temple fair God must pay special attention to... Pay attention to your whereabouts, and report to him at any time if there is any situation. Brother Hui, please let me go, I just arrived here, and I haven't... told him anything. "

"Pay attention to my whereabouts? Could it be... Liqiu?" Zou Xiaohui suddenly thought of something, let go of the dog, and hurriedly squeezed towards the shoe and hat stall.People kept pouring in from all directions, shoulder to shoulder, and more and more people gathered, and there was darkness everywhere as far as the eye could see.Zou Xiaohui looked around anxiously, but he couldn't find Liqiu.While he was in a daze, a yellow-brown warm hat suddenly dangled in front of his eyes, Li Qiu smiled at him with his beautiful big eyes and said, "Brother, I bought the hat, but you weren't there when I went back, It caused me to search for a long time, did you come here to look for me too?" Xiaohui was overjoyed to see that he was safe and sound, hugged him in his arms and smiled, "I'm scared to death brother, as long as you're fine, it's fine That's fine." Seeing him like this, Li Qiu didn't know what happened, so he stood there stupidly.Seeing that he was still, Xiaohui pulled his arm and said with a smile: "Let's go, what are you doing standing here?" Li Qiu followed behind and asked: "Brother, I was thinking just now, are you Do you think that’s why I’m lost?” Xiaohui was silent for a while and replied, “Brother will never let you get lost again.”

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Cheng Wei's family has a small three-story western-style building in the town. Because his parents bought a house in the county town, he lives here alone.The living room on the second floor was filled with smog, and the ground was in a mess. There were seven or eight people gathering together, playing fist games and guessing wine. It was very lively.Zhu Lao San was already so drunk that he was lying on the sofa and snoring, Cheng Wei also got a little bit drunk, and said to Zou Xiaohui with a smile: "Since you can give brother this face, then we will not talk about Qiu Yanyan in the future." By the way, I won't stop you even if you marry her home immediately." Zou Xiaohui sat on the sofa, puffed out a cigarette, smiled and didn't speak.Hou Laosi was busy telling everyone to continue playing, seeing another half bottle of wine down, suddenly a person hurried in from outside, went straight to Cheng Wei's side, and whispered a few words with him, Cheng Wei After hearing this, he sneered and said: "You can't handle such a trivial matter, but you still have the nerve to keep asking me for money. If he wants to sue, let him sue. There is no evidence for this old story. I'm afraid he will throw a ball."

Xiaohui looked at the man who looked familiar, but couldn't remember who it was for a while, so he quietly asked Hou Laosi next to him, who looked at him suspiciously for a long time and said, "This is Director Feng from the town hospital. How come you don’t even know him? This is one of our own. I can see how he is today, he must be helping outsiders and our boss to collect debts.” This Hou Laosi is famous for his big mouth, Seeing that Xiaohui was still full of doubts, he lowered his voice and said, "We are brothers now, so I might as well tell you, two years ago, Director Feng invited our boss to dinner, and specially picked a young woman. The nurse accompanied me. It is said that the girl was just assigned to the hospital after graduating from the provincial health school. The girl was thin-skinned and self-confident, so she slapped our boss heavily on the spot, which made him angry, but there were outsiders present at the time, so she endured the attack. One night, someone saw her alone She was waiting at the door of the Mengxiang Restaurant, and the boss asked Director Feng to find a reason to coax her here. When the boss had enough fun, he gave her to us for a while, and then I heard It is said that the woman committed suicide by taking medicine in the dormitory of the hospital that night in a fit of anger. The boss was afraid of making things worse, so he asked the hospital to take the responsibility first, and promised to give their family some money. She only said to the outside world that she committed suicide because of personal relationship problems. This family is also really hateful. In the past two years, whenever something happened in the family, she would find trouble with Director Feng. Our boss has become their family's pocketbook. This is our boss, The family has money, and there are people covering it, if it were someone else, they would have been imprisoned in the police."

Zou Xiaohui's heart was aching. He knew that the girl Hou Laosi was talking about was Jiang Xiaoyan. He thought it was because she looked down on him that he broke the appointment on purpose, but now he realized that it was actually the group of beasts in human skin in front of him. It was a disaster for life and death.Hou Laosi still didn't notice that Zou Xiaohui's face had changed drastically at this moment, and he was still talking indiscriminately with the strength of alcohol: "When I first came here, I secretly heard that the daughter of Lao Lin's family in Taoshuwan was given by our boss. It was hard, he was still young at that time, and he was always afraid that the girl would sue him at the police station, so he killed her and threw her into the well below Yanziling. Guilty?"

Zou Xiaohui couldn't hold back the anger in his heart anymore, threw the wine glass in his hand on the ground with a "snap", and asked Cheng Wei through gritted teeth: "Cheng Wei, did you kill Jiang Xiaoyan in the town hospital two years ago? "Cheng Wei's heart trembled slightly after hearing this, he glanced at Xiaohui, sneered and said, "Boy, what's wrong with you? So what if I did it?" The surrounding atmosphere suddenly changed. tense up.Director Feng looked at Zou Xiaohui, suddenly thought of something, pointed at Xiaohui and shouted: "So he is, that is..." Zou Xiaohui picked up a wine bottle and threw it at Cheng Wei's head, bleeding profusely immediately. Hou Laosi was stunned by this sudden action, and stood there motionless like a log. Director Feng saw that he was afraid of killing someone, so he ran downstairs in a hurry. The rest of them saw The situation was not good, he rushed to kill Xiaohui as soon as he started to fuck, and the scene suddenly fell into chaos.

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There was no sign of Xiaohui for several days, and Aunt Huang still lived a leisurely life, as if she had already gotten used to this kind of life.Li Qiu was worried, and went to the town several times by himself, but did not find any news about him.

It was gradually entering autumn, and a layer of withered and yellow pagoda tree leaves fell in the yard. Li Qiu had just cleaned the yard clean, and when the wind blew, there was another dense layer on the ground.I heard Aunt Huang say through the curtain that I would eat fried rice soup and scallion pancakes in the evening, so I hurriedly put down the broom in my hand and hurried to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

He was busy until after seven o'clock in the evening, when he sent the prepared meals to the North House, Aunt Huang picked them out as usual, and said for a while that he had put too little salt and too much oil; Li Qiu just smiled when it was not cooked, he has been used to it in the past few years.After eating and washing all the pots and bowls, he sat on the stone steps in the yard, staring at the square starry sky above his head in a daze.He thought of his dead father. In the past, his father always praised the delicious food he made while hugging him, and said that he could never eat enough, but now he wanted to cook it for him again, but he couldn't do it anymore.

When the wind blows, the night is already deep, and the stars in the sky don't know where to hide.Li Qiu felt the coolness encroaching slightly, and couldn't help coughing a few times.He returned to the house, holding the blue and white warm hat, and gradually fell asleep listening to the sound of the pendulum.In the dream, he saw his father again. He seemed to be the same as when he was seven or eight years old, holding his father's hand and arguing for meatball soup. After kissing her face, she turned and left, disappearing into the vast sea of ​​clouds.He cried and woke up from his dream, with tears still remaining on his face, Li Qiu suddenly found that an arm was gently resting on his body, and the familiar snoring sound was still ringing beside the pillow.

Seeing Xiaohui lying quietly next to him, with many new wounds on his face and arms, and bloodstains on his clothes, Liqiu couldn't help but turn pale with fright, shook his body and cried: "Brother , wake up, wake up, what's wrong with you?" Xiaohui grabbed his hand suddenly, and said in a daze in his sleep: "Yan, don't cry, Xiaohui has already avenged you gone."