Crossing the green wheat ears

As the saying goes, "La Qi La Ba freezes your chin", and in the middle of the night, the north wind howls, making the branches rattle and making the surrounding quieter.

Xiyuan didn't know why he didn't sleep well, he always felt that something was going to happen while he was sleeping, maybe it was because the two sticky bean buns he ate at night were not digestible and affected his sleep?Thinking in his heart, Xiyuan turned over carefully, Xi Wei was on his left, Wei Cheng was on his right, the two little guys had to sleep next to his brother, and Xiyuan had one on each side.When the two children fell asleep, they unconsciously moved closer to their elder brother, their little faces pressed against his elder brother's pillow.Before I lay down, my grandfather stuffed a dry leaf in the Kang cave, and then ignited it. The leaves ignite slowly and can be burned until the middle of the night. , Even if you sleep on the end of the kang, you will not feel cold.

Xiyuan raised his hand to tuck Xi Wei in the quilt. The little guy didn't sleep well and would always show his shoulders, but fortunately, he basically didn't get sick all winter.The key is to see which younger brother has a runny nose, Xiyuan immediately boiled a small pot of ginger syrup, a bowl for a little guy, no one can escape, maybe it is because of preventive measures, maybe because the children of the farmers are more stubborn Because of this, several children spent most of the winter in good health.

Just when he was about to fall asleep, Xiyuan suddenly heard some unusual movement, Xiyuan couldn't tell what it was, but in this quiet night, the surroundings were silent, and he could feel a little movement.Xiyuan didn't move, and continued to listen with his ears sideways.Since the incident of losing sheep at home, Xiyuan has become more vigilant.

Soon the sound became clearer and closer. Xiyuan was sure that it was the sound of horses walking at night, and it was not far from his home.Xiyuan pushed Grandpa, Grandpa may be old and his ears are not sensitive enough, Xiyuan pushed a few times, Grandpa woke up in a daze, and then there was the sound of edamame in the yard, the family has now formed a habit, As long as the edamame screams, there must be something. Grandpa started up immediately, and listened quietly while putting on his clothes.

Although there was not much movement outside, Xiyuan still heard the sound of the courtyard door being opened, and Mao Doujiao and Huzi also barked violently.Mao Doujiao is a wolf dog, so it is very clever.Xiyuan usually loves him very much. Sometimes the family specially buys things like big bones, as well as chicken livers from butchered chickens to feed edamame.Speaking of which, Huzi’s name overlaps with Xihu’s name in Ximing’s family, so Xihu got angry with his eldest brother, saying that Xiyuan wanted to laugh at him. I didn't pay much attention to Ximing's whole family, so now the family generally calls Huzi Hutou.

It wasn't until one day in winter that Mao Doujiao led the tiger head out for a long time and came back with a gray rabbit in his mouth. Xiyuan didn't buy bones to feed them.The rabbits caught by Maodoujiao all winter were peeled off by Xi Mingwen, and cooked by someone he knew (tannin). Grandma made a rabbit fur hat for Xi Mingwen, Xi Wei, and Wei Cheng .For the remaining corners, I made a sleeve for Xi Mingwen. When Xi Mingwen was driving to deliver the goods, although he had hand covers (cotton gloves with four fingers connected together except the thumb), he sat When the northwestern wind blows in the car, it will be soaked in a while, so with the rabbit leather sleeves, you can put your hands inside, and it will not freeze your hands for a long time.

Because of his experience in catching prey in the wild, Xiyuan still believes in the fighting power of Maodoujiao.But listening to the movement of the soybeans, the people who entered the yard this time are definitely not comparable to the people who stole the last time.In the west room, Xi Mingwen and his wife also got up when they heard the commotion. At this time, someone had already come to the door of the house and pulled the door of the main room. The door was plugged in by the grandfather with a wooden plug from the inside, and it couldn't be pulled open for a while.

"Master, why do I hear the sound of a horse?" Xi Yuan whispered to his grandfather.Grandpa and Xi Mingwen listened attentively, and there was indeed the sound of a horse's hoof stomping on the ground, but it was not obvious.

"It is estimated that the horseshoe was wrapped with cloth." Grandpa analyzed.

"My God, isn't there a thieves?" Grandma exclaimed in a low voice.

At this time, the door was pulled twice from the outside and failed to be opened. Someone kicked it hard, and then the people outside probably heard the movement in the east room. One of them came to the window of the east room and shouted in a low voice: "Open the door, close the door!" Open it, or we will kick it away. Don't worry, as long as you are obedient, we will not hurt you."

"It's the beard (bandit)." Grandpa was sure to arrive at this time.The bandits are called beards here, but the specific reason for the name is unknown. It may be that it is located in the north, and further north is the place where the northern nomads graze. Here, the nomads are collectively called Hu people. Hu people used to go south to harass , so the locals also call the bandits who harass the common people like the Hu people beards.

"Hey, I'll open the door for you, little one." Grandpa replied tremblingly. If it was Hu Zi, this crude wooden door couldn't stop them at all. It's better to open it with a good attitude, otherwise Hu Zi will be angered. The consequences could be disastrous.

Grandma urged Xi Mingwen in a low voice to go to the Westinghouse to bring Xiyang and Xiyong over. Xi Mingwen immediately turned around and ran out, Xi Yuanniang also followed, and the two of them were carried over with the quilt.Xiyuan helped move the two children into the kang, and the adults sat on the edge of the kang to block the children.In fact, it doesn't work at all, it's just self-deception.

Grandpa got off the kang and opened the door while trembling. There were five people standing outside the door. Three were tall, one was of medium build and the other was small.One of them was supported by two other people, probably injured, and the other two were busy with Maodoujiao and Hutou.

Grandpa was afraid that they would hurt the two dogs, so he hurriedly choked on Maodoujiao and Hutou in a low voice. As long as the family members spoke, the two dogs would be honest, but they were still a little unwilling, so they barked a few times in a low voice before returning angrily. to the nest.However, from time to time, he raised his head and looked towards the main room.

The five tied the horse to the gate post, and ordered the grandfather to bring some fodder for the horse. The grandfather quickly agreed. Xi Mingwen was afraid that the grandfather would fall outside in such a dark night if his legs, feet and eyesight were not good. He wanted to go by himself, but he was kicked back by a medium-sized bandit before he could even step out the door.

"Damn Barra, what are you doing to you?" The bandit scolded, he was afraid that Xi Mingwen would go out and report to someone, and their grandpa was getting older, so they would be less worried.Now Xi Mingwen didn't dare to move.The little bearded man was outside watching his grandfather add water and fodder to the horses. The others entered the main room. One of them saw that the west room door was open and led the other three into the west room. Then he turned around and came out, opened the east room door, and took out the fire I took photos of several people on the kang next to each other, probably afraid that some strong men would hide in the east room and attack them while they were not paying attention.After looking carefully, I found that they were all old people, women and children, so I was relieved and turned to Westinghouse.

Xi Mingwen also followed in cautiously, and Xi Yuan heard Huzi asking Xi Mingwen to prepare meals in the east room.Niang Xiyuan heard it too. She wanted to get up and cook, but was dragged back by her grandma.From the moment grandma heard the movement at the gate of the courtyard, her body was shaking like chaff. Xiyuan hugged grandma and kept patting grandma's back and stroking her chest. He was afraid that the old man would be sick from fright. , Grandma has never been out of Lianhua Village a few times in her life, and she rarely sees strangers, let alone a beard.Niang Xiyuan was also afraid and trembling, but after all she was younger and better than grandma.

Grandma refused to let Niang Xiyuan go to show her face, those outside are beards, in case of evil intentions, the family will not be able to live, the old lady with the beard came in just now deliberately blocked Xiyuan Niang in the shadow, so that People only see that it is a woman, but they don't see the appearance clearly.

Grandma forced herself to calm down for a while, and then lifted her legs off the kang, her legs were a little weak and she almost sat on the ground. For the sake of the big family, the old lady forced herself to go out.She is an old woman who is nearly fifty years old. Even if she dies, she will not lose. She has experienced everything she should have experienced in her life, and she has lived everything that should be lived, as long as the rest of the family can be safe.

Fortunately, on the stove at home, there are things for tomorrow's breakfast.There is a Chinese cabbage, two pieces of frozen tofu, and some vermicelli. The old lady stewed a pot of cabbage frozen tofu vermicelli in a large pot, and heated dozens of sticky bean buns with a steamer.Then he concentrated on squatting in front of the stove and lighting the fire, while listening to the movement of Westinghouse with his ears sideways.

In the west room, the grandfather lit the oil lamp. The old man was worried that the boss would deal with these beards alone, so he hurried into the west room to add fodder for the horse.The little beard didn't follow in. It seemed that he wanted to check outside to see what was going on. He was afraid that it would be bad for them if the villagers heard of it. If someone came, they would not be able to escape and be caught.

A few beards in the room were checking the injury of the injured man. The man was tall and looked about the same age as Xi Mingwen, but he couldn't tell because his face was so unshaven that he couldn't see clearly.He was wounded on his leg, which looked like a sword wound. A palm-length gash was turned outwards. The blood kept flowing out from the wound, soaking the cloth covering the wound. The other three One person supported him behind his back, and the other two pulled down the cloth wrapped around the wound, intending to check the condition of the wound.

"Third brother, it's still bleeding. If it keeps bleeding like this, I'm sure you'll die. Why don't you find a doctor in this village?" the middle-sized man asked the one supporting the wounded.

"Look for a doctor..." The one called Third Brother was a little hesitant, they were afraid of shocking other people in the village.

"Fifth, why don't you follow him to the doctor and tell his family members are sick. And you, don't think about anything else halfway, or you will kill him with a knife." The third pointed to Xi Mingwen.

"Master, why don't I go to see a doctor?" Grandpa discussed with Huzi. Like grandma, he would rather risk himself than his son.

In the east room, Xiyuan and his mother are dressing a few little guys. Xiyuan thinks that the beard doesn’t touch them now. In case they go crazy for some reason, he, his grandfather, father and Maodoujiao Xiaohu can also Hold on for a while, and then tell a few little guys to run quickly. As long as they run out of the yard, given how familiar the children are with the village, they may be able to escape Beard's clutches.

While they were getting dressed, Wei Cheng and Xi Yang woke up, Xi Wei and Xi Yong were still young, they felt something was wrong, they opened their eyes and went back to sleep.Wei Cheng and Xiyang got dressed and sat next to their elder brother. Just now grandma sneaked back into the house and got some ash from the pot with her hands and smeared it on Niang Xiyuan's face. Wipe some off and spread evenly.

At this time, the beard in the West Room had already forced Xi Mingwen to lead him to find a doctor. Xi Mingwen was also in a dilemma. He didn't want to hurt Dr. Li, but there was no way for him. He had no ability to resist. What about the big family? .Hearing the news, Xiyuan felt that his father should not be allowed to find Dr. Li. In that case, the villagers would know that if someone with ulterior motives sued the government, saying that Xi Mingwen secretly contacted the bandits and helped Hu Zi find the doctor, he would be in trouble. .

Before the two of them went out, Xiyuan hurriedly got off the kang, "Brother, brother," Wei Cheng grabbed Xiyuan's clothes to keep Xiyuan from moving. He didn't know what his brother was going to do, but he knew intuitively that there would be dangers when he went out. Danger.

"Good boy, elder brother go out for a while, don't worry, you help elder brother to take care of my mother and younger brother, ah!" Xiyuan hugged Wei and got married, but he actually didn't know what would happen if he went out. Cheng, touched Xi Wei, feeling full of reluctance.Time didn't allow him to think too much, Xi Mingwen had already walked to the door of the main room with that medium-sized beard, Xi Yuan hurried out of the east room and called out "Father!"

"What do you want to do, kid?" the bearded man whispered.

"Brother, you can't go to the doctor. Our village doctor lives in the village. If you go there, you will definitely startle the villagers. It will be bad if you come to see him." Xiyuan said hastily.

"Hey, who is your eldest brother? A child is not too old and can climb the ranks. You don't want a doctor? If you don't want a doctor, can you show me my brother's legs?" Xi Yuan said, "Brother", annoyed the bandit.

"Ah, let me show you. I have been studying with our village doctor for a long time, and I can deal with common injuries." Xiyuan's words are not a lie, he will go to Dr. Li's house now when there are patients. Well, it's an illness that comes and goes. If Dr. Li doesn't want to move, let Xiyuan watch and deal with it.Xiyuan didn't know how to diagnose the internal disease, and helped deal with a lot of trauma and the like.

"Xiaoyuan, can you do it?" Grandma asked worriedly. As soon as Xiyuan came out, the old man hurriedly followed. Grandpa was waiting for a few beards in the West Room, and he was in a hurry.

"Grandma, it's okay. I've dealt with Dr. Li." Xiyuan was also beating his heart. He also dealt with minor injuries, and Dr. Li was still guiding him.

"Really?" The beard hesitated.

"Fifth, you bring him in, if he can't handle it, beat him up." The third child in the West Room yelled.

"Grandma, it's okay." Grandma almost collapsed on the ground when she heard the third child say that. Xiyuan hurriedly supported her and comforted her in a low voice.The grandma patted the elder grandson's arm fiercely with her hand, she couldn't stop her even if she didn't want to let go, she tried not to shed tears, she was afraid that she would cause these hell kings to harm his elder grandson again.

"Father, use a pot to boil some hot water. Grandma, go to the house and bring the white muslin cloth you used to make the quilt." Because there are two children of Xi Mingwu in the family, sometimes Huzi will beat up Salai I stayed here for one night, so grandma felt that the quilts were not enough. A few days ago, when she asked Xi Mingwen to deliver the goods, she stopped by Wande Town to buy some cloth and cotton.

"Hey, hey, good, good." Hearing what the eldest grandson said, the old lady quickly turned around and entered the east room. At the door of the east room, Wei Cheng was lying on the crack of the door and peeking into the main room secretly. He was still worried about his brother.

"Grandma, I'll find it for you." Wei Chengcheng heard what Xiyuan said.He was nimble and not afraid, so he quickly found what his elder brother ordered. He wanted to go out to get it to his elder brother, but Xiyuan Niang grabbed him, "Chengzi, don't go out, as soon as you go out Your brother should be distracted, and when something goes wrong, Beard will hit your brother." Niang Xiyuan coaxed Wei Cheng, why is this child so courageous, and the adults are so frightened, Wei Cheng seems not at all. Fear, is it because of his young age?Xiyang next to her was so frightened that she clutched the skirt of her clothes tightly.

"Hey, son, what your mother said is right, your brother should miss you as soon as you go out, we can't add trouble to your brother, ah!" The old lady also recovered, she only thought about her grandson.

Wei Cheng just climbed onto the kang, but after sitting for a while, he still couldn't sit still, and lay down on the crack of the door to look out. He couldn't see anything across the main room, but if he didn't look, he felt uneasy.

Grandma took the things to Westinghouse, Xiyuan poured some boiling water boiled by Ximingwen into a large bowl, and then put some fine salt, usually grandma used coarse salt for cooking, Xiyuan thought it was not tasty, a bit astringent , I bought some fine salt, grandma was reluctant to use it, and there were a lot at home.

After finishing the salt water, Xiyuan discussed with the injured boss to cut his cotton trouser legs with scissors. The beards did not object to this proposal. The knife, stabbed, stabbed the cotton trousers, Xiyuan asked the third child to press the boss, in fact, now the boss has lost much strength due to excessive blood loss, Xiyuan said this because he was afraid that he would move in case, and secondly It was also to vaccinate them in advance, so as not to spread evil fire with him later.

Xiyuan dipped a cotton cloth in salt water and washed the boss's wound carefully. The salt water has the effect of disinfection. If the poison is not cured, he will not be cured even after taking medicine.Then Xiyuan came to the east room, and took out the small medicine box at home from the grandma's cabinet, which contained various medicines he had bought from Dr. Li, including medicine for knife wounds. The medicine is a secret recipe handed down from the ancestors, and it is very effective in treating wounds.

Dr. Li made the medicine into medicine noodles, similar to the medicine noodles of Yunnan Baiyao and Shenyang Hongyao in later generations, which can stop the bleeding as long as they are applied to the wound for a while, and there is also a pair of medicine noodles for oral administration. The combination of the two can heal the wound Tried and tested.Now Xiyuan is very fortunate to have learned these things from Dr. Li one after another, this time it can be regarded as saving the whole family from danger.

The wounded leg was given good medicine, and internal medicine was also taken, the wound stopped bleeding in a while, Xiyuan asked his father to make a bowl of brown sugar water for the wounded, and the third child supported the eldest one's head and fed him to drink it.After a while, the wounded man felt better. The third child asked him how he felt, and he himself said that he was much better.

At this time, Xiyuan carefully bandaged the injured leg with a clean muslin cloth, and tied a beautiful bow at the end.

"Hey, third brother, I found that the kid in his family is very funny, and I even tied a flower for the boss." The fifth one licked Xiyuan's head and tilted Xiyuan on the ground.

"Children, the boss is doing well this time, we thank you for him!" The third child said in a low voice.

"Fuck, the trough is empty (hungry), eat Fu's (eating) his uncle's." Lao Wu shouted.

"Ah?" Xiyuan and the others looked at him in confusion.

"Mom, can they understand you when you speak jargon?" The third child kicked the fifth child.

"Hey, I'm hungry, let's eat." Lao Wu said with a smile.

"Hey, good, good." Xi Mingwen and the others hurriedly brought over the food that grandma had warmed up.

"Let's hit the teeth, hollow the heart, fuck, I forgot again, some pickles, and some green onions." The old five said.

Grandpa hurried out to ask grandma for pickles and green onions.After eating a few beards, the boss felt that the boss had stabilized, so he fell down on the West Room Kang to rest. They were also tired, and it was very hard to drive all night in the cold winter months. I devoured my food.

"Don't hold back, go, bake some rice cakes for the master, fuck, bake some pancakes and take them with you," the little man ordered.He was cold outside for a long time, and he was much warmer by eating something.

Xiyuan helped grandma bake pancakes on the stove. Grandma baked [-] large oil pancakes. The old lady felt sorry for the white noodles and thanked that these beards hadn't been forced on her family.

When the rooster crowed twice, a few beards grew up. Grandpa gave Xi Mingwen thick cotton trousers to wear, and brought Xi Mingwen a pair of big scorpion boots.A few beards hurriedly waited for the boss, the third carried him on his back, and the other tall one supported him behind, and a group of several people went out of the house and got on the horse.

Before being discharged from the hospital, the third child looked back at the people from the Xi family, and pointed out with a whip: "Be honest, I will tell others two hours after the masters leave. If you dare to report it immediately, be careful Brother and I seek revenge from you. Also, I have also recorded your healing today.” After speaking, he tapped the horse’s back lightly with the whip, and the horse started to trot.

Several members of the Xi family breathed a sigh of relief, Xi Mingwen went over to help the dilapidated courtyard gate, and somehow blocked the gate.A few people went back to the house and sat on the kang in the east room. Xi Wei and Xi Yong fell asleep inside the kang. Xi Yuan really envied these two little guys, they didn't know anything, and they didn't have to be afraid of anything.

"Grandma, grandma, are you okay?" Grandma started shaking again as soon as she touched the edge of the kang, and Xi Mingwen quickly carried the old lady into the kang.Following the old lady's heart, Xiyuan asked his mother to help the old lady lie down with a pillow, covered her with a quilt, and then lay there hugging grandma.

"It's all over now, so don't be afraid." The old man was also very worried about the old lady, and comforted her.

"Grandma, it's okay, ah, don't be afraid!" Xiyuan also told the old lady.

"Mom, I watched them all, and they all ran away. It will be dawn in a while, and they dare not come again." Xi Mingwen also persuaded his mother.

"Hey, what kind of world is this!" The old lady shook a pack of cigarettes, and finally made a sound. As soon as she made a sound, Xi Yuan felt relieved, as long as there was something on her mind, she just vented it out.