Crossing the green wheat ears

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Wande Town had its first big market since the beginning of the new year. Xiyuan took Xi Wei and Wei Cheng to visit for a whole day, and they didn't come back until almost ten minutes after dinner.

Xi Mingwen was worried, fearing that they would buy too many things and they would not be able to carry them, so he carried a backpack to meet him, until he was almost in Wande Town, when he met the three younger brothers who were carrying their things and were rushing back laughingly.

They really guessed right, they did buy a lot of things, and when they got home, they clattered out and laid a kang.

"Grandma, here, I picked this for you, and this is bought by my second brother." Xi Wei handed a box of hawthorn cakes to grandma. Grandma likes hawthorn cakes. They are sweet and sour and help digestion.

Grandma is getting old, and it is not easy to digest food, so eating one or two pieces of hawthorn cake is comfortable.What Wei Cheng bought for grandma was a head net. Grandma's hair was put in a bun on the back of her head, and a head net should be put on it, and then a hairpin should be inserted, so that the hair would not be messy.

"Hey, okay, it's better for our good grandson, I know what grandma cares about." Grandma took it with a smile.

"Master, Lord, this lambskin cigarette bag was bought by my second brother, and this box of Qiuli cream was bought by me." Xi Wei and Wei Cheng pulled out the cigarette bag and Qiuli cream, and gave them to grandpa.

"It's still us Chengzi and Xiaowei who are sensible and think about grandpa in everything." The old man also happily took things over.

"Mom, we bought this for you..."

"Father, my second brother and I picked this for you..."

In short, everyone in the family has a share, not even a puppy.

"Second brother and I have been picking for a long time, and our hands are freezing!" Xi Wei was asking for credit with his family, and in a blink of an eye he saw his brother picked up the soles of his shoes again, and hurriedly crawled into grandma's arms and sat down, "Grandma, you Look at my brother, he is going to hit me with the sole of his shoe again!" He still didn't forget to complain to grandma.

"Calm down, our little one picked out something for us all day, look at his hands are cold, you still recruit us." Grandma glared at Xiyuan.

The grandfather next to him also took Wei Cheng's hand and covered it. Wei Cheng looked at brother Xi Wei Zhidou and laughed heartily.

Xiyuan raised the sole of the shoe twice, saw grandma and grandpa glaring at him, then put it down again.

What's the matter, he was asked to go to the market with him, two small jobs, each of them only had five cents in their pockets, and they were reluctant to spend it, so they pretended to go and pretended to come back.

Xi Wei and Wei Cheng met something at the fair, and stood in front of someone's booth without moving, calling "Brother, brother", if Xiyuan pretended not to hear and walked forward, he would jump his feet and stretch his neck again Shouting loudly, everyone in the market looked at him, not embarrassed, and even laughed at others.

Xi Yuan felt ashamed, so he had to go back and buy it, and the seller praised him: "You two children are really nice, I dare not buy the things I like, and I can only buy them if my brother agrees. They are really sensible."

Sensible ass!What's so weird is that I want my brother to pay for it. After a trip to the market, the money in Xiyuan's pocket was spent, and the two of them complained that my brother didn't bring enough. They whispered in a voice that Xiyuan could hear, saying that brother Stingy, reluctant to spend money.Xiyuan was furious, if it weren't for the large number of people on the set, he would have wanted to do one person and one neck for the two small jobs at that time.

What the hell, the kang is full of things, the two of them didn't spend a penny, and you bought it for him, and he bought it for him, and I bought it for the fuck!

Xiyuan really wanted to yell out loud, but he thought that it would be a shame for him to be as big as the two little kids, so he slapped Xiwei, shook his fist at Weicheng, and turned back to his room.

He was exhausted, and he walked around for a whole day. The three of them walked back and forth three or four times in such a broken market in Wande Town. The sellers who walked around knew them, and they kept asking and forgot to buy. What's the matter, if the money in the pocket is not spent, the two brats probably have to live there.

"Grandma, look at the fireworks I bought. There are 25 balls, 25 balls!" Seeing his brother leaving, Xi Wei immediately became lively again, and Wei Cheng didn't need his grandpa to cover his hands anymore. Show off to your family.

Goudan nestled contentedly next to grandma, holding a lantern bought by his brothers in his hand. It was a watermelon lantern with a colorful paper pinwheel stuck on it. Windmill grinned.

Goudan held a pack of small candles in the other hand, there were all kinds of colors, Goudan counted just now, there were twelve of them!Enough for him to play until the first lunar month.

"Come on, dear boy, grandma will help you put the little wax up, heat it on the kang, and then melt it." Grandma took one out of Goudan's candle and left it for Goudan to play at night, and put the rest in the candle for him. in the cupboard.

Grandma set aside a separate cabinet in her room, and dedicated it to Goudan to store his treasures, food, play, and small clothes that Xi Wei used to wear, which Goudan can just wear now.

During the Chinese New Year, the old lady was very distressed when she saw that Goudan was still wearing patched clothes. She hesitated to buy new ones for her children. The third family has three children. Great, and Goudan has to be scolded by his parents when he comes home.

Niang Xiyuan saw what the old lady was thinking, and found out the old clothes worn by Xi Wei. They were all bought by Xi Yuan for her younger brother. , Goudan is wearing just right, because it is not new clothes, no one can say anything.

Goudan was wearing the old clothes of the fourth brother Xiwei, grinning happily. Grandma looked happy and sad, and tossed and turned for a long time at night but couldn't sleep. It was the old man who comforted him for a long time.

"Grandma, put up my lantern first, I'll get it after dinner when I get home."

Goudan also handed the lantern to grandma. If he had any good things, he didn't dare to take them home.

He now has breakfast and dinner and returns home on time to report, and the rest of the time he either stays at grandma's house or plays with the children in the village.It was the same when I was learning how to read with my elder brother. After the elder brother finished teaching, he would come to grandma’s house and lie on grandma’s kang table to do his homework. Come back when you can read.Therefore, Goudan has been reading and writing with Xiyuan for several months, Xi Mingquan and his wife don't know, they scold Goudan for being wild, stay away from home all day, and Goudan doesn't say a word.

Goudan is sometimes very envious of the second brother Wei Cheng. Although he is not a child of the uncle's family, he can live in the uncle's house. He is loved by the eldest brother, and he can also play with the fourth brother. The second brother can do whatever the fourth brother has. few.Goudan is young and doesn't know about Wei Cheng's early years.

If I could live in my uncle's house, I would be happy to let my elder brother beat him with the sole of his shoe every day, Goudan thought to himself, it doesn't hurt at all when the elder brother beats people, when the elder brother beats them, the second brother and the fourth brother yelled, and turned around. Sneaking fun, and making funny faces, the dog has seen it!

In the evening on the kang, Xi Wei and Wei Cheng beat their elder brother's back and the other's legs. Don't look at the two of them rebelling against their elder brother when they have nothing to do. There is something wrong, and they are farther west than anyone else.

The so-called petty rebellion was nothing more than another form of acting like a baby with my brother.The child feels that he has grown up, and he is ashamed to be obsessed with his brother like he was when he was a child, so he uses this clumsy way to get his brother's attention.

Their little tricks are not enough in Xiyuan's eyes, and they indulge them intentionally or unintentionally. He doesn't want his younger brothers to be restrained too much, and hopes that the two children can grow up naturally according to their nature, as long as the general direction is okay. In this regard Xiyuan is in control all the time, as long as there is a slight sign, he will be killed in the cradle. So far, the two little guys have not had any problems, but they have become more and more sensible.

Xiyuan was comfortable being served, so he let go of the two brats. The three brothers were tired from shopping all day, so they turned off the lights early and went to bed.

That night, brothers Xiyuan and the others slept soundly, Xi Wei and Wei Cheng were still snoring, Xiyuan also slept very deeply, although he seemed to hear the calls of Maodoujiao and Hutou vaguely, There was also the sound of family members talking, but Leng didn't wake up.

It wasn't until the next morning when he got up and had breakfast that he saw a woman holding a child at the dining table, that Xi Yuan realized that something really happened last night.

The woman who came was named Yuzhen, her maiden name was Chen, she lived in the same village as her grandma, and she was her goddaughter.

Grandma has three sons and no daughters. It is rare that someone has a daughter, so she is caring to her mother.Yuzhen had no parents, and grew up with her elder brother and sister-in-law. When her grandma returned to her mother's house, she could often see Yuzhen.

Yuzhen is younger than Xi Mingquan, she found her in-law's house a few years ago, and because of the distance, life was not going well, so she never came to see her grandma.

However, Xiyuan watched coldly, thinking that the two women were not as simple as visiting relatives in the first month. After dinner, grandma led Yuzhen and his wife to her own room, and asked the younger ones in the family not to tell others about their family. Regarding the guests, the other children were young and ran out to play without thinking too much, but Xiyuan was full of suspicion.

In the east room, Yuzhen was crying with her grandma while learning about the things in the house, "I think it's getting late, so I'll cook on the stove with my son on my back, our old man can walk around in the room, and then sit on the threshold." Smoking, I was still thinking, why is this old man messing around with nothing?" The grandma listened and shook Yuzhen's hand, this girl's life is really bad.

"Later, the old man probably couldn't bear it any longer, and said to me, 'Girl, why are you still cooking? He lost the game for money and sold you to Huzi. They are coming to ask for someone in the dark night. 'As soon as I heard that, I was dumbfounded, and my legs were shaking when I stood by the stove, and I couldn't move!" Yuzhen said, tears came down, and she wiped her face twice with her hands, grandma Pass her cloth towel and let her wipe her tears.

"It was our old man who pushed me into the house, wrapped his sheepskin jacket around the girl, put me on a big padded jacket, wrapped a headscarf on me, tied the child's back to me with a back, and pushed me out to run. Tell me not to go to my mother's house, for fear that he will chase after me with his beard."

Yuzhen cried and trembled. The girl in her arms was full and was sleeping. She probably felt uncomfortable, so she hummed twice, and Yuzhen quickly patted it with her hands.

"At the beginning, my legs were weak and I couldn't walk, and then I woke up because I was a jerk calling my mother. I can't let my daughter into the wolf's den, so I ran away. I have no other place to go except my mother's house. Thinking while walking, I can only come to you." Yuzhen put a girly face on her face.

"You two, how lucky are you? It's winter, snowy, more than 30 miles away, and nothing happened in the middle of the night. It's a blessing." Grandma patted Yuzhen's hand.

"Isn't that right, if we meet a wolf or a bad guy halfway, we will confess! I ran and ran, but I didn't know if the direction was right. I couldn't move my legs. Later, I saw our village The old elm tree, the tears came down, but it was home! Mother, why do you think he is so cruel!" Yuzhen cried again holding the girl.

"Hey, this is fate." Grandma also sighed for Yuzhen.

"I blame my elder brother and sister-in-law for giving me to such a person because I was greedy for the dowry gift from others! As long as there is some money in the family, I will steal it for you to gamble. Thinking about it, although this person is a gambler, his heart is not bad, and he has a jerk again, so he will have to live his life, but I didn't expect..." The jerk probably felt her mother's sadness, and let out a wow Crying, Yuzhen hastily picked her up and coaxed her.

"Your old man must have said it, otherwise, what would your girl do if she entered the wolf's den." Grandma also wiped away her tears, followed by fear.

"Our old man can't say it. If he doesn't think about me, he can't think about me. If I'm gone, the next one his son will sell will be a girl. Anyone who can sell a wife can't do anything!" When she mentioned Yadan, Yuzhen calmed down.

"But yes, this is the root of their family." Grandma touched Yadan's forehead, and Yadan stopped crying, and grinned at grandma.

"Mom, is it okay for me to stay with you? My elder brother is also a family member, so don't bring trouble on my elder brother's house. I really have no place to go, otherwise I won't come here to cause trouble for you. Why don't I leave slowly?" Yuzhen calmed down and began to think about the trouble she might bring to the Xi family.

"It's okay, girl, don't think about it, the eldest brother and the three brothers, whoever wants to make trouble has to think about it." The old lady comforted Yuzhen.

"Mother, Huzi won't come here, will he?" Yuzhen was still worried that Huzi was not easy to mess with.

"Will Huzi dare to rob people during the Taiping Festival? Is there any law for the king!" The old lady said quite loudly. In fact, her body had already weakened. I am also very worried, but what can I do? Everyone has come to the house, so I can't push it out!

After comforting Yuzhen, the old lady went out to discuss with the men in the family while Yuzhen and his wife were sleeping. No matter how good Yuzhen was, she didn't have her own children and grandchildren. The old lady didn't want to bring disaster to the family because of her own reasons.