After dressing as a widow

The people who came to the Lin's house to look at the food came one after another. Seven or eight pots of rough leaf tea were boiled on the stove. Everyone gathered around Father Lin to pray for scriptures. Father Lin took the trouble to tell them the method of composting again and again.

And Lin Adie, Lin Xiaoyao, and the family's eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law were also surrounded by people, all of whom were aunts and uncles in the village.

Everyone regretted it. If they had believed in the Lin family's method of using fertilizer earlier, their crops would definitely be much better than they are now.

As for Zhao Xiu's natal family, although Zhao Xiu didn't use the composted soil dung because of Zhao Xiu's return, it was not bad after chasing the dung a few times. He and Father Lin, praised Lin Zhen to the sky, and even patted Zhao Xiu on the shoulder, telling him to listen to Lin Zhen, Lin Zhen is a promising person!

After the harvest, the sorghum and buckwheat roots in the field are dug up and dried in the ground as in previous years. After drying, the soil is shaken and carried back to be used as firewood.

Time flies, and it is winter in a blink of an eye.

Lin Zhen was wearing a newly made cotton robe, cotton boots, and a rabbit fur hat, looking at the sparse snowflakes outside the window, frowning.

Father Lin walked up to him, "Are you thinking about the embolus again?"

"The day after tomorrow is his father's memorial day. That boy has a deep relationship with his father, and he will definitely go to offer incense to his father." Half a year later, Zhou Tao and Mrs. Ma seemed to have evaporated, and they never returned to Tianwan Village.

These few days, Lin Zhen's eyelids were flustered, he reached out to catch the snowflakes in his hand, turned his head and said to Father Lin: "Father, I will go to Datianzi Village to see tomorrow."

"Go." Father Lin was also worried about that grandson, a seven or eight-year-old child, who would not know where Zhou Tao and Ma Shi would take him, which was really frightening.

Early the next morning, Lin Zhen ate two boiled eggs and a bowl of warm soybean milk before heading to Datianzi Village.

At the beginning, the snowflakes in the sky were not dense enough, but in the middle of the road, rustling sounds could be heard, and the dead branches on both sides of the road were crushed and rattled.

Lin Zhen glanced at the gradually blurred road in the wind and snow, and felt that his luck was really bad. In such a cold weather, it was more difficult for those wild beasts in the forest to hunt for food. It was true that the ones who wanted to jump out and treat themselves as dinner I can't find a place to run.

"Gu Shuanzi, Gu Shuanzi, why don't you tell me a dream, just tell me where you are." Lin Zhen lowered the rabbit fur hat on his head and almost trotted forward.

Finally, after almost falling twice, he arrived at Datianzi Village two hours later.

It was snowing, and the weather was bitterly cold. People in the village were burning fires in their houses to keep warm. White smoke was rising from the roofs of every household, like balls of cotton candy, gradually diluted in the wind and snow.

Just as Lin Zhen stepped into the entrance of the village, the dog of the next family was biting there, and the cloth straps tied to it were stretched straight.

The master came out and was shocked when he saw Lin Zhen: "The Gu family, why are you here at this time?"

Lin Zhen is also a celebrity in Datianzi Village. In the past, it was because of his looks, but now it is because he gave all his family wealth to Gu Shuanzi, and went out to return to his natal family. married.

Lin Zhen shook the snowflakes that had piled up on the umbrella: "The day after tomorrow is Shuanzi's father's memorial day, I'll come back to have a look and burn incense sticks for him."

"By the way, auntie, have you seen Shuanzi come back these days?"

"No," said the woman in her fifties who spoke, "should come too, he is the only father, so it will be deserted if he doesn't come."

"Why don't you come to my house to sit and enjoy the fire?"

"No, I'll go to the village head's house and get the key to the house."

"That's what you said. The house still needs to be burned to remove the damp. Anyway, Shuanzi will come back, so you can sleep more comfortably. Then I won't keep you."

Lin Zhen nodded: "Thank you, auntie, let's go in quickly, auntie."

Knowing that Gu Shuanzi hadn't come yet, Lin Zhen's eyelids twitched even more, he went to the village chief's wife to get the key and opened the door of the Gu family's blue brick house.

No one has lived in it for a year, and even the best house is full of dust, leaving clear footprints when you step on it.

Lin Zhen looked at the furniture in the house that was exactly the same as when he left. First, he went to the neighbor's house next door to buy two bundles of firewood to boil water, scrubbed the tables and chairs, and then bought two liters of rice, lard, eggs, radish and cabbage. Made a meal.

In this season, every household can’t see green vegetables. Radish and cabbage are the only two vegetables that can be eaten during the winter, so I’m afraid to mention it.

But Lin Zhen was good at craftsmanship, and he was willing to put oil, so the fragrance went outside.

Someone who came to the nearby house smelled the smell and asked, "Did Zhou Tao bring Gu Shuanzi back to worship Gu Da's grave?"

In the year just passed away, the family members have to burn some wax for the new grave, and clean up the weeds on the grave by the way, just like a living person cleans the house, so that the relatives can live comfortably below. of.

Gu Da had no one but Gu Shuanzi, and Mrs. Gu's family was even more hopeless, so this person subconsciously thought that Zhou Tao had brought Gu Shuanzi back.

The neighbor next to Gu Da's green brick and tile-roofed house opened the door to let people in, and whispered, "It's not Gu Shuanzi, it's the brother Gu Da married."

"It's actually him?"

"I didn't expect it to be considered affectionate and righteous. Not only did it not ask for the money left by Gu Da, but it would also come to Gu Daqing's grave."

"I used to think that he could only see his face, but I didn't expect him to be pretty good."

Looking at the smoking Gu Da's house, the person who came to look for it felt the same way, and smelling the smell wafting from Gu's house, Lin Zhen's handicraft was really good.

After eating and taking a bath, Lin Zhen nestled in the quilt for a long time to keep warm. When he woke up, he found that the snow outside was even bigger. The snow was as big as a thumb. It was so overwhelming that he wanted to bury the whole village in it.

He wrapped his cotton robe tightly, looked at the mountain where Gu Da was buried, hesitated, tied two pieces of leather on his calf to the middle of his thigh, and wore a leather hat and gloves specially made by his sister-in-law. Baby Xiong walked towards Gu Da's grave with one foot deep and one shallow foot.

Fortunately, Gu Dacai was buried halfway up the mountain, and the slope was not too steep. Lin Zhen climbed up without too much effort.

Just stepped up a small slope, about a hundred meters away from the tomb, Lin Zhen, who has excellent eyesight, suddenly saw a mass lying in front of the tomb that had been covered in snow to the extent that it was almost the same as the ridge next to it.

His heart skipped a beat, and he didn't even have time to hold the umbrella, so he spread his legs and ran over.

"Gu Shuanzi!"

"Gu Shuanzi!!!" A thin layer of snow fell on this group of figures, and Lin Zhen pulled Gu Shuanzi, who was just wearing a patch on patched clothes, so thin that it was almost no different from autumn clothes, to his arms inside.

Only then did he realize that Gu Shuanzi had changed a lot from a year ago. His hair was disheveled, dry and yellow, and he had a handsome face somewhat similar to Gu Da's, with no flesh at all, and two cheekbones. Standing tall, it was originally like a little wolf cub, but its body that could knock itself away was so thin that it could only touch its bones.

And the thick scabs on his wrists, the almost black bruises on his face—

If it wasn't for the hot air coming out of his nose, Lin Zhen would almost have thought that he...

Lin Zhen untied the padded robe with trembling hands, and wrapped him around him. Just as he was about to hold Gu Shuanzi up, Gu Shuanzi looked at him with two slits in his eyes. His hands were scabbed from clutching the tombstone Blood was dripping from his wrist.

Lin Zhen pressed him against his body: "Your father is always here, you see, he won't leave, I will take you home."

Gu Shuanzi's eyes were like two knives soaked in ice, looking at him deeply, no matter how Lin Zhen tried to break it, he didn't break his fingers.

Lin Zhen was so angry with this child that he fell on his back. If he is like this, if he doesn't hurry to see a doctor, do he even want to live?

He looked down at Gu Shuanzi, pointed to Gu Da's grave and said, "Your father is here, do you want him to watch his son die in front of him!"

"..."

Gu Shuanzi finally let go of his fingers.

Lin Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, and ran down the mountain with him in his arms.

His forehead was covered with snow-white rabbit fur, his white face was flushed red because he held Gu Shuanzi in his arms, and hot air came out of his mouth.

Gu Shuanzi had chilblains all over his hands and feet, which were itchy and painful from his body temperature.

He looked at Lin Zhen who was sweating a little from the tip of his nose in the cold weather, and slowly closed his eyes.

Lin Zhen went directly to the village chief's house to borrow an ox cart, then went home to get two thick quilts, wrapped Gu Shuanzi tightly and put them in the carriage, and drove straight to the town's medical center.

The apprentices in the medical hall were surprised to see him: "Brother Lin, why is such a heavy snow coming to buy medicine?"

Lin Zhen accidentally discovered that many so-called medicinal materials are spices commonly used in modern times, so he often comes here to "grab medicine", and the apprentices are familiar with him.

Lin Zhen hugged Gu Shuanzi from the bullock cart: "Where is Doctor Liu?"

"Yes, who is this in your family, where is it uncomfortable?"

"My son." Lin Zhen hugged Gu Shuanzi and went to the other room where Dr. Liu had his consultation without looking back.

The black line on the apprentice's forehead: "..."

Who are you kidding, Geer Lin looks only seventeen or eighteen years old, how could there be such a big child, and the apprentices with some small thoughts in their hearts would not give up following them.

But Lin Zhen didn't notice this apprentice at all, he hugged Gu Shuanzi to find the doctor, unwrapped the quilt, and said, "Doctor Liu, come and see my son."

Dr. Liu is the doctor of this clinic, and his medical skills are well-known in the whole town. When he saw Gu Shuanzi, his eyebrows were tightly knit together, and when he took the pulse again, his face was so dark that it was impossible to see.

He looked at Lin Zhen: "Where did you pick up this child?"

"It's not picked up, it's my son."

"I can't see that you still have such a heart, tormenting a child like this!" The doctor is kind, Dr. Liu is used to seeing life and death, and he is more and more reluctant to see some things.

This child is still so young, and the condition of his body and body is so bad that he can't hold back his anger.

Lin Zhen opened his mouth and couldn't speak. Gu Shuanzi became like this, and he felt that he was also responsible. It was he who made the child suffer so that he became like this.