Jincheng flower hour

At dawn, Quanzi and Liu's mother, Ayan, got up and went to Fengli.They walked the mountain road for half an hour, and when they arrived in Fengli, the sun was already high, and chickens and dogs could hear each other.The people in Fengli are all surnamed Dong, and they have distant or close relatives.

Dogs, sons, mothers and sons were walking on the ridges of the fields. Before they got close to the houses in the middle of the road, some plowmen recognized them.Gouzi ignored the people inside and walked forward on his own. Ah Yan occasionally stopped to greet people.

When they were expelled from the uncle's house, none of these people interceded for their mother and son. The current situation was turbulent, people were selfish, and no one cared about anyone else's life or death.Quanzi didn't feel much chilling, just indifferent and numb.

Quanzi stood on the slope and waited for Ah Yan to come up. Quanzi said, "Mother, let's go." Seeing that his mother was struggling to climb the slope, Quanzi reached out to help her.

They went back to Fengli to get a pottery rice cooker, a pottery pot for drawing water, and some bowls and plates.When they left Fengli in a hurry, the things that the mother and son could take with them were really limited.When I came back from this trip, I wanted to take the remaining items at home to Zhuli.

These items were all purchased by Ah Yan, and they belonged to them, so they should be taken away.

The dog, son, mother and son have no belongings, and the most expensive things in the house are a sheep and an iron pot for cooking.

Poor people don't waste things, they take what they already have and use it, and they have to spend money to buy it again.

Walking in, there are dozens of houses, the residents recognize the mother and son, and watch at the door, some people come forward to say hello, some people ignore them.

Gouzi left on his own, and went to his uncle's house, which was an ordinary private house with a large courtyard.

Before approaching the courtyard, a person walked out from the courtyard, it was his cousin Dong Su.

"Yo dog, have you come back after you can't make it through?"

Dong Su was seventeen years old, he was well-fed, and his dog only reached his shoulders. Standing with Dong Su, he looked thin.

"Mom, come and see who's back."

Dong Su's ridicule wasn't enough, so he called his mother, Ah He, who was drying the millet in the courtyard.

Ah He was sweeping grains on the bamboo mat with a short-handled broom. Hearing what the eldest son said, he looked up and saw that it was a dog. He rushed to the door angrily, forgetting to put down the broom in his hand.

"Do you still have the face to come back? You didn't raise something from your father. How did you come back?"

The woman was black and strong like a bear, with her hands on her hips, her brows were raised, and her thin lips trembled as she cursed.

"Step aside."

Quanzi is not afraid of their heavyweight mother and son, and when it comes to fighting, he may not lose Dong Su.

"You can do it yourself, but others can't say it? Don't want to stay at my house again, go to Fenghu to find your second father."

Ah He was still chattering over there, Gou Zi was disturbed to hear it, pulled out a bamboo pole for drying clothes by the door, and shouted angrily: "Who shamelessly coveted the money that Dafu gave to my grandma and kicked us out!"

"Oh, God, he's going to hit me!"

Seeing that four or five neighbors had come to the door earlier, Ah He beat his chest and shouted.

"Dog, put it down."

Ah Yan stepped into the courtyard without any emotional ups and downs. She looked at the sister-in-law coldly.

After getting along for so many years, she still doesn't know the tricks of this wicked woman.

Gouzi put down the bamboo pole, but he didn't expect his cousin to take out a rolling pin from the kitchen. His sleeves were rolled up, and he said to his mother, "If you want to beat me, I will teach you a lesson today instead of my father."

Gouzi looked at his cousin's round belly and said coldly, "Hit me and see if I don't shoot your belly."

Who doesn't know that Quanzi is a sharpshooter, and this wild boy learned a unique skill from Wang Lizi from Fenghu.

"My dog ​​and I came to get the dishes, and we went back after we got them."

Ah Yan knew that there were a bunch of onlookers outside, Dong Su didn't dare to beat her dog, and she didn't want to have anything to do with the family again.

"Drink, I still want to come to get the dishes. What else can you put here? Nothing in this yard belongs to my house."

Ahe yelled like a shrew.The room where the dog, son, mother and son lived before is now full of firewood.I am afraid that since the day the dog, son, mother and son left, their wooden couch was dismantled and all their things moved to prevent them from coming back.

"you……"

Gouzi was so angry that he reached out his hand to his waist and took it out, only to realize that his wooden bow was broken long ago and he didn't bring it with him.

At the beginning, he should not have shot a goose, but should have shot an arrow in the leg of this vicious woman.

"Is that clay pot in my house still there?"

Ah Yan looked at Dong Su, Dong Su was taken care of by her when she was young, and she didn't expect this nephew to reminisce about old love, just a little bit of fairness would be good.

"this?"

Dong Su pointed to a large pottery on the ground that was used to feed chickens and ducks. It was a large three-legged painted pottery retort, intact.

Who would use such a good pottery to feed chickens and ducks on purpose.

"Mom, let's go back."

The dog pulled Ah Yan's sleeve, Ah Yan shook his head first, then looked around the yard, her eyes were cold.

"Let's go."

Ah Yan held Quanzi's hand, and the two turned around and left the hospital.

The two of them hadn't gone far when they heard Dong Su and A He say, "Oh, I'm leaving now." A He said disdainfully, "It's up to us if we don't leave? I didn't see that kid wearing good clothes, who would know?" Which one is better to go to?"

Hearing the slanderous words behind him, Gouzi bent over to pick up stones, but Ah Yan stopped him, sighing and said, "You need to be ambitious, so you don't have to come here again."

Quanzi raised his head, the corners of his eyes were red with anger, and he squeezed the stone tightly in his hand.

The mother and son left the same way as when they came, but this time, when someone greeted them on the road, Ah Yan ignored them.

The two were walking side by side on the embankment, when they heard a voice behind them shouting anxiously: "A Yan".

Ah Yan turned his head and saw a peasant woman running towards them. The peasant woman Ah Yan knew was the wife of the neighbor Rhubarb, and she called Ah Yan.

"You mother and son walk so fast, alas, I'm exhausted."

Ayun is petite, wearing crumpled clothes.

"Ayun, what's the matter?"

"Ayan, your aunt just came to our Liluo a few days ago. She was looking for you. She also asked me where you were. I said I didn't know, she was looking for it urgently. She let me see that you were going with you Say, let you find her."

Ah Yan's aunt married in Huxiang, which is quite a distance from Fengli.My aunt's family was rich, and when Father Dong was alive, she often came to Fengli and treated Ah Yan very well, although she always persuaded her to remarry.

Ah Yan knew why her aunt was looking for her. In this world, there was only such a relative, who was afraid that she and the dog would starve to death.

Ah Yan and Ah Yun exchanged greetings, said goodbye and left.

The mother and son were walking on foot. As they walked, the dog felt that the road was not right, and asked Ah Yan, "Mum, where are we going?" Ah Yan said, "To your aunt's house."

My aunt is old, and in Fengli in the past, she always wanted to talk to Ah Yan. She wanted to marry Ah Yan over and over again to help Ah Yan find a husband.But the niece was stubborn and refused, and the old man had no choice but to do so.

Huxiang has a long road, no horses or cars, and only walks.The mother and son stopped and went, resting in the shade of a tree beside the road at noon.Fortunately, I brought bean cakes, and the mother and child share the food.

It was already afternoon when I arrived at my aunt's house in Huxiang, and I saw a big house in the distance. The dog had been here before and knew this place.

Ah Yan led the dog to the door, and the servants of her aunt's house knew her and led them to the hall.

The servant went into the room to report, but a thin old woman stumbled out, saw Ah Yan and Quanzi, and immediately took them into her arms.

"Ah Yan, where did you move to?"

"Azhang is too outrageous to listen to that wicked mother-in-law's advice, really heartless!"

The old woman was crying as she spoke.Ah Yan wept silently and said nothing, she never said anything against her brother.

"Auntie, Quanzi and I have moved to Zhuli for more than a month."

Ah Yan wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and told his aunt.

The old woman held onto Ah Yan's hand and kept nodding. These days, she has been worried about the mother and child.

"How do you go to Zhuli? Move here to live with my aunt, where I have food and shelter."

The old woman's family has a big business, and she is a wealthy family, so how could they not have a room for their mother and son to live in.

"There is a house in Zhuli, and a field is also planted. The dog is capable, fishing and picking mushrooms, and I weave some cloth, and I am not hungry."

Ah Yan didn't want to come to cling to his aunt, so he went to Zhuli.Aunt is naturally close to her, but she doesn't want to cause trouble to her aunt, and she doesn't want to depend on others to live.

"Gouzi, stand up and show my aunt."

Quanzi stood up, with a tall and straight posture, neither humble nor overbearing.

"This child is very similar to that person."

The old woman patted the dog on the shoulder, quite emotional.

"For this child, you allowed your aunt to help you negotiate so many marriages, but you refused to remarry."

Ah Yan just smiled wryly, she was going to get married, what about the dog.

"If you find someone to marry, you don't have to suffer so much and be bullied by that wicked woman like Zhang."

The old woman hated Ah He deeply. In the eyes of the old woman, Zhang was cowardly, and Ah He was instigating everything.

"Auntie, the dog is about to grow up, and he has been here for so many years, not less than three years or five years."

Ah Yan hopes that the dog will be able to support the family when he grows up, so that the mother and child will no longer be bullied.

"As soon as Ah Yi left, I didn't know whether to come back to see his wife and children, or if he went back to his hometown. Ah Yan, when the dog grows up, I have to let the dog go to Sizhou to look for it."

Liu's father's name is Liu Yichang, and he is from Sizhou.

"The army is in turmoil and the roads are impassable. If there were people from Hu Township who went to Sizhou to study in the past, there should have been news."

"I'm afraid that in those days, he was beaten to death by the bandits."

When Ah Yan said this sentence, there was no emotional ups and downs. After so many years, she had already figured it out.

"Hey, it was really chaotic at that time, killing people everywhere. Later, how many people escaped from Jinguan City and went to live in the countryside. It has been peaceful for the past two years."

Although the old woman is old and her memory is declining, she still remembers the scene of the war.

Quanzi stood aside and listened to his mother chatting with his aunt. This was the first time he had heard that his father was from Sizhou.Quanzi didn't know where Sizhou was, it seemed very far away.

At my aunt's house that day, Ah Yan and Quanzi didn't stay long.When they said goodbye, their aunt gave them several buckets of rice beans, a piglet and three hundred dollars in addition.

Ah Yan repeatedly declined, but my aunt said that I can't just sit and watch your mother and child starve.If you have any difficulties in the future, you are welcome to send the dog over.

Leaving my aunt's house, it was almost dusk, and my aunt asked a servant to drive a bullock cart to send the dog, mother and son back to Zhuli.

On the way, Gouzi sat in the bullock cart, leaning against the bag of rice grain, watching the sunset in the sky, and the evening wind blowing his clothes and hair.He held a little pig in his arms, and the little pig let out a "hum-hum" all the way.