Seed beans

"Sixth—old sixth—Chunhan—"

The distant shouts echoed in the silent mountains and forests.

"Ugh!"

Bian Chunhan responded with a loud voice, skillfully stripped off the wet clothes from the child, put them in his arms, and ran quickly.

Bian Yuan waited on the top of the hill for a while and saw Lao Liu appearing out of breath.

"Brother, huh, brother." Bian Chunhan tried to catch his breath, and pushed his chest up, "Look, brother, I picked it up!"

Today is a new moon, and under the cover of the dense mountain forest that has not yet been artificially transformed, the little stars can't clearly illuminate people's faces.

The baby who had been crying for an unknown amount of time had already fallen asleep at a comfortable body temperature, even though Bian Chunhan ran wildly all the way, it was not affected at all.

Bian Yuan glanced at it, thinking he picked up a stray cat.

"Hurry up and go home!"

Children seem to have the habit of picking up things at home, especially small animals.

Bian Cunzhi and Liu Fang'e are well-known doting couples in the village. It's not that they don't beat or scold them, but they try to satisfy the children as much as possible.

Lulin Village has many hills and slopes, and the roads are not easy to walk. It’s not that the roads are impassable. Over the past few years, there have been occasional bicycles turning in with snacks. In winter, there are melon seeds and marshmallows, and in summer, there are thick foam boxes wrapped in quilts. Packed popsicles and soda.

As long as it is called to the door, even if the whole family is waiting for the rice to be cooked, Bian Cunzhi will take out three cents and five cents to buy a handful of melon seeds and share a dozen or two of the cheapest popsicles , everyone took a bite.Bian Chunhan grew up so big, the peddler came twice, and saw several children crying and rolling on the ground, holding on to the wheels of others, and the adults didn't let go. They just slapped them a few times and carried ears ripped away...

Bian Chunhan's older brothers had picked up things and brought them home, but Bian Cunzhi never cared about it, he just said that he had to rely on himself to feed himself, and the family couldn't afford extra food.

The first few older brothers didn’t know, but the fourth brother, Bianhu, picked up a beautiful baby mynah, with a light blue color all over his body. The eldest brother said that it probably fell from the nest. Like people talking, Bianhu is like a baby. I ask my elder brother to weave a birdcage for me, and I take it with me 24 hours a day. When I have time, I go to the woods, catch all kinds of bugs and feed it, and finally make a small bird alive. The bird was dead; fifth brother Bianming caught a snow-white rabbit on the way home from school. There are a lot of wild rabbits here, but they are all gray. Ming has been raising it for several months, but in the end it is because there is no food to feed, and he only eats green grass. After a few days of diarrhea, there is only air in and no air out.

The crowded dining table was extremely quiet today.

When Bian Chunhan and Bian Yuan arrived home, Liu Fang'e had already cooked porridge mixed with potato cubes, fried a large bowl of green peppers mixed with eggplant, and a plate of pickled vegetables. Even the porridge was ready and placed on the table.Bian Chunhan was very hungry, so after washing his hands, he rushed to the dining table, and while feeding himself, he dipped his chopsticks in rice soup and fed the bare-bottomed baby still stuffed in his arms.

Liu Fang'e kept winking at Bian Cunzhi.

"Six, what's the matter with your baby?"

"I picked it up, on the lake over there!" Bian Chunhan said, patting the wooden basin beside him, and there was still a set of wet clothes in it.

Liu Fang'e picked up the clothes and looked at them. It was the most common style, and the material was also common cotton.

"Sixth brother, you plan to keep him." Bian Hu stretched out a finger and poked him.

Bian Chunhan quickly turned around and avoided it, "Well, the eldest brother agrees, mine looks better than mynah and white rabbit!" As he said, he smiled and showed his white teeth.

It is indeed a delicate and unusual child. Although it is only a few months old and its facial features are not completely finalized, it has already shown enough beauty, except for the large red spot with strange lines from the corner of the left forehead to the corner of the eye.

"Cough-cough-"

Peeled a baked potato and choked on the edge of eating it.

There are several large and small pools at the foot of the hillside in front of Bian’s house. Liu Fang’e waters the vegetables frequently. The large vegetable garden in front of and behind the house is constantly growing vegetables all year round. I used to only dare to open a little in my own yard secretly, but now I don’t. After the restriction was lifted, Bian Cunzhi and Bian Ming opened a large piece of water to the pond, and planted potatoes in the early spring.It’s not that I’m hungry, I don’t eat baked potatoes much, the salt at home has to be counted, sugar is a rare thing, potatoes don’t have seasoning, no matter boiled, steamed or burnt, they are bland and tasteless , can only fill the stomach very much.

"When did I say I agreed!" Bian Yuan said, swallowing hard the potato froth sticking to the tube in his throat.

Bian Chunhan looked at Bian Yuan in surprise, and said nah, "Just now, just now..."

Bian Yuan sighed, "Brother Tian Hei didn't see clearly just now, and thought you picked up a stray cat."

"Father." Bian Chunhan called out for help.

"Liu'er, our family can't afford this baby." Bian Cunzhi pulled Bian Chunhan to his side, looked at the baby for a while, and said, stroking Bian Chunhan's head.

"But, Mynah, Rabbit... Fourth Brother and the others..."

"That's different, my silly son, raising a child is not something you just save on food." Liu Fang'e said carelessly.

Bian Chunhan lowered his head and said nothing, but the hand holding the baby became tighter and tighter.The baby felt uncomfortable, struggled and cried.

"The little animals raised by your brother and the others will be sad for a few days at most when they die. This child is not kidding. Our family can't even afford rice soup for him. Your mother's milk is not enough for your brother, nor can it be evenly distributed." Come out, now he has a stutter, and you will have to go to school and start a family in the future, you can take care of it!" Bian Cunzhi wanted to take the crying baby to help comfort him.

Bian Chunhan, who had been silent all this time, turned around abruptly and said, "What I found is mine, and I want to raise it!"

"You son of a bitch, it doesn't make any sense. You didn't hear that your father said it was Chad." Bian Cunzhi hadn't thought about what to do with that son of a bitch, but his own child had a stubborn temper again, and he couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

"Liu'er, listen to your father. Tomorrow, ask your father and elder brother to go to the town some time, and send the child to the police station, so that the government can worry about it." After wrapping up the clothes, he persuaded from the side.

Bian Chunhan lowered his head, "My fourth brother has raised mynah..."

"Bian Chunhan, my father won't tell you the truth, this baby will do what mother said, and the field is busy to death, and it will take a long time!" Bian Yuan said.

Bian Chunhan didn't speak, but the tears fell down.

On the other hand, Bian Changji and Bian Chunhan were about the same age, and he roughly knew what Sixth Brother was thinking. He looked back and forth several times, but he didn't dare to speak to him.

Bian Chunhan has always been honest, and he is the most worry-free among the brothers. Having said this, the adults took a bath with the small ones as usual, and pulled down the noisy Bian Hu, and checked it out. It took a long time for the candles at the courtyard gate to be placed.

His eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, Bian Chunhan still had a stuffy pain in his chest, looked sideways at Wu'er's exquisite eyebrows, and carefully crossed his arms to prevent the old eighth who turned around from bumping into him, and his arms touched the baby's soft The baby's lips moved unconsciously, and the soft touch made Bian Chunhan more determined.

Bian Yuan found a small wooden sign on the neck of the baby he picked up earlier, with a complicated pattern engraved on it. It was Bian Cunzhi who followed the old man to see the market, and it took him a long time to see that it must be a seal. Wu'er" or something, the whole family will temporarily call that child Wu'er.

The rooster outside crowed only twice, and Liu Fang'e pushed Bian Cunzhi to wake him up.

"Send that baby away earlier, Zao Anyi."

Bian Cunzhi yawned, put on his clothes, and Bian Yuan quietly got up from Lao Ba's side and took the clothes and went out.

The father and son poured cold water on their faces, took out some cold potatoes from the ashes of the stove, wrapped Wu'er in a pot of water, and went out the door.

Bian Chunhan touched the edge twice in his sleep, and then he held Bian Laoba's small arm and it was safe.Bian Changji drank more than half a bowl of porridge water at night, and couldn't hold his urine until morning. He got up in a daze and stood on the edge of the yard to pour a dip on the corner of the fence. When he went back, he realized something was wrong.

"Sixth Brother, Sixth Brother, wake up!"

"Well, the eighth brother is going to pee?" Bian Chunhan rubbed his eyes, half-closed his eyes and sat up.

The next three youngest stayed overnight with Liu Fang'e and the others, and Bian Yuan took the rest of the brothers to sleep in a room.Bian Yuan worked in the fields all day, and slept like a dead sleeper at night. If Bian Hu was asked to look after the younger ones, the brothers would only sleep on wet mats all year round.Bian Chunhan took his younger brothers to wake up at night as soon as he was sensible, and he has long formed a habit.

"No, no, Tata, what, your Tata is gone..."

Bian Chunhan got up in a jiffy, glanced at the foot of the bed, and even the small set of clothes with the tub was gone.

"Sixth Brother, hello, Sixth Brother!" Bian Changji chased after him and shouted a few times in a low voice, but after a blink of an eye he couldn't see anyone, so he had to give up, yawned and climbed onto the bed, carelessly The lungs fell asleep.

Bian Chunhan hadn't been to town a few times since he was a child, but miraculously, he didn't go wrong and ran all the way to the police station.

There are only four uniformed officers in the town's police station, and they are in charge of troublemakers, illegal vehicles on the road, and household registration. At this time, they just idle around all day long.When Bian Cunzhi and his son arrived, there was only one young man on duty in the police station consisting of two low bungalows.The father and son talked for a while, but the young man just couldn't make up his mind, and an older man came halfway through, and it was hard for him to speak clearly.

"We know about you. You fill out a form so that we can send the person to the orphanage in the city."

"Oh!"

The half-open door was slammed open, Bian Chunhan jumped up, snatched the baby from the young policeman's hand and held it tightly in his arms.

The child who had been quiet all morning seemed to know that his support was coming, and cried out with a "wow".

Amidst the baby's cries, Bian Chunhan's sharp and disfigured voice almost pierced the eardrums, "This is mine!"