Butterfly hairpin

The next day, Su Shi took Su Wushan and his son to the brigade for more than three hours and registered.But it was indeed Su Shijie who was registered.Su Wushan thought that only he and his son were left in this world, so he didn't ask any more questions, and took his son to live with him as Su Shijie.

For the first two days, he could only make do with it, and when everything was settled, Su Wushan began to tidy up the house, which was just around the corner from Su Shiying's house.The house next door was apparently unoccupied.The news in the village has always spread quickly. Everyone knows a man who married a Beijing wife and is now receiving money from the state. Everyone gathers around and helps enthusiastically. Some send window paper, and some take a broom to sweep the floor Some of them sprinkled water, and some ate dried fruits from home. Su Xun had already fought with Su Xingwang and the others. It was the first time in his life that he played on the embankment outside until the sun was over before rushing home.

When night fell, Su Wushan began to prepare dinner. When he took the steamed white noodle buns out of the pot and put them in a basin, Su Shiying's eyes outside the house were all straightened. He looked at the wild vegetables in the bowl and suddenly hesitated. Even this wild vegetable may not be available to them every day, most of them are half a bowl of pickled beans for a whole day.He couldn't help swallowing, Su Wushan saw Su Shiying, and hurriedly invited him into the room, Su Shiying stared closely at the four big steamed buns in the pot, Su Wushan said with a smile: "I said it's steamed, take it to brother What about the two?"

Su Shiying waved her hands in panic: "We've already had dinner, you eat what you eat, I'll go back first, call me if you have anything to do"

Su Wushan pulled Su Shiying past him, and dragged him into the room in a daze: "Brother, you eat first, I'm going to cook, and I have something to discuss with you."

Su Shiying felt a little embarrassed for a while: "This, this", he hesitated for a long time and did not speak.

Su Wushan poured the water from the pot into the stone pier outside, and when he came back and saw Su Wushan put the steamed buns back, he picked them up again and stuffed them into Su Shiying's mouth. By coincidence, the two children outside came back and walked into the house, thriving. With a loud shout, steamed buns, he grabbed the steamed buns in his father's hand and gnawed them. Su Shiying was so panicked that he quickly took out the soles of his shoes to smoke them. Su Xun, Su Xun is also sensible, pushed to let Su Shiying eat, took a new one, broke it in half, and sat on the bed with Xingwang to eat.

Xingwang looked at this small adobe room from top to bottom, with army green floor coverings and quilts, and a cloth bag that had not been disassembled. There were pots and teapots filled with water by the wall, eye-catching half-bag noodles and one big and one small bags. Two pairs of cloth shoes, no other decorations, but it seems much more comfortable than at home.Su Shiying stood up and pulled Xingwang by his side, Xingwang turned his back to his father, for fear that he would pick out the steamed bun again, Su Shiying looked at Su Xun who was chewing slowly, and then at Xingwang who was devouring himself, and cursed in a low voice : "Look at your bear, eat slowly, you won't leave two bites for your younger siblings."

As soon as Su Wushan set up the pot, when he heard Su Shiying's words, he smiled, picked up the oil bottle from behind, and sprinkled some into the pot. When the oil was hot, he put half a bag of cornmeal in his hand into it, and when the frying was even, So he poured in clear water and the wild vegetables brought by Su Shiying. Su Shiying stretched his body and looked at all this. He smelled the aroma of oil. This smell reminded him of the rabbit meat they roasted with firewood in the back mountain. Steamed buns, smelling the aroma of oil, recalled in my mind that my mouth was full of oil from eating rabbit meat, and I felt as if I had never been full in my life.

Su Wushan seemed to think of something, he dug out a bag of peanuts from the cloth bag, looked at the bag of peanuts with twisted neck, it seemed that the steamed buns in his mouth were no longer fragrant, Su Wushan held the peanuts and smiled at it Su Shiying said: "I was unpacked by this kid on the road, and I'm not ashamed to give it to you. Now let Xingwang take it home and let the children satisfy their hunger."

When Xingwang heard it, his brows were filled with joy, Su Shiying quickly pushed it away, Su Wushan directly stuffed it into Su Shiying's arms, Su Shiying took the peanut and stuffed it into Su Xun's hand: "Go and put it away!"

Su Wushan looked at Su Xun with a smile, Su Xun turned around and gave it to Xingwang, Xingwang took it and ran out quickly, Su Shiying stomped his feet vigorously.

Su Wushan pulled Su Shiying back into the house again, and after sitting down, Su Wushan slowly said: "Brother Shiying, let me discuss something with you. I am going to plant some crops on the mountain. You can help me to do it. I will give it to you." You divide the food"

"I won't do it"

Although Su Shicai reminded him, Su Wushan would not have thought that Su Shiying would answer so simply

"You can't get enough to eat if you guard this place, can't you?"

"Then I won't starve to death anyway," Su Shiying said with a smile

This sentence made Su Wushan choke hard, he didn't know how to answer the words for a moment

Su Shiying continued: "My elder brother told me what I should say, but I really can't do it."

Su Shiying was holding the half-eaten steamed bun in his hand, sniffing the batter wafting out of the pot, and looking at Su Wushan in front of him, a different emotion suddenly popped up in his heart. The sick young man who begged them hard on the ground seemed to have eaten the elixir of the Supreme Lord and suddenly turned into a strong young man.

Su Shiying, like Su Shiqun, couldn't understand the so-called educated youth, subsidies, or Su Wushan's dodging eyes, which made him always have some doubts about Su Wushan's words.Of course the crop is real, my elder brother has already seen it in person.But not helping out was not because of suspicion of Su Wushan's words, but because of the complicated relationship in the village all the time

"Your village is weird, it's different from other people." Su Wushan shook his head helplessly.

"What's the difference? I've been like this since I was born. The Japanese devils didn't come in. I'm blessed by gods."

"Oh? What kind of god?" Su Wushan asked pretending to be interested

Su Shiying suddenly lowered her voice: "There is a river in front of our village, and the gods live there. The old people said that at the beginning, a witch god lived in the river. He wanted to eat a child every year, otherwise he would flood the village. The villagers lived there." It's getting higher and higher, but it still can't be stopped. There is no way, so we draw lots every year and throw children into the river. Later, a spirit god came to this river to help us drive away the witch god, but what, if we If we can’t lose a child in the future, he can bless us, otherwise we will take away and eat the whole village. And we can’t leave the village, otherwise we will have no harvest.”

"Then what kind of god is this? How can there be a god who eats people?"

"Don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense, don't let the spirit god hear you"

Su Wushan couldn't help laughing: "Brother Shiying, according to what you said, if the child accidentally gets lost by himself, what should we do? How can we do business without leaving the village?"

"That's not it. It means that no matter how difficult the family is, you can't ignore your children. Even if there is only one mouthful of food left, you have to feed the children. It is said that it is atonement for the previous children."

"Well, this is a good god, but how is it possible not to let him out of the village, and he doesn't scatter grain down with us?"

"It's not like this, you can go out, but you have to come back eventually, and you have to die at home"

"Oh, that's what it means"

Su Xun listened to all this in a daze, seemed to understand but didn't seem to understand, Su Wushan patted him and asked him to look at the pot, he obediently came to the side of the pot, turned over a few times, turned his head and said to Su Wushan : "Dad, it's ripe"

When Su Wushan heard about it, he took out two big white bowls from the shelf, and gave Su Shiying a big bowl by force. He stood there and thought about it, and Su Xun smiled and said, "Father, you can eat with bowls, and I will eat with pots." "

Su Wushan smiled, then filled a bowl and sat down with Su Shiying to eat.

Su Xun found the paper that wrapped the sugar, scooped out a little and put it on the paper, then took it in his hand and ate it

Su Shiying nodded while eating: "Smell, smell, smell", looked up to see Su Xun squatting on the ground, and said to Su Wushan: "Baby, why do you use your left hand to use chopsticks?"

Su Xun raised his head when he heard this, and heard his father say: "It's been like this since I was a child."

Seeing that the two of them had almost eaten, Su Xun took the bowl again and fed Su Shiying more food. Before the food reached the bowl, Su Shiying stopped him in a panic: "My good boy, uncle has eaten, you and your father will eat."

Su Wushan took it over with a smile, and added to Su Shiying: "Look, there's more in the pot, sit down and eat."

The two chatted for a while, Su Xun was washing the pot, saw Xingwang ran over and called his father back, Su Xun hurried out, and the two little friends were on the stone pier next to them, muttering something.

At night when the two father and son lay down, Su Xun was telling Su Wushan what he and Xingwang had discovered on the embankment, when his stomach suddenly started to growl, and Su Wushan said with a smile, "I'm not full."Seeing that the little guy was silent, Su Wushan lit a candle and took out half a steamed bun covered with a bowl. Su Xun sat up and said, "Father, I'm not hungry."

"Not hungry, what's the name of your stomach?"

"Then, save it for tomorrow."

"Did you see that I finished pouring out that stick noodle, so you wouldn't dare to eat it?"

"Anthracene, when will Uncle Chai come?"

"You can't change it. You have to call uncle. If he doesn't come, dad will make you hungry. Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow."

"Really?" Su Xun couldn't help eating the steamed buns that Su Wushan handed over.

"Father, why do we have to go back to the village? Didn't uncle not let us enter the village, or we should move to the mountains?"

"What's the matter with you again, I think you and Xingwang are having a good time"

"I'm just scared"

"Son, with daddy here, in a few years, when your uncle's work is done, we will leave here forever"

Su Xun nodded obediently, then suddenly raised her head and said with a smile, "Shi Yingbo is too good to eat."

"Hahaha, tomorrow we will go to the supply and marketing cooperative to get the meat and make dumplings for Shi Yingbo"

It was very quiet outside the house, Su Wushan looked at the little man lying next to him, he didn't know if he made the right decision, but man is a social animal after all, although everyone can live without them, but those who stay away from the smell of fireworks are like There is no difference between the beast, he pities his child wandering around with him, but he is also gratified for the child's kindness and understanding

After waking up in the morning, the father and son shared a few cakes and some porridge, and then set off to the supply and marketing cooperative. At this time, every household in the village was smoking, and when they walked through the door, they would see everyone pressing down on the well. Water, bending over to wash their faces, and sensible children holding branches and horseshoe whips in the pits by the roadside, and some people carrying water to go out, most of the doors are closed, although the low courtyard walls make People can see everything inside by standing on tiptoe, but even if it is just a fence around it, it is to let you understand that there are always some boundaries between people

Su Wushan felt the atmosphere of fireworks, although he was poor, but it aroused the warmth in his heart. From the first time he stepped into this village, he decided to take root here. Perhaps it was this biased intimacy that made him He is so defenseless that he covers up all the bad things

The eldest sister of the supply and marketing cooperative craned her neck to look at the father and son, looking at the rice noodles, grains, oil, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in their carts, as well as the fat and thin pork belly and green onions in the basin. The two flashlights were shining brightly in the sun. Passers-by were also watching, Su Xun pulled the cloth with great effort, trying to cover the things on the car, but almost knocked a bamboo basket of chickens to the ground, Su Wushan panicked and came over to help.

The elder sister waved her hand and called Su Xun over: "Boy, how old are you, why didn't your mother come with you?"

"I don't have a mother", Su Xun turned and ran away, leaving everyone sitting there in embarrassment, Su Wushan came over and smiled at the eldest sister: "His mother can go, eldest sister, give me some more candies "

The eldest sister took the ticket handed over by Su Wushan, and was surprised, "You have to buy so much, it's not a new year, how can people buy it after you buy it?"

The elder sister next to her beat her and muttered in a low voice: "No one bought it in ten days and a half months, why do you care so much?"

It was inconvenient for the elder sister to say anything, so she weighed the candy and handed it to Su Wushan, watching the two people pull the cart away with envy.