Four gusts of wind

"I haven't tried it either, after all. "

"Definitely not. "

Ermao replied affirmatively.

"My dad is just eccentric. "

"Who can blame, Brother Jun has been studying very well, and he is obedient, so he will definitely not beat him." Look at you, you are naughty all day and deserve to be beaten. "

Liu Mei mended the knife.

"Are you obedient?"

Ermao, unconvinced, the two quarreled again.

At this moment, the fire in the middle, just like the emotions of the sister and brother, burned at the same time, and also lifted the people around them to drive away the cold and boredom.

"You two too, they quarrel every day, and they never stop. "

He couldn't help but tease.

And this ridicule is like adding fuel to the fire, which makes the sisters and brothers more energetic and start to provoke each other. Time also shuttled between the words of each of them, and before they knew it, the sky was dark.

"Let's go home." "

The siblings stopped arguing, got up with his brother and him, patted off the dirt and dead grass that had stuck to their clothes, put out the fire, and drove the cattle and sheep towards the house.

On the way, my vision became grayer and grayer, and when I got home, what I saw in front of me had become light black. At this time, the relatives who helped had long since disappeared, there was only empty yellow earth left in the chestnut forest, Dad and Grandpa, Second Uncle and Uncle sat around the fire pit in the hall and chatted about words they didn't understand, Mom was watching TV in the house above, and the fifth uncle was also like those relatives who didn't know where to go.

"Why did you come back so late?".

As soon as the two brothers entered the house, Dad asked with concern.

The elder brother replied that he had forgotten the time and led him to the kitchen.

"Mom left you food in the cupboard. "

"Oh. "

The elder brother opened the cupboard and took out a pot full of ribs, while he took the bowl and put the dishes on the table one by one, and the brothers couldn't wait to stuff the bowl with vegetables.

Outside the house, Dabai heard the movement in the kitchen, and also ran in with his tail wagging and shaking in front of them.

He and his brother ignored it, and walked back to the hall with the bowl to make a fire.

"The fate shows that Jun will get married at the age of 24, and Mao will get married at the age of 22. "

Grandpa said while wearing reading glasses and holding a yellowed book in his hand, pointing to the paper in his father's hand.

He and his brother were not interested, and ate by themselves, but his father looked at them with satisfaction, and touched his brother's head first, and then his head.

"It's normal to get married earlier than Jun." "

"What's the matter, these two guys are very sensible." "

"The eldest brother is right, Mao is more skinny than any child in the upper half of the village, and he is much more handsome and honest. "

The second uncle said jokingly.

Although he knew it was a joke, he felt very uncomfortable listening to this sentence, perhaps because the second uncle always joked like this, and his father came back for the first time, and he hadn't begun to understand him and his brother, so in his father's eyes, he really became that skinny person, and only his brother was honest.

Grandpa denied the words of his father and second uncle, and touched his head like his father.

"We Mao and Jun are equally well-behaved. "

"Dad, don't favor him, I know his skin, child, it's okay to be skinny, just don't do anything like stealing chickens and touching dogs." "

Grandpa's defense didn't work, and Dad still insisted on his opinion. Seeing this, the grandfather could only close the book and look at the uncle guiltily.

"It's a pity, I forgot the birthday of the sixth child, and I can't help the sixth child." "

In the face of grandpa's words, the uncle was not at ease, lowered his head and fiddled with the tongs, and replied in an easy-going tone.

"It's okay, I don't believe in this, it's not the same. "

After listening to the uncle's words, the grandfather sighed, opened the book again, and handed his father a pen at the same time.

"Write down your and Ying's birthdays, and I'll calculate them for you both." "

Dad took the pen, quickly wrote down a few words, and handed the paper on which he had written the words to Grandpa. Grandpa took the paper, flipped through the book and read the words on the paper, repeated this for a while, and then closed the paper, his face dark.

"When you die, you are buried in the fire, and you live in the flames for the rest of your lives. "

"On our part-time job, it is quite expensive to burn the corpse with fire, so it will be very rich after seeing Mao Hejun." "

Dad was obviously pleased with the result and nodded proudly. Seeing this, Grandpa continued.

"After Ying's death, there will be four descendants who will wear linen and filial piety, and boss, after you die, there will be two descendants who will wear linen and filial piety." "

After Grandpa finished speaking, Dad's face also became dark.

Seeing this, the second uncle made a joke on the side again.

"It must be Mao's kid, as far as his skin is concerned, it is estimated that he will not gnaw it back." "

He bowed his head and ate, but did not speak; The elder brother also lowered his head to eat, but did not speak.

After pondering for a while, Dad suddenly raised his head as if he had made up his mind.

"Two is just two, anyway, these two are my children, and I'm going to send them to college anyway." "

As soon as Dad's voice fell, the second uncle became more energetic and said to him who was eating.

"I heard that there is no hair, don't be so skinny in the future, study hard to repay your parents." "

After the second uncle finished speaking, he just finished eating, and after simply saying hello to his grandfather and father, he got up and walked to the kitchen.

Seeing this, the uncle also put down the tongs in his hand.

"Big brother, second brother, Dad, I'll go to sleep first." "

He put down the dishes and chopsticks and stood at the table in a daze, thinking.

What is skin? He doesn't know, he doesn't understand what the skin means in the mouth of adults.

"Little friend. "

When he was out of his mind, the uncle came behind him at some point.

Pulled back to the present, he turned around and shouted weakly.

After hearing this, the uncle smiled and nodded, and then pinched his face.

"Let's go, let's play chess." "

"Okay. "

He happily followed the uncle out of the kitchen and walked to the door of the hall, and they told the elder brother to come over and play chess together after dinner, and walked to the uncle's room without looking back.

The light of the incandescent lamp was still so faint, and the words on the chess pieces were faintly visible in the yellow halo light. He and Uncle squinted their eyes to set up a chess game, and then started to "game", after all, Uncle was more powerful, and after a while, he was forced by Uncle to have nowhere to escape, and lost the first game without any way back.

"I'm not convinced, come again." "

As he spoke, they began to rearrange the chessboard again, and when the chessboard was ready, the elder brother also happened to come over after eating.

"If you can't win Uncle, let me come." "

He didn't refute, but obediently gave up his position and let his brother deal with his uncle.

My brother is indeed better than him, loses more slowly, and has more pieces left than him.

"Again." "

The elder brother was also unconvinced.

Seeing this, the uncle touched their heads and said with a smile.

"Two children, the idea is so simple, I can see through your next step." "

"I wasn't serious just now. "

The elder brother was still not convinced.

"Okay, let me see your strength after you are serious. "

The night outside the window was getting darker and darker, and they walked round and round in the blurred light, but they never won against their uncle. Gradually, the brothers felt more and more boring, and after losing again without suspense, the brother got up in frustration, put aside a sentence and turned around and climbed into bed and fell asleep.

"Are you still down?".

"No, no more. "

After he finished, he also got up and walked towards the bed, leaving the uncle alone to pack up the chessboard.

A light rain fell from the sky, and the rain fell on the leaves and gathered into water droplets, which then quietly slid down the leaves, scattered, and gradually melted into the soil.

The forest was wet, and with each step, a little mud stuck to his shoes. But compared to the expectations in my heart, whether the soil is sticky or not doesn't make much difference.

"Is this the road?".

Because he was unfamiliar with this forest, he looked at the road that was both strange and familiar, and was not sure whether he was going to take the right one.

Compared with him, Tian Yu is much clearer, and firmly let him follow.

The two children kept walking through the woods, thinking only about the traps they had laid earlier, even if their clothes were wet with water droplets.

When they came to the first trap, the little sapling with the rope was upright again, and all the small sticks of wood were lying on the ground one by one, but the rope hung alone on the tree, with only an empty circle, and no prey.

Tian Yu was unwilling, picked up the rope and kept looking, as if looking at it would tie a bird, and then he looked at the small wooden strips lying on the ground, they were neat and neat, not at all like they had been stepped on.

After looking at it for a while, Tian Yu accepted the fact that the trap did not catch the bird, and rearranged it in frustration.

"Are the birds of this forest too cunning?".

"Maybe it was heavy rain last night that triggered the trap?"

Tian Yu insisted that the bird was too cunning, and he felt that no matter how much the rain could trigger the trap.

The two didn't argue and continued on to the next trap.

Four or five more walked in succession, and they were either the same as the first one or they were not triggered at all, and gradually, both of them had no bottom in their hearts.

"Is there really a big bird in this forest?"

"Yes, I caught one here some time ago in the sixth grade. "

They continued on their way nervously.

The light rain has not stopped, and the sound of water dripping is like a soft hammer, constantly knocking on the heart.

"Will I be scolded when I get wet when I get wet?"

"My parents didn't bother to scold me. "

After speaking, Tian Yu realized something and added.

"Don't worry, I'll be done with all the work when I go back to two classes." "

As he spoke, he suddenly heard the sound of birds chirping in front of him, and although the sound was not clear, it was vaguely recognizable as the place where they had set the trap.

Suddenly, the hearts of both of them rose to their throats, and they hurriedly quickened their pace and walked over.