dhibooks Chapter 207 Induction
Chapter 207 Induction
Heimei's words were very abrupt, Yan Hai was stunned for a moment, and asked back: "But Ah Dong is not at home."
"He's not here, but aren't his two younger sisters at home?" Heimei said again, "They used the review materials for the college entrance examination that we both took. Thanks to their generosity, we were able to get the good grades we got in the exam."
"It's fine that we were in the north before, but now that we're both back, we should come to thank you."
After Yan Hai thought about it, he also felt that what his wife said was right, and said with a smile: "Then go today, I know the way."
"Take some of the special products we brought from the north, and bring the rest as you see fit." They brought back a lot of things, some of which were sent directly to Shanghai, and the rest were used as gifts.
I sent some to Sun's house yesterday, and the rest is enough.
The black girl picks and chooses, and puts them in cloth bags again.
"Will the children go too?" Yan Hai asked.
The black girl looked at the three daughters: "Don't take them with you, to save trouble going back and forth."
The boss on the left and right can watch the two younger ones at home, and it was the same way in the countryside before, so the two of them have nothing to worry about.
Sun Qiang sent back that old bicycle yesterday. After many years, the bicycle can still be ridden because of its good maintenance.
Yan Hai hadn't ridden a bike for many years, so he stepped on it now, and wobbled a few times before he stabilized: "Little sister, come on."
The black girl sat behind and hugged his waist.
The wheels of bicycles turn across the street, and occasionally you can see shops selling breakfast and people coming and going to work.
Suddenly, Yan Hai stopped the car: "There is actually a seller of baked rice."
"You must have never eaten this, I'll buy one for you to try."
Before the black girl could speak, Yan Hai rode over and asked, "Comrade, how do you sell this fried rice?"
"Fifty cents each." The boss said cheerfully, "Don't think it's expensive. My rice balls not only contain dried lard and tofu, but also Chinese sausages, which are all meat."
As you get closer, the aroma of fried rice wafts away.
Yan Hai took out the money without hesitation: "Give me one, it's a big deal."
"It must be pressed firmly for you." The boss quickly opened the lid of the pot. The practice in Xiyuan Town is to soak the glutinous rice, add light soy sauce and cook it, and then chop up the sausage and dried beans and mix well.
Now you just need to dig it up and knead it into a ball. The [-] cents rice is about the size of an adult man's fist, and it's pressed tightly.
Yan Hai paid the money, took it and handed it to his wife behind him: "Try it and see if you like it."
"This is the breakfast we only have here. I ate it cutely when I was a child, but unfortunately I couldn't eat it because of the shortage of supplies."
The main reason is that it takes a lot of work to make this thing, and ordinary people are reluctant to do it.
The black girl lowered her head and took a bite cautiously.
Familiar and unfamiliar tastes linger in the mouth. The person who sells the rice balls is telling the truth. Their household ingredients are good and sufficient. The lard permeates every grain of rice, wrapping the meaty aroma of the sausage, and the dried tofu neutralizes the greasyness. , It is fragrant and glutinous in one bite.
"Is it tasty?"
"Delicious!" Heimei couldn't help but smile, and raised her hand to let him take a bite too.
Yan Hai lowered his head and took a bite, commenting: "It would be even more delicious if you add some crushed peanuts or fried dough sticks."
Heimei smiled and said, "It's already delicious. Let's buy some more later so our daughters can try it too."
"Okay, I'll go out to buy tomorrow morning." Yan Hai smiled, "Just now I saw a lot of people selling breakfast on the street. Although Xiyuan Town is small, there are many delicious ones. Let's try them all tomorrow."
"Don't buy too much, or you won't be able to finish it and waste it."
"If I can't finish it, I'll clean it up, and I promise not to waste it."
One bite for the two of you, one bite for me, and a solid rice ball is solved.
The bicycle left Xiyuan Town and entered the surrounding production team. Yan Hai looked around: "It hasn't changed much here."
"Is it this way?" Heimei poked her head out and asked.
"It should be." Although he only came here once with Sun Qiang, there is only one road from Xiyuan Town to Shanghe Village, as long as it doesn't turn into a small road halfway, it will be right.
"It's right in front." Yan Hai pointed to a big tree in front, "I remember this tree, turn to the right and it's the old Gu's house."
Soon, an old house appeared in front of them.
Heimei jumped out of the car and looked at the room in front of her, feeling a little strange in her heart.
Logically speaking, there are two workers in Gu Mingdong's family, and now there are two college students. They should be living a very good life. How could they expect their house to be broken down like this.
Yan Hai didn't think too much, jumped out of the car and shouted, "Is anyone home?"
"Who is it?" The door of the old house opened, and an old man came out.
Yan Hai was taken aback for a moment, he remembered that Gu Mingdong's family had no elders, and his parents had already passed away, so he thought he had found the wrong place: "Old man, where is Gu Mingdong's family?"
"You are?" Zheng Tong looked at the person in front of him.
"Oh, I'm an old friend of his, and I'm here today to take a look." Yan Hai explained.
Zheng Tong smiled: "Then you have found the wrong place. Their house has moved a long time ago. If you walk 100 meters to the left, the new house over there is their house."
Yan Hai hurriedly said: "Thank you, old man."
He turned around to ride a bicycle, but Zheng Tong's gaze fell on Heimei, his eyes narrowed slightly, and stopped at her chest.
Zheng Tong's eyes were sharp and sharp, Heimei frowned, feeling a little uncomfortable in her heart.
She subconsciously reached out to hold the bead on her chest. This thing was left by the original owner. It has never left her body these years, which brought her a great sense of security.
"Let's go quickly." Heimei urged.
In the end, before they left, Zheng Tong asked slowly: "Gu Mingdong has gone out and is not at home these days. What do you want him for?"
Yan Hai stopped in his tracks: "We have to leave after staying for two days. I was afraid that he would not come back, so I thought of coming here first."
Zheng Tong smiled, and suddenly said: "Is your daughter-in-law not from the local area?"
"Old sir, can you see this?"
Heimei tugged on his sleeve: "Let's go."
Yan Hai had no choice but to drive her away, and said on the way: "What's the matter, the old man looks very kind, he should have no malicious intentions."
"It's nothing, it's just that it's too hot and I'm a little dizzy." Heimei explained casually.
"Dizziness? Shall we go then?"
"It's all right now."
Behind them, Zheng Tong frowned and stared at the backs of the two of them: "Gu Mingdong, Gu Mingdong, you ran all the way to Shanghai, but someone came to your door here."
The distance from the old house to the new home is not far, this time Yan Hai and the two did not find the wrong place.
Before entering the door, Yan Hai saw the people in the living room: "Xiaoxi, are you Xiaoxi? I'm Yan Hai."
Gu Mingxi looked up, and was surprised to see them: "This...you are back?"
Yan Hai explained for a while, and said with a smile: "Thanks to you, the two of us were able to enter the university. These are local specialties. You must have never tasted venison. It's good to try this thing once in a while."
Gu Mingxi said with a smile: "We didn't help much, but it's a pity that my elder brother is not here, otherwise you can catch up on the old days."
"Yeah, it's too unfortunate." Yan Hai said regretfully, "But it's okay, we can come back to live in the winter and summer vacations, and it's the same when we get together again."
Gu Mingbei has already brought out tea and watermelon: "Brother Ah Hai, sister-in-law, eat some watermelon to cool off."
After all, they were not familiar with each other. After a few words, the two sides began to freeze.
Yan Hai quickly asked about the things to pay attention to when going to college, so the four pairs of eyes didn't look at each other.
After doing it for a while, Heimei suddenly said, "Ah Hai, you are here to talk, it's my first time in Shanghe Village, can I go out for a walk?"
"Ah?" Yan Hai looked at his wife in surprise.
Heimei didn't look at him, she just said, "The scenery here is really nice, I want to walk around."
"Sister-in-law, let me go with you." Gu Mingbei also felt strange in his heart, but he still stood up.
Heimei originally wanted to say that she could walk by herself, but she thought of something, and smiled and took her arm: "Thank you then."
The two walked out arm in arm, leaving Yan Hai and Gu Mingxi looking at each other in blank dismay, falling silent for a while.
Gu Mingbei led her around in a similar manner: "Our side has a lot of mountains, water, and bamboos. It's a pity that the rice in the fields has been harvested, otherwise the golden rice fields are also very beautiful."
The black girl swept her eyes, pointed to a place and asked, "Xiao Bei, did your family live in the old house over there?"
"Yeah, I moved here after building a new house."
Heimei asked again: "We went to the wrong place just now, and it was an old man over there who showed us the way."
"Old man?" Gu Mingbei said with a smile, "You should be talking about Mr. Zheng, right? He was sent down to live in the old house over there temporarily."
After thinking about it, he added another sentence: "Although he is a decentralized person, he is very good."
Heimei nodded and asked, "Going further, the house looks older. Who lives in it?"
"He lives over there..." Gu Mingbei was about to say something, but when he paused, he suddenly remembered something.
She is not familiar with Yan Hai naturally, but she is familiar with her cousin and cousin. In the early years, Bai Xiaohua's affairs were turned upside down, and Gu Mingbei naturally knew that Bai Xiaohua was originally the object of her cousin's good friend Yan Hai. He changed his mind and married Liu Dazhu.
Gu Mingbei's mind was the most delicate, and within a few words, she sensed that something was wrong.
Looking at the people around her, she actually had a good impression of Heimei. After all, Heimei spoke and acted gracefully, and her gratitude to them was also sincere. It could be seen that she was not acting.
Gu Mingbei hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Sister-in-law, do you want to ask about that person?"
The black girl's face changed slightly: "What?"
Gu Mingbei said helplessly: "Don't beat around the bush. In fact, you want to inquire about Bai Xiaohua, right?"
Heimei couldn't react for a while when she heard the very familiar name, but soon she knew that Gu Mingbei had misunderstood.
The black girl followed suit and said, "Xiaobei, am I being too narrow-minded?"
Gu Mingbei said, "My second sister-in-law said that if you like someone, you will care about every detail of him."
"Actually, I also know that I shouldn't care about it, but I just can't help but want to ask about it."
Heimei breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "Then what kind of person is she?"
These words made Gu Mingbei embarrassed.
After all, the memories about Bai Xiaohua are not so pleasant.
She thought about it for a while, and answered truthfully: "Actually, I don't know her very well, but my cousin...my cousin used to be very close to her, but then we became estranged."
"I heard from my cousin that she used to be smart, kind, and considerate, and everyone liked her very much, but one day she suddenly changed, as if she had changed into a different person. No matter how much people around her persuaded her, she still insisted on She broke up with Brother Ah Hai, but instead married Liu Dazhu from our village."
"None of us could understand what she was doing."
"Then what happened next?" Heimei asked again.
"Later..." Gu Mingbei didn't like to speak ill of others, so he thought for a while and answered.
"Later, she really got married and almost broke off her relationship with her natal family. Later, she didn't get along well with her husband's family either. Anyway, the process was quite noisy."
Gu Mingbei sighed: "In a few years, she didn't make it through when she gave birth, so she just left."
Heimei's expression was a little dazed: "Is this so?"
Gu Mingbei looked at her expression, and felt that Heimei's expression was very strange at the moment, it didn't look happy, but rather sad.
This made her confused for a while, what exactly was the black girl thinking.
Heimei quickly came to her senses, and said calmly, "I just didn't expect that someone like her would die so... so miserably."
Gu Mingbei thought she was sympathizing with Bai Xiaohua's dystocia. After all, as a woman, no matter how Bai Xiaohua was, it was sad to die because of giving birth to a child and because of her husband's neglect.
But the next moment, she was even more surprised.
The black girl asked, "Where is she buried?"
Gu Mingbei could hardly hide his surprise.
Heimei also realized that she had said the wrong thing. She hesitated for a moment, but said: "For so many years, Ah Hai has always thought of her in his heart. Believe it or not, I don't really mind that much."
"Now that she has been gone for so many years, I just want to go to her grave with Ah Hai."
Gu Mingbei breathed a sigh of relief: "So that's the case."
"People on our side passed away, and they were all buried on that hillside. But she died unexpectedly. At that time, the Liu family didn't even want to deal with the funeral. It was the captain at that time who brought people to bury her."
"If you want to go, I can ask where it is buried."
"Thank you, I will trouble you then."
Gu Mingbei felt weird in his heart, but he still went to the next door to inquire about it. Fortunately, Liu Xiaozhu was still at home, so he knew about it even if others didn't know about it.
It wasn't just Gu Mingbei who found it strange, Yan Hai was also surprised when he heard it.
"Little sister, what are you doing?"
Heimei took his hand: "It's all here, go and see her, I won't mind."
"But..." Yan Hai couldn't tell what it was like for a while.
But the black girl said, "Can I go with you?"
Facing her gaze, Yan Hai could only nod his head.
Liu Xiaozhu led the way without saying a word, and the two followed behind him, all the way to a remote hillside.
After glancing at the couple, Liu Xiaozhu only said, "It's right here."
After finishing speaking, he ignored them and left.
Over the years, Bai Xiaohua's grave was covered with weeds, and it was obvious that no one took care of it. Yan Hai was originally full of reluctance, but when he reached the grave, he suddenly stopped.
What he once thought he had completely forgotten was revealed once again, setting off a turbulent sea.
Involuntarily squatting down and pulling out the weeds, Yan Hai couldn't help saying: "It's too much."
Heimei didn't say anything, and knelt down to pull weeds with him. They didn't bring any tools, so they could only pile up the soil with their hands.
It was quiet on the hillside, until Bai Xiaohua's grave was cleaned up and new soil was placed on it, and the two stopped their movements.
Yan Hai sighed: "It's been so many years in a blink of an eye."
"Yeah, it's been so many years." Heimei felt even more complicated in her heart.
The resentment, fear, and fear in the past all disappeared. When she knew that Bai Xiaohua existed, it was many years after this person died.
Only then did Heimei know that she was not dead at first, but was occupied by another body.
She was afraid and hated at the same time, but at the same time hated herself, for fear that she would also occupy other people's lives.
To this day, the black girl still doesn't know how all this happened, but she is extremely grateful to God, after blocking all the roads, she left a chance to meet Yan Hai again.
After the turbulent emotional turmoil, Yan Hai's mood calmed down.
He said: "At that time, I actually blamed her a little in my heart, but now I am very grateful to her. If she hadn't left so resolutely, I would not have agreed to leave Xiyuan Town, let alone meet you."
Heimei also showed a relaxed smile: "No matter what, the matter is over."
"Until now, I still can't figure out why she would do this." Yan Hai sighed slightly.
"However, that's not important anymore."
When a person dies, everything goes away.
Yan Hai stretched out his hand to hold his wife's hand tightly: "Little sister, let's live a good life together from now on, no matter what happens, we will not be separated."
Heimei didn't speak, she just held his hand tightly, expressing her determination.
Yan Hai and his wife didn't stay for long and left Shanghe Village soon.
As soon as the person left, Zheng Tong came to the door: "Did a young couple come over just now?"
"Uncle Zheng, do you mean Yan Hai and the others? Just now they said that you pointed the way."
Zheng Tong was surprised: "Is it really your brother's friend?"
"Forget it, Brother Yan Hai is a good friend of my cousin. They have played together since they were young, and they also know my elder brother. But then he went to the countryside to jump in the queue, and he hasn't come back these years. I came back this time to thank you. The review materials we gave."
Zheng Tong asked again: "Where is his wife, do you know her?"
"Sister Hei?" Gu Mingbei felt something was wrong.
Gu Mingxi also asked, "Teacher, what's wrong with her?"
"I saw them going up the mountain just now, and I feel weird in my heart." Zheng Tong didn't tell them the truth.
Gu Mingbei heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "They're here to see Bai Xiaohua."
"Teacher, do you still remember Bai Xiaohua, the one who used to be Liu Dazhu's daughter-in-law, who died of dystocia later?"
"Coincidentally, she had a date with Brother Yan Hai before, but it didn't work out, so they wanted to go up the mountain to see her."
Zheng Tong stroked his beard and said, "That's right."
"What happened?" Gu Mingxi asked strangely.
Zheng Tong didn't answer, but asked instead: "When will your elder brother come back?"
"It should be only these two days." Gu Mingxi was not very sure, after all, Gu Mingdong didn't give the exact time when he left.
Zheng Tong nodded and left.
Gu Mingxi said helplessly, "Why are they all so mysterious."
At the other end, Widow Liu saw her youngest son coming home, she frowned and asked, "Where have you been?"
"Go for a walk." Naturally, Liu Xiaozhu would not tell her.
Widow Liu couldn't help complaining: "You still go out and wander around in such a hot day, what if you suffer from heat stroke, you and your father are like this, and you don't stay at home all day, is there a tiger in the house?"
A hint of impatience flashed in Liu Xiaozhu's eyes, and he went into the room on his own.
But Widow Liu chased after her, and asked again: "Are you sure that you will be admitted to the university? It's been so long, and their family's Gu Yong's notification letter has come down. Why haven't you heard from yours yet?"
"Xiaozhu, let me tell you, it's too expensive to repeat this year after year, and it's all my hard-earned money."
Holding back his anger, Liu Xiaozhu retorted: "I also went to work in the fields to earn money, and my sister even sent money home. I don't know if what you did is enough for me."
"Your sister, your sister, your sister, you know your sister." Widow Liu suddenly became angry, "Everyone is heartless, I have worked so hard to bring you up all by myself, but now I blame me gone."
"For the sake of you guys, I have been reluctant to eat and wear for so many years, and now you despise me as useless?"
Liu Xiaozhu sneered and said, "Mom, ask yourself, where did you spend the money you saved these years? Did it go to me and my sister?"
Widow Liu's face paled slightly.
She sat down, cried and began to wipe her tears: "I am old and useless, and now you all despise me and despise me. You all want to change your mother, but who made you unable to do so? In my stomach."
Liu Xiaozhu had long been used to her demeanor, so he didn't even change his face.
Listening to his mother's complaints and sufferings, he didn't feel guilty or moved, on the contrary, he just felt upset.
Even though so many years have passed, Liu Xiaozhu still clearly remembers that winter of that year, when he and his sister were kicked out of the house and lived in a leaky broken house without even a bed.
Even the unrelated people in the production team couldn't stand it, and tried to help their two children, but it was this mother who never went to see it from the beginning to the end.
Liu Xiaozhu turned his head, as if he couldn't hear her cry.
Sometimes Liu Xiaozhu would think that he was worthy of being born by this woman, so what about his own birth, he has no affection for this woman or this family, the only thing he cares about is his sister.
Maybe my sister was right, they had to leave here as soon as possible, away from this family and these people, so that he could have his own life.
Widow Liu didn't know that her complaints day after day would make her son have such thoughts.
She had cried enough and was tired, so she went out to cook as if nothing had happened. After all, if Wang Mazi came home without hot food, he would directly beat him up.
Gu Mingdong, who was far away in Shanghai, didn't know what he missed. Originally, he planned to buy something, but he went back the next day, but before he went back, he suddenly remembered that he still had a niece in Shanghai.
It's all here, and the third uncle mentioned it earlier, so Gu Mingdong wanted to go and have a look.
Who knew that seeing this would have wasted a lot of effort.