Yang Xinghe's wife was sitting on the stone table at the gate choosing vegetables. She saw Ermiao coming from a distance, and she shouted: "Ermiao! Eldest niece, come and sit for a while!"

Yang Xing and his wife are named Ding Guilian. She is in her 50s, her hair is already gray and she is combed into a bun on the back of her head. She is thin, has yellowish skin, and her face is already covered with wrinkles.

"We're choosing vegetables, Auntie." Ermiao walked a few steps closer and sat down next to her: "Let's eat beans next night."

"Yes, this is the time to eat beans. Your uncle likes to eat them. He grows a lot of them every year. They may have knotted up. If you pick them a day late, they will get old. So you have to eat them quickly." Ding Guilian kept busy,

He tilted his head and glanced at Ermiao: "What are you doing?"

"I'm not going to do anything, I'm just here to visit my aunt." Ermiao handed the snacks in his hand to Ding Guilian: "I went to my sister's place a few days ago, and I left some snacks for my mother.

Give some of the rest to Auntie to taste, Auntie, don’t think it’s too little.”

"Hey, what do you say? Look at your eldest niece, she still misses her aunt when she has delicious food." Ding Guilian's eyes lit up with joy, and she was about to put down the vegetable basket in her hand. Er Miao took it and put the snacks down.

Put it in Ding Guilian's hand.

Ermiao continued to choose the vegetables, but Ding Guilian did not open the paper package in a hurry. She smelled it through the paper first: "It smells really good. It has a sweet smell. What is it delicious?"

Ermiao smiled slightly: "It's not anything delicious, just a few peach cakes."

"Isn't peach cake delicious? This snack is not cheap. It costs a few cents a pound in the city. Let me try it first." Ding Guilian untied the string on the paper bag, opened the bag carefully, and broke off a small

She put the pieces into her mouth, and the golden snacks became crispy in her mouth. After eating, she felt the fragrance lingering on her teeth and cheeks, and her mouth was filled with saliva. She smacked her lips: "Tsk, tsk, it's so delicious. The snacks in this big city are better than those in a small place like ours."

It's better, the peach cakes here are so hard that it will hurt your teeth when you take a bite." After saying that, he did not continue to break off the snacks, but reluctantly wrapped the peach cakes again, and did not forget to explain to Er Miao: "This is

I have to keep it for my grandson. At my age, I just need to taste it."

After the sugar-coated bombs were sent out, Ermiao felt a little relieved. She pursed her lips and paused for a moment before saying: "Aunt, the day I just came back, I met my uncle on the road. I heard from my uncle that whose child was lost?"

Ding Guilian usually loves gossip and likes to chat with everyone about any new news. The question Er Miao asked has been the latest topic in the past two days. She immediately became energetic and said: "My mother, my eldest niece, these two

You wouldn't know it if you weren't at home, but it's terrible. Human traffickers have come to our area. Children have been lost in the families' courtyard of some unit on the railway. In the past few days, our village has been like a revolving door, with traffickers coming.

There were several cases, and for several days in a row, the police also came, asking from door to door with a photo of a little girl." After Ding Guilian finished speaking, she pointed to the missing person notice posted on the wall and said: "That little girl up there.

, I saw that the little girl was so handsome, it’s a pity that she was lost like this, and the parents of the child still don’t know how to remove the heart and liver.”

Ermiao didn't notice that there was also a missing person notice posted on the wall in the village. Ding Guilian pointed at it, and she looked up and immediately felt uncomfortable. This was not a missing person notice. It was clearly a pair of

The accusing eyes were piercing her heart full of resentment.

Ermiao felt guilty and didn't dare to raise her eyes again, but pretended to have just heard about it: "Aunt, when did this happen?"

"When did it happen? I have to think about it." Ding Guilian thought for a moment and said, "On that day, you came home with something, and the day after I said hello to you, you ignored me."

Ermiao's heart "thumped" at first, and then started to beat fast, and sweat came out of her body. It turned out that she had really seen it! Her hands began to shake uncontrollably, and she was frightened.

She quickly put her hand behind the vegetable basket and sandwiched it between her legs. Her mind was racing, and she waited until her heart calmed down a little before she said: "I said I felt someone calling me. I thought I heard it wrong.

That day I was in a hurry to go to my sister's house to catch the 4 o'clock train. My sister had already written me a letter saying that she wanted to eat sweet potatoes from my hometown, so I hurriedly went to the market and bought a big bag of sweet potatoes and brought them back."

The lie started, and Er Miao became smoother and smoother as she told it. To increase her credibility, she also added in what Damiao once said: "My sister said that she likes to eat sweet potatoes from my hometown. They have sweet noodles and sweet noodles. They taste good."

Just like cooked chestnuts, we are poor and cannot afford good things, namely these home-grown sweet potatoes." After Er Miao finished speaking, he stared at Ding Guilian with a sincere face.

Ding Guilian did not doubt that he was there: "Let me tell you, that day I saw you carrying something home and you ignored me when I called you. It turned out that you were in a hurry to go to your sister's house. Damiao is a good boy. This is not forgetting his roots. I heard

Your uncle said that when you come back, your sister will pack a bunch of things for you."

"Yes, my sister took pity on me because I was living a hard life and packed six bags. Thanks to my uncle who helped me carry them that day, otherwise I don't know what time I would be able to get back." Ermiao has been observing secretly.

Looking at Ding Guilian's expression, he saw that she didn't look strange and then said: "By the way, aunt, my sister brought me some old clothes. They belong to her and my brother-in-law. If you don't mind, go and pick out two pieces."

"Then the relationship is good, the clothes we farmers have are good. How can we still find it objectionable? I will find time to go to your house tomorrow." After saying this, Ding Guilian looked at the sky and saw that the setting sun had long since disappeared, leaving only a remnant.

The light reflected the western sky red. Seeing that the sky was about to darken, she stood up hurriedly: "Oh, it's already like this. Auntie has to go home to cook. If it delays your uncle's meal, your uncle will have to worry again."

temper."

Ermiao handed the vegetable basket to her: "You have to hurry up, Auntie, I'm going home first."

"Let's eat at Auntie's later." Ding Guilian put the snacks in the vegetable basket and picked them up.

Ermiao's legs were still a little weak, so she supported the stone platform with her hands and stood up reluctantly: "If I can't help you, I have to go home to cook. Don't forget to come to my house tomorrow."

Er Miao forced her limp body to float home. The first thing she did was to flop onto the bed and rest for a while to stabilize her mind. The second thing she did was to pick out the better materials from the old clothes given by D Miao.

Get up and put the remaining ones that neither you nor your parents can wear outside, waiting for Ding Guilian to come home tomorrow to pick them out.

The sickle is on! Early in the morning, the iron bell under the big locust tree at the head of the village rang a series of rapid "dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang."

Clearing his throat, he made a simple speech: "Folks, I think the crops are almost ripe. Today we will hold a small meeting to harvest and plant during the Three Summers period. In fact, everyone is already good at planting crops. What?

There are rules for when to harvest and when to plant. This year is the first good harvest year under the system of household quotas. Different from the old days of earning work points, the harvested grain belongs to the family after paying it to the public.

In the new year, I observed carefully and found that the villagers were very motivated. It turned out that they were so lazy that their skin hurt and they could only move after being hit with a stick. This year, they also learned to lean down and take the initiative to work in the fields. This is

Good thing, there is a saying that "you will be rewarded if you put in effort", and there is also a local saying that "people who work hard are not lazy". I won't say more. I just wish everyone a good harvest and complete the construction of our village as soon as possible.

The task of handing over public grain.”

The members of each team burst into joy and clapped their hands loudly. After the meeting, everyone went home to pick up tools, and then rushed to their own wheat fields as a family.

Ermiao and his family were walking on the road following the big guy. Suddenly they saw a woman on the side of the road holding a piece of paper and asking people when she saw them. She stopped in her tracks, suspecting that the child's family was inquiring about the child's whereabouts.

, she wanted to turn around and run away, but she didn't dare to be so ostentatious. If she really ran away, wouldn't it mean that there was no three hundred taels of silver in this place, and it would just arouse people's suspicion?

Ermiao gritted her teeth and walked up to the woman. Sure enough, she was indeed looking for the child.

There were many people on the road today. Wang Ying was full of hope and asked one by one. Unexpectedly, the people he asked either waved their hands or shook their heads. Wang Ying was not discouraged and continued to ask people when he saw them. Ermiao walked up to Wang Ying, feeling much guilty.

After looking at Wang Ying for a few times, Wang Ying felt that there were any clues about this person? She grabbed Er Miao's sleeve and handed the missing person notice to Er Miao: "Sister, eldest sister, look at it.

Have you seen this child up here?"

"No! No!" Ermiao was so frightened that she struggled hard and took her sleeve out of Wang Ying's hand.

"Is it really not there? Take a closer look." Wang Ying refused to give up and handed it forward again.

"It's really not true. I went to visit relatives. I haven't seen any children since I came back a few days ago." Ermiao said in her mouth, but she kept walking and walked away as if running away.

Wang Ying looked at Er Miao's back in disappointment, but didn't think much about it and continued to persistently consult everyone who passed by him.

Ermiao walked some distance away and glanced secretly at Wang Ying behind her. When she saw that Wang Ying was still meeting people, she asked. She felt guilty and her hair was floating all over her body. She didn't pay attention to her steps and stumbled on the edge of the ditch, falling with a loud noise.
Chapter completed!