After the New Year, the sky suddenly changed, with light rain and snow, from the first day of the first day of the first day of the year to the fifteenth day of the year.

The cold evening of the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month made the entire Xiawuwa Village immersed in panic and sadness during the Spring Festival this year. Because three families held funerals, the sound of firecrackers, laughter, and footsteps of the village and households in the past were almost gone, and the festive days became devastated and became ferocious and heavy.

Those damn air-raid shelters dug under the river dam suddenly collapsed without warning, instantly taking away the lives of three young girls. My eldest sister, Ergoudan's sister and another little girl hid themselves in the eternal darkness and another world that they could never return to. I regret not supposed to arrange for her to go to Dayan alone to wait for her father to come back. Now this regret has turned into heart-wrenching sadness.

My father used the two pig heads and half a pocket to get back from the "Big Golden Deer" to get into the water, and was exhausted by relatives and friends who came to help with the work. Because they were underage daughters and were in trouble, according to the Wu family training and the customs of Huaibei, they could not be buried in the Wu family's ancestors, but could only be buried alone in the canal beach.

The fate of my son changed suddenly and my daughter passed away. My mother thought that the reason was that the accountant Siyan beat the four red crosses on the wall of my yard. They seemed to have some magic in the dark, which was destined to be the cause of extreme happiness and sadness. On the day after the burial of my eldest sister, my mother rushed into Siyan's house with great might. As my mother gritted her teeth and roared, Siyan had no power to fight back. She was so scared that she ran away in a panic and fled. She hid in the house of her father-in-law in the neighboring village throughout the first month and did not dare to return to the village.

The rain and snow were falling all the time until two days before I was about to leave home, and finally stopped. The night before I left home, the whole family finished dinner early, my mother was cleaning up the dishes, and my father was clattering the pipes and sitting in the main hall with our brother and sister. There was suddenly one person missing at home, and the atmosphere was sad and weird.

"Daping, think about it again, there is nothing else I have to take with me. It is not easy to live alone in the city." After experiencing the pain of losing my daughter, my mother suddenly felt a little reluctant to leave me.

"It's okay, Dad, it turns out that everything is there." When things come, I feel empty in my heart for a few days.

"Daping went to the city to take over as a worker. Why do you seem to be suffering?" Dad took out a box of wrinkled "Alliance Brand" cigarettes, took out one and held it in his mouth.

"Hasn't the child never left the house?" Mother defended quietly when she heard her father's words.

"It doesn't matter, mainly because there are 2,000 people in our place, two-thirds of them are women, and there are all kinds of people. After a young man enters, don't be able to control something messy. That's a fatal problem." Two thick smoke spurted out of his father's nostrils, and he squinted his eyes and looked at me.

"So many women, I, Daping, will say that my wife will not have to worry about in the future." My mother raised her eyelids and had a long-lost bitter smile on her face.

"Mom, what are you saying?" My face was a little hot. Although adolescent children are full of yearning for women, they are afraid that adults will say this.

"Don't be careless in front of your children. How easy is the wife in the city? If it is easy to find, I'll find you in the countryside. Our condition is to say that a foreign wife in the city can support her. If you get it back, it's a life-threatening one. Daping's condition can be said to be a good person for us." Dafa knocked the pipe in his hand and complained to his mother dissatisfiedly.

"How old am I? What kind of wife do I look for?" I felt uncomfortable and didn't want them to talk about this topic again.

"It's not too young. Your second concubine came to our house yesterday and wanted to tell you a daughter from Lunan behind the mountain. I didn't agree. I told her that if I want to say it now, I have to say a decent family." The mother raised her face, forgot her sadness for the time being, and said proudly.

"That's right, now we are making money. I'll find another job when I come back and try to build your new house for you in the next year." Dad nodded and said in agreement.

I was a little annoyed. Why did I have to find a wife in the countryside? I was so tired of my father not at home for a long time and only my mother suffered. A family without a male labor force, and women and children have to carry all the big and small things. What is this happening? Of course, I don’t want to tell my parents about such thoughts for the time being.

"Mom, I'll go out for a walk." I felt depressed and couldn't help but stand up.

"It's so late, where are you going?" the mother raised her head and asked in confusion.

"I'll go see Ergoudan. I'm leaving tomorrow and have a conversation." I walked out as I said.

"Come back early." Mother reminded behind her, and her father didn't say a word.

A crescent moon hangs in the sky, and the night after the rain and snow is as clear as water. After experiencing joy and sorrow, there is no laughter and tears. Thinking about my days in the future tomorrow, I feel nervous and lonely. I wrap my cotton coat tightly, and knock on Ergoudan’s door in the cold wind.

"Who?" Widow Zhang pretended to be coquettish, and she had just lost her daughter, which seemed to have not changed her romantic nature.

"Auntie, it's me, Daping." I replied in the dark shadow.

"Daping..." Widow Zhang creaked and opened the door. Her burnt horse face appeared in the faint orange door shadow.

I walked into the yard, and Widow Zhang pushed open the door of the east wing and shouted twice, and Ergoudan kicked and pulled the footsteps inside.

"Daping, aren't you leaving tomorrow? Why aren't you sleeping yet?" Ergoudan welcomed me into the house and hurriedly lit the oil lamp on the windowsill in the south.

"I can't sleep, I want to chat with you for a while." I sat down beside Ergoudan's bed, watched him take off all his clothes again, and got back into his smelly bed.

"Two people are clamoring, don't light the lights, save some fuel." Widow Zhang ordered outside the window and went back to her room.

I helped blow out the oil lamp, and took advantage of the moonlight pouring out of the window. Looking at Ergoudan, who was blurred in front of me, I said sadly: "We are leaving. We were originally worried that Xiao Weizhuang Sanhong's brother would come to take revenge. Now that the air raid shelter has collapsed, this matter is still stable."

"It's you who's going to take revenge on Sanhong. You broke the human head. Now that you're leaving, he's still taking revenge." Ergoudan replied to me in a muffled voice.

"You kid is too bearish, you have no backbone, and you can't even beat a slingshot. After I leave, what should I do if the people from Xiao Weizhuang come to bully us?" I looked at Ergoudan with a little worried.

"Then let's talk to Sanhong and her brother. They all hate you because you don't accept them. If you leave now, it's okay." Ergoudan said with a sigh.

"You are a traitor who is a traitor. If you were in "Tunnel War", you would be a traitor who leads the way for the Japanese." I was so angry that I scolded in the dark.

"Hey... I can't compete with you. I don't have a father, and I can't go to the city," Ergoudan didn't care about me and scold him, but sighed with infinite sadness, "Daping, you must fight for your breath. Don't forget what we said. In the future, marry a foreign wife, as handsome as Tian Chunmiao, and you will be more excited to sleep."

Ergoudan's words reminded me of that winter night a few years ago. I heard that the newly filmed movie "Spring Seedlings" was about to be played in the southern part of Shandong behind the northern mountain. Ergoudan and I secretly hid it from our family and rushed over in the dark. Unfortunately, we ran more than 30 miles of mountainous land. When we finally arrived, we only watched half of the back in the crowd.

When we came back, it was already the second half of the night with the moon and starry sky. Ergoudan walked along the mountain road and complained to me all the way: "Grandma, how could there be such a handsome woman in the world, and she was well-made, and finally let the doctors from the city do it."

"How did you know that it was done for the doctor in the city and that it was not performed in the movie?" I know that this kid has been a hooligan since he was a child, and he has no idea what he said.

"Mule, you are so stupid, so you don't have the ability to give birth." Ergoudan curled his lips at me teasingly.

"You kid, who doesn't have the ability to give birth?" I rushed up and threw him into a dog's shit, and rode him onto his neck.

"Okay, okay, I'll scold myself." Ergoudan began begging for mercy under me.

I let go of Ergoudan and lay side by side on the small hill beside me. The two children looked up at the transparent night sky. After a long time, Ergoudan sat up with his nose and buzzed and sighed: "It's better for the city people. We don't know if we can get married in the future."

At that time, in our Huaibei area, because of the poverty in the countryside, the young man could not get a wife, so the phenomenon of "being a bachelor" was quite common. I forgot about the conflict between them just now, and I felt a little sympathetic to Ergoudan: "Don't worry, I will definitely get a wife in the future."

My comfort did not seem to resonate with Ergoudan. He pointed to the rising Beidou Star and turned his face to me and said, "Daping, your father is from the city. Unfortunately, he found your mother and made you still a rural person. If you can become a city person in the future, you will definitely find a foreign wife, who is tender and tender, and you will also be from the city person when you have children in the future."

"If there is one day, I will definitely find a daughter-in-law from the city." I sweared with gritted teeth.

"Find someone as handsome as Tian Chunmiao." Ergoudan stared at me with hope.

"Find someone more handsome than her." I nodded fiercely.

It is on this winter night with the sparse stars and the cold light that two ignorant rural teenagers have a new yearning for the future.

"Okay, let's not talk about it. I have to ride the car with my father for a long time tomorrow. Let's leave first." I sighed in my heart, stood up and said goodbye to Ergoudan.

"Daping, don't forget what we said just now." Ergoudan shouted behind me again as I opened the door.

Early the next morning, I walked out of the village entrance surrounded by neighbors. My mother had just lost her daughter and wanted to send her son away. Although she was only a county town a hundred miles away, she was still hard to part with. She wiped tears along the way, held my hand and chattered, and followed us to the canal weir.

Ergoudan squeezed over and hugged my neck. The smell of garlic squirted on my face: "Mury, don't forget our words. You have become a city man. If you have food and money to spend, you must find a foreign wife."

Ergoudan said this in front of everyone, which made me blush. He hurriedly pulled his hand away and kicked him with his legs: "I'll look for your sister."

After scolding this, I suddenly felt that it was inappropriate. His sister was two years older than us. She was a beautiful and sensible little girl praised by the whole village. She was the idol whom we half-boy had secretly fallen in love with, but with my eldest sister, she was always lying in the reeds on the canal beach. It was a real pity.

When my father saw that my mother was holding me and she didn't want to let go, she felt a little impatient and couldn't help but complain, "Didn't you tell you how many times? Daping is going to work as a worker in the city and live a good life, and isn't he going to dig the river and suffer. What tears are you going to wipe out?"

My father turned his face and winked at me. He lied to ride on the "big golden deer" in his hand. I spread my mother's hand and chased her for two steps. He jumped onto the back seat, looked back at Wu Jiawa under the dam, and waved to my mother, Ergoudan and others.

Because I was too vigorous when I got into the car, my father twisted his handlebar twice, and the two little roosters hanging upside down on the handlebar were struggling and put a soak of thin chicken poop into my father's hand.
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