"I walked and came back, and the noodles were all clumped up."
"Goudan, stop playing! Hurry home and do your homework! The lights will be out soon!"
The village meeting in Huagou Village ended successfully. Each family left in a lively atmosphere, carrying their children who had had fun.
Jiang Henian withdrew his gaze from Song Wenqing, who was left behind by the branch secretary to talk, threw away the broken twig in his hand, stood up and followed the crowd to the Jiang family.
In the yards of every household ahead, a dim light was lit one after another, flickering with difficulty from time to time, as if it was about to die at any time.
He Jinshan spat out the foxtail grass from his mouth, and his lazy eyes followed Jiang Henian as he walked slowly under the tree. He loosened his long fingers, and a leaf floated down.
It fell right on the girl's head.
Jiang Henian took two steps before he realized it, and raised his hand to touch his head in confusion.
When the little girl touched the beautiful and tender leaves, she stopped, turned them over to look at the beautiful patterns on them, pinched the thick leaves, and then continued walking forward.
He rubbed the thin leaf stalks with his fingertips, turning them around and around, as if he was distracted.
He Jinshan rested his elbows on his knees, supported his face and looked down, his thin lips slightly curled, and a chuckle came out of his nose.
He stood up and was about to go down the other side of the tree when his peripheral vision caught sight of a pile of wheat stacks outside the threshing ground and he paused.
He turned his head and looked over carefully.
The crowd was almost gone, but two men were still squatting in the corner without moving.
They were both in their thirties, with chapped skin. One was wearing gray and the other black, and both were wearing gray, worn cloth shoes with frayed edges.
One of them was a short and fat man wearing a black cloth hat and a white cloth wrapped around his left ear. His head kept turning in the direction the crowd was leaving.
He Jinshan narrowed his eyes slightly, supported his palms on the branches, raised his broad shoulders, leaned forward, and stared at the two men whose mouths opened and closed.
"Fuck! It's moldy and smells like paste."
Wang Gou frowned and bit half of the cigarette. He took two more puffs and choked, then spat on the ground twice. "What the hell are you staring at?"
Chen Laitou, who was standing next to him, licked his fat lips, took off his hat, and tilted his chin forward. "That girl."
Wang Gou smoked a musty cigarette and squinted his eyes at the huge crowd that was leaving the theater. It was full of grown men, fat-butt wives, and naked little kids.
"Look at your mother, she's never seen anyone before!"
"I'm talking about that girl from the Jiang family." Chen Laitou stretched his neck anxiously, looking for Jiang Henian, whose figure was blocked by the crowd. "Hey, where is she?"
"Jiang family? Jiang Chengmin's family? Isn't that just a skinny, dark, dull, yellow-haired girl? Are you talking about the one Wang Chunfang brought?"
Chen Laitou waved his hands, stretching his neck further and further: "No, it's his biological daughter."
"You went to the toilet again? What's that look in your eyes? You really have never seen a woman before."
Wang Gou stood up and kicked him in disgust, "Get lost, you're always thinking about that thing in your crotch."
Chen Laitou was kicked to the ground but he was not angry. He smiled and licked his face, "That's because you haven't seen it before! Damn! Those female educated youth from the city are not so fair and tender. I didn't expect them to be so hot-tempered. Tsk——"
As he spoke, he touched his bandaged left ear with a hissing breath.
Wang Gou thought he was just an old bachelor having sex, so he threw the shriveled cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it. He looked around vigilantly, and when he saw that everyone had left, he turned around and walked straight to the other side.
"Brother Gou! That's going to Shuiquan Village. What are you doing there so late at night?"
"Go to sleep with your mother, get out of here!"
Chen Laitou chuckled twice, picked up his hat and put it back on, whistling in a vulgar way, recalling the beautiful scenery he saw in the cornfield toilet in the evening, while walking towards the path on the right.
It was pitch black all around. He suddenly stopped, turned around with a lewd smile, and took off his pants facing a tree.
“Click.”
Behind me came the sound of footsteps breaking branches.
Chen Laitou stopped whistling and said impatiently without even turning his head: "Get away from me, I need to pee!"
Suddenly, a strange warm feeling came from the side of my legs.
He lowered his head to look, only to be met directly by a pair of cold, green eyes emitting a dim glow. A mere ten centimeters away, a fishy, hot breath rushed towards him!
Chen Lai Tou's swollen eyes suddenly widened into a circle of fear, and he couldn't hold his hands together as if he had epilepsy, and he peed his pants.
Before he could even scream, he fell over.
*
“Bang!”
Jiang Yanqiu pulled the pillow out from under her head and threw it out.
"Blow out the candles!"
Jiang Henian held a thick medical book in his hand and dodged sideways skillfully, causing the large peony pillow to fall to the ground.
Jiang Yanqiu sat up angrily, "Pick it up for me! I burn candles every day, don't candles cost money?"
Jiang Henian sat on the kang with his legs bent, and calmly turned another page of the book, "I didn't spend any money on you."
"Which candle in the house doesn't cost money?"
Jiang Henian laughed: "I didn't take anything from home. You guys are so good at hiding it, who would need it?"
She raised her eyes from the book and looked at Jiang Yanqiu.
"What's wrong? Second sister is still angry about what happened last night. Isn't it just that mother scolded you again? It's nothing. You'll get used to it~"
As he said this, he waved his little hand in a mean manner at Jiang Yanqiu, whose expression was becoming increasingly ugly.
Not long after returning from the threshing ground in the evening, quarrels were heard again in Jiang Chengmin and Wang Chunfang's house, mainly Wang Chunfang's loud voice.
After a while, she lifted the curtain and walked out with an angry face, grabbed Jiang Yanqiu who was drying her hair and scolded her.
Jiang Henian passed by with hot water and smiled silently.
Oh, it seems that the 100 yuan for breaking off the engagement has not been found yet. It’s so worrying.
Jiang Yanqiu had a gloomy face all night. As soon as she entered the room, she extinguished the candle that Jiang Henian had just lit, pulled up the quilt and went to sleep.
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