Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

The person in the Liu family who was least sad was Liu Renben. He wiped his eyes and acted as if nothing had happened.

Arrange everything in an orderly manner.

He packed up useless things and stopped complaining to Pei Zhu. He seemed like a different person and his attitude towards Pei Xiao was even better.

Although the so-called change for the better is just ignoring her, or even neglecting her intentionally or unintentionally, it is good enough for the child as long as he is not punished.

If he hadn't yelled at Liu Tongsheng's corpse that day, calling his father stupid, everyone would have thought he was normal...

Filial piety is the most important thing. How many people would do that? A small number of villagers started gossiping. How could he not cry when his parents died and curse at his father's corpse? He must not be very filial in his daily life, right?

Not many people said these words because they were not convincing. After all, everyone in the Liu family except him was crying so sadly, even the servants had red eyes, and they didn't look like they didn't care at all, so these words were like a gust of wind, blowing away.

The departure of their loved ones is like a continuous rain for Changsui and Baifu. One day, a burst of thunder and a flash of lightning will remind them of the past.

Grandpa once told them the story of him and the katydid here.

Grandma once fought with Grandpa there.

They had had snacks together.

Changsui and Baifu once lay in their grandparents' arms.

Now there is nothing left, just like their biological grandmother, they left, lying on the hillside, never to come back.

When they went to see them, they could not hear the sound of their quarrels. The confused old man would not ask questions at the top of his voice, and the fierce old woman would not hit the old man with a colander.

Changsui and Baifu were not used to their grandfather expressing his love to their grandmother at every turn. Now they are used to it, but they can no longer see them.

Whenever they think of these, they will cry, crying over one of their grandparents' old things.

Even though it has been three months, they still cry when they think about it.

The Liu family thought they were loyal and affectionate, but the child clearly saw them go to Fifth Grandma's grave.

Changsui identified the wooden boards with names written on them in front of the graves, and together with Baifu they found their grandmother and father.

She lay beside her son on a small mound covered with weeds. No one had ever paid tribute to her. The feelings of her grandchildren missing her had to be mixed with their longing for others.

Adults always think that children don’t understand anything and won’t remember anything, but they forget that children are also flesh and blood people. Their emotions are the same as adults’, or even more sincere and passionate.

They like their new home very much, but can they completely forget the past?

The Liu family really has too many wishful thinking and too little patience. Like many adults, they want their children to read their expressions and be careful to become what they like.

If you succeed, you will be like Changsui and Baifu and become a child that they recognize.

If you fail, you are like a child, being treated as a bad person with a cruel heart and bad conscience.

There is nothing wrong with them or the children, it’s just that some are suitable and some are not. It’s like buying things. Sometimes you buy something that looks good at first glance, but when you take a closer look at it after getting home, you feel that it is not good. This thing is a living thing, and it doesn’t seem good to return it.

The grass on the river bank has grown again. The Liu family has raised new chickens, ducks and geese. The children ride on the pigs and lead a group of little creatures that walk in a wiggly manner to eat the tender grass.

There is a cat sleeping on its back on the crossed legs.

Her long hair was tied into a bun on top of her head, with a sharpened willow branch inserted in it. Some of her hair was hanging down in a mess at the back.

She learned it from Aunt Yu, but Aunt Yu combed her hair lower.

Many old women in the village comb their hair like this. Children always have two horns on their heads. It is too difficult to comb the horns, and children are clumsy and cannot figure it out. There is no one to comb their hair, so they can only do it like this, otherwise it will be too troublesome if it is loose.

As she passed by, she heard some mischievous laughter from afar: "Look, here comes Old Lady Liu riding a pig."

It was the cowherd boy who was laughing at her, saying that she combed her hair like an old lady.

Pei Xiaohai's name in the Liu family is Liu Xiaohai. She feels that there is no difference from before, so she never calls herself that.

Zhuxue carried her to a secluded place. The child ignored them, his expression dull. In his heart, he cursed the boy who was laughing the most happily: "What old lady? I am your grandmother."

When passing by them, the child saw the boy in the lead with his mouth wide open due to laughter. He felt particularly itchy and reached out to pick up a lump of fresh spring mud from the sole of his shoe and stuffed it in. He also considerately covered the boy's mouth and did not let go until he saw the boy swallow subconsciously.

It only takes a moment.

She looked so depressed that no one expected her to suddenly do such a thing. Maotou's second brother Maogou vomited.

It was spring plowing time and fertilizer was needed in the soil. The child accidentally stepped on some fertilizer that had fallen on the roadside this morning. She rubbed her feet against the stones for a long time but couldn't get it clean. The road was so muddy that she didn't want to walk anymore, so she got on the pig in a bad mood.

Those naughty boys, seeing her lowering her head, actually thought she was easy to bully.

Perhaps they heard something from their parents. Some people said that the old lady of the Liu family, Liu Lianhua, was angered to death by her granddaughter. The reason was that the last words Liu Lianhua said to her family were calling her a wronged sin, and she didn't like this ignorant child very much.

And Qian San, it was because of her that he broke his bones.

Think about the Liu family again, how many things have happened since they raised her?

Not to mention the death, didn’t Liu Renben’s leg become lame after he had her?

They are getting thinner and thinner, and I heard that they don’t like to eat much anymore.

There was also the matter of the nunnery collapsing, leaving the old nuns homeless and forced to move far away. Who knows if it was because of her bad luck? On the contrary, the Pei family who sent her away are living better and better. Is there no explanation for this?

Anyway, the villagers felt that this child was unlucky. She was there when the village suffered a disaster, and the time when the livestock was lost, it was probably because of her that some dirty things were attracted to it.

Some people also said that they saw her mumbling to an empty space where no one was, but they didn't know what she was saying.

Some things were unknown to others and could only have been spread by people in the Liu family. When adults heard them, they made random guesses, and when children heard them, they bullied and ridiculed the person for fun.

They are all crazy!

When can we leave these lunatics?

Maogou looked over here again and again, whispering to the people around him, perhaps scolding her, but they didn't dare to come over.

The child jumped off the pig's back and was much taller than them. She grew very fast and became much stronger. Her moves were very dirty, so they couldn't get the upper hand in a fight with her.

Her pigs will push people around, and her chickens, ducks, and geese are not easy to mess with.

And she has an equally ruthless helper - Waiya.

They have all grown taller and are now thin. When they fight, they almost use their bones to hit others and resist. It is hard to say whether it hurts them or not, but it must be very painful for those who fight with them.

When Maogou and the others saw Waiya coming, they walked away even more unwillingly.

Two lunatics!

When can we teach these two lunatics a lesson?

Without even asking, Waiya glared at them and ran to Pei Xiaohai and said, "They're laughing at you again."

"I fed the hairy dog ​​mud."

Waiya finally laughed: "Good job, if I had to I would throw them into the mud pit."

She won't.

The child was washing his hands in the river and didn't believe her.

Waiya is living a good life now and her temper has improved. Yu Meng has learned to fish while working at the dock in town. He also bought her a new dress a few days ago. She has two horns on her head and two red tassels tied on them. The loose hair on her head is tied into two small braids and tied with red silk ropes.

Everyone looked much more energetic. Pei Xiaohai's clothes were still from last year, but they were much shorter, revealing his ankles and arms.

Yu Meng has been busy farming the fields these days. He has people he knows to help him, so Waiya doesn't have to worry about anything. She only comes out to dig wild vegetables occasionally.

The child saw that she seemed to have gained some weight.

"I want to go further away and find another place where I won't be with them anymore."

"Did they let you do this?" Waiya was referring to the Liu family.

"They don't care about me. As long as I don't lose the chickens, ducks and geese and get back before sunset, it's fine."

According to them, Pei kid was beyond saving, so they didn't care anymore and let him do whatever he wanted.

Waiya: "Then I'll go with you."

As for picking wild vegetables, you can do it anywhere, by the river or on the mountain.

They were fearless and hid in the valley behind the cemetery. It was actually a nice place with a small stream and lush grass.

Just occasionally you'd see one or two skeletons.

Most of them are humans. I don’t know what’s wrong with the big ones, but the small ones are mostly baby girls.

Many villages have a place where unwanted children are dumped.

Before the heavy rain, the water flow here was quite strong. They might have offered sacrifices to the river god here. Later, after the mountain collapsed, the water seemed to be cut off, leaving only a narrow stream, and they leaked out from the bottom of the water.

After digging up four heads, Waiya still didn't give up on the wild vegetables here, but said in confusion:

"Kid, why didn't that old guy throw me here?"

"He probably still loved you at that time." The child put himself in other people's shoes.

Waiya showed a disgusted expression, and after thinking for a long time, he finally figured it out: "He is afraid that my mother will turn into a ghost and take his life."

Child: "It seems...it's really possible."

That makes more sense.

But adults are strange creatures. Even if they are afraid of ghosts, it doesn't stop them from committing sins.

The child sat on a big rock, holding his chin and staring blankly, his eyes fixed on the empty space ahead.

Balls of small, air-like things came out of the soil, bumped into each other, and flew everywhere in the grass and the stream, making "ah-yo" sounds in words that no one could understand.

Four or five little balls were curiously circling around Waiya, left and right. I don’t know which one did the wrong thing, but they bumped into each other and fell to the ground, looking dizzy and not very smart.

There was something around the child too, sneaking into her sleeves, coming out of her collar, and into her hair, then running to her eyes. It was like something cool brushing across her skin.

Quite comfortable.

The most special one should be the one that was crying. Its color was very light. As soon as the child noticed it, it disappeared without a trace.

The child stretched out his hand and grabbed it. It was like a stream of clear stream flowing through his palm, which felt very comfortable.

Waiya's face stretched out in front of her: "What are you grabbing?"

"mosquito."

"Why did you catch it?"

"Put it in your clothes and bite you."