The husband and wife of a wealthy school

The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is the annual New Year's Eve. In Zhao Yan's village, celebrating the New Year's Eve is a lively day, comparable to New Year's Eve.

Because the Kitchen God is sacrificed on this day, the mountain people believe that eating is bigger than the sky.

There is a kitchen god temple on a hill in the village, which has a long history. Although it is very dilapidated, it does not affect people's enthusiasm for offering sacrifices to the kitchen.

Every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the villagers gather in front of the Kitchen God Temple to hold a grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God.Everyone has to go, not going means going hungry in the coming year.

No one wants to be hungry in the coming year, and everyone wants to have a good harvest.So everyone in the village came and gathered on the slope in front of the Kitchen God Temple. The scene was spectacular in this village in the valley.

The clay statue of the Kitchen God was brought out from the temple and placed on the stone platform in front of the slope. A lot of red silk was hung on the statue of the Kitchen God. There were many sacrifices on the altar in front of the statue, including whole grains and sugar. melon.

Children love to join in this kind of fun. The children who grew up from the mountains are all ashamed, and the innocence in their eyes cannot be concealed by their ashamed faces.

A group of children sang the jingle: 23, sticky melon,...

At this moment, the lady-in-law invited from another village is jumping a big rope in front of the Kitchen God statue, dancing, singing and burning paper talismans.

Like previous years, in Zhao Yan's memory, every year seems to be the same, even the invited lady is the same person.

He knew that after the Goddess finished dancing the big rope, the whole village would kowtow to the Kitchen God to say good deeds to heaven.

Then there is still the yangko dance with drums and gongs. This Yangko team has to dance around the village.

The ceremony has just begun, and Zhao Yan, who has received a higher education, is not superstitious. He does not believe that if he does not sacrifice the stove, he will be hungry in the coming year.

His mother, his milk and his sisters are all here, Zhao Yan is thinking of finding some reason to go back.

"Jingjing, did you feed the pigs when you came here?" His mother who was watching the scene suddenly remembered and asked his sister.

"Ah, I forgot, Chunzi came to call me, and left in a hurry." Zhao Jingjing pretended to be angry and pushed her good friend Chunzi beside her: "It's all your fault."

At home, pigs are very precious. People can go hungry, but pigs cannot.If a pig suffers from starvation and loses a little fat, it can save a bag of fertilizer money when it is sold.

Zhao Jingjing knew that she had done something wrong, she lowered her eyebrows and looked pleasing to the eye, as if she knew her mistake and could correct it without scolding.

Zhao Yan: "Mom, I'll go back and feed now."

"That can't be done, you can't go hungry next year, this damn girl just doesn't have a long memory."

Zhao Yan: "Aren't you hungry? I won't be staying in the village next year. How can the kitchen god in the village manage to go to T City?! Mom, I'm just going back to the latrine."

Zhao Yan went down the mountain where the Kitchen God Temple was located, leaving Bofan Yingtian behind, and his ears were finally clean.

He paid special attention to it just now, and the family next door was offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, including the one-year-old child who was held in the arms of the aunt next door, except for the woman.

There are thousands of people in the village, only the barking of dogs is heard.

When he reached the door of the house, he took two more steps in the direction of the next door and took a look. Sure enough, the door of the next door was locked from the outside.

When Zhao Yan returned home, he didn't feed the pigs or go to the latrine for the first time. He took the ladder from the front yard to the back yard.

There is only one mud wall between the backyard of his house and the backyard of the neighbor’s house, unlike the front yard, which has two walls, and there is a gap between the two walls, because the backyard was expanded at the beginning.There is a walnut tree against the wall in the backyard of the house next door. When they were young, he and his sister often climbed the ladder to steal the walnuts from the tree next door to eat.

Zhao Yan leaned the ladder against the mud wall and climbed up the ladder. There was still snow on the top of the wall that hadn't melted in time. Zhao Yan stepped on the snow lightly with his shoes, straightened his waist slightly, and grabbed the branches of the walnut tree above his head. Then leaned over and hugged the trunk of the walnut tree, and slid down the trunk.

"Sister?" Zhao Yan lowered his voice and called while finding the house from the backyard, and then to the front yard.

As soon as he stepped into the front yard from the house, he heard the woman's voice coming from the direction of the tofu workshop in the yard, with unbelievable hesitation: "Yan... Yanyan?"

Zhao Yan Xunsheng looked over and met her eyes.Tears welled up in those dull and lifeless eyes instantly, like a dike breaking, as if she saw hope other than death in Zhao Yan's eyes.

Zhao Yan froze in place for a few seconds. During these few seconds, his body lost the ability to perceive, and then bitterness spread from his stomach.He didn't understand, as the saying goes, a husband and wife can be kind for a hundred days, why would someone do this to a woman who gave birth to a child for him.

Last time, she was tied with iron chains around her wrists. This time, she was directly tied to a tree with iron chains.Zhao Yan didn't know if she would be treated like this every time there was no one at home.

Zhao Yan walked over: "Sister, don't cry, listen to me, let's make a long story short."

The tears were like broken beads, and she couldn't stop, she pursed her mouth to keep herself from choking up, and she just nodded her head incessantly.

Zhao Yan: "Sister, tell me where your home is, address or contact information, I can inform your family and let them bring someone to rescue you."

When she opened her mouth to speak, she choked up first, her voice was helpless, and she spoke quickly and urgently.

"Yanyan, my sister has no one at home. Before I graduated from senior year, my parents died in a car accident. I went home for the funeral. When I returned to school, I lost my mind. The trafficker put medicine in my cup, and I couldn't run away when I woke up." I was sold here. Yanyan, please save my sister, and my sister will spend the rest of her life as a cow and a horse to repay you, Yanyan, please save my sister, I really can’t take it anymore, if this continues, I can only die , but I am not reconciled, my parents are dead, I am their only daughter, I can't let them stay in this world, the only thought is gone, I am not reconciled, Yanyan, please save me, please Please help me..."

There was a strong wind and sand in the northwest, and her lips were chapped. When she spoke, blood flowed from the chapped mouth, merged into tears, and fell to the ground.

Zhao Yan looked down at the shoes on her feet, the shoes with red prints.

He is indeed soft-hearted, "Sister... sister, don't cry, I will find a way."

Her hands were tied with iron chains, Zhao Yan took out a tissue from his pocket, and wiped the tears on her face and the blood from the corners of her mouth.

Zhao Yan: "Do they usually let you cook?"

"Do."

Zhao Yan: "Sister, eat and drink well these two days and take good care of your body. I will think of a way to let you know when the time comes."

Before Zhao Yan left, he turned around and asked, "Sister, are they going to sleep at night... to tie you up?"

"If you don't tie it, the door will be locked."

……

Zhao Yan returned to the backyard, climbed up the wall along the trunk of the walnut tree, and then down the ladder in his own backyard, not forgetting to smooth out the traces stepped on the top of the wall.

He moved the ladder back to the front yard, and then slowly went to feed the pigs.

After feeding the pigs, he heard voices outside his house slowly, and the sound of gongs and drums getting closer and closer. It seemed that the Yangko team was coming to his door.

Zhao Yan walked out of the back door to make a call. This was the first time he called Yan Cheng on his own initiative. He used to send messages.

The other side hung up, and then came back quickly: "Zhao Yan?"

Zhao Yan: "Yes."

Yan Cheng smiled and said, "This is the first time you've called me, what's wrong? I guess it's probably not because you miss me."

Zhao Yan: "Where's your self-confidence?"

Yan Cheng: "In my body, what is more valuable than self-confidence is that I am still very smart."

"So it's really on me," Zhao Yan paused, and continued, "When will you be able to arrive in City Z?"

Yan Cheng: "I'm already making preparations for departure, three days at most."

Zhao Yan: "Before I leave, can you get me a bottle of sleeping pills? I want a big bottle."

"Sleeping pills?!" Yan Chengyu was puzzled: "Could it be that you can't sleep without me by your side?"

Zhao Yan smiled: "No. We need a prescription to buy sleeping pills in pharmacies here, so it's not easy to buy them. We'll talk about the details when you arrive."

Yan Cheng didn't ask any further questions, but only said, "Do you need anything else?"

Zhao Yan thought about it carefully and said, "Not anymore."

Yan Cheng: "Have you received the postcard?"

Zhao Yan: "Not yet, Z city is rather cold, you come here and bring more clothes, wear thicker ones."

Hearing such caring words, Yan Cheng was very happy: "You care so much about me!"

When others go home for the New Year, he goes to Z City for the New Year, and he seems to have a little warmth similar to other people going home.

He felt that Zhao Yan had a kind of magical power, which could always give him the feeling of home inadvertently.

He stood on the lawn and made a phone call, raised his head and squinted his eyes to look at the luxurious villa in front of him, and heard the sound of a car, his stepmother's car drove in from the direction of the gate.

His real home hadn't felt that way to him since his mother left.

After Zhao Yan made the phone call, he walked out and followed others to watch the excitement.The yangko dancers were all villagers, wearing bright colored clothes that Ueda would never wear. No one cared if they danced well, and everyone just wanted to have fun.

The drummer on the tricycle, with half a cigarette in his mouth, was beating the drum while smoking, making a loud bang, and the ash kept falling, and before it even hit the drum, it was blown away by the wind.

The tricycle drove slowly, following the Yangko team.

At this time, the happiest children are still the children, running around the Yangko team, their little bodies seem to have inexhaustible energy.

In the past, when Zhao Yan's father was still there, his mother also performed Yangko, but she stopped doing it later. There were many gossips in front of the widow's house, and people said that you were unruly by twisting and twisting in brightly colored clothes.

Zhao Yan was standing in front of his house watching the fun, when he heard someone calling him, his voice was loud: "Brother Zhao Yan."

Zhao Yan looked over, a girl, he didn't recognize it for a while, until he saw Zhao Kai next to the girl, he recognized Zhao Kai's sister.

"Brother Zhao Yan, are you going home for the New Year?"

Zhao Yan nodded: "Yes."

Zhao Kai was holding another girl, who looked like a girlfriend.Zhao Yan felt familiar, he should be a high school classmate or something, and then he remembered that Zhao Kai seemed to have fallen in love with a classmate in high school.

When the girlfriend saw Zhao Yan, she pulled Zhao Kai's arm and whispered something in his ear. Compared to his girlfriend's words and smiles, Zhao Kai's expression was not very good-looking.

Suddenly, a person walked over in a fierce manner from the oblique stab. Dingqing saw that it was Zhao Kai's father.

Uncle Shuanzi came over fiercely through the crowd of spectators, lifted Zhao Kai's back collar with one hand, and threw him aside, "You've learned how to play with women even if your hair isn't fully grown, Lao Tzu Spend so much money for your education, and expect you to be successful."