About author:Zhang Zhiming, a native of Hui County, Xinxiang, Henan. He is a member of the Henan Writers Association and a member of the China Miniature Novel Society, and his works have been found in Selected Novels, Hundred Gardens, Woodpeckers, Anhui Literature, Selected Small Novels, Coconut City, Selected Miniature Novels, Monthly Micro Novels, Monthly Novels, Short Stories, etc.
Yufeng's sister-in-law and Liugen's family lived at the north entrance of Hujiaqiao Village, one road east and one road west. Take a few steps north, cross the small bridge, and it's the main road.
At noon on this day, Yu Feng's sister-in-law coaxed her daughter to sleep at the street gate. The girl was already asleep in Yufeng's sister-in-law's arms, and she turned to go home when the commune's postman came over, and he parked his green bicycle on the side of the street and knocked on the door of Liugen's house.
After knocking for half a day and no one responded, the postman turned around and asked Yufeng's sister-in-law. Sister-in-law Yufeng's face skimmed an imperceptible shadow and said she didn't know.
The postman said that it was an urgent telegram, sent from Shandong, saying that the mother was seriously ill and had arrived in the morning, and had let the brigade broadcast several times, and no one had picked it up. Seeing that things were urgent, he just happened to be on the way, so he came with him.
Looking at the postman's six gods and no master, thinking that it must be the mother of the Liugen family who is sick, it is indeed a big thing, Yufeng sister-in-law can't bear it, she said that she just saw the Liugen family's basket going west, it is estimated that she went to the west to give pigs pickles, let the postman quickly find it.
The postman said that he would also send an urgent message to the commune, which was also an urgent matter, and asked Yufeng's sister-in-law to collect it.
Yu Feng's sister-in-law held the child and took two steps back involuntarily, and was there for half a minute.
The little postman stood there with the telegram in his hand, with a begging and embarrassed look on his face, and Yu Feng's sister-in-law hesitated for a few moments before she reluctantly took it.
Yu Feng's sister-in-law took a look at the telegram, which read: The mother is seriously ill, and she will return quickly!
The Liugen family's mother's family is from Shandong.
Yu Feng's sister-in-law and liu gen family did not speak. In the first two years, LiuGen's health had been bad, and then he found someone to calculate the gua and asked them to put a mirror on the street door, facing the door of Yufeng's sister-in-law's house. The two families have formed a grudge because of this and have been frozen until now.
Sister-in-law Yufeng sent her daughter home, took the telegram and first went to the neighbors on both sides, begging them to find Liugen's family, but the people did not care, and complained that she was nosy. The Liugen family's popularity is not good.
Standing in the sun at the mouth of the hutong for half a day, thinking for half a day, Yufeng sister-in-law went home again to look at her girlfriend, came out to cover the door, and hurried to the west.
Yu Feng's sister-in-law had just left, and the Liugen family returned from another alley in the street with a basket of wild vegetables. She was about to enter the door when she saw Yufeng's sister-in-law's one-year-old daughter-in-law come out of the house crying and staggering to the side of the road.
The Rugen family put down the basket, stopped in front of the door, and stood in the shade to see.
The little girl walked to the small bridge at the entrance of the village and stood by the stone railing looking at the road and crying. Saying that it is a stone fence is actually a stone that is a tall stone, like a doorway, not as high as a child's legs.
The little girl was crying, and there was a fish in the water under the bridge that jumped out and fell into the water. The little girl forgot to cry, and curiously lay down on the stone railing, reaching out half of her small body to look into the water, and her two small feet were stilted behind her, and she saw that the heart of the Liugen family was tugging.
The Liugen family looked back at the door of Yufeng's sister-in-law's house, and then looked at the little girl. Looking at the little girl, she looked back at the door of Yufeng's sister-in-law's house, knowing that there might be no one in her house.
Looking at the little girl lying on the stone railing, the Liugen family thought hatefully, and it didn't matter if he turned around.
The little girl looked at the water for a while, probably remembering her mother again, crying first, shaking and standing up, and before she could stand, she toe a little, almost fell on the low stone railing, and saw the bottom of the family's heart, and involuntarily took a step forward. Seeing that it was all right, she went back again.
The little girl cried and walked down the road, and two tractors were suddenly coming from the east, and there were two carriages behind it.
The Rugen family looked at the child to see the car, looked at the car and looked at the child, with a nervous look on his face, hesitated a few times, or quickly ran over to hug the crying little girl back.
The Liugen family's little girl had just turned around, and Yufeng's sister-in-law hurried back from the west.
The two of them were there at the same time.
Then, the Liugen family said, she ran down the road, there was a car —
Sister-in-law Yufeng reached over with the hand of the telegram and said, "The telegram taken by Lady Gong's family is urgent."
They looked at each other, one taking the telegram, the other taking the child, without speaking. Each turned around and went home.
Soon, the Rugen family hurried out again. After a while, he ran back with Rugan.
Immediately after, Liugen and his two mouths locked the door of the house, got on the road, and trotted away all the way to the east.
About half a month later, Yu Feng's sister-in-law stood at the street door, inadvertently looked up, and found that the mirror on the street door of Liugen's house was missing.
It was morning, the sun was just right, Yu Feng's sister-in-law looked back, and the bright and dangling light that always shone on the door on the wall of her house could no longer be found.