In the sound of firecrackers, one year old was removed, but the spring breeze did not warm the three people.

Today is really the 30th year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and from tomorrow, it will be the 38th year of Wanli.

The sound of firecrackers in his ears was still ringing, accompanied by the laughter of children clapping their hands, but the three husbands in the haystack were silent.

Zhao Jinjiao shed tears, he remembered the scene when his father held him and set off firecrackers when he was a child.

Time flies, in a flash, it has been forty years.

His father has long since passed away, and he has fallen to this.

No one thinks about him, no one cares about him.

Yes, it's just two difficult brothers around me.

Xu Yingyuan sighed sadly, other people's families were busy with the New Year, lively and festive, but the three of them were hiding in this haystack and starving, no matter what they thought, their hearts were very sore.

"It's the New Year, but there is no wine."

The second uncle scratched the root of his ear with his hand, and his ear was frozen, and it was itchy if he was fine, and then it was scraped by grass leaves, which was even more itchy.

"Uh-huh. On the night of the thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, our third brother drank hard enough, and the third brother almost didn't drink it. Xu Yingyuan licked his lips and called Brother Jinzhong to say, and the alcohol addiction came up.

"The second brother is not much better, if you want to say that the amount of alcohol is good, I will take the loyal brother." As he spoke, Zhao Jinjiao stretched his hand into the cotton coat and pressed it against his stomach as much as possible. There, it's warm.

"If you want to say drinking, you can't do it, I stole my father's wine when I was a child, and I didn't ask him to beat him up for this, I remember one time, my eldest brother and I stole my father's wine again, and after drinking too much, I found that the wine was almost gone, and my eldest brother and I were sad, and later..."

Xu Yingyuan was stunned for a moment and said, "Yesterday, brother? ”

"My brother is homesick."

Although he couldn't see it, Zhao Jinjiao still heard that the old brother Jinzhong on the side seemed to sob.

The second uncle is homesick, away from home for more than 20 years, and today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the day of family reunion, can he not want to.

"Who doesn't want to be home, but if there is a craft, a head, who wants to be a husband." Xu Yingyuan smiled bitterly, and then comforted the second uncle and said: "Brother Jinzhong, you are okay, your eldest brother knows to ask your nephew to come to the capital to see you, what about us?" No one knows if he's dead. ”

Liangchen came to Beijing to see his own affairs, but the second uncle told the two brothers several times, and every time he talked about it, he was very excited.

"My nephew is a talent, if I have a chance in the future, I will have to let you know him."

The second uncle calmed down, and couldn't help but wonder if the eldest brother and the two nephews were worshipping the ancestors, and the ancestors looked at it, would they say that the old man didn't see the second son yesterday. Where has he been all these years, and what the hell has he been doing?

For a long time, the second uncle sighed deeply in his heart.

He's sorry for his father, sorry for his eldest brother, and sorry for the ancestors of the old Wei family.

The sound of firecrackers in the yard finally stopped, and the family seemed to have gone into the house to watch the New Year, faintly listening to children asking for New Year's money.

The snow outside seemed to have stopped, but the wind was still very strong, "whirring" and pouring into the haystack from the small holes and crevices, and the three brothers shivered from the cold.

"Others are husbands, and we are also husbands, but when husbands are on this, Brother Jinzhong, do you say that our lives are really bad, otherwise, why don't we have our blessings?" Xu Yingyuan muttered, he was really unwilling.

"Wealth and fortune, life and death are in the sky, what do you want to do so much. It's good to be alive. Zhao Jinjiao moved his legs, bent and uncomfortable.

Xu Yingyuan said quietly: "Do we still have a living head?" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Jinjiao was silent.

Yes, they are penniless, they are still hundreds of miles away from their destination, are they really alive?

"Don't think about it so much, aren't we still alive, the sky is falling, let's sleep first, and when the day dawns, there is always a way." The second uncle was more worried than the two brothers, but he wanted to say this, he was afraid that if he was depressed again, the third brother would really have no way to live.

"That's right, those showmen said that the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, we can't do it now, and we can't say that there will be nobles to help you at dawn." Xu Yingyuan comforted himself.

"Sleep."

Zhao Jinjiao's eyelids are already closing.

This night, the three brothers were woken up several times by freezing.

Fortunately, it is better to have hay than nothing, and they did not freeze to death.

The first thing that came to me in the morning was the sound of my stomach calling.

It was Xu Yingyuan's stomach that screamed, he wanted to endure it, but he couldn't help it.

Seeing this, Zhao Jinjiao also pressed his stomach. He was hungry, too, but he didn't want to make a sound.

"Let's go out and have a look, in case there is really a noble person passing by, they can give us a ride." Xu Yingyuan pushed the grass out of his body and slept in the haystack all night, which really suffocated him to death.

Seeing this, Zhao Jinjiao also straightened up to help, and the second uncle was not idle.

Soon, the hole came out.

Xu Yingyuan glanced out a few times, confirmed that there was no one, and hurriedly beckoned the two brothers out.

After the three of them got out, they patted the blades of grass on their bodies there, and then helped each other clean up their heads.

Looking around, there are no nobles.

"What now?" Zhao Jinjiao looked at the two sworn brothers.

Xu Yingyuan didn't know what to do, so he looked at the second uncle.

The second uncle thought about it for a while, and said, "I thought about it all night, Gonggong Qiu, then we still have to go, otherwise, the three of us will be finished." ”

"How to get there?"

Xu Yingyuan and Zhao Jinjiao asked together.

"This..."

The second uncle hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth at the two brothers and said, "Let's ask for food, make flowers, and beg all the way!" ”

"Okay!"

Zhao Jinjiao nodded, apart from asking for food and making flowers, do they have any other way?

"Only when you suffer hardship can you become a superior person. Middle, brother, listen to you, let's go ask for food! Xu Yingyuan also let go, the birds are all clean, do you still have to eat.

After making up their minds, the three of them were faced with an urgent question, that is, who would want it first.

The words are good, and the heart is big, but if you really want the third brother to pull down his face and beg for food, it is really embarrassing.

At a critical time, it was the second uncle, the boss, who set an example, saying that when he went down, he would ask for food from this family, and then go on the road after padding his stomach.

"My nephew said that if you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world, I won't sweep the house, just go to the house to beg."

The second uncle made a difference, walked slowly towards the house step by step, and knocked on the door of the house.

At this moment, there is only one thought in his heart, that is, even if he wants food, he has to live and live as a person.

At the same time, in the East Palace, a baby's cry finally relieved the people who had been busy all night.

After being tired all night, Xi Li, who almost fainted to death several times, couldn't wait to let the palace people hold the child to her.

"Mother, it's a daughter!"

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Author's note: It is a historical fact that the three giants went south into Sichuan.

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