After chattering for a while, the meal was finally put on the table.

Fortunately, it is a big kang in the main house, and the two kang tables are not too crowded.

Originally, I wanted to ask the blind man and Duan Simao what was going on, but Duan Chengfeng, who 'became' into a simple old northeast, was too enthusiastic and didn't give us a chance to talk at all.

The blind man was also calm, and when he got on the table, he drank and joked with the old man with a hippie smile, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, the title of Duan Chengfeng was changed from 'old father-in-law' to 'father' and 'father'.

Jinghai is also not polite anywhere, relying on his age to be a little younger than Duan Chengfeng, the blind man shouted 'Dad', and he called 'old brother''. What is annoying is that before shouting, he has to pull a long "hey" first, as if the blind man is calling his father.

I was still worried about it, and I was stirred up by this pair of enemies, plus I heard Duan Chengfengjing say something about 'thinking about the year', and I was also infected by the atmosphere when I came and went, and I didn't want anything else for the time being, so I ate and drank with it.

Halfway through the drink, I inadvertently glanced at the woman, just in time to meet her eyes.

She bit her lip, put a chopstick dish in my bowl, and whispered to me to drink less wine and eat more.

I came back to my senses from the temporary 'escape', thought about it, and tentatively asked Duan Chengfeng, who was full of alcohol: "Uncle, can I ask you about someone?" ”

Duan Chengfeng looked at me and frowned, "Why do I think it's a little awkward for you to call me that?" ”

I paused for a moment, reacted, and could only hide the past with a dry smile.

The last time I got off the train, I changed my address to 'senior' from 'big brother'.

"Who do you want to ask?" Now Duan Chengfeng is already an authentic Northeast dialect.

I glanced at the woman again and tried to ask Duan Chengfeng:

"Do you remember that there is a person named Xu Qiuping in our village?"

Unexpectedly, Duan Chengfeng didn't even think about it: "Remember, how can you not remember?" ”

As he spoke, his face became gloomy, and he took the match on the windowsill, lit the cigarette pouch and took a deep breath:

"Qiu Ping came here in the same year as me, and she is a Sichuan girl. I still remember when I first met her, she had two small pigtails, a round face, and big eyes, and she was a pretty girl. Later, like me, she settled in the village and married Brother Mingchun. Before Jiao Lianghe came out of that incident, the two of them were the only ones in the village who treated me and Juanzi as human beings. ”

He suddenly seemed to react, beat his head and said, "Alas, I'm old, I'm old and confused." When you come back for the first time, how can you know what happened back then? Now that I've said that, I'll start at the beginning. Let me tell you, Juanzi and I were the poorest families in the village because of our bad ingredients, and then one winter ......"

Duan Jiayin was not as bored as before at this time, squinted at him and said vaguely: "You are old and confused, you just said this before." ”

"Did I tell you?"

"Said it!" Duan Jiayin said as he squeezed between his teeth.

Later, the blind man told me privately that Duan Jiayin had been calling Duan Chengfeng Master since he was sensible. Although they are father and daughter, Duan Jiayin has always felt that there is a layer of separation between the two.

After Duan Chengfeng was confused, he asked Duan Jiayin to call him father, which made Duan Jiayin feel that the two had a father-daughter closeness, and a little bit of a little daughter's coquettish and willful feeling with adults.

"I said uncle, you did say this paragraph just now, you just need to talk about Xu Qiuping." Pan Ying said with a grin.

Duan Chengfeng glanced at her: "What a good girl, she looks like a tomboy." Look at your hair, it's shiny and shiny than the young master of the landlord's family in the old society! ”

After speaking, he couldn't hold back a smile himself.

was interrupted by Pan Ying, but he didn't say any more gossip on the side, and directly told about Xu Qiuping.

Xu Qiuping, who is also an educated youth from Sichuan, was born in an intellectual family.

Because the ingredients are better than Duan Chengfeng, and she is a girl, the days in Jiaohe are also more comfortable than Duan Chengfeng.

Later, she also became a family in Jiaolianghe Village and married the only teacher in the village. This teaching gentleman is Chu Mingchun.

is also because of the composition problem, Xu Qiuping and his family are compared to Duan Chengfeng and Juanzi, that is, one in the sky and one underground.

However, as Duan Chengfeng said, maybe they are both educated youths with Xu Qiuping, or both of them are literate people, so Xu Qiuping and Chu Mingchun are the only people who are willing to help Duan Chengfeng when their house can't open the pot.

Because Chu Mingchun is the only one who teaches in several nearby villages, the two of them are very respected by the villagers.

It stands to reason that such a good person will get better and better, but with the arrival of that catastrophe, the fate of the two people has undergone a earth-shaking change.

Chu Mingchun was beaten into a stinky old nine, locked up the cowshed, and suffered torture and humiliation.

Xu Qiuping was not affected because she was a young man's 'marriage', but because she was beautiful, after her husband was locked up in the cowshed, she was not less harassed by that special era.

Fortunately, at that time, Duan Chengfeng and Juanzi were protected by the villagers because of the floating corpse in the Jiao Scale River, and out of gratitude, they took Xu Qiuping to their home, which prevented a greater tragedy.

In that particular context, many people were 'crazy'.

And after several years of inhuman torture, although Chu Mingchun is still alive, he is really about to go crazy.

In the winter of that year, Xu Qiuping went to visit her husband and saw Chu Mingchun's tragic situation, and her spirit completely collapsed.

In order to save Chu Mingchun, Xu Qiuping walked into the office of a 'leader' at that time knowing the consequences.

Just when the leader who had coveted Xu Qiuping for a long time was about to reach his dirty goal, Xu Qiuping suddenly saw an unbelievable scene.

With tears in her eyes, she saw her husband floating in the corner of the room, looking at her with anger on his face!

"Ah......h

Xu Qiuping violently pushed away the 'ringleader', and ran to the corner of the wall crying, wanting to pull Chu Mingchun.

Chu Mingchun didn't disappear, but he kept avoiding her.

The leader was probably frightened by the situation at the time, thinking that Xu Qiuping was driven crazy.

It doesn't matter if she's crazy, if she runs out in rags like this, bumps into someone again, and talks nonsense, she won't be able to keep her position.

Therefore, when Xu Qiuping ran out of strength in the house and collapsed on the ground, he didn't dare to do anything to her again, but poured her a cup of hot water, started 'ideological work' on her, and repeatedly promised that he would try his best to take care of Chu Mingchun's condition.

Xu Qiuping slowed down for a long time, and finally sobered up a little.

She thought of someone for the first time, so she shouted at Chu Mingchun, who was still wandering in the house: "Brother Mingchun, I can't stand it, you are dead, I will go down to accompany you!" ”

Then he opened the door and ran out.

Xu Qiuping originally never believed in ghosts and gods, but she saw her husband's 'ghost' with her own eyes.

She had just seen her husband, who was tortured like a ghost, and she saw her husband's 'ghost', she thought Chu Mingchun was dead, and she began to believe that there were ghosts and gods in this world.

She thought of a person, a person who could see ghosts.

staggered all the way back to Duan Chengfeng's house, Xu Qiuping knelt down in front of Juanzi at once, and refused to get up no matter how the two dragged them.

just kept begging Juanzi to help her see her husband again, she wanted to tell her husband in person that she was wrong and shouldn't have made a mistake because she wanted to save him.

She wanted to tell Chu Mingchun that she was still innocent, and when she finished speaking, she would go down to accompany him. The reason why she didn't immediately look for a short sight was because she was afraid that her husband would dislike her, and she was afraid that Chu Mingchun would not see her when she got below.

Duan Chengfeng and Juanzi were not affected by this catastrophe, so their minds were still relatively clear.

The two carried Xu Qiuping, who had fainted from crying, to the bed, Duan Chengfeng asked Juanzi to boil ginger soup and feed it to Xu Qiuping, and went to the cowshed in the snow.

After coming back, he struggled for a long time before he said to Juanzi and Xu Qiuping, who had just woken up: Brother Mingchun is still alive......

Speaking of this, Duan Chengfeng seemed to be a little unable to speak, took a sip of the wine cup, and smoked vigorously with a cigarette pouch in his mouth.

I glanced at the blind man, and our eyes turned to Dong Yaru.

Jing Hai's thin eyes were squinting at her neither early nor late.

With last night's common experience, the three of them almost have a number of identities for this 'Xu Qiuping' who borrowed the corpse to return to the soul.

But both I and the blind man had a greater doubt in their hearts.

Judging from the experience on the green train, Juanzi's final destination is still a mystery.

Whether her soul was finally executed by the Qing Dynasty general or went somewhere else is unknown.

Dong Yaru is just an ordinary woman, and she has nothing to do with this matter, how could she be borrowed to return her soul......

"Little Blessing...... Xu Wo, you ...... What do you always look at me for? Are you drinking too much and feeling unwell? Dong Yaru asked me cautiously.

"Xu Xu?" Duan Chengfeng looked at me again and frowned, "Have I heard of this name before?" ”

I reacted, "That'...... What happened to Xu Qiuping? ”

I originally wanted to divert the topic first, but I didn't expect Duan Chengfeng to stare at me with his eyebrows twisted for a while.

Suddenly, he said, "When I talk about this, shouldn't you ask Chu Mingchun whether he is dead or alive?" Why do you ask Xu Qiuping? What is your relationship with Qiu Ping? What are you asking her for? Later, after Brother Mingchun was released, the two of them had a child...... No, it's not the right age, her son must be in his forties now, how old are you? ”

I was almost stunned by Lao Duan's series of questions, so I looked at Dong Yaru again, took a sip of the wine glass, and wiped my head vigorously.

said to Duan Chengfeng: "You...... You haven't ...... for half your life. Never left the village. But I know that you are an iron abacus, and you have used it at least once since you came to Jiao Scale River...... No, I think I have used the iron abacus twice. One time was the incident of the floating corpse in the Jiao Scale River, and the other time was that you should have calculated for Xu Qiuping and Chu Mingchun. ”

"How do you know?" Duan Chengfeng's eyes widened.

"I just met Xu Qiuping last night. Also, I ......" I turned my gaze to the blind man and Jinghai, "I have been to Chu Mingchun once, and I have experienced his experience in those years......"