"Master, when can we go out? It's almost the New Year, and I haven't bought any New Year's goods yet."
I don’t know if I’m being too arrogant. Children are scared by the big monkeys and don’t dare to go out, but I still think about buying new year’s goods and small whips.
"You kid, when are you still thinking about celebrating the New Year!"
My grandfather sighed. I don’t understand. Wasn’t the big horse monkey seriously injured? Mr. Li San said that he wouldn’t be able to come out for a while, so why didn’t he let people celebrate the New Year?
Seeing that my father had no intention of chatting, I walked down the street with a slumped face. I happened to encounter Widow Liu in the front yard holding her little baby girl and sunbathing at the door.
"Aunt Liu, why don't Uncle Zhao's family take the child back?"
I have never understood why Uncle Zhao let people take the child away and still ignored him.
"Seven pounds, come and see my little sister." Widow Liu didn't answer my question, she just knelt down to greet me and look after the child. The child, who was less than two months old, had a pale face and was looking at me curiously with his big eyes.
"Auntie, she is so rare. What is your little sister's name?"
I stretched out my hand to touch the little girl, but she was not afraid of strangers and giggled while pulling my fingers.
"Her name is Nannan." Widow Liu looked at Nannan with a gentle face, and I realized that she was also very good-looking. She was only in her early thirties at that time. I heard from my grandma that she was not a local, and her hometown was Heilongjiang. The man died in an accident two years after she got married. Because she was young and good-looking, both men and women in the village bullied her. She was also a miserable person.
"Auntie, why did you throw the torch in that day? If you hadn't thrown the torch, the big horse monkey would have been shot to death by the Third Master!"
I still couldn't help it. Yes, I saw that the person throwing the torch was Widow Liu.
Widow Liu was surprised at first, and then asked me if I had told my father. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw me shaking my head.
"Qi Jin, aunt tells you that some things are not as simple as you think. In short, you don't get involved in adults' affairs. Just pretend you didn't see it and don't tell anyone, okay?"
There was helplessness and pleading in Widow Liu's tone, so I nodded solemnly.
"Seven pounds! Come back for dinner!"
"Why!!"
After teasing my daughter for a while, my grandma called me to go home for dinner. Widow Liu also carried the child into the house. During this period, Uncle Zhao passed by without even looking at us.
"Miscellaneous, why doesn't Uncle Zhao take my daughter home?"
"Nanny? Who is Nannan? Why does this name sound so familiar?"
My grandma was confused when she heard this name!
"Snapped!"
My father suddenly put down his chopsticks and asked me who I was talking about.
"Nanny, she is Uncle Zhao's daughter. Wasn't she taken back by Aunt Liu? She named the child Nannan!"
I don’t understand why my father reacted so strongly. He put on his shoes directly, put on his clothes and walked out.
"Master! Wherever you go, I will go too!"
Ever since Master Li San came to my house and told me so many interesting stories, I couldn't stop being curious. Seeing that my master was in trouble, I hurried to follow him, and my master didn't send me back.
I followed my father to the village chief's house and caught up with the village chief and his wife and Yaya who were also having dinner.
"Second uncle! Second aunt!" I called out first.
"Hey! Uncle Chen and Qijin are here, get on the kang, and his second wife is going to serve the rice!"
The village chief's wife quickly went to fill two bowls of rice, while my father sat aside and didn't move.
"What's up, old Uncle Chen, get on the kang and have a bite to eat!"
"Hong Bo, how old is your Aling?"
"Crack!"
As soon as my father said this, the rice bowl held by the village chief fell to the ground.
"Nanny, no, A-Ling has been gone for six years. Old Uncle Chen, why do you think of A-Ling?"
The village chief's face was pale, and his wife also put down her bowl and wiped her tears. A Ling was the youngest daughter of the village chief. She was about the same age as Widow Liu, and she was also good-looking. She was a famous beauty in eight villages in Shiliba at that time. The two village chiefs She thought she had a sore eye, but she suddenly got a strange illness six years ago, and she went crazy from time to time. She was kept in the lower room. One day, the village chief's wife went in to deliver food, and she found that she was out of breath.
"Hong Bo, tell me the truth, why is Aling dead?"
"Uncle Chen, didn't everyone in the village know that A-ling was ill and left? Why do you suddenly ask this?"
The village chief felt a little guilty and obviously lacked the confidence to speak.
"When A-ling was sick, did Lao Zhaotou and Zhang Laizi always come to your house?"
My grandfather stared expressionlessly into the village chief’s eyes and continued to ask him.
"Damn it, Old Uncle Chen, Old Boss Zhao and I are in-laws. Zhang Laizi hasn't been here a few times, has he?"
The village chief lowered his head and said nothing. The village chief's wife recalled something and spoke for him.
"I remember that your A Ling picked up a monkey cub in the back mountain that year."
I was confused as I listened to the words of my father and the village chief. Regarding the village chief’s little daughter, I only occasionally heard people say it was a pity. A beautiful girl who was like a flower was gone. I How do you know that someone picked up a monkey?
But after my grandfather said "monkey boy", the village chief became even more panicked. He knelt on the ground and cried bitterly. He kowtowed to my grandfather and begged him to save him.
