Gu Tianya was finally caught up by the woman.

To be precise, there is a certain tacit understanding between chasing and being chased.

Gu Tianya was waiting subconsciously, so he was caught up. The woman was able to catch up with him easily because of her strong physical strength.

While the wind and snow were blowing, the woman had a joking look on her face, as if she wanted to deliberately make Gu Tianya angry. She laughed and teased him: "What's the matter? I can't bear to leave my aunt? Are you feeling distressed! Or are you worried!"

Gu Tianya turned away and said in a cold voice: "Don't be sentimental, I'm just afraid that something will happen to you. After all... this is at night after all."

"That's just worry and distress!" The woman blinked her eyes narrowly, her face full of fun.

She held her little hands behind her back and circled around Gu Tianya in a leisurely manner, her eyes constantly staring into Gu Tianya's eyes.

Gu Tianya quickly turned his face away and continued in a cold voice: "I told you, it is night after all, the wind and snow are very strong, it is dark everywhere, and you are a weak woman, it is not good to leave you outside.

That’s all, don’t make any guesses.”

"Yeah, yeah, I know, I know!"

The woman nodded like a chicken eating rice, but what she said almost made Gu Tianya angry. She laughed and said again: "It's obvious that I feel sorry for my aunt, but I'm just a man who pretends to be tough. If you know how to understand, aunt will do everything."

Everyone understands."

Gu Tianya was very helpless and just smiled bitterly and said: "I really can't imagine what kind of family can get used to a character like yours."

The woman immediately asked in a treacherous manner, smiling and teasingly asking: "Do you want to beat me three times a day?"

"Think!" Gu Tianya almost blurted out.

Fortunately, he held it back in time and felt that he was being provoked again. There is only one saying in the world about wife beating, but there is no precedent for daring to beat an elder. He, his so-called aunt, was almost thrown into a ditch by her again.

The woman who went to see him suddenly smiled, rolled her eyes at him lovingly, as if an elder was coaxing a child, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, my good nephew is going to get angry if we continue to make trouble. Let's go home."

When I got home, I was very hungry and wanted to try the fish my sister cooked."

She deliberately emphasized the word 'sister' very strongly.

Gu Tianya was really angry this time.

He picked up the basket with all his strength and walked towards home without saying a word. Suddenly he felt a lightness in the crook of his arms. He was shocked to find that the basket was weightless. He subconsciously turned around to look, only to find that the woman was lifting it for him.

Lift the cage.

I saw the woman holding the cage easily with one hand, and the smile on her face had turned serious. She said solemnly: "Seriously, don't think I'm teasing you. You have to eat meat every day from now on, otherwise your physique cannot be called a...

man."

As he spoke, he gently pulled and put the forty or fifty kilogram cage on his arm. He looked very relaxed, but his face became more serious, and he solemnly said again: "From now on, you can't stop eating meat.

"

Gu Tianya didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had no choice but to sigh and said: "Your tone is solemn, it doesn't sound like you are teasing me, but the words you said are more heartbreaking than mocking me. I have told you before

However, I don’t even have food for the night at home.”

The implication is self-explanatory.

There is no food, so there is no meat to eat.

Unexpectedly, the woman became more solemn and said in a deep voice: "If you don't have food, then plant it; if you don't have meat, spend money to buy it. In short, I don't want you to be like a sick man. If you are hungry and weak all year round, you won't live long."

big."

Gu Tianya was stunned for a moment, staring blankly at the so-called 'aunt'. He had a faint feeling that this so-called aunt was really good to him.

but……

"well!"

He sighed softly, slowly looked at the snowflakes floating in the sky, and said softly: "I wonder if you have heard of an allusion. The name of that allusion is why not eat minced meat."

The woman was obviously hesitant, and it took her a long time to ask out of curiosity: "You want to tell me about ancient times?"

Gu Tianya suddenly shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Forget it, I'll just take you to have a look. The allusions told by mouth are not as impressive as seeing them with your own eyes."

After he finished speaking, he raised his feet and walked away, as if he was leading the woman somewhere. Suddenly he stopped, stretched out his hand to grab the cage, and said in a deep voice: "I will carry the things."

The woman glanced at him and refused in a low voice: "It's easier for me to carry it. You can see that you are so tired that you are sweating."

However, Gu Tianya still held on to the basket and said in a deep voice again: "I will carry the things."

The tone was unprecedentedly solemn.

The woman was startled for a moment, and then she seemed to have figured out something, so she rolled her eyes at Gu Tianya, and hummed in a low voice: "Such a bad temper, such a shameless love of face, mention it, mention it, my macho nephew

."

Gu Tianya turned a deaf ear and carried the cage over with one hand, then put it on the crook of his arm with difficulty, and then stepped forward to lead the way again.

They say they are leading the way, but in fact they are heading home. Walking slowly along a winding path, they gradually enter a village filled with wind and snow.

It is said to be a village, but in fact it is better to say that it is a dilapidated settlement. However, after entering the village, there are many ruins, and some small thatched houses are built next to some ruins.

It was dark at night, so the sight was naturally not good, but when I stood in the village and looked around, I could actually see through the entire village in the snow. It was obvious how small the village was, with a square dome only a hundred or so paces wide.

The woman counted carefully along the way and found that there were only thirteen lights in the village.

Those were not lights, but the light of firewood for heating. Thirteen firelights meant thirteen households.

"There are only thirteen households in your village?" she asked Gu Tianya in surprise.

Gu Tianya carried the cage in front and walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Suddenly he stopped and let out a faint sigh.

He did not speak, but looked at a small thatched house. After a long time passed, he softly said: "Fifteen households."

The woman was slightly startled and said subconsciously: "Fifteen households? How is it possible? I counted carefully just now, and there are only thirteen places of light..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly stopped, and a look of shock and realization suddenly appeared on his pretty and heroic face.

Gu Tianya glanced at her and said bitterly: "Looking at your expression, I'm afraid you've already thought of it. You guessed it right. There are two families who can't even light a fire to keep warm."

After he said this, he looked at the small thatched cottage again.

The thatched cottage was dilapidated and small, and seemed to collapse at any time in the wind and snow. Suddenly, the woman's eyes shrank, and she faintly saw a trembling figure at the door of the thatched cottage.

"Gu...Gu...Brother Gu, is it Brother Gu?" There was a weak voice in the wind and snow.

The voice was weak and small, giving people a feeling of timidity and cowardice, and it seemed that he was weak from hunger, but still struggled to shout.

Gu Tianya sighed softly and walked over with difficulty carrying the cage.

The woman behind her felt something move in her heart, and quickly followed her up.

The two of them arrived at the door of the thatched house in a blink of an eye, and their eyes fell on a trembling figure.

It was a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old, her face was blue from the snow and ice. She was stomping her little feet to keep warm, but her eyes were fixed on Gu Tianya's figure.

Before Gu Tianya could speak, she sobbed and said very timidly: "Gu...Brother Gu, my mother, my mother, she..."

She was only halfway through her words when she started crying, but her cries were very small. Apparently she was too hungry to even cry.

Gu Tianya rushed into the thatched house in one step.

The woman followed closely behind.

It was very dark inside the thatched house, and the temperature was not much different from that outside. I could see some thatch spread in the corner of the house, and there seemed to be a faint figure huddled there.

When a person is dying, his body will subconsciously shrink into a certain posture. It is said that that posture is the beginning of wandering in the mother's body, so he can't help but imitate it when he is dying.

Gu Tianya has seen this kind of curled-up posture countless times!

So we know what this gesture means.

He suddenly raised his head upward, as if unwilling to let his tears flow down. After a long time passed, he gently asked: "When did you leave?"

The girl at the door climbed in with difficulty and sobbed weakly: "It's... almost dark."

Gu Tianya continued to raise his head, his voice became choked, but he tried hard to hold it in and said softly: "If it doesn't snow tomorrow, I will help your mother dig a hole."

After thinking for a while, he said softly: "I still have a reed mat at home, use it to wrap your mother up."

The girl burst into tears and seemed too weak to even nod her thanks, but she still forced herself to kneel down and kowtow to Gu Tianya solemnly, then she cried and said: "The reed mat made by Brother Gu can be sold

Five cents, my mother said, my mother said..."

"It's borrowed!" Gu Tianya suddenly spoke, his face full of solemnity, and added: "When a person leaves, we can't bury her alone. Even if we can't afford a coffin, we have to get a reed mat to wrap her body.

Ayao, you don’t have to feel guilty, I’ll lend you this reed mat!”

"But my mother said, but my mother said..." The girl was still kneeling, sobbing and crying: "My mother said, Brother Gu's family is not easy. When my mother died, she held my hand and told me not to go to you.

When asking for reed mats, she said that a reed mat cost five cents, and Brother Gu had to sell the reed mats to buy food. She also said that everyone borrowed your reed mats every time, but you knitted every day but could rarely sell them.

, all were, all were..."

"I told you, it's a loan!" Gu Tianya roared suddenly, as if he was filled with great grief and indignation. He suddenly pulled the girl up from the ground, and roared again with a livid face: "It's a loan, I understand.

? Wrap your mother up, don't bury her alone in the ground."

The girl finally burst into tears.

There was an inexplicable relief in the sad cry.

If a person has been poor for a long time, she would feel guilty even if she borrowed something. Now that Gu Tianya fiercely told her that it was a loan, she finally let go of the heavy burden in her heart.
To be continued...