Siheyuan: the beginning to realize the freedom of cooking

Jia's house, the night is quiet.

Qin Huairu looked at the clock at home.

It was already past 12 o'clock in the morning.

Why hasn't mother-in-law Jia Zhang come back yet? !

Since she took a tin bucket and went out to burn the tin foil for the stick in the afternoon, she never came back.

She looked at the meal that Qin Jingru left for Jia Zhangshi on the table.

She sneered, Jia Zhang seemed to really not want to see herself.

For the first time, he didn't even come back to eat.

Forget it, let her go.

When she figured it out, she would come back naturally.

That night, Qin Huairu didn't go to bed.

She couldn't sleep at all, so she stayed before the coffin, offering incense to the sticks.

When she came back to her senses.

The sky outside the window gradually turned white.

She got up from the futon and rubbed her numb legs.

Can't help but feel strange.

The mother-in-law didn't come back all night.

Where did she go?
Could it be that he was insane again, so he got lost?

Qin Huairu shook his head and looked at the portrait of the stick on the Lingtai.

She walked forward, gently stroked the familiar outline in the gray portrait, and whispered in a low voice: "Banggan, mom knows you have been wronged, don't worry, when mom finds a way to not hurt your brother, mom will definitely I will avenge you with my own hands."

at this time.

The door was pushed open.

Qin Huairu didn't look back, thinking it was Jia Zhang: "Mom, you're back?! Where did you go this night?"

"Mom, hasn't grandma come back all night? You haven't slept all night either?" Xiao Dang's voice came from behind.

Only then did Qin Huairu turn her head to look, and saw Xiao Dang standing behind her with a bowl of corn in her hand, followed by Sophora japonica.

"Well, I can't sleep. She hasn't come back all night, so she probably doesn't want to stay in the same room with me." Qin Huairu sneered.

Xiao Dang put the corn on the table when he heard the words: "Mom, my aunt asked me to give you this corn. I know you can't eat it, but you can eat as much as you want. If you don't eat it, you can't handle it!"

Qin Huairu took a look, walked to the table and sat down.

She numbly picked up a piece of corn and stuffed it into her mouth.

Now is not the time to be decadent, there are still many things to do in the future.

When Xiaodang saw that Qin Huairu had started to eat, he felt relieved.

"Mom, Sophora Huai and I went out for a walk to see where grandma is. I'm getting old, so it's not okay to mess around like this."

"Go! Your grandma said that she went to the place where your brother used to play when he was a child and burned paper for him." Qin Huairu nodded, and continued to chew the corn in his hand like chewing wax.

"Okay, let's look nearby." Xiao Dang said, turned around with Huaihua and left the house.

Out of the courtyard.

"Sister, I'll look in the alley, you can look for it by the river!" Huaihua said to Xiaodang: "Search separately and quickly."

"Okay!" Xiao Dang nodded.

So the two searched separately.

Sophora japonica has circled several times in the alley

She never found Jia Zhang's figure.

Xiao Dang walked along the alley to the bank of the river.

When I was young, my brother often took them here to play.

There was no one on the shore in the early morning.

But Xiaodang sharply saw a familiar tin bucket by the river.

She knew this tin bucket, it belonged to their family.

Every year during Qingming and July and a half, it is used to burn paper for her dead father.

If the bucket is here, it proves that grandma has been here before.

"Grandma, grandma—!"

No one responded by the empty river.

Xiao Dang searched for a while, but there was no one there.

So she carried the bucket and walked back.

When I returned to the courtyard, the neighbors in the courtyard were already washing in the courtyard.

The old man was shocked when he saw Xiaodang walking in with a bucket.

Last night, Jia Zhang hit him with an iron bucket, but he still knew about it.

It's just that the sky was too dark to see clearly.

Qin Huairu saw Xiao Dang coming back with his own bucket: "Xiao Dang, did you find your grandma?!"

Xiao Dang shook his head: "No, I went around the river and found only this bucket."

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Sophora Hua also came back from the outside: "I walked around the alley several times, but I didn't find any trace of grandma."

The neighbors who were washing up in the middle yard heard it.

"Yo, Aunt Jia is gone?" the white widow asked with her busy mouth open.

Xiao Dang nodded: "I went out yesterday afternoon and didn't come back all night."

"Yo, this old sister-in-law can't figure it out, right?" He Daqing said half-jokingly.

Silly Zhu stood aside and shook his head after hearing this: "Dad, if you can't figure out three words, it will never happen to Aunt Jia. She can think better than anyone else."

Although Lin Aijun didn't interrupt, he agreed with Sha Zhu's words in his heart.

Qin Jingru, who came out of the backyard, heard this, and said, "I agree with this, even if the whole world is overwhelmed, Aunt Jia will not be overwhelmed."

"Auntie, where do you think my grandma will go tonight?" Sophora came up to her, somewhat worried, after all, she was old.

The old man was on the side, and muttered in a moderate voice: "Maybe the madness happened again."

His decibel level seemed to be for himself, but it was truly heard by all the neighbors at the scene.

Qin Jingru patted his thigh: "Oh, hey, what the uncle said is really very possible!"

"That's right! I think the old godmother has been talking about it ever since the accident happened to the stick." Xu Damao interrupted.

The old man was secretly happy when he heard this.

Everyone thought it would be good if Jia Zhang's madness relapsed.

When Qin Huairu heard this, he gave a pause.

It's not unreasonable what the old man said.

When people are stimulated, it is easy to induce the relapse of mental illness.

But I haven't changed Jia Zhang's medicine recently.

She is still taking the medicine well, so she shouldn't have a relapse of madness, right?

Xiao Dang was anxious when he heard it: "Oh no, if he really got sick, he might get lost."

"Mom, why don't we go to the police, where can we go tonight at such an advanced age?" Huaihua also became anxious.

After hearing this, Qin Huairu said calmly, "I'm not in a hurry, let's wait and see. Madness doesn't happen immediately? She was still normal yesterday afternoon. Maybe she will come back naturally when she gets hungry or cold later. gone."

Xiao Dang and Huai Hua glanced at each other, then nodded in agreement.

"Okay, let's wait and see!"

That night, Jia Zhang still did not come back.

Only then did Qin Huairu start to feel a little strange.

She called Xiaodang and Huaihua, and the three of them searched around again, but they couldn't find it.

Jia Zhang is really gone.

And it hasn't shown up for over 24 hours.

She was hesitating whether she needed to go to the police to find someone.

But after thinking about it, it's already night, and it's hard to find even if you call the police.

Better to wait another night.

If you don't return overnight, call the police tomorrow.