Narration: The Secret in the Moonlight

□ Zhang Junxia

That year, a bumper harvest of corn was a good thing, but several families in the village were stolen a lot of corn overnight. Grandpa is not at ease. He always visits the field several times a day.

One morning, grandpa was surprised to find messy footprints in the field. It's broken! It must have been stolen! He quickly followed the footprints and found that a lot of corn had been picked! Strangely, the picked corn was not taken away, but all piled up on the ground.

What's going on here? Grandpa was puzzled and finally decided to transport the corn home first. The next night, grandpa walked around the corn for a long time, but there was no movement in the field. When I went back in the morning, the ground was piled with picked corn. Grandma said, "Maybe the thief picked corn and was about to leave when he happened to meet a person, so he had to leave the corn and ran away. As a result, he helped us in vain ..." Grandpa shook his head again. "Can't it be so coincidence?"

On the third night, grandpa decided to squat in the corn field. Time passed slowly, and just as he was sleepy, he suddenly heard footsteps. The sound is getting closer and closer, and finally it stops in the corn field. Grandpa looked out and saw a black shadow picking corn. He took out the prepared stick and waved it: "Who are you?" How dare you steal glutinous rice! "

Only heard a "ouch", the shadow fell to the ground, panting, unable to get up. Grandpa was just about to scream again when suddenly a shadow appeared next to him, dragging him hard: "Stop fighting!" " "Grandpa looked at it by moonlight, and he was surprised. It was none other than Mr. Liu from the neighboring village! His wife stood beside him. Grandpa said angrily, "You are too old. How can you do such a heartless thing? "Your daughter Xiaocui is married to our village, aren't you afraid of losing face for her?"

"ah? Isn't this land Xiaocui's? " Mr. Er asked with a trembling voice. "Do you have the face to mention trav? Everyone in the countryside knows that this girl is particularly good at her lessons, but you forced her children to drop out of school. She broke up with her mother's family a long time ago. What are you doing here in the middle of the night? " Grandpa asked loudly.

"Big brother, I let Xiaocui drop out of school. At that time, the old woman had cerebral thrombosis, and her son's object was anxious for bride price money. I sold all the food at home ... Xiaocui left school crying and went to work with her luggage on her back. She only sent money home, but refused to come back. Even if we were married, she wouldn't let us attend the wedding. I heard that she gave birth to a baby the other day, and there are not enough people working at home. We found that this cornfield belongs to her family, so we didn't dare to come during the day and wanted to help secretly at night ... "Mr. Er said, and his eyes were full of tears.

Grandpa sighed and said, "The land next to it belongs to Xiaocui's family. You didn't help her, but you scared me. " Grandpa said, went to the next field and picked it up. Ladies and gentlemen, follow quickly. That night, in the bright moonlight, the three old people picked all the corn in that field and placed it neatly, as if they were not facing a pile of corn, but a beautiful work of art.

Two days later, Mr. Liu and Mrs. Liu came again Grandpa led them to another cornfield in Xiao Cui's house. Just as they were sweating like rain to pick corn, they suddenly heard someone sobbing. In the bright moonlight, it was none other than Xiao Cui standing on his head. She cried and said, "in fact, I have long guessed that you picked the corn ... I was too young to be sensible before." Now that I have children, I know how difficult it is to be a parent ... "

That night, two couples, holding Xiao Cui's hand, cried and laughed.

That night, grandpa suddenly became like a poet. He looked up at the sky and said to himself, "The moonlight is so beautiful ..."

Junxia Zhang