Early in the morning, before dawn, the door of Honghua's house was knocking on and on.
"Come on! Who did it so early in the morning?" Zhen Zi yawned, and walked toward the gate while wrapping his jacket tightly. It's getting late now, and it's time to get up at this time. I just don't know who the person is, so I came to call the door early in the morning.
With a squeak, he opened the door and saw that outside the door was a tall and strong woman carrying a burden and holding a child, her face was familiar.
"Are you...?" He looked at it a few times, as if he had seen...
"Brother Precious!" The woman greeted him with a cheerful smile. When she called someone, he remembered it!
"Qijin? Yo! I haven't seen this for more than two years! I almost can't recognize it!" Zhenzhen stretched his head into the room and shouted, "Safflower! Safflower! Here comes Qijin!" He turned his head to her. Say, "Come in! Come in!"
Qi Jin strode in with the child in his arms, and he saw the lamp in the house more clearly. No wonder he couldn't recognize it. This person was really much older than two years ago. When Qi Jin did not marry a few years ago, he went to Honghua to meet her several times. Later, when he heard that she was married, the third grandmother asked her to give birth to a child first, and then come back when she had a child. As a result, when she first married, she still had a relationship with Honghua, and then it seemed that she hadn't had any children before she gradually broke the news.
Hong Hua used to worry about her in front of him. A woman couldn't give birth to a child, even if she was protected by the third master and the third grandma behind her.
Seeing her holding the baby over today, she seems to be all right.
When Honghua heard the precious voice, she put on a cotton jacket and ran out. She only wore one shoe. He opened the door curtain and stood outside, with one foot in the door and one foot outside, and you saw Qijin hugging. Standing in front of the door with the child carrying the burden, he wanted to laugh, but tears came out first with a grin.
"Sister Honghua..." Qijin cried out in a choked voice.
Hong Hua cursed with tears in her eyes: "You die girl! I haven't even sent a message for such a long time!" Zhenti closed the door and came to persuade him, "Okay, okay, the New Year is coming, don't talk about this. If it's unlucky! Finally, sister Qijin came, why don't you ask someone to sit in the house?"
Honghua pushed him to boil water for cooking, then turned around and took the child in Qijin's arms and said, "Is this your son? He is less than one year old? Called aunt!" He said, pulling her into the house.
There is a big kang burning in the back room, and there are two bare-ass boys on the kang. One is older, seven or eight years old, and the other is younger, just four or five years old. Noisy.
Honghua took the baggage from Qijin's arm and put it on the kang table, pulled her to sit down and turned around on the bottoms of the two boys and gave them a crisp, cursing: "When you get up, get dressed quickly! I want to get sick and suffer. Is it medicine!"
Qijin put her son on the kang, unwrapped the little quilt wrapped around him to let the child breathe, and see if the diaper was dirty. Hearing Hong Hua scolded the child, he raised his head and persuaded: "Don't make noise, don't make noise." Then he stood up and went to help Hong Hua dress the child.
Honghua pushed her to sit back, and quickly poured her a bowl of tea. He tried it on the copper kettle and said, "It's still warm. You drink two mouthfuls to moisturize your throat. Are you tired on the road? After eating dinner, I Take you to see the third grandma." The big one over there has already put on himself, although the padded jacket is messed up and the belt is crooked, but at any rate it is considered to have put all the clothes and pants on him. After he got dressed, he turned his head to dress his younger brother. The younger brother stood on the kang with both hands open. His elder brother said he would stretch out his hand obediently.
Seeing that the two young ones could take care of themselves, Honghua began to fold the quilt and cleaned up the table. When Qijin heard that she was going to see the second sister, her heart swelled, and she didn't drink while holding the cup. His eyes followed the red flower. After a long time, he said, "Sister Honghua, I want to go back and wait for grandma."
In fact, she had no bottom in her heart. When she went out a few years ago, the second sister told her to take care of her own life first, and then she wanted to come back when she gave birth to a son. But after such a long time, she didn't know whether the second sister wanted her.
Honghua knelt on the kang, holding the quilt on top of the cabinet in the corner, and said without looking back: "If you don't want to go back, I will beat you!" Qi Jin heard her words, the big stone in her heart fell to the ground. There was a smile on her face. She drank the water quickly, rolled up her sleeves and helped Honghua to stack up the quilt, cleaned everything on the kang, and set up the table.
The precious outside shouted: "The meal is ready! Come and serve!"
She followed Honghua out, and saw Honghua's two sons standing in the corner, unbuttoning their belts and holding a small **** shyly peeing on their stomachs, even higher than anyone else.
Safflower was so angry that he took off his shoes and smashed it over, and cursed: "How many times have you said! Don't show your belly outside! Looking back and getting cold and diarrhea, drink bitter medicine to kill you!"
The two little ones screamed and ran under the stove, hiding behind their grandfather. The old man was squatting on the ground holding a stick of firewood to poke the stove in the eye. Seeing the two grandsons ran to him, he smiled and said, "Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid. , There is grandpa here!"
Honghua came in with Qijin, and when she heard it, she said, "Father, don't be used to them! It's all different!" As she spoke, she stared at the two sons who were hiding behind.
The old man smiled and protected his grandson, and said: "They are still young, and the children are very angry and all right."
Precious put the porridge in a bowl, picked out the steamed buns, and then took out the pickles, urging: "There are so many things early in the morning! Let these two small ones go out! Don't make trouble here!"
The old man took the little grandson out with one hand.
"Go with grandpa, and grandpa will take you to eat sugar bags." The two little ones said, "Aw! Aw! Eat sugar bags!"
Honghua brought breakfast and Qijin back to the house to eat. Seeing that his father was really going to take the child out to eat, Zhenzheng shouted: "Father! Do you have any money with you? Don't just let these two little ones eat. Come back after eating out too! Don't save that little money, come back and eat leftovers!"
The old man waved his hand, wondering if he heard it.
Precious ate a little under the stove and went out. Before he left, he shouted in the yard: "Red Flower, I'll go by first! Don't lock the door for a while, Dad took the child out!"
The safflower in the room replied loudly, "I see! You go!" Hearing the sound of the door, he sat down again, letting Qijin eat, and said, "Hurry up."
The two were eating and talking, and Qi Jin told Honghua about the past two years.
"The family, huh! If it weren't for the face of the third grandma and the third master, I'm afraid I would have no longer wanted me! Isn't it just that I won't be able to give birth to a son? Grandma, I won't give birth to your family! Wait! Look! I won't let my son recognize his grandmother!" Qi Jin cursed with gritted teeth, as if she hated him very much.
Honghua also told her about Mi Mei. "She is more blessed than you. She was pregnant just a year after she was married. The first child was born as a girl, and the second child was a son. Just not enough! Just as soon as she was pregnant, she asked her man’s sister-in-law to come over and ask the third grandmother to get her body contract. It was redeemed. She was just a white-eyed wolf! She didn't want to think about it! The third grandmother lacked her little money for redemption? She hadn't treated her badly since she entered Wu's house! If it weren't for the kindness of the wife and the girl, it would be early I don’t know where I died! The ransom money didn’t cost her much. Grandma gave her a lot of things, enough to buy ten or eight of her! She was only fourteen when she entered Wu’s house. It was delicious and delicious. After raising her for ten years, she ran away when she was comfortable with her!"
Hong Hua was angry when she thought of it, and Qi Jin persuaded her: "Okay, don't be angry with that kind of person! Actually, I understood it a long time ago, what are we girls? A lot of them on the street, if not behind There are three grandmothers guarding..." She lowered her voice, approached Honghua and said, "Will your in-laws take us seriously?" She said, winking.
This is a letter from the red flower. When she could not give birth to a child, it was because she was still working in the second sister's house, so precious his father did not dare to go too far.
She breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "That's the reason. What kind of girl the third grandma wants can't be bought? She can remember us, it's our blessing!" After Mi Mei gave birth to a daughter, although her mother-in-law's family didn't Say something about her, but she also had an uncomfortable life. I didn't dare to lie down after the baby was born, so I got out of bed to cook and work on the same day, not to mention confinement, and even to feed the baby, I must hurry back to the house after feeding and then come out to work. When she gave birth to her second child, fortunately, she was a son this time, but her husband’s brother had grown up too, and wanted to find a job, so as to be a wife. Her man’s family has three sons, but her husband and elder brother have work, and both parents are sick, not to mention taking medicine, it’s not enough to work and make money. The family adds a few more mouths, and she has to save money for her younger brother to marry. Daughter-in-law, all of a sudden her family was emptied. At this time, she remembered the second sister again, came to see Safflower with something, wanted to invite her to intercede in front of the second sister, she wanted to go back to be a wife, and also wanted to ask her second sister for personal affection, and also find her uncle. Do it all.
Honghua stopped her outside the gate, threw out what she was holding on, and slapped her face.
"Now do you think of grandma coming? White-eyed wolf! Get out!"
After talking and sighing, Honghua saw that it was not too early outside, so he cleaned up the dishes and took Qijin to see the second sister.
Halfway down, I saw a man and a woman standing in front of him. Qijin wanted to pull the safflower to avoid it, but the safflower stopped and took a closer look and said, "It seems to be Qingluo."
As soon as she said that Honghua had stopped, she walked closer and found that the man in front of Qingluo was Tianhu. Seeing his rude look, he didn't know what he was talking to Qingluo.
Honghua pulled Qijin lightly and flashed into the dark, and heard Qingluo coldly saying not far in front: "You let go."
Tianhu laughed and refused.
Honghua and Qijin hooked their heads and saw that Qingluo walked around him when he saw that he was not giving way. He stretched out his long feet and stood in front of her. Qing Luo looked so angry that everyone was trembling, but Tianhu still blocked her way with a grin.
Honghua covered her mouth with a smile, and took Qijin and walked another way.
Qijin also noticed it, and asked her in surprise: "These two are..."
Honghua waved his hand and said, "Grandma San said, let us all pretend not to know." He didn't want to watch Qingluo live a whole life by himself. Tianhu looked scornful, but he waited for Qingluo too. I haven't married a wife for many years. Qing Luo never gave him a good face, but he can just get it around. Even Zhang's mother said that a pot with a lid can hold Qingluo like Tianhu.
In fact, Cheongna wasn't unwilling, because she didn't know why she just refused to let go. A few years ago, Tianhu's father and his brother put on clothes made by her, even sweet-scented osmanthus, so he didn't make them for Tianhu.
Honghua smiled and said: "The third grandma said, if Tianhu can't let Qingluo agree to it this year, she will be the master." Said and laughed as the two entered the three-bedroom yard, Zhang's mother is now older and wakes up early in the morning. , Was pouring a basin of water outside the yard, and when he saw Honghua following the person in, he squinted and asked, "Who is this?"
Qijin was still a little timid, approached and helped Zhang's mother and said, "Mother Zhang, it's me, Qijin!"
Mother Zhang's eyes widened suddenly, and she said with joy: "It's Qijin! You girl is willing to come back and have a look! This is your child? Give me the child. You can come in and see grandma." She took the child from Qijin's arms and said teasingly: "The little guy doesn't admit birth, it's a blessing!"
The second sister in the room was sitting combing his hair. Duan Haofang hadn't gotten up yet. She went to call him: "Get up! I'll be leaving soon!" She dragged him out of the quilt and threw the clothes into his arms. Said: "Hurry up, let's talk to Grandpa first."
He drank with Duan Master and Duan Haoping until midnight last night, when he felt that the house was crooked.
"Why don't we leave in the afternoon? I should throw up after getting in the car like this." He slowly put his clothes on his body and said.
The second sister took a picture in the mirror and said improperly: "If you leave in the afternoon, you will still vomit while sitting in the car. You know you are leaving today and you still drank until midnight last night! Deserve it!"
Duan Haofang smiled lazily as he put on his shoes: "That's not what the second brother said to congratulate Jingtai first, he can't go, so he took me to drink first."
The second sister came over and grabbed the shoes in his hand and squatted down for him to wear. She said in a huff, "Then you just drink it to death? Do you still know who the second brother is? He just wants to drink! Don't say it's Jingtai. The son is full moon, even if the moon in the sky is round, he can find an excuse to drink!"
Duan Haofang chuckled. Duan Haoping himself couldn't afford to drink money, so he looked for one and the other to drink for various reasons, dragging others to treat. I used to hold Duan Haoshou for a long time, but in the previous paragraph, he and Duan Haoshou fell out in front of the old man. Duan Haoshou would not come. He could not catch people. The wine bug in his stomach might have been screaming long ago. It's shaking the sky.
Because he refused to give Duan Haoshou the money he earned from running a business outside, he still sued him in front of the old lady. The old lady took the opportunity to say that in the future Duan's shop will not have Duan Haofang's share-it is only for him, not for three rooms, and asked him to hand over all the money he made during this time, and then said: "In the future, whether you make or lose money is your only business! Don't think that your family will support you! Since you are so capable, I won't have your share in my house, shop, and land in the future! You will be hungry outside. Dead, don't come back to cry!" The old lady said to Duan Haofang in front of Duan Haoshou.
Duan Haofang knelt down and cried dimly, and then left.
Duan Haoshou was stupid. As long as the house, shop, and land in this family are not separated, Duan Haofang would have no share. Doesn't this mean that I didn't say it? Besides, what does Duan Haofang starve to death in the future will not be a matter for the Duan family? What about his wife? Where is his son
He asked, and the old lady glared at him and cursed: "What's the matter with Guan Changwei and the others? I haven't died yet! You want to divide the family? You don't care about my great-grandson?"
Duan Haoshou hurriedly knelt down and said he didn't dare, and he didn't want to understand until the old lady left. It turned out that it was indeed a matter of the Duan family that "Duan Haofang" starved to death, and that his wife and son starved to death was a matter of the Duan family.
What is this called? Can this be called to punish him
Suddenly Duan Haoshou was so angry that his face was black for several months.
Duan Haofang was also very angry when he came back. The money he made was originally the old man taking the big head. This is good, and he will clean up the rest. When he was angry, he said that he would take his second sister and the child back to attend the full moon of Jingtai's son. The family was also about to celebrate the New Year. Counting the time on the road, he was very anxious to come back before the new year.
The old lady was happy when he got the benefits. Not only was he not angry, he also gave a big gift and told the second sister to spend a few days at her natal house. The second master originally wanted to take the opportunity to put a brick for Duan Haofang's young couple. Seeing that the old man immediately changed his voice and gave a gift, he smiled and said that the second sister's brother is a good boy, so he should give him a good voice.
Qijin followed Honghua in, but the second sister didn't recognize it for a while, but Duan Haofang recognized it first and smiled: "Isn't this Qijin? I came to see your grandma?"
The second sister looked like Qijin who was a generation older than her, and her eyes were red after covering her mouth.
Qijin also cried, and knelt down in tears and knocked her head to the second sister: "Girl, I'm back to wait for you."
Honghua came out of the house and hid in Changwei's house, and saw that Zhang's mother was changing Qijin's son into Changyuan's little padded jacket when she was a child. She looked cute like a baby in this dress, Changwei and Chang Fu remembers how Chang Yuan was when he was a child. When he saw the children, he felt funny and surrounded him. But Chang Yuan seemed to think that the boy had robbed him of his own things. He stretched out his hand and pulled the child’s ears. Hong Hua smiled and held his hand. Pull him into his arms and hold him.
At dawn, the second sister and Duan Haofang had breakfast, let Mama Zhang and Honghua take care of a few small meals, and said to Qingluo, who was still blushing just when she came back, "You will find two clothes for Qijin to change. We will Let’s go together and let her wear my old clothes first.” Qingluo and the others didn’t have much clothes, only the second sister’s clothes. Qijin came back with only one baggage, and when he returned to Wu’s house, it was He Jingtai’s son’s full moon. , Her clothes are not suitable.
After seeing the old lady, a few people got in the car and went to Wujiatun. The road was fast, there were few people and cars, and the ground was freezing hard. I arrived at Wujiatun ten days later. Although it is winter, the village is beaming. Jingtai only had his first son in his twenties. Wu Dashan was happy and arranged hundreds of tables along the main road in the village to invite all the people in the village.
The second sister was sitting in Wu Feng’s room holding the little guy who was just full of the moon, and kissed the little guy’s face after another. Wu Feng’s eyes were so happy that he narrowed his eyes and pulled the little guy. His hand shook gently to tease him.
"Has the child been named?" asked the second sister.
Wu Feng said: "No, your father is not satisfied with any of them. There are no more than a hundred and 80. This will have to be carried out to meet people. If you don't have a name, it won't work. I will just look at him. How else can you toss!"
Saying that Jingtai came in, he ran in with a cloud of air-conditioning wrapped outside, grinning so hard that he was at the base of his ears, and he gave his son in the arms of the second sister a hard bite!
The little guy cried out, howling without tears.
The second sister immediately slapped him on the back when she saw it, and cursed, "Is there a father like you?" She could see it just now! This kid didn't kiss his son on the face! It was a bite!
Jingtai smiled and jumped away and said, "I can't help but want to bite him when he sees his plump face!"
"You bastard!" Wu Feng turned his head around looking for something on the kang and hit him.
He laughed and ran out, there were people outside. He also found a space and sneaked in to take a look at his son before going out.
When Jingtai went out, the second sister asked Wu Feng in a low voice: "Should Jingqi also prepare?" Jingtai's sons were born, and Jingqi was almost 30. If you don't marry him, you should let an outsider. Gossiping.
Wu Feng squinted his eyes and nodded and said, "I have arranged everything and everyone has seen each other. When the spring begins, he will be happy."
Jingtai's son was named Shisheng, Wu Shisheng.
Duan Haofang and his second sister have lived in Wu's house for five days and are leaving, but this is also afraid that they will not be able to keep up with returning to Duan's house a year ago. The second sister has come back a lot in the past two years, and Wu Feng's family didn't keep them much anymore. After packing up, let them leave early tomorrow morning.
Lying on the kang of Wu's family at night, Duan Haofang looked at the second sister who was sleeping next to him. In the next room were their three sons. The second sister is now less and less afraid of him, she dares to say anything, her temper is getting bigger and bigger, and she gets more and more irritable. Sometimes she can be too frustrated, saying she wants to go back to her parents’ house, so she puts on the car and leaves. .
To say that he thinks it is better for the former second sister or the current second sister, it is of course the little woman who used him as the heaven, put him first in everything, and has no opinion at all. It is more in his mind.
But this is a'wife'.
He smiled bitterly, no matter how bad his wife is, it is his wife.
The second sister turned over, the kang was too hot, she rolled the quilt, her legs stretched out, and her whole body was almost exposed. Duan Haofang re-covered the quilt for her, remembering the fourth uncle who had seen her before, the fourth uncle in official boots, the horses that pulled the carts were all official horses, and that style was not like that of the magistrate. It can be raised by others.
If it had been ten years ago, he would have died of excitement, but he had never thought that the second sister and her mother would have such a big backing.
Now...
He tucked the corner of the quilt for her. She felt hot and stretched out her hand again. He reached out and touched her neck. There was sweat all over her neck. She simply took off the quilt that was on the top of the quilt. The hot kang cover One bed is enough.
Now, he doesn't have that energy anymore.
The second sister is his daughter-in-law, his son's mother, and the woman who covers a quilt with him, that's enough.
He saw that she stopped kicking the quilt, lay down next to her, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Tomorrow, it's time to go home.