The family already owed 10,000 yuan, and Wang Yanyan asked an acquaintance to borrow another 5,000 yuan. She also specially issued an IOU in her father's name. Now that the money has been taken away by her, the debt must be paid back. In their previous life, they sold their house and ate water porridge and watercress every day. They also paid back all the money they owed relatives and friends.
Repaying debts is a matter of course, and there is nothing to shirk at all. Their village is not particularly remote, but just relying on farming and doing odd jobs outside for a few days, how much money can everyone have in their hands? It can be said that it is a great kindness for others to lend you the money, so even if Wang Yanyan borrowed the money, they must pay it back.
But Wang Yanyan has borrowed money from everyone who can borrow money. Where should he find someone to borrow this "huge sum" of nearly 20,000 yuan
It's really hard to die for a penny, a hero. In his previous life, he could set a table with more than this amount in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Lin Mo really never dreamed that he would have a day to worry about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.
Lin Mo sighed softly, as his uncle and aunt were stingy, they already owed them 3,000 yuan, if they found out that Wang Yanyan ran away with the money, they would definitely be the husband and wife who came to ask for the money . Don't look at the two of them running to the hospital these two days, they are purely going to look after grandma, for fear that grandma will take out the little coffin she saved for dad to use.
For a long time, the uncle's family complained that grandma was partial. Yes, that's right, grandma is more partial to father and the two younger ones, but they are also too defensive. On weekdays, even if grandma secretly gave him and Lin Shu pocket money, the two brothers never took it. On the contrary, every time my father receives his salary every month, he will buy some fish, meat, etc., and send them to grandma, so that she can improve her life.
Grandma is used to being frugal, and she is reluctant to spend the money that her children pay for their filial piety during the festivals. In addition, she usually grows some vegetables and sells them in the town, so she has saved some money. But if you calculate it carefully, how much money can she save as an old lady in the countryside without a pension
In my previous life, I learned that Wang Yanyan had run away, and the villagers knew that my father's leg was completely useless, and there were only two and a half children left in the family, so they were not willing to lend money to their family. Grandma took him and Lin Shu to go door to door begging to cry. Dad's colleagues also donated some money, and grandma took out the coffin book of 3,000 yuan she had saved to barely make enough money for the operation.
Just because of the three thousand yuan, the uncle actually had a big fight with grandma. Since then, he has refused to pay grandma alimony. After two or three years of quarreling, in the end, under the mediation of the village cadres, he was in front of the uncle. Now, return the three thousand yuan to grandma, and the matter will be settled. Grandma used to live with her uncle and his family alternately for half a year. After their house was sold, the family of three lived in a broken processing workshop, and the two brothers had to squeeze into a nest. Where is there a place for the elderly to live? Although the uncle doesn't give grandma alimony, he still doesn't dare to drive my mother out of the house, but both of my father's legs have been amputated. The two brothers, one works part-time and the other studies. Grandma has to take care of dad every day. Come and go, the uncle's family Dissatisfied again.
Thinking about grandma's life is not easy. Grandpa was not in good health when he was young, and she was alone in the house. When the children grow up and get married, they each have their own ideas. The youngest son who loves her the most in her life, is the proudest and most filial to her, has become disabled again. In two or three years, she became depressed, and within two months after her father committed suicide, she also passed away.
In this life, no matter what, I can't let grandma live like this again! Lin Mo silently swears in his heart.
As for the second aunt, I'm afraid they won't be able to borrow any money. Lin Mo didn't know why, anyway, in his memory, the second aunt had never been close to her natal family. She originally married in the town, but later her family got rich in the building materials business and moved to the city again. In his previous life, grandma took him and Xiaoshu to her house to borrow money, cried all morning, and only borrowed 500 yuan. He still feels heartbroken thinking of grandma's desperate and helpless appearance at that time.
As for the uncles and uncles at home, Lin Mo thought about it carefully. Either he was helpless, or Wang Yanyan had already borrowed the money. If he went to them now, he might not be able to borrow any money.
After thinking about it, Lin Mo thinks that the only village chief in Qingtong Village can come up with such a large sum of money at once.
After all, he had to call the village head the third grandfather. The village head and his grandfather were still cousins, and the relationship between the two families was quite close. The most important point was that the village head was the matchmaker between Dad and Wang Yanyan. In the countryside on their side, when this kind of thing happened, the matchmaker usually couldn't escape the responsibility. Even if something happened in the previous life, grandma went to the village head's house to play tricks and make him lose face. In the end, the village head borrowed the most of the money borrowed. Later, he resisted the rumors of the villagers and gave them the public house in the village Three live.
"Brother..." Lin Shu called out timidly, calling back Lin Mo's chaotic thoughts.
In his memory, Lin Shu always looked dark and thin. He couldn't even remember that Lin Shu was a chubby boy when he was a child. Those big black and white eyes stared at you eagerly, and his heart softened.
"Googoo..." Lin Shu held his stomach, his chubby face wrinkled into a ball, and he became more and more pitiful.
"Are you hungry?" Lin Mo stroked his head lovingly.
Lin Shu took advantage of the opportunity to rub his brother's hand, and nodded pitifully. He finally ate up the leftovers at home yesterday. He fell asleep before his brother came back at night, and woke up hungry in the morning.
"Let's go, my brother is going to make noodles for you."
"Okay." Lin Shu nodded happily, and Xiaopang took Lin Mo's hand with his paw.
Lin Mo curled his lips. It was good for him to have a small relationship with Lin Shu. Because of Wang Yanyan's matter, Lin Shu became gloomy and sensitive, and he was not as close and dependent on him as he is now. Unexpectedly, God's favor brought him back to the starting point of all misfortunes. He will definitely do his best to let his relatives live a happy and worry-free life.
The Lin family's kitchen is not big. It is the most common stove in the southwestern countryside, and the stove is surrounded by white tiles. Next to the stove is a large briquette stove. Xiaoshu has been alone at home for the past two days, and the stove has long since gone out.
"I'll go and heat the pot, you go outside and pick a few green onions, wash them and bring them in."
"En." Lin Shu nodded his head heavily, ran to the yard quickly, picked a small handful of shallots, took off the yellow leaves on the tops of the onions, went to the water tower, turned on the faucet, washed the shallots once, and shook his hands He took the water from the water and ran back to the kitchen on his chubby legs.
Lin Mo lit the fire with dead leaves, stuffed some thin dead wood branches into the stove, and the fire ignited after a while. He took some water with a wooden ladle, cleaned the pot, and poured some oil into it. While waiting for the oil to heat up, he took out a basket from the top of the cupboard. There were a dozen or so eggs lying in the basket. He took three out and put the basket back. He cracked the eggs into a large bowl, put a little salt to adjust it, poured it into the pan while the oil was hot, and stirred it a few times.
"Brother, the onions are ready."
"Put it on the cutting board, help me watch the fire, don't burn too much."
"Okay." Although Lin Shu is only ten years old now, thanks to Wang Yanyan's incompetent mother, it is easy to light a fire and wash the dishes. Occasionally, he can cook a meal or something.
Lin Mo chopped the chopped green onion, and the water in the pot was already boiling. He sprinkled some salt and pepper noodles into it. He didn’t need to taste it, so he put down a small handful of dry noodles. He poured cold water once, waited for the noodle soup to boil again, and boiled it for a while longer. He scooped up the noodles and poured them into the two bowls respectively. He used a shovel to scoop the orange-yellow eggs and noodle soup in the pot into the bowls respectively, and poured them into the bowls. Sprinkle green shallots in it, and the fragrant smell will come out at once.
It's a pity that the noodles are not good, and there is no broth, so Xiaoshu can only eat an ordinary bowl of egg and pot noodles.
"Brother, it's delicious!" Lin Shu pouted, not satisfied.
After Lin Mo washed the pot, he threw a few pieces of sliced old ginger into the pot and boiled it on the remaining fire.
"If it's delicious, eat more, if it's not enough, take some from my bowl."
Lin Shu shouted noodles, and said vaguely: "No... Valley..."
Lin Mo came out of the kitchen, sat next to him, poured half of the egg flower into Lin Shu's bowl: "Eat."
Lin Xiaopang smacked his small mouth greedily, his big eyes narrowed with a smile: "Brother, you are so kind to me."
Lin Mo smiled and said, "That is, who made me your brother? Eat quickly."
Lin Shu was really hungry. After a while, he finished a large bowl of noodles. There was not even a drop of soup left in the bottom of the bowl. He sat beside him and burped.
After a while, he didn't know what he thought of, as if he had spent a lot of courage puffing up his chubby face, and asked Lin Mo timidly: "Brother, mother, does mother not want us?"
Lin Mo was startled suddenly, and looked at him in surprise: "How do you know?" As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Lin Mo regretted a little. Subconsciously, he regarded Lin Shu as if he had studied for a PhD after more than ten years. However, after thinking about it, Lin Shu will know about this sooner or later, and it is better to know from himself than to hear hurtful gossip from outsiders.
Lin Shu's eyes turned red instantly, and tears fell down patter.
Seeing the little chubby baby crying, Lin Mo felt very uncomfortable, but when he thought of his younger brother who was taller than him and looked like a gentle scum with rimless glasses crying miserably, he couldn't help but burst out in his heart. A strange sense of joy.
Well, he admits that he is a bit unkind to be a brother. But isn't the younger brother a creature that is occasionally used to bully him? Not to mention, Lin Shu's chubby, white and tender appearance was quite rare when he was a child. In the words of later generations, what is it, cute, yes it is cute.
"That day I saw my mother go away with Uncle Chen. She said that they were going to my grandma's house to borrow money for my father to see a doctor. I wanted to go with them, but they refused. Mom, oh, my mother still beat me. Uncle Chen also Ask mom if she really won’t take me away? Mom said no... brother, you and dad don’t want me, okay? I will be obedient and obedient in the future, woo..." Wang Yanyan also said a lot of harsh words, Lin Shu I remember but I was instinctively unwilling to say it in front of my brother.
Lin Shu's words made Lin Mo's heart feel as if a needle had been pricked in his heart. He never expected that Wang Yanyan would be so cruel to her own son because of her ridiculous extramarital affair. It was a waste of being a mother!
"Little Shu, don't cry, brother and father won't want you." Lin Mo comforted Lin Shu in his arms.
The young man's gentle and hoarse voice seemed to have pierced the little fat boy's pretended strength, and the child burst into tears with a loud "wow", as if he wanted to cry out all the grievances, fears and panics he had endured in the past two days.
Lin Mo sighed softly, and when Lin Shu had cried enough, he patted Lin Shu on the shoulder, looked at his tear-stained chubby face and said, "Wang Yanyan took all the money from the family, and my father is still in the hospital I am in a hurry to ask for money to see a doctor. After a while, I have to go to the third grandpa to borrow money. You go with me... "
Before Lin Mo finished speaking, Lin Xiaopang's tears flowed out again, and he choked up and said, "Brother, brother, don't sell me, I will be obedient, I will really be obedient, huh..."
Lin Mo's head was full of black lines: "My dear brother, when did I say that I was going to sell you?"
Lin Xiaopang looked at his brother pitifully: "... Isn't that how it's always played on TV?"