Ye Ying was also woken up, but she was too tired, her body was sore and sore, and she was not used to anything in an unfamiliar place for the first time, and the bed was very hard. Whether spiders will fall from the mosquito net, and worried about whether there will be mice in the corners, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and suffered from insomnia for most of the night.
Not to mention that Tong Ke had been disgusted by her ears all night, if it wasn't for Ye Ying lying beside her, she would have cried out of grievance.
"Ye Ying, your family is too poor. You can see that the mosquito nets are covered with gray layers, and they are all painted gray. There are spider webs on the walls. Will spiders climb the bed when we sleep? ?"
"If Zhang Yu hadn't been here, I wouldn't be able to stay in this broken place for a day! I don't know how Ye Wei has survived these 18 years."
"Ye Ying, this is your home."
"… "
Ye Ying listened to her ears, tossing and turning all night until she heard the cock crowing, and finally fell asleep in a daze.
She slept past ten o'clock this night, and originally wanted to lie down for a while. After all, she was in pain all over, but this place was no better than at home. She could only get up first, and the Tong Ke beside her was still sleeping, and she didn't scream. She gently got up and went to take a shower.
After a night's rest, Ye Ying's physical exhaustion and mental stimulation were finally relieved. She finally remembered Ye Weilai.
It seems that she hadn't seen Ye Wei since dinner last night. She thought that it was all at home. Ye Wei was probably tired or went to her friends in the village, so she didn't think much about it until this morning. Seeing Ye Wei, he asked Chen Weiguo's wife a little more: "Auntie, where is Ye Wei? Why haven't I seen her?"
There is also the grandma Ye Wei mentioned in "I'm Not Brave", and she has never seen it.
Chen Weiguo's wife was stunned for a while, before realizing that Ye Wei was talking about Chen Xiaohong: "Xiaohong is at her nanny's house, what do you have to do with her?"
Ye Ying wondered, "Didn't grandma live with you?"
"No, the family has been separated long ago. Mom, she took Ye Wei to live in the old house in the back."
"Separate?"
Ye Ying was shocked. Grandma Chen was in her 60s or 70s, right? She was so old, and she lived alone in a separate family
"Why split up?"
Chen Weiguo's wife shook her head with an embarrassed look, and said in a tight-lipped manner: "It's not good to say this, Yingying, don't ask, if you want to see your milk, I'll call and let her come over. ."
Ye Ying also doesn't like to inquire about other people's private affairs, so she said hello.
Chen Weiguo's wife really went to call someone. She walked to the field outside the yard and got into the car and shouted "Mom" a few times, but unfortunately no one answered. She called "Chen Xiaohong" a few times, but still no one answered.
Chen Weiguo's wife couldn't help complaining a few times, saying that the old woman had a very strange temper. She called her mother and she didn't respond a few times. It can make her angry.
Ye Ying said, "isn't grandma not at home?"
"Where can you be without being at home? Your grandma has a bad temper. Even if she hears her, she likes to pretend she didn't. If you see her and she makes you angry, don't mind."
Ye Ying said, "Where is the old house, tell me how to get there, I'll just go there by myself."
Chen Weiguo's wife thought about it and said, "It's your first time here, and if you don't know the place in your life, I'll take you there."
Ye Ying said thank you.
Chen Weiguo's wife led the way, and Ye Ying followed slowly. Her feet were still hurting at the moment. Five or six blisters were bubbling on her feet.
The two walked for about ten minutes before finally seeing a low, dark tiled house at the foot of a mountain, in a bamboo forest.
Because the terrain on the opposite side was high, she could still see two people sitting in front of the yard, one of them was Ye Wei, and the other was a hunchbacked old man with gray hair and a gray shirt and trousers. When she got closer, she saw that the old man was not only short. , She is still very thin, wearing black cloth shoes on her feet, she can see the wrinkled skin and muscles, and has age spots.
Chen Weiguo's wife complained: "Mom, why don't you make a sound at home? I've been calling you for a long time. And Xiaohong, you should have heard?"
Ye Wei took a sip of porridge, opened her eyes and said, "Huh?"
Chen Weiguo's wife: "..." Yes, and pretending to be with her again.
Then Mrs. Chen replied, "What do you want me to do?"
"Isn't this your eldest granddaughter coming back, I told you to come out and see!"
Ye Ying was pulled out, she laughed and called her grandma: "I'm Ye Ying, I came back to see you this holiday."
Ye Ying has a cute appearance, and she is also gentle and cute when she smiles. When she is called, her mouth is sweet and sweet, and she is the type that elders like very much.
Mrs. Chen nodded and said, "Have you eaten?"
Ye Ying saw three bowls on the table, two bowls were porridge, and the small bowl in the middle was some kimchi, and said, "I've eaten it."
"Well, then you can go after you see it now."
"...Ah?" Ye Ying had probably never encountered such a rushing person before, so she was at a loss for a while.
Chen Weiguo's wife stood up and said, "Mom, you're real, how do you talk, Yingying can't wait to come back, just to see you, how do you know how to drive people away. Xiaohong, tell me about your milk quickly. ."
Ye Wei said, "What are you talking about? You dare to preach to your grandma. If you are so unfilial, you will be struck by lightning and become a beast in your next life!"
"..." Chen Weiguo's wife couldn't help looking at the next day. If she had left it before, she would have yelled at her, but Chen Xiaohong is different now, she can only smile and say: "What are you talking about? What do you do atrocious things, and you are still struck by thunder..."
Ye Wei stared at her with dark eyes: "Yeah, anyway, Lord Yama knows very well."
"What are you talking about..." These words are strangely intrusive, Chen Weiguo's wife is looked at like this, not to mention that the old house is dark and dark, and it is extremely cold in the summer, she unconsciously called Chills.
Ye Ying was about to quarrel, and Chen Weiguo's wife was quite enthusiastic towards her. She felt that she was a good person, so she came out and said, "Grandma, I brought you some gifts. I was in a hurry just now, so I'll give it to you. You bring it in."
"No, I have to go up the mountain to work in a while. Come back at night."
"… Huh? Going up the mountain to work?"
…
It is July and August, which is a good time for farming.
Mrs. Chen woke up at 6 o'clock before it was dawn. She didn't eat breakfast. She first went to the field to pick up the morning's corn (corn), and the sun came out. I can’t go to work in the fields, so I’m going to carry all the corn in the fields home while the weather hasn’t gotten up yet.
Ye Wei packed up the dishes and went to the kitchen. After a simple cleaning, she carried the basket on her back and went up the mountain with Mrs. Chen. She didn't even look at Ye Ying, she just followed the old lady, just like the arrogant and complacent appearance she had just arrived at Ye's house. Not quite the same.
Ye Ying watched the old man in his 60s and 70s go up the mountain to work, with a hoe on his shoulder, and she couldn't bear it. "Is Grandma working alone?" Why didn't Chen Weiguo and his wife help? After all, it is the relationship between son and daughter-in-law.
Facing Ye Ying's question, Chen Weiguo's wife was still puzzled: "Right?"
Ye Ying: "..."
Chen Weiguo's wife pulled Ye Ying and said, "Didn't you say you have a gift? Let's go back and get it first."
In fact, what she thinks more is that Ye Ying even brought gifts to the old lady, so she will not have less, right? Raised by a big family is different, she looks like a fairy, not like Ye Wei, she is still gloomy and sullen, and she has not been called a mother for hundreds of years, let alone a gift. She was fine with a sip of water.
Ye Ying watched Mrs. Chen and Ye Wei go up the mountain, while she was pushed home by Chen Weiguo's wife.
She did bring a lot of things this time. She prepared a watch for Chen Weiguo, a set of skin care products for Chen Weiguo's wife, a scarf, a silk skirt, and a half-sister she had never met. Mother's younger brother bought clothes and prepared a toy. As for Mrs. Chen, she bought a gold bracelet and other nutritional products such as Cordyceps sinensis and bird's nest.
Chen Weiguo's wife dazzled her eyes when she saw these, so many good things, which smelled so good on her face, she said, "How much does it cost?"
Ye Ying said, "It's not expensive, it's all small things, as long as the aunt likes them."
"I like it, how can I not like it, your dad hasn't worn a watch yet, put it on him, he'll be happy!"
"...Well, it's fine if you like it." She still couldn't call Chen Weiguo's father, but she was very happy to see that the other party liked it so much.
She packed up the gift for Grandma Chen and was about to find her.
Chen Weiguo's wife felt a little uneasy when she saw so many nutritional supplements to give to the old woman, "Don't take so many, she has never seen the world and can't make this thing, you put it here, I will make it later. Well, just call her over to eat."
Ye Ying thought about it too, so she put a few boxes away, and after carrying a few more, she was ready to take it out.
When she went to see Grandma Chen this time, Tong Ke had just woken up, rubbing his shoulders and legs and screaming of pain and hunger. Seeing that his breakfast was cold, he suddenly became angry and Chen Weiguo's wife hurriedly said: "I to warm you up."
Tong Ke felt a little more comfortable now, and began to look for Zhang Yulai: "Why are you the only one, where are they?"
Ye Ying said she didn't know either: "I didn't even see where they went when I got up."
Chen Weiguo's wife said, "It should be going out to play. The air is good in the mountains."
Tong Ke sighed sullenly.
So Ye Ying went to find Grandma Chen with her belongings. When she left, Chen Weiguo's wife looked at her several times, obviously reluctant, but Ye Ying didn't notice it.
When she passed by this time, she happened to meet Ye Tao and Zhang Yu. Her eyes lit up and she said, "Why are you here? I've been looking for you for a long time."
In fact, Ye Tao and Zhang Yu had seen Ye Ying long ago, and they happened to be in front of Grandma Chen's house, but it was not easy for them to go out to meet each other, otherwise Ye Wei asked if they were following her? So they could only find another direction to walk away, and when they came back all the way, they happened to meet Ye Ying again.
Ye Tao said, "Let's just stroll around, are you carrying things to see Grandma Chen?"
Ye Ying snorted, frowned and said distressedly: "Auntie said that Grandma Chen and they separated a few years ago, and now Grandma Chen lives alone in the old house, I just went to see Grandma Chen, She's alone... It's so pitiful. So I want to send these things over there to make up for the old man's body."
Ye Tao rubbed Ye Ying's head, Zhang Yu said, "Then let's go with you."
Ye Ying hummed happily.
The group of three walked back again, but when they arrived this time, they waited for a while before finally seeing old lady Chen and Ye Wei come down from the mountain carrying a basket full of corn, the old woman Ben Her slender body was bent down by the huge back basket, and her already hunched back was even more hunched, as if her head was about to drop to the ground.
And the basket on Ye Wei's back was twice as big as Mrs. Chen's, almost bigger than Ye Wei's body.
She also hunched her back and walked behind Mrs. Chen, quietly and without a word.
Ye Tao, Zhang Yu, and Ye Wei didn't expect to see such a scene for a while, and they were all stunned for a while. Zhang Yu was the first to react and walked over to help Mrs. Chen unload the back basket. He lifted it with both hands, and He was a few heads taller than Mrs. Chen, "Grandma, let me help you."
Old lady Chen had seen them long ago, but now she looked up at Zhang Yu and put down her backpack. The back basket was made of bamboo, and his fingers were stuck in the cracks of the bamboo, and the heavy and heavy force almost snapped his fingers in half.
He frowned, so deep? Looking at the old woman's thin body again, he couldn't help but feel a little heavy in his heart, although not long ago he felt that the old woman was a little... fussy.
Ye Tao naturally went to help Ye Wei, Ye Wei smiled and said "thank you brother", she personally helped Ye Tao put the basket on Ye Tao's back, with Ye Wei's strength to help, he naturally didn't feel that It was heavy, but when Ye Wei let go, his entire body sank, and he almost fell backwards!
Ye Tao: ... Are they carrying corn or rocks? !
Fortunately, the journey was not long, so they needed to go up a dozen steps, but it was still a little uncomfortable for them who were tired for half the afternoon yesterday.
Ye Ying wanted to help, so she helped Zhang Yu carry the backpack to the house, but with all her strength, she only felt heavy, especially heavy, if it was on the ground, she would not be able to lift it.
After finally carrying the corn home, they poured it all out and put it in the main room. Ye Wei and Mrs. Chen sat and drank a bowl of water before heading up the mountain again.
Ye Tao said, "Are you still going?"
Zhang Yu said, "It's so heavy, grandma... pay attention to your body, don't go."
Mrs. Chen hated when others said she was in poor health and couldn't work, her already thin and wrinkled cheeks sighed at this moment: "What are you doing, you are a young man who has the strength to work, and you look down on my old lady? No? I'm not going to you?"
Zhang Yu didn't mean this, he hurriedly said: "I didn't mean it like that, but grandma, you are old and not suitable for heavy work!"
"What nonsense are you talking about, I'm old? I'm only sixty this year, and I can do it for twenty years!"
Zhang Yu: "...???" Still doing such a heavy job at the age of sixty? At the age of sixty, you can retire with peace of mind! For twenty years
Ye Tao was also shocked. He looked at Grandma Chen and thought she was in her seventies, but she was only sixty...
Ye Ying didn't feel good when she looked at it: "Grandma, don't go, let someone else...it's my dad to help you." This is the first time she said that Chen Weiguo is her dad, but she didn't think it was in this situation. .
Mrs. Chen's face was immediately pulled down: "Go away, you all go away, I don't need anyone's help, all go away."
Zhang Yu: "...???"
Ye Tao: "..."
Ye Ying: "..."
... This grandma is a little stubborn and ignorant
Seeing that they were almost blown away, Ye Wei came out and said, "Milk, you can peel the corn at home, and I'll carry the rest back."
She was about to leave with the basket on her back, and she had no intention of clearing the siege.
Old lady Chen glared at Ye Ying, "Okay, you can go back." Ye Ying bit her lip and felt a little sad and sad. She didn't mean anything else.
Mrs. Chen also put the basket on her back, followed Ye Wei and went up the mountain.
Where is Ye Ying going? Can she see her 60-year-old mother working so hard on the farm? Even Ye Tao and Zhang Yu couldn't bear it, and seeing Ye Wei, they didn't know how to persuade them, and they didn't know what she thought
Ye Ying said, "Grandma, let me help you."
Ye Ying said so, can Ye Tao and Zhang Yu watch Ye Ying go through this hardship? What's more, although Ye Tao had some opinions on Ye Wei, but such a heavy thing was carried on a girl's body, and the girl was still his sister, and he couldn't do it by his side.
So the two big boys took over all the heavy work spontaneously, and the two went all the way. After walking for about ten minutes, they climbed to the top of the mountain behind Grandma Chen's house. The mountain is not high, only a few stories high, but the road is not good. Go, climb all the way up quite exhausting.
And when they got to the field, they discovered that this large piece of corn had already been broken by more than half.
Ye Tao said, "You guys have broken down so much. How long will it take to finish this piece of land?"
Mrs. Chen was chopping the corn poles and said, "Hong Hong came here at five o'clock, and I didn't come until I had finished cooking."
At five o'clock, it was not yet dawn. They were so tired yesterday, and they were still sleeping soundly in their dreams.
Ye Tao and Zhang Yu were both startled and looked at Ye Wei who was holding a machete and slashing corn stalks quickly. She was blushing at the moment, wearing simple jeans and a long T-shirt, doing it silently. live. Zhang Yu found that since Ye Wei came back, he has been talking less and only knows how to keep his head down.
They remembered that Grandma Chen and Ye Wei, one was a 60-year-old old man and the other was an 18-year-old girl, came down from the mountain with such a heavy load...
Ye Ying was loading corn at the moment, and she was surprised when she heard it, "There's no need to get up so early to work, right?"
Mrs. Chen also kept her head down and said without looking back, in a flat tone: "The weather is getting bigger and bigger, it's fine today, if you leave it to the sky, people will be sunburnt at this time, don't get up earlier. Work, I don't come until eight or nine in the morning. If I can't work for an hour, I have to go home and rest. Otherwise, I will get sick. It's even worse in the afternoon. If I don't come earlier, I can't finish the land ."
Ye Ying was silent: "... I'm sorry, I don't know."
Mrs. Chen: "The girl in the city, what do you know?"
Ye Ying blushed, she looked at Ye Wei not far away, she was holding the chopped corn stalks to the side of the road.
Ye Tao and Zhang Yu couldn't help but look at Ye Wei, unable to say what it was like for a while in their hearts.
However, they carried home most of the corn on their backs, but it was too heavy, and they were walking on a mountain road, and they couldn't even borrow a chicken bus to push them.
The two big men of about 1.8 meters now understand why Ye Wei and Grandma Chen were so pressed that their backs were hunched, and they couldn't even straighten their waists. The only thing they could see in front of them was the road under their feet.
Ye Ying followed him once, but Grandma Chen told her not to go and leave the house to peel the corn.
Because Ye Ying was wearing long trousers but short sleeves, after a while, she had already grabbed several bags from her arms, her whole face was reddened by the sun, and the corn silk was easy to make people itch. He couldn't help but start to arrest him, not only him, but Ye Tao and Zhang Yu as well.
Ye Ying could only stay and peel the corn at home. Although it was an easy job, she only did it for a while, and a blister appeared on her thumb, and it was extremely painful with a little force.
She looked at the blisters on her hands and looked at herself in a state of embarrassment. For a while, she didn't know whether to be wronged or sad, or something else. She felt so uncomfortable that she wanted to cry.
She thought to herself, Chen Weiguo is young and strong, and she is her son. Wouldn't it be better to let him help with the work? Grandma Chen just loves to be brave.
She decided to go back at noon and talk to Chen Weiguo not to make grandma too tired.
She shared her thoughts with Ye Tao and Zhang Yu. Ye Tao and Zhang Yu could already understand the hardships of work. Now Ye Ying mentioned it and felt that this method was feasible. After all, the old man was getting old. No one knows when her waist will flicker, or her feet will slip out...
What made Ye Ying happy was that as soon as she told Chen Weiguo about the matter, Chen Weiguo immediately agreed happily: "What's the matter, I'll go help in the afternoon!"
Ye Ying nodded happily and said, "Okay."
She thought that there might be some conflict between Grandma Chen and Chen Weiguo, but what kind of overnight feud could there be between mother and son? Maybe this time we can repair the relationship.
However, what she didn't expect was that when she and her brother Zhang Yu took Chen Weiguo to Grandma Chen's house and proposed to help her, she was so excited that she came out with a broom, "Go away. , I'm not dead yet, I don't need your help!"
Ye Ying was at a loss for a while, and just as she was about to speak, Grandma Chen threw her broom over, and Chen Weiguo hurriedly blocked it, "Mom, what are you doing, the big grievances in the past have passed away, why do you still remember it to this day? what… "
Grandma Chen was even more angry: "Get out, get out of here!"
Not to mention Ye Ying was at a loss, even Zhang Yu and Ye Tao were at a loss, what happened to Grandma Chen and Chen Weiguo
"Didn't I hear that in the morning it was because Grandma Chen took Chen Weiguo's money secretly? Is it because of this?"
"Why did Grandma Chen secretly take Chen Weiguo's money?"
They really don't know that.
When they returned, Ye Ying couldn't help it, and asked Chen Weiguo, why did Grandma Chen reject him so much? Don't even let me help out
Chen Weiguo sighed: "My mother is very stubborn. Back then, she secretly took two thousand yuan from my pocket. She didn't admit it at first, but then she had no choice but to admit it. I asked her to give it back to me. , but she didn't. She said that the money belonged to her and she didn't want to pay me back... Then we had a fight and we split up. She took Xiaohong to the old house, and now she doesn't seem to see me when she sees me. "
Ye Ying was very surprised.
Zhang Yu was a little unconvinced: "I don't think Grandma Chen looks like this kind of person?"
Ye Tao also frowned.
Chen Weiguo said, "That's how things are anyway. I can't tell you about some things. It's all family affairs, which will make you laugh."
Just as Chen Weiguo's wife called for dinner, Chen Weiguo trotted home, leaving Ye Ying, Ye Tian, and Zhang Yu looking preoccupied.
They didn't want to believe Chen Weiguo, but Chen Weiguo's words didn't seem to be fake.
... Grandma Chen is really such a person
Ye Ying thought, Ye Wei is so powerful, so she can pretend, so she can deceive people, who did she learn from
"I seem to know what you're talking about." Jiang Fei, who had disappeared all morning, finally appeared. He was wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans, and he walked out with a dog's tail in his mouth.
Zhang Yu said, "What do you know? How did you know?"
"Do you think I slept like a dead pig like you?" Jiang Fei got up early in the morning and walked around the village, and asked a lot of things, "I know that Grandma Chen did steal Chen Weiguo's money."
Ye Ying sighed: "Is Grandma Chen this kind of person?"
Ye Tao said suspiciously: "Chen Weiguo is her son, what did she do with Chen Weiguo's money?"
Zhang Yu was also puzzled.
Jiang Fei shrugged and said, "What else can I do, pay Ye Wei's tuition."
Present: ... ?
Before Ye Wei graduated from junior high school, Chen Weiguo would not let her study. She asked her to work part-time to earn money, and she would not pay her tuition fees because Ye Wei cried and wanted to go to school, and was beaten by Chen Weiguo. Mrs. Chen couldn’t stand it any longer, but Chen Weiguo didn't listen to her, so she could only steal Chen Weiguo's money and give it to Ye Wei, let her go, and let her pay for her tuition.
Chen Weiguo was furious when he found out about this, and went to the school to ask for money. Mrs. Chen said, "I grow so many fields at home all year round, and I didn't take a single seed. Most of the food you eat is exchanged for the grain I grow. Money! What's wrong with me taking 2,000 yuan, that's my money! I didn't steal from you!"
Chen Weiguo is very lazy, and his wife is not a big deal. Most of the fields at home are done by the Chen family. After Chen Weiguo's father died, it was Chen Weiguo's mother who was doing it, so what Mrs. Chen said was true.
Chen Weiguo was angry and said that she actually took the 2,000 yuan and left, then it was regarded as giving her money for her work, and they cut off the relationship!
Mrs. Chen had been bored for a lifetime, but this time, she took 2,000 yuan and took Ye Wei back to the old house.
And because the two families were arguing over the issue of land division, Chen Weiguo said that Mrs. Chen couldn't do much work when she was too old, and it would be a waste to give her too much land, but Mrs. Chen refused, saying that she could still do it! This matter was quite noisy at the beginning, and everyone in Chenjiagou knew it.
At this moment, Zhang Yu has reacted somewhat, so Chen Weiguo said that he was going to help Grandma Chen, so Grandma Chen was so angry, right
It's a pity that 2,000 yuan is not a big deal. Mrs. Chen can only work hard with Ye Wei. She paid Ye Wei's tuition and living expenses with the money that came down a few years ago. She could have finished high school. Unfortunately, Mrs. Chen gave birth not long ago. Because of the illness, Ye Wei had to drop out of school after spending a lot of money.
It was at this moment that the people of the Ye family came over.
Ye Ying was shocked, her eyes widened blankly, she thought of Chen Weiguo's kindness to her, and she couldn't connect him with the violent, ignorant, and unfilial person Jiang Fei said.
Even Zhang Yu and Ye Tao were shocked!
What kind of family is this...
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