Ye Ying returned to Chen's house with a complicated face, seeing that Chen Weiguo and Chen Weiguo's wife had lost the closeness they had just established. She really thought that they were not bad, although in Ye Wei's description, her life Life is not good, not enough to eat and clothing, and even drop out of school at home, but isn't the Chen family poor? It's not surprising that the Chen family is so poor that they can't afford enough food and clothing to pay their tuition fees.
Ye Tao and Zhang Yu did the same. They saw Chen Weiguo and his wife as simple and honest. How did they think that this simple and honest man could drive his biological mother out of the house? How can something so outrageous be so simple and honest
For a while, the three of them looked at each other, and they couldn't accept it.
Sitting at the dinner table, even the atmosphere has changed.
Tong Ke asked a few questions about what was wrong, but unfortunately no one answered, Tong Ke couldn't help but glared at Ye Ying jealously, everyone is human, why is Ye Ying so popular
On the other hand, Jiang Fei has not changed, how he was when he came, and how he is now. He treats Chen Weiguo and his wife equally, and as soon as he enters the room, he sits on the table and feasts, eating non-stop.
Zhang Yu looked at Jiang Fei with a complicated expression, at least after he knew what kind of person Chen Weiguo was, he no longer had any appetite for this table.
He glanced at the food on the table, and it was still very rich, two meat and one vegetarian. He heard that Chen Weiguo got up early in the morning and killed a chicken. He stewed a pot of chicken soup, and the chicken was fed from his own food. The stewed soup is also extraordinarily fresh and thick. There are also some mushrooms found in the mountains floating on the chicken soup, and you can smell the fragrance from a long distance.
Chen Weiguo's wife gave him a bowl of chicken soup, and he drank a few mouthfuls of the soup. Although it was a little greasy, the taste was really good.
Ye Ying was also a little uneasy. Chen Weiguo's wife kept serving Ye Ying with vegetables and a big chicken drumstick, saying that she was too thin to eat more. Ye Ying looked at the drumsticks in the bowl and thought of it. Jiang Fei's words are still in disbelief. Is there any other secret
She couldn't believe that her biological father was such a person. She was going to ask Chen Weiguo in private later what was going on.
Ye Tao is naturally the same. He didn't look through the original investigation materials, and he didn't hear about Grandma Chen stealing money to pay Ye Wei's tuition, even Ye Wei didn't say anything about her "I'm Not Brave". Neither was mentioned.
So as soon as he heard it, apart from shock and disbelief, he didn't know what to do at all,
Tong Ke doesn't know anything at the moment. He just dislikes this place and doesn't like anything. Besides, the countryside originally fed a lot of poultry, especially the chickens that walk around the yard. No matter how much you sweep the floor, there will be some Chicken shit... Tong Ke is going crazy!
But although she disliked it so much, she was hungry, she was picky, she should still eat, and she frowned when she was eating, as if she was about to go to the execution ground.
"Eat it quickly, eat it all, you're welcome." Chen Weiguo said happily with a smile on his face.
Chen Weiguo and his wife followed suit: "That's right, why are my family being polite?"
Ye Ying is indeed hungry too. She ate a steamed bun and drank some porridge in the morning. If she was at home, she would definitely not be hungry. But this morning, she did a lot of work at Grandma Chen's and consumed a lot of energy. , so she was really hungry at the moment. Although she didn't have an appetite, the aroma was tangy, making her already hungry stomach even more uncomfortable.
She ate a few mouthfuls of rice, and Ye Tao also ate a bowl of rice, and he suddenly said, "Why don't you let Ye Wei study?"
Ye Ying suddenly looked at Ye Tao, obviously not expecting that he would question Chen Weiguo face to face at the dinner table.
Chen Weiguo reacted for a while before realizing that Ye Wei in Ye Tao's mouth was Chen Xiaohong, and this is Xiaohong's own brother, he said helplessly: "It's not that I don't let it, it's that our family really has no money, we even eat food. I'm not full, I can't afford a new dress all year round, I really don't have the spare money for Xiaohong to study!"
Chen Weiguo's wife saw that the situation was wrong, and quickly explained: "Yes, yes, don't think that we are doing well now, isn't this thanks to your Ye family's help? If you didn't buy it for us in the county We bought a house and gave us money, how can we eat and drink as easily as we do now?”
"Before this, our family was really poor. If chickens like this weren't for the holidays, they wouldn't be slaughtered and eaten by themselves. Usually, when they grow up, they are taken to the county and sold for money. Dozens of yuan, dozens of yuan and then buy something, if there is a sore and disease, it is not enough to take a little medicine, and there is a little grain in the field. out."
"We know that we are sorry for Xiaohong and let her live with us since childhood, but Lao Chen has really tried his best to support our family. Your family has taken care of our Yingying so well. Yingying is so mature and sensible now, it's all thanks to you, but Honghong has suffered with us..."
"It's our family that is sorry for you. It's all my fault that our family is too poor. You should blame us too... woo woo woo."
Deep in love, Chen Weiguo's wife still covered her face and started to cry. She cried more and more loudly. She told all of their difficulties over the past few years. .
Ye Tao was embarrassed for a while: "I don't mean to blame you, Auntie, don't cry for now."
He probably also watched his girlfriend cry. When did he let his elders cry in front of his eyes
Zhang Yu frowned. He knew that it was not easy to make money in the countryside. At most, raising pigs, chickens and ducks for sale, otherwise it would be to grow grain for money, which is really not easy to cover the expenses of a family. But how much is the tuition fee, is there no money at all
Jiang Fei suddenly said, "Didn't Mrs. Chen stole 2,000 yuan from your house back then? 2,000 yuan is enough to pay Ye Wei's tuition, and it's more than enough."
Yes, since Mrs. Chen can "steal" 2,000 yuan, it means that the Chen family is not so poor that they can't open the pot, and they are not so poor that they can't pay Ye Wei's tuition fees.
Ye Tao was so flustered by Chen Weiguo's wife's crying that he didn't react for a while. Now Jiang Fei mentioned it, and he naturally thought of it, 2,000 yuan is a lot. What's more, if the Chen family really wanted to let Ye Wei study, they would think of a way. The tuition fee for nine-year compulsory education is not high, is there no money at all
Chen Weiguo was stunned for a moment, but just as he was about to explain, Chen Weiguo's wife stopped him first and explained: "It's my fault, I was sick and needed to see a doctor back then, so Lao Chen had no choice but to see a doctor for me. Honghong was wronged first. But then the money was taken away by my mother, and my illness was delayed again and again."
Chen Weiguo looked at his wife suspiciously, but he listened to his wife's words and didn't refute it.
Jiang Fei asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Chen Weiguo's wife said embarrassedly: "This is not easy to say..."
"Oh, a disease that is not easy to say."
"Yes, yes, those are all things in the past, so we won't mention them. Fortunately, now that all the hardships have come, our family owes a lot to Honghong. Now that she is back at home, she can enjoy herself."
For some reason, Ye Ying breathed a sigh of relief. If that was the case, she felt much better.
Ye Tao was still puzzled, and even Zhang Yu stared at Chen Weiguo and his wife.
After a meal, Chen Weiguo's wife packed up the dishes and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes. Ye Ying had never done this, and had no intention of helping. She was still shocked by what happened in the morning, but Tong Ke was in her ear. Cynically: "As expected, everyone is used to doing it. Your mother cooks and washes the dishes. You know how to eat, you just sit after eating, and you don't know how to do it a favor."
Ye Ying glanced at Tong Ke: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Tong Ke raised his chin and stared at her, "What's wrong, did I say something wrong? Don't forget, this is your home! Chen Weiguo is your father, and Chen Weiguo's wife is naturally your mother."
Ye Ying bit her lip. She wanted to refute but had nothing to say. She didn't want to have the same knowledge as Tong Ke, so she turned around and went to the kitchen.
Tong Ke took a few glances and followed up secretly. She just wanted to see Ye Ying's suffering, and she was going to take a picture and take it back to watch every day!
Ye Ying's footsteps were light, and she was already preoccupied, so she didn't notice that Tong Ke was following behind her. Who knew that when she walked to the kitchen, she heard Chen Weiguo and his wife talking.
"Why didn't you let me speak just now? The two thousand dollars can't be moved. We originally saved it and planned to use it for Xiaolong to get a daughter-in-law in the future! What can't you say?" In his opinion, he saved money to marry his son. Daughter-in-law is a matter of course, and it's not right at all.
… … what? !
Ye Ying was shocked on the spot and couldn't pay Ye Wei's tuition because she wanted to save for her son to marry a daughter-in-law? !
After Chen Weiguo finished speaking, his wife spoke up: "Can you say this? You said that we are treating Xiaohong harshly, and people will think that we have money and will not pay Xiaohong's tuition! What will the Ye family think? Will it be good to us Yingying?"
Chen Weiguo was dissatisfied and said, "How can this be harsh treatment? What's the use of a girl who reads so many books, isn't she going to get married in the future? My mother is also true, and I don't know what she thinks, she even took the money to It's a waste for Xiaohong to pay her tuition fees."
Ye Ying covered her mouth in shock, how old is Chen Weiguo's son? I heard that he is still studying in junior high school in the county. Originally, there was a middle school in the next village, but he had to get up every morning after five o'clock and walked for more than an hour to get there. His son was too tired and didn't want to go. When I got rich, I was cruel and sent it to the middle school in the county, where I lived on campus, and I could go home on weekends.
Still a junior high school student, not yet an adult!
Ye Ying was still stupid, but Tong Ke went from being dazed at the beginning to being shocked later. She hated others discriminating against women, and she was used to being arrogant. At home, she was yelling at the lawless master, and now she was even more shocked. Said: "Isn't it?! You are a typical patriarchal woman. You would rather save your money and put it there to get moldy than pay for your daughter's tuition. You are too disgusting."
Chen Weiguo and his wife didn't expect that their whispers would be heard, they were really shocked, and they tried to explain, Chen Weiguo had already jumped up, he had not been said that in front of anyone, and recently because his family was rich, His status in the village has improved a lot, and he is also a little unhappy at the moment, no matter how he is an elder, "...Little girl, what do you mean by this? Why are we disgusting, I put Why is it disgusting to keep money for my son? I am good to my son, am I wrong?"
Tong Ke rolled his eyes: "Son son, you only have your son in your eyes, and your feelings for your daughter are not the same as yours!"
Chen Weiguo knew that this little girl's family was not ordinary, and he couldn't get angry with her, so he said bitterly, "I don't have a daughter in my eyes, but how could I not care about it? There is only one son in our family, of course I have to make more plans for him!"
Tong Ke hehe said twice: "Yes, of course, the three-generation single pass will be treasured. After all, your family has a throne to inherit."
Chen Weiguo's wife came out and said, "Yingying, don't get me wrong, your dad didn't mean that..."
Ye Ying took a step back and looked at her warily.
Chen Weiguo's wife looked a little embarrassed.
Jiang Fei came out of nowhere and said, "Ye Ying, don't get me wrong, they really didn't care about their daughter. I heard that Chen Weiguo was worried that your daughter would not be able to support you, and told her to the butcher in the next village to be his wife. Well, the dowry is 30,000 yuan, which is already very good in this rural area, and it has attracted the envy of many people."
He looked at Ye Ying and said, "Ye Ying, look, he is sincere for his daughter's good."
Ye Ying looked at Jiang Fei suddenly, and saw that Jiang Fei still had a faint smile in his eyes, but at this moment, she felt that the smile was very bad. He seemed to be watching a play, and he seemed to be teasing someone.
Chen Weiguo and his wife were said to be a little out of touch for a while, and they didn't know when, not only Ye Ying, Tong Ke, and Jiang Fei came, but also Ye Tao and Zhang Yu. Obviously, the conversation just now was overwhelmed. I listened.
Ye Tao couldn't help but remember what Ye Wei once said, Chen Weiguo was going to marry her to a 30-year-old man in the next village when she became an adult, and with the dowry money, she could buy a house for her brother.
At that time, he felt that Ye Wei who had this idea was very scary. This was not only a helper, but also a practice of himself. He even felt that Ye Wei was short-minded and a person without self.
But he never thought that the person who instilled this idea into Ye Wei was the real sinner.
Zhang Yu had never heard of this, but when he heard it, he was dumbfounded.
Chen Weiguo immediately said: "I'm also good for Xiaohong, I'm really good for her, I've known each other for a long time, although I'm a bit older, they make a lot of money selling pork in the town. , the family has built a two-story building, and people are honest. As long as they get married, they will definitely not worry about food and clothing, and they don’t need to work in the fields! I’ll have no worries about food and clothing all my life. Look, what’s wrong with this?”
When he clapped his palm, he still looked for your own good, that righteous look made people feel chills in their hearts.
Jiang Fei agreed and said: "There is nothing wrong with Ye Wei, Ye Wei will not worry about food and clothing all her life, and if you have a good home, you can get 30,000 yuan as a betrothal gift for your son to marry a daughter-in-law. What is the best of both worlds? Find?"
Chen Weiguo blushed: "I..."
Ye Tao interrupted Chen Weiguo with a sullen face: "You are good for your daughter? Then you don't treat your daughter as a daughter at all, you only treat her as a tool that can be used, and a tool that can be used for you in exchange for benefits!"
Tong Ke was also stunned by this stupid idea, and of course he didn't forget to ridicule Ye Ying: "Ye Ying, look, it's right that you don't want to come back, you are really too smart, otherwise, you As soon as I come back, I have to be packaged and sold!"
"Hey, it's suffering, Weiwei. No matter how you say, people have suffered for you for 18 years. Finally, the truth is revealed and you can go home and enjoy happiness. Beside my own parents, it is said that they dislike the poor and love the rich, and are misunderstood by their relatives..."
"Our Weiwei's life is really too hard, really, too miserable!" Tong Ke said, and pretended to wipe his tears, leaning softly to Zhang Yu's side.
Ye Ying's face was also pale and pale at this moment. She did not expect that Chen Weiguo was not only disobedient, but also favored sons over daughters to such a serious level. If she was in this house, if she was not held wrongly, then Ye Wei would suffer from this. Everything should be her...
This thought made Ye Ying tremble all over. Even though the sun was shining brightly, she only felt cold all over her body.
Is such a dark day a human being
And Ye Wei has lived in this house for 18 years, how did she survive for 18 years
Her face was extremely ugly, and her whole body was shaky, as if she had been greatly stimulated, but no one noticed her at this moment.
…
Zhang Yu originally saw Ye Ying alone in a trance, but Tong Ke followed with bad intentions. He was worried, so he followed. Who knew he would hear such words? He even said the words of selling his daughter so righteously!
In a trance, he remembered that Ye Wei had finally returned to Ye's house because of the threat of suicide. At that time, he thought Ye Wei's actions were unreasonable. Now that he thinks about it, he is the one who takes everything too simple.
If he encountered such a situation, when there was finally a glimmer of light in his gloomy life, he was afraid that he would catch it no matter what he did, and then escape...
It's not only Zhang Yu who thinks this way, Ye Tao also thinks the same way. It's a pity that he looked down on Ye Wei who didn't cherish life before. If he encountered this kind of thing, his methods might be even more extreme than Ye Wei!
After one o'clock in the afternoon, Ye Tao saw Ye Wei again. It was because she saw her carrying a basket from the ground, something called kraut, to go back. Old lady Chen fed a pig, which was chopped to feed the pig.
It was still the big backpack that was pressing on her thin body, and it had been pressed for 18 years.
Ye Tao suddenly felt heavy in his heart. This is his own younger sister. Even if he spends a lot of time together and has too many strangers to each other, this is his own younger sister. so many sins...
He stepped forward and took the bag on Ye Wei's back: "I'll help you."
Ye Wei glanced at him: "Oh."
She put down her backpack and stepped on the field to go home.
Ye Ying looked at Ye Tao's guilty appearance, she lowered her head and didn't know what she was thinking.
Zhang Yu also came with him, Jiang Fei was a coward, and Tong Ke was chatting beside Ye Wei: "Wei Wei, you don't know, that Chen Weiguo is not a person, he actually wants to marry you to the old man in the next village, you How old is this, he only thinks about your betrothal money, why are you so miserable, all your suffering is for Ye Ying, she still doesn't know how to be grateful, she looks like a victim all day long, alas , I feel sorry for you."
While she was talking, she looked at Zhang Yu, and when she saw that Zhang Yu didn't speak for Ye Ying, she was very happy.
Ye Tao was silent, thinking of Ye Ying, who was crying and saying sadness at home, and Ye Wei, who suffered and suffered outside, who would be more painful
Zhang Yu frowned and said, "Tong Ke, stop talking."
Zhang Yu thought that Ye Wei didn't know about this. After all, Ye Tao didn't mention it to Zhang Yu, because it was too private and it was not good to hear it.
Ye Wei's face was calm, indifferent, not surprised at all.
Zhang Yu said, "You already knew that?"
Ye Wei nodded and said, "I know, what's wrong?"
Zhang Yu wondered: "You know, there is no reaction?"
Ye Wei blinked and said quietly, "What's the reaction? If my parents find me later, I should be married. Maybe if I can hold the two for three years, my brother will be an uncle."
Ye Tao: "...???" Uncle
Zhang Yu: "...???" Holding two for three years
Tong Ke: "...!!!"
Jiang Fei: "Yes, you are in good health and have a good life."
Ye Wei said, "Yes, it's easy to recover after giving birth."
Jiang Fei: "..."
Ye Tao said with a white face, "No, I don't want to be an uncle yet."
Zhang Yu was almost scared to death by Ye Wei's words, "Even if you are an adult, you can't get married until you are twenty!"
Ye Wei said, "It doesn't matter. We don't check so strictly here. It's the same thing if you wait two years to get the marriage certificate."
Zhang Yu said decisively, "That's not going to work either!"
Ye Wei sighed and didn't say anything more, but it was this sigh that made people hear her helplessness.
…
The group followed Ye Wei back to Mrs. Chen's house. At this moment, Mrs. Chen was peeling corn. Her thin body was sitting in the main room, the dog was around her back, and she knew how to work without raising her head.
Ye Tao put down the basket, and Ye Wei took the machete and started to chop the hogweed. The knife was chopped on the color board. For a while, the sound of the old silent house was the same.
Jiang Fei was quite familiar with him. He found a place to sit down, but he didn't want to help. He looked left and right with great curiosity, but Tong Ke panicked when he looked at him, so he found a small bench and sat down aggrieved. .
Zhang Yu and Ye Tao looked at each other and went to help Mrs. Chen peel the corn.
They stayed all afternoon. Seeing that Ye Wei finished chopping the cabbage and poured it into the pot to cook, when the firewood was set up in the stove, she came over and peeled the corn for a while. Seeing that the sun was not so hot, she prepared again. I went up the mountain with a backpack on my back.
She hardly ever stopped, and she was no longer busy all the time.
Ye Tao felt quite uncomfortable, because he thought about what he was doing at his age, eating, drinking and having fun, traveling around the country, and talking about his life dreams, but what was Ye Ying, who was so pampered by them, doing? She wears a beautiful dress and eats delicate and delicious food like a little princess.
"Grandma Chen, Ye Wei has been working so hard?" He finally couldn't help but ask, he wanted to hear about Ye Wei's past.
"What's the hard work?"
"I've been working all the time, and I haven't had a rest..."
Who would have guessed that he hadn't said a word in the afternoon, and even the old woman who seemed sour at first impression looked at him with her cloudy eyes: "I don't want her anymore, why are you asking so many questions."
Ye Tao's heart was tight, and the guilt made him suffocate: "I, we didn't do it on purpose, we thought she was doing well..."
She stood up suddenly and started chasing people: "Okay, you all get out of here."
Ye Tao said: "Grandma Chen, I know we are sorry for Ye Wei, we shouldn't have decided to keep her here without authorization..."
"roll!"
Old Mrs. Chen lost it in one bag. Jiang Fei had already jumped three steps and ran a long way. Ye Tao wanted to say something else, but Zhang Yu pulled him away.
Ye Tao watched Madam Chen slam the door shut, especially her eyes, looking at him with a gloomy appearance, his heart trembled.
Ye Ying was also kicked out. She panicked, looking at Ye Tao, who had a face of self-blame, and then at Zhang Yu. They seemed to be watching her sister this afternoon, and no one cared whether she was sad or not.
The author has something to say: The kindergarten is in the village next door to us. The school is not far away, but we have to climb a mountain, and the school is at the foot of the other end of the mountain.
It’s okay when there are classmates walking together. Usually, walking alone is really super scary. The mountain road is winding and winding, and it’s all woods and ground, and there are graves in the woods.
really scared to death
But that school closed years ago.