The night Shen Chuning went to find Chen Ziyun, a sent-down youth, intending to “cook the raw rice into cooked rice” (make their relationship irreversible), she had a dream.
In the dream, the...
Lin Shulan looked at Shen Fengjiao and glared, "You didn't give money to your mother's family? The day before yesterday you just gave Ma Dongqing that bag of food, go get it back!"
Sun Fengjiao suddenly looked embarrassed.
The day before yesterday, her mother came to her and cried, saying that the family really had no money to eat, and her two nephews, who had just turned one year old, were so hungry at home that they didn't even have the energy to cry.
She made up her mind, took some rice, added some cornmeal, and filled a whole bag for her mother.
She checked carefully at the time and found that there was no one in the second or main house, but she didn't expect that her mother-in-law would find out.
She quickly explained, "Mother, how can they be the same? The grain my parents borrowed from me was borrowed. At the end of the year, when the work points are calculated and the grain is distributed, it must be returned. My third brother's wife bought it herself and gave it to her parents for free..."
“It’s different…”
Before Sun Fengjiao finished her words, Lin Shulan snorted coldly and said, "No matter what good food the Third Old Man's family eats, at least they are thinking of having a bite from us two old guys.
In your room, we two old guys can't even see a hair.
Your mother's family is a bunch of lazy people who only like to eat and work. After a day's work, the whole family can't even get a full work point. They still return your food, so how can you return it with your eyes?
If they return the grain to you, don't forget to ask them to pay back what they borrowed from me in previous years. I still have the IOUs they wrote when they borrowed the grain.
When we divided the family property, I should have given you those IOUs and let you go collect the debts from your parents yourself. ”
In the early years, when Sun Fengjiao first got married, the Sun family often came to borrow grain.
At the beginning, she had to lend some money out of consideration for her in-laws.
Sun Fengjiao's face became even more embarrassed. She had come here to apply eye drops to her mother-in-law, but now she failed to do so.
Not only was she scolded by her mother-in-law, but she was also hurt by her mother-in-law.
She could only go back reluctantly.
She had just returned home when Zhou Xiaolian, who had not yet started school, came back from playing outside with Zhou Yongjun, who was about the same age as her second roommate.
The two little guys had sharp noses. As soon as they entered the yard, they sniffed and said, "What a nice smell!"
"There's tofu and meat..."
Zhou Xiaolian swallowed her saliva and ran towards her mother, "Mom, I want to eat tofu and meat..."
Sun Fengjiao had just been scolded by her mother-in-law and was already unhappy.
Now that her daughter is making a noise, she gets even more angry.
She took a bamboo stick from the broom and hit Zhou Xiaolian on the butt. "You want to eat tofu? You want to eat meat? I still want to eat! Do you think I look like tofu? Do you think I look like meat?"
Zhou Xiaolian burst into tears immediately after being beaten by her mother. “Mom, I don’t want to eat anymore. Please stop beating me. Wuuuuu…”
Lin Shulan and Zhou's father were eating in the main room.
Sun Fengjiao was beating the child in the yard, so they naturally saw it clearly.
The tofu buns in my mouth no longer taste good.
Father Zhou said, "Old woman, you know the character of the old lady. Don't mess with her anymore. It's pitiful for the child to get beaten."
Lin Shulan put her chopsticks on the table and glared at Zhou's father. "Don't talk nonsense here, you old man! How can I mess with her if she doesn't mess with me? How can I, as a mother-in-law, let her, a daughter-in-law, bully me?
It’s her own child so she can beat him if she wants. It’s not my flesh and blood anyway! ”
Lin Shulan spoke in an exceptionally loud voice, specifically for Sun Fengjiao, who was beating the child outside, to hear.
The note in Sun Fengjiao's hand could not be put down.
In the room, Zhou's father was rebuked by his wife. He quickly shrank his neck and lowered his head to eat, muttering softly: "I just felt sorry for the child and said it casually. Why are you so magnanimous?"
Lin Shulan glared at Zhou's father again.
Father Zhou immediately shrank like a quail and said nothing.
After finishing the meal, he saw his little granddaughter still sobbing on the doorstep, and he could not help but sigh and said, "Before the family was divided, the old house looked fine. Now that the family is divided, how come it has become like this?
Every day, he either beats this person or scolds that person..."
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When Shen Chu Ning came out of Zhou's yard and was about to ride his bicycle back to Shen's house, he suddenly saw that there seemed to be a person squatting at the gate of his yard.
She looked closely and found that the man was her good second brother who had just been discharged from the hospital today.
She pedaled her bicycle over and said, "Second brother, what's going on? You went to look for your good revolutionary comrades but got kicked out. So you come here to be my door god?"
Shen Zhengliang just saw Shen Chuning riding a bicycle into the Zhou family yard.
He was still thinking about how to apologize to his sister and felt a little nervous.
Now that Shen Chu Ning teased him as soon as she opened her mouth, he relaxed instead, looking at Shen Chu Ning lovingly and helplessly, “Ning Ning…”
"Second brother is here to apologize and thank you." Shen Zhengliang apologized to Shen Chuning for his previous attitude with a serious face, and thanked her for paying his medical expenses and finding a donkey cart to pick him up.
Shen Chu Ning raised her chin proudly and said proudly: "Now you know who is the one who treats you well?"
Shen Zhengliang scratched the back of his head somewhat embarrassedly.
Shen Chu Ning propped up one leg on the ground, "Second brother, get in the car and go home for dinner."
Shen Zhengliang's expression paused for a moment. Thinking of facing his father's blame again when he returned, he took a deep breath before he had the courage to sit on the back seat of the bicycle.
Sitting in the back seat, looking at the educated youth point not far away, his eyes couldn't help but dim a little.