"My son, you have suffered!"
Old man Shen raised his hand and stroked Shen Qiushu's face, his eyes full of heartache.
Chen Qiushu suddenly remembered something: "Dad, I heard that policeman say that day that our family paid a large sum of money, right?"
When it comes to money, Old Man Shen no longer cares about his son. He sighed and said, "You were able to be released because your family paid Zhao Changgui 12 yuan in compensation."
"Your sister-in-law was right about one thing. We have been busy at home these days. Your brother and sister-in-law paid 5 yuan, and I still have more than 3 yuan. The rest was made up by writing an IOU to Hu Zhiqing."
Chen Qiushu stared at Old Man Shen blankly, mumbling, "12 yuan? When I married Hongmei to him, I only received 8 yuan as a gift. Now that we calculate it this way, we have to pay him 4 yuan?"
Speaking of this, Old Man Shen was also very cowardly. He had no intention of caring about his son. He sat aside, lit his pipe, and smoked one puff after another.
After a moment of silence, Old Man Shen comforted Shen Qiushu: "It's okay, don't be discouraged, it's only 3 yuan, you can always pay it back."
"You should take a shower and have a good sleep. The sky is big, the earth is big, but not as big as human beings."
At this time, Li Xiang came into the room and said that the water was hot and we could take a shower.
Then Li Xiaoqin went downstairs and brought in a large basin. She poured appropriate amounts of hot and cold water into the basin twice, and then helped Shen Qiushu take off his clothes.
Seeing this, Old Man Shen took his pipe and walked out of the house. He stood in the yard, smoking and began to worry.
At this moment, Shen Siyue came in from outside the courtyard gate.
She glanced at Old Man Shen standing in the middle of the yard, and went straight into her room without saying a word.
Old man Shen’s eyes fell on Shen Siyue since she came in, and he stared at the door of the small east room until she closed the door.
Old man Shen couldn't remember how long it had been since he had paid attention to his granddaughter who was about to move out of the Shen family.
He thought that if Shen Siyue had married Zhao Changgui according to the original plan, given Shen Siyue's attitude of daring to use a knife to chop people at any time, maybe she could really subdue Zhao Changgui?
Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in this world.
The girl Hongmei looks smart on the surface, but she is actually a fool.
Not only did they waste a good opportunity to collect the bride price, but the Shen family also lost a lot of money.
This is really a case of losing both the wife and the army.
If Hongmei is the only one left now, then they could quickly find a husband for her and collect a dowry. All the current problems of the Shen family would then be solved.
But the one left was Shen Siyue.
This girl is fearless, and he wants to be her boss? Old man Shen is really a little scared.
Old Man Shen forced himself to shift his gaze from the door of the small east room to other places.
He warned himself in his heart to think of other ways first. He didn't want to confront Shen Siyue, who would cut people without blinking an eye, until he was desperate.
In the room, Li Xiaoqin took a clean cloth and wiped Shen Qiushu's back again and again.
Chen Qiushu asked her, "Did our whole family put their fingerprints on the IOU? Did you put your fingerprints on it too?"
Li Xiaoqin thought he was going to blame her when he asked her that, so she said, "Yes, I pressed it, too. Wasn't I anxious to save you? I couldn't care less!"
"Anyway, we haven't split up yet, and the few work points we earn are all managed by Dad. What difference does it make whether we pay them or not?"
"Hey, if that guy from big brother could come out for you, Zhao Changgui said it would only cost 5 dollars, but it's a pity that he won't go."
Chen Qiushu was shocked and turned around to ask her: "Is there such a thing? If he goes, then our family won't have to borrow money, right?"
Li Xiaoqin nodded: "Yes, I even had a fight with my sister-in-law because of this!"
"It's a pity that I'm just one person. How can I resist so many people?"
Shen Qiushu, who was already resentful, became even more angry.
Chen Qiushu: "Then the money should be paid back by my elder brother and his wife. Why are they dragging us into this?"
Li Xiaoqin: "Who said it wasn't true? But if it wasn't for Dad taking the lead, my elder brother and his wife would have allowed you to stay in there forever so that you wouldn't have to pay compensation. They would have wanted you to suffer for them!"
Chen Qiushu angrily punched the ground.
Li Xiaoqin was so scared that she quickly took his hand and blew it against her lips: "Hey, what are you doing? You can't do this even if you are angry."
"Alright, alright, don't be angry. I heard that my elder brother and his wife have already paid back the little betrothal money they received from Hongmei. They still have a conscience."
Li Xiaoqin wiped the mud off the back of Shen Qiushu's hands, and then wiped his entire body dry.
She went up to the kang again and pulled his quilt off the kang cabinet and laid it out: "Get in bed and warm yourself up, don't catch a cold!"
Chen Qiushu shivered from the cold and quickly got into bed naked.
These days in the Public Security Bureau, I haven’t been eating or sleeping well, I’m extremely nervous, and my body has long been stretched to its limit.
As soon as I touched the pillow, I felt relaxed and fell asleep in a short while.
Li Xiaoqin carefully cleaned up the water on the ground, then took the basin and prepared to pour it out in the yard, just then she met Old Man Shen who was standing in the yard looking worried.
"Dad, it's cold outside, please come in quickly, Qiushu has already washed and gone to bed."
Old man Shen waved his hand without saying anything.
Li Xiaoqin didn't know whether he meant that the weather was not cold or that he should not go into the house.
In short, she said everything she should say as a daughter-in-law, and she didn't care about anything else.
For the next few days, the Shen family was in a state of low pressure.
Shen Qiushu didn't say a word to Shen Chunshu and his wife.
When our eyes met, I rolled my eyes.
Shen Chunshu felt that as the eldest brother, he had done enough, and since the third brother did not appreciate it, it was not his fault.
After Chen Chunshu came back, the food rations at home, which were already scarce, continued to drop.
Now every time he cooks, Old Man Shen takes the rations himself.
Li Xiang, who cooked the most, could only keep adding water to the pot so that everyone could have half a bowl of food at each meal.
Finally, the youngest Shen Limin couldn't help it: "Second Aunt, why is the porridge getting thinner and thinner? I can hardly see the shadow of the grain. Do you think we are all fish? Can we live with water?"
Li Xiang, who was named, looked at Old Man Shen awkwardly, and forced a smile at Shen Limin: "There is not much food left at home, and now I am not working, so eat less and bear it!"
Shen Liming was a teenager and was able to eat and get hungry easily. How could he bear it?
"If we keep eating like this, we're going to starve to death, right?"
Old man Shen slammed his chopsticks on the table and said, "If you keep arguing, you can go to whoever has food."
Shen Limin lowered his head and pursed his lips unconvinced.
Wang Huilian was also extremely hungry. She looked at Hu Lili who kept her head down while eating and could not help but complain, "Our whole family is starving to death, but some people still have the heart to eat dry food and drink thick drinks?"
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