You can only be obedient and honest, so that you can save your family's lives.
They believe that one day dawn will come.
Today, as usual, they dragged their tired bodies back to the two small, dilapidated houses where they currently lived.
Outside the small, dilapidated house, they built a kitchen near the courtyard wall.
The small yard was filled with unwanted junk, including broken tables and chairs. Uncle Huang repaired all the usable ones and put them to use.
If it really cannot be repaired, just chop it up and use it as firewood. It won’t be wasted anyway.
In the evening, the family made steamed buns with dried wild vegetables and cornmeal, and ate them with pickles for dinner.
This steamed cornbread was the best meal they had had in recent days.
Normally they are reluctant to eat even cornmeal, and they eat dried wild vegetables mixed with whole grains. Sometimes they also cook porridge with millet mixed with dried wild vegetables.
In fact, the Huang family is not used to eating noodles at all. They like to eat rice with vegetables.
But now they dare not buy rice, for fear of being discovered by those who are secretly watching them.
Therefore, they could only eat some dry steamed buns made with wild vegetables that they found difficult to swallow.
After dinner, the family started to get busy again. Some washed dishes, some chopped wood, some mended clothes, and some did laundry.
In short, no one in the family is idle.
By the time I finished all the work, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.
Lin Yizhen's uncle Huang Weiguo had finished chopping the last bit of firewood and was putting the chopped wood together, preparing to tie it up with cloth strips.
At this moment, there was a soft knock on the door.
If the place where he was chopping wood had not been too close to the door, he would not have heard the knocking sound, the sound was so soft.
At first, Huang Weiguo thought he had misheard.
He stopped and waited for a while. After making sure that there was really someone knocking on the door, he put down his work and opened the door.
After opening the door, Huang Weiguo found a young girl with pigtails standing in front of the door.
Because it was too dark, Huang Weiguo couldn't see the girl's face clearly.
Then he asked, "Hello, comrade! What can I do for you so late?"
"Uncle! I'm Xiaozhen!"
"Xiaozhen? Didn't you go to the countryside as an educated youth?" Huang Weiguo asked in surprise when he heard his niece's name.
It is not easy to go out these days. In addition, the relationship between his niece and his sister's family is not good, so Huang Weiguo feels that there is no need for her to come back to visit her relatives.
He never expected that his niece came back to visit for their family.
In Huang Weiguo's heart, his family was unable to help his niece in any way.
In addition, given their current status, it is not appropriate for them to have any relationship with their niece, so as not to bring any negative influence to her.
Lin Yizhen, who was sitting opposite Huang Weiguo, heard what he said, looked up at him, smiled, and said, "Uncle, are we going to talk here?"
Huang Weiguo then remembered that they were still standing at the door, and he quickly pulled Lin Yizhen into the yard.
Then, he stretched his head to look outside the yard. Not finding anything wrong, he closed the door with confidence.
Just as he was about to close the gate, Lin Yizhen stopped Huang Weiguo and said, "Uncle, wait a minute, my suitcase is still at the door!"
Hearing that there was something outside the door, Huang Weiguo quickly opened the door again.
After bringing in both of Lin Yizhen's suitcases, he closed the door again.
After closing the door, Huang Weiguo picked up Lin Yizhen's two suitcases and said, "Xiaozhen, it's great that you're back.
Your grandparents missed you terribly, and your grandmother cried so hard that her eyes were hurt. You could only see people clearly if you were a little further away.
Their health has been very poor recently, with constant pain here and there, but they can't go to the hospital for treatment."
Thinking of his parents' health, Huang Weiguo felt indescribably melancholy.
My family is rich, but we can’t spend it, and we can’t take our parents to the hospital.
But the health of the two old people is getting worse day by day, and they have to do such heavy work every day, so they can't even rest at home for a day.
Fortunately, Xiaozhen is back today, maybe it will make my parents happier.
Huang Weiguo brought Lin Yizhen to the room of the two elders and said to the old people who were about to go to sleep: "Dad, Mom, look who's here?"
The two old people's eyesight was not very good, and the light was too dim, so they could not see the people in the room for a while.
But for their son who they are with every day, they can recognize him even if they can't see his face clearly.
But they couldn't recognize someone like Lin Yizhen, whom they hadn't seen for several years.
All they could see was a girl following behind their son, who looked about the same age as their granddaughter, but she was definitely not their granddaughter, because their granddaughter was much thinner than the girl.
In the past, their granddaughter was as rosy and healthy as this girl.
But now, because of the burden of these two old guys, not only has she become skinny and thin, but at the age of twenty, she doesn't even have anyone to act as a matchmaker for her.
Thinking of the suffering their granddaughter had endured, the two old people began to feel guilty again.
They had long ago told their son and daughter-in-law to cut off ties with them, the two old people.
This way, their family can live a better life.
But they just didn't want to and suffered with them.
Thinking of the dark days that seemed to have no end in sight, the two old people felt very sad, but they could not persuade their son's family.
Lin Yizhen didn't know what her grandparents were thinking. When she saw the two skinny, white-haired old people sitting by the bed, she felt indescribably sad.
Her grandparents were so good to her before, she should have come to see them earlier.
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Oh! It's better not to say anything.
Lin Yizhen came to the two elders and squatted down. She carefully took their hands and said, "Grandpa and grandma, it's all Xiaozhen's fault. Xiaozhen should have come to see you earlier."
When they heard what the girl squatting in front of them said, the two men's hands tightened at the same time.
What was this girl talking about? Is she Xiaozhen?
The two old people looked at each other in disbelief, and then said with trembling lips: "You, you are really Xiaozhen."
"Yes, I am Xiaozhen, your unfilial granddaughter who has come back to see you." Lin Yizhen said crying with her face against the back of their hands.
Lin Yizhen's hot tears dripped onto the back of Huang's grandmother's hand, burning her heart so much that it trembled.
She couldn't bear it any longer and slid down from the bed to sit on the floor, hugging Lin Yizhen and crying softly. She cried and said, "My poor little Zhen! You finally came back to see grandma.
Grandma dreams about visiting you every day, but she can’t leave!"
"Grandma, I know, I know everything." Lin Yizhen also hugged her grandmother's hand and cried.
This time, Lin Yizhen spoke from the heart.
Although she had no good feelings towards the original owner's family and did not want to have anything to do with them, she was willing to repay the original owner's grandparents and uncle's family on his behalf.
She knows how difficult life is for her grandparents and their family right now.
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