"Humph! Those old guys are all senile! What's that about the benefactor from Yushugou? Pah! He's just an ungrateful person!
Thinking back to the time, the relationship between our two families was so good. His father was away from home all year round, so whenever he had problems, we would always lend a hand. But he saved so many people in the village, but he didn’t save my country? If my Jiabang were still alive, he would be married and have children by now..."
The woman became more and more excited as she spoke, and slowly, her mind began to become dazed, and she didn't even notice the sympathetic looks that the people around her were giving her!
"It's what you deserve! What happened to the Lu family is retribution! It's all retribution... retribution... Jiabang, stop hiding, come home with your mother..."
The woman kept mumbling, threw away the half-washed clothes, ruffled her hair, and started looking for her child all over the village!
"My wife Youlin is ill again, and the old man doesn't care about it?"
"What are you doing? How can you do it? Her illness is getting better and worse, and no one can predict when it will break out. Wasn't she just washing clothes with us? Isn't it like this every time she runs into Lu Yao's kids?
The old couple in the family are old, and their legs and feet have not been very strong in the past two years, so they can't take care of her at all!
Speaking of which, Zhaodi, the child in their family, is really pitiful. Her grandparents can't help her and she needs someone to take care of her. Her mother is always sick and her father is nowhere to be seen for three days. The whole family depends on her alone, and she is already 23 years old and still not married! ”
Okay, there’s nothing we can do about it. I’ll just bring the things back to her when I get back! ”
More than ten years have passed since that incident, but for those who experienced it personally, it seems as if it happened just yesterday!
At the beginning, Jiabang was a child who was playing hide-and-seek with a few other kids in the village. He hid in a straw stack, and when some vagrants came into the village, his friends were all scared. When he was found by his parents, he just trembled in fear. No one remembered that little Jiabang was still hiding!
Those people not only robbed things but also injured many people.
At that time, Lu Yao, relying on his family's education, good hands and feet skills, and a ruthless spirit, killed and injured many vagrants, thus saving many villagers!
Who would have thought that those beasts created chaos in order to escape smoothly and set several fires, one of which happened to be the straw pile where Xiao Jiabang was hiding, not to mention that Xiao Jiabang was still asleep!
By the time Youlin's wife found out, the wheat stalks were almost burned!
After Jiabang was burned to death, Youlin's wife went crazy. Not only did she get sick when she saw Lu Yao, but she also got sick when she saw the children who used to play games with Jiabang!
She blamed these people for the death of her family!
If her family had been more careful over the years, letting her out less often and stimulating her less, perhaps her illness wouldn't be as serious as it is now!
However, the old couple in this family blamed the death of their eldest grandson on their daughter-in-law. In the early years when she was still able to do things, she often tortured her daughter-in-law, and later she miscarried both of her children!
The man, Youlin, is a lazy man who idles away the whole day. A grown man earns less than an average woman!
Youlin's wife loves her child very much. Whenever she is awake, she would think about helping her eldest daughter with more work and rarely goes out. This time she came out to wash clothes, it was probably because of the old couple's doing!
"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Youlin for a while. In previous years, at this time of year, I could see him going to the fields from time to time, doing some easy work like weeding with the old ladies to earn some money. But this year, I only saw him twice when he just started weeding, and I haven't seen him since. It's been more than half a month, right?
Tell me, with such a scoundrel, who would dare to propose marriage? It's just a pity for Zhaodi, who is both capable and filial..."
"If she hadn't been reluctant to leave her mother, that child would have married herself off long ago..."
"Who said it wasn't? Oh, how pitiful!"
"Okay, I'm done. I've sent the things back to Youlin's wife. You guys take your time washing..."
"I'm done too, wait for me, we'll go together!"
The remaining aunties and sisters-in-law who had not finished washing and the one who had just come over with the basin gathered together and changed the topic. They started chatting about whose relative worked in a state-owned unit in the county, with good treatment and benefits. They were happy to show off and listen to others' envy...
The slowly flowing Qingshui River remains the same as always. Listening quietly...
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