After all this commotion, An Yue had no mood to cook. She just sat on the ground holding her son and cried, until she realized that her son had fallen asleep in her arms without her noticing. It was already dark outside, and there was no kerosene lamp lit in the room. It was pitch black everywhere. Only then did she get up from the ground.
I took my son back to the house and slept in his room that night.
This was the first time they slept separately after having the child, and she felt resentful.
Liu Guodong couldn't stand the hunger in the middle of the night, so he climbed over the wall and returned home. He quietly opened the lid of the pot and saw uncooked cornmeal inside. He felt a little strange, but he didn't think too much about it.
Instead, he added some firewood to the stove, lit the pot again, cooked the cornmeal inside, then carefully scooped it out and brought it to the yard, and drank it in big gulps after it cooled down.
An Yue was woken up by hunger in the morning. Seeing that it was just dawn, she thought about the cornmeal she had put in the pot last night but had not yet been cooked, and her son was sleeping soundly beside her.
The chubby arms and legs made her unable to help but kiss her son on the face. Then she went downstairs to put on her shoes and came to the outer room. She saw the lid of the pot was opened and the cornmeal inside was gone. Only an unwashed pot was left.
"Ah! Liu Guodong, you damn bastard!"
Liu Guoliang felt that he had just fallen asleep when he was woken up by his wife's shouting. Seeing that it was already dawn, he could only struggle to sit up. Then he heard someone cursing in the outer room.
"Liu Guodong, you are a jerk who was raised by a mother but not taught by her. You still steal food to eat. How can you not starve to death? God should take people like you away. If you have the ability, don't eat my food!"
Then there were crackling sounds, either the lids of pots and pans were being slammed, and there was also the sound of chopsticks being brushed, and the sound became louder and louder.
It was difficult for Liu Guoliang to pretend that he couldn't hear anything, so he could only get downstairs to put on his shoes, and went to the outer room with his hands covering his chest. He saw An Yue's head, which didn't have much hair on it, and it was still loose, looking scary.
"Can't you put a hat on your head? Are you trying to scare anyone to death so early in the morning?"
"You still know how to get up? Last night, your good brother ate all the cornmeal I put in the pot. How come he didn't die of overeating?" An Yue was furious. "You two brothers don't look alike, but you act alike!"
The last sentence opened up Liu Guoliang's memory. They were probably about 10 years old at that time. His mother was not pregnant, but she went out and brought a child back. She told him that he would have a younger brother in the future. At that time, it was good enough to fill his mouth. He didn't think about anything else.
"He really doesn't seem to be my brother." He muttered to himself.
"What?" An Yue threw the ladle in her hand into the porcelain basin beside her. "Can you explain to me what you mean?"
"How can I explain this to you?" Liu Guoliang touched his head, "He seems to be a child my mother picked up. I remember that the old lady was not pregnant. I was young at that time, and some of my memories are fuzzy.
Anyway, I feel like he is not my biological brother. I didn’t think about it before because I thought of him as my biological brother in my heart.”
"You big fool, he's not your brother, but you've been raising him for so many years." An Yue's resentful eyes immediately revealed, "We should kick him out of the house and let him fend for himself. Why are we raising him?"
"But I can't say for sure. After all, I was young at that time. Will it be of any use if I say it now?" Liu Guoliang didn't want to support his younger brother. He said, "This half-grown kid is eating me out of money." As his younger brother grew older, his appetite also became bigger and bigger.
No wonder his wife is unhappy. He sometimes just can’t understand it.
Because he worked so hard in the production team, earning only so many work points, and the points he got were always the same, and his son had grown up now. If he continued like this, he would have to tighten his belt to make ends meet. Whose son could raise two half-grown boys and still have enough food every day?
Anyway, his family can't do it. If his younger brother is really not his biological son, then there is really no reason to raise him.
"Then why don't you insist that your brother is not your biological son? I'll go talk to the village chief. If he's not your biological child, why should he be raised at home?" An Yue couldn't hold back her thoughts any longer. She was about to leave when Liu Guoliang stopped her. "Why are you reluctant to let him go?"
"Can you wear a headscarf? With your current behavior, who would dare to talk to you when you go out?" Liu Guoliang looked at his wife's bald head. The wound had already scabbed over, which looked particularly shocking.
Thinking of her current state, An Yue cursed again, "That little bitch Lin Qiaoqiao must die a miserable death. Sooner or later, I will pull out all her hair!"
"Just stop it!" Liu Guoliang was so scared when he thought of Lin Qiaoqiao. How could a woman be better at fighting than a man? Even if he had a few more courage, he would not dare to cause trouble again.
What's more, her man is Qin Fang. Even though he is a few years younger than her, he has been a little troublemaker in the village since he was a child. He is the best fighter among the group of kids.
If he hadn't joined the army later and forgotten about this person, he would never have been so impulsive as to come and cause trouble!
An Yue put her hands on her waist, "What's the matter? Are you attracted to that bitch?"
Liu Guoliang, "Come on! That's not a woman. She beats people more cruelly than men. If her man wasn't Qin Fang, I would suspect that he beats men at home every day to practice!"
An Yue thought about it and it seemed to be true, so she didn't care about what the man said. She went back to the house, found a headscarf, wrapped her head, changed her clothes, and finally saw that the shoes on her feet were too dirty. She could only take out a new pair of shoes from the closet, put them on her feet, and then hurried out.
When she arrived at the village chief's house, she found a lot of people gathered in the yard, so she didn't rush in, but stood behind.
"You've also heard about Old Liu's family, right?" asked Wang Guifen who was standing aside.
"What did you hear?" An Yue wondered if something big happened in the village?
Wang Guifen, "It's time to divide the land. Everyone came to ask the village chief how to divide it. There are good and bad lands in this village, and no one wants to get the bad land! And the reclaimed land, does it belong to whoever reclaims it? Or does it need to be divided first? There are a lot of things involved!"
"Is this true? Are we going to divide the land?" An Yue's mind worked quickly. The land must be divided by the number of people, which means the more people there are in the family, the more benefits they get. Their family consists of three people, and if you include that little bastard, that makes four people.
If there is one less bite, there will definitely be less land. If this is to be said, we can only swallow it back, or wait until the land is divided before making a fuss about it.
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