After Jiang Dahai and Jiang Dazhen finished their meal, they did not stay any longer. They took Gu Dongmei into the house, said something to her and left in a hurry.
In the middle of the night, Jiang Yiliu was awakened by the sound of Gu Dongmei getting up. Because Jiang Dahai was not there, Gu Dongmei felt a little awkward sleeping with her two nephews in the next room, so she simply hugged the quilt and squeezed on the kang with her daughters. Before coming, she carefully locked the cabinet in her room.
Jiang Yiliu was dazed and heard the rustling sound of someone getting dressed beside him. Gu Dongmei went out with a quilt in her arms. The two chatted in the living room for a long time. Perhaps they were afraid of waking up the sleeping person, so they kept their voices down. Jiang Yiliu couldn't hear what they said at all.
But he felt that his mother seemed very unhappy. Even though she lowered her voice, one could still feel her resentment. Jiang Dahai said something to calm her down.
After a long time, there was no noise outside. Jiang Yilu slowly closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep again.
In the following days, the Jiang Aiguo brother was very well behaved. Yes, very well behaved.
Every day, they ate, went to school, ate, and washed their clothes in silence. There was almost no other activity. Except for the two brothers asking Jiang Dahai about Jiang Dachuan's situation after Jiang Dahai came back from the county town, they hardly spoke anything else.
Jiang Erni often found fault with the two brothers, but Jiang Aiguo endured it. Not only did he endure it, he also kept an eye on his younger brother and did not allow him to bully the younger generations of the Jiang family as he did before.
Jiang Yilu sometimes even felt that if he had no memories of his previous life, he might have sympathized with this child who was abandoned by his mother and lived under the care of others. Unfortunately, he could not forget it.
On the sixth night after Jiang Dachuan was sent to the hospital, he came back. He was brought back on a donkey cart. Also traveling with him were the old couple Jiang. They also sat on the cart and took care of Jiang Dachuan along the way.
"Dad, Mom, why did you come back without notifying me so that I could borrow your donkey cart to pick you up." Jiang Dahai and his wife came home from work and saw a strange donkey cart and a strange driver lying in front of their house. They hurried forward to ask.
"Uncle Xiang Qian!" Gu Dongmei recognized the man and shouted happily.
"Da Hai, this is from Dong Mei's village. You should also shout Uncle Xiang Qian. Wasn't I planning to go back to the village today to tell you that Da Chuan can be discharged from the hospital and ask you to pick up the donkey cart to take them back to the village? I happened to run into Shi Tou and your Uncle Xiang Qian. Shi Tou knew we were going back to the village, so he specially got rid of your Uncle Xiang Qian to send us back. You should thank Uncle Xiang Qian quickly."
Old Mrs. Miao pulled her son over with a smile on her face.
"My second brother went to the county town again?" Gu Dongmei frowned, feeling annoyed by her brother who didn't work hard to earn work points and went out every day. Her second brother was already in his thirties and still hadn't married. He had to bear a large part of the responsibility for his idleness.
"Your second brother is going to do some serious business." The little old man in the lambskin waistcoat said cheerfully without explaining what the serious business he was talking about was.
"Uncle Xiang Qian, thank you. We will have dinner soon. Please stay and have a quick meal together." Jiang Dahai walked forward, shook the old man's hand, and said gratefully.
"No, no, it's getting late. I have to go back to Daqian Village. Don't keep me here." The old man waved his hand and insisted on leaving. After they carried Jiang Dachuan down from the bed, he drove away in the donkey cart.
Jiang Dahai and Old Man Jiang carried Jiang Dachuan to their room. Jiang Dachuan still needed someone to take care of him and could not stay alone in his home.
"Dad, why did you bring him back so soon?"
Jiang Dachuan probably fell asleep on the way, and the two men lifting him didn't wake him up. Jiang Dahai lowered his voice and pointed at his brother on the kang and asked.
"One more day in the hospital means one more day's expenses. The doctor said your brother is fine now. He just needs to go home and take good care of himself. He only needs to go to the hospital every ten days or half a month to change the medicine. Your mother and I wanted him to stay in the hospital for a few more days, but Dachuan made a fuss about coming back."
Because Fan Xiaojuan took away all the things in the house, Jiang Dachuan's medical expenses were all paid by old man Jiang. He sighed and looked at his little son who had lost a lot of weight. He never thought about these things before and was eager to get more money out of his pocket.
I just hope that this time, after learning his lesson, Okawa can really change for the better.
Jiang Aiguo and Jiang Aidang came home from school and were so happy to see their father whom they hadn't seen for many days. Even Jiang Aidang, who had been keeping a straight face for the past few days, couldn't help but break his composure and threw himself into Jiang Dachuan's arms, crying.
“I’ve gained weight!”
A blush appeared on Jiang Dachuan's pale face. During his time in the hospital, he was most worried about his two children at home. The reason why he wanted to come back was not only because he felt bad about the medical expenses, but mainly because he did not trust the people in the eldest branch of the Jiang family. After all, he still remembered clearly how his son bullied the girls in the first branch.
Although Jiang Erni criticized Jiang Aiguo and Jiang Aidang, she still left them enough food. The food in the old house was much better than that in Jiang Dachuan's house. The little boy was eating his father out of money. The work points earned by Jiang Dachuan and Fan Xiaojuan were not enough for the whole family to eat, otherwise Jiang Dachuan would not have taken the risk to steal food from the fields.
However, after just a few days, Jiang Aiguo and Jiang Aidang did not really gain weight, but their skin color became much rosier than before. This was enough to satisfy Jiang Dachuan. At the same time, he felt a little guilty.
During the days he was in the hospital, his biased parents gave him money and effort, and his eldest brother, who had conflicts with him, ran around for him and helped him take care of his two children. But his trusted wife not only left him and the children and ran away, but also sued him. Although Jiang Dachuan still hadn't let go of his knot in the old house, his mentality had changed slightly.
"Brother, thank you." Jiang Dachuan lay on the kang, touched the heads of his two sons, and moved his lips for a long time before he said these words to Jiang Dahai who was standing beside him.
Jiang Dahai was a little dazed for a moment. How long had it been since the two brothers had a falling out? He smiled and looked at Jiang Dachuan with relief: "We are all brothers, why say thank you."
brother!
Jiang Dachuan repeated it silently in his mind several times, glanced at the man with the silly smile, lowered his eyes, and said no more words.
*****
"The livestock shed has been repaired and the stove is almost dry. We will move in early tomorrow morning." After dinner, Ruan Yuanjiang took a sip of tea and said to Old Man Jiang beside him.
Just as Old Man Jiang was about to speak, he was stopped by Ruan Yuanjiang: "Dachuan is back, and the investigation team should be here soon. If they see us living here, it will probably have an impact on your family."
The atmosphere in the main room suddenly became heavy. Mo Dashuan had already reminded them that Jiang Dachuan had returned from the hospital, and it would not be long before people from the Revolutionary Committee would come to the village to investigate the situation.
Ruan Ruan was a little panicked and glanced at Jiang Yilu and Sini beside her.
Jiang Aidang didn't know what was going to happen, but Jiang Aiguo clenched his fists tightly, but the table blocked it and no one saw it.
"Okay, Dahai and I will help you move your things tomorrow morning." Jiang Cheng thought, since they were in the same village anyway, he would be able to take care of them. But when he thought about people like Brother Ruan and Brother Bai, who now had to live in the barn, he felt unmotivated.
"Why don't you let Ruanruan stay at our house? She's just a little girl and won't get in the way. Besides, the barn is so dirty, it would be inconvenient for a little girl to live there."
It was Old Lady Miao who spoke up. She was not being kind, but she was reluctant to give up the generous subsidy given by Ruan Yuanjiang. It cost a lot of money to treat Jiang Dachuan, and Old Lady Miao was thinking about where to get the money back.
Although she had her own little thoughts, it must be said that she had really guessed Ruan Yuanjiang's thoughts.
In his opinion, he didn't mind any suffering, but Ruan Ruan couldn't. A place like a barn, no matter how diligently you cleaned the floor, was filled with the stench of feces. It was not a place for a girl to stay.
Ruan Ruan was reluctant to leave her playmate and her grandfather, but she had no say in the matter. Ruan Yuanjiang decided to leave his granddaughter in the Jiang family.
The next morning, all the able-bodied people in the Jiang family began to help. Ruan Yuanjiang and his companions did not bring anything with them, so quilts, mattresses and other things had to be moved from the Jiang family. In addition, only the roof of the livestock shed had been repaired, so a lot of things in the room needed to be sorted out.
Fortunately, not long after the Ruan family moved out, people from the management committee came into the village. The first thing they did was to investigate the reactionaries who had been sent down last time.
“Not bad, not bad.”
When Mo Dashuan came with a few people, Ruan Yuanjiang was cleaning the pig manure in the pigsty, and Huo Wu was helping. Because he was cleaning the house, Bai Fangqiu did not go to the mountain to collect herbs. When he saw those people appear, he immediately picked up the broom and started cleaning.
Today, more than a dozen people came from the county, all wearing clean and tidy cotton jackets. The one in the lead was even more extraordinary. He wore a military green cotton robe and a military green cotton hat. He had one hand behind his back and walked with great dignity.
Those people who came from the city covered their noses when they approached the livestock shed, but looking at the dirty and messy environment, they were very satisfied with the renovation tasks given to them by Qingshan Village.
"Jiang Dachuan, we got the news that he has returned from the hospital, right? Have someone carry him to the brigade headquarters and gather all the comrades in the team. Comrade Fan is on his way. We need to punish Jiang Dachuan appropriately for his violation of discipline."
Seeing the satisfactory scene, the leader of the dozen people covered their noses and hurriedly left the livestock shed with their men. The smell here was strong and they could not stay there.
Mo Dashuan waved to a passing villager and asked him to go to the Jiang family to inform them of the news.
What is meant to come will come.
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