"I had said I would come, but today someone brought me a message saying that the pigs at home are about to give birth, so I can't leave. I'll come back in a few days."
When Li Ersao saw a piece of bacon, two handfuls of noodles, incense, candles, paper money and a string of firecrackers in the basket, she turned her head away and curled her lips in disgust.
No wonder people say that the richer you are, the stingier you become. She wears a fashionable tweed coat and rides the most fashionable women's bicycle, but she still has the nerve to carry such little things back to her parents' home.
And there was the one who came back to her parents' home with a basket of ginger and taro powder. After other girls get married, they bring big and small bags to their parents' home, but these people in my family are all debt collectors.
After she got married, you could hardly see her anywhere. No matter how many times you asked her for favors, she would not even show up to see you.
Li Qiuyue sneered, "What a coincidence, the pigs from the two families gave birth to piglets on the same day."
Li Laoer is really a dog that can't change its bad habits. He has never spoken the truth in his life. They shouldn't come back this time.
Mrs. Li smiled awkwardly, "It's a bit of a coincidence."
Li Qiuyue put the basket on the table. "Where's Li Laoer? Didn't he say he was going to visit the graves of his parents? We came all the way here, but why can't we see anyone?"
"I've been waiting for you to come. I'll go to the back mountain to call your second brother and others back." Li Ersao walked towards the kitchen.
When Li Qiuyue saw her leaving, she pulled Li Qiuxia, who was standing silently beside her. Then she saw a little girl with sparse, dry and yellow hair standing next to her, "Little sister, is this from your family?"
"My second child." Li Qiuxia took the child over and said, "Second sister, call me Third Aunt, Third Uncle Daddy."
"Third aunt, third auntie." The little girl called timidly.
"Hey!" Zhou Huaishan looked at his second sister, who was about the same age as his own Xiaolin. He thought that he didn't even bring a piece of candy when he came. He also remembered that he had some money in his pocket when he came. He took out five yuan and handed it to her, "Be good, use it to buy candy."
"..." The second sister, who had never seen money in her life, shyly hid in Li Qiuxia's arms.
Li Qiuxia saw the money in his hand and quickly picked up the child. "Third brother-in-law, you don't need to give her money. She has already had breakfast."
Li Qiuyue saw that the child was even thinner than her daughter Xiaolin before, and her face was pale and yellow. She reached out to take the money from Zhou Huaishan's hand, and took out all the ten yuan in her pocket and stuffed it into Li Qiuxia's hand.
"Take it and buy some food for the children." She hesitated for a moment and then said, "If you are really in trouble, come to Funiu to find me. My family has leased some mountain land and has surplus food."
It seems that my younger sister's family is even poorer than the Zhou family before. They look hungry and they look like they are in their thirties or forties.
No matter what happened at that time, the clothes on my body were still mended, but these two mothers were wearing...
Li Qiuxia looked at the money in her hand, holding it tightly, tears falling down. She wiped her tears with the back of her hand and choked up, "Third sister, the second sister's husband went into the mountains to look for mountain products two years ago. He rolled down the mountain and broke his leg. After he was sent home, he asked the village doctor to help reconnect his leg..."
Li Qiuxia calmed down a bit. "After he recovered, he limped and couldn't do heavy work. I asked the barefoot doctor in the team to check him out. He said that the broken part might not be connected properly. It would be better to go to the city to take an X-ray, but we don't have any money..."
Li Qiuyue frowned and said, "Where's the old man? Why doesn't he ask them for money to go to the hospital and get your legs healed?"
Li Qiuxia burst into tears again after hearing this, "They saw that Dalin couldn't work and wanted money, so they separated us from our family before the New Year. When they divided the family, they gave us two shabby shacks, two baskets of potatoes, and two bags of corn.
Not only did they not give us a penny, they also gave us a debt of 80 yuan, saying that it was the betrothal money they had given to the Li family, and they still had 80 yuan to pay back, so we should bear the responsibility."
There are three brothers in the Gao family, and Dalin is the second oldest. His father-in-law favors the eldest son, while his mother-in-law favors the youngest son. Dalin is stuck in the middle, the kind of person who is neither loved by his father nor by his mother.
Two baskets of potatoes and two bags of corn could not be sold for a few dollars. Dalin had a lame leg and could not do heavy work. I wanted to take him to see a doctor, but I borrowed money from everyone but could not borrow a penny.
A family of four, two baskets of potatoes and two bags of corn, could not make it to the New Year with just two meals a day. Dalin, with his lame leg, went into the mountains with her to dig kudzu roots, ginger taro and brought them home, mixing them with potatoes and corn flour to survive until now.
This time she came back wanting to borrow some money from her brother and sister-in-law to heal Dalin's leg, but as soon as she entered the house, her sister-in-law asked her to borrow money to get Hongxing a wife.
My grandmother and mother sold themselves to their brothers to get wives, and they never saw a penny. A few years later, they were still owed 80 yuan for selling themselves, and the man's legs were lame again...
She didn't know how many sins she had committed in her previous life, and that's why she has to endure endless suffering in this life. If she didn't have two children, she would have tied herself up with a rope and ended it all.
"How can there be such a mother and father? Your Dalin..." Li Qiuyue swallowed her words before she finished speaking. Isn't her own family like this?
Looking around, how many families in a brigade are like my parents-in-law? No wonder women of the same age in the village often say that they are lucky to have such good parents-in-law.
Li Qiuxia stood up, blushing as she hesitantly said to Li Qiuyue and Zhou Huaishan, "Third sister, third brother-in-law, if your family is well-off, please lend me some money to heal Dalin's leg. Don't worry, we will never default on our debt."
Li Qiuyue glanced at Zhou Huaishan, and when he nodded, she turned around and asked Li Qiuxia, "Okay, we only have this little money with us. How much does it cost to see the leg? I'll ask someone I know to lend it to you."
My family is doing well now, so I'll lend them some money to take care of their legs. Even if they don't pay it back in the future, it will be considered as fulfilling our sisterly friendship.
"Third sister, are you really willing to lend us money?"
Li Qiuxia couldn't believe her ears. They had asked so many people for help since Dalin was injured, including his sisters and her own eldest sister and second sister, but no one was willing to lend them a hand.
I didn’t expect that the one who would take the initiative to lend a helping hand in the end would be the strong-willed third sister.
Li Qiuyue looked at her old appearance, and her nose was sore. She deliberately said with a fierce face: "Are you trying to default on your debt?"
Li Qiuxia hurriedly said, "Third sister, I swear that I will never default on my debt. Dalin can go back to work after his leg is healed. He is very hardworking..."
"Okay, I know you won't default on your debt." Li Qiuyue glared at her in reproach, "Just tell me how much it costs to see your legs. I'll ask your brother-in-law to find someone he knows to lend it to you."
Zhou Huaishan also nodded and said, "We didn't know that my brother-in-law was injured before we came here. How much do you need? I'll go find Secretary Zhang and lend it to you."
Li Qiuxia didn't expect that they would agree without even considering it. She couldn't stop her tears from falling and choked up as she said, "Thank you, Third Sister and Brother-in-law. We didn't know how much it would cost. The doctor in town said that only the county town can take X-rays.
This time I went back to my mother's house with my second brother, and Dalin came with us. I originally wanted to borrow money from my brother and sister-in-law to go to Ning'an, but they said they wanted to find a wife for Hongxing, and there was no money at home. "
She hesitated for a moment, then continued, "We wanted to leave this morning, but my second brother asked us to wait for you to come and ask, so I shamelessly stayed."
The second sister-in-law said that the richest person in the family now is the fourth child, Qiuyue, and the entire Zhou family is collecting red mushrooms and truffles in the surrounding area. She also said that the red mushrooms and truffles in the village can now be sold for money, and many people in the village have built big tiled houses.
Unfortunately, there are more rocks than mud in Jianshanzi, so truffles cannot grow there at all. There are red mushrooms that my second sister-in-law mentioned. I will pick them up and sell them to pay off my debts.
"It's okay. I know very well what kind of people Li Laoer and his wife are. I don't want to bother with them." Li Qiuyue bit her teeth in anger and kept greeting Li Laoer and his wife in her heart.
Seeing that Li Qiuxia didn't know how much the medical treatment would cost, Zhou Huaishan said to Li Qiuyue, "Qiuyue, your brother-in-law is here too. Why don't we take them with us when we go back to Ning'an to ask Wang Zhen for help?"
"Yes, how could I forget about Doctor Wang." Li Qiuyue happily pulled Li Qiuxia and said, "After we visit the grave, you can go to Ning'an with us.
My sister-in-law's husband is a famous doctor in Ning'an. Doctor Wang and his family are very nice. It's a good idea to go see them."
Li Qiuxia was also very happy after hearing this, and looked at the two of them with gratitude, "Third sister, third brother-in-law, thank you so much, you are the savior of our family."
"Why are sisters saying these things?" Li Qiuyue felt a little uncomfortable. She looked around and said, "Li Laoer and his wife left us here. Where did they go?"
"I'm back." Mrs. Li walked in with a big rooster in her hand, smiling. "Your second brother knew you were coming, so he asked me to catch a chicken and kill it and stew it for you."
Before he finished speaking, Li Laoerye and his men came in with a skinny, lame man. "Old Four, you're the closest to home, and you're always the one running behind."
Li Qiuyue was too lazy to argue with him and pretended not to hear. Seeing this, Li Ersao glared at Li Laoer and said, "Qiuyue, ignore him. Qiuxia and the others came yesterday."
"Yes, we came here with my second brother yesterday." Li Qiuxia pointed at the lame man and said to Li Qiuyue, "Third sister, third brother-in-law, he is Dalin."
Li Qiuyue and Zhou Huaishan both greeted with a smile, "Brother-in-law."
"Third sister, third brother-in-law." After hearing this, Gao Dalin limped over and called out with a red face.
Li Laoer glanced at the bicycle parked at the gate and walked over with a smile, "Lao Si, you have come so far on the bicycles, let your sister-in-law cook you a bowl of glutinous rice balls before you go up the mountain."
"No need, let's go to the grave first." Seeing that he was so polite, Li Qiuyue felt that he must have bad intentions and wanted to plot against her family. Thinking of this, she didn't want to stay in Li Laoer's house for even a minute.
Li Lao Er did not object after hearing this, and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, let's go to the grave first, and your sister-in-law and Meili will prepare lunch at home."
"Little sister, let's go." Li Qiuyue carried the vegetable basket, Li Qiuxia picked up her second sister, and the group went out from the back door of the kitchen and headed towards the cemetery in the back mountain. (End of this chapter)
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