Chapter 20 I don’t have a son like you, get out of here
Except for his injured leg, Tang Shengkai's other parts have almost recovered. Lin Cuicui took out a thick wooden stick from the firewood pile and handed it to Tang Shengkai to use as a crutch.
The family pushed the wheelbarrow and walked out of the yard with a clatter. After coming out, Lin Cuicui did not forget to lock the door.
The villagers were worried because of what had happened to Tang Shengkai's family. Since yesterday afternoon, people had been lingering in the village, just to keep an eye out for any spies who might arrive so they could get home and report back.
Before the spies arrived, Tang Shengkai and his family came out pushing bedding and large basins and small bowls, and someone came forward to ask curiously.
"Old Three, where are you going?"
Tang Shengkai's goal today was to sever the relationship. If only his family knew about it, it would be bad if there were any changes in the future and his mother didn't acknowledge it. He was happy to spread the news.
"Well, I'm staying here. I'm going to stay at my mother's for a few days."
"What?" Your mother would let you live with her? With such a big family.
The villager didn't dare to say this out loud, but he quietly followed Tang Shengkai and his family. He thought the third brother was really whimsical, and he had to go along to see the fun.
When someone asked again, Tang Shengkai still gave the same answer. More and more villagers followed him. They walked together, making faces. They were too close to Tang Shengkai's family now, so they couldn't say anything unpleasant.
But everyone knows that it is difficult for Tang Shengkai to enter his mother's house!
But then again, in the whole Qiligou, it is rare to find such biased and heartless women as Tang Shengkai's mother.
I don’t know if Tang Shengkai’s mother suffered a great hardship when she gave birth to him, but she has disliked him since he was a child.
Normally, if her son had encountered such a thing, this old mother would have been crying her heart out. However, it had been nearly a month since Tang Shengkai's accident, and his parents hadn't shown up once.
Li Guiqin learned about Tang Shengkai's family yesterday. Tang Shengjun and Tang Shengli told her everything about the third brother's family after they returned. Li Guiqin immediately ordered her two sons to lock the door tightly and not go out for the next few days.
Li Guiqin still felt unsafe staying at home, and cursed the damned Third Brother in her heart. Why didn't he just die? Now, he had recruited the spies. If they knew that she was the mother of the evildoer, who knew if it would also implicate her.
Tang Shengli and Tang Shengjun had nothing to do at home all morning, so they just took a puff of their big pipes in the yard.
There was a bustling noise outside the courtyard. The two men rolled their eyes, a little tempted, and wanted to go out to see the excitement. But his mother stood at the door and glared at them. They were so scared that they dared not say a word or move.
The noise outside the yard became louder and louder, and soon there were two knocks on the door.
Tang Shengjun and Tang Shengli looked at each other. Usually no one came to their house, so what was going on today?
Li Guiqin heard the bustling noise outside. She thought that these were probably not spies coming, so she was not so worried anymore and glared at Li Yuanzi.
"Didn't you hear the knock on the door? Go open it!"
Li Yuanzi reluctantly got up to open the door. Seeing Lin Cuicui pushing a wheelbarrow and Tang Shengkai and his family leaning on crutches, she hurriedly shouted, "Oh!"
He slammed the door shut and ran back to the yard.
Before Li Guiqin entered the house, she saw Li Yuanzi coming in in surprise.
"You got a burn on your butt? Why are you yelling?"
"Mother, the third brother and his family are here."
"What? It's not a festival, what is he doing here?"
Li Guiqin walked towards the gate while untying her apron. "If Tang Shengkai hadn't come here to give me some money, I'd have slapped him twice."
As he spoke, he had already opened the door, and the people outside the door could also hear the voices just now. The villagers were silent, and Tang Shengkai curled his lips in self-mockery.
Lin Cuicui looked at Tang Shengkai with some concern and said nothing.
As soon as Li Guiqin opened the door, she saw Tang Shengkai standing in front with a cane.
Li Guiqin only opened half the door and looked at Tang Shengkai with a bad look.
"What are you doing here? Do you have five dollars to pay?"
"What, five dollars?"
"What five dollars?"
The villagers expressed their doubts.
Li Guiqin knew she had let the cat out of the bag and stopped talking about the money. "Tell me what you are doing here quickly. If you have nothing to do, go home quickly."
While speaking, she glanced around, afraid that the spy was hiding somewhere and might shoot at her.
"Mom, you should have heard about the spies in my house, right? We are not safe living at home now, so I thought of bringing the children home to hide.
Don't worry, mom, as soon as the spies stop chasing me, we'll move back home."
"What? You rotten bastard, you dare to lure spies into my house? You don't want your mother to live well."
As Li Guiqin spoke, she jumped up in anger, pointing her finger at Tang Shengkai.
"Mom, I'm your biological son. Even if you don't look after me, you should at least look after your grandchildren, right? They're still so young, and you have the heart to watch the secret agents shoot them to death one by one."
"Just die! Just shut up! I don't have a son like you. Get out of here with your whole family! You can't even think of entering my house."
"Mother!"
"Don't call me mom. From now on, I don't have you as my son. Get out! Get away from me right now."
Even though Tang Shengkai had anticipated such a situation, when it really happened, he still couldn't accept it and his heart ached.
"Mom, we are a family. We are in trouble now. Please help us."
Lin Cuicui learned her lesson this time. She did not confront Li Guiqin, but lowered her voice and begged in a low voice, hoping that Li Guiqin could give them a way to survive.
She was truly afraid, afraid that none of her children would survive. She had endured all the grievances of the past, and if she could be protected, she would endure anything.
"You vixen, shut up! If it weren't for you, how could my son have been seduced and lost his soul? He even left me.
You still want to enter my house? I tell you, forget it! Get out of here now, get out as far as you can. I don’t have children or grandchildren like you. Don’t even call yourself my son when you leave. I’ll pretend I never gave birth to you.”
"Mom, are you really going to watch someone die without helping?"
Tang Shengkai's voice deepened. "For so many years, you asked me to give you five dollars every year..."
"Shut up, shut up right there. The five dollars a year is something you voluntarily gave to me as a gift, and you can't get it back."
The crowd went wild. Five yuan! What kind of life is this? How could Tang Shengkai's family possibly save five yuan in a year?
Tang Shengkai closed his eyes, "Mom, do you really not recognize me?"
"Yes, from now on, I don't have a son like you, so just treat me as your mother. Go away now."
Li Guiqin knew clearly in her heart that her son had offended her family and it was uncertain how long he could live. Although the family would be in great difficulty because of the loss of the five dollars a year, it was still better than being shot by the spies.
She didn't like this son since he was born, and she wouldn't be too sad if he died.
"Mom, my son is really in trouble now."
"Bah, get out of here now, or I'll chase you away with a broom. Whether you have difficulties or not is none of my business, so don't tell me that and get out of my house right now, you unlucky thing."
unlucky?
Tang Shengkai laughed, his laugh quite ironically. He hadn't expected his mother to use such words on her own son.
Suppressing the surging emotions in her heart, she said, "Mom, since you really don't recognize me, let's write a letter of severance."
Li Guiqin's eyes lit up. Yes, they had to write a letter of severance. With this, when the spies really came, she could show it to the public. They had nothing to do with Tang Shengkai's family, so the spies couldn't just shoot them, right?
"Yes, yes, yes, you must write a letter of severance.
Let's go to the captain's house now and ask him to be a witness. We'll have to go to the county government to get it stamped later."
Li Guiqin walked out of the yard, muttering to herself as she headed towards the team leader's house.
The villagers watching were dumbfounded. Is this still their mother? This old lady usually speaks softly and gently, but she was so...
Oh, I should have seen that earlier.
The eldest and second sons did not split up, but the third son was kicked out before he even got married. This shows that the third son was also not well-liked. But she did not expect that Tang Shengkai was worthless in Li Guiqin's eyes.
And the reason why Tang Laosan's family is so poor is largely related to the five yuan he has to give Li Guiqin every year, right? What kind of year is this? He still needs five yuan.
Tang Shengkai followed silently behind, leaning on a wooden stick, while Lin Cuicui pushed a cart with four children following beside.
In order to watch the fun, the villagers followed over in a hurry.
"Captain, are you home?" Li Guiqin started shouting from afar before she even arrived at the captain's house.
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