Xiaohua was discharged from the hospital in the morning, and it was Sun Ada who came to pick him up again in a tractor.
After packing up her things, Qiuhua wanted to say goodbye to Wu Xin, so she went into the ward he had left yesterday, but she didn't see him.
There are six beds in the ward, four of which are empty, and the nurse is packing one of them.
Qiuhua stood at the door, not knowing what to do. Just then, someone came in and said,
"What are you doing, little girl? Why are you standing in the middle of the road?" The man gently pushed Qiuhua's arm aside, and she tactfully retreated.
"Are you looking for someone? Who?"
"...Looking for..." Thinking about it, even if I told him the name, the person probably wouldn't recognize it, so I gave up.
But the man said nonchalantly while pouring water: "You are looking for that young man, right? I saw you two talking in the corridor yesterday."
Qiuhua's eyes lit up and she said, "Yes! Yes!"
"Don't look for her anymore, she's gone..." The man grimaced from the scalding water, and after a while he said, "His mother is gone..."
"Didn't you hear the big noise last night?"
Qiu Hua shook her head woodenly. The man didn't look at her, but continued to drink water, sighing as he drank, "What a miserable life..."
On the way back, Xiaohua was very happy. His sister gave him two pieces of candy. He immediately put one in his mouth and put the other in his small pocket to eat tomorrow.
The rumbling of the tractor was so loud that even though her father was sitting next to her, he had difficulty speaking to him.
After coming out of the hospital, Qiuhua felt a little depressed, probably because of Wu Xin's matter.
From what the man said just now, Wu Xin's mother is gone. The crying last night was real, not a dream. The waves of suppressed sobbing of the young man were also real.
She thought again of his pale face and thin body, and the indifferent look on his face when he mentioned his mother.
Why did he have such an expression? Qiuhua couldn't understand him at the time, because he had many brothers, and although the conditions were difficult, they had grown up by playing and helping each other, and their mother and father would always save a bite of food for them.
Life is bitter, but the heart is sweet.
But Wu Xin had both toffee and peaches, and it seemed that no one could be more bitter than him.
"Qiuhua, what are you thinking about? You didn't say a word the whole way, just staring blankly."
Dad had to shout hard to make his voice drown out the rumbling of the tractor.
"Dad, I want to ask you something."
Why is the little mermaid so polite to me today?
"Tell me, is there anything I can't ask you?"
Xiaohua was sitting on Liang Genfa's lap. He had finished a piece of candy long ago, and he was thinking about another one. He took it out and put it back again several times. Now he took it out again and couldn't help but peel off the candy wrapper, but he was reluctant to eat it. He pinched the snow-white candy with his little finger, leaving a black mark.
Liang Genfa glared at him fiercely, and the little guy quickly put the candy away and put it in his pocket.
He looked at Qiuhua with a friendly expression again.
"Do you know Wu Xin from our class?"
He frowned and thought hard, then seemed to have come up with something and said, "It's Wu Asan's house in Shuigou Village, right?"
"I don't even know his father's name. His mother died yesterday. She jumped into the river."
After a brief moment of surprise, Liang Genfa returned to his usual expression, and there seemed to be nothing strange about it.
There are only a few ways to commit suicide in the countryside: hanging, drinking poison, or jumping into the river.
Although everyone lives a hard life, farmers are resilient and will not joke with their lives easily. If they really don't want to live, it must be because they have suffered great injustice.
Liang Genfa sighed and said, "He was a miserable man."
Wu Xin's mother was originally a well-known lady from a prominent family in the area. She was also very pretty. Her father was an educated man and later married to a family in Shanghai, also from a scholarly family.
Later, her house was raided by the Red Guards, and her husband was locked up in a pigsty for two months. The pigsty sank into a pond the night he was released.
The situation was the same at her mother's home. When she returned here from Shanghai, she was a little confused.
The mistress of Wu Asan's family in Shuigou Village died and he couldn't find a new wife, so he took her home without caring whether she was stupid or not.
Later, Wu Xin was born.
"What happened next? Why did his mother get so upset?"
Liang Genfa shook his head and said, "I don't know what happened afterwards. It's said that the relationship between the two was not good. One time, they had a fight at the doorstep, and Wu Asan pulled out a handful of my hair!"
Qiuhua was horrified when she heard this. She had seen her father and mother quarreling before. They were just a few words to each other, and the worst that happened was that her mother pushed her father forward a few times.
And this young lady from a scholarly family actually had such an experience.
"Why did she marry that Wu Ah San? She wouldn't have lost her life if she lived alone."
Liang Genfa smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "Little Niangyu, stop talking nonsense. What else can a woman do if she doesn't marry a man?"
Qiu Hua was furious and silent, but she wasn't convinced at all. Who said women and men had to marry? It was just that this person had a marriage, and that person had a marriage, so it was assumed that everyone had to marry. In fact, not marrying was not a matter of life and death.
Wu Xin's mother's marriage ended up costing her her life.
Liang Genfa has three younger brothers. Liang Gensheng works as a worker in Shanghai, Liang Genquan is the one who lent money to Erhua, and the youngest brother is Liang Genlin, who is prepared to be a bachelor for the rest of his life.
Everyone said that Liang Genlin was a loser and couldn't get a wife to be the mistress of the house. However, Qiuhua felt that Third Uncle was still single until now and seemed to be living a very good life. One person's food fed the whole family, and no one nagged him every day. He was so happy!
Seeing Qiuhua didn't say anything, Liang Genfa knew that she was stuck in a dead end and couldn't come back for the time being, so he didn't continue the topic.
The family had dinner together in the evening and my mother cooked several dishes. This was Liang Genfa's first month's salary, a neat thirty-five yuan, and the whole family was very happy.
While Xiaohua was discharged from the hospital, Qiu Zhen went to the street to cut a small piece of pork belly to make braised pork, and bought some pig intestines and pig blood to make soup. She then beat three eggs and fried them together with a vegetarian dish. The three dishes and one soup were very rich.
Qiu Zhen served everyone a big bowl of rice. Having enough to eat was the first great goal of this family.
As the little fish ate the delicious rice, she had completely forgotten all her worries from the day.
"I don't know when my brother will be back."
Qiuhua was talking about Erhua. She thought that there was food and vegetables at home now, and it would be even better if Erhua was there too, so that the whole family could be reunited.
"Eat quickly, he will come back when he wants to."
Liang Genfa didn't seem to care on the surface, but he felt sad in his heart.
Our Erhua will be back soon.
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