The brother and sister who were far away in their hometown didn't know anything about their eldest brother's service in the army. They were squatting together, head to head, pinching their noses as they looked at the last package.
"Grandma?"
Wei Ci was at a loss.
"That's grandma, my mother's mother."
Wei Ci suddenly realized.
"Brother, didn't you say that my maternal family lives far away from us and doesn't care much about us? Why would they send a package?"
The whole package was filled with dried kelp, seaweed, dried shrimp, dried fan meat and other seafood, as well as two bottles of crab sauce. When he opened it, the fishy smell almost made Wei Ci faint.
"It's just that we're far away, not that we've severed ties."
Wei Qingfeng slapped Wei Ci on the forehead and rolled his eyes at her.
Wei Ci rubbed his forehead, thinking about the distance between them, and couldn't help asking the question in his heart: "How did my mother get married from Dongshan to this place outside the pass?"
Wei Qingfeng didn't know either. He just heard his parents talk about it once or twice during the holidays when he was a child. Every time at that time, his mother would be in a much lower mood.
"Well, it's probably like our father went there for half a month, and when he came back he had no wages but a new wife, our mother."
Her mother was always depressed during the Chinese New Year and other holidays. Later, I found out that she missed her family, but she never said it. No one could comfort her except her father. It was only after Aci was born that her mother slowly forgot about the past.
He later speculated that his grandmother's family must have had a difficult time at the time, either because they had no food to eat or because his uncle was getting married. In any case, they needed a reason to sacrifice their daughter's wishes.
So, his father gave away all his wages and bought a new wife. His mother hadn't thought about going back for more than ten years, probably because she still had some resentment in her heart. Fortunately, her mother was lucky enough to meet his father, who was obsessed with wives. In his heart, apart from his wives, there were only his daughters. He and his elder brother seemed to be adopted.
"There's not a single word from them. I don't know what's going on over there. Do they know that my parents are gone?"
"Well, I sent a telegram, but there was no response."
He probably didn't care. After all, she was just a married woman who lived thousands of miles away. He was probably prepared to never see her again in his life. But he couldn't understand why she was willing to send things when she was unwilling to give any news.
"Oh, don't think about it. It's not right. Things will work out in time. Hurry up and put it away. The smell is too strong."
Her curiosity was not satisfied. Wei Ci disliked the bad smell and ran back to her room. She was going to try to adapt to her own great strength. If she continued like this, she would really tear down this house.
"Okay, I'll take some time to send some to Second Grandma and Third Grandma."
"You decide!"
Before he could finish his words, the man had disappeared.
Wei Qingfeng was helpless. A few days ago, this girl still had the aura of a lady from a wealthy family, but now she has become as impetuous as the other girls in the village. Even her Wu accent, which was soft and gentle at the beginning, has changed a lot. It is still soft, but with a bolder air.
He wanted to laugh when he thought about how he once suspected his sister was possessed by a ghost, but before he could do anything, he dreamed of being beaten by his parents for seven nights in a row, and they scolded him for being stupid.
Yes, this is his sister, his biological daughter. It’s just that her main soul has returned to its place and regained consciousness. What’s the big deal? He is making a fuss about nothing.
In the afternoon, the brother and sister each took an axe and a hemp rope to go to the back mountain to collect firewood.
The temperature in the mountains was too low. In some places, even the frost that fell at night had not melted yet. A crystal clear layer of frost tightly covered the grass and the ground. When Wei Ci stepped on the thin thousand-layer soles of his shoes, he felt a slight chill, which made him jump with cold.
Wei Ci suddenly gained a lot of strength for no apparent reason. Although it seemed like no change at all, the actual operation made Wei Qingfeng extremely envious.
He needed to grit his teeth and chop more than ten axes of wood, but Wei Ci could do it with just a kick. He had to use all his strength to carry the firewood he had piled up with great effort, but Wei Ci could easily carry it with just a casual pick.
Four hours later, he threw away his dignity as a brother and collapsed on a tree stump, refusing to get up. He stayed there and cheered for his sister with slogans.
"Come on, Ah Ci! Chop more firewood today, and you'll have more warmth in the winter."
"Aci..."
"Aci..."
Wei Ci's eye twitched, and when she looked up, she happened to meet an old lady who was also going up the mountain to chop firewood. As soon as their eyes met, Wei Ci felt the other party's extreme sympathy.
"Wei family boy, you can't bully your sister like this. She's still young, and she's a girl. Be careful not to grow taller if she does too much work. Oh, with parents gone, the girls have become pitiful little things."
Even though she lowered her voice when she said the last sentence, Wei Ci and her sister still heard it clearly.
Seeing Wei Qingfeng's dark and aggrieved face, Wei Ci turned her head away, holding back her laughter and not daring to speak, for fear that she would laugh out loud.
"Aunt Meng, I just wanted to take a break, seriously! I didn't bully Ah Ci!"
Aunt Meng sighed and said earnestly, "Hey, young man from the Wei family, your sister is still young, you have to give in to her. If your second and third grandmothers knew that you were bullying little Ah Ci like this, they would definitely beat you up."
Wei Qingfeng felt so depressed by her nagging that he quickly helped her tie up the firewood and watched her go down the mountain. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and sat back down.
He wiped the sweat off his forehead and watched his sister casually wave her hand, and a tree trunk as thick as her thigh snapped into two pieces. Then, with a few whooshes, firewood of even length and thickness was neatly placed in front of him.
"You little bastard, you didn't even bother to say a word for me just now."
Wei Ci smiled and acted decisively, not at all like the delicate young lady she was that morning.
"I'm afraid that what I said would only add fuel to the fire, and then the Second and Third Grandmas would really come and beat you up."
Upon hearing this, Wei Qingfeng lay down, feeling helpless.
It's strange to say, people in other villages and towns, although they don't have a serious preference for boys over girls, they also prefer boys to girls. But why is it that the people in Magou Village are different? If a family has a girl, they would like to pamper her like a lady. Except for a few who treat boys as treasures, the rest are daughter slaves.
Thinking of this, Wei Qingfeng turned his head and ended up laughing out of anger.
"Are you offering me tribute? I, your brother, am still alive!"
This girl was placed so neatly in front of him, and her shape looked as if she was just short of having three incense sticks inserted into her.
Wei Ci was laughing foolishly, with all her strength gone but nowhere to use it, she was so happy as if she had been injected with chicken blood. The whole forest was filled with her joy as she tossed around back and forth, which made Wei Qingfeng laugh. He didn't know how this girl could make herself so happy just by picking up some firewood.
The brother and sister carried firewood home for several days in a row. After bringing it back home, they stacked it neatly under the firewood shed in the backyard. Looking at it, the firewood was evenly thick and the wood grain made people feel more relaxed.
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