Chapter 281 The Excellent Aunt in the Period Literature 2
After Chen Liang got married, he settled down in the city. His whole family lived in the county town and rarely returned to the village. Except during the holidays, the two families only saw each other twice a year.
There is a saying that goes, "Things far away smell good, but things close by stink." As the two families met less frequently, the relationship between the two brothers seemed to have become closer.
Unexpected things happen in life, and people are subject to misfortunes at any time. Just when Chen Guang's family was getting better and better, Chen Liang died in an accident at the factory.
As soon as Chen Liang died, his wife remarried with the pension given by the factory and the couple's savings over the years.
It doesn’t matter if she gets married, but she still has several children at home!
Dad died, mom remarried, and she remarried in another county. How are these children going to survive?
The eldest child is only ten years old, the second and third children are twins, a boy and a girl, and are nine years old, and the youngest child is only five years old. They are all children who are not yet able to live independently.
When Chen Guang rushed to the city after receiving the news of his brother's accidental death, all he saw were a few poor little kids who were left unattended.
When Chen Lai, the eldest of the four children, saw his uncle, he finally came to his senses from the blow of losing his parents. He hugged Chen Guang and cried heart-wrenchingly. The second, third and fourth children also cried with him!
Chen Guang looked at the children left behind by his younger brother and burst into tears. When he returned home, he asked to take the children back to raise them.
Of course the original owner was extremely unwilling at the time.
But no matter how unwilling she was, she couldn't bear to see such young children left unattended.
In those days, no one had a good life, and they couldn't give their children away at will. They could only follow Chen Guang to the county to pick up the child, cursing.
When going to pick her up, the original owner was still comforting herself in her heart: The child is young and doesn't eat much, so it's just a matter of adding a few pairs of bowls and chopsticks. At most, she can eat less and do more work!
It would be great if the children grow up a little and can support themselves!
The original owner convinced herself in this way, but she didn't expect that what she brought back were not just children, but living ancestors.
They are not good at anything they do, and nothing they eat is enough. Even so, they complain that the food is not as good as before and are very picky.
Such a child without good eyesight, not to mention that the original owner was just an aunt, even his own parents would probably despise him.
Before the original owner could say a few words to them, the older one looked humiliated, and the younger one cried and howled for his parents and wanted to go back to his home.
Every time they made a fuss like this, Chen Guang felt so distressed that he wanted to cut off his flesh and feed it to the little guys, accusing the original owner of being too harsh.
If Chen Guang was only kind to the children himself, the original owner would not say much even if he was unhappy. It is indeed pitiful for the children to have lost their biological parents!
But Chen Guang seemed to have a serious mental illness. Not only was he kind to the children himself, he also required the original owner and her two children to be kind to Chen Lai and his siblings.
Whenever the original owner's two children had a conflict with Chen Lai's siblings, Chen Guang would beat his own two children indiscriminately.
The original owner was so angry that her heart ached, and she cursed Chen Guang for being crazy. They were pitiful because they had no parents, but her two children had parents, so they deserved to be bullied by them?
Chen Guang was very righteous. It was pitiful enough that his nephews and nieces had lost their parents. It would be too pitiful if he, as their uncle, did not treat them well.
Several children also hated this aunt who was not friendly to them, especially Hu Lai, who had a glimmer in his eyes when he looked at the original owner.
The original owner was furious and completely heartbroken. She no longer had a good face towards her brothers and sisters, and her temper became worse and worse. Neighbors could often hear her yelling at the children at home.
Su Li: Every day when he comes back from the fields, he is hated by a few wolf cubs. It would be strange if the original owner's face could be good.
The original owner was angry, but he still did his job. After working in the fields every day, he would go to work at home. With a few more living relatives to take care of at home, the original owner became busier and more tired, and his temper became even worse.
However, these children knew that if they pushed their limits, they would take a few steps forward whenever the original owner took a step back, constantly testing Chen Guang's bottom line.
The fact is that Chen Guang has no bottom line when it comes to loving them. He agrees to any request the children make, regardless of whether he can do it or not.
He can't do it, but doesn't the original owner still exist?
I buy snacks today, new clothes tomorrow, and want to send my children to school the day after tomorrow.
Her own two children haven't even started school yet, how can they be so confident?
Chen Guang advised the original owner to be more generous and kind, because that was his brother's child!
His younger brother is gone, so what's wrong with her, as the eldest aunt, taking care of the child more?
His younger brother is smart and capable, and his children will be great in the future too!
Be nice to the children. When they become successful in the future, they will not forget the kindness of their aunt!
Providing food for a few children is already a kind thing to do. Asking her to support four children in school is like asking her to die.
It's not like she doesn't have children, so why would she want other people's children to remember her kindness after they become successful?
Even though the original owner disagreed, in the end, Chen Lai and his siblings went to school as they wished, and the original owner's two children also went with them.
The original owner's two children were not good at studying and refused to go after two years.
On the contrary, Hu Lai and his siblings all have good academic performance and love learning!
Su Li: I don’t have to work at school, and I can even get private lessons from time to time. How can I not love it?
It is said that the little brats will eat their father out of house and home. Now that four of them are here and only eat and do nothing, won’t the family become poorer and poorer?
The lives of other families were getting better and better, but her family was having a harder time each year, and they often didn't have enough food to eat.
The original owner fell down the mountain this time because her family had been out of food for several meals in a row, so she took advantage of the cool morning to go up the mountain to find something to eat.
It is said that you live by the mountain, but at this time every household is short of food and clothing, and now it is the season of lean season, and the little food in the mountains has long been picked up!
The original owner wandered around the mountain for a long time and only dug up a few wild vegetables. When he was about to go down the mountain, he saw a nest of pheasant eggs.
Unexpected surprises always make people feel pleasantly surprised and their motivation is doubled. When the hungry and tired original owner saw the pheasant eggs, he instantly felt less dizzy, his legs were no longer weak, and he felt full of energy.
I went to pick up eggs with great enthusiasm, but my hands and feet were weak, and I lost my balance and rolled down.
The original owner rolled down and hit the ground, and immediately fainted from the pain.
Then, Su Li came!
In the plot, the original owner did not wake up so early after fainting. This valley is far away from the village, and villagers generally do not come here, so no one discovered the unconscious original owner.
The original owner's two children went home after work and prepared lunch. When they found out that the original owner, who usually rushed back to cook after work, had not returned today, the brother and sister were worried that something had happened to him, so they ran up the mountain.
The brother and sister didn't know the exact location of the original owner. They only knew that the original owner had gone up the mountain, so they could only search all the places where the villagers often went.
This mountain doesn't look big, so it's really not easy to find someone in it.
When the brother and sister found the original owner, they saw him lying on the ground with a pale face and unconscious.
The brother and sister were so scared that they cried and tried to find a way to send the original owner to the health center.
The original owner might really have been lucky. She fell so badly and lay in the hot sun for most of the day without food or water. She just got a bandage and some medicine in the clinic, and she survived!
If other people were to suffer this blow, they would probably be told: Those who survive a great disaster will surely have good fortune in the future!
But the original owner, a cunning and mean person, survived, and people only said a few words behind his back like "a disaster for thousands of years"!
Although the original owner survived, he became lame due to untimely treatment and the limited medical level of the health center.
I had multiple fractures at the time, and they didn't heal properly, so I suffered from sequelae and my health deteriorated a lot.
The original owner couldn't do heavy work, so the family lost a strong laborer and an income, and life became more difficult.
The original owner's two children worked even harder to earn work points, just to save enough money to take the original owner to a big city to see a doctor.
After working hard for a year, the production team finally distributed the money at the end of the year, but the two children didn't even get a single ounce of it before Chen Guang spent it on his nephews and nieces.
When the original owner's son Chen Yang found out, he was so angry that he had a fight with Chen Guang without caring about anything. In addition to being seen as disobedient and unfilial by outsiders, he was also left with injuries.
When the original owner was still able to work in the fields to earn work points, his mother and his two children could not get enough to eat. After the original owner could no longer do heavy work, one can imagine what kind of life she lived.
Later, Chen Yang took the risk and engaged in speculation. Maybe it was because he was lucky, or maybe he had some brains, but he really made money.
The lives of the mother and her two children finally improved, but before they could enjoy a few days of good times, Chen Yang was arrested in the black market.
At that time, there was no reform and opening up yet, and speculation and profiteering were strictly punished. Chen Yang was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison.
When the original owner learned that her son was arrested, she felt like the sky was falling. She thought it was all her fault.
If she had been more careful, she would not have fallen off the mountain, and her son would not have taken the risk to do such a dangerous thing.
She really wished she had died when she fell down the mountain so that her son would not be harmed.
Chen Yang was in jail, and Chen Guang felt that it was the original owner's fault as a mother who had failed to educate her child well, so he used this as an excuse to divorce the original owner.
The original owner was disheartened. If she hadn't wanted to wait for Chen Yang to come out, she would have wanted to die so as not to drag her daughter down.
The original owner was divorced and had nowhere to go. The village chief felt sorry for her and her daughter, so he lent them an unused, dilapidated house in the village.
The original owner lived a miserable and lonely life, but Chen Guang and his nephews and nieces lived a more and more prosperous life.
After the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, Chen Guang’s three nephews and nieces who had graduated from high school were admitted to university.
Chen Guang also remarried, and the two had a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, and lived a happy life.
Everyone in the village said that the original owner was too mean and unlucky. If he had been nicer to his children, he wouldn't have ended up like this.
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Rustle, rustle...
Su Li paused as he was sorting out his memories, and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw two gray rabbits eating grass in the dense grass.
Su Li glanced at the ground, quickly picked up two stones and threw them at the rabbit.
With two "bangs", two fat rabbits fell to the ground!
Su Li took a few steps forward, picked up the rabbit and weighed it. "It's quite fat. Am I just waiting for the rabbit to come to me?"
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When Su Li returned home, the people working in the fields had not yet finished their work. Only Chen Lai and Chen Xi were in their respective rooms reading.
Chen Xi is the only girl among her brothers and sisters, and the second oldest.
Chen Xi read comic books all morning and felt a little tired, so he decided to go to the kitchen to get a ladle of cold water to cool down!
As soon as she walked out of the room, she saw Su Li covered in mud.
Seeing the mean aunt-in-law in a mess and having fallen hard, Chen Xi felt that all the fatigue from reading for the whole morning disappeared!
This old woman always gives them brothers and sisters a hard time. Is this her retribution?
Serves you right!
Chen Xi gloated in his heart, and a hint of gloating also appeared on his face. "Oh, aunt, you didn't go to work this morning, so where did you get so embarrassed? It looks like you fell pretty hard, are you okay?"
It would be better if she was broken, and it would be even better if she turned into a fool, then we can see if she can still be crazy?
Su Li rolled his eyes and squinted at her: "Why, is it that I'm bothering you if I don't go to work? What's it to you, a freeloader?"
When Chen Xi heard Su Li say that she eats free rice, her face suddenly darkened, "Who are you talking about who eats free rice?"
"I'm talking about you. You stay at home all day and do nothing. What else do you eat if not white rice? I haven't been to the fields all morning and you're still here whining. Do you have the right to whinge?"
Chen Xi's fair face flushed with anger. What's wrong with her eating white rice? She didn't eat hers.
Chen Lai, who was reading in the room, came out when he heard the sound. He had regular features, fair skin, and was holding a book in his hand. He didn't look like a country boy at all.
Su Li noticed at a glance that the clothes he was wearing did not have a single patch on them and looked very new, probably having been bought not long ago.
The original owner had been hungry for several meals, and this nephew who was living under someone else's roof actually had new clothes to wear?
Chen Lai saw Su Li staring at him and frowned unhappily.
"What's wrong with you, Aunt? What did my sister do wrong that you're still nagging her? If she did something wrong, you can tell me. I'll tell her that Aunt has no right to yell at her!"
When Chen Xi was defended by his elder brother, he immediately felt very aggrieved. His eyes were filled with tears. He sniffed and called out "elder brother" in a wronged manner.
Su Li was so angry at the two ungrateful people that she laughed. She sneered, "I don't have the qualifications? Chen Lai, you better understand. If it weren't for me, you brothers and sisters wouldn't know where to beg for food!"
"Why didn't you say I wasn't worthy when you were eating the food I earned and spending my money? Now that you've grown stronger, you know to say I wasn't worthy?"
If it weren't for the original owner, a big fool with a hard mouth and a soft heart, their uncle would have worked himself to death in the fields every day and still not earned enough to pay for the tuition for four people.
Chen Lai's face darkened terribly when he heard this, and he clenched his hands tightly around his thighs.
Here it comes again. That's it. Although they were not kicked out of this house, they had to live their lives according to Su Li's mood all the time.
He really couldn't stand living under someone else's roof like this anymore. If it weren't for his uncle's genuine love for them, he would have taken his younger brothers and sisters away from this place long ago.
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