Just as Lin Qingmei picked up a lot of dry firewood and was about to come back, she heard Lin Zheng exclaim.
Her heart tightened, and she hurried over to check, only to see a toad jumping past Lin Zheng's feet.
Lin Zheng was so frightened that his face turned pale. He rarely saw this kind of thing in the village when he was young.
Lin Qingmei was relieved to see that it was a toad. She thought her insect repellent bag was useless and Lin Zheng had encountered a snake! "What's there to be afraid of a toad? Look how scared you are."
"It's jumping around in the bushes, and I can't see what it looks like. Unknown things are the scariest things." Lin Zheng would never admit that he was a coward. It was just that the toad was too hateful and hid in the bushes and didn't come out.
"Then are you going to pick wild strawberries? If not, we'll go home." Lin Qingmei had just picked up two large bundles of dry branches, and she had achieved her goal of going up the mountain today.
"No more picking, let's go back quickly!"
On the way back, Lin Zheng followed Lin Qingmei closely. There were many graves on this mountain, and he always felt eerie behind him.
After getting down the mountain, Lin Zheng's tense nerves finally relaxed.
After arriving home, Lin Qingmei washed the wild strawberries and gave some to Lin Zheng to eat, and planned to make wild strawberry jam with the other part. She found a jar, mashed the wild strawberries, added a little sugar and slowly boiled it.
Lin Zheng looked at it curiously, "Second sister, can this be turned into jam?"
"Yes, then you can spread it on steamed buns or pancakes and eat it."
At this time, there was a knock on the door. It turned out to be the village postman.
The postman brought a letter from Aunt Peng from Northeast China.
Originally, Lin Qingmei didn't want to read the letter, but worried that Lin Zheng might have something to ask, Lin Qingmei thought about it and decided to open it.
After Lin Qingmei finished reading the letter, her face turned grim. She had never expected that within less than a year, Yao Yanfang would kill herself.
Aunt Peng told Lin Qingmei in the letter that at the end of last month, Yao Yanfang had a quarrel with her husband over the issue of her daughter-in-law not paying for food expenses.
The more Lin Qingmei read, the more she frowned. The letter said that Yao Yanfang drank pesticide in a fit of rage, and when her husband found out, she was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, but ultimately she could not be saved.
Lin Zheng came over and asked, "Second sister, what did the letter say? Why do you look so serious?"
Lin Qingmei hesitated for a moment and said softly, "It's about your mother's news. She passed away."
Lin Zheng was stunned for a moment, his eyes wide open in disbelief, but when he thought about how she had often threatened to kill herself by drinking pesticides before, he let it go. "She's always like this, saying she's going to kill herself by drinking pesticides when we have a fight, but I didn't expect that she would really do it now."
Lin Qingmei gently patted Lin Zheng's shoulder. She was different from Lin Zheng. She never considered Yao Yanfang as her mother. But Lin Zheng was different. He had lived with Yao Yanfang for seven years. "Don't be sad. You will have your elder sister and second sister to accompany you in the future."
"Second sister, I'm fine and not sad. The moment she didn't want us, she was no longer my mother. I just couldn't accept it for a while. How could she die? I was thinking of taking revenge on her when I grow up!" Lin Zheng cried as he spoke. The person he hated for so long suddenly died, and his heart suddenly felt empty.
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