In the family compound, Lin Zheng was having a tantrum with Yao Yanfang. He waited for a long time in the nursery last night but no one came to pick him up. Later, Teacher Wang from the nursery dropped him off on the way home after work.
When he returned home, he saw a big lock hanging on the door. If his neighbor Hammerhead hadn't taken him home, he would have been homeless last night.
He waited at the door early in the morning that day and finally waited for Yao Yanfang to come home.
"Mom, where's my eldest sister? Is that blood on the corner of the wall hers? I heard that you forced her to commit suicide."
"Don't listen to the nonsense people outside say. Your sister just can't think of anything to turn me off?" How could Yao Yanfang admit that Lin Qinglan was forced to commit suicide by herself? How could she know that Lin Qinglan's tolerance was so poor! If I had known earlier, I would have given her more money. It's unbelievable that she committed suicide for such a small amount of money. She was laughed at by the people in the army.
"I know you don't want me and my sister anymore. Look, you have packed all your things, but my sister and I's things are still in the room. You didn't want my second sister before, and you don't want us now." Lin Zheng held back his tears and didn't want them to fall. He was a boy and couldn't cry. His father said that only women would cry.
"Zheng'er, why don't you and your elder sister go back to find your second sister? Mom's life is not easy. If you go back, you can not only reduce Mom's burden, but also let the three of you live together. Your hometown is close to the sea. As long as you work hard every day, you won't have to worry about food and drink. Unlike your grandma and the others, they work hard every year, but at the end of the year, they still don't have enough food to eat."
Yao Yanfang is the eldest in the family. She was lucky enough to save an old military doctor, and then she was taken by the old military doctor to learn for several years. After the old military doctor died, she took over the old military doctor's job and became a surgeon in the military hospital.
However, due to her mediocre medical skills, she has never been promoted. The people who worked with her at the time were already attending physicians in the department, while she was still a physician's assistant.
After she got a job, she has been subsidizing her parents' home. Even after she got married, the money that Lin Jianshe asked her to send back to her hometown was given to her parents' home by her.
Over the years, she gave part of the family's money to her parents, and she spent most of the rest. Now she only has the pension and the two thousand yuan that Lin Jianshe's teammates put together. Four thousand yuan seems like a lot, but Lin Jianshe is gone, and the little money she has is not enough for her to subsidize her parents.
How could her maternal love for Lin Zheng and Lin Qinglan be worth the money? If Lin Zheng was not waiting for her at the doorstep, she would have wanted to just take the money and run away. After all, the army would not let the two children starve to death.
"You've said so much, but it turns out you don't want us anymore. You can stop wanting us, but you should keep dad's pension! That was the money that bought my dad's life, and you don't deserve it." Lin Zheng didn't come up with these words himself, of course. Last night, Brother Hammer talked to him for a whole night, telling him to keep the money, otherwise he and his elder sister would not be able to survive.
In fact, Lin Zheng did not understand. He was six years old and had grown up in the army. How could he not know what sacrifice was? He had a friend whose father died and his mother remarried with the pension. If a soldier uncle had not adopted him, he would have been homeless.
He stayed awake all night last night thinking about this situation. Sure enough, he would be abandoned by his mother just like his friends.
"You are still young, why do you need so much money? Leave the money with me first, and come back to me for more when you get married." Yao Yanfang only said this lip service. She would never give the money. If she gave the money to her two children, what would she do in the future?
Lin Qinglan was sixteen years old, and she was old enough to get married. Wouldn't it be OK for her to marry Lin Zheng with her? It was good enough that she didn't just marry Lin Qinglan to someone else, and it was impossible for her to give them the money.
"If you don't leave the money to me and my sister, then we will go to the military leaders. I don't believe they will ignore us, the families of the martyrs."
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