The reason why Liu Yafang sighed was because she was particularly depressed. The reason was actually because of the word "money".
She acted sad because the children were hiding, but that was just the trigger, and she didn't delve into why she was so vulnerable.
In fact, what it all comes down to is the feeling of loss that comes with being a parent but unable to support the family.
After all, no matter how old a child is, he or she still needs care in the eyes of his or her parents, but now the situation is reversed.
Liu Yafang sat on a small stool and sighed at Bi Yue.
The three children are growing up day by day. When they were young, their mother would always call them "mother". But now, not to mention the eldest daughter, even the youngest son knows to cover his head with the quilt and crawl in to poke around when changing clothes.
Once the famine that had weighed on them for years was over and they finally had hope for a better life, the children left home one after another. They only saw each other a few times a year, and their daughter had even left her.
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Why is she sighing all the time? And what does that look mean? Why is my mother so fragile? In just a short while, her expression changes so many times!
Bi Yue, who was still very young, didn't know how to handle these relationships, not to mention that she had never been able to get along with sentimental people.
Because she lacks that kind of thinking, she usually doesn't feel any emotion in her heart.
"No, it's a ticklish spot. Here!" Bi Yue fished it out of the basin and handed it to Liu Yafang: "Then you continue, I'll bear it."
I've already endured it, why are you still rubbing it! This child has developed more problems since going to college, but... Liu Yafang feels that Bi Yue is more talkative than before. She seems to walk and talk more clearly and has a good spirit. This is a good thing!
"Rub it yourself, you don't like me..." As soon as Bi Yue took off the rough cloth and exposed her breasts, Liu Yafang came close and pulled Bi Yue's arms apart, her tone changed:
"What happened? Why is it all red?!"
Bi Yue was also very worried, her face twitching:
"Is there anything you can do to hide the money? Where can I buy some medicine?"
"Stop soaking it, rub it out quickly, just wait!"
Liu Yafang didn't bother to chat and ran straight to the outer room, muttering as she ran: "Why didn't you just say it when you got home? What's wrong with you?!
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In the boiling water in a large iron pot, there were 10 peppercorns and a few slices of ginger. Liu Yafang bent down and used a fire poker to stir the firewood, and the flames gradually became stronger.
The water in the iron pot was boiling even more. The prepared recipe was placed on the stove to cool down. Liu Yafang climbed onto the kang cabinet and found a piece of white pure cotton cloth.
While her mother was busy in the outer room, Bi Yue, with wet hair, was already sitting in the big room, drinking cornmeal porridge and eating rice with Bi Tiegang and her two younger brothers.
The Bi family had a total of a little over five kilograms of rice, and it was stale rice.
Fine rice and white flour are usually used to cook a meal when Liu Yafang's brother Liu Fenghe comes to visit, or when making rice porridge for the old man.
When Bi Tiegang went out to pay back the money that morning, he specifically instructed, "Give the children some rice to eat. Just porridge won't fill them up, so don't skimp!"
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Bi Yue ate the rice crust and shared all the rice with her two younger brothers.
She thought it was really delicious, much better than the millet rice crust in later generations. She had only eaten it when she was very young, because to make it, she had to use the big iron pot of the old days.
Bi Tiegang raised his eyes to look at his sensible daughter and whispered:
"Your grandfather is being stubborn in the house and says he doesn't want to see a doctor."
"Dad, you can't listen to grandpa. He's reluctant to spend the money." Bi Yue quickly stepped forward to express his opinion.
Bi Tiegang nodded: "Yes! We can't listen to him! I've been taking medicine without thinking for years, and the painkillers don't work. I ordered an ox cart, but it won't work today. That ox cart has been ordered by your uncle Wang in the west, and he'll be leaving early tomorrow morning."
He was very kind to Bi Yue, but Bi Tiegang's demeanor changed as soon as he tilted his head. The fatherly look disappeared. He knocked on his youngest son's bowl with his chopsticks and glared at him, saying:
"Tiedan, listen up! Don't go out and have fun! It's so hot, and you're messing around in the stinky water pool every day instead of studying hard. I'll empty my time!"
"Dad, if you have something to say, just say it. What kind of work do you want to assign me? Besides, isn't it hot here? If it wasn't scorching hot, do you think I'd be willing to doggy-paddling in a stinky puddle?" The twelve-year-old boy retorted, his face neither red nor pale, and he lowered his head to pick up some food.
Bi Yue raised her eyebrows and laughed. She picked up the bowl of thin porridge and drank it as if it were cold boiled water. She used two large bowls to cover half of her face and observed her younger brother. She thought this boy was a good boy last night, but it turned out that she was mistaken.
"If I say one thing, you have a hundred things to say to me, you!"
"Drown those who can swim, beat to death those who are stubborn, just listen to what dad says, you little rascal!" Bi Cheng quickly separated his father and his brother.
Bi Tiegang threw away his chopsticks, and his hand unconsciously rubbed his injured leg twice, and continued to order his youngest son in a bad mood:
"Go to your aunt's house and tell her I have something to talk to her about. I'm telling you, don't eat at your aunt's house. Learn to pay attention to her expressions! You both come back to eat, do you understand?"
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What's going on? Is my uncle not very kind to his family? Otherwise, Dad wouldn't have told me that.
In Bi Yue's memory, she had no impression of these trivial family matters at all. She could only make a simple evaluation of who was good and who was bad. She had no idea about anything.
Bi Yue suspected that it was caused by the depression of her predecessor, because that person didn't pay attention or observe at all and was not interested in anything.
She only had a few fragments in her mind now, knowing that her aunt was very good to her. As for her aunt's family situation and what kind of person her uncle was, everything was very vague.
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