When Xie Jiaojiao arrived home, Sun Ruhua was already cooking, still looking happy. When Xie Jiaojiao came back, she smiled and said: "At noon, we used the last bit of bacon from last year to stir-fry cabbage. Mom remembers that you like to eat it. "
Xie Jiaojiao didn't say anything, just responded, then looked at the cabbage beside the threshold and started peeling it.
I feel very uncomfortable!
While on the way, I thought I would ask questions when I came back.
But she was also afraid that she would wrongly accuse Sun Ruhua because of what she heard. Therefore, even if she felt unhappy, she still put on a smile on her face and faced Sun Ruhua, thinking that she would ask her to confirm it tomorrow.
In the afternoon, Zhang Doufu and his wife drove a bullock cart to deliver tofu to her family. Sun Ruhua was shocked: "Daughter, why did you buy so much at once?"
"A friend of Shopkeeper Chen ordered 500 jars of fermented bean curd from us. He will be very busy these days!" Xie Jiaojiao replied calmly.
Sun Ruhua's eyes widened and she counted with her fingers how many five hundred altars there were, but she couldn't figure it out for a long time, but she understood that if she couldn't figure it out, it would be a lot of money!
Xie Jiaojiao looked at so much tofu, then looked at the firewood under the eaves and said to Xie Zhiyi: "When you go to Tian Hu's house, tell him that our family will buy four bundles of firewood from him every day! Let him start tomorrow to buy firewood for our family. Give it away. If he is willing to accept the money, let him give it away only if you ask him to. If he doesn’t accept it, we will find someone else to buy it."
Xie Zhiyi agreed and ran out.
The next afternoon, mother and daughter, one cut tofu and the other steamed tofu, and Xie Zhiyi helped light the fire when he came back.
I was busy until midnight before I finished cleaning it all.
Xie Zhiyi had already gone back to his house to sleep.
Sun Ruhua called to Xie Jiaojiao: "Go to bed quickly. For the rest, mother can come!"
Xie Jiaojiao did not give in, but asked Sun Ruhua to rest.
The two mother and daughter finally finished it together and went back to the house to sleep together.
Before going to bed, Sun Ruhua also said: "Tomorrow I will go to the bamboo forest to cut some bamboo and weave a few bamboo boards. Otherwise, there will be so many bamboo boards that I can't fit them in. I also need to wash the tank, otherwise it won't be able to dry by then. Dry!"
Xie Jiaojiao hummed: "Okay, mother, go to sleep, we will be busy tomorrow!"
Sun Ruhua just fell asleep.
But Xie Jiaojiao couldn't sleep, thinking about what the two women in the village said today. If Sun Ruhua was really like that, wanting to help both sides and taking care of both sides, what should she do?
How should she choose?
If Sun Ruhua didn't express her mentality and attitude, and she blindly allowed Sun Ruhua to waver like this, it would only be her family of three who would be taken advantage of in the end.
Xie Jiaojiao thought to herself that if that time came, she would have no choice but to abandon Sun Ruhua as a mother!
Early the next morning, Xie Jiaojiao said she was going to town, but she didn't say what she was going to do. She ate a steamed bun and a bowl of porridge and went out!
But instead of going to town, she went out and found a random place to hide until she saw Sun Ruhua go out and then to the old house.
She watched Xie Zhili open the door to Sun Ruhua with a smile, and then handed the child in his hand to Sun Ruhua...
Xie Jiaojiao felt that she was very disappointed with Sun Ruhua for a moment!
After returning home silently, Xie Zhiyi got up.
"Sister, you are at home today!"
Xie Jiaojiao asked Xie Zhiyi: "Where is mother?"
Xie Zhiyi looked around: "Mom must have gone to wash clothes!"
Xie Jiaojiao smiled bitterly, "Farmers, how can they have so many clothes to wash every day?"
Xie Zhiyi went to the kitchen and scooped up the rice himself.
He also asked Xie Jiaojiao if she wanted to eat steamed buns.
It could be seen that Xie Jiaojiao looked wrong, so she asked Xie Jiaojiao again: "Sister, why don't you look unhappy?"
Xie Jiaojiao looked at him: "Zhiyi, if mother still can't let go of Xie Zhili's family and wants to go back to live in the old house, will you follow mother or sister?"
When Xie Zhiyi heard what she said, he immediately put down the chopsticks in his hand: "Sister, did you go to the old house?"
Xie Jiaojiao said nothing, but her silence represented acquiescence.
Xie Zhiyi couldn't help but his eyes turned red: "Does she not want us?"
Do not want?
"She wants it both ways."
Xie Jiaojiao walked to Xie Zhiyi: "What about you? Do you want to follow sister or mother?"
Xie Zhiyi hugged Xie Jiaojiao's waist: "I want to follow my sister and mother, and we won't separate!"
Xie Jiaojiao touched his head and said nothing.
Sun Ruhua came back around noon, with a smile on her face. But when she opened the courtyard door and saw Xie Jiaojiao and Xie Zhiyi sitting on the threshold, her face was stunned for a moment, and then she smiled again: " My daughters are back, and I’m going to cook now.”
Xie Jiaojiao and Xie Zhiyi stared at her without speaking.
Sun Ruhua felt a little guilty: "What's wrong?"
"Mom, where have you been?" Xie Jiaojiao asked directly.
Sun Ruhua's face looked a little unnatural: "I just saw that there was nothing going on at home, so I went around the village and talked to your Aunt Wang."
"Oh? Really? But why did I go to Xie Zhili's house to see my mother?" Xie Jiaojiao stood up and said.
There was some embarrassment in Sun Ruhua's eyes: "That...that...mother was just passing by. It was really troublesome for him to take care of the child alone, so she gave me a hand."
"Are you still lying to me?" Xie Jiaojiao also had anger on her face.
This frightened Sun Ruhua, and she hurriedly stepped forward: "My daughter, my daughter, I didn't lie to you. I just saw him pitifully taking care of the child alone..."
"Is he pitiful?" Xie Jiaojiao almost laughed out of anger.
Xie Zhiyi took Xie Jiaojiao's hand.
She cried towards Sun Ruhua and said: "Mom, how pitiful is he? It was he and his eldest brother who drove us out of that home. They once sold my sister, beat me, and forced you to die. You have forgotten all this. ?Do you not want me and my sister anymore?"
Sun Ruhua waved her hands hurriedly: "No, no, mother just thinks that he can't take care of the child alone, so she just wants to help!"
Xie Jiaojiao's eyes turned cold when she looked at her. She held Xie Zhiyi's hand and said to Sun Ruhua: "Mom, do you think he is pitiful? Every morning, I endure the cold wind and go to town to sell things." Is he pitiful? Isn’t it pitiable that Zhiyi goes to the river to catch crabs every day? They have nothing to do every day, and they come to look for trouble from time to time. You actually think he is pitiful? "
Sun Ruhua was speechless. For her, the palms and backs of her hands were all flesh!
"Jiaojiao, what do you want my mother to do? You don't know that baby, it's so small, when my mother held it, it was almost lifeless! Your second brother..."
"He is not my brother! I broke up with him a long time ago!"
"But……"
"Since Mom feels pity over there and feels pity for their family, Mom should pack up her things and go live with them!" Xie Jiaojiao finally said these words...
Sun Ruhua looked at Xie Jiaojiao in disbelief: "Jiaojiao, are you trying to drive mother away?"
