While He Xiaojing was on the phone with Yang Mo, she followed Yang Ting with a fishing net. Both of them had flashlights tied to their foreheads, like hunters who went out to hunt birds at night.
While she was laughing and chatting with Yang Mo on the phone, she accidentally stepped on a small pit with her foot while walking, and fell into the river with an "ah" sound.
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
Yang Ting was frightened by her sister-in-law's cry and looked back. When she saw He Xiaojing falling into the water, she turned around without stopping and came over to help her up.
As a result, He Xiaojing's cell phone fell into the water.
"Wife, wife...what's wrong with you?"
Yang Mo, who was chatting happily on the phone, his face suddenly darkened, but Zhang Hu next to him didn't know anything about it. He just heard him calling his wife hurriedly on the phone. Because he was standing far behind Yang Mo watching him talking on the phone.
Yang Mo saw that the phone was still connected, but his wife on the other side of the phone had stopped talking, so he hung up the phone and called Yang Ting.
"Hey, Xiaoting, what's wrong with your sister-in-law? Why did she suddenly stop talking on the phone just now? Did something happen?"
"Brother, my sister-in-law accidentally stepped on a pothole and fell into the water. Now she is injured. Come and take a look. Walk up the opposite side of the river from our house."
"Okay, okay, I'll be there right away."
After hanging up the phone, he told Zhang Hu to wait for him at home and prepared to rush out.
"You wait here for now, I'll be right back."
"Wait, I'll come with you!"
"It's not a big deal, just wait here."
"It's okay, I'll go check it out with you, just in case there's anyone who needs me!"
Zhang Hu gave him a reassuring look, and then saw that Yang Mo didn't say anything anymore, so he followed him.
On the other side of the river not far from Yang Mo's house, Yang Ting helped her sister-in-law to a riverside and sat down, then carefully checked the injuries on her legs.
"Ah...it hurts so much."
Yang Ting looked at the wound on her knee that was scratched by a stone as long as a finger. When the wound was still bleeding, she regretted that she had let her follow him to the river to catch bullfrogs tonight, so she said aggrievedly: "Sister-in-law , I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have brought you to the river to be with me.”
Seeing Yang Ting lowering her head and blaming herself, He Xiaojing also comforted her: "Oh, it's okay, it's okay. I hurt myself accidentally. It's not your fault."
"No, sister-in-law, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have brought you here tonight."
"Oh, don't cry! Let's wait until your brother comes." Seeing Yang Ting lowering her head and twitching about to cry, He Xiaojing touched the back of her head and comforted her.
After a while, not far down the river, two flashlights slowly appeared. He Xiaojing and Yang Ting seemed to hear a familiar voice coming from there: "Xiaoting, wife..."
"Yang Ting……"
It was Yang Mo and Zhang Hu who made the sound, with Zhang Hu following closely behind.
Yang Ting heard her eldest brother calling her, so she raised her phone, turned on the flashlight, shook it left and right, and shouted: "Brother...brother, my sister-in-law and I are here, come quickly."
"Husband, we are here..." Seeing her husband coming up from below, He Xiaojing also shouted.
When the two came to them and saw He Xiaojing sitting on the stone with her trousers rolled up high, and a scar almost as long as a finger scratched by the stone appeared on her fair thigh, Yang Mo came closer. He said distressedly: "Honey, what's wrong with you? Why are you so careless?"
As soon as Yang Mo finished speaking, Yang Ting, who was standing next to her, said with a look of grievance and self-blame: "Brother, it's all my fault. It's my fault for bringing my sister-in-law here and asking her to catch bullfrogs with me. If you want to blame, just blame me! "
"Xiaoting, how could you bring your sister-in-law to the river? There are sharp stones everywhere in the river. Fortunately, the wound is not big. If you hurt a muscle, you will be hospitalized."
Hearing his sister's answer, Yang Mo turned around and scolded her.
"Okay, okay, I asked to follow Xiaoting here, and I accidentally fell down myself, so don't blame her."
"This is not a question of blame or not. The problem is that the river is very dangerous. The rocks are sharp and there are water snakes in it. What should I do if I get bitten? Xiaoting is really shameful."
"What's the matter with you? You open and close your mouth to scold Xiaoting. I've already told you that I accidentally fell it. It's not her fault. It has nothing to do with her at all..."
Seeing Yang Mo scolding her sister and making her cry, He Xiaojing rolled her eyes coldly and scolded Yang Mo: "My little injury won't affect me. A band-aid will fix it. Okay, look at Xiaoting. Everyone cried."
"Okay, it's all my fault, I don't blame her anymore."
Yang Mo also realized that his behavior just now was a bit rude, so he turned his head and just looked at his sister without saying a word.
From childhood to adulthood, Yang Mo has been protecting her and taking care of her all the time, but this time he has become different. He just scolded her when he opened his mouth. After seeing his wife injured, he did not always protect Yang like before. Ting.
In fact, Yang Mo didn't mean to scold her, but wanted to teach Yang Ting a lesson. He was afraid that similar situations would happen again in the future, and maybe it would be more serious than this incident, because the two siblings had been scolding each other since they were young. Born in a rural area, I have to be careful no matter what I do. Otherwise, I don’t know that one day I will regret it when disaster strikes.
Although being poor is a bit poor, as long as you do things right and upright, you won't have any worries, and you won't have any regrets in anything you do.
Yang Mo is Yang Ting's biological brother, but sometimes he is more like a father who teaches her how to behave and do things. To teach her how to behave in society is to let her understand the basic moral qualities. It can be said that Yang Mo has surpassed his sister. fulfill the responsibilities a father should have.
It's just that Yang Mo is not usually very mean to his sister. Tonight's reaction can be said to be the first time he has been so to Yang Ting, because Yang Ting will take the college entrance examination in about a year and will go to college after the college entrance examination. After going to college, Yang Mo may communicate less with his sister.
It is said that college is the best test of a person's vanity. Children who come from rural areas may not be very wealthy in terms of material conditions. This depends on whether they can ignore worldly views and continue to grow up. The most important quality a person should have is to hone himself and make his heart strong. Not caring about the rumors around him is the most important quality a person should have.
Zhang Hu, who was standing behind Yang Mo, seemed to have eaten a lot of dog food, and was blinded by the love between the two of them.
In order to ease the atmosphere, he also advised Yang Mo: "Okay, okay, I'll give my sister-in-law some medicine when I go back later, and don't keep scolding Yang Ting. After all, no one expected this to happen."
Yang Mo also felt that he was indeed too impulsive, so he said: "Okay, Xiaoting can't be completely blamed for what happened. I also made mistakes. I should have warned her when I went out just now. "
"Okay, since everything is fine, let's go back first!"
"good."
When Yang Mo came around to carry He Xiaojing back, the flashlight on her forehead suddenly lifted up and shone on Yang Mo's face. The bloodshot eyes on the corners of Yang Mo's mouth during the fight with Zhang Hu just did not attract He Xiaojing's attention. There were also bruises on the cheekbones. At this time, she also discovered the injuries on Yang Mo, so she asked him in surprise: "Husband, what's going on on your face? Why is your mouth bleeding? Also, what's wrong with your face?" Where did you get those bruises?"
"Uh... uh this... this." Yang Mo was at a loss when he was suddenly asked, and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Fortunately, Zhang Hu had an idea at this time and immediately made up a lie: "This... I just called Yang Mo and asked him to ask me to help press the pig, but because the pig was too strong, he was accidentally hit by the pig's feet. Got the kick."
"So that's it!" He Xiaojing reached out and touched the bruises on Yang Mo's face, her eyes gradually became moist, and she looked at him with distress.
"Killing pigs? Why can't I hear pigs braying in the village? Big brother, Brother Zhang Hu, the injuries on your faces are probably not from being kicked by pigs' feet, right?"
Yang Ting on the side stopped crying and kept observing the injuries on the two people's faces. She was not as simple as He Xiaojing. She could tell at a glance that this was probably a fight.
Because when she was a child, she often followed two people, no matter where Yang Mo and Zhang Hu went, like three sisters in a family, always following the eldest brother and the second brother, whenever Yang Mo and Zhang Hu When Zhang Hu was fighting with the boy from the next village, he would often arrange to fight in the fields, and she would cheer them up on the field ridge. Therefore, Yang Ting knew these two people very well, and was even more suspicious of the lies they told. It's just a memory of childhood, so happy and carefree.
As soon as she finished speaking, Yang Mo gave her a look, signaling her to stop talking: "Uh... Xiaoting, the pig's mouth was tied with a rope, so it couldn't make any sound."
"Yes, Xiaoting, you must go to Brother Hu's house to eat pork when you have time. You were very thin when you were a child, and you are still so thin now. You need to eat more meat." Zhang Hu did not expect that Yang Ting would see through his Lies, so he followed Yang Mo and made them up.
"Ah...I...I know." Yang Ting's eldest brother didn't want her to know that he and others knew about the fight and let his sister-in-law know about it, so he could tell at a glance through eye contact...
Although she was scolded by her elder brother just now, she did not hold a grudge, but felt even more guilty because she believed that what her elder brother said was right and she should not let her sister-in-law follow her to the river to catch bullfrogs. After all, her sister-in-law had never experienced this before. Live this kind of life.
"Okay, since everything is fine, let's go home first. I haven't eaten anything? I'm starving." Zhang Hu didn't want to chat here all the time, so he suggested that everyone go back first.
"Look at you, you're such a loser. Didn't you use to take care of yourself for a whole day? Why are you hungry so quickly now?"
"Looking at what you said, it's been almost a day since morning, and I'm already so hungry that my chest is touching my back."
"It's not even twelve o'clock yet, and the day hasn't even passed yet."
Seeing that Zhang Hu couldn't fight against Yang Mo, his words were not as smart as his, and he was hesitant to speak.
"Brother Zhang Hu, my eldest brother has a bad mouth. Don't be as knowledgeable as him. Only my sister-in-law can subdue him."
Everyone laughed at Yang Ting's words, and then Yang Mo carried He Xiaojing on his back and they walked down the river.
He Xiaojing was like an injured princess, happily carried on the back of her charming prince as he walked home step by step.
Zhang Hu, who was following behind, saw the bullfrog in Yang Ting's fishing net. His eyes lit up. He swallowed and said, "Xiaoting, you caught a lot of bullfrogs. If you don't go tonight..."
"Oh, don't worry, these caught bullfrogs are specially prepared for you tonight."
"Look at you, you're such a good-for-nothing, you're stubborn and your childlike innocence is still there."
Every time Zhang Hu speaks, Yang Mo's timely finishing blow is indispensable. This was the case when he was a child, and it will be the same when he grows up.
"That's right, someone who is prosperous in a big city looks down on me, a dumb villager. The world is so cold."
He Xiaojing on the back didn't know the humor of the two brothers. Of course, she thought Yang Mo was sarcastically sarcastic. Then she clenched her fist and hit his shoulder and said: "How can you scold your brother like this? I helped you last time." Woolen cloth?"
He Xiaojing remembered the last time she, Yang Mo, and Xiao Gang went home after a conflict.
Yang Mo didn't know which time she was talking about, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
Seeing He Xiaojing scolding Yang Mo, Zhang Hu also started to fan the flames, trying his best to give himself an advantage, and said: "Sister-in-law, this is what he is like. He often scolded me and hit me since he was a child. I remember one time he specifically Seeing that I am not used to smearing my back with pig feces, I went to his house to complain to my uncle before he would admit his mistake. You must make the decision for me."
Hearing this, Yang Mo turned around and shook his head at Zhang Hu, giving a thumbs up, admiring his triumphant expression.
"Honey, is this really the case? Were you really so bad when you were a child?"
He Xiaojing's question immediately stunned Yang Mo. He turned his head again and saw Zhang Hu making faces at him. He rolled his eyes at him and wanted to tear him in half.
When Yang Ting saw the two joking, her thoughts were brought back to her childhood, and she sighed in her heart: "It was still fun when I was a kid! I ate, slept, ate, and after school, I went to the fields to lie down, and I lay there all day long. , The carefree life of childhood is now a life that is out of reach when you grow up. People always want to grow up quickly when they are young, but they don’t know that when they grow up, they want to go back to the life they had when they were children.”
When I was a child, my inner thoughts were innocent and innocent, and I was even full of curiosity about the world. And when a person grows up and is forced to enter the big dye vat of society, the burden of responsibilities on his body gradually increases. Sometimes when he is tired, he just wants to escape from reality, but the cruelty of reality always comes unexpectedly, making people unable to guard against it. .
Except for He Xiaojing, the other three of the four are all lamenting the ruthlessness of the years. When they were children, they could play together at any time, but it is different now. They can study, study, work, and do whatever they want. , everyone is busy running around for their own lives, traveling here and there, and it seems that it is difficult to get together.
Although Yang Ting is Yang Mo's biological sister, she has to study hard for her future life and will not have free time to visit her brother every day.
Zhang Hu is even busier. His father is doing business elsewhere, and he has inherited his father's legacy, slowly studying and running around all day long. Although he is considered a wealthy farmer in the village, After going out, they knew very well that "there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the world." They only had time to go home and rest on weekends.
After a few people returned home, Zhang Hu rushed into the kitchen to see what good things there were. This was already familiar to him. When he was a child, every time he went to Yang Mo's house, Yang Bin and his wife always brought good things. Come to entertain him, he has already been treated as his other biological son.
This is the most unique aspect of his relationship with Yang Mo. They are like brothers, shouldering everything together and enjoying blessings together.
In the days that followed, after Zhang Hu's family made a little fortune, they always brought all kinds of good meat and vegetables to Yang Mo's house to eat. During the three years when Yang Mo went to He's family to marry into his family, Zhang Hu would come every weekend. Coming to take care of Yang Bin and his wife, they couldn't bear such a great favor. Yang Bin was also a straightforward person. Every time he saw Zhang Hu bringing meat and vegetables, he would also warn Zhang Hu: "Next time, do this again." , uncle will not associate with you."
Zhang Hu also saw the meaning behind his words, so he stopped going to Yang Bin's house frequently, and only found time to go there every once in a while. The more frequent visits made the couple feel embarrassed, and they seemed to be scolding themselves. But Zhang Hu knew that they didn't want to pay so much for them.
I found some leftover seafood in the pot that several people had eaten not long ago. After taking it out, I ate big crabs.
"That's great. I didn't expect to bring seafood products here. You guys can do it."
Seeing Zhang Hu wolfing down the food, Yang Ting and the others couldn't help laughing, and said, "Brother Zhang Hu, wait a minute, there are still a lot of things that haven't been cooked yet?"
"Eat slowly. After I apply medicine on my wife, I will cook the fish and shrimp I bought for you so you can have a meal."
Yang Mo also smiled when he saw this, looking at the radiant expression on Zhang Hu's face.
