The neighbors knew that he was distressed and asked no more questions. He often treats people with a wry smile. Only his brother Liu Jinhuo told him alone that if you don't get along with your sister-in-law, just divorce. I'll go out and look for one for you. After hearing this, Liu Jinsheng became excited, as if warmth suddenly surged into his cold heart. He smiled for the first time in many days.
He thought: Yes! Why should a man worry about not having a wife? He was cheering himself up and thought of money. If his brother had found a woman, he would have to spend money on a blind date. Where does the money come from?
He thought again of the two hemp fields on the hillside behind the house, so he hurried over. When he walked to the hemp fields and looked up, his heart felt cold. Every ramie pole and leaf was covered with green-headed hemp insects. They were chewing ramie leaves. Some of them had been bitten so hard that their heads were drooping, and some were bitten so hard that their arms and legs were missing. The bitten areas turned black, as if they had been burned by fire.
This made him feel an unknown fire in his heart. Of course, it was not towards the hateful ramie, but towards his wife. If she hadn't performed the operation, even if the ramie had eaten all the ramie and couldn't sell it for money, the family would still have tens of thousands of dollars. He had saved up 100 yuan and was able to do anything without panicking, which made him firm on the idea of divorcing his wife.
After he went back, he said to his wife in a subtle way, Qu Li is a sensible person. Listen to him, I am still young and do not want to be a widower. Qu Li asked him to write a divorce agreement, signed it, and went to the civil affairs agency to go through the formalities. Qu Li got nothing, and Liu Jinsheng persuaded her on the grounds that "you have spent all the family's money on medical treatment." After that, the family fell apart.
Liu Jinhuo wanted to send his daughter Liu Jiaogui back to him to raise, but he said no, let me make some money and then take care of it. He asked Liu Jinhuo "Jiang Yijun": You borrow some money and I will do the work. The money will be returned to you. Liu Jihuo frowned, thinking that his brother was too arrogant to pay back the money he borrowed, but he still asked, how much did he borrow?
Liu Jinsheng smiled and said, how much money can you borrow? There are hemp bugs in my ramie field. I borrowed some money to buy pesticides to kill the weed bugs, otherwise there will be no ramie harvest.
Liu Jinhuo walked out of the main room, looked at the cloudy sky and said thoughtfully, since this is the case, it doesn't cost much to buy pesticides anyway, so I will lend it to you. As he spoke, he took out 50 yuan from his body, which was enough to buy one or two bottles of pesticide. Liu Jinsheng followed him out, took the money and said, "Kill the insects and harvest the ramie. I will pay you back the money after selling it."
Liu Jinhuo smiled faintly and said nothing. He thought: If you make money, take your daughter back and raise her. The money I spend on raising your daughter right now is far more than the money I spent on buying pesticides for you. As for you not paying back the 50 yuan, it’s not a big problem. You’ve paid more than that. Do you still care about this?
Liu Jinsheng took the money and set foot on the village road, preparing to buy pesticides in the town. He walked to the entrance of the village and looked back at Liu Jinhuo's back, as if he had something to say thank you for. But at this time, Liu Jinhuo's back was obscured by the red wall and blue tiles hidden by the willow trees at the east end of the village. .
Ma Guizhen was walking at the entrance of the village holding Liu Jiaogui, who was just one year old. Liu Jinsheng saw him as soon as he turned around. He happily approached Guizhen and walked over without knowing what to say. He said indifferently, "Thank you for taking care of my child." .
Ma Guizhen smiled indifferently, but she was very cold towards him in her heart. She didn't even raise her own child, how could she still be considered a man? Liu Jinsheng only cared about the child at the moment. When he saw that the child was chubby and cute, he clapped his hands and prepared to hug him, but the child refused to be born and started crying.
Ma Guizhen kept saying, he is your biological father, why are you crying? The child is too young, how can he understand? He was so frightened that he threw the upper half of his body on her shoulder, and tears fell on her neck.
Ma Guizhen said while wiping, this child doesn't want his uncle much more than me. Only then did Liu Jinsheng realize that Ma Guizhen was taking care of all the children, and he couldn't help but feel grateful to her. But he was lonely because the child was unfamiliar with him. At this moment, he nodded to Ma Guizhen, turned around and stepped onto the gravel-paved road leading to the town.
Seeing that the stranger had left, the child stopped crying and dug at Ma Guizhen's neck with his hands, returning to a peaceful and normal state. A tear was still in the corner of his eye, but it was obviously causing a smile.
Ma Guizhen treated her as her own child, and very carefully took out a handkerchief to wipe the sticky face of the child from crying just now. After a while, he returned to the home where he and Liu Jinghuo lived together. This home is a two-bay tiled house with no floors. When you look up, you can see the blue tiles above your head. It still leaks a little on rainy days.
The sky was overcast that day and there was a hint of rain. Before it started to rain, Ma Guizhen took Liu Jiaogui to her parents' house in a neighboring village. She wanted to ask her father, a masonry worker, to repair the tiled house. But her father was not at home, so she had to ask her mother to tell her. She immediately Returned. Just as she sat down in the main room, Liu Jiaogui, who was in her arms, trembled. Before she could recover, she only heard a clanking sound on the ground, and a meter-long iron drill was broken into two pieces. The drill was hung on the west wall, and she happened to be sitting under the east wall, so dangerous.
An hour later, Liu Jihuo came out of nowhere and stood at the door with a look of panic on his face. Ma Guizhen asked what happened, and he hesitated and said, "My brother, dead... dead."
You are talking nonsense. Ma Guizhen blamed in disbelief.
He said, really, he was hit by a car on the highway. As he spoke, Liu Jihuo's eyes became hot, and tears welled up in his eyes for no reason.
Liu Jiaogui no longer has a father. He muttered, quickly walked out of the village, and ran towards the place where the car accident occurred.
Ma Guizhen held the child in her arms and looked at the iron drill that was broken into two halves, as if its falling and breaking were related to the death of Liu Jiaogui's father. She walked out of the house in silence, inexplicably associating these two seemingly unrelated and strange things that should not have happened.
The child was squirming around in Ma Guizhen's arms, as if restless. Ma Guizhen put her on the ground and walked. She was only over a year old and was still unsteady. As soon as Ma Guizhen lost her mind, she fell on the threshold. She flattened her mouth and did not cry for a long time. Then her nose and tears poured out.
Ma Guizhen panicked and saw a blister on her forehead, which turned from green to purple. She patted the dust off her body, picked her up and rubbed it slowly. Liu Jiaogui usually didn't like to cry, but she was crying loudly now. Ma Guizhen held her in her arms and took good care of her. She was still in tears until Liu Jihuo came back and took a turn. Liu Jihuo's eyes turned red from crying when he saw her, and asked, "Does this child know that his father has passed away?"
No - she was estranged from her father. Ma Guizhen recalled the scene when her father met her and said objectively that the reason she was crying was because of a blister on her head. Liu Jinhuo didn't care and walked into the room. Ma Guizhen followed and asked, "Your brother's funeral has not been settled yet, why are you back so early?"
I need to get my ID card to prove that Liu Jinsheng is my brother, so that I can fight against the driver who caused the accident and get a lot of compensation. Liu Jinhuo went into the room, rummaged through the cabinets, got his ID card, and hurried out.
