There was a soft sound.
The door opened and Chen Yulian walked out of the room with her hair disheveled.
Hu Li's shouting woke her mother up. She had just put on her clothes when she heard the yelling and scolding from above. She knew that the person being scolded was her son who had left the house earlier. She didn't have time to comb her hair and wash her face. She had to go out and put out the fire.
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"
"What's wrong? You still have the nerve to ask me what's wrong?" Hu Li became angrier as she spoke. She grabbed the wooden stick used to drive chickens outside the pig pen and tried to beat someone.
Chen Yulian became anxious, grabbed Lin Yue and pulled him behind her, protecting him with her body.
"Sister-in-law! What do you want to do? Why did Lin Yue offend you?"
Squeak...
At this moment, the door of the yard was pushed open, and what appeared in front of several people was the face of Carpenter Xiao's daughter-in-law, holding a bamboo plaque in her hand with steaming meat cakes inside.
"Zhuzi's wife, Yulian, you... what's going on?"
Xiao Dongfeng gave Lin Yue 3 yuan to buy chickens. He turned around and sent back a pair of Jiefang shoes and two pheasants. The carpenter's wife was an impatient woman and thought about it. She gave out some noodles last night and baked meatloaf for the Chen family. I sent it over to express my feelings. Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the door, I saw my aunt holding a stick to beat my nephew.
As soon as Hu Li looked at the outsider, the hand holding the stick slowly dropped.
Chen Jinzhu said with a mournful face: "Chickens, chickens are all dead."
"Chicken?" The carpenter's wife handed the bamboo plaque containing the meat cake to Chen Yulian, walked to the pig pen and looked inside.
Oops, Hu Li’s precious chicken was all over the floor even if her mother-in-law broke her leg and refused to kill it.
"What happened?"
Hu Li gritted her teeth and glared at Lin Yue: "Ask him."
"Are you sick? Ask me? Could it be that I got up in the middle of the night and killed all your chickens?"
"You dare to scold me?!"
"You're going to hit me with a stick, why can't I scold you? And I don't think calling you sick means scolding you. You are really sick!"
"you you……"
Hu Li was so angry that he couldn't speak. Chen Ping and Chen Hong were also very angry, but their aunt was guarding him from the front, and the nephew couldn't use force to pull him away.
"Hu Li, it seems like your chicken was bitten to death by a weasel."
The carpenter's wife's clear words by the spectators left several people confused.
In order to make her words more powerful, she opened the rusty iron door, went in and grabbed a dead chicken, and showed them the wound on the chicken's neck: "Yes, the blood was sucked dry, it was done by a weasel. "
Hu Li opened her mouth, not knowing what to say. How angry she was towards Lin Yue was how intense her embarrassment was now.
When she saw the scene in the pig pen, her heart was broken. When she heard those words of gloating, she was dominated by anger and took it for granted that it was Lin Yue who did it. After all, he was busy outside until very late last night before returning to the house to sleep. She suspected him. maximum.
Now the carpenter's wife took out the dead chicken to show her the wound. Only then did she realize that she was very wrong, and she also understood why Lin Yue scolded her for being sick.
Chen Jinzhu's face looked ugly.
Well, in front of outsiders, she has confirmed her reputation for wrongfully accusing her nephew. The carpenter’s wife is a real person and a famous loudmouth in the village. When she goes back and tells the neighbors, she is waiting for others to accuse them of bullying other orphans and widowed mothers. Bar.
Lin Yue took the bamboo plaque from Chen Yulian's hand, took a bite of a meat pie that had just come out of the pan, and watched them studying the dead chicken while eating.
In this era of rural areas, who hasn’t had a chicken killed by a weasel? Don't blame him for this matter. Every wrong has its owner and every debt has its owner. If you want revenge, go to the weasel.
"Grandma, these Donghe meatloaf are so delicious. I can eat three of them in one meal."
"Is it delicious? Grandma will make it for you after you finish eating."
"Thank you, grandma. After eating your meat pie, I will definitely get a hundred points in today's exam."
"Really? Then you tell grandma the day before the exam and she will do it for you."
"Uh-huh."
"..."
The conversation between these two people...
Hu Li felt that Lin Yue was deliberately angry with her.
"Let's go into the house." Chen Yulian also noticed something was wrong and dragged him into the house.
The carpenter's wife came to Chen's house and decided to visit the old lady, so they went there together.
Hu Li and Chen Jinzhu looked at the chickens with despair, lamenting in their hearts that they would no longer be able to sell eggs.
She was also thinking about bringing two old hens back to her parents' home on August 15th...
It's over now.
…
The old lady ate two meatloaf, maybe because she ate too fast. She burped after the meal, so she wanted a cigarette. She said that smoking can cure all kinds of diseases. Who had headaches and fever when working together on the construction site? Yes, it would be much better after taking two puffs. It was at that time that she learned to smoke.
The carpenter's wife sat for a while and praised Lin Yue for being sensible in five out of ten sentences, which made Chen Yulian very embarrassed. She thought to herself that if he was really sensible, how could he not listen to her and go hunting in the mountains, and even make his aunt mad? In that way, living under the same roof would be so uncomfortable going in and out.
"Mom, eat the remaining three meatloaf. I'm going to school."
It was time for Lin Yue to go to school after seeing off the carpenter's wife. As he said this, he put the grass green canvas bag on his back and walked outside. But before leaving the east room, Hu Li and Chen Jinzhu walked over with cold faces.
Chen Yulian's heart tightened and she shouted "brother, sister-in-law".
Just now, Lin Yue carried the bamboo plaque with the meat cake into the east room, and had no intention of sharing it with Chen Ping and Chen Hong. She felt a little embarrassed about this.
Even though I have lived at home for more than half a year, I still feel like I am dependent on others.
Chen Jinzhu responded with a look on his face. Hu Li didn't even look at her, but said to the old lady smoking on the bed, "Mom, let's separate the families."
As soon as the word "separation" came out of his mouth, Lin Yue stopped walking out, stepped back, and returned to the east room.
At the same time, the old lady's hand trembled, and the cigarette ashes fell on the quilt with a peony pattern. The pain made the little old lady quickly wipe it away with her hand.
"What did you say?"
Hu Li said categorically: "I say separate the family."
People in the 30s and 40s later heard less about the concept of family separation, because many of them were only children, and there was no meaning in family separation. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, especially rural families with brothers, once they married a daughter-in-law, Son, it is inevitable that we will reach this point after all the bumps and bruises between the siblings.
The problem is that the old Chen family only has one son, Chen Jinzhu. When the old man was alive, the old lady and he often laughed at those families where the brothers had quarrels with their parents because of the separation, and the brothers would yell and even fight. They never thought that one day things would happen to them. superior.
Ba~ba~ba...
She smoked the smoldering cigarette one after another until the fire almost burned her fingers, and then she said in the hazy smoke: "Zhuzi, do you think so too?"
Chen Jinzhu lowered his head and said nothing.
Two brothers, Chen Ping and Chen Hong, also walked in from outside and stood in the main room listening to the conversation between their parents and the old lady.
Chen Yulian knew what the old lady was thinking. There was only one son in the old Chen family. If the family was divided, it would not only be unpleasant to spread, but it would also confirm the rumors of brother and sister discord.
"elder brother……"
She looked at Chen Jinzhu impatiently: "Is there anything we can't discuss? Mom is like this, why are you..."
Hu Li interrupted her speech: "Aren't we discussing this with you?"
"sister in law."
"Stop talking, we will either separate the family or I will divorce him."
When Chen Jinzhu heard the word "divorce", he shivered with fright, and the old lady's face turned even more ugly. In this era, in the outlook on life of rural people, divorce is worse and more unpleasant than separation.
Chen Yulian didn't dare to speak.
It is enough for a daughter of the old Chen family to be unkind to others. If the son gets divorced again, will the old lady still want her face? She was very sad and felt that if it weren't for herself, her family would not be like this.
"Divorce? That's a good relationship." No one dared to speak at this juncture, except Lin Yue.
In this matter, he is the most indifferent one. To talk about the relationship with Hu Li, in his opinion, it is nonsense. If the old lady is under great mental pressure, [Hypnosis lv5] will take care of her. As for outsiders' feelings towards Chen The family's opinion...they are considered scum.
"A rural woman in her forties, who has no money and looks, how can you find another one after divorce?" Lin Yue ignored the fierce looks in Chen Ping and Chen Hong's eyes: "Didn't you look at my mother a long time ago?" Do you like it? It’s just right, so you can experience what it’s like to move back to your parents’ home. Remember, next time you threaten someone, use your brain before speaking.”
Hu Li shouted in a high voice: "Do you have a role to interrupt here? Who do you think you are? I am a bastard, and you are no different!"
Although those chickens were killed by weasels, she felt an indescribable sense of humiliation when she thought about Lin Yue's threats to her last night.
Chen Jinzhu was also very angry: "Lin Yue, if you keep talking to your aunt like this, see if I don't..."
"Okay!" the old lady yelled to calm down a few people, coughed and pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, and tilted her head back on the rolled-up bedding: "Okay, let's divide it."
