"By the way, Sister Yinuo, my aunt asked me to leave a message for you."
"What words?"
"Don't be reluctant to eat. Even if it's for the sake of your children, you should eat more good ones. Don't treat yourself badly."
When it comes to food, she never treats herself badly.
After washing up, I went to the kitchen to look for food. There was still loofah and egg drop soup simmering in the pot. I took out a bowl and took a small mouthful of it. I immediately grimaced because it had no taste at all.
The old lady never added salt when cooking for her. She always secretly sprinkled some salt herself.
Although I know it is for the good of my children, I still go too far.
She couldn't treat herself badly for the sake of her children, and it wouldn't hurt to eat less salt. But even after saying this, she didn't listen.
Sure enough, the salted loofah soup tasted so good that she drank the entire pot.
In the room, He Ziqing had already started folding the quilt. Watching Sister Yinuo enter the room, she asked, "Sister Yinuo, does the loofah soup taste good?"
"It's delicious. I finished the whole pot. I didn't expect loofah and eggs to be so perfect together." Before she went to school, she didn't know that dishes could be paired together like this.
No, to be more precise, the dish of loofah never appeared on her dining table.
He Ziqing picked up the pillow and flew out a series of money, including whole and odd amounts. The smallest denomination was one cent, as well as some food stamps, milk powder stamps, and egg stamps.
"Sister Yinuo, why did you put the money here?"
"I didn't... it should have been my mother who put it there." No wonder she felt someone reaching under the pillow when she was sleeping. "Where did this old lady get the milk powder tickets?"
After all, she didn't know she was married before she came.
The two of them were puzzled. After folding the quilt, they sat on the kang and counted the money. The total was ninety-three yuan, four cents and seven cents.
"I guess Auntie only kept the travel expenses back, and the rest of the tickets were given to us."
Qiu Yinuo felt a little uncomfortable. In the original owner's memory, it was Qiu's father who was in charge of the family's money. He had just left not long ago, which meant that Cheng Hongying had not been officially in charge of the money for a long time.
She couldn't imagine how long it would take for an old rural lady to save all this money.
Slowly clutching the money and tickets in her hands, she felt as if she was being pressed by a huge mountain, and her chest was so tight that she couldn't breathe.
She was dragged into the original owner's complex emotions. She wanted to complain, but she was always moved by some small thing.
*
When Cheng Hongying went to look for Niuer, she brought so much money with her and left all she could with her.
The sun had set when we returned, so naturally we couldn't get on the bullock carts that came to town every day.
I walked the whole way back, and when I got home, it was dark outside.
The road was difficult to walk and she couldn't see clearly, so she walked for more than two hours.
He opened the door and looked at his youngest son squatting in the yard washing dishes, and was stunned for a moment. "Jin Zi, why are you at home?"
She thought that if she didn't come back, this kid would keep eating at her parents-in-law's place?
Zhu Qianjin said: "I went into the city today and came back late, so I didn't go to my grandma's house."
"You said you don't have anything serious to do all day long, so why are you always running to the city?"
"Mom, please stop talking about me. Tell me quickly. Have you seen my sister?"
When Qiu Yinuo was mentioned, Cheng Hongying didn't hold back and burst into tears, her old face looking hideous from crying.
"Mom, don't cry. Did something happen to my sister?"
"Something happened to your sister. Your sister is now a widow."
From Cheng Hongying's intermittent crying, he got a general idea. He never expected that her sister got married silently, gave birth to a pair of twins, and now she has become a widow.
"Life is so difficult, why doesn't she follow you back to the village?"
"I guess she was too embarrassed to come back, and maybe she was afraid of meeting that boy from the Ding family." Cheng Hongying wiped her tears, "Jinzi, mother gave all the money in her pocket to your sister. It's not easy for her to raise a child by herself. This year's Chinese New Year is our mother's birthday." Save both of you."
"If I don't choose this, the worst we can do is go to my grandma's house to eat and drink."
"is this okay?"
"What's wrong? If I don't rub it, my uncle's family will take it away sooner or later. If you can't wipe it off, I'll rub it and bring it back to you."
Cheng Hongying just struggled in her mind for a while, and then compromised. After all, the old man in the family still had to keep the money for his younger son to find a wife. "Okay, at worst I'll go and help them with some more work."
You can't really eat for free and let your elder brother and sister-in-law lose face!
"Don't talk about your sister in the village. She's a shameless person and will be criticized by others in the future. I'm afraid she won't be able to bear it when she returns to the village."
"As long as I'm protecting my sister, let's see who dares to say anything."
"You are now an elder and an uncle, so you can't be more prudent."
Mentioning the two little nephews, Zhuo Qianjin rubbed his hands happily, "Mom, are the two little nephews good-looking?"
"It's pretty, it's pretty, just like the doll in the New Year pictures."
"People say my nephew looks like my uncle. Do they look like me?"
Cheng Hongying glanced at him with disgust, "How is it possible? My eldest and second treasure are much prettier than you."
"..." Do you want to dislike him so much?
While the mother and son were talking, there was a noise outside. When they went out, they saw that all the young adults in the village were out.
Zhu Qianjin shouted, "Dongzi, where are you going?"
Dongzi has loved to follow Jin behind the swing since she was a child, and the two of them are so good that they can wear a pair of pants.
"The village chief asked us to go out and look for people."
"Whoever lost it, no one called me." The village is so big, and if anyone has a problem, everyone responds to the call.
Generally speaking, Swing Gold never loses control over this kind of thing.
"Maybe the village chief didn't call you on purpose. Even if you knew about it, you couldn't go find him?"
"Who?"
"The lesbian who came back with Ding Zixu heard that the two of them had a quarrel on the mountain. The lesbian ran away in a rage. Ding Zixu didn't see her back when he went home, and he suddenly became anxious." Dongzi. His words stopped abruptly, and he looked at his friend with some anxiety, "Maybe the two of them are just ordinary friends who are worried."
Who doesn't know that Ding Zixu almost became Jin Zi's brother-in-law.
Now that he is entangled with other women, he has long made Jin Zi angry.
"These two are so unlucky. They are full of love. They have nothing serious to do all day, right? They had a quarrel and tormented the whole village in the middle of the night. They were really embarrassed."
Although Zhu Qianjin looked down on the greasy and crooked lesbian, she was not a hard-hearted person. In the dark mountains at night, she might even meet a wolf. "Okay, don't talk to me anymore and follow them quickly." Find someone!"
It's really impossible for him to find someone. After all, he won't betray his sister.
Just as Dongzi was about to go up the mountain, he heard someone shouting at the foot of the mountain, "We've found the man, hurry up, everyone, give way."
The shadowy torch illuminated a path and also illuminated the nervousness on Ding Zixu's face.
The lesbian in his arms looked at him shyly, with tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, looking particularly pitiful.
Cheng Hongying secretly exclaimed, "It's so dangerous." Fortunately, that dead girl didn't come back with her.
