With tears in her eyes, Xie Chunfang looked at Zhou Xiaotao, choked up and said: "Sister-in-law, we have known each other for ten years, what kind of person am I, Xie Chunfang, don't you know? Brother Youzhong is your man, you don't know what the relationship between him and my man is? They grew up wearing a pair of pants, they are closer than brothers, and I have always treated you as my sister-in-law." ”

"My man died, Brother Youzhong saw that I was in difficulty, and sent twenty catties of food, I didn't want it, he left it. It's been four or five days since this grain was delivered, and I took my children to dig wild vegetables to eat every day, and I didn't touch this grain of rice, just to find an opportunity to send it to your family. I can't give it openly, because I'm a widow now, and I'm afraid that if I get closer, I'll gossip. ”

"Chunfang, Chunfang, I was wrong, I was wrong, I am not a human, I am a beast, you don't look at my face, you look at the faces of my children, you are good, help me beg this aunt and grandmother. If you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather, I beg you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Zhou Xiaotao kept kowtowing and crying.

"This ......" Seeing Zhang Ruolin's cold eyes swept over, Xie Chunfang hurriedly closed her mouth, this girl's aura was too strong, she didn't dare to speak at all.

"Ahem, ahem!"

An old man walked out and looked at Zhang Ruolin and saluted, "Lao Yu has seen this comrade, this matter is indeed the daughter-in-law of Youzhong's family who did something wrong, she also knows that it is wrong, and she has taught her a lesson, according to Lao Yu, this matter is better to be forgotten like this, they are all neighbors, this look up and see ...... down."

"Old man, you should be considered an elder in the village at your age!" Zhang Ruolin asked lightly in a standard Mandarin with an expressionless face.

Zhang Dagui nodded.

"It's a little too late for you to stand up and say such things now! If I hadn't come over today, my sister-in-law's charge of stealing people would have been on her head. In the countryside, when a woman is put on this hat, I want to ask the old man what will happen to her? She can force my sister-in-law to die, why did I let her man divorce her, is it too much?"

"This ......"

"You don't need to say much, what I Zhang Ruolin said will never change. Zhang Ruolin said coldly, looking at Zhang Youzhong, "It's your business to choose, once you take a break from her, the money is given to you, and second, your whole family will die with her, don't think I'm joking with you." ”

"Let my man divorce me, and my wife will fight with you. Zhou Xiaotao got up with a hideous face and shouted.

Zhang Ruolin sneered, looking at Zhou Xiaotao who was dancing with teeth and claws, "If you have a kind of action, I promise that I will not fight back, if I have one less hair, I will ask your mother's family to break an arm, ten less, and I will ask your mother's family to compensate for your mother's life." ”

Zhang Ruolin looked at Zhou Xiaotao, who was so pale with fright that she took a few steps back, bent down, twisted the two back baskets on the ground, and glanced at the surrounding onlookers, "What are you doing around?" Do you want me to invite you to dinner?"

The onlookers dispersed instantly.

Zhang Youzhong pulled Zhou Xiaotao's arm.

Zhou Xiaotao glanced at Zhang Youzhong, tears kept dripping, looked at the money scattered on the ground, and hurriedly picked it up, "Zhang Youzhong, you are not a man at all, how can my mother marry a man like you, a ......" glanced at Zhang Ruolin who walked into the house, grabbed the two hundred yuan in Zhang Youzhong's hand, turned around and ran.

"That...... Just thank you. Xie Chunmei said embarrassedly, "Let you see the joke." ”

Zhang Ruolin exhaled, shook her head, and looked at Xie Chunfang, "It's okay." Looking at the four children beside her, the little boy who looked at her with a curious look on his face, this is her grandfather, not at all like him in his old age, but judging from the photos of him and his grandmother getting married, there is still some resemblance.

Zhang Ruolin lifted the back basket, picked up the oiled paper bag inside, and beckoned, "Come here, come and eat sugar, this candy is only available in foreign countries." ”

"Go, your aunt called you. Xie Chunfang said in a low voice.

The three aunts and grandmothers walked over timidly and shyly.

Zhang Ruolin divided a few, and looked at the young grandfather who was still hiding behind Xie Chunfang, "Come here." ”

"Go ahead, this kid wasn't shy before, why is he shy today?"

Looking at the young grandfather who walked over naked, Zhang Ruolin paused for a moment, "Why don't you wear clothes?"

He wouldn't wear it. ”

Zhang Ruolin rummaged through the back basket and pulled out a set of suspenders and a white long-sleeved gown, as well as a pair of small leather shoes and socks, "Come here, I'll help you put them on." ”

Putting things on the table, Zhang Ruolin reached out and held him in her arms, helped him put on his clothes and shoes, followed them on the ground, and looked at them, "Really handsome." ”

Several aunts and grandmothers looked at their little brother with envy on their faces.

Zhang Ruolin smiled, "The road is too far, and it's inconvenient for me to bring it, so I brought two sets of clothes for your brother, and tomorrow we will go to the town together, pull a few more pieces of cloth, and let your mother make you a few more sets of clothes when the time comes." ”

Several aunts and grandmothers suddenly showed happy expressions.

Zhang Ruolin looked at Xie Chunmei, a very gentle woman, standing there can give people a kind of motherly gentleness, when she died, her grandfather was already an adult, it stands to reason that she was a widow who pulled her grandfather to grow up, and her grandfather could not never mention her.

Is it because she really got along with other men in order to support her four children?

After all, this kind of thing is ugly, and grandpa and aunt and grandmother will definitely not talk to her.

But seeing this scene today, Zhang Ruolin had doubts about the death of her grandmother, you must know that her grandmother died when she was only in her forties.

It is obviously not right for a widow to raise all her children, but as a child, she is never mentioned.

In this era, reputation is so important to a woman in the countryside that she naturally doesn't need to say it, so seeing today's events, Zhang Ruolin knows that her grandmother died strangely, and it is very likely that she will be forced to death by rumors, which proves that this is actually very simple, so Zhang Ruolin grabbed the woman and didn't let go.

"Sister-in-law, let me ask you a question. ”

Xie Chunmei nodded.

"There is one thing I am more curious about, and I just came up with it, when my grandfather goes back to his hometown every year for the New Year, he invites his ancestors to come back for dinner on the evening of the thirtieth night, and he will make a table in front of the pond at the door of his house to put three dishes and light two candles, what does it mean?"

"Didn't your grandfather tell you?"

Zhang Ruolin shook her head.

"It should be that the people in your family committed suicide by throwing themselves into the pond, and the people who committed suicide by throwing themselves into the pond are not allowed to enter the house to eat with other people during the Chinese New Year. Xie Chunmei said hesitantly, looking at Zhang Ruolin with red eyes, "Are you okay?"

Zhang Ruolin shook her head slightly, "It's okay." "Think about it every year during the Chinese New Year, grandpa put a table on the edge of the pond, always squatting aside alone while burning paper money, while muttering, never allow others to approach, it turns out that her wife committed suicide, presumably these gossips, including grandma suicide, how big a blow to her grandfather, that damn woman, fortunately, she didn't let go, but let the man divorce her, it was too cheap for her.