Chapter 8: Into the City

Li Min's father Li Gang and mother Xiao Qin were junior high school classmates, and they got married a few years after graduating from high school, and they became pregnant with Li Min two years after marriage.

The old people in the village are very old in their thinking, and they must have boys to pass on their ancestry, Li Gang's father Grandpa Li died early, and his grandmother raised Li Gang and Li Hui alone, and life was really not easy.

As the eldest son, Li Gang has read more books than Li Hui, and he is also motivated and filial, and he is willing to give up the good treatment in the city to stay in the village and do hard work, just to take care of his grandmother in her old age. Li Hui went out to work after graduating from junior high school, and met Wang Tao through the introduction of acquaintances in the village within a few years, and naturally got married and had children after being together. Li Hui's eldest son Wang Qian is three years old, and his youngest son Wang Bo is one year old.

After having two grandchildren, the grandmother is even more looking forward to holding her grandchildren. A year after Li Min was born, her grandmother kept urging Xiao Qin to have another boy. A few years later, Xiao Qin became pregnant again. This should have been a happy event, but when everyone was immersed in the joy of giving birth to a boy, Xiao Qin accidentally fell into the water and miscarried, and was unable to conceive due to the cold uterus due to the long soaking time in the water. The grandmother's wish to hold her grandson was disappointed, and the gossip in the village led to discord and constant quarrels between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the family.

One day, as soon as grandma and Xiao Qin had a big quarrel, she pulled Li Gang into the room and closed the door tightly. As soon as Li Gang entered the door, his grandmother cried and accused Li Gang of being unfilial and not leaving a grandson for the old Li family to inherit the lineage. At this time, the grandmother suddenly stopped crying and scolding, quietly looked at the door, secretly approached Li Gang, lowered her voice and approached Li Gang's ear, saying that she wanted him to divorce Xiao Qin and marry and have a grandson. Li Gang was immediately furious after hearing this, he had always been filial and blushed in front of this old man for the first time, and the family didn't even eat that night, Li Min was hungry and cried and shouted to eat, Xiao Qin felt sorry for his daughter and gave her some noodles.

Except for Li Min, no one slept well that night, and everyone had their own thoughts.

The next day, Li Gang woke up, and he finally made up his mind after thinking about it all night last night. He quietly found Xiao Qin to ask for advice, Xiao Qin, who has always been strong, also cried and wiped his tears at this time, saying that it was false not to be wronged, but he also felt sorry for his husband so embarrassed, he didn't dare to nod his head, and only said that the family sat together at night to discuss, Li Gang saw that his wife was embarrassed and said that he would tell her not to intervene at night, and he took the initiative to talk to his grandmother.

Li Min, who is only six years old in the depressed family atmosphere, is unaware of it, and as in the past, he plays with the iron pillar and the second dog in the next village, and the three children have fun in the watermelon field, and eats watermelon when they are thirsty so that they don't go home for a day.

At this time, it is summer, and the night breeze is slightly cool on the cheeks.

When night came, Li Gang moved the folding wooden table under the plane tree in front of the house, and also brought four wooden chairs, and there were sumptuous dishes on the wooden table, Li Min's favorite tomato and egg, grandma's favorite braised pork, Dad's favorite kelp pork rib soup, and several other stir-fried dishes.

Xiao Qin worked hard for a day, and after talking with Li Gang in the morning, he hurriedly went to the market to buy meat and vegetables, for fear that it would be too late and not fresh or sold out.

Li Gang dismissed Xiao Qin's mother and daughter after eating, and had an in-depth conversation with his grandmother alone, unconsciously talking about late night, and finally his grandmother entered the room crying, and his father also cried for the first time.

At this moment, Li Min had already fallen asleep, and in the dream, the three friends fished together, climbed trees, caught cicadas, and caught crickets......

In the early morning of the second day, Li Min was woken up by her mother, saying that her father lived in the city after work, and her mother put on a pink princess dress for Li Min, which looked a bit like a doll.

Grandma has not come out of the room since the conversation last night, Li Gang brought breakfast to grandma's room under Xiao Qin's persuasion and gave advice.

After breakfast, a family of three got on the bus to the city, this time it was Xiao Li Min's turn to cry red nose, she also agreed with her friends yesterday to go to catch cicadas today, and now she missed the appointment, thinking that they will not play with her in the future?

The more I thought about it, the more sad I became, and the innocent little face was so red that it was so pitiful that the aunt sitting next to me on the way teased this little girl with pink makeup.