Chapter 267: Mother and Son

Liu Fangdong returned home in a depressed mood, Liu's mother babbled about what happened in the vegetable market, and at the end, she said: "Fang Dong, you said that Liu, a girl named Liu, also said that she was your junior sister, didn't she belittle you?"

"Mom, don't worry about her, let's live our lives!" Liu Fangdong endured the anger in his heart and comforted his mother.

"Fang Dong, I can tell you, in the future, you are not allowed to have anything to do with her, look at her all day long--you have to break up my old bones-" Liu's mother spoke, grabbed Liu Fangdong's hand, trembling slightly, thinking about Liu Xi's behavior, it was indeed outrageous.

Looking at his mother's angry appearance, Liu Fangdong's heart ached, how could he tolerate his mother being hurt.

Xiaoxi sat on the side, silently choosing vegetables, and when she heard Liu Fangdong take out the key to open the door, she had already panicked and hid the vegetable leaves she wanted back from the proprietress in a panic.

Liu's mother told him that these things should not be seen by Fang Dong, otherwise it would hurt his self-esteem.

When he first saw these old vegetable leaves covered with insect eyes, Xiaoxi wondered in his heart: There are no chickens and ducks at home, what are you doing with this thing?

After returning home, Liu's mother said: Xiaoxi, you choose this vegetable leaf, let me eat these, you, just eat meat!

Xiaoxi's tears poured out of her eyes all of a sudden, she tried her best to restrain herself, she didn't dare to make a sound, she couldn't understand why Liu's mother was so frugal - could it be that Liu Fangdong, as a people's policeman, couldn't even support his own mother?

Mother Liu couldn't see Xiaoxi's expression or hear her voice, stretched out her hands, groped in the air, and shouted in a panic: "Xiaoxi-Xiaoxi-Are you there?"

"Auntie—I'm here—" Brook's tears rolled down her voice.

Mother Liu listened attentively and asked uneasily, "Why are you crying?"

"Auntie, I didn't cry, I didn't cry—the dust blinded my eyes—" The white lie blurted out, and the stream struggled to adjust her voice as smoothly as possible.

"Xiaoxi, come, you sit!" Liu's mother's hand kept stretching out in the air, calling Xiaoxi.

Xiaoxi walked over, sat down next to Liu's mother, and shook her old, shriveled hand.

Mother Liu said faintly: "Xiaoxi, do you think I am ashamed to pick up vegetable leaves and come back to eat?"

Mother Liu's words suddenly came out of nowhere, which made Xiaoxi feel very abrupt, and she hurriedly said, "No, no, no, no, how could it be!"

Xiaoxi's words were flustered and far-fetched, Liu's mother's heart sank, and she said: "Xiaoxi, don't get me wrong, my family Fang Dong is very filial, and he has paid his salary every month, and the money has been handed over to me!"

"Hmm-" Creek replied mechanically, not knowing what to say.

Mother Liu sighed, and then said: "Xiaoxi, you don't know, my sick old bones can make my family Fang Dong miserable, let him suffer with me when he was young, join the work, and have to give me money to see a doctor-you say, what am I doing here? I can't help him, and I just make trouble for him-"

"Auntie, don't say that, Fang Dong will feel uncomfortable when he hears it!" Xiaoxi seemed to understand the difficulties of the orphaned and widowed family.

"Xiaoxi, actually, these vegetable leaves are very good, I don't spend money to eat this, and I save money, now, how expensive the vegetables are!

"Auntie - not every girl cares about money!" Listening to Liu's mother's words, Xiaoxi's feelings in her heart couldn't be expressed in words.

"Whose baby is not the heart of the parents, even if the girl doesn't care, but the parents of the other family are forbearing?

Xiaoxi's heart twisted together at once, and she remembered home, her father, and at the same time, the woman she least wanted to think of—her mother.

Province G is located in a mountainous area, with many poor and backward villages located on the top of a mountain, with closed transportation. Qingshui Village, Xiaoxi's hometown, is located on a cliff at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and you have to climb a wooden ladder to enter and exit the village, which is self-evidently dangerous.

There are more men and fewer women in the village, and every family has an adult strong man who can't ask for a mother-in-law, and the life is very hard, and the young people go out of the mountain, even if they are begging outside, they are not willing to return to Qingshui Village.

Xiaoxi's father was an honest and conscientious man, diligent and practical, and kept the few acres of dry land left by his ancestors all his life, digging and planing. Xiaoxi's grandfather was once divided into landlords, although he was a landlord, he only had a few acres of dry land and a few more cattle than others, and those cattle were also raised by his grandfather who tied them to his back and carried them up the mountain step by step from the 'ladder to the sky'.

That year, my grandfather slaughtered an animal, walked hundreds of miles, carried the meat to the county to sell, and when he came back, the money was gone, but he brought back a woman, that is, Xiaoxi's mother. Not long after, Xiaoxi's grandfather fell seriously ill and died.

Everyone in the village knew that this woman had been exchanged for the meat of an animal, and it was rumored that she was an ominous woman. Since this woman entered the village, the village has not been peaceful, and in the mountain cols, on the lumps of soil, and in the woods, you can see the picture of this woman and the man in the village everywhere.

The reputation of women in the village is getting worse and worse, but the single men are very fond of it, and even some men with mothers-in-law are also salivating. The woman gave birth to two children, the eldest was a male baby, not long after birth, the woman was not good to take care of her, fell from the bed, fell to her death. The next year, the woman gave birth to Xiaoxi, and Xiaoxi's father no longer let him take the baby, and pulled Xiaoxi big with one hand and one foot.

Since Xiaoxi was sensible, he often heard discussions that Xiaoxi was eaten by women and other men. Xiaoxi went home crying and asked her father, who comforted her lovingly: "Don't listen to people chewing the root of your tongue, you are not my daughter, which girl will you be?"

Xiaoxi couldn't see anger on her father's face, she only saw unpredictable helplessness, she couldn't understand her father's forbearance, why would she indulge her woman to make waves outside?

Many years later, when Xiaoxi grew up, the woman's behavior did not restrain in the slightest, but became more and more unscrupulous, hungry and hungry, and hooked up with those men who had mothers-in-law. As a result, there was another strange scene in Qingshui Village, where women and children from various families came to the door, and their mothers, who blocked the stream, insulted, beaten, or chased her all over the mountain.

Even so, it did not stop women from stealing men, and there was another rumor in the village that women were the reincarnation of fox spirits, and that they could not live without men, and some people even said that women doing such filthy things were like smoking big cigarettes, and they became addicted to them, and Kenben could not quit them—in short, the rumors became more and more outrageous, and Xiaoxi could not bear it anymore, and often shut the woman out of the house and did not let her enter the house.

Daddy Creek was as silent as ever, hiding in the ground all day long, and being blind. Brook begins to hate her father's nest, and she sneers and laughs at him, scolding him for not being a man. Seeing that her father was still indifferent, Xiaoxi shouted angrily: "She is shameless, our whole family will be embarrassed with her! Okay, then I will break the jar, she is my role model——"

Smack-

Before Xiaoxi could finish her words, a slap fell heavily on her face, and her father hit her for the first time.

Xiaoxi covered her face and cried hoarsely, "Am I wrong? What I said is all the truth!"

The father's body trembled violently, roared, and roared: "Xiaoxi, you listen to Lao Tzu, if you follow her example, I will break your legs!"

Xiaoxi looked up at his father, only to see that his face was pale, he kicked over the bench fiercely, and walked out of the door angrily. Looking at his father's back, Xiaoxi was extremely confused, for seventeen or eight years, his father had never lost his temper -

Xiaoxi is completely unable to understand his father's inner world-

Not long after, under the influence of the big river, Xiaoxi followed him down the ladder overnight and ran away. This ladder to the sky, the creek grew to nearly eighteen years old, and it was full of calculations, but it only went down three or five times.

At this moment, Xiaoxi thought to herself: If my father knew that I had become a woman like that woman, would he be desperate? It is inevitable that I will become the way I am now—the upper beam is not right, the lower beam is crooked—

"Xiaoxi, what are you thinking? The vegetables are all thrown into the trash can, and the soul is unbearable!" Liu Fangdong's words pulled Xiaoxi back to reality from her memories, she looked at the green beans in her hand in a panic, the trash can was full of selected beans, and the vegetable basket was full of tendons.

Xiaoxi couldn't help but blush, lowered his head and didn't dare to raise his head to face Liu Fangdong.

Liu Fangdong stared at Xiaoxi for a long time before he said, "Xiaoxi, I have wronged you!"

"No, no, no, Brother Liu-don't say that, I don't want to go, it's all because of me, it makes my aunt sad-" Xiaoxi said from the bottom of her heart, she thought: What does it matter if I am scolded and scolded by others, besides, Liu Xi is not wrong, I was originally a dirty and spurned woman!

"Don't take it to heart, it doesn't matter what others say, you still have to live your own life! You have to believe that everything will be fine!" Liu Fangdong encouraged.

Xiaoxi looked up and stared at Liu Fangdong gratefully, but his eyes inadvertently jumped over his body, saw the cardboard box placed at the gate, and wondered in his heart: At this point, Liu Fangdong should be at work, how can he have time to go home?

Mother Liu's eyes can't see, and she can't tell the time, but Xiaoxi is a clear-eyed person, thinking of the threatening words that Liu Xi jumped to her feet, she understood a rough idea.

Xiaoxi no longer has a good impression of Liu Xi in her heart, she insists on her own point of view: Liu Xi's choice of jade burning proves that she doesn't love Liu Fangdong at all, she only loves herself, and her feelings for Liu Fangdong come from the desire to conquer and possessive!

guessed what happened, Xiaoxi didn't reveal Liu Fangdong's scar, and was even more afraid that after Liu's mother found out about it, she would be sad, so she began to choose vegetables seriously.

He was busy with his hands, and said in his mouth: "Brother Liu, are you hungry? ”

Liu Fangdong looked at the sun still hanging high outside the window, smiled knowingly, Xiaoxi carried the vegetable basket and led the plastic bag, and walked to the kitchen, the vegetable leaves in the plastic bag, she couldn't choose in front of Liu Fangdong.

Entering the kitchen, Xiaoxi divided the two by two, and quickly selected those vegetable leaves, smiled comfortably, and thought: After frying and serving it on the table, who can still see whether it is a good leaf or a rotten leaf!

Liu Fangdong pretended to be happy and chatted with his mother, even if he had all kinds of worries, he could only carry it by himself, and he couldn't let his mother worry about it.

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(Nine-headed Bird Academy)