Chapter 12: The Storm
"Mom, Cheng Xiaozhou is only a teenager, besides, he is not married yet, Gangzi is still like this, what can he do?" Yang Mei, who has always been deaf to things outside the window and only reads sage books, finally couldn't listen anymore, she looked up at her mother and eldest sister on the kang.
"What do you know about a girl, maybe you can be normal after tasting that taste!" Mao Xiujuan hopes that her son can become a normal person all the time.
"You are breaking the law in doing so. Yang Mei pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose and scared them with a serious face.
"Come on, Cheng Xiaozhou was bought home by me with money, although the two of them didn't pay a church, but the whole village knows that she is the daughter-in-law of our Yang family, and it is a matter of course for them to have a round house!"
"But ......"
"Okay Damei, what's so good? I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup Cheng Xiaozhou poured you to make you speak for her like this, and you don't want to think about if she really gave birth to a big fat boy for our Yang family, can we treat her badly?"
"I still don't think it's okay to do this, Mom, you are not allowed to calculate Xiaozhou behind your back like this!"
Looking at her daughter's fierce words, Mao Xiujuan was a little angry: "Just because your sister is going on a blind date tomorrow, I haven't paid attention to you, are you still kicking your nose in the face?"
"What's wrong with me?"
"What's wrong with you? Holding a few broken books all day long, you still want to go to college? What you think is so beautiful! I see that you have taken advantage of the early rest of your mind to go to college, and when your sister's family affairs are settled, I will ask your aunt Cui to find you a mother-in-law, and you will obediently marry me!"
"Mom, how can you do that!"
"Linzi, hurry up and throw her few broken books outside and burn them!
Yang Lin usually looks at her sister-in-law unpleasantly, and always feels that her style of going to university is particularly eye-catching, but now that she has her mother's support, she is very proud, and immediately ran over to compete for Yangmei's book.
"Eldest sister, don't rob my book......" Yang Mei held her book and started a battle with Yang Lin.
"Okay, just wake up, don't dream of going to college, when my sister marries the Fan family in the future, I will definitely help you well, and find you the right person!"
Cheng Xiaozhou was alarmed by the scramble, and she was just about to walk over and stick to the door, when the door slammed open.
A stack of books came to her face, and if she hadn't dodged quickly, she would definitely have hit her in front of the door.
"Cheng Xiaozhou, you quickly pick up the book and burn it!" Yang Lin saw Cheng Xiaozhou standing by the door, so he ordered directly.
Cheng Xiaozhou looked at Yang Mei behind Yang Lin, at this moment she was struggling to go out to pick up books, but the door was held by Yang Lin, and she couldn't get out.
"Why are you still stunned, hurry up!" Seeing that Cheng Xiaozhou didn't move, Yang Lin urged.
This time, Cheng Xiaozhou just glanced at Yangmei deeply, and then bent down to pick up the book on the ground.
"Xiaozhou, don't burn it......" Yang Mei was really anxious when she saw that Cheng Xiaozhou really returned to the stove with the book, but Yang Lin didn't give her a chance to struggle, and closed the door firmly.
"Mom, that's all for money. ”
"I don't care, who let you have the spare money to buy it, in the future, when the books are gone, you will work in the fields honestly, and I will not treat you badly when you have a harvest." In Mao Xiujuan's eyes, work is the most important.
Now there are still two girls in the family who are in their prime, and if they both get married in two years, who will take care of the crops in the field?
Losing money, it seems that the girl is really losing money, as long as she gets married, there will be less labor in the family, and if she doesn't marry, she will be angry at home every day!
After touching Cheng Xiaozhou's real burnout, Yang Lin let Yangmei come out.
As soon as Yang Mei went out, she went straight to the stove, she looked at the ashes pulled out by Cheng Xiaozhou a little dumbfounded, which was obviously different from firewood, and she knew that it was the traces of a book at a glance.
"Boat you ......"
"Sister Mei, I'm sorry. ”
"Okay, you can't talk to her, it's my mother's order to burn, we're doing this for your good, you've been daydreaming too much, and now you can't wake up, and you'll thank us when you wake up in the future!" Yang Lin leaned against the door, with a good attitude towards Yangmei, but she only gloated in her eyes.
"Cheng Xiaozhou, don't be stunned, hurry up and cook. Yang Lin ignored them and turned around and went back to the back room.
"Sister Mei, don't be discouraged. Cheng Xiaozhou looked at the closed door and made sure that Yang Lin had entered, and then took Yangmei to Yang Gang's house.
Yang Gang's room has two stacks of quilts, the dirty and broken quilt is Cheng Xiaozhou's, and the brand new bed is Yang Gang's.
Mao Xiujuan felt sorry for her son, so she made him a new quilt as soon as it was autumn, and Cheng Xiaozhou's quilt was eliminated by Yang Gang.
Cheng Xiaozhou pulled Yangmei to her quilt, she looked around vigilantly, and then took out the book from inside.
"Sister Mei, don't worry, I just burned the book cover and the title page table of contents, that's just a pretense, it's used to deceive them, you have to hide the book in the future." ”
Looking at Cheng Xiaozhou's sincere appearance, Yang Mei nodded solemnly, but she still had a problem: "Where do you say I hid the book? My eldest sister is a master who can even turn over the mouse hole." ”
"Then think of a place she would never go. Cheng Xiaozhou thought as he spoke.
Yang Mei had an idea: "There is!"
She seemed to have thought of some good idea, so she instructed: "I know where to put it, you can go back to cooking first, and I will go to collect the books." ”
Cheng Xiaozhou nodded and watched Yang Mei walk out of the room with the book.
In fact, she still has a lot of guilt about Yangmei in her heart, in her previous life, after she got Yang Lin's order, she really burned all the books because she was afraid of her.
Because of that incident, Yangmei was angry and didn't eat for three days and three nights, let alone drink a sip of water.
Later, although she was admitted to the university as she wished, the guilt in Cheng Xiaozhou's heart has never been alleviated.
Because after being older, Cheng Xiaozhou finally understood that the fire that day was not just a few books, but Yangmei's beliefs and ideals.
Cheng Xiaozhou walked back to the stove in silence and continued to pull the bellows as if nothing happened.
After Yang Mei hid the book, she walked back, and when she passed the boat, she made a triumphant gesture to her, and the two exchanged glances.
In order not to make Yang Lin suspicious, she still looked like she was crying and sad, and entered the house with a sad face.
"Okay, don't pull your face like this, it's best for a woman's family to be married and teach children at home in this life, and you will thank me and your sister in the future." ”
In the end, it was her own daughter, Mao Xiujuan looked at her sad appearance, and the fire in her heart was almost extinguished, so she comforted her with a stalk around her neck.