Chapter 10: Separation

In the third year after the accident, the family's debts became less and less, but the little uncle and little aunt were about to divorce.

Even if the newly built tiled house was sold, the little aunt did not have any complaints, and everyone felt that the little aunt and her family understood the righteousness and were moved. But later I found out that this family eats people without spitting out bones.

In the past few years, even if the family is in debt, as long as they open their mouth to borrow money, the grandparents will find a way. In the first year, there was almost nothing to do, and in the second year, they spoke more and more often, as if they knew how much debt they still owed and how much they could borrow back. Until the end of the third year, not a penny was returned to them.

At that time, it was the end of the year, and the family who was working outside got some money back, and they got together and calculated, no more, no less, just over 20,000 yuan. 20,000 to repay debts, fractional New Year. The little aunt's family came to the door for the last time and directly asked for 20,000 yuan.

Naturally, grandma didn't borrow it, complained about it, and counted the money they had borrowed. The little aunt's family didn't borrow the money and left in disgrace. Grandma locked the money in a chest of drawers, ready to pay off some famine first.

Everyone in the family knows where Grandma put her money, including her great-grandmother. When she went to the market to buy New Year's goods, she handed over the key to her aunt for safekeeping.

The little aunt was kind-hearted and felt that the little aunt was her own family, so she couldn't stand the coaxing, so she gave her the key, and the 20,000 yuan was gone.

The marriage of the little uncle and the little aunt also ended in the fourth year. But the little aunt was worried that no one would watch the children, so she still lived in the house she used to live in, with my little sister.

In fact, most of the 20,000 yuan was earned by the little uncle, but there was no division at that time, and the economic power of the family was controlled by the grandmother. My aunt usually eats with us, and my uncle sends her money every month. If the little aunt's family really has any difficulties, I believe that the grandmother would rather pay the debt later, and will lend them the money. But no matter how high-sounding they said the reason for borrowing money, everyone knew that the money would eventually be used by the little aunt's younger brother to spend all the time.

Just pity my little sister, I will tie her beautiful pigtails, carry her in the little basket, listen to her "giggle" behind her, and coax her hard.

But who will pity me?

After the divorce, the little uncle worked harder, and within two years, he saved money, borrowed some from friends in the northwest, and built a small western-style house next to the highway. It was at that time that my mother returned.

The workers who built the houses were all hired in the village, and they had to take care of a meal at noon. My mother and a few women in the village volunteered to help out and were responsible for preparing the lunch meal.

The school break is short at noon, so meals are always in a hurry. After my mother fried a dish, I just took the white rice and stood on the edge of the stove to pick and eat it.

Once, while eating, my mother almost screamed and scolded me: "Look at you, you have picked all the meat, how can others eat it?" I remember very clearly, it was a plate of garlic sprout tofu dried back to the pot meat, when I ate it, maybe I have been picking meat, but not deliberately, so I didn't find that there is not much meat in itself, and I am about to pick it out.

But my mother's reaction was too big, and it scared me. I overlapped her with the mother in my memory, as if they were two people, one gentle and generous, the other bitter and mean. Maybe it was the years that smoothed her edges and corners, made her experience all kinds of life, and finally could only choose to give in to life.

The women who helped persuaded that the child was not sensible, and she would not dare next time. I didn't dare to speak, I just lowered my head and pulled the white rice, tears kept falling into the bowl.

Yes, I'm not sensible! I won't dare again!

It seems that from that time on, except for eating with my own family, I would become very restrained at the dinner table, uncomfortable, and I didn't even dare to say a word.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the houses are being built taller and taller. It has been raining heavily for several days, so work can only be temporarily suspended.

He couldn't do anything on a rainy day, but his grandfather couldn't be idle, and he was worried about the flooding, so he wore a raincoat and cleaned all the ditches nearby.

The next day, there was a lot of water, and the water in the yard was no longer naked, but the heavy rain showed no sign of stopping. Grandpa took a hoe and gouged around the ditch, trying to make the water flow more smoothly. The aunt at the village commissary shouted at him, but the rain was too heavy to hear clearly. The aunt held an umbrella and shouted as she ran: "Your eldest daughter may be about to give birth, the flood is blocking the road, and you can't get out!"

There were still two months before the due date of the eldest aunt, and no one expected that the twins she was pregnant with would be so much earlier.

The eldest aunt is working outside, the eldest aunt's father-in-law died at an early age, the mother-in-law is guarding the temple in the mountains, and the relatives and friends around do not know how much they can help, and there is not even a person in the family who can make ideas. After hearing the news, the grandfather ran home with a hoe and did the most extravagant thing in his life - he called a car to his aunt's house at a high price.

The eldest aunt didn't look down on the eldest uncle, and felt that marrying him at that time was to catch ducks on the shelves, and the two had no relationship to talk about at all. When she first found out that she was pregnant, she tossed herself hard and wanted the child to be aborted. Later, I didn't know how to figure it out, and I didn't toss anymore.

But the two children in the aunt's womb are destined to have an unsmooth birth in the face of this once-in-a-century flood.

The car could only drive to the main highway, and Grandpa waded through the water all the way, and could only judge by feeling where the river was and where the bridge was. The deepest part of the water is already up to the waist of an adult.

Grandpa finally arrived at the eldest aunt's house, and the eldest aunt was already in a terrible pain. The helpers said that they called an ambulance, but the ambulance said that they could not come at all, so they could only wait on the road, and they did not dare to make a decision, so they could only wait for grandpa to come.

Grandpa made a quick decision, asked someone to help call again and let the ambulance wait on the road, found a few related men, unloaded a board car, and directly put the aunt on the board and carried it out.

Fortunately, there was not much delay, and not long after the eldest aunt was admitted to the hospital, she gave birth to her two little brothers by caesarean section. When the eldest brother was born, the heavy rain showed no sign of stopping, but when the younger brother came out, the rain stopped, and there was still sunshine, and there was only a few minutes between them. So one of the two younger brothers took the name Yu, which means rain, and the other Jin, which means light.

The eldest aunt is considered to be consummated, but the marriage of the younger aunt has not yet been settled. Grandma arranged for her to go on a blind date all day long, and she didn't want to be like her aunt, so she went to the northwest and went to her little uncle.