Chapter 20 (I)
1
It was a distant relative who asked Zhou Biyun for help, specifically Chen Kuo's father's side, his parents divorced when he was very young, and his father formed a new family and gave birth to a son, which is Chen Kuo's half-brother, this younger brother gave birth to a son named Chen Dafang, it stands to reason that Chen Kuo should be called an uncle, and he is his nephew, but Chen Kuo and his younger brother have only met a few times, and his son has never met, until Chen Kuo passed away, Chen Dafang led his wife Zhao Rui to visit Zhou Biyun once.
Chen Dafang's family lives in a county under Xiaguang City, where there are only large rugged mountains and abandoned fields, no Starbucks and no shared bicycles, which is a traditional rural village, and the family is preparing to move their family to Xiaguang City, and the first thing to do is to enroll two school-age children, so they called Zhou Biyun to ask if they could accept the children's foster care first, and said that they would pay for food.
Thinking that taking the child can also relieve his loneliness and the loneliness in the house, "Just a week?" Zhou Biyun listened to the other side of the phone and said that it would be at most half a month, so he agreed, "Send it over, anyway, my room is empty." ”
It was a six-year-old sister named Chen Bao, and a five-year-old brother named Chen Bei, and in order to greet them, Zhou Biyun bought two brand new clothes as a meeting gift.
Opening the door, the first thing Zhou Biyun saw was Chen Dafang and Zhao Rui with a simple face, the two of them were carrying large bags and small bags, and the smell of dust was indescribable, which made her frown slightly, this smell is common in crowded stations and subways, the two children behind them looked very scared, they were hiding behind Zhao Rui's thick thighs, looking at Zhou Biyun curiously and panickedly like little monkeys, their eyes widened, and their mouths were half open and drooling, they didn't look like they had the IQ of six and five years old, because Zhou Biyun was a grandchild with colleaguesChildren of a few years old are now very attentive to personal hygiene, polite, and able to have fluent conversations with adults.
"Come on in. Zhou Biyun smiled and let go of the door, regretting it in her heart, but fortunately, she could send away these two unpleasant children in two or three weeks.
When the family took off their shoes and entered the door, Zhou Biyun smelled a smell of feet, which should be from Chen Dafang, she finally pulled down her face and said seriously, "It's hard to run around, and you sweat all over your body, or you take a shower first, right?" I just bought new clothes for the two dolls. ”
Zhao Rui was still a little embarrassed, an embarrassed smile immediately appeared on her shiny face, pushed Chen Dafang to the bathroom, and spoke bluntly in dialect, "You stinky feet, wash them quickly, don't dirty the beautiful floor." After that, he turned around and dragged the two children to Zhou Biyun left and right, pushed their heads and said, "Grandma bought you new clothes, why don't you hurry up and say thank you, grandma." ”
The eldest child rolled his eyes for a long time and finally spit out the word "thank you", the younger one was smacking his fingers, Zhao Rui raised his hand to beat someone, Zhou Biyun quickly stopped, "The child is small, shy, it's okay." ”
After lunch, Zhao Rui took the initiative to stand up and clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and at the same time gave Chen Dafang a few looks, signaling that he should make a move. ”
At this age, a hundred yuan can still eat a few bites of rice a week? But Zhou Biyun is more concerned about another question than this question, "What do you mean? What do you mean? Aren't there just two children?"
At first glance, Chen Dafang can still find traces similar to his brother Chen Kuo on his face, all of them look a little wooden, and the most important thing is that sad face, as if all mankind owes him millions, but if he looks closely, he can't find a trace of it, he raised his hand and patted his head gently, as if he wanted a word or a word to come out of his head to speak, "The child is so young, we parents must be by our side to take care of it." ”
Zhou Biyun panicked in her heart, slapped the table and stood up, "I'm sorry, there aren't many rooms!"
Zhao Rui's hands were still full of foam from dishwashing detergent, so she rushed out of the kitchen and said with a smile on her face: "You can squeeze, you can squeeze, don't be afraid." ”
2
This family of four lived like this, even if it was a living allowance of 100 yuan a week, it was given that time, the reason was that Zhao Rui personally bought vegetables and cooked, "Don't bother your aunt, you just eat with us." ”
It seems that Zhou Biyun has taken a big advantage, Zhao Rui goes to the vegetable market every day to pick up cheap vegetables to buy, so the most common thing on the table is potatoes, shredded, diced, boiled whole, fried, fried, fried, fried, stewed, garlic, cumin, Zhou Biyun suspects that she has mastered the world's most complete potato cooking method, and occasionally can see green leafy vegetables, listening to her proudly declare that they can't be sold when the stall is about to close, and they are thrown on the ground, which is called how Zhou Biyun swallows.
As for the meat, they seem to be just waiting, and when Zhou Biyun thinks about the taste of meat, she can't help herself, and then eats it when she buys it from the supermarket, because Zhou Biyun is hungry if she doesn't eat meat for a few days, so the family doesn't eat less meat, it's better to say that every time she buys meat, most of it goes into their stomachs.
It can't go on like this, Zhou Biyun is not bad for these few pieces of meat money, but she is not willing to be this wronged leader, Chen Dafang's family is not bad for money, they have taken the demolition money, why eat and drink here in her, a retired old lady, so she doesn't eat at home anymore, every day when the meal is over, she walks out of the door, goes to the small restaurant outside to eat meat and fresh vegetables, and makes that family angry, and is angry with her every day, when she wants to step out of the door, she says, "Go out again to complete the Han banquet." When he came back, he said, "Baby, Beibei, go and smell grandma's meat, don't say you haven't eaten it, it's enough for our poor people to smell it." ”
The battle of wits and courage with them can be regarded as a preliminary small victory, but when Zhou Biyun was eating Kung Pao chicken rice bowl in a small restaurant with flies on the street, she saw a group of migrant workers noisily rushing in and sitting down, and suddenly she was so aggrieved that she shed tears, she was the only old lady in the whole store who was dining alone, this should not be, she was not a wandering lonely old man, she had a home, but she couldn't go back, what was this like? So she picked up the phone and cried to her daughter who was far away in Beijing.
3
In the hotel, after listening to Zhou Biyun's crying, Chen Yi stood with his waist crossed with a shocked face, forgetting to sit down the whole time, and Chi Nuo, who was sitting on the sofa, also listened to it with an incredible face, he took the lead in asking, but it was a stupid question, "Really?"
Zhou Biyun ignored him, but looked at Chen Yi aggrievedly and said, "Yiyi, make the decision for me." ”
"So that vampire is still in our house now?" Chen Yi raised his hand and pointed out the window, and said angrily, "You are too easy to bully." ”
"Don't be fierce to me, after your father is gone, I'm an old lady at home, isn't it easy for people to bully me?" Zhou Biyun wiped away her tears again, "Can you expect me to fight four at a time? If you want to be at home, can I be angry like this? At least you occupy the second bedroom, and I won't agree to anyone coming over for this, because there is no empty house." ”
Chen Yi's fingers circled around and pointed at himself, "In the end, it's still up to me?"
Seeing that Zhou Biyun nodded seriously, she smiled angrily.
"Let me think about it......" Chen Yi paced around the room, holding half of his face in a state of sorrow, "Don't they have to go to work?"
"Zhao Rui doesn't go to work, stays in the house 24 hours a day and watches TV, saying that he wants to cook and wash clothes, and he doesn't clean up, oh, you don't know, they made our house a smoky miasma......" Zhou Biyun said with a sad face, "Who then, Chen Dafang said that he was looking for a part-time job to make money, and he went to the construction site every day, as if he was doing a temporary worker who settled the bill on a daily basis, and brought back a body of mud every day." ”
Chen Yi suddenly had an idea and asked, "Did you call the police?"
Zhou Biyun was stunned for a moment, and her face showed a twist, "Can I call the police if something happens between relatives?"
Chen Yi glared at her, and said angrily: "You are about to live on the streets, and you still care about face, even if my daughter-in-law occupies your house, you can also call the police, in a society governed by the rule of law, what kind of relatives and favors do you talk about, and if you say it to others about this face-saving crime, you think you deserve it." ”