In this winter, Tian Guifang saw beads of sweat on Zhou An's forehead, this is still winter, if this is summer, what should it be hot?

Distressed.

Looking at her son's thin figure and the furry on her mouth, she silently looked back and looked at Zhou Taihu who was still drinking and talking loudly at the table, at this moment, she was a little dissatisfied with Zhou Taihu.

If it weren't for the fact that they were too useless as parents, and their son was so young, how could they use such hard work?

I want to hate him, but I can't hate it in my heart, because when Zhou Taihu is in good health, he works just as hard outside, and Zhou Taihu, who has no skills and can't read a single word, can do before, and he has always been selling coolies to people.

Zhou Taihu is nicknamed "Tiger", not only because he has the word "Tiger" in his name, but also because he has a bad temper and has never lost a fight with others.

Tian Guifang remembers that Zhou Taihu was very strong when he was young, and Zhou Taihu, who began to pick up the burden of a family in his teens, was not tall, but he used to have a very thick body, and he could eat more than half a catty of rice at a meal, and it was very inconvenient to buy fertilizer before, because only the supply and marketing cooperatives in the town sold it, she remembered that at that time, this guy picked two bags of 100 catties of fertilizer at a time, and picked it back from the town for nearly ten miles, without changing his shoulders once.

In the past, people picked sand from the boat by the river, and carried sand from this side of the polder to the other side of the polder, and the average person was tired of picking it for two days, and few people could pick it for more than a week, but Zhou Taihu always picked it for two or three months, until there was no sand for him to pick.

There are many similar things, Tian Guifang remembers.

When Zhou An was still young, her eldest brother Tian Benye saw that she was having a hard time, and persuaded her to divorce Zhou Taihu and find another one.

But after so many years, she never thought of divorcing Zhou Taihu.

Although Zhou Taihu has a bad temper, although he is rude and swearing, and despite his stinginess, he can't wait to break a penny in half.

But she just didn't think about divorce.

Reluctance to have a son is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also because although Zhou Taihu has such and such shortcomings, there is one thing that makes her never dislike him.

- That is, he has been working hard for this family, and after marrying her, he put all his thoughts on their mother.

In the early years, when she fainted from anemia, he would sweat profusely every time, and carry her to the hospital in the middle of the day or at night.

She remembered that once he came back in the middle of the night from the kiln factory where he made bricks, and saw her lying at home, covered in stinky sweat, and carried her to the county hospital in the middle of the night, because in the middle of the night, the small private clinic in the town had been closed, and when she woke up, she saw that he had a shoe on one foot, and the other foot was bare, and the soles of his feet were bleeding.

When the family was the poorest, she remembered that Zhou An was three years old that year, and on the night of the twentieth day of the lunar month, Zhou An fell out of bed, and fell into a big pit at the back of his head.

She was so anxious that she only knew how to cry.

Zhou Taihu was also so anxious that tears fell from his eyes, shouting "My son, my son!", and he also sent his son to the county hospital in the middle of the night.

But at that time, the family was poor, and the family was destitute after seeing the son, and after seeing the beginning of spring, he still had to buy seeds, fertilizers, and usually buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home, and Zhou Taihu, who had a strong nature, was silent for a few days, on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, she was preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve meal in the kitchen, but he sawed a bamboo flat burden at home and made a lotus fall, and on the first day of the new year, Zhou Taihu took the lotus flower to go out to ask for food.

To save face, he tried to go as far as possible, and didn't make such a fool of himself where there were acquaintances, but he really went out to ask for food.

On the first day, second and third days of the Lunar New Year, for three consecutive days, Zhou Taihu, who had never bowed his head to anyone in half his life, went out early and returned late every day, going door to door, walking to the door of each house, and singing to people with lotus flowers.

Yes, he can sing.

His favorite thing when he was a child was listening to people sing, and then he learned a little bit about it.

In the first three days of the New Year that year, he used this "talent" to go out and ask for food for three days.

Many years have passed since this incident, and Zhou Taihu and her have never told anyone, only the three of them know.

After all, asking for food is not a glorious thing.

But Zhou Taihu, who wants to eat, still doesn't dislike it.

Because she knew that Zhou Taihu had done her best.

……

When Tian Guifang was reminiscing about the bittersweet at the kitchen door, Qu Yanyang came down from the upstairs in a hurry.

As a lobby manager, she often has to toast guests.

The guests in the hall don't need to, but tonight they went upstairs into the box, either to congratulate the suppliers of Zhou'an's new store opening, or the head of the management committee, and the others are also rich and have status, otherwise they are reluctant to go to the box on the second floor to consume, and the minimum consumption amount of the box stipulated by Zhou'an is 200 yuan.

In Yinma County in 04, how many of the people who were willing to eat 200 for one meal were poor people?

Qu Yanyang, who drank the wine, had a pink face, as delicate as a pink peach blossom.

A natural foxy face, which is all the more charming because of it.

No, she hurried down the stairs, and everyone in the hall who saw her, whether men, women, or children, felt a little unable to take their eyes off.

were all dazzled by Qu Yanyang's bright light.

Qu Yanyang didn't look at them, she had long been used to such a gaze, and she hurried downstairs and went straight to the kitchen.

Seeing Tian Guifang standing at the door, she stopped in surprise, "Auntie, have you finished eating, why are you standing here?"

Asking, she subconsciously looked back at the table next to the bar, it was the table where Zhou An's family and relatives were eating tonight, and she saw that everyone else was still eating and chatting.

"Oh, I'm done, just come over and have a look. ”

Tian Guifang hurriedly collected her emotions and squeezed out a smile to answer.

Qu Yanyang glanced at her and nodded, "Then Auntie, you are casual, I'll go in and find Xia Anzi!"

"Okay, okay, you're busy!"

Tian Guifang responded continuously, and looked at Qu Yanyang's face a little strangely.

She was also surprised by the woman's beauty, but what was even more strange to her was that when the female employee was at work, why was she still drunk? Why did Anzi hire such a woman to do things? Isn't this a waste of money?

She decided to wait and find an opportunity to talk to her son.

……

Qu Yanyang hurriedly entered the kitchen, completely unexpectedly saying hello to Zhou An's mother, and leaving such an impression on the other party.

Quickly came to Zhou An, who was busy cooking, Qu Yanyang said anxiously: "Anzi, Director Wei, they are almost ready, I have already toasted them a few glasses of wine on your behalf, but Director Wei just said that he wanted to toast you with a glass of wine, look, can you take some time to deal with it now?"