Standing on the ridge of the village, Jiang Hua silently smoked a cigarette and looked at a man who was bent over and busy in the field.

The man was thin, even rickety. It's as if that waist has never been straightened, and it's like it's bent by nature. And the white hair is like a thick layer of snow has fallen.

But who would have imagined that this person was Jiang Zhimin, who was in the county town 10 years ago? It may be an exaggeration to use the power of the county, but it is not an exaggeration to call him Mr. Jiang wherever he goes.

After smoking three cigarettes, Jiang Zhimin was still bent over and busy in the field, and Jiang Hua didn't call him.

For the word father, Jiang Hua has a complex emotion that cannot be spoken. He couldn't say that he blamed his father, or that he should say that he sympathized with him. Maybe both emotions are mixed, and for a while, mixed feelings.

If my father had listened to him at that time, maybe he wouldn't have been like this, and he wouldn't have had to drop out of school.

Half an hour later, Jiang Zhimin raised his body, feeling that someone behind him was looking at him, and he turned his head coldly, and he opened his mouth and couldn't speak.

Jiang Hua only nodded lightly to Jiang Zhimin, and did not call "Dad". A moment later, Jiang Zhimin rushed towards Jiang Hua with his bare feet and stepping on the mud. Because of his years of hard work, coupled with huge financial pressure, he looks older. I almost stumbled and fell.

And Jiang Hua also saw such a scene, he subconsciously wanted to help, but he forced himself not to move.

"When did you come back?" Jiang Zhimin's old face squeezed out a smile, but it was not the kind of smile that he hadn't seen his son for many years, but a guilty smile.

It's been five years, and this is the first time Jiang Hua has gone home. Jiang Zhimin put his hands behind his back, glanced up and down at Jiang Hua, and his eyes turned red in an instant. A line of muddy tears fell to the ground along the hard wrinkles on his face.

But he quickly wiped away his tears and said, "Okay, just come back! Go, go home, Dad... I'll cook for you!"

Jiang Zhimin originally wanted to say, "Dad cooked for you!", but as soon as the word "Dad" came out, he immediately called himself me. He felt that he was not qualified to be a father at all, especially the father of someone like Jiang Hua.

Jiang Hua didn't refuse or agree, but asked, "Didn't you tell Jiang Xue about it?"

"No, no!" Jiang Zhimin shook his head submissively, as if he was his son, "I didn't dare to say it! You didn't let me say it, I didn't dare to say it, and your mother didn't say it either!"

"Jiang Xue at home?"

"Here it is!"

"Why don't you go to school?

"This kid said he didn't want to read anymore, and said he was going out to do things to help pay off his debts!"

Jiang Hua was stunned, and said lightly: "I have already paid back the 3 million for you! I'll go back first, you can go slowly!"

After dropping this sentence, Jiang Hua ran away and rushed home, ignoring Jiang Zhimin, who was chasing after him.

This is an old three-room house, the bricks are still the red bricks of the past, and the yard floor is not the current cement floor, but layers of green bricks. Some of the brick joints have grown weeds and are even covered with moss.

Pushing open the two wooden doors vigorously, Jiang Hua saw Jiang Xue chatting with her mother Xu Fengying in the courtyard while choosing vegetables.

"Jiang Xue, what day is it? Are you still staying at home?"

Jiang Hua didn't shout Mom as soon as he entered the door, but was angry with Jiang Xue directly.

The mother and daughter were all stunned for a moment, and they all looked up at the door. first saw Jiang Hua, and then saw Jiang Zhimin, who was covered in mud because of catching Jiang Hua.

"Dad?!" Jiang Xue was surprised for a moment, then dropped the things in her hand and ran out of the door, pushed Jiang Hua aside suddenly, and helped Jiang Zhimin: "Dad, are you okay? Why did you fall here? You walk slowly! I'll help you in to rest!"

"I'm fine!" Jiang Zhimin signaled that Jiang Xue didn't care about himself, and then stared at Jiang Hua tightly: "What do you mean by saying that you have returned all the money? You really paid it back? Where did you get the 3 million? What have you done outside in the past few years?"

Mother Xu Fengying was also stunned, and quickly got up and chased after her: "Huazi, did you really pay it back?"

After Jiang Hua glanced at Xu Fengying, Xu Fengying closed her mouth again and stopped talking. Xu Fengying has always believed in Jiang Hua, because Jiang Hua has never said a lie to her. As long as Jiang Hua said it, Xu Fengying believed it.

Jiang Xue stared at Jiang Hua with anger on her face: "Heh, Jiang Hua, don't you dare to tell you what you are doing outside? Aren't you just being a little security guard? What do you have to offer? If you pay back the money, you can make it up! Where did you pick up this skin? Jiang Hua, I can tell you, my parents have become like this, it's all because of you! It's all because of you! You remember, it's all because of you!"

Jiang Hua pursed his lips and ignored Jiang Xue, but looked at Xu Fengying and said, "Mom, I really paid back that money! You don't have to go to Jiang Caixiang's house to do things in the future! I will go back to the ancient city in a few days, you will go with me! I will support you!"

For Xu Fengying, Jiang Hua felt guilty! It should be for his father Jiang Zhimin!

He felt that there was no such good woman and mother as Xu Fengying in the world, and Xu Fengying was simply a representative figure of that generation of women! She always adhered to the attitude of never abandoning her husband, no matter whether her husband was good or bad, she did her part.

Before Xu Fengying could speak, Jiang Xue suddenly interjected, and slapped Jiang Hua, scolding: "You raise your mother? What do you take to support you? The whole family is your most wasteful! You pay off your gambling debts first!"

Jiang Hua didn't pay attention to Jiang Xue, but said to everyone: "I'll go out for a walk, I'm not eating at home!" After speaking, Jiang Hua grabbed the door and walked out.

"Yes, get out of here, do you still have the face to come back, this family doesn't have you!" Jiang Xue shouted loudly in the back. Although Jiang Xue's appearance is not bad, it is really not bad at all, if you dress up a little, you can make her debut directly. But what is the difference between her appearance and that of a shrew at this time? It may be because of her hatred for Jiang Hua that she is like this.

Xu Fengying glanced at it and said to Jiang Zhimin: "Go and close the door! Then you two come in with me!"

Jiang Zhimin was stunned, this was the first time Xu Fengying had made demands on himself for so many years, although it was just a trivial matter like closing the door, he was still stunned, but he closed the door, and then followed Xu Fengying into the house with Jiang Xue.

As soon as she entered the house, Xu Fengying suddenly slapped Jiang Xue.

"Mom, what are you doing?" Jiang Xue was stunned, she didn't know why Xu Fengying would beat herself, was it because of her attitude towards Jiang Hua just now?

Xu Fengying's eyes were full of tears, and her lips kept trembling up and down: "Jiang Xue, do you know who gave you your tuition fees in the past few years? It's your brother Jianghua! Your father and I have been tired of paying off our debts in the past few years, where is there any money for you to study? It's all your brother Jianghua who transferred it to us first, and then we transferred it to you!"

"No... Impossible!" Jiang Xue didn't dare to think about what her mother said, and after finding that Jiang Zhimin also nodded to herself again, she exclaimed in surprise: "He is a gambler, how can he provide for me to go to school? Our family has become like this, isn't it because Jiang Hua went to gamble and lost, and then you paid it back for him? Isn't it because of this that Jiang Caixiang's family owes 3 million?"

Jiang Zhimin sighed: "Jiang Xue, saying that he lost his family property in gambling is completely because he wants us to lie to you! When you were still in junior high school, I didn't tell you a lot of things! Your brother said it himself, he went out to do things and let you study hard!"

"So, have you been lying to me?" Jiang Xue felt like a thunderbolt from the blue, as soon as these things were said, it seemed that she was the most wrong, "But, but it is obviously Jiang Hua's reading that is even more powerful! Why don't you let him study? If he reads, he must be more powerful than me!"

"Your brother asked for it himself!" Jiang Zhimin took out a cigarette and smoked it, but he choked on tears, "It's the three of us who are sorry for him, not him! And your brother borrowed the living expenses and tuition fees for you by your brother himself! He still has to subsidize us! I really don't know how he has spent all these years! He just asked me if I told you, and I said no! Alas..."

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhimin didn't care about the image of his father at all, and squatted on the ground and hugged his head and cried.

Xu Fengying also burst into tears, and when she thought of Jiang Hua, she felt a pain in her heart. Not long after, Xu Fengying told Jiang Xue an even more unacceptable fact: "Xiaoxue, actually, you are not our own child!

After a pause, Xu Fengying took a deep breath and looked at Jiang Xue seriously: "I don't ask you to do anything to us in the future, I just want you to be kind to Jiang Hua! He really treats you as a sister! He is a person who never treats his brothers and sisters as a thing, and he doesn't take any of his relatives seriously, but he does it for you, a sister who is not related to each other! Alas... Say no more!"

Jiang Xue froze there like a wooden man at this time, motionless, her mind full of what her parents said and Jiang Hua's shadow.

At this moment, she finally understood why Jiang Hua asked herself why she didn't go to school as soon as she entered the door, it was because her brother hoped that she would finish school for him!

"Brother!" Jiang Xue shouted, bowed deeply to the two parents, and chased out.