Time flashed and three years passed.

Before dawn this day, Zhou's father woke up Zhou's mother and asked her to take the money, he wanted to go to the house where the pond fish was ordered to catch fish, and the Lantern Festival was sold today. When Zhou's mother heard this, she sobered up a little, opened the drawer herself, counted out two hundred yuan and handed it to Zhou's father, swept the remaining coins together and counted them, and put them in Zhou's father's pocket, saying, "Don't be hungry, go to the town to eat a bowl of vermicelli." ”

Zhou's father opened the door and rode a bicycle away, Zhou's mother also got up, washed up and went to open the rice tank, the rice tank was about to bottom out again, she sighed, sat on the small stool next to her and was stunned for a while.

blamed herself for not being angry, Zhou's mother thought, if she had been a leader all her life, and her family would have a few less mouths to eat, she would not have been so stretched. Fortunately, her husband is a person who can earn money compared to others, otherwise, who can afford to raise so many children? Fortunately, she later had two sons, and it was not in vain that she ran around with a big belly to avoid the Family Planning Commission in those years, and also paid a large sum of money for her birth.

Nine-year-old Zhou Peng turned over, closed his eyes and asked, "Mom, is the rice cooked?"

Zhou's mother hurriedly stood up and scooped up rice to cook porridge, and said, "Then start cooking, you can sleep for a while, sleep more, and grow taller." Zhou's mother woke up her eldest daughter Zhou Xiaohong, second daughter Zhou Xiaofang, and third daughter Zhou Xiaoxian, and glanced at Zhou Xiaoliu, who was sleeping on the table with her sisters' cotton jackets: "Get up, you guys get up quickly, and move Xiaoliu to the bed to sleep." Then he went out of the room and went to the stove in the hall.

Zhou Xiaoliu had already woken up, she quickly dressed and washed, then took her third sister's book and went to the door to face the east. In the past three years, she has memorized more than ten books given by the old man, such as "Hug Puzi", "I Ching Tendon", and "Baduan Jin".

Recently, she began to try to pinch the mantra with gestures, and the old man said that she had been practicing until the end of the day, she could fly to the sky, reach the heavens, and go down to the spiritual realm, which made Zhou Xiaoliu feel very nonsense, because after refining for so long, except for the warm warmth of the dantian, it was like putting a hot water bottle when she came to the eldest aunt, she didn't refine it at all, and these gestures now are just empty forms.

And one day when she recited "Hug Puzi", "saw" a faint purple gas rushing towards her pineal gland, and told the old man excitedly, the old man was surprised. Let's practice, in case it is my own poor qualifications, Zhou Xiaoliu persuaded himself like this.

Of course, she still needs to occasionally read pinyin, numbers, or sing the children's songs taught by her third sister as a cover. Everyone is no longer surprised by this. Although most of the time I can't understand what she is singing, it is better to sing and dance at the door of the house like this than to go out to fight chickens and dogs.

At noon, Zhou's mother cut a small piece of bacon and fried chili, put it in the middle of the small round table, and then took the children to sit on the old door bed and a small stool and waited for Zhou's father to come home and start the meal immediately. It's almost one o'clock, and Zhou's father, who usually arrives on time at twelve o'clock, has not come back, and I don't know how much the fish sold today.

Zhou's mother was a little anxious, so she got up and stood outside the door and looked at the intersection, if you have tried to wait under anxiety, you can probably understand Zhou's mother's mood at the moment.

However, Zhou's mother stood outside the door for half an hour and couldn't wait for her husband back, but waited for the news brought by her third brother and sister: "Sister-in-law, the eldest brother is playing money at the entrance of the village......" Zhou's mother turned around and greeted her when she heard it, closed the door, followed, and went to the entrance of the village.

When the children heard this, they glanced at each other and quickly took action, and a string of children followed Zhou's mother towards the entrance of the village.

Zhou Xiaoliu recalled while walking, this time it was really a fight, in her previous life, Zhou's mother told her, saying that she rushed over to bite Zhou's father in order to protect Zhou's mother, for this reason, Zhou's mother treated her well for a while, but after a long time, when Zhou's mother mentioned this matter again, she blamed her for being too ruthless, and her own father could talk about it. Zhou Xiaoliu made up his mind, this time he would definitely just stand aside, so many sisters should be able to pull the two of them apart.

Zhou's father went to fish early this morning, but the person who booked the water to catch the pond fish did not release the water, saying that the old man in the family was sick, and the family was so anxious that they couldn't take care of it, so they left someone at home and refunded the subscription money to Zhou's father. Zhou's father had no choice but to take the order and go back to the village. It was still early at that time, and he was under the big camphor tree by the stream at the entrance of the village, which could only be hugged by four people, to see other lazy people playing with money, but his wife didn't let him play, but he didn't say that he wouldn't let him see it.

Today, the lazy man Sanquan is really lucky, and he has been winning. At eleven o'clock, Zhou's father estimated that Sanquan had won at least seventy or eighty. Dad Zhou was a little greedy, but he only rubbed his hands and prepared to go home for dinner. Who knew that Sanquan suddenly said that he had a stomachache, and he was going to go to the toilet after grabbing the money, but the three next to him didn't let him go, Sanquan pulled Zhou's father in a hurry and said: "Brother Qingshan, give me a top position, if you lose, it's mine, I'll go back to the toilet." Dad Zhou rubbed his hands again and thought, let's hold it up for a while.

Who knew that Sanquan had disappeared for two hours, and he had been losing money. He wants to go, and the three won't let him go, let him pay. Dad Zhou calculated, Mom, I lost more than 50 years of hard work in this short time, and my wife will definitely have to scratch his face when I go back.

"A few more games and maybe you'll win it back. I don't know which woman said it. Dad Zhou felt reasonable, so he decided to sit down and play a few more, so as to get the capital back.

But Dad Zhou lost more and more, he was so anxious that he was thinking, if he didn't make a big one, he would be lucky enough to return to his roots. He took the cards in one hand and the money in the other, and as soon as the money was taken out and he didn't have time to count it, a hand reached over, grabbed the cards in his hand, and threw them on the table.

Zhou's mother looked at him angrily. He was a little ashamed in his heart, but his wife threw his card and made him feel very shameless, and a woman in the crowd looked at him with a playful face, and he came up angrily and slapped his wife with a wave of his hand. He felt that he had little strength, but his wife fell to the ground and struggled to get up. He felt that his wife was pretending, and she was pretending to be quite similar, so he was even more angry, and he pulled his wife up: "Go home!" so many people watched, it was really embarrassing.

If you want to put it aside on weekdays, Zhou's mother will at most let the children pull their arms and legs one by one to pull Zhou's father home. Only she shouted a few times, but Dad Zhou didn't answer her, and took out all the money in his pocket, seeing that the posture was going to be all pressed.

Zhou's mother was stunned, this money was counted out by her in the morning, after the New Year's half a month, the gift that should be given is finished, and the favor that should be left is also gone, there is no money left at home, she counted back and forth several times, while counting the corners of the money folded out of the crease, thinking countless times how to spend a penny as two cents.

Seeing that even the few dozen pieces left were about to be lost, she was in a hurry, and immediately reached out and threw her husband's cards. She was slapped so hard that she couldn't get up when she fell to the ground, she was stunned for a moment, and then the grievances in her heart were out of control.

She thought: So many children haven't eaten a few bites of meat during the New Year, and the rice is almost finished, her husband doesn't think about how to earn money to support the family and children, and he has lost the money, and he has given birth to so many children for him, he said that Xiaosi will give it away, and now he is beating her in front of outsiders, and the 15th Family Planning Commission wants to urge the 2,000 yuan fine of the birth cycle......

She felt that there was no hope left in this life, so she cried loudly, and the more she cried, the more sad she became, so she got up and scratched her husband's face.

Come on, hurt each other!

Dad Zhou touched his face and found that the skin was broken, and it was estimated that it would be left for a few days, and it was not the first time he was scratched, but he just felt unbearable today. There were more and more onlookers, and it was not a big deal to see the excitement, and someone shouted: "Ah, Brother Qingshan, the left side of your face has bloomed, let your sister-in-law scratch one on your right face, two flowers are good-looking...... The others burst into laughter.

Dad Zhou only felt that his face was getting hotter and hotter, and his scratched face was about to burn.

"I won't go up for three days!", the woman added. He was not the only man in the village who beat his wife, and he felt more and more angry, so he raised one leg and prepared to teach his wife a lesson.

No one expected that Zhou Xiaoliu suddenly rushed over and bit Zhou's father's leg. Dad Zhou was in pain, and without thinking about it, he shook his leg vigorously and threw Zhou Xiaoliu out, and Zhou Xiaoliu stumbled on the corner of the stone table where they were playing cards......