Chapter 23: Relatives
Lehe is happy, but for the time being, he still can't feel at ease. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The topic of whether Liu Fengying and Mo Xiaoman are biological mothers and daughters inevitably spread out of the village, and Mo Xiaoman is now returned to Grandpa and Grandma, which means that she will be the heir of Grandpa and Grandma from now on.
The relatives of the Mo family and the entire Gongdao Village all know that Ah Gong is a very inconspicuous person, who wears tattered clothes all the year round and quietly drills into the mountains and forests to pick up herbs, and he won't say a word if he has nothing to say, but the herbs he picks up can be exchanged for money!
Two days ago, the quarrel in the small courtyard of the Mo family broke out in black and white: Ah Gong had lent Mo Guoqiang and his wife more than 200 yuan! Some people also saw that Ah Gong took Grandma and Xiao Man to the market, and bought a cart full of new things.
Everyone was impressed by Ah Gong, this old man seems to have a lot of potential financial resources, Grandma is blind and won't spend money, and he won't leave it to Xiao Man in the future, Xiao Man's child is bitter!
Mo Lao Er and Mo Er Auntie regretted that their intestines were blue, they complained to each other, and they fought noisily, Mo Guoqiang and Liu Fengying also regretted it, they knew that the old man was so rich, so they gave Mo Xiaozhi to them at the beginning, so that in the future, all the money of the old man will be Xiaozhi's, that is, theirs!
And some relatives who don't usually move around have also emerged one after another, in the previous life, Xiaoman didn't know that Ah Gong had sisters, but in this life she not only saw Ah Gong's own sister, but also had a ...... When Ah Gong was a child, he had a daughter-in-law who worshipped in person!
Xiao Man was simply stunned!
The appearance of such an unexpected character is definitely not a side effect of her rebirth!
Thinking about it, the reason why she didn't know these things in her previous life was because she didn't have time to listen to the gossip of the people in the village, and she didn't have the opportunity to see anything with her own eyes.
However, she vaguely remembered that when Grandpa and Grandma and Mo Guoqiang's brothers fell out, because they couldn't produce evidence of the IOU, Mo Guoqiang and his wife denied the debt, and Grandpa couldn't go back to the half of the house, and moved out of the Mo family's courtyard with Grandma in a depressed mood, and after living in the Zhiqing House, there was indeed chaos in the courtyard for a while, and then it was smashed several times by the angry Grandpa, and the door of the courtyard was closed tightly all day long, obviously Grandpa and Grandma didn't want to have too much contact with the outside world, until two years later, Grandpa and Grandma died at the same time!
The change in this life is that she got Liu Fengying's notepad, which contains an IOU written by Liu Fengying herself, proving that Mo Guoqiang and his wife owe Ah Gong more than 200 yuan, and the evidence is conclusive and cannot be denied! Ah Gong's hard-earned hard-earned money was not lost in vain, but in exchange, Liu Fengying and Mo Guoqiang were forced to pass Xiao Man to Ah Gong and Grandma!
Mo Xiaoman needs the protection of grandpa and grandma, and grandpa has always wanted to give grandma a girl and let her raise it personally, the two elders finally got their wish, satisfied, and without the resentment and depression of their previous life, so Xiaoman now sees grandpa and grandma are in a relaxed and happy mood, not as depressed as in their previous life.
The family of three is happy and warm, so naturally they are in the mood to open the door to welcome their neighbors and relatives, hold a new home and join the banquet, and Xiaoman also has the opportunity to meet and understand the characters and events that he has not seen in his previous life!
The arrival of these people, of course, is not simply to talk about family and old feelings with Ah Gong, such as Ah Gong's own sister, Xiao Man wants to be called the old woman of the eldest aunt, she brought a pair of young men and women, who look one or two years older than Mo Xiaoman, and are her own grandchildren and granddaughters, and the eldest aunt said to Ah Gong:
"I've heard about this Xiaoman, I don't know if it's our Mo family's species, I can't let her inherit your family business! I sent you two grandchildren, you just need to give their father and mother a little money, meaning, even if it is compensation, from now on they will be your grandchildren, take care of them, and let them support you in the future!"
Xiao Man rolled his eyes: Come again, Ah Gong hasn't lived enough, so he is in such a hurry to send him to the end!
Sure enough, Ah Gong was very angry and yelled at his sister: "Take your grandson, where did you come from, where is Malier going back, don't get in my way here! I can't see you, I can live for ten or twenty more years!"
His sister is about 60 years old, with gray hair in a bun at the back of her head, wearing a dark blue self-dyed homespun cloth shirt and pants, typical of a rural old woman, the whole person is thin and dry, but she is energetic, and her strength is not small, and she roared: "I am just your own brother, I am worried about you, do you understand?
Ah Gong went up and pulled her sleeve and pushed it out of the door: "Hurry up, hurry up, don't make noise here, I don't have your sister!"
The eldest aunt was dragged out of the door scolding, and the young man hurriedly followed her, but the girl didn't know why, Mo only went around in the yard, but she didn't go out, and the pair of grandchildren were also strange, as if they had forgotten her, and when Ah Gong pulled the girl out of the courtyard gate, they were all gone!
The aunt's house is not far away, only in Shangling Village, seven or eight miles away, Ah Gong wanted to send the girl home, but the girl turned around and refused to go out, so she had no choice but to leave her temporarily.
The daughter-in-law who visited the church when Grandpa was a child, came after the eldest aunt left, about half an hour apart, this woman cut her short hair to her ears, a few years younger than her aunt, and her clothes were relatively neat.
She didn't send a boy or a girl to Ah Gong, but she came to borrow money, she was very good at being a person, she didn't borrow from Ah Gong, she only asked Grandma to say, of course Grandma knew that Ah Gong had no money, but she didn't tell her directly, but called Ah Gong and said about borrowing money, and Ah Gong said to his ex-daughter-in-law:
"Zhiyuan, you also know, I have always wanted to take Ayu to the city to treat my eyes, but every time it is always a little worse, this time...... Alas, we don't have much money now, so we have a hundred or so yuan left, and we can't give you all of them, at most half of them will be given to you, and I will keep half of them in case of emergency. If you think a few dozen dollars is too little, you can't do it, otherwise you will have to wait until next month, maybe I can lend you more. ”
The ex-daughter-in-law hurriedly said: "Then wait for next month, I'll come again! Don't hide it from you, the younger son is talking to someone, they are young people who are not sensible, and they can talk about it...... The girl was pregnant! Alas, there were quite a few brothers in the woman's family, all of whom were very powerful, and now they insisted on asking us to give a bride price of 600 yuan, but we were not even halfway there...... Alas, I'm scared to death!"
"In this way, it's really a big event!" Knowing that Grandma was blind, Grandma still looked at Grandma.
Grandma smiled: "Old man, you look at it, if you have it, you will give it to Sister Hua first." When you were young, you were not at home, Sister Hua often came to help take care of the elderly, and when your mother-in-law died, Sister Hua helped to bury you...... It is not easy for her to raise four children by herself, and she has to marry a daughter-in-law! However, you have to remember Xiaoman's tuition!"
"Yes, I know!"
Ah Gong sent his ex-daughter-in-law out, Xiao Man quietly followed, and heard Ah Gong say: "Zhiping Mom, it's July 29 today, it is estimated that I will get the money after the 10th of next month, and when the time comes, you send someone to come and get it, we will leave some tuition for the child, and it is estimated that we can give you 200 yuan like this!"
Zhiping's mother was very happy, and her voice was sweeter: "Brother Amu, you are still the best for me......! Alas, back then, I really regretted it!"
"Don't say such things! You did the right thing back then, otherwise how could you be today? Look at your son and grandson now, how good!"
"Brother Amu, as I said earlier, if you are willing, my children and grandchildren will also be yours...... Ayu's body is too weak, she can't give you a child, I feel sorry for you, I can't sleep at night!"
"I had a child with Ayu, and she was weak and her eyes were bad, also because of that child...... You can live a good life, don't feel sorry for us, we have Xiaoman now, Ayu is very happy, I am also relieved, we will be even better! It's not early, Zhiping, go back quickly!"
"Brother Amu......"
Ah Gong: "Go quickly, it's hard to walk on the road at night!"
Inside the wall, Xiao Man hid between two holly trees, heard the courtyard door creak, and looked through the gap in the leaves, it turned out that Ah Gong had come in, and covered the courtyard door, and then strode towards the main house.
Xiao Man heard a sigh outside the wall, and his footsteps gradually drifted away, so he came out from behind the holly tree and patted his clothes, and was about to go back to the house, but he heard a commotion, and turned around to see the granddaughter of the eldest aunt also coming out from behind another holly tree, laughing and patting the dust on her body.
Xiao Manleng paused: "Why are you here?"
"Why can't I be here?" the girl tilted her head to look at her, and smiled flatteringly: "This yard is big and fun, especially suitable for playing hide and seek! There are still many peony flowers over there, we cut them out every day and put them in bottles, and wear them in our hair, they are fragrant and beautiful!"
Xiao Man was speechless: That's a rose, okay? It's not a peony, it's not a peony!