Chapter 10: Count Me In
After Mo Xiaoman said this, the whole courtyard was silent, probably not because of surprise, but waiting for the next reaction of Ah Gong. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Ah Gong coughed, and first asked Grandma gently: "What this girl said is true?"
Mo Ah Grandma raised her tear-stained face, her eyes were not focused, but she was facing Ah Gong: "It's true! I ate the egg fried rice, and the bowl is still here! If Xiao Man steals something, then it will be my share, and I will steal it too!"
"Nonsense!" Ah Gong turned his face to the people in the yard and said loudly: "Without our old husband and wife, they would have starved to death and their brothers would have starved to death! How could they still give birth to this litter of rabbit cubs? They made egg fried rice, so they should personally bring it to you to eat!"
A smile appeared on Grandma's face, Mo Xiaoman looked at it, and felt that Grandma's expression could be described as cold: "Old man, do you think they will do that? I always know what you think in your heart, you have never thought of separating and living alone, one is to care about family affection, the other is worried that no one will collect our bodies and bury us after death, and I am even more afraid that every year Qingming, no one will cut the grass on the grave, and there will be no incense in front of the monument! I also know that you are afraid of dying in front of me, and no one will support me, so I have to live with them!" Old man, I tell you the truth: If a person dies like a lamp goes out, what if there is no incense to worship? Can we know? Also, have you forgotten what I said? You and I cannot be born on the same day and month of the same year, but only on the same day of the same month and the same year! Because we will be buried together after we die! If you live, I will live, and if you die, what am I doing when I live?"
Mo Xiaoman listened to Grandma's words, couldn't help but burst into tears, kept sobbing, Grandpa's hands trembled, and his eyes were red: "Old woman, tell me, who made you wronged?"
Mo Ah Grandma continued: "Have you been wronged? I have suffered a lot of grievances! The old man is homesick and everything is prosperous, so I will endure it and not say anything!"
"Old woman!" Ah Gong was even more upset.
"Today, everyone made egg fried rice, and in the past they also made other delicious foods, but they never gave me a bite. Today, it was raining heavily, and the second family was also at home, and she made meat pancakes, which were even more fragrant than egg fried rice! In the past, she had delicious food, but she never gave me a bite! Even if it was taro and sweet potatoes simmered under the stove, she would not give them to the old woman if she couldn't finish eating them and throw them to feed the pigs! Old man, you are at home, I can eat a bowl of thick rice porridge, and as soon as you go up the mountain, I can only drink rice soup! In the past three days, the second family has brought me a bowl of rice soup every day, and it is gone after drinking, from morning to night, only one bowl! Tell me, old man, do you have no work, and can't afford to support me?"
"Who said I don't have a job?" Mo Ah Gong stomped his feet and roared: "Lao Tzu guards the reservoir, and there is a fixed seven-point division every day! Each person in the self-reserved land occupies one point, and our old two people occupy two points of land, and we can also grow a lot of buds and sweet potatoes, isn't it enough to eat a full mouthful?"
Turned around and pointed at Mo Guoqiang and Mo Lao Er and scolded: "Ungrateful dog thing! How did we raise you back then, ah? Mo Lao Lao is only three years old, Mo Lao Er is less than a year old, we are two people with a mouthful of porridge and a mouthful of rice slowly fed, when we were children, we called our parents and called our mothers, we want to hug and carry them, and the old woman can't eat well and sleep well for you...... When you grow up to be a teenager, you refuse to call your parents when you listen to a few words of instigation from outsiders! Now that one or two of you have a family and start a business, you dare to abuse the elderly! It turns out that when I am not at home and can't see it, you have been treating the old woman like this, and if I go out for a few days, I will starve her for a few days! The white-eyed wolf with a thousand knives, Lao Tzu will kill you!"
The more Mo Ah Gong scolded, the more excited he became, he leaned over and pulled out an arm-thick piece of wood from the thatched pile, and rushed out when he got up!
The nest exploded in the yard, and the two piles of people scattered, running in one direction, and Aunt Mo scolded while running: "You old and blind man, when will I not serve you food one day?
Mo Ah Grandma snorted: "Which one has a bad conscience, God knows!"
Mo Ah Gong chased Mo Guoqiang and Mo Lao Er all over the yard with a piece of wood, chasing and smashing, bang, every time they smashed into the air, people in their fifties, even if they have a little strength, in the end they can't compare to a man in his thirties, the brothers are very agile when they run away!
After running a few laps, the three of them were tired, and finally Mo Guoqiang was knocked down by Mo Ah Gong's medicine basket, and he was in a hurry, reached out and grabbed the firewood knife in the medicine basket, learned Mo Ah Gong's trick, made a gesture to fly the firewood knife, and shouted in his mouth: "Uncle, if you dare to come again, I will be welcome!"
Mo Ah Gong wiped his sweat and kept his steps: "If you have the ability, you will smash it over, and if you die, it will be mine!"
Grandma Mo listened to those sounds, her face was distorted, and she hurriedly shouted, "Old man, don't die!"
Mo Ah Gong stopped at this time, turned his head and replied: "Don't worry, I can't die yet! I have to clean up this little dog thing and dissipate my anger!"
Mo Lao Er also copied a bamboo pole in his hand, panting and shouting: "Uncle, don't force people to be anxious! Our brother really wants to beat you, you can't bear it!"
Mo Ah Gong was furious, and picked up the wood again: "Come on, rabbit cub! If you want to beat Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will see how capable you are!"
Boss Mo and Elder Mo raised their "weapons" at the same time, seeing that the two sides were really going to fight, a loud shout of "stop" came from the gate of the courtyard, and several men of five big and three thick walked in, behind them, there was a large group of women and children, as well as a few old people.
The small courtyard of the Mo family is not remote, there are two vertical and horizontal roads on the side of the wall, and from time to time there are villagers walking by, and I don't know who ran to inform the production captain, which will even be the secretary of the brigade.
The three men at the forefront, one is Mo Youliang, the secretary of the brigade in his fifties, the other is Guan Danian, the production captain in his early thirties, and a militia battalion commander, I don't know what his name is, this militia battalion commander is in charge of the commune militia, but his home happens to be in this village, so it is normal for him to appear here at this moment.
Mo Zhishu stretched out a finger and pointed at Mo Guoqiang and Mo Laoer, and shouted: "Knife and rod, put it down for me! Otherwise, I will ask the militia battalion commander to tie up the two of you and send them to the commune to deal with!"
The militia battalion commander stepped forward with an expressionless face and handed over the weapons of Boss Mo and Boss Mo in two clicks.
Mo Ah Gong put down the wood by himself, turned around and walked to the dilapidated house to help Mo Ah Grandma out with Mo Xiaoman.
Second Aunt Mo came over and shouted: "You came just in time for the branch secretary, give us a reason! Look at it, this house was kicked by the uncle, and when my uncle and his old man come back, they don't care about the indiscriminate situation, they all rely on one end, and everyone who is arrested will be beaten-this is none of our family's business!"
"Whose business is that?" Mo Zhishu said: "The boss kicked down the house, but the two elders live with the second elder, you are the second mother-in-law, where should the two old live now, don't you plan to care?"
"This, this...... I don't know where they want to live!"
"Okay, it's done with your words!" Mo Zhishu clapped his hands and commanded a few young and middle-aged men behind him: "Go and lift the collapsed house, this grass house is not safe, and it is not suitable for the old man to live!
Second Aunt Mo was in a hurry and screamed: "That's not good! The old immortal can't lay an egg in his life, and when he is unlucky! If they live in, our family will be unlucky!"
Mo Zhishu glared at Aunt Mo, and then turned his head to look at Mo Er: "Let your mother-in-law spoil your father and mother like this?
Mo Lao Er lowered his eyes and didn't squeak: That's not his own father, tell me what's wrong?
The production captain shook his head, and the people behind him were talking about it, and the grandmothers and aunts were angry: "Look at what these things are? Even if it's not your own father, but people have paid to marry your daughter-in-law to enter the door, what's wrong with accumulating morality?"
"Don't you juniors know, Mo Ah Gong and Grandma, where did they just pay for the brothers to marry a wife and get married? Even this house was built by their husband and wife! The brothers died when they were two or three years old, and they were both raised as uncles and aunts, and now they are like this, it is really ungrateful!"
"Is this called 'crossing the Yellow River and throwing a stick'?"
"That's not it, the old saying that the old people used to say, I saw it here!"
"Hey, hey, who will dare to raise cubs for others in the future, not even brothers!"
"There are only one or two out of ten things like this! People are different, and there are not so many ungrateful people in the world!"
"These two husbands and wives are just too kind, and they are good at bullying horses! When they were young, they worked hard to raise them, and they were like this when they were old?
Mo Zhishu saw that Mo Lao Er was cheating, and turned to look at Mo Lao: "I don't ask you what the reason is, why did you kick the old man's house?" Now, seeing that it is almost dark, how do you plan to settle the two elders?"
Mo Guoqiang twisted his head: "I broke up early in the morning, if you don't live with me, I can't care about it!"
"You have to pay for the house you kicked! Pay the money, I don't want you to take care of these two old ones!"
Mo Lao Er shouted a sentence, and everyone was silent.
Mo Ah Grandma pulled Mo Ah Gong and whispered in his ear, Mo Ah Gong nodded while listening, looked at Mo Xiaoman in surprise, as if he had just met her, looked up and down, and didn't ask anything else, only said: "Child, have you thought about it?"
Mo Xiaoman knew that Grandma told Grandpa that she was not Mo Guoqiang and Liu Fengying's biological son, so she nodded vigorously and said the word "yes".
Mo Ah Grandma said: "Old man, do you still want her to go back to be with those people?
Mo Ah Gong patted Grandma's hand: "I know what to do, Boss Mo owes us, don't worry, Xiao Man will be ours in the future!
Mo Ah Grandma fumbled and took out a piece of paper from the inner pocket of her shirt and handed it to Mo Ah Gong, with a smile on her face: "This was originally hidden under the pillow, but today I heard Xiao Man say something like that, so I touched it out and carried it, I didn't expect it to be used!"
Mo Ah Gong took the note and looked at Grandma, Mo Xiaoman was very sorry that Grandma was blind at this time, and he didn't see it: Ah Gong had a gentle smile on his face, and his tone was also soft: "You, you want a girl in your heart, we don't have it in our lives, this time I give a granddaughter, and I can make you get your wish!"