Chapter 4: The Head of the Family
The memories were interrupted by the sound of hurried footsteps, Hua He ran out of sweat in the winter, and hurriedly asked, "Mother, mother, Yaoyao is okay!" ”
"Yaoyao was rescued, but I'm afraid that your father will find out and die again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" Nian Juying twisted her fingers and said worriedly, "Your father's temper, he hates people who give up their lives easily. ”
People who have come from the war-torn era have a reverence for life that people in peacetime cannot imagine.
"My father doesn't know about this? Is he still weaving wicker baskets in the ancestral hall? I went to the thatched house, and I heard what people said, and I told those who went in not to talk nonsense. Hua Henian said uneasily with his arms folded.
"Can this paper hold fire? So many people have seen it, I have begged, don't you still know, your father will know sooner or later. Nian Juying wiped her tears and said, "That stupid child, who was bent on the body of that educated youth, had already told her." The maize and wheat in the field, harvested one by one, planted one by one, are not in the same season, and if they can live together, that is their life. Man is the same as the crop, each has its own life, it is not in the same field, it cannot grow together, why does she not understand? ”
"Mother, mother, don't cry, when Yaoyao wakes up, let's persuade her to accompany my father, my father can really drive his own daughter out and let her fend for herself!" Hua Henian lowered his voice and said, "By the way, what about my daughter-in-law?" ”
"Where's it in the kitchen?" Nian Juying sobbed, "What about the children playing on your kang?" Seungjin looked at the two small ones. ”
"I'm going to tell Chengjin Niang." Hua Henian turned around and walked towards the kitchen.
Nian Juying wiped away her tears and said, "I'll go to see if Yaoyao is awake." ”
Before she raised her feet, she heard a croaking sound outside the gate, and as soon as Nian Juying raised her eyes, she saw Hua Shishi, who was in charge, walking slowly, "You are back." Year of the Crane! Your dad is back. ”
Quack, quack...... Hua Laoshi crossed the big threshold with grass nests on his feet and walked in.
Nian Juying hurriedly picked up the small broom hanging on the wall at the door, looked at Hua Laoshi who was already standing on the steps in front of her, swept the snow on his body, and bent down to sweep the dust on his trouser legs.
Hua Laoshi threw the dogskin hat to Nian Juying, and she patted the snow on it with the hat.
In the kitchen, Hua Henian just told his daughter-in-law to pay attention to talking, and heard Nian Juying's voice.
The two of them immediately came out of the kitchen, "Dad, I'm back." ”
The three children on the kang in the wing room heard the movement, and immediately ran out with the grass nest, "Grandpa, you're back." ”
"Hmm!" Hua Laoshi nodded his head, and He Xiu'e hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the cotton curtain of the patches, and the bottom edge was still broken with knotted cotton wool.
Hua Laoshi, who entered the room, was expressionless, and immediately sat on the rattan chair on the left side of the Eight Immortals Table in the middle hall.
He Xiu'e stepped forward and said, "Dad, do you want to drink water?" ”
"I don't drink your water." Hua honestly continued, "Change shoes." ”
He Xiu'e called out to her eldest son who came in later, "Chengjin." Then he lifted the lid of the large teapot on the table of the Eight Immortals, poured some water, and covered the lid to dry.
"Hey!" Hua Chengjin answered, walked towards his grandfather's room to the east, and quickly took out a pair of black handmade cotton shoes with mille-feuille soles, put them at Hua Laoshi's feet and said, "Grandpa, change your shoes!" ”
"Let the woman change!" Hua Laoshi ordered.
Hua Henian, who was standing beside Hua Laoshi, looked at He Xiu'e Nunu and made a look, "Daughter-in-law." ”
He Xiu'e looked at it, a little reluctant to do it, and just wanted to find an excuse to prevaricate......
I saw Nian Juying coming in with a dogskin hat and saying, "Change your shoes!" Let me do it. ”
"I'll come, I'll come." He Xiu'e immediately said.
Then the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law rushed to Hua Laoshi's side, squatted down, Nian Juying casually put the hat on the table of the eight immortals, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law each had one foot, and changed Hua Laoshi into black cotton shoes with mille-feuille soles.
After changing her shoes, He Xiu'e stood up and said, "Dad, I'm cooking." ”
As she spoke, she beckoned the three children to go out with her, and there would be lightning and thunder in the house later, and a violent storm.
It's not good for the child to see, how will the sister-in-law talk in front of the children in the future.
"Go, go! What about me here? Nian Juying waved her hand to leave.
Hua Junyao heard it clearly on the West House Kang, this is her father.
Hua Laoshi raised his eyes and stared at Nian Juying sharply, "What about the dead girl?" ”
Nian Juying's face was hesitant, and she blurted out, "Yaoyao is not at home, what about playing at Erya's house?" ”
With a "snap ......", Hua Laoshi was on the table, the dogskin hat on it jumped three times, and said sharply, "That dead girl dares to die, are you still afraid to see me?" ”
Nian Juying and Hua Henian's hearts trembled, and they stood in front of the West House like frightened birds.
Nian Juying was bold, and said in a trembling voice, "Old man, Yaoyao, she doesn't dare anymore." ”
"Don't dare! People who want to die, you can save her the first time, can you save her the second time? Still looking at her all the time. Hua honestly said sharply, his eyes were as wide as copper bells, his hands were tightly clutched on the armrest of the rattan chair, and the white knuckles revealed the extreme pain and disappointment in his heart, "Doesn't she want to die?" Right in front of me, it's not like I've never seen dead people, on the battlefield, broken arms, broken legs, and many miserable deaths. If she dies, I will treat her as if I never gave birth to such an unfilial daughter! ”
In the end, Hua Laoshi's voice was split, "cough cough ......" coughed non-stop, coughing all over his face and his eyes bulging out.
Frightened, Hua Henian hurriedly stepped forward to pat Hua Honest on the back, Nian Juying hurriedly picked up the big teapot and handed it to him, "His father hurry up and drink water, drink water." ”
"Dad, don't be angry, I take a good look at my little sister, and I won't let her do stupid things." Hua Henian nodded heavily and reassured.
Hua Laoshi took two sips of the teapot and calmed his breath.
"Old man, if you force our daughter to death, I won't be alive." Nian Juying let it go, "What are you staring at me for?" I'm not afraid at all, so be whatever you want! ”
"Mother, mother." Hua Henian whispered, "Don't be irritating Dad, Dad's health is not good, so I'll be angry again." ”
"Isn't it death? Who's afraid of whom? Nian Juying didn't give up, saying that she would also protect her daughter.
Hua's honest index finger pointed at her tremblingly, and the old man held back a sentence for a long time, "A loving mother is a loser." ”
"Don't talk about it." Hua Henian tugged at her sleeve and said.
"Why don't I say it, we are Yaoyao's parents, no matter what happens, she is our daughter." Nian Juying said quickly with tears in her eyes, "No one wants this kind of thing to happen, are we like some people in the village who despise our daughter, thinking that she has lost our face and smeared our faces, do we also want to drown her with outsiders, spitting Xingzi!" What did she do wrong? We're going to fall into the trap too, and that's tantamount to forcing her to death. ”
"You loser, it's all you...... You're used to it. Hua was so angry that he trembled all over, cough cough...... A heart-rending cough.
The constant coughing made him speechless and unable to stand upright.
Hua Junyao had long wanted to rush out, fumbling for clothes on the kang for a long time, before getting up from the kang, putting on a grass nest, leaving the West House, standing in the center of the middle hall, and kneeling down.
"I'm sorry, Dad, I was wrong. The mistake is not knowing people, the mistake is not listening to your teachings, and insisting on going your own way; It's even more wrong to punish yourself for other people's mistakes, and it's a stupid thing to hurt relatives and enemies to be happy! Hua Junyao looked at him, her face was pale with remorse, and she said with tears like rain, her voice hoarse like a broken gong.
This is an apology for being forty years late, it is my own willfulness that hurts this family, and makes this family a talking point and a laughing stock for the villagers.
In the hazy eyes of tears, looking at the familiar face of his father, his skin was tanned, and the deep crow's feet at the corners of his eyes showed the marks of perennial wind and sun, and his eyes in anger lost the bright look of the past, and his thin lips trembled slightly, losing the stereotypical seriousness of the past.
Hua Junyao couldn't help herself crying, and her crying was hoarse and unpleasant due to her throat injury.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Hua Junyao kept saying until her voice couldn't speak.
Nian Juying rushed over and hugged Hua Junyao on the spot, the mother and daughter cried bitterly, compared to Hua Junyao's inability to make a sound, Nian Juying was crying.
Hua Henian's eyes were sour when he cried, and tears fell down his eyes.