Chapter 11: Awakening
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"I don't know if Abang's daughter-in-law is sick! I'll ask your sister-in-law to send something to see. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Xu Wenfu glanced at Wulang and Xiao Jiu who were following him, and touched Xiao Jiu's head with pity, "Abang is not at home either, but I have suffered a few children." ”
This made Old Man Xu's face turn red, but he still stubbornly said: "What the eldest brother said is true, the second daughter-in-law has always been in bad health, and she is all sick, and she also asked Lang Zhong to prescribe medicine, so she won't trouble the eldest brother." The second daughter-in-law is not in good health, and the family is busy, and we often can't take care of the old couple, so it is inevitable that we will neglect a few children, and we will have to take care of them carefully in the future. ”
After all, it is someone's own business, and Xu Wenfu can only point to it, not to mention that he still believes that his younger brother is just confused for a while, and he will definitely not be able to do anything out of the ordinary after he reminds him like this.
When talking about Zhang, Cui's face was very ugly, but he didn't dare to refute it.
After all, no matter how powerful the Cui family is, she only dares to be within the Xu family, and as a woman, she has no right to speak in other aspects.
Xu Xiangwan was worried about Zhang's family, said goodbye to Xu Wenfu, and went back to the east wing first.
"Mother woke up?" Xu Xiangwan pushed open the door in surprise, ran into the north room in a few steps, and just saw Xu Qiuyi helping Zhang to sit up.
Xu Qiuyi's face was full of tears, and when she saw Xu Xiangwan coming in, she nodded happily at her and smiled: "Evening, my mother is awake!
Zhang's family still looks in poor spirits, his forehead is still wrapped in thick gauze, and his complexion is sallow, but his face is already a little bloody, and he is also teary-eyed when he sees Xu Xiangwan: "It's all my mother who has tired you! I have to let you worry about my mother, it's all useless for me to be a mother......"
Xu Xiangwan threw himself in front of the bed, his heart was indescribably sour, and his eyes were blurry: "Mother, it's good for you to wake up!
Xu Xiangwan choked up as he spoke, and the tears he had held back from yesterday to the present seemed to have burst the embankment in an instant.
Without saying a word, Gorou and Xiao Jiu also entered the room together.
Seeing the mother and daughter crying together, Gorou also had red eyes.
Xiao Jiu came to the bed quickly with his little short legs, and suddenly pounced on Zhang's legs, and cried loudly: "Mother...... Mother...... Mother...... Xiao Jiu misses his mother...... Xiao Jiu thought he would never see his mother again......"
In the end, Gorou calmed down first, coughed lightly and said, "Mother, you have been in a coma for a day and a night, drink some soup to cushion your stomach first." Yi'er, Wan'er, Xiao Jiu, don't cry, everyone, my mother has just woken up, so it's not appropriate to be sad. ”
Zhang had just woken up from a coma, his spirit was still weak, and he cried for a while, and at this time he didn't even have the strength to speak.
Xu Xiangwan reacted at this time, and hurriedly brought over the bone broth that was heated on the desk at noon, ready to feed Zhang's drink.
"Mother...... Come and ...... yourself," Zhang struggled to lean against the head of the bed and whispered.
Zhang struggled twice and was held down by Xu Qiuyi: "Mother, you just take care of your body, and we have other things!"
Several children are still young, Gorou has been sitting at the table since this year, and every meal is good regardless of soup and water, and he can finally fill his stomach, although he looks much thinner than ordinary ten-year-old children, but he can still see it.
And Xu Qiuyi's three sisters and brothers are completely skinny, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and a face is not as big as a palm, which makes people feel distressed when they look at it.
"I've suffered you......" Zhang couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, but regret and self-blame were certain, if he wasn't cowardly and useless, wouldn't he have let a few children suffer so much?
Zhang had just woken up from a coma, and he was still very unwell, so he couldn't drink a small bowl of soup.
"Mother, Aunt Chen next door gave me a few steamed buns, can you eat some?" Xu Xiangwan said.
The Zhang family had just woken up, and they were still drowsy, so they naturally had no appetite, so they shook their heads.
Since the Zhang family woke up, no one in the entire east wing has come in except for Xu Xiangwan's four siblings, and no one from the Xu family has come in to take a look and ask, as if the existence of the Zhang family has nothing to do with them.
Such a result, Zhang had guessed a long time ago.
After all, in the Xu family, the most undervalued person is the Zhang family.
In the past, Zhang always felt that sincerity was exchanged for sincerity, as long as she was filial to her in-laws, respected her sister-in-law, and cared for her children and nephews, she could always get corresponding returns.
But after this time of life and death, Zhang suddenly felt that his sincerity was fed to the dog. None of the family members she used to value regarded her or her children as family. Her filial piety, respect, and forbearance not only did not exchange for any kindness, but allowed her children to be bullied with her.
Although Zhang was in a coma for a day and a night, she suddenly heard her children calling her to wake up, otherwise she would be sold. It was also in a trance that she heard the news that she forced herself to wake up from her slumber.
After drinking the soup, Zhang's spirit was better, but he was still lacking in energy, so he just took Xu Qiuyi and Xu Xiangwan's hands, and repeatedly promised: "Mother will not let you be sold......"
After a while, Zhang fell asleep again.
Seeing that Zhang had fallen asleep, Xu Xiangwan beckoned Gorou and the others to the outside room.
"Brother, why don't we go to Ah Gong and them to split up?" Now that the Zhang family has also woken up, although his body is still very weak, it seems that his life is no longer in danger, and Xu Xiangwan is not willing to live with those people in the upper room at all.
Gorou frowned and shook his head: "The matter of the separation, we don't count." ”
Xu Xiangwan also knew that their second room had always been the least vocal at home.
They can't take the initiative to split up, so they can only be "forced" to split up.
The reason why Xu Zhibao broke up was nothing more than that he felt that their second room cost more and had less income.
Before I thought about it, Xu Zhibao's wishful thinking was to take advantage of Zhang's injury and inability to call the shots, sell Xu Xiangwan first, and then divide the second room and family after getting the money.
However, after such a fuss, it is impossible to sell Xu Xiangwan quietly, according to Xu Zhibao's character of only taking advantage and not suffering losses, he will definitely clamoring to separate them.
But the matter of selling people is making a storm in the city, and Old Man Xu definitely doesn't want to agree to separate them out on the cusp.
After all, Old Man Xu is still a person who cherishes his reputation very much on the surface.
To break up, you need an opportunity.
"Brother, I'll go to Grandpa and Grandma in a while......" Xu Xiangwan rolled his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Goro's eyes also lit up, but his brows still didn't loosen: "So far, it's the only way to go." As the saying goes, day and night, it is difficult to prevent thieves, and if they are really together, they don't know when such a thing will happen again. However, I still let me say this, or I will be beaten if I can't say two sentences. ”
Naturally, he was beaten by Cui's family.
Cui's patriarchal thinking is vividly reflected in several children in the second room. Although Cui's doesn't have a very good face for Wulang and Xiaojiu, at least he won't beat people, but he can beat Xu Qiuyi and Xu Xiangwan whenever he wants, and he scolds when he wants, and he never has the slightest scruples.
According to Cui's statement, she is an elder, and the younger generation is not sensible, so she has to be taught, and whoever does not accept the lesson is not filial and ignorant. There are good people under the golden stick, and now she is beaten and scolded at home, and she will be able to tolerate it when she grows up and marries in the future, and she will not make the family restless because of a little trivial matter, thus losing the face of the Xu family.
However, the people who accepted Cui's "lesson" did not include Xu Furong and Xu Guihua in the big room, nor Xu Lianlian in the third room.
Gorou's standing up made Xu Xiangwan feel very useful.
Although the elders in the family are not kind, their brothers and sisters are very friendly and united, and this is enough.
The rice has been recovered from the field, and the recent autumn weather is crisp, which is very suitable for drying.
After the rice is harvested, it needs to be dried for two or three days, and the rice that has been dried and most of the moisture is threshed in a barrel, which is what the farmers around Guojia Town call "beating rice".
Some people with more fields and more laborers will directly lay a bed of bamboo mats called "mats" by people near Guojia Town, and then put the buckets on the mats, threshing while harvesting, and the straw that has been threshed will be piled up at the edge of the field, and the rice will be poured directly on the mat for drying, and then return home when the water is less, so as to save the effort of carrying the straw.
Xujia Village also uses this method for harvesting.
But Xu Xiangwan's family never harvested like this. One is that the old man Xu is thrifty, cherishes things, and grows rice in paddy fields, even if the water has been put in the field when the rice is beaten, it is still damp, and the mat will be damp and muddy when placed on it, so the mat is easy to break. It is not easy for farmers to buy farm tools, and this mat will cost more than ten or twenty dollars, and the average farmer has one or two beds at most, so he is reluctant to waste it like this. In addition, when the rice is beaten, the rice grains that fly out cannot be picked up when they fall in the field, and there is a lot of loss. The second is that Xu Xiangwan's field is far away from home, and drying rice grains must be dried in the field for a day or two, and it will be very inconvenient if no one takes care of it. The atmosphere in Xujia Village is quite good, I have not heard of theft, but most of the chickens and ducks in the village are free-range, although they are generally not released at this time, but accidents can not be avoided, and it is not uncommon for rice grains to be spoiled by chickens and ducks.
After Gorou went to the upper room, Xu Xiangwan and Xu Qiuyi went to the kitchen to boil medicine, while paying attention to the movement of the upper room.
Sure enough, not long after Gorou entered, Cui's angry scolding came from the upper room.
"You're going to gnaw our two old bones! I just took a hundred big bucks yesterday, and I came to ask for it today, and you are the one who opened the money bank? There are no old people in your eyes, and you are going to force us two old people to death!" Cui's voice has always been loud, Xu felt that he was taking advantage of it, and his voice was even a few degrees higher than usual, which soon attracted Xu Zhibao and others.
"Grandpa, you also know that my mother is still weak now, and she must take care of herself, otherwise she will really not be able to get out of bed in the future. Gorou didn't answer Cui's words, but said to Old Man Xu.
When Xu Zhili heard that it was a question involving money, he immediately became anxious, and shouted angrily: "Wulang, you just took a lot of money from your grandmother and grandfather yesterday, why did you come here again today? The money in this house is not blown by the wind, and the family has no money, where is there so much money for you to throw away? Since your mother has woken up, this medicine has also been bought, and the bone broth has been boiled, what do you want to do? Look at your grandpa and grandma are so angry!"
"You are not a child anymore, why are you still so ignorant? You don't look at what age your grandfather and grandmother are, you know every day that you are angry with their old people, you are not filial! Our old Xu family does not have children and grandchildren like you! You want to eat well, you earn your own money to eat by yourself, don't always think about taking it from the old man! I haven't seen your filial piety all year round, just thinking about eating ready-made, where can I find such a cheap thing in the world?" Xu Zhibao quickly took over the conversation, but two or three sentences revealed his true intentions.