He didn't have the heart to continue to "elope" after receiving Yao Sujuan's call, in fact, he didn't want to go out, it was Yuwei who saw that he was in a bad mood and wanted him to relax, of course Bu Xiao could see her intentions, so he simply took her out to play for a day, but he kept thinking about home.

So he hung up the phone, he got off the car and rushed home, standing on the stairs at this time, listening to the sister-in-law say that Xiaohui's fever had not subsided, but he had already slept, Bu Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief, passed by Yao Sujuan, and went to the old man's room.

Yao Sujuan told him a few words not to talk to the old man, and went downstairs with some relief, after all, the fourth child is back, willing to face and solve, everything is still negotiable, but when she got to the first floor, Yao Sujuan saw a figure that surprised her, standing on the edge of the stairs and looking at herself.

Yu Wei also followed, standing there at this time, looking up and seeing herself, her expression was as calm as ever, and she shouted "sister-in-law".

Yu Wei has changed really a lot recently, I can't tell that it was the little girl who came to the house for dinner last year, at that time she had short hair, so thin that she could be blown down by a gust of wind, thin arms and thin legs, and now she has grown up, her facial features and body shape are all adults, and she is a big girl with long hair and fluttering.

Yao Sujuan heard that she really changed her words, but she couldn't say anything for a while, if there was no Xiaohui this matter, she would have immediately responded happily, and she was really happy for the fourth old bachelor, but her son was so uncomfortable, she was not selfless, her heart was biased towards Xiaohui, and it was inevitable that she would be a little wavering.

But one yard is one yard, and the girl didn't do anything wrong, Yao Sujuan said "hey" crisply, smiled at her, and greeted her as before: "Go to the kitchen and make a pot of tea and cut fruit with me, right?" ”

Yu Wei was still a little embarrassed, she returned to this home as Bu Xiao's girlfriend for the first time, but no one recognized her, not only did she not recognize her, but also because she let the relationship between Bu Xiao and Bu Hui stiffened, the house was a mess, after she entered the house, there was no one who came to talk to her, and then she saw that her sister-in-law was the same as she was at the beginning, so her heart settled down and followed Yao Sujuan to the kitchen.

I've been here so many times and I'm used to it, she followed her sister-in-law into the kitchen to make meals, make tea, cut fruits, she is very experienced, and the kitchen is also familiar, Yuwei is familiar with her, where the tea is placed, where the tea set is, she knows.

has been just busy boiling water, preparing tea sets, washing fruits, the two of them have been busy for a while, Yao Sujuan can faintly see that Yu Wei is not very comfortable, knowing that she is actually worried, and decided to have a good chat with her.

"After you talked to the fourth child, I haven't sat down with you to talk, and I usually make a lot of jokes......" Yao Sujuan took out the fruit plate, put it in the pool, sighed softly and said: "You must know, you are not welcome at home, this is a bit chaotic, everyone has everyone's troubles, and when everything is over, I am very happy that you can be with the fourth child, after all, he is twenty-nine, but someone can tie his heart." ”

Yu Wei heard her sister-in-law's words, she was very moved for a while, she really thanked her for being able to chat with herself like this, she only saw at this time that if there was no Yao Sujuan in this family, she really couldn't support it for a day, Yu Wei thanked her very sincerely: "Thank you, sister-in-law, I understand, some things can't be rushed." ”

Yao Sujuan saw that she was still as transparent as usual, and couldn't help but want to have a heart-to-heart with her, and smiled lightly: "If you want to say that the whole family supports you the most and understands you the most, it is probably me, I feel the same way, but I am really not as lucky as you......"

Yu Wei looked at her a little puzzled, thinking about what her "empathy" meant, and heard Yao Sujuan continue: "I am nine years younger than that wretch, not much less than you and the fourth, when I was three or four years old, he was a teenager, when I was a teenager, he married a wife and had children, he has always treated me as a little sister next door, what am I, a little girl who follows his ass all day long, I said I like him, he is the wind, I catch up, he has someone in his heart...... So I'm quite envious of you, you like the fourth child, and he likes you, it's a great thing. ”

Yu Wei was stunned on the spot when she heard this, Yao Sujuan had a lot of information in her words, and the "wreck" she said should be Bu Jingsheng, but what did she mean when she was a teenager, he married a wife and had children? Could it be that she is the second marriage of the eldest brother?

Yao Sujuan saw that Yu Wei was stunned and couldn't react, knowing that what she said was not clear, she explained: "You don't know yet, I am his second eldest brother, and I am not Xiaohui's own mother, I am a stepmother......

Yu Wei's eyes finally widened in surprise, and she couldn't believe it for a while, she wasn't Buhui's biological mother? I really didn't see it, she obviously loved her son so much, she digested it for a while, and could only blurt out: "I really don't know ......"

Yao Sujuan smiled: "That's right, the fourth child will never take the initiative to tell you, there are two people in this family who don't want to mention this matter the most, one is him, the other is me, he is afraid to mention it, I don't want to mention it." ”

Her words were a little profound, and Yu Wei connected the meaning of her words with the two things that Bu Xiao said today that she owed Bu Hui too much, is this one thing? After all, Bu Xiao has been avoiding talking about how he owes Bu Hui, Yu Wei thought for a while, it was about Bu Xiao himself, and he still wanted to know, so he gritted his teeth and asked: "Bu Xiao told me today that he owes Bu Hui a lot, is this a thing?" ”

Yao Sujuan's action of scooping the tea leaves with a spoon froze, she glanced at Yu Wei, and saw her looking down and peeling the apple, she couldn't help but feel that she was too smart, so she could only nod: "It's all said and done, I'll tell you everything, the fourth person is not serious, he likes to joke the most, and he can't say two sentences all year round." ”

Yu Wei peeled off the peel, raised her eyes and looked at Yao Sujuan as if she was going to tell a story, the water in the kettle had just begun to boil, and she heard her sister-in-law begin to tell a little bit: "If you want to talk about the fourth, it is the old man's fifty-year-old late son, the old mother was not in good health when she gave birth to him, and he was born less than a week, and the old mother went, so the fourth child didn't know what it was like to have a mother." ”

"He is the eldest, and the difference between the eldest is 23 years old, so when the fourth child was two years old, Jingsheng was 25 years old, married, the original partner was more pungent than me, it was a violent temper, and there was no woman in the family, the eldest sister-in-law became a family, the so-called eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, the fourth child had to go to the house to uncover the tiles, the backyard was lit, everything was done, no one listened to anyone's words, a group of old men in the family, he was not scared, he was afraid of the sister-in-law's broom, often his sister-in-law could carry a long broom to chase him down the street, and the neighbors were tired of seeing it......"

Yu Wei listened to Yao Sujuan say this, saw her smile, and thought to herself how she knew so clearly, and then thought about it, she was right, she said that she was the neighbor of the Bu family, so she naturally saw everything......

"At that time, I was sixteen or seventeen years old, and I still remember that when I was a child, I was most afraid of a trick, his sister-in-law ripped off his open crotch pants, let him be beaten with his bare buttocks, and went to the door to punish him, he was very ashamed, and he could hide in the bed and not go out for a day." Yu Wei heard Yao Sujuan say this, the picture was very strong, and she couldn't help but purse her lips and smile, thinking that he still had a time when he was treated like that, Yao Sujuan also smiled and said: "In the second year of marriage, Jingsheng's first child was born, it was a boy, his nickname was Dacheng, he was three years younger than Buxiao, and the little boy of the same age was the most fatal, he was crazy together since he was a child, and he was disobedient together. ”

Yu Wei was a little surprised, so to speak, Buhui still has an older brother...... But why haven't you seen it?

Thinking of this, she had a faint hunch that the end of this story should not be good, it can't be that Bu Xiao's original sister-in-law took her eldest nephew to divorce Bu Jingsheng and went to another place to live alone, right? Otherwise, she couldn't have never heard of it...... Yu Wei couldn't laugh when she thought of this.

"At that time, I was also dead to Jingsheng, he was married and had children, I was still unrequited, I was also seventeen or eighteen years old, I was admitted to a foreign university, I went far, and I talked about boyfriends a few times during the period, but it didn't work out. After graduating from college and returning to G City, Jingsheng said that his company was short of people, so I asked him to help, so I entered his small broken company and helped him take care of things, and within a few years, he added a second child, which is Xiaohui......"

The more Yu Wei listened, the more uncomfortable she became, she really didn't know how tormented Yao Sujuan was in it, if she watched Bu Xiao get married and have children, she was always relieved, she couldn't refuse what he proposed, and she had to watch him be happy while helping him, what would it be like in her heart?

"Oh, don't talk about me, talk about the fourth!" Yao Sujuan mentioned her past, her expression was also a little stunned, and she changed the topic: "The fourth child was really a complete ruffian at that time, bad and mixed, thirteen or fourteen years old was rebellious, fighting with people all day long, once he was cut down on the street, covered in blood, or his sister-in-law went to save him, pulled him out of the crowd, and carried him all the way home, in fact, I sometimes want to persuade myself, Jingsheng His original daughter-in-law is really a very good woman, anyone else changes to this family, even if it is me, can't do her part, and it's really good for the fourth child. After being cut down, the fourth child almost ended up in the juvenile detention center, and since then he has changed his sex and stopped a lot. ”

Hearing this, Yu Wei suddenly remembered that she saw Bu Xiao for the first time when she was three years old, he jumped down from a tree and made himself cry, and then an aunt with a long broom came out and scolded him, she was too young to recognize people at that time, but Yao Sujuan was indeed not there at that time, it turned out that she had also seen the original sister-in-law.

is indeed a very fierce person, Yu Wei vaguely remembers the picture, which is Bu Xiao's bloody head after being scolded, and finally obedient and obedient.

"As a result, something happened at home that winter, and so many years of happiness were shattered from that day." Yao Sujuan's words changed: "One night, the whole family couldn't find Dacheng, so anxious to mobilize the neighbors to help find it, I naturally followed, found it in the middle of the night, the fourth suddenly said, Dacheng may be on the back mountain, our old house behind the courtyard is indeed a mountain, not high, but the terrain is complicated, in order to deceive the children not to play there, they all said that the mountain is haunted, everyone went to the mountain to look for it, and they didn't find it all night, and finally the fourth sister-in-law found his son, under a cliff, fell down, and the person was gone, The body is all hard......"

Yu Wei was shocked to hear it, but Yao Sujuan's words were still very concise, and she wanted to tell the scene quickly: "His sister-in-law brought back her son's corpse, she was a little stimulated, she was not normal, and she didn't speak, as soon as she entered the house, the house was full of people, she just sat like that, and she didn't want to move, the fourth child had been kneeling at the door of the Jingsheng room for a day and a night, saying that he had scared Dacheng before, saying that there were ghosts on the mountain, and asked him if he dared to go to the mountain to stay overnight. I didn't expect Dacheng to go, because Dacheng is a person who follows his father and is very timid. ”

Jingsheng's temper would definitely not say anything, just like his daughter-in-law, he sat in the room in a daze, and the fourth child was dragged into the room by the old man and beaten up...... Alas, what's the use of beating him, he is also a joke, after the beating, the old man himself was in pain, hugging the fourth child and crying together, that was the first time I saw the old man shed tears. ”

The atmosphere in the kitchen began to fall into a dull silence, and the water in the kettle was about to boil, making a cacophony of chirps.

"Later, after half a year, the funeral was done, but the atmosphere at home was still very heavy, but it was gradually improving, the fourth child blamed himself, guilt, and there was no way to get it back, and he never made trouble since then, he was very obedient, but suddenly one day, the incident happened suddenly, and his sister-in-law hanged herself in the house."

Yu Wei gasped when she heard this, she really didn't expect that the original sister-in-law would be so strong that she couldn't think about it, but after listening to Yao Sujuan's explanation, she suddenly understood that it was because she was so rigid that she would choose such an extreme way.

"It was written in the suicide note, saying that on the afternoon of Dacheng's accident, she beat her son, because Dacheng was ten years old and still wetting the bed, she was angry and hated iron and steel, and she humiliated two sentences between her words, so she felt sorry for her son, and she was stimulated by the mountain, and she couldn't think about it more and more, so she went with her, so that Jingsheng and Xiaohui Ye had a good time, she was afraid that her eldest son would be lonely on the road, and she wanted to go to Dacheng as a companion......"

"As soon as this thing came out, who could stand it, the fourth child felt that he had killed two lives with one sentence, I saw him take his sister-in-law off the beam of the house, crying, and then Jingsheng, his son left, his wife also went, he invited fifty monks to come to the house to overdue, and after the excess, he wanted to go with him, go up the mountain to be a monk, how difficult those days were, I don't want to remember anymore, Xiaohui was only three or four years old at the time, I didn't understand anything, I helped bring it, so you may also be strange, Why do I look like his own mother, he has called me Aunt Xiaojuan since I was a child, and after I have no mother, I will take care of it. ”

At this time, everything was clear, Yu Wei's action of cutting the fruit was a little frozen, and he felt guilty for Buxiao in his heart, he just said a joke, and he couldn't blame him, but the matter was obviously caused by him, he must have blamed himself to death, but the most pitiful thing was the eldest brother, after the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, he sent away his wife, no wonder he was so devoted to the Buddha, eating fasting and chanting scriptures all day long.

"After another eight years, I have been taking care of Xiao Hui, and I have been single, Jingsheng is equal to a waste once, and I rescued him again, he did not go to the monk, after all, he still has Xiao Hui, and then I married him, Xiao Hui graduated from elementary school, went to junior high school, and finally changed his voice to call my mother, he also treated me as a mother, the biggest change should be the fourth, he hurt Xiao Hui so much that it was unreasonable, thinking that Fa'er would earn money to buy him good things, and he was completely independent from the family at the age of eighteen, you haven't seen it, which uncle loves his nephew so much? At that time, Xiaohui was bullied, and he broke everyone's legs. ”

No wonder he said that he owed Buhui too much, it turned out that the story was so long, Yu Wei thought, since he stepped into the home, he never felt that this family had been sad, every day was harmonious and beautiful, the days were plain and happy, no one thought that such a sad thing happened more than ten years ago, maybe it was because it was too painful, everyone avoided talking about it, and regarded it as a forbidden area, this matter was buried deeply, and it became the place that everyone dared not touch the most.

"So, our family can be so good now, it's really not easy, I hope you can also understand, Xiaohui was rejected by you, and watched you with his best fourth uncle, he couldn't digest it at once, if you can understand, how painful unrequited love is, you can probably understand, those two people are so good, there is no place for their own feet, and it obviously happened around them, they can't hide, the person who is thinking about it is someone else's, but he is still willing to smear his liver and brain, like a second fool, I can't stop wishful thinking, no one has more say in this matter than me......" The look in Yao Sujuan's eyes gradually became very deep and intense, and when she looked at her, even Yu Wei was touched by that emotion, and she felt a kind of empathy.

Imagine, if it were herself, watching Bu Xiao fall in love, get married, and have children with a woman she knew well, or even her closest relatives, she would definitely be like Yao Sujuan, waiting for more than ten years, four years, and eight years...... And in her current position, Bu Hui will call herself the fourth aunt in the future, just like if one day, she wants to open her mouth to call Bu Xiao's uncle, she can't bear it at all.

"I really think it's very good that you and the fourth child can be together, as for Xiao Hui, I don't ask you to look at him, just ignore him, but I'm his mother, I just ask you to wait for him to accept this, what bad words he said to you, he didn't think that way in his heart." Yao Sujuan seemed to really know Buhui, and after helping him finish speaking, her expression was a little more relieved, and she sighed: "Sooner or later, he will understand, he can't run away if it's him, and he can't force it if it's not him." ”

The long conversation ended like this, Yu Wei agreed to her sister-in-law, she actually always understood that some things still need time to fade, but manpower can't do it. Coming out of the kitchen, Yao Sujuan went upstairs to bring hot tea to the old man, Yuwei was a little hesitant, and finally didn't enter the house, before the old man accepted, she still didn't want to trouble Buxiao, but when Yao Sujuan came out of the room, he said that the fourth child was not in the old man's house, he finished talking to the old man, and went to stay in the hut by himself.

Gently stepping on the steps of the west staircase, she went up to the second floor, and saw the last room on the west side, she had always known that Bu Xiao was on his knees here, but it was the first time she had come to see what it looked like.

The door was open, the room was dark, the candlelight was flickering with crimson firelight, Yuwei walked to the door, and saw Bu Xiao sitting on the futon on the ground, smoking, the posture was still very casual, the body was leaning back, the eyes were fixed looking at the two rows of spiritual positions, three sticks of incense were inserted in the copper incense burner, smoking smoke, it was three points of red light.

Yu Wei suddenly understood what kind of place this was, every time the old man Bu Xiao made a mistake and came here to punish him, it was undoubtedly the most terrible punishment, the punishment was not the body, but the whipping of the heart, and every time Bu Xiao took the initiative to sit here like this time, it was almost a masochistic act, this was not an ancestral tablet at all, it was the spiritual seat of his dead sister-in-law.

On the day when my aunt came to make trouble, the old man's words of scolding Buxiao were suddenly remembered by her, "The people who can cure you are dead."

But although she is gone, she is still alive in Buxiao's heart, and has been quietly living in this hut, in the prison he created by himself.