02 Giving away
"Mom, Mom, come in and see what's wrong with this kid."
"Mom, come in quickly, this child's whole body suddenly became red, and his breath was no longer circulating."
In the earthen house inside, the sound of the two daughters-in-law being startled and exploding made Li Chenli very unhappy, if it weren't for her son's pleading eyes, she really planned to leave with her hands.
"What are you shouting? Give me the child. Li Chenli took the baby, looked at it with disgust, washed her with mugwort leaf water, wrapped it in a hundred family cloths, and then went out with her arms: "Son, it's another daughter." It's still premature, it's not easy to raise, it's better to listen to your mother's words and give it away. ”
Giving away? What to give?
Lu Qinghe remembered this voice, yes, it was grandma's voice. Is it because I came home late and didn't see my father for the last time, and my grandmother is going to sell her body?
She wanted to say something, but she couldn't open her eyes, and only heard ahhhhhhhhh
Lu Qiang hugged the child that everyone was looking forward to, and shook it gently, and the baby who was crying just now actually stopped crying. Miraculously stopped, and slept peacefully. Lu Qiang's face was paralyzed, and finally showed a smile.
This is my daughter, the fourth, alas!
"Mom, we really don't care?" Li Ailing pulled the corner of her mother-in-law's clothes, this premature baby is really not good to live. Mother-in-law, if you are appointed to the third brother's family, can you still live? The third brother and sister didn't even have milk.
"Hmph, it's a money-losing commodity anyway, no matter what." After Li Chenli finished speaking, she turned around and warned the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law: "You don't come to this ancient village often, if it weren't for Zhang Yimei's eyes to make trouble about having children before marriage, which round would you get the poor goods of her family?" Look at them, how many years they have lived in this ancient village, and they still can't get any money. It's good now, and I've been giving birth to some money-losing goods. ”
Li Chenli has always disliked her youngest son's daughter-in-law, Zhang Yimei. I think about how good Lu Qiang's academic performance was at the beginning, and the people who were admitted to high school in that era were all very smart people. As a result, her son, for Zhang Yimei, got married without knowing whose seed it was, thinking about going to school with her son at the beginning, now he is either an official or a rich man.
Zhang Yimei also has four younger brothers at home, and they are so poor that they can't even see the meat residue. Not to mention literacy, I don't even know a big word. Lu Qiang is also a person who admits death, no matter how they oppose it at that time, halfway through his studies, he will marry Zhang Yimei and say what he is responsible for.
It is not difficult to understand that Li Chenli and her daughter-in-law are at odds.
Lu Qinghe rarely opened her eyes, but she could feel her father's breath and was very relieved. I can hear the voices of my father, my mother, and my three sisters every day. Lu Qinghe felt that his death was worth it, it was really worth it. It's not bad to be able to live in such an illusion of happiness.
Zhang Yimei was out of confinement, and the first thing she did was to take a shower and go to other people's houses to play mahjong. For this fourth daughter, she doesn't like it at all. When she was pregnant, she suffered too much, and now that she was not a son, she threw her fourth daughter to her eldest daughter, who was only eight years old.
"Little Four, it's time for soup."
Lu Baozhi held a bowl of rice soup in his small hand and walked to the bed. A month ago, Lu Baozhi had only been in the first grade of primary school for more than a month, and he took a leave of absence, and there was no one at home to take care of his sister. She can only come, Dad is going to help people work, and Mom hates her little sister very much.
But she and her two younger sisters think that Xiao Si is very cute, never cries or makes trouble, is very well-behaved, very sensible, snorts twice when she is hungry, and snorts three times; I urinated twice, I was sick and feverish, and my whole body was red, which I could see at a glance.
"Big sister, little four, can you grow up? Others say that our little four will not live long and will die. "Lu Meizhi is pitiful, one will jump down, the other will jump down. I want to touch it but don't dare to touch it, for fear that if I touch it, the fourth child will never grow up again.
"The third sister, the fourth child will grow up, what others say is a lie. We can't believe it, big sister, are you right? Lu Yunzhi obediently helped the third sister move a small chair and let her stand on it, so that she could see the fourth child more clearly.
The three sisters took care of Lu Qinghe, who had only been taking care of him for a month, and accidentally fell asleep, Lu Baozhi woke up first, only to find that the fourth child was missing from the bed, and quickly shook the two sisters awake, there was no under the bed, and there was no corner of the house.
"Woo, woo, eldest sister, the fourth is missing? Is it dead? Lu Meizhi is the youngest, and she has already remembered when she is four years old, and others tell her that she has not lived long as Xiaosi, and now she really can't find it, so she cried in fright.
"Woo, eldest sister, is what the third sister said true? Is Xiao Si really dead? Lu Yunzhi also cried, she was only six years old, why did Xiao Si's lovely sister die?
"No, no." No matter how sensible Lu Baozhi is, he is only an eight-year-old child, and he was so frightened that he burst into tears, took the hands of his two younger sisters, and went to the village to find his mother one by one.
Lu Qinghe felt a strange and familiar breath, originally she was obediently drinking rice soup, thinking that if she died, she could still drink what she drank when she was a child, which was not bad.
It's just that it's not bad, and soon, it makes her feel that something is not right, it is grandma's voice.
"I told Zhang Yimei that I will send this broom star away today, and when Lu Qiang comes back, there will be no tricks." Li Chenli carefully picked up the baby from the bed, and carefully instructed the people behind her: "You hurry up and walk on the path, run faster." Don't let anyone find out. ”
Lu Qinghe still remembers that when he was alive, his mother always said that he was thrown away by her, but his father picked him up.
Being held by a stranger and running quickly, Lu Qinghe thought that if there was really something like that in his previous life, would he not have to worry about it?
Daddy will definitely come looking for him?
Thinking about it like this, Lu Qinghe slept again, anyway, in such an illusion, he would not be more sad than death.
"Yimei, your three children are crying so much that the sky is about to fall, and you are still playing mahjong here? Why don't you go back and see? ”
"That's it, the junior is still shouting that the fourth sister, don't die."
Zhang Yimei was not in a hurry, touching mahjong, and ignoring people for a long time. It turned out that the other three people who were playing mahjong with her all stood up and looked at the person behind her with some embarrassment: "What, what's wrong?" ”
"What's wrong? Do you still have the face to say what's wrong? What about the little four, where are the little four? Did you send people away? Did you send it away? Lu Qiang's eyes were red, and he yelled at Zhang Yimei.
Lu Qiang is a well-known honest man and a good man in the village, he has never blushed with anyone, and he spoiled the good-for-nothing Zhang Yimei to the point that he had no face and no skin. Suddenly, everyone was stunned, including Zhang Yimei, she had never seen Lu Qiang so angry, and she was so frightened that she couldn't speak fluently.