After Tang Tiezhu left, there were only old man Tang and Zhang's left in the main house, seeing that Zhang's was still angry, Old Man Tang looked at him lazily, sighed and walked out of the hall with his head back, Zhang's raised his eyes and saw the old man coming out, and couldn't help asking, "Where are you going?" ”

Old Tang didn't reply: "Go out and breathe,"

Zhang's family sat in the house alone, hating the boss's family, and patted the kang with his hand and said: "Don't look down on me for your family's good life, how to say that I am also your nominal mother, I want to get rid of me and live a good life, I think it is beautiful, if there is no me, you can marry a daughter-in-law, and now my wife and son are hot on the kang, all of which are my credit, a bunch of ungrateful things." ”

I couldn't help but aim at the cabinet, walked to the side of the cabinet angrily, opened it and found the clothes that Li Xiaojing gave her before, picked up a piece of clothing that had been worn, took out scissors from the sewing frame and cut it into pieces, and scolded and scolded: "Shameless slut, I think that giving me something is a small favor for me, who knows if these clothes are not what you don't want, bring them to me to wear,"

Huang came out of the kitchen, went to the main room and told his mother-in-law that there was no food in the grain bag at home, and when he heard his mother-in-law scolding people in the house, he hurriedly returned to his house lightly, patted his chest and said to the owner: "There is no food at home, you go and talk to your mother,"

Tang Tiequan said: "I saw that you didn't go to the main room just now, why didn't you tell your mother,"

Huang frowned and said, "What about our mother scolding people in the house?" How dare I enter the house, if I go in and scold me together, won't I feel uncomfortable? Hurry up! ”

Tang Tiequan sighed and said, "I don't want to go either, it's not like you're scolded when I go." ”

Huang glared at him and said: "No matter what you say, you are the biological son of your mother-in-law, not like me, you are angry with you, at most you are just shaking your face, if I make my mother-in-law angry, I will scratch me, I have to endure it." ”

"Alas, well! I'll go now," Thinking about what his mother-in-law said, Tang Tiequan walked out of the house, walked two steps and turned back and asked, "Mother is scolding people like this, does Dad don't care in the house?" ”

Huang said lightly: "When I went to the kitchen just now, I saw my father with a bitter face,"

Tang Tiequan said: "No wonder my mother dares to scold people so loudly, alas! Why doesn't there be a day of rest at home?"

Looking at the back of the master, Huang said silently in his heart: "As long as your mother becomes mute and doesn't talk nonsense in front of everyone, then everyone can live a comfortable life." I can only say this in my heart, even if the head of the family is dissatisfied with my mother-in-law, but after all, it is his own mother, and I will definitely be unhappy that she thinks so.

Tang Tiequan quietly entered the house, listened to what his mother scolded, and finally knew who his mother was scolding after listening for a long time, exhaled and lifted the curtain into the house and said, "Mother, what are you doing?" He only heard his mother swearing, and he didn't know what his mother was doing in the house, and he saw that the ground was full of broken strips of cloth.

Zhang Shi glared and said, "Don't worry about it, what are you doing in my house?" ”

Tang Tiequan raised for a moment and said: "Mother, there is no rice at home, you give me some money, I will go to the town to buy some food and come back,"

This undoubtedly poured a fire on Zhang's heart, she blew her beard and glared: "There is no food to know how to come to me, and I am not a money box, you will come to get it if you have no money,"

Tang Tiequan lowered his head and was silent for a long time.

Zhang continued: "What's the use of me giving birth to you, I only know that Lu Dao is angry with me, and I don't have any energy at all, I know that Lu Dao opens his mouth to eat, and others are angry with me, and I don't know that Lu Dao helps me speak, like a fool watching me get angry at one station." ”

Tang Tiequan whispered: "Mother,"

Zhang snorted and said: "It must be your mother-in-law who pleaded with you, a hen that doesn't lay eggs, except for warming the quilt for men, is useless at all. ”

Tang Tiequan saw that his mother was talking more and more, and said with a white face: "Mother, what are you talking about?" How can you say that?"

"What did I say, I'm telling the truth, your daughter-in-law has been married for so many years, and she hasn't given birth to a baby, and you still want me to praise her for not being successful, I said a few words to her, you just defend her like this, you really have a daughter-in-law and forget your mother." Zhang sent out the fire in his heart to Tang Tiequan.

Tang Tiequan's face turned red by her motherishness, and he said angrily: "Mother, you just tell me whether to give money or not, if you don't give money, I will think of other ways myself, I don't want to listen to you here to say some nonsense and ugly things." ”

Zhang said hatefully: "It's messy, ugly, you dare to say that about me, okay, others are angry with me, you are also angry with me, do you all want to make me angry to death?"

Tang Tiequan replied directly: "It's not that you are crooked at home all day long, it's not that your eldest brother's family is living a good life, or you dislike my daughter-in-law for not giving me a baby, even the third sister-in-law gave birth to a grandson for you, you don't want to see her, look at who you are proud of this big family,"

Zhang Shi angrily clutched his chest and said, "You...... You...... How dare you say it. ”

Since Tang Tiequan was halfway through his words, he could only continue: "What do I dare not say, you are proud of the eldest sister and the younger sister, but what are they doing now, the eldest sister was almost taken home by her brother-in-law, and the younger sister was even angry with her mother-in-law at her mother-in-law's house, and now she doesn't even have a baby, you look at what kind of life the two people you are proud of are living now." ”

"You...... You ......," Zhang said, pointing to the fourth child's nose.

Tang Tiequan sighed, and said in a good voice: "Mother, let's live a peaceful and stable life from now on, the good or bad life of the eldest brother's family has nothing to do with us, you just stay at home, and your son will not let you go hungry when you raise you in the future." ”

Zhang sneered and said: "You support me, you raise me There is no food at home, you come to ask me for money, if I really expect you to support me, maybe I will starve to death," said his son so ruthlessly.

Tang Tiequan blushed and said thickly by what his mother said: "Mother, I have said all my good things, how can you be so unreasonable,"

"You have been talking for a long time, all of them are saying that I am not, and that I am unreasonable, you are really unreasonable, I am your mother, you don't help me speak, the words are towards others, are you still my son?" Zhang said with a tug.

Tang Tiequan didn't understand with his mother, so he left directly, and when Zhang saw his son leave angrily, he was a little panicked, and ran out to chase him and said, "Where are you going?"

Tang Tiequan didn't reply: "I'll go to my second brother's house to borrow some grain and come back,"

Hearing this, Zhang's face became even more ugly, and he stopped loudly: "You come back for me, don't go." ”

Tang Tiequan stood still for a moment, and Zhang took the opportunity to pull his arm and said, "I'll give you money, you are not allowed to go to the second child's house,"

"What is this for?" Tang Tiequan asked, the second brother's house didn't provoke you, why can't you go to the second brother's house.

Zhang said angrily: "Your eldest brother and second brother are both born in the past, I have been looked down upon by your eldest brother, if you go to your second brother's house to borrow food, you must not even look down on us with his family." ”

Tang Tiequan said speechlessly: "Mother, you can think more normally,"

Zhang pouted and said, "I'll give you money, you go to the town to buy food," dragged the fourth child back to the house, then took out a money box from the cabinet, took out the key from his arms, took out a tael of silver, and said to him: "You take this money to buy food in the town, remember to go to a few more shops and ask the price, who buys whose house is cheaper,"

"Zhilu said," Tang Tiequan waved to her mother after receiving the silver, and turned around to go out of Lu to buy food.

Zhang carefully counted the money in the money box, all these years of saving plus the filial piety of the old family, there are twenty-two eight hundred yuan, these are her pension money, if it is not for this year's drought, no harvest, she will not use the old capital to buy food, and hide the small box elsewhere, just now the fourth child has seen where she took out the money box, saying that she can no longer hide there.

Huang listened to the quarrel with her mother-in-law in the main room, and she didn't come out of the house, and when she heard what her mother-in-law said, the handkerchief in her hand was about to be crushed by her, and she cursed: "You old demon woman, why didn't you die earlier, you died, everyone's life is better." ”

After Old Man Tang came out of the house, he walked up the mountain unconsciously, and saw that the old woman's grave had been repaired by the boss, so he sat aside and touched the newly added soil on the grave and said: "Old woman, I'm here again, you are also very happy today, our two grandsons have been admitted to Xiucai, and they really earned all for our old Tang family,"

He muttered again: "If I can get the top prize, it will let me die, and I can close my eyes with peace of mind." After speaking, he looked at the sky and continued: "It's really good today, the sun is shining on my body, don't you feel the same way?"

Old man Tang bowed his head and said, "I don't think you think so, you wish I died early, don't you?" ”

"I heard the boss say to you to the grave today, my heart will ache, the old family's life has become better and better in recent years, I look at the heart is also happy, but sometimes also confused, Zhang's sometimes angry old family is doing well, pry me to go to the boss to say, let him take the two younger brothers to earn money together, I also know that the two sons she gave birth to are not angry, can not endure hardships and suffering, when there was no separation before, pointing to the main house, after the separation, each with an abacus, to see the old family is better, then pasted on it, the most stubborn after a bamboo basket to draw water."

"Sometimes I look at them, and I'm anxious, on the one hand, the boss who is doing well, and on the other hand, the third and fourth who can't even eat, do you think I can not be partial? When you listen to me, do you want to come out of the coffin and scold me, scold me for being ruthless, scold me for not being worthy of being the father of the eldest and second child, and scold me for not being a wolf and a dog for not treating your two sons like this, but I am also bitter and uncomfortable in my heart, who can understand. ”

"Good to the eldest and second, Zhang is not happy, saying that I am partial, good to the third and fourth, the eldest and second blame me for facing them and helping them, I am neither left nor right, alas! I deserve it, and I shouldn't marry someone else after you die. ”

After chattering for a while, Old Man Tang felt weak and leaned on the grave and said: "I know that you are annoying me, and I don't want me to disturb your peace, but I can only come and talk to you. ”

As he spoke, Old Man Tang leaned against the grave and squinted his eyes, I don't know if it was the poisonous sun or something else, tears fell from the corners of his eyes, and he didn't wipe them, letting the tears fall into his hair.