23. For a livelihood

When Grandpa returned, he called her to the hall. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The door of the info room was bolted, "Get on your knees." ”

Cheng Linghui was very reluctant in her heart, and said secretly: "Isn't it just that I learned kung fu from the fifth master for a few days?" But she saw that her grandfather was really angry, and she still obediently knelt on the ground. Grandpa took off a shoe, picked up the sole of the shoe and smoked it on Cheng Linghui's back.

Grandpa was ruthless. The soles of the shoes hurt especially when they were pumped on the body. Cheng Linghui didn't feel that she had done anything wrong, and her strength came up. gritted his teeth, and no matter how he beats, he will not beg for mercy.

Grandma's eyes were not good, and it took a long time to know what was going on. This took off her heart hammer, crying and shouting for her grandfather to open the door. Grandpa's eyes were red and he didn't listen at all. Mother, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, and many uncles and aunts of the family came to persuade grandpa. It's useless to talk about it. At this time, the mother was much more courageous than the grandmother, and shouted, "Si Nizi, remove the door panel." ”

When everyone heard this, they all joined hands. The old wooden door can be removed from one end. The crowd unloaded the door panel. The mother immediately rushed over and hugged Cheng Linghui in her arms, and shouted at her grandfather, "If you want to fight, beat me." Don't hit my kids. ”

Grandpa trembled angrily: "Loser girl." Do you know what this obstacle has done? You want her life to protect her today. ”

Mother said: "No matter what she did, I didn't teach her well." ”

Grandma cried and hit her grandfather head-on: "You old thing, this is my old life......"

The fourth and fifth sisters were frightened and started crying. For a while, the room was lively. It was already late at night when everyone finally calmed down the family. Tables and chairs were not cleaned up. It was still the teacher who sent the people away from each family and closed the street.

Cheng Linghui was so sullen that she lay on the kang in the West House, with bruises and purple soles on her snow-white back.

Xiuwen looked at it and felt shocked, and asked, "Why did you make grandpa so angry?" ”

Cheng Linghui closed her eyes and said, "I didn't do anything." ”

Xiuwen said: "Can't even I say it?" ”

Cheng Linghui shook her head.

Xiuwen didn't ask. Silently, she applied a hot cloth to her bruises.

Early the next morning, Cheng Linghui got up and cleaned up the tables, chairs and benches that were not cleaned up yesterday. These are all borrowed from other people's families, and they have to be returned one by one. Grandpa is still angry. Cheng Linghui was not happy in her heart. The grandfather and grandson each did their own thing, and no one cared about anyone.

It's almost noon after delivering the tables and chairs. My mother was sick before, and the family was very poor. After this marriage, the family is even more stretched. Although her mother didn't say it, Cheng Linghui also knew that she also went to her uncle's house to borrow money for this marriage. Now there is another population in the family. Cheng Linghui only felt a lot of pressure.

It's already the wax moon. The end of the year is approaching, and Zhuanshui City is much more lively than in the past. Cheng Linghui thought about having lunch and went to buy the herbs that she had accumulated at home on weekdays. By the way, see if there are any part-time jobs in the city.

and the drug dealers who bought herbs were familiar with each other in previous years. I bought herbs and went around, but I didn't know where I needed to work for a short time. Winter is short, and the sun is turning west. She had no choice but to go back. When I walked to the entrance of the village, I saw a person under the old plane tree from a distance. When I got closer, it turned out to be the second sister.

Cheng Linghui couldn't help but wonder: "Second sister, what are you doing here?" Why not go home? ”

When the second sister heard this, she didn't speak, and her tears flowed first. Crying: "I don't have the face to go home." ”

Cheng Linghui said: "What's wrong? ”

The second sister said: "My mother-in-law thinks that our mother took less vegetables yesterday." I have to be forced to come to the house again to get it. You say how I have the face to enter the house. "She didn't say yes, as soon as she got home yesterday, her husband punched and kicked her. The reason for this is because of the pocket watch. But Cheng Linghui had already returned the watch to his uncle, and he couldn't ask his uncle for it. can only be angry with the second sister.

When Cheng Linghui heard this, she was immediately furious, but she was helpless. said, "You wait here, I'll get it for you." ”

When I got home, I found my new cotton jacket, wrapped a few leftover steamed buns from yesterday, and took a piece of unused meat, tied it with straw rope and sent it to the entrance of the village. put the padded jacket on the second sister and said, "If they beat you again, don't bear it." Come back and tell me, I'll support you. ”

The second sister looked at Cheng Linghui with tears on her face, opened her mouth but didn't make a sound. He nodded slightly.

It was getting dark, and Cheng Linghui didn't worry about the second sister going back alone. I sent her to the edge of Chenjia Village before going home.

Grandma pulled her aside and asked in a low voice, "Ernier is here?" ”

Cheng Linghui nodded.

Grandma asked, "Why don't you come home?" ”

Thinking of the second sister's thin-clothed, thin and aggrieved appearance, Cheng Linghui felt uncomfortable and said, "Don't ask." Don't tell my mother. ”

Grandma said, "I don't know this yet." Your mother is only more comfortable these days. Your grandmother is not the evil mother-in-law, deliberately blocking your mother. ”

Cheng Linghui returned to Westinghouse. Seeing Xiuwen's pale face, her eyes were red and she seemed to have cried. "What's wrong?" he asked. ”

Xiuwen stirred her hands and said, "Mozhi, I'm in trouble." "I'm going to cry again.

Cheng Linghui sat next to her and asked, "Can you talk to me?" ”

Xiuwen said: "I seem to have it." ”

Cheng Linghui was confused for a moment, and then suddenly realized. looked at Xiuwen in surprise: "Who's?" ”

Xiuwen shook her head.

Cheng Linghui said hurriedly: "I don't know or can't I say?" ”

Xiuwen said: "I can't say it." ”

"Does the master know?"

Xiuwen shook her head.

"You're confused. How can you do that? Cheng Linghui was angry, but he didn't dare to speak out. I'm afraid of alarming the adults in the family.

Xiuwen cried: "Don't blame me, I don't know what to do now." ”

Cheng Linghui asked, "Did you do it voluntarily or were you forced?" ”

Xiuwen nodded slightly.

Cheng Linghui thought for a while and said, "No." You have to tell me who the child's father is. I'll go to him for you. ”

Xiuwen hurriedly said: "I can't look for him." He had big things to do, and he couldn't be distracted by them. ”

"A trifle?" Cheng Linghui blurted out, only to realize that her voice was too loud. He lowered his voice and said, "How can this be a trivial matter? What if the man doesn't admit it, what will you and the child do? ”

Xiuwen hurriedly said, "No." He told me when he left. When his business is over, he will come and pick me up. Let's be honest with you. It's no coincidence that my mother and I were able to come to your house. It was he who said that he could only trust your family, and asked me to come to Chengjiazhuang to find you in case something happened. ”

"Looking for me?" Cheng Linghui wondered. Suddenly, I saw a piece of cyan tassel exposed under Xiuwen's buttocks, grabbed it and took a look, and suddenly realized: "It's Marquis Su." ”

The cyan tassel was tied with a jade ring, which was the one that Marquis Su promised to give to Cheng Linghui back then. Of course, Cheng Linghui only recognized that spike.

Xiuwen said: "You really know him?" "There was something strange about him.

Cheng Linghui didn't care, and returned the jade ring to Xiuwen and said, "I just happened to see it." At that time, I was young, I didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and I was blindly competitive. Master Su promised me that if I could hit the target with two arrows in a row, he would give me this jade ring. It's a pity that I only shot one arrow. Speaking of this, I was a little embarrassed: "Actually, all I like is the tassel on the jade ring." ”

Xiuwen seemed to have put something down in her heart, and said in a low voice: "It's not Marquis Su." Yes......" she was a little speechless.

"Could it be Su Tong?" Cheng Linghui had a flash of inspiration in his mind.

Xiuwen nodded.

Cheng Linghui didn't know how to describe the feeling in her heart at the moment. She has always felt that Su Tong and Sun Xinglong are still the same as when they were children. At first glance, I heard that Su Tong had a child, and I couldn't turn around in my heart.

"Why did he get to the academy?" Cheng Linghui was puzzled. Su Tong obviously told himself that he was going to a certain west.

Xiuwen shook her head: "I don't know." ”

Cheng Linghui and Xiuwen grew up together since childhood, and knew that Xiuwen looked weak but was a very old-fashioned person. I don't know what to ask. I won't ask any more questions. The two stayed awake all night, and finally decided to hide Xiuwen's pregnancy first. One day is one day, maybe Su Tong will come to pick up Xiuwen soon.

The New Year is getting closer and closer. It's not okay to go out and find a job. Cheng Linghui packed up her bow and arrows and prepared to go hunting. Grandpa's anger finally subsided. Cheng Linghui knew that the fifth master not only told him about teaching himself to practice martial arts, but also told him about selling smuggled salt. No wonder Grandpa was so angry. can be angry and angry, looking at the livelihood of a large family, grandpa has no choice. can only feel more sorry for Cheng Linghui.

Grandma found out and didn't say anything. just hugged Cheng Linghui in his arms and sighed. And the mother, as expected, cried again. When Cheng Linghui packed up and went hunting, her mother's eyes were still red and swollen.

There are not many young people left in the village, and the big bolt is one of them. These young men go hunting in groups. Because of what happened when they got married, Cheng Linghui didn't want to see the big bolt. And he went alone into the mountains on the west side.

She followed her grandfather and father to hunt at the age of seven or eight. Half an expert. In addition, she is a master of art and bold, and she specializes in drilling into the sparsely populated old forest. At that time, the old forest was not like now, there were all kinds of wolves, insects, tigers and leopards. Cheng Linghui hunted eleven hares and four pheasants in a day and a night, and was about to go back. The mountain wind passed, and out of nowhere came a big tiger with a flower forehead.

To say not to be nervous is to be false. Tigers aren't common. Some people have been hunting all their lives and have not met once. At this time, Cheng Linghui was alone. Frightened, she threw down the prey she was carrying and climbed to a large tree with a few strokes of her hands and feet.

She heard her grandfather say that tigers generally don't eat people.

The tiger walked under the tree, sniffed the prey that Cheng Linghui threw on the ground, and did not eat it, but looked up at Cheng Linghui sitting on the branch. Cheng Linghui was also looking at the tiger on the ground from the tree.

The tiger circled the tree and slowly retreated to one side. Just when Cheng Linghui thought that the tiger was leaving. The tiger suddenly swooped down on the tree with lightning speed. His limbs grabbed the trunk of the tree and jumped up more than a foot high, and he opened his mouth to bite Cheng Linghui on the branch.

Who says tigers can't climb trees? Let him try to climb a tree with Cheng Linghui?

Cheng Linghui was shocked and kicked down in a panic. I don't know where the kick hit the tiger, but the tiger was kicked down by her anyway.

Cheng Linghui also fell from the tree because of violent movements. The tiger didn't wait for her to react, and pounced. Cheng Linghui rolled on the spot and could dodge. There was a sharp pain in the back of the waist, and he was actually whipped by the tiger's tail. Cheng Linghui was furious, picked up the horn bow and hit the tiger. With a 'snap', the five-stone hard bow was interrupted by her.

The tiger roared and pounced again. Cheng Linghui didn't care about the pain in her back, she reached out and climbed a tree next to her. After a few 'rubs', he went up to the branches. With both hands, he untied the rope whip that was wrapped around his waist.