She took Dong'er and landed in the courtyard outside the city. She was a virtuous woman, she used the broken silver given by her brother to buy some necessary things for life, and also bought chickens and rabbits, opened a small piece of land in the courtyard, planted some vegetables for daily food, and took some sewing and mending needlework on weekdays, and was self-sufficient in small days.

The surrounding neighbors knew what happened to her, and the villagers in the countryside didn't understand those big truths, but they only felt that it was not easy for this woman to drag a stupid son to live, and she usually helped a little if she could. With the help of the neighbors around her, she gradually forgot the experience of being abandoned by her husband's family and rejected by her mother's family, and she thought about letting herself and Dong'er survive in this difficult world and live better.

My brother always came to see her secretly and sent her some rice and noodles.

That day, when my brother came, he also brought a packet of rock candy to Dong'er. This was not uncommon before, but since moving here, Dong'er has never tasted sugar again. When he got this packet of rock candy, he was very happy, but he was reluctant to eat it, so he ran to her and asked her to taste it first. She licked it with a smile and then stuffed a whole piece of candy into Dong'er's mouth.

"My mother has eaten it, it's so sweet, Dong'er eats it herself. She touched Dong'er's head lovingly and asked him to go to the yard to play marbles.

I don't know what bird in the yard took a strange seed, fell in the reclaimed soil, and within a few days it grew into a small seedling, bearing small fruits as green as jade, and sprinkled on the ground one by one.

The look in her brother's eyes when he came to talk and stopped, she knew that she must have something to say to her.

The elder brother hesitated for a long time, kept rubbing his hands, lowered his head, blushed, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Hu Da sent the letter of resignation to the house early this morning." ”

"Ahh They have also been intimate, and the time between husband and wife is also vivid.

There were tears in her eyes, but she gritted her teeth and endured it.

"Hu Da beat the gong and drum today to marry the widow Li into the door, and the daughter of that family heard that she also changed her surname, and it is said that Hu Da also asked someone to write them into the genealogy. The words that her brother then spoke were like a blunt knife, carved little by little in her heart. She didn't dare to speak, for fear that as soon as she spoke, tears would fall.

Dad fainted, and it took a long time to recover. Your sister-in-law said......"

She could guess how uncomfortable her father was when he saw all this, it was useless for her to make the people around her suffer.

The elder brother paused, then gritted his teeth and continued, "Your sister-in-law said that you are still young, and now Hu Da has also married another, she is thinking about helping you find another good family business, don't waste it in vain." ”

She raised her head sharply and looked at her brother, Dong'er is like this, but how could anyone who can get by let her marry a stupid son.

As if he knew what she wanted to say, the elder brother continued, "It is indeed more difficult to take Dong'er, your sister-in-law knows the second aunt of Liu County's housekeeper, and she has a relationship, and the nursery in the city said that she is willing to accept Dong'er." ”

She trembled with anger, grabbed the teapot in her hand and fell to the ground, and the rough teapot fell to the ground and fell apart.

"Get out!" she felt like she was speechless, just looking at the person sitting in front of her with her reddened eyes.

My brother didn't expect her to react so violently, and muttered comfortingly, "We are also for your own good, you are still young, there is no need to drag yourself down for a fool, you still have half a life." ”

With all her strength, she pushed her brother out of the house, tears pouring out like floods that opened the floodgates, blurring her vision.

"Get out of here, don't come again. Every inch of her skin hurts, but it doesn't hurt as much as the sadness in her heart. Whether it is a white-headed couple or a blood brother, the betrayal and abandonment of the original loved ones can hurt themselves the most.

In a trance, a weak figure rushed in, protected her in front of her, and pushed her brother out with all her might.

Her brother was still talking, but she couldn't hear it at all, until the room was quiet, and a small child gently hugged her, and silently wiped away tears for her with her little hands, which seemed to never end.

"Mother, don't cry, Dong'er is obedient. Hearing this, she could not hold back any longer, and wailed and cried, and the mournful cry of a trapped beast echoed in the house for a long time.

When she woke up in the middle of the night, she found herself sleeping on the ground, and Dong'er curled up in a ball and lying next to him. The only quilt in the house was covering her at this time.

She caressed Dong'er's cheek lovingly, she was afraid that she was frightened today, and there were tears on her little face. She was a little hungry, thinking that the child hadn't eaten, she cleaned up, carefully carried Dong'er to the bed, and then went to the kitchen to prepare for food.

Life always has to pass, and today's trouble, and my brother are completely broken, and I can only rely on myself in the future. She silently cheered herself up in the bottom of her heart and washed her face with cold water.

There are still some sweet potatoes in the cellar in the backyard, Dong'er loves roasted sweet potatoes the most, and she plans to take a few to roast them, and when Dong'er wakes up, she can eat them. She grabbed a bamboo basket and walked to the backyard.

There was a dry well in the middle of the backyard, and when she moved here, she was afraid of any snakes and insects in it, but after a long time, she didn't see anything strange.

While thinking about the passage of the day, thinking about how to feed himself and his orphans and widows in the future, he picked up a few sweet potatoes from the cellar. The night was very dark, and she was in a hurry to go back to cook for Dong'er, so she didn't light the lamp.

She turned around and took two quick steps, when suddenly she tripped over a branch from nowhere, and she rolled over and fell into the well, hitting her head hard against the wall of the well.

"So, I died like this?" The lady of the Hu family raised her ignorant eyes and looked at Ding Ding, she had a vague memory of many memories, and vaguely remembered that she fell into the well, the well was so deep, I am afraid that I would not survive if I fell into it.

"No, you fell, but you didn't die. Zhu Tao had already cried into tears at this time, and Lin Zhen was also full of compassion, but Ding Ding's eyes did not have a trace of warmth, she replied lightly, as if she was talking about an extremely ordinary thing, "You committed suicide." ”

As soon as the words came out, the three people in the room all looked at Ding Ding with shocked eyes.

"I committed suicide, why did I commit suicide, how did I die?" the eyes of the Hu family lady were even more confused, "Why should I die?"

Tintin sighed.

ps: To be honest, this chapter is very uncomfortable to write, I didn't expect it to be so sad, more than once I thought about not treating Dong'er so sensible like this, hey. I don't want to write myself depressed.