Chapter 31 鹓 (yuan) 鶵 (chu)

"It turns out that your family is very happy, your family has a big orchard, it should be a well-off life, and your mother doesn't need to come out to work to earn money, put you and your brother at home, and let grandpa take care of you."

"Our family used to be really happy, and the income from the orchard was enough for the family's living expenses, but it has slowly changed since my grandfather came."

"Why did grandpa change his life when he came, what happened to your father and your mother?"

Speaking of her home, Li Jingjing fell into deep confusion.

In the western part of the winter moon, the sky is deep and vast, and the cold air is vaguely mixed with the material from Siberia, especially at dawn, this material is like a substance, which wants to penetrate into the bone marrow of people. The earth was still sleeping, and even the dogs who saw the yard were cowering in their kennels, hiding from the cold. Only the lights flickered in the distance on the national defense highway, and the roar of the engine set off the silence and coldness of the night.

Li Jingjing clung to her mother's clothes, and was very confused, although the family is not rich, it is also well-off, not as unbearable as her mother said? At this time, Father Li raised his head, looked at his mother with flustered and complicated eyes, and said bitterly: "It seems that those rumors are true." You are determined to leave, I, Li Zhimin, am a big man, I will take good care of the children, I hope you don't forget them. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pulled Li Jingjing hard, and Li Jingjing stumbled.

Li Jingjing's heart sank when she listened to her parents' conversation, and tears were left on her flower-like face. Thinking of the vague and ambiguous eyes of those long-tongued women in the neighborhood, as well as those facts instead of gossip, my heart almost sank to the bottom, Mom really doesn't want Dad anymore? Don't want me and my brother anymore?

Li Jingjing broke free of her father's hand, threw herself in front of her mother again, and held her mother's arm tightly with a crying voice: "Mom, you really don't want me and my brother anymore, you want to go to the south with others to earn money?" Mom, I don't want to wear new clothes in the future, I don't want a new school bag, I don't ask the family for pocket money, I can also go to my school to pick up mineral water bottles and sell them for money, Mom, I beg you not to go, don't leave me and my brother, I will definitely help the family do housework in the future, help you and Dad do the farm work in the orchard, please don't go, woo. ”

The woman gently wiped her daughter's flower-like cheeks, "Jingjing, you are also a junior high school student now, you have also studied an article by Zhuangzi, a bird called the Plover, the Bird Takes Off from the South China Sea and flies to the North Sea, it is not that the plane tree does not inhabit, it is not the fruit of the best products that it does not eat, it is not the sweet spring water that does not drink, the woman should have the same quality as the Bird, Jingjing, you are also a girl, you must have a noble quality, so that you will have a high-quality life, don't be like me, miserable to struggle for yourself." A woman can't be like an owl without quality and eat dead rat meat, and that kind of woman is not called a woman,"

"Shut up, if you want to be your parrot, you can be your parrot, don't educate your daughter to be the same as you."

The man pulled his daughter angrily.

The flower-like daughter was pulled out of her mother's arms, and Li Jingjing trembled in a low voice: "Mom, I remember, you told me to be a bird, not an owl, Mom, please go home, don't leave me and my brother, woo." Li Jingjing got rid of her father's hand, rushed to her mother again, and hugged her mother's arm tightly.

"Good daughter doesn't cry, mom just goes to the south with friends to earn money, and when mom earns money, she will pick you up and go with your brother to live a good life. Good daughter, you have to take care of your brother at home, listen to grandpa, you are also a big girl now, you can already take care of your brother and grandpa, when I am not there, you have to persuade your grandfather not to play mahjong and gamble for money, which is not good for your health. The woman hugged her daughter and wiped her daughter's face and sobbed in a low voice.

Li Jingjing hugged her mother's arm tightly, for fear that her mother would disappear as soon as she let go. Tears flowed down her delicate cheeks and she couldn't wipe them, and she looked at her mother with hazy teary eyes. The cold wind of dawn froze the air, and Li Jingjing wanted to hear her mother say good words.

The man on the side struggled again, "Whitney, just stay in front of your daughter and youngest son, who are still young." I'll listen to you from now on, come home with me. ”

"Zhimin, I'm cold to you, how many times have I given you a chance, have you cherished it? You ask yourself if you can be a little nicer to me, I won't leave you, how much pressure I was under with you at the beginning, you don't know, you have become unrecognizable after just a few years of hard work, you are no longer the original you, I only ask you to treat Jingjing well, this is the last time I beg you. The woman finished her heart with tears in her eyes.

In the cold wind, fine snow fluttered down like fine salt. Mom left the house in the salty snowflakes and left them.

"So that's right, the ostrich has heard of it, and it is a bird of ancient times. The eagle is born in the South China Sea, and flies in the North Sea, not more than the sycamore, not practiced and not eaten. If it is not a liquor spring, it will not be drunk, so the owl (chi) will get rotting rats, and the eagle will pass it. Look up and say: Scared (he)! This son wants to scare me evil with the Liang Kingdom of the son? ”

"So you know the eagle too."

"The eagle is a bird like a phoenix in ancient Chinese legends, and its habits are very noble. Your mother compares herself to a shark, which is a bit troublesome, and besides, your mother's age is no longer suitable for pursuing a life like a shark, so it's okay to educate you like this. ”

Li Jingjing lowered her head and thought about what Wang Mengjie said just now, in fact, Li Jingjing always felt that her mother might not go home, unless her grandfather and father were not gambling and managed the family's orchard well, in that case, her mother might still go home.

Dad doesn't gamble, first ask grandpa to borrow gambling, and asking grandpa to borrow gambling is really bigger than Yugong's project to move mountains. At that time, because of the grandfather's lifelong gambling addiction, the family property left by the ancestors of the hometown was gambled by the grandfather, and the grandfather was nostalgic for the gambling table all day long, not labor, and the life of the family all relied on the old and frail grandmother to earn some living expenses, and then the grandmother was sick, and the family had no money to treat the grandmother, although the father sent money to the grandmother to see a doctor, but in the end, the grandfather gambled the money that the father sent to the grandmother to see a doctor, and the grandmother could only die in the disease.

My mother changed her phone when she came out, and she didn't know her mother's phone number, which obviously meant that she didn't want to contact her family, and even Li Jingjing's mother didn't leave a phone, which shows how determined her mother is to leave home.

"Hasn't your mom contacted you yet?"

"No, in order for my mother to find me, my mobile phone number has not changed, but my mother has not called once." Li Jingjing lowered her head sadly.

"Wait, your mom will contact you, and as soon as she calls home, she'll know you're coming out for her, unless she doesn't want to contact you."

"Well, I just pray every day that my mom will wake up and call me."

"Yes, maybe I'll call you during the New Year." Li Jingjing is very adamant that her mother will call her.