"Go, take back your family to live a good life, my mother doesn't ask for anything, I just hope that you can all have a home, there is a person who knows the pain and heat, and the mother can ......do whatever she wants" At the end, Mrs. Zhou wiped her tears again.

These days, she suddenly turned into a loving mother, who could endure humiliation and sacrifice everything for the sake of her children, so that her sons would be grateful and surrounded her.

As for buttoning hats, accompanying critics, and subsidizing Zhou Hongxiang with the family's money, the sons had long forgotten about it, but Wang Fengying wanted to mention it, but they were all frightened back by the angry eyes of the three sons of the Zhou family.

Zhou Chunxi wiped a handful of tears and told Xu Chun to take good care of Mrs. Zhou, so he reluctantly picked up his wife and children. When you take it back, you must honor his mother well, and their family can't stand his mother......

That night, Zhou Yang took several large skewers of meat to Zhou Chunliang, "Dad, this is our baking, you can eat it." ”

Zhou Chunliang snorted angrily and snatched the meat skewers, took them to the East House and sent them to Mrs. Zhou.

Today, they all smelled the smell of barbecue in the East House, but no one dared to come over to take a look, let alone come to ask for it. With Chief Shen's words, they could only walk around these children, and they didn't dare to provoke them at all.

Zhou Chunliang was faintly looking forward to it at that time, although these children did not enter the oil and salt, they still had a little filial piety, he didn't dare to guarantee what happened to others, and he still cared about his father. So he waited for them to call him over to eat, or to bring some to the East House.

But when the sun went down, the little beasts didn't move! It's the same as their dead mom! Eat alone! White-eyed wolf!

Zhou Yang looked at the incomprehension and questions in Zhou Chen's eyes, and explained to him in a low voice: "I know that he can't eat alone for his father, but it doesn't make me feel uneasy...... He's also our father......"

Zhou Chen didn't speak, lowered his head to take off his sister's cotton jacket, and took care of her to sleep.

Zhou Wanwan didn't speak, as long as the eldest brother didn't give up on Zhou Chunliang, he would always have to think about him. She doesn't say anything, as long as the eldest brother wants to, she lets him do it. One day he understood, and she and the second brother tried to comfort him.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Xiao Zhang came to Zhou's house again and sent Ma Shulan a small dress made overnight. Along with the clothes, Chief Shen gave them a small basket of oranges, a bucket of biscuits, a large bag of white rabbit toffee and fruit candy weighing two or three catties, and a small bag of rice. The rice was given by Ma Shulan, saying that she was letting Xiao Nan boil rice porridge to drink.

This time, only Xiao Zhang came alone, and he left in a hurry after delivering his things. He also had to go to the training base in the mountains and carefully tell Shen Guodong about the delivery of New Year's goods, otherwise if he was worried about it, maybe something would happen.

In fact, what the Zhou brothers and sisters didn't know was that Xiao Zhang came out of the Zhou family and went to the house of Zheng Mancang, the secretary of the brigade.

"The composition of the old Zhou family is not good, according to the national policy and the specific situation of the brigade, the criticism should be criticized, and the work points should be deducted (at this time, the black five elements do the same work as others, but they get less work than others). But the three children left behind by Li Xiuhua are poor and small, and through the education of the people, they can be completely improved, we can't let go of a bad person, but we have to deal with them on a case-by-case basis. These three children don't need to be taken care of by the brigade, just give them a chance to go to school and work, so as not to delay a few good children. Xiao Zhang earnestly relayed Chief of Staff Shen's words.

After saying this, Xiao Zhang gossiped with Zheng Mancang again, and when the weather warmed up, Chief of Staff Shen would go back to Tunzi to take a look; Chief of Staff Shen was concerned about the revolutionary situation in his hometown, and specially asked him to come to see the situation of the old Zhou family, severely criticized Mrs. Zhou and her cadres, and treated Zhou Yang's children who could be educated differently, and they couldn't be one-size-fits-all; Shen Guodong didn't like to play with girls since he was a child, but he just looked at the little girl in the old Zhou family, and he remembered it very much, do you think this is strange? The old chief is really used to this grandson, what is it, the old chief attaches so much importance to it, how dare these people who are doing things below be a little unsatisfied!

After gossiping for a while, Xiao Zhang left, but Zheng Mancang couldn't sit still, and went around the room thinking about it, he hadn't troubled these children, right? Didn't you? There shouldn't be ......

Zhou Wanwan put on new clothes and walked around on the kang to show the two brothers. Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen never got tired of looking at it, and they never closed their grinning mouths.

It's a nice dress, but it's not like that.

"The second brother hasn't memorized the text yet! Big brother just taught me three words today! Zhou Wanwan hurriedly got down to business and diverted the attention of the two elder brothers.

Zhou Yang and the two finally pulled their minds back a little, but after learning for a while, Zhou Yang digressed again, "You have to hurry up and give our girl the whole scarf, it's best to be red, our girl looks so good in red." ”

"After the New Year, go to the supply and marketing cooperative, there is some red wool to buy, while Sister Ringing is still idle, let her knit a sweater for Nannan, my mother taught her to knit a sweater." Zhou Chen immediately took the stubble, and when he saw it, he didn't memorize the text seriously.

"Am I a red child?" Zhou Wanwan was extremely helpless. Even if she looks good in red, she can't be red for everything, right?

"Who's Red Kid?"

"That's it, red kid!" Zhou Wanwan strained her little face and talked nonsense.

"You're not a red kid!" Zhou Chen picked up his sister, who was wearing a new red dress, with more and more black hair and white skin, and turned around.

"Second brother, hurry up and memorize the text! I'm dizzy! Zhou Wanwan was thrown up and down by Zhou Chen, and his speech was intermittent.

January 24, 1963, the twenty-ninth day of the lunar calendar, the Chinese New Year's Eve of the year of Renyin.

Early in the morning, Zhou Chen dressed up the three brothers and sisters.

Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen wore old clothes made by Li Xiuhua last year, but they were clean and tidy, without a trace of damage. Zhou Wanwan is still yesterday's new set of clothes, Zhou Chen braided her with two small braids with tails, and two strands of red head rope in her hair, and then dotted a red dot in the middle of her forehead, lining her snow-white skin and big black eyes, very festive.

This year, Zhou Chen and the brothers have grown a lot, especially Zhou Yang, like a small tree that has absorbed enough water and nutrients, thriving in the sun, and has grown more than ten centimeters taller in a year. Zhou Chen is also good, not only has he jumped taller, but his spirit is not the same as last year. Last year, my hungry cheeks became fleshy, my eyes became bright and shiny, and with a straight nose and delicate face, I was really a beautiful boy.

The three brothers and sisters had already planned not to have a reunion dinner with the Zhou family, and they would celebrate the New Year by themselves. They would never sit at the same table with the same person who killed their mother.

If Zhou Chunliang is willing, he can celebrate the New Year with them, they are still welcome, of course, this is Zhou Yang's wish.

Zhou Yang's wish was doomed to fail. After going out to discuss this matter with Zhou Chunliang, Zhou Yang's mood was depressed for a while.

Of course, Zhou Wanwan and Zhou Chen knew why the eldest brother was unhappy, but they had no choice but to find something to divert his attention.

Zhou Chen took out the red paper that was going to paste the lantern for his sister to celebrate the Lantern Festival, in order to let the eldest brother have a good New Year, it was nothing to hang a few days in advance.

The three siblings began to paste the lanterns. The shelf made of sorghum stalks, pasted with red paper of three cents and two pieces, is very simple, but it makes the three children very engaged in playing.

Zhou Wanwan studied painting in college in his previous life, and after graduation, he worked as an art teacher for a few years, and he never put down his paintbrush in the decades he lived in the space, and he was still quite accomplished in art, so designing a lantern was a piece of cake.

Zhou Wanwan said that it looked like Zhou Chen, Zhou Chen operated, Zhou Yang started, and after a while, a little rabbit lantern was baked.

Zhou Wanwan drew eyes and tails on them again, and compared the snowflakes - the little white rabbit picked up by Zhou Chen - and the rabbit lanterns together, they are all very cute!

With the successful experience of the rabbit lantern, the brothers and sisters made pumpkin lanterns, octagonal lanterns, and lotus lanterns, but pulled down the most common round lanterns.

Finally, two round red lanterns were hung in front of the window, the rabbit lantern was placed in the corner with the snowflakes, the two pumpkin lanterns were placed on the table, and the octagonal lanterns were placed on the box.

Looking at the satisfied smile on the corner of Zhou Yang's mouth, Zhou Chen and Zhou Wanwan glanced at each other with a smile, and their hearts were also satisfied and happy.

Approaching the evening, Zhou Chunxi took Li Guizhi and Zhou Ping and returned to Zhou's house with Zhou Lan in his arms.

Mrs. Zhou didn't look at the mother and daughter with her triangular eyes, but just greeted Zhou Chunxi to the warmth of the kang head where she was staying, her words were earnest, and she was very concerned, like a loving mother who had been looking forward to her children for a long time.

Zhou Chunxi's face was sallow, his lips were chapped, and his eyes were dull. He is overtired these days, and since Mrs. Zhou was carried back, he has started to have a low-grade fever, but the family is in a mess, and no one will see his abnormality at all, and even he himself doesn't take it seriously, isn't it just that he has little energy, fear of cold, and drowsiness, just rest for a few days.

But I didn't expect that yesterday I walked thirty miles to Li Guizhi's mother's house in Dongfeng Township, and his body couldn't support it at once, and he almost fainted, and then he was a little delirious and started to swing.

The Li family was frightened, and hurriedly found a doctor from the health center, but the doctor had nothing to do, only gave him two tablets of paracetamol, and told him to sleep more, drink more water, don't catch a cold, and eat more good if conditions permit.

Zhou Chunxi woke up in a daze this morning, although it was not as scary as yesterday, but his body was still cold and hot, his muscles were sore, and he had no strength.

The uncle of the Li family strongly persuaded him to stay in the Li family to recuperate, and now he is like this, going out to walk thirty miles in the wind and snow, and when he comes home, he will be seriously ill.

Of course, the uncle of the Li family also has his own selfishness, and he hopes that his sister and two nieces can stay in their parents' house for a good New Year. He listened carefully to what Zhou Ping said about the Zhou family during this time, and he was so angry that this honest man almost beat the kang out of a hole.

The girl is confused, why don't you go home early and talk to your mother's family. It's sorry for the Zhou family for not having a son, but she is a person, so why can't she make such a mess for the Zhou family!

He asked Zhou Chunxi to pick up people, and he also had the heart to persuade him. The wife and children are their own, so they have to take care of it. But before the uncle of the Li family could say anything, Zhou Chunxi fell ill.

Zhou Chunxi insisted on going home. His mother is still sick on the kang, he is not at ease.

Zhou Chunxi and Mrs. Zhou sat together and talked affectionately, completely forgetting about Li Guizhi's mother and daughter.

Li Guizhi stood at the door at a loss, timidly observing the expressions of everyone in the Zhou family. Zhou Ping put Zhou Lan on the kang, and pulled her mother to sit on the kang, and just as she was about to go out to get firewood to burn the kang, Wang Fengying rushed out of the back room and rushed at their mother and daughter.

Zhou Ping grabbed the broom pimple on the kang and slammed it at Wang Fengying's head.

Wang Fengying's face was a thick purlin in an instant, and her eyes that were swept instantly swollen into a big bag, she couldn't see anything, and she almost rolled on the ground in pain.

"Be honest with me, if you dare to bully my mother again, I will go to the commune, believe it or not, I can say a few more words to make Zhou Juan, a broken shoe, die in it and have nowhere to die!"

Zhou Ping pointed at Wang Fengying with a broomstick, his eyes were cold.

Wang Fengying covered her face and was stunned on the ground, not daring to move.

Zhou Ping swept the Zhou family in the house with the same eyes, threw the broom and pimple to hold the firewood.

The Zhou family's Chinese New Year's Eve meal is white noodle soup.

Xu Chun didn't dare to ask Wang Fengying, who was crying on the kang, and he didn't dare to ask the old lady Zhou with a gloomy face, and Shen Yufen had been lying in the house to raise the baby, so she could only ask Zhou Ping, who had been busy taking care of her frightened mother and sick sister since she came back.

"I have white noodles at home, when will I keep them if I don't eat them during the New Year?" Zhou Ping pointed to the large cabinet of grain on the kang.

Zhou Hongying's eyes were red. The white face is hers! She sees who dares to eat!

Zhou Ping went directly to the kang to take the white noodles and stuffed them into Xu Chun's hands, "Why do you keep the white noodles if you don't eat them?" Zhou Ping looked directly at Zhou Hongying, his eyes were full of malice and sarcasm, "There is still meat in the warehouse, take it out and eat it!" Let's not eat the 'pups' that are reserved for the bad elements, right? Does she dare to eat it? ”

"I'll scratch you to death! Little **! I tore you! Zhou Hongying cried and rushed over to Zhou Ping.

Zhou Ping's sentence "dog cub" evoked the memories she was most afraid of. That day, she went to Peking University to play, Li Guohua took a group of half-grown children to say this about her, and the children in the tunzi were laughing beside her, and none of them came to help her.

After returning home, she didn't dare to talk about it, and she also knew that since her mother was labeled as a bad person, her life would be different in the future. But she didn't dare to face it, maybe if she didn't say it, it wouldn't be like this in the future? Maybe it's just a nightmare, and she doesn't mention it?

"One more step and I'll whip you to death!" Zhou Ping had already prepared, and a broom pimple was held in her hand like the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in the hands of Second Master Guan, pointing at Zhou Hongying majestically, "You are a 'dog cub' now!" I'll kill you, the government won't let me pay for my life, if you don't believe it, you can try! ”

Zhou Hongying was frightened by Zhou Ping, and she didn't dare to step forward in a daze, and it took a long time to cry.

"Mother! Mother! Zhou Hongying could only turn back to Mrs. Zhou for help.

Mrs. Zhou didn't say a word, just took Zhou Chunxi's hand and cried.

"Big girl! Did you talk like that? That's your aunt, why are you so big and not small! Zhou Chunxi stood up from the kang and shouted to Zhou Ping with insufficient breath.

Zhou Ping snorted coldly, threw the broom pimple, and pulled Xu Chun, "Let's go, go cook!" ”

"You, why are you so bold......" Xu Chun asked Zhou Ping softly while contemplating.

I don't know if Xu Chun is asking about Zhou Ping's escape from marriage, or about the mother and daughter of Wang Fengying and Mrs. Zhou.

Zhou Ping raised the knife in his hand, and chopped the pork bones on the cutting board in two with a clang, and didn't ask Xu Chun what she meant by her boldness.

These two girls, who had different experiences but had the same fate, met for the first time today, but they were strangely able to understand the deepest meaning of each other's words.

Zhou Ping couldn't hate Xu Chun, although her identity was so repulsive to her, but when she really saw this person, Zhou Ping couldn't hate it.

They are true freemasonry.

"You should all know, if I don't let it go, I really won't be able to live. My mother and my sister-in-law will have to die sooner or later. ”

Zhou Ping's tone was flat, but the kitchen knife in his hand fell heavier and heavier. (To be continued.) )