Chapter 129: Long time gone
When Zhou Chen and Zhou Wanwan returned home, they saw Zhou Chunxi rarely, he was now clumsily making a stove pit, preparing hot pig food, and there was a hissing pant sound in his throat, as if something was blocked, and it was difficult to breathe.
The Zhou family just caught two little piglets, and they had to feed them at least three or four times a day. Usually Zhou Xia and Zhou Ling feed this meal at noon, but today I don't know why, Zhou Chunxi didn't go to work in the field, but actually fed the pigs at home.
Zhou Chunxi's body squatting there was skinny, he was originally tall, and he stood up more than 1.80 meters, but in the past few months, he has been sick again and again, and he has been criticized several times, and now the whole person is so thin that only a handful of bones are left, his face is gray, his eye sockets and cheeks are deeply sunken, and he looks very scary.
Zhou Chen hugged Zhou Wanwan and didn't look at Zhou Chunxi, and went directly into the house. Since Zhou Chunxi said that Li Guizhi testified to the working group that he had no bad intentions for killing Li Xiuhua, Zhou Yang's three siblings completely ignored him.
As soon as Zhou Chen finished washing Zhou Wanwan's face, he heard a loud bang outside, followed by a bang, like the sound of something falling to the ground and then water splashing out again.
Zhou Chen's hand paused, and then helped his sister wash his hands, without any intention of going out to have a look.
"Ahh It's on fire!! It didn't take long for Zhou Xia to scream from the kitchen.
Zhou Chen put his sister on the kang and told her that she was absolutely not allowed to come out, so he ran outside.
Shen Yufen also ran out together.
In the kitchen, Zhou Chunxi fainted next to the door of the stove pit, with burning wheat stalks under him, but fortunately he knocked down the pig food bucket when he fell, and stabbed the pig food on his upper body, so that his head was not burned. But his hand reached into the stove pit, and by the time Zhou Chen dragged him out, his hand and half of his arm had been burned black.
Zhou Chunxi is still unconscious. Shen Yufen and Zhou Chen had no choice but to carry him to the kang first, and then go to find someone.
Zhou Chen first went back to the house and explained a few words to his sister before running out to find someone from the Zhou family. At this time, Zhou Chen still chose to help Zhou Chunxi. Zhou Wanwan also felt that he should help him find someone, if Zhou Chunxi died this time because Zhou Chen refused to reach out to help him, then Zhou Chen would definitely feel guilty for the rest of his life.
It's not about right or wrong, it's just a bottom-line question deep in the hearts of good people. Zhou Wanwan's bottom line is not to kill people with his own hands, so Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen's bottom line is to be worthy of their conscience, no matter what happens, so that they will not regret or feel guilty when they think about it in the future.
Soon, Zhou Chunliang, Zhou Chunlai, Li Guizhi and Zhou Yang all returned.
Zhou Chunxi was still unconscious, and the burns on his hands and legs were so severe that he had to be taken to the commune clinic immediately.
Zhou Chunlai and Zhou Chunliang left with Zhou Chunxi on their backs, and Li Guizhi also cried and followed. Zhou Yang hugged his sister in the house to comfort his younger brother and did not follow. Now he only cares about not scaring his younger brothers and sisters, and others live without him, so he doesn't have to worry about it.
That night, Zhou Chunlai came back after a few days, and Zhou Chunxi was lying on a frame car, his hands and feet were wrapped in thick gauze. Dr. Cui said that the health center only has scald ointment, and there are very few professional anti-inflammatory drugs, if you are afraid that the cure will not be good, go to the county hospital, if you don't go, go home and raise it, it is useless to stay in the health center.
Zhou Chunxi had already woken up, grinning in pain, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept rolling down his face. Li Guizhi had no choice but to cry beside him at a loss.
It turned out that Zhou Chunxi fainted in the ground at noon today, and after being sent back, he lay on the kang, and later heard Zhou Xia and Zhou Ling quarreling, and he didn't want to feed the pigs, so he forced himself to hot pig food.
"You two are full for nothing! What's the use of you two! You can't even feed a pig! You two aren't worth as much as my pigs!" Mrs. Zhou scolded two people, but only Zhou Xia was beaten by her alone, Zhou Ling hid in the room and didn't come out, she didn't dare to go in at all.
Mrs. Zhou didn't come back after dark for a long time, and these days their family of three has been tortured to the point that they are not human. Today, Er Laizi gave the production team an idea and asked them to turn over the ground. The ground has just melted into a thin layer, and the bottom is frozen solidly, how can it be turned over?
But when they asked them to turn it over, they had to turn it over, and after turning it over for a day, half an acre of land was not turned over, which became evidence of laziness and slippery, and they were punished to kneel in the mud full of ice ballast to apologize, and knelt until it was dark, and only let them come back when their militia was tired.
The fire in Mrs. Zhou's heart was nowhere to start, Zhou Xia hit the muzzle, she and Zhou Hongying teamed up, beat Zhou Xia with a blue nose and swollen face, and punished her to kneel in the muddy ditch at the gate, so that Zhou Xia could also taste the sins they suffered today, and the two of them felt better.
Zhou Xia knelt until midnight, secretly ran back to sleep, was beaten by Zhou Hongying again, kicked out and knelt again.
Zhou Xia howled and cried at the gate, "Big brother! Second brother! Save me! I can't live anymore! You can't just watch me die! I'm your own sister! ”
Zhou Yang lay upright on the kang, motionless. Zhou Chen covered Zhou Wanwan's ears with his hands and held her head in his arms, not letting her hear or see.
Zhou Xia shouted for a long time, and it is estimated that half the people on the street heard it, but she still refused to stop, "Big brother!" Eldest brother! I was wrong! I knew I was wrong! Save me! I'm going to be tormented to death by them! You are happy, you can't just watch me die! I'm dead, and my mother has to feel distressed! We were born by a mother! ”
Zhou Xia shouted one after another, and in the silent night, her miserable and desperate voice spread far and wide, "Mom! Mother! Open your eyes and see! I'm going to die! Mother! Look at me! No one cares about me, no one cares about me, I'm going to die! Damn! ”
Zhou Yang suddenly sat up and rushed out with a padded jacket.
Zhou Chen and Zhou Wanwan both froze. What they had been worried about still happened, and Zhou Yang still relented to Zhou Xia.
Zhou Wanwan put her head on Zhou Chen's chest, and there was a moment of confusion in her heart, if Zhou Yang asked her to accept Zhou Xia, what would she do?
Zhou Chen's hand holding Zhou Wanwan's head also loosened and hung down weakly.
"Don't call me Mom! You don't deserve it! You white-eyed wolf! You killed my mother! My mother would never recognize you if she were alive! We won't recognize you either! You found yourself when you died! You deserve it! This is God's retribution for you! ”
In the silent night, Zhou Yang's heart-rending roar sounded in Zhou Wanwan and Zhou Chen's ears like spring thunder, making them feel like a small tree that had survived a midwinter, and finally looked forward to the long-lost spring.
"Don't call me mom anymore! If you dare to disturb her peace again, I will never show mercy to your men! ”
Zhou Yang came back angrily, and his anger did not subside, and he slammed the door of the inner and outer rooms into a ping-pong sound, but no one in the Zhou family dared to squeak. Even Zhou Chunliang of Nankang was careful to remain silent.
Zhou Xia stopped howling. The night finally fell silent.
As soon as Zhou Yang lifted the curtain of the North Kang, he saw his younger brother lighting a red lantern waiting for him to come back. The warm light illuminated the small world of the three brothers and sisters more warmly, and the younger brother's bright black eyes danced with joy under the reflection of the candle flame. The younger sister raised her head from his quilt with a smile, and the little hair curls on her head shook happily, "I'll warm the quilt for my eldest brother!" ”
Zhou Yang suddenly felt that his eyes were sour, with this warm candlelight and these two cheerful smiling faces, he could survive the bleak wind and cold rain outside.
Zhou Yang looked at his sister with a smile, "Are you urinating on the kang?" Washed over by the flood, right? ”
Zhou Wanwan was still laughing happily, and now nothing could affect her good mood, "The second brother is urinating on the kang and rushed me over!" ”
Zhou Yang stuffed his sister into the quilt and got into it himself, "Then let's be with the eldest brother today!" I won't go back again! ”
Zhou Wanwan hugged Zhou Yang's neck and smiled at Zhou Chen, Zhou Chen rolled his eyes, "You just follow the eldest brother!" Look at me tomorrow morning, I don't care about your food and clothes! ”
"What to do? Big brother can't comb his hair?! Zhou Yang asked his sister seriously.
"Let's talk about it tomorrow morning!" Zhou Wanwan still hugged Zhou Yang and didn't let go.
Zhou Chen and Zhou Yang both laughed, this little girl never let herself suffer!
The three brothers and sisters laughed for a while and then went to sleep.
Zhou Yang kept gently smoothing his sister's little curly hair, until her breathing became long and soft, and then he said to his younger brother in a low voice, "Big brother has made you sad." ”
Zhou Yang used an affirmative sentence. He didn't say anything for it, but Zhou Chen completely understood the meaning of Zhou Yang's words.
"Nope. The eldest brother cares too much about his relatives. If the eldest brother is like them, he only has himself in his heart, then it is not certain whether Nannan and I can live now. We can't accept the favor of the eldest brother and then dislike the eldest brother for being good to others, we were taught by our mother and eldest brother, and we will not be so unconscientious. ”
Zhou Yang's tears poured out all of a sudden, so hot, so turbulent......
In the evening of the next day, Qian Gang and Qian Tie came to Zhou's house again, and Zhou Hongxiang was really cornered, so she could only ask Mrs. Zhou for help again.
The owner of the bicycle could not wait for compensation and sued her to the construction company. Without saying a word, the leader of the construction company paid her monthly salary to the owner. and promised that Zhou Hongxiang's salary would be given to him in the future until he lost 300 yuan.
The owner said that his bicycle is a permanent license, and he has a bicycle ticket for 130 yuan, and 300 yuan without a bicycle ticket is cheap. If the Qian family thinks it is unreasonable, then pay him a bicycle ticket, and then immediately take out 130 yuan.
Bicycle tickets are so scarce, there are only a few tickets a year for a large state-owned unit, and Zhou Hongxiang's identity will not be able to take their turn in a lifetime!
So Zhou Hongxiang can only admit that he is unlucky. Three hundred yuan, that's their family's income for eleven months, without this money, their family of six would have to drink the northwest wind!
Qian Shouyi doesn't care about anything except drinking now, especially after the bicycle incident, he doesn't care about his wife and children at all except beating people. A bunch of useless goods! Just know that you're in trouble! He wanted to kill them!
Zhou Hongxiang sent her two sons over this time, one is to urge Mrs. Zhou to hurry up and find a way, and the other is to let them stay in Sanjiatun and participate in the labor of the production team, and they can still distribute some food in the autumn, which can be regarded as a bit of hope.
Of course Qian Gang and Qian Tie were unwilling, but there was no food or drink at home, their father beat people, and their mother knew that they were crying, and they really couldn't stay any longer.
It was at this time that Mrs. Zhou learned that the twenty yuan she asked Zhou Chun to send to Zhou Hongxiang was not delivered, and was intercepted by Shen Yufen halfway.
When Mrs. Zhou got the twenty yuan, Zhou Chunxi was sick and had no energy for a day, Zhou Chunliang was lying on the kang in a coma, and Mrs. Zhou could only send Zhou Chunlai to send money to Zhou Hongxiang.
Shen Yufen searched out the twenty yuan on Zhou Chunlai's body and said that she would not give him anything. If you don't want money, if you don't want it, take my life and my son's life! We'll pay you two lives together!
"Why should you let me explain to my mother!" Zhou Chunlai was extremely embarrassed, snatched the money back, with Shen Yufen's temper, it was really possible to fight with him; If you don't grab it back, you can't explain it to Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Hongxiang.
"If you still want a wife and children, just listen to me. I don't need you to say anything, just stand by and watch. Shen Yufen saw it clearly, and asked Zhou Chunlai to think about the two of them and speak for them, it was impossible, and now she just begged him not to hold her back.
Zhou Chunlai feels sorry for his mother and his eldest sister, but he can't do without his wife and children, his son is not yet a full moon!
This weak and affectionate man finally chose to be silent in the end. It's a day to be able to live a peaceful day, so let's talk about it when it gets up.
Mrs. Zhou was half angry to death, she never thought that she would be stabbed in the back by her youngest son! (To be continued.) )