Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen hurriedly finished eating, and then went back to the West House with Zhou Wanwan in their arms. As early as two days ago, knowing that his father was coming back, Zhou Yang burned the Nankang in advance. I haven't lived for a few months, so I have to bake it in advance, or I'm not afraid of sleeping on the first day of burning and returning to the moisture.

Zhou Chunliang came back after a long time, and he didn't pay attention to his little daughter, who was already able to walk a few steps against the wall, nor did he ask how the two eldest ones, who had lost their mother's protection, had spent the months when the famine was raging. He silently rolled up a few dry cigarette rolls, leaned against the partition wall of the Nankang Kang head, frowned and smoked fiercely. Then he lay down and went to sleep, and the father and son did not say a word.

For most of the second day, Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen seemed to be hesitating about something, making eye contact from time to time, which made Zhou Wanwan very depressed. She could see that the two little brothers had decided something they didn't know. She hammered the wall with her little hand and sat on the kang in frustration, she wanted to grow up quickly, and it was so bad that her brothers always excluded her from discussing things!

Until dinner, Zhou Yang walked to Zhou Chunliang, who was lying on the Nankang and smoking, and took out a handful of roasted soybeans from his trouser pocket and gave it to Zhou Chunliang. Zhou Chunliang stared at the incomparably valuable soybeans in disbelief almost in disbelief, and confirmed again, "Soybeans? Where did it come from? ”

"Dad, you can eat." Zhou Yang handed the soybeans to Zhou Chunliang again, but did not answer his question.

Zhou Chunliang took it, "Where did you get it?" How many more? Did you give you milk? ”

Hearing the last question, Zhou Yang's eyes darkened, "It's not much, dad, you can eat." ”

"Didn't give your grandpa your milk? So how can I eat it? Zhou Chunliang put the handful of soybeans given by Zhou Yang in his pocket, "How many more?" Take them all out, and I'll give you milk. ”

Zhou Yang wanted to speak and stopped, Zhou Chen walked over, "Big brother works in the farmland infrastructure construction team, and there are only two handfuls given by others, and I still have one here, and I want to keep it for my father." As he spoke, he handed Zhou Chunliang a handful of soybeans.

Zhou Chunliang took the soybeans handed over by Zhou Chen and put them in his pocket, and then put on his shoes and went to the ground, still saying the same thing, "Your grandfather and your grandmother haven't eaten it yet, how can I eat it?" Then he suddenly asked, "You really haven't hidden the malt cream?" ”

Zhou Yang's eyes suddenly turned red, Zhou Chen lowered his eyes and said lightly: "Dad, how many times have you said it, I really didn't hide it, where are we going to go to that precious thing?" Didn't my milk turn over several times, but it didn't come out at all. ”

"If you two have it, hurry up and take it out for your milk, the old man hasn't eaten it yet, you two don't know how to eat it yourself."

"Dad, ......" Zhou Yang said to his sister, and suddenly choked up.

"Dad, I know that delicious food is left for my brother, can we still not know how to honor the elderly when we are so old? We really didn't hide it. Zhou Chen hurriedly took Zhou Yang's words and didn't let him continue.

"You know that you just need to honor the elderly." Zhou Chunliang took the two handfuls of soybeans given by his son to the East House, but did not leave one for the two children.

He had already heard Mrs. Zhou say about malt milk essence, and he had asked his two sons several times, but he didn't expect to ask anything just now, but he saw Huang Dou and said it casually.

Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen glanced at each other, Zhou Chen smiled bitterly and made an expression of "I knew so", Zhou Yang sat on the edge of the kang with a gloomy face and did not speak.

Zhou Wanwan understood that with Zhou Xia's precedent, the Zhou Yang brothers had learned to be tempting and detouring about people and things. It is estimated that he wanted to give his father soybeans, but he was afraid that he would be confiscated, so he first took out two handfuls to find out Zhou Chunliang's attitude, but as a result, the father didn't think about his children at all, and took them all away to honor his parents.

Zhou Wanwan looked at Zhou Chen and felt that the second brother should have guessed this result a long time ago, but he just wanted the eldest brother to understand it. She really wanted to hug her second brother and say something he often said to herself: "Why are you so smart!" ”

Zhou Yang should still have hope for his father, hoping that he can love his brothers and sisters like a normal father. Even if you want to leave the soybeans to your grandparents, you will take care of them and leave them a little, even a few. Because everyone knows that when the soybeans arrived in Mrs. Zhou's hands, they were either eaten by Zhou Hongying or sent to Zhou Hongxiang in the end, and the rest of the family didn't want to see them.

Zhou Chen glanced at Zhou Wanwan and pointed at Zhou Yang again. Zhou Wanwan will be in the evening, climb on the lap of the eldest brother, raise his little head, and show four snow-white baby teeth and smile, "Big brother, husband and wife (Feifeifei)!" ”

Zhou Yang looked at his sister's cute little appearance, his gloomy mood instantly improved, he raised her little arms above her head, and ran and flew in the house.

Zhou Wanwan smiled with her little hands open, Mrs. Zhou, Zhou Xia, Zhou Chunliang, all the Zhou family, I will let my brothers see you clearly one by one, cut off the family relationship with you, no longer be hurt by you, and start a new life for the three of us brothers and sisters in places that you can't influence.

At the dinner table, Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen were given less than half a bowl of clear soup and little water to scrape the vegetable leaves at the bottom of the pot. Mrs. Zhou scolded while dividing, and she didn't name names, but everyone knew who she was scolding, "White-eyed wolf with a dirty heart!" God, why didn't a thunderbolt come down and kill him! Eat me, drink me, and hide my eyes with me! If you have the ability, don't eat my food! Isn't it possible to hide, you eat your own go! I saved money to feed the dog, and the dog still knows how to wag its tail with me! ”

"Third brother, that's it, why don't you shave him with a big ear!" Zhou Hongying was also on the side to help. "They also hid malt cream! Let them take it out! That's it, and the face eats alone! How could there be an old man in his eyes? ”

"Sanle, Sile, what else hurry up and take out your milk. Look at your one. Zhou Chunliang repeated what he had repeatedly asked the brothers since he came back.

"Dad, there's really no more. Soybeans are a lot of gold and expensive things, how much can people give? We took out just those two. Zhou Chen said, "The milk always said that we hid what malt milk essence, we really didn't hide it, I don't believe that let the milk go to our house again, and if it doesn't work, let the milk ask the head of Shen to see if I didn't give my brother any malt milk essence." Zhou Chen knew that it was impossible for Mrs. Zhou or the rest of the Zhou family to ask Chief Shen, they were afraid when they saw the secretary of the brigade, how could they have the courage to come to Chief Shen, they were afraid that they would be too frightened to say anything if they accidentally bumped into something. Otherwise, why would Mrs. Zhou and her family just toss and rummage these days, but they can't be sure that they have malt cream.

"You say no, who believes it?" Zhou Hongying was so angry that she dropped her chopsticks, "Look at Wuya, there was only one breath left a few days ago, and it has only been a few days, and she has been like this, if she doesn't eat malt milk essence, she can live until now?" ”

The whole family set their sights on Zhou Wanwan. Zhou Wanwan walked a few steps steadily on the windowsill, showing a smile with little baby teeth, black and bright eyes, and a little face white and red, she was really a beautiful and healthy little doll.

Zhou Wanwan didn't care what the Zhou family thought and what they thought of their brothers and sisters, in order to make them feel comfortable, did they have to make themselves like refugees? So how can she be worthy of her brothers who raised her wholeheartedly. Besides, her purpose is to make them suspicious, and then do all kinds of extreme things, so that the brothers, in fact, are mainly the eldest brothers, can see them more quickly, cut off their concern for them as soon as possible, and can also suffer less damage.

"It's not what's wrong, look at those six girls, and the five girls are about to be thrown up the South Mountain!" Wang Fengying felt that she could find an opportunity, so she had to ask for the malt milk essence to taste what the tonic in the city tasted like.

"Sanle, Sile, you have pity on the poor Liuya, give her a mouthful," Li Guizhi hugged Zhou Lan, who had never eaten enough once since she was born, and cried, "Why are we also a family!" ”

Zhou Chen drank the vegetable leaves in the bowl, swept around the Zhou family who were staring at their brothers and sisters, and then looked at the eldest brother who couldn't bear it, and asked Li Guizhi: "Second aunt, when you gave Liuya kudzu root powder, Nan Nan was so hungry that she had a breath left, and she threw my milk out, have you ever given her a mouthful?" My aunt and Siya are all holding bowls and drinking kudzu powder, and Nan Nan is watching from the side, have you given her a mouthful? Zhou Chen watched the unbearable in his eldest brother's eyes fade, clenched his fists on the table, looked at Nan Nan with a little red circles in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled faintly, and then asked everyone in the Zhou family: "Besides, we don't have malt cream, who said we do?" Who saw it? Where to put it? ”

"I can't live this day!" Mrs. Zhou pushed the bowl and began to slap her thighs and howl, "A little cub wants me to be strong!" I've worked so hard to run this home, and when I get to (read liao, three sounds, to the end) I let a little cub beat me with words! Mrs. Zhou opened her throat and howled in a tone, full of anger.

"Third brother! Can you still sit there? Don't beat Sile yet! Look at him our mother! Zhou Hongying pointed at Zhou Chen, eager to eat him.

"Sile, how do you speak?" Zhou Chunliang put on his shoes and went to the ground, and rushed to Zhou Chen.

"Daddy! We really don't have malt cream, we have to hand it over, what are we going to pay! Zhou Yang pulled Zhou Chen down and protected him, and Zhou Chunliang, who was about to beat Zhou Chen, said. For more than a month, Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen's bodies have been well conditioned, and their nutrition has also kept up, fading away from dryness and thinness, and the two of them are standing there, like a small tree in spring, tall and fresh, full of vitality.

Zhou Chunliang looked at his two sons seriously for the first time since he came back, and he was a little stunned for a while, they seemed to have grown up a lot all of a sudden. In fact, it's not that they have grown up a lot, but that their bodies have improved, their spirits have also been raised, their backs are straight, their eyes are bright, and compared with the rest of the Zhou family who are gray, sick and crooked, and malnourished, although the brothers are young, they are very eye-catching, which is difficult to ignore.

"You said no, no, no?" Zhou Chunfa sucked half a circle on the edge of his wrist, slapped his mouth twice, and said, "If you don't have it, you will be beaten!" Fat beat up and everything will come out! I don't believe that I can't cure these two cubs! ”