Chapter 024: Family Affairs

Chen Qiusheng let out an "ah" and subconsciously looked at Chen Liu. At this moment, Chen Liushi still hid his figure in the twilight, and the whole person stood under the eaves and couldn't stop coughing.

"Qiusheng, has anyone ever been to the house?" Chen Qiuniang asked very strictly. From the moment she jumped out of the carriage at the door of her house and saw Chen Liu's, she smelled the unusual smell of home. In addition, Chen Liu's steps became more and more staggering, as if he was injured. She expected that something must have happened at home, someone must have come, hurt Chen Liu, or do something else.

At that time, in the presence of Ma Si, she felt that Ma Si was not from her family, and it was better to solve this kind of matter by her own family, and secondly, she felt that if Ma Si knew, she was afraid that it would cause complications and affect Ma Si. She didn't ask. Waiting for Ma Si to leave, she helped Chen Liushi into the house, estimating that Chen Liushi was about to tell her what happened at home today. But after waiting, Chen Liushi didn't say anything, as if he still wanted to hide it.

The person was injured, and the two little babies in the house, who usually didn't have much strength to cry, were crying. Chen Liushi still intends to hide it, I really don't know what kind of mentality this old lady has. She is now immobile and penniless, what can she do?

Chen Qiuniang was really unhappy about Chen Liu's actions. But she was patient and did not ask Chen Liu, but asked Chen Qiusheng. But Chen Qiusheng was hesitant, and in Chen Liu's incessant coughing, he finally replied in a low voice: "It's nothing." ”

"Really?" Chen Qiuniang asked in an extremely suspicious and oppressive tone.

Chen Qiusheng couldn't help but take a step back, still lowering his head and not daring to look at her, and replied in a low voice: "Yes." ”

"It's nothing more than a pot that can't be opened at home, what can happen. Girl, you're hungry. I asked Qiuxia to boil the sweet potato leaves in the pot. Go eat it. Chen Liushi hurriedly said, without waiting for Chen Qiuniang to say anything, he immediately urged Chen Qiusheng to hurry up and choose wild vegetables on the goose's feet.

When Chen Qiusheng heard this, he was like being amnestied, and immediately rushed into the house.

Seeing this situation, Chen Qiuniang already knew that Chen Liushi was deliberately hiding from her, and she was not in a hurry to ask, so she helped Chen Liushi into the house and lay down. Then they went to another room, where the two little ones were still crying, and their cries were hoarse and weak. Chen Qiuxia tried her best to coax, but to no avail. Chen Qiuniang leaned over and carefully inspected the two small ones, and found that they were already dying. She put her finger to their lips, and the two children immediately stopped crying, their heads twisting and their mouths wide open in search of food.

It turned out that I was hungry, and I was very hungry, so I was afraid that after eating in the morning, I wouldn't have eaten it. But it wasn't illness, which made Chen Qiuniang breathe a sigh of relief.

"Qiuxia, when will my brother eat?" She asked Chen Qiuxia that when she went out in the morning, she boiled a pot of porridge and told Qiuxia to take good care of her two younger brothers and give them hot porridge on time.

Chen Qiuxia didn't dare to look at her, she only lowered her head, and after a while, she said timidly: "Just now." ”

"Qiuxia, be honest. Lie to your own family, right? Chen Qiuniang's voice was cold, but there was a fire in her heart. This girl is so young, and she still lies to her relatives.

But, your uncle, if you lie, you lie, and you still talk so untechnically. Since she was a child, she has seen a big thing, just like her, it doesn't look like she can become a big thing at all. As the eldest sister, she has even more reason to be heartbroken.

"It shouldn't." Chen Qiuxia replied in a low voice, her body trembling a little.

"My brother is hungry like this. Say, when will you feed it? Although Chen Qiuniang's voice was cold, it was still calm. She knew that something big must have happened in the family, and someone who was not good had come.

When Chen Qiuxia heard her ask, she was so frightened that her body trembled even more, and she whispered: "In the morning, you, you walked, when you left." ”

Sure enough, I haven't eaten since morning!

When Chen Qiuniang heard this, she was immediately angry, but she also suppressed her anger and asked calmly: "I boiled rice porridge and vegetable leaves in the morning, and I also taught you how to feed them." I also asked you to carefully keep the charcoal fire and give the younger brothers hot porridge. You told me at the time, you have learned to take care of your younger brothers, don't you? ”

"Yes." Chen Qiuxia trembled even more and replied in a low voice. I don't know why, she feels that her eldest sister has changed, she has become liking, but she is afraid.

"So how do you do it? My brother is hungry like this? Chen Qiuniang's tone became stern unconsciously.

As soon as she saw the two nutritious twins on the bed, their faces were yellow and thin, and their crying voices were weak, as if they were going to go at any time, she was sad and angry.

At the same time, she is also eager to get the money immediately and turn the current situation around. Otherwise, these two children, even if they are born in autumn and Xiaxia, they will starve to death soon.

"I, I didn't" Chen Qiuxia was young after all, and when she was scolded by Chen Qiuniang like this, she was immediately frightened and couldn't express herself, and then cried sadly and aggrievedly.

"When you cry, you know how to cry. What about my brother's porridge? Hurry up and take it to the stove to heat it up. Chen Qiuniang's tone was not too good. One is to pity these two children, and the other is that she hates untrustworthy people; The third is because she has not been a weak person since she was a child, since she can remember, she has been thinking of ways to solve everything she encounters, and she has never cried. Because of this, the person who can't cry at every turn in his life is even a little girl.

"Porridge, porridge, it's gone." Chen Qiuxia replied crying.

"I made porridge in the morning? Did you steal it? Chen Qiuniang's tone became more and more stern.

"No, no." Chen Qiuxia was completely panicked, crying breathlessly, and she couldn't describe it clearly.

Chen Qiuniang didn't continue to ask her, so she called Chen Qiusheng, who was choosing vegetables in the kitchen, to come over and ask where the porridge that had been boiled in the morning went. Chen Qiusheng pursed his lips and stood stubbornly in front of him, but he refused to speak.

The two small cries in the room grew weaker and longer.

Chen Qiuniang finally became angry and asked loudly: "Don't you want to say yes?" What's going on in this house, do you really think you're already a man, and you can take care of it? Or do you think an elderly, inconvenient grandmother can handle it? Or do you think Qiu Xia and her two younger brothers can handle it? Or do you think our dad can handle it? ”

On the surface, she questioned Chen Qiusheng, saying that he was confused and unmeasured, but in fact, she questioned Chen Liu's every word. She is not a lord who is only a promise, and is there to foolishly respect the elders. She has always dealt with reason, even if the elders are wrong, she also deals with them with reason.

She really couldn't understand that with the ghost appearance of the Chen family, what happened to the Chen Liu family, what else was there to hide from her.

"I-" Chen Qiusheng only spat out one word, burying his head lower.

"What's going on at home, although you and Qiuxia are still young, can't you see it? We have eaten the last meal but not the next, and we may starve to death at any time, or be killed by others. The two younger brothers are still young, they don't understand anything, and their lives are all in our hands! Chen Qiuniang looked at Chen Qiusheng for a while, and when she talked about the two young children, she became more and more excited and angry. When she said that the lives of her two younger brothers were in the hands of adults, her nose was sour, and she couldn't help crying, sniffed, and asked sharply: "In this situation, don't we all work together as a family?" ”

Before, she crossed over, not realizing that this poor family is unbearable to look at, young siblings, lame and elderly grandmothers, except for the bad gambling father, there is no reason for these people to be unified. She always felt that with such a family situation, the whole family would work together to survive.

Who would have thought that she would be so poor that she would starve to death at any time, and she would hide it from her at this time. She is Jiang Yun, greedy for a while, her soul has worn for thousands of years, and after she struggled several times, she accepted her fate and accepted the original Chen Qiuniang's body and memory. At the same time, she also accepted the responsibility of caring for her young siblings and elderly grandmother, treating them as dear ones.

No matter how poor she is, she is not afraid, and no matter how many difficulties there are, she is not afraid. She has a way to take the whole family to a well-off.

But now, she wants to rush forward and arrange the matter, but the family does not implement it, and when something happens, they still hide it from her.

She immediately felt sad, disappointed, and angry.

She questioned, Chen Liushi was silent in the back room, Chen Qiusheng still stood in front of her without saying a word, and Qiuxia was crying alone.

When Chen Qiuniang saw that when she said this, the three ancestors and grandchildren still couldn't move, as if they refused to reveal anything. She didn't bother to pay attention to it, so she just got up and took advantage of the last light in the sky to touch the kitchen and think about getting a little flour paste to feed the two little ones.

She touched the kitchen, there were sweet potato leaves boiling in the pot, she lit a fire, added a handful of rice to it, and prepared to boil for a while, first feed the two younger brothers.

Just as she was meeting, Chen Qiusheng took the initiative to come to the kitchen and stood still by the stove. Chen Qiuniang ignored him, thinking that this assertive eldest brother must have also thought about it and made a decision, and he came to talk to her about things at this time. It's just that the two siblings were stiff before, and he didn't know how to speak for a while.

Chen Qiuniang still added fire to the stove, and didn't give him the steps, just waited. She is using this incident to see how much talent this eldest brother can show in the world.

After a while, Chen Qiusheng mustered up the courage to speak and said, "Sister, I'm sorry. ”

Chen Qiuniang was silent, still burning the fire seriously. Chen Qiusheng said: "Something did happen today. Grandma told me to tell Qiuxia that I can't sue you. I didn't think much about it for a while, so I agreed to my grandmother. When my sister said those words just now, I thought about it seriously, we are a family, and we shouldn't hide it from my sister. ”

"Hmm. I hope you really thought of it, and didn't come to trick me. Chen Qiuniang glanced at him. This child, who was only a few years old, was so thin that his face reflected the light of the fire in the stove, which made people feel more and more that his chin was as thin as a sharp knife. However, both twins, this child is obviously much more than Qiu Xiacheng, at least he is smarter, for a child of a few years old, it is a genius to be able to handle things like this.

"I never dared to tell my eldest sister. If it weren't for the eldest sister, we would have starved to death. Chen Qiusheng said in a choked voice.

Chen Qiuniang didn't want to embarrass him, so she said, "You go and call Qiuxia first." In the future, this family will depend on the three of us, and the younger brother and grandmother will need us to take care of them. ”

Chen Qiusheng answered, and after a while, he called the timid Qiuxia to the kitchen. The three siblings sat around the stove.

"In the future, I will work hard to make money outside, and my family will depend on you to take care of me. When you encounter something, you have to find a way to solve it, this is the way to go. How can you cry at every turn? Chen Qiuniang said, her eyes swept over Chen Qiuxia. Her tone was also much softer.

"After the autumn glow, there will be no future." Chen Qiuxia immediately expressed her position.

Chen Qiuniang waved her hand and said: "As a family, when encountering major events, we should work together even more, and we should not hide it." The world is so big, there are so many people, but only relatives are reliable. Today you are hiding from me, for whatever reason, and I hope it will not appear in the future. ”

Chen Qiusheng and Chen Qiuxia nodded, and then slowly talked about what happened today.