Chapter 32: Bitterness and Relief
To say that the three sisters were crying outside the walls of the Kong family, although their voices were deliberately suppressed by them, it was impossible for Luo Zhengfen, who had been cursing in a low voice in the courtyard, not to hear it.
When she was cursing to relieve her hatred, she suddenly heard Kong Mingfu's voice outside the courtyard wall yelling at her two daughters. She didn't take it seriously at first, but when she heard the cry, she ran to the wall by the sheepfold and eavesdropped.
As a result, when she heard that her two daughters, who had worked so hard to raise, actually begged Kong Mingfu to marry far away, and said that she was wrong, Luo Zhengfen was angry.
"It's all that Kong Xiaoyu pouted. Even if I was killed for the rest of my life, now I have to spoil her two sisters, what a white-eyed wolf with a bad conscience. When Luo Zhengfen scolded angrily, he raised his hand and slammed it on the yellow mud wall.
She turned around with a look of resentment, and rushed towards the gate quickly: "When I gave birth to her, I should have strangled her to death, and I didn't have to harm my mother and others." The cries of the two daughters, who were determined to marry far away, kept jumping in her head, stirring up an indescribable feeling in her heart.
In less than a minute, when he rushed to the open threshold, Luo Zhengfen, who was about to risk being beaten and go out to scold Kong Xiaoyu, stopped instantly.
She wiped her eyes and looked at the tears on her hands, she was a little stunned. He reached out again and touched the tears under his eyes on the other side.
Luo Zhengfen stood still, a little stunned. Why did she cry before she was ready to cry?
Except for the years when she first married into the Kong family, she would secretly cry when she was strained by her mother-in-law's grandmother and mother-in-law. It wasn't until later that Tang Wanfang, the seventh brother and sister, befriended her, and told her that "crying children have milk." If you can't cry when you should cry, you have to cry. Life will be better, you look at me".
The seventh brother and sister said something to her for an afternoon, which made her finally understand this truth.
Sure enough, after she followed the school, less than a year after her second daughter Xiaoqiong was born, her grandmother separated her family. Although she didn't get much, she had a better life.
Later, when she encountered such a clean-up movement, because her mother's family was a poor peasant in the mountains and had a clean family, she was a party member, and Kong Mingfu was also a veteran, her small family did not suffer much.
For so many years, she has always remembered the kindness of her seventh brother and sister who taught her back then.
In the past few decades, even if she cried a lot, it was to make her children obedient, or when the man Kong Mingfu wanted to beat people
Thinking about the sad place, Luo Zhengfen suddenly wanted to cry sincerely.
"Woo my life, I almost lost my life with such a bitter whim, but I gave birth to a natural one who was born to beat me" While crying sadly and scolding and closing the door, she turned around, cried and rushed back to the room and cried bitterly.
Luo Zhengfen, who was crawling on the bed and scolding and crying, when she cried and recalled the sadness of her life, she didn't even think about why she cried when she ran to the door. Instead, she directly hated her eldest daughter Kong Xiaoyu even more.
The situation of Luo Zhengfen in the Kong family was unknown to several people on the wall.
Kong Ming's rich family and Yu Tianzhou's family both lived on the top of a stack of terraced rice fields, and the two families were only separated by about 100 meters.
After Kong Mingfu said the last sentence to his two daughters, he hugged Yu Mingyue, but in two or three minutes, he arrived in front of the two wooden gates of Yu Tianxiang's house, which were a little decayed.
Turning his head to look at the back and stopping crying, muttering and talking, the three daughters who came over, Kong Mingfu didn't say anything, and directly pushed open one of the doors that would not be blocked during the day.
Seeing that her grandfather was so familiar with the situation of her grandfather's house, Yu Mingyue was a little surprised. But for a moment, she was relieved.
My grandfather's house and my grandfather's house are neighbors.
"Grandpa, Xiaoyue and grandpa have come to see you." As soon as she entered the door, Yu Mingyue broke out of Kong Mingfu's arms and ran directly to the stove room.
In addition to sleeping at night, when the grandfather has nothing to do, he likes to sit in front of the stove hole in the stove room and secretly smoke when he thinks about his thoughts.
Seeing Yu Tianxiang holding a pipe to the door of the stove room, Yu Mingyue felt a little sour and helpless.
"Grandpa, didn't you promise Xiaoyue, saying that she would smoke less, why did you smoke again." When my grandfather died in my previous life, in addition to the old problem, he coughed up blood every day, which should be the most serious problem in the lungs.
"Hehe, grandpa has this hobby, this is the first cigarette today." Among them was Yu Tianxiang, who smoked the second cigarette, smiling a little weakly.
Not daring to look at his granddaughter's eyes that would make him feel sad, Yu Tianxiang was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly greeted Kong Mingfu.
"Hehe, Brother Yu is busy today?"
Kong Mingfu looked at his old friend's appearance at this time, and he had also experienced his granddaughter's hiding of cigarettes and persuasion, and he was also very emotional.
"Brother Yu, you hurt your lungs in your early years, so you really quit smoking." Kong Mingfu relaxed the serious expression on his face, grinned with thin lips and said with a smile: "Xiaoyue, this child, when she doesn't talk and walk, she loves to take Xiaoyan to steal your tobacco leaves and pipes, even those dry tobacco leaves in my house, she has also stolen them one by one." â
This is what the two of them said when they met.
Yu Tianzhou couldn't help laughing: "You're okay, I'm here, now Xiaoyan is supervising every day and not letting you smoke, it's really sneaky a day, so you can smoke one or two buckets." â
Although the two of them complained about these things that made them cry and laugh, their hearts were warm.
Yu Mingyue listened to her grandfather and grandfather, when she didn't have zĂ i, she just talked about their own smoking, a little helpless, but she couldn't cry or laugh.
In this era, they have that hobby, even if they can't quit, but it is a good thing that they can smoke less. Yu Mingyue can only think about it this way now, in order to get some comfort.
"Grandpa, where is my little sister?" Every time she came, her cousin would come the fastest.
"Your cousin, I followed your father to the field this day, saying that I was going to pull out the moon wort and sell it to save money in my private house." Yu Tianxiang, who knew the reason, was very relieved, and when he looked at Yu Mingyue, his eyes were always full of love that could not be dissolved.
Granddaughter Xiaoyue is a precocious and smart person, she knows how to make money at a young age, and she also teaches her granddaughter Xiaoyan, who is one year older than her, very well.
After opening a scrap collection station in the township, the two granddaughters relied on picking up some waste products, washing and selling old mulch film for money, and in more than a year, they each got 25 yuan and 3 jiao 6. granddaughter Xiaoyan, now she has a whole 24 yuan, and she has saved it.
When Yu Tianxiang was relieved to think about these things, the love and joy in his eyes were so thick that Yu Mingyue, who had always had doubts, sourness, guilt, and a trace of resentment in her heart, didn't dare to look more, she was busy lowering her head, hiding the complicated expression on her face.
Yu Mingyue is very sure that her grandfather loves her. But she didn't understand why her grandfather would send her away, and when she was crying and begging and unwilling to leave, promising that she would become more diligent, she would say so coldly, "Don't cry, you go to your grandfather's house, grandpa can't support you." "Such cruel words.
My grandfather didn't dislike her as a broom star, and when he brought her home, she regarded this place as her last harbor. Every day, in addition to school time, she diligently goes up the mountain to collect firewood, pulls weeds in the fields, and does everything she can do.
The eldest aunt cursed in private every day, and sometimes found an excuse to beat her for no reason, she could endure it, but three years later, her grandfather didn't want her because she would overcome the fate of her relatives, which made her panic and despair when she was only more than nine years old.
Grandpa's family, will they also abandon her in the end? She was deeply afraid of this. Even after arriving at her grandfather's house, she would dream at night that she was kicked out of the house by her grandfather or grandmother, and then woke up with tears on her face.
is also the same, so that in the middle of the night, she often hears the quarrel between her grandfather and grandmother, and hears her grandmother scolding her for being a broom star for the relatives around her
After her aunt ran away with someone, her grandmother would speak coldly to her in front of her grandfather, which made her even more scared and nightmares.
Whenever something unfortunate happened to her relatives, her grandmother never blamed her, but she still kept feeling guilty and afraid, afraid of losing this last home and family affection.
This is a pain that she can't forget for two lifetimes, in addition to the pain, there is also a trace of resentment that is forced deep in her heart and should not arise.
She is really a selfish person. Yu Mingyue summed up with self-blame.
"Big Daddy, Daddy." After Kong Xiaoyu persuaded her two younger sisters, she walked in from outside the door with a small basket of gifts and greeted her.
Seeing her daughter running towards the pigsty in a panic with her head down, Kong Xiaoyu smiled a little puzzled and asked, "Xiaoyue, if you don't give your grandfather a gift of your filial piety, where are you going?" â
"I'm going to the toilet." Yu Mingyue's face was full of tears, trying to make her voice sound more crisp, but she didn't dare to speak more.
The three adults, looking at Yu Mingyue's little back rushing away, couldn't stop laughing at the corners of their mouths.
But after Kong Mingfu smiled, his face was stunned, and he looked at Yu Mingyue's eyes, and there was a little more inquiry. This granddaughter lowered her head just now, obviously having something on her mind, but just now
After a turn of thought, Kong Mingfu understood, looked at Yu Tianxiang and said with a smile: "Hehe, Brother Yu should quit smoking." Xiaoyue, this child is sensible and thoughtful, and I was afraid that I heard us talk about smoking just now, and I was secretly sad. Kong Mingfu understood so much, and he also made up his mind to work hard to quit smoking.
Hearing that his granddaughter bought a gift, Yu Tianzhou was excited and relieved when he heard Kong Mingfu's clueless sentence, and after being stunned, he turned his head and looked at the direction of the livestock pen.
"Hehe, quit, we two old men have to quit." With sour and joy in his heart, Yu Tianxiang also made up his mind to quit smoking.
Growing up in a poor family, it was really hard for her granddaughter, and she became so precocious and sensible at a young age. Yu Tianxiang, who was smiling on his face, was very bitter in his heart.