Chapter 4: Each has its own heartache
Yu Mingyue was amused when she saw that Kong Xinggang was greedy again. Her little pink cherry mouth grinned at the sides of her pink face.
Kong Xinggang's current appearance is something that Yu Mingyue did not remember before.
Kong Xinggang, who is ten years older than her, has always been a god-like existence in her eyes.
Whether it is catching fish or picking birds, Yu Mingyue feels that her brother-in-law is the most powerful person in the world. As long as her powerful brother-in-law makes a move, every time she can eat more or less, fragrant and satisfying meat - meat.
When Yu Mingyue thought of this, she couldn't help but feel sour in her heart.
Her brother-in-law is still a child now, where is there a child who is not hungry for meat these days. But back then, when she was still a child, she only knew that she had eaten meat, and never paid attention to how her uncle, who was also a child, saved her an extra bite of a sparrow, a loach, or a small fish to her mouth.
With this more and more thought, the corners of Yu Mingyue's mouth, which had been curled up after grinning, slowly deflated.
The uncle and nephew had their own hearts and minds, and they didn't say anything all the way.
Along the winding red dirt road, after three or four minutes, I arrived in front of Yu Tianxiang's house, which was not far from Kong's house.
Yu Mingyue took a breath in front of the door and straightened her mind. Directly pushed open one of the large wooden doors that was a little decayed, and walked into the potholed red mud courtyard with his calf open.
"Grandpa, is my little sister Yan at home? I came to her to catch fish. Yu Mingyue walked towards the main room, and shouted the purpose of coming today.
As soon as she finished shouting, Yu Tianxiang's affirmative promise came from the stove room, and there was also a rare screaming sound of pigs in the pigsty in the wing room.
Yu Mingyue walked towards the stove room, and once again looked sadly at the courtyard of the house.
Yu Tianxiang's family can be regarded as a difficult household in the village.
A main room, a side room, plus a small stove room next to the main landlord, and a pig, are the most valuable belongings in the house.
Today's best three-room earthen thatched main house with small ears was built more than ten years ago.
And the two large earthen thatched wings are even more dilapidated. A pigsty and thatched house were repaired, and pigs with long heads and mouths, less than 100 catties, and love to howl every day were raised in the pen; At the other end, there was a place for the cattle pen, but because the commune could not get the cattle when the family was divided, a small half of the house of hay and a pile of firewood were piled up like the upper floor of the wing.
Before Yu Mingyue walked to the stove room, six-year-old Yu Mingyan ran out of the main house from north to south, with a look of surprise: "Are you going to catch fish today?" ”
Yu Mingyue nodded with a smile, turned her head and pointed to Kong Xinggang, who had also followed her with a small bucket, and then looked back at her six-year-old cousin proudly.
"Xiaoyue, cousin, you wait for me. I'm going to tell my mom that she's breastfeeding my little sister. After Yu Mingyan finished speaking, she turned around excitedly and ran back.
When Kong Xinggang walked next to his niece, he thought of Na Yufen, the daughter-in-law of Yu Zhizong's family, who had always been unreasonable and couldn't tell the difference, and his thick black eyebrows wrinkled.
That Yu Zhizong was also unlucky.
I heard that when it was a big collective earlier, everyone was able to play slippery and earn work, but Yu Zhizong was stupid.
Everyone went up the mountain to cut wood to build a community house, but Yu Zhizong didn't choose, so he carried a big log casually, and as a result, he was tired and had a problem, and he didn't say that he had a daughter-in-law Na Yufen until he was 36 years old.
This Na Yufen's mother's family is in the mountains of the high mountains, and she is 16 years younger than Yu Zhizong. Everyone thought that Yu Zhizong was transferred, but within two years, everyone in the village and outside the village knew that his daughter-in-law was a person who couldn't work, but still loved to make trouble.
Before Kong Xinggang finished slandering, there was a woman's voice scolding the child from the other end of the west room of the main house.
"You dead girl, in addition to fishing and touching shrimp all day, will you do something serious? Do you think you'll have something to eat if you go along? Na Yufen scolded the child louder and louder in the house, and then the baby's cry came directly from the house.
When Yu Mingyue heard this scolding, while sympathizing with her cousin Yu Mingyan, she secretly rolled her eyes in her heart.
I always knew that this eldest aunt was a bad one, but I still remembered the goodness of these two cousins and the uncle, so I thought that when the little cousin was breastfeeding, I often asked my cousin to catch some fish and come back.
On the one hand, I thought that after cooking some soup for this aunt to drink, I would give the child more milk, so as to save the second cousin from growing less than 150 in the future. On the other hand, I also want my cousin to supplement nutrition, so that I won't be ugly with short legs and thick waist in the future, and I can't find a better person.
Although this cousin Yu Mingyan is not well married, although the man is shorter, it is good, so there is no need to say anything.
But because of her height, her little cousin Yu Mingju is not good, and many people are afraid that she will not be able to do heavy work and will not be able to look down on her. obviously gave birth to a good face, but he couldn't find a good family, and finally married a man who was ugly and loved to beat women.
When Yu Mingyue's heart was sour, Yu Tianxiang came out of the small stove room next to the landlord.
Although Yu Tianxiang, who is now 61 years old, has been tossed out of his body because of the old things in the early years, he can't do heavy work, but Yu Tianxiang, who has read books for more than ten years, is in this house.
"Na Yufen, why are you scolding the child again! What can a six-year-old doll do? Let her go with Satsuki. No matter which time I went, I couldn't cook you a bowl of fish soup, didn't Xiaoju stop crying in the middle of the night? Yu Tianxiang stood in the courtyard with his sword eyebrows and yelled loudly, and there was no movement in the room except for the baby's unstoppable crying.
Yu Tianxiang, who was thin and thin, stood in the courtyard, his sword eyebrows stood slightly, making a big word "king" faintly appear on his forehead, but after seeing his granddaughter Xiaoyan come out with a bitter face, he felt a dull pain in his heart when he slowed down his expression.
His gray sword eyebrows furrowed, and between his somewhat flat forehead and eyebrows, the word "Chuan" instantly appeared, and under the wrinkled thin Chinese character face, a long white beard trembled, but he didn't say anything more.
He looked at the open door of the hall and paused for a moment, then turned his head to look at his own youngest son's well-behaved daughter, Satsuki, whose wrinkled face showed a very relieved smile.
Greeted Kong Xinggang twice, and told him to take care of the two children and pay attention not to go to deep water or anything, so he teased Yu Mingyue and talked. There were bursts of laughter from old people and children in the courtyard.
At this time, Na Yufen, who was coaxing the child in the west room of the main house, angrily went to close the door of the hall, returned to the bed and began to curse with a stomach full of grievances:
Except for Xiaoyue's dead girl and Xiaoyan's dead girl at home, who doesn't know that Yu Zhiqing is the son of this eccentric father-in-law in the family. Every time Xiaoyue's dead girl comes, the eccentric father-in-law laughs as loudly as he does now, and if there is something good that he is usually reluctant to eat, he must take it out.
The dead girl Xiaoyan in the family is also very simple, and she doesn't know how to be coaxed by the dead Xiaoyue since she was a child, and she is like a dog every day, and she doesn't know how to go west when she is pointed to the east by someone younger than her.
I was so smart, but the dead girl who crawled out of her belly didn't follow her good, and followed her stupid father
Na Yufen, who stopped the children and howled here, hadn't finished cursing yet, but Yu Mingyue and the three of them had already burned red needles and bent them in the stove room with the help of Yu Tianxiang, and after putting on a long piece of twine, the three children went out laughing.
Yu Tianxiang listened to the laughter of his two granddaughters from outside the low earthen wall, and curled the corners of his mouth.
But when he turned around and saw the closed door of the main room, he shook his head and sighed, and then went back to the stove room to continue cooking pig food and rice.
At this time, Yu Tianxiang, who was working hard, was miserable and sad in his heart.
Family planning is now being practiced, and the government has been promoting the one-child policy from time to time. His generation gave birth to two sons, but the eldest Yu Zhiqing was raised by his childless cousin Yu Tianzhou at a young age.
Now there is the eldest son left in the family, and when he is old, he married a daughter-in-law who doesn't understand four or six, not to mention, he gave birth to a girl in his first child. Although the family was having a hard time, they also gave birth to a second child according to the allowable indicators. I was expecting the second child to be a male baby, but now it is a female baby, but this policy cannot have a third child.
Could it be that my Yu family's branch is really going to be broken here?
Yu Tianxiang was thinking about his thoughts, and his hands were constantly busy.
At this time, he only hoped that his youngest son's daughter-in-law Kong Xiaoyu could fight for breath and give birth to a son, and he could be comforted to some extent in his heart, and he could barely be worthy of his ancestors.
Here in the house, a lost old man can't finish suffering, and a woman who can't tell the difference between good and bad can't keep cursing.
But on the other side, Yu Mingyue and the three of them were already on the edge of the small river a hundred meters away, and began to catch loaches and fish.
On the edge of the river, where the weeds are green, the wild flowers are fragrant, and the sound of the water is buzzing, there are constant laughter and exclamations.
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