Chapter 15: Hope
Coming out of the house, Xiangqin kept looking down at the gravel road under her feet, and muttered in her heart: This is inexplicable, why did Duan Xiang send money to the family?
She decided to ask clearly, "Uncle Xiangzi, what's the matter with this money?" ”
"My father asked me to bring it," although Duan Wu didn't say anything about the reason when he stuffed the money into Duan Xiang's hand, but Duan Xiang knew it very clearly in his heart, "Didn't you and your uncle help my family get those soybeans last time, and now that the bean sprouts have been made, and the business is not bad, these three hundred yuan should be regarded as a thank you gift." ”
Xiangqin's footsteps stopped at the mouth of the alley, and suddenly a fire started, "Uncle Xiangzi, what do you and the second grandfather mean?" When I went with my grandfather to help a relative's house, you treated us as a small worker? ”
"I ...... I'm not ......" This woman is angry, why is it so terrible? Duan Xiang was so flustered by Xiangqin that he couldn't even speak clearly.
Xiangqin also knew that Duan Wu and Duan Xiang had good intentions, but they could reach out and take other people's money, one had two, and they had been relying on other people's help, and there was no future at all in those days.
So this money, parsley will never ask for it.
Duan Xiang was holding the money, and he didn't give it, and he didn't give it, he was embarrassed and anxious.
The gloom in Xiangqin's eyes gradually faded, and she also calmed her tone, which was quite reasonable, "If you are like this, then there is something wrong with my grandfather, do you think we are embarrassed to ask you for help?" ”
Duan Xiang scratched his head and smiled innocently, "That's okay, if you need help with anything in the future, you just ask." ”
The three hundred yuan, parsley didn't touch it.
The so-called people can't be short-minded, parsley is very much in need of money, but you can't always take the charity given by people.
After separating from Duan Xiang, she went back.
She just walked to the door of the small courtyard, and the small door was opened, and Duan Qiuping stood inside, asking with a smile: "Where is the money?"
Parsley glanced at her lightly, "I didn't ask for it." ”
Duan Qiuping's face changed, and she looked at Parsley with doubts, as if she didn't quite believe the words that came out of her mouth.
That's three hundred yuan, a pie in the sky, a tree can shake out money, Duan Qiuping didn't believe that her daughter didn't take a penny.
She grabbed Parsley and searched her whole body, not missing a single pocket on Parsley's clothes that could have stuffed anything.
Xiangqin couldn't cry or laugh, even if she was forced by life and forced to be helpless, did Duan Qiuping have to be so funny?
Dou's thoughts are probably the same as Duan Qiuping's. Seeing that Duan Qiuping didn't find a penny from Xiangqin, she couldn't help but blame Xiangqin, "Why didn't you ask for it?" ”
Parsley smiled bitterly in her heart, what kind of people is she living with! If this is after a while, when the family really can't open the pot, these people won't even have a bone left to swallow her up?
The road in the small courtyard was not wide, and the two of Dou and Duan Qiuping stood side by side in the middle, so that people had no room to put their feet.
Xiangqin raised her head, met the eyes of Dou and Duan Qiuping who looked at her like a monster, and asked coldly, "Why don't you ask where the money came from?"
Duan Qiuping didn't seem to care about this, and complained about parsley doubly, "Why are you so stupid, what people gave you, you just take it, why can you earn so much money for three hundred yuan at once?" ”
"That's the money that people have earned from their hard work, can I ask for it?" Xiangqin had a cigarette in her heart, a fire in her eyes, and on the spur of the moment, she couldn't help but say two more angry words, "Give it to me, I want it, then what will I become?" What's the difference between asking for food on the street? ”
Duan Qiuping jumped like thunder, grabbed Xiangqin in two steps, and scolded her head with her hand: "You have a high spirit, you don't want to give it to you, you can earn it back for me!"
Parsley waved her hand away and snarled at her, "I want to go out to work, and someone needs it!" I'm not eighteen yet, even if people want it, dare to accept it? ”
The momentum of the parsley was terrifying, and Duan Qiuping was shocked at once.
Duan Qiuping was dumbfounded, pretending to be angry, but she couldn't vent it.
As soon as Duan Qiuping's black face finished singing, Dou's white face jumped out.
Dou smiled softly, and said to Xiangqin like a child: "Xiangqin, you also know the situation in our family, you go to your second grandfather to ask for the money back, and we will borrow it from them."
How nice is that, but why does it sound so harsh?
Xiangqin couldn't believe it, she looked at Duan Qiuping with an angry face, and then at the Dou clan with kind eyes, the two people in front of her were as fierce and terrifying as hungry wolves and hungry tigers.
Parsley's face was blue and white for a while, and she didn't understand in her heart, how could she go anywhere was the Longtan Tiger's Den!
At this moment, Duan Wen walked in, and couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that his wife was clubbing at the door, just like a world war.
"What is this for?" Duan Wen was confused.
Duan Qiuping went up and held Duan Wen's arm affectionately as if she saw a savior, "Dad, tell me if this girl is stupid or not, Xiangzi came to give us three hundred yuan just now, and she didn't even ask for a dime!" ”
"That's right." Dou Shi echoed helplessly.
Duan Wen pulled his arm out of Duan Qiuping's hand, took the lead and walked towards the hut, and when he passed by Xiangqin's side, he said, "Xiangqin, tell me what's going on."
Xiangqin followed behind Duan Wen, "Didn't we help the second grandfather's family make bean sprouts last time, just now Uncle Xiangzi sent three hundred yuan, saying thank you, I didn't ask for it." ”
Duan Wen nodded in approval, and when he sat down, he moved a stool and put it beside him, "Parsley, sit down and eat." ”
Parsley is full of gas, she is already full, how can she still be in the mood to eat.
Duan Qiuping couldn't understand people's eyes, so she had to hold on to the matter of three hundred yuan, "What kind of food are you eating, if you don't ask for the three hundred yuan back, you won't even have food at home!" ”
If it weren't for the scruples of Duan Wen, Duan Qiuping would have been eager to pull the parsley and go to Duan Wu's house with her.
Duan Wen's rare good mood was ruined by Duan Qiuping, he knocked the chopsticks he had just held in his hand on the edge of the bowl again, and looked at her coldly, "If the money is yours, you go and get it back." If you don't think the family can feed you, you go out and do odd jobs, anyway, you're good. Seeing Duan Qiuping's reluctant expression, he snorted, picked up his chopsticks again, and taunted her fiercely, "Nibbling on my father and mother, it's no wonder you're embarrassed to step out of this door." ”
"Wait for parsley to be a little bigger......"
Before Duan Qiuping's words were finished, Duan Wen interrupted mercilessly, "Xiangqin is only fifteen, and there are still three years left before she becomes an adult." Can you count on yourself other than counting on others! ”
Duan Qiuping was resigned, sat on the edge of the bed, and didn't say a word.
Dou was afraid of being angry, so she sat aside and kept silent, holding a pair of chopsticks of fried bean sprouts, and the taste of chewing in her mouth was the same as the bitterness in her heart.