Chapter 6: Passing the Heart
That night, Mei Lan was dragged by everyone to sing for two hours, she didn't sing much herself, Mei Ju took the microphone and became Maiba, and she became an audience and an audience on the side.
Early the next morning, Mei Lan and Mei Ju packed their things and followed everyone on a bus to Jinggangshan.
Mei Lan's home is in a village called Meijiawan at the foot of Jinggang Mountain, which is about five miles away from Qutang Town, which is only a 20-minute drive from Ciping.
Mei Lan and Mei Ju got off the bus at the fork in the highway and saw Deng Hongying pushing a bicycle and waiting on the side of the road.
"Mom, you too, what are you waiting for on such a hot day, can my second sister and I still get home?"
As soon as Mei Ju saw that Zheng Hongying was wearing a washed and yellowed old short-sleeved shirt that she had eliminated, her face was dark and swarthy, the corners of her eyes were full of fine wrinkles, and her hair was as unkempt as straw, she couldn't help but feel irritated in her heart.
To say that Zheng Hongying is just forty-one years old this year, but she looks much older than her peers in the city, not only old, but also rustic, not to mention compared with her mother in the city, let's say that compared with Anita Mui's mother, she is also old and ugly.
In fact, it is really not ugly to say that the young Zheng Hongying is also a well-known water spirit girl, which can be seen from the three daughters of the Mei family, although Mei Zhu looks more fatherly, but still absorbs some of Zheng Hongying's advantages, Mei Lan and Mei Ju needless to say, they are absolutely beautiful little beauties.
Zheng Hongying sighed, she knew that her daughter was embarrassed for her to come out.
"Mom, let's go, I'll push the cart." Merlin put her luggage in the back seat and took the handlebars.
Zheng Hongying handed over the car to Mei Lan, held the luggage in the back seat with her hand, and asked Mei Ju flatteringly.
"Ju Li, did you do well in the exam?"
"Ju Li, are you tired from the exam?"
"Ju Li, what do you want to eat, go home and your mother will make it for you."
"Juli ......"
"Mom, I'm annoyed, I said don't call me Ju Li, Ju Li."
"You girl, not called Juli, what's your name?"
"It's called Juju, hurry up, it's all sunburned." Mei Ju said as she shook off her steps and walked forward alone.
"Shut up, how can you talk to your mother, you made a fuss with your grandmother because of this name at your uncle's house, and you haven't entered the house yet, you are making trouble again, what do you want to do?" Mei Lan really couldn't listen to it anymore.
"Forget it, Lanli, what kind of tantrum do you have with your sister, Ju Ju is Ju Ju, isn't it just a name, just change it in the future." Although Zheng Hongying's tone was a little helpless, it was more about her love for her little daughter.
Mei Lan had no choice but to keep her mouth shut.
Half an hour later, the three of them finally entered the house, the Mei family's house is not bad, it is a two-story building with a yard, it was built in ninety-five years, it was the best new building in the village back then, and now the house is surrounded by three-story and four-story small buildings, and the Mei Lan family's house has long been settled.
Pushing open the hidden door, an old lady in her seventies wearing a flower dress and pants poked her head out of the kitchen, Mei Ju saw it, and hurriedly jumped over and shouted: "Mother-in-law, we are back, what do we eat at noon?" ”
"I know how to eat, go, there is watermelon in the refrigerator, I know that you will come back today, you like to eat cold, I have already chilled it." The old woman lovingly poked Mei Ju's head with her hand.
This old lady is Mei Lan's grandmother Wang Ximei, Wang Ximei gave birth to four sons and two daughters, Mei Lan's father Mei Baoping is the eldest, Wang Ximei likes this old man the most but she doesn't want to see Zheng Hongying the most, the reason is that Zheng Hongying has not been able to give birth to a son in the first few years, and the family has fined a lot of money and has to raise a bunch of useless money-losing goods, which makes her favorite youngest son work so hard.
It's also strange to say, the old lady doesn't like Mei Zhu and doesn't like Mei Lan, but she only likes Mei Ju and the youngest Mei Xin, Mei Xin doesn't need to say, it is the root of the Mei family that has been called for a long time, but the old lady likes Mei Ju has always made Mei Lan and Mei Zhu a little puzzled, and later according to Zheng Hongying, it was because she finally gave birth to Mei Xin after giving birth to Mei Ju, and the old lady thought that Mei Ju brought her younger brother.
It is precisely because of Wang Ximei's preference for Mei Ju that the old lady in the previous life would partner with Mei Ju to deceive Mei Lan, and even coaxed and begged Mei Lan to give up the opportunity to study at Beijing Medicine, so as to lead the uncontrollable tragedy in the future.
Mei Lan was thinking about the past, Wang Ximei glared at Mei Lan unhappily, and said, "Why don't you hurry up and put down the things, the dish has not been picked or washed, and you are really waiting for me to cook for you in a seventy-year-old man, and you are not afraid of losing your life?" ”
"Mom, I'll come, Lan Li has just entered the door." Zheng Hongying took the words.
"You come, let her feed the cows, and clear the pen."
Zheng Hongying glanced at Mei Lan and said with a wry smile: "Lan Li, you still cook, mother will feed the cow and clear the cattle pen." ”
"I'm going to feed the cows, I'm not home at noon."
Mei Lan originally wanted to put down her things and leave, she could still rush to meet Jin Jing, she promised to play with them for a long time, and tomorrow morning, she would go to work.
But as soon as she heard about the bullpen, she had no choice but to stay.
When Mei Lan put down her luggage and took out a shovel and a basket from the warehouse and put them into the cattle pen, Wang Ximei was already sitting in the hall with Mei Ju with a pu fan and laughing.
Wang Ximei used to live in the house of her four sons in turn, and then Mei Lan's second and third fathers went out to work, and Mei Lan's eldest father was a grandson and a granddaughter at home, and the old lady was noisy, so she lived in Mei Lan's house, and the three sons gave some pocket money.
It's just that in this way, Zheng Hongying's life is becoming more and more sad, when the old lady looks at her daughter-in-law and is not pleasing to the eye, Mei Baoping is not at home for a long time, Zheng Hongying is relatively soft, and she will only cry when she is wronged, which is also a reason why Mei Lan has to be tough.
For example, today's cattle pen, if Mei Lan doesn't help clean it up, this job will definitely be Deng Hongying's, and the old lady and Mei Ju won't even help wash the bowls.
Mei Lan entered the cattle pen, her family's cattle pen area is not small, since a few years ago after raising pigs did not make money, Mei Baoping opened up the family's pigsty and cattle pen, raised three cows, Deng Hongying has to do more things every day.
Mei Lan spent more than half an hour clearing the cattle pen and feeding some forage, and then went into the house to take a shower, and when she was about to go out with her schoolbag, Deng Hongying called out to her.
"Lan Li, why don't you eat the rice when it's cooked?"
"Mom, I made an appointment with my classmates to play with them for half a day today, and I have to go to work tomorrow."
"Then eat and go."
"If you don't eat, you won't eat, I haven't heard that it's an appointment with someone else, where is the food at home that is delicious in a restaurant? Hmph, play is play, don't play anything......"
"Mom, the child didn't go out to play, didn't you hear that he went to work?" Deng Hongying hurriedly interrupted the old lady's words.
The old lady glanced at Deng Hongying, turned her head to the side, but didn't say anything more.
But the old lady's words Mei Lan was too happy and relived her life, and she was much more sensitive to these words than in her previous life.
Listening to the meaning of the old lady's words, it is sarcastic that Mei Lan will play with others and have an accident, and young people play together and have an accident, it is nothing more than a relationship between men and women, according to the old lady, it is not a big deal for the old lady to tell her, but Deng Hongying's attitude is a little strange, it seems that she is very unhappy to mention this topic, and she dares to refute the old lady, what is even stranger is that the old lady really shut up, if it is usual, she should reprimand Deng Hongying to be considered normal.
Mei Lan got into the car with questions, and until she got out of the car, she was still thinking about this question, is there really any secret to her background?
Is Deng Hongying born with a soft temperament or is she compromised because she did something wrong when she was young?