After the winter solstice, the weather is getting colder.

On a clear day, the sky is still very blue, but the days are not as warm as they used to be.

The stove outside the door was moved into the house, and the chimney was erected. When the family is fine, they sit in front of the stove and make a fire.

Because Xiangqin and Duan Wen didn't ask for the three hundred yuan Xie Jin last time, Duan Wu was very unhappy in his heart.

He also heard gossip outside, saying that Parsley had swallowed the three hundred dollars by herself and hid it; also said that Parsley didn't take the 300 yuan, and the family regretted dying; It is also said that Parsley was beaten violently because of this......

There is no need to ask, these various statements must have slipped out of the mouth of Feng Lanhua, the third daughter-in-law of the Duan family.

Duan Wu came to visit this day, and to be honest, he rarely came to this small courtyard. Especially after Duan Qiuping came back with parsley, he almost never set foot here.

When Duan Wu came home, Duan Qiuping had a rare smile on his face, and after moving a stool for him, he brought him a bowl of tea.

"Uncle, are you here for the three hundred yuan?" Before anyone else could speak, she brought the conversation back to the events of the previous day.

Duan Wu smiled, muttering in his heart, how could such a sensible little parsley have such an old and treacherous mother. I'm afraid that in another two years, Duan Qiuping's virtue will be comparable to Feng Lanhua.

After Duan Qiuping spoke, Duan Wen kept a straight face. Dou was very honest, sitting on the edge of the bed without saying a word.

Xiangqin moved a stool for him, "Grandpa, you can sit too." ”

Duan Wu looked around and secretly sighed that his brother was desolate in his old age, living in such a place with four walls. Look at the skin on the four walls, it seems that it has not been painted for more than ten years, and it is so mottled and withered that I don't know when a layer of ash will fall off.

After being sentimental, Duan Wu's gaze fell on the only bed in the room, "Xiangqin, you mothers are crowded on this bed?" ”

Parsley smiled and nodded.

Duan Wu sighed and suddenly felt pity. He looked at the kettle on the stove, the water in which it was boiling and making a sizzling sound.

He suddenly remembered Feng Lanhua in the courtyard next door, although Feng Lanhua was full of running trains, she also said some things very reasonably. In this family, if it weren't for Duan Qiuping and Xiangqin dragging them down, Duan Wen and the Dou family would not have lived in such a difficult way.

But the encounter between Duan Qiuping and Xiangqin is also worthy of sympathy, and Duan Wen can't be allowed to drive them out of this small courtyard.

If this family wants to live well, the key depends on their own ability, Duan Wu also thinks that if he can help them, he will help them as much as possible.

Duan Wu had an idea and decision in his heart, and he spoke neatly, "Their mothers sleep in the same bed, and it's strange and uncomfortable to turn over at night, so it's better to let Xiangqin live with me." ”

Duan Wu's family has few people and a large place, so it is definitely not a problem to make room for Xiangqin to sleep.

Xiangqin was flattered, and hurriedly waved her hand to refuse, "Second grandpa, don't worry, don't look at this small room, in fact, the bed is quite big, and it can sleep four people!" ”

Duan Wen knew that his brother was kind, but the affairs in this courtyard could not always be solved by others.

He echoed Xiangqin, wanting to dispel the thoughts in Duan Wu's heart, "It's not like I don't have a place here, there are empty houses in the South Courtyard, and I also mentioned it to Xiangqin, but she doesn't want to live there." ”

Here, Xiangqin is always a person with a foreign surname, and the people in the family have so many dislikes for her, won't it cause more trouble if she moves out!

"Parsley and Qiuping are back, the wheat in this field has just sprouted, and the four of them eat rice in one pot, where do you get so much food?" If Duan Wu saw that Parsley was sensible and capable, he would not be so stubborn.

At this time, Duan Qiuping couldn't help but interject, "Noodles and rice, people send them." ”

Duan Wu became annoyed, blushed with his neck, and roared at Duan Wen, "Oh, you want people to send you rice and noodles, and I will send you money, why don't you?" ”

Isn't this deliberately treating him as an outsider?

Duan Wen glanced at the half bag of rice noodles on the side of the board faintly, and then turned his face to the door of the house, and said loudly: "If I knew who sent it, I would have returned it to them a long time ago!" He groaned and lowered his tone, "They were all sent at night, and I didn't know if I fell asleep in the South Courtyard, so I knew that it was sent twice." Once last month, once this month. ”

"Then the four of you are just sitting here eating and waiting for death? Qiu Ping has hands and feet, is it better to let her go out to work or something, than to sit and eat and wait for death? ”

As soon as Duan Wu finished speaking, he heard Duan Wen snort coldly.

Duan Wen glanced at Duan Qiuping, who was nervous beside the bed, and said with a smile: "Counting on her? She's counting on me and your sister-in-law to feed her! ”

Duan Qiuping lowered her head, playing with her fingers for a while, and picking at her fingernails for a while, but she didn't hear what the two old men said.

It's another person who eats enough and doesn't care about the life and death of the whole family!

Duan Wu shook his head helplessly, "It's okay if Xiangqin can help the family do some work, Qiu Ping, look at your father's and your mother's hair, and a few of them are black." I have a friend who runs a restaurant at home, and if you go there as a waiter, you can get one or two thousand yuan a month, and if you want to go, I will introduce you to it. ”

"One or two thousand!" Dou Shi heard that the salary was quite considerable, so he helped to move Duan Qiuping together, "Qiuping, or you can try it." ”

"I'm not going!" Duan Qiuping was categorical, and her face was longer than anyone else's. "It's not shameful enough!"

Duan Wen scurried up violently, and was about to rush towards Duan Qiuping with the tongs, but fortunately, Parsley was quick and stopped in time.

Raising a child is not filial, and now his daughter is like this, Duan Wen doesn't know what evil he has done in his last life!

I don't want to do it all day long, I don't want to do it, and I put on a depressed face to show others all day long, and everyone owes her?

Duan Wen didn't bother in anger, blew his beard and glared, pointed at Duan Qiuping who was cowering with tongs, and scolded, "You still know that it's a shame, let your father and mother serve you at home every day, and you will have a face!" I think Li Laosan knows that you are a lazy donkey, so he whips you every day! Do you want to learn from Li Laosan, and whip you with a whip, so you can move! ”

was picked up by the fire tongs, Duan Qiuping immediately screamed, crying and threw herself into Dou's arms.

Dou's heart was on fire, and Qiu Ping was angry, so he ruthlessly pushed her away from his side. "What a good treatment in the hotel, you still don't want to go, you just don't bother to die at home, sit and wait for someone to pay you a salary!"

Duan Wen slammed the tongs to the ground, stared at Duan Qiuping who was sobbing in the corner of the bed with scarlet eyes, and gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "As soon as I look at her now, I want to find something to smoke her!"

"Alright, alright—" Duan Wu dragged him out.

The house is now smoky, and Xiangqin refuses to stay in this house for long, so she follows Duan Wen and Duan Wu out.

When Duan Wu saw her coming up, he couldn't help asking, "Xiangqin, why don't you go back and persuade your mother?"

"What's the use of persuading her? She's that virtuous. "Before being reborn, Xiangqin had a pretty good impression of Duan Qiuping. During the days when they were dependent on each other and licking each other's wounds, it was probably because the people of the Li family were too strong and had been oppressing Duan Qiuping, so that Duan Qiuping's cowardly and lazy nature had no chance to be exposed at all.

After being reborn, Parsley finally met the real Duan Qiuping.