Chapter 20: Affection
Early the next morning, the nurse had just pricked the hanging needle for Liu Qiaozhen, and Mei Zhu and Mei Ju came in with a thermos bucket.
Mei Lan glanced at the two of them, Mei Ju lowered her head, not daring to look at people, but Mei Zhu's face was smiling.
Presumably I heard Deng Hongying say after I went back last night that Mei Lan's tuition fee doesn't have to worry about her uncle and uncle, and Mei Ju's tuition fee has naturally been settled, and it won't affect her anything.
"Grandma, we brought you porridge, are you better?" Meizhu said.
"Grandma is much better, is it hot today? How did you two get here? Liu Qiaozhen was quite happy to see these two granddaughters.
"Xiao Xin is also coming, but the bicycle can only take one person, and he said he will come to see you tomorrow."
After Mei Zhu finished speaking, he put down the thermos bucket, picked up the bowl on the cabinet and was about to pour the porridge, Mei Lan snatched the bowl, took the boiling water and scalded the bowl and spoon, and then began to pour the porridge.
"Ju Li, come to grandma." Liu Qiaozhen beckoned to Mei Ju.
Mei Ju lowered her head and moved over, sat on the edge of the bed, Liu Qiaozhen patted her hand with her other hand, and comforted: "Child, don't worry, grandma won't let you go without books, grandma will discuss it with your two uncles, yesterday Lan Lan also said, if you are willing to repeat your studies, in short, grandma will not let you stay at home and farm." ”
"I see, my mom told me, thank you, grandma." There was no joy in Mei Ju's voice.
"Okay, little sister, if you want me to say, you still have to repeat your studies for a year, and if you can't pass the second book, you can take a better three-book test, and you can go to a bigger city to have a long experience." Umetake persuasion.
"I also think this is a good idea, Mei Ju is already young, and she studies early, so there is no problem at all to repeat a year." Deng Jianwen helped Deng Wenxiang in.
Mei Ju didn't squeak when she heard this.
"Anyway, there are still twenty days to go, so you can tell me if you think about it." Deng Jianwen added.
Mei Lan saw that there were so many people crowded in such a small room, so that the daughter of the old woman next to her had no place to stand, so she hurriedly found an excuse to come out, stood in the aisle and looked out, and Mei Zhu followed out.
"Lan Lan, I saw Xu Yan here just now, he asked me who was sick, didn't you sue him?"
"Nope."
Mei Zhu stared at Mei Lan for a while, "You two quarreled?" ”
"I didn't quarrel, I just broke up."
"Breakup, breakup?" Meizhu shouted.
This voice also shouted Mei Ju out.
"Lan Lan, did you really break up with Xu Yan?" Mei Ju asked.
As soon as Mei Lan heard this, she looked at the small flame of gossip in Mei Ju's eyes, and asked with a smile: "Don't you bother you to repeat or go to Fuzhou?" ”
"Lan Lan, you just sue me, right? Who offered to divide it? Why is it divided? Mei Ju stepped forward and pushed Mei Lan's arm to be coquettish.
Mei Lan couldn't stand her intimacy, although she was a sister, but she hurt people so much behind her back, she couldn't do it without a trace in her heart, so she pulled her arm out of Mei Ju's hand.
"No comment."
"Grandma, does she know?" This time, I asked for Meizhu.
"I didn't tell her, my grandmother thought we were separated."
Mei Lan and Xu Yan's matter, first Mei Ju and Mei Lan knew, and then slowly the members of the Mei family knew that none of the elders of the Mei family and the Deng family agreed, and the strongest reaction was Mei Lan's grandmother, who shed tears in front of Mei Lan, Mei Lan was embarrassed by this, and finally had to hide from the family to continue to communicate, anyway, the two rarely have time to be together, and most of them usually rely on ancient letters to communicate.
But Mei Lan has always remembered what her grandmother said, don't be confused and do wrong things, now that I think about it, fortunately I didn't do anything wrong in a foolish way, and fortunately Xu Yan said that I would wait for Mei Lan to turn eighteen years old, it seems that there is a providence in the dark, and her Mei Lan's true destiny should not be Xu Yan.
It's just that Xu Yan is the person Mei Lan has been looking up to since he was eight years old after all, and it is really unlikely that Mei Lan will forget him all at once.
"Lan Lan, did you know that he was going to break up with you, so didn't you report to the Northern Doctor?"
I have to say that Mei Ju is still very careful sometimes, and during that time, she said more than once that Mei Lan seemed to be a different person.
"I don't know, I just don't want to study medicine anymore, it takes too long to study medicine, and our family doesn't have this condition to study for me all the time, I want to study finance and economics, so that I can find a good job in the future and reduce the burden on my family."
When Mei Zhu and Mei Ju heard this, they stopped squeaking.
The Mei family wants to get rid of poverty, there is still a long way to go, even if they finish college, it is not easy to find a job to support themselves after graduation, and they still want to fund their families?
Especially girls, with so many years of limited youth, Meizhu doesn't want to be too wronged by herself, she can't even afford a beautiful dress, and she is so aggrieved that she can say how aggrieved she is.
"Mei Ju and I are unlikely, Lan Lan, the responsibility of changing the situation of our family will be handed over to you, eldest sister believes you." Mei Zhu smiled and patted Mei Lan on the shoulder.
Merlin didn't continue.
"By the way, Mei Lan, I heard my mother come back yesterday and say, you almost earned the money to study, is it true? How much money do you have now? Umetake leaned over.
Mei Lan pushed her away, looked at the new pure white Kappa T-shirt and five-point jeans that Mei Zhu was wearing, and then looked at herself, the stall for ten yuan a piece was still drawn from Anita Mui.
"Don't beat my mind again, it's good that I can protect myself, you look at what you're wearing and then look at what I'm wearing, be content."
"Cut, it's not okay to ask?" Meizhu rolled her eyes.
"You ask, I don't answer."
"Lan Lan, Ju Li always said that you have changed a lot, and now you really think that you are harder than before? There's less sisterhood. ”
When Mei Lan heard this, she also rolled her eyes and went into the house.
Selfish people always think about how others should treat them, but they never think about how they treat others.
If you want to talk about sisterhood, which of these two has achieved sisterhood?
Because Deng Jianwen and Deng Jianwu both agreed to pay part of Mei Ju's tuition, and Mei Lan kept saying that she could earn tuition, Liu Qiaozhen's heart disease was gone, and she stayed in the hospital for three days, saying that she would be discharged from the hospital.
Deng Jianwen went to do the discharge operation, and the account was naturally settled by him, Mei Lan helped Liu Qiaozhen to stand at the gate of the hospital and took a tricycle, there are no taxis in the countryside, and most of them are this kind of crutche.
The car went directly into the front village, and just after crossing the stone bridge, Mei Lan saw Deng Wenxiang looking under the camphor tree, Mei Lan helped Liu Qiaozhen get out of the car and looked at the house in front of her.
The old-fashioned blue brick house, at first glance, is quite old, there is no courtyard wall, a hall in the middle, there are four rooms on each side, one is a kitchen, such a house is really not very comfortable to live in, there is not even a toilet, let alone any running water, washing machine.
After not coming for half a year, Mei Lan felt that the house was getting more and more dilapidated, but it was a pity that the two big camphor trees at the door and the small river in front of the door.
"Grandpa, the family next to you has also moved out to build a new house?" Merlin asked.
Now the villagers have a little money in their hands, and they are willing to build the kind of two- or three-story small buildings with yards, just like the house where the Meilan family lives now, but the former village is full of old houses, and no one is willing to give up the land, so most of the villagers have built their houses at the foot of the mountain behind the village, especially the young people, who have basically moved away.
When Mei Lan came half a year ago, she seemed to remember that there was an old couple living next door to the Deng family, and she would see the big lock on the door, so she asked casually.
"The man is gone, and the woman has moved to her son's house." After Deng Jianwen said this, he entered the house with his hands behind his back.
There is a silver-haired old lady sitting in the house, this is Mei Lan's grandmother Zhou Guizhi, that is, Deng Wenxiang's mother, the old lady is said to be a young widow pulling a pair of children, so her personality is not easy to get along with, and she is relatively strong.
Mei Lan analyzed that Liu Qiaozhen may have been wronged by the old lady over the years, otherwise she would not have had any heart disease.
Of course, this is just Merlan's speculation, a little childish.
"Grandma." Mei Lan greeted first.
Although, this week Guizhi and Wang Ximei are like each other, and they don't have a good impression of Mei Lan, but Mei Lan really can't care about her for the sake of her grandparents and grandmother, and besides, Mei Lan can still tell that Zhou Guizhi is still different from Wang Ximei, Zhou Guizhi just doesn't like herself, but she doesn't dislike herself like Wang Ximei.
"Well, your grandmother just came out of the hospital, and your grandfather is also old, you go pick some vegetables and make dinner." Before Zhou Guizhi could sit down, he ordered.
Mei Lan didn't care, and nodded busily in agreement.
Because she knew that her grandfather had never done housework, and his cooking level was not as good as Mei Lan's, and the old lady must have eaten enough.
Mei Lan opened the refrigerator and saw that there were only a few eggs left in the refrigerator, and after thinking about it, she took a basket and went to the back village, where there was a supermarket, and the supermarket also sold a little meat and fish, which was convenient for the villagers.
Mei Lan walked to the back village with her memory, under normal circumstances, she rarely came to the back village, Mei Lan looked at the small buildings with a unique style, and couldn't help but sigh that the small buildings are getting better and better, and some of the exterior walls are also inlaid with tiles, and from the outside it looks similar to the villas in the city, but the inside is very different, and the excrement of chickens, ducks, dogs and other things in the yard is everywhere.
Mei Lan watched and wondered when she would be able to build a house like this for her grandmother, and she was so distracted by the thought that she almost crashed into a car that had fallen out of the yard.
"You're blind, don't you see this reversing?" The other party must have been taken aback, and poked his head out of the driver's window and scolded.
Mei Lan glanced at the man, about forty years old, and had no impression, but he drove a white CR-V with a sunroof, which was not bad in this rural area, and then looked up at this courtyard, which was much more spacious than others, no wonder he was so arrogant.
"Okay, you can't remember how many times you say it, with your nature, you have to suffer a lot to remember your character." A man in the passenger seat said.
But the man never looked back, and Mei Lan couldn't see what he looked like.
Hearing the movement, an old lady in her sixties came out of the yard, the old lady saw that the maintenance was not bad, and the clothes on her body were not the stall goods worn by ordinary rural old ladies, the old lady looked at Mei Lan a few times, but asked with a smile: "Who is the little girl, she looks very familiar." ”
"Deng Wenxiang's family in the former village."
As soon as Mei Lan's words fell, the old lady's face changed slightly, and she said lightly: "It turned out to be his family." ”
Merlin looked at the old lady and didn't notice that the person sitting in the passenger seat turned his head and glanced at her.
The car sped away.
Thank you for the tip from the goats of the water bottle.
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