In the evening of that day, Zhou Xiaomei drove Xiaopeng home in a hurry, and the two played with the car for a while and had dinner. After the meal, Zhou Xiaomei coaxed Xiaopeng to sleep. Xiaopeng patronized and played at Zhang Fengxian's house and didn't take a nap. After dinner, it didn't take much effort to fall asleep in my mother's arms. Zhou Xiaomei carried her son to the bedroom and put him on the bed, and when she took off his coat, she accidentally found that her son had a white glass ball tied to a red thread on his wrist, the light in the bedroom was darker than the living room, and the white glass ball was full of faint light, Zhou Xiaomei felt strange, gently untied the red line, took the glass ball to the table lamp and watched it carefully, and also found out the magnifying glass to be fine and auspicious, after some research, her face suddenly turned yellow, her heart beat faster, and sweat rolled down her face. She clutched the sulfur ball tightly in both hands, pressed it to her heart, and leaned on the bed, motionless. After the excitement. She rolled over and got up, and quickly dialed the landline phone of Li Erjia's house. Zhang Fengxian was cleaning up the toys that Xiaopeng had played with during the day, and was about to put those cloth toys into the washing machine and wash them twice, and then dry them and hang them on the iron wire in the yard. She was afraid that the toys would be dirty, and there would be a lot of bacteria on them, which would affect the child's health. What a kind-hearted person she is.

Zhou Xiaomei asked hurriedly: "Eldest sister, did you tie the glass ball on Xiaopeng's hand bowl?" ”

"What's wrong? Did you break your wrist? It's all my fault, that day he was mischievous and wanted to play with the light bulb, I was afraid that he would break his hands and face, so I found a Western glass ball that my father gave me a few days ago and gave it to him to play with. Afraid that he would swallow it and cause a famine, he found a red thread for him to tie to his hand bowl. I lost it a few days ago, but I swept the floor yesterday morning, and found it again in the wall, and tied a wire to his wrist again, maybe tied tightly. You are young and have good eyes, give him a loose leash, and let him play for three or five days. Interest is over. Maybe he doesn't want to play yet. Zhang Fengxian spoke, and while rummaging through the small drawer of the low table, trying to find a stronger line, just wait for Xiaopeng to come tomorrow, give him a firmer leash, let him play for a few more days, save the thread and lose the glass ball again. Although this toy is small, it is also the only gift that Daddy gave him.

Zhou Xiaomei asked again and again on the phone: "Sister, is the glass bead a toy you gave to Xiaopeng?" ”

Zhang Fengxian sighed: "Even if it is." Dapeng bought a house, it cost you a million, and I don't want to go. This glass ball is a little bit of my care to Xiaopeng. ”

Zhou Xiaomei asked: "Where did this Western glass bead come from?" ”

"It's a long story. A few decades ago, I was about five or six years old. My father and several of his younger brothers went to the South Seas by boat to find his master. As a result, a great storm was lost at sea, and the others were killed at sea along with the ship's owner. My father was so desperate that he grabbed a rope and tied it to his waist in the dark to escape his life. It turned out that the other end of the rope was tied to a small half-mast. He rode the log like a donkey, drifting along the sea for three days and three nights. Just when he was desperate. A fishing boat found him and saved his life. From then on, he followed the fisherman back to a small island and worked hard to make a living. The good times did not last long, but disaster fell from the sky, and the pirate leader on a nearby island fell in love with the fisherman's daughter. The blue sky and the day come to rob. The old fisherman was killed in the scuffle. The fisherwoman stabbed a pirate with a fish-killing knife. The pirate leader swung his machete to kill the fisherman, and when my father came back from his outing, he happened to come forward, and he stepped forward and hit the pirate leader with a leg on the back of the neck. Kick him in the head and knock him to the ground. When the other pirates saw that their leader was dead, they were frightened to see my father so brave. And he fell on his knees and begged for mercy. In order to save their lives, they handed over many jewels that had been looted at sea. Before the fisherman's mother-in-law died, my father made her marry her daughter. For decades, everything else was sold to supplement the household. Only this Western glass bead is the largest, my father is reluctant to make a move, keep it for me, fantasizing about one day returning to the Central Plains, handing it over to me, and sure he thinks about my mother's wish day and night. He finally returned to his hometown last year, after decades of absence, and when he saw me, he burst into tears, and a few months ago, my father and daughter went to my mother's grave. Guarding my mother's face and handing over this bead to me is considered compensation for my lack of father's love in the past few decades. ”

After listening to Zhang Fengxian's narration, Zhou Xiaomei roughly figured out the origin of this pearl. She had a faint feeling that this bead was not ordinary. She estimated it to be a diamond of great value. She couldn't guess how much it was worth. She told Zhang Fengxian: "Eldest sister, you have a good heart for Xiaopeng, and the little sister understands it." Although this Western glass bead is a gift from you to Xiaopeng. But as a mother, I can't let Xiaopeng swallow it alone. Wait until I find someone to see the price. The two Dapeng and Xiaopeng brothers are one and a half. If it is worth a thousand dollars, each of the two sons is five hundred, and if it is worth ten thousand, one son is worth five thousand. And so on. Don't talk too much over there, she knows it's going to be a trouble. If you are a good showman, you will have a dollar to blow it around for two or three dollars, and make a little money, and you will feel great, for fear that people will not know, so you must attract the thief. This bead has a real price, and I will save the money for you and fold it. You hide her well, and don't let outsiders know. The one who is in charge does not sue sù. For the third child, he must be tight-lipped like a bottle. She wants to know, she has to make trouble. You hold the money tightly in your hands in case you need it in an emergency. Seeing that you and the head of the family are not confused, it is inevitable that a small illness and disaster will come to you. You can't live without cash. As for Xiaopeng, he is young, and it is his duty to raise you and the second elder. I will pay for him temporarily for the pension money he should pay. In the future, how much pension Dapeng gives you every year, I will also give you as much, and I will not owe a cent. ”

Zhang Fengxian was very excited. Although Zhou Xiaomei is young, she is always good at speaking and doing things, and she is a hundred times stronger than the third child, Xiao Taohong. In addition to being able to speak, she doesn't do much practical things, so she set a one, two, three for Xiao Taohong. That is, saying good things is a top two, robbing a man of one top two, and doing three things for the family is not a top one. is like Li Er's evaluation of Zhao Wu at the beginning: Blowing big talk is a top two, drinking is a top two, and doing work is not a top one. She replied to Zhou Xiaomei: "You can do this thing." After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Little Peach came to Zhang Fengxian to pull a quaa. Asked her: "Dapeng has been married since last year, and you don't go to see it." Don't you want a son? Shangpu City is one of the best cities in China, and the scenery is unparalleled in the world. In addition to the capital, it is the most popular, and the building is almost covered with clouds. You spent 1.6 million yuan to buy a house and added 100,000 yuan for decoration, but you spent a lot of money and didn't go to your son's house to enjoy a few days of happiness? ”

Zhang Fengxian looked at the leaves outside that were a little yellow, and a few old leaves had fallen to the ground. She said, "Send me away, do you want to have a man alone at home?" Think I'm in the way at home? ”

"Joke, I still have a man alone, my brother has come back several times, am I close? You are the main master, stay at home for a day and a half night, and you will accompany him first. And that week, the fox talked to him about work at every turn, and while talking, the two of them talked about bed. What cat in the world doesn't eat fish, and what man doesn't pick a young and beautiful woman to hold in his arms? Hey, old man, it's time to retire and make way for the laid-off. I have a good heart, I want you to go to Shangpu to see your son, enjoy it for three or five days, this is good, kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs, you want to be crooked, and become an exclusive man, I am not wronged? Little Peach patted her knees with both hands, with a bitter look on her face.

Zhang Fengxian said: "Not wronged. Anyway, for most of my life, your own brother didn't hurt you less, and that year in my bed, I had a high fever and talked nonsense, and I still called your name when I hugged me. When I think about it now, I still feel cold in my heart. His love for you, that is true love, love is pure. But there is one thing, it must be a long handsome. Didn't watch TV? The spider spirits on Journey to the West all used the silk in their navel to entangle Tang Seng, and none of them testered Zhu Barong, why, it was not Tang Seng who was handsome, and Zhu Barong had a long mouth and long ears. ”

Little Peach became complacent: "According to what you mean, I am a big beauty, I often look in the mirror myself, and I feel that I am naturally beautiful, and I am indeed not ugly." ”

Zhang Fengxian ridiculed her and said: "Stinky and beautiful." Say you're fat, you're panting, and you're going up the rod pretty fast. Autumn is coming. You are a little tired at home, watch Xiaopeng for a few days, I will go to Shangpu to see Dapeng, don't say whether you enjoy the happiness or not, go out for a walk first. When I come back, you go out for a few more days, and the two of us will take turns to go out to breathe. Save the panic of guarding a child at home. Anyway, by the end of next year, Xiaopeng will be able to go to kindergarten at the age of four. ”

Zhang Fengxian asked Zhou Xiaomei for leave and instructed Xiaoyan several times to let her manage the supermarket carefully. Then she set off to live in Shangpu, and before getting on the train, Zhou Xiaomei hurriedly came, handed her a storage card, attached it to her ear, told her the passbook password, asked her to put it in her personal pocket, and then called her when she encountered difficulties. The waiter at the ticket check urged Zhang Fengxian to leave quickly, but Zhang Fengxian didn't come to see how much money was in the passbook. I quickly followed the flow of people into the ticket gate. After getting on the bus and finding a seat, she arrived in Shangpu overnight, took a taxi, and went straight to her son's house. Dapeng was about to go out to the spot, when he heard the doorbell ringing, and opened the door to see that it was his mother, and he was full of joy. Hurriedly shouted into the house: "Xiaofang, mother is here." ”

Xiaofang came out unhurriedly, with a gloomy face, and called her mother ignorantly, and then turned around to change her form, without even asking her mother-in-law if she had breakfast. From the bottom of her heart, she thinks that this mother is superfluous, and her mother is the real mother. Xiaofang's mother heard that her mother-in-law had come from the countryside. Unhurriedly, poking his head out of the master bedroom. Pi smiled and nodded. Without saying a few kind words, he retracted his head back into the room. Dapeng pulled his mother to sit on the sofa in the living room, and asked his mother if she hadn't eaten breakfast yet, so she asked Xiaofang to put down a bowl of noodles for her relatives to eat. As soon as Dapeng let Xiao Fang's voice fall, Xiao Fang's mother's head poked out from the door of the master bedroom again, and she said to Xiao Fang, "What noodles?" Didn't you have a steamed bun left last night, let your mother make up for a meal. Countrymen eat a lot, look at me, never eat in the morning, isn't it also good? ”

The words and deeds of this lady don't treat themselves as people, they are leftovers, and they don't eat breakfast, which makes Zhang Fengxian's nose blue by half. He snorted angrily and said to his son: "Dapeng, go to Banban, my mother won't die of hunger if she doesn't eat one or two meals." I also have eggs from home that I eat on the road, so I can mix them up. Dapeng looked at Xiao Fang's face, Xiao Fang tightened his mouth and didn't speak, and he didn't dare to insist on giving his mother a note. Carrying a leather bag, he followed Xiao Fang lightly and went out to go to the spot.

In the evening, the whole family goes to a restaurant for dinner. Xiao Fangniang took the recipe and read it several times, and ordered a total of eight dishes, including meat and fish, as well as four stir-fried dishes. Zhang Fengxian looked at a lot of dishes, which were also delicious, and thought to herself: This is about the same. didn't drink, after the meal, Xiaofang's mother asked for an ice cream to eat. Dapeng beckoned to ask the waiter to bring one to his mother, but when Xiao Fang glanced at him fiercely, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to squeak again. These small actions were all seen by Zhang Fengxian and remembered in his heart. The whole family of four sat at the dinner table, no one moved, no one went to settle the bill, and it took a lot of time. Dapeng wanted to settle the account, but he didn't have any money, so he usually paid all his wages to Xiaofang's mother. He was not allowed to keep the money. did encounter something that needed to cost money, so he begged Xiaofang and her mother for it. This time Zhang Fengxian came to Shangpu, Xiaofang and her mother were afraid that she would stay for a long time. So embarrassing Dapeng and his mother everywhere, doing everything possible to drive Zhang Fengxian away, not going to check out after dinner tonight, deliberately making problems and embarrassing Dapeng, it is Xiaofang's mother's trick. Dapeng was helpless, and whispered to Zhang Fengxian: "Mom, you go and settle the account, I don't have any money with me." ”

The son said that he asked himself to settle the bill, and Zhang Fengxian stopped at that time. Who invites whom? Isn't it to wash the dust for yourself? How can you really treat yourself after eating? If I invite, it should be me sitting in the main seat, Xiaofang and her mother are sitting on it, what is it to point fingers? I also want an ice cream to eat, I'm not afraid of diarrhea and ice you! Looking at her son's begging gaze, Zhang Fengxian's heart softened, she got up and went to the bar to pay the bill, good guy, a meal is one thousand eight, so expensive. She took the two thousand dollars she brought, and took out two hundred, and gave the rest of the one thousand and eight to others. She's so distressed. I can't say it directly. Usually in the abductor restaurant, eating these eight dishes will cost 120 yuan to break the sky. Where is this eating, it's simply eating money.

On the way home, Dapeng quietly asked his mother: "Mom, how much money did you bring when you came back?" ”

Zhang Fengxian told her son in a down-to-earth manner: "Mom brought 2,000 yuan, I want to live here, and I am waiting for you to raise my mother." Mom raised you from childhood to adulthood, went to school, bought a house and married a daughter-in-law, your heart was not less, the money was not spent, and now your mother is old and frail, and she still expects you to serve her mother. ”

After listening to his mother's words, Dapeng stopped walking. He blamed Zhang Fengxian dissatisfiedly: "Mom, didn't you ruin my happiness when you came here to live permanently?" If you don't have any money, what are you doing in Shangpu? It's hard to move an inch without money here. Let's hurry back tomorrow, so that my son will not be in a dilemma. ”

Listening to his son complaining that he didn't bring money, it means that he has become a burden. Zhang Fengxian was shocked, is this the son he grew up with? How can you just talk about money, not family affection, and look at money. The son has changed in the past few years when he is away, and he has become a coward who only listens to his wife and revolves around his mother-in-law in everything. In this family, he can't straighten his waist, not like a big man in charge, but like a child daughter-in-law who has just entered the door.

Sleeping at night, it is even more difficult to arrange. The house bought by Dapeng is not small in name, but the actual housing area is not large. The main reason is that there is too much shared area. There are only two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. When she first moved in, Xiaofang took the initiative to arrange her mother in the master bedroom. It's sunny and spacious. A large bed, which was very comfortable for her mother to roll around. In the past, the mother and mother were crowded in the commissary opened by her mother on the street for decades, and finally caught Dapeng as a fool, and bought a house to let her mother move into the big bedroom to enjoy it. The remaining small bedroom is naturally occupied by Dapeng and Xiaofang. Zhang Fengxian has just arrived, and she has nowhere to stay, and Xiaofang and her mother are worried about money, and they don't send her to live in a hotel. In desperation, Dapeng wanted to build a temporary bed for his mother in the living room and make up for the night. According to common sense, two old ladies should be asked to sleep in the master bedroom with a large bed. But Xiaofang's mother was not happy, firstly, she was panicked, and secondly, she was disgusted with Zhang Fengxian's rustic and dirty body. Dapeng was setting up a bunk for his mother in the living room, wanting his mother to build the bed that Xiao Peach bought for him when he got married. Xiaofang's mother poked her head out of the master bedroom again and said, "The bed is new, keep it." It's hard to say that you want to cover the quilt, so take the key to the commissary, and under the bed where I used to sleep, just take the old quilts that Dapeng covered when he went to school. Stay for a night and a half, it's not worth it to start with a new bed. ”

Listen to this by a man? From this morning to the evening, what Xiaofang and her mother did made Zhang Fengxian angry. I bought this house for 1.6 million yuan, plus 100,000 yuan for decoration, adding up to 1.7 million yuan. I am the real owner of this house. I'm here, it's okay if you two are not enthusiastic, but you can generally talk about the past. Fuck, it's leftovers again, it's an old quilt, it's a meal for me, and I have to pay for it, isn't this a fucking trick? It's like a flower child who asks for food, two hundred and five big heads. It's too unlikely, it's too deceitful, it's tolerable, it's unbearable! Zhang Fengxian immediately grabbed the teacup on the coffee table and slammed it on the ground, lifted the cloth bag he was carrying, pushed the door and rushed out of the door, and slammed the door around, slamming the sound and closing the door of right and wrong. Angry in his chest, he rushed downstairs in anger.

Dapeng then chased out the door and shouted, "Mom, where are you going?" He said and chased after him. As soon as he went down to the second staircase, he heard Xiaofang's mother shouting behind him: "Dapeng, come back!" Dapeng heard Xiao Fang's mother's commanding shout, immediately retracted his legs, and walked back backwards, while shouting: "Mom, it doesn't matter if you really want to leave, leave me the remaining 200 yuan from the meal." "Everyone, like me, thought that Dapeng shouted that he was staying with his mother, and after a long time, he was still worried about the two hundred yuan on his mother! This is really a rare filial son in the world! Animals, they don't care that the night is dull, they don't know the place well, and they don't even have enough money to get home. Desperate old lady, what can I do?

Zhang Fengxian came out of her son's house angrily, and there were many pedestrians on the street. The south comes to the north, but where is she going? She sat on the edge of the flower pond on the side of the street, took out her phone, and wanted to call the man, but she was afraid of being scolded. dialed Zhou Xiaomei's mobile phone. cried to her about what happened to her son in the past day. Zhou Xiaomei comforted her on the phone. After she was a little more stable, she looked up and looked around to see if there were hotels and other places where she could stay. and sued her that she did not have enough money, and she could use the method of collateral with a passbook to stay and other matters.

Zhang Fengxian looked up and looked around, there was a hotel on the edge of the flower pond where she was sitting, and her own ass was sitting on the edge of the flower pond of the hotel. She stood up and walked to the door of the hotel. The two security guards had already seen Zhang Fengxian sitting on the edge of the flower pond on the phone, thinking that she was a nearby resident enjoying the shade on the edge of the flower pond, so they didn't pay attention to her movements. Immediately stood up and saluted her, opened the glass door for her, and stretched out his hand to signal: Please come in.

Zhang Fengxian hesitated, thinking what if people didn't use the passbook as collateral? Didn't you go in for nothing? Let's ask the two security guards at the door first. She stopped and asked the two security guards, "If you don't have any cash, can you stay in the hotel?" She patted her underwear pocket, meaning that there was a passbook as collateral. She didn't explain, and the two security guards heard her say that they had no money and wanted to live in the hotel, so they refused: "Old man, you can't stay if you don't have money, we are not a rescue station here, but a hotel." ”

Zhang Fengxian said: "Isn't it okay for me to mortgage things?" ”

The security guard took a look at the cloth bag she was holding, and it was estimated that it contained a change of clothes. Shaking his head in disagreement. Zhang Fengxian herself was in a hurry, and she knew in her heart that she wanted to use the passbook as collateral, but when she was in a hurry, she understood from her stomach, and she didn't say it, how could the security guard know? In the stalemate, the patrol police patrolled here, and the police saw that someone was gesturing at the door of the hotel, still an old lady, immediately stopped, walked over quickly, first saluted Zhang Fengxian, and then asked her gently: "Old man, do you need help?" ”

Zhang Fengxian saw that the police were very kind, so she relaxed her feelings, told them that she had no cash and wanted to use a passbook to mortgage her accommodation, and finally assured the police: "As soon as the bank is spotted tomorrow, I will return the accommodation fee to them when I ask for money, and I will never cheat." ”

The policeman smiled and discussed with her: "Old man, it doesn't matter if you really don't have money, you can take our police car to the aid station to stay." We guarantee your safety. Take out your ID card and ask us to take a look, okay? ”

Zhang Fengxian took out his ID card and handed it to the two policemen. After verifying the ID card, the police handed it back to Zhang Fengxian and asked the lobby manager who had just come: "The old man may not be able to withdraw money with the passbook for some reason, may I ask, she wants to use the passbook as a mortgage to stay in your hotel, is it okay?" ”

The lobby manager nodded hurriedly and said okay. The policeman said to Zhang Fengxian: "Go in and go through the formalities, and I will go in with you." Zhang Fengxian followed the police into the hotel lobby, to the bar, took out the passbook from the personal pocket, and handed it to the first girl who stretched out her hand behind the bar along with the ID card, the girl first looked at the ID card, and then opened the passbook casually to see, this look doesn't matter, subconsciously stuck out her tongue, the lobby manager took a look, and took the passbook to see, 10 million. She immediately shouted to the two security guards: "Stand upright, salute the old man!" ”

Xiaofang's mother was lying on the window and saw Zhang Fengxian enter the hotel under the leadership of the police, for fear that she would pay for the accommodation under her own banner, because her commissary was next to the hotel. She hurriedly ran downstairs, came to the hotel, and shouted at the bar waiter: "I don't know her, you told her to stay overnight, I don't pay for her." ”

Zhang Fengxian finished the formalities, and was just about to go upstairs by two waitresses, seeing that Xiaofang's mother was so ruthless that she had to put herself to death, she pointed at her and said to the two security guards: "She is following me, she is looking for an opportunity to rob."

Robbery? It's worth it! The two security guards couldn't help but say, stepped forward and pressed Xiaofang and her mother to the ground. The lobby manager said, "Loosen up, isn't she the old lady in the commissary next door?" I go to her every day to buy cigarettes, why don't you recognize her? Invite her out and don't disturb the guests staying at the accommodation. Only then did the two security guards see clearly that it was Xiaofang's mother. Then let go of your hand. Xiaofang's mother struggled to get up, rushed to the bar, and repeated her words. The bar lady stretched out her little thumb and sneered at her: "Don't worry, people won't drag you down to settle the bill, don't look at your fat, your waist is not as thick as a small finger." ”

On the morning of the second day, Xiaofang and her mother came to open the door of the commissary, before opening the door, she was not worried about Zhang Fengxian's accommodation, for fear that she would escape from the hotel in the middle of the night and not settle the bill, the hotel asked her for money, she grinded for a night, and she didn't understand what the waiter said last night was about the waist and that finger. The night spot waiter had just gotten off Spot, ran into her at the door, and said to her with a smile, "Don't worry." After settling the accounts, they left. A high-end car came this morning, settled the bill for her, and helped her into the car and picked her up. ”

"She still has a luxury car? That's not right. She and I are in-laws of our children, and I don't know her family background? ”

"Didn't you keep saying you didn't know her? How can a night's sleep become a home for children? Liar, if you have such a rich family, would you still be stupid to open a shabby commissary? Her car is more than a million. After the waiter finished speaking, he stopped looking at Xiaofang's mother's stupid appearance, and hurried home to rest. She really didn't want to say a word to this villain.