"I don't need any decent staples. Just don't be hungry. ”

"I'm young, it's okay not to eat, Mom, your body is weak, it's better to eat less coarse grains and more fine grains."

Mom smiled: "I haven't done any work these days, I'm really not hungry at all." In previous years, it was different, I was working at your uncle's house, and I was almost exhausted. ”

I nodded, thinking that at this time in my previous life, my mother and I were still working in their house with rags.

Zhou Yufeng looked at us like a maid, urging us to clean the glass, wipe the floor, help their family clean up the fish scales and other food, and even Hexiang shouted a few ugly words on the side, thinking of the shame I suffered in the past, I felt panicked with hatred.

If I had resisted earlier in my previous life, my mother wouldn't have been so miserable.

We ate and it was dark outside.

I went out to lock the door, but as soon as I walked to the middle of the yard, I saw a person standing outside, walking back and forth, his head kept sticking out to us, and I couldn't see who it was, and I was a little worried, could it be Liu Zhijian?

"Who are you and what are you here for?" I grabbed the broom in my hand vigilantly.

"I'm Liao Qiang." He came up to me.

I breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door: "How long have you been here?" Come in and don't freeze! ”

"Forget it, I'm not going in, I'm here to apologize to you for Sisi, what she did today was really too much." Liao Qiang looked around nervously while talking to me. I guess I'm worried about being seen.

I laughed and said, "What is there to apologize for?" Forget it, it's not a big deal. ”

Liao Qiang said with a smile: "Sisi waited for you to leave, and I always blamed you for not going to see her, but I also had you in my heart." She's so angry, you're an understanding person, it's better to go and talk to her, she will definitely forgive you. ”

So he came to me to apologize to her?

I said, "Liao Qiang, I'll tell you the truth too." Zheng Sisi and I grew up in the same village, her family is rich and good-looking, but I am nothing, I can't eat, saying that we are friends, in fact, it is better to say that I am a follower, when I was a child, I helped her pick fruits and catch insects, get her schoolbag after school, help her write her homework, she got into trouble at school, I gave her a black pot, and when she grew up, I also held her and let her. But there will always be days when I grow up, and there will be times when I am tired. ”

"Nizi......" He suddenly looked at me seriously, and there was a trace of pity in his eyes.

"I fell into the river this time, also because she forced me to go, I was afraid that she would be unhappy, so I could only go over to help her get fish, and almost died in the river, after this incident, I also figured it out, I don't want such friends. If you don't treat it sincerely, it's not interesting to have a relationship. It's really sad to lose a friend, but I think I'm doing the right thing, I won't force Sisi to be good with me, and you don't have to worry about it. ”

Liao Qiang looked at me and didn't know what he was thinking.

I waved my hand in front of him: "What's wrong with you, are you frozen?" ”

He hurriedly said, "No, I misunderstood you, I'm sorry, I thought you were deliberately losing your temper and ignoring her." ”

"I don't have time to get angry, poor families like us, the most we think about every day is how to fill our stomachs and get by, as for other things, I really don't have the energy to think about it. I've said everything I need to say, I don't want to be friends like that with her. ”

"I think it's a pity, you guys...... Can't reconcile? ”

"She couldn't do it before she changed."

He hesitated for a moment before he said, "So, are we still friends?" ”

I smiled and said, "You will always be my savior." ”

Thinking of his indifference and ruthlessness to me in my previous life, it is almost like a judgment from the way I am now.

"Nizi, I'm disappointed when you say that. I want to be friends with you. He said seriously.

"You're getting married, it's not appropriate for us to be friends, don't make her angry, you two should make a fuss."

Liao Qiang was about to say something, but his mother came out at this time and said curiously: "Nizi, why haven't you come back yet?" It's too cold outside. ”

I hurriedly said, "Liao Qiang is here." Mom, bring the finished dress! ”

Mom said yes and walked in, and after a short time she walked out with her clothes.

I smiled and said to Liao Qiang: "Isn't this going for the New Year?" My mother and I made you a dress, you are going to be married, and you look good when you string relatives. Take it, it's my thank you gift. ”

Liao Qiang hurriedly excused himself: "I'm not saving you for clothes!" I can't take it! ”

"Who said that?" Mom smiled and said: "This fabric is cheap, and it is not very good, it can be regarded as a part of our family's heart for you!" Don't be disgusted! ”

After resigning for a long time, Liao Qiang accepted it and smiled brightly: "Thank you!" It's the first time I've ever recycled clothes from someone else! ”

"You go back, it's not easy to walk when it's dark." Mom said and went back.

I walked a few steps and suddenly said, "Oh, I'm not going to go on your engagement day, you just know my heart." ”

Liao Qiang was silent for a long time before he nodded: "Okay, I know." Nizi, take care. ”

I looked at his back and suddenly said, "Liao Qiang! ”

He hurriedly looked back at me.

I smiled and said, "Actually, I want to know, can't you go into the mountains to cut wood?" It's dangerous, and if you get hurt, you can hurt it for the rest of your life. "I suddenly couldn't bear to see him disfigured and crippled.

In my previous life, I started with him and I worked hard, who would want him in this life? Is he going to ruin his life in order to make a lot of money? He's a good guy after all.

Liao Qiang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "My mother and I don't want to go, but Sisi wants me to go." The conditions of my house are not as good as hers, and if you want to build a house with some good conditions, you have to work hard. ”

I hesitated for a moment and said, "Anyway, no matter what work you do, pay attention to safety." ”

I didn't dare to say anything too deep, Zheng Sisi of the province said that I provoked the relationship between the two, and I really can't say anything about my relationship with him now, he nodded to me and left directly.

When I got back into the house, my mom didn't say anything and continued to sew clothes.

I thought to myself, although I was treated so harshly by you in my previous life, I still care about you from the bottom of my heart, Liao Qiang.

"Nizi, what do you want?"

I hurriedly smiled and shook my head, "It's nothing." I thought we'd go to town tomorrow and buy couplets and blessings. ”

"Okay!" Mom smiled: "With money in this hand, it is righteous to spend it!" ”

Then we were busy for a few days, first went to the town to sell those pairs of cotton shoes and insoles, the Chinese New Year is about to come, those people are very high in the spirit of buying things, and they don't reduce the price much, those things are sold out quickly, and those pine nuts are also, except for a little leftover for grandma, the rest are sold out in less than an hour.

My mother and I are also in a hurry to sell and make insoles, although a pair is only a few cents, but it can be regarded as a little income.

When we went back, we bought couplets and blessing characters directly in the city, in previous years, we begged the old people in the village to write, and said thank you for a long time, but the couplets were not very good-looking and rustic, and people were not happy.

This time we bought the simplest black letters on a red background, simple auspicious words, which made my mother very happy, and went back to buy a little flour back.

Although the house at home is not big, there are a lot of things to pack. The two of us wiped down the glass and furniture, got some white ash and painted the walls of the house. Anyway, it's the New Year, and it's a little better to clean up, and the mood is better.

We fried the dough sheets, as well as the sticky bean buns and vegetarian buns.

On the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, my mother cut the cabbage and added the meat filling, and the two of us wrapped the dumplings with cabbage and meat.

Firecrackers were already ringing outside, and there were many people walking past the windows of our back room, laughing and laughing.

Mom smiled, "We should buy some too." How can there be a reason not to fire guns during the New Year? ”

"I forgot to buy it." I smiled and said, "It's still next year, I don't dare to set off firecrackers." ”

We finished wrapping the dumplings and put them on the curtain, and they were frozen outside.

Mom made a paste paste couplet, I took the pair out to paste, was pasting, just a few children ran quickly past our door, a few children shouted to me together: "He girl." What a shame! ”

When someone said this during the Chinese New Year, my heart suddenly sank, and I grabbed a child. The child, who was only a few years old, was wearing a red cotton jacket and had two snots under his nose, and he was trembling with fear and looked at me in panic.

And the rest of the children all ran away.

I squatted in front of her and smiled: "Don't worry, I will never beat you, you tell me, who did you listen to this?" ”

"I listened to my mom. She said that you don't respect your uncle, you dare to say anything, and you are thick-skinned. ”

I nodded and patted him on the shoulder, "Go ahead." ”

The child ran away.

This child is Li Ting's son, and I won't worry about children. This woman looks very gentle on the surface, and I sympathize with her when she was abused by Wang Hu, but I didn't expect to say such a thing.

When my mother saw me come in, she said, "Nizi, what's wrong with you?" The face is so bad. ”

I smiled: "It's okay, there's a lot of gossip in the village." ”

The two of us went into the house, and while we were packing up the ingredients for the evening, we chattered, and I told everything about it.

Mom suddenly became anxious, stretched out her hand and wiped it on the apron: "How can Li Ting be like this, I'll go find her!" ”

I hurriedly stopped her: "Forget it! What a big deal. New Year's Day, are you still making trouble because of this? The things that were supposed to be reasonable, but after the trouble, they became ignored. Besides, after her child went back and said it, I guess she was worried, nervous and afraid that we would find her, which could be regarded as my revenge. ”

Whoever doesn't talk about people behind their backs, and who doesn't say anything behind their backs, I've long thought about it.