After listening to my mother's words, I stood up and said, "Even if I was crazy just now, I even wanted to help solve the problem, but it turned out that my mother wanted me to commit suicide to help my second brother smooth out the debt, and I don't care about it in the future." ”

The eldest brother hurriedly grabbed me: "Qiao'er! Don't be upset, that's not what Mom meant. ”

Mom also panicked, and hurriedly came over and grabbed my hand: "Actually, I was angry for a while......"

"You don't get angry, you don't think so in your heart, only the second brother in the family is your sweetheart, and you never wait to see me, I won't care about his business anymore, whatever you do!" As I spoke, tears flowed uncontrollably, and I tried many times to think about things from my mother's point of view, but in the end I was disappointed.

Mom dragged me and cried: "Qiao'er, I was really wrong, you forgive me, look at what this family has become now, your second sister-in-law is gone, and the house will be robbed, Mom will definitely compensate you when you turn around, this time you have to help our family get through this pass no matter what!" ”

I was stunned, I had never heard my mom say sorry to me for so many years. Even if she was wrong, she was oppressing me as a mother, and this time I heard someone like her admit my mistake, and I couldn't react for a while.

The eldest brother is also persuading me: "I know your psychological grievances, but this is the case, if you leave, we don't know what to do, I will only make a big effort, your mind is the smartest, this family still depends on you!" ”

I had no choice but to stay, after all, this is also my home.

I returned to my yard, I didn't notice it just now because I was too anxious, but now I found that the neat and tidy courtyard has changed, and the eldest brother has prepared firewood like a mountain, but now there is a bottom left, it is estimated that the second brother will also use it again, and the vat has long been dry, and there are some eggplant seedlings and carob seedlings that have wilted in the garden, and no one has cleaned them up. There was garbage all over the place, and even the pigs were hungry and thin, and when they saw us coming in, they kept humming in the pen.

The eldest brother frowned and said, "How can this be done, we will not be here for a few days, how can the family become like this!" ”

"I'm still going to plant winter wheat these days, I'm alone, where can I be busy outside the house! I also have to cook and wash clothes for Liu Ye, and sometimes I can't even eat saliva. Mom sighed sadly.

The eldest brother hurriedly said: "This second brother, if you don't do the work in the field, why don't you do the same work at home?" ”

"Isn't his foot broken? I can't let him carry water and chop wood, I'm worried that if he gets tired, it won't be worse? ”

My eldest brother and I both laughed helplessly.

I said, "He broke his foot, that was nearly two months ago, and it was clearly an excuse not to let him work." You yourself are reluctant to let her work, that's why you became so miserable, who can blame you? ”

Mom was anxious to say something, but she finally sighed: "Actually, I used to think that the army has always been very well-behaved except that he doesn't like to work, why is it like this now, after marrying Liu Ye, she instigated it to be like this!" ”

I said, "Could it be that he went out to gamble and was also let by Liu Ye?" Wrong is wrong, you just make excuses for him, you can't get better for the rest of your life! ”

Mom slapped her knees anxiously: "Yes, it's all my fault, right?" Are you here to help solve the problem, or are you here to hold a criticism meeting, can you think of a way? ”

When the eldest brother saw his mother like this, he couldn't say anything. I said in my heart, my mother finally admitted the fact that the second brother is not successful, which can be regarded as a big progress.

The eldest brother took the bucket and wanted to fetch water, but was stopped by his mother: "What time is it, you still care about this?" Let's talk about what to do now, shall we? Qiao'er has just repaid two bolts and forty yuan, but now there are two hundred and two, plus the previous loan, a total of three hundred foreign debts. What a head at this time? ”

The eldest brother had to sit down, he and his mother didn't have any ideas, their eyes just looked at me.

I said, "Didn't you say that as long as you roll around and commit suicide, people don't want money, let the second brother make trouble." ”

"Didn't I say it in a hurry? I know I said the wrong thing, so you don't have to vomit me like that! Mom started crying again as she spoke.

I looked at my mother like this, and I could only persuade my eldest brother a few words: "As long as there are people, they can always come up with a way, think of something." ”

Mom said cautiously, "I don't know how much you two have left when you go out to work this time?" Can you take it out and put some on him first? I'll let him give it back to you later!" ”

My eldest brother and I both shook our heads, although I still have about 100 yuan, and my eldest brother still has a little savings on Lin Cailian's side, but I can't take it out, and we all know very well that if this money is given to the second brother, it will be meat buns and dogs, and it will be impossible to return it to us.

Mom also expected such a reply, sighed and said, "I know you can't trust me." ”

I said: "Mom, it's not that I can't believe you, I really don't have a penny, I still want to take the rest of the money to go to agricultural school, and now I have given the second brother a subsidy, I really can't help you." ”

Mom saw that we couldn't come up with the money, so she told the eldest brother about the marriage: "Zhiguo, Wang Lanhua is still waiting for the letter, she is willing to add another bicycle, and give another thirty dollars for pressing the box." She's spent the night with you, and everyone in the village knows about it. You can't just leave her alone, can you? ”

The eldest brother frowned and said: "Mom, I won't agree to this, nothing happened to me and Wang Lanhua that day, I told you, she also knows it in her heart, my marriage, and Qiaozhen's marriage, don't interfere." ”

Mom said anxiously, "Why are you two like this?" If I didn't have this opportunity, I would admit it, but now people are taking the money and putting it in the hands of the two of you, but you don't want any of them! What is the second child like now, they are all a family, don't you feel distressed? ”

I said, "I don't like Yu Hongcai, I don't want to marry him." How can you always expect to sell your sons and daughters to help your second brother? ”

"Anyone's daughter can exchange the bride price for some money, and it's our family's turn to say it so ugly! Besides, now that you have been divorced, plus Song Dong's matter, your reputation is already like this, who else can you marry? I'm here for your good. ”

I sneered and said, "If it's really good for me, you shouldn't push that food, drink, prostitution and gambling on me." What if I don't marry for the rest of my life, I have to be for my second brother, I'd rather get together with a piece of garbage? ”

The eldest brother hurriedly grabbed me: "Qiao'er, you can talk to your mother well." ”

I sneered, "What did you listen to your mother, do you think I can talk to her well?" ”

Mom covered her face and cried: "Everyone says that my daughter is a mother's intimate little padded jacket, and you treat me like this?" ”

I couldn't help but have hot circles under my eyes: "Am I your padded jacket?" What have you done to me after all these years? Am I worth two hundred dollars in your mind? I will earn more money back in my life, so I don't want to bully Yu Hongcai like a cow and a horse! I'm talking about the last time, if you push me again, I won't go home for the rest of my life! ”

Mom raised her hand to hit me, but I looked at her calmly: "Mom, if you really fight, there will be no more room for you." Don't regret it! ”

"What a wicked man I am!" She put her hand down dejectedly, sat on the bench and kept wiping her tears: "One is for two hundred, the other is for three hundred, as long as one person agrees to this marriage, you can solve your second brother's debt, but no one cares, I really can't get out of the pit!" ”

The eldest brother said: "The second child is in the pit, and he jumped down by himself." No one can complain except himself. ”

Mom said with a desperate face: "What's the use of talking about this now?" It looks like we have to sell the house! I'll ask the old Fang family if they want a house in a while, sell it to him, and then sell all the pigs and pay off the debt, you don't care, but I can't watch the army being forced to die! ”

The eldest brother glanced at me: "Qiao'er, tell us if you have any ideas, don't sell it." ”

I said, "I can only have any good ideas according to what you say." Let's rent out the land in our house. The rent obtained is used to pay off the debts of the second brother, and the rest is used as living expenses for the mother. The two of us will rely on our own money to make money to support ourselves, and as for the second brother, it is long overdue to stand on his own. Since he himself is unwilling to farm, he should think of another way. ”

The eldest brother also nodded: "This is a way." ”

Mom was stunned at first, and then hurriedly said, "What did you say?" Do you want me to rent out the land? No, this land is the foundation of our peasants! How can we live without land? ”

"That's no way, Qiao'er and I are going to the city in two days, there is no way to help you farm, the second child can't be a laborer at all, Mom, now that you are old, you can't plant it yourself, and the land will be barren by then." He told me that he was going to learn to be a turner and that he and I were going out to sell fruit.

My mother looked at me anxiously: "A man goes out for a trip, but you are a big girl, and you can run around without getting married?" Obedient, Qiao'er, you just stay at home and accompany me, there are a lot of things you eat at home, do you have to go out and gossip? ”

I sneered, "Mom, don't say that. I will never forget the face of my second brother when I harvested wheat and I took the rations in previous years, and the grain I planted desperately, he didn't say anything, but also said that I ate him and drank him. ”

"I'll talk to him well, if he dares to bully you like this again, I'll beat him!"

I shook my head and said, "Forget it, if the second brother had a conscience, he wouldn't have harmed this family so badly." Needless to say, what I decided will not change. ”

The eldest brother also said: "Mom, if Qiao'er didn't go out to work this time, you wouldn't even be able to take out forty yuan today to help him pay off his debts, not to mention that the second child owes so much money, what should you do if you don't rent out the land?" ”

Mom's lips moved, but she never said anything.

I know that she still wants us to pay back the money to the second brother through the marriage in exchange for the bride price, but I am afraid to say it, we really don't care about them anymore, so we can only endure it without saying a word.