CHAPTER XIX
Big red apples?! Aunt Yu wiped the apple on her coat, glanced at Yu Xihua, who lowered her head and concentrated on burning the fire, quickly hid in the depths of the cupboard, and hung up the lock after thinking about it.
"Go, bring the food to you." Aunt Yu fried the last dish and stuffed it into Yu Xihua's hand to urge her into the house, feeling very excited and excited.
It seems that Yu Xiling's money-losing girl has made a lot of money, and she is even willing to buy expensive red apples to eat, this thing is not cheap, more expensive than meat! Won't she be able to make more money when she takes over the tofu stall? She heard that Yu Xiling and the two old immortals were poor, so she went to a few nearby villages, and they didn't go far, how much money did they have to lose!
As soon as Yu Xihua left, Yu Zhuangzhuang hugged his fucking thighs with drool, and looked at the locked cupboard, "Mom, I want to eat." ”
"Eat, they are all strong." Aunt Yu picked up Yu Zhuangzhuang and hugged her in her arms, "Keep this for the New Year, and you will go to your milk later, and if you don't give it to you, you will cry, you know no." ”
As long as you cry, there is something delicious, Yu Zhuangzhuang nodded as if he didn't understand, slid down from her arms, and ran out with a click, the corners of Aunt Yu's mouth raised, and she didn't stop it, thinking that it would not be good for the child to make trouble with her, so she pretended to clean up the stove and didn't go out.
When Yu Zhuangzhuang's cry came from the house, Aunt Yu said goodbye to her sideburns and hurriedly ran out.
Everyone in the house didn't move the chopsticks, Yu Zhuangzhuang hugged Grandma Yu's leg and cried earth-shatteringly, Grandma Yu coaxed Yu Zhuangzhuang in a low voice, and Second Uncle Yu looked embarrassed, holding Yu Zhuangzhuang's little arm with his big hand, but didn't tear him away from Grandma Yu.
Yu Xiling sat quietly with Xi in her arms, without looking at this side, Grandpa Yu had a calm face, not knowing what he was thinking.
"What's the matter, Zhuangzhuang, you're disobedient again, aren't you?" Aunt Yu tried hard to press down the corners of her upturned mouth, and went to pull Yu Zhuangzhuang, and when Second Uncle Yu saw her coming, he quickly let go of his hand.
The son has tender arms and legs, and he is really afraid that he will tear him up.
"Eat, eat...... Guoguo ......" Yu Zhuangzhuang hiccuped so much that he still expressed his wishes clearly in words, and refused to let go.
"Zhuangzhuang, don't cry, your milk feels sorry for you the most, what you want to eat is delicious, don't make trouble during the New Year." Second Aunt Yu bluffed Yu Zhuangzhuang, but her eyes kept staring at Yu Xiling, waiting for her to speak.
It can be seen that Yu Xiling just sat on the side to play with Yu Xi'an, and didn't pay attention to this side at all, Aunt Yu's face sank, originally just making a show to pull Yu Zhuangzhuang, and suddenly pulled him up suddenly, Yu Zhuangzhuang didn't understand why his mother suddenly changed his face, he only remembered the big apple that he didn't get his hand, and the tears flowed quickly and fiercely.
The richer this is, the more stingy people are! The excitement in Aunt Yu's heart instantly turned into anger, Zhuang Zhuang is the youngest in the old Yu family, how can Yu Xiling, who is a sister, be so stingy! The children cried like this, and they didn't say anything to give the children something to eat.
When these two sisters fall into her hands one day, she will definitely have to return them.
"Eat, eat, eat, what you eat, that precious thing is what you can eat!" slapped Yu Zhuangzhuang's ass twice, and suddenly cried even more tragically.
The whole room was filled with Yu Zhuangzhuang's crying, Yu Xiling frowned, only to feel that her ears were buzzing, which was particularly uncomfortable.
"If you have something to say, what do you do when you hit a child!" What Grandpa Yu was most unhappy to see was the second daughter-in-law's childish spirit, who was obviously a cool girl in the village before entering the door, how could it be like this!
If you want to stand up and say anything, you have to let the child rush ahead, Yu Zhuangzhuang ran to the two of them and cried, not once or twice.
Second Uncle Yu also hurriedly hugged the child over, Second Aunt Yu didn't mean to hit the child, so she threw away her hand in a sneer, "Dad, it's not that this child is too disagreeable, I'll teach him a lesson." ”
It's finally time to eat.
Compared with yesterday's meal in the old house, Aunt Yu's table can be said to be simple, nine people of all sizes eat, and there are only five dishes on the table, three jars of pickles, a bowl of fried cabbage, and a bowl of dried bamboo shoots and bacon that are mostly bamboo shoots.
There seems to be a little bit of meat foam in the sauce beans, barely two meat dishes, both of which are placed in front of Grandpa Yu and Second Uncle Yu's men, and Yu Xihua's chopsticks passed by during the meal and were knocked hard by Aunt Yu.
"Not sensible!" His eyes also swept over Yu Xiling intentionally or unintentionally.
Yu Xiling didn't say anything, she looked at her nose and nose, and ate quietly, from the beginning of Yu Zhuangzhuang's trouble, she felt that today's meal was not very peaceful.
Really!
Halfway through the meal, Aunt Yu stabbed Uncle Yu who was drinking on the head, Uncle Yu was drinking energetically, and he didn't dare to drink when he was working outside, for fear of delaying things.
"Second brother!" Second Aunt Yu yelled at Second Uncle Yu in a suppressed voice, Second Uncle Yu looked at her in a daze, waiting for her to speak, Second Aunt Yu was speechless, so angry that she couldn't speak for a long time.
"Dad, I have something to say." couldn't count on Second Uncle Yu, Second Aunt Yu thought about it and decided to say it herself.
Grandpa Yu's hand holding the wine glass paused, took a sip of wine, and nodded to indicate that he was listening.
"Dad, it's not that my second brother and I really don't care about you all these years, it's really the conditions of the family, my second brother and I are also weak, unlike the eldest brother, who has a decent job and is an official, but my second brother and I are two mud legs, we have no ability, and we can't even stick to our own family." Second Aunt Yu sighed, looking very helpless.
The two brothers of the Yu family are not much different in age, and when they sent Yu Jianguo to serve as a soldier, Aunt Yu had already dealt with Uncle Yu.
At that time, Aunt Yu was reluctant, and Second Uncle Yu was timid in his heart, and he was not very willing to be a soldier, so he chose to give up, and Yu Jianguo also hesitated, but was forced by Grandpa Yu to report to the army and successfully recruited into the army.
The whole family is glorious to be a soldier alone, at the beginning, Aunt Yu was quite proud in her heart, and she was safe and sound at first, but after a long time, her heart became more and more unbalanced, why did Yu Jianguo receive an allowance when he was a soldier, and the two of them had to plow the land at home to support the elderly and earn work?
Especially after Yu Jianguo retired from the army and came back to the township government, Aunt Yu complained in her heart, they are all sons, why didn't the two old people press the big ones back then?
If it weren't for the two old ones who were biased, they would naturally tell the younger ones about the stakes, instead of the second brother as soon as they said it, they would naturally come down, turn around and go to find a relationship with the eldest brother, and leave them to farm in the countryside, maybe she can now be mixed with the wife of a company commander or the wife of the director.
Not to mention that not long after Yu Jianguo joined the army, she entered the door and was busy with housework and serving the old people in the fields, but Yu Jianguo's allowance did not fall into her hands.
The two old immortals bit to death to save their wife for their eldest son, and she made trouble and finally couldn't instigate the separation of the family, out of sight is pure, but it is inevitable that she will be uneasy in her heart.
It is said that the old son and grandson all fell out when they arrived at Lao Yu's house.
Originally, the two families were not far away and close to each other, and they were still passable, but later because of the recruitment of workers in the town's carpentry yard, the two families completely fell out.
Aunt Yu wanted Uncle Yu to go to work and be a worker who ate imperial grain, and it happened that Yu Jianguo had someone he knew in charge of things, but it was just a matter of one sentence, but he was directly rejected when he asked Yu Jianguo, and in a blink of an eye, Yu Jianguo introduced others in, and the relationship between the two families fell to a freezing point.
Later, Yu Jianguo was discharged from the army due to injury, and he wanted to get back the allowance he had with his parents to compensate Qiao Aiguo's widow.
But at that time, Grandma Yu was not in good health, and most of those allowances cost most of the money every month to take medicine and see a doctor, which Grandpa Yu and Xu Zhaodi made clear every time they asked someone to write to Yu Jianguo, and Yu Jianguo finally got only a small part of it.
Yu Jianguo calculated an account by himself, and felt that the money should be more than that, especially looking at the newly built brick house of Second Uncle Yu's family, and even more convinced that his parents were using his allowance to subsidize his younger brother and sister-in-law's family, and he also had a pimple in his heart.
The two brothers blamed each other for their parents' partiality, and in the end, their younger generation also thought so, in the previous life, Grandpa Yu and Grandma Yu worked hard for their two sons all their lives, but they ended up lonely and old.
"I don't blame you two elders for saying this, I can't blame others for the second brother not growing up at the beginning, I haven't been able to turn around all these years, and I have been preventing the second brother from doing his filial piety, here I will compensate you two elders." Aunt Yu said emotionally, picked up the wine glass and toasted a glass of wine, which made Grandma Yu's eyes flutter.
Regardless of whether Aunt Yu's words are true or not, it is always pleasing to the ear, Grandpa Yu's eyes are slightly moist, and he can't stop sighing in his heart.
A good family is like this, and the most bitter thing in my heart is the two of them, but the son was born to them and taught by them, Grandpa Yu and Grandma Yu knocked out teeth and swallowed blood, and the two elders have supported each other over the years, and they have also passed.
"Dad, Mom, Xirong is eighteen years old this year, and the young men of this age in the village are all married, but my family Xirong has never been able to get along with each other, and they are not all disgusted with the poor family." Aunt Yu wiped away her tears as she spoke, Yu Xirong's face stiffened, and she slowly lowered her head.
"His father led him to do odd jobs outside, a young man, he has only been looking old for a few years, my second brother and I have no ability, one can't provide them with a good education, and the other can't buy a family business for him, my second brother and I are bitter."
Aunt Yu said that she was moved by her true feelings here, tears fell down, this cry made people's hearts sour, Second Uncle Yu pulled out the stool and walked to the courtyard to stand against the cold wind, he felt uncomfortable.
After going around for a long time, Aunt Yu looked at everyone's expressions and finally turned to the topic.
"I know that Xiling is promising now, my second uncle and I are elders, and I don't have a face to say it, but isn't there no way, Dad, you just look at your eldest grandson. Xiling, you can help your lobby brother, the second aunt will remember your love for the rest of your life. ”
"Xiling will go to school next year, the second brother and Xirong are both laborers, just to take over the tofu stall, we are not greedy, we just want to save some money for Xirong to marry a good daughter-in-law, and when Xiling graduates, I will definitely return it to her."
If something falls into her hands, how can it be possible to return it!
Originally, Grandpa Yu was angry when he heard Aunt Yu talk about the tofu stall, but she was right about one thing, as soon as the Lantern Festival passed, he had to send his granddaughter back to school anyway, and Xiling Congming couldn't be delayed anymore.
Looking at Yu Xirong, who was silent and had anticipation in his eyes, Grandpa Yu sighed, unconsciously, the eldest grandson is eighteen years old, and they don't know how many years they can live with this old bone.
"My second brother and I, promise to do a good job." Seeing that Grandpa Yu was thoughtful, the light in Aunt Yu's eyes became brighter and brighter. "I can take care of the Xiling sisters more in the future, after all, they are still so young."
Grandpa Yu's heart moved, and he subconsciously looked at Yu Xiling.
The room fell silent all of a sudden, and seeing Grandpa Yu's worried expression, Yu Xiling smiled, "Second aunt, I don't plan to hand over this stall to others, I can do it myself." ”
"But you're going to school."
"I didn't plan to go to school." Yu Xiling didn't look at the shocked expressions of Grandpa Yu and Grandma Yu, and faced Second Aunt Yu, "So I have to look at this stall by myself, Second Aunt, I'm sorry." ”
Second Aunt Yu thought of many possibilities, even the possibility of sharing money, and persuaded herself to accept it, but she never expected that Yu Xiling didn't plan to go to school at all, nor did she plan to hand over the stall to them, "But you will marry one day, Xirong is the root of the old Yu family, and he is the man who supports the door of the Yu family!" Xiling, you can't be so selfish. ”
Yu Xiling shook her head and didn't remind her that although she came out of the house over there, she still had a brother.
"Then it's a matter of leaving your second uncle to work for you, according to the previous salary." Aunt Yu retreated to the second, and it was not bad to be able to learn the art of tofu.
"Nope."
In the end, Yu Xiling didn't let go, the family broke up unhappily, and even Second Uncle Yu didn't stand on Second Aunt Yu's side this time, when Uncle and Aunt snatched his niece's job, he panicked.
Aunt Yu had a secret hatred in her heart, and she hoped that Yu Xiling had better be interesting, don't force her to find the eldest brother, but she knew that Yu Jianguo had always opposed Yu Xiling making tofu.