Although the house of the little fifth grandmother is not a big family in the town, the deed in the town is worth a few oceans, and the young five years do not understand, and when he learns about the inheritance of the inheritance from others, it is too late, and the house of the grandmother's family is divided and sold by several brothers of the grandfather.

Xiao Wu's grandfather and his brothers have always been at odds, and the old couple only have Niu Aihua as a daughter, so the deed after their death should fall into Niu Aihua's hands anyway, and then transfer it to Xiao Wu, but Niu Aihua is crazy, how can he ever think of Xiao Wu's future livelihood.

After Ma Aiguo's ashes were buried, Niu Aihua made a lot of noise and threw things at home all day long, he often shouted Ma Aiguo's name in his mouth, and sat in the yard crying after scolding for a long time.

Xiao Wu can't cook, he can only cook porridge simply, in the first few days, every time he gave Niu Aihua porridge, Niu Aihua opened his mouth to eat, and he couldn't notice the foaming on his mouth.

Therefore, every time Xiao Wu cooks porridge, he has to wait for the porridge to be almost cold before giving Niu Aihua Sheng, and when Niu Aihua does not eat, Xiao Wu can only feed Niu Aihua himself.

Xiao Wu was originally a lazy person, sleeping early and getting up late every day, but since Niu Aihua went crazy, he had to coax Niu Aihua to sleep every day before he dared to go back to the room to sleep, and the next morning because he had to go to school, he could only get up early to cook.

Sometimes Niu Aihua went crazy early in the morning, and Xiao Wu didn't dare to leave, so he could only let us go to school first, and then go to school when Niu Aihua calmed down.

There were originally more than 70 people in the class, but after a plague, some of the classmates' families were out of the house, and their lives were in turmoil, so they had to drop out of school, and there were only about 50 people left in the class.

Xiao Wu will be sleepy during the day, and sometimes he will be found by Mr. to get out and stand, and Mr. has always had a bad impression of Xiao Wu, and sometimes he speaks ill of him.

After school, Xiao Wu didn't chase and fight with Jiang Sheng and Zhao Dahai like before, he hurriedly returned to Sanlitun, for fear that something would go wrong with Niu Aihua.

Xiao Wu's worries finally came true, one evening after returning to the tunzi, I saw Niu Aihua stripped naked and stood at the door from a distance, some villagers around did not dare to come forward to persuade, and finally Xiao Wu pushed Niu Aihua into the yard.

At night, Xiao Wu boiled hot water to let Niu Aihua take a bath, Niu Aihua couldn't listen, Xiao Wu made it for a long time, and it was already midnight after helping Niu Aihua take a bath, he was so tired that he wanted to cry without tears, and secretly came to my door to call Jiang Sheng, and asked Jiang Sheng to go out to talk to him.

After Niu Aihua went crazy, the village chief invited the old Chinese medicine doctor in the town to see Niu Aihua, and the old Chinese medicine doctor said that Niu Aihua was temporarily stimulated and lost her mind, and if her mood could be stable for ten days and half a month, she might get better.

The old Chinese medicine doctor prescribed calming medicine for Niu Aihua, and asked Xiao Wu to boil medicine for Niu Aihua to drink every day.

Xiao Wu stopped going to school from those days, he saw that the medicine was boiled in front of the medicine stove, and then when the medicine was a little colder, he went to the house to feed Niu Aihua.

Niu Aihua looked sluggish, looked at an empty photo frame on the wall and said, "Son, why do I think our family is missing something?" ”

Xiao Wu blew on the decoction and said, "Mom, drink slowly, you will remember everything after drinking the medicine." ”

"Oh." Niu Aihua responded, and immediately spit it out after taking a sip. "Bitter!"

"Good medicine is bitter, you said so when I was a child, after drinking the medicine this time, I will buy sugar for you tomorrow." Xiao Wu coaxed.

Niu Aihua sighed and said, "I like to eat sugar. ”

Xiao Wu was afraid that Niu Aihua would be stimulated by seeing Ma Aiguo's photos at home, so he hid Ma Aiguo's photos, and his mother and Shen A-Niang would often go to Xiao Wu's house to help in those days, teach Xiao Wu to cook and do laundry, and help him do some housework.

Shen A-Niang will deliberately fry more when she stir-fries at home, and then put another bowl for Zhao Dahai to serve to Xiao Wu's house.

After Ma Aiguo's death, Xiao Wu's financial source was cut off, Niu Aihua was crazy and didn't know where to hide the money, and the money in the big closet of the hall house was quickly used up.

When Xiao Wu arrived at Yang Chunfeng's house in the town, he knew that his grandmother's home had been sold, and he went to find the second uncle Ma Aimin and the third uncle Ma Aidang, and the two uncles were also very sad at first when they learned that Ma Aiguo had died, but when they learned that Xiao Wu was asking them to lend money to Niu Aihua for medical treatment, they made a straight face.

Xiao Wu said: "Third uncle, when my dad asked others to lend you money to build a house and get married, you look at my dad's face, lend me some money, and I will treat my mother." ”

Ma Aidang snorted and said: "The money your father gave me was originally due to me and your second uncle, if it weren't for your mother's unreasonable girl, how could it make our brothers turn against each other?" When your father dies, we will burn paper, and the matter of borrowing money will be exempted, you see that we live in a dilapidated house, there is no food at home, and we are tired and tired of working hard all day long, where will we get the money to lend you? ”

Xiao Wu saw that Ma Ai didn't borrow it, and he didn't know what to say, so he had to go home.

After Xiao Wu left, Ma Aidang snorted and said, "What a retribution." ”

Xiao Wu was very aggrieved on the way back from the town, he had never been worried about money before, when he was greedy, Niu Aihua would always buy some delicious food for him to eat, even the clothes Xiao Wu did not wear torn, a few days ago it was a good family, and it was gone after a while.

When he was in school, Wang Hu would often bring snacks for him to eat, and when Jiang Sheng was rich, he would also invite him to eat steamed buns and maltose.

Xiao Wu couldn't help crying when he thought of this, he didn't know if he could borrow money from Zhao Dahai to treat Niu Aihua, but it was estimated that Zhao Dahai didn't have so much money, and he didn't know how to talk to Shen Aniang and Zhao Fugui.

At that time, because of the extermination of rats and fleas, the courtyard where Lao Jiang lived was disinfected inside and out, all the flowers and plants were eradicated, and the clothes and furniture were also burned, leaving only some of the medicine that Lao Jiang dispensed remained.

The rest of the herbs were packed in snakeskin bags and taken to the town's Chinese medicine hall and sold cheaply.

When Lao Jiang was dying, he told his mother to burn all the IOUs he received when he went out to see a doctor, and those poor people had no money to see a doctor and couldn't afford to pay back, so don't embarrass them.

Mother naturally relied on Lao Jiang and burned all those scattered IOUs.

After Lao Jiang's death, the family's financial resources were cut off, but fortunately, because Lao Jiang was a martyr, the town gave our family some pensions, plus my mother still had some money in her hand, and the family's grain was still half a warehouse, barely enough to last until the autumn harvest.

After Niu Aihua went crazy, only Xiao Wuyi was left, and he was originally a difficult person to support, not to mention taking care of a crazy Niu Aihua.

At that time, the adults in every household told their children not to go to the vicinity of Xiao Wu's house, because Niu Aihua was a madman, and she almost strangled her own son, let alone someone else's son.

Niu Aihua drank calming medicine for half a month, and her spirits gradually improved, and she occasionally had times when her mood was stable, but she couldn't help but break down emotionally when she remembered that Ma Aiguo was dead.

Niu Aihua is a feudal and superstitious woman in the old society, although she is extremely annoying, but she is patriotic to Ma from the beginning, which is why Ma Aiguo can always endure Niu Aihua.

After Xiao Wu came home that night, he saw Niu Aihua washing clothes in the yard alone, so he hurriedly ran over and said, "Mom, why do you wash your own clothes, you can't touch the cold water, go back to the house to rest, I'll wash the clothes." ”

Niu Aihua's expression was slightly puzzled, and she looked at Xiao Wu and said, "Son, why have you lost weight?" ”

Xiao Wu said: "I have recently lost weight. ”

Niu Aihua said: "Who doesn't want to be fat now, fat is good-looking, when your father comes back from work, I will let him come back tomorrow with a pound of pork." ”

Xiao Wu didn't know how to pick up Niu Aihua, so he squatted down to rub his clothes, Niu Aihua continued: "Your dad works in the factory, which is much more decent than Jiang Rong's dad working for the little devil." ”

Xiao Wu said: "Mom, don't go out for the past two days, there is only a little medicine left at home, I will go to the master tomorrow and ask the master to lend you money to see a doctor." ”

"Who is your master?" Niu Aihua asked.

"Wu Qingyun." Xiao Wu replied.

"It turned out to be Daochang Wu, when did you worship him as a teacher?" Niu Aihua looked very puzzled. "He said that you will be the champion in the future, and you will choose a different life because of a choice, Xiao Wu, don't choose the wrong one, you have to choose what is beneficial to you."

"Got it, Mom." Xiao Wu said as he got up and poured water into the basin.

Niu Aihua suddenly pointed at Xiao Wu and shouted, "Who are you?" ”

Xiao Wu said: "I am Xiao Wu, mother, your son." ”

"You're not Xiao Wu, you get out of here!" Niu Aihua said and pushed Xiao Wu out of the door.

Xiao Wu wanted to speak and stopped, for fear that Niu Aihua would make trouble again, so he had to squat outside the door silently.

In the middle of the night, her mother Zhang Xiumei brought a bowl of hot soup and a bowl of vegetable juice to Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu raised his head, took the rice from his mother's hand, and devoured it.

Xiao Wu said, "Auntie, can I bring this bowl of soup to my mother?" ”

Mother nodded and said, "You can bring it in, just put the bowl in your sink after eating, and I'll take it tomorrow." ”

After the mother finished speaking, she turned around and left, Xiao Wu stopped her mother and said, "Auntie, I will pay back the 1,000 yuan that my father borrowed from your family, don't worry." ”

Xiao Wu brought the hot soup into the house and coaxed Niu Aihua to go to bed after feeding Niu Aihua, Niu Aihua lay on the bed and looked at Xiao Wu, who had a vague impression, and said: "Son, I think my brain is a little unclear recently, and I can't remember you anymore, you come and kiss my mother." ”

Xiao Wu leaned his face to Niu Aihua, Niu Aihua kissed Xiao Wu fiercely on the face, and said: "Son, if you win the champion in the future, you must not forget your mother, and you will come to pick me up on the first day to enjoy Qingfu." ”

"Knowing Mom, I will definitely be admitted to the top in the future." Xiao Wu bared his teeth and smiled, covered Niu Aihua with a quilt and went back to his house.

That night, Xiao Wu tossed and turned, and got up early the next morning to go to the town, and it happened that school was not in class that day, Xiao Wu thought all the way about how to tell Wu Qingyun about what happened at home.

When he arrived at Wu Qingyun's house, Wu Qingyun was receiving a guest, Xiao Wu waited in the courtyard for a long time, and after Wu Qingyun sent the guest away, Wu Qingyun looked at Xiao Wu and asked, "You and I have the fate of master and apprentice, why are you here?" ”

"Master, my grandma and grandpa are dead, my dad is dead, and my mom is crazy." Xiao Wu's eyes were red as he spoke. "Master, did you already know that they would die?"

Wu Qingyun said coldly: "People's lives are determined by heaven, how can I know, haven't you always believed it?" ”

Xiao Wu said: "Then why did the senior brother remind me not to touch the rats and not to eat anything outside two days before the plague broke out, you knew that they would die, why didn't you save them?" ”

Wu Yao said: "Senior brother, Taoist people can't forcibly change the destiny of heaven, and the master is a mortal after all, and it can't be calculated exactly, the master has died in order to save you." ”

Xiao Wu wiped his tears and said, "My mother is crazy now, I want money to treat him, and I will pay it back later." ”

Wu Yao saw that Wu Qingyun's face was expressionless, and he also begged: "Master, why don't you see your junior brother's mother." ”

Wu Qingyun looked indifferent and said: "There's no need, our master-apprentice relationship is over, don't come to me in the future, your mother's illness can't be cured, and there is no need to treat it anymore." ”

"What do you mean?" Xiao Wu looked at Wu Qingyun and asked.

Wu Yao asked, "Master, are you saying that the junior brother's mother is gone?" ”

Wu Yao didn't dare to be convinced, and looked at Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu said: "She was fine when I came in the morning, senior brother, do you have any money to lend me some." ”

Wu Qingyun turned around and went back to his bedroom, and said, "Yao'er, send off." ”

Wu Yao whispered to Xiao Wu, "You wait here for a while." ”

After Wu Yao finished speaking, he ran back to his room, and after a while, he took out an iron box, which contained a few silver dollars and a lot of change, Wu Yao said: "This is all the money I give you, and I can't figure out what the master says, you hurry home to see your mother, maybe what the master said is true, before we don't know each other, the master will see your mother's mother, saying that she can't survive the day you get admitted to the champion, the master will take me to Yunyou these days, and we will see each other again in the future, you must take care of yourself." ”

Xiao Wu nodded, took the money given by Wu Yao and hurriedly left Wu Qingyun's mansion.

Xiao Wu first went to the pharmacy to grab some calming medicine, asked some ways to treat heart loss, how much it cost, and finally hurried home, this morning Niu Aihua has not drunk the medicine, Xiao Wu is afraid that Niu Aihua will make trouble again.

When Xiao Wu returned to Sanlitun, Zhao Dahai and I were watching Jiang Sheng play chess with the old people in the village under the big tree at the mouth of Tunzikou.

"Little Five!" Zhao Dahai shouted to Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu said: "I'll come out after boiling the medicine for my mother." ”

At that time, it was already noon, and we were soon all called home by our respective parents for dinner, and the children in Sanlitun played on the wheat field for an afternoon and Xiao Wu did not appear, Jiang Sheng and Zhao Dahai knew about the changes in Xiao Wu's family, so they didn't call Xiao Wu.

In the evening, Xiao Wu still didn't come out of the house, so Jiang Sheng took me and Zhao Dahai to Xiao Wu's house together.

At that time, the evening sun shone into the courtyard of Xiao Wu's house, and Xiao Wu sat at the door of the hall, leaning against the door, looking at the beams in the hall with a dull expression.

Jiang Sheng called Xiao Wu's name, and when he saw that Xiao Wu didn't respond, he pushed open the door and looked at Xiao Wu's gaze.

Niu Aihua hung straight under the beams.