After Zhao Fugui released his father on bail, the two drank some wine at a restaurant in the town.

In order to make money to support the family, his father has been in contact with friends in the village less and less in recent years, and he saw that Zhao Fugui was middle-aged and rich, and his hands were clean, unlike his own hands full of calluses and wounds with broken skin.

The father looked at Zhao Fugui and asked, "Fugui, how much did it cost you to bail me out?" ”

Zhao Fugui said: "How many years have we been brothers, and we still talk about this little money. ”

The father said: "If you don't say it, I'll ask my friends in the police station, just let me borrow yours, borrow it, please return it, one yard to one yard." ”

"Whatever you want, when you have money, I'm not in a hurry, but when I see you like this, my heart is panicked, are you short of money now, I'll lend you some first." Zhao Fugui said and took out two hundred yuan from his pocket.

Father shook his head, he didn't want Zhao Fugui's money, he suddenly cried and said: "We grew up together, there are so many friends in the village and outside the village, why do I feel that what I do now, I don't think it's my own now, since my mother died, Lao Jiang has never returned, and I don't even have anyone to talk to." ”

"Okay, okay, it's the same for everyone." Zhao Fugui patted his father on the shoulder and toasted with his father.

That day, Zhao Fugui rode a beam bicycle, with his drunken father behind him, and returned to Tunzi crookedly.

When he got home, his father pointed to his mother, who was cooking, and asked, "Why are you still here?" Kneeling on your knees, kneeling in the yard, unrepentant things, don't force me to do it. ”

The mother stopped and stood beside the stove at a loss, and the father slapped the mother in the face coldly and roared, "Kneel! ”

My mother immediately knelt in the courtyard, when Jiang Sheng and I had just come home from school, seeing this scene, Jiang Sheng shouted, "Why do you still beat your mother!" ”

The father snorted and said, "I can beat whoever I want, can you control me?" ”

"Mom, get up, I'll go with you to the town to rent a house to live in, not live in their house." Jiang Sheng went over to help his mother.

The mother didn't get up or speak, Jiang Sheng shrugged his shoulders aggrievedly and wiped his tears.

The father said: "I beat your mother, Jiang Rong, but I didn't beat you, do you think I'm afraid of your father or that Uncle Li?" Tell you Jiang Sheng, the reason why I didn't beat you was because I looked down on you, and I didn't treat you as my own family. ”

After his father finished speaking, he slammed the door shut and said, "Zhang Xiumei, you don't need to eat this meal at night, kneel in the courtyard and reflect on it, you'd better swear now that you won't have anything to do with anyone from your mother's side in the future, otherwise you can try, I'm not stimulated, and when the time comes, I will not only hack your mother's family to death, but also hack Jiang Sheng to death." You saved some money to prepare the coffin, don't blame me for not reminding you. ”

"Mom, why don't we go?" Jiang Sheng asked, shaking his mother.

The mother did not speak from beginning to end, did not swear, and did not ask for forgiveness from her father, her father was stubborn, her mother was stubborn, and Jiang Sheng was also stubborn.

When I went to bed at night, I sneaked out of the door and put a blanket on my mother, and Jiang Sheng curled up on the ground behind my mother to sleep, shivering from the cold.

I woke up Jiang Sheng and asked him to follow me into the house, Jiang Sheng pouted and ignored me, turning his head away from me.

I quietly went out to the door of Xiao Wu's house, smashed the stone far into his yard, the sound of the basin clanging came, and soon there was a bright light in the house, Niu Aihua pushed the door out with sleepy eyes, and woke up Xiao Wu in the next room to ask him what he was doing.

"Mom, I'm sleeping." Xiao Wu said impatiently.

After Niu Aihua returned to the house, I whispered, "Little Wu! ”

Xiao Wu heard the movement, pushed the door out, and asked with some fear, "Who?" ”

"It's me, Jiang Rong."

"Jiang Rong?" Xiao Wu came out with a sheet, leaned on the crack of the door and saw me standing at the door, and asked, "Why are you here so late?" ”

"Mom was punished by Dad to kneel, and Jiang Sheng slept in the yard and was about to freeze to death." I said.

Xiao Wu heard me say this, and hurriedly opened the door and followed me home, Jiang Sheng didn't care when he saw Xiao Wu coming, Xiao Wu didn't care whether Jiang Sheng was angry or not, and dragged Jiang Sheng back home.

The next day, my father got up a little late, and when I went out, the sun was already shining, and when my father left, I ignored my mother, who had been freezing all night, and went out.

Jiang Sheng didn't know how to persuade his mother, so he had to go to Shen A-Niang and go to school in the town with us.

Shen A-Niang pulled her mother home and cooked her a bowl of porridge, and then made a lace sweater on the side, Shen A-Niang said: "Sister, we have the same name, we are about the same age, and in fact, the people we marry are similar, and they are all good people." In the past, when I was in my hometown in Henan, my family was poor, my man had no ability, only farming, and gambling, the family could not save money, and I basically worked on farming, once my mother's family asked me for money, and I didn't say what the reason, I gave her all the money on my body, I thought there might be something urgent, after all, it was my mother who wanted, and later I learned that it was my mother who bought supplements for my sister-in-law for confinement. ”

My mother took a sip of porridge and said, "After all, it was my mother and brother, and they didn't treat me badly before." ”

"Li'er is such a reason, but things are not like this." Shen A-Niang said. "Men have always said that since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been in a dilemma, and women have no choice, your mother and your brother are blood thicker than water, but after all, you are married to Jiang Zhengyang, and you have children with others, no matter which one he is close to, no matter which one he has difficulties, you have to take care of yourself first, don't end up being people at both ends."

"So what should I do?" Mother asked, crying.

Shen A-Niang said: "If you are hungry, you will eat, if you are sick, you will be treated, if you have no money, you will die, how else can people live?" In the eyes of others, your mother and your brother have poor character, so if you help them, you are helping them wrong, if they have a good reputation, is it right or wrong to help them? ”

The mother said, "I don't understand what my sister meant. ”

Shen A-Niang said: "The meaning is very simple, your brother broke the law, he gambled and owed money, that was his own life, he was not punished for doing something wrong, and if you interfered from it, it was a violation of heavenly principles." You took Jiang Sheng's money to pay off his debts, you were betrayed by Jiang Sheng, and you can't pay it off in this life, and at the same time betrayed your man, making him have a pimple in his heart in this life. If your brother can change his ways, it's just that, it's not in vain that you offended everyone to help him, but in the end, people still think that you don't give enough, think about it now, who hasn't offended you, my stupid sister, being a good person doesn't do this. ”

Shen A-Niang said, put down the sweater in her hand, and served her mother a bowl of porridge, she continued: "Back then, I wanted to take care of both sides, but in the end I offended both ends, during the great famine, my mother's family and my brother and sister-in-law's family left first, and they didn't tell me a word. But sister, you have to remember, the grace of dripping water can make people repay the spring, the grace of the spring is not a grace, it will only drown people, the girl should give her mother money, and if you can't afford it, you have to give it to practice yourself. I know you have a good heart, but you have to be kind to be a little assertive. ”

That day, my mother and Shen A-Niang talked for a long time, and Shen and they chatted until the afternoon, when we returned to Sanlitun after school.

The sky was exceptionally blue that day, and on the way back from our school, Jiang Sheng was originally depressed, but Xiao Wu was a heartless person, and he would always pester Jiang Sheng to make him jump up and down, and Jiang Sheng's mood was also better.

Jiang Sheng has always been like this, he is obedient, he can always adapt to the environment around him quickly, at least it seems that he has integrated into the new environment.

I thought that my father would forgive my mother after a while, and my mother would have the opportunity to make up for the mistakes she had made for a while.

Maybe it was because my father had drunk the night before, maybe he had been in a mood swing lately, or maybe he was too late in the gendarmerie that caused the disaster, but in short, my father's bad news came unexpectedly.

At that time, my mother was still at Shen A-Niang's house, and when she saw Zhao Dahai coming home, Shen A-Niang said: "The children are also out of school, I see that Jiang Zhengyang has come back very early in the past two days, and when Jiang Zhengyang comes home in a while, I will go and tell him that life is still passable, and there is no trouble in this year, so it can still be a good life." ”

As soon as Shen A-Niang's voice fell, Zhao Dahai at the door said, "Mom, someone called, saying that they were looking for Jiang Zhengyang's family." ”