In the early years of the Republic of China, a piece of ocean could buy a cow, and the inflation caused by the war could only buy a cow for five oceans in the 33rd year of the Republic of China.

At that time, one acre of land was less than a large ocean, and the average farmer had seven or eight acres of land all year round, which was enough to feed a family.

The mother fell on the ground and cried, and the father looked at Jiang Sheng and asked, "When you came to Sanlitun, did Chen Gongbo give you money?" ”

Jiang Sheng nodded, Chen Gongbo was afraid that Jiang Sheng would be wronged in the countryside, in his opinion, although five hundred oceans was not much, it would definitely be enough to feed a lifetime in the countryside, not to mention that Jiang Sheng was a motivated person, and five hundred oceans might not be used up.

Chen Gongbo asked his subordinate Uncle Li to give the money to Jiang Sheng, and Uncle Li helped Jiang Sheng deposit the money in the most famous state-run bank at that time, and repeatedly told him that the money must be guarded by himself, and the passbook, deposit slip and serial number must be hidden, and never tell others.

But Jiang Sheng has been correspondingly with his mother for several years, he trusts his mother very much, and he also knows that his mother is a thrifty person, and she can't spend much money, so he handed over all the bank passbooks to his mother, and often told her not to be reluctant to spend money.

Five hundred oceans is Jiang Sheng's life-saving money, and it is also the basis for him to change his fate in the future, not to mention that there are only five hundred oceans of silver dollars in the bank, she doesn't believe that her mother will take out all the money and give it to others without saying hello to him in advance.

In Jiang Sheng's opinion, although his mother has not read for a few years, she is at least reasonable and distinguishes between right and wrong.

The father said: "Your mother took out 500 yuan of ocean and gave it to Jiang Rong's uncle, Jiang Sheng, I will give you food and drink when you come to our house, I didn't want to be greedy for your half a dime, you don't tell me, and you handed the money over to this woman with a brain problem, now it's gone, wait to drink the northwest wind." ”

Mother looked at Jiang Sheng and said, "Mom, this is to save your uncle, he owes other people gambling debts, and they are chasing him to the door and want to chop off his hand." ”

"Zhang Xiumei, I want to ask, there is no difference between your brother Zhang Laibao and his hands, if he has the ability to gamble, if he doesn't have the ability to pay it back?" Father asked with a sneer.

The mother said: "My mother is lying on the hospital bed and can't move, she is going to kneel down and beg me, can I watch the child's uncle die?" ”

"You can't see the child's uncle die, but you can see the child's father die, right? I work hard for the little devil, and I can't earn a piece of ocean in a month, I deserve it? The father roared with red eyes and kicked his mother in the back.

"Don't hit Mom!" Jiang Sheng yelled and stepped forward to bump into his father.

The father kicked Jiang Sheng away, and then stomped on his mother's head, and his mother's head slammed into the ground, and her hair fell to the ground.

Jiang Sheng sat on the ground with a resentful look in his eyes, and I was so frightened that I cried, in my impression, my father almost never beat his mother, and he was not even fierce, but this time he was really angry.

The father pointed to his mother and said, "Either go back to your mother's house, or kneel in the yard, if you want to leave, take your seed with you, you go and see if your mother can go to the ground, if you can eat and live in her house for a month, I will write the word Jiang upside down!" Zhang Xiumei, let me tell you, I, Jiang Zhengyang, have never been rare to other people's things, but my others can't rob them, and you can't either, from now on, the days can't be dispersed, if you can still live, you won't get a penny, let's wait and see, I want to see what you can do! ”

When my father had finished speaking, he led me into the hall, and I cried out, "Brother." ”

"That's not your brother, the little red guy from Shanghai, I didn't want to give you a piece of the ocean without seeing five hundred yuan, so that he would die with his mother." With that, my father slammed the door of the hall shut.

Jiang Sheng got up to help his mother, and his father opened the door and pointed at his mother and said, "Zhang Xiumei, you'd better kneel honestly, otherwise no one will be able to do anything to me if I break your legs, I see where you can sue me." ”

Then my father locked the door of the hall and asked me to sleep, and I said aggrievedly, "My brother hasn't come in yet." ”

"You can't die if you don't sleep for one night, if your mother doesn't have a lesson, she doesn't know what fear is." The more my father talked, the more angry he became, so he picked up the kitchen knife from the board and threw it through the crack in the door. "Zhang Xiumei, this knife is next, you can wipe your neck if you want, it's best to chop your son too, save me from raising an extra dog, you die Lao Tzu just find another one, at least you have to be an undefeated person who can work, two acres of land at home let you do a waste You dragged it for a month, and half of it was rotten for Lao Tzu, why don't you rot yourself in the ground, huh?"

Except for occasionally saying a few words to Zhao Fugui and Ma Aiguo, he specially asked Ma Aiguo and Zhao Fugui to call him if he found that his uncle would come to my house again, and left the phone number of the gendarmerie.

But the uncle didn't come to Sanlitun, but the uncle's phone called Zhao Fugui's house, and the uncle asked Zhao Fugui to hurry up and call his mother, otherwise he would die.

Zhao Fugui hesitated for a moment and called his mother to the store to answer the phone, and his mother went home after answering the phone and hurried to the town.

Zhao Fugui felt that something was wrong, so he called his father, who was working in the gendarmerie, at that time his father wanted to ask for leave, but the gendarmerie did not let him at all, he could only wait anxiously for the gendarmerie to get out of duty, and then ran all the way to his grandmother's house.

At that time, my grandmother was feeding the chickens in the yard and did not look bedridden, so my father anxiously asked where my mother was, and after learning that she was at the police station, she rushed to the police station.

The mother signed in the police station, and the uncle was just released at that time, and the mother saw the father, her face turned pale with fright, and asked, "Zhengyang, why are you here?" ”

The father ignored the mother, glared at the uncle fiercely, and then went to a friend he knew at the police station and asked him what was going on, and asked how much his mother had spent.

When his father learned that his mother had repaid his uncle's gambling debts of 500 yuan, he thought that he had heard it wrong, and he looked at the IOUs in his hand again and again, which were clearly written in black and white.

In my father's life, he was not afraid of poverty, tiredness, or trouble, but betrayal.

Wenwen, who has always looked weak, smashed his uncle's nose bone with a punch, dragged his uncle out of the police station and broke his arm, and was finally pulled away by the police, and his body was still shaking uncontrollably.

The father pointed to his uncle and said, "Zhang Laibao, I can't kill you, but you'd better hope that Lao Jiang doesn't come back, if you can't kill you, Lao Jiang will definitely kill you." ”

After the father finished speaking, he looked at his mother and said, "Come back with me, I will scold people outside for dogs and traitors to work for the gendarmerie, and you will take 500 yuan and send it to others like this, which is very good." ”

The policeman who knew his father stepped forward and persuaded: "Zhengyang, if you dissipate your anger, you will be considered to be ruined and avoid disasters, just educate and educate your sister-in-law, and let her not have anything to do with Zhang Laibao, a scumbag, in the future." ”

"Do you think this woman can be educated well?" Father asked with red eyes. "Do you think she can not have a relationship with Zhang Laibao? That's his own brother, how can he not come and go?! Our family is going to be unable to eat, so he gave the gold and silver bricks to others! ”

After the father finished speaking, he dragged her mother away by clothes, and the mother was dragged behind like a dog along the way.

That night, my father lay on the kang alone and couldn't sleep, I lay on the bed, looked through the window at Jiang Sheng, who was sitting on the ground and looked sad, and I felt extremely sad.

The next day, my father got up early, woke me up, asked me to wash my face and brush my teeth, and after my father got dressed and washed, he wanted to lead me to school.

"Dad, it's too early, I haven't eaten yet, and I have to wait for my brother." I said.

The father said: "Don't wait for him, he doesn't have to go to school in the future, the boy has to come down early to find some work, Dad can provide you with education, and you don't have to eat at home in the future, Dad takes you down to the restaurant every day." ”

"I don't want it, I want my brother." I cried quietly and tried to pull my hand out of my father's big hand.

My father ignored my feelings and dragged me out the door, and my mother was on her knees with her eyes glazed over, her hair falling down like a madman.

Jiang Sheng stood up suddenly, he looked at his father and said, "Isn't it just five hundred oceans, I asked my father if he wanted it again, Uncle Li would send it to me, if I gave it to you, you are not allowed to beat my mother again in the future." ”

The father snorted and said: "How mature you are in the eyes of outsiders, in my opinion, you are not as good as Jiang Rong, after all, children talk big, you can rest assured, I don't care about your money, you can ask for it." ”

Jiang Sheng walked to Zhao Fugui's house with a sigh of relief, knocked on the door and shouted, "Shen A-Niang, open the door, I want to call!" ”

My father ignored me and led me out of Sanlitun.

I said, "Dad, my brother will ask for the money, don't beat your mother in the future." ”

The father said: "If he doesn't come, it will only be worth so much money since he was sent to Sanlitun." ”