Since the pigs in the family were killed during the New Year's Festival, the pigsty was empty, and Shen's mother thought about buying a few piglets to raise them back, so that they could be killed in the coming year. Coincidentally, on this day, Shen Mei came back from her little sister Xiuxiu's house and told Shen's mother that Xiuxiu's pigs had given birth to more than a dozen piglets.

Shen's mother took the time to buy a piece of tofu at the house of the tofu maker in the village, and took Liu Bicao to Xiuxiu's house with her.

"Xiu Xiuniang, are you at home?" Mother Shen saw that the door of Xiuxiu's house was open, but she didn't go in directly, but stood at the door and shouted, and soon let the two of them in.

The Xiuxiu family and the Shen family have a similar layout, the hall is connected to two rooms, the west is the kitchen is also connected to two rooms, and the east is a room, which is used to put sundries and work tools.

"Mei Ziniang, why are you here?" Xiu Xiu Niang came out of the grass shed in the courtyard, patted the ashes on her body, beckoned the two to sit on the stone bench in the courtyard, and asked Xiu Xiu to come out with two bowls of water.

"Auntie, my mother and I heard from Meizi that your sow gave birth to piglets, and she is very strong." Liu Bicao said directly.

Xiu Xiuniang listened, and knew the intention of the two: "There are more than a dozen, I am worried about how to raise them, but it happens that you are here, it really helped me a lot, God bless." As he spoke, he bowed with his hands to the sky, causing the two of them to laugh.

Then Xiu Xiuniang took the two of them to the pigsty to pick out two sturdy piglets, and paid some big money to take them home.

As soon as Liu Bicao stepped into the courtyard, she saw a woman kneeling in the middle of the courtyard, Shen's father was sitting on the stone bench, his face was a little bad, and Shen Jinqian and the others stood on the side and didn't dare to come out, and they were also startled, but they didn't know who the woman on the ground was and why she knelt on the ground.

"Apricot?" Mother Shen looked at the back of the woman kneeling on the ground, and the more she looked, the more she looked like her eldest daughter, Shen Xing, who had been married for two years.

The woman on the ground heard the voice, her body stiffened, she lowered her head and refused to turn around, Shen Mu and Liu Bicao walked over, the person kneeling was indeed Shen Xing, and after a closer look, she found that there were bruises on her face.

"Apricot, what's going on?" Mother Shen was really startled when she looked at the wound on her face.

Liu Bicao also knew Shen Xing when she was a child, and the two also played together, but later after Liu Bicao's mother died, her mother entered the door and was sent to the town and she hadn't seen her since she was sent to town. Later, when Liu Bicao came back from the town, Shen Xing was already married.

Shen Xing was half a year older than Liu Bicao, and married a family surnamed Lu in the next town a year before Liu Bicao married into the Shen family. Shen Xing did not come back when Shen Jinqian and Liu Bicao got married, and neither did she come back on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Counting up, in the two years since she got married, Shen Xing has only gone home once, but she doesn't know what happened when Shen Xing returned to Shen's house alone with an injury on her face this time.

"Dad, although it is said that winter is now coming to spring, the ground is still cold, and I am afraid that if I kneel for a long time, I will hurt my knees." Liu Bicao saw that Shen's mother was anxious, and Shen's father had no intention of letting Shen Xing get up.

Father Shen glanced at Liu Bicao, looked at Liu Bicao nervously, and said to Shen Xing after a while: "Say, you haven't returned home for two years, why did you come back this time?" ”

Shen Xing bit her lip, but she didn't want to say anything, she just raised her head, her eyes swept between Liu Bicao and Shen Jinqian, and then lowered her head again.

Liu Bicao noticed, but she didn't know what Shen Xing meant.

"If you don't say it, just take advantage of the fact that it's not dark and go back to Lu's house." Father Shen sighed, got up and went to the hall.

Shen Xing saw that Shen's father really ignored her, and said anxiously: "Then Lu Yi and the widow in the town gave birth to a child. ”

It turned out that Shen Xing came back alone this time to take advantage of the absence of the Lu family, so she packed her clothes and ran back.

The relationship between Shen Xing and the Lu family was decided when Shen's mother was seriously ill, and at that time, the matchmaker came to the door to marry Shen Xing for the Lu family, but Shen's father and Shen's mother did not agree. It was Shen Xing who insisted on marrying the Lu family.

In the first half a year of marrying into the Lu family, the Lu family was still good to Shen Xing. The Lu family is relatively wealthy, running a shop in the town, and Shen Xing's mother-in-law Tian eats and drinks for Shen Xing every day.

But the good times didn't last long, Shen Xing's stomach didn't move, and Tian, who was anxious to hug his grandson, changed his attitude and let Shen Xing work every day.

When Shen Xing was in the Shen family, Shen's father and Shen mother didn't let Shen Xing do much work, and they didn't even enter the kitchen much. After breaking a few dishes in the kitchen, Tian looked at her more and more unpleasantly, and tried his best to rub her.

Two days ago, a widow who sells tofu in the town for a living came to Lu's house with a two-month-old boy and kept saying that the child belonged to Lu Yi.

Shen Xing naturally didn't believe it, and quarreled with the widow in a few words, Tian Shi looked at the child in the widow's arms is eyes lit up, and hurriedly asked the little guy in the shop to call Lu Yi back.

When Lu Yi saw the widow, he generously admitted that the child was his. Tian was immediately overjoyed, asked the widow to pack her things, and took the child to live in the Lu family. Shen Xing was so angry that the widow and child lived in the Lu family and went to find Tian, and the two didn't know what they said in the room, so they started to move. Shen Xing usually didn't touch the spring water with his ten fingers, but he couldn't withstand Tian's strength, and was injured by Tian's family, and only when his body was better did he sneak back to Shen's house.

Shen's mother listened to Shen Xing's words, and she was also very angry, when the Lu family came to ask for marriage, it was better to speak than to sing, but now it has only been two years, and other people's children have been born.

Liu Bicao saw that Shen's mother had a bad face, and was afraid that she would be angry, so she hurriedly stepped forward to stroke her back: "Mother, don't be angry, since the matter has happened, we will find a way to solve it, Ah Xing is back, just live at home first, and talk about it later." ”

"Yes, mother, we listen to my sister-in-law, don't be angry." Shen Mei also stepped forward and comforted Shen's mother with Liu Bicao left and right.

"It was you who insisted on marrying the Lu family at the beginning, and you are to blame for everything today." Father Shen helped Shen's mother sit down and looked at Shen Xing.

"Dad, my mother was seriously ill at the beginning, and there were so many dowries from the Lu family, and I was also ......"

"Shut up." Father Shen scolded, frowning and looking at Shen Xing. Shen's mother also felt a pain in her heart when she heard Shen Xing's words, and Liu Bicao didn't expect Shen Xing to say such a thing.

"At the beginning, my mother's money for medical treatment was my eldest brother's savings, and your dowry was all given to you." Shen Jinxin pointed to the second sister on the ground, and after finishing speaking, he didn't bother to look at her, so he pulled Liu Boan and left.

"All the books you read when you were a kid went to the dog's belly." Father Shen was so angry that he slapped the table and stood up, "You go back to Lu's house." ”

Liu Bicao couldn't believe that Shen Xing had agreed to the marriage of the Lu family in this situation, was it really as she said because Shen's mother was seriously ill and needed money, or was it really just because of ...... Because of the solidity of the Lu family.

Liu Bicao, who didn't know the situation, didn't dare to answer rashly at this time, but just stood aside and kept an eye on Shen's mother's situation.

"Dad, why are you so ruthless, even if your daughter is at fault, now that your daughter has reached this point, can you bear to watch me go back to the Lu family and continue to be bullied?" Shen Xing asked loudly, without any remorse.

"Dad, she was forced to do so at the beginning, so let's disturb her this time, let her stay at home." Shen Jinqian, who had been silent, saw Shen Xing's sudden tears, and finally couldn't help but plead for her.

Father Shen looked at Shen Jinqian for a while before asking in a deep voice, "Have you forgotten what she did to you in the first place?" She puts your ......"

"Old man."

was stopped by Shen's mother, Shen's father reacted to what he said just now, his eyes turned around Liu Bicao, and he was relieved to see that she had no reaction.

In fact, Liu Bicao was puzzled in her heart as early as when Shen Jinqian spoke, and always felt that Shen Jinqian's eyes on Shen Xing were more cherished than the eyes of Shen He and Shen Mei. It may also be because of sympathy for what happened to this eldest sister in her mother-in-law's house, Liu Bicao didn't think much about it, but Shen's father's words made her not quite understand, curious about how Shen Xing treated Shen Jinqian at the beginning, which made Shen's father so angry, and also curious about what Shen Jinqian's mouth had to do.

However, Liu Bicao did not ask out of place, and she no longer participated in the question of Shen Xing's whereabouts.

"That's it, you are still the daughter I raised after all, go to what your eldest brother and sister-in-law said, stay at home for the time being." Father Shen pondered for a long time.

In this way, Shen Xing stayed in the Shen family and stayed. Because there were not enough rooms at home, Shen Xing and Shen Mei and Shen He were crowded into one room.