Chapter 42 There is a bad brother in the family
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Xu Xiaofan rode a horse to Peach Blossom Village, the place where he lived since he was a child.
Out of the Chang'an City Gate, keep driving west.
In just half an hour, I arrived at a village full of peach trees, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and with beautiful scenery. If you can come two months earlier, it is the time when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, and the village is red and fragrant, it must be beautiful.
Xu Xiaofan entered the village, and everything in the village seemed to be very different from the environment he had in his mind when he left three years ago.
He had forgotten a little about what his playmates who grew up with him looked like now, as if one was darker and the other was fatter, and that's it.
Things are not people, and the people and things in the village have forgotten the outline.
After walking around the village for most of the time, I didn't find my home. Every household is basically a small courtyard with bamboo fences, and the structure of earthen walls and wooden houses is like. It's not that he has amnesia, it's that the memories in his mind are too vague.
An old woman led her little grandson and saw him going around and around, his eyes were confused, so she walked up to him and asked, "Young man, what are you looking for after so long?" ”
This lady seems to be a little familiar, what is it called, what is it called.
Xu Xiaofan struggled to recall in his mind that this person must have seen it, but his appearance changed a little. It really doesn't get much, it's probably about twenty or thirty pounds of weight, the corners of the eyes are drooping, the wrinkles are more, and the teeth are missing........
He looked at the enthusiastic old woman and tried to recall for a few seconds, and the name finally came out: "Granny Yang!" ”
"You know me? Who are you? Granny Yang looked puzzled, this young man should have never seen it, although he was a little confused, but he was not so confused that he couldn't even remember anyone, at least he would have a familiar face when he met him, but the young man in front of him seemed to really ..... I'm not masked.
Xu Xiaofan jumped off the horse and said inexplicably excitedly: "It's me!" Think again? You've also invited me to eat peach blossom stuffed meatballs. ”
Peach blossom stuffed meatballs, Granny Yang also made her own in the village to eat, at most distributed to the children in the village, and never took it out, she must know the people who have eaten her exclusive stuffed meatballs.
"Could it be the youngest son of the Xu family?" Granny Yang looked him up and down, the children in the village grew up, and even some people knew that they had moles on their buttocks, but the youngest son of the Xu family left the village three years ago, and now he really forgot what he looked like.
Xu Xiaofan nodded happily: "Mmmm! ”
Although, all this is the memory of the original owner.
However, he can also empathize with the things he can remember, such as the taste of this old lady Yang's stuffed meatballs... It's so fragrant that you can almost participate in "Tang Dynasty on the Tip of the Tongue".
"I remember when you left the village, you were black and thin. Now that he looks dignified, Chang'an seems to be very nurturing. As soon as Granny Yang heard that it was a child who had grown up around the back of her buttocks, she stepped forward and pinched his face.
The manpower of farming is big, and I don't know the severity of this pinch, and Xu Xiaofan, who pinched it, was in pain, so he could only accompany him with a smile. Looking down, the little grandson who was being held by her was also swollen and green, so blessed........
Straight to the point.
Granny Yang asked, "I just saw you spinning around here, what are you looking for?" Lost money? ”
Xu Xiaofan subconsciously touched the money bag, scratched the back of his neck, and smiled awkwardly: "No, I'm not afraid of your old jokes." I haven't been home for a long time, and now I can't even find my home, and I remember that it seems to be near here. ”
"Oh." Granny Yang's expression seemed to have a lot of parents' shortcomings, in short: "Your family moved, the house was burned down by fire two years ago, and now it has moved to the end of the village." ”
"Huh?" Xu Xiaofan was full of surprise, and then asked, "Is my mother okay?" ”
"It's nothing, it's just a pity that the house burned down."
Granny Yang's panting speech scared him a lot, can you not keep shaking your head.
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Xu Xiaofan said goodbye to Granny Yang for the time being and rushed to the end of the village.
A simple thatched hut and adobe house came into view.
Xu Xiaofan tied the horse to the side of the tree and walked towards the adobe house step by step, his mood was very complicated, excitement, longing, and resentment were all feelings brought by this body, obviously all this had nothing to do with him, how could he feel so violent?
As soon as Xu Xiaofan entered the door, he happened to meet a middle-aged woman with half-white hair and a kind face who was struggling to repair fishing nets, this person was his mother Zhao, Zhao heard the movement, turned around to see him, and smiled gracefully: "Childe, are you thirsty here?" You wait here for me, and I'll pour you a bowl of water. ”
Oh, my God! I don't even know my son anymore...... Is it that he has become too much, or that Zhao has forgotten what he looks like.
"Wait, I'm not asking for water."
"What is the boy doing here? Could it be, is it ..... Are you here to collect debts? I don't have any money, I told you a few days ago, I'll pay you back slowly. ”
inexplicably robbed the white, and he was actually regarded as a debt collector.
"I, I, I ......" Xu Xiaofan has lived two lives, and he has never called his mother, but he wants to call but is stuck in his throat and can't get out.
"What are you, what are you, my son owes you gambling debts, and I can't help it. Don't push me again, I'll give you the money I have!" Zhao looked nervous, and the shuttle in her hand was a little unsure of where to put it, and almost wiped it on her neck.
"Mother, don't hurt yourself, put the shuttle down." Xu Xiaofan didn't dare to take a step closer, stood in place, and persuaded. Even the 'mother' who didn't know how to shout out suddenly jumped out.
"Mother?" In order to repay the gambling debts owed by his eldest son Xu Dafu, the Zhao family helped people mend the net during the day and sew clothes at night, and the money earned was not enough to pay off the high interest of the gambling house. As I get older, my health is not good, my eyesight is getting worse day by day, and I can't see each other's appearance clearly when I leave ten steps. She refused to put down the shuttle, for fear that the other party would deceive her, and approached step by step, Xu Xiaofan's appearance gradually became clearer, until she dropped the shuttle and held Xu Xiaofan's face and said: "Fan'er, it's really Fan'er, why did you come back?" ”
Feeling the influence of mother's love for the first time, Xu Xiaofan, as an orphan in his last life, was undoubtedly nourished by the rain on the dry and cracked earth, and his cold heart also melted away.
Xu Xiaofan didn't know how to feel, he was a little moved, not to the extent of old tears, looking at the two lines of tears on Zhao's face, and comforting: "Mother, don't cry, what's going on?" You say slowly, I'm here, don't be afraid. ”
The first thing mother and son do when they meet is not to recall the interesting things when they were young, but to wipe their butts for their eldest brother, which can really be described as ....... The bitterness is at the end.
mentioned Xu Dafu, and the old lady sobbed a few more.
When it comes to gambling debts, the old lady is even more helpless.
bullied himself a few years ago, and dragged down his mother in the past few years, Xu Dafu is really hateful.