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Zou Chunhua called in advance, and as soon as the doorbell rang twice, Yao Min opened the door. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Thank you, sister-in-law, it's so late, I said I'll pick it up, you have to send it over." Yao Min took Zou Chunhua's hand and sat down on the sofa and said politely.
"I've put Lao Liang to sleep, and I'm just coming to talk to you." Zou Chunhua said, handing the few pages in her hand to Yao Min.
Yao Min was very moved when he saw Liang Changjian's handwritten "The Work That Parents of College Entrance Examination Students Should Do and Several Issues That Need to Be Paid Attention to", Liang Changjian's hands were still a little trembling, and the words written were also crooked, but it could be seen that he wrote very seriously stroke by stroke.
Zou Chunhua said to Yao Min on the side: "Lao Liang asked me to find a few reference books for this year's college entrance examination, and he read them for several days in a row, and wrote such a material based on Xiaoqian's experience in the college entrance examination. He asked me to tell you that he helped Xiaoqian take the college entrance examination a few years ago, and some of his experiences may not be valuable now. He also said that he is not in good health now, and his understanding of information is limited, if there is a parent-teacher conference or a college entrance examination consultation activity, let you participate as much as possible, especially to listen to the opinions of Xiaojun's homeroom teacher. ”
Yao Min said happily: "Thank you, and thank you Director Liang, I called Xiaoqian yesterday, and she also helped me with a lot of ideas, my heart is not as weak as a few days ago, and I already have some bases." Xiaoqian, this kid is really sensible, her attitude is very sincere, and her words make sense, which makes people feel hot in their hearts. ”
"It's also a poor man's child who is in charge of the house early, this girl suffered a lot with me in the countryside when she was young, her grandparents' health was not very good at that time, I didn't care about her many things, and her learning completely depended on her consciousness, from elementary school to junior high school, she was the first in the class in almost every exam, and she didn't let me worry much." Zou Chunhua said proudly.
"Xiaoqian has absorbed the advantages of Director Liang and the two of you, she looks like Director Liang and is as serious as you."
Zou Chunhua asked Yao Min tentatively: "There are some things in our family that you don't know before?" ”
"What are you referring to?" Yao Min asked Zou Chunhua strangely.
"Don't affect Xiaojun's study, let's go to the balcony and talk." Zou Chunhua said to Yao Min.
The two of them moved a small bench and sat down on the balcony, Zou Chunhua took a sip of the hot tea that Yao Min made for her, calmed her emotions, and followed the hairspring of memory, and returned to the extraordinary years more than 20 years ago.
"Lao Liang's family has a hard time, and several villages near our hometown are famous. At that time, I also knew that Lao Liang wanted to find a rural daughter-in-law, so that she could take care of the elderly at home, Lao Liang's own conditions were very good, and I believed that the girls who had seen him would be moved, but when I saw Lao Liang's poor family, I thought of the days after marriage, and many girls wanted to have a relationship with him and stopped. Although I haven't met Lao Liang, I think he is a person who can contribute everything to his parents, and he is worthy of me to sacrifice everything for him. When someone mentioned me to Lao Liang, Lao Liang did not refuse, he had a sentence that moved me for a lifetime, he said: A person who is willing to live a hard life in my home is worthy of my deep love for a lifetime. ”
Zou Chunhua said this, her voice was choked. Yao Min refilled her cup with some boiling water and whispered, "Sister, you speak slowly." ”
Zou Chunhua nodded, and then said: "After I married into the Liang family, I lived a life of coptis mixed with bitter gall, and I don't know how I survived those years. Two old people who can't take care of themselves, plus Lao Liang's younger brother who just went to junior high school, has 7 acres of land when he goes out, and has three mouths when he enters the house, before I went to their house, Lao Liang's sister and brother-in-law were about to collapse, and then Lao Liang's sister and brother-in-law had children, and they returned to their own home, and I became the pillar of the Liang family. In many families in the village, men do men's work, women do women's work, I am men's work, women's work is done together, and every night I lie down on the pit after work, feeling that I don't even know where my arms and legs are. At that time, I was most afraid of falling down, once I fell, this family was over, high fever and diarrhea were common, and I often survived without taking a pill. After marrying Lao Liang, because the family is inseparable from people, I have not visited relatives in the army for six years, Lao Liang has gone home a few times in the middle, all in civilian clothes, I married Lao Liang in the seventh year, only to know what he looks like when he wears a military uniform, I have only seen it in photos before. In the third year after my marriage to Lao Liang, I gave birth to a daughter, who grew very thin due to malnutrition. In the winter of the second year after giving birth, I was chopping firewood on the hillside outside the courtyard, Lao Liang led the straw curtain on the bed when his mother was cooking the fire in the house, and when the old lady stumbled out with a cane, the straw curtain burned the roof of the straw house again, when I was walking home, I saw the thick smoke, threw away the firewood and ran into the yard quickly, the whole house had become a ball of fire, and several neighbors were running from a distance to put out the fire. At this time, my father-in-law's shouting and my daughter's crying came from the room at the same time, and I rushed in desperately and carried my father-in-law out first, and the scar on my face was left by the burn. When I was about to rush into the house for the second time to save my daughter, the fire had already sealed the door, and the villagers who came to put out the fire grabbed me and prevented me from going inside. ”
Speaking of this, Zou Chunhua couldn't cry, and Yao Min burst into tears.
Zou Chunhua choked up and said: "My daughter was burned alive like this, I was really desperate at that time, I was short, my pelvis was narrow, I gave birth by caesarean section, and the doctor said that I should not have children in the future." Lao Liang's sister's second daughter is about the same age as my daughter, so she took my second daughter to me to raise, and this little girl gave me hope in life, she is Xiaoqian. ”
"Does Xiao Qian know about this?" Yao Min wiped her tears and asked Zou Chunhua.
She has known since she was a child, and she remembers that when she was in the second grade of primary school, one day when she came home from school, she said to me, Mom, my classmates all said that you are not my own mother, I am not afraid that they will say, you treat me as my daughter, I will treat you as my mother, at that time, our mother and son hugged each other and cried. After Lao Liang was transferred from the grassroots units to the organs, some comrades in the organs also knew what happened in our family, but they did not talk nonsense. Zou Chunhua sighed, and then said, "God doesn't know why this is unfair to people who live in the same world, let me take a cold shower for three or nine days, and don't even give me cold water to drink on dog days, after Lao Liang's parents died, I joined the army, and as a result, Lao Liang got the same disease as his father." ”
Yao Min took Zou Chunhua's hand and comforted her: "Eldest sister, I believe that kindness will be rewarded, Xiaoqian, this child is God's reward for your years of hard work." ”
Zou Chunhua nodded with satisfaction.
That night, two thoughtful women sat together and talked for a long, long time.