CHAPTER XVII
"Sister-in-law, why don't you go to the district and find a place to live, so your life will be too sad." Su Haiqiang said sympathetically.
Mom listened, didn't make a sound, went to the district, the people there are not familiar, I don't know what will happen? Besides, the autumn harvest is coming soon, and the family doesn't have much money, so what do you eat when you go to the district?
Su Haiqiang saw that his mother didn't speak, and it was difficult to persuade him again, so he could only take his time, this matter was in a hurry.
Su Honglin saw those villagers see her these days, always pointing and pointing, and when she turned her head, those people stopped talking, Su Honglin always felt that all this was inseparable from her aunt.
This evening, Chen Wenyue hadn't come back yet, Su Honglin closed the door of the house, and was about to sit in the room waiting for her mother, but she heard their back door knocked gently, she felt very strange, who was it?
She took a knife, leaned against the door, and asked loudly, "Who is it?" β
The knock on the door was gone, and no one answered, Su Honglin only felt a little creepy, could there be a ghost?
Su Honglin didn't believe in ghosts and gods in her previous life, but now she believes in it a little, how else to explain herself?
When she was nervous, Chen Wenyue called her, "Mom, you're back." β
"What's wrong, Honglin." Usually Honglin behaves like an adult, and he has never shown a scared look like he is now.
"Someone knocked on the door from behind, and I asked who he was, but there was no sound." There was a tremor in Honglin's voice.
"Don't be afraid, no matter who it is, you don't open the door." Chen Wenyue's heart chuckled, this is really afraid of something.
From that day on, Chen Wenyue would usually come back earlier, she was not worried about Honglin, and she was afraid that someone would come to destroy her reputation.
Soon into the autumn harvest, the Honglin family still invited a few people to help harvest the rice in the field, this time most of the drying could not enter their own warehouse, but had to be sent to the district, among which to buy grain.
"Sister-in-law, I'll call a tractor tomorrow, and let's deliver the grain to the district together." Su Haiqiang said.
"Okay, we have more than three acres of land, and we have to send almost a thousand catties, hey." Chen Wenyue sighed and said, now the yield per mu is not high, only six or seven hundred and one pounds per mu, and half of the purchased grain will be removed, fortunately, they don't eat much now, or the grain is not enough.
"No way, it's all about paying." Su Haiqiang replied helplessly.
"Wen Yue, you are at home, let me tell you, the quota of your family's Honglin Nursery has come down, and Haiping has already gone, then you have to withdraw two people's fields, and you will only have one person's field next year." Su Haichu passed by the door of their house with rice, and when he saw that they were all there, he stopped and said.
"Got it." When Chen Wenyue heard this, she was even more helpless, Hongmei had no hukou, she was a black household, and she had no land, so she was left with her own land.
Su Haichu looked at Chen Wenyue, and stopped talking, thinking that he also knew what Xie Shufen had done, so he was embarrassed to speak.
Early the next morning, a tractor stopped in front of their house, and Su Haiqiang filled the grain with a sack, put it on the car one by one, and put seven or eight bags until it was finished.
"Today we're going to the district." Chen Wenyue changed her clothes for Honglin, and added an extra coat to Hongmei, and the wind rose in autumn, which was so cool.
Su Honglin sat on the tractor next to her mother, bumpy all the way to the district, this is the second time she came, her mother and uncle went to line up to pay the grain, Honglin stood aside, only to see that the people who handed over the grain lined up in a long line, and the tractor was a little unable to drive in.
A lot of children chased and fought there, which was very lively. After a while, Chen Wenyue walked over, "Let's go to the street first, uncle line up." β
Chen Wenyue took her hand and did not walk towards the side of the street, but walked towards the residential area behind.
"Mom, are we going to live in this district?" Honglin asked.
"Let's take a look." It seems that she hasn't decided yet, but she just thinks about it, and it's not in vain that she always talks in front of her mother these days, saying that the house is too broken, and she always hears someone knocking on the door or something.
Su Honglin remembered that in the previous life, it was about winter, because of a rare heavy snowfall, their house was overwhelmed, in the previous life, they happened to be at their aunt's house, so they avoided that difficulty, and now they obviously won't go to their aunt's house, if they live at home, the house falls, won't it crush them?
"Auntie, do any of you have a vacant house to rent here?" In the eighties, very few people came out to rent.
"You're going to rent a house? There is a vacant house in front, I don't know if they rent it, you go and ask. The man looked his mother up and down, then pointed to the front.
Chen Wenyue thanked her after hearing this, walked towards the house, knocked on the door, and saw an old woman walk out.
"Who are you looking for?" The grandmother asked.
"I want to ask if this house is for rent?" Chen Wenyue asked.
The man looked at them, "Just you?" β
In the end, the man agreed to rent it, twenty yuan a year, and my mother listened to it and said that she would go home and think about it, and give her an answer in a few days.
Anyway, few people come to rent a house in this era, and they are not afraid that her house will be rented.
Su Honglin knew that although Chen Wenyue came to ask, it was obvious that she still didn't want to come here, otherwise she wouldn't have said that she would reply in a few days.
Chen Wenyue carried a basket up the mountain every day, and Su Honglin stayed at home with her little sister, and her mother would pick some millet seeds on the mountain and throw them in the tea, Su Honglin picked them up when she was drying the tea, and then rubbed the thorn with her feet, and then peeled it off to eat.
Now there is some drying in the morning and evening, and the tea boy has been picked, Chen Wenyue may be too tired these days, so she took them to sleep early, in the middle of the night, Su Honglin slept a little confused, but heard someone outside calling her mother.
"Wen Yue, Wen Yue, you open the door." Su Honglin's drowsiness ran away, who was this, he came to find his mother in the middle of the night.
Chen Wenyue was also obviously awake, sitting nervously on the bed, still holding a pair of scissors in her hand.
The man couldn't hear the response, he was actually trying to open the door of their house, although Su Honglin was afraid, but he knew that he couldn't let that person in, and it was not a good thing to think about it as a big man in the middle of the night.
"Mom, don't let that person in." Su Honglin pushed his mother, who was obviously a little bad, and said.
"yes, I can't let him in." Chen Wenyue quickly climbed out of bed, holding scissors in her hand and a wooden stick, and walked outside nervously.
Su Honglin also climbed out of bed, she was going to help her mother, she must not let that person in, and now the doors in this house are all wooden, and their house is a little old, if you really want to find a way, it will be easy to open.
"You can't leave, I'll take a knife, as long as you come in, I'll cut it down with a knife." Mom was scared, but pretended.
"Wen Yue, I really like you, you just let me in." Su Honglin heard who the voice was, it was that Wang Dakui, he didn't expect this person to be so bold.
"You get out, if you don't leave, I'll call someone." Chen Wenyue was furious when she heard it, she had no skin and no face, even if she died, she would not marry such a person.
"What are you pretending, didn't you already have a leg with Su Haiqiang? I thought I was a yellow flower girl. "When the man saw that he couldn't open the door, he was talking nonsense outside.
My mother was so angry that she slashed hard at the door with her knife and shouted, "Thief, catch the thief." β
Hearing Chen Wenyue's sharp scream, the people outside finally knew that they were afraid, and soon there was no movement, Su Haiqiang's house was the closest to them, and he quickly ran over, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?" β
"Someone just wanted to see the sled door, and I shouted at the runway." Chen Wenyue didn't open the door, and said through the door.
"I'll take a look." When Su Haiqiang heard this, he ran outside, and after half a sound, there was another sound, "I don't see anyone, you close the door a little better." β
At this time, several neighbors who were a little farther away also came to ask, and when they saw that they were all right, they turned back, but they all shook their heads.
"Haiqiang, you go and help me call my eldest sister over, I'm not going to live here." Chen Wenyue's face was haggard the next day, and she said to Su Haiqiang, who came over early in the morning.
"Okay, I'll call her back later." Although Chen Wenyue said last night that it was called to catch thieves, but few people would believe that the village is still very simple, although some people like to take sheep and take some side dishes, but there are really few people who come to steal things.
"Honglin, mom is going to live in the district, what should you do?" Honglin wants to learn things from his master, which is a problem. Seeing that her aunt hadn't come back yet, her mother hugged her sister and took Honglin to her master's house to see if there was a solution.
Su Honglin wanted to have a car, but now they don't even have a bicycle, let alone anything else.
When the master saw them coming, she was very enthusiastic, although some women in the village were there gossiping about Chen Wenyue, but she didn't believe it.
"Eldest sister, I think you have heard some gossip, someone came to pry the door of our house last night, I really can't live here, it's just my red forest, can you come to study in a few days?" Chen Wenyue said with red eyes and some fear.
"In this way, you let Honglin live in our house, and when we go out, take her back to live. Do you think that works? "My sister is very sympathetic to them and wants to help them.
Su Honglin actually didn't want to, my mother just went to the district, I must not be used to it, and if I went to the district, it would be a little inconvenient to pick up the goods to buy, Honglin also wanted my mother to simply open a small shop, although there are supply and marketing cooperatives, but the attitude of the people there is not very good, and soon the supply and marketing cooperatives will be reformed, if my mother opens a small shop by herself, you can go to the county to get the goods, then it is cheaper, and it is more convenient for the uncle to get the goods.
And with more and more people going out to do things, the economy will get better and better, people who go to the sea early are rich, Honglin remembers that there was a cousin in the district in the clothing business in the previous life, and made a lot of money, if my mother has her own faΓ§ade, she can sell anything, which is more convenient.
"Then it's troublesome for the eldest sister, I'll take her to live for a few days, and then I'll send her over." Mom said.
"Okay, Honglin, don't forget your things, master, practice every day." The teacher instructed, turned around and went into the house to get some paper and pen, and asked her to take it back to practice.
Su Honglin looked at Shi Niang gratefully, and obediently took the things well, she would definitely not live up to their expectations.
When Honglin and the others came home, the fourth grandmother was sitting on their floor, and when she saw them coming back, she asked worriedly, "I heard that your house was robbed last night, so I came to take a look." β
"Fourth aunt, it's okay, let's go into the house and sit." Chen Wenyue heard this, a little unnatural, but she still beckoned her into the house.
"Wen Yue, don't think about it, we all understand you, it's just that those who have been thieves for a thousand days have not been thieves for a thousand days, how is this good." The fourth grandmother sighed and said.
Mother listened and didn't speak, Su Honglin's eyes turned red again when she looked at her, she had no place to complain if she was wronged, people who understood would sympathize with her, and people who didn't understand would say that she was not serious.
"Wen Yue, I'm back." Auntie's voice rang out outside.
Mom wiped her eyes and hurriedly stood up, and the aunt walked in in with a dash, and saw that the fourth grandmother was also busy greeting.
"I heard Haiqiang say, what kind of do you say this is, what do you think? Are you going back to your parents' home or? When the aunt heard her brother's words, she was furious, and she didn't know where to eat, so she talked nonsense in the village.