Seeing this, the two brothers Guo Shu and Guo Lin had no choice but to withdraw the idea of questioning, and the shopkeeper who was guarding the door called to enter, and ordered several dishes and snacks that the three brothers and sisters loved to eat.

Thinking about the daughter of the family, it will be a day off in a few days, Guo Mianmian revoked the idea of visiting Kunkun in the school, and hurried back after settling the account.

Coincidentally, as soon as the three brothers and sisters walked to the city gate, they met an acquaintance.

Looking at the Wen family who was carrying the old bamboo basket in front of him, Guo Linxia, who was sitting in the car inside, took a clear look at her basket, and saw that there were some embroidery fabrics and other things in it, so he asked: "Brother and sister, are you here to pick up work in the county seat?" ”

Gangzi is younger than Guo Lin, even if Gangzi is no longer there and the Wen family has not remarried, Guo Lin has to call her "brother and sister" instead of other titles.

"Yes, yes, embroidery in the city is worth more than it is in the town." Wen dragged it into the basket on his elbow, glanced at Guo Lin with an unnatural expression, and quickly looked away.

Guo Lin thought that the Wen family was strong and didn't want people to know about her family's predicament, so he couldn't help but think of Fa Xiao, who died early, and his heart became painful for a while: "If my brother and sister don't dislike it, take my carriage back, it's not safe for you to walk on the road as a woman." ”

Wen's eyes lit up, and his face quickly showed a touch of redness: "This, this is not very convenient, right......?"

Guo Lin was stunned for a moment, and smiled casually: "My eldest sister is sitting in the car, my boss is also there, you wait, I will call the boss out and sit inside, and you can sit in again." ”

As he spoke, he jumped out of the car without waiting for Wen's veto, knocked on the car door and beckoned Guo Shu to come out, not noticing the disappointment that flashed on Wen's face.

The car door opened from the inside, Guo Shu jumped out of the car all of a sudden, and nodded at Wen Shi to say hello, his attitude was just right to be lukewarm.

At this time, Guo Mianmian also leaned out half of her body, she first glanced at Wen, and then smiled at Guo Lin: "I said how did you stop, second brother, you met an acquaintance, what a coincidence!" ”

I don't know how, Guo Lin always thought that his sister had something to say. He shook his head violently to drive this fresh thought out of his mind, and said casually: "It's really a coincidence, and it's fortunate that we met it, otherwise it would have been dark for your sister-in-law Wen all the way back." ”

Wen also thought that Guo Mianmian had something to say, for more than a year, this woman has been lukewarm to herself, every time she meets her eyes that seem to be able to see through her heart, her heart is a little drumming, and the hand holding the basket is tighter: "Yes, it's quite a coincidence." ”

Guo Mianmian looked at Wen with a smile, and it was impossible to deny it.

Guo Shu and Guo Lin brothers were slightly nervous, and they couldn't see the unique aura between the two women. When Wen got into the ox cart, the two talked and drove the ox cart.

Although it was the oxen that pulled the cart, the carriage was a horse-drawn carriage, and it was very wide inside, and it was more than enough for seven or eight small people to sit. Guo Mianmian and Wen sat on both sides of the carriage, and the people moved with the bumps of the carriage.

Looking at the basket that was dragged by Wen in his hand, Guo Mianmian looked at it with pleasure, and when he saw that it was just ordinary embroidery material, he said: "Sister-in-law Wen, the car is very wide, and it is not good for you to hold the basket, so put it down, it won't run away on long legs." ”

When Wen heard this, not only did he not put the basket down, but pulled it tighter: "No, there is no need, it's just that some needles and threads are not heavy at all, so it's good to hold it like this, so as not to block your place." ”

Guo Mianmian said it casually, but seeing that Wen's reaction was so magical, he had an extra heart: "It's just a basket, it doesn't take up much space, and there are two of us in the car, which won't get in the way." ”

I don't know why there is a reason for this, or the reason, Wen hesitated for a while, and then cautiously put the basket down, but there was still a hand on the handle of the basket, as if he was afraid that the basket would not be able to stand the bumps and fall down.

Guo Mianmian looked at the basket again, but he couldn't see anything, so he asked Wen without words: "I've heard people say that Sister-in-law Wen's embroidery work is good, but I didn't expect to be able to do business with the embroidery workshop in the city, but I don't know what the price of the embroidery workshop in the city is." ”

Wen quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and his expression looked normal: "Sister Guo has won the award, and it is all spread in the village, and my embroidery work is also capable of seeing people." ”

Speaking of this, she paused and suddenly her eyes turned red: "What is the environment in my home, I don't say that Sister Guo also knows, I am useless, but there are four or five mouths waiting for dinner at home, I can only find a way to make more money, I can earn more than a penny, even if I run dozens of miles more, I am willing." ”

There are elderly in-laws, and there are three children waiting to be fed, even if the in-laws' bodies are still tough and can take a hand, the very young children are also four years old and don't have to be cared for, just relying on a few acres of thin land, working in the Guo family's workshop for a month and a half in the spring every year, it is just far-fetched to make the family starve to death.

And Wen knows very well that the difficulty is not now, once the in-laws are old and can't be supported, and the two sons are old enough to marry wives, this day will be really difficult.

In secret, it is not that no one persuaded Wen to remarry, in the dead of night, Wen did have such thoughts, but she was not stupid, she knew that she was no longer young, even if she remarried, she could not find any good family, either marrying the old Wang Lao Wu liar who couldn't marry her mother-in-law, or marrying an old widower who died with her mother-in-law, and being a stepmother for others.

couldn't bear to leave the three biological offspring who crawled out of his belly, Wen revoked the idea of returning to his parents' house to remarry, but when he saw the loving couple, another unthinkable idea came up, and under the persuasion of his mother, it was impossible to stop it......

“…… Sister Guo, I'm not afraid of your jokes, this house is supported by me alone inside and out, I really can't hold it anymore......" Wen told his own difficulties sadly, he wanted to win Guo Mianmian's pity, and when he said it, he was really sad, and two lines of tears slowly fell and wet his face.

"Wen, sister-in-law Wen, just relax, just stay up for a few more years and wait for the children to grow up." Guo Mianmian didn't know why Wen suddenly said this to herself, except for a few words of dry comfort, she didn't know what to say.

She didn't want to see Wen, and she had to admit that Wen was admirable in some ways, for example, she didn't leave Bai Chau and the child alone after her husband's unexpected death. What's more, in this era, it is difficult for a woman to do, and it is even more difficult for a widow, and the rest of the people are in Wen's position, and they can't do better than Wen's.

There was no benefit to this comfort, Wen was still sobbing and crying: "Guo, Sister Guo, you, you don't understand, you marry your mother-in-law, your mother's family, what do I, I have?" I don't ...... anything."

This is true, when Gangzi was alive, the premise of the family was acceptable, but now that people are gone, the days are far away; The premise of Wen's maiden family is not very good, there are several brothers in the family, and they have married powerful wives and children. In the past, several sisters-in-law of the Wen family also joined forces to force Wen's mother to remarry in order to get a dowry.

Although this matter was not finalized in the end, the Wen family did not dare to return to her parents' house easily, even if she encountered difficulties, she gritted her teeth and held on, for fear that her sister-in-law would propose to let her remarry again.

Guo Mianmian looked at Wen's red and swollen eyes, and was quite speechless, thinking that it was better for him to keep his mouth shut, otherwise he would be compared by Wen if he said anything. In fact, she didn't know what the benefits of Wen's words were.

That's right, her mother-in-law's premise is good, and her mother's premise is even better, and that is also earned by virtue of the skills of each family. In the past, her family had to recruit a large number of shoe workers, and Wen was happy, for the sake of her fellow villagers, she would not refuse.

People are high-spirited, they don't want to make shoes with a needle and a thread, they want to be a small thing like the third aunt and Chunxiang, and they can easily get a salary of hundreds of dollars a month.

Just ask such a good errand, don't you like to do it? Why should she give it to someone she doesn't want to see? So this man has no husband, is he a poor man? She is not possessed by the Virgin, and she will not set this precedent, otherwise how would she manage hundreds of shoemakers?

Now saying such things in front of her eyes, she suddenly thought that the previous comfort was indeed extravagance!

Wen was still waiting to be comforted, but after waiting for a long time, no one spoke, and she didn't know whether to continue crying or stop, she looked up at Guo Mianmian slightly, and saw that Guo Mianmian's eyes fell elsewhere and didn't look at her at all, and a great resentment suddenly arose in her heart, and the pain of being in an embarrassing situation in her chest was extremely painful.

Outside the carriage, the brothers Guo Shu and Guo Lin clearly heard Wen's cry.

"Second child, what do you say Wen is crying about?" Guo Shu poked his younger brother with his elbow, and asked puzzledly: "Her family's life is not painful, at least she eats, drinks and starves to death, which is much better than the leper family in our village, right?" ”

The leper in Guo Shu's mouth is a famous lazy household in Lijia Village, the four or five laborers in the family are all able-bodied, and it happens that they avoid the heavy and light and do not work very well, and they especially love to take advantage of the cheap.

Therefore, the village hates this colleague outside the moral character, and even doesn't even shout their names, using "leprosy" as a general term, and completely disdains to call them by their names. The family is lazy, and life is naturally not very good, so it has become a very poor family in ten miles and eight townships, so poor that they want to drink a stomach of water to carry hunger, and they have to use a gap of broken bowls to drink in turn.

Guo Lin shook his head, with a lot of depression between his eyebrows: "I'm not a roundworm in her stomach, how do you know what she is crying?" ”

The two lived in the same village, and the Wen family helped in the workshop for a while, and they would inevitably meet from time to time. Every time Wen's was in tears, Guo Lin seemed to owe her something. At first, Guo Lin would comfort a few words, but he became impatient after many times. Later, when we meet again, we will walk around the foundation.

If it weren't for Gangzi's face, the family of orphans and widows was indeed pitiful, Guo Lin didn't want to deal with the Wen family, and always thought that this woman was very disadvantageous.

This time it happened that Wen was not crying as hard as before, and Guo Lin was indeed worried about the insecurity of her as a woman, so he offered to give her a ride, lest something really happen, and the family and the children would also suffer.

Guo Shu sighed, and said with some pity: "The old and young in the family, Wen's life is indeed not very good, I am really worried that one day she will not be able to resist and leave a house and leave by herself." ”

Guo Lin's brows furrowed even tighter, and he gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "If she really dares to do this, Gangzi will not let her go even if she is a ghost!" ”

Guo Shu glanced at his younger brother: "If you let Ye'er hear this, save you." ”

In the words of his own sister, everyone has the right to choose, and outsiders have no qualifications to put their beaks! It is also her own business that Wen wants to choose a better path to take, no one can blame the ruthless and unjust, she can pass the hurdle in her heart.

When Guo Lin heard this, he didn't argue, but suddenly sighed: "What our family can help has already helped, even if Gangzi climbed up from the bottom to find me, I also feel worthy of him!" Wen himself doesn't know how to be satisfied, if he is a shoemaker like those women in the village, and he doesn't say a lot every month, three or four hundred yuan or can get his hands on it, isn't this much better than farming? ”