Chapter Twenty-Three: The Undercurrents of the Past
The first Banxia took advantage of the crowd to pull into the seat, secretly took a piece of shrimp cake, and stuffed it into his mouth, the top one was just out of the pot, although it was cold outside, it was still hot inside, Banxia bit down, only burned his tongue and snorted, and jumped up from the chair. Everyone was frightened by his strange scream, and after a glance, they understood what was going on, and Li Yun and Zhang Yunshan raised their heads and burst into laughter.
Zhang Heng said angrily: "Li Yun, you are still laughing, why don't you go and get some ice for Banxia." ”
Banxia chewed and swallowed the shrimp cake with difficulty, waved his hand and pretended to be a tough guy and said, "It's okay, it's okay." ”
Li Guangming looked at it and smiled: "Then let's raise a glass together today, welcome Shanshan!" ”
Long Shanshan was so bold that she threw the wine in the cup up her neck and dried it. Li Yun poked Zhang Yunshan and said, "You have another wine fairy sister." Saying and smiling, he slanted for a long time, and Zhang Yunshan immediately understood.
During this meal, Banxia continued to jump into the wine pit dug by Li Yun and Zhang Yunshan, and did not get up, if it wasn't for Zhang Heng to stop him, he would be a drunkard again. Banxia was drunk with eight points, very full, touched his belly and said to Li Yun: "Your dish is really delicious, it's this wine, I don't dare to serve a cup, when you bring me here next time, can you not call those young ladies." ”
"You don't want to have a face, a handful of old people, and call someone else's young lady. Besides, drinking you is enough for my sister alone. Li Yun squinted.
"That one is better than four, and besides, I look at your sister, it's quite, it's good, she didn't pour me alcohol, she's not that kind of aggressive player." Banxia shook his head.
"Ha, that's what she's dealing with you. But that's what you said, don't regret it, those two young ladies didn't come, it's a pity that those girls in their company, my sister doesn't have the habit of being a matchmaker. Li Yun pouted.
Banxia suddenly woke up more than half of the wine, staggered to his feet, walked to Li Yun, who was washing dishes by the sink, and asked, "Dude, you're not going to make fun of me again, are you?" Is there really a suitable one? ”
Ning Ye's sleeves were rolled up to his arm, and he took the bowl handed over by Li Yun and put it in the sink and was rushing, hearing this, he shook his head and smiled at Li Yun: "This is really a mother with milk." ”
"You two are full men, you don't know how hungry men are hungry." Banxia shook his head.
"You brothers must not get drunk with this thing again tonight, let him wash the dishes well. He lies down every day when he is full of food and drink, but he doesn't know who it is. Ning Ye shook his head and said.
Banxia was too lazy to take care of Ning Ye, and pulled Li Yun and said, "You say, you can talk about it quickly." ”
"What do you tell me to say, you promise to wash the dishes alone tonight, and I will tell you." Li Yun narrowed his eyes and said.
Banxia looked at the bowl full of the sink and the pot on the ground, gritted his teeth and nodded, "Deal, you say." ”
Li Yun shook his head mysteriously and said, "I don't want to be like you, I'll talk about it when you finish washing the dishes at night." Save you from getting drunk again at night, I'm not a bamboo basket to draw water. ”
Banxia was so angry that he took a few steps back, lay back in the rocking chair, and simply closed his eyes......
Ning Ye looked sideways, Zhang Heng took Zhang Shuqiu, Long Shanshan, and a few of them, walked around from outside and came back, and was sitting in the pavilion over there drinking tea, and a few people were talking and laughing, very comfortable.
Zhang Heng said to Zhang Shuqiu: "This tea doesn't solve the difficulty, let's go to your study and sit down, you can make some coffee and drink it." ”
"You go and rest for a while, what do you want to stay up with us when you want to take a nap every day?" Zhang Shuqiu shook his head and said.
"I want to talk to Shanshan, she's far away, it's rare to come, and besides, I've just eaten enough at this time, and I can't sleep, let's go, let's go upstairs." Zhang Heng said with a smile.
A few people went upstairs, Yu Chuan glanced at Qu Yingying and said, "Auntie, let's go to sleep for a while, you can talk quietly for a while." ”
"It's okay, you and Xiaoqiu for so many years, I don't see any family and sisters as you are, our family Xiaoqiu, thanks to you children, can have a good life to this day, I know it in my heart." Zhang Heng shook his head and said.
"Then let's go make coffee, you guys wait a minute, does Sansa like to add milk and sugar?" Qu Yingying said.
"She likes to drink sweet, you don't put some sugar in her." Chapter Shuqiu Road.
"Hey, if you look at my size, you can't change this greedy problem." Long Shanshan said.
"How good you are white and fat, a good picture of good fortune, I think you can live more clearly than these three girls, you will move around more, let them touch your blessings." Zhang Heng said with a smile.
"Auntie, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, but if you want to open it, people always have to look forward, and you can't suffocate yourself to death." Long Shanshan said with a smile.
"You three look at how good this is, you have to listen to what Shanshan has to say, this kid was not this character before, I'm afraid that this experience is no less than you." Zhang Heng nodded at the three of them.
There is a small pantry next to the study on the third floor, where coffee and tea are readily available. Qu Yingying was making coffee inside, and heard Zhang Shuqiu ask outside: "Shanshan, you, after I left, did your father beat you again?" ”
Shanshan is bold and has a loud voice, completely with the unique personality of Shancheng people: "I knew you were thinking about this." Let me tell you, not only did my dad not beat me, but he hasn't beaten me since. It was also after that time that I found out that the old man in my family seemed to have a violent temper, but he was actually very good-hearted, you know what he told me when you left, right? ”
Zhang Shuqiu looked at Long Shanshan very puzzled, but she remembered clearly that in the past, Long Shanshan was often beaten and injured.
"He said that I can do that to you, which shows that he has a conscience, and he didn't raise me in vain." Long Shanshan's voice suddenly choked up.
Long Shanshan sniffed and continued: "You know the affairs of my family, you must know very well how much I hated my old man in the past, after that day, I really, just reconciled with myself, and I will never deliberately make him angry again."
When he was hungry, I would cook for him, if he wanted to drink, I would fry peanuts for him, if he wanted to wash his feet, I would fetch him water, and later I would give him a pension.
I didn't know until he left that he had quietly made a will, and half of our family's real estate and land were given to me. I'm not looking for that property, or if he doesn't make a will, I can legally get that half.
But you know, our family's land is inseparable from the village and the clan, and he made a will for me, and put me on the family tree, that is, to recognize me as his daughter......"
Long Shanshan said that she was full of tears, Zhang Shuqiu took some paper and handed it to her, she choked and wiped away her tears, and smiled embarrassedly: "I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, Xiaoqiu knows, I, when my mother and my father got married, I have been in my mother's belly for six or seven months......"
Long Shanshan's mother Mingyuan was from Shancheng, and her lover at that time was a soldier who served in the local area, and later the man retired and returned to his hometown, and Mingyuan found out that she was pregnant. finally sneaked out of the house and found the man all the way, but he went home and got married after retiring. Mingyuan was desperate and wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the river, but was saved by Long Shanshan's father Long Qingjiang, and later simply married him.
But Mingyuan used to make trouble in the village of the Long family, and everyone knew that the child in her belly belonged to another person in their Long family village. Long Shanshan has grown up in pointing and gossiping since she was born. Although Long Qingjiang is not disabled, he is not too far behind, he was born with genetic defects for sure, even if you can't tell what is wrong with him, but at a glance, you can tell that he is not a normal person, Luo Huan legs, since he was a child, his hair has been black and white.
It is difficult for a person like Long Qingjiang to get a wife, so he picked up such a beautiful big girl as Mingyuan for nothing. The clan originally disagreed, but they couldn't stand Long Qingjiang's troubles, so they still let them worship the ancestral hall.
Although two or three years after giving birth to Long Shanshan, Mingyuan gave birth to a son Long Huan, and the child knew at a glance that it was Long Qingjiang's species, exactly the same as him, with lap legs and hair. Long Qingjiang has suffered like this all his life, looking at the beautiful Long Shanshan and Long Huan, who has been disliked since childhood, the nameless fire in his heart has to find a place to vent from time to time, so it has become commonplace for Long Shanshan to be beaten.
Later, when Long Shanshan reached the rebellious period, she often worked against Long Qingjiang intentionally or unintentionally, and she was beaten and scolded even more.
Long Shanshan finished junior high school, Mingyuan wanted to send her to secondary school, but Long Qingjiang disagreed, but he selfishly felt that this daughter couldn't be raised.
And although Long Qingjiang looks like that on the outside, he knows very well in his heart that Mingyuan just wants her to finish her studies so that she can send her back to the mountain city, relying on her family to find a good way out for Long Shanshan. He felt even more that this daughter would not come back if she was gone.
Long Qingjiang refused to pay tuition, the family's money was all in his hands, although Mingyuan got up early in the morning and waited for the family's vegetable patch, and secretly saved a little private money, but there was still a big gap between the tuition fees for Long Shanshan's study.
Mingyuan was very anxious, communication was inconvenient that year, and there were very few landlines at home, although Mingyuan had always been angry that her parents wanted her to have a baby, in that case, she had to write to Shancheng's sister, wanting to borrow some tuition from Long Shanshan. But I don't know why, I waited left and right, and when Long Shanshan was about to sign up, I didn't wait for my sister's letter and remittance. It was Zhang Shuqiu who helped Long Shanshan pay for her tuition, so she could go to school.
Later, Long Qingjiang saw that Long Shanshan still went to school, so he was so angry that he beat Mingyuan and Long Shanshan together, and only then did he ask if it was Zhang Shuqiu who gave him the money. Long Qingjiang was not so ruthless in the end, so he secretly gave the money to Mingyuan and asked her to return the money.
Mingyuan only learned later that Long Qingjiang stayed at the mailbox early the next morning when he sent the letter in Mingyuan, and snatched the letter from the postman who borrowed money.
"You remember that time, I hid you in the house, and we all thought my dad didn't know, but the old man knew very well.
So many people are hanging out in front of our house every day, trying to come to me to ask for your news. My dad took a big stick every day at the door of the house while cursing and driving people away, and didn't let me go out to school.
My mom said he also asked my mom to come to school to help me ask for leave, saying that I was sick and that he guarded the gate of the yard every day. I later learned that if it weren't for my dad, I wouldn't have been able to hide you. Although my dad is not popular, we live in a large area with the same surname, and we are still very united with outsiders.
He shouted twice, and our uncles from the same clan all came out with big sticks, and once beat two of my dad who couldn't stop him, and no one dared to rush in recklessly. ”
When Zhang Shuqiu heard these many details that she didn't know before, she suddenly felt hot in her heart and couldn't believe it. Back then, when she occasionally went to Long Shanshan's house, Long Qingjiang never gave her any good looks.
"You know, my mom told me later that my dad praised you a lot behind your back, saying that you were a good girl, and that you were very pitiful. My dad scolded many of my classmates, and although he didn't have a good face for you, he never scolded you.
You know how timid my mom was at that time. Later, I copied your aunt's phone from your BP machine, and I couldn't go out, so I asked my mom to call your aunt, and my mom said that someone followed her every day, and she didn't know at that time, and my dad already knew that I hid you at home, and she was afraid of revealing her stuffing.
Later, my dad felt that this was not a long-term solution, so he simply asked my mother, and my mother was scared to death. How do you know that the old man didn't say anything, just asked if you had any other relatives, and said that he had to find a way to send you out. My mom saw that my dad was really thinking about your own good, so she said about your aunt. The old man looks like a tendon, and he has a lot of eyes.
He didn't let my mother call, saying that someone must be staring at my mother, so my mother took the phone and secretly gave it to Zhou Ting when she went to the vegetable market to sell vegetables in the morning. According to my father's meaning, as long as people don't get evidence to prove that you are in my house, he can still stop it, otherwise, if people find the clan, the clan will not protect him, and he can't do anything. ”
Zhang Shuqiu had been groggy at that time, and he didn't know that the situation at that time was so thrilling. Just stunned, I listened to Long Shanshan continue to speak.
"Zhou Ting, do you remember?" Long Shanshan asked suddenly.
"I remember, it was the one who graduated from junior high school and was forcibly married off by her mother. It turned out that for two years she rented a house and lived next door to your house, and the three of us had a good relationship at that time. Zhang Shuqiu nodded.
Long Shanshan nodded and said, "If you want to say that my old man has no other skills, this is quite accurate." At that time, Zhou Ting didn't interact with us much, and followed her husband to sell fish in the vegetable market every day. But my dad just thinks she's a child with a heart and a sense of righteousness. Although my mother is not sure whether Zhou Ting will be willing to take on this role, she has no other way but to follow what my father said, write a note, pretend to buy a fish after selling vegetables, and give the strip to Zhou Ting in the money. ”