Chapter 17: Gambling Addiction
The woman in front of her was no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, and she fled through the fields with her hair disheveled. His hands were tightly clutched at the ten cents, and his tired eyes were slightly embarrassed.
The man was tall and strong, and although it was covered by night, the cold aura around him was unobstructed. Gu Shi walked around this field, and saw that there was a paddy field below, so he had no choice but to go back to his yard.
As soon as I went back, I saw Su Binghuai snatching Su's mother's jewelry and staggering out, and the two looked very embarrassed, "Lady, why did you turn back again?" Didn't you say okay, you will go to the town gambling house and wait for me after you take the money? ”
Gu Shi looked sad and stretched out his hand to point behind him. Zhao Laosan still carried the hoe and returned to the courtyard unhurriedly. The man ignored the two who were addicted to gambling, first put down the hoe on his shoulder, and reached out to hug his mother.
The night was forested, Su Mi raised his eyes and saw Zhao Laosan, his forehead was full of beads of sweat, and his sturdy arms were also oozing with fine sweat: "Husband, let's go and rest for a while, I'm afraid my brother and sister-in-law won't go out!" ”
The woman felt sorry for her husband and reached out to wipe the sweat from his face.
"Let's go, it's too late if we don't leave, he's just the son-in-law of our Su family, why care about us!" Su Binghuai shook the ash of his clothes, and pulled Gu Shi to go out.
"If you two leave this courtyard today, don't come back!" In the night, the man's voice was calm.
Su Binghuai was stunned and stopped his steps, and when Gu Shi saw that his man was not leaving, he left him: "Don't blame me if you don't go, if you win the bet today, we can leave this place, do you go or not?" ”
Su Binghuai hunched his waist, not daring to look directly at Zhao Laosan: "This is my home, I can leave if I want to, I can stay if I want to, what is the matter with you?" ”
Seeing that Su Binghuai followed the Gu clan again, Zhao Laosan let go of the woman and threw the hoe in his hand towards him. I only heard a scream, and Su Binghuai fell to the ground under the cover of night.
"Husband!" Su Mi was stunned, he didn't expect his man to be so decisive, and hurriedly ran over: "Brother is okay?" ”
"I can't die, it's just that this leg will be lame for a few days, and the gambling house in the town can't go!" Zhao Laosan's thin lips opened slightly, and he paced into the house in the night, and walked directly towards the stove room.
Gu Shi turned back, and helped Su Binghuai into the house with Su Mi, only to see blood gushing from his leg that was hit by a hoe, "This ...... It's all your fault, you, for finding an outsider to bully your brother. ”
Gu Shi pinched and beat Su Mi, Zhao Laosan brought the food from the stove room to the table, helped Su Mu to the dining table, and turned his head to look at Su Mi: "Come over for dinner!" ”
The candles were lit and the dinner table was fragrant, and Su Mi saw that his man's face was cold, and his tone was cold: "Husband, after all, the two of you are my brother and sister-in-law, isn't it too much to do this?" ”
"Mi'er left them alone, if only my uncle could break their legs and make them never get up!" Su Mu's face sank, and she picked up the rice bowl and ate it.
The Su family was already poor, the two of them didn't care about the fields and crops this month, gambled all the money in the family, and didn't gamble out of the shed to hide from the dew.
"But ......"
Su Mi is still worried about Su Binghuai, after all, they grew up together. has a soft temperament, and seeing that his left leg is bleeding, he is really worried: "My brother's leg won't be scrapped from now on, right?" ”
"It's better to be wasted, Mi'er, you eat your own first, regardless of those two!" Su's mother put a piece of fish meat in her daughter's bowl to comfort her.
Zhao Laosan hurriedly ate, and after a while, he ate half a plate of fish and meat, and saw that his mother was still unrelenting, and his heart was finally soft: "Lady is busy for a day, hurry up and eat some, you are relieved that my brother is fine, but the skin is injured, I am measured." ”
"Why did the skin trauma bleed so much?"
"I'm measured, the blood veins in the thighs here are the easiest to break, and they are also the most painful, so it won't be tight in a few days!" Zhao Laosan served another bowl of rice, and his face did not change.
Su Mi heard her husband say this, and her hanging heart finally fell, so she took a piece of fish meat and put it in her mouth.
Su Mu and Zhao Laosan have already eaten well, and Su Mi is eating. Although I am gossiping with my mother today, I am still tired of walking more than ten miles.
Zhao Laosan got up and was about to take a bath, Gu Shi came over angrily and lifted the food on the table: "Eat, eat, I'll let you eat, I'm not having a good time, don't think about it anymore!" ”
The plates and rice bowls on the table all fell to the ground with a crackling sound. Su Mi was still sitting at the table, the placket of his waist was stained with food and oil, and his left cheek was hit by a fish bone flying sideways, breaking a trace of skin and oozing blood.
"Sister-in-law, don't be like this, the family is not rich, if your brother goes to gamble again, he will definitely kill himself!" Su Mi stood up, did not blame the Gu clan, but spoke to comfort her.
"If you hadn't stopped me today, your brother and I would have come back a long time ago, and whoever would have planted this broken crop would have no need to take care of the fields!" Gu's heart was on fire, his face was pale, and his eyes were angry and red.
"Nine times out of ten, you and your brother will gamble this month, no matter the fields at home, the rice is almost gone!" Su Mi was very anxious, twitched her small nose, her eyes were red, and she was puffing out a little tears.
Zhao Laosan was boiling water in the stove room, and when he heard the noise in the side room, he hurriedly put down the firewood in hand and strode over. Seeing that her little lady was so angry that tears were pouring down, her left cheek was still oozing blood, and her eyebrows were twisted and her cheeks were very gloomy: "It was me Zhao Laosan who injured my brother's leg, and it was also me Zhao Laosan who didn't let you go to the town to gamble money, what is coming at me!" ”
Su's mother was depressed a few days ago, and secretly wiped her tears all day, but today her daughter and son-in-law came back, she was a little relieved, believing that Zhao Laosan could subdue this uncompetitive son and daughter-in-law, and now she only sat on the side.
"If you have the ability, don't go back to the Su family, otherwise you can stop us now, and we will still have to gamble after you leave." Gu Shi was out of the way, stretched out his hand and rolled up his sleeves neatly, and pointed at Zhao Laosan with both hands on his waist and said.
Zhao Laosan's face was still pale, and he paced over while Gu Shi was not paying attention, and reached out to tear off the money bag on his waist, he knew that this was given to Su Mu by his little lady today: "Sister-in-law is going to gamble money, what does it matter to me?" It's just that my lady took the money to honor her mother, but let you rob it, it's not good! ”
Gu's eyes sank, and he glanced at Su Mi and reached out and pinched it: "Did this cheap hoof tell you?" In our Su family for sixteen years, we have provided her with food and clothing, and this money is far from enough at the moment, even if it is to serve us for a lifetime, it is also due. ”
What does Su Mixiao's sister-in-law mean by this, she was picked up by the Su family, if she didn't follow them, she would have raised her for 16 years in vain: "Sister-in-law thinks like this?" ”
"You are not our Su family, and now your elbow is still turning out, our Su family really raised you for nothing!" The elder brother Su Binghuai in the house scolded.
Zhao Laosan's eyebrows twisted even more, he reached out to hold his little lady's waist, and looked at her eyes that were awe-inspiring and gradually became gentle: "Don't be afraid, even if the lady is not the daughter of the Su family, she is the only little lady of my Zhao Laosan." ”
Su Mi has never mentioned her life experience to her man, and she can see thrown children everywhere in this troubled world, and she herself doesn't know where her biological parents are, maybe she died in this war.
Seeing that his man was still taking care of himself, Su Mi relaxed a little, and finally endured the tears in his eyes: "The Su family is kind to me, and I can repay me for being a cow and a horse, so my brother and sister-in-law go out to gamble, and I am more afraid than anyone else!" ”
Before she got married, she had also seen these men in the village go to gamble on them, and some of the family's livestock and houses were lost. Others, even their wives and children were sold to others. She naturally didn't want her brother and sister-in-law to fall into this step.
"We've won before, my mother followed us to eat and drink spicy food at that time, and didn't say that we didn't say a word, and now we have learned a lesson after losing for a few days!" Gu Shi was also tired of tossing, holding his hands in front of his chest, looking like a village woman scolding.
Zhao Laosan didn't say anything, he just held his little lady, "You go to the bath first, remember not to touch the wound on your cheek!" ”
The little lady was branched out, and Zhao Laosan didn't say anything, but just cleaned up the food in this place. Mother Su looked at it in her eyes, although she didn't say anything, she was really satisfied with this son-in-law.
Seeing that Zhao Laosan and the others ignored her, Gu Shi also felt angry and didn't come out, so he just opened his mouth and scolded his man loudly: "Su Binghuai, if you have the ability, stand up for me, marry into your family, and don't have a good life, it's better to divorce me and let me go back to my parents' house at least every day without going to the field to farm." ”
"Your mother's family has long denied you, and you can't farm when you go back!" As soon as Su Binghuai's words fell, this Gu sat on the ground and cried.
Su's mother didn't pay attention to the two of them, went to the stove room and gossiped with her daughter for a while, then washed her feet and went to sleep. Su Mi hurried today, took a shower and nested on the bed, and his man went to take a bath.
When the man came back, the brother and sister-in-law in the next room were still arguing, and Gu's cry was earth-shattering, and the dog outside also barked.
The two slept on a small bed, and Su Mi was still a little unsure, after all, she owed the Su family. Zhao Laosan turned sideways, hugged his little lady, put his slightly hot cheeks on it, and said softly with thin lips: "Lady is relieved, everything will have me in the future!" ”
Su Mi's petite body shrank into the man's wide arms, only to feel very comfortable and reassured, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly with a smile: "I believe you, whatever your husband says!" ”