Yu Tian took his younger brother Yu Le to play in the alley, Yu Le put the ball at his feet, and said to Yu Tian in a milky voice: "Sister, you take the ball!" Yu Tian smiled and posed and said, "Come on!" Yu Le took two steps back, and then sped up to kick the ball out, the ball was a little light, a little effort can run far away, Yu Tian watched the ball run out of his side quickly, Yu Tian smiled at Yu Le and said: "My brother is really strong!" With that, he ran in the direction of the ball.

Facing the place at the mouth of the alley, Li Xuan and his grandmother walked over to this side.

Li Xuan's house is in the alley next door, and they want to come here to go to Li Xuan's second grandmother's house.

They are all children in this area, Li Xuan and Yu Tian have also played together, but since the accident in their family, the children in the neighborhood rarely go to play with him anymore, and there are fewer times when they see Li Xuan. Now Li Xuan has become calm, and the wide clothes on his body are incompatible with his thin body.

Yu Tian saw Li Xuan's appearance now, thinking that he was not accompanied by his parents, and there was also a trace of desolation in his heart, and sympathy for Li Xuan.

Li Xuan and his grandmother entered the yard of the second grandmother from the gate, Yu Tian also picked up the ball, turned around and ran towards his younger brother.

Li Xuan entered the yard, and a puppy ran towards the two. Li Xuan teased the puppy, and Grandma Li Xuan walked towards the hall to the north.

Grandma Li Xuan raised her voice as she walked and said, "Is his aunt at home?" ”

When the people in the house heard someone coming, they hurriedly replied, "Here, here, come in." ”

Go inside. I saw the second grandmother munching melon seeds and watching the drama on TV. Seeing that it was his sister-in-law who came, he hurriedly got up and said, "Sister-in-law is here, sit down." ”

Grandma Li Xuan brushed the hair from her ears behind her ears, tightened her hand holding the flour bag, and sat on the sofa.

The second grandmother glanced at the flour bag and knew the intention of this person, but she still said, "Sister-in-law is here today, is there something wrong?" ”

Grandma Li Xuan paused and said, "There is no white noodles at home, can you borrow some from your house first?" When the wheat comes down, I will return it to you. ”

The second grandmother crossed her legs, fiddled with the melon seeds, and said, "Sister-in-law, do you also know the situation of our family?" My man is working outside, I am alone with four children, and the flour in my hand is also very tight, and I haven't steamed white flour steamed buns for several days. But now that my sister-in-law is here, I can't let you go back empty-handed. I'll go get you some stick noodles. All right? Sister-in-law. ”

Grandma Li Xuan's face was a little red, in fact, she shouldn't have come, but the family can't open the pot, and the shame has to come. She handed the flour bag to the second grandmother and said, "Then it will be troublesome for my younger siblings."

The second grandmother took the flour bag and walked towards the back room. I packed a small half-bag of stick noodles and came out.

Li Xuan was playing with the dog in the yard and said, "Dog, come here." The puppy came over wagging his tail and licked Li Xuan's little hands.

At this time, I only heard the door of the east house open, and Li Xuan's little aunt Li Zhongmin poked her head out, smiled, and said to Li Xuan. "Come, come and play in the house." "It is said that Li Xuan's little aunt is actually five years older than Li Xuan, Li Xuan is eight years old this year, and the little aunt is 13 years old this year.

Li Zhongmin turned around and went to the table to take a bun and handed it to Li Xuan, saying, "Eat, this is the bun my mother just made today, you eat one." ”

Li Xuan looked at the buns and swallowed her saliva, she actually wanted to eat it, but she remembered what her grandmother told him, she couldn't just ask for it outside. So he said, "I've eaten, and I'm not eating." ”

Li Zhongmin also wanted to put it in Li Xuan's hand, but he didn't expect this bun to be snatched away. Li Zhongmin shouted, "What are you doing, brother? ”

It turned out to be Li Zhongmin's eldest brother Li Zhongjian, "Everyone has said that you don't want to eat, you still want to stuff it, we don't have enough to eat ourselves." ”

As he spoke, he pushed Li Xuan out of the door and closed the door.

Li Zhongmin looked at his eldest brother angrily.

Li Zhongjian did not show weakness and said: "Look at what you see, eat you." ”

At this time, Grandma Li Xuan also came out of the hall, carrying a bulging flour bag in her hand.

The second grandmother glanced at Li Xuan, who was dry and thin and wearing patched clothes, and said, "Li Xuan also came, tsk, sister-in-law, wash the child's clothes, look at the dirty clothes on the child's body." "It's not that the clothes are not washed, but they can't be washed, and the neighbors look at Li Xuan pitifully and give Li Xuan the leftover clothes worn by their children.

Grandma Li Xuan hummed twice, and then said, "Okay, then let's go first." Then he pulled Li Xuan home.

Seeing the two walking away, the second grandmother spat on the ground. He whispered: "The old and the young in the family can borrow you, can you pay it back?" You can't borrow it. ”

On the way, Li Xuan asked his grandmother: "Grandma, can we also eat steamed buns?" ”

"It's stick noodles, you can't make steamed buns."

"Grandma, I see my little aunt eating steamed buns, and I want to eat steamed buns too."

Grandma Li Xuan paused and repeated Li Xuan's words: "Eating steamed buns? As he spoke, he turned his head in the direction of the second grandmother's house, sighed, and continued to walk home.

Grandma Li Xuan put the stick noodles in the flour jar and looked at the flour jar in a daze.

Originally, Li Xuan's family was prosperous, Li Xuan's parents drove transportation, earned some money, and bought a color TV, I thought that life would get better and better, but I didn't expect a man-made accident to fall from the sky, on the way to run transportation, there was a car accident, and both husband and wife died in the car accident. When the bad news came, Grandpa Li Xuan, who was already in poor health, couldn't afford to get sick in bed.

At first, the people around me were sympathetic to their plight. But as the days went by, I knew that the family had no backbone, and they all looked down on them. Even the brothers closest to them started the idea of Li Xuan's family and asked for the four acres of land that should have belonged to Li Xuan's family.

The village director explained, your family of three people has three acres of land, your brother's family has six people, give them these four acres of land, their family also has three sons, there are many strong laborers, you are all a family for who to plant is different!

The second grandmother was able to invite the village director over, but I don't know how much benefit she gave the village director.

At first, Li Xuan's grandmother disagreed, but Li Xuan's grandfather said that if he gave it to his brother, it was not given to outsiders, if he fell out with his brother's family because of this incident, what support would we have!

Li Xuan is still young, and originally three acres of land was enough for three people to eat. But I didn't expect Grandpa Li Xuan's illness to be serious again, and he had to get medicine from time to time, so he sold the food in his hand and treated Grandpa Li Xuan.

There is really no way to borrow food today. But I finally have some stick noodles, and I can last some time. When these are finished, I will think of other ways, no matter what, I have to let my life go on, Li Xuan is still young, if he collapses, this family will be over.

In the evening, after Yu Tian finished eating, she took Yu Le to watch TV, and her grandmother cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen.

I only heard the sound of the key opening the door, and the two little ones jumped up with joy, and Mom and Dad went out to buy goods and came back.

Dad carried a big bag and a small bag in his hand, put everything down, freed his hand, hugged Yu Tian Yule in his arms, and said with a smile: "Do you miss Dad?" He rubbed the faces of the two with stubble, how could these two endure it, they broke free from their father in pain, and the room was full of laughter.

Mom took out two packets of candy from her travel bag and said, "Dad picked out the candy for you, come, count how many kinds there are?" ”

This is a great joy for the two little ones, who are the same number there.

Grandma Yu Tian greeted Yu Jinsheng and Zhang Mei and said, "The rice is hot, wash your hands and eat!" ”

Yu Jinsheng is Yu Tian's father, Zhang Mei is Yu Tian's mother, the two of them went out this time to buy goods, they were engaged in the tobacco wholesale business, at that time the country had not carried out tobacco control, the market demand was very large, many people entered the industry and made a lot of money, the county built a tobacco market for these merchants, Yu Tian's parents bought two storefront houses there, and did business there.

Yu Tian's grandmother lives in Yu Tian's house and takes care of her two children.