It gets dark early in winter, and when I get home it's less than five o'clock, it's already a little dark.

Walking into the courtyard door and seeing herself blinded by the black light, Meng Xiaohua's heart jumped, she quickly returned to the house, pushed open the door of Wang Xiuyun's room, and saw her mother lying on the bed, Meng Xiaohua shouted softly: "Mother, mother, mother?" After shouting a few times, seeing that her mother did not respond, as soon as her hand was put on her mother, she saw her mother sit up.

Meng Xiaohua patted his heart and said, "Mother, what's wrong with you?" It scared the hell out of me! ”

When Wang Xiuyun saw her daughter coming back, she immediately sat up and said, "Huahua is back, ah!" It's getting dark, you must be hungry, my mother is going to cook for you. With that, he got dressed and got out of bed.

"Wait a minute," realizing that her mother's voice was wrong, Meng Xiaohua quickly turned on the light, saw her mother's red and swollen eyes and asked, "What's the matter?" Who bullied you? ”

"It's okay, my mother is sad and crying when she thinks of the past." Wang Xiuyun didn't want her daughter to participate in these parents, so she said to her daughter.

Meng Xiaohua's eyes sank invisibly, and then pretended to be comforting and said to her mother: "Hey, what did you think about it in the past, let's look back, my brother should marry a daughter-in-law, and you can enjoy endless blessings in the future." Seeing that her mother looked better, she said, "I'm hungry, mother, go cook!" ”

Wang Xiuyun saw that her daughter didn't ask any more, and immediately got up and went to the kitchen to cook.

Meng Xiaohua took the book out and said to her mother: "I can't do this question, I'll ask Brother Fang." ”

"Then you come back quickly, I'll have dinner right away." Wang Xiuyun confessed.

"Okay, got it"

walked to the door of Fang's house, and took out a chicken and two catties of noodles from the sight.

knocked on the door, Fang Fang, the youngest daughter of the Fang family, who opened the door, and after entering the house, she saw that Aunt Fang's family of five was eating, and handed the chicken and noodles in her hand to Fang Fang and said, "Uncle Fang, Aunt Fang, okay." ”

Aunt Fang hurriedly got up and moved a stool for Meng Xiaohua and said, "Why is Xiaohua here?" Have you eaten? He took the things in Fang Fang's hand and stuffed them to Meng Xiaohua and said, "What are you doing here?" What else do you want to get when you come to my mother's house?"

Meng Xiaohua pushed things over and said, "Auntie, has anyone been to my family today?" ”

Aunt Fang hesitated, not knowing whether to say this or not, and saying it would only increase her troubles.

Seeing Aunt Fang's demeanor, Meng Xiaohua said: "Auntie, instead of letting me listen to gossip, it is better for you to tell me directly, I am blind to the province, I will not do anything stupid when I am so old." ”

Fang Fang helped on the side: "Mother, just say it." ”

Aunt Fang sighed and said, "Alas! It's not the old pious woman who suffered a thousand knives at the door, usually treats her granddaughter harshly, and now the food supply is not enough for her to eat a vegetable dumpling a day, your mother is kind-hearted, seeing that the two children are hungry, often sneak to give some food, this afternoon your mother took a few steamed buns to their sisters, I didn't expect to call her grandson to see, shouting to eat, your mother can't get used to her style, so she ignored her grandson, seeing that your mother didn't give her grandson, the old pious woman actually beat her granddaughter out of anger, you said she couldn't go back to the house to fight, Just in front of your house, who is disgusting, your mother looked distressed and stopped, she scolded your mother for pretending to be kind, the two of them quarreled, and finally the old pious woman started to fight with the two of them, and called her daughter-in-law to help, I heard the sound and pulled away with the sister-in-law of the Su family next door. Aunt Fang also omitted a paragraph, the old pious woman said: A widow who doesn't work every day wears a demonic spirit, and the family also eats fine grains, who knows what to do to make a living, this is what Wang Xiuyun said ruthlessly.

Meng Xiaohua knew that Aunt Fang must have filtered out some ugly words, otherwise her mother would not be so sad with these, as long as she found the creditor, so she said: "Thank you, Aunt Fang, you eat, I will go home first." ”

After refusing to talk to Aunt Fang, she still left her things and went home.

Fang Fang looked at the chicken and drooled, Aunt Fang weighed it four or five catties, thinking that she would take care of it more in the future, so she took the chicken and hung it on the beam and kept it for the New Year.

The daughter-in-law of the Xu family on the other side saw Meng Xiaohua go to Fang's house, and when she came back to tell her mother-in-law, she heard the old lady Xu say disapprerovingly: "Just go, what can they do to us?" Hum! A girl loses money and goods, what is there to be afraid of, it depends on your interest. After speaking, he ignored his daughter-in-law, turned around and said to his grandson with a smile on his face: "Come to the dog, eat egg custard." ”

Wang Xiuyun saw that her daughter's expression was fine, it seemed that the sister-in-law of the Fang family didn't say anything, knowing that she was worried about being redundant, she was relieved, and she was afraid that her daughter would run away to make trouble.

Meng Xiaohua talked to her mother as usual, laughed and laughed, washed up and rested after eating.

It wasn't until two days later, at nine o'clock in the evening, that a wail was heard in the courtyard, and then accompanied by a burst of swearing, that the other families living in the courtyard had received someone to go out to see the situation.

Meng Xiaohua looked out of the window, and saw several men carrying Mrs. Xu's son Xu Daqiang with the door panel, covered in blood, Mrs. Xu sat by the door panel and cried and howled, Xu Daqiang's daughter-in-law also wiped her tears, Old Man Xu's face was wrinkled and couldn't see the expression, and then scolded his wife and said: "Okay, don't cry, hurry back to the house and get the money to go to the hospital, what are you howling here?" Isn't that messy enough? ”

Mrs. Xu obediently closed her mouth, walked back to the house quickly, and came out again in a few seconds, leaving Xu Daqiang's daughter-in-law to watch the children at home, and the two old men followed their son to the hospital.