After some gut-searching, Chi Yue remembered who this group of uninvited people was.

Chi Xin came out of the room, saw them, and said in a little surprise: "Grandma, uncle, aunt, why are you here?" ”

Chi Yue couldn't help frowning.

In the previous Chinese New Year, their family had gone to Zhoujia Village, 20 miles away, to visit relatives, and brought a few bags of rice noodles and some out-of-season vegetables, and the Zhou family did not hesitate to collect all the orders.

When I went back, my grandmother Zhou Liu only made a gesture of a bag of rice, but Zhou refused to accept it, and they simply didn't give a return gift, and they didn't even send out the door, so they let the Zhou family get into the carriage by themselves and go back empty-handed.

In the car, the more Chi Yue thought about it, the more angry she became, and she couldn't help but complain to Zhou: "Mother, why do I think grandma doesn't like us very well?" You see we went to the table, all the meals were brought by us, and after a meal, she just let her grandson eat this and that, and she never let us, the guests, go all the way to visit them! It's as if my uncle's family is today's guest, and we are her own people in her eyes! And when we leave, where does she mean to give a return gift? It's just a gentle push, you say no, and she just does it. Hmph, I really regret bringing so many things over, I knew that they didn't give us a good face when they got something, let's only bring a few onions and cabbages to fool the past, and see how they entertain us at noon. ”

Chi Yue's venting made Zhou's originally jubilant face suddenly show embarrassment.

After hesitating for a while, she sighed and said, "It's all because my mother is not good." Your mother urinated and was not looked down upon by your grandmother, but your uncle was good in her eyes, and your grandmother arranged for me to do everything, and the work in the field also asked me to help her and your grandfather, who had passed away for many years, but let your uncle eat, drink and have fun at home, and ignored everything. Since I got married, when I went back with your father a few years ago, they didn't even entertain them, because we often dared to visit after dinner. At that time, they didn't even bother to talk to us, and they didn't want to give us a gift when we left. ”

Zhou recalled the cold reception he received at his mother's house in the past, and a bitterness welled up in his heart, and he couldn't help but say a few more words. But as she spoke, the grievances in her heart became more and more intense, her eyes turned red, and she suddenly stopped talking and turned her face away.

Only then did Chi Yue understand that when the Zhou family was in her mother's house, she was actually treated patriarchally? The feeling of being treated differently, seeing her brother eat meat but only gnaw bones, she can imagine and empathize.

Chi Xin also said thoughtfully: "This time, they must know that we have opened a workshop in the village and are no longer as depressed as before, so they are willing to look down on us and are willing to give us some good looks." ”

Zhou recalled that when her family was in despair, she once went back to Zhoujia Village, thinking that since her husband's old house ignored them, she could only be counted on by her mother's family.

Although Zhou Liu's patriarchal family has never given her a good face, nor has he bought her any good clothes and food, everything is close to the only son of the Zhou family, and the future pillar of the pillar to eat and drink. But after all, she is Zhou Liu's biological flesh and blood, and when she sees her daughter on the verge of starvation, she will never sit idly by, right?

didn't think about it, Zhou Liu really did that.

Seeing that begging was useless, Zhou was despised and humiliated by Zhou Liu, so he simply knelt down in front of her, begging her to show mercy and give her daughter and grandchildren a way to live.

Zhou Liu pushed Zhou away in annoyance, and simply left the house by herself, leaving Zhou alone at home to cry, but she didn't know where to hide.

Younger brother Zhou Jie has always liked to bully his sister, and when he saw Zhou's such a pitiful appearance, he couldn't help but come over and laugh, and fell into the well to humiliate Zhou's one, and even grabbed her feet, only to feel happy.

In the past, when Zhou was not married, he relied on his mother's protection and trampled on his sister countless times. The more Zhou didn't dare to resist, the more he intensified, and he wanted to beat her again and again until her nostrils bleed, and she couldn't stand up before he would give up.

Unexpectedly, Zhou was already a wife, and he still had the opportunity to abuse her like this, and this wanton venting undoubtedly brought him indescribable pleasure.

Zhou couldn't bear the humiliation anymore, and ran out in embarrassment with teary eyes, and Zhou Jie's uncontrollable laughter came from behind him.

What's more, the one who brought her heart like a knife, the shame of surviving in the world, was her dearest person, and this heart-rending was even more difficult for ordinary people to understand.

On the way back, Zhou walked alone like a lost dog, only to feel that a heart was gushing with blood as if it had been cut, and a river of blood flowed down the ground, drowning her to the verge of suffocation, and she was out of breath in pain.

She only felt that human feelings were so cold, her heart was a little colder than the cold wind, and she no longer had any hope or hope.

When passing by a river, Zhou wanted to go into the river and die like that.

One of her feet did step into the river without realizing it.

But when she raised her eyes, she suddenly came to her senses when she saw several children swimming by the river in the distance.

There are still a few children in the family who are waiting to be fed, and if she dies, won't they have even more to rely on? Even if the children starved to death in front of them like that, they would not lend a grain of food, but stretched out a hand to pull them, and even felt that it was a waste of spit to ask.

She lives in this world, and she can still go out to dig some wild vegetables, go back and boil them to eat, and maintain her life like a beggar.

She only freed herself, but let her children suffer in this world, is this what she should do as a mother?

No, she wants to survive, for the sake of her children, no matter how hard and tired she is, no matter how wronged, she must survive in this world!

Thinking like this, she finally retracted the outstretched foot, and couldn't help but be frightened by Shicai's unconscious actions.

Recalling the scenes in the past, Zhou can still feel the piercing pain. Now she is very glad that she did not choose another decisive path, if she did that, she would never enjoy the comfortable and happy life that her daughter brought her now.

Looking back at Chi Yue, Zhou only felt relieved.

Who says daughters are inferior to men? Her daughter is worth the men of the whole village. She will not be like Zhou Liu, no matter how well her daughter does, she can't see it in her eyes, and her eyes are blinded by ignorance.

However, she once went to Zhou's house for help, and she wanted to die, but Zhou never mentioned it to the children.

When Chi Xin Chiyue saw the Zhou family at this time, she didn't have much hatred for them, but because of the cold reception she had received in the new year, she felt that she shouldn't treat these white-eyed wolves too warmly.

They couldn't help but wonder that the Mid-Autumn Festival was supposed to be a festival for their husband's family to spend together, and the Zhou family didn't want to go back to Zhoujia Village, so why did they come to visit the younger generation together with the whole family?

However, they are all their relatives, and they should not be neglected in etiquette. Thinking like this, Chi Xin hurriedly went up to greet her, "Grandma, uncle, aunt, and Ono, you go and sit inside, drink a cup of tea and chat first, my mother went to grandma's place, and will be back in a while." ”

"Okay, come here, come to my own daughter's house, I don't treat myself as an outsider, I should drink, I should eat!" Zhou Liu said unceremoniously and stepped into the hall first.

Zhou Jie also happily went in with his mother, and put a package of things in his hand at the door, as if he was afraid that others would not see it.

"Your house is so magnificent!" Aunt Zhou Chen looked around the courtyard with envy, "There is still a lake and an attic in the courtyard!" Oh my God, I don't know which noble family I think lives here, where is there such a style in our small family! Hehe, everyone says that you have made money by opening a workshop, and now that you have seen it with your own eyes, you have to believe it. ”

Chi Yue didn't bother to pay attention to this fuss, and she didn't bother to entertain these people who had treated them coldly, so she simply shouted to Chi Xin inside: "Sister, I still have to go to Chi Carpenter's house to visit, you can entertain grandma and them here." ”

"Okay, Yue'er, you can go." Chi Xin knew Chi Yue's thoughts, and readily agreed.

When Chi Yue came to the carpenter's house, she saw that the carpenter was sitting in the courtyard and smoking a pipe, so she couldn't help but be surprised and rushed forward.

"Uncle Chi, are you awake? Great, when you wake up, Aunt Chi and the children will have hope! Chi Yue said happily.

When the carpenter saw Chi Yue, his distracted eyes suddenly brightened, and he stood up with difficulty on the chaise longue, and said with a smile: "Chi Yue is here?" When I got up yesterday, I wanted to go to your place to pay a visit, but your aunt saw that my body was not yet well, so she pressed me and didn't let me go, not wanting you to come first today. It's okay, your aunt went to the garden to pick vegetables, and she came back to cook a good meal in a while, so let's have a meal together. ”

Seeing that he was weak and unsteady on his feet, Chi Yue hurriedly went over and helped him sit down, "Uncle, look at you, we are not outsiders, why are you so polite?" You haven't been in good health yet, so you can recuperate, and when you're good, you and your aunt will go to my house to play. ”

Chi Carpenter wiped the tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes, and sighed: "Chi Yue, this time it is thanks to you, if you didn't help me get justice, even if I wake up, I will definitely be very angry in my heart, endure this grievance, it is better to go to Huangquan for this life, and it is better to get rid of it." ”

"Look at what Uncle Chi said, you can make more money when you have no money, but if your life is gone, you have to die or live for that little benefit, this is not what Uncle Chi should do in my eyes." Chi Yue pretended to be disgusted and joked, and in her words, she also wanted to tell Chi Carpenter to think about it, and not to worry about this kind of thing anymore.

Chi Carpenter smiled embarrassedly, "Chi Yue, you have this belly at a young age, and your uncle is so old, but he is not as good as you." ”

Chi Yue said in her heart, I am a person who has lived for two lifetimes, so I naturally have to see it better than you, the ancients.

Carpenter Chi said, but sighed again, "But when I think that the ingot of gold was snatched back by them again, I paid for them in vain that month, and my heart still can't be calm." ”

Chi Yue raised her eyebrows, "That ingot of gold, is it really the Li family who stole it later?" ”

"Who else could there be? Could it be that the wall has ears, and the thief happened to know that our family hid gold? The carpenter clenched his fists and swore solemnly, "It must be the Li family who is reluctant to get this reward, so they do everything possible to steal the silver money back." ”