Chapter 9: Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner
His father was originally the pillar of the family, but the illness was consuming his body bit by bit.
Her last words, however, were spoken very lightly. Through the conversation in the morning, she knew in her heart that the reason why the police came to the door must be because her mother had done something illegal. Therefore, for the words blurted out before, she was just out of conditioned reflex, but she had no confidence at all in her heart.
"Little sister, your mother is fine, we are here to visit your father!"
At this moment, Qin Yue's brows, which were still tightly locked just now, always gradually returned to normal.
"Xiaoyue, Officer Lu and Officer Jiang are both good people!" Jiang Cuilian reached out and tucked the washed and faded quilt covering her husband's body, turned to Qin Yue and said, "Xiaoyue, go and pour some water for the two police officers and comrades!" ”
Then she turned her head again, and said to Lu Jiang and the others with some embarrassment, "Officer Lu, Officer Jiang, this place is very narrow, there is not even a place to sit, you two go to the hall and sit, I will come out immediately." ”
Lu Chuan and Jiang Xiaohuan exited Qin Jiashu's room. Qin Yue beckoned them to sit on a leather sofa in the hall that already had a hole in it, and sat down on a leather sofa that had a "creak" sound, took two glasses, and poured them a glass of boiling water each.
Subsequently, Lu Chuan moved the box in the back seat of the motorcycle, and said to Qin Yue, "Tell your mother, marinate the meat early, the sun is very spicy today, and if it's late, the meat may stink!" ”
"Your mouth is so stinky, this is the New Year, how do you talk!" Jiang Xiaohuan answered on the side.
"Yes, yes, yes! You're always right! Lu Chuan laughed, he deliberately dragged the word "you" for a long time.
Qin Yue looked at them as if they were a flirtatious couple. This made Jiang Xiaohuan's face a little blushing, and he immediately gave Lu Chuan a color.
At this time, my mother who came out of my father's room was already tired and sweating. Qin Yue knew that her mother must have helped her father turn over and take a bath again! Every time, whenever my mother is free, she will do it herself. What is determined in the heart of her mother Jiang Cuilian is that no matter how long her husband can support him, he must be innocent and clean.
Lu Chuan had quietly left 600 yuan in the cardboard box and took Jiang Xiaohuan on a police motorcycle. Qin Yue kept the two of them at home for dinner, and they politely said that they wanted to go home for the New Year.
Jiang Cuilian took out everything in the carton and put it on the table! Including the 600 yuan that Lu Chuan stuffed at the bottom of the box. Although she knew that Jiang Xiaohuan bought the things, she didn't know that the other 600 yuan was given by Lu Chuan. … Aichi Literature ¥ Better, newer and faster
She silently sighed in her heart that it was really an endless road. However, when looking at these sumptuous New Year's goods on the table, Jiang Cuilian had mixed feelings in her heart, and finally couldn't help but hide her face and sob.
For fear that her husband in the house would hear it, she has been suppressing her crying. Seeing her mother crying, Qin Yue didn't feel good in her heart, she walked over and hugged her mother gently, and asked her mother in a low voice, "Mom, what's wrong with you, what's going on today, can you tell me?" ”
Jiang Cuilian shook first
He shook his head, then nodded heavily. Because, in her heart, she intends to tell her daughter everything that happened today as an important lesson.
Her mother told Qin Yue that she had gone to her aunt Qin Xiangmei's house this morning to borrow money. When my aunt's family heard that they were going to borrow money, they lowered their faces one after another, saying that the doctors had sentenced them to death, so they shouldn't waste any more, not to mention that the family was not rich or something!
"It sounds like they're doing it for the good of our family. Actually, Satsuki, you know, they ...... According to their idea, they are thinking of pushing your father to the hell! Mother sobbed again sadly. The young Qin Yue didn't know how to comfort her mother, who was crying with pear blossoms and rain. So she herself cried with her mother.
"Your dad will get better, he will!" Jiang Cuilian seemed to regret the truth about her husband's illness to her daughter just now! But she also knew that her words were not convincing at all, at most she was just asking for comfort. After all, no one knows her daughter's personality better than her.
"Yes, I believe my dad will get better, Mom!" Qin Yue comforted her mother, not so much to comfort her mother, but more like a longing and a good wish of her own!
For almost a month, she was always upset about her sister's dropout of school and felt sorry for her. In the dead of night, when her classmates were asleep, she always hid in the quilt and cried secretly.
However, when she really saw her father, who was lying in bed and tortured by illness, she deeply realized the compulsion of the family at a young age.
Jiang Cuilian, who was sneered at by her sister-in-law's family, left without eating!
After Jiang Cuilian did a lot of ideological struggle in her heart, she finally told Qin Yue in detail about stealing the stall owner's pork and the rest of the matter.
"Girl, I hope you and your sister will not make the mistake you made today. If it weren't for Officer Jiang's kindness, my mother would probably have spent this year in prison! ”
Mother cried again with a handful of snot and tears, and the young Qin Yue hurriedly comforted her mother! In fact, she didn't know how to comfort her mother, so she just hugged her mother's shoulders with her weak arms, "Mom, my sister and I will definitely remember, don't worry!" ”
This year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was more abundant than ever, but both mother and daughter ate very little! The father, who was lying on the sickbed, was not unaware of the real situation. It's just that he doesn't want to add any more pressure to healthy people! Especially when he sees his wife taking care of himself bit by bit with red eyes. He even prayed in his heart that he would die sooner. In that case, the life of the three of them mother and daughter would not be so difficult!
Throughout the Spring Festival, Qin Jiashu never saw his eldest daughter Qin Yang. In the end, he still took advantage of his wife's scrubbing body on Chinese New Year's Eve when fireworks were bursting outside, and asked tremblingly, "How Xiaoyang this year."
What if you didn't come back for the reunion year? ”
After hesitating for a few seconds, Jiang Cuilian still told her husband the truth: "Yangyang's factory is working overtime this year, and I heard her say that all the employees of their factory will not be able to go home to the country this year." Although it is true that Yangyang stayed in the factory to work overtime, the second half of the sentence was a drama added by Jiang Cuilian herself in order to keep her husband from being too sad! Qin Jiashu's head was suddenly in chaos, and at this moment he realized that his conjecture was not wrong, his eldest daughter had dropped out of school because of his illness and went out to work.
In life, we all know that lies are harmful to others and ourselves! It is the trampling and tarnishing of the integrity of others, and for oneself, a lie needs countless lies to cover up. But in the end, most of them will also have an incident because the paper can't hold the fire.
But a white lie can make the hearts of the people you care about feel better! Therefore, people are not averse to lies.
The sound of firecrackers and fireworks outside came and went, and in this narrow room, Qin Jiashu, who had always only believed that "men have tears and do not flow lightly", finally couldn't hold back, and cried bitterly, "I hurt Xiaoyang, I hurt your mother and daughter, how good it would be if I didn't have this disease!" ”
As soon as his emotions were excited, he coughed breathlessly, and Jiang Cuilian kept helping him beat his back, "Her father, we are a family, you must not think like that, you must recuperate with peace of mind, the two babies and me!" They've all grown up, don't worry. ”
He was once the pillar of the family. And now, his pillar has fallen, and he is not worried that it is obviously fake. Although neither the doctor nor his wife Jiang Cuilian told him the truth about his illness. But he still felt that he might not have much time left as he grew weaker and weaker. Therefore, he often thinks about tomorrow and accidents, maybe the chance of accidents is greater! It's just that, he's just imagining it alone in his mind.
Qin Yue brought her father the meat and bone broth that had been boiled for several hours, and fed her father spoonful by spoonful. When she felt hot, she gently blew the soup cold for her father and then put it into his father's mouth! Mother came over and changed a bowl of soup, "Xiaoyue, it should be naturally warm!" "This lovely and filial daughter did not know that she kindly fed her father cold soup, undoubtedly sending bacteria into his father's mouth. Her frail father is now unable to bear any wind and grass! But the young Qin Yue didn't know anything about it! She thought that her mother was disgusted with her and fed her father badly, and she suddenly felt a little sad in her heart!
Who is she Jiang Cuilian? Standing on the sidelines, she had already seen her daughter's careful thoughts! She pulled her daughter and told the doctor that blowing cold food on the patient would blow the bacteria in her mouth into the bowl containing the patient's food, and the patient would be bad for his health after eating it!
Looking at her weak father on the sickbed, Qin Yue cried silently more than once, although her mother didn't tell him the truth about her father, but her sister had already told her everything! In addition, when she saw her father's appearance with her own eyes, she thought that her father was so sick, probably he couldn't get better! Then she slapped herself hard
"How can you be so crow-mouthed?" Dad will definitely get better soon! ”
In rural areas, especially if there are sick people at home, it is not allowed to say unlucky words and have unlucky thoughts! Actually, objectively speaking, this is a self-deceptive idea.
In the past, when the elder Qin Yang often asked his mother because of this, "Why did things end badly, but why do adults have to deceive themselves?" Jiang Cuilian, who has always been illiterate, will reprimand her daughter with a straight face whenever this happens, it is better to deceive herself than to deceive others! People in the village rarely use the word "death" even when a pig, cow, or sheep die. According to them, it's called finding the path of reincarnation!
After becoming adults, Qin Yang and Qin Yue realized that many times, this way of "self-deception" is actually a positive psychological suggestion.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Qin Yue returned to school and started the tense make-up class in the second half of the third semester of junior high school!
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