In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Zhang Laohan, who lived at the east end of the alley, got up early in the morning and hurried to work in his vegetable patch.

As soon as he reached the mouth of the alley, he saw what appeared to be a man lying in the corner. Seeing this, Zhang Laohan hurriedly put down the hoe in his hand and ran over.

When I looked closely, it was a man, and this person was Mei Jiaxing. I think it's because I haven't eaten for a long time and I'm overworked, so I fainted here.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Laohan carried the dying Mei Jiaxing back home without thinking about it.

At this time, Mrs. Chen, Zhang's wife, was cooking on a fire at home.

I saw that Mrs. Chen had just lit the firewood with her trembling hand, and the shouts of Zhang Laohan came from outside the house.

thought that Mei Jiaxing's weight was too heavy, which made Zhang Laohan a little powerless, so he called his wife out to help.

Mrs. Chen went out when she heard the sound, only to see her husband carrying a strange man back.

Seeing this, Mrs. Chen was obviously a little unhappy, so much so that she kept muttering: "Don't you know what is going on in your family?" Here again to be a good man......"

Zhang Laohan saw that his wife was standing aside unmoved, and he was a little impatient, and then scolded angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and enter the house, it's important to save people!" ”

Mrs. Chen saw that her husband was a little angry, so she didn't dare to say anything more, so she had to help him carry Mei Jiaxing to the kang in the back room.

Although Mrs. Chen was very reluctant in her heart, she understood that no one could change what her husband had decided.

And the reason why she chose to marry Zhang Laohan back then was not because this man had a pure and kind heart?

Besides, Mrs. Chen is definitely not the kind of woman who doesn't save her heart when she sees death, if not, how could she marry the honest and steady Zhang Laohan? It's just that the situation at home is really not optimistic recently, so that even the basic life of the two of them can't be guaranteed, where is the energy to care about the life and death of this stranger.

After about a cup of tea, the couple settled Mei Jiaxing. At this time, the flame in the stove had long been extinguished, so Mrs. Chen had to start from scratch.

Zhang Laohan's family is very poor, and he can really be called a family with four walls, so he has no extra silver taels to take out to treat Mei Jiaxing, so he can only reluctantly temporarily place him at home, and do his best to recuperate well, so that he can recover as soon as possible.

After the careful care of the couple, Mei Jiaxing, who had been asleep all day, finally woke up in the evening.

Seeing this, Zhang Laohan hurriedly asked his wife to bring the long-prepared chicken soup and a few black-flour steamed buns to satisfy the Mei family's hunger.

It's also strange to say that Mei Jiaxing, who is used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, usually feels a little disgusted when he even smells something like chicken soup. But this time the situation was very different, three big steamed buns and a big bowl of steaming chicken soup were eaten by the hungry Mei Jiaxing before they were cooled.

It can be seen that the quality of food is sometimes not determined by how valuable it is, but by how hungry the person who eats it is.

However, Mei Jiaxing, who woke up, hurriedly filled his stomach, but he never noticed that Zhang Laohan and his wife were secretly crying when they watched him eat.

You know, this bowl of chicken soup didn't come easily. This is because Zhang Laohan was ruthless, and then killed the only rooster in the family to crow, and then made this bowl of chicken soup. And this is also the most valuable tonic that these two have been able to come up with so far.

Now, seeing this "old guy" who has been with them for many years leaving him so inexplicably, how can you tell them not to be sad?

After eating and drinking, Mei Jiaxing was very grateful to the second elder for saving his life. However, at this time, he was also penniless, so he could only stay in Zhang Laohan's house for a few days, and then make another plan.

A few days later, Mei Jiaxing, who lived here temporarily, was surprised to find that there seemed to be no one else in the family except him and the two old people.

For this reason, he has also asked Zhang Laohan more than once. I don't know what the reason is, Zhang Laohan doesn't seem to care about Mei Jiaxing's questions, and always avoids something. In this regard, Mei Jiaxing was also puzzled.

After a few more days, Mei Jiaxing, who was eager to seek the truth, could no longer sit still. This time, he decided to do the opposite, and went directly to Mrs. Chen, maybe it would be more effective. So Mei Jiaxing took advantage of the gap when Zhang Laohan went out to work, and found Mrs. Chen, wanting to learn some truth from her mouth.

Unexpectedly, when Mei Jiaxing gradually asked about the family situation of the second elder, Mrs. Chen choked uncontrollably. Seeing this, Mei Jiaxing expected that things would not be simple.

After Mrs. Chen's mind calmed down a little, she finally told Mei Jiaxing the truth.

It turned out that she and her wife were already in their old age. Zhang Laohan's ears are a little back, which is one of the reasons why he sometimes seems reluctant to deal with Mei Jiaxing. Mrs. Chen's eyes are not very good, and she has been getting more and more unable to see things clearly.

Because the old couple is getting older and older, they can't do heavy work, so they can only grow some easy-to-take vegetables in the vegetable field not far away. When the vegetables were ripe, Zhang Laohan picked them up and sold them in the market, and then earned some loose silver taels to supplement the family. In the event of illness and calamity, they rely on the mutual help and help of their neighbors to survive, and life is very difficult.

Reading this, you may feel a little puzzled, do these two have no children and no daughters? If not, how could it be the field it is today?

The answer is – there is, and there is more than one.

The couple had three sons and two daughters, for a total of five children. However, according to Mrs. Chen, their children have not been in the door for more than ten years!

It turned out that the couple raised their five brothers and sisters before and after. thought that they would be able to provide for themselves in their old age when they grew up, and as long as one of the five children was sensible, the two of them would have something to rely on in their old age. But I never expected that the five children raised by the husband and wife were all unfilial sons who were disrespectful and filial!

At first, the children were just disrespectful to them. Later, he gradually began to beat and scold them. What's more, there have been several times when the second elder has been kicked out of the house because of some trivial matters in life!

Although the children are extremely disrespectful to Mr. and Mrs. Zhang, after all, they are their own children, so they naturally do not take this matter to heart. No matter how much they abuse or even beat, they will only choose to swallow their anger and make compromises, and always have illusions about these unscrupulous people.

After all five children are married, whether to provide for the elderly and how to provide for the elderly has become a topic for these people to discuss.

In fact, where they are there to support the elderly, they are just to covet the benefits of it. When this kind of benefit is unevenly distributed for some reason, their so-called family relationship, which has long existed in name only, completely collapses.

Everyone wants to maximize their own interests, but everyone doesn't want to support two old people. Even so, I simply don't care about it, out of sight and out of mind.

In this way, the five children left home one after another and never returned. In the eyes of their parents they are still alive, but in the eyes of these children, their parents are dead.

According to Mrs. Chen, except for the eldest son Zhang Shugong, who is still in the capital, the other four have long been missing. However, even though Zhang Shugong lived in the same city as them, he never visited them once.

Hearing this, Mei Jiaxing was both surprised and angry. What is surprising is how a kind and simple ordinary person like the two old men could give birth to such inhumane and morally corrupt children? What is angry is that Mrs. Chen's children, as juniors, are so unbelievable, but they have to believe it.

What kind of face do you have to live in this world if you are not as good as a pig and dog who are not as good as destroying human nature? Are these people childless and daughterless? Or will they all be able to live forever? You will also grow old one day, and when you do, will you also end up lonely and miserable like Mr. and Mrs. Zhang?

And so on, it cannot be said that they abound in the world, but there are not a few. The ancients said that "filial piety comes first", if a person can even abandon his parents, then what else can this person not abandon?

Originally, Mei Jiaxing was a little tired of staying here, but when he learned the truth of the matter, he resolutely decided to vent his evil anger for the second elder.

If a traitor like Zhang Shugong can't get the punishment he deserves, what is the reason for heaven? Where is justice?

The words were divided into two ends, Mei Jiaxing's mother Zhao Xiaolu saw that her son had been missing for many days and Mei Chengye did not react at all, so she ran to Mei Chengye's desk and made a big noise in a hurry.

However, Zhao Xiaolu seems to have chosen the wrong time. At this time, Mei Chengye was dealing with daily affairs and some relatively complicated paperwork, and he didn't have time to deal with her.

Seeing this, Zhao Xiaolu not only left without acquaintance, but began to make trouble unreasonably.

Mei Chengye was very disgusted by this, but he was trying his best to endure all this, because he didn't want to quarrel with Zhao Xiaolu senselessly.

But Zhao Xiaolu saw that Mei Chengye was a little indifferent, so she made more and more trouble.

In this way, Mei Chengye couldn't stand it anymore, so much so that he slapped Zhao Xiaolu in anger.

Zhao Xiaolu, who was beaten, ran out of the room crying, and Mei Chengye, who was beaten up, also completely sobered up, and then realized that he had made a big mistake.

After all, since the couple have been married for so many years, he has always taken care of Zhao Xiaolu as a pearl in his palm. Not to mention beating her, even arguing loudly is almost nothing, it can really be described as a hundred and obedient, but today Mei Chengye slapped her hard.

At this time, Mei Chengye should have chased out immediately to admit his mistake to Zhao Xiaolu, but he always refused to take the initiative to admit his mistake because of the problem of face, so he missed the best opportunity to redeem his mistake.

At this time, the heartbroken Zhao Xiaolu had already run back to his room, and then lay on the bed in his clothes, ready to vent his anger and dissatisfaction with Mei Chengye by going on a hunger strike, and then used this as a threat to make him find Mei Jiaxing as soon as possible.

In the middle of the night, Mei Chengye saw that everyone in the house was asleep, so he quietly came to Zhao Xiaolu's door, wanting to give Zhao Xiaolu a belated apology.

And Zhao Xiaolu was not asleep at this moment, when she faintly heard familiar footsteps outside the house, she knew that Mei Chengye was coming.

I saw that Zhao Xiaolu, who had been covering her head with a quilt before, suddenly came to her senses, smiling and secretly rejoicing in her heart. The heart said, I still can't help it, I deserve it!

Then, she blew out the lights that had been on before. I think she is still resentful of Mei Chengye, so she refuses to give in, and then wants to indirectly tell Mei Chengye in this way that she is still angry and doesn't want to see him.

Mei Chengye, who had been wandering outside the house for a long time, saw that the light in the room suddenly went out, so he slowly put down the hand that had been held high by the door several times and wanted to knock on the door, and then left the place after sighing.

Zhao Xiaolu, who was in the house, was anxious and angry when she saw Mei Chengye leaving, and secretly scolded herself: "What a big fool! ”

The next morning, Zhao Xiaolu, who had not eaten much all day, was really hungry, so she wanted to get up and find something to eat when Mei Chengye was not at home, but Mei Chengye had already ordered the kitchen to make a large table of delicious meals for her.

Because Mei Chengye knows Zhao Xiaolu's temperament, she has absolutely no perseverance to go on a hunger strike, but she is just more stubborn.

In the meantime, Zhao Xiaolu learned from the maid that Mei Chengye had been secretly looking for Mei Jiaxing. The reason why he didn't tell her was because he didn't want her to worry about it.

At this moment, the stubborn and willful Zhao Xiaolu suddenly realized how selfish what she had done before.

In fact, the husband and wife love each other deeply in their hearts, but sometimes both parties are unwilling to give in due to affection, which makes the originally not serious situation even more difficult to manage.

Face, a magical existence that cannot be seen or touched, but can invisibly influence many people. Is face really that important?