Chapter 36: Father
When Shen Chi came back, he saw Lin Xiaoliang holding a book in his hand, but his expression was obviously out of the world.
"What's wrong?" He unbuttoned his coat and stepped forward to kiss her cheek and asked.
Lin Xiaoliang was startled, looked up and saw that it was him, and said with a sigh of relief: "I'm back." ”
"What's wrong with you?" Shen Chi asked repeatedly.
"My niece Lin Xiaoniao ran away from home." Saying that, Lin Xiaoliang said that she brought Lin Xiaoniao up, and the reason why she ran away from home this time, and sighed: "That child is smart and tight, she will leave this time, and I guess I am worried that my second sister-in-law will sell her." ”
Her second sister-in-law has always been stupid in her eyes. If it weren't for the fact that the second brother was too cowardly and his appearance was not good-looking, it would have been his mother's Zhang Luo, and his father would not have allowed such a woman to enter the door.
That woman is the most selfish person she has ever seen, on the grounds that she has no son, she is very picky, not to mention her daughter, it is her second brother, it is estimated that it is unknown whether she can eat meat once a year. As the saying goes, after a hundred years of cultivation, husband and wife are the most intimate relationship, but in the eyes of her second sister-in-law, her second brother is not so much a husband as a slave and a tool for giving birth to a son.
In this regard, she felt that she couldn't see it after being sensible, and she privately persuaded her second brother to cheer up her husband several times, but her second brother was not angry at all, and he deserved it well at that time, and he didn't take any action when he turned back. After a long time, seeing that his mud couldn't support the wall, she didn't bother to care.
Shen Chi touched his nose when he heard this, he really didn't want to say much about this, after all, the culprit was actually him, he picked up the water cup that Lin Xiaoliang drank half of the water on the side and drank all the water inside, changing a relatively safe topic: "Then do you think your niece will come to you?" ”
"No, it won't." Lin Xiaoqian shook his head without hesitation. "Little Bird has always been stubborn, because of the second brother and sister-in-law, she must feel that she has no face to come to see me, if she doesn't make a name for herself, she will never come to me."
"That's a problem. There are too many dangers for an underage girl to work outside. Seeing that the topic was a little dangerous, Shen Chi hurriedly said.
"Not really." Lin Xiaoliang was worried in her heart, according to the way Lin Xiaoniao came to find her in her previous life, she should have made a name for herself, but she was not sure. Is there already a variable in this life?
Shen Chi knocked on the table and muttered: "This matter still depends on the hometown, at least we have to know which direction the child took the car, so we can follow the route to find it." What he didn't say was, even so. There is not much hope of finding people, and there is a vast sea of people, so how can it be so easy to find people.
He didn't say that Lin Xiaoliang wouldn't know.
They sighed helplessly, but their hometown Fengyuan Village was in chaos.
"What are you doing here, how can you do this to such a good boy?" Li Fangmei hugged the thin little Lin kitten, who was covered with scars and was so frightened, scolded Zhu Fen.
Zhu Fen stiffened her neck and said, "What's wrong with me?" My own daughter can't fight yet? Need you outsiders to meddle in your business? ”
Li Fangmei was so angry that her face turned red, "Okay, what an outsider!" ”
Zhu Fen looked proud. Before she could say anything, she heard a firewood knife flying from the front, and she was so frightened that her legs went weak. Staggered to the ground, trembling and crawling to the side.
These actions all happened in an instant, and at this moment, the firewood knife had already skimmed Zhu Fen and smashed on the glass window of her house, with a bang, and the glass shards splashed in all directions. Fell on her head and face.
Lin Qian's thin figure approached quickly from the front, and he stared at Zhu Fen who was sitting on the ground trembling fiercely. "Mean woman, you can say it again?"
Because the movement is not small. The surrounding neighbors all walked out, and when they saw Lin Nianqiang's posture, they immediately retracted their feet to come over.
It's not good, then Lin Nianqiang is going crazy.
"Nian Qiang, don't be impulsive, have something to say!" Only the old men of the Lin family hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them.
"Okay?" Lin Nianqiang pointed at Zhu Fen and said, "You ask what this woman said to my sister-in-law just now?" My younger brother was also respectful and polite to my sister-in-law when he was there, when was it her turn to go crazy? ”
He gasped for breath, and the juniors in the Lin family next to him hurriedly helped him and said, "Uncle, don't be angry, it's not worth it if you are angry." ”
Today, there is really no one to help Zhu Fen, although Lin Nianqiang has a hot temper and impulsiveness, he has always been a donkey, as long as you don't mess with him, he will never come to trouble you for no reason. And Zhu Fen, she really doesn't have any reputation in the Lin family, and she is basically synonymous with being quite unreasonable.
"Sister-in-law, take a breath, don't worry." At this time, Zhou Fengqin's panicked voice came from behind.
Lin Nianqiang didn't hear it well, and when he looked back, Li Fangmei was shaking her body and falling down, and the Lin kitten she was holding in her hand was also shaky, and Zhou Fengqin was struggling to support her, but she was also old in the end, and she couldn't hold on for long.
As soon as he pondered it, he understood that his sister-in-law was frightened by his firewood knife just now, after all, no matter how bad he was, he had to go to the bureau if someone died.
"Quick, go and help the two stinky boys." He himself wanted to step forward, but he really didn't have much strength just now.
Fortunately, in the past two years, his niece has sent all kinds of tonic products to his home, otherwise he would not only have no strength.
Without him having to say anything, the two juniors in the clan rushed up to help the person up, "Uncle, are you okay?" ”
Li Fangmei finally relieved her breath, and she couldn't care about Sheng Lin Nianqiang's anger, so she quickly put the child down, and beckoned the clan elder on the side and said, "Brothers, look at what this child has been milled by her mother." ”
Only then did everyone notice Lin Xiaomei, and saw that her face was bruised and purple, the thin cotton jacket on her body was covered with holes of different lengths, and the cotton that fell out was still scarlet, and the exposed hands were mottled with blood, and they immediately gasped.
"You hit this?" The tall, bald old man seemed to be the oldest here, and he asked Zhu Fen with a glare.
The Lin family has always been united, which has not changed even after the Cultural Revolution, and even because the Cultural Revolution was supported by everyone, the relationship has become closer.
Zhu Fen was not as arrogant as before, and he shrunk his neck and said weakly: "The child is disobedient, what's wrong with me hitting twice?" ”
"Fuck your shit!" A scrawny old man on the side said angrily: "Guoqiang is really a bit back, when you meet an unfilial descendant like you, you first sold his daughter, and now you want to kill his granddaughter, are you still not human?" Aren't you afraid that the country will die and come to you in the middle of the night? ”
Lin Xiaoliang's matter before, their clan didn't want to take care of it, after all, although Lin Xiaoliang was a girl, as a prospective college student who won glory for the clan, they naturally had to treat it specially.
But Lin Xiaokang made a decision as Lin Xiaoliang's own brother, they really had no position to intervene, and went to Li Fangmei and Lin Nianqiang to let them come forward, but Li Fangmei said her thoughts, and the clan also felt reasonable when they heard it, so they acquiesced.
The other clan elders listened to the old man's words and agreed with each other, Lin Guoqiang was also a figure in the clan at the beginning, who knew that none of the four sons could become talents, and he sold the baby daughter on the tip of his heart.
"What are you all doing here?" Behind everyone, a voice suddenly sounded.
Lin Xiaofu walked through the crowd to the door of his house, looked at the broken window and Zhu Fen, and said with a puzzled expression: "Ah Fen, what's wrong?" ”
Zhu Fen reflexively wanted to sue, but when he looked up, he saw many Lin clan people surrounding him, shrunk his neck and said, "No, it's just that I accidentally hit the kitten hard." ”
Kitten?
Lin Xiaofu subconsciously went to find his second daughter, and when he saw the girl with a blue nose and swollen face, and her face was so frightened, she was a little stunned, and said in disbelief: "Kitten? His voice was soft, as if he couldn't believe that the beaten child was her daughter.
"Daddy." Lin Xiaomei shouted timidly, and then hid her head in Li Fangmei's arms.
She remembered what her sister said, and her sister said that her father and aunt couldn't believe it, and she also knew that if her mother wanted to beat her to death, her father would definitely not be able to stop her.
Very strangely, at this time, the memory of her aunt that had been vague became clear in her mind, and such gentle love made her eyes more and more tears.
At this time, she somewhat understood why her sister shouted "She is more like my mother".
She cried more and more fiercely, Lin Xiaofu didn't know what to say, and the eyes of the people of the Lin clan around him became more and more disdainful.
Lin Xiaofu's face became darker and darker, for the child, he didn't hurt it, although it was a pity that he was not a boy, but in the end, it was his species, how could he really not care. It's just that his daughter-in-law doesn't let her spend money on her children, and he only dares to secretly stuff them with a penny or two, and he can't do it if he has more.
The eldest daughter was missing, and he was also anxious, so he ran out to look for it, but when he came back, he saw that the second daughter was beaten inhumanly, how could he not feel pain in his heart? Even, facing Zhu Fen, he was angry like he had never been.
It's just that he is used to being cowardly, and this anger didn't last long before it dissipated.
He thought to himself, forget it, he wants to live with his daughter-in-law for the rest of his life.
Seeing him like this, Li Fangmei and these old people shook their heads in their hearts, Lin Xiaofu couldn't help him.
"Kittens and fish can't live with their parents." Li Fangmei made a decision in her heart, looked at Lin Xiaofu and said, "I plan to take the two children away today, what do you think?" If it was in the past, she wouldn't have been able to make this kind of decision in that situation at home, but with the 3,000 yuan and her son being angry, she didn't mind raising two more children at all.
Li Fangmei's biggest advantage is that she can see money and never take it too seriously.
Everyone thought that Lin Xiaofu would refuse, but he looked at his daughter and said, "Okay, auntie, take the children away, I will send their rations every month in the future." ”
This is the only thing he, a father, can do for his children.
As a pillow person, how could he not know Zhu Fen's plans for several daughters. (To be continued)