After a while, the thick curtain was lifted, and Cheng Jiaji appeared under the dim light with the bride, one with a ruddy face and drunken eyes, and the other holding a wine glass, shy and careful. They walked up to Mu Shi, and Cheng Jiaji turned to the bride and said, "This is my mother." He pointed again, "This is my sister-in-law." ”

The bride blushed and smiled slightly, shouted twice with Cheng Jiaji, and said timidly: "I'm here to salute my mother and sister-in-law's wine." ”

He Tu hurriedly stood up and looked at each other embarrassedly. I saw her raise her arm, finish a glass of wine, wipe her mouth, and smile shyly.

"Hmm." Mu Shi didn't speak, just smiled and nodded. After the toast, Cheng Jiaji took her out, and Hedi sat down again, thinking back to the appearance of the woman she had just seen, seeing that she was soft and weak on the outside, she seemed to be a gentle woman, not like that arrogant and domineering, Hedi felt a little calmer, and felt happy, as if they had become very good friends.

Just sat in a daze, letting the thoughts fly in his head, and even thought of the picture of the two getting along in the future, how harmonious, how harmonious, was immersed in this kind of thought and couldn't extricate himself, and suddenly heard the noise outside the door, it didn't seem to be the kind of sound of joy, but as if someone was fighting. He Tu was startled, turned his head to look at his mother-in-law, only to see that her expression also became shocked and suspicious, and she stood up suddenly.

He hurriedly opened the curtain and looked out, only to see that the people in the courtyard were gathered at the gate, pointing fingers outside, not knowing what they were looking at. She opened her eyes wide to get a closer look at the scene outside the gate, but the night was already very thick, and the lights in the courtyard could not spread outside the gate, so she saw nothing. I only heard the sound of the fighting getting louder and louder, and someone actually roared, and the sound was extremely angry, and the joyful atmosphere in the courtyard was reduced to freezing point at once. Hetu was frightened and turned her head to look at her mother-in-law, at a loss.

"What is this for? What is this for? Mu Shi's situation was not much better, and she seemed to be frightened, so she threw down the food in her hand and ran outside. He Tu followed her footsteps and ran outside, and the two of them rushed to the gate one after the other, and the scene in front of them suddenly became clear, only to see a group of unknown people who didn't know where they came from, each with a strong expression on their faces, holding either a stick or a shovel in their hands, pointing to the crowd and shouting: "Call Cheng Jiahua out!" ”

"Birch?" Hearing Cheng Jiahua's name, He Tu thought that she had misheard, and she looked at the group of people suspiciously, not knowing what they were looking for Cheng Jiahua. It's just that Cheng Jiahua wasn't at home tonight, so they stood at the door for so long, and they didn't see the person they were looking for coming out, so they couldn't help but be even more annoyed.

"Hurry up and let the surname Cheng come out! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will smash your door! The bald head who took the lead shouted, raised a long knife in his hand and shook it at the door.

The crowd took a few steps back with an uproar, looking at the vicious group of people in front of them in disbelief.

He Tu turned her head to look left and right, and suddenly, she saw her father-in-law standing at the back of the crowd with his hands behind his back, looking at them expressionlessly, but he didn't move. She couldn't help but get anxious, no matter how she said that today was also a day of great joy, just because they were so noisy at the gate of their house, not only did they ruin the festive atmosphere, but the knife and stick were also unlucky to look at. Why didn't my father-in-law step forward to stop it, could it be that they couldn't make such a fuss?

He Tu tugged at her mother-in-law's sleeve and whispered, "Mom, Dad is over there." ”

Mu Shi followed her gaze and hurriedly walked towards him. She said something to Cheng Tielong in a panic, but he still looked at the farce in front of him coldly and didn't say a word.

Seeing this scene, He Tu couldn't help but feel anxious, seeing that the group of people was about to come in, her brain was hot, she stretched out her hand to push away the crowd and greeted her, shouting loudly: "I am Cheng Jiahua's daughter-in-law, what are you looking for him?" ”

The person who took the lead was stunned, and when he saw clearly that it was a weak and petite woman standing in front of him, he couldn't help frowning, and said impatiently: "The Cheng Jiahua I am looking for, are you Cheng Jiahua?" Hurry up and get out of the way, let him out! ”

"He's not here!" He Di then said loudly, she didn't know where she got such courage, her face was fearless, and she even took a big step forward, "You guys have something to look for me!" There is a happy event in my family today, don't make trouble here, if you have anything to say, let's go outside and say it! ”

The bald head of the leader looked at her with a smile, waved the knife in his hand again, and shouted: "Could it be that Cheng Jiahua is so good?" Don't dare to come out yourself, push your wife out? The people behind him burst into laughter, and the people behind him became more and more suspicious.

"What the hell are you going to do?" She asked again, accentuating.

The bald head groaned for a while, took two steps forward, slowed down and said: "Sister, your man owes us so much money, I am here to collect debts, if you have money in your family, take it out quickly, we will take the money and leave, absolutely not damage a single grass in your family, I Chen Ye will do what he says." But if you can't come up with the money tonight—" he sneered, turning the cold-lit knife in his hand, "then don't blame me for being rude." ”

Hedi's chest rose and fell rapidly, although she had long known that Cheng Jiahua owed a lot of money outside, but she had always just felt that it was money he owed, and any disasters brought about by this should be borne by him, but she never thought that one day these debt collectors would chase them to her home. She felt angry, scared and embarrassed. Looking at the dress and expressions on the faces of this group of people, what they said didn't seem to be threatening, but if she really took out the money she had saved for a long time, her heart was entangled and hurt again. That's the money she saved for herself and Cheng Yan, Xiao Yan will use it to go to school in the future, if she takes it out now to pay off Cheng Jiahua's debts, how will she live in the future? She felt the wall around her slowly crumble and disappear, panicked like a fawn exposed to the hunter's arrows, and felt the danger around her come straight for her.

In a panic, she turned her head to look at her parents-in-law, only to see them looking at her from a distance, but she had no intention of coming forward.

"Forget it." She gritted her teeth and thought, "Let's deal with today's scene first, and then get this money back from Cheng Jiahua." Thinking of this, she clenched her fists tightly, looked up and said, "Okay, you wait." ”

She turned and ran towards her bedroom, and hurriedly searched for the old piggy bank in the closet, and took out a jagged wad of old money from it, and as soon as she reached out, she shoved the money into Guan Zhi's arms, and said, "You can take it and go quickly." ”

The bald head took the money, counted it in the dim light, and looked up at her again. With an expression on his face that seemed to have been teased, he waved the ticket in his hand and said, "Sister, you can fool me, just your little money, the fraction is not enough." He snapped and flicked the knife again, "You think Lao Tzu is fun, don't you?" ”

He Tu looked at him stunned, the inexplicable courage before had disappeared, and he began to feel panicked in his heart. She was at a loss to stir the hem of her clothes with her fingers, and trembled in the face of those tall and strong men. The bald head frowned when he saw her like this, and felt a little embarrassed to think that he had actually bullied a woman. He turned his head to look around, and shouted at the crowd who were still whispering, "Don't you have a man in the Cheng family!" Do you have to let a woman come forward! ”

He turned his head tremblingly and glanced in the direction where his parents-in-law were standing, but he didn't see them, and he didn't know when they had left, leaving the group of people standing in their yard screaming and messing around. Her heart was cold, as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water on her heart, and her hopes and expectations were suddenly gone.

"Don't shout!" A slightly immature voice suddenly came from the crowd. He Tu was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, and saw that it was Cheng Jiaye. I saw him stand out from the crowd with his head held high, although his face was still a little childish, his expression was very serious, he took two steps and stood in front of the bald head, half a head taller than the bald head, slightly lowered his eyes and looked at the bald head, pursing his lips.

The bald head couldn't help laughing, and sneered: "This Cheng family is really powerful, and it's really surprising that it's either a woman or a child that comes out." ”

"You don't want to be so weird." Cheng Jiaye looked at him coldly, "My sister-in-law said, my eldest brother is not at home tonight, if you want to beg for money, you can come back tomorrow when he is at home." If you have come to drink the wine, then throw all these knives and sticks out of the door, and sit down at the table, and do not disturb these relatives in the house. ”

Because he couldn't find a suitable person to vent, the bald head was quite annoyed in his heart, but in the face of this woman and a minor child, he couldn't show any frightening temper. Hearing Cheng Jiaye say this inspiring and irrefutable words, he was stunned for a few seconds, suddenly threw the knife to the ground, and shouted in annoyance: "Do you think Lao Tzu is willing to come to beg for money in the middle of the night!" ”

Hetu was startled by the sound of the knife falling to the ground, and she couldn't help but wonder when she looked at the bald face.

"Blame your unproductive brother! If you don't have money, you have to gamble, how much money did you borrow from Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu endured it again and again, and gave him so long that he couldn't help but come to collect debts today! You all think I'm a bad person, but the bad one is really that Cheng Jiahua! If you really have any money, pay me all the money he owes first! Your family's threshold Lao Tzu will not come to set foot in ten thousand years! Don't believe it, wait and see! ”

Cheng Jiaye saw his aggrieved look, and he was stunned for a while, and he couldn't say the cruel words he had prepared in his heart. He looked at Hetu in embarrassment, his eyes wide.

He Tu pondered for a moment, and suddenly said, "I know, I will convey these words of yours to him." She took two steps forward, lowered her voice, slowed down her tone, and said aggrievedly, "You think I am willing to let him gamble, you don't know that he is hiding from me when he gambles outside, and the money I just took out is saved for my daughter's future tuition." If you want to say hate, I hate him as much as you do, and the money he owes, no matter what I do, I will let him pay it off. She looked up and looked at her bald head firmly, "It's so dark, or you go back first, and when he comes back, I will definitely tell him." ”

The bald head glanced at her suspiciously, and was skeptical of her words, but looking at her eyes full of tears, what she said was not a lie, she stomped her foot and scolded: "This Cheng Jiahua is really not a thing!" ”

He Tu raised his hand to wipe his tears and asked, "Big brother, how much does he owe you?" ”

The bald head frowned, glanced at her, and said a number.

Hetu was taken aback by the number, she would never have dreamed of this amount of money, for her, half of that number was a huge amount of money. She stared blankly at the ground, unable to react for a moment.

The bald head picked up the knife on the ground, waved his hand to the brother behind him, and said to Hedi: "Sister, what you said yourself, you have to remember, I will come again tomorrow, if Cheng Jiahua comes back, you must help me hold him, otherwise that kid is so good at hiding, and he can't find Lao Tzu hiding at the ends of the world." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave, but Hetu reacted at this time, and hurriedly stepped forward and shouted: "Wait a minute! ”

The bald head stood still, looking at her in bewilderment in the darkness.

He Tu glanced around, and saw that the people around him were still listening to the excitement here with their ears pricked up, and couldn't help lowering his voice again, "He owes you this money, has he paid it back?" Does he owe money to anyone other than you? ”

The bald head first sneered and said, "Still? Not a dime ever returned. But I don't know if he owes anyone else, girl, you wait for him to come back and ask him. After speaking, he waved his hand in a chic manner, and was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, turned his head and said, "By the way, he still owes me money for a cabinet. You also remember to tell him about this girl, but don't forget. In the darkness, the knife on his body made a loud clattering sound and gradually disappeared outside the door shrouded in darkness. The crowd in the yard relaxed at this time, and one by one began to laugh loudly again, drinking, eating, and the children all over the yard began to run all over the ground, causing the adults to shout in fear for a while.

Only He Tu froze in place, staring blankly at the gate, as if the grass had been beaten by frost, and he couldn't lift his spirits.

Cheng Jiaye looked left and right, only to see his mother leaning on the threshold of the bedroom and looking worriedly here, but the other family members couldn't see any of them. He frowned, let out a long sigh, and looked at his sister-in-law's thin and helpless figure, and felt a sense of pity and sympathy in his heart.

He Di was in a daze, Leng Buding was patted on the shoulder, she sniffed, hurriedly wiped away the tears on her face that had been frozen by the cold, turned her head to look behind her, and saw that it was Cheng Jiaye, she barely squeezed out a smile, and said: "People are gone, it's okay, you can eat whatever you want to eat." ”

"Sister-in-law." Cheng Jiaye called, he hesitated, but still said, "Big brother can't look like this, you usually have to persuade well, otherwise, otherwise it will not be easy in the future." ”

He Tu glanced at Cheng Jiaye, and in the dim light of the courtyard, his face looked at him condescendingly and sympathetically, like a god radiating light. This kind of gaze made her feel uncomfortable, but she felt a burst of bitterness in her heart, even such a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child knew that it was not okay to go on like this, Cheng Jiahua didn't understand, day after day immersed in that depraved hobby, not only harming herself, but also harming her family. She closed her eyes, turned around, and whispered, "Got it." She didn't want others to see her embarrassed appearance, which made her feel more uncomfortable than scolding her.

Lifting the curtain, she slumped limply in her chair, staring blankly at the air in front of her. In this way, he did not pay back all the money that his father gave him to pay off his debts, and maybe it was all used on the gambling table and put into someone else's pocket for nothing. She thought of her father's kind but increasingly old face, as well as the scene of thrifty food on weekdays, her heart became more and more painful, and in contrast, she wanted to cut Cheng Jiahua alive with a knife. She clenched her teeth tightly and clenched her fists, as if the air was Cheng Jiahua, quickly catalyzing her hatred.

A childish cry distracted her, and she couldn't help but turn her head to look at the sound of the warm curtain falling on the threshold. saw Cheng Jiayi standing in front of her with Cheng Yan in his arms, looking at her expressionlessly. He Tu relaxed her body, stabilized her mind, and saw Cheng Yan's small, cute smiling face, but her heart became more and more uncomfortable. She took two deep breaths, squeezed out a smile, and whispered to Cheng Yan: "Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, do you miss your mother?" ”

"Cry if you want." Cheng Jiayi said suddenly, his face was still cold, but his tone was slightly stiff and soft.

He Tu was stunned and looked up at his sister-in-law. I saw her pouting and looking away, with a stubborn look.

He Tu sighed, stayed for a few seconds, reached out to pick up Cheng Yan from her arms, and said sullenly: "There's nothing to cry about." ”

Cheng Jiayi sat down on the chair and said dissatisfiedly: "The eldest brother is really, he actually let the debtor chase him to the house, today is still the second brother's happy day!" After thinking about it, she became more and more angry, "Mom and Dad don't say anything about stopping a little, can they just let them make trouble in the yard like this!" ”

He Tu didn't say a word, silently looking at Cheng Yan's waving little hands, not planning to express any opinions.

"Sister-in-law!" Cheng Jia said that she didn't speak, and called out angrily.

"It's all gone anyway." "Let it be over." ”

"How can you get past it?" Cheng Jia looked at her puzzled, "Didn't that group of people say they are coming tomorrow?" ”

He Tu suddenly smiled, she looked at her sister-in-law and said, "You don't care, leave this matter to your eldest brother, we don't understand, don't care." ”

"It scared the hell out of me." Cheng Jiahua pouted and said angrily, "Xiao Yan was almost scared to cry." ”

"Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan." He teased the child in his arms, "Are you crying?" ”

Cheng Yan raised his little face, looked at his mother's face curiously, and giggled.

He Tu also laughed, but her heart was very heavy, as if there was a large stone of several thousand catties. She licked her chapped lips and wondered what to do with it, but she felt a headache. It was as if it was about to crack.

The crowd in the courtyard for the wedding did not disperse until after ten o'clock. He Tu and his family cleaned up the mess in the yard and were busy until midnight, when they were almost busy. He Tu had something on his mind, so he didn't talk much, but was busy with the work at hand, because that incident happened in the evening, and the others didn't laugh much, and the atmosphere in the whole courtyard seemed festive and dull, and it was very strange. After washing the large number of bowls, He Tu got up from the stool tiredly, took the basin and prepared to pour water, just walked to the flower garden in the yard, there was a sound of footsteps outside the gate, and then Cheng Jiahua's voice sounded in the yard, he shouted excitedly and joyfully: "Jiaji! Kaji! ”

Cheng Jiaji was accompanying the bride in the new house, when he heard the eldest brother calling, and poked his head out of the door, but did not respond.

Hedi's body suddenly stiffened, as if someone had beaten him from behind. She took the half-basin of water, tried her best to endure the anger in her heart, closed her eyes and took several deep breaths before she calmed down a little.

Cheng Jiahua saw that no one responded to him, and saw Hetu standing by the flowerbed in a daze, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "Where did Jiaji go?" Hedi? Hedi? ”

He Tu gritted his teeth, splashed the rest of the water in the basin, turned and walked quickly past him, without even looking at him. Cheng Jiahua frowned suspiciously, not understanding why Hetu started to lose his temper again, but he was quickly relieved, women, it is normal to have a few unhappy days in a month. He shook his head magnanimously, shook the bag in his hand, and staggered towards the courtyard.

It wasn't until he walked to the side of Cheng Jiaji's new house that he stopped and shouted, "Jiaji! Kaji! ”

The room was quiet for a few seconds, and Cheng Jiaji's deep voice sounded, and he said sullenly: "Big brother, you can be quiet." ”

"What's wrong?" Cheng Jiahua was even more puzzled, "On the day of the big day, why do you want me to be quiet?" You come out, and the eldest brother buys you a gift. ”

"I don't want it." Cheng Jiaji said quickly, "You can keep it for yourself." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Cheng Jiahua couldn't help laughing, "It's you who marry a wife, and it's not me who marries a wife, why are the gifts still left with me." As he spoke, he was about to open the curtain and go in, when an angry roar came from his side, and all the hairs on his body stood on end.

"Cheng Jiahua! You get over here! Cheng Tielong's voice burst into the dark night sky like a bomb that suddenly exploded in silence.