Chapter 14, Before the Storm
"Brother, I heard that my sister-in-law gave birth again, didn't we bring something to celebrate." Jiang Mu smiled a little shyly.
"Come, come, come in, sit." The uncle turned sideways, and a group of them walked in to the back room, there were only two rooms in the back, one room was the bedroom of the uncle and the aunt, and the other had everything, there was a separate kitchen, a warehouse, and the dining room was also here, and there was a small bed, and the toilet was in the small courtyard at the back, a very small one.
"Wang Yang, Xiao He, they are here." The uncle shouted into the house, and then beckoned them into the house.
There was also a screen in the house, and in front of it was a place to greet guests, and the uncle asked them to sit down and go in and say something to the aunt.
After a while, the eldest aunt walked out of it with the child in her arms.
"You guys, you didn't say a word before you came, you were in a hurry." The eldest aunt sat down and kept shaking the baby in her swaddling clothes.
"I came immediately after receiving the letter, but I didn't expect this." Father Jiang smiled, he handed the prepared red envelope to his aunt, and Jiang Yuanyuan and Jiang Xuan also put the basket in their hands on the table.
"I was in a hurry, so I just prepared a few small things. Make up for your body, don't lose yourself. Mother Jiang said and patted her aunt on the shoulder.
The eldest aunt didn't say anything, and asked the eldest uncle to put it away, she handed the child forward, put it in front of Jiang's mother and said, "Come, Qiangqiang, give my sister-in-law a hug." ”
Jiang's mother took it carefully, the child has been two months old, it has grown very well, white and tender, it is a boy, this is the dream of the eldest aunt's family, the eldest aunt wanted to give birth to two sons when the eldest uncle came, and now she has given birth to three children, the first two children are a daughter and a son, the first son and the aunt let go of the uncle's surname, this son should follow the aunt's surname.
"What's this kid's name?" Jiang's mother has not reported her children for many years, and she is a little worried that she has not reported well, and she is timid.
"Wang Xuqiang." The eldest aunt said, full of joy, "My father gave me the name." ”
"It's good." Jiang's mother said, and carefully returned the child to the eldest aunt.
"You're going to give birth to this belly, right?" The eldest aunt took the child and moved her eyes to Jiang's mother's belly.
"Well, it's been eight months, and I'm about to give birth in a month, and I don't know if it's a boy or a girl." Mother Jiang touched her stomach and smiled dotingly.
"I like boys and girls, don't worry." Jiang's father hugged Jiang's mother and patted her shoulder.
"Come, tea." The uncle brought the tea, he found a place to sit down, took the child from the aunt's hand and coaxed it, the child is not sleeping now, but blinking in a daze, seeing that it is dozing.
"What about this Chenchen and Qianyu?" Father Jiang asked. Chenchen is the second son of the uncle, and Qianyu is the eldest girl of the uncle.
"Qianyu went to the street to play." The uncle was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and looked at the child in his arms to cover the loneliness in his eyes and shook his head, "Chenchen asked me to stuff me into the school to study, this child doesn't have to study, my hair is about to turn white." ”
"Chenchen works hard." The eldest aunt glanced at the eldest uncle dissatisfied, "Have you Yuanyuan and Xuanzi talked about their in-laws now?" ”
Jiang Yuanyuan and Jiang Xuan sat in the back and listened to the conversation between adults boringly, they were bored, and they felt even more tormented when they heard it on their bodies, but they couldn't leave now, this was the etiquette that Jiang's father told them, no matter what, when they went to someone else's house, no matter how boring they were, they had to sit for a while.
"Alas!" Jiang's mother sighed and told her uncle about Jiang Yuanyuan as it was, but she didn't say anything about Jiang Xuan.
"Don't be discouraged, you really like Yuanyuan, and you won't care about her legs." The eldest aunt said that she and the eldest uncle really love each other, Jiang Yuanyuan heard Jiang's mother say that the eldest aunt used to live in the village, and the eldest uncle was in love, but the eldest aunt's father looked down on the eldest uncle, and the eldest uncle's family has never accepted the eldest uncle's involvement, so they dragged on for many years, and then the two families watched their children miss the best age for each other, plus they really loved each other, and they were relieved.
"That's all you can hope for." Mother Jiang shook her head.
"Then why doesn't Xuanzi say kiss?" Uncle looked at Jiang Xuan, and Jiang Xuan felt that his hairs stood up.
"He has people he likes, but others don't let go." Jiang's mother found out her usual excuse for dealing with the people in the village, "He was also timid, and he didn't dare to tell the man, so he kept dragging it out." ”
"Xuanzi can't do this!" Uncle Le, "If you like it, you have to be brave enough to say it and let the other party know." ”
Jiang Xuan didn't know if Jiang Yuanyuan listened to it, but she listened to it herself.
The eldest aunt covered the corners of her mouth and smiled, and when she saw that the child was asleep, she carried her to the house.
"Brother, isn't your house a little small?" Mother Jiang looked around, and there was a small bed next to this room, pulling the curtain.
"Don't talk about it, this house is not enough." Uncle shook his head, "Qianyu is fifteen years old now, and she still sleeps in our room, although Chenchen is only nine years old, she is not young, she sleeps in the kitchen all day long, and she doesn't even have a place to read her homework with peace of mind." ”
"Why don't you buy some land again?" Father Jiang asked.
"This land is so easy to buy." The eldest aunt came out, and she was also very worried, the location of their house was not enough, and she didn't dare to let the girl sleep alone in the utility room, so she let her sleep in her own room, but the child was older, and many things were inconvenient. The son also complained more than once that he seemed to be sleeping in a garbage heap.
"Is it expensive or what?" Father Jiang didn't understand.
"Expensive! Why is it not expensive, there are few people in the house next door and there are many houses, we discussed with them to buy some, according to the market price, it is only enough for a room of land to cost ten taels of silver, and we have to tear down the wall and repair the gun, where did our family get this money. The uncle shook his head helplessly, full of trouble.
Jiang's mother expressed understanding, but also said that she could not do anything.
The four of them started chatting about other things again, and Jiang Yuanyuan kicked the bench in boredom.
Sneaking a glance at Jiang's mother, Jiang Yuanyuan beckoned and pulled Jiang Xuan out secretly. Walking outside, Jiang Yuanyuan exhaled, and Jiang Xuan also exhaled.
"We'll walk around and come back later." Jiang Yuanyuan said, and couldn't help but refuse to pull Jiang Xuan away.
"Don't you want to talk to your parents?" Jiang Xuan followed behind a little helplessly.
"Daddy won't say anything, they saw us come out." Jiang Yuanyuan shrugged, she suddenly saw the mask on a shop in front of her, rushed over to take it off, it was a blindfold style, painted with light blue, outlined golden lines, and there were two long feathers on it, which was very beautiful.
"This one looks good." Jiang Yuanyuan stood on tiptoe and picked up the blindfold she fancied.
"Look first, I'll go buy something to eat." Jiang Xuan only glanced at it and then turned his eyes away, he turned around and went to other places, Jiang Yuanyuan shrugged her shoulders and looked at herself.
"Fifteen cents a penny." The boss said, "The girl looks good in it." ”
Jiang Yuanyuan saw that there was another mask next to it, with a similar style, but it only covered half of the eyes, and it was black.
Take this down too, Jiang Yuanyuan suddenly thought of Sheng Rong, this should look good on Sheng Rong's face, Sheng Rong's face was brought into her mind, thinking that Sheng Rong must look good wearing a mask.
"Boss, how much are these two?" Jiang Yuanyuan pinched the two masks and shook them.
"Two twenty wen for you." The boss said with a grin.
"Okay, I'm ......"
"Yikes! Little beauty, if you like it, I'll give it to you. Suddenly there were other men's voices behind her, Jiang Yuanyuan turned her head, and a frivolous man was looking at her with squints.
"Boss, twenty wen!" Jiang Yuanyuan counted twenty wen and handed it over, and after the boss took the money, he hurriedly asked Jiang Yuanyuan to leave, Jiang Yuanyuan took the things and prepared to leave.
"Why doesn't the little beauty ignore people!" The man was angry and grabbed Jiang Yuanyuan's arm, Jiang Yuanyuan staggered and almost fell, she held two masks, she was very flustered, pursed her lips and didn't want to pay attention to this person.
"Master, master, she just bought something, she didn't offend you, and she was angry." The vendor who had just sold Jiang Yuanyuan's mask came out and grabbed Jiang Yuanyuan's arm, and the Buddha behind the supplicant could let go.
God knows why this Buddha came to this street today, isn't this master usually on the main street?
"Master just fell in love with a beauty, what's the matter? Comments? The man tore the hawker's hand away, and the hawker fell to the ground, and the man behind the man came over with a stick and hit the hawker a few times.
"Dare to stop our grandfather, you're impatient, aren't you?" The attendant spat and the peddler held his head tightly and did not dare to speak again.
"Beauty, go, go home with your master, you have everything in your family, what do you want, and the big baby, it can make you happy hahahaha!" The man pulled Jiang Yuanyuan into his arms, Jiang Yuanyuan was completely panicked, she struggled hard, and pushed the man.
"Let go of me, you let go of me!" kicked the man's underside hard, the man was in pain, let go of his hand, and Jiang Yuanyuan wanted to run when he saw the opportunity.
"Master! You're fine! The two people in the back surrounded the man and looked at the man nervously.
"Catch her, the little still want to run! Look at Lao Tzu, you can't get out of bed" The man waved his hand with a blue face, and the people behind him immediately rushed forward, Jiang Yuanyuan was caught before she could run two steps, she was completely panicked, and she grabbed and kicked indiscriminately.
"Little * still dare to run!" The man walked over and grabbed Jiang Yuanyuan's hair hard, Jiang Yuanyuan was pulled up in pain, her face suddenly hurt, and Jiang Yuanyuan was stunned for a moment before realizing that she had been beaten.
"What are you doing?" As soon as Jiang Xuan came out, he saw that his sister was grabbed by two people, and the other person who was standing slapped Jiang Yuanyuan, and many people around him watched, but no one dared to step forward.
Jiang Xuan rushed forward and punched the person who beat Jiang Yuanyuan.