Chapter 43: The World Is Cold
This is a very outrageous and contradictory family, where the younger generation does not respect the elders, and the elders ignore the ignorance and barbarism of the younger generations. In the eyes of outsiders, their husband and wife are not in harmony, brothers and sisters are not in harmony, and neighbors cannot get along with each other. The people in their family are very selfish, and they all have a strong aggression in their words to hurt others.
Don't look at my sister's young age, her eyes can't rub the slightest grain of sand, she didn't enter the door for half a day, and she saw that their family was actually a broken family that was difficult to get along with, don't look at the fourth aunt is a principal, his children's education, there is really no tutor at all. However, in order to study, my sister thought that it would not be easy for her mother to send her here, so she endured it again and again. She kept reassuring herself that a year, not long or short, would pass soon, even if their whole family was not good to them, she gritted her teeth, why not get through.
In a dilemma, my sister got up every morning and couldn't wait for dinner, so she rode her bicycle to school on an empty stomach, and her stomach was rumbling with hunger at noon, and there was no change in her pocket to buy food, so she could only starve. When she went home for dinner during the lunch break, she could only crawl on the table with her stomach covered and confused, and when her hunger passed, her dull eyes were full of double eyelids. When she came back from school in the evening, the fourth aunt hadn't cooked yet, and she had to help the fourth aunt go around the pot to make dinner, and then wait until late to barely eat the last meal.
Sometimes, when the fourth aunt has a guest at home, after the wine table is placed on the kang head, the fourth aunt will push the cup and change the lamp with the guest, talk loudly, and accompany the whole family with big eyes, and when the guest leaves, the meal is almost cold, my sister is not in the mood to eat, she is dizzy with hunger in the middle of the night, she is like a motherless child, and she is bullied by the fourth aunt's family.
My sister is the tip of my grandmother's heart, how can she suffer from these wretches at home! One day, two days, she pinched her fingers behind her back, and she didn't stay here for a week, but she was hungry for five days. The fourth aunt shook her face every day to show her, and she really had enough of this kind of days under the fence. There was no way, she could only swallow her anger, secretly holding back, and after a few days, she actually lost several pounds.
Maybe the fourth aunt's daughter also looks at her unpleasantly, when she is fine, she always likes to find fault with her sister, either that her sister's clothes are not good, or that her sister is slow to work, anyway, she is not as good as herself, she still relies on their numbers, and she counts a lot of sisters, and bullies her sister so much that she doesn't even dare to come out.
The people in the fourth aunt's family have intensified their bullying of their sisters, and they are all very excessive. Every day when she came home from school, she would secretly hide in the corner and cry. The people's hearts are not ancient, the world is hot and cold, and in a fit of anger, my sister wants to leave this kind of place of right and wrong as soon as possible.
On Friday, my sister had not eaten at school for a day, she was so hungry that her eyes were full of stars, and it was finally time for her to get out of school, and she rode her bicycle back weakly, but halfway through, she couldn't walk.
She got off the bike, sat on the side of the road, looked at the long road home, she suddenly remembered what happened these days, and she didn't do anything wrong, but everyone in the fourth aunt's family spoke ill of her, the more she thought about it, the more sad she became, the more sad she became, the more she felt that she couldn't stay, and when she returned to the fourth aunt's house and saw that there was no one at home, she packed up her clothes and rode back with the stars on her head. When the fourth aunt knew, my sister had been home for a long time, maybe she was a thief, and their family didn't even have an explanation, so they cut off contact.
When my sister returned home, without saying a word, she lay on the kang and cried bitterly, and after her grandmother brought the food, the whole family watched her gobble up food, and her mother was so angry that she trembled all over, and her mouth was full of foam overnight, so she regretted that it was a mistake to send her sister to the fourth aunt's house to send it to study.
When my sister wanted to go back to the original school, she couldn't keep up with the progress, and when she saw that she had no hope of taking the exam, she no longer went to school, so she had to follow a few little girls in the village to do odd jobs in the brick factory.
That winter, my aunt went on a business trip to the provincial capital, saying that she was going to stay at her uncle's house for a few days, and she brought her sister with her by the way. After my sister went, my aunt saw that she looked very smart, so she left her and promised to find her a job.
My sister believed it and after discussing it with her aunt, she stayed. My sister goes out to work every day, goes back to my aunt's house to eat and live at night, and pays my aunt food on time for her monthly expenses. People are not good for a thousand days, flowers are not red for a hundred days, my sister stayed at my aunt's house for about half a year, and my aunt's sister's family lacked a nanny, so my aunt sent my sister to their house as a nanny.
My sister will never forget, the day after she was sent away was the Spring Festival, and the days under the fence were really sad. Later, my aunt heard that her sister was a nanny, so she took a train into the provincial capital overnight and picked her sister back.
My sister is doing well now, she is with her aunt every day, lives in the dormitory of the unit, has a fixed income every month, is less than the above, more than the bottom, although she is not rich and expensive, but she also lives a peaceful life.
Xiaohong was holding the red dress in her hand, and suddenly remembered what happened to her sister, and her eyes overflowed with tears. Grandma often said: Poor in the street no one asks, rich in the mountains have distant relatives. To live, people must be self-reliant, and what they earn is a breath of ambition. The fourth aunt is a relative, and the eldest uncle is also a relative, and when she thinks of what they did, Xiaohong gritted her teeth in anger: people look like dogs, so it's okay if there are no such relatives!
After Xiaohong finished washing the clothes, she hung them all on the clothes pole one by one, and in order to dry the clothes in the sun, she also specially hung the red clothes on the easternmost side, and went back to the house. The courtyard was quiet, the slanting sunlight shone lazily on the melon stands, and a few dragonflies flew in from afar, and they stopped and rested on the wall, and danced in the wind with the mottled shadows of the trees.
In the afternoon, Wang Lili came to her house to look for her, and the two were also high school classmates, sitting at the same table and living in the same dormitory. But when Wang Lili was in her second year of high school, she suddenly got a kind of scurvy, so she took a leave of absence from school and went home to recuperate. Wang Lili's father's name is Wang Shuhai, and he and Xiaohong's father were good friends when they were young, and the relationship between the two families is very good.
Wang Lili is not Wang Shuhai's biological daughter, back then, when Wang Shuhai brought her back from Xue Jingchen's house, she was just nine months old. At that time, her father and her mother were divorcing, and both of them were very selfish, and after their divorce, no one wanted this burden. It is said that when her mother divorced, she still had a two-month-old child in her belly, and she remarried with her mother before she was born.
Later, Xue Jingchen found an older leftover girl in the village, the woman wanted everything, just didn't want this child, in desperation, it happened that Wang Shuhai had been married for more than ten years and had no children, so Xue Jingchen gave her to him.
There is a stepmother and a stepfather, the two families live in the same village, the difference is only one or two hundred meters away, and now Wang Lili is in her twenties, Xue Jingchen has not come to Wang Shuhai's house to see Wang Lili. It can be seen how hateful such a father is, and it can be imagined.
Everyone in the village knows that Lili is an adopted child, but the neighbors keep it a secret for her. When she grew up, no one told her about it. Fortunately, there is an adoptive father and adoptive mother like the Wang family, even if the family is not rich, in order to treat her, Wang Shuhai took Lili everywhere to seek medical advice, and almost spent all the family's savings.
Two months ago, Wang Shuhai took her to a hospital in the provincial capital for a check-up, and when she came back, she heard about Sun Xiaohong and immediately came to see her at home. The two men stayed in the house for a while, and then they went out for a walk.
When Xiaohong came out of the yard, she saw her grandmother picking beans in the garden, so she shouted inside: "Grandma, I'll go out with Lili and come back in a while!" Grandma replied and continued to pick her beans.
Sun Xiaohong came out of the door, bolted the door, and turned to leave. When good friends meet, there will naturally be a lot to say, they are arm in arm, as close as a pair of sisters, they talk as they walk, as if they have endless words.
Out of the alley on the west side, they walked along the steep slope north for thirty or fifty meters, and came to the west slope. Both of them looked at the endless meadow at the bottom of the mountain with their own hearts, sitting side by side on the top of the mountain, although it was full of autumn colors and thousands of scenery in front of them, it was difficult to express the melancholy and loneliness in their hearts.
It's really a good thing, a pair of friends in the past, now one is seriously ill, the other is frustrated, thinking of the time when they don't go back and forth, their faces are shallow and unsatisfactory.
"Xiaohong, are you still used to buying vegetables in the market these days? I heard that those hawkers who squat in the market all the year round are very powerful, and there are bullies who dominate the market, all of them are not punching cards in their waists, who said that those who come with them are not reasonable to argue with the master, you are a little girl, deal with them all day long, aren't you afraid? If not, don't be reckless! Lily said worriedly.
"It's not as serious as you say, everyone is breadwinner, unless he doesn't want to live anymore. I sold my own vegetables, and I only sold a small cart a day, and when I sold out, I pushed the cart home, and stood with the little brother who sold popsicles, and he gave me popsicles to eat. Standing with the little brother who sells watermelons, he will give me watermelons to eat. I sold green onions and gave them them to eat, but they shook their heads and didn't want them. There are a lot of people like me in the market, but I don't see the inferiority complex on their faces at all. Xiaohong gushed out, her eyes shining with an uncatchable light.
"You're amazing! If I am not sick, I will go to the market with you to do business, and see how these rich people make money and do business! Lily smiled, and a beautiful flower bloomed on her face.