Chapter 108: A Bonfire
may be too sensitive, Sun Xiaohong silently looked at the back of him leaving, and suddenly felt that this person had more things to do than Ren Haoxuan's eldest sister. I heard Teacher Xu say that Ren Haoxuan still has a grandmother in her eighties at home, but she didn't see the shadow of his grandmother from the time she entered the door to the time she went out, maybe his parents wouldn't let her come out to meet.
After eating this meal, the matter between the two of them was basically decided. Before going out, Ren Haoxuan's mother held a red envelope in her hand and stuffed it into Sun Xiaohong's hand, which was regarded as a meeting gift. Sun Xiaohong put her hand back, she hadn't thought about it yet, so she couldn't pick up the red envelope, Ren Haoxuan's mother's hand immediately froze in the air, and the smile on her face was gone. Sun Xiaohong wanted to turn around and leave, but was stopped by the aunt behind her.
"Hurry up, hurry up, how can you not follow the meeting gift given by the old woman!" My aunt said it quite easily, but after receiving the greeting gift, what should I do next? Xiaohong's heart kept beating drums. She glanced at Ren Haoxuan hesitantly, and suddenly saw that the people in the room were staring at herself and the shriveled red envelope, so she had to take the red envelope.
When everyone came out of Ren Haoxuan's house with laughter, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon. Along the way, Ren Haoxuan accompanied him, first to send his aunt and his old uncle-in-law home, and then to a long road one after another, and when the two of them returned home exhausted, the sun was about to set. As soon as Xiaohong's mother stepped into the door with her front foot, news came from the city on her back foot, saying that the eldest sister had a miscarriage and asked her to go to her immediately. After Sun Guodong came back from the field in a carriage, the two of them packed up and entered the city overnight.
Now in the house, there are only Xiaohong and Ren Haoxuan left. After a day of tossing, Sun Xiaohong was too tired. She was sleepy and tired, her head hit the pillow on the kang head, and she fell asleep in a daze. Ren Haoxuan picked up a book from the table casually, he leaned on the corner of the kang and read it quietly. Looking at it, he also fell asleep with his head drooped,
It was pitch black all around, and the courtyard was quiet, and swarms of mosquitoes buzzed and buzzed, and when they saw that all the doors and windows were open, they rushed into the house, and went around biting. Sun Xiaohong woke up and suddenly felt that her throat was unusually dry. She wanted some cold water, so she walked out of the kitchen with a bucket. She came to the well, slowly and methodically poured a bucket of water, she scooped some with a scoop, brought it to her mouth, just wanted to drink, Ren Haoxuan also squinted his eyes and walked out of the house, so he handed it over: "You can drink some too, it just came from the well, it's very cool!" ”
Maybe he was thirsty, Ren Haoxuan took the scoop and drank it all, and after drinking, he still clicked his mouth, as if he had drunk the elixir and jade liquid, and kept licking his lips. Isn't it just a drink of cold water, is it such an exaggeration, Sun Xiaohong snorted softly with her nose.
The fog rose, and streams of water vapor gradually rose into the air, like light veil, wisps of wisps in the air, as if to swallow up the whole night. The courtyard was a little damp, and the two of them had a bonfire in the middle of the yard. Then they sat side by side on low stools and spoke quietly.
"We've been together for a long time, and the parents of the two families have met today, should you give me an explanation for some things? There's a thing that doesn't sound good, I've been holding it back for a long time, you have to think about it, if you don't tell me the truth, don't answer. Sun Xiaohong said seriously. Ren Haoxuan saw that her expression was so serious, he was a little overwhelmed, he touched the back of his head with his hand, and he didn't know what it was, so he tilted his head and looked at her, with a puzzled face. He couldn't imagine that the soft and weak little girl in front of him followed him silently for a day, whether he was not thoughtful enough and angry and picky.
He thought about it for a long time, and he didn't think about what he did wrong. Looking at her little face that was red for a while and pale for a while, he patted his head coldly, and suddenly thought of the scene when his mother gave her a red envelope when he went out, "What do you want me to tell the truth, don't you think my mother's red envelope is less, are you unhappy?" ”
"Where are you going? Don't you see that I'm angry with you? I've done something wrong, and I'm embarrassed to turn on your mother! Do you think I want your family to be rich! Actually, your family doesn't have much money, I just want to figure it, I'm afraid I can't figure it. That's not what I told you to say? Think about it again, have you done anything to be sorry for me out there? I'm not talking about now, it's before, think about it again, if you can't think of it, I'll let you sit in the courtyard for a night, see if you dare to lie to me? Listening to Sun Xiaohong's words, Ren Haoxuan was even more inexplicable, what is this, he really couldn't figure it out, so he pulled his head down, picked up a few wooden sticks, and threw them into the fire.
"I don't seem to be doing anything bad, am I? What kind of gossip are you listening to again, and you are still so concerned, do you deliberately want to embarrass me? Ren Haoxuan was very unconvinced when he heard Xiaohong say this.
"I don't believe that I can't think of the disgusting things I did. You just pretend to be confused, you have to think hard if you can't think of it, and when I say it for you, you'll be miserable! Sun Xiaohong looked at him aggressively, her eyes were almost full of flames, burning him so much that he couldn't open his eyes.
"You'd better spare me, your eyes are too vicious, I can't bear it. You said that it was not easy for the two of us to have a chance to stay together, and you quarreled with me as soon as we met, did you meet someone more suitable than me, and you wanted to approve me? Ren Haoxuan leaned sideways and stretched out his two hands, blocking Sun Xiaohong's gaze.
"Don't beat around the bush with me, I think you're just pretending to be confused with me, if you really can't think of it, I'll give you a wake-up call! Didn't you go home the night we first met? Tell you the truth, who did you meet on your way home?"
"I haven't met anyone either, I just remember that I drank a lot that night, and I really don't know what happened after that? I don't think you can be embarrassed for me! Ren Haoxuan said in a hesitant way to cover up for himself.
"Do you really not know, or do you pretend not to know, and quickly say, what disgusting things have you done? If you don't say it, I'm going to expose you, don't say I won't show you mercy! Seeing that he was not telling the truth, Sun Xiaohong shouted angrily.
"Why are you shouting so loudly, how can a proletarian person like me do disgusting things, now that the relationship between the two of us is so ambiguous, please don't wronged a good person with your mouth?" Ren Haoxuan pleaded bitterly.
"If you don't tell me the truth today, then let's pull it down. In the future, you take your Yangguan Road, I take my single-plank bridge, and the water of our well will not interfere with the river water, and we will not disturb each other. As she spoke, Sun Xiaohong took out the red envelope her mother gave her from her pocket and stuffed it into his hand, "This red envelope will be returned to you too, I'm not rare." ”
Ren Haoxuan saw that she was really angry, and he had no confidence in his heart. Sun Xiaohong's eyes were glued to the bonfire, not looking up at him. She sat there in a daze, like a cold stone, and he scratched his ears and cheeks and thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with an ugly figure.
"Well, since you don't want to say it, I'll give you another fishy one, why did you go to the police station that night? You've caused such a big, do you still need me to say it twice? Ren Haoxuan was stunned, the last thing he wanted to say in his heart was finally known by Sun Xiaohong. It seems that this good thing doesn't go out, and the bad thing spreads thousands of miles. Since he has been asked by Sun Xiaohong, he can only tell the truth.
The wind was blowing, and the air suddenly became cold. Low dark clouds, strangely pressed overhead, an unpredictable one, as if there was an unexpected rainstorm, coming. Sun Xiaohong raised her head and looked at the sky, then lowered her voice in silence. The dull thunder, a burst of tightness, lined up in a group of hidden dangers*, roared overhead, and the shocking echo shook the world and reverberated unscrupulously for a long time, making people shudder.
The louder the thunder, the thinner the raindrops. Another gust of wind passed, and the rain did not fall after all. The dark clouds in the sky were swept away by the strong wind, and suddenly turned into a demonic fog of relatives, and they scattered and fled in embarrassment. Sun Xiaohong's heart fluctuated slightly, and in the blink of an eye, she regained her calm. She concluded in her heart that there was no rain tonight, and continued to sit there, waiting for Ren Haoxuan to give her an answer.
"It's a misunderstanding, but it has nothing to do with me! That night, if I hadn't met Brother Long on the way, something like that wouldn't have happened, and now that I think about it, I regret it, if you don't believe it, you can go directly to the police station to inquire! So, Ren Haoxuan was relieved and told the ins and outs of that night in detail.
His low voice said everything she wanted to know, and it also unraveled the knots in her heart, and it seemed that he still misunderstood him. Sun Xiaohong listened to him finish speaking, and suddenly felt hot and dry, and a layer of red clouds immediately appeared on her face.
It was past midnight, and the two of them were still sitting quietly in the courtyard, oblivious to all the changes around them. Such a night is very cold and lonely. The black night sky, the black shadows of the trees, and the black hope surrounded them like an impassable barrier.
In the thick fog, they sat there indifferently, facing the fickle ghost weather, clasping their four hands tightly together, still bowing their heads and remaining silent.
The next morning, when Sun Guodong returned from the county town in a horse-drawn carriage, he also brought back the unfortunate news: his brother had esophageal cancer, which is now in an advanced stage. If a man is about to die, his words are good. When my brother was dying for a month, he longed to see his family. Sun Guodong was afraid that his mother would not be able to stand such a blow, so he carried his mother behind his back, lied that he was going to buy rapeseed in other places, and soon went to the big hospital in the provincial capital.
He saw his brother who was undergoing chemotherapy there, his face was pale, his eye sockets were deep, his black hair had fallen out of his head, he was wearing loose clothes and pants, he was lying on the hospital bed every day, and he had several catheters inserted into his body.
Unexpectedly, a corporate CEO worth more than 100 million yuan actually collapsed like a sudden earthquake when he was in the middle of the day, which would bring great losses to his business and family. Now it seems that people can't fight with their lives, although they are very capable, but they don't know how much money they can't buy back a life, once the disease endangers health, everything is a void.
When the brothers met, it was all silent tears. In the past month or so, his brother's diet and daily life have been carefully taken care of by Sun Guodong alone. On the night he died, his brother still had tears in his eyes, and he grabbed Sun Guodong's hands to express his deep guilt for his parents. He did not fulfill his filial piety during his lifetime, and it was in vain to regret it when he died.
After a good brother, Sun Guodong sent his brother off for his mother's last journey. After his body was cremated, Sun Guodong helped his nephew deal with some aftermath, and then returned worriedly. After returning home, he was afraid that the old mother would be sad and sad, so after discussing with Xiaohong's mother, he decided to hide this matter, and hide it for as long as the old lady didn't know.