Liu Wenjuan sighed: "Jing'er, my aunt told you that I made mistakes before, took drugs, and had a criminal record, so I couldn't integrate into society." Because of this, I also have a gap with my biological parents, and they left all the inheritance to you, and I think it is right to do this, and this is the punishment I deserve. Jing'er, do you know why your uncle treated me like this, and I didn't ask him for divorce? When I first came out and everyone disliked me, he was the only one who was good to me, so I thought he was good. In fact, your uncle is not bad, but his heart is too small, he wants his own children, but you are the only descendant of our Liu family, I must raise you, I am afraid that he will not treat you well, so I thought of this trick. ”

Zhao Xiaoqian's eyes were red: "I'm sorry aunt, it's all my fault." ”

Liu Wenjuan hugged her: "Silly boy, you're right, it's the car accident that's wrong." What's wrong? ”

In the blink of an eye, Zhao Xiaoqian followed Liu Wenjuan to a local Chinese herbal medicine factory to do odd jobs, which was the only place where Liu Wenjuan could be accepted, and Zhao Xiaoqian insisted on accompanying her.

Their job is to go up the mountain to collect herbs, there are no hardware restrictions, they have legs and hands, they can read the map, and they calculate the money according to the amount they collect every day. The two received the map, went out to pick herbs together with baskets every morning, and took the collected medicines to the pharmaceutical factory in the evening to exchange money according to the quantity and variety, and the two-month holiday passed.

"Auntie, starting tomorrow, the teacher said that he would charge for books."

"How much?"

“1200”

Liu Wenjuan looked at her watch: "I've already made the dishes, if you're hungry, eat first, my aunt will go to the bank to withdraw money for you, you lock the door at home, I'll knock on the door code, you see that the cat's eye is okay and then open the door." After Liu Wenjuan finished speaking, she took off her apron, took her bag and went out.

This walk lasted from noon to night, Zhao Xiaoqian was worried, worried that something had happened, and afraid that she would go out to look for her, and her aunt would not be in a hurry when she came back.

At ninety o'clock in the evening, the door rang, Zhao Xiaoqian listened to the familiar code, knowing that her aunt was back, she hurriedly ran to open the door, Liu Wenjuan entered the door dejectedly, and the tears in her eyes had not yet dried.

"What's the matter, auntie, you speak."

"Child, my aunt is sorry for you, your grandfather's house is gone." Liu Wenjuan cried and said: "Zhang Wei, this bastard gambled and owed a lot of debts, secretly sold your grandfather's house, and used the money to pay off the debt." The children are all incompetent aunts, and they don't know that they were deceived by him. ”

Faced with a woman who had a criminal record but could only rely on each other for her life, Zhao Xiaoqian couldn't say anything to blame at all, she put her arm around her: "If the money doesn't come, let's earn it again, I can suspend school first, it's not interesting to go to school anyway." ”

Now, Liu Wenjuan can only agree.

When her peers were in school, Zhao Xiaoqian followed Liu Wenjuan up the mountain to collect medicine. One day Liu Wenjuan was not feeling well, Zhao Xiaoqian went to collect medicine by herself, and when she came to exchange money in the evening, she heard from the people next to her that a big family came to collect bellflower today, Zhao Xiaoqian took today's hard-earned money, and from afar, she saw her uncle Zhang Wei get down from a truck, and inspect the goods while counting the money, and a box of bellflower was carried onto the truck next to him.

Zhang Wei didn't see her, he was talking to the old man who was weighing in the pharmaceutical factory, and Zhao Xiaoqian was listening secretly from the side.

"Xiao Zhang, it's very prosperous."

"Hey, the pharmaceutical factory relationship, the hell of a rush." Zhang Weile took out the money from his wallet.

"Come on, you still complain about how much people want for such a good business! Hey, I've heard that what kind of herb farm do you have now? Didn't you originally work in agricultural machinery, why did you suddenly change careers? ”

Zhang Wei smiled and didn't speak, his face was honest, and he looked like two people like the demons at home.

"Okay, exactly 50,000, you order." Zhang Wei gave the money to the people in the pharmaceutical factory. "When I have finished harvesting, I have to find someone to harvest, and when the time comes, please help with the activities, and find our skilled workers to help, and the salary will be the same."

The old man took the cigarette handed by Zhang Wei: "These medicine pickers are all temporarily found, and they are paid according to the amount, as long as the price is good, someone will definitely go there." ”

"Okay, thanks." Zhang Wei lifted his feet and got into the car and left.

Although she felt strange, Zhao Xiaoqian didn't tell Liu Wenjuan about it, she didn't want Liu Wenjuan to have anything to do with Zhang Wei anymore.

Soon, Liu Wenjuan heard the news from the people who were picking herbs that a herbal farm asked workers to pick the roots of Banlan, and the price was quite considerable, and she thought that she would be able to send her niece to school after picking.

Liu Wenjuan told Zhao Xiaoqian about this, she thought she would cheer, but she didn't expect her to refuse, Liu Wenjuan thought that Zhao Xiaoqian was like this because she didn't want to go to school, she thought that she must let her niece return to school, so she signed up.

Seeing that she couldn't hide it, Zhao Xiaoqian told Liu Wenjuan about seeing Zhang Wei that day.

"He used to be a farm electrician, and I don't know what savings he has? How could he rent such a large farm. The more Liu Wenjuan spoke, the more angry she became: "He must have lied to me that he would pay off his gambling debts and let me stop pursuing it, but he actually used it to open a herbal medicine farm." No, the money is yours, and I have to go and get it back. ”

"Auntie, we don't want that money, why don't we go?"

"No, that's your grandparents' hard-earned money, and it's for you to study, and you can't let him use it all."

Zhao Xiaoqian couldn't stop Liu Wenjuan, for fear of an accident, she wanted to follow her the next day, but was stopped by Liu Wenjuan.

When Liu Wenjuan arrived at the farm, she saw that the entire farm area was not small, the terrain was rugged, and the agricultural locomotives could not move forward, so they could only rely on manpower. She went straight to the farm office, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw an unsightly scene, her husband Zhang Wei was pressing on top of other women.

Liu Wenjuan threw herself over and overturned, and was finally kicked out of the farm by Zhang Wei.

Hearing a knock on the door at night, Zhao Xiaoqian hurriedly went to open the door and saw Liu Wenjuan with her hair disheveled and her eyes red and swollen.

"Auntie, what's wrong with you? Did your uncle bully you again? Zhao Xiaoqian asked distressedly.

Liu Wenjuan looked numb and shook her head: "Jing'er, we have money to go to school, and you can go back to school tomorrow." ”

Liu Jing went back to school, but Liu Wenjuan often began to talk on the phone mysteriously since then, and often went out quietly at night. A few times when Liu Wenjuan was not at home, when Zhao Xiaoqian cleaned up the bed, she would see some small plastic bags in the cracks of the wooden bed, and the bags contained some powder.

One night, Zhao Xiaoqian and Liu Wenjuan had just finished dinner, the phone rang suddenly, Liu Wenjuan picked it up, and began to scold into the microphone without listening to a few words: "The surname is Zhang, do you still want to be shameless?" When you hugged someone else, we were already broken up, and now you still have to borrow money from me? Dream! ”

Zhang Wei on the other side of the phone begged: "It's me who is wrong, I am deluded, I should die." Now the flu in the city is very bad, and the major pharmaceutical companies are rushing to buy Banlangen, which is a golden opportunity, you can sell Liu Jing and his father's house and invest it in me, and I will expand production to 4 times the income in a quarter......"

"Fart! I haven't told you the money you stole from her grandfather's house before, and you're still telling me this? ”

"You don't have to come with me to set you! When you came to the farm, I gave you half of the money from the sale of the house, and you took her money to go out every day, don't fake it with me......"

Before he could finish speaking, Liu Wenjuan hung up the phone.

This night, Liu Wenjuan tossed and turned in bed and couldn't sleep, and finally sat up and started smoking, her hands trembling slightly.

"Auntie, why don't you sleep." Zhao Xiaoqian rubbed her eyes and got up from the bed.

"Hurry up and go to bed."

"Auntie, don't be like this, I'm afraid." Liu Wenjuan's expression and voice startled Zhao Xiaoqian, she instantly sobered up, and looked blankly at this woman she regarded as her mother.

Liu Wenjuan finished smoking half a cigarette before her hand stabilized, and then she slowly spoke: "Jing'er, I am not a qualified guardian. Follow me and make you suffer. ”

"Auntie." Zhao Xiaoqian went over and hugged her.

Liu Wenjuan's eyes were red, and she sighed: "Come here, I'll show you something." ”

Liu Wenjuan took her to a wardrobe in the inner room, opened the wardrobe door, opened the clothes in the wardrobe, and there was a mirror inside, which was lifted along the wooden edge, and inside was a hole dug out with a hammer and chisel and connected to the ventilation pipe, adults could not enter, but Zhao Xiaoqian's body was just enough to hide in.

"Auntie, what is this for?" Zhao Xiaoqian was a little scared.

"Remember, if there's any danger, you hide inside."

Liu Wenjuan's strange behavior made Zhao Xiaoqian feel the pressure of Mo Ming. Under Liu Wenjuan's repeated entrustment, Zhao Xiaoqian could only agree.

I don't know if it's too much pressure, Liu Wenjuan's drug addiction is getting bigger and bigger, and Zhao Xiaoqian can only drop out of school again and return to the pharmaceutical factory to collect medicine to support herself and her aunt.

To her surprise, Zhang Wei and several people raised funds to buy this old pharmaceutical factory. At the same time, she also found out that the person who provided drugs to her aunt turned out to be her uncle Zhang Wei. Liu Wenjuan was humiliated in front of Zhang Wei in order to smoke. Zhao Xiaoqian wanted to call the police, but she was afraid that after Liu Wenjuan was arrested, she would lose her hard-won maternal love, so she didn't dare to expose it.

Since Liu Wenjuan has been sucking more and more, the relationship with her niece has been getting worse day by day. Zhao Xiaoqian went out early every day to collect medicine and used work to forget her troubles. She works in a pharmaceutical factory, because she is young, she has won the sympathy of several older aunts, and she goes to the mountains to collect medicine every day, and she also takes care of each other.

On this day, they walked along the creek to the mountain, there were a lot of red knotweeds along the way, they walked while picking, Zhao Xiaoqian saw at a glance that there was a dendrobium growing on the pine bark on the hillside, its milky white petals were slightly pink and purple on the tips, trembling slightly in the mottled shadows of the pine trees, Chu Chu was lovely.