The aunt also went to buy a box of instant noodles and sat next to Jiang Xi.

She held the box soaked in water and said, "The people here are so good, we bought things, only to give boiling water, only to make stools." ”

Jiang Xi turned his head and stopped talking.

"Girl, did you bring this egg yourself?"

"Well, in the morning." Jiang Xi said, seeing that the aunt was about to untie the lid and plan to eat, she hurriedly pressed it: "Auntie, you have to soak for at least five minutes, otherwise the noodles are still very hard, and you have to soak them soft to be delicious, so that the taste can enter." ”

"Oh, and that's fine." Auntie smiled embarrassedly: "I just look at others, I haven't eaten these either, I think it's right." Five yuan can buy a handful of noodles, cook them at home, and you have to eat them for many days. ”

Jiang Xi nodded: "But outside, there is no condition to buy noodles to cook by yourself." ”

"Yes, I thought it was okay to be hungry, but it was too early in the morning, and I didn't eat in the morning, and I was shivering with hunger at noon, and my eyes were foggy and I couldn't see clearly, so I had to eat something. Alas, what a waste of money, I should have eaten more in the morning, I overslept in one night, alas! ”

Auntie sighed several times in a row, and Jiang Xi didn't know what to say.

"Can you eat it?" Auntie asked Jiang Xi.

Jiang Xi nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, you can eat it." ”

The aunt ate the noodles in a big gulp, and after Jiang Xi finished eating, she threw the box and the soup into the trash, and went to drink mineral water after getting in the car. She filled a can of water in her own bottle and bought another bottle of water.

After Jiang Xi drank the water, he turned his head to look at the aunt who was squatting in the place to eat instant noodles, the aunt was quite fast, the noodles were eaten in a short time, and at the same time she drank not a drop of soup left.

Jiang Xi turned his head, unwilling to look at other people's embarrassment.

After a while, the aunt also got into the car, holding a box of instant noodles in her hand.

Jiang Xi turned her head to look over, and her aunt also saw her, smiled at her, and explained to herself: "I bought it for five yuan, and I can take this box back and continue to use it." ”

Jiang Xi smiled and expressed understanding.

The car stopped here for nearly 40 minutes, and the passengers got on the bus one after another, and the car was back on the road.

At half past two in the afternoon when he arrived in Xiangcheng, Jiang Xi was lucky, got off the bus, and bought a bus at the station that could go to Benjiang immediately.

She hurriedly got on the bus to Benjiang with her bag and a ticket, and only after the car started did she call home.

When Jiang Mu received the call, she didn't show much joy, but responded lightly.

Jiang Xi's eyes were a little wet, although he had quarreled with his family for a long time because of going to college, and he was also angry with his mother.

But after all, it was her mother, the mother who raised her single-handedly, and the situation at home was like that, if there was a condition, how could her mother not send her to continue her education?

After the notice came down, he cried at home for a few days, and those days have been Jiang Xi's nightmare so far.

But she still has to go back here, this is her home, so as to touch her fragile and sensitive heart.

It's been so hard in the Jiang family, why don't you happily accept the invitation of the Xu family and return to the Xu family immediately?

Just because the Jiang family is too poor and unfair, all the courage is pressed on the mother and a woman.

And what about the Xu family?

The life that everyone envies, Mrs. Xu and Mother Jiang are the same age, right? But Mrs. Xu is as well maintained as Mrs. Forty, but what about Mother Jiang? It is more than five years old and ten years older than the actual age.

In such a different situation, what does it matter if the Xu family has a young daughter?

But the Jiang family can't be less, no matter how little, how long can the Jiang mother, who has been strong all her life, last?

Jiang Xi thought about his home, and his heart couldn't help but be pinched and hurt.

She took a deep breath, she was almost ready, she could earn money, in addition to her own tuition and living expenses, she could save a little money, and she would send it to her family to help reduce her mother's burden.

Twenty minutes later, the coach stopped at the town's open-air station.

Jiang Xi got out of the car, and Jiang Mu stood far away outside the iron gate waiting for her.

Jiang Xi's tears rolled down, she hurriedly raised her hand, and wiped the surging tears again and again.

Then walked towards Jiang Mu with red eyes, Jiang Mu stood reductively and did not take the initiative to take a step closer to her.

But Jiang Xi couldn't bear it anymore in his heart, and he didn't know if it was because he was cowardly in his hometown, and he saw his mother standing there with gray temples, with an old face and a straight back.

That's what keeps her motivated.

"Mom......"

Jiang Xi hugged her mother, and Jiang's mother's eyes were also red, but she couldn't hold back her tears.

Mother Jiang knows that this is very emotional, and her heart is very delicate and sensitive, but this is not good, this society will not show mercy to such a weak and delicate child. Jiang's mother has not doted on Jiang Xi too much since she was a child, and her family did not have the conditions to pamper Jiang Xi, so she trained Jiang Xi to be independent since she was a child.

But the things in my bones can't be changed.

Under Jiang Xi's independent and strong appearance, there is still a delicate and sensitive heart.

Jiang Mu took a deep breath and had calmed down for a short time.

She gently patted Jiang Xi on the shoulder: "Okay, it's home, let's go home." ”

Jiang Xi nodded lightly: "Hmm." ”

Jiang Xi used to go home and buy things for her parents, but every time she bought it back, she was scolded by Jiang's mother for being indecent, saying that she was wasteful and began to spend money before she made money, and she was scolded very much, and Jiang Xi was also afraid, so she didn't dare to buy things back.

"Mom, is Dad okay?" Jiang Xi asked in a low voice.

Mother Jiang glanced at Jiang Xi and stopped talking.

Jiang Xi looked at her face and sighed in her heart, "Mom, isn't it good?" ”

"You've been out studying, and I don't want you to worry. You're back now, just in time to see him again. Jiang Mu said softly.

Jiang Xi's heart was beating with trepidation, her mother rarely said such things, and she was a little worried and scared.

"Mom, when I left, Dad was quite energetic." Jiang Xi said.

"It's okay, it's just spring, bacteria are growing, and his leg is starting to rot again. Not long ago, I had a cold again, and he didn't call me when it was cold at night, and I didn't cover the quilt well, and the cold dragged on until today. Your father's body can take away half a life with a small cold. ”

Jiang Mu said, and then comforted Jiang Xi.

"It's okay, don't worry, it's just a little cold, just get through it." Jiang Xi said.

Jiang Xi's heart relaxed a little: "Have you ever seen a doctor?" ”

"Look, it's still Mr. Yuan from the town, he has been seeing our family's illness all these years, and he also understands it and takes medicine. But your father's body, Mr. Yuan also said that the medicine can't be prescribed too heavily, he can't stand it, so he can only rely on his own antibodies or something, to put it bluntly, just let him suffer by himself, a small cold will not kill people, but people are uncomfortable. ”

Jiang's mother's words fell, and Jiang Xi hurriedly said: "The school has issued a scholarship, 8,000 yuan, Mom, can I leave this money to you?" You take it to your father's doctor, you must get better. ”

She didn't want to go to the step of "the son wants to raise but the family doesn't wait", she worked so hard just to let her parents see her success, and at that time, her success was valuable.

"Don't talk nonsense, your bonus will be left for you to pay for the next semester's tuition. Awkward, your money can't be spent indiscriminately, do you know? Mother Jiang sternly admonished.

Jiang Xi's eyes were red: "Mom, I have found a job, it is a long-term job, it is a newspaper integrated with the TV station, I was selected by them to be a management trainee." It's a little better than an intern, and I have a fixed salary every month. So, don't worry about me. ”

Jiang Mu's eyes straightened for a few seconds, and suddenly became serious.

"You're not going to school anymore?"

"Yes, because in school, I can only be a management trainee, and after graduation, I am their staff. Mom, you don't have to worry about where I'm going to do after graduation, I've found my way. It is the largest newspaper in Yundu, and it is a newspaper backed by a TV station. All the people in my profession wanted to go in, but they chose me......"

"That family helped you get in, right?" Jiang Mu was still not very happy, and asked in a cold tone.

The smile on Jiang Xi's face froze a little, "No, it's me who fights." ”

Mother Jiang looked at her daughter, and then said, "You, you've grown up, and I can't care about it so much." ”

She wanted to speak and stopped, looking at the slim child standing in front of her, and sighed in her heart.

The daughter who was raised by her own hands and has been by her side since she was born is actually, unexpectedly, not her own birth, and even now, she feels impossible.

This child was in front of her when he was young, he never spent his eyes, he was right in front of her, and he could still be someone else's.

"Mom, you are always my mother, a fact that cannot be changed in this life or the next." Jiang Xi said.

Mother Jiang looked at her, and her heart was mixed.

"If you have this heart, I will be content." Jiang Mu said in a low voice, who knows what will happen in the future?

She can't force her child not to associate with that family, but that family is a big family, and if she really asks for her child like this, she may harm her daughter for the rest of her life.

"Mom, you can take it easy, I'm starting to make money."

After Jiang Mu eased up for a while, she burst out angrily again: "Don't think about making money, do I expect you to take money from your family now?" Study hard, four years of college, don't waste thousands of tuition fees a year. ”

"I know, I am determined not to delay my studies, you can rest assured." Jiang Xi earnestly promised.

Jiang's mother stopped talking, Jiang Xi put her hand around her mother's shoulder, she is now a head taller than her mother, most girls have grown almost taller when they are in junior high school, Jiang Xi is probably eating at home in junior high school, and the nutrition is not enough, so the growth is not completed, when he went to Xiangcheng to study in high school, he was still in height, and when he was in college, he seemed to be much taller than when he was in high school at home.

She lined up with her mother like this and went home together, and Jiang's mother was infinitely emotional.

When the child really grows up, just as she can't stop her daughter from going to college, she can't decide her daughter's future.

At the beginning, Jiang's mother was selfish, and she already regretted letting her daughter go to high school, because the burden was really heavy.

A woman, she is not an ironclad warrior, she has to take care of her injured husband alone, two elders in the family, and a student, no matter how hard and tired she swallows it in her stomach, but the hard days are like years, knocking out teeth and swallowing blood, she knows too well what it is like.

In the dead of night, I was so tired that I didn't even have the strength to cry.

She wanted to leave her daughter in Benjiang, and she was eighteen years old after graduating from high school, so she found someone from Benjiang to marry, at least in the future, there will be a daughter and son-in-law at home to help her, so that she can take a breath.

But her daughter insisted on continuing to study, no matter how she beat and scolded, she insisted on going to school, and her husband, who was sick in bed, opposed her all day long and supported her daughter to go to college.

Doesn't she want her daughter to read more?

But who understands her?

However, her daughter also did it, and after she went to college, she never asked her family for a penny, and every time she came back, the living expenses she prepared were left behind when her daughter left.

Jiang Xi still hates his family in his heart, right?

Those miserable days to look back on, who hasn't swallowed a few nails in life?