Tao Chengan sat on the small stool and said with a wobble: "Mom, I haven't eaten lunch yet!" ”

Li Chunhua's eyes immediately widened: "You haven't eaten lunch, hurry back and eat, what are you yelling here!" ”

Tao Cheng'an snorted embarrassedly: "I'...... I was kicked out by Yongfang's mother and son, and they didn't let me eat at home! ”

Li Chunhua looked at him with hatred: "Look at your wretchedness!" I can't eat in my own home! ”

Tao Chengan hung his head in frustration.

Yu Caifeng condemned indignantly: "Lin Yongfang's mother and son are really not human, and they don't even give food to Brother Cheng'an!" ”

But she only mentally supported Tao Cheng'an, and didn't plan to make a lunch for Tao Cheng'an.

Li Chunhua had no choice but to stand up, walked to the kitchen, and gritted his teeth and counted Tao Chengan: "I'm dozens of years old, and I'm still here to eat my mother!" ”

Tao Chengan felt even more embarrassed, his face was red and white for a while, and he couldn't raise his head!

Li Chunhua didn't give Tao Chengan anything to eat, so he steamed a few sweet potatoes and sent him away.

Tao Chengan remembered that when he first came home, he saw the braised pork belly that Lin Yongfang prepared for him in the kitchen, and then looked at a few sweet potatoes in his bowl, he couldn't help but sigh desolate in his heart, picked up a sweet potato and ate it, but choked in his throat for a long time and couldn't get up and down.

Seeing this, Yu Caifeng hurriedly handed him a glass of cold boiled water: "Brother Cheng'an is used to eating white rice and good dishes in the unit, and it is difficult to swallow sweet potatoes again. My mom and I eat sweet potatoes for three meals a day! ”

Tao Chengan was very hungry, but after listening to Yu Caifeng's words, he couldn't eat at all, he put the bowl on the table and said, "I'll sleep." ”

Li Chunhua nodded with a gloomy face: "You just go to my bed and sleep." ”

But where can he sleep hungry, Tao Chengan lay on the bed and remembered what the doorman said: "He doesn't even support his wife and children, his wife didn't divorce him, it's all his wife's stupid." ”

Immediately afterwards, Li Yongfang's crying voice also sounded in his mind: "Since you want to be filial piety wholeheartedly, you shouldn't have married a wife and had children in the first place, how can there be a father like you in the world who doesn't raise your own children!" It's better than a beast! ”

A trace of guilt flashed in his heart, but when he thought that Lin Yongfang's mother and son didn't even let him eat, they kicked him out of the house, and he was so angry that he was dizzy.

What's wrong if you don't support your family, how many children have grown up, who is starving!

She doesn't support her family because she Lin Yongfang can bring up a few children, if she can't support a few children, she will definitely take the money out to raise the children!

Lin Yongfang is simply unreasonable!

Tao Chengan thought of this, so he thought that he didn't care about the loss at all, but thought that Duoduo married a good family, and the money and things that others gave to Duoduo should be regarded as a dowry, why can't she Lin Yongfang honor her mother with Duoduo's dowry for a few hundred!

The more Tao Chengan thought about it, the more angry he became, and he couldn't wait to rush to Lin Yongfang's house and slap her a few times, but when he thought of Tao Aiguo's three brothers, he didn't have the guts.

Tao Chengan was thinking about it, and Li Chunhua walked in, with anger in his voice: "You have really become a master now, most of the year is in the city, and you don't know how to do anything for your mother when you come back." ”

Tao Chengan hurriedly sat up from the bed and asked honestly, "What did my mother tell me to do?" ”

"Go fill the water tank at home with water, and then go chop wood!"

Tao Chengan sat on the bed and was stunned for a moment, he hadn't done these things for many years, and besides, he didn't have to wait for him to do these two things, several of the boys in the eldest brother's family had already gotten married, and they had done these things completely, but Li Chunhua wanted him to do them.

Tao Chengan had to get out of bed, first fill the two large tanks at home with water, the shoulders of those who have not carried a burden for decades are grinded by the flat shoulders, and they have not eaten lunch, they are hungry and do not move, and their legs tremble with each load of water.

After picking up the water, Tao Chengan just sat in the courtyard and was about to take a breath and go to chop firewood, but Li Chunhua nagged as if he was afraid that he would not go: "Just do this little thing and stop!" It's a shame that your father and I are both in our sixties and seventies, and we are still busy every day! ”

When Tao Chengan heard this, he hurriedly bounced up from the small stool, took the rope and sickle and went out to chop wood.

People of that era knew more about environmental protection than later people, and when cutting firewood, they generally did not cut those green branches, either cutting thorns, or cutting reeds and other grasses, or cutting down the dead branches of some trees for firewood.

Tao Cheng'an walked around in the woods, saw the dead branches and willows and cut them with a sickle, and accidentally found that his sons and two daughters-in-law were running around the mountains and forests, and couldn't help but be curious, and looked at Liu Cuihua, who was closest to him, and it turned out that he was picking mushrooms and black fungus.

Liu Cuihua heard footsteps behind her, looked back and saw that it was her father-in-law, and she didn't talk to him, and walked away quickly with the basket on her back.

Originally, Tao Chengan wanted to ask her why she was picking mushrooms and black fungus, but when she saw that everyone had run away, she couldn't ask, so she had to continue chopping his firewood.

Tao Chengan kept chopping firewood until more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon before cutting a large bundle, thinking that Li Chunhua would definitely be satisfied with carrying so much firewood back.

As soon as he walked to the gate of Li Chunhua's house, Tao Chengan heard laughter and laughter from inside, and his mood improved for no reason, so he quickened his pace and walked into the courtyard, put the firewood in the corner of the courtyard, and shouted to the hall with his throat: "Mom, I'm back from chopping wood!" ”

Li Chunhua let out a faint "um" from the hall, as if he disliked Tao Cheng'an for this little thing.

Tao Cheng'an was full of joy, and was poured down by this indifferent sound like a bucket of ice water, his heart was cold for a while, and the whole person also withered, and walked into the hall listlessly, and saw a box of mung bean cakes and a box of sesame cakes open on the table.

The box of mung bean cake and sesame cake were brought back from the unit.

This time during the Dragon Boat Festival, the unit divided five catties of glutinous rice, twenty salted duck eggs, twenty preserved eggs, and a box of mung bean cake and a box of sesame cake, and Tao Cheng brought them back with the security department, of course, Lin Yongfang didn't leave anything there, and gave it all to Li Chunhua.

Tao Chengan stretched out his head to look at the box of mung bean cake and sesame cake, it was empty, there was not even a little dregs left, his heart was a little uncomfortable, the things he brought back, his own mother was unwilling to give himself a little food, he had to carry himself behind his back and divide them, completely treating himself as an outsider, he couldn't help but be a little disheartened, and sat down on a small stool in frustration.

When Yu Caifeng saw it, he hurriedly poured him a glass of cold boiled water: "Cheng An, it's hard to chop wood, come, drink a glass of cold boiled water to quench your thirst." ”

She glanced at the packaging boxes of mung bean cake and sesame cake, and said with a smile: "It's all my two grandsons who have to make a fuss about eating, so my mother didn't wait for you to come back and opened all the mung bean cake and sesame cake, there are too many people in the family, and one person only eats one piece and it's gone, don't mind." ”