After Tao Chengan received the letter, he was very worried about Li Chunhua, although now Li Chunhua treats him as a cash bank and only knows how to ask for money, but when he was young, Li Chunhua was really good to his brothers and sisters, and every time he had a little food, he always let her children eat first, and then try to let her men eat, and she always ate the least.

Thinking of those difficult years, Tao Cheng's resentment dissipated a lot.

In the afternoon, he left the unit two hours early, took the subsidy of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day issued by the unit of ten yuan, bought a few catties of moon cakes and rushed to Taohua Village by shuttle.

When Tao Chengan arrived in Taohua Village, it was already around six o'clock in the evening, and smoke was curling from the rooftops of many houses in the village.

Tao Cheng'an walked quickly to Li Chunhua's house, and some villagers saw him and greeted him: "Brother Cheng'an is back." ”

"Well, it's so late, Da Niu is still busy!" Tao Cheng'an greeted him.

"Well, I heard that the production will be contracted to the household soon, and the self-reserved land allocated to each family can be expanded at will, and I will go to open up some wasteland and order a variety of dishes." The middle-aged man named Da Niu replied, "Doesn't Brother Cheng always come back on Sundays, why did he come back today?" ”

Tao Chengan said worriedly: "My mother is sick, and I am in a hurry to come back to see her." ”

"Aunt Li is sick?" Da Niu looked surprised, "Brother Cheng An, is it wrong, I obviously saw Aunt Li jumping around every day, she also pecked her family's vegetables for Second Brother Tao's chicken this morning and quarreled with Second Brother Tao's sister-in-law for a few hours, she is in good spirits, she doesn't look like she is sick." ”

When Tao Chengan heard this, he was suspicious.

When he arrived at the door of the house, Yu Caifeng's seven-year-old grandson, the little dog, was sharp-eyed, and he saw Tao Cheng'an carrying the moon cake in his hand in the house, opened his arms, rushed out of the house, and ran to him with a smile: "Second grandfather, what good things are you carrying in your hands, I want to eat!" ”

Tao Chengan held the moon cakes high: "This is a moon cake, but it can't be eaten for you, you have to keep it for your grandmother, your grandmother is sick, eat some moon cakes and get better quickly." ”

The puppy was so aggrieved that he shouted: "Grandma is not sick, it's the puppy who is sick, and the puppy caught a cold and had diarrhea the night before yesterday, so these mooncakes should be eaten by the puppy." ”

Tao Cheng'an frowned when he heard this.

When he walked into the house, everyone in the family was there, and everyone smiled unnaturally when they saw him.

Especially Tao Zhiqiang, who is a junior, stood up one after another, and after saying hello to Tao Chengan, they all slipped away, and even the third brother and his wife and his eldest brother exchanged a few polite words with him, and they all ran out of the hall as if they were leaving.

Tao Chengan glanced at the dining table, a large pile of dishes and chopsticks, Yu Caifeng was busy cleaning up, it seemed that they had just had dinner, and they couldn't help but feel a little cold in their hearts, they had to be hungry again tonight.

Yu Caifeng smiled exaggeratedly when she saw him: "Why did Brother Cheng'an come back today?" Have you ever eaten it? ”

"I received a letter saying that my mother was not feeling well, so I rushed back early." Tao Chengan put the mooncakes on the dining table and sat down on a high stool next to the dining table, "I haven't eaten yet." ”

Yu Caifeng stopped to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, poured him a cup of cold boiled water, and said unprecedentedly: "I haven't eaten yet, then I'll bring you something to eat." With that, he was about to walk towards the kitchen.

Tao Cheng is relieved and warm. secretly thought, Yu Caifeng still cared a little about herself.

Li Chunhua was puzzled and unhappy when he heard it, the older people who are not sick hate others for saying that she is sick, isn't that a curse for her to die?

So he asked coldly, "Who wrote that letter to you?" ”

Yu Caifeng hurriedly stopped, grabbed ahead of Tao Chengan and said, "I wrote it." ”

When she took advantage of Tao Cheng'an's drinking water, she gave Li Chunhua a straight look: "Mom too, she refuses to say anything when she is sick, how can we be at ease as juniors!" ”

Although Li Chunhua didn't hold on to this question, his face was gloomy.

Tao Cheng'an drank the water in one go, put the cup down, and saw Li Chunhua with a straight face, thinking that she was angry with herself, blaming him for not paying attention to her condition, and hurriedly laughed with a smile: "I heard that my mother was sick in the city, and I was so anxious, but I didn't have much money in my hand, so I could only buy a few catties of moon cakes for my mother to eat." ”

Yu Caifeng's other two grandsons were dragged away by her two daughters-in-law, and only the little dog was still lying next to the dinner table looking at the moon cakes.

Tao Chengan saw that he was greedy, so he took the smallest rock sugar mooncake to him.

The little dog happily sat on the small stool beside him with the rock sugar mooncake and ate it.

Yu Caifeng sent those dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen, and immediately returned to the hall with a bowl of steamed sweet potatoes and a plate of fried capers, and said to Tao Chengen with an embarrassed smile: "That's all left, Brother Cheng'an will eat it, now the family is a house, money is tight, and I can't take out good things to entertain you, when our house is built, I will make a delicious meal for you to eat." ”

Tao Cheng'an saw that there was something to eat, it was already an unexpected joy, and after listening to Yu Caifeng's words, he felt warm, and the grievances and depression accumulated in his heart before were swept away, and he picked up a cold sweet potato and took a bite: "Sister-in-law, let's not talk about the two families, my mother is right, you and the third brother's family are in difficulty now, I won't help you!" ”

Yu Caifeng laughed a few times: "In the end, he is a cadre, and his speech and thinking are level. "I turned around and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes.

It is rare for children in the countryside to eat moon cakes, and the little dog eats up the rock sugar moon cakes in his hand after dividing them by two, he sat on a small stool and watched Tao Chengan eat sweet potatoes and capers, and asked innocently: "Second grandfather, which is delicious, sweet potatoes or dumplings?" ”

As soon as Li Chunhua and Old Man Tao heard this, their faces suddenly changed.

Because there was food to eat, Tao Cheng'an was in a good mood, and he touched the little dog's head lovingly: "Little fool, of course the dumplings are delicious!" ”

The little dog jumped up happily from the small stool: "Then I'll bring dumplings to the second grandfather!" ”

Li Chunhua hurriedly shouted: "You dead child, what nonsense, how can there be dumplings at home!" ”

The puppy argued, "Why not! Aren't we all dumplings for dinner! The second grandfather was seen by my grandmother when he just entered the courtyard gate, and my grandmother beckoned the big guy to quickly receive the dumplings to my grandmother's room and hide them, you and I don't know! As he spoke, he jumped up and ran into Li Chunhua's room.

Old Man Tao stretched out his hand to grab the puppy, but the puppy had already run into Li Chunhua's room like a loach, and soon appeared at the door with a large plate of dumplings, and shouted: "Second grandfather, eat dumplings, dumplings are really delicious!" ”

Tao Cheng'an, who had been watching coldly, saw this scene, his heart was as cold as falling into an ice cave, he threw the uneaten sweet potato in his hand into the bowl, stood up from the stool with a blue face, turned around and walked outside the house.