He stretched out his hand and wanted to touch Xia Qi's head, but when he saw his girl's double bun, he retracted his hand and said to his wife and children: "Don't worry, even if they say it is out of the blue, I won't go back." ”

After so many years, he is not disgusted with the old lady and the chickens and dogs in the house. I just thought that the old lady was my biological mother, so I endured it. Now that he learned that this woman was not his own mother at all, and he regarded himself as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and he was eager to poison himself to death, he was full of disgust for that place in Xiafu.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered an incident that had long been forgotten in the depths of his memory. It was when he was seven years old, and once he was playing by the pond, and someone pushed him into the pond from behind, and the person who followed him was nowhere to be seen, and he almost drowned. Fortunately, the old lady came back from the clinic and passed by the pond, so she called someone to rescue him. Later, the subordinates who followed him were beaten half to death and sold, and the old lady seemed to be locked up in the ancestral hall for a while.

At this time, I think about it, I am afraid that the old lady did it.

"Master, master......" In a trance, Xia Zhengqian heard his wife calling, he came back to his senses, and saw his wife and children looking at him worriedly.

"Ah, I'm fine, just remembering something." He wiped his face with the palm of his hand and said with a smile, his smile full of bitterness.

Xia Qi was still not at ease: "Dad, the uncle asked us to go back at this time, just because he thought that our family had climbed the two big trees of Luofu and Xuanping Houfu and wanted to profit from them." Once we don't do what they say, go to curry favor with the nobles and get the benefits they want. I guess our life is even harder than before. So, no matter what Uncle says, let's not go back. ”

"Don't worry." Xia Zhengqian saw that his wife and children were still looking at him. I sighed secretly in my heart, how stupid I was before, which made my wife and children so uneasy about him, "I really won't go back." The old lady is not my mother, she hates me and hates being like that, what am I going to do when I go back? Do you scold her and rub her? ”

Speaking of this, Shu Shi and Xia Qi finally put their minds at ease.

But Xia Jin opened his mouth slowly: "If it weren't for the uncle." But the second uncle and the second aunt came? ”

The smile that had just appeared on Shu's face suddenly froze there. She looked at the tea bowl in her hand, and she was unsure for a while.

Married into the Xia family for so many years. If you want to say that she is good to her and makes her feel warm, it is the second wife of the Xia family, Wei. When she was lying on the bed like ashes, it was the second wife who asked for warmth. secretly used her own private money to buy some supplements for her to eat; Every time she was punished by the old lady, it was the second wife who interceded for her, and privately asked her subordinates to take more care of her.

In the past ten years, her life in Xia Mansion has been too bitter, and she has suffered too much scolding and cold eyes, and the warmth that the second wife has given her has made her cherish it and be extremely grateful.

So, if the second wife comes to the door, persuade them to go back. Shu Shi thought, she was afraid that she couldn't open her mouth to refuse the second wife, right?

She turned her head to look at her husband. She wants her husband to be more determined than herself. I saw my husband rubbing his eyebrows in annoyance. A look of embarrassment.

She knows that her husband's feelings for her second brother are the same as her feelings for her second sister-in-law. She had heard her husband say more than once that when she was a child, the old lady was angry, and when the old lady was not at home, the second brother always protected him. After the old lady passed away. The second brother defends him more than the second sister-in-law treats her.

If the second brother comes to persuade him. Even if he doesn't want to go back, he will give his second brother face and ease the relationship with the mansion over there.

Xia Qi saw his parents' expressions, his lips pursed, and his eyes showed disappointment.

He was about to open his mouth to speak, but he felt a hand hold his arm. He turned his head and saw Xia Jin shaking his head at him.

"Sister, do you still want to go back to live that aggrieved life? I'm not going back anyway. Xia Qi couldn't help but shout angrily, and then turned his head to Xia Zhengqian and Shu Shi regardless of it, "If you can't wipe your face, the second uncle and the second aunt will go back as soon as they persuade you, then you can go back, and my sister and I will stay outside." Anyway, if I am killed, I will not go back and be bullied by Xia Qi and Xia Chan again. ”

Xia Zhengqian and Shu Shi changed color together. The little wavering and entanglement in my heart just now disappeared all at once.

"Don't worry, I won't go back if I say I won't go back." Xia Zhengqian said. In fact, even if there was no Xia Qi's words, he would not go back. The second brother's family is good to them, but compared to the scolding and bullying in the house all day long, what is it? Life is lived by oneself, and that sadness is only known to oneself.

Xia Jin, who had not spoken since he threw out a question, asked a question this time: "But the second uncle didn't persuade you to go back, only advised you not to get into such a stiff quarrel with the other side, and go back to the house for a meal tonight?" ”

Xia Zhengqian was dumbfounded.

He raised his head and looked at Xia Jin in a daze.

Xia Jin knew that this man was soft-hearted and kind-hearted, otherwise he would not have been able to do it all the time, and he would have been bullied to that extent.

She avoided Xia Zhengqian's gaze, looked at the void, and said lightly: "You may think, just eat a meal, this little face always has to be given." Even if the old lady is not her own mother, the eldest uncle and the second uncle are brothers after all, and the second uncle has been defending you so much for so many years, he asked you to go back for a meal, you are always embarrassed not to go, aren't you? ”

This sentence completely poked Xia Zhengqian's mind, he retracted his gaze, lowered his head and pretended to drink tea, his expression was quite unnatural.

And Shu Shi couldn't bear to see her husband being robbed, so she said in a weak heart: "Sister Jin, after all, that side is your father's home, our roots." Even if we split up, the same Xia family, every year during the Chinese New Year, we still have to go back to worship our ancestors. The relationship between the two sides is too stiff, and it is not good after all, and it is a joke for people to watch. In the end, it must be said that we are not good and disrespectful to our mother-in-law. ”

Speaking of the word mother-in-law, she covered her mouth with a handkerchief suddenly, and then glanced at her husband carefully, lest Xia Zhengqian be sad and sad when she heard these two words.

When Xia Zhengqian heard these two words, his expression really moved slightly, but he lowered his eyebrows and eyes, and he couldn't see more emotions.

Xia Jin was helpless with the pair of steamed bun parents.

She sighed. said: "Okay, let's give a face and go over for dinner." And then what? Then the old lady cries and apologizes to you. said that she was too disappointed in the old lady back then, she had children here, worked hard and thrifty to keep a family, and worked hard for many years. Finally, life was a little better, and the old lady had a different heart, had a woman outside, and brought back a child. She had just given birth and couldn't get out of bed, and the child was gone. The old lady not only did not comfort her, but took back a child. also used her father and brother to threaten her, forcing her to recognize her as her own child. Whoever is in this situation will have a monstrous hatred and indignation. But the old lady is her husband after all. A day of husband and wife for a hundred days, and the woman outside can't find it, she can only put this hatred on you. That's why it's been like this to you for so many years. ”

She looked at Xia Zhengqian, thoughtful, slightly moved, obviously these words touched him, and she sighed in her heart. A helpless sneer appeared on her face: "If she said this, would you forgive her?" ”

Xia Qi raised his eyes and stared at his father's face tightly, lest he say words of forgiveness.

Xia Zhengqian was silent. Didn't speak.

Shu Shi lowered her head and twisted her handkerchief in both hands, for fear that her daughter would ask her head.

She hated the old lady, but as a woman, she could especially understand the old lady's mood back then. She has a deep relationship with Xia Zhengqian. But if she was pregnant with a child, her husband had a different heart outside; When the child she gave birth to died. But the husband came back with the child born to his lover, and forced her to take the child away. She was afraid that she would have to smash the child to death, and then cut her husband with a knife to relieve the hatred in her heart. She has a weak temperament, let alone an old lady who is strong by nature?

Xia Jin didn't need to look to know what the couple was thinking.

She smiled coldly and said, "Okay, you forgive her, she lowered her body and begged you, begged you to move back to live, and begged you to go back to Renhetang to help the uncle." Come to think of it, even if you don't move back in, you're embarrassed to refuse the request to return to Renhetang, right? ”

Xia Zhengqian was not silent this time. He thought for a moment and nodded slightly.

"And then? Then, of course, you go back to be a cow and a horse for them, and the old lady can still use all kinds of excuses to call us mother and son back, scold if you want, and beat you if you want - Dad, don't forget, every time the old lady beats and scolds us, it is not unreasonable, there are always various reasons to do it. ”

Shu's eyes were raised, and his expression was a little stunned.

"Of course, maybe the old lady doesn't beat and scold us for the sake of what we can do for her. But she asked you to go to Xuanping Houfu to ask for an official position for the second uncle? What if she asked you to go to Lord Luo to open the back door for the second and fourth brothers, and take more care of the spring house? Are you going or not? But was the yamen opened by the grandfather's family? Is Chunfu controlled by Luo Tuiguan? Can they ignore the law of the country, engage in favoritism and irregularities, put themselves in a dangerous situation, and impeach their political opponents for the sake of a Langzhong? Naturally not. If you can't ask for an official, if you can't ask for a show, how will the old lady treat you? She's probably going to vent all her anger on the four of us, right? ”

When Shu Shi heard this, he shivered.

"Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the old man and Luo Tuiguan feel their kindness and arrange a half-official position for the second uncle, so that the second brother and the fourth brother will be talented, will the old lady be satisfied? Arrange a clerical for the second uncle, she is afraid that she still thinks about letting the second uncle be a staff member, a master, a county officer, and a serious official of the court, right? ”

Xia Zhengqian couldn't help but think of what the old lady had mentioned to him, asking Xia Zhenghao to be the prefect's master.

"Dad, think about it, if I hadn't cured the illness of Luo Sangongzi and Mrs. Xuanping Hougu, would the old lady apologize to you and beg you to go back? I'm afraid not, right? When she asks you to go back, she wants to use you and squeeze you dry. Once you're no longer useful to her, she'll kick you out the door with a thought like this one! Knowing this, do you still want to go back to use her, squeeze her, and help her beg her grandfather to sue her grandmother and do those things in the dog and fly camp? Do you have to do that, let her come and go as soon as she is invited, rub as much as you want, and drag your wife and children to suffer and be buried together? (To be continued)

PS: It's back, thank you. Thank you for the reward of Peach Blossom, thank you Tangmen = Mingmeng, book friend 110209121914816, joyzhang2012 rice bonus ticket ~