"He's stealing your chickens? Or did you eat your rice and didn't pay for it? Or did you kill your duck? What disease did you infect your child? Killed? Whose house set the fire? Or did you dig up your ancestral grave?! As for you? Back then, he was just a child, and have you ever thought about how hurtful and powerful words can be? He's not a heinous murderer, he's not a shameless thief or a thief, he's the one who used to live with you, and because he doesn't like any of your women here, he deserves to be looked down upon by you? If I want to say a word, it was not him who killed Zhou Hangyu, but you, it was you who said it, and turned it into a sharp blade sentence by sentence, forcing that young man to death! You're the real murderers! Gu Qingfang said angrily.

Gu Qingyan said that they couldn't refute a word, they could only look at each other, the older generation of people is too old, sometimes someone needs to scold them, otherwise they will just follow the crowd and follow the ideas of most people.

Tao Xiu was very moved, Gu Qingfang said his heart, and also erased his guilt about Zhou Hangyu, even the scar on his wrist was about to disappear, everything seemed to tell Tao Xiu that those bad things had passed.

"That's right, I, like him, like Zhou Hangyu, don't like women, so what? We haven't broken the law, we're human beings, don't we have the right to pursue what we like? Just because what we like is different from yours? What if I just love him? What's in your way? If you can't get used to it, get out, don't chirp crookedly here, I didn't repair it so well, and if it makes me unhappy, I'll do it! Gu Qingfang smashed a stretcher truck next to him with a fist.

An old man next to him immediately quit, and his crying father shouted to his mother: "My car is ......"

Gu Qing pulled Tao Xiu away, and before leaving, he pressed Grandpa Mao, who had a few hundred yuan, on the broken car and walked away.

Although the people around them were still pointing fingers, seeing that they had left, they went back to their respective homes.

Gu Qingyan was still very angry, "It's this scene every time you go home, what are you doing when you come back?" Looking for abuse?! ”

Tao Xiu lowered his eyes and looked aggrieved.

Gu Qingfang clenched Tao Xiu's hand, "I will work hard with you, but no matter what the result is, I will never let go of your hand, I will block the gossip for you, you just need to be by my side well, it is enough." ”

"Okay." Tao Xiu was no longer nervous, nor was he nervous, because he knew that no matter what happened, Gu Qingmad was there.

Walking a few hundred meters forward, Tao Xiu pointed to a family and said to Gu Qing: "This is my house, and now at this time, only my mother should be at home." ”

Gu Qingfang stepped forward and knocked on the door, knocked for a long time and didn't see anyone open the door, Tao Xiu glanced at it suspiciously, reached in from the round iron ring, and wanted to open the door from the inside, but found that the door was locked from the inside and couldn't be opened.

The alleys are full of simple folks, who have taken root here for generations, and have never heard of a family that doesn't see anything, so every family here does not have the habit of locking the door to sleep, and the door is gently closed, and they go to rest.

In the past, when Tao Xiu and Tao Bin came home late, they also put their hands into the round iron ring, pulled the door bolt from the inside, and the door opened.

"Who?" The octogenarian grandmother next door poked out her head, she was already a little dizzy, and in recent years she had suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and the children in the family did not want to see her, so she was the only one living in the house, and the children rarely came back to see her after they got married.

In the past, this old grandmother was very good to Tao Xiu and Zhou Hangyu, even when the two of them were besieged and scolded by the whole village because they were together, there was no figure of this kind old grandmother in the crowd, Tao Xiu has always been very grateful to her.

"Grandma Zhang, do you know where my mother and my brother went?" Tao Xiu stepped forward and asked.

Although Grandma Zhang didn't recognize Tao Xiu, she had been studying his face with reading glasses, but Tao Xiu's voice felt very familiar to her, and Grandma Zhang grinned, revealing her bare gums, "They, they've been out for a long time, and they don't know where they've gone, shouldn't they be going out to find their eldest son." ”

Tao Xiu's face changed, it was impossible, it was impossible for them to find their own.

"Young man, you look very much like their eldest son, but Ah Ying never admits that she has a son, as soon as others mention her eldest son, she turns her face, she is not as easy to get along with as before, what a good person she is!" Grandma Zhang said with a sad face.

Tao Xiu lowered his head, no matter how others scolded him, he could bear it, but he was really very guilty of his mother and younger brother, it was he who made this family suffer so much damage.

He can just walk away and choose never to come back, but the person who decides to stay, the person who decides not to leave, is painful.

"Thank you, there are very soft pastries here, which are a specialty of the city, you can eat them slowly." Tao Xiu took out a bag of cakes from Gu Qingfang's hand and handed it to Grandma Zhang.

Grandma Zhang smiled from ear to ear, took Tao Xiu's hand and said, "Thank you, thank you, young man, what a good guy." ”

It's not easy to live alone when he's old, if it weren't for his mother taking care of him from time to time, this old man might have gone a long time ago, and only she understands his mother's suffering.

Watching the old grandmother staggering into the house, Tao Xiu sighed, "When my mother gets old, I don't know if I'm so lucky that there is someone who can take care of her often." ”

"Your mother has us, and your brother."

"Frivolous, she won't forgive me easily, because of me, she doesn't know how many rolls of eyes and abuse she has received, my brother, hey, I hope he can marry a good wife and be able to help take care of my mother." Tao Xiu sighed.

Gu Qingfang looked at the closed door and frowned, "Can you contact them?" ”

"My mom doesn't have a mobile phone, my brother won't give me the mobile phone number, only they can contact me, I can't find them." Tao Xiu shook his head.

The two were about to leave when a woman in plain clothes walked past them, pulled out the key and prepared to open the door.

Tao Xiu recognized it at a glance, and stepped forward and shouted, "Mom! ”

The woman took out the key's hand, turned around and looked, sure enough, it was Tao Xiu, she was also forced not to bow her head, the woman ran towards Tao Xiu, grabbed Tao Xiu's hand and asked, "Do you have money?" Help your brother! Mom, please, for your brother's sake! ”

How many times have I been kicked out of the house when I went home, Tao Xiu was stunned, what happened this time? Is there something big going on at home that he doesn't know about?

"Mom, what's wrong? What happened? Don't rush yet, take your time. Tao Xiu soothed Xu Ying's emotions.

Xu Ying relieved her breath and said: "Ah Bin, Ah Bin had an accident during construction at the construction site last week, fell from the upper floor, and was seriously injured, especially the right leg, which was comminuted and fractured, and now needs money for surgery, and the construction site refuses to pay for it, and we don't have the money to go to the lawsuit, hey......"

Tao Xiu frowned, "Did you spend the money I sent back before?" ”

"Alas, I spent it on him secretly, and he won't let me spend your money, do you still have money? Help him, he just got a girlfriend, and he was going to get married this year, but he ......" Xu Ying wiped a handful of tears.

The woman who has been proud for so many years and has not shown her son a good face, finally bowed her head for the sake of another son.

Tao Xiu never imagined that one day, his biological mother would beg him because of his biological brother.

Aren't they family? When do you need to use the word "ask"?

Yes, he remembered that they were not a family for a long time, and when he was safe and sound, he couldn't step into that house, and when something happened at home, they would think of him.

Tao Xiu's heart was sad, and he couldn't feel a trace of warmth.

But the person who had the accident was Tao Bin, he couldn't sit idly by, no one asked, as long as he had the ability, of course he had to help.

"How much does the surgery cost?" Tao Xiu asked.

Xu Ying thought for a while, "I still need tens of thousands of yuan, I don't know the specifics, now I am hospitalized in the city center, and more than 2,000 yuan will be deducted every day......"

I didn't want to touch Tao Xiu's money, but in the end there was no way, Tao Bin was hospitalized for a few days, and Xu Ying couldn't hold on.

For poor people like them, health is a blessing, and now when they go to the hospital, even if they don't spend a few hundred yuan for a common cold, they don't want to leave, let alone this kind of bone grafting surgery, which needs to be charged according to the difficulty of the operation.

There are no serious hospitals in their small alleys, only small clinics, so Xu Yingming knew that it would cost a lot of money, but he gritted his teeth and sent Tao Bin to the central hospital, hurting his foot, he was so young and unmarried, if he ended up disabled, which girl would follow him?

"Okay, I've got money, Mom, take me over to see Abin." Tao Xiu smiled reluctantly, only Gu Qingyan could understand the disappointment and pain in his eyes.

Tens of thousands of yuan, Tao Xiu still has it, after all, the working hours are not short, plus he got a generous bonus before, and he was also promoted.

Xu Ying hesitated, "But, he shouldn't want to see you......"

"Auntie, this is not right, they are brothers, not to mention that something happened to him, Xiu wants to help him, why doesn't he want to see Xiu?" Gu Qingfang endured it for a long time, but he still couldn't hold back.

Xu Ying looked at Gu Qingmad beside Tao Xiu, she was in a hurry just now, so she ignored Gu Qingmad, and now she found that there was such a handsome and young man standing next to her eldest son, and she was suddenly very puzzled, "Who are you?" ”

"My name is Gu Qingyan, I am your son Tao Xiu's lover, please forgive us for getting married without your consent, so I came to visit you today...... "Anyway, you still have to be polite to your elders.

But as soon as Gu Qing's crazy words came out, Xu Ying's face immediately changed, "It's been so many years, I thought you had become better, but I didn't expect to still mix with men!" He looks like a rich man, so you've become rich too, haven't you? I sent you to L City to study, but you didn't learn well, you guys get out, I don't dare to spend your money, even if I smash the pot and sell iron, I don't dare to spend your money! ”