Lu Xiangbei looked out the window and replied to her: "It's dark, it's cold outside, and there's no one else in this house, tell me, what's on your mind." ”

"Want to know?"

Ye Xia raised her eyebrows. Lu Xiangbei nodded, and listened to his daughter-in-law say, "I'll tell you when I go out." ”

Seeing that Ye Xia really didn't mean to say this, Lu Xiangbei picked up the velvet hat on the edge of the kang and put it on his daughter-in-law's head, and then picked up a scarf to help people wrap it around, and asked, "Why didn't you see your gloves?" ”

"Here."

Taking out gloves from the pocket of his cotton coat, Ye Xia put them on by himself, then blinked and urged: "Hurry up and arm yourself." ”

Lu Xiangbei picked up the ** hat and buckled it on his head, and then said while wrapping his scarf: "Let's go." ”

"Buckle up."

Ye Xia said, and directly helped Lu Xiangbei button the button on his cotton jacket: "Go to the east of the village." ”

"Whatever you want."

He will follow his daughter-in-law wherever he goes, no opinion.

"It's getting dark, and you're going out?"

Lin Lan came out of the kitchen with the boiled footwashing water, and just saw Ye Xia and Lu Xiangbei walking out of the hall, without thinking about it, Ye Xia blurted out: "Brother Junlang's chest is a little stuffy, I'll accompany him to walk around the courtyard." ”

Carrying the blame for his daughter-in-law, Lu Xiangbei had no complaints, he looked at Lin Lan: "Mom, don't worry, we'll come back in a while." ”

On the day of the marriage, Lu Xiangbei, a cheeky man, directly changed his words and called Jiang An's parents in front of his old man and old lady, as well as Grandpa Jiang, Grandma Jiang and others.

Jiang Anye frowned coldly in his heart, but he had to put a smile on his face and respond to the title of hairy-footed son-in-law.

"Don't go far."

With a word of advice, Lin Lan entered the hall with the foot-washing water.

The sky was dark, and Ye Xia and Lu Xiangbei walked side by side on the village road: "What do you think?" ”

"If we have the ability, then help it, it's not a big deal."

The two of them have good ears and know that there is no third person around.

The hero's sons and daughters can help a handful, not to mention that there is no shortage of food in her daughter-in-law's space, and other materials are complete.

When Ye Xia talked about Jiangdong's family, Lu Xiangbei didn't interject, just listened quietly on the side, and when Ye Xia finished speaking, he asked him a question, and this one responded without thinking.

Hearing this, Ye Xia's mind flashed, and he brought Lu Xiangbei into the space, and when the two of them came out again, Lu Xiangbei was carrying two bulging travel bags in his hands, one of which contained the cotton clothes, cotton pants and smocks that Liufu Qifu wore when he was a child.

It is all handmade by Ye Xia, the style is ordinary, it is not outstanding at all, and the color is not eye-catching, so it is no problem for Jiang Yuanchao and his younger brothers and sisters to wear it. In addition, the bag also contains two sets of autumn clothes and pants of each size.

and three pairs of cotton shoes, three pairs of cloth shoes, and several pairs of cotton socks. The winter days in the mountains are colder than the outside world, and when they get warm, it will be at least March and April, so Ye Xia packed all the clothes he wore in his travel bag.

When the weather was warm, she took the opportunity to go home and quietly sent some of the clothes worn by Liufu Qifu to Jiang Yuanchao and his younger brothers and sisters. It's not that there are no new clothes, but Ye Xia doesn't dare to give them,

I'm worried about causing trouble to the children, but what I want to say is that the clothes worn by Liufu Qifu have been dismantled and washed and cleaned up together, and with the conditions of her family, Liufu Qifu did not wear the clothes too solidly.

As for why I didn't take Lu Xiaoba's clothes, it stems from the fact that when Lu Xiaoba was born, the time was close to the end of the seventies, and he was born in seven or eight years when he was pregnant in seven or eight years.

After all, the reform and opening up is imminent, the country is showing spring everywhere, and the clothes of adults and children, whether it is style or color, are not comparable to the late sixties and early seventies.

"Let's put the things at the door of the child's house, knock on the door, and hide and watch the child carry the things into the house before leaving."

Ye Xia said softly, and when he heard the words, Lu Xiangbei said "um" and responded: "Listen to you." In addition to clothes, shoes and socks, Lu Xiangbei carried another travel bag containing milk powder, malt milk essence, brown sugar, white rabbit milk candy and other food.

Three bags of milk powder, two cans of malt milk essence, and one pack of white rabbit toffee......

"Knock knock!"

The courtyard door of Jiang Yuanchao's house is made of fences, and it is easy to move open, Ye Xia and Lu Xiangbei quietly entered the courtyard, Ye Xia knocked on the door, Lu Xiangbei put things outside the door, and pressed a piece of paper written by Ye Xia in the space on top of the travel bag with a small stone, and after doing all this, he straightened his waist, took his daughter-in-law's hand and wanted to leave.

didn't hear the response of the people in the house, Ye Xia knocked on the door again, and through his thoughts, put two more bags of five-pound rice and white noodles next to the two travel bags, plus two catties of vegetable oil in bottles, and at this moment, the child's immature voice with vigilance sounded: "Who?" ”

Seeing that the kerosene lamp in the house was lit, Ye Xia hurriedly gestured to Lu Xiangbei, and the two of them crept to the thatched hut where sundries were piled up in the courtyard of Jiang Yuanchao's house like thieves.

There was a "creak" and the door opened from the inside.

The little girl was holding a kerosene lamp, and the little boy, who was more than half a head taller than the little girl, was holding a stick in his hand, and the brother and sister looked out the door with all their vigilance, but did not see a single figure. "Brother, look!"

Suddenly, the little girl saw the things piled up at the door of her house, and her eyes immediately widened in shock: "There are words on this paper." ”

Stooping down to pick up the gravel-pressed paper on the travel bar, the little girl handed it to her brother.

Jiang Yuanchao was originally in the second grade, but he had an accident at home, and within a few days of his second grade, he returned home to take care of his younger siblings and cut pigweed to earn work, so as not to let himself and his younger siblings go hungry.

The words on the paper are regular script written by Ye Xia with a fountain pen, and they are easy to recognize. The words that are difficult to recognize, Ye Xia has marked pinyin, so that Jiang Yuanchao can read her "letter" smoothly, so that he can put away everything according to what she said, so as to prevent others from seeing it.

Ye Xia did not leave a surname, only said that he would let Jiang Yuanchao and his younger siblings study hard and grow up healthily, and said that he would find the captain to take care of them, so that he would not have to worry about the cost of schooling, and the end would be marked to pay attention to it secretly......

With his mouth pursed, Jiang Yuanchao's eyes were red, looking at the empty courtyard, and suddenly, he took his sister's hand and knelt at the door, kowtowed to the courtyard three times, and then, he raised his sleeve and wiped it on his eyes, and said to his sister: "Take things home, you can't say anything to anyone, remember?" ”

Jiang Aihua is less than seven years old, she is a smart little girl, the things she went to the door were secretly given to them by well-wishers, if others knew, these things would definitely be snatched away, so the little girl's heart was bright, and when she heard her brother's words, she nodded heavily.

The things were carried back to the house by the brother and sister, the wooden door "creaked" shut, Ye Xia and Lu Xiangbei passed a while, walked out of the thatched shed, the two did not stay in the courtyard for long, as when they came, quietly left.

"Brother, this is flour, this is rice, this is oil!"

When Dad was alive, their family could eat a little fine grain every month, but since Dad was gone and Mom left them and disappeared, their family no longer had fine grain, only a small amount of coarse grain remained.

Seeing the rice and white noodles at this time, the little girl Jiang Aihua was really happy, she said: "We eat a little bit every day, and we can eat for a long, long time." ”

Jiang Yuanchao didn't speak, he gently opened the zipper of his travel bag, and when he saw the clothes and shoes and socks inside, his eyes were sour, and he didn't stop crying after all.

His mother loves to dress up, and every month his dad sends a stipend back, and it won't be long before the stipend will be spent by his mother.

Making new clothes, buying alabaster, buying small leather shoes, and buying beautiful silk scarves are just little money for him and his younger siblings.

"Brother, these cotton clothes and pants are so warm to the touch."

Jiang Aihua picked up a floral cotton jacket and pasted it on her face, her eyes flashed with tears: "This is for me, right, brother?" ”

Jiang Yuanchao nodded: "Well, it's yours." ”

Judging from the size, the flower padded jacket is my sister's.

"I like it so much, brother, I like this flower padded jacket so much!"

Qin Ning is more than four years old, and she knows what it means to be beautiful and good-looking, compared to this little doll, Jiang Aihua, a six-year-old little girl, naturally knows better what it is to be good-looking, and can better express her thoughts about beautiful things, however, the little girl, like her brother, rarely wears the new clothes made by her mother.

Brother and sister, no, to be precise, including the little milk baby Jiang Aimin, the clothes worn by the children are basically changed by their mothers with the old clothes they worn, or the old uniforms that their husband Jiangdong brought home when he came to visit relatives.

He was away from home for many years, leaving his wife alone in his hometown to keep the empty house, and he did not raise his children to take care of the housework, as a man, Jiang Donglai felt ashamed of his wife and children, so he sent the allowance and tickets home every month, and his wife was at his own disposal, so as to comfort his daughter-in-law and children.

Moreover, when he went home to visit relatives, although Jiang Donglai rarely saw his children wearing new clothes, he was not unclothed, frozen and hungry.

Based on this, Jiang Donglai has no complaints about his daughter-in-law's spending of allowances and tickets for herself.

"Cotton shoes! And single shoes, brother, these are socks! Very soft and duck ......"

As Jiang Yuanchao emptied the travel bar with clothes and shoes and socks, the immature surprise in Jiang Aihua's mouth never stopped.

"Be quiet, the night is quiet, and it will be heard."

Jiang Yuanchao reminded his sister softly with a slightly nasal voice.

Speaking of which, it has been a long time since the big pear tree was electrified, but the daughter-in-law from Jiangdong did not let the brigade connect the electricity to her house in order to spend the money on herself, which made the family still light up with kerosene lamps as in the past.

For example, there are more than ten or twenty households in Da Lishu who have not received electricity, but these households have different reasons from Jiangdong, they feel that electricity is expensive and they are afraid of spending money, so they would rather continue to use kerosene lamps than agree to pull electricity for their homes.

There was movement in the house, and Jiang Aimin, the milk doll who had just fallen asleep for a long time, was holding a small circle and rubbing her eyes, while calling her brothers and sisters with her mouth curled.

"My brother is good, my brother is here, and my sister is also here."

Put the cotton clothes in her hand on the kang, Jiang Aihua picked up her younger brother and sat in her arms, watched her brother open another travel bag, and the next moment, she couldn't help but tighten her arms around her younger brother, her eyes were red, and she whispered: "Brother, there is milk powder, there is malt milk essence, and my brother has milk powder and malt milk essence to drink." ”

Swallowing her saliva, she said again: "This is a feeding bottle, I have seen Aunt Cuilian use it to drink water for Sanniu on the ground." ”

Dad used to visit relatives and came home, and he bought milk powder and malt milk essence, but she and her brother ate very little, because her mother said that milk powder and malt milk essence were bought by her father, and said that only when her mother has eaten milk powder and malt milk essence can her body be healthy and have the strength to take care of them.

These words were said by my mother to their brothers and sisters behind my father's back, although they wanted to drink milk powder and malt milk essence, but my mother hid the things, and they could only endure it even if they thought about it.

"Ten pieces of money, brother, one is ten yuan, ten is a hundred, and tickets, brother, we have money and tickets!"

Knowing money was taught by Jiang Donglai to his son and daughter at home by chance, and after Jiang Donglai came to school, he taught his sister Jiang Aihua to read and count, so the little girl saw the money ticket that her brother took out from the travel bag, and watched her brother carefully take it out one by one and report the number casually.

His eyes were fixed on the pile of things that he had all put on the kang, Jiang Yuanchao was stunned for a long time with red eyes, he put those things back together, worked like a little hamster for a while, and returned to the kang with half a bottle of milk: "You have to remember what my brother said, you can't talk to anyone outside about tonight." ”

Handing the bottle to his younger brother, Jiang Yuanchao solemnly told his sister again.

"Well, my mouth is so tight that I don't tell anyone." Jiang Aihua nodded his little head with a tense face.

The milk doll Jiang Aimin held the bottle given by his brother, instinctively sent it to his mouth, drank two sips, and the little guy suddenly stopped and handed the bottle to his brother.

"Delicious, isn't it?"

Jiang Yuanchao's immature voice was slightly hoarse, and when he asked, the milk doll Jiang Aimin blinked her glasses, grinned and nodded her little head.

"You drink, my brother doesn't drink, drink grandma, you can grow up quickly."

Jiang Yuanchao pinched his brother's thin face, shook his head and smiled, clinker, and the milk doll handed the bottle to his sister again.

"Sister doesn't drink it, you drink it."

Jiang Aihua sensibly stuffed the bottle back into her brother's mouth, and then she looked at Jiang Yuanchao and said, "Brother, who do you say is so good to us?" ”

Milk powder, malt cream, brown sugar...... The things she just saw were all expensive, but someone put so much in front of their door, and quietly came and left, who could it be?

Jiang Yuanchao shook his head: "I don't know." ”

After a moment of silence, he said, "I'll see you sooner or later." ”

He will definitely meet the kind people who help them, he will definitely be able to! "Then my brother is going to report for school?"

Jiang Aihua believed in his brother, they would be able to meet that kind-hearted person sooner or later, thinking that school was about to start, the little girl couldn't help but ask.

“……”

Jiang Yuanchao pursed his lips and was silent, he wanted to go to school, but the situation at home was here, if he went to school, what should his younger brothers and sisters do?

"Brother, you go to school, I will take care of my younger brother at home, and when my brother comes back from school, he will teach me to read and count as before."

Brother likes to read She knows, she actually likes it herself, originally in September this year she was able to enter the village like her brother, but her father is gone, her mother is gone, even if there is money from well-wishers at home,

But her brother needs to be taken care of, she and her brother must have someone to stay at home, and my brother is already in the second grade, and the previous exams are all 100 points, compared to her, who has not been to school for a day.

It's more cost-effective for my brother to continue studying, thinking so, Jiang Aihua said in a very serious childish voice: "Brother, I can cook and wash clothes, and I can take my younger brother and clean up the house, and when my younger brother grows up, I will take my younger brother to cut pigweed to earn work, and you can go to school with confidence." ”

The stars twinkled in the night sky, Ye Xia was led by Lu Xiangbei and walked on the village road home, her voice was soft, and a little sour: "What do you say is the human heart?" What is human nature? ”

Without waiting for Lu Xiangbei to respond, her muttered voice rose again: "It's obviously connected by blood, why can you do it without asking, and let three young children survive in this world by themselves?" Is it for profit?

Just because he didn't get the benefits he wanted, just because he was unprofitable, the elders were cold and didn't stretch out their hands to pull their late brother's children? ”

"People's hearts are fickle, human nature is complicated, if the family's affairs are true, it can only show that the brothers from Jiangdong are selfish and greedy, and they are not good in their bones.

And what about human nature and people's hearts? As long as they have a little conscience, when Jiang Dong comes to propose to use his own allowance to treat his mother's body, they should support it, instead of feeling that they can't take advantage of it and clamoring to split up, so as not to be dragged down by their stepmother for a long time. ”

Lu Xiangbei analyzed the hearts of the half-brothers from Jiangdong in a shallow voice, and after listening to him, Ye Xia's voice was cold:

"It's all heartless, white-eyed wolves! Why don't they want to think about what they have today if it weren't for the mother from Jiangdong who came in the door, helped their father pull their brothers and sisters, and married them obediently? ”

Speaking of this, Ye Xia said mockingly: "Maybe those white-eyed wolves think that even if there is no Jiangdonglai's mother, their father marries other women, and they can still raise them to adulthood and marry them as wives and marries, but have they ever thought that without Jiangdonglai's mother, other women will be their stepmothers, and they will grow up stable and comfortable?" ”

"Before dinner, I saw you and your mother-in-law talking in the kitchen, could it be that you just asked about Jiangdong's coming home?"

Lu Xiangbei asked.

Ye Xia said "um" lightly and said in a shallow voice: "Although Mai Xiang told me a lot about that family, I still couldn't help but want to know more, so I casually asked my mother a few words before dinner.

learned that what Mai Xiang said was true, and at the same time learned that Jiang Donglai's mother was very good to her stepson and stepdaughter, and the food at home was eaten by Jiang Donglai's father and several children born to his ex-wife.

She and the girl she brought with her just barely filled her stomach, and she never complained for many years. Someone once asked Jiang Donglai's mother in private, why she was not kind to herself and the girl she brought,

Jiang Donglai's mother replied to the other party, saying that the two of them fled to Da Lishu, and they were already very satisfied to have a home in this village and have something to eat, and they couldn't ask for more.

With such thoughts, Jiang Donglai's mother and sister are like old scalpers who blindly pay for that family, raising their stepdaughter like Miss Jiao, not to mention doing farm work at home, that is, cooking, laundry, sweeping and other housework, they have never done much before they got married, and in the end, they are tired and sick, and what do they end up with? ”

Lu Xiangbei didn't say anything, so he heard his daughter-in-law say again: "Also, the reason why Jiang Donglai went to the team was actually his mother who took the initiative to send her son out, and he wanted his son to fight for his own life.

And she sent her only son out ruthlessly, because Jiang Donglai grew up day by day, and the amount of food increased, and he was sneered at by his brothers every meal, so he had to take that road.

However, who would have thought? was about to think about his son's blessings, but because of his illness, his son was dragged down and forced to be separated from the family by his brothers, it can be said that Jiang Donglai's mother died with full of guilt and sadness.

If the mother had closed her eyes to the knowledge that her only son would come to an end in a few years after her death, and that this end had stemmed from the fact that she had sent him on a path of danger and glory, I would have regretted her earlier decision, and even hated herself. ”

"Okay, I know you see that the three children are pitiful, let's not all say it, just go on the previous road in advance, and do our best to help those in need."

In the previous life, under the influence of his daughter-in-law, he, their children, their grandchildren, and great-grandchildren...... From generation to generation, they have done public welfare and charity, they donate money to the Hope Project, and they are all over the country.

Even building schools in poor areas abroad, they send warmth to the elderly and orphanages, but everything related to charity and public welfare, their family and their family have been committed to doing it for generations.

Before they closed their eyes and left that world, the two of them donated a lot of the foundation they had laid with their own hands to the country, so that in their absence, they continued to help people in need in their name.

Today, it was really a very small thing for them to help those three poor children, but he didn't expect that the family would make his daughter-in-law, who had always been calm and calm, feel so much fluctuation.

She hated the brothers from Jiang Donglai, yes, he could feel that his daughter-in-law didn't want to see those cold-hearted brothers at all, but what could they do?

Those people are at fault, but their fault lies in their personal morality, in their disregard for blood and family affection, and from a legal point of view, there is no problem.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, in the afternoon, Ye Xia was talking to her father alone in the West House, which aroused a lot of curiosity from Brother Jiang Xuejin, but Ye Xia clearly said that he wanted to talk to his father alone, so no matter how big his curiosity was, he was also curbed by Brother Jiang Xuejin, and they stayed with Lu Xiangbei to chat in the West House.

"What you said will have to be discussed at the brigade headquarters before a decision can be made."

Jiang An frowned slightly: "Although your brother Donglai is a little far away from our family's bloodline, he respects your grandparents very much, and every time he comes back to visit relatives, he will bring things to visit your grandparents.

I also have a lot of respect for me, your uncle and uncles, in short, your brother Donglai is a good person, but none of us thought that such a good young man would be gone if he said no, and the daughter-in-law he married was a ......."

Rebirth 60: Pretty Wife, Husband Spoils God! /book/51401/