Jiang Qi, who came home, didn't see his grandmother in the house, so he knew that his grandmother must be cooking in the backyard again, and sure enough, Jiang Qi ran to the backyard and saw his grandmother sitting in front of the stove to light the fire, and the rice pot on the shelf had just begun to steam. Jiang Qi called "grandma", went up to take the burning stick in grandma's hand, added some firewood to the stove, and then helped grandma to the house and sat down, he was just about to go to the backyard to continue cooking, "Zaizai, didn't you say that the teacher came to visit the house today?" I just thought about cooking the rice first, so as not to be busy and not win, I cooked an extra cup of rice, don't burn too much firewood, stuffy more, ah! ”

Jiang Qi said as he walked: "Grandma, the teacher will visit Shaobin's house first, and it is estimated that he will come over later, it should be over there to eat, so don't worry about it." "That's it!" The old man still couldn't sit still, and stood up again and followed Jiang Qi to the backyard.

Jiang Qi sat in front of the stove, adjusted the flame in the stove, and saw the grandmother who came out again, Jiang Qi shook his head and stood up and said, "Milk... Why don't you just watch the stove here, I can't help you! Grandma smiled and sat down in front of the stove.

Jiang Qi returned to the house, brought the vegetables he bought with Yu Lan to the backyard kitchen and put them away, and was thinking about what to cook at night, when he heard Li Shaobin calling him outside, Jiang Qi ran out, "What's wrong Shaobin, don't accept Teacher Yu's teaching at home, why are you coming here?" ”

"Brother Qi, my mother asked me to come up and ask you to go down to dinner with grandma, don't do it yourself, trouble!"

Jiang Qi smiled at him and said, "Grandma has already cooked the rice, we won't go down, besides, let Teacher Yu have a good chat about your performance in school at your house first, I won't feel comfortable going down, you tell your aunt, we won't go down." Jiang Qi originally wanted to bring back the meat bought by Yu Lan to Li Shaobin, but it was estimated that Li Shaobin would definitely not take it, but in the end he didn't speak.

Li Shaobin wanted to say something, Jiang Qi waved his hand at him, and then went back to the house, Li Shaobin had no choice but to shout: "Brother Qi, my mother asked me to find you to get some vegetables!" Jiang Qi in the house replied: "Go to the field and pull it yourself, you don't know!" ”

Coming to the kitchen, Jiang Qi looked at the meat on the cutting board, and grandma must not be able to eat so much, he cut it in half, and then carried a bucket to the outside to press half a bucket of well water, and put the other half of the meat in a bowl and put it in the bucket to float, this kind of weather, there is no refrigerator at home, if it is left outside for a night, it will definitely be broken, as for the other dishes, there is no problem with packaging for a few days, and then Jiang Qi picked up two lettuce from the ground and went out to peel them.

Li Anran chatted with Li Shaobin who returned home with Yu Lan for more than half an hour, and Zhang Yulan came out of the kitchen, "An Ran quickly cleaned up the table and started eating." After speaking, he walked into the kitchen, Yu Lan got up several times and wanted to go to the kitchen to help, but Zhang Yulan kicked him out.

Looking at a large table full of dishes, chicken and fish, and several side dishes, Yu Lan didn't know where to place the chopsticks, "Teacher Yu, you eat vegetables, you're welcome, just treat it like your own home." Saying that, he put a big chicken leg in Yu Lan's bowl, and then he wanted to put fish in Yu Lan's bowl, Yu Lan was really embarrassed, so he hurriedly took the bowl and retreated, saying, "Mother Zhang, I'll come by myself, come by myself." After speaking, he smiled and gave the chicken leg in the bowl to Li Shaobin next to him, Li Shaobin was not polite at all, and directly took the chicken leg and began to eat.

Zhang Yulan looked at Yu Lan and smiled, then turned her head to Li Shaobin and said: "You are the first place in the meal, why haven't I seen you so good at studying, so that you can't call the two of you, I knew that it was better for me to go by myself!" Li Shaobin bit the chicken leg and muttered: "It's not that you don't know Brother Qi, what's the use of blaming me." Zhang Yulan served Yu Lan a bowl of fish soup, and sandwiched a piece of fish for her baby daughter, and said slowly: "Xiaoqi, this child, hey! Forget it, you'll send him some when you're done eating. "Hmm"

Hearing Zhang Yulan say this, Yu Lan asked curiously: "Mother Zhang, I will finish eating later, and I will go to Jiang Qi's classmate later, can you tell me about Jiang Qi?" I didn't know much about him, except that he lived with his grandmother. ”

Zhang Yulan heard Yu Lan ask her about Jiang Qi, she put down the dishes and chopsticks, remembered some of the past, and said: "Xiaoqi, this child, life is too bitter, hey... At such a young age...."

"Mom.... Brother Qi doesn't like what others say... This... "Li Anran said.

"Mom, what mom, your mother and I have treated him as a son since I was a child, his uncle and uncle have no conscience to do those things and are afraid of others saying it, which one in the whole village doesn't know, let alone our village, but which one of the villages next door doesn't know! It's a loss to be a relative, others can't do it, my conscience is eaten by dogs, and I want to scold once I see it! Zhang Yulan looked angry.

Yu Lan was a little puzzled when she heard this, so she asked, "Mother Zhang, can you tell me in detail?" I want to know more about Jiang Qi, and I can know how to help him in school in the future. ”

Zhang Yulan took a sip of soup and said to Yulan: "This has to start a long time ago, I came out of a place with Xiaoqi's mother, when I was in Guangdong, Xiaoqi's mother just got together with Xiaoqi's father, and then Xiaoqi's mother introduced me to my family, and then the two of us married from a place to the same place here, remembering how happy the days were before, when the two of them raised a baby at home, the man went out to work, and the relationship between the two families was as if it were a family. I also told my sister that I wanted to set a baby kiss and hold my grandson together in the future, but I pity my sister's life! ..... early" The more Zhang Yulan spoke, the more uncomfortable she became, her eyes were already full of tears, Yu Lan quickly took the tissue and handed it to her.

Zhang Yulan wiped her eyes with a tissue, shook her hand and said: "I also heard from my family that my sister and brother-in-law were hit by a drunk truck driver, and although Jiang Qi's father protected his mother, he still didn't save him in the end!" "Good two people, it's gone, we didn't get to see each other for the last time. Woo... Uhh

Li Anran lowered his head and felt very uncomfortable, Li Shaobin persuaded him: "Mom, don't talk about it... Don't be bad! Yu Lan didn't know what to say, looking at Zhang Yulan who was crying, she began to regret asking this question a little, and she kept handing Zhang Yulan tissues.

"Shaobin, Mom, I've been holding these words in my heart for so many years, and it's okay to say it today, you said that if my sister is here, I will take you with me, and she will take Xiaoqi at home, what a good day it should be..."

"Teacher Yu, Shaobin and An Ran are young, they don't know the details of things, Xiaoqi is really hard, he is just over eight years old, and he is facing this kind of thing... When I came back from my house, everyone had already been buried, and it was in the back mountain... I didn't dare to take a look at it all these years, I didn't dare... Her child is so bitter that I don't dare to face her .... Woooooo

Li Anran on the side couldn't hold back her tears one by one, Li Shaobin also lay on the table, only Yu Lan sat down next to Zhang Yulan with a stool and hugged her, constantly comforting her.

"Later, the compensation and insurance money of Xiao Jiang Qi's parents came down, and the driver who caused the accident was also sentenced, but Jiang Qi's uncle and uncle did not call it personnel, almost 600,000 yuan, in addition to repaying the money borrowed by Jiang Qi's parents to build a house before, there are also some foreign debts, and my family also followed to do some things in the back, and there are more than 400,000 left, In addition to the 50,000 yuan for Jiang Qi's grandmother, the rest was divided between his uncle and uncle......"

Jiang Qi's uncle and uncle assured in front of the whole village that his uncle was responsible for raising Jiang Qi to adulthood, and the uncle was responsible for Jiang Qi's academic expenses, but Jiang Qi moved out of his uncle's house in less than a year, and it is estimated that he also suffered a lot of crimes, and he was not thin, and then he lived with his grandmother. As for his uncle, he only paid Jiang Qi money for two years of elementary school, and he never taught it again, but they themselves built two small buildings of their own in the second year, do you say this is personnel? ”

Zhang Yulan slowly stopped crying, gradually eased up, and continued: "In the first year that Jiang Qi lived with his grandmother, when my family came back, I discussed with him, thinking that I would take Xiaoqi over and raise him as my own son, and my family also agreed, so I thought it would be good to give An Ran and Shaobin more brothers." Saying that, Zhang Yulan glanced at Li Anran, and said with a smile: "I actually know that my family Anran has liked Jiang Qi's kid since he was a child, and I thought that it would be good to be raised as an aunt, if I grew up and had no children, I would be my brother, wouldn't it?" ”

Li Anran raised his head, wiped his eyes and said, "Mom! What are you talking about? "My face is already red.

Yu Lan looked at the atmosphere a little better, and joked: "Mother Zhang, the school doesn't promote early love!" Li Shaobin laughed with "hehe".

Zhang Yulan looked at her baby daughter's appearance, and said deliberately: "Do you think I don't know, you secretly bring food to Jiang Qi, my mother can see through it, you only eat a few bites of food at home, and the dishes you pack every time you go to school are enough for three people to eat!" I'm still playing with your mom. ”

Li Shaobin spoke, "Mom, I really don't know about taking Brother Qi over to our family, what happened later?" ”

Zhang Yulan thought for a while and said: "Later, it was your father who talked to him, but it didn't work, your father said that Xiaoqi's child should be strong, and that's right, in the past, he would come to the house every year to eat, but now he basically doesn't come in, it is estimated that his self-esteem is too strong, follow his father, and we are not too reluctant." ”

"By the way, Mr. Yu, diagonally opposite our house is the new house built for him by Jiang Qi's parents, and the decoration has not yet been completed, but now it has become an old house, and when Jiang Qi comes out, let him get it slowly!" Zhang Yulan sighed and continued: "Anyway, over the years, the more I look at this child, the more I like it, and my vision of seeing people is never bad, just waiting for him to grow up slowly, An Ran, what do you say?" ”

Li Anran lowered his head unwillingly by his mother, and Li Shaobin smiled evilly on the side. On the contrary, Yu Lan didn't know what to say, as if it was wrong to say anything, so she had to pick up the bowl and eat a small bite of rice.

Zhang Yulan seemed to think of something again, and said: "When Jiang Qi first went to the field to catch fish, I was still quite worried, secretly followed him several times, watching this child crawl in the field every day, I was really distressed, and then I secretly sent several gifts to your Uncle Dequan, and asked him to bring Jiang Qi, and I was much relieved after he was able to stand on his own." ”

Yu Lan thought for a while and asked, "Mother Zhang, are Jiang Qi's uncle and uncle really as unkind as you say?" She couldn't believe that her own child could treat him so cruelly.

As soon as she said this, Zhang Yulan was obviously angry, she said with anger: "It's only more excessive than what I said, no wonder the two families can't give birth to a son for so many years, they deserve it!" God has eyes! That's what everyone in the village says! After hearing this, Yulan really couldn't answer, so she had to put down the bowl silently.

"Mom! Don't say it's so excessive, Brother Qi's cousin is still very good to him! Li Anran whispered.

Zhang Yulan smiled at Yu Lan and said: "I'm also strange, you said that Jiang Qi's uncle is so unconscionable, but the eldest daughter born is really good, he has taken care of Jiang Qi since he was a child, and he has given Jiang Qi whatever is good, and when he grows up, he goes out to work, and he goes home every year, with big bags and small bags, and never buys anything for his parents, all the clothes and shoes he bought for Jiang Qi, and he buys them all year round, and he takes Jiang Qi to the market to buy them again if he doesn't fit, I can't figure it out, it's the same family, why is there such a big difference!" ”

Yu Lan looked down at her watch, it was already a little late, she said: "Mother Zhang, thank you for telling me so much, I probably understand, today is unforgettable at your house, and I have gained a lot myself, and then I will go to Jiang Qi's house to have a look, the time is not early, do you think we will do this first?" ”

Zhang Yulan looked at the dishes on the table, then at Yu Lan's bowl, and said, "Teacher Yu, you haven't eaten much yet, hey!" It's all my fault that I talk endlessly, why don't you eat some more? I'll heat it up for you. ”

Yu Lan looked at the sky outside and said, "Mother Zhang, don't worry, I can't eat much, I'm losing weight!" It's late, or do I have time to come back next time? ”

Zhang Yulan also knew that it was not too early, so she didn't force her to stay, so she had to say: "Okay, Teacher Yu, next time you come over, let Shaobin tell me in advance, I stew an old hen!" Yu Lan looked at the chicken on the table that basically didn't move much, and was a little afraid to answer.

"Xiao Bin! You bring some chicken legs and fish, and accompany Mr. Yu to your brother's house, and the motorcycle will be left at the door of the house first! ”

"Okay! Mother! ”

Li Anran helped clean up the table, packed some dishes in a bowl and handed them to Li Shaobin, and Yu Lan followed Li Shaobin to Jiang Qi's house.