After we had taken the best of the best, we continued to squat in the yard in a pretended manner, studying the stone mill that had been studied several times, but our ears were pricked up to eavesdrop on the movement in the house.

But there was no big movement in it for a long time, and when we thought that this fight, the aunt and the sister-in-law were finished, but after a while, the sister-in-law came out of the house, and was with us, squatting in the corner and smoking a dry cigarette.

We looked at this posture, but we hadn't coaxed my aunt yet, I decided that I couldn't continue to wait and see, so I dragged Jiang Zhi into the living room.

My aunt was sitting on the sofa, crying with Jiang's mother.

"Sister, what do you say is too much in these days, Lu Qing's heart is not our mother and daughter at all."

When Jiang's mother heard this, she said, "Don't talk nonsense, how good Lu Qing is to you, isn't it just like this?" ”

"This time is enough, I have come out, even if I have been with him for 10 years or 20 years, I can't catch up with his brother, he is a white-eyed wolf who can't cover his heat." The aunt is now very angry with the brother-in-law.

"You're okay, who doesn't have some excellent relatives, and his brother won't come back in the New Year, you're all good." Jiang's mother continued to persuade.

"Even if there are few people, it is enough for the Huohuo people, and the family has just received some food, and before it is hot, he can lick his face and come to the door to beg for it, and there is the stupid person who cares about his brother's affection, and wants to be deceived.

I didn't say anything about his brother's food this time, but this time, his brother was too shameless, and his family of three wanted to go to the safe zone. I didn't have any food, so I was worried about my family's food.

That's 2,000 catties of rice, not 10 catties and 20 catties. He Lu Qing pouted and dug his roots in the ground for a year, how many 2,000 catties can he collect, if you don't farm with our family this year, he Lu Qing don't say 2,000 catties, even 1,000 catties are enough, this has just collected some grain, and his wife and children haven't eaten it yet. I want to give them all to others, Lu Qing, are you worthy of me? As the aunt spoke, tears couldn't help but fall. The last sentence was also said very loudly, to the little brother-in-law outside the house.

The sister-in-law heard it outside, and said helplessly: "Didn't I not agree, isn't this discussing with you." ”

"Discuss something. What is negotiable. You treat him like a brother. Do people treat you as their own brother?

Do you remember why we drank porridge for months last winter? As soon as people come to cry poor, you will send all the food at home, people don't have to do anything, just call my brother and wait at home to eat dry, and our mother and wife are tired and tired to pick up some thin drink. Lu Qing, are you worthy of our mother? The more my aunt talked, the more sad she became, and in the end she couldn't control her emotions and choked up while talking.

"Shuju, you know that I am such a younger brother. When my mother was dying, she specially told me to take good care of him. Do you think I can leave him alone? The sister-in-law's voice was also very helpless.

"He has to be like that. For so many years, when did he think about coming to see you, the eldest brother who has been taking care of him, knowing that we are farming, which autumn he came to the village to help you work. He has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and only when he has something to do will he think of you, the eldest brother. The aunt's eyes widened excitedly and argued with the aunt.

Seeing that the little sister-in-law opened his mouth, he couldn't say anything in the end.

"If he Lu An wants to get his family of three into the safe zone, and he needs a hundred and eighty catties of grain, come to beg us, I, who is a sister-in-law, will definitely give it to him without saying a word. But if you look at what you're doing now, a mouth is 2,000 pounds, is that a small amount? If we farm as usual this year, then he just wants to take away all the food in our family, so what are you going to eat as a family of three, has he considered it?

He didn't have a pound of food, so he dared to illuminate, where did he get the guts? It's all what you're used to. If you want food, you will give it, and if you want food, you will give it, and now you don't know how to count.

And your good brother said that the safe zone is so good and so good, why did he rectify the quota of his family, why didn't your brother's family give a whole few places. ”

"Isn't that bad, and besides, didn't you say you didn't go to the safe zone, what do we want that quota for?" The little sister-in-law said sullenly outside.

"I don't want it, I don't want it, I don't want to go, but I didn't do it, he got his family of three, he never thought about the life or death of you, a brother, and never thought about the life or death of me, a sister-in-law and his niece." The more my aunt talked, the more angry she became, and her voice became louder and louder.

"And, when he came to our house, did he start talking human language? What do you mean to leave a queen for Lao Lu's family, didn't I have a child? Isn't my daughter's surname Lu? My sister-in-law gave birth to a girl, isn't it the child of your old Lu family? Lu Qing, do you think the same thing in your heart, I dislike that I gave birth to a girl, right, I let you be the last, okay, I won't delay you, let's go divorce now, you are looking for a big girl to give birth to a son for you. The aunt said this, stood up from the sofa and really raised her legs to go out.

Jiang Zhi and I hurriedly stopped her and forcibly pushed her back to sit on the sofa.

The sister-in-law also said anxiously when she heard this: "What are you talking nonsense, when did I dislike you for giving birth to a girl, if you dislike it, you can't wait until the girls are so old to dislike it." How sad your words made my daughter hear. ”

"You still have time to care if your daughter is sad or not, you just take care of your loser brother, I can tell you, our rice is not yours alone, there are still me and my daughter's, and you don't want to move the food that your daughter earns."

After the autumn harvest, Lu Fang found a few people in the county to organize a construction team to dig ice cellars for people. If you have time, you can also repair the house. After the autumn harvest of our family, Lu Fang's construction team repaired the house of the second sister and the eldest sister from the inside out. Of course, it was free, and Lao Jiang gave them all the building materials he had gotten from the county before.

After the drought of your summer, the villagers of Tayama Village also know the benefits of ice cellars, and they want to take advantage of the warm weather. Dig one up in your own house. Some people want to dig bigger, but they can't dig so much grain at once. I gave Lu Fang an idea and asked her to implement the installment payment method. It's just that if there is not enough food this year. Just pay a deposit and pay back the rest of the food in the next two or three years. I've been carrying several bags of rice home these days.

We also understood next to us, this is the best brother's family wants to go to the safe area, but they don't have food, so they think of their brother in the countryside, when they want 2,000 catties of rice for a mouth here, and they want food. hasn't said anything nice yet, which makes my aunt angry. Besides, 2,000 catties of rice is not a decimal, so my aunt resolutely disagrees. But the sister-in-law seems to be a little loose and wants to give his brother food.

"Then, what should Lu An do, I'm just such a younger brother. I've begged for it. What do you say I say, and besides, this may be a matter of life, we still have those grains, you see...... "Listening to the meaning of the little sister-in-law, I still can't let go of my own brother, and I still want to help him."

After listening to her brother-in-law's words, her aunt immediately jumped up from the sofa and pointed at her sister-in-law's nose to scold.

I quickly stopped my aunt. "Auntie is discouraged, discouraged. We can't let such a superb relative make us angry. Auntie, you come upstairs with me, and I'll say a few words to you. ”

Then I pulled my aunt, who was still struggling to fight with my brother-in-law, upstairs.

When I got upstairs, I said to my aunt: "Auntie, some things can't just look at the surface, you now think that the best to come to the house to ask for 2,000 pounds of food is too much, in fact, you think about it the other way, if you take out 2,000 pounds of food, you can stay away from the best from now on, then this food is not much, and it is worth it." ”

My aunt looked at me suspiciously.

I went on to explain to him: "Actually, everyone wants to go to the safe zone because it's safe, but if you think about it from the other side, it means that there is no freedom, and you can think of the safe zone as a prison. It's easy to get in, but it's hard to get out. ”

"Really?" It's the first time I've heard such remarks.

"**Don't leave ten, you think, when we ordinary people go in, we must be used as cattle and horses for others. It's just that there is nothing else, the old land circled by the safe zone, can't anyone plant it, it is impossible to let people with computers change to hoes, and it is impossible to let those dignitaries and dignitaries take shovels, so in the end it is ordinary people who go to work. Think about it, after you go in, can people easily let these laborers go? ”

"The most important thing is that we have these grains now, and giving these 2,000 catties of grain will not have much impact on our lives, if you look at it this way, which one do you say is more important?" I gave the choice of the question to my aunt.

"Well, if you say that, this food must be given, I would rather him come to Huohuo once than come to us once, and I don't want him to come to us if he is fine." After listening to my words, my aunt figured it out.

"That is, if you spend this food, you will be able to avoid future troubles forever, so we have to worry less about it."

When we came down again, my aunt changed her anger and said calmly to my sister-in-law, "Have you thought about it, do you really want to give your brother food and let their family go to a safe zone?" If you really want to give it, I won't stop it, as if I am a vicious person.

But let's say okay, you can't move the food Xiaofang earned back at home, the rice that our family has recovered this year is divided into three parts, and in the future, our family will eat their own share, whether you want to give your brother or throw it away, I don't care, but don't come to us if you don't have rice to eat and starve to death in the future. ”

Auntie is obviously angry when she says this, there is no rice, there are sweet potatoes and potato buds at home, so it is impossible to be hungry.

When the sister-in-law heard that the aunt agreed, he said with a big grin: "Okay, when I finish eating rice, I will gnaw on sweet potatoes, and I must not let you two have no food to eat." ”

Then my aunt said that she was going to stay at my house for a while, and she didn't want to see Lu An at home, so she asked her sister-in-law to go home and send him away quickly. The sister-in-law left happily, and when he left, he said that after he sent Lu An away, he would come to pick up the aunt.

After the sister-in-law left, the sister-in-law regained her composure and continued to chat with Jiang's mother, and we went out of the house.

Li Cheng came over and asked curiously, "Sister, what did you say to your aunt just now, why did she change so quickly?" ”

"I didn't say anything, I told my aunt that I couldn't get out of the safe zone, and then asked her if she wanted to spend 2,000 catties of rice to buy a stop in the future? Or do you want the best brother to come to the house to make a fuss once he has something to do? Auntie still thinks it's more important to stay away from the best. ”

After hearing this, Li Cheng asked me suspiciously: "Sister, who told you that you can't get out of the safe zone." ”

"Nobody told me, I guess." I'm very irresponsible. (To be continued......)