In the past few days that Wang Chu has been at home, Wang Jian has been unusually well-behaved, either helping to cook or sweeping the floor at home, and rushing to wash clothes with Xu Xiaoran. Xu Xiaoran frowned and said to Wang Chu, "You are here for him to be like this, where will he help with these jobs on weekdays." ”

"I'll tell you Xiao Ran, you have to treat him well, let him change those stinky problems on his body, otherwise you will suffer in the future."

Xu Xiaoran let out a cold breath and moved his fingers to stop talking, but Wang Jian said while washing clothes on the side, "Daughter-in-law, don't speak ill of me in front of my sister." ”

"We're praising you, where are we going to say bad things about you." Xu Xiaoran's cold expression disappeared immediately, and Wang Jian was greeted with a smiling face.

"That's pretty much it." Wang Jian smiled proudly.

Wang Chu put his head on Xu Xiaoran's stomach and felt if there was any fetal movement, "When will my little niece come out?" ”

"It's almost there, sister, it's almost due date." Xu Xiaoran said.

"Chu Chu, your boss is not too young, and it is time to have a child." The mother said while sewing a belly pocket for her unborn niece on the kang.

"I'm still early, don't worry." Wang Chu replied.

"Not in a hurry?" Mother put down the needlework in her hand, "Chu Chu, you haven't been home for almost ten days since you came back this time, did you quarrel with Xiang Yang?" ”

"Oh Mom, where is this, there's nothing, we're fine!" As soon as Wang Chu finished speaking, a car stopped at the door, and the person who got out of the car Wang Chu knew, this person was the driver, the person who came to pick her up on Xiang Yang's birthday.

"Hello Wang Chu, your husband asked me to pick you up." Said the driver.

Wang Chu frowned, secretly happy in his heart, "I finally couldn't hold it anymore." She adjusted her facial expression and smiled at her mother, "Look, I said that Xiang Yang and I didn't quarrel. ”

"Pack your things and go home." Mother urged.

"The daughter who marries out is the water that is spilled, and I will only live for a few days before I get rid of me." Wang Chu was dissatisfied, she packed up her salute, said goodbye to her mother Xu Xiaoran, got in the car and left.

When he returned home, the moment he just walked into the house, Wang Chu felt that Li Xiangyang's mood was very wrong, he sat on the sofa with his forehead down, and he didn't turn his head back when Wang Chu came in. He crossed Erlang's legs, clutched a ball of paper with both hands, covered his entire mouth and nose with both hands, and when she squatted in front of him to look at his face, his face was full of tears, and he cried so much that he didn't even make a sound.

Wang Chu was shocked and trembling in his heart, feeling that the situation was a little serious, "What's wrong with you?" What's wrong? Li Xiangyang shook her head, and she asked urgently, "Why are you crying if it's okay?" And bring me from so far away, you must be in trouble. But he didn't speak, but she observed his expression and guessed, "Did you miss me?" ”

"Woo woo ......" Li Xiangyang hugged Wang Chu in his arms, and finally cried loudly, his grief choked to the point where he couldn't bear it, she suddenly thought of the scene of An Jia and beating Mei Xiangnan in the TV series "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Did your father-in-law do something to her mother-in-law?" She guessed, but didn't dare to ask, and when he calmed down, he spoke, "Something happened to my brother." ”

Wang Chu was stunned for a moment, she didn't dare to guess on the good side, crying like this, nine times out of ten it was a matter of the sky falling, at this moment, she did nothing but pat her shoulder to comfort, it was superfluous. Li Xiangyang took a long time to calm himself down, "It's been more than a month. He let out a cold breath, "I don't know anything. At this moment, Wang Chuzhen didn't know what to say, just held him in his arms, and after a long time, he spoke again, "I have to go back tomorrow." ”

"Okay." Wang Chu said, "I'll go back with you." ”

The next day, Li Xiangyang asked Uncle Xu for leave, then went to the train station, bought two train tickets and went back to his hometown.

Since joining the work, this is the fourth year that Li Xiangyang has not returned home, and he has vowed that he will never go home until he makes a name for himself. He is the only college student in the village, a well-known leader, and he joined the job as soon as he graduated, and he is the envy of everyone in Shili Eight Village.

When he was in college, his family was poor, and Li Xiangyang's mother borrowed all the money from relatives and friends in his neighborhood in order to provide for him to go to school. The moment he joined the work, he secretly vowed that he must go home with a reputation and prove to the villagers that the college students that his mother worked hard to provide for must be the best people. His current position has not yet achieved the results he wants, and he has no plans to return home if it weren't for this family incident.

Li Xiangyang's house is a courtyard house, and the conditions are not too bad, much better than Wang Chu's hometown. This house looks like it should be more than ten years old, but the courtyard is very clean and neatly arranged, and it looks like the hostess of the house is a kind and virtuous woman.

When Wang Chu and Xiang Yang arrived home, his mother and father had been waiting at the door for a long time, and his sister Li Xiangxia was also there, and there was a child who was almost two years old.

Xiang Yang picked up the child, "It's all so big." His eyes were full of tears, and Wang Chu understood that this should be his brother's youngest son, Xiaobao, "When I left, you hadn't heard from you yet." ”

"You've been gone for four years, and Brother Xiaobao is in junior high school!" Li Xiangxia explained.

"This kid." Li Xiangyang's mother slapped him on the arm and said, "You don't notify your family of such a big thing as getting married, how much idea do you have to make such a decision?" ”

Mother-in-law is full of hometown dialect, which makes Wang Chu feel more cordial, Li Xiangyang smiled, "Mom, I don't want you to worry about my marriage anymore, so I didn't say it, fortunately, Wang Chu is reasonable and doesn't care so much." ”

"That's good." The mother-in-law smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed into a slit, and she took Wang Chu's hand, "Look at this face, he is a sensible child." ”

"Mom, Dad, Sister." Only then did Wang Chu open his mouth to ask.

"Hmm." Mother-in-law and father-in-law agreed at the same time, Li Xiangxia hurriedly took Wang Chu's hand, "Come into the house, this way, it's cold enough." ”

Wang Chu was led into the house by his mother-in-law, he didn't see his son for four years, and he took Wang Chu home, Li Xiangyang's mother was very happy, although his father didn't have too much expression on his face, it was not difficult to see the joy in his heart.

The room is very hot, the fire in the living room of my mother-in-law's house is very hot, there is no decent furniture in the house, and the so-called soil pit in my hometown is on the left side of the door, and I smell a bad smell of kang as soon as I enter the door. There is a writing desk in the middle of the front, a combination cabinet next to it, and a dining table to the left of the door, the furniture is very old, but it is well arranged.

There were all kinds of fruits and snacks on the dining table, and in the blink of an eye, my mother-in-law brought a few prepared dishes to the table, and Li Xiangxia also brought two dishes, "Mom has been preparing for two days to welcome you two, and I have never enjoyed this treatment in my life." ”

"The water spilled by the daughter who got married." The mother-in-law smiled with a wrinkled face, "This son and daughter-in-law are the ones who put it on the tip of my heart." ”

Li Xiangxia cast an envious look, "Look at Mom, how partial is this?" ”

The father-in-law smiled and squinted, he didn't speak, picked up the chopsticks unhurriedly, brought a small plate, and ate the food.

"Let's eat." Li Xiangyang answered, and hugged his nephew Xiaobao in his arms, "If you bring vinegar, you will have less." ”

"Yes." Mother-in-law glanced at Li Xiangxia whitely, not intentionally, but not sincerely, Li Xiangxia let out a sigh of relief, frowned at Li Xiangyang, and smiled very uncomfortably, but also with happiness.

The strong mother-in-law and father-in-law did not mention their son for two hours from entering the door to finishing the meal, and their unusual calmness made Wang Chu hesitate, until she went out to go to the toilet, and when she returned to the living room, her mother-in-law cried and fainted, and Li Xiangyang had already carried her mother-in-law to the kang.

"Your mom can cry and faint every day." The father-in-law said in a weak voice, his voice almost trembling.

Li Xiangyang had already burst into tears, Li Xiangxia also cried, Wang Chu sat on the kang, looked at his mother-in-law who had slept in the past, and also cried.

As soon as the next day dawned, Wang Chu heard the sound of "rustling" sweeping the yard in the courtyard, and she heard the sound from the glass window to find it, it was her mother-in-law, who was thin and small, and her figure looked even smaller in the hazy night.

Wang Chu got off the kang and put on her coat, the door was opened with a "squeak" sound, but it didn't wake up Li Xiangyang, she went out and walked into her mother-in-law, "Mom, I'll help you sweep it?" ”

"Oh Chu Chu, why are you getting up so early? Go and sleep again. The mother-in-law stopped, "I'll call you when breakfast is ready." ”

"No need Mom, I've already woken up, why don't I help you cook?"

"When you come to the house, you just wait to eat ready-made meals, how can Mom let you cook? It's still early, so go and sleep again. The mother-in-law dragged Wang Chu back to the house.

The sound of his mother-in-law pulling the door finally woke Li Xiangyang, and he turned over and asked, "Why don't you help your mother cook?" ”

"Mom won't let me live or die." Wang Chu replied, took off his coat and went to the kang.

"If you don't let you go, you won't go?" Li Xiangyang continued, his voice hazy, "Be brisk during this time at home, don't be lazy." ”

Wang Chubai glanced at Li Xiangyang, lay down, turned his body around, and then heard a snoring sound, although it was not very loud, but it was disturbing to hear.

After breakfast in the morning, Li Xiangyang and Li Xiangxia prepared some paper money and incense, as well as some biscuits and apples, and took Wang Chu to Brother Xiangyang's grave. His sister-in-law was also in front of the grave, she wore a headscarf around her head and a thick black cotton jacket, kneeling in front of the grave while crying, and shouting in a thick hometown accent, "I am so pitiful in my life, you threw the two children away like this, how can you let our mother live." ”

"Get out of here." Li Xiangyang's anger surged into his heart, and he pulled up his sister-in-law and pushed him aside, "Don't pretend to cry and pretend to be compassionate, if you don't lose your temper and go back to your parents' house, how can my brother have an accident?" ”

"Xiangyang?" His sister-in-law was surprised, "You're back?" ”

"Don't call me by name, you're not worthy." Li Xiangyang said and pushed his sister-in-law several times, Wang Chu hurriedly stopped him, and was thrown away by him, "You get out, I don't want to see you." ”

"Your brother has an accident, and your family has put all the blame on you, right?" Li Xiangyang's sister-in-law said, "Why don't you ask your brother what he did to me?" He almost beat me to death at home, how many times did he not change, otherwise how would I have run away from home? ”

"So you're alive and well now?" Li Xiangyang roared angrily, his eyes were full of anger, and his finger pointed to the grave, "But my brother is dead." ”

"Let's go, don't talk about it, okay?" Li Xiangxia also spoke, it was not difficult to see in her eyes that she also hated her sister-in-law, her sister-in-law wiped her tears and turned away.

Li Xiangyang looked at the back of his sister-in-law leaving with disgust, and it was not until the person walked away that he knelt in front of the grave and cried silently, "Brother, I came to see you." ”

Li Xiangxia took out the prepared incense and paper money, put the offerings on the tombstone, and couldn't help but shed tears.

Wang Chu only deeply sympathized with this brother who had never met, and she didn't know anything about the cause of his death, and she didn't dare to ask, and no one mentioned it in front of her.

Since that day, the mother-in-law has never cried, the strong mother-in-law disguised herself, and changed her tricks all day long to make food for Wang Chu and Li Xiangyang, the mother-in-law is small, thin, and walks so fast that she has a fight, every time she comes out of the kitchen with two rice bowls in her hand, and then brings it to the living room, her feet are like winding threads, Wang Chu can see a handful of sweat, Li Xiangyang often reminds, "Mom, slow down, be careful of slipping and falling." ”

"I was born like this, and I haven't seen me fall once." Mother-in-law chattering.

"Mom has to fall once to find out." Li Xiangxia said with a smile.

The mother-in-law glared at Li Xiangxia, but smiled at Wang Chu, "Chu Chu, come and eat." ”

Several times Wang Chu found that when her mother-in-law was in someone, she was strong and optimistic, avoiding people, either staring at a certain place in a daze or wiping her tears with a photo of her eldest son. She has no children, and she can't understand the real pain of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person, but she feels very sorry for her mother-in-law.

Mother-in-law is so thin, how can she withstand this kind of blow, Wang Chu suddenly thought of the scene of An Jia and beating Mei Xiangnan in the TV series "Don't Talk to Strangers", and she felt even more pity for the thin mother-in-law in front of her.

"Mom, will you and Dad go to Xinjiang with us?" When Wang Chu saw her mother-in-law hiding in the kitchen alone and crying silently, she finally couldn't bear it anymore, and went in to hold her mother-in-law's hand and said.

The mother-in-law hurriedly wiped her tears with her apron, "Chu Chu, let you smile." ”

"Mom, if you want to cry, cry out." Wang Chu burst into tears instantly, "I know you're sad, and I don't know how to persuade you." ”

"My own pain is only suffered by myself, and no one can replace it."

"I know that your life has not been easy, and I also heard Xiang Yang say that Dad even beat you, he is so tall and so strong, how can he bear to attack you."

Speaking of this, the mother-in-law was bitter, "Hey, you don't know Chu Chu, you can't say, if it weren't for the children's face, I would have been with him." ”

It was hard for Wang Chu to imagine what was the reason for the mother-in-law of the good wife and mother in front of her to raise her fist and use domestic violence against her mother-in-law, and in a complaint from her mother-in-law in less than two days, she finally got the answer.

Mother-in-law said that Li Xiangyang was only three years old that year, and there was a cowhide collector at home, and the cowhide was nailed to the wall and dried for more than half a year, and it rained several times, and there were insects on it, and his father-in-law was a carpenter in the township, and he went out for ten days and half a month, and his mother-in-law made the decision to sell the cowhide.

When the father-in-law came back and learned that the cowhide was missing, he asked his mother-in-law where the cowhide went? The mother-in-law said that it was sold, and the father-in-law asked how much it was sold, and the mother-in-law said that it was sold for five hundred, and then the mother-in-law took out the money from the cowhide in her pocket and planned to give it to the father-in-law.

"Who told you to make your own decisions?" The father-in-law's face turned blue with anger, and the mother-in-law was so frightened that she took a few steps back. He picked up the whip hanging on the wall, "I won't sell it for a thousand, but you will sell it for five hundred?" As he spoke, he swung the whip at his mother-in-law, "When will it be your turn to call the shots at home?" You have the ability to endure you, what's wrong with the lack of a man in the family, you are a mother-in-law and sell the cowhide privately? That day, my father-in-law beat and kicked him, and even dragged his mother-in-law out of the house 200 meters away, and raised his voice, "You loser, don't let me enter the house in the future." ”

"He'll beat you up for just such a trivial matter?" Wang Chu was surprised.

"That's light." The mother-in-law explained, "Sometimes he is unhappy, he gets angry without warning, and sometimes he can't say a wrong word." ”

Wang Chu let out a cold breath, she took at least ten seconds to let herself take a breath of cold air, no wonder sometimes Li Xiangyang's temper felt weird.

Sometimes you can't even say the wrong word, and this sentence, within a few days, was confirmed in front of Wang Chu.

Li Xiangyang saw that the medicinal materials that had been kept at home for two years were not sold, so he called the boss who collected the medicinal materials, and before the boss came, Li Xiangyang had already inquired about the price of medicinal materials on the market, and the price he negotiated with the boss was opposed by his father-in-law.

"The medicinal herbs have been left for two years, and they are all moldy, and the child has brought all the people, so sell them if they can." The mother-in-law persuaded.

"Say less and you can die." The father-in-law overturned a shovel standing in front of the wall. Wang Chu heard the noise and walked out of the room, and the father-in-law entered his room with his hands behind his back, the business was not negotiated, the boss turned his head and left, and said angrily before leaving, "Why didn't you discuss what you asked me to do?" My time is precious. ”

Obviously, Wang Chu knew that it was her father-in-law who was wrong, but in her father-in-law's eyes, she thought that she was full of reasons, and these characteristics seemed to be somewhat similar to Li Xiangyang's behavior, but so far, she did not realize the importance of these problems.

Wang Chu suddenly thought of what Xiangyang's sister-in-law said in front of the grave, "If your brother has an accident, your family will put all the responsibility on you, right?" Why don't you ask your brother what he did to me? He almost beat me to death at home, how many times did he not change, otherwise how would I have run away from home? ”

This sentence echoed in Wang Chu's ears like an echo, she wanted to know what happened between Brother Li Xiangyang and her sister-in-law, so she went to his sister-in-law's house while the family was not paying attention.

Li Xiangyang's sister-in-law was rolling up the medicinal herbs that were drying outside and putting them in the guest room, and her son Li Xianghua helped his mother hold the medicinal herbs.

When he was a child, Wang Chu's family planted several acres of medicinal herbs, and every winter, his father dug medicinal herbs during the day. At night, the medicinal herbs of similar size are strung together with needles and threads, and when there is sun during the day, they are taken out to dry, and when the sun sets, they are all carried back to the house, in case the medicinal herbs are frozen too cold at night. Even if the dried herbs can't be sold that year, they can also be left for two years and sold when the price is good.

"Chu Chu, are you here?" The sister-in-law still wears a flower headscarf on her head, which should be the usual dress of rural women.

"Sister-in-law, I'll come and see you." Wang Chu opened her mouth, she observed the house of Xiangyang's sister-in-law, this is a long row of houses, there are about four or five houses, there are no courtyard walls, but it looks new, and it will only take two or three years to build.

"Call Auntie." The sister-in-law said to her son.

"Hello auntie."

"Well, good." Wang Chu agreed.

The sister-in-law hurriedly entertained Wang Chu, led her into the guest room, poured her a glass of water, and brought fruit, "I didn't expect you to come, I didn't prepare anything." ”

"I'll come and see if you leave, you don't have to prepare anything." Wang Chu explained.

The sister-in-law sighed, "I'm surprised that you can come." ”

"Xiang Yang said those words, don't take it to heart." Wang Chu comforted.

"Hey, I admit that he just slapped me twice, after all, my brother has such a big thing."

"It's not right to hit someone anyway." Wang Chu corrected, "If no one gives anyone the right, they will beat people." ”

At this, the sister-in-law was silent, but her tears flowed down, and she wiped them with her sleeves, but more tears came out of her eyes until she couldn't cry anymore. For a long time, Wang Chu didn't know how to persuade her, and it was really difficult for her to understand the pain and helplessness in her sister-in-law's heart, so she had to look at her quietly and cry with her.

Coming out of Xiangyang's sister-in-law's house, Wang Chu took a long time to calm down his mood, but he never calmed down, it turned out that the heart-wrenching pictures of "Don't Talk to Strangers" were not only reflected on the silver screen, the most heart-wrenching words from the mouth of his sister-in-law were the living experiences in life, "You don't know what I've experienced in my life?" Countless times, I knelt down and begged not to let him do it, but he still beat me to the point that I couldn't survive, I couldn't die, countless times, I didn't even know what I was doing wrong? ”

Wang Chu cried all the way home, she even doubted herself, how to marry into such a family, Li Xiangyang after many times drunk to him a series of tirades is not once or twice, he will even get angry for no reason, although it is not to do it, but it has made Wang Chu very uncomfortable, now, she can only pray to herself, not to repeat the mistakes of the past, to follow the path of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law.