When Xie Pujia left Huang Qiaoxiu's house, it was already close to evening.

The only bus in the town dragged a full load of passengers, staggering towards the way home, people hurried back and forth with their bags, and the shouts of killing fish and selling vegetables on the roadside were louder than the other, and many shops closed in advance and went home to welcome their ancestors.

Huang Qiaoxiu took Xie Pujia's hand and sent her to the door of the small restaurant where Zhou Chunyan worked.

Xie Pujia let go of the hand held by Huang Qiaoxiu.

"Sister Qiaoxiu! I'm going to find my mother, stay safe on the road! ”

Huang Qiaoxiu nodded with a smile, and when she saw Xie Pujia enter the door, she turned around and left.

......

trotted all the way to the back kitchen, and saw the back of her mother busy washing dishes, Xie Pujia's heart warmed, and she rubbed to Zhou Chunyan's side, thinking about helping to wash the dishes together.

When Zhou Chunyan saw her daughter, she instantly smiled, the gravity pressed by life seemed to have disappeared, wiped her hands with a clean rag, and stroked Xie Pujia's little head.

"Jia Jia, mom won't get off work for a while."

At this time, the restaurant proprietress also arrived in the back kitchen after serving, saw the mother and daughter, and said to Zhou Chunyan:

"Yanzi, you get off work early today, there is only one table left, the bowl can be washed early tomorrow, you take Jia Jia out to play, I heard that there is a big opera in the town tonight."

The proprietress is a kind woman, there are no children in this life, and the boss who is a cook supports each other, opened a small restaurant, the small restaurant has been running well over the years, the two originally planned to work until the age of fifty, save enough pension money to retire, did not think that the boss was diagnosed with cancer five years ago, a lot of money was thrown out, and only to prolong life, their life began to become difficult.

I didn't survive this year, and I left three months ago.

The death of the boss brought a heavy blow to the boss's heart, and with it was a huge pressure on her life.

When the boss was treated with chemotherapy, the boss lady borrowed all the relatives and friends around her, and now that the boss is gone, the debts of the boss lady have to be paid off one by one.

So after solving the boss's funeral, the proprietress reopened the restaurant, she was not proficient in cooking, and she learned some fur by years of exposure to the boss, but these furs were enough for the proprietress to last a few more years in the town.

When a person was busy and didn't take care of it, he thought about recruiting someone to help, and happened to meet Zhou Chunyan's mother and daughter.

Zhou Chunyan smiled gratefully at the proprietress and promised that she would come to the restaurant early tomorrow morning to clean up.

......

The winter evening is not excessive, and in the blink of an eye, it has changed from blue sky to daylight, with the sound of firecrackers, horns, and the noise of crowds.

Zhou Chunyan held her daughter's hand firmly, for fear that her daughter would be swept away.

The mother and daughter didn't stay long, Zhou Chunyan took out all the money on her body, bought a comfortable sweater for Xie Pujia at the ready-to-wear store, and then led Xie Pujia home.

After returning home, Xie Pujia took the dried steamed sausage with shredded white radish given by Yao Cui, and the mother and daughter were very satisfied.

After eating and drinking, the mother and daughter nested on the small bed, listening to the crackling sound of firecrackers outside, Xie Pujia hugged her mother's arm and said hesitantly, "Mom, I met someone in the past two days. ”

Zhou Chunyan looked curious, "What person?" ”

"A sister seems to be an aunt, but it won't be after the New Year."

Zhou Chunyan was a little confused when she heard this, "What do you mean?" ”

Xie Pujia briefly talked about her meeting with Huang Qiaoxiu and Huang Qiaoxiu's purpose of approaching Zhou Qiang.

It saved Xie Pujia from saying bad things about the Zhou family and conspiring with the two to deal with Xie Dahai.

After hearing what Xie Pujia said, Zhou Chunyan couldn't help but pat her heart, "It's so dangerous, that girl doesn't really want to marry into the Zhou family......"

The fire pit of the Zhou family has already buried Yao Cui and Zhou Chunyan, and it is really impossible to bury the third woman.

Xie Pujia was puzzled, "Mom, aren't you angry?" ”

Zhou Chunyan shook her head and took her daughter into her arms, her rough calloused hands with a strong warmth at the moment.

"People are good at a young girl, the Zhou family is not a golden nest or a silver nest, your uncle and your father-in-law are not good people, she married for no reason, when your grandmother told me, I was worried about her, not to mention that her family conditions are so good."

As he spoke, he touched Xie Pujia's hair, and in the dim light, he tore off the ends of Xie Pujia's split hair due to malnutrition with his hands and threw it aside.

"I'm worried that she was deceived by your uncle, after all, your uncle is tall and big, and he doesn't look ugly." Zhou Chunyan mentioned Zhou Qiang, on the surface, it sounded like a compliment, but there was a slight disgust in his tone.

Looking at the immature daughter in her arms, Zhou Chunyan couldn't help but moisten her eyes, "We will help Jia Jia, when we get married in the future, my mother will help Jia Jia choose together, and you must not choose the wrong person......"

Xie Pujia snuggled in her mother's arms and shook her head.

For such a thing as marriage, Xie Pujia was much more panicked and scared than she was expecting.

The mother who died twice in her previous life, the grandmother who was oppressed all her life, and the junior high school homeroom teacher who was later pregnant and miscarried by domestic violence, and the aunt who gave birth to her daughter and was forced to give birth to a second child before her body recovered.... All kinds of blood-drenched examples are placed there, which makes people shudder.

Thinking of this, Xie Pujia hugged Zhou Chunyan and said eagerly: "I don't want to marry anyone in my life, I want to be with my mother forever!" ”

Listening to her daughter's innocent tone, Zhou Chunyan naturally thought of the situation of herself and her mother Yao Cui, and sighed, "It's okay not to marry, it's comfortable to live without marrying......"

Xie Pujia nodded obediently, sniffing the good smell of soaphorn on her mother's body with the tip of her nose, "Mom, I will have a future in the future, we will definitely be able to leave here, leave Ningli County, leave Yunlu City, and go to a bigger and farther place!" ”

Her daughter's words soothed Zhou Chunyan's slightly sad heart, and she nodded again and again, "Okay, okay, in the future, my mother will leave here with Jia Jia and go to the big city." ”

The mother and daughter chatted for a long time, imagining a better life in the future, until there was no more firecrackers outside, and when everything was silent, they could fall asleep.

......

Early the next morning, Xie Pujia finished dressing, Huang Qiaoxiu was still waiting outside with the public, and Huang Qiaoxiu called people into the house directly.

With pickled cowpeas and salted duck eggs, Huang Qiaoxiu finished eating two large bowls of porridge.

"Sister, it's a pity not to open a breakfast shop with your craft!" Huang Qiaoxiu grunted and swallowed the porridge while blowing a rainbow fart.

Zhou Chunyan was amused by her, "What's the matter, these pickled cowpeas and salted duck eggs were bought from the vegetable vendor at the corner of the street." ”

After speaking, he looked at Huang Qiaoxiu, and then at Xie Pujia, "Jia Jia called your sister, you called my sister, and Jia Jia called my mother, isn't this a mess?" ”

Huang Qiaoxiu also followed suit.

"I'm not boasting, these two are not made by you, the porridge is always cooked by you, if it weren't for the porridge being cooked too fragrant, I could eat two big bowls?"

Saying that, he took a sip, "Besides, I call your sister because you look like you are twenty years old, younger than my stepmother, so let's talk about it, Jia Jia calls me sister, I call you sister, anyway, everyone is sister." ”

Zhou Chunyan thought that the three of them were about ten years old, and this title was really hard to say, so she nodded and agreed with Huang Qiaoxiu's shouting.

The three of them laughed again.