Xiaoyan is not only thrifty but also very filial, she never told her father about the suffering she suffered in the factory, and even the letters sent home were all good news and not bad news.

Dad, don't be reluctant to spend money, it's almost summer, go make clothes, and make one for my brother.

Dad, I work very well in the factory, the food is good, the factory canteen is good, there is pork, there is fish, there are a lot of delicious food, I eat well, you can rest assured

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"Hey! Good girl! ”

After reading the letter on the kang, Xiao Yan's father frowned slightly.

The family is poor, and the money Xiao Yan earns is not enough to pay off the debt, where is Xiao Yan's father willing to spend, even if Xiao Yan goes home to buy something for more than ten yuan, he says that it is wasteful, and he is very distressed.

It's not that he's a stingy miser, it's that the poor family can't afford to eat or wear.

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Spring is coming, potatoes are to be planted in the vegetable garden, and the little goose father went to the city today to buy potato seeds.

When I got it on the kang, I found a dustpan and a basket and began to cut the sprouts and prepare to plant potatoes.

Potato seeds are very expensive, and every time the little goose father picks up a potato, he has to look at it for a while, and then use a knife to compare the angles and try to cut out the most sprouts.

"Third brother, are you at home?"

As soon as I cut two, I heard someone shouting outside the courtyard gate.

Xiaoyan's father has four sisters, two sisters and a younger brother.

When my sister was 15 years old, she married far away and rarely returned home, and she had no contact with her parents after they died. When the younger brother was 12 years old, he quarreled with his father and ran away from home without any news.

Xiao Yan's father is the eldest in his own family, the third among his cousins, and his family calls him Brother Zhou, and only cousins will call him the third brother.

"Hey, I'm here, it's the sixth brother, come, let's go into the house."

His own brother is also familiar, and Xiao Yan's father didn't go out, but just cleaned up the potatoes scattered on the kang, and it was good to sit down when people came.

"Yo, third brother, cut the potato seeds!"

"Mmmm, I just bought it today, I thought about planting it the day after tomorrow, brother, you can sit down."

"No need for the third brother, I'll leave in a while······ Third brother, what about Dapeng? ”

"He's plowing in the garden, you can sit down."

"Oooh······"

Xiao Yan's father's cousin is called Zhou Qingbing, who works in a state-owned unit, and also has some affairs in the village, so he can be regarded as half a village cadre.

Dressed very cleanly, in a suit and shiny leather shoes. He looked at the edge of the kang of the little goose father and did not sit, but leaned against the edge of the kang with his buttocks, which was considered to be sitting.

Xiaoyan's family has not been able to keep up with others since Xiaoyan's mother died.

Relatives don't come to the house often, let alone cousins? Today, this brother will naturally not have nothing to talk about, and the little goose father knows this.

Looking at Zhou Qingbing, Xiao Yan's father put down the potatoes and said, "Qingbing, you are an old man, you don't come here for nothing, why are you free today?" ”

"Third brother, look at what you said, I haven't been traveling a lot in the past few years, and there are so many things that I really can't spare to visit. Besides, me, you don't know yet? We had a lot of trouble together when we were kids. ”

"Oh, you remember when you were a kid, okay, tell me what's the matter?"

This Zhou Qingbing, who was short when he was a child, was bullied, and Xiaoyan's father grew tall and often protected him at that time. However, Zhou Qingbing seemed to have forgotten these things when he grew up and never mentioned them.

"Third brother, that's the case, do you know Liusheng Village?"

"He? Got it! What's wrong? ”

"Third brother, do you know that he has a son in his family?"

"You know, there is no shortage of a son and a daughter, and the son is stupid."

In the neighboring village, there is no shortage of homes, and the little goose's father knows it. Liu's father is a landlord, and their family composition is not good, but Liu Buyu is strong and able to do heavy work, and his life is okay.

"Yes, yes, third brother, that, our little goose is twenty this year, right?"

Speaking of this, Zhou Qingbing stopped and looked at the face of Xiao Yan's father carefully.

What did he mean, Xiao Yan's father already understood, didn't he mean a matchmaker, that is, his son who stayed at home wanted to marry Xiao Yan.

After hearing this, Xiao Yan's father originally stretched his brows tightened and tightened, and he didn't look at Zhou Qingbing, he rubbed the potatoes in his hand back and forth, and the potato sprouts were rubbed off without stopping.

"Qingbing, are you here to tell Xiaoyan about the matchmaker?"

After a long time, the little goose father said slowly, with displeasure in his tone.

"Hey, third brother, do you see this?"

Zhou Qingbing gritted his teeth and smiled, hoping that Xiaoyan's father would agree. I don't know how many gifts he receives, and this kind of medium dares to say it.

"No! His son's green onion is even more stupid than Dapeng! Stupid, I can't do any work, I want to marry Xiaoyan, no way! ”

After Xiao Yan's father finished speaking, he didn't care about Zhou Qingbing, and cut the potato sprouts by himself.

Zhou Qingbing touched his nose with a gray nose, his face was a little ugly, he walked to the door, he wanted to leave but turned around and bared his teeth to speak.

"Third brother, I almost forgot that, Secretary Zhou came to me this morning and said that he was going to come to you, but there was an urgent matter in the city to find him, so he didn't have time, so let me come. He also said that when he came back tonight, he would let you come over. ”

"What did you do in the past? Discuss the matter of the little goose and the fool who stays at home? ”

Xiao Yan's father didn't raise his head, and said angrily, but Zhou Qingbing was not angry.

"Third brother, it's not you who go alone, everyone from our Zhou family will go. Secretary Zhou said, this year is almost the Qingming Festival, I want to set up a monument for our grandfather, tonight our cousins will go over to study and study. Well, I'll go back first, don't forget to go. ”

After Zhou Qingbing finished speaking, he left, and the little goose's father was holding the knife, for fear of being annoyed and being cut down.

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"Alas!"

Zhou Qingbing said about the matchmaker, which made Xiaoyan's father frown and worry a lot.

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Xiaoyan is beautiful and doesn't worry about her in-laws, but her son is stupid and knows how to work hard, and no one wants to marry.

After seeing a few girls, the results were all indefinite, and this heart disease tormented him for many years.

Putting down the potatoes, Xiao Yan's father looked at the photo of Xiao Yan's mother on the table and remembered what happened before.

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One day more than 20 years ago, Xiao Yan's father packed up the dishes and chopsticks after eating, came to the house and said to Xiao Yan's mother who was sewing clothes: "Peng mother, Dapeng is stupid, I think we will have another child, right?" ”

"Don't worry, I owe so much debt right now, let's live for a few years."

The son was stupid, Xiaoyan's father wanted to have another child, but Xiaoyan's mother didn't agree to ask for it immediately.

There are foreign debts at home, and the pressure is very high, and if you have children at this time, it will be more and more tiring.

In fact, Dapeng was not stupid before, because when harvesting wheat in the field, he used a cart to pull wheat, and Dapeng sat on the top and accidentally fell down, and as a result, he broke his brain.

Xiaoyan's mother not only has the opinion to live, she is also a very capable woman, in order to have a good body for the family, in order to increase the income of the family, Xiaoyan's mother raised several sheep so that there is goat's milk to drink.

In the era when we can't afford to eat meat, goat's milk is the best nutrition.

Not only that, Xiaoyan's mother also raises a lot of chickens, and the extra income of the family is the money earned from selling eggs.

In this way, Xiaoyan's parents are careful about their calculations.

When Xiaoyan's brother was hospitalized due to a fall, he spent a lot of money and owed a lot of foreign debts.

In order to repay the debt, Xiaoyan's parents sold the sheep, and then relied on dozens of chickens to lay eggs to sell the money, plus the harvest in the field, it took ten years to pay off the foreign debt.

Without pressure, Xiaoyan's parents remembered to have a child, and Xiaoyan was born during this period, so she and her brother are seventeen years apart.

Little Goose's mother will go into the city every morning to sell eggs, the home is far away from the city, and the little wild goose's father will send the little wild goose's mother to the city before dawn, and then he will rush back, and it has been like this since he got married.

Until Brother Xiaoyan became stupid, Xiaoyan's father wanted to watch Xiaoyan's brother prevent him from having an accident at home, Xiaoyan's mother didn't need Xiaoyan's father to send it, she used a small cart to push eggs to the city to sell by herself.

That is, because she went out alone, Xiaoyan's mother had a traffic accident one day and was hit by a jeep.

When Little Goose's father found out, Little Goose's mother was in the house of a barefoot doctor in a village.

"What the fuck is your name? How did you hit my wife? ”

As soon as the little goose's father asked, the perpetrator immediately paid no.

"Big brother, I'm really sorry! My name is Chen Weixin, and here's how it happened······"

"it! Why don't you take her to the hospital! ”

Xiao Yan's father was even more angry after hearing what happened, this knocked people out and hadn't been sent to the hospital, the more Xiao Yan's father thought about it, the more angry he became, he said that he wanted to beat the perpetrator Chen Weixin.

Chen Weixin is dressed well, it seems that he is not a leader but also a leader, but no matter how well he wears and has an identity, he hit someone, his heart is very weak, he bared his teeth and made a lot of compensation, and even knelt down for Xiaoyan's father.

"Big brother, big brother, it's an accident, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, but don't you see that she's fine!"

"Forget it, don't be embarrassed for him, I guess he didn't mean it, and I don't have any problems."

Xiaoyan's mother persuaded Xiaoyan's father not to care, but Xiaoyan's father was not at ease.

"No problem, weren't you knocked unconscious, let's go to the hospital and have a look?"

"No, I may be scared, and there is nothing wrong with the pain, forget it, let's go back, he lost a hundred yuan."

Xiaoyan's mother was afraid that he would beat someone and drag his arm and not let go, but Xiaoyan's father still refused to let go when he heard it, and in the end, the perpetrator paid another 100 before it happened.

200 yuan is not much now, but at that time it was a lot, and at that time workers earned more than 20 yuan a month, which was already a lot.

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Remembering the bits and pieces of Xiaoyan's mother's past, Xiaoyan's father missed it very much, and after a "Peng her mother", the tears couldn't be stopped.

The family has no strong labor, Xiaoyan is a girl who doesn't earn much, and her son is stupid and can't even do volunteer work.

Doesn't Brother Xiaoyan know how to work? Actually, no, he can work, let him do whatever he wants, if he weeds in the bean field, you say that the bean seedlings are grass, he is allowed to remove the bean seedlings, so stupid.

And he works very obediently, he doesn't stop, he can work until dark, Xiaoyan's father feels sorry for his son, and he is worried that he will stay by his side when he goes out and is bullied.

Before there was no detachment, Xiaoyan's family did not have many centimeters, and life was hard, and later the big bag of dry family divided the land, although it was enough to eat, but the life was still not as good as others.

Daddy is a good talker, he knows how to bricklayer and strike iron.

When he was young, many people asked him to help, so that the family did less work, and he couldn't earn much money all year round when he didn't go to work.

After Xiao Yanniang's death, although he didn't go out to help, the harvest in the field was not good, and his life was worse day by day.

Now I am even more tired, not only because of the debts owed by Xiaoyan's hospitalization, but also because of fundraising, agricultural taxes, voluntary labor, etc., which make this crippled family miserable.