Zhao Zhongwu immediately replied: "Fight big with small." ”

"But you'll lose."

"It's possible to win, too."

"Do you lose more often or win more?"

"Although I am losing a lot now, when I practice my gambling skills, I will definitely win!"

Zhao Xiangwan glanced at Zhao Zhongwu: "Let's make a bet, shall we?" ”

Zhao Zhongwu became interested: "What bet?" ”

"I'll help you bet and make sure you win. If I do, you quit gambling. ”

"Win the handle? How can it be! ”

"To bet or not?"

Zhao Zhongwu was arrogant: "Bet!" ”

And then...... Then Zhao Zhongwu lost, watching Zhao Xiangwan kill all directions, Zhao Damao, who opened the gambling game, was so shocked that his eyes were about to fall. In the end, Zhao Damao begged Zhao Xiangwan with a handful of snot and tears to stop gambling, and promised to drive people away when he saw Zhao Zhongwu, and would never let him participate in any gambling games.

Zhao Xiangwan rejected Zhao Zhongwu's back road, as long as there was a gambling game near the village, seeing Zhao Zhongwu was like seeing a plague god, and Zhao Zhongwu was forced to fulfill his promise. It wasn't until he went out to work in the past two years, changed places, and stayed away from Zhao Xiangwan's sight that he dared to gamble secretly.

The result? Because he didn't make a penny from gambling and was fired from the restaurant, Zhao Zhongwu was a little weak and didn't dare to face Zhao Xiangwan.

Hearing Qian Shufen ask him to pick up Zhao Xiangwan, Zhao Zhongwu quit: "I won't go." Zhao Xiangwan is not my sister now, why should I pick her up? ”

Qian Shufen was so angry that she took her words as a deaf ear one by two, which was too unusual! She endured her anger and took out twenty yuan from her pocket and stuffed it into Zhao Zhongwu's hand, gritted her teeth and said, "You are obedient, hurry up!" Bring the three sisters back. ”

Seeing the money, Zhao Zhongwu's face improved a little, and he rolled his eyes: "It's only twenty yuan?" Mom, you're called Hanako. ”

Qian Shufen made a gesture to get the money back: "You're not going?" Forget it, I'll let the pillars do it for me. ”

Zhao Zhongwu grinned, hurriedly put the money into the pocket of his cotton coat, and rubbed his hands: "Come on, I'll go, I'll go." ”

Seeing Zhao Zhongwu riding away on a bicycle, Zhao Chenyang asked his mother with some puzzlement: "What about the eldest brother?" In her impression, her mother's favorite person is the honest eldest brother, how can she ask the second brother to run errands today?

Qian Shufen said happily: "After graduating from the Chinese medicine school, your eldest brother was assigned to the county people's hospital, and he is a pharmacist, he is busy with work, and he can't go home on vacation until the Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

"What?!" Zhao Chenyang cried out in disbelief.

Big brother works in a hospital? Just like his bear, can he still enter the People's Hospital as a pharmacist? In his previous life, he had been working as a farmer at home, and he was honest and had no money.

Qian Shufen didn't notice her daughter's surprise, and added with a smile: "What kind of adult college entrance examination did your eldest brother take in 86, and he was admitted to Zhushi to study at a junior college, and the graduation package was distributed. He's the eldest son, so I let him go back to work in the county hospital. ”

Zhao Chenyang asked: "What about the second brother?" "The second brother is twenty-one this year, he was a second-rate man in his last life, gambling all day long, and later he was arrested by the police for gathering people to gamble, and he was locked up for a few months before he came out, and his reputation was very bad in the village.

Qian Shufen sighed: "Your second brother is smart but smart, but he can't do anything for long." After graduating from junior high school, I was sent out to learn the craftsman, and after two months of study, I ran back, saying that I cut all my fingers every day when I split bamboo; Then he went to the city to work as a mason, and after working for less than half a year, he came back, saying that the construction site was too dirty, too tiring, and not enough to eat. Last year, he went to Yangcheng to learn to cook, he was delicious, but he worked in a big restaurant for a year, but it was a pity...... Still didn't last long, and it's back, alas! ”

Zhao Xiangwan looked left and right, and only then did he find that there had been a change in his home.

The original gray loess wall was whitewashed, the originally damp and dull rammed earth was paved with thick floor tiles, and even the edge of the eaves in front of the door was pressed with large bluestone.

Zhao Chenyang frowned: "I haven't seen you for so many years, and the family has changed quite a lot." ”

When Qian Shufen heard her daughter's words, she suddenly became excited: "The village is now engaged in the responsibility contracting system, and life is much better than before." I have some money saved up now, and I'm going to renovate my old house. Fourth sister, you will stay for a while when you come back this time and then go back to the city, and your mother will buy you meat to eat. Are you hungry? Mom will cook sweet wine and make eggs for you first. ”

When her pampered biological daughter came home, Qian Shufen was so happy that she forgot her form. Take out a large clay pot and simmer brown sugar water, put a handful of red dates and longan into the jar, add a large spoonful of rice wine, then beat two eggs, pour the egg liquid into the boiling brown sugar water, and the hall immediately wafted a sweet aroma mixed with wine, jujube, and eggs.

Qian Shufen poured out a tea bowl and handed it to Zhao Chenyang's hand, her smile was full of courtesy: "Fourth sister, you liked to drink sweet wine and make eggs when you were a child, you haven't been home for so long, drink some to get rid of the cold first." ”

The villagers of Zhaojiagou, who were watching the excitement on the sidelines, laughed.

"Alas, Aunt Qian is happy to see her sister-in-law come back, and she is willing to pay the capital, two eggs."

"No, Xiang Wan was admitted to college and didn't see Aunt Qian cook eggs for us."

"In the end, it's biological, it's just different!"

There were thorns in the villagers' words, and Qian Shufen and Zhao Erfu's smiles were a little stiff, so they could only say haha: "This is a distinguished guest from the provincial capital, and I must use the best things to entertain you." Sit down, sit, I'll make you tea. ”

Zhao Qingyun sat down, the rough backrest chair in the countryside was relatively low, and his legs were forced to stretch forward after sitting down. He waved his hand and rejected the porcelain bowl handed over by Qian Shufen: "I'm not used to drinking sweet." ”

Qian Shufen retracted her hand in disdain, turned around and poured a bowl of farmhouse tea and sent it to him: "There is nothing to entertain in the countryside, don't blame you for the leader." ”

There are many stalks of farmhouse tea, the soup is yellowish, and there is a smell of firewood. Zhao Qingyun took a sip of tea and warmed his throat, then looked up to observe the furnishings of the hall.

The blue brick floor is clean and flat, and in the center of the north wall facing the gate hangs a yellowed picture of the crane welcoming spring, and the spring couplets are pasted on both sides.

People are prosperous, families are prosperous, and homes are prosperous

Wealth is like spring and blessings

Horizontal batch - rich and auspicious

The strong local atmosphere reminds Zhao Qingyun of his hometown, a small mountain village in northwest Hubei Province. But since he fell in love with Wei Meihua, he rarely went back, and he had forgotten his parents and fellow villagers there.

Wei Meihua is a girl in the city, with a superior family background, and she looks down on rural people. Previously, the old family was proud of him, and people from the same village would come to visit Zhao Qingyun first when they came to Xingshi, and slowly came less, and later after Zhao Qingyun's parents died, even his brothers and sisters had less contact, and gradually cut off contact.

Surrounded by villagers and looking at him curiously, Zhao Qingyun pursed his lips a little uncomfortably, lowered his head and pretended to drink tea, but his thoughts didn't know where he had gone.

At this moment, another person who is running desperately is Zhao Zhongwu. But it's not his mind that runs, it's his body.

Zhao Zhongwu pedaled his bicycle desperately, ran from the country road to the county-level road, and quickly ran towards the county seat of Luoxian. Sweeping away the reluctance just now, Zhao Zhongwu's face was full of excitement, laughing and shouting in the cold wind.

"Roar, haha! Zhao Xiangwan, you have to fight for it, don't be defeated by Zhao Chenyang! ”

Zhao Xiangwan's brave appearance of sweeping Zhaojiagou's big and small gambling games at the age of twelve flashed in front of him, Zhao Zhongwu was excited, he didn't know how to express the schadenfreude in his heart, and he pressed the bell like a nervous disorder.

Jingle ...... Jingle Bell ......

There's a good show to watch~There's a good show to watch~

Zhao Zhongwu, who is extremely bored and is not afraid of watching the show, does not have the joy of his sister Zhao Chenyang going home at all, but more - his parents have replaced Zhao Chenyang and Zhao Xiangwan, and now the lie is exposed, Zhao Xiangwan still hasn't uncovered Zhao Chenyang's skin and demolished the family's old house?

Zhao Zhongwu, who was born unwilling to be ordinary and likes to seek opportunities in changes, let go of his left hand, drew an arc in the air, and roared: "Zhao Xiangwan, come on!" ”

Zhaojiagou is more than 20 miles away from the county seat, and it takes about 30 or 40 minutes to ride a bicycle.

Zhao Zhongwu ran into the old alleys of the county seat, and when he saw Zhao Dacui's bungalow from a distance, he began to shout at the top of his voice: "Auntie, aunt-"

It was already noon, and Zhao Dacui had just finished the meal and instructed Fan Qiuhan to pour a drink. Hearing this familiar voice, he couldn't help but laugh: "Xiang Wan, this person really can't stand the chatter, you just said that you want to give Zhongwu to me as an apprentice, and the person came." ”

Zhao Bowen hurriedly stood up, opened the door, and saw his younger brother coming rushing in a car, and hurriedly shouted: "Zhongwu, be careful, don't hit people and things." ”

The alley is narrow, and there are a lot of sundries in front of each house, buckets, basins, clothes for drying, preserved fish and bacon hanging on the house...... Zhao Zhongwu ran all the way and almost overturned other people's clothes racks, making people's eyelids jump.

Zhao Zhongwu played with the trick, speeding through the alley full of debris, laughing and saying, "Big brother, I'm here!" Three sisters, three sisters, come out quickly. ”

Hearing Zhao Zhongwu's shouting, Zhao Xiangwan, Fan Qiuhan, and Zhao Dacui all walked out of the house.

As soon as he saw Zhao Xiangwan, Zhao Zhongwu's eyes lit up, he parked the bicycle in front of her, and raised his chin: "Third sister, go, second brother will take you home." ”

Zhao Bowen frowned: "Auntie is still here, why don't you say hello to auntie first?" ”

Zhao Zhongwu rested on the ground with one foot to maintain balance, stepped on the pedal with the other foot, and arched his hand with a smile: "Hello aunt!" ”

Zhao Dacui knew that he was such a virtuous person, and he didn't care, and said with a gentle smile: "Zhongwu is here, come on, come and eat." ”

Zhao Zhongwu waved his hand: "Don't eat, I was specially sent by my family to pick up the third sister." ”

Zhao Bowen was a little strange: "It's twelve o'clock, aren't you hungry?" We are celebrating the New Year at my aunt's house today, so you can eat first before leaving. ”

Fan Qiuhan pursed his lips: "Today there is chicken soup, braised crucian carp, bacon fried garlic, and chili fried meat, the taste is very good, you really don't eat it?" "There are so many good dishes, I don't believe in delicious ghosts, Zhao Zhongwu refuses to stay and eat.

Zhao Zhongwu quietly swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

[Why don't you eat first?] It's almost an hour since this point goes back, and who knows if they'll eat it first? Seeing that Zhao Chenyang was so strong, it seemed that she had become a first-class person after a few years in the city, so she waited obediently. And that Zhao Xiangwan's own father, I didn't expect the people in the city to be so stupid, even his own daughter can make a mistake, or the big leader of the province, cut! Let him wait, he deserves to wait! 】

Zhao Xiangwan glanced at Zhao Zhongwu.

Zhao Chenyang and Zhao Qingyun are over? They actually exposed the truth? Did Zhao Qingyun change his mind, or did he think that Zhao Chenyang was useless?

Zhao Xiangwan saw Zhao Zhongwu's heart tremble at this glance, and he suddenly became honest, and said with a flattering smile: "Third sister, I didn't send you to college, this time I came to pick you up." ”

Zhao Xiangwan turned around and went back to the house directly.

Zhao Zhongwu didn't know what she thought, so he quickly parked his bicycle and followed him into the house, muttering in his mouth: "Three sisters, three sisters, the family is looking forward to you going back." ”

Zhao Xiangwan sat firmly at the table: "Hurry up and eat, it's cold later." ”

Zhao Dacui hurriedly added a pair of dishes and chopsticks and put them on the table: "Zhongwu has a good mouth, and there are good dishes for the New Year today." Come on, come on, hurry up and eat, it's been a busy morning, everyone is hungry. ”

The five dishes and one soup on the table were fragrant, and Zhao Zhongwu praised his aunt's good craftsmanship while starting to move. With Zhao Zhongwu, who talked a lot, the dinner table suddenly became much more lively.

"Auntie, you said you've been busy all morning, what are you all busy with?"

"There was a female college student in the neighbor next door who was abducted, and it was hard to find it back, but my parents were embarrassed, and I almost died of cutting my wrists this morning, and we helped send her to the hospital, and Qiu Meizi and Xiang Wan ran before and after."

Zhao Zhongwu opened his mouth wide: "Ah, can you still be abducted after studying in college?" How did this brain grow? ”

Fan Qiuhan glared at him fiercely: "Hey! Why don't you scold the kidnapper, but the girl who was abducted? ”

Zhao Dacui was also a little dissatisfied: "It's just because there are people like you gossiping that Tinglan's parents will think she is embarrassed." ”

Zhao Xiangwan sneered: "The brainless person is you." ”

Zhao Zhongwu raised his hand with chopsticks and surrendered: "Okay, okay, I don't have a brain, I said the wrong thing, okay?" ”

Zhao Bowen asked sympathetically: "Did the girl who committed suicide get back?" Did her parents regret it? If her parents still feel ashamed, her life will not be easy in the future. ”

Zhao Dacui sighed: "Saving is saving, but people have suffered the sins of the boss." Tinglan's parents ...... Alas! I don't know what she thinks, but a girl still forced her to die, and she had time to let the people in the neighborhood committee educate and educate them. ”

Fan Qiuhan gave his mother a thumbs up: "Mom, you have such a good idea, let Aunt Qiao educate Aunt Lu, so that Ting Lan won't be able to think about it again." ”

The family chatted and ate, and the topic kept revolving around Tinglan's affairs.

"I don't see all the parents in the world."

"When the child is the most vulnerable, the parents keep scolding her for losing face and forcing her to commit suicide, is it not wrong for such parents?"

"Isn't it? Fan Youde beat me to the point that my head was bleeding, such a person is also worthy of being a father? ”

Hearing Fan Qiuhan call her father's name, Zhao Bowen was a little uncomfortable. Zhao Zhongwu admired Fan Qiuhan's crispness very much, and praised it: "I can afford to put it down, my cousin is refreshing!" ”

Fan Qiuhan glanced at Zhao Zhongwu: "My aunt is patriarchal and not good to Xiang Wan, she is celebrating the New Year at my house this year and will not return to Zhaojiagou." ”

When Zhao Zhongwu heard this, the bacon in his mouth was not fragrant. He thought about it, sped up his eating, and after finishing a bowl of rice, he put down his chopsticks and looked at the four people on the table.

"Well, are you done eating? If I'm done eating, I have something to announce. ”

His tone was too serious, and Zhao Bowen was a little nervous: "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong with your parents? ”

Zhao Zhongwu shook his head: "They are in good health. ”