Shui Lang followed Zhou Guanghe through the street full of French sycamores, turned a corner and saw an arch eaves, with the words "Wutongli" written in black on a white background, and a sign was hung in the middle of the right, No. 1~36, Lane 99, Fumao Road.

The black hollow carved door is open, and the two of them walk in one after the other, and the houses inside are all three-story beveled roofs with cement terraces, red and white bricks, with a patio at the front door and a small kitchen at the back.

When Shui Lang was in poverty, he lived in the pavilion room of this kind of house, and he was no stranger to similar alleys.

Walking all the way in, the watermelon seed kernels in the cracks in the cement floor of the alley sent out tender shoots, and green grass emerged from the cracks of the bricks, so fresh and green that Shui Lang's eyes lit up.

If it weren't for a big bowl of salty pulp, two fried dough sticks, a sweet flatbread, and half a bowl of pickled vegetables and shredded pork noodles just now, she would definitely have plucked the watermelon seedlings and weeds.

In the end, the people in the city live a good life, and they don't take these two things in their eyes at all, and put them in the snow of the Great Northern Wilderness, which has become a treasure for hundreds of people to compete for.

Shui Lang remembered the location, thinking that he would come back to pull it out after the next meal, and it was the freshest to eat now!

Just as Shui Lang was thinking about what the grass would smell like, he noticed that the person next to him had stopped, turned his head to look, his thick eyebrows were twisted slightly, and then changed direction and walked into the alley on the right.

"Guanghe is here, hurry up and persuade him, your uncle will kill Xiao Ah Mao!"

The alley on the right was crowded with people, and the screams of children came from the front door of the first house, accompanied by the cries of women.

Zhou Guanghe turned his head and beckoned to Shui Lang, and when the person approached, he said, "You are waiting for me here." ”

Shui Lang nodded, watching the man break through the crowd and walk in.

The original owner didn't have much memory of this fiancé in his memory, and before going to the countryside, the two hadn't seen each other much, only remembering that he was a popular figure in the school.

The first official meeting was at the age of thirteen, when her mother had an accident, and one night before she was taken away, her mother took her and a box of gold bars to her fiancé's house, and hurriedly mentioned the marriage contract, indicating that she could arrange for Shui Lang and her fiancé to go to school in Kowloon, Hong Kong, with enough assets and connections to keep the two safe.

That night, the fiancé's family did not agree, and the door of the Zou family was closed the next day, and after the mother was taken away, someone was sent to warn Shui Lang that the marriage was not allowed to be spread indiscriminately.

turned his face and didn't recognize anyone, and a box of small yellow croaker was not sent back.

Shui Lang didn't know exactly what the Zou family did, but at that time, he was able to get engaged to Shui Lang, and it wouldn't be the background of Genzheng Miaohong, although these had nothing to do with her, but she was still very curious about Zhou Guanghe's marriage requirements that she had to see with her own eyes.

At this time, he didn't listen to what he just said, stayed where he was, walked forward and squeezed into the crowd, and came to the front door of No. 18.

The first person who saw it frightened Shui Lang.

It was a woman lying on the ground, unkempt, wearing a patched cotton jacket with yellowed cotton wool floating on her upper body, a pair of skinny hands, covered with chilblain scars, the chilblain scar on her middle finger seemed to have been torn open, and she was soaking bright red blood, and her black chicken claw hand was crawling on the ground.

Shui Lang blinked, and confirmed that the woman in front of him was really crawling, crawling with missing legs!

The leg of the pants under the ass is empty!

Both legs from the thighs down to the feet are empty!

"Don't fight!" An old grandmother stumbled to stop the tall middle-aged man.

However, it does not play any role.

The middle-aged man grabbed a feather duster, chased after the boy who was running barefoot, and whipped the boy's head, face, and neck unscrupulously, making the crowd tremble.

"Liu Qu, this is your own son, you can't play like this!"

"Liu Qu's uncle is really speechless, the two of them usually hold Xiao Ah Mao in their hands and feel distressed, but this time they actually beat Xiao Ah Mao like this for a little girl from other places."

"That's little Ah Mao is ignorant, no matter how young he is, he is also the elder of a few little girls, how can he grab eggs with little girls to eat."

"! Xiao Ah Mao has never broken eggs since he was born, and it was obviously these three small oil bottles from the countryside who came and robbed Xiao Ah Mao's eggs. ”

"What are you talking about, Zhou Hui is like this, do you have any sympathy!"

Speaking of Zhou Hui, the uneven crowd unanimously stopped, and looked at the woman lying on the ground who had lost her legs.

Shui Lang watched Zhou Guanghe pick up the woman and sit on the chair next to her, and at the same time, she also saw the woman's face clearly, it was a face that could be seen at a glance that she was tortured, it was a double torture of body and spirit, and it could be seen from the skin of her neck that she was still very young, only in her early thirties.

She kept pushing Zhou Guanghe, signaling him to stop her uncle, who was still chasing and beating people.

Zhou Guanghe stretched out his right hand and pressed the top of the little boy's head, and said in a lukewarm tone: "Uncle, what happened?" ”

The middle-aged man looked furious, "Guanghe, get out of the way, I have to kill this thing who doesn't understand personnel today!" ”

"Second brother! I used to be fine when I ate eggs, but when they came, my father beat me as soon as they ate eggs! Xiao Ah Mao suddenly rushed out and pushed the youngest girl who had just walked to the side of the legless woman to the ground, "I hate them!" Second brother, hurry up and pick them up again! ”

The feather duster was pumped on Xiao Amao's head again, and there was a "snap" sound, which made people's hearts jump in shock, Shui Lang saw that this uncle's hand also trembled, and in the next second, a scream came in from outside, "Liu Qu!" I'm fighting with you today! ”

A fat figure rushed into the house, scratching his uncle with his two arms, and after a while, he scratched the middle-aged man's face, "I'll let you beat your own son for a few foreign relatives!" You are an old thing with a hard heart, your heart was dug up by a fox, today for the sake of my son, I will die with you! ”

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Liu Qu slapped the woman in the face.

Before he could react, he was rushed over by Xiao Ah Mao and knocked him to the ground with his head, "Don't hit my mother!" ”

"But! You are crazy, you beat your son and wife for the sake of outsiders! The fat woman cried and shouted, "The big guy in the alley commented on the reason, how to live this day!" ”

"Liu Qu is really excessive!"

"yes, how can you do this to the people in your room."

"I usually beat Xiao Maotou, but I actually started to do it to my wife, I really can't let those poor relatives live in."

"Then how can you do it, no matter how poor relatives are, and then drag oil bottles, they are also brought back by his mother."

"Grandma Song is really getting older and more confused, bringing back her granddaughter who has not been in touch for many years, so that her son is uneasy in the house."

"Yes, you have to talk about distant relatives to help, no matter how pitiful the granddaughter is, she can't ruin the life of her son's family."

The encounter between the aunt and Xiao Ah Mao aroused the sympathy of the onlookers, and the condemning eyes looked at the old grandmother who wanted to hold Xiao Ah Mao, but was thrown away by Xiao Ah Mao.

Zhou Guanghe suddenly turned sideways in front of the old grandmother, isolated the eyes of outsiders, lowered his head and asked, "Grandma, didn't I take the eldest sister back the day before yesterday?" Why did it come back to you? ”

The old grandmother shook her head with tears in her eyes, "The revival couple said that they were going to the countryside to do business, and they were sent over in the morning." ”

Zhou Guanghe's eyes were slightly gloomy, and he quickly calmed down again, turned his head and said to the family who was lying together, scolding and crying: "Uncle and aunt, I took the eldest sister back, and the eldest sister will not trouble you again in the future." ”

Shui Lang clearly saw that the three people pressed together over there were sluggish, and the crying became quieter, and then a voice came from outside, "Little brother, don't talk nonsense." ”

Everyone looked for prestige and got out of the way, and a man and a woman walked in, about thirty years old, dressed in rare bright clothes, shirts and trousers were in demand, and they were wearing expensive cashmere sweaters, and they were holding tailor-made jackets.

The woman spoke softly, "Uncle, aunt, don't you just let you take care of the eldest sister for half a day, as for acting in this drama to show people jokes?" ”

"How do you speak?" Aunt dragged Xiao Amao over, "Look at the way this child was beaten, who is acting here, who do you say is acting?" ”

"Auntie, don't think that everyone else is stupid, just you are smart." The woman opened the cake in her hand and handed it to the woman with missing legs and the three girls behind her, "Sister, you won't stop the younger brother from saying this, if we don't come back today, wouldn't your burden be on the shoulders of the younger brother, be a man, you can't be so selfish." ”

The three girls who just wanted to take the cake over, the youngest was still swallowing saliva, the two eldest understood, their hands froze in the air, and they turned their heads to look at their mother who bowed her head in shame with tears in her eyes, "I didn't want to drag down my little brother..."

The woman laughed, it was a mocking laugh that anyone could come out of, and she laughed, and the head of the legless woman was about to be buried in her chest, "I really didn't think about dragging anyone down." ”

"You didn't think about it, how did you end up here?" The aunt suddenly turned the arrow, and said to the eldest sister as if she couldn't bear it: "I want to take advantage of it and want to set up an archway." ”

Zhou Guanghe frowned, and the uncle on the side scolded first: "Shut up!" ”

The aunt pursed her mouth, and didn't quarrel with her uncle anymore, and the woman spoke again, "Uncle is right, aunt, you have to shut up about this matter, because this person was brought back by grandma with great painstaking work, and the house you live in is also shared by grandma's hard work back then, even if you have replaced grandma's work now, but your family is still grandma's final say, who grandma wants to take care of, who she wants to live in, others are not qualified to speak, you say?" ”

Finally, the woman turned her head to the big guy and asked.

Shui Lang sat on the big blue bag, rubbing the stomach that he hadn't eaten well for a long time, and eating his uncomfortable stomach suddenly, while watching the family fight.

It's really a family drama.

Seeing that the crowd was all taken away by the woman, at this time she saw that her aunt was not her opponent, and her mouth could not say a reason except for scolding a few unpleasant swear words.

Pretending to be generous in the morning, the uncle who killed the son of righteousness stopped pretending, pointed at the woman and said, "Jin Qiaozhi, didn't your mother's family teach you how to talk to your elders!" ”

Jin Qiaozhi let out another mockery that everyone could hear before, but it sounded quite good: "Uncle, I just explained the facts, first, I didn't swear, and second, I didn't say a word of disrespect to my elders, why did I get involved with my mother's family?" Or does my uncle want to talk to my mother's family? ”

Liu Qu glared angrily, but he didn't dare to continue, knowing that her mother's family was not ordinary, he said: "Don't think that everyone can't see what you're thinking, don't be so selfish, we are taking over your grandmother's job, you are not taking the place of your parents-in-law's work, occupying their house, they gave these to you at that time, so that the two of you can take care of the other two younger siblings, and now you have four houses, can't you give one to Xiaohui to live in?!" ”

"Yes, the house of Qiaozhi and the two of them is the largest in the whole alley, and it should be where Zhou Hui lives."

"At the beginning, it was also the best and most capable unit of Lao Zhou's family, the two large south-facing rooms downstairs with patios, and the south-facing big house on the second floor plus the pavilion room, all of which were theirs."

"Qiaozhi, Fuxing, it should be the two of you who took Zhou Hui back, you see how pitiful she is."

Jin Qiaozhi was not angry when she heard this, and said unhurriedly: "Yes, the uncles and aunts are right, the eldest sister took the initiative to go to the countryside and let us stay in the city, we should take care of her and the younger brother in our lives, the eldest sister is like this, she should be taken back to live, she has no hukou, and the rations and wages of the two of us can afford her, but how can these three little girls do it?" ”

Seeing the three little girls with yellow faces and thin muscles, everyone was speechless.

Jin Qiaozhi had the upper hand, "We have a high salary, we have a little savings, and our parents have left some money, but the younger brother is not married, it is to be saved for the younger brother, I don't understand, why does my grandmother want to take these three little girls back together, no matter what, it is also the granddaughter of their family, and if you grow up, you can go to the field to earn work, which family will not want it?" When they come to the city, they don't have a hukou, and they can't go to school or work, so whoever follows them has to eat their own rice, and who can afford it. ”

Everyone nodded again and again, the rations are fixed all year round, one person only has thirty catties, and the salary is enough for the family to barely spend, raise one more person, tighten the belt and eat less, and three more little girls, no matter how tight the belt is, I am afraid that it will also die.

The crowd talked about it, and they all stood on Jin Qiaozhi's side, and they also began to sympathize with Liu Qu's family.

"The most important thing, little brother." The smile on Jin Qiaozhi's cheeks disappeared, and she said to the old grandmother: "Grandma, we tried our best to stop you, but we couldn't stop you from calling the little brother, you really didn't think about how the little brother could do it in the future, now it's okay, the little brother is going to be demobilized, if you want to come back to take care of the eldest sister, you haven't thought about it, the demobilization will not arrange work, how to take care of him when he comes back, I will say it more ugly, with these four oil bottles, who dares to marry his daughter, who dares to marry him, who dares to marry him, do you think the younger brother will serve the eldest sister for most of his life?" ”

The old grandmother looked at her little grandson on the side, tears in her eyes, "Xiaohui, she is suffering in the countryside..."

Zhou Guanghe: "It was me who called, I was demobilized because of injury, not for the demobilization of my eldest sister." ”

"No matter what the reason is, I don't agree with you taking care of the eldest sister." The eldest brother of the Zhou family, who was standing on the side, finally spoke, "My parents are gone, we will be responsible for you, the eldest sister will be sent back tomorrow, and you will return to the military region as soon as possible." ”

"I can't send it back!" Grandma suddenly let out a bloody cry, looked at the poor mother and daughter, and cried again: "I can't send it back to that demon cave!" ”

"Grandma......" Zhou Hui's face was full of tears, mixed with mud and blood, "I'll go back, I have to go back, I can't drag you down in the city." ”

The three girls pressed their small mouths and shed tears silently, the miserable appearance of the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren was really distressing, but they couldn't move the few relatives present.

"Separation."

Zhou Guanghe suddenly said the two words, and Zhou Fuxing and Jin Qiaozhi's faces changed obviously, as if they were hit on the head by what they were most afraid of.

"What nonsense!" Zhou Fuxing reprimanded: "I will never watch you be dragged down for a lifetime!" ”

"Your eldest brother is right." Jin Qiaozhi said: "We will never watch the eldest sister drag you, little brother, once you pick up the burden of the eldest sister, you don't want to start a family in this life!" Who would be willing to stir up this mess with you, and who would be willing to marry you! ”

The masses followed and persuaded each other, comparing their hearts to their hearts, no one wanted to look at the good prospects, and the young man who grew up watching them jump into the fire pit like this.

Some people reasoned with Zhou Guanghe as elders, and some elders directly said unpleasant things to Zhou Hui, and the old grandmother was not spared.

When the scene was the most anxious, Zhou Fuxing and Jin Qiaozhi looked at each other, secretly relieved, and there was a triumphant smile in their eyes that could not be hidden.

Suddenly, a clear voice came from the crowd:

"I'm willing to marry him!"