() From the previous Niu Dali asked the people in the casino to kneel down to them to make amends, Xia Dongcao thought that her nephew was not simple, and maybe people didn't look down on the more than 20 taels at all, but she Xia Dongcao also had the principle of being a man.

But in the middle of their chat, Lin Xiaomei suddenly lost her voice and said, "You didn't lie to me, did you?"

Erya said with a very serious face: "Cousin, Erya never deceives people, and our family used to be very poor!"

Lin Damei and Lin Xiaomei's eyes were full of disbelief.

In their opinion, the eldest girl and the second girl must be rich or expensive if they are so good-looking and beautiful, but just now the second girl told them that they used to have a hard time.

Xia Dongcao looked at her suspiciously, "Big sister, little sister, what are you fuss about?"

Lin Xiaomei said first: "Mother, Erya told me that they used to have a very hard life, often without warm clothes and food, and they had to do a lot of work!"

Xia Dongcao was stunned, and looked at the two cute and petite little girls, she couldn't believe that the eldest girl and the second girl had such a hard life.

"Grandma, Er Ya is right, we haven't even eaten a full bite of food before. "The big girl is very serious, and it doesn't seem to be lying at all.

Xia Dongcao looked at Li Xianglan.

"Auntie, the two girls didn't lie, we really didn't have a good time before!"

Li Xianglan sighed, and then told the hardships of Lao Niu's life, and the eyes of Xia Dongcao's mother and daughter were full of disbelief.

"What about you?"

Li Xianglan knew what Xia Dongcao was going to ask, so she said: "Actually, this starts with Brother Dali's serious illness last year. ”

After Li Xianglan recovered Niu Dali's illness again, they told the things they had separated from Lao Niu's house.

Killed a big bug!

Caught a big boar!

The recipe for raising earthworms to chickens has been circulated.

Make spiced tea eggs.

One thing, Xia Dongcao couldn't come back to his senses.

And Niu Dali was pulled to the back room by Xia Changcheng, the back room was extremely dark, impermeable, and looked very damp, if it weren't for the glimmer of light from the roof, I was afraid that the house would not be able to reach out and lose five fingers.

Despite this, Niu Dali still vaguely saw a person lying on the bed in the back room, and the person's breathing was extremely weak.

Niu Dali had a faint guess in his heart, "Grandpa, you said that grandma is not in good health, so why open the window?"

The air is not circulated, and even if you are not sick, you will get sick.

Moreover, the house is gloomy, and I haven't seen the light for a long time, how can this make the disease cured?

Niu Dali was about to push open the window of the back room, but was stopped by Xia Changcheng.

"Can't be opened!"

Niu looked at Xia Changcheng in puzzlement.

Xia Changcheng shook his head, "Your grandmother is not in good health, so she can't blow the wind." ”

Niu Dali sighed, the ancients believed that the wind is the long of all diseases, and the sick people are often the weakest when the body is the weakest, so in order to prevent the wind, people will close the doors and windows of the house tightly, so as not to get cold from the sick people in the house.

Xia Changcheng didn't know what Niu Dali was thinking, so he walked to the table and lit the oil lamp on the table, and the originally dark inner room suddenly became dim.

"Your grandmother since your mother went, sick, not very good, sometimes good and sometimes bad, at that time the family was difficult, there was no money, at that time was also the most bitter time, your uncle and daughter-in-law ran away with someone, your brother-in-law in order to make money for your grandmother's treatment, went to join the army to fight, when the foreign invasion of Daqi, everyone who joined the army will get eight taels of silver. ”

"But this time, for more than 20 years, there has been no news!"

Xia Changcheng said with tears in his eyes, and told Niu Dali about the situation of the old Xia family.

Niu Dali also learned about it, and he really had two uncles and an aunt.

However, the situation of the Xia family is not particularly good.

Since his mother's death, the situation has been even worse, my grandmother has become ill and has a serious illness, and the Xia family has been smashing pots and selling iron in order to treat my grandmother, and the family is so poor that it clangs.

The uncle's daughter-in-law couldn't stand the suffering and ran away with someone.

In order to raise money, my brother-in-law went to be a soldier and took eight taels of settling-in expenses, but if he didn't go back, I am afraid that he would be more than lucky.

Niu Dali didn't know how to comfort Xia Changcheng, he didn't expect his mother's family to suffer so much.

"Grandpa, why didn't you borrow money from my house back then?"

How can it be said that Niu Laogen is also the son-in-law of the Xia family, it is impossible for Niu Laogen to die and not save him, right?

Xia Changcheng laughed at himself: "Back then, your uncle and brother-in-law went to your house to borrow money, do you know what your father told them? He said that he had no money! But at that time, he actually got married!"

"Your mother has only been there for less than two years, and he is in a hurry to marry the younger one! Your brother-in-law is so angry that he fights with your father. ”

Xia Changcheng regretted it, he knew that the Niu family was such an unreliable family, so he didn't marry his daughter.

Later, not to mention, the uncle beat Niu Laogen, Mrs. Qian said that she would report to the official to arrest the uncle, Niu Laogen suddenly became a good person, and he didn't care about the beating with the uncle, so that the uncle would never come to their house again.

And Niu Laogen's ruthless words completely chilled the hearts of everyone in the Xia family.

Niu Dali finally understood why the Xia family had not come to Xinghua Village to visit him since he came.

After that, it was the eldest uncle's daughter-in-law who ran away with someone, and the younger uncle went to serve as a soldier, thinking that the aunt could marry a good family, but who would have thought that the family was indeed quite wealthy before, but under Lin Yongsheng's loser, that family's life was not as good as day by day.

In addition, the aunt has not been able to give birth to a son for many years, and her status in her in-law's family is even worse.

It's better to be pregnant, but it's a girl.

"Your mother's business, we also know that we can't blame you, we have been ignoring you all these years, but I didn't expect you not only not to blame us, but also to help your aunt's family pay off gambling debts!"

Xia Changcheng looked quite self-reproachful, his eldest daughter died in childbirth when she gave birth to her son, and they always felt in their hearts that if they were not pregnant, their eldest daughter would not have to die.

"Grandpa, don't say that, I should help you, I think my mother will be very happy to do this when she knows. Niu Dali's honest face said seriously.

"You don't just look like your mother, you even have the same temperament!" Xia Changcheng thought of something and couldn't help crying.

Niu Dali didn't need to ask to know that Xia Changcheng must have thought of his mother.

In order not to make Xia Changcheng sad, he suddenly shifted the topic to his grandmother, "Grandpa, what's wrong with grandma now?"

"Your grandmother's illness has always been good and bad, but who would have thought that at the beginning of the year, your grandmother suddenly fainted and fell unconscious, so she invited Lang Zhong, and Lang Zhong said that your grandmother couldn't survive this year. ”

Xia Changcheng suddenly thought of something, and grabbed Niu Dali's hand tightly, "Grandson, you told me, when I fainted, did you give me something to eat?"

At that time, after he clearly felt what someone had fed him after he was unconscious, his heavy body suddenly relaxed a lot, as if bathed in a warm spring breeze, and his mind gradually cleared up.

Later, he vaguely heard Niu Dali's words to comfort Xia Dongcao, which made him more sure that Niu Dali fed him some kind of medicine before, which made him better.