Chapter 4: Hongling's anger disappears when he arrives
"Oh, girl, you're here, this stinky boy is going to attack your mother! Hongling, go back and tell your father, and ask him to send a guard to break this stinky boy's dog legs, you see he lost one of his mother's shoes." ”
When Honeysuckle saw that her eldest daughter was coming, she began to play arrogant again, scolding and wanting to rush over to fight Zheng Erhu.
Liu Hongling hurriedly stepped forward to help her mother, tidied up the torn blue and white gown, covered the exposed places, and then pulled her mother aside and lowered her voice and said: "Mother, you have wronged others, our family's strings of flowers are not lost at all, and they were taken by my father to enter the county." ”
"Ah, didn't you lose it? let your father's old pervert take it to the city? What did he do in the county seat?
"Mother, look at what you said, hurry up and go home, don't stumble here!" Liu Hongling was anxious and pushed her mother away.
Liu Hongling walked to Zheng Erhu's side, pursed her lips, glared at Zheng Erhu angrily and said, "Tell you, you are not allowed to do this to my mother in the future, go back quickly." ”
"She bullied my mother. ”
"Okay, okay, my mother has a bad temper, and she will catch fire, and our Liu family can't do anything about her. Hey, I blame my father, if he hadn't married so many little wives, my mother wouldn't have been angry like this and became sick. Don't blame her, hurry up and go home to see your mother. ”
Zheng Erhu saw that Liu Hongling was reasonable, and wanted to say something to her, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, so he had to pick up the kitchen knife and walk slowly home. Looking at the face of his old classmate Liu Hongling, he has to hold back his great anger, not to mention that this rude and reckless mother-in-law may become his future mother-in-law. But...... Lao Tzu will draw a line with their family.
There were some more people in the courtyard of Liu's house. Some well-wishers are comforting Erhu Niang, and of course, there are also people who look at jokes and excitement with schadenfreude and ulterior motives.
When the second tiger mother heard that the second tiger had gone with honeysuckle, she was worried that he would cause trouble, so she fainted in anger, and a group of women chattered and helped to come up with ideas. Someone hurriedly pinched her, and someone found a boy to pour urine on her......
Xinghua's face was full of tears of grief, and she was busy going in and out of the house. Zheng Erhu came home, saw Xinghua at the door, and asked, "Sister, how is our mother?"
She ...... She ...... "Xinghua was so nervous that she couldn't speak.
Zheng Erhu knew that the situation was not good, so he opened the crowd and walked into the east house to see his mother lying on the kang and squinting, so he didn't disturb her.
Xinghua hurriedly closed the door, and the people who watched the excitement still refused to leave, gathering in the courtyard and talking. In the countryside during the Republic of China, there was almost nothing to entertain, and when encountering such a thing, everyone thought it was a topic of pastime and chat.
Zheng Erhu was very disgusted when he saw it, and said to Xinghua uncertainly: "Sister, let those people go, it's annoying." ”
Xinghua said: "They helped just now, and the people are also kind, how can they drive them away?"
"I don't think they have any good intentions, and they clearly want to see our jokes. ”
"It's okay, they'll be gone in a moment. ”
Xinghua turned on the kerosene lamp and closed the window, and it gradually became quiet outside.
Zheng Erhu took a hot towel and wiped his mother's face and hands, and after a while, his mother slowly woke up. When she opened her eyes, she cried sadly again.
Zheng Erhu and Xinghua couldn't persuade them for a long time. Erhu wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know what Lu Dao said, so he just held his mother's hand and sat silently on the edge of the kang.
Erhu said: "Mother, I beat the honeysuckle away." ”
The mother said with a sad face: "Child, it's nothing if my mother is wronged, I'm afraid that you will cause trouble!"
"Mother, my son can't let you be wronged, and it's not easy for anyone to bully you!"
"Child, my mother is innocent, I ...... I didn't steal his money at all......"
"Mother, I know that his family's money was not stolen at all, it was Liu Hongling's father who took it into the city. ”
"Kid, how do you know the truth?"
"When I was picking up honeysuckle just now, I ran into her daughter Liu Hongling, who she secretly told her mother, and I heard it. ”
"Ahh Hey, my mother was wronged, and I was beaten and scolded by Mrs. Liu's family, and the people in Xiaogushan knew it, it was too embarrassing, woo woo woo...... "Mother cried again."
"Mother, I'll go to Liu's house, settle accounts with the landlord's mother-in-law, and I will definitely get justice for you!" Zheng Erhu said, getting up and leaving.
was pulled by his mother: "Child, don't go, don't go, my mother has been a subordinate in their family for several years, and I know that the Liu family is not easy to mess with." Let's be wronged, let's be wronged, this arm can't twist the thigh, the Liu family is rich and powerful, and the younger brother of the county magistrate of the Republic of China supports them, as soon as you left just now, my mother was dizzy......"
Zheng Erhu said menacingly: "Mother, don't be afraid of them! Hmph, I don't believe that there is no reason, the county magistrate? It is Liu Ziwen, the younger brother of the big landlord Liu Zihao, I will have to settle accounts with him sooner or later!"
He often heard his father say that his father was always angry with the Liu brothers when hunting on the grassland, especially whenever he laid a good prey skin, he had to pay tribute to the insatiable county magistrate Liu, otherwise his father would not be allowed to hunt on the grassland.
"Child, why are you still calling the county magistrate by name? But it's not our poor people's name, you still have to find someone to settle accounts? The mother's hand kept tugging at her son's clothes, trying to persuade her.
"But how can my son swallow this breath!"
"Bear with it, child, as long as you study with peace of mind, your mother will be relieved, in order to provide you with study, it is nothing for your mother to be wronged. ”
Erhu was silent, reflected for a while, and thought that his mother was right, he felt that he had a great responsibility, and secretly made up his mind that he must gain fame and get ahead, and at that time...... Thinking about it, he couldn't help but have some regrets about his thoughts and practices during this time, hanging as soon as he got out of school, hunting as soon as he got out of school, and not wanting to make progress.
Erhu promised his mother not to mention the matter of settling accounts with the Liu family again, and his mother's heart calmed down a little, and under the persuasion of Erhu and Xinghua, his mother reluctantly ate some dinner.
The mother put down her job, worried again, and said with tears on her face: "Son, my mother has suffered a loss, it's nothing." But my mother is most worried about your father, when he comes back, how can I tell him!"
Erhu said: "Mother, we are not afraid of shadows, what are we afraid of? My father has been hunting for a few days?"
"Your father has been gone for five days, this morning my mother came back from Liu's house, and I happened to see that your Uncle Zhang in the East Courtyard was also going to go into the grassland to hunt, I asked him to bring a letter to your father, this is not the beginning of autumn, let him come back to take off the blank and pick up the kang, and these days Xinghua said that the stove pit is not good to burn and smoke, I estimate, your father will come back soon. ”
"Then I'll go to the entrance of the village to see if my father has come back?"
"Kid, no. Who knows when he'll come back. Your father, with your temper, eyes can't see half a grain of sand. If he knew that Dao Niang was bullied, he would definitely go to Liu's house to ask for an explanation, I'm afraid that your father will cause trouble and encounter accidents. Mother said, as if with a premonition, and wept again with tears of worry and pain.
Suddenly, someone broke into the house and brought the unfortunate news of the second tiger father......