In the evening, Luo Zhongqiang finished his work in the production team and went to Su's house as he did the previous two days. He wanted to help make the pig pen stronger to prevent the pigs from rushing out of the pen and being unable to catch them.
As soon as he walked into Su's house, Su Xiaosi ran to him excitedly and asked a bunch of questions.
"Ah? What?" Luo Zhongqiang was a little confused, "Xiaosi, please speak more slowly. What is it that talks well and can swim well?"
"My fourth brother wants to ask if there is a boy in the village who speaks Mandarin very well. He is about the same height as my fourth brother, and he can swim very well. Brother Aqiang, do you know this person?
"
After listening to Jin Bao's clear explanation, Luo Zhongqiang suddenly realized, "Oh, are you talking about Jiang Yun?"
"Jiang Yun?" Jin Bao was a little confused, "His surname is Jiang? Brother Aqiang, didn't you say before that there are only people named Luo, Huang and Li in the village?"
"Yes, I remember you said that too."
Luo Zhongqiang explained with a smile: "I said so, but Jiang Yun is not a child in our village. He came back to live in our village with his mother only two years ago. Speaking of which, his home should be in the county.
, His father’s surname is Jiang.”
Su Jianmin, who stood aside and listened for a long time, said clearly: "Oh, that means his mother is from Luohu Village."
"Yes, yes, yes," Luo Zhongqiang said in a confused tone, "What's wrong? Isn't Jiang Yun the one causing trouble?"
"No, no," Jin Bao waved his hand hurriedly, "He helped my fourth brother catch a carp. We think we should give him half, but we don't know his name or where he lives, so we asked you.
clatter."
Luo Zhongqiang breathed a sigh of relief, "Oh, it turns out that's the case, that's good."
He then laughed and said: "I thought that kid Jiang Yun was in trouble. I was shocked..."
At this time, Bai Lu was cooking fish soup in the kitchen. She felt that it was not good to give away the half-killed and bloody fish. It would be better to cook it directly and send half of it over. This would appear more sincere and more polite.
Wen Nian went to the forest to pick up the branches. Seeing that they were almost burned out, he prepared to put his basket on his back and go pick them up.
"It's getting dark, these are enough for the night, so don't go," Su Jianmin said, "or I'll have to look for you for dinner."
While the father and son were talking, Bai Lu divided the fish soup into two portions, one of which he planned to take to Jiang Yun's house first.
"I'll go!" Su Jianmin said, "You guys eat first, the soup won't taste good when it gets cold."
Jinbao followed him, "Dad, I want to go too."
"No, Jinbao, you stay and drink soup..."
"I want to go with daddy." Jinbao raised his little head and blinked his big eyes twice.
Seeing his daughter's cute and well-behaved appearance, Su Jianmin felt warm in his heart and said with a smile: "Okay, then Jinbao will accompany dad to deliver fish soup, and then we will come back to drink soup together later."
Luo Zhongqiang said at this time: "Jiang Yun's house is not far away. We will arrive soon after crossing the bridge. I will take you there. It won't take more than ten minutes to go back and forth."
After speaking, he led the way.
Jinbao followed her father and reminded her father to be careful of slippery roads.
After crossing the wooden bridge, they went down another staircase, turned right and entered a small path.
Not far away, a sound of yelling and cursing came from the local dialect. Jinbao couldn't understand it, but he felt that it was not something to be obedient to.
Luo Zhongqiang seemed to have gotten used to it, and sighed helplessly, "Hey, we are quarreling again..."
"What's going on?" Su Jianmin asked, "What are those people arguing about?"
"They are Jiang Yun's mother's side of the family.
The two scolding people on the right are Jiang Yun's aunt, the one with long hair is his aunt, the one with short hair is his aunt, the ones standing behind are his grandparents, and the other two men are his uncles."
Jin Bao guessed and asked, "Do they think Jiang Yun and his mother are freeloaders at home?"
"Yes, his mother is not in good health. She coughs every day and can't go to the fields to earn work points, and then... ah..."
When Luo Zhongqiang was explaining, Jiang Yun's aunt could only be heard saying angrily in Mandarin: "In short, with mother and son in this family, there will be no me. At worst, I will just go back to my parents' house, so as not to suffer the anger here every day."
She was about to leave as she spoke, but her mother-in-law hurriedly grabbed her arm and said, "What are you doing? You are still pregnant with a baby in your belly. What can you do if something goes wrong? (What are you doing?)
You are still pregnant with a child, what should you do if something happens?)"
"You still know that I am pregnant with a child, so you and your father-in-law still insist on raising them both. They all say that the married daughter is throwing away the water. Although you can't say it so heartlessly, you have raised them after all.
It's been two years.
In the past, it was okay to have an income from bayberry, but now? We all don’t even have enough to eat. If you take them in again, then I and the child in my belly will starve to death. Who will pity us?"
Jiang Yun's mother couldn't help coughing, as if she wanted to cough her lungs out.
"Mom." Jiang Yun's eyes turned red.
He held his mother's hand and almost didn't dare to speak loudly. He was very cautious, for fear that he would anger his grandfather and his family, and if they were really driven away, he and his mother would have to live on the streets.
"I can't sleep well at night hearing her cough, cough, cough, cough every day. It's really annoying!"
After the long-haired woman finished speaking, the short-haired woman continued: "There is no way to survive this day. If your family carries two oil bottles, I will never marry into your Luo family.
Come on (I can’t live this life, if I knew that your family had these two idiots, I would never marry into your Luo family)."
Su Jianmin was holding the hot fish soup in his hand, and he suddenly felt very embarrassed. After all, he was an outsider and it was not easy for him to get involved in other people's housework. It seemed particularly inappropriate to serve soup at this moment.
"This..." he whispered, "or don't give me the soup."
Jin Bao asked back: "Why don't you send it? I think it is more appropriate to send soup now."
After saying that, without waiting for her father's reaction, she ran forward alone, pretending to be particularly intimate and familiar, took Jiang Yun's hand, and regardless of everyone's surprised looks, she said in a sweet voice: "Brother Ayun, what are you doing today?"
The red carp we caught was super fresh and sweet. My mother cooked it into fish soup and asked my father to send it over to your family for a taste."
Everyone else looked at Jin Bao in surprise, among them Jiang Yun was the most surprised, "You..."
Just when he was puzzled, Jinbao turned to her father and shouted: "Dad, why are you so stupid? Bring the fish over here quickly."
"Oh..." Su Jianmin came to his senses and hurriedly walked to the door of Jiang Yun's house with the fish in his hand.
"Ah! Is this fish really for us?"
A crowd of people gathered around the fish, staring at the fish soup and swallowing their saliva.
These days they eat either wild vegetables or sweet potatoes, and the porridge they drink is extremely thin.
Jin Bao nodded, "Of course! This is the fish caught by Brother Ayun! This carp is a tonic. It not only strengthens the spleen and appetite, clears away heat and detoxification, relieves coughs and asthma, but also regulates pregnancy and lactation, and is good for patients with coughs."
The advantage is that it’s even better for pregnant women.”