"Mom, I...I'm fine...ahem..." Jiang Yun spoke with great difficulty.
He moved a little, and his whole body hurt as if it was about to burst.
Seeing his son frowning tightly, his eyes were red from the pain, and he was trying not to cry out, Huang Yuzhu's eyes were full of heartache, "Your grandpa is too cruel, no matter what you say, it's his fault."
My grandson.
How could he be willing to beat you like this? If the little sister here hadn't spoken for you, you might have really..."
Unable to speak any more, Huang Yuzhu covered her eyes with one hand, tears flowing from the gaps between her thin fingers.
At this time, Bai Lu brought a bowl of water to the bedside, comforted Huang Yuzhu and said: "Don't cry, your son has just woken up now. If you keep crying like this, you won't be able to bear it and fall ill. How will you take care of him then?"
ah."
With that said, she handed the bowl to Huang Yuzhu, indicating that she would feed Jiang Yun.
"Yeah, you're right, I can't get sick..."
Huang Yuzhu wiped away her tears and tried to stay strong.
Ever since Jiang Yun's father was taken away, she has been crying all day long and can't eat.
In the past two years, she has completely failed to fulfill her responsibilities as a mother. Instead, Jiang Yun has been taking care of her.
Thinking of this, Huang Yuzhu felt guilty and self-blame. He quickly took the bowl from Bai Lu, thanked her, and then slowly fed it to his son with a spoon.
Su Xiaosi originally wanted to talk to Jiang Yun. After all, he was the first person in this village that he wanted to make friends with, but it turned out that he seemed to have difficulty even talking, so he stood aside quietly.
"Fourth brother," Su Xiaowu panted and ran upstairs with an excited tone, "Dad just bought a mule..."
"Ah? Mule? What kind of mule?" Su Xiaosi looked back at his fifth brother in confusion.
"The production team's mules have white manes, but they are tall and handsome."
Su Xiaosi thought of the mule that she and her father rode on when they went to town in the morning, "It couldn't be Xiaobai, could it?"
"Yes, it's called Xiaobai, haha," Su Xiaowu asked with a smile, "Fourth brother, how do you know its name?"
Su Xiaosi said: "Brother Aqiang used that mule to send me, Dad, and Jinbao to the town in the morning. He had a bad temper. I wanted to touch its head, but it was still fierce at me. If it weren't for
Jinbao is here, it won’t pull us at all..."
"It has a bad temper, so it's sold very cheaply."
Bai Lu heard her son's conversation and curiously walked to the door and asked Xiao Wu: "How much did it cost?"
"Originally, we only needed three measures of rice, but Jinbao said we couldn't let the production team lose money, so Dad gave Captain Luo another two dollars to make up for it."
Bai Lu did the math and found out that the mule actually cost just over seven yuan. She was surprised and said, "So cheap?"
"Yes!" Su Xiaowu answered and asked his fourth brother, "Fourth brother, do you want to go down with me to see Xiaobai?"
Thinking of having an extra mule at home, Su Xiaosi was very excited and nodded quickly, "Okay! With Jinbao by his side, he shouldn't be aggressive to me now, right? Let's go feed him grass, I don't know.
What kind of grass does he eat?"
While the two children were talking, Bai Lu looked back at Jiang Yun, thinking that it would be okay with his mother taking care of him. She also thought it was time to make dinner at this time, so she went downstairs with Xiaosi and the others.
Jiang Yun and his mother were the only two people left in the room.
"Mom," after drinking water, Jiang Yun's throat no longer hurt as before, and he asked his mother, "Can we still live at grandpa's house? Will they stop taking us in?"
Huang Yuzhu tried hard to hold back her sadness, "Mom doesn't know either..."
As she said this, she bit her lip and said, "He said that he no longer recognizes me as his daughter. In fact, I don't want to recognize him as my father anymore. He actually beat you like this and almost beat you to death. This kind of person does not deserve your name."
He calls him 'Grandpa'."
Jiang Yun lowered his head, "But if we don't live at grandpa's house, where else can we go? Grandpa and uncle are even worse to us. They are afraid that we will harm them and will not let us enter the house at all..."
Feeling at a loss and confused about the future, mother and son were silent for a while.
After a long while, Jiang Yun expressed what he had been suppressing in his heart, "How about we go find dad?"
"What did you say? Looking for your father?" Huang Yuzhu sounded surprised as he did not expect his son to say such a thing suddenly.
Jiang Yun nodded, "Well, even if I have to pick cow dung every day, that's fine. I want to live with my father. Mom, you must miss your father very much, right? I would rather endure hardships as a family than live like this anymore."
"
"Silly boy," Huang Yuzhu touched his son's head, "I also want to find your dad, but I don't even know where he is."
That day, a group of people suddenly came to her house. All the pots and pans were smashed, the wardrobe was turned over, and the bed boards were lifted...
From the moment the group appeared to Jiang Yun's father being taken away, she was confused from the beginning to the end.
Later, the school took back the house where her family lived, leaving her with less than fifteen yuan.
She took Jiang Yun everywhere to find out where his father was, and she would give him fifty cents or one piece if he asked anyone. Some said Jiang Yun's father went to the cowshed to pick up manure, some said he went to the quarry to pull stones, and some said...
Others say Jiang Yun's father is dead.
Huang Yuzhu spent all the money, and as a result, she had no idea where her lover had gone or whether he was still alive in this world. He seemed to have disappeared from the world, and there was no news at all.
"Ayun, it's my mother who is sorry for you," Huang Yuzhu choked and said, "I don't know where your father is."
When she cried like this, Jiang Yun's nose began to feel sore. He quickly comforted his mother and said, "Mom, don't be sad. I believe in Dad. He will be fine soon. When he is released, he will definitely come to us."
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Their conversation was overheard by Xiao Jinbao outside the door.
Jinbao felt a burst of emotion in his heart.
It's very chaotic outside now, and everyone can only eat half full. To be honest, although her family has saved some money, life will not be too difficult, but they are not the kind of wealthy family that can easily spare two mouths for food.
When she turned around, she found that her third brother was standing not far away, and seemed to have heard the conversation between Jiang Yun and his mother.
The brother and sister looked at each other, and then walked to the balcony of the next room in a tacit understanding.
Looking at the scenery in the distance, Su Wennian said: "Jinbao, what do you think they should do? There are no houses in the county, and their relatives in the countryside think they are a burden and try every means to drive them away. How pitiful...
It would be great if his mother could find a job, but she is in such poor health that it will definitely be difficult to find a job."
After saying that, he sighed, "Originally, I thought that our current generation of students were miserable. They couldn't go to college or enter the factory. They had to go to the countryside to do farm work. But at least they had a place to go, but they couldn't even join the production team.
I can’t even get in, hey!”
When Su Wennian was sighing, there was a burst of yelling and cursing from downstairs. It was Jiang Yun's two aunts.