After taking the clothes, Fang Xiuyun walked to the kitchen, put all the edible things in a large sack, and dragged them out of the house.
She thought her husband would stop her or say something to persuade her to stay, but Dadongzi did nothing. He sat on the chair and said, "Let's go. It's better to go. Just leave and never come back."
I live a purer life by myself."
"Tree roots, soil roots, let's go," Fang Xiuyun said angrily, "let's go to your grandma and grandpa's house to eat pork!"
"Wow!" the two children cheered happily.
Less than two days after they left, news spread in Baihe Village that Dadongzi’s daughter-in-law returned to her parents’ home with their two children on the first day of the new year. Everyone regarded it as a topic of conversation after dinner. Some said it was a quarrel, some said
I thought he was poor.
"It's not divorce, right? Ever since we separated, Dadongzi's parents are getting better and better, but he seems to be getting worse and worse." The villagers chatted.
"Maybe he ran away with someone! Haha..."
The old man who smoked didn't think it was a big deal, he laughed and said: "Perhaps he really ran away with someone. Didn't Tiegen Man's wife run away with another man? She also took her two children with her, right?"
Jiang family.
When Sihaizi heard the news, he ran home panting and said, "Have you heard? My sister-in-law has returned to her parents' home, and it's been two days!"
"What?" His father was burning firewood by the stove, but now he stood up in surprise, "Two days? Didn't he leave on the first day of the new year? What's going on?"
Sihaizi shook his head, "I don't know. I just heard what San Mazi said at the entrance of the village. He said that he saw his sister-in-law dragging tree roots and soil roots away, and she was also carrying large and small bags of things.
"
Having said this, he took a sip of water and continued: "I guess everyone else in the village has heard about it by now, and my eldest brother will be laughed to death by now."
"It's true, Mother Shugen, why are you going back to your parents' house properly? It's still the first day of the New Year. Don't you want to make Dadongzi laugh at you?"
When Jiang Qingshan was worried, his wife also frowned tightly, "Then Da Dongzi has been at home alone these days? Why doesn't he come and talk to us?"
"Are you still angry about me slapping him? Hey, I was too angry that day, but who told him to scold Lingbao? I really can't stand hearing him talk, and his two sons can't stand it either.
It’s so annoying.”
Before his father could continue, Wu Chaozi cursed at the side, "You deserve it!"
"Chaozi, after all, he is your eldest brother. It's not good for you to gloat about others' misfortune."
Wu Chaozi snorted, "He deserves it! If he had been kinder to his mother and not separated from us, he wouldn't have made such a mess. Now, it's fine. Without us by his side, his wife has no choice.
Run away..."
"What are you talking about? Your sister-in-law just went back to her parents' house, why did she run away?"
"That's not certain," Wu Chaozi said. "If the sister-in-law likes someone else and thinks he is better than the eldest brother, she might take the tree roots and the soil roots and remarry."
His father patted his head and said, "The more you talk, the more nonsense you get! Stop talking nonsense. You can go to your eldest brother's house to see him later."
"Should I go?" Wu Chaozi was stunned for a moment, with reluctance written all over his face, "I'm not going. I just had a quarrel with him before. When I see him, I might say something unpleasant again.
.”
His mother took the noodles out of the pot and said, "We really can't let Lao Wu go. This kid can say anything. Don't start a fight then."
Spooning all the noodle soup in the pot into the basin, she hesitated for a while, then continued: "I think it's better not to go, lest Dadongzi thinks we are here to see his joke. If he really has any difficulties, he will definitely
Come to us."
Jiang Qingshan was a little worried, "You really don't want to go?"
"If you want to go, just go by yourself."
"Oh, I just beat him before. I really don't know what to say when I see him." Jiang Qingshan frowned.
Feeling awkward about meeting him, and worried about not meeting him, he looked at his other two sons, "Where are Sanleizi and Sihaizi? Are you going?"
Sihaizi shrank his neck, "I'm the worst at comforting people. Besides, I'm his younger brother. What can I say? It's not easy to talk about this kind of thing."
"Don't look at me," said Sanleizi, who had been chopping pickles silently before. "I'm as stupid as Sihaizi, let alone when my daughter-in-law returns to her parents' home. What do you want me to say? I think the most suitable person should be
It’s the second brother.”
"The eldest brother may have talked to the second brother a long time ago. Ever since we separated, the relationship between the two of them is better than ours," Wu Chaozi said.
At this time, at Dadongzi's house, he was huddled under the quilt and felt hot all over. After a long while, he opened his eyes drowsily and murmured in a low voice, "Thirsty, baby, water..."
When he became more conscious, he remembered that his wife was no longer at home. She had left with her children and all the food.
The captain gave out corn and peanuts on New Year's Eve, as well as the leftover sweet potatoes from the previous year. She took away all the edible things in the house, leaving nothing for him. He was hungry for two days and started to have a high fever last night.
Not long after, he fell asleep again. The dream was from his childhood. His father came home carrying a big watermelon. He and his brothers each held a piece of melon and spit out the seeds at each other while eating.
What a fun time it was.
The watermelon is so sweet, it's full of juice when you bite it. Dad said he put the watermelon into the well and soaked it, no wonder it was ice cold.
I really want to eat watermelon again!
Just once...
But I never ate it again.
Dadongzi opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but his throat seemed to be dried by fire, and no sound came out.
In the space, Lingbao finished planting wheat and was just about to go back to her room when she suddenly sensed the abnormal aura of her big brother.
Ah! What's wrong, big brother? His breath is so weak!
Lingbao felt worried, so instead of returning to her room from space, she teleported to her eldest brother's house. She found her eldest brother lying on the bed, his face was gray, his chapped lips were dark blue, and he looked like he was about to die.
Died of illness.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
The little one walked to the bedside, stood on tiptoes, and touched her elder brother's forehead with her little hands. She found that his forehead was no longer hot, but was warm and covered with cold sweat, as if the firewood had been burned to ashes and was about to stop working.
stove.
Dadongzi used his last bit of strength to open his eyes and recognized the cute little girl in front of him as Lingbao.
Is he about to die now? I didn’t expect that the last person he saw before he died was this child...
"Don't be afraid, big brother, the spiritual horse will be back soon!"
Little Lingbao found the water cup in the house, entered the space again, walked to the spiritual spring, filled it with water, then dripped in his own blood, and watched the blood and water mix together.
After doing all this, she used a spoon to feed the water in the cup to her big brother one by one, "Big brother will be fine after drinking the water!"
Da Dongzi was unconscious and felt the extremely cool and sweet water sliding down his throat, giving him a feeling that was not a dream but a dream.
So sweet! As sweet as the watermelon I ate when I was a kid...
It was already evening when he woke up again. There was no one around him, as if everything he saw before was a dream. He supported the bed with one hand and slowly sat up. He found that his body was extremely comfortable. Apart from being a little hungry, he didn't feel any discomfort at all.