The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 403 Young Town ([-])

After the early morning, people in the town should go to work in the field, wash and cook, men and women are busy.

Outside the Liu family's house in the middle of the town, Mother Liu, who has already embraced her grandson, is carrying a pole on her shoulders and carrying two buckets of water across the threshold to enter the house, intending to use the water to wash and cook for the family. .

As soon as she entered the yard and put down the bucket, she saw her son Liu Quanshuan coming out of her daughter-in-law's room.

Mother Liu wiped the sweat off her face with her sleeves, and asked her son, "Shuan'er, is your wife awake? It's getting late now, so tell her not to sleep with the child anymore. ..."

"Mother, can you stop talking about this early in the morning? What if you just let your daughter-in-law sleep for a while?"

Liu Quanshuan, who is now wearing two black circles, was scolded by his mother early in the morning, which made him a little unhappy when he spoke.

Because he had something on his mind last night, he didn't sleep well, and he was suffocating anger in his stomach.

His son had been sick recently, and his wife kept talking to him about his mother's approaching fifty, which meant urging him to mention the matter of going to the ancestral house to pay tribute to his mother.

Liu Quanshuan was half-willing and half-unwilling about this matter in his heart.

The reason why he is willing to send his mother to pay tribute is because this is a village rule, which has not changed for hundreds of years. Every household does this, and his family naturally cannot make that exception.

He said he was a little reluctant because he was a little guilty of the ancestral house.

Ten years ago, a young and beautiful girl came from outside the town.

At that time, he fell in love with that girl at first sight, and he was only thinking about marrying her back as a wife.

But who knew that in less than a day, the girl was gone, and she was swallowed by the well outside the ancestral house.

At that time, one of his brothers told him that it was all because the girl from a foreign country meddled in the town's affairs and rescued a man who was sent to the wooden house to wait for the tribute to come out, breaking the taboo of the ancestors, so he was punished .

Although he accepted his fate in his heart at that time, he didn't have a good impression of how difficult the ancestral house was.

At this end, Mother Liu was abruptly blocked by her son's words, and her tone of voice weakened unconsciously when she spoke again.

"That's all right. If she wants to continue sleeping, then go to sleep."

Liu Quanshuan was thinking in his heart, when he heard this, he frowned and looked at his old mother.

Mother Liu is still more than a year away from her 50th birthday, but it looks like she is already over [-].

Mrs. Liu had one son and two daughters together in her life.

Her two daughters were married when they were sixteen or seventeen, and only one son remained by her side.

Over the years, in order to pray for Shuanzi to be safe from disasters and illnesses, she often lighted lamps to pray for the child. The lamp of clam paste left by her mother-in-law was almost used on him.

A few days ago, she also passed the clam shell to her daughter-in-law, because the latter just helped the Liu family add a grandson.

Liu Quanshuan stared at his mother's graying hair, and couldn't help thinking of many past events in his mind.

That summer, when his mother took him to the field, there was a heavy rainstorm.

When he was young, he was frightened by the rumbling thunder and cried. It was his mother who held him in her arms and comforted him, saying that she was not afraid, and she used her body to block him from the pouring rain.

When the torrential rain passed, his mother was completely drenched, but he only got wet on the bottom of his trousers.

When he encountered a puddle on the way home, his mother bent down and picked him up, step by step through the knee-deep muddy water...

Later, when the two returned home, he was alive and well, but his mother had a fever and became seriously ill.

Liu Quanshuan also knew that the lanterns his mother had lit over the years were either to make wishes for him or for his father, and she had never lit a lantern for herself.

Mother, my daughter-in-law said that the ointment in the clam shells is not enough, are you willing to pay tribute for the family?
Such straightforward words reached Liu Quanshuan's lips, but he still couldn't say them.

He stared at his mother's aging face, and secretly felt that he had to at least let her pass her fiftieth birthday before leaving.

"Shuan'er, what's wrong with you? Why do you keep staring at my face?"

Mother Liu noticed something was wrong with her son's eyes and expression, so she asked a question.

Liu Quanshuan just shook his head and said, "It's nothing."

However, the plan could not keep up with the changes.

When he finished his work in the morning and rushed home for dinner at noon, as soon as he was at the dinner table, he felt something was wrong with the atmosphere between his daughter-in-law and his mother.

At the dining table of Liu's family, there are four people sitting at the moment, namely Liu's father, Liu's mother, and Liu Quanshuan and his wife.

Liu Quanshuan's eldest daughter and youngest daughter squatted aside holding wooden bowls and chopsticks and eating lunch with their heads bowed.

According to traditional rules, children are not allowed to eat at the table.

If there are guests in this house, women are also not allowed to eat at the table, and have to squat aside.

But at this moment, the Liu family is eating at their own home, so it's not impossible for the two women to eat at the table.

At the dinner table, Mother Liu, who used to be chatty and chatty, didn't say a word from the beginning to the end.

Sometimes when she was eating white rice, tears would involuntarily fall from the corners of her eyes and fall into the rice bowl.

Father Liu, who was sitting at the top, silently sipped the wine in the glass and ate the appetizers, as if he didn't notice the strangeness shown by his wife.

And when Liu Quanshuan found out about his mother's abnormality, he felt sorry and thought of something, and immediately turned to look at his mother-in-law.

After the latter realized that his man was looking at him, he gave the former a happy look rather complacently.

Did you see it?You can't do it for so long, but as soon as I got started, the matter was a success.

Brother Shuan, I have already told your mother about the tribute, and she has already agreed...

Even if the woman didn't say anything, Liu Quanshuan could guess what she wanted to say just by looking at the woman's eyes and expression.While knowing it in his heart, Liu Quanshuan felt a little tired in his heart.

The daughter-in-law he married back home has never dealt with his mother.

These two women are like natural enemies, and they don't like each other.

His mother-in-law has been encouraging him and persuading him to let his mother pay tribute these days. It's probably because she doesn't want to see his mother continue to take care of her at home.

It's just that he himself is always on the edge of his mouth and can't say it, he didn't expect that today she can't wait until he can tell his mother.

Liu Quanshuan, who also lowered his head to pick up the rice, did not dare to look up to see his mother crying while eating.

He originally thought that all he had to do was to avoid his mother and not show up, speak, or express his views on paying tribute, and his wife would be the villain, but he didn't expect that after the family finished lunch, his mother would Suddenly got up and called him.

(End of this chapter)