all the way

In the courtyard of the Liu family.

Liu Changqing sat on a stone pier under the shade of a tree, looking at the person in front of him with a livid face.

On his left are Sun Chang'e, Liu Wei, Liu Yu, Liu Hai, Liu Rui, and Xiumei holding Liu Xin.

Liu Fulai, Liu Sen, and Liu Yao stood on the other side of Liu Changqing, and beside them were a few people from the village who heard the news and came to see the excitement.

After Liu Xia left, Liu Miao had a big fight with Niu Sanni, and she didn't know where she went.

Liu Xia knelt straight three or four meters away from Liu Changqing, pursed his lips, and looked into the distance, with an appearance of fearlessness.

Liu Kui stood beside Liu Xia, with his right foot bare and a shoe in his right hand.

Mao'er knelt in Liu Xia's arms, hugged his waist, her face was full of tears, but twisted her neck and looked at Liu Kui stubbornly: "I don't tell you to hit my uncle, but I don't tell you to hit my uncle."

Liu Kui coughed dryly twice: "Mao'er, get up first and come to Uncle."

Mao'er hugged Liu Xia even tighter: "No, you should hit my uncle when I come together, I don't want you to hit my uncle."

Just now he defended in a low voice that Liu Mudan and her mother were cowards, and he didn't blame uncle, and almost kicked him a few times. Now Maoer dare not say any more, but he is protecting Liu Xia from being beaten.

Liu Kui winked at Xiumei: "It's time for the cat to drink milk."

Xiumei understood, and walked up to Mao'er to pull him: "Mao'er, let's go to the house to drink milk. You are obedient. Uncle told you to drink milk five times a day, so you drink five times a day?"

Mao'er hugged Liu Xia tightly and shook his head vigorously: "Don't drink, don't ask uncle to beat uncle."

Liu Xia withdrew his gaze, spit on his hands, and wiped away the tears on the cat's face: "Follow mother to drink milk, baby, drink more milk so you can grow up faster and grow taller."

The cat still shook his head: "If you don't drink milk, I'll watch you and don't tell them to beat you."

Xiumei had no choice but to say to Mao'er, "Mao'er told Uncle: Uncle, Uncle knows he was wrong, so stop beating Uncle."

Mao'er looked at Liu Xia's face, tears fell down, he let go of Liu Xia, turned around on his knees and said to Liu Changqing: "Grandpa, I will be obedient in the future, I won't go anywhere, just leave it at our house Playing in the courtyard; I can't beat people, and I don't want to be a loser, so my uncle won't fight, so don't tell your uncle to beat your uncle."

Liu Changqing and Liu Kui were silent, turning their heads away in pain, not knowing how to face the child in front of them.

Sun Chang'e pulled up her skirt and covered her face and began to cry: "I kept the cat in my own house, who is in the way? Rumors are spread all over the world, and I don't call it to other people when I play tricks on it, but call it in my own house." Son, why didn’t this hit me? Why do people come up to me to scare my child? My cat is only so old, and it scared my child so dark that he dare not sleep, who do I go to talk to?”

Liu Xia pulled the cat back, held him in his arms and wiped away his tears: "Don't cry, baby, uncle beats people, they all deserve to be beaten, I don't blame you, if someone dares to spit shit on you in the future Badao, I will still fight."

He turned his head and said to the crowd watching: "Anyone who has the guts can come and tell me that I'm a cat, try it once, and bullying a child behind the scenes is a skill!"

Liu Changqing yelled angrily: "Little bastard, shut up."

Liu Xia didn't speak out anymore, but he didn't seem to give in at all.

The father and son Liu Fulai who were standing beside them looked at each other in embarrassment, but didn't speak.

Liu Fulai was called back by their neighbors who heard the beating and scolding in the west. He didn't believe what Niu Sannier said was that Liu Kui led Liu Xia and the others to fight at home, but the mess in the yard was also It really made him feel uncomfortable, plus Liu Mudan was crying so much, Liu Sen also took a hoe and insisted on coming to Liu Xia desperately, so he decided to come over and ask for clarification.

Niu Sannier is indeed not an expensive man, but he is Niu Sannier's man. If his wife and children are hit by someone, he won't even dare to fart. In the future, he will have to live with his head in his crotch in the village. people.

But as soon as he came over, he saw Liu Xia kneeling in front of Liu Changqing. Liu Kui was holding a shoe and was about to hit Liu Xia's ass. There were several big footprints on Liu Xia's clothes. Watch him and prevent Liu Kui from beating him.

Liu Fulai didn't know what to say.

For Niu Sannier's open mouth, he almost paid the whole brigade a lot of money.

In the past few years, Niu Sannier has been saying that the cat lives close to their home, that the children in his family are not good at studying, that Liu Mudan always fails the exams, and that she can handle any accidents in Liu Changqing's family. On Mao'er, it was widely publicized that Mao'er was a dead star, and Liu Fulai knew it all.

Liu Xia took the cat's life seriously, and Liu Fulai felt that sooner or later Liu Xia would have to go to their house to make a fuss over this matter, but he didn't expect to go there today and start beating him with a hoe.

Although Liu Xia and him are of the same generation, he and Liu Xia are more than 20 years old and have always regarded Liu Xia as a junior. Liu Changqing has already taught Liu Xia a lesson, can he still be relentless?

Hearing Mao'er's words just now, he wanted to go back and smack Niu Sannier's mouth, not to mention Liu Xia.

Liu Changqing didn't look at Sun Chang'e, but said to her: "No matter what you say, it's not right for Yao'er to beat his sister-in-law. If you get involved in something, you can do it. If you don't hit him, you won't hit it."

He turned to Liu Xia again: "Xiao Xia, you feel that you can be wronged, you said that your sister-in-law Fulai and Mudan went out to talk about cats, and you came to the door. Before you went, you didn't think about your brother Fulai. How nice is he to you? Why can't you wait for your brother Fulai to come back and tell him, and just call him at the door?

And Mudan, how old is she, can you say that about her?If Mudan was our daughter, if someone else said that about her, would you be willing? "

Liu Xia muttered: "My mother would never teach my daughter to be like that!"

Liu Kui scolded: "Yaoer, don't argue with our uncle!"

Liu Xia shut up, with a dissatisfied expression on his face.

Before he decided to fix Niu Sanni, he knew that there would be a beating waiting for him afterwards, let alone a beating, even if Liu Changqing skinned and cramped him, he would have to go to Liu Fulai's house.

When Maoer asked him if he was admitted to university that day, so he would no longer have to go to Rongze to go to school, he seemed to suddenly realize that if he was admitted to university, he would not be able to be with Maoer every day from now on. Instead, he may only see Mao'er once in half a year, and Mao'er will face a situation that makes him feel more distressed than it is now.

It's time for Liu Rui to go to school this year.

And Liu Wei was supposed to be in the fourth grade, so she couldn't go to Liujialing anymore.

This means that the cat will have no playmates in the village in the future, and most of the time every day, he can only play around in the mud near his yard alone.

Liu Xia was unwilling to let the cat live like this for a year or two.

He wanted Mao'er to go to school this year, and he really wanted Mao'er to go to school with Liu Wei.

No matter how jealous sister-in-law Xiumei is about cats, she has never explicitly told Liu Wei and Liu Rui that they are not allowed to play with cats. Cats usually have more time to play with their two brothers.

In the past two years, Liu Wei, who is getting bigger and bigger, already has his own ideas. He ignores Xiumei's hints of helplessness, and treats cats like Liu Rui without any barriers. Liu Xia knows that this is the result of his elder brother's teaching. .

If Mao'er can go to school with Liu Wei, he believes Liu Wei will try to protect Mao'er outside.

But after thinking about it over and over for so many days, he knew he couldn't do this.

One is to make the sister-in-law worry about Liu Wei.

The most important thing is that if Maoer and Liu Rui go to Wangning to go to school with Liu Wei, they are still young and cannot walk the mountain road for a long time, and the eldest brother has to pick them up and drop them off every day, so the eldest brother will be tied up. Can't go.

When Liu Xia and the others were young, Liu Mao could help, Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun were still young, and they could pick up Liu Xia and the others when Liu Kui was in trouble.

But now, Liu Mao needless to say, Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun are both over fifty years old, and it is impossible for them to run dozens of miles of mountain roads every day.

Since Liu Kui went to Qianhe Mountain to help the road construction team the year before last, he has been looking for opportunities to do odd jobs outside to earn money. He wants to earn money to support the old and the young at home, so that Liu Chuan and Liu Ling can take a breather and use their own Pay for your own business.

Liu Chuan was already 25, and a man his age in Liu Jialing, except for those who couldn't afford a wife, had two or three children.

The whole family felt that Liu Chuan was being dragged down, and Liu Kui, as the eldest brother, felt sorry for his younger brother.

Liu Xia also didn't want his brothers to suffer because of the cat.

In the end, he decided that if he repeated his studies or was admitted to university, he would let Maoer and Liu Rui go to the primary school of the brigade first this year.

Seven or eight-year-old children, as long as they have fun playing together, no one can remember the words taught by their parents not to play with, cats can find some like-minded partners in school.

But what Liu Mudan said to Mao'er yesterday reminded him that Niu Sanni is not the only gossip girl in the village. If they dare to teach their children to talk nonsense in front of Mao'er like Liu Mudan, then Mao'er I am afraid that what I face in school is not only being left out and isolated, but also being ridiculed and teased by the collective siege.

When he first went to Wangning to go to school, he still vividly remembers the scene where a large group of classmates shouted "divorce head, drag the oil bottle" to a girl.

As a bystander at the time, he only thought it was fun, but now that he thinks about it, how cruel that scene was to the girl, and she was only criticized because her mother divorced and remarried.

In the eyes of the villagers, Mao'er's crime is many times more serious than this girl's.

Every child who participated in the ridicule and teasing may not have much malice in his heart, and most of them just join in the fun, but when the ridicule and teasing are superimposed on one person, it will become a deep humiliation scar engraved in the heart.

He would not allow this to happen to the cat.

Killing chickens and monkeys as an example is the best shelter he can provide for the cat before he leaves, and he doesn't care about any consequences.

Liu Changqing said: "Little Xia, I beat and scolded and scolded, it's up to you whether you change it or not, I'll tell you again today, in this world, no one is [-]% satisfied.

There are only a few people in our Liujialing, and there are only a few people in Wangning Commune. There are so many things every day. If you go out in the future, the outside world will be big, and there are all kinds of people. If you listen to someone who makes you feel uncomfortable, You have to beat people, find people to argue, if you want to fight over who is right and who is wrong, then you don’t need to live, just thinking about these things will exhaust you to death; you carry Tang Taizong and Xu Jingzong back to me of that article. "

Liu Xia didn't know what Liu Changqing meant, but he recited it honestly: "Tang Taizong said to Xu Jingzong: "Among all the ministers, you are the most virtuous, so what's wrong with you?

Jingzong said to him, spring rain is like ointment, farmers like its moistness, pedestrians hate its mud; autumn moon is like a mirror, beauties like to enjoy it, thieves hate its brilliance; the world is so big, people still sigh, let alone ministers?

The minister has no fat sheep and fine wine to adjust the mouths of the people.

Therefore right and wrong should not be listened to, and what is listened to should not be spoken; the ruler listens to his ministers and is punished, the father listens to his sons to be slaughtered, husband and wife listen to each other, friends do not listen to each other, neighbors do not listen to them, and relatives do not listen to them.Life is seven feet tall, beware of a three-inch tongue, there is a dragon spring on the tongue, and blood will not be seen when killing people.

The emperor said, "Your words are very kind, I should know it." "

Liu Xia's recitation became weaker and weaker in the end, but he still finished the recitation very clearly, and he already had a little understanding of Liu Changqing's meaning in his heart.

Liu Changqing said: "It's good to memorize it, but it's useless to just memorize it. Tell me the meaning of Xu Jingzong's words."

Liu Xia said: "What he means is that whether a thing is good or bad depends entirely on the person who uses it. The same thing, if it suits one's own wishes, people think it is good; if it does not suit one's wishes, people think it is bad." ;

The world is a big place, and all people have things they don't like; it is impossible for one person to do things to meet everyone's wishes. This is the so-called difficulty in agreeing.

So don't listen to what you say is solicitous, and if you hear it, don't pass it on.

If the emperor listens to these words, innocent courtiers will be killed;

When the father listens to such words, the child will be killed;

Husbands and wives who believe such words will be separated from each other, friends who believe such words will sever friendship, neighbors who believe such words will alienate each other, relatives who believe such words will sever kinship;

Seven-foot men in the world, be careful not to let yourself be provoked like this..."

Liu Chuan stood at the slope drenched all over, slowly calming down his breathing.

He didn't expect that he would drive home on a motorcycle before dawn, and after running dozens of miles of mountain roads to get home, what he saw was this kind of scene.

He walked over gently and stood behind Liu Xia, listening to his father teach Liu Xia.

Liu Changqing said: "You read more books than I do, and you understand the truth, but you can't listen to me if I talk too much.

Xiaoxia, let me say this again today, in this world, as long as you do what you do and do not feel ashamed, you don't have to think about what others have said or passed on.

Even if God can't be right with everyone, why are we afraid of other people's gossip?

As the saying goes, a person has a thousand hands and cannot cover a population of ten thousand.

Let's not do things that hurt nature, our mouths are on others, whoever wants to say anything, let him talk, we close the door and live our own life, our life is going well, why bother to think about those irrelevant people's gossip? "

Liu Xia lowered his head, but quickly raised it again, and said to Liu Changqing, "Uncle, I know I was wrong."

Liu Changqing said: "You know you are wrong, but you scared our cat." He said to Mao'er: "Mao'er, you are also six years old, and you understand almost everything that grandpa says, you have to remember Listen to what Grandpa told you today."

Cat nodded: "Yeah."

Liu Changqing said: "Mao'er, you are the same as your little Wei, Xiaorui and Xiao Xin. You are a child of the grandpa's family. As long as the grandpa is alive, no one will send you to the stepmother. Even if the grandpa is dead... ..."

Liu Kui shouted: "Uncle, what are you talking about!"

Liu Changqing ignored Liu Kui: "Even if grandpa is gone one day, and your uncles and aunts, as well as your uncles, they will all support you. The family is poor and there is only one mouthful of food left, and you are in that mouthful of food." As long as you don't want to leave, don't want to leave this family, no one in this family will ever drive you away, remember, cat?"

The cat said obediently, "Remember."

Liu Changqing glanced around: "Liu Kui, Liu Chuan, Liu Hai, Liu Yu, do you all remember?"

"I remember." Several people answered in unison, and there was a childish voice inside, which was Liu Wei.

Liu Changqing looked at Liu Chuan.

Liu Kui and others looked at Liu Chuan nervously and expectantly.

When they saw Liu Chuan entering the yard, they were all anxious, but they didn't dare to interrupt Liu Changqing's words. They all felt that Liu Chuan's serious listening expression had an unconcealable excitement.

Liu Xia turned to look at Liu Chuan.

Liu Chuan took a deep breath, smiled uncontrollably, and took out a big envelope from his briefcase: "Uncle, Mom, Big Brother, our youngest has been admitted to a university, a key university!"

Liu Xia knelt in a daze, looking at the cat in his arms who didn't seem to understand what had happened, his mind was blank, only hearing Liu Hai and Liu Yu happily yelling at the bird that cut through the stream in the mountain Shout, echoing in the mountains:

"Ah, my youngest has been admitted to a university, my youngest has been admitted to a key university..."