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When Zhuang Mo walked into Jiang's house, Mother Jiang was drying grains in the courtyard.

Although Liancheng Group invested heavily in Fenghe Village, Mr. Xu is obviously obsessed with building bridges, roads and schools, and has no interest in improving the livelihood of the villagers. Every household is still farming.Zhuang Mo has not seen any particularly good village houses along the way, most of them are earthen embryo houses or wooden buildings, obviously he still has not shaken off the hat of a poor county.However, the Jiang family's house is very grand, a small three-story western-style building, with a concrete courtyard wall, and even a big garage.Zhuang Mo snorted, "Sister, the house is beautifully built."

Mother Jiang stood up wearing an apron, and rubbed her hands together with a smile on her face: "My son made it! —Which one?" Those eyes, which were exactly the same as Jiang Yong's, rolled around, looking up and down at Zhuang Mo.There are no such dignified figures in their village, Jiang's mother is a little scared, but also a little excited.

Zhuang Mo compiled an identity for himself, saying that he is a professor of X University, and he came here to learn about Ren Mingqing's situation.Jiang's mother didn't know that he had been admitted to x university, and she was a little outraged when she heard the news, but when she heard that he didn't have enough credits and couldn't graduate, she became happy again and said to the ground: "He still wants to go to university Mile!"

This undisguised viciousness really surprised Zhuang Mo.He had a premonition that Ren Mingqing's childhood should have been very unfortunate, but now standing in front of this strong village woman, those misfortunes suddenly became concrete.

Jiang's mother sensed his resistance from Zhuang Mo's eyes, but she didn't feel ashamed because of it, but restrained her gloating expression, and said to him seriously: "He killed my man and maimed my son. "

"I don't know much about your family..."

Jiang's mother told Ren Mingqing's past with a kind of eloquence unique to rural women.

Jiang Yong's father, Jiang Baihan, is Ren Mingqing's distant cousin.When Ren Mingqing was born, his mother passed away due to dystocia, and his limbs were not perfect, so he was thrown in front of Jiang's house by his biological father.At that time, the Jiang family and his wife were worrying about having no children.

"According to me, even if you lose everything to buy one, it's better than raising a lame man. He can't do farm work with a lame leg, but men don't listen to me." Her wrinkled eyes were full of annoyance and resentment, using the world He cursed his adopted son with the most vicious words on the Internet, "I would have pressed him to death in the mud ditch if I had known."

Ren Mingqing was very fortunate that he was not frozen to death at birth, or pressed to death in Nitougou, but his luck did not last long.Jiang Yong was born in the second year of Jiang's family.Jiang Yong was still a healthy, strong baby boy, and Ren Mingqing suddenly became a redundant person in the family.Fortunately, Jiang Baihan was very kind-hearted and had read a little. Although he was a farmer, he understood the principles of life.He did not treat Ren Mingqing favorably because of his disability, and treated him as his own. Even though his wife complained repeatedly, she never wavered a bit. As long as he was present, no one could treat this adopted son badly.

Two children grow up to the age of literacy.His wife treasures his own son, and he is proud of Jiang Yong's stature and height, but Jiang Baihan prefers his adopted son who studies hard and has excellent grades.Although Jiang Baihan couldn't help with his studies, every time he returned home after a day's farm work, he would use his callused and rough hands to read Ren Mingqing's homework under the oil lamp.He is also willing to walk more than ten kilometers for his adopted son's studies, and go to the county to buy a brand-new set of teaching materials for him.

Although Jiang's mother told the past in a tone of "my man was lowered by him", Zhuang Mo was very moved.A farmer with a low level of education, no stereotypes of blood, no prejudice against disabilities, believes in the power of reading, and does his best to support the next generation... He thinks that Ren Mingqing should be called happy in the initial stage of life .

He may be sensitive and inferior due to the disability of his legs and feet, he may have the anxiety of being dependent on others, he may be bossed around by his mean and jealous adoptive mother, and he may be ridiculed and bullied by his brother who grows too fast, but he has a good father, Give him initial protection and guidance.It is precisely because he was so happy that Zhuang Mo couldn't imagine how he lost his father.

"It's all because of him that my man left at a young age, leaving us orphans and widowed mothers..." Jiang's mother talked about the disaster, her fierce eyes turned red, turning into unforgettable hatred .

Because of his lameness, Ren Mingqing has been very quiet since he was a child. Other children followed Jiang Yong to climb mountains, climb trees, and roll in the mud. He would sit on the threshold and read textbooks for an entire afternoon.The Jiang family has no books other than textbooks. Books are a luxury for them. After Ren Mingqing finished reading the textbooks, he looked at all the printed things he could find, sometimes it was the wrapping paper on the mineral water bottle, sometimes it was a tear The old almanac that came down.

"He was dazzled by that thing." Mother Jiang said disdainfully.

There was an old man in a neighboring village. His ancestors were scholars. He had studied a little. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he was a junior high school teacher in the city for decades.Jiang Baihan led Ren Mingqing to borrow books.The old man liked this studious kid and felt pity for his situation. He not only lent him books, but also gave him lessons wearing reading glasses, from "La Traviata" to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".School was over early in the countryside, and Ren Mingqing always walked four miles to the old man's house under the setting sun, and slipped back to sleep after dinner.For this reason, Jiang Baihan often took the grain harvested from the field and went to give gifts to the old man.

In Mother Jiang's mouth, this is "spoiling food".

Unfortunately, it happened when he was seven years old.One evening, there was a heavy rainstorm in Fenghe Village, and Jiang Baihan was restless.Normally, Ren Mingqing would walk home by himself, but Jiang Baihan saw that the rain was not right, so he went out to pick him up with an umbrella.There is a river between the two villages, which is the "Nidougou" in Jiang's mouth. The water is usually clear and can be used for washing and washing vegetables; but it is very dangerous when the rainy season comes. The stone pier was submerged by the water, and people who crossed the bridge would rush into the water if they were not careful.Ren Mingqing's legs and feet are not good, and he is small, so Jiang Baihan was worried that he would cross the bridge alone.

"As a result, he went out and never came back." Mother Jiang sniffled, looked up at the sky in despair, and held back tears, "At eight o'clock, I heard someone knocking on the door. I think the child's father will come back at last." I opened the door and saw that little bastard. He came back, but my man didn’t come back. When I asked him where he was, he pointed to Nitougou like a dumb man. I knocked on door after door, begging them Help me find my man..." She shook her head, "I found it half a month later at the foot of the mountain, more than a dozen miles away from here, and everyone was ruined."

Zhuang Mo finally understood what Ren Mingqing said he owed Jiang Yong.

Mother Jiang didn't elaborate on what happened later.

In her eyes, Ren Mingqing was the worst person in the world, unworthy of living, without him, Jiang Baihan would not have gone out that night, nor would he have died. Her life would definitely not have been so unfortunate, becoming a widow at a young age.She even felt that Ren Mingqing did it on purpose.He is so taciturn, always looking at adults with black eyes, there is no boy like him; there are ghosts and ghosts in his body, and he killed his mother when he was born. His biological father just saw through this point. would send him away in a panic, as evidenced by his lame leg.

She cursed and cursed him, and waved the broom in her hand as thick as a forearm when she got up.Zhuang Mo couldn't imagine how Ren Mingqing grew up after the age of seven. Can he still feel a little bit of warmth in this home?

"If something like this happened, he must have gone to another house, right?"

Mother Jiang glanced at him meaningfully, clapped the broom in her hand, and said mockingly, "Can I drive him away?"

Zhuang Mo found the murderer in her sly eyes.

Zhuang Mo didn't stay for long afterwards, he knew that he would not get any valuable information from Mother Jiang.Since her husband's death, Ren Mingqing has become a lazy, shameless, useless person in her eyes who repays kindness with revenge.When he grew up, he disabled her own son, disregarding her many years of nurturing, but she never mentioned how she raised this adopted son who "killed her", and never mentioned the relationship between Ren Mingqing and Jiang Yong. The conflict that alarmed the whole village.

Her way of thinking is so simple and rude: Jiang Baihan because of Ren Mingqing's death, Ren Mingqing owes their mothers a lifelong debt, and he can't pay off his ox and horse, so he should be a ox and a horse for the rest of his life.As long as he has any intention of disobeying their wives, he should die, one life for one life.

Zhuang Mo didn't want to stay with her for another second, he couldn't bear Mother Jiang's vicious hatred.It is true that she was once a poor woman, but this hatred has completely wiped out her character, making her turn into a mean and vicious face from the inside out, and it is difficult for Zhuang Mo to feel sympathy for her.The suffering of a wicked person cannot resonate with others, but the misfortune of a good person can arouse the deep concern of others.The more he knew about Ren Mingqing's past, the more he felt the same hatred with him, which made him not want to say another word to Mother Jiang.There is no doubt that while raising Ren Mingqing, she drove him crazy-even if this is not the direct cause, it is the main inducement.

He left the Jiang family, visited the village, and asked about the situation of the Jiang family after Jiang Baihan's death.What the villagers say is exactly the same as Jiang's mother: Jiang's family has no pillars and lives in poverty, but Ren Mingqing is very lazy. Ke killed her man, she still worked hard to bring up Ren Mingqing, who knew she raised a white-eyed wolf... and so on.

Zhuang Mo realized that there was a very shrewd consideration behind Jiang's mother's sentence "Can I drive him away?"It is precisely because of her magnanimity that she has become a "good person" praised by the villagers, a "model" who repays grievances with kindness, and the village chief took the lead in donating rice and noodles during the festivals to help this strong widow overcome difficulties.

But what about in private?What's going on in private?

Zhuang Mo suddenly thought of the old gentleman in the neighboring village. As Ren Mingqing's mentor, would he know something about it?Zhuang Mo was tired of the one-sided words of the whole village. He indulged his emotions and hoped that the truth would be reversed.He walked a two-kilometer mountain road to visit the old man.When walking through Nitougou under the moonlight, the breeze is blowing, the moon is sparse, and the white cement bridge is solid and stable.If this bridge had been erected here long ago, everything would have been different.

Fortunately, the old man is still alive today.When Zhuang Mo walked into the fence gate of his house, he was sitting on the stone field in front of the wooden house, chatting with his neighbors, shaking cattail fans. He is over 90 years old, with white hair and a youthful face, clear ears and eyesight.Seeing a stranger, the old man greeted him heartily, and when he heard that he was Ren Mingqing's friend, he dragged him excitedly to sit at home.The old man's wooden house looks small and old, with a few exposed wires on the walls, both for power supply and for hanging clothes, but there is a nice smell of wood, which makes people feel close.

He does have many books.