Back to 1993 through time travel

On the afternoon of the New Year's Eve, Xia Tian returned to Xu's house, where he had been away for more than a month, with two big bags of things.

The army probably didn’t like posting Spring Festival couplets. The gate of Xu’s house was still bare, but inside the gate was quite lively. Chen Fan was wearing an apron and was rolling out dumpling wrappers. She was very dissatisfied with the big and small summer packages. Start complaining.

"Why did you bring something back to my aunt's house, a chicken in the left hand and a duck in the right? It's outrageous!"

Xia Tian looked at her intently, and saw that she had changed into a half-new red sweater, which made her complexion whiter. She was still gentle and graceful, but her complexion never recovered.

But from the tone of her voice, she seemed to be in a good mood.

Looking at the light curve of her mouth, Xia Tian couldn't help but hesitate a bit. For Chen Fan, what he was going to say and what he was going to do next would be adding fuel to the flames or making things worse for Chen Fan?However, the words that long-term pain is worse than short-term pain are like enlightenment, making him forget all his worries the moment he thinks about it, and then calmly take out the things in the bag and distribute them to everyone in the Xu family, old and young.

Both Xu Weidong's mother and son smoked, so Xia Tian bought two mid-range Baisha products. For Chen Fan, he really put his mind to it. He bought two boxes of Guyuan Ointment from the local Tongrentang.

As a result, Chen Fan felt very sorry. She and Xia Tian exchanged glances, and some words were already left unspoken——she looked too thin and haggard, with a feeling of being deficient in both energy and blood, or in other words, anemia , and when a woman reaches the age of 40, she should always be a little richer in order to appear moist and energetic.

It is said that medicine supplements are not as good as food supplements, but no matter how good food supplements are, they are actually not as refreshing as living a carefree life.

Chen Fan smiled knowingly, and gently shook Xia Tian's hand.

This is a benevolent child. He is usually silent, but he can remember every bit of kindness towards him from others. Once he has the opportunity, he will definitely reciprocate.

Chen Fan put away the presents, and Xia Tian took out a pack of wild hazelnuts from the bag, "This is what my dad asked me to bring to you. There are no special products in my hometown, so the ones grown by myself are fresh, not big, but The taste is not bad."

"It's so far away, thank you dad for thinking about it," Chen Fan said, "I haven't talked to him on the phone for a long time, remember to remind me later, it's time to give him New Year's greetings."

"Farewell," Xia Tian stopped with a smile, "There is no one in the village committee on the night of New Year's Eve. You can't find him, so let's wait until he remembers to wish you New Year's greetings."

"Did the hazelnuts come by mail?" Chen Fan asked, putting a handful on the coffee table.

Mrs. Xu loves to crack all kinds of nuts, so she picked up a small one, put it in her mouth, and bit it. The hazelnuts are not as good as her steel teeth.

Xia Tian smiled: "I asked someone to bring it over. It happened that a neighbor's child came to the provincial capital and brought it to me along the way."

Mrs. Xu chewed the hazelnuts and asked: "It's Chinese New Year, what do the villagers still come to the city to do? Looking for work?"

People who gossip are easy to inquire, and they fell right into Xia Tian's arms: "He didn't look for work, he came to join relatives. Speaking of which, the story of that man is quite lively. He is about my age, and his father left their mother and child and ran away before he could remember anything." It's too hard for his mother to pull him up alone, so she just gave up and remarried. He was raised by his uncle and aunt, and no one was rich at that time. Just leave it to him. A few years ago, his father came back suddenly, saying that he had settled down in the city and his life was not very good, but he just wanted to recognize him. Everyone in the village thought he would definitely not do it. He didn't have any feelings, but he didn't think so, saying that he wasn't born to his uncle, and he already felt awkward when his younger uncle and aunt were so polite to him, and it would be better to stay with his own father more comfortably."

Speaking of this, he smiled faintly: "I heard him say that what is connected by blood, broken bones and tendons, he still misses his biological father in his heart."

Mrs. Xu was busy cracking hazelnuts, her head was not turning as fast as usual, and she complained in a hurry: "This man has no conscience, his kindness is not as good as his kindness, and his blood is connected. He must be greedy for his father in the city." With that little money, people, every action must have a plan.”

After she expressed her emotion, she didn't feel that she had double standards at all, but Xu Qiangqiang next to her was confused: "Grandma, didn't you tell me not to forget my father? You want me to honor my father well in the future, no matter where I grow up Daddy, my dear dad will always be my dearest person."

The old lady Xu obviously paused when she ate the hazelnuts, and glanced at her son who was reading the newspaper from the corner of the corner of her eye.Xia Tian was also observing Xu Weidong, seeing that his face was expressionless, but the hand holding the newspaper visibly trembled slightly.

If there are fluctuations, then the speaker's intentional words are considered to have achieved a little bit of the expected purpose.

Xia Tian was just talking nonsense, the neighbors are nothing, and the hazelnuts were not brought by Xia Shanhe at all, but he went to the old Dongmen farmers market and bought them from the farmers who were rushing home Cheap mountain goods.

Xu Bing appeared just right at this time. When Xia Tian saw her, he first smiled friendlyly, and then took out gifts for her and Xu Qiangqiang.A cheap toy gun is for the devil in the world, and a box of colorful candy is for Xu Bing. The candy is a typical product, the packaging is very beautiful, but the taste is not very good.

Xu Qiangqiang already has several guns, but he is not very interested in the one Xia sent. The characteristic of a child is that he always feels that other people's things are better than his own, so he leaned over and reached out to grab Xu Bing's candy.

Xu Bing: "Why, this is for me."

Xu Qiangqiang refused to accept: "I want to eat!"

Xu Bing couldn't let go: "Why? Don't you also have a gift?"

Xu Qiangqiang: "I want yours!"

After yelling, he turned his face away and stared at Xia Tian very dissatisfied, "Why does she have me?"

Mrs. Xu just pretended not to hear the quarrel among the children. Xu Weidong still sat firmly as a rock. Xia Tian saw it and smiled warmly at Xu Qiangqiang: "You are changing your teeth. Eating too much sugar will cause tooth decay, so this time I didn't I'll buy it for you."

While talking, he approached, squatted down, and said very softly in Xu Qiangqiang's ear: "I am a guest. When I come to Xu Bing's house as a guest, of course I have to be extra nice to her."

Xu Qiangqiang probably belonged to the firecracker, and he could catch it at any point. As expected, he lived up to Xia Tian's expectations, and immediately raised his eyebrows: "Is it sick? This is our old Xu's house, what Xu Bing's house, she is just a girl. Me! He is the grandson of Xu's parents, and all the good things should belong to me!"

If you say he understands, he still doesn't know much about it. If you say he doesn't understand, he is being talked about so much by his family headed by Mrs. Xu all day long. This thought.

Xia Tian didn't speak, stood up, caught a glimpse of Xu Weidong who was holding a newspaper, his eyes seemed to be unfocused.

Afterwards, Xia Tian and Xu Bing looked at each other silently.

Xu Bing lowered his eyes, opened the lid of the box and took out a few candies, and handed them to Xu Qiangqiang, a little aggrieved, but also cautiously said: "For the New Year's Eve, let me give you some, you just like to grab things from me .”

"Who is robbing you, do I need it?" Xu Qiangqiang grabbed the candy, "The things in the Xu family will be mine sooner or later."

Chen Fan cut up the fruits and brought them over. Hearing this, her steps stopped obviously. She couldn't hide her disgust and glanced at this brat who was talking nonsense.

Xu Bing was not angry, but asked with a smile, "Then my surname is Xu too. You are younger than me, and I can share my things with you, so can you share your things with me?"

"Why?" Xu Qiangqiang slurred his words with sugar in his mouth, but his voice was loud, "What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine!"

"Okay," Xu Weidong stopped suddenly, "Stop shouting, you two come over and eat apples."

Xu Qiangqiang snorted, but Xu Bing walked over and pulled him generously, "It's Chinese New Year, we don't have to fight anymore, fix it, fix it, I will let you more in the future, and take care of you younger than me, so the head office will be fine Bar?"

Xu Qiangqiang was not moved, and only threw her an emoji of "it should be like this, you finally know each other" as a matter of course.

"But you also have to correct some problems." Xu Bing said patiently, "Respect your elders, including me, and get rid of bad speaking habits. The words you said last time are too bad. Don't say it, let others hear you want to laugh."

Xu Qiangqiang squinted and asked her, "What are you talking about?"

Xu Bing choked for a second, bit his lip, looked at Mrs. Xu, then at Xu Weidong, and then hesitantly said: "That...what, little... bastard..."

Xu Qiangqiang blinked his eyes, and continued nonchalantly: "You mean brat?"

Xu Weidong finally put down the newspaper in his hand, and he frowned with a very displeased expression on his face.Xu Bing had complained to Chen Fan before, but because he didn't hear it himself, and Xu Bing's temper was arrogant and willful, he thought it was just a "false accusation". Now Xu Qiangqiang said it nonchalantly. It's true.

But he didn't have a chance to question, and Mrs. Xu had already preemptively said: "The kid is talking nonsense, he has learned in a mess, and he is not allowed to play with those wild boys outside the courtyard from now on."

Xu Qiangqiang looked at her wonderingly: "Didn't you always say at home that Xu Bing is a useless girl, a bastard who lost money, and that she was forced to raise a child who couldn't give birth to a son. Didn't you and my mother last time?" Talking about it together?"

Just look at Xu Weidong's face at the moment to know how lethal the truth is. He knows that his old family speaks rough, but he didn't expect them to comment on his wife and daughter secretly. It's impossible to say that they don't mind, but the problem lies with him. On his own mother, he is not easy to attack.

Chen Fan, as the person involved, has been looking at Xu Weidong coldly, but as time passed, her husband's inaction made her exhausted her patience, "Weidong, do you think this is made up by a child?"

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Xu looked at her dissatisfied, "You want to ask me if I said it, what do you want, scold you back or hit me back? I can't tell you, why, if you can't have a son, why not?" Displeased people said?"

Chen Fan's hands were shaking, which made the heart of the bystanders Xia Tian tremble.He bit his mandible and told himself that this was better than boiling frogs in warm water. The sooner she knew who Xu's mother and son were, the sooner she could wake up and leave in time.As a result of repeated compromises, Chen Fan could only be dragged to death in this muddy sewage pond.

Chen Fan still only asked her husband; "Xu Weidong, I was talking to you, don't you think you should give me an explanation?"

Being called by her first and last name, Xu Weidong felt very strange, and at the same time felt faintly uneasy, but he could neither directly accuse his mother - she was a woman who was more than a blessing to him, nor I would like to lose face in front of my daughter.Coughing heavily, he said impatiently: "There are too many problems with this child, and he needs to be educated in the future. It's okay, it's time to eat and eat, let's put the dumplings in the pot earlier."

Xia Tian was not surprised by his peace of mind at all, and then glanced at Xu Bing, who pulled Xu Qiangqiang obediently, "You will be one year older after the Chinese New Year, we should all know something, let's go, I will accompany you to bring the gift Put it back in the house, and give you half of the sugar."

Xu Qiangqiang had no doubts about all the overtures, and only took them as a signal of compromise to him, and walked away with Xu Bing complacently. About half a minute later, Xu Bing suddenly shouted, "Dad, Mom , Grandma, come and have a look."

When everyone went, they suddenly saw a pile of money hidden under Xu Qiangqiang's quilt.It's not the whole big ticket, but scattered renminbi, but the total amount is quite a lot, and I'm afraid it's enough to make up a hundred.

Xu Bing pointed to one of the money folded into a triangle and said, "This is my pocket money. I have saved it for a while, and it has been kept in my drawer. Why did you suddenly come here?"

how could be?Xu Bing really didn't wrong him!

This matter was discussed between her and Xia Tian. At first, she wanted to blame Xu Qiangqiang for the 2000 yuan, but Xia Tian thought it was inappropriate, the amount was too large, and Xu Qiangqiang didn't have the heart to pay attention to the money in the master bedroom. place.But what is Xu Qiangqiang's urination?Laziness, greed and slippery are all taken care of, if you give him a chance to see where Xu Bing hides his pocket money, he may not be able to use his brains.

Xia Tian had the idea of ​​giving it a try, but the result was really as he expected. The look Xu Bing met with him before told him that Xu Qiangqiang really stole the money.

With the facts in front of his eyes, Chen Fan's tone was full of disgust: "Look, this kid is not old, not only has a dirty mouth, but also steals money, I can't control this anymore, and I can't keep him at home, Xu Weidong, look Let's do it."

Recalling the old saying, Mrs. Xu immediately raised her voice: "You have been slandering the child before you figure it out, why are you so impatient as an aunt? Even if he took it, you wouldn't say a word about him? You are still engaged in education work , for my nephew, nothing but dislike is nothing but dislike."

"Yes, I just despise him!" Chen Fan suddenly seemed to be indifferent, "I can't afford a nephew who scolded me so badly, and I can't care about it! Send it back wherever it came from, as long as I'm here One day in this family, there will be no room for someone to eat and live in me and bully our mother and daughter!"

"Then what do you want?" Mrs. Xu glared at each other, "Oh, just raise your nephew, eat yours and drink yours, what do you say, it's my son's money! How much is your monthly salary, I will fully subsidize you Nephew, right? I don’t know, he’s a kid from a village, how can he have money to buy gifts, why don’t you use my son’s money to coax us to play, treat us like children…”

"He earned the money for Xia Tian by himself." Chen Fan said coldly, "He earns money by working part-time in his spare time. If you don't believe me, you can ask his teachers and classmates. I have never given him a penny. Even if I did, he would not want."

When Xia Tian first heard this, he couldn't help but froze in place.But before he recovered, Chen Fan spoke again, and said loudly to Mrs. Xu, "The law stipulates that your son's money belongs to the joint property of our husband and wife, and his is mine. Even if he dies, the property comes first." The heir is also me, not anyone from your old Xu family."

As the voice fell, the room exploded. Mrs. Xu cursed his son with full firepower. She performed super-level and almost used all the vicious words imaginable on Chen Fan until Xu Weidong Letting out a burst of shouting was enough to stop the old lady for a while.

Chen Fan turned a deaf ear to those insults, and asked Xu Weidong directly: "I asked to send Xu Qiangqiang back, what do you say?"

Xu Weidong frowned, worried beyond words. He thought of the story Xia Tian told, and wondered if he was also making wedding dresses for others. After a long while, he sighed shortly: "I'll contact him with a boarding school later. Don't let him stay at home."

The cub who had been hastily decided his fate understood this sentence and protested loudly: "I don't want to stay here! If you don't eat well, you won't live well! Grandma, the one who agreed to live at my second uncle's house, didn't you say that his house is my house?"

Mrs. Xu was also dissatisfied, she called her son's nickname, and there was a hoarse annoyance in her voice: "Second son, how can you treat Qiangqiang like this, for your woman, even disregarding blood and family? Without your elder brother, you can live well enough to enlist in the army? If you have a future, forget your roots, you can’t be so heartless!"

She looked at Chen Fan, with strong disgust in her eyes: "It's not just a woman, you will make a big business in the future, how many women do you want, this kind of one who can't even give birth to a son, we don't care about it .”

Xu Weidong looked at her in shock. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Chen Fan's eyes suddenly became a little more serious.

"You think so?" Chen Fan seemed neither angry nor sullen, "Xu Weidong, tell me the truth, did you tell your mother that?"

Xu Weidong was dumbfounded when he was asked. Like all men, he instinctively resisted being questioned aggressively by others, especially women, so he pressed his lips tightly, as if he was swearing to defend his poor dignity, and gave Chen Fan a refusal. Do not answer.

However, deep down in his heart, he never had such a thought.

He has seen how those people in the business world spend their days and nights, and the world outside has changed long ago. His unsteady beliefs have been shattered under the impact of money and power. It is not supported by any doctrine or ideal. He still remembers that when he wrote the big characters of the application for joining the party, what flashed before his eyes was clearly a beautiful vision of getting out of the ravine and changing his face.

He is speculating, out-and-out speculating, in the past, is now, and will be the same in the future.As a rootless duckweed, whichever direction the wind blows, it will naturally fall in that direction. This is the instinct of survival.

Is there something wrong?He doesn't think there is, and every decision he makes looks forward and never looks back.Just like he has no nostalgia for his more than 20 years of military career, he can abandon troops, leaders, comrades-in-arms, and colleagues without hesitation. The only thing he is reluctant to part with is probably this house.Now he is obviously going to move towards a new and beautiful vision, but he just wants to take advantage of the situation to help his family. Why does he have to make it so incompatible?

Xu Weidong became irritable, and just when he was about to calm down the fight as the head of the family, the old lady who never cared about his feelings said, "Second son, remember what you promised me!"

The old lady gritted her teeth, Xu Weidong was forced to widen his eyes, and responded angrily: "I haven't forgotten! Mom, you can go back after fifteen years, Qiangqiang, stay."

He paused for a moment, looking at Chen Fan as if a major matter had been reduced to a minor one, and looked at Chen Fan as if the emperor's grace had amnesty the world, "Let him go to boarding school instead of staying at home."

It's a pity that the compromise he made was not understood by the people closest to him. The two women gasped at the same time. Mrs. Xu would use crying and scolding, while Chen Fan remained indifferent. Then she suddenly laughed softly.

"I don't agree, and I don't want to share with you to raise this kind of person, and I can't let my daughter be bullied all day, it seems that we have to separate." She said, calmly ordered Xu Bing, "Pack up things , follow me to your cousin's house at night."

Xu Weidong finally panicked: "What do you mean? You don't want to leave, do you? I've already given in, what do you want?"

Chen Fan ignored him, went straight out and went back to the house, took some clothes for a change, Xu Weidong saw her determination clearly, and lowered his figure in a panic, "Don't be like this, what can't be said properly, you see, I may I will mention the assistant teacher, and the value will be different at that time. Mr. Wang will give me a better treatment, and I will discuss it with Director Zhang, and try to get a medical refund. We will make money while still having organizational security. Isn't it the stability you want and the opportunity I want, can't you have the best of both worlds?"

However, the more moved he said, the more chilling Chen Fan felt. All the positives of this person in his youth were all pretentious. Times change, people's hearts change, or to put it simply, she never really recognized it. I have surpassed that exquisite heart with seven apertures.

After she cleaned up, her daughter was already waiting for her at the door, Xu Bing was full of panic, she didn't expect things to end like this, shouldn't it be Xu Qiangqiang who left?

But Xia Tian behind her expected it, and this was also the result he wanted most.His purpose was never to get rid of Xu Qiangqiang. That would require Xu Weidong to make a clean break with his blood family and his past, which would be too difficult.What he wanted was for Chen Fan to see at a glance how vulgar and cowardly Xu Weidong was in his bones, so that he could understand the difficulties she would face in the future if he continued this marriage.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to use words, hints, and provocations to arouse the greatest malice and anger in everyone's heart, and then stood on the sidelines, watching with cold eyes the rift between the mother and the child, revealing their true colors.

Xu Weidong was still chattering, promising his so-called great future. Chen Fan never said a word, but looked back at him the moment he unlocked the door.

"You should change your career." After she said this, she had already walked out of the gate.

Xu Weidong's eyes were full of astonishment. Didn't she understand what he had said for a long time?Why did such an inexplicable sentence come out of nowhere!

He didn't know what to do, and stood there, almost looking at Xia Tian in bewilderment.

"What does she mean?" Xu Weidong asked silently.

Xia Tian looked at the pine green military trousers on Xu Weidong's body that have never been changed for thousands of years, and when he stepped out the door, he looked back at him with a half-smile, "She meant to say that you are not worthy of wearing this military uniform."