Doomsday Grain

The two got up, washed up and just left the room when they heard voices downstairs.

Lin Qian took two quick steps, went downstairs and saw two people standing in the room.Grandpa heard the voice and looked back, his eyes were still red.

"Qianqian, come here."

"What's wrong?" Lin Qian hadn't seen Grandpa like this for many years.

"Your brother Guifu is gone. Your grandma and brother are just like this. They are gone." Grandpa doesn't have many relatives, and his only sister is the best. The only serious relatives in the village are the daughter-in-law's family.

Grandma Lin Qian was just two siblings, and she had a lot of them in her early years, but her medical conditions were poor in her early years, and she basically died cleanly.In the early years, grandpa and grandma had a hard time as a couple, and grandma's younger brother took care of them a lot.Now that the remaining roots are gone, no wonder grandpa is sad.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qian walked up to his grandfather and supported him.

A man came from inside the room and said: "The one who got up at night and fell to the edge of the kang fell to his death. He must have fallen asleep. He is such an old child, so he just disappeared."

The person who came to write the letter was the neighbor next to Guifu's house.

Guifu, although the name is a bit rustic, but you can also see the blessings of the adults in the family on him.

"Where's my aunt?" Lin Qian asked again.

"People are stupid. They are still sitting on the kang and don't move. They don't respond to anyone who speaks. For so many years, she has treated Guifu like her own son. She started pulling him when she was six years old. Now that she is gone, how can she bear it?" Can you live?"

Lin Qian's grandmother was named Li Guo, and his younger brother was named Li Qingshan.Li Qingshan has only one son alive till now, named Li Guangtian, and this Li Guifu is his only son.

The aunt Zhang Xiaoyu that Lin Qian was talking about was Li Guangtian's later wife. His earlier wife divorced and left.Zhang Xiaoyu was only 22 years old when she got married, and Li Guifu was also 6 years old. The difference between the two is 16 years old.

At that time, everyone in the village said that with such a small gap, they must not be able to take care of the children.No one expected that the mother and son got along as if they were their own. Even Zhang Xiaoyu hadn't given birth to a child all these years, so she just took care of such a child.Later, Li Guangtian got sick and passed away, and Zhang Xiaoyu never remarried. She farmed the land by herself, and went out to work in the slack, and devoted herself to supporting Li Guifu's education.

This Li Guifu is 21 this year, just in his third year of college, and Zhang Xiaoyu is relieved to see that he will graduate and earn money in a year and a half, who would have thought that he would be gone like this.

After hearing this, Lin Qian also felt that Zhang Xiaoyu was pitiful, so he asked his grandfather what he meant, and the two of them went over to have a look and give some money.From now on, unless Zhang Xiaoyu remarries, otherwise this widow who is only 37 years old and lives alone will definitely not have an easy life in the future.

He Yangxuan took care of the house, the father and father got dressed, discussed it and counted two thousand.

There are only so few blood relatives on the grandma side.It's not easy for Zhang Xiaoyu to raise a child these years. If she spends more money to buy more things, her life will be difficult in the future, so she can help her.

Met a few people along the way to go together.There are fewer people in the village now. So many people died last year, most of them have not been buried yet.This young man survived the plague, but died in the middle of the night, which is really embarrassing.

Those who die without marriage, no matter how old they are, belong to the children. Without those rules, there is no way to buy a coffin now.Those who came to help wrapped the child in two layers of quilts and put them on the kang without lighting a fire.There is no way to be buried right now, and we have to wait for Zhang Xiaoyu to recover before deciding what to do.

When Lin Qian helped his grandfather enter the door, Zhang Xiaoyu was sitting in the east room.The east house is the main house, which is usually lived by the owner or the elders.

Zhang Xiaoyu's expression was dull, and it seemed that he was stimulated.

Grandpa called "Guangtian's daughter-in-law" twice, but she didn't respond, and the people next to him reminded her twice, but Zhang Xiaoyu didn't respond, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

She lost two children.

Lin Qian took out the 2000 yuan he had prepared, walked over and placed it under the mat Zhang Xiaoyu was sitting on.There will be a lot of people coming today, this mat should be made by a woman who came to help.

This piece of Xiaoyu is already like this, so I don't have much to say, just take a look and it's over.

When the two of them left the yard, they saw several people coming.Lin Qian looked at the familiar faces, and waited until they were far away before asking Grandpa who they were.

"Who else is it, Guangtian's daughter-in-law's family. This person has been dead for two hours. We all know that her family is here." Grandpa said with a bit of anger.

Lin Qian didn't know much, but he also knew that her family disliked the poor and loved the rich, so they broke up Zhang Xiaoyu and refused to tell her sweetheart, and even refused to let her go to university, so she watched the gift money and married her to a second marriage regardless of her objection. Li Guangtian.

Based on this alone, Lin Qian would never look at them in his life.

"My little aunt is like that now, and at this time, my mother's family has to come over to take charge."

Li Guifu's family is extinct, although Zhang Xiaoyu is a stepmother, but his grandma's family has long since ceased contacting, that is, the stepgrandmother's family.

"The ghost knows what's in charge? With their family's beating nature (common virtue, a derogatory term), they can just evacuate the Li family today."

"Then I'll go over and take a look?" Lin Qian asked.

"What are you going to do? It's not enough to gossip. If someone really rapes his girl to death, we can't reach out to her family. If Guangtian's wife stays in Li's house and doesn't leave, then it's still your little aunt, It’s understandable to go to help at that time. If someone takes it home and finds another person, you will have to bear it if you go and get involved with others saying that you have bad intentions.”

How old is grandpa?It's too soon to become fine.He is more transparent than anyone else about the messy things in the village, but most of the time he likes to keep his mouth shut and hides away when encountering right and wrong.

After hearing what his grandfather said, Lin Qian knew it made sense.Although he is a soft-hearted person, he is not a person full of kindness. The premise of helping others is that he will not be affected.

After all, this is a village. Although some random rumors are not painful or itchy, they still have a lot of impact on life.

"When I was young, I heard that my aunt was forced to marry my Uncle Hirota, right?" Lin Qian didn't know much about adults, and in fact, grandpa was also the type who wouldn't talk about it without asking him.What Lin Qian knew was basically what he heard from those people when he was young when he went to school in the village and waited for the bus at the small store at the entrance of the village.It's just been too long to remember.

"Isn't it because you were forced! Your aunt found a partner on her own back then, and even had children. Her natal family just disliked her for being poor. At that time, your aunt was still in college, and she was taken back just after confinement. I married you Uncle Hirota in two months. I still remember when I got married, I was as thin as a stick."

"I, Uncle Hirota, don't know about this?"

"How can I not know? But when you got married, your aunt did agree, and Guifu lacked a mother. Your aunt's conditions are good, she went to college anyway, and she can teach more children, so the matter is settled like this Not to mention the past, even now, the matter of getting married in the village is that the two families agreed to arrange it for their children, and it was even more serious more than ten years ago."

In fact, grandpa was not optimistic about this marriage at the beginning.But he is not a family member after all.The daughter-in-law is dead, and it is not easy for him to get involved with the affairs of the old Li's family alone.

He sighed and said again: "It's quite ironic to say it. There was news the day after tomorrow that they didn't like the poor boy at first, but later he became successful. He took the child to work in France alone, and the child also went to school there. At that time, the village was It is said that after the child is beaten, can he come back to recognize his mother? But two years ago, someone said that the child died due to an accident. I don’t know if this letter is true or not, but after the beating, your aunt has devoted herself to supporting Brother Guifu One."

"It should be very open-minded to let a girl go to college? Besides, the other party was also a college student back then, and he had the vision to let a girl go to college. It shouldn't be hard to see that college students at that time were also valuable." There are still many People think that it is useless for a daughter to go to college, and many people find jobs after elementary school.

"Do you really think it's purely for the purpose of getting my daughter out of this poor mountain valley? If I really had this idea at the beginning, it's impossible for me to get it back and find someone to marry before I finish college." Grandpa glanced at Lin Qian, he was serious Look, Lin Qian thought things were simple.

This is his advantage and disadvantage.Right and wrong in the city are different from those in the village.Lin Qian has been outside all these years, perhaps because of the blessing of his hometown, when he returns to the village, he likes to think about the good in everything.If you live outside for a long time, there is nothing wrong with this, but if you live in the village for a long time, this kind of thinking will suffer.

"You said you have other plans for letting her go to college?" Lin Qian also thought of it when he was mentioned.

"After all, it's my grandson. He went to be stupid with me when I was young." Grandpa sighed and said, "At that time, all walks of life were just emerging. In fact, your little aunt's parents saw it quite far, at least better than the people in the village. Look far. When your aunt was young, not to mention going to university, few children went to school at that time. The primary school teacher in the village regularly went door to door with the village cadres to persuade the parents of children to send their children to school. Most of them are only for sons to go to school. Your aunt’s first three sons are all for your aunt.”

Now that grandpa has said this, even if Lin Qian is really a fool, he can see something at this moment.

"You mean you want to raise my aunt to raise their three sons?" Sucking a daughter's blood to raise a son is very common here, and it has even become a trend.But even if their family had planned these things when Zhang Xiaoyu was a child, the idea was far ahead.

"That's it." As soon as they got home, the two entered the room and took off their down jackets.He Yangxuan was sitting on the sofa eating melon seeds, when he saw the two came back, he stood up and clapped his hands.

"came back."

Grandpa sat next to He Yangxuan, and pulled He Yangxuan to sit next to him.

Lin Qian wanted to hear his grandfather finish his sentence, so he grabbed a handful of melon seeds on the coffee table and continued to ask, "Then why don't they let their son go up there?"

"Why? My son doesn't know how to study. And at that time, girls who had studied were valuable, and the wedding gifts could be doubled several times. They felt that even if they used so much money to pay their sons, they might not be able to make a living. It's risky to make a living on your own. But girls are different. At that time, rich people married all female college students. If you offer your aunt, if you can really ask for a bride price of 20 to [-], it can be worth [-] less work for the three sons. Years don't stop."

With the prices at that time, let alone hundreds of thousands, even tens of thousands were big numbers.

"Then why take it back if that's the case... By the way, she found someone herself." Lin Qian sighed.In fact, Zhang Xiaoyu's vision was correct.There is an old saying that is good, don't bully young people into poverty.The Zhang family disliked being poor, and would rather force Zhang Xiaoyu to marry a second-married man than to fulfill the two of them. As a result, they lost their real rich son-in-law.