Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 201 Chaotou Village

In order to undertake the project, Yu Zhiyong hired a murderer to injure others and was arrested.

When Wang Ping called, Liu Xiaonan was sitting by the river fishing with her daughter.My daughter wants to spend a few more days in the countryside, and Liu Xiaonan also wants her to build more relationships with her grandma and Liuzijie, so she stays at home for a few more days.

He took his daughter to walk all over Liuzi Street and met most of the villagers; he took his daughter to visit the abandoned elementary school and the stone tablet of Mr. Guan, and told his daughter the cultural anecdotes of Liuzi Street; All kinds of crops, even took my daughter down to pull weeds in the rice fields
Taking advantage of the cool weather in the morning, Liu Xiaonan took her daughter to the river to go fishing again.The father and daughter were having fun when Wang Ping called and told him something had happened to Yu Zhiyong.He comforted Wang Ping not to panic, he will return to Bincheng immediately, and he will come forward to solve any problems.

Putting away the fishing rod, Liu Xiaonan took her daughter back home, briefly explained the situation to her mother and Meng Xiangxiang, packed up her things and returned to Bincheng immediately.Considering that Liu Xiaonan had something on his mind and worried about his friend, Meng Xiangxiang took the initiative to drive.

Sitting in the speeding car, Liu Xiaonan thought, it would be good if Yu Zhiyong stumbled, so that he could remember better.

Yu Zhiyong's decoration engineering team is still very profitable.Although the competition was fierce, the couple took on big and small jobs, coupled with their flexible minds, righteousness and willingness to endure hardships, it was very prosperous for a time.

With the money, he first bought a big house, and the family of three moved out of the old house together with the father-in-law and mother-in-law.Then he returned to the countryside and built new houses for his grandparents, mother and stepfather who raised him.

He did not forget the hurt and humiliation brought to him by his father and stepmother. He drove his new car and took his son to his father's house. He wanted to show off and humiliate him, but changed his mind temporarily.My father has already been laid off, and he has been working all over the place. He still lives in the old house, and the furniture and electrical appliances should be eliminated.

Smoking low-quality cigarettes and drinking the cheapest loose liquor, my father looked haggard and his body showed signs of premature aging.When I saw my own grandson, I felt helpless, so I only offered 100 yuan as a meeting gift.

He suddenly felt sad, and could no longer hate his father. The [-] years of grievances between father and son melted into silence and tears.He redecorated the house for his father, replaced it with a full set of furniture and household appliances, and paid a large amount of pension insurance and medical insurance for his father.

He was determined to be a good father himself.After his son graduated from university, he stayed in the provincial capital to work. He bought his son a house and a car with all the money, so that his son could get married without any worries.

But after that, he completely changed.In his own words, when you have a lot of money in your hand, the women around you can't drive you away, so you take the initiative to rush up.He started to stay out at night, and Wang Ping quarreled with him, so he filed for divorce.

For this reason, Wang Ping approached Liu Xiaonan, and Liu Xiaonan talked to Yu Zhiyong, asking him to think about how he hated his father back then.Yu Zhiyong couldn't listen to it, and said plausibly that he had fulfilled his responsibilities as a father, and his son would not hate him.

Liu Xiaonan went deeper and said that one cannot be ungrateful and unconscionable. He was homeless back then, but it was Wang Ping who broke the urban-rural boundary and gave him a stable home.Now that he is old and youth is no longer there, and he wants to abandon him, is he worthy of his own conscience?

Yu Zhiyong asked him back, how much is a conscience worth?

Liu Xiaonan said: "A man should have the minimum sense of responsibility when dealing with his family."

Yu Zhiyong still asked him back: "You have a sense of responsibility? What about Wu Yanli's house and shop? Can she afford it? What about her girl surnamed Liu? I don't know what your relationship is."

Liu Xiaonan persuaded Yu Zhiyong not to be moved, so he had to invite out his eldest sister Wang Aiqing.Wang Aiqing scolded Yu Zhiyong, and Yu Zhiyong restrained himself.Now that there is another incident of hiring a murderer to hurt someone, it seems that he still doesn't recognize himself.

Back in Bincheng, Liu Xiaonan went to see Wang Ping immediately to find out what happened.Wang Aiqing, Guan Xiaoyun and Wu Yanli were by Wang Ping's side, and they were relieved to see Liu Xiaonan rushing back.

It turned out that Yu Zhiyong undertook the renovation project of a hotel, and another engineering team stepped in and snatched the project at a lower price.Yu Zhi was brave enough, thinking that someone was riding on his neck to shit, found a few social idlers, smashed the hotel, and injured the contractor of another construction team and several construction workers.

People called the police and offered huge compensation.

Wang Ping wept and told Liu Xiaonan that the family did not have much money.Yu Zhiyong squandered the little money he earned in the past few years on those dubious women.

Liu Xiaonan reassures everyone that he will do everything he can to solve it.He came to the police station to learn about the case, and said that he could reconcile as much as possible and avoid prosecution. The policeman who handled the case asked him to talk to the victim first.

He went to the hotel owner and expressed his willingness to bear all the economic losses, and then went to the hospital to visit the injured, and he agreed to all the compensation conditions proposed by them.

In view of Yu Zhiyong's good attitude of admitting his mistakes, the hotel and the injured were satisfied with the compensation and no longer prosecuted, and he was finally detained for [-] days.

After the criminal detention was over, Yu Zhiyong walked out of the detention center. In front of Liu Xiaonan, Wang Ping and others, he slapped himself hard.It turned out that he did that irrational behavior at the instigation of a woman.

Through this incident, Yu Zhiyong saw a fact clearly.After his accident, those women who usually had a hot fight with him had long since disappeared without a trace.Workers from the former textile factory who rarely contacted each other, regardless of gender, came to visit and expressed their concerns and condolences.

After a big somersault, he finally understood what is true love and what is false love.

Wang Ping forgave Yu Zhiyong, and Yu Zhiyong returned to the family. The couple regrouped and started a new business.The compensation and medical expenses that Liu Xiaonan paid in advance was not a small amount, although Liu Xiaonan repeatedly emphasized that it was what a friend should do.

Liu Xiaonan is busy with Zhiyong's work, the summer vacation is almost over, and Liu Xufei is about to enter junior high school.Meng Xiangxiang went through the transfer procedures for Liu Xufei, and took Liu Xufei to meet the teacher of the new school. She felt that she had a lot of things that a mother should do.

During the time when Liu Xiaonan was busy with Yu Zhiyong, Meng Xiangxiang was in charge of taking care of Liu Xufei, helping her with her homework and taking her out to play.Through this stage of intensive basic training, Liu Xufei's learning ability, learning methods and learning consciousness have all improved to a higher level.

Meng Xiangxiang gave the necessary affirmation and appreciation, and she said to Liu Xufei: "Auntie can tell you responsibly that your foundation in mathematics is solid, your spoken English is very standard, and your grammar and vocabulary have improved. Through reading , You have become a little lady, and your speech and behavior are very lovable. Auntie has great confidence in you, and you must also have confidence in yourself. "

Facing Meng Xiangxiang's praise, Liu Xufei asked a question that Meng Xiangxiang couldn't avoid: "Auntie, should I not be born? I think I have caused a lot of trouble to my parents and auntie."

Meng Xiangxiang hugged Liu Xufei halfway in his arms distressedly. This shouldn't be something a 12-year-old girl should think about.She gently stroked Liu Xufei's cheek and said, "You are the little angel of your parents and your auntie's good child; you bring comfort and hope to your parents, and you also bring happiness to your auntie. Xufei, what auntie said is Honestly, you didn't cause us any trouble."

Liu Xufei once again raised a question that Meng Xiangxiang had to face up to: "Auntie, do you hate my mother?"

"Auntie doesn't hate your mother." Meng Xiangxiang gave a confident answer: "How could Auntie hate your mother? Your mother and your father, they have pure emotions and cannot be judged by simple right and wrong. Measure. Your father is an extraordinary father, and your mother is also an extraordinary mother. The decisions they made transcended worldly concepts, and my aunt can fully understand."

Liu Xufei sat up straight in Meng Xiangxiang's arms, her little face was flushed, and she confessed, "I really want to be Auntie's good boy."

Meng Xiangxiang took Liu Xufei's little hand and said, "You were a good boy in the first place, do your brothers and sisters like you very much? Don't think about such problems in the future, you should grow up healthy and happy."

After this conversation, Liu Xufei quietly asked Liu Xiaonan: "Father, can I consider my auntie my mother? I have a mother, and I don't call my auntie my mother. I regard my auntie as my mother in my heart."

"Of course." Liu Xiaonan replied happily, "Auntie loves you, cares about you, and takes care of you. You should have a grateful heart."

After the new semester started, Meng Xiangxiang sent Liu Xufei to school, picked Liu Xufei up after school, and helped Liu Xufei with homework at night, but Liu Xiaonan became an outsider instead.After one semester, Liu Xufei handed in a satisfactory answer sheet.The results of the final exam belonged to the upper-middle level in the key middle school attached to the Provincial Normal School.

Meng Xiangxiang went to pick up Liu Xufei after get off work.Sitting in the car, Liu Xufei took out the report card and handed it to Meng Xiangxiang anxiously: "Auntie, I failed the exam. I wanted to be at the top like my brothers and sisters, but unfortunately I failed."

Meng Xiangxiang took the report card, looked at it carefully, and encouraged him with a smile: "Learning is for yourself, not for comparing yourself with others. You have made great progress. Look at the teacher's comments on you." , Unite with classmates, be enthusiastic about helping others, study hard, be caring, and have a sense of collective honor, this is what a person should stick to most.”

Liu Xufei smiled: "Auntie, do you think I can still improve?"

Meng Xiangxiang was still admiring and encouraging: "Auntie told you that learning should be a joy, not a burden. A person's life is a process of continuous learning and progress. Auntie and you work together .”

Meng Xiangxiang took out his mobile phone and asked Liu Xufei to call his mother to report on his academic performance and progress.Liu Xu happily finished talking to her mother, and handed the phone to Meng Xiangxiang: "My mother wants to say a few words to my aunt."

Meng Xiangxiang took the phone, and Wu Yanli said on the phone, "Sister-in-law, it's all thanks to you that the child is today, thank you!"

Meng Xiangxiang said: "Let's not talk politely, we have a good daughter in common."

Not long after Liu Xufei's winter vacation, Liu Xiaonan received a call from her mother, saying that her fourth brother had fallen ill and was sent to the county hospital for emergency treatment.Liu Xiaonan asked about her condition, but her mother said she didn't know yet.

Liu Xiaonan drove straight to the county seat, and when he arrived at the county hospital, he first went to see the doctor in charge of his fourth brother to understand his condition.The doctor told him that the fourth brother's disease was a brain tumor, which had already developed lesions and was located in the brainstem, so he couldn't be operated on, and the remaining time would not be too long.

Liu Xiaonan paid 20 yuan in advance for the fourth brother's medical expenses, and asked the doctor to try his best to keep the fourth brother alive, it doesn't matter how much it costs.There are less than [-] days before the new year, he just wants to alleviate the pain of the fourth brother, so that the fourth brother can live the last year.

Liu Xiaonan stood in the corridor of the hospital, calmed himself down, and then walked into the fourth brother's ward.The fourth brother was lying on the hospital bed on an IV drip, with only the fourth sister-in-law by his side.The fourth brother is pale and his eyes are slightly closed, his cheekbones are protruding and his eye sockets are sunken, but from his cheeks, he is already extremely thin.

The fourth brother was such a strong person. Even in his 60s, he still does not lose to young people in work.An illness knocked down the fourth brother in one fell swoop.

Liu Xiaonan stood in front of the fourth brother's bed and called softly, "Fourth brother."

Hearing Liu Xiaonan's cry, the fourth brother opened his eyes and stretched out a hand: "Xiaonan, why are you here?"

Liu Xiaonan held the fourth brother's hand, pretending to be relaxed and smiling: "My mother told me that the fourth brother was sick. I didn't believe it at first, what kind of body is the fourth brother, and he can still get sick? But it doesn't matter. , my fourth brother has never been hospitalized, this time I will taste what it is like to be hospitalized, have a good check-up and recuperate. Before long, I will still be my fourth brother who is alive and well."

The fourth brother held Liu Xiaonan's hand firmly and said, "Xiaonan, they all concealed their illness from me. I don't think it's a good illness. I'm not afraid of death. Your father also died at my age. Your father is still enjoying retirement. Jin, it's a pity. I have nothing, nothing to miss."

Liu Xiaonan said: "Fourth brother, you actually said something stupid. Fourth sister-in-law is not worthy of your nostalgia? Don't think about it, take good care of your illness, who can not go through some ups and downs? Do you remember, when I was five years old, I went to play with you by the river, I almost drowned, but you were the one who fished me out of the water. Look at my brother now, just like the fourth brother, he has no illness at all."

"That's true." The fourth brother glanced at the fourth sister-in-law beside him, and grinned: "Fortunately, you are lucky. If you survive a catastrophe, you will have good luck. I will listen to my brother and take good care of your illness."

Liu Xiaonan always mentioned some happy and interesting things in his youth to make the fourth brother happy.When he was leaving, the fourth sister-in-law sent him outside the door.

The fourth sister-in-law wiped her tears and said, "The doctor said, your fourth brother doesn't have much time, I don't know if he can survive this year."

Liu Xiaonan comforted the fourth sister-in-law: "I paid the medical expenses in advance for the fourth brother, and if it is not enough, I will call and tell me. Let's do our best, and the rest will depend on God's will."

The fourth brother passed away just after the first lunar month, and Liu Xiaonan rushed home to attend the funeral of the fourth brother.The fourth sister-in-law and her two children organized a decent funeral for the fourth brother and their adoptive father.

After the fourth brother was buried, Liu Xiaonan and Uncle Guan Deyu walked down the mountain together.Walking to the mountain ridge, we stopped together, overlooking the entire Liuzijie Village.The ice and snow have melted, spring has come, and the farmers are busy preparing for the plowing, which does not change because of the loss of one person.

Guan Deyu sighed and said, "You know, Xiaonan. The population of the village is decreasing year by year. In a few years, we don't know how many people of our generation will be able to live in this world. Usually in the village , People under the age of 50 are rare, and the main labor force is you people born in the 60s. The superiors decided to merge Liuzi Street with the adjacent village, and change the name of the village back to Chaotou Village.”

Liu Xiaonan said, "Third Uncle, maybe one day, the name Chaotou Village will cease to exist."

Uncle Guan Deyu just nodded and said nothing.

Back in Bincheng, Liu Xiaonan picked up the pen that had been put down for many years, and wrote a novel: "Camel Mountain". He saved the manuscript in the computer file, leaving a little thought for the fourth brother.

(End of this chapter)