Chapter 40
Waiting for Sister to show off
Xu's children were like little hungry wolves, eating up all the steaming pot of cornstarch.
When my uncle saw this scene, he felt disgusted again.
Talking to her aunt at night.
"Let's send them back early tomorrow morning. If I stay here for another day, my heart will be blocked for one more day!"
"Tell the children to stay for a few more days! Can't we go after we're tired?"
Aunt Jinzhi is unhappy, her husband has gone too far!
The eldest uncle said bitterly: "No! You can't stay for more than one day!"
Aunt Jinzhi turned over and sat up, trying her best to control her emotions and lower her voice, "How can you be so cruel? Didn't you see that the child's feet have walked out of the bath?"
But her uncle refused to give in and said:
"You will have to go out to borrow food after a few days. How can you borrow food now that there is no one to pick up the slack? Besides, I get angry when I think of borrowing food because I am supporting your little sister's child! She is doing harm! It is unreasonable! She is harming the world.
If she takes someone else’s child, she should also be allowed to experience the suffering of her own child! Don’t say that our family is incapable of taking care of it, even if we have the ability, we won’t care!”
The more he spoke, the angrier he became and his volume increased.
"No more, no more! Go to bed quickly and don't wake up the children!"
Aunt Jinzhi groaned angrily and lay down without saying a word.
Outside the door, Jinzhi was eavesdropping.
She didn't sleep, couldn't sleep.
The attitude of her aunt and uncle during the day made her feel uneasy.
So she crept down to the ground and leaned under the door to eavesdrop.
She heard all their conversations!
I went back home and lay on the kang with my eyes wide open, thinking about what to do next.
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In the early morning, Aunt Jinzhi got up and disappeared. Jinzhi was nowhere to be found inside or outside the house.
She pushed Jinfu Jinfeng awake and asked eagerly: "Where is your sister? Where has your sister gone?"
Jinfu Jinfeng rubbed her eyes and said she didn't know where her sister had gone.
Then she cried and shouted for her sister.
"Stop crying! Those who didn't know better thought someone in our family had died!" The uncle yelled again.
The two children were so aggrieved that they didn't dare to say anything, and just burst into tears.
The aunt glared at her husband, then turned around to comfort the two children.
"Don't be afraid, Jinfu Jinfeng! My aunt is here! You two think carefully, where can your sister go?"
"I don't know! Woohoo!" Jinfu Jinfeng shook his head and continued to cry.
Jinfeng folded the quilt while crying.
At this time she found a letter under the quilt.
Jinfeng had not yet gone to school and was illiterate, so she gave the letter to her aunt.
"Jinfeng Jinfu, I've left. My aunt's house really can't support the three of us. Don't worry, I have a way. When I get out of my way, I'll definitely come and pick you two up. Just stay at my aunt's house.
Stay here, help my aunt’s house with work, and don’t leave. If you leave, I won’t be able to find you when I come back! Be obedient!”
Aunt Jinzhi read the letter and suddenly felt that this child Jinzhi was so thoughtful that he would not leave her a letter.
So I went back to the house to search.
I actually found it, the letter was on the window sill.
"Auntie, uncle! I thought about it again and again, and decided to leave. Please don't drive away Jinfu Jinfeng. I know it's difficult for auntie's family to have two more people to eat, but they are also desperate. Please believe me, I will sneak out.
You look like a human being, I will repay you to my aunt and uncle when the time comes. Jinzhi begs on my knees."
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"Mom! I found out that some little girls from that family in Houshan Village came to our village again!"
Tongzhu came back from outside and walked into the house to tell his mother.
Mrs. Cui was excited, "What are they doing here again? Where is Fubao?"
"Fu Bao is feeding chickens in the yard!"
Mrs. Cui breathed a sigh of relief.
He warned Tongzhu, "Tongzhu, watch your sister. Don't lose your lucky treasure!"
"Mom! Don't worry! I recognized those girls just now and took Fu Bao home right away."
Mrs. Cui patted her son on the small shoulder, "Yes! Just look at it."
Then asked: "Did Fu Bao see them?"
"did not see it."
"Where are those girls?"
"On the village road not far from our home."
"Okay! You watch Fu Bao at home, and I'll go out and take a look."
Mrs. Cui immediately walked out of the house and walked to the village road, looking around, but there were no girls around.
She came to her cornfield and found her husband who was cutting stubble.
He stepped forward and took her husband's hand, "Don't do it yet! I have something to tell you when I get home."
"What's the matter?" Qi Futian asked, leaning on his head.
"Go home and tell me! Fu Bao is at home and I can't leave him for too long." After saying that, he strode home.
Qi Futian had no choice but to put down his work and follow his wife back home. He followed Ms. Cui to the North House.
Asked: "What's the matter? Tell me!"
Mrs. Cui grabbed her husband's hand and said worriedly: "Fu Bao's family is determined to take Fu Bao away! Just now Tongzhu saw some girls from that family coming over again. Do you think they will secretly take Fu Bao away?"
Take it away?"
Qi Futian patted his wife on the shoulder and comforted him: "Don't worry! They can't just take it away if they want to, so I won't give it to them! They don't dare to snatch the child in broad daylight!"
Ms. Cui was still worried and asked: "His dad! If they want to recognize us but don't give it to us, who will win in this matter?"
Qi Futian shook his head, "It's hard to say."
Ms. Cui laid her head on her husband's shoulder and began to cry.
She was too afraid that Fu Bao would be recognized!
She felt that her heart was already connected by blood with this child, as if the little guy was the flesh of her body. If someone took her away, her flesh would be cut from her body, and she would be hurt to death.
Qi Futian gently patted his wife's back, "Don't worry! Fu Bao won't leave with them. This child has been in our house for as long as he can remember and has no feelings for them."
"But they have flesh and blood! Facing their biological parents, the child may be shaken!" Ms. Cui wiped away her tears.
"What should we do?" Qi Futian looked at his wife.
"Move! Get out of here! They won't be able to find you." Ms. Cui said decisively.
It seems that she has long made up her mind to leave here.
"To put it lightly, this is a family of eight! Where can we go to survive?"
"Ling'an Town Rapeseed Village!"
Rapeseed Village in Ling'an Town is the village where Qi Futian's sister lives.
"You mean to go to the child's aunt?"
"Yeah! I heard that the vegetable farmers have a better life than us, and the house of my child's aunt is also spacious. I can borrow it temporarily. If we get used to it, we can build a small house ourselves."
"Stop making blind calculations! This won't work!"
The countryside is not like the city, so how can we move easily? We cannot take the land and houses with us, and it is difficult to live in another place.
"Why can't it work? As long as you are willing to endure hardship, there is no way you can survive?" Ms. Cui tried to convince her husband.
"This is a big deal. Think it over carefully before talking about it. It's still early and I have to go to the fields. You can keep an eye on Fubao at home and close the door." Qi Futian said perfunctorily and walked out.
"Yeah!" After her husband left, Ms. Cui closed the door and locked the bolt.
Then he stood silently next to Fu Bao and watched her feeding the chickens.
Chapter completed!