Zhou Hao wanted to ask again, but when he saw the melancholy look on Yan Qingqing's pursed lips, he couldn't bear to push her anymore. He sighed slightly in his heart, smiled and changed the subject: "By the way, I just heard my aunt and the others say
You don't study anymore."
Yan Qingqian nodded slightly and said with a somewhat self-deprecating smile: "I'm not good at studying anyway, and I've never passed Chinese and mathematics." She smiled lightly and looked at Zhou Hao, "Auntie said that your grades in school are very good.
Okay, Xiaohao, you have to work hard. If you get into a good university in the future, your future will be better." She knew that only by studying hard could she have a good future, but she was no longer studying.
In fact, Zhou Hao knows that Yan Qingqing is the kind of girl who is clever and clever. If she can make up her mind and study hard, her grades will not be worse than his own. However, on the one hand, the conditions at Yan Munan's family are not good, and a year of hard work will not do it.
I can only barely maintain the life at home, and I still have to live with Yan Mudong
It would be difficult to support both parents and pay for Yan Qingqing's studies. Yan Qingqing had to help the family with housework and farm work since he was a child, and the time he could spend on studying was very limited. Therefore, Yan Qingqing
It’s not that I’m stupid, but that I can’t take study into consideration objectively.
She didn't go to high school, which was largely her own intention, because she didn't want to add to the burden on her family.
"Cousin Qingqing, if you have the chance, will you go to school again?" Zhou Hao asked.
Yan paused slightly, then shook his head and said with a smile: "Forget it, I don't have this kind of talent, so there's no need to waste my time."
"What about work? Cousin, do you want to work in the city?" Zhou Hao asked her.
"Work?" Yan Qingqing's heart moved.
Zhou Hao smiled and said: "Yes, didn't my mother open a shop? You can come and help. After all, we are a family, and it is very convenient to take care of her."
"Can I really do it?" After hearing Zhou Hao's words, Yan Qingqing was very moved, but when she thought about it, her expression darkened again, "Still, it's no use. I want to stay here, but I can't.
Leave here." When she said this, a kind of pain and helplessness flashed in her eyes, as if she had some reason to stay here.
"Why? I don't think uncle and the others will object," Zhou Hao said.
But Yan Qingqing shook her head stubbornly, "No need, Xiaohao, really no need, I'm fine here, I don't need to go to the city, and you can also ask other people to help me, a rural girl like me
, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do it without me.”
Zhou Hao was puzzled by Yan Qingqing's change, because when he said he wanted her to come to the city to help, she had a look of excitement on her face, but she suddenly changed her attitude, obviously for some reason.
However, Zhou Hao also knew that although Yan Qingqing was gentle and kind, she could also be very stubborn sometimes. If she didn't want to say it, he still wouldn't say it no matter how he asked her.
So he said deliberately: "Forget it, I won't force you."
"Yes." Yan Qing nodded slightly, but there was also deep disappointment and helplessness in his eyes.
"By the way, cousin Qingqing, I brought you a gift when I came back this time." Zhou Hao said with a smile.
Yan Qingqing showed her smile again, "Really? What kind of gift is it?"
Zhou Hao took out a concentric knot from his arms and handed it to Yan Qingqing, "Didn't you often say that you wanted to have a concentric knot like the heroine on TV? I brought it to you."
Seeing this red concentric knot, Yan was slightly stunned, and then two streams of crystal tears overflowed from her eyes. She covered her mouth and cried uncontrollably.
Zhou Hao was startled by Yan Qingqing's reaction and said quickly: "Cousin Qingqing, what's wrong? You, why are you crying? Did I do something wrong? Cousin Qingqing, don't cry."
Yan shook her head gently and cried: "No, you didn't do anything wrong. It's me. I'm so happy." She took the concentric knot and said to Zhou Hao: "Xiao Hao, I'm so happy.
I like this gift of yours very much, I really like it." As she spoke, her tears flowed out again.
However, Zhou Hao felt that besides being happy, Yan Qingqing also had an inexplicable sadness in her eyes.
I saw Yan Qingqing looking deeply at the concentric knot given by Zhou Hao, covering her heart again, and finally carefully putting it into the bag of her clothes, wiping her tears and smiling at Zhou Hao: "Xiao Hao
,Thank you, I like this gift very much, I really like it."
"As long as you like it, it's been a long time since we came out. Let's go back." Zhou Hao said, taking Yan Qingqing's hand and heading back down the mountain.
Being held by Zhou Hao's hand, Yan Qingqing's face had two faint red clouds. Looking at Zhou Hao's grown-up and mature figure, her eyes suddenly became a little blurred and a little vaguely sad.
Zhou Hao, who was holding Yan Qingqing's hand, also had a strange feeling in his heart, especially the warmth and slight moisture coming from Yan Qingqing's hand, which seemed to penetrate Zhou Hao's heart bit by bit.
Back in front of Yan's house, Zhou Hao and Yan Qingqing saw a group of villagers watching at the door, and there was a quarrel inside. Zhou Hao was startled and quickly led Yan Qingqing through the crowd and walked inside.
While walking through the crowd, Zhou Hao heard someone say: "Huh? Isn't that the wife that the old Wei family is going to marry? Why did you come back with a man?"
In addition to Zhou Hao, Yan Qingqing also heard this, but she didn't say anything. She just lowered her head and followed Zhou Hao. Zhou Hao had no time to pay attention to these villagers, and walked into Yan's house with Yan Qingqing.
As soon as he arrived in the yard, Zhou Hao saw two local dogs lying there bloody, both of them had been disemboweled and their intestines and internal organs were leaking out. It looked very scary. And Yan Mudong, Yan Munan and Yan
Tong was in the yard. When he saw Zhou Hao and Yan Qingqing coming back, Yan Munan hurriedly came over and said nervously: "You guys are back. How is it? Nothing happened outside, right?"
Zhou Hao shook his head and asked Yan Munan: "Second uncle, what's going on? Why did these two dogs die in our yard?"
Uncle Yan Mudong walked to the door and waved to the villagers who were watching outside, "Okay, okay, let's all go back. It's just two dogs that died. There's nothing interesting to see. Let's go back." With that, he moved the yard.
The door is closed.
Yan Tong glanced at the two dogs and said, "These are probably not our dogs."
Yan Munan shook his head and said, "No."
"But who is so disgusting that he throws them into our yard?" Yan Tong said, covering her mouth.
At this time, she saw that Yan Qingqing's face was very ugly. She looked at the two dead native dogs on the ground and said to herself: "It must be that guy Wei Kuanji who did it."
Although she spoke in a low voice, Zhou Hao had excellent ears and heard her words clearly. This was also the first time Zhou Hao heard "Wei Kuanji" from Yan Qingqing, and he associated it with his uncle, aunt and Yan Qingqing.
Zhou Hao immediately guessed the abnormality just now, which must be related to Wei Kuanji.
"Stop talking about it now, let's deal with these two dogs." Yan Mudong said, and he and Yan Munan carried the bodies of the two dogs out of the yard, and covered the blood stains on the ground with sand.
Back in the house, Zhou Hao took the lead and asked: "Uncle, uncle, what happened? Those two local dogs just now were clearly a threat. Uncle, uncle, we are all one family.
People, if you have anything, just tell us, we will definitely help."
Yan Tong also said: "Yes, big brother, second brother, Xiaohao is right, please tell us what happened."
Yan Mudong and Yan Munan sighed deeply, and Yan Munan said: "We have always raised fish, haven't we? Two years ago we contracted four more fish ponds and brought the fish to nearby counties to buy them.
Business is pretty good, and our lives are getting better too.
. But half a year ago, all the fish in our seven fish ponds, including our original three, died, and we don’t know why. Moreover, when we bought fish fry, we still owed thousands of yuan to others. If we can’t sell the fish,
If so, the money won’t be paid back.”
"Just when we had no other options, Lao Wei's family said they could lend us money first." Yan Mutong said: "We borrowed five thousand yuan from Lao Wei's family and quickly bought fish fry and started breeding them again. However, even though
No matter how careful we were, all the fry died, and the people who sold us the fry came to collect debts."
Listening to the words of the two uncles, Zhou Hao frowned tightly, and then heard Yan Munan say: "How can we pay back the money to others? That person said that if we don't pay back the money, they will take away our house.
At that time, the Wei family lent us another five thousand yuan to repay the debt, but in this case, we owe the Wei family ten thousand yuan."
Yan Mudong said: "We don't dare to raise fish anymore. We think that if we pay it back slowly, we can pay off the 10,000 yuan from the Wei family in three or four years. However, just last autumn, our fields were
During the harvest, all the rice in the fields withered for some reason. Without this rice, not only would we have no income this year, we would even have food and clothing problems."
At this time Zhou Hao spoke, "Then, that Wei family took the initiative to lend you money again?"
Yan Mudong and Yan Munan looked at Zhou Hao in surprise, "Xiao Hao, how did you know?"
Yan Munan said: "After the rice withered, the old Wei family lent us another five thousand yuan when they saw that we were in trouble."
Second aunt Lu Guifang sighed, "We owed Old Wei's family a total of fifteen thousand yuan, but Old Wei and the others didn't press. However, later, Old Wei's son Aji came to see us to propose marriage. He
He told us that as long as we marry her gently, we don’t have to pay back the fifteen thousand yuan, and in addition, their family will give us a bride price of ten thousand yuan."
"But we know about that Aji." Yan Munan said: "Although that boy is not old, he is good at whoring, gambling, drinking and sex. He is not a good man." Zhou Hao wanted to ask again, but when he saw Yan Qing
Qing Na pursed her lips in melancholy, but couldn't bear to push her anymore. He sighed slightly in his heart, smiled and changed the subject: "By the way, I just heard from my aunt that you are no longer studying."
Yan Qingqian nodded slightly and said with a somewhat self-deprecating smile: "I'm not good at studying anyway, and I've never passed Chinese and mathematics." She smiled lightly and looked at Zhou Hao, "Auntie said that your grades in school are very good.
Okay, Xiaohao, you have to work hard. If you get into a good university in the future, your future will be better." She knew that only by studying hard could she have a good future, but she was no longer studying.
In fact, Zhou Hao knows that Yan Qingqing is the kind of girl who is clever and clever. If she can make up her mind and study hard, her grades will not be worse than his own. However, on the one hand, the conditions at Yan Munan's family are not good, and a year of hard work will not do it.
I can only barely maintain the life at home, and I still have to live with Yan Mudong
It would be difficult to support both parents and pay for Yan Qingqing's studies. Yan Qingqing had to help the family with housework and farm work since he was a child, and the time he could spend on studying was very limited. Therefore, Yan Qingqing
It’s not that I’m stupid, but that I can’t take study into consideration objectively.
She didn't go to high school, which was largely her own intention, because she didn't want to add to the burden on her family.
"Cousin Qingqing, if you have the chance, will you go to school again?" Zhou Hao asked.
Yan paused slightly, then shook his head and said with a smile: "Forget it, I don't have this kind of talent, so there's no need to waste my time."
"What about work? Cousin, do you want to work in the city?" Zhou Hao asked her.
"Work?" Yan Qingqing's heart moved.
Zhou Hao smiled and said: "Yes, didn't my mother open a shop? You can come and help. After all, we are a family, and it is very convenient to take care of her."
"Can I really do it?" After hearing Zhou Hao's words, Yan Qingqing was very moved, but when she thought about it, her expression darkened again, "Still, it's no use. I want to stay here, but I can't.
Leave here." When she said this, a kind of pain and helplessness flashed in her eyes, as if she had some reason to stay here.
"Why? I don't think uncle and the others will object," Zhou Hao said.
But Yan Qingqing shook her head stubbornly, "No need, Xiaohao, really no need, I'm fine here, I don't need to go to the city, and you can also ask other people to help me, a rural girl like me
, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do it without me.”
Zhou Hao was puzzled by Yan Qingqing's change, because when he said he wanted her to come to the city to help, she had a look of excitement on her face, but she suddenly changed her attitude, obviously for some reason.
However, Zhou Hao also knew that although Yan Qingqing was gentle and kind, she could also be very stubborn sometimes. If she didn't want to say it, he still wouldn't say it no matter how he asked her.
So he said deliberately: "Forget it, I won't force you."
"Yes." Yan Qing nodded slightly, but there was also deep disappointment and helplessness in his eyes.
"By the way, cousin Qingqing, I brought you a gift when I came back this time." Zhou Hao said with a smile.
Yan Qingqing showed her smile again, "Really? What kind of gift is it?"
Zhou Hao took out a concentric knot from his arms and handed it to Yan Qingqing, "Didn't you often say that you wanted to have a concentric knot like the heroine on TV? I brought it to you."
Seeing this red concentric knot, Yan was slightly stunned, and then two streams of crystal tears overflowed from her eyes. She covered her mouth and cried uncontrollably.
Zhou Hao was startled by Yan Qingqing's reaction and said quickly: "Cousin Qingqing, what's wrong? You, why are you crying? Did I do something wrong? Cousin Qingqing, don't cry."
Yan shook her head gently and cried: "No, you didn't do anything wrong. It's me. I'm so happy." She took the concentric knot and said to Zhou Hao: "Xiao Hao, I'm so happy.
I like this gift of yours very much, I really like it." As she spoke, her tears flowed out again.
However, Zhou Hao felt that besides being happy, Yan Qingqing also had an inexplicable sadness in her eyes.
I saw Yan Qingqing looking deeply at the concentric knot given by Zhou Hao, covering her heart again, and finally carefully putting it into the bag of her clothes, wiping her tears and smiling at Zhou Hao: "Xiao Hao
,Thank you, I like this gift very much, I really like it."
"As long as you like it, it's been a long time since we came out. Let's go back." Zhou Hao said, taking Yan Qingqing's hand and heading back down the mountain.
Being held by Zhou Hao's hand, Yan Qingqing's face had two faint red clouds. Looking at Zhou Hao's grown-up and mature figure, her eyes suddenly became a little blurred and a little vaguely sad.
Zhou Hao, who was holding Yan Qingqing's hand, also had a strange feeling in his heart, especially the warmth and slight moisture coming from Yan Qingqing's hand, which seemed to penetrate Zhou Hao's heart bit by bit.
Back in front of Yan's house, Zhou Hao and Yan Qingqing saw a group of villagers watching at the door, and there was a quarrel inside. Zhou Hao was startled and quickly led Yan Qingqing through the crowd and walked inside.
While walking through the crowd, Zhou Hao heard someone say: "Huh? Isn't that the wife that the old Wei family is going to marry? Why did you come back with a man?"
In addition to Zhou Hao, Yan Qingqing also heard this, but she didn't say anything. She just lowered her head and followed Zhou Hao. Zhou Hao had no time to pay attention to these villagers, and walked into Yan's house with Yan Qingqing.
As soon as he arrived in the yard, Zhou Hao saw two local dogs lying there bloody, both of them had been disemboweled and their intestines and internal organs were leaking out. It looked very scary. And Yan Mudong, Yan Munan and Yan
Tong was in the yard. When he saw Zhou Hao and Yan Qingqing coming back, Yan Munan hurriedly came over and said nervously: "You guys are back. How is it? Nothing happened outside, right?"
Zhou Hao shook his head and asked Yan Munan: "Second uncle, what's going on? Why did these two dogs die in our yard?"
Uncle Yan Mudong walked to the door and waved to the villagers who were watching outside, "Okay, okay, let's all go back. It's just two dogs that died. There's nothing interesting to see. Let's go back." With that, he moved the yard.
The door is closed.
Yan Tong glanced at the two dogs and said, "These are probably not our dogs."
Yan Munan shook his head and said, "No."
"But who is so disgusting that he throws them into our yard?" Yan Tong said, covering her mouth.
At this time, she saw that Yan Qingqing's face was very ugly. She looked at the two dead native dogs on the ground and said to herself: "It must be that guy Wei Kuanji who did it."
Although she spoke in a low voice, Zhou Hao had excellent ears and heard her words clearly. This was also the first time Zhou Hao heard "Wei Kuanji" from Yan Qingqing, and he associated it with his uncle, aunt and Yan Qingqing.
Zhou Hao immediately guessed the abnormality just now, which must be related to Wei Kuanji.
"Stop talking about it now, let's deal with these two dogs." Yan Mudong said, and he and Yan Munan carried the bodies of the two dogs out of the yard, and covered the blood stains on the ground with sand.
Back in the house, Zhou Hao took the lead and asked: "Uncle, uncle, what happened? Those two local dogs just now were clearly a threat. Uncle, uncle, we are all one family.
People, if you have anything, just tell us, we will definitely help."
Yan Tong also said: "Yes, big brother, second brother, Xiaohao is right, please tell us what happened."
Yan Mudong and Yan Munan sighed deeply, and Yan Munan said: "We have always raised fish, haven't we? Two years ago we contracted four more fish ponds and brought the fish to nearby counties to buy them.
Business is pretty good, and our lives are getting better too.
. But half a year ago, all the fish in our seven fish ponds, including our original three, died, and we don’t know why. Moreover, when we bought fish fry, we still owed thousands of yuan to others. If we can’t sell the fish,
If so, the money won’t be paid back.”
"Just when we had no other options, Lao Wei's family said they could lend us money first." Yan Mutong said: "We borrowed five thousand yuan from Lao Wei's family and quickly bought fish fry and started breeding them again. However, even though
No matter how careful we were, all the fry died, and the people who sold us the fry came to collect debts."
Listening to the words of the two uncles, Zhou Hao frowned tightly, and then heard Yan Munan say: "How can we pay back the money to others? That person said that if we don't pay back the money, they will take away our house.
At that time, the Wei family lent us another five thousand yuan to repay the debt, but in this case, we owe the Wei family ten thousand yuan."
Yan Mudong said: "We don't dare to raise fish anymore. We think that if we pay it back slowly, we can pay off the 10,000 yuan from the Wei family in three or four years. However, just last autumn, our fields were
During the harvest, all the rice in the fields withered for some reason. Without this rice, not only would we have no income this year, we would even have food and clothing problems."
At this time Zhou Hao spoke, "Then, that Wei family took the initiative to lend you money again?"
Yan Mudong and Yan Munan looked at Zhou Hao in surprise, "Xiao Hao, how did you know?"
Yan Munan said: "After the rice withered, the old Wei family lent us another five thousand yuan when they saw that we were in trouble."
Second aunt Lu Guifang sighed, "We owed Old Wei's family a total of fifteen thousand yuan, but Old Wei and the others didn't press. However, later, Old Wei's son Aji came to see us to propose marriage. He
He told us that as long as we marry her gently, we don’t have to pay back the fifteen thousand yuan, and in addition, their family will give us a bride price of ten thousand yuan."
"But we know about that Aji." Yan Munan said: "Although that boy is not old, he is good at whoring, gambling, drinking and sex. He is not a good man."