Chapter 15 The daughter-in-law's drowned daughter (15)
"Okay, once you have the letter, I will ask your elder brother to run over and talk to you. It's getting late, so go home early to prevent your son-in-law from going hungry."
Mother Liu felt very relieved when she saw Sister-in-law Liu's surprised look. She waved her hand to Liu Xiaocao and told her to leave quickly before her family could cause trouble for her as a biological mother.
After hearing this, Liu Xiaocao exclaimed repeatedly and left happily.
Sister-in-law Liu curled her lips and secretly looked at Mother Liu. She saw a smile on her lips and turned around to enter the house. She didn't look like she had been beaten by her sister-in-law.
My mother-in-law knew very well that the last time her sister-in-law's family came to take advantage of her, she was so angry that she scolded her day after day. In fact, Mother Liu felt very uncomfortable in her heart.
The uncle who goes to his mother-in-law's house doesn't carry things with him, but the sister-in-law and his family only carry a few mouths.
Therefore, she did not refute her previous accusations, insults, and beatings.
When my sister-in-law came today, she asked loudly. Seeing that her mother-in-law was in the house and didn't even come out, she knew that her mother-in-law was angry!
Looking at my mother-in-law now, she looks like she has received some benefit from her sister-in-law.
Sister-in-law Liu rolled her eyes and stopped thinking about it. Anyway, her mother-in-law benefited, not her family.
It just so happened that the child's father had been saying that his mouth was fine these days. My sister-in-law brought this piece of cabbage. At noon, she choked on some vinegary cabbage to improve the taste in the child's father's mouth.
Although the basket was empty, Liu Xiaocao's heart was not empty at all.
As long as we wait for news from the Liu family, we can quickly get rid of the eyesore in the house and get a lot of money for our private property. It really kills two birds with one stone.
Liu Xiaocao, who was thinking about good things all the way home, didn't know yet that the person she was planning to sell at a high price was already standing in front of the Shangzhuang brigade, carrying a rabbit that was still jumping on its two hind legs.
The entrance to the captain's house.
"Hey, dad, whose girl is this girl from?"
Fan Juehua, the wife of Captain Tian Dazhuang of Shangzhuang Brigade, heard a knock on the door and opened the door, only to see an unfamiliar girl standing at the door carrying a live gray rabbit.
This girl was all patched up and skinny, but there seemed to be light in her eyes, very shining, which managed to bring out some spirit in her yellow and starved face.
"Who is it?"
Tian Dazhuang finally took a day off and was taking out the farm tools at home, repairing what needed to be repaired and mending what needed to be repaired.
When I heard the knock on the door, I didn't pay attention and asked my mother-in-law to open the door.
"Uncle, aunt, I am Shi Jiang, the daughter of Shi Xiuzhi."
Shi Jiang showed a big smile to the two people, and shook the live rabbit in his hand.
"Shi Jiang? Shi Xiuzhi?"
Tian Dazhuang blinked his eyes twice, feeling confused. He didn't seem to know anyone named Shi, right?
When Fan Juehua heard what Shi Jiang said, she clapped her hands and let out an ouch.
"Xiuzhi? Are you Xiuzhi's daughter? His father, you don't remember, Shi Xiuzhi, Shi's father's only daughter."
Dad Shi? Shi... Xiuzhi?
Tian Dazhuang looked at the little girl in front of him with a complicated face. This face vaguely overlapped with the face of the girl he remembered twenty years ago.
When Shi Xiuzhi was born, he was already half a boy.
When Shi Xiuzhi was ten years old, he married Fan Juehua and joined the army as a soldier.
By the time he returned from the army, Xiuzhi had already found a son-in-law.
His own mother had said it was a pity. If Shi Xiuzhi didn't recruit a son-in-law, the doorstep of the house would have been broken down by the matchmaker.
There was an age difference between him and Shi Xiuzhi, plus there were differences between men and women, so he didn't care about the affairs of the Shi family.
At this time, my father, because his family is an ancestral Xinglin family, later fled to the Zhuang Brigade here due to the war.
Then he married a wife and had children here, and the people in the Shangzhuang Brigade have long forgotten his true origin.
After he returned from the army, he was elected as the captain of the brigade because people in the village who had headaches and fever would go to see Dad Shi.
Naturally, he also met Mr. Shi, and even helped Mr. Shi apply for a barefoot doctor.
At that time, the Shi family only had one child, Shi Xiuzhi, and their family conditions were pretty good.
After I got a son-in-law, I heard that his surname was Jiang and he was quite filial.
It's a pity that the beauty was ill-fated. Shi Xiuzhi died of a massive hemorrhage during childbirth.
The two elders of the Shi family were also depressed because of the death of their only daughter, who died soon after.
It stands to reason that the behavior and appearance of the Shi family's adopted son-in-law when he left the Shangzhuang Brigade would be impossible to treat harshly the only child left by his wife.
But seeing Shi Jiang's whole body, if he wanted to treat her well, he would be telling lies against his conscience.
As Tian Dazhuang looked at her, Shi Jiang shrank his feet uneasily, exposing his big toe, and the layers of patches on the cloth shoes were even more conspicuous.
And the hand that was handed over to grab the rabbit, was that a girl’s hand?
Not to mention skinny and bones, the bones at the joints are all bulging, making him worse than an old farmer like me.
"This kid is here as soon as he comes. Why are you giving this to me? Take it home quickly and replenish it for yourself."
Tian Dazhuang could see that as a woman, Fan Juehua naturally observed more carefully.
Therefore, he felt pity for the child and hurriedly pushed the rabbit back in Shi Jiang's hand.
Although this rabbit is not big, it is still meat.
One look at this child and one can tell that she is not living a good life. She probably has never had enough food, let alone meat.
It's better to let her take it back and replenish her body.
After hearing these words, Shi Jiang's head drooped, and his original energy seemed to be deflated all of a sudden.
"Aunt, even if you take it home, I won't be able to eat it."
After saying that, tears fell one by one from the eye sockets.
Seeing Shi Jiang's appearance, Fan Juehua hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Oh my god, what kind of injustice has this child suffered? Look at this little face crying. Good boy, stop crying!"
As he spoke, he took Shi Jiang's hand with one hand and wiped her tears with the other hand, but his eyes were glanced at his man.
She gave birth to three fat boys, but not a daughter. She always gets jealous when she sees little girls.
Now that I see Shi Jiang's pitiful appearance, I feel even more distressed.
When Tian Dazhuang saw the look in his mother-in-law's eyes, how could he not know what she was thinking.
Then he glanced at Shi Jiang, who was crying silently, turned sideways, and said helplessly: "If anything happens, come in and talk about it."
When Shi Jiang heard this, his eyes lit up, he hurriedly wiped his eyes with his sleeves, sighed, nodded and followed Fan Juhuala's hand into the yard.
After entering the yard, before Fan Juehua could worry about what to do with the rabbit in Shi Jiang's hand, Shi Jiang immediately twisted the rabbit's head off with a "click".
Cute and adorable girl?
Fan Juehua looked at the rabbit Shi Jiang handed to her, and took the dead rabbit into the kitchen in a daze.