Poor Family

  Chapter 3 Deceiving Too Much

  The next day at dawn, the **** Ahuang from Erguaizi’s house in the east of the village started barking, and Dahei, regardless of his brotherhood, got up and ran off to have fun.

  Without the natural heating pillow, Li Yanqing suddenly woke up from a deep sleep. At this time, his father also got up and went out.

Li Yanqing's consciousness has not yet fully awakened. He vaguely felt that his father was pushing the wheelbarrow borrowed from Aunt Hu's house last night. In his memory, his father would go out every morning before dawn. It's a little late.

   "Qing'er, I have something to do in town today, and I won't be back at noon. There are some steamed buns in the pot. You can heat them up and eat them yourself."

"knew!"

  Li Yanqing agreed vaguely, turned around and fell asleep again.

But after only sleeping for a while, he dreamed that he was **** and sat on a chair, and his father was sitting opposite him eating a big meal, eating with a smile on his face, but he refused to untie him. In desperation, he suddenly woke up from the dream , Only then did I feel hungry in my stomach, and I was already so hungry that my chest was pressed against my back.

  Li Yanqing got up, and unexpectedly found that the sun was rising outside, and a ray of sunlight shot into the house through the treetops, making the damp, cold and dark room brighter.

This was the first time the sun came out in ten days, Li Yanqing cheered, jumped off the kang, and ran outside barefoot, only to see the golden sun shining all over the yard, and the little birds chirping on the big tree Shouting for joy, the air washed away from the dampness and coldness of the past, and became extraordinarily fresh and warm, with a hint of earthy smell.

Li Yanqing greedily took a few mouthfuls of warm air, and then returned to the room, the door of the side room was half open, and he could see the earth pit that was not filled in the corner of the room, and he realized that his father said that something happened today, It turned out to be to sign up for him to study.

In fact, Li Yanqing is not very interested in going to the school to study. He can imagine this kind of rural school. People from several villages chip in to hire a Mr. Dong Hong with a goatee, leading a group of children shaking their heads and memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics all day long. Li Yanqing I don't think that gentleman may be stronger than me.

What's even more irritating is that his father took ten pennies to pay the tuition, which was his hard-earned money saved up penny by penny, and piles of delicious syrup cakes. Vegetable buns filled the stomach.

  At this moment, a laughing voice came from outside, "Little Qing'er, run slowly, the road is slippery, don't fall."

   Immediately afterwards, a little girl with pigtails hopped into the yard, "Brother Ersha, grandma and I came to see you."

  The sun seemed to penetrate Li Yanqing's chest, and his heart quickly warmed up.

   "I'm here, ah! Wait a minute..."

  He just ran into the yard, then hurriedly turned around and came back to put on his shoes. ． ． ． ． And wear pants.

  A little girl in a flowered jacket covered her mouth and giggled, "Grandmother, brother Ersha isn't wearing pants, he's bare ass!"

   After a long time, Li Yanqing dawdled out with a blushing face. It was so smelly just now, he didn't have any pants, and he ran out foolishly.

  The two grandparents in the yard are his neighbors, Aunt Hu and her granddaughter Hu Qinger. Aunt Hu raised many chickens, but now there are only two hens left because a group of weasels appeared in the village.

  Thanks to Dahei catching weasels one by one, Mrs. Hu also likes Dahei very much, and often gives him some leftovers.

Granddaughter Hu Qing'er is three years old this year. From Li Yanqing's point of view, she is actually only two years old, but she is very smart and lively. She has a red face like an apple. She likes to play with Li Yanqing the most, although her mother is worried that her daughter will change in the future. Cheng silly girl didn't want her to visit, but Aunt Hu liked Li Yanqing very much, she always brought her granddaughter here, and every time she would bring some food for Li Yanqing.

  Aunt Hu took out a warm egg from the basket and stuffed it to Li Yanqing, and said with a kind smile, "It's just been cooked, eat it quickly!"

   "Thank you, ma'am!"

  Li Yanqing took the egg with some embarrassment, and stuffed it into his pocket.

  Aunt Hu smiled and touched the back of his head, "Why, are you still reluctant to eat?"

   "Brother Ersha, eat quickly! I've finished eating, I have another one here." Xiao Qing'er smiled and gave him another egg.

  Li Yanqing peeled off the eggshell, and slowly ate the egg, his nose felt sore. He was a little too sentimental these two days.

   "Brother Ersha, tell me the story again! Did that red boy catch Tang Seng?"

   "Okay! I'll tell you next."

  Li Yanqing pulled Xiao Qing'er to sit on the threshold, and continued to tell her the story of Monkey King fighting Red Boy, but not long after telling her, Li Yanqing remembered another thing.

  He patted Xiao Qing'er's hand, "Second brother has something to ask your grandmother, and I will continue to tell you the story later."

   "What does Brother Qing want to ask?"

   "Ma'am, my father is outside... does he owe a lot of debt?"

  Father's soliloquy last night let Li Yanqing know one of the reasons why they lived in poverty. Father had to pay off the debt.

Aunt Hu sighed, "Your father owes Master Li a large sum of money. When your mother passed away, she bought a cemetery, bought a coffin, and held funerals. It is said that she spent 500 yuan before and after, all borrowed from Master Li. , so your father went to raise horses for Mr. Li just to repay the money. Sometimes he even went to the county to copy books for the book club to earn money. He was both father and mother, dragging you for four years. It's not easy."

  Li Yanqing was silent. He was always puzzled why his father was a member of the Li clan, but why did he do the work of a servant?

  Aunt Hu looked at this poor child very sympathetically, five hundred coins! There is still such a high interest rate every year, and their father and son will never think about paying it off in their entire lives.

  Aunt Hu didn’t understand why five hundred guan was needed for funerals. Most poor families would not be able to save so much money in their lifetime, but she never asked, she knew there must be something hidden in it.

  Xiao Qing'er next to her raised her red face and said, "Grandmother, let's pay back the money for brother Ersha!"

  Aunt Hu lovingly touched her granddaughter’s pigtails, “Silly boy, our family can’t afford to pay back so much money!”

   At this moment, the courtyard door slammed open, and Xiao Qing'er's father, Hu Da, came in with a man on his back, covered in blood.

   "Daddy!"

   Li Yanqing stood up abruptly, and he recognized the person on Hu Da's back as his father Li Daqi.

   "Brother Qing, quickly help your father into the house, I'll go get the doctor!"

   "You don't need to invite me, I'm fine..." Li Daqi said weakly.

  Li Yanqing hurried forward to support his father, only to see his father's eyes were bruised, his chest was covered with blood spots, there was blood at the corner of his mouth, and his face was very pale.

   "Uncle, what happened to my father?"

   "Let's help into the house first."

  The three of them hurriedly helped Li Daqi into the house and let him lie on the kang. Li Daqi let out a long sigh, "Fortunately, I was not killed. I, Li Daqi, are still alive."

   "My mother, she vomited blood, who is so vicious?" Aunt Hu asked her son angrily.

   "He was beaten up by Housekeeper Liu. I don't know why. I heard that Daqi's money was also taken away."

  Hot blood rushed to the top of Li Yanqing's head, he turned around and ran out without saying a word.

  Li Daqi suddenly became anxious, and said with difficulty: "Dalang, stop him, he is still a child!"

Hu Da rushed out of the room in a hurry, and saw Li Yanqing rushing out from the firewood room, holding a sharp hatchet in his hand, he stepped forward, hugged Li Yanqing by the waist, "Are you crazy? Put down the knife quickly !"

  Li Yanqing struggled desperately, "Let go of me, let me kill that bastard!"

  Hu Da is extremely strong, he can hold a cow, no one within a hundred miles can compare with him, but he feels that he can't hold this child, this child didn't have such great strength before! He couldn't help but secretly startled.

But Li Yanqing was still young after all, and Hu Daqiang snatched the hatchet in his hand. Hu Dazhong pressed his shoulder heavily, stared into his eyes and said: "It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, and a man will never show his talent for a while, understand?" ?”

  The hot blood that gathered on Li Yanqing's head gradually disappeared, but the hatred in his eyes deepened. He nodded silently, and turned to Aunt Hu and said, "Mother, take Qing'er back first, she is still young."

  Qing'er stood aside and was petrified. At this moment, when she heard the silly second brother wanting to go home by herself, she couldn't help but pouted, "I'm not going back!"

   Aunt Hu remembered something, slapped her forehead and said: "Look at my memory, there is wound medicine at home! I actually forgot, Qing'er, go back with grandma to get the medicine."

Xiao Qing'er was taken back by her grandmother unwillingly, Li Yanqing calmed down for a moment, and said to Hu Dao: "Anyway, I want to get the money back, it was saved up bit by bit by my father, it cannot be robbed by them." Walk."

   "Don't ask for it!"

  Li Daqi walked to the door with difficulty, held on to the door frame and said out of breath, "Dahei bit his son, that's the medical expenses paid to him."

   "He's talking nonsense!"

  Li Yanqing became angry again, "When did Dahei bite someone? He didn't bite his son at all."

   "I took the initiative to compensate him, so you just...don't ask for it."

Li Daqi staggered and couldn't stand anymore, Hu Dalian hurriedly stepped forward to support him, "You are injured internally, you must not move, go to bed and lie down, don't worry about silly brother, although he is young, he understands things very well .”

   "Dalang, don't teach him to take revenge. The hatred is too deep, and it will harm him in the future."

  Hu laughed loudly, "I understand, you lie down and don't talk."

  In the courtyard, Li Yanqing stared blankly at the sky, the warm sunlight shone on him, but he felt a deep chill in his heart.

  (end of this chapter)