Chapter 5

Zhang Guixiang panicked all of a sudden, she stood up and wanted to run, but her legs didn't work at all.

Still shaking.

Gu Lin knew that she was frightened.

Hastily helped her to sit down.

"Mom, you wait here and don't move, I'll go out and see!"

Gu Lin ran outside.

When I ran out, I saw Zhou Xiaojuan, who was thin and thin, carrying an equally thin boy on her back.

Zhou Xiaojuan's waist was bent almost ninety degrees, and the boy on her back looked like she was about to fall from the front at any moment.

If Gu Lin guessed correctly, that boy is Zhou Laiyun's younger brother Zhou Laiqian.

Gu Lin ran to him and asked Zhou Xiaojuan to put him down quickly.

She grabbed Zhou Laiqian's arm and let Zhou Laiqian lean on her.

"Where did you find your second brother? How did he become like this?" Even after eating, Gu Lin's strength was still not much stronger.

Zhou Laiqian leaned against him, her legs were shaking.

Zhou Xiaojuan saw that her sister-in-law couldn't hold her up, and she didn't care about resting, so she hurriedly supported her from the other side.

She said out of breath, "At the entrance of the village!"

"Looking at him like this, he must have gone to the brick kiln to carry bricks. He hasn't eaten all day and night, and he doesn't know how he came back!"

The two helped Zhou Laiqian back.

Zhang Guixiang, who managed to stand up and walk two steps, was so frightened that she sat down on the ground.

Can't say a word.

Zhou Xiaojuan hurriedly shouted: "Mother, the second brother is fine, he just fainted from hunger!"

It took a long time for Zhang Guixiang to recover.

"Where did this kid go? He wanted to scare me to death. You two are the only ones left at home. If something happens between you two, what do you ask me to do!"

"Mother, go and get some food for the second brother, he should be able to recover after eating and sleeping!"

Zhou Xiaojuan and Gu Lin helped Zhou Laiqian into the house. Zhou Xiaojuan took off his coat and shoes and helped him to lie down.

When eating, Zhang Guixiang deliberately left the second son's meal.

She came in with a bowl full of porridge.

"Second brother, wake up and eat!" Zhou Xiaojuan sat on the edge of the kang and slapped Zhou Laiqian twice.

Gu Lin on the side stared wide-eyed.

Isn't this little girl too courageous?
Gu Lin subconsciously looked at her mother-in-law.

result.

Her mother-in-law didn't seem to be surprised.

Not only did he not say a word, seeing that Zhou Laiqian was still awake, he also said, "Juanzi, use some strength!"

"Hey……"

clap clap...

Twice again.

Gu Lin: "..."

She touched her face subconsciously.

It seems that she has to pay more attention to this little girl in the future.

Otherwise, call yourself this way next time.

"Zhou Xiaojuan, your skin is itchy, you slapped me in the face again!" After two slaps, Zhou Laiqian, who fainted from hunger, slowly opened his eyes.

Zhang Guixiang who was on the side greeted him twice with slaps.

"Zhou Laiqian, you're getting bolder, right? If your elder brother isn't here, no one in this family can control you, so you just don't listen to anyone, right?"

"Do you want your mother and me to die too?"

Gu Lin: "..."

She was speechless.

It's not that the more remote the place, the more patriarchal it is.

It seems that the Zhou family is different from others.

Gu Lin felt a little sympathetic to Zhou Laiqian.

Zhou Laiqian groaned twice, and said weakly, "Mom, let me eat something first, or I'll really go find my elder brother!"

clap clap...

Twice again.

After Zhang Guixiang finished beating, he gave him the meal: "Why, I don't have any strength at all, why don't I let him feed me?"

"Hurry up and open your mouth!" Zhou Xiaojuan took the bowl from her mother, and stared at Zhou Laiqian with a fierce expression.

Zhou Laiqian muttered in a low voice: "Zhou Xiaojuan, you are so fierce, you are not afraid that you will not get married in the future!"

"Ok?"

"Eat and eat, I haven't eaten all day and night, I'm dizzy now!"

Zhou Laiqian put his hand on his forehead, making an exaggerated gesture as if he was about to faint at any time.

Zhang Guixiang was angry and distressed.

Gu Lin did not speak from the beginning to the end.

Judging from what she saw just now, this week's money is a living treasure, and it shouldn't cause her any trouble in the future.

In other words, the Zhou family is easy to get along with.

Gu Lin was completely relieved.

She is not afraid of difficult conditions, but she is afraid that the whole family will not talk about it.

Outsiders haven't made trouble yet, but my own family has made trouble every day.

Half a child eats me to death.

Zhou Laiqian didn't eat for another day and night. He ate five bowls of rice in a row. There was no more rice in the pot, so he stopped eating.

He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, unbuttoned the clothes he was wearing, and took out a black handkerchief.

"Mother, look!" He proudly handed the handkerchief to his mother.

Zhang Guixiang glanced at him suspiciously, and Zhou Xiaojuan had already snatched him over.

I saw a stack of money inside.

She shouted: "Mom, money, a lot of money!"

Zhang Guixiang also saw it.

The heart that was finally let go was brought up again.

"Here's the money, where did the money come from?" Zhang Guixiang said with a straight face.

The right hand is still raised high.

Zhou Laiqian shrank his neck subconsciously, half of his head was hidden in the quilt, only his eyes were exposed.

"I earned it by moving bricks, a total of ten yuan!"

"Are you going to move bricks?"

Before she finished speaking, Zhang Guixiang's tears fell again.

Zhou Xiaojuan's eyes were also red.

Zhou Laiqian frowned: "Mother, don't look at me like this, it makes me seem to have done something wrong!"

"Isn't our family short of money? It's okay for my brother to leave it alone. I have a day off today, and I'll go back tomorrow. I can earn thirty in three days. That's enough money to buy a coffin for my brother!"

Zhang Guixiang cried even harder.

Zhou Xiaojuan clutched the money tightly: "Are you desperate? How many bricks do you need to carry for ten yuan a day?"

"You didn't eat or drink all day and night, right?"

"I don't care, you are going to take me with you tomorrow, even if you sneak away, I can still find you, anyway, I know where you are!"

Zhou Laiqian became anxious when he heard that, and quickly took off the quilt: "If you dare to go, I won't beat you to death!"

"I'm a man and you are a woman. It's a man's business to support the family. In the past, it was the eldest brother who supported the family. Now that the eldest brother is gone, I am the only man in our family. It is my business to support the family!"

"Besides, that place is full of men. I'm exhausted after a day's work as a man. You can bear it!"

Zhou Xiaojuan stiffened her neck and said stubbornly: "Why can't I go if you can? Whoever stipulates that the breadwinner can only be a man!"

"You earn ten yuan and I earn five yuan. It's always faster for two people to earn money together than you alone!"

"If you get tired, what will you ask my mother and I to do?"

At the end of Zhou Xiaojuan's speech, her voice became hoarse.

Tears flowed down the corners of his eyes.

Gu Lin didn't feel well either, his eyes were sore.

Seeing that Zhou Laiqian still wanted to talk, she hurriedly said, "Stop arguing, you two, you are not allowed to do things like paying back money with your life in the future!"

"Your brother's business is up to me!"

"You?" Zhou Laiqian's gaze bypassed Zhou Xiaojuan, landed on the sister-in-law, and looked him up and down: "It's almost the same if you honestly give birth to a baby at home!"

(End of this chapter)

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