vines and melons

Chapter 38

That day, Gui Zhi and Fang Qiang's family went to sell pigs together. On the way, Aifen said that sister-in-law Ye's pigs were fatter than mine.Gui Zhi thinks so too, but she didn't say anything, she knows that the two of them have the final say on fat and thin, and only the person who accepts the test has the final say.

She thought that her father had a lot of acquaintances with engraved seals, and she wanted her father to find an acquaintance for Toto's relationship, not to mention a high level, but a level that should be placed. Who knows, yesterday she gave him a Said, father refused.

As a result, her family is one level lower than Fang Qiang's.

Gui Zhi knew that she couldn't give Effenby, but she always felt a little bit at a loss.

Now, she was holding the sole of the shoe in a daze, tightened the string tightly with her right hand, and scratched the hollow of her hair with the big needle, with a blank expression on her face.

Fang Jie, who was writing next to her, could see that her mother was unhappy, so she asked, what's the matter?
Guizhi said, it's all right.She never told her daughter about her depression.

Mother and daughter are heart-to-heart, Fang Jie feels sad when seeing her mother sad.After finishing her homework, she held "Sunshine Flower" and read it aloud to her mother. She wanted to make her happy. While reading, she didn't know the word "widow", so she spelled it to her mother in pinyin. However, she didn't know what it meant. Asked, Gui Zhi, who was in a bad mood, didn't say a word, Fang Jie thought that her mother hadn't heard, so she asked again, Gui Zhi said that Ye Ma was a widow.Fang Jie sensitively realized that a woman who died of a man is a widow.Immediately, I regretted it.

Gui Zhi also regretted speaking badly to her daughter, looked up at her, and burst out laughing.

Fang Jie saw her mother smile, so she smiled too, and asked, what's the matter?
Guizhi handed the mirror to Fang Jie to let her look at it by herself.

Fang Jie smiled as she looked at her darkened body covered in kerosene smoke.

Fang Qiong, who was lying on the bed, leaned forward to see, pointing at her sister and leaning back with a smile, "Captain Yamada, scoundrel! Big scoundrel!"

The three mother and daughter laughed out loud.

The sisters have to go to the toilet together before going to bed.Fang Jie took the lantern and led her sister out of the kiln door.

The light from Fang Qiang’s kiln shone on the white paper of the damper, and the dim yellow light fell on the ground mottled; the light squeezed out from the gap between the two dampers, dividing the mottled into thin the two halves.

Fang Jie and Fang Qiong cast envious glances at the light.

The two sisters pinched their fingers and counted the days when their house was without electricity.

One evening half a month ago, Guizhi came back from work and found that the light bulb was out. She didn't want to trouble Fang Qiang, but Fang Jie said that there was a lot of homework today.

Gui Zhi called Fang Qiang and asked him to check what went wrong.

Fang Qiang walked forward with the ladder, and Aifen followed her heels. She still said in her usual tone: "Why did the battery run out as soon as it got dark?! Didn't you check in advance?!" "Father, you should be careful, this is Electric tiger!"

Gui Zhi was afraid of being foolish, so she deliberately pulled the light cord and the light bulb was still on when she left for work at noon, but unexpectedly it would run out at night.

Sometimes Gui Zhi didn’t want to bother others, so she wrapped the pull rope of the switch with plastic cloth, but the kiln was damp, so it would not be able to pull it in a few days. She took off the cover of the switch box and picked the switch with a wire awl. You don't have to stand on a chair to pick.

The weight of Aifen's second sentence is not ordinary. Guizhi said that Fang Qiangxiu is neither not nor not, but it is a dilemma and the harvest is coming.That time it was repaired by Harvest.

Since that time, Gui Zhi never asked Fang Qiang to repair it.Wait for a good year and a good harvest.

Now, the two sisters go to the bathroom arm in arm under the light of Fang Qiang's house.At the end of the light, the two of them turned on the hand lamp. Unexpectedly, the battery in the hand lamp was too old, and it was flickering. The two of them were afraid and stopped.

With a creak, the door rang, and Zhiwei came back from the outside.

Fang Jie saw Zhi Gewei as if he saw a savior, and hurriedly called Brother Zhi.

As soon as he shouted, Zhiwei knew that the two of them were afraid, so he waved his hand and said, go, I'll show you two.He knew that Fang Jie and Fang Qiong were timid, and sometimes Fang Jie didn't dare to go to the kiln to get things, so he called him to come with him, and he never refused.Another reason why Zhiwei and Fang Jie got married was that when Zhiwei went to the river to take a bath in summer, his father punished him by letting him dry his bare feet in the sun on the balcony, and it was Fang Jie who secretly gave him shoes and a straw hat; When he went out to do bad things, his father locked him in a dark room and didn't allow him to eat. Fang Jie secretly gave him steamed buns and meals.

As long as Brother Zhiwei is around, Fang Jie feels safe.

That time, Fang Jie and her younger sister picked up flower insects, and they managed to pick up half a bowl. The fool saw it and snatched it from Fang Qiong.Fang Qiong cried angrily, but Fang Jie was too scared to make a sound.Seeing this, Zhiwei snatched the bowl from Nudan's hand, handed it to Fang Qiong, and said, "Take it away!"

Another time, on the way home from school, a fat man pointed at Fang Jie and said, "Her father is dead!"

This was heard by Zhiwei who was passing by. He pointed to the fat man's forehead and said, "Can your father not die?! Be a bastard! Get the hell out of here!"

At school, Fang Jie was most afraid of filling in the names of her parents, because what she filled in was a personality that was different from her own. The students who loved to gossip knew that Fang Jie's father was dead even after guessing and inquiring.Some classmates made fun of her, and she often cried without holding back.

After Fang Jie and Fang Qiong finished using the toilet, Zhiwei sent them to the entrance of the kiln before leaving.

(End of this chapter)