Fight the Giants

  Chapter 174 Her Situation

  Chuan Shu, Shangyong County.

   "Jinniang, wake up!"

   "Mom, wake up, you've been sleeping for days."

   "Yue'er is afraid, Yue'er wants mother, mother..."

   Li Shimian sat on the threshold of the courtyard, letting the snow all over the sky sprinkle all over his body, and remained still for a long time. The whole person was helpless and depressed.

   Li Dian walked over holding a broken umbrella, covering his head: "Father, go inside. It's cold outside."

  Li Shimian didn't move, his eyes were still looking at the snowy sky in front of him.

  Li Dianshou sighed, bent down and reached out to help him, "Dian Shou, do you think our family has been like this for the rest of our life?" Li Dian Shou's hand just stopped like that.

  Following the old father's gaze and looking at Xue Hua in front of him, his eyes were full of confusion: "It's only been half a year since the new emperor ascended the throne, and we are from the old dynasty... Our family is probably going to stay in Sichuan for the rest of our lives."

  The eyes of the father and son were empty, like a cliff where one could not see the bottom.

  Standing under the eaves, listening to the conversation between the father and son, Mrs. Ma felt heavy in his heart. His face was haggard and dilapidated. The noble lady who used to be dressed in rich clothes has now become a poor old woman who worries about her family's livelihood.

  Thinking that there is still an unknown person lying in the house, if these two are standing outside and get sick, the family has no extra money to see a doctor for his father and son.

   said: "Go into the house. Our family doesn't have much money to buy soup."

  The father and son came back to their senses and walked into the house with their arms.

   "How is Jin Niang?"

   "It's still the same."

   "If it doesn't work, change to another hospital."

   "Our family doesn't have much money left. The money Xinrou gave us has been spent along the way, and everything that should be sold has been sold, and the rest of the family has to live."

   "Take them all out, saving people is the most important thing." Li Shimian sighed, "You have the heart to watch Jier Yueer lose her mother? If something happens to Jinniang, Dian Zang may not survive."

   The husband and wife looked at each other and sighed heavily.

  Children's husband and wife are deeply in love. When the family was sent to prison earlier, the in-laws came to Jinniang and wanted to ask Dian Zang for a letter of reconciliation and take Jinniang away.

  But Jinniang refused to leave, and accompanied their family all the way to Sichuan. I survived all the difficulties along the way, but when I arrived at the place, the fetus in my womb fell. The person fell down and lay on the bed like a living dead.

  Ms. Ma thought of her little daughter-in-law lying on the bed, and then of her two little grandchildren, with tears in her eyes. He took out a dusty purse from his bosom and handed it to Li Dian, "Go find the doctor again."

  Li Dianshou took the purse silently.

  Just as he was about to leave, Mrs. Miao came out of the house and stopped him: "You might as well go to Beijing to write another letter, share our situation with my sister, and ask her for some money..."

   "Shut up." Shi Ma stopped her.

   "When we left Beijing, your sister gave two thousand taels. That was the bottom of the box that I gave her as a dowry. She is not from Kaiyinzhuang."

   Ms. Miao pursed her lips: "Mother, my sister is better than us in that capital. Even if we make an IOU with my sister."

   Mrs. Ma's eyes were cold and stern: "You only thought about your sister being in Beijing, but never thought about her situation. We searched for her over and over again, and let her husband's family know, can your sister have a good life in that mansion?"

   Miao was a little embarrassed by her mother-in-law: "Our whole family can't even eat food now. My siblings lie on the bed and don't even have money to see the doctor. Do we really want to watch Jier Yueer lose his mother..."

  The whole family was silent.

   Miao said again: "Now we only have my younger sister to rely on. It is not difficult to be named a Marquis based on my brother-in-law's merits. Maybe my younger sister is already a Marquis. Let's just ask her for some good medicine from the capital."

   "You still say." Seeing that the old parents were frowning, Li Dianshou hurriedly stopped her.

   Li Shimian sighed, and looked at the snowflakes all over the sky with his hands behind his back.

   Mrs. Ma frowned and looked at Mrs. Miao: "Zhen Niang, we have sent several letters to your sister, but we have not heard back. Have you thought about the reason?"

   Miao looked at Ma in a daze.

Mrs. Ma's eyes were full of sadness: "Since the new emperor surrounded the capital last spring, your sister has been sent to the suburban village by her husband's family. We didn't see her until we left. The two thousand taels and the things are still better." My sister's nanny secretly brought it to us."

"We are in trouble now, and your sister's temperament will not leave us alone. But there is no news. Your sister, I don't know what's going on now. Your father and I can't sleep all night, because I'm afraid she Because of our family's affairs, she was abandoned by her husband's family. You still blame her..."

   "Mother, I don't have one." Miao knelt down.

   When the Miao family's children saw it, they gathered around to intercede.

   Mrs. Ma thought of the unknown daughter in the capital, the little daughter-in-law lying on the bed who was suffering, and the whole family living in this dilapidated house without knowing the future, two lines of dirty tears rolled down.

  Seeing their mother crying, Li Dianshou and Miao Shi panicked, and rushed forward to comfort them: "Mother, don't be sad, it's our fault. I won't say such things again."

Li Shimian also had tears in his eyes, and turned to tell his eldest son: "You rub the ink for your father, and I will draw a few paintings, and you can take them to the bookstore outside to see if they can be sold. Anyone who is half-consistent is also welcome." become."

  Li Dianshou thought of his father's calligraphy and paintings in the past, which were hard to find in the capital. He said: "Yes." He helped him into the house.

   Zhengdan, the first year of Yongkang, Huo Xi's seventh birthday.

  Mr. Yang ignored the leftovers from last night, and made a table full of her favorite food for Huo Xi.

   "Xi'er, come and change into the skirt your mother sewed for you, and show your mother how to wear it."

"good."

  Huo Xi changed into the little lady's dress for the second time in half a year, and Yang Shi combed her hair again, and even Yang Fu didn't dare to recognize her when she came out of the house.

   "Xi'er, you still look good in a skirt."

  Huo Xi looked at the muslin skirt on her body, and felt very flattered: "I also think I look good in a skirt."

   smiled at Yang Shi: "Mother, the dress you made is so beautiful."

Mrs. Yang pulled her to look around: "It looks good. Mother, you can make some more clothes for you to wear at home." Maybe every mother wants to dress up the little padded jacket beautifully, and Mrs. Yang is also itchy. very.

   "Okay." Huo Xi nodded in response.

  Happily accepted the gift prepared by Yang Shi and Yang Fu, and the family sat around the kang in the main room to have lunch. There was a knock on the courtyard door.

   Yang opened the door and saw Huo Erhuai standing there like a snowman, she was stunned.

   "Father, did you walk all the way back through the heavy snow?"

   "Maybe today is Zhengdan, brother-in-law didn't hire a carriage."

   "Where there is no carriage, your brother-in-law must not even have the copper coins to hire a carriage."

  Huo Erhuai smiled at Mrs. Yang and the two children, and after roasting in front of the brazier for a long time, he finally recovered, and sighed comfortably: "It's still warm at home."

   Yang looked at him with distress and sadness.

  She brought Erhuai five taels of silver and prepared so many presents, but the family actually even paid for the few travel expenses he had with him. Thinking of seeing him frozen like a snowman just now at the door, she wiped away her tears and served him a pile of rice.

   "Brother-in-law, you didn't eat this morning?" Yang Fu was stunned to see Huo Erhuai shoveling rice into his mouth, looking extremely hungry.

  Seeing the embarrassment on Huo Erhuai's face, Huo Xi gave Yang Fu a hand, and took the chopsticks to pick up food for Huo Erhuai: "Father, eat more. Mother's cooking is getting better and better."

  Huo Erhuai nodded while chewing: "Your mother's cooking is delicious, and since she landed, her cooking skills have gotten better."

   "Eat yours, I still have time to talk." Yang gave him a big piece of meat and said to him.

  The room is warm and harmonious. This birthday, Huo Xi didn't have too much regret.

  (end of this chapter)