After a simple rebirth

After the two teachers visited the family, the Spring Festival was approaching. The family that rented the house had completely moved out. They had a lot of stuff, so they called a tricycle to help move it twice.

When the Fu family rented out the house, it was just an empty room. The stove, bunk beds, pots and pans in the house were all brought by other people.

In the end, they returned to an empty house. Fu's mother took Fu Ying and Fu Zhe together to clean the house carefully, as if it were a spring cleaning in advance of the Spring Festival.

The floor of this room is paved with cement, not tiles. In addition, there is coal stored in the backyard, and it is very black from people coming in and out. So we can only wash and mop, and it can't be made very clean.

The next day, while there was still some sunshine, Fu Ying wanted to wash the quilt. After Fu's father came back, Fu Ying and Fu's mother would sleep in separate rooms. Relatives might come to visit during the Chinese New Year and stay overnight, so she had to wash the quilt in advance.

In winter, when I dry my quilts, I always feel that they are not dry, even after drying them for three or four days. They feel dry, but hard, as if they are not dry. They feel normal after being dried by the fire. However, it is impossible to dry every quilt. Only those that are often worn and urgently needed will be dried by the stove at night. And there can't be too many, for fear that too many will fall on the stove and cause a fire.

Fu Ying put on the dry quilt cover and made it on the bed. She planned to separate from Fu's mother and sleep in a bed by herself. How nice it would be!

Fu's mother came to help her. Fu Ying asked when Fu's father would be home. Fu's mother said that Fu's father would be on vacation in a week and would be back by bus the next day.

Then Fu's mother suddenly hesitated and looked at Fu Ying cautiously.

"Xiaoying, your brother is coming back for the New Year."

Fu Ying's hands paused as he was making the quilt. If Fu's mother hadn't mentioned it, Fu Ying would have rarely thought of his brother.

Yes, she has a brother, a biological brother. Fu's father and mother actually have four children. Fu's mother gave birth to two sons and two daughters, two good words, what a good meaning.

However, for brothers to be friendly and united, they need a good family tradition and good parental education. Otherwise, if there are too many children, the family will be in turmoil.

For example, in the Fu family, there are actually quite a lot of quarrels between brothers and sisters.

When talking about Fu Ma's eldest son, Fu Ying automatically turns on the mocking mode.

"Why, did the young master come back? Did he come back in glory and splendor, or did he come back uselessly, making a lot of noise and talking without doing anything?"

"Xiaoying, don't talk like that. He's your brother." As soon as Fu's mother heard Fu Ying's tone and the content of her words, she began to blame Fu Ying.

Fu Ying sneered and shut up, but with a stern face.

Mother Fu didn't dare to say anything else. Her eldest son and her youngest daughter had always been at loggerheads with each other. If she said a few more words about her eldest son, Fu Ying would really explode.

Fu Ying made the quilt in silence. This room was the inner room that had been reclaimed for later use, where Fu's father and mother slept. Fu Ying still slept in the room where she had always slept.

After she finished, she went straight back to her room, locked the door, lay on the bed, and quietly sorted out the timeline.

In the previous life, it seemed that the eldest young master would come back around this time. But Fu Ying knew that the eldest young master should have contacted Fu's parents two months earlier, and Fu's mother must have begged him to come back for the New Year.

The eldest young master's name was Fu Wei. Fu Ying mocked his behavior and called him the eldest young master on purpose.

Normally, both Fu's father and mother started working since 05. They lived frugally and had been giving money to the family before Fu Yu got married. Fu Yu also gave most of her salary.

There were no seriously ill elderly people in the family, and there were no fixed mortgages or car loans at that time. The Fu family should have been able to save money and live a better life.

Moreover, there are only two of them, Fu Ying and Fu Zhe. How could parents not want to keep such young children with them and insist on sending them to someone else's home?

The reason is that when Fu Ying and Fu Zhe were studying, there was also Fu Wei who was studying.

Fu Wei was studying in his hometown, and it was inconvenient to bring the two younger children with him, so all three of them stayed in his hometown.

I don’t know if he deliberately forgot the unhappy things, but when Fu Ying was living at her second aunt’s house, Fu Wei should have been studying in junior high school in Gumang. He would come back every day for dinner and was also free to take care of his younger brothers and sisters on weekends.

But in Fu Ying's memory, it seemed that there were only Fu Ying and Fu Zhe in those two years, and Fu Wei never appeared at all.

Not to mention the two years that Fu Wei spent at Uncle Zhao Liu's house, when he was studying in high school in the county, but Fu Ying didn't remember at all whether Fu Wei came to visit his younger brothers and sisters.

Only in 08 when it snowed heavily, Fu's mother wanted them to go to Guangdong Province for the New Year, so she asked Fu Wei to take Fu Ying and Fu Zhe to ride together. So the brother who was cheated of 60 yuan at the Guangdong Province Station was Fu Wei.

The Fu family has always been poor, one reason is that the Fu family owed foreign debts for renovating the house, and the other reason is that the children have been studying.

During the two years when Fu Zhe and Fu Ying went to study at their uncle's house, Fu Wei went to high school in the county, which was not cheap. Fu Wei's grades were not very good, so he could not get into a good public high school and could only go to a private high school.

That school didn't have dormitories, so he rented a house like many other students. Food was also an additional expense. Fu Ying remembered that he needed 1500 yuan a month for living expenses at that time, and sometimes he had to ask his mother for some more.

The year Fu Ying and Fu Zhe went to study in Guangdong Province, Fu Wei was still in his senior year of high school.

But even though he is not good at studying, he still has a girlfriend. He rents a house with his girlfriend and uses the money he earns from paying his parents to support his girlfriend.

His girlfriend's brother was a gangster, looked down on him as a poor boy, and kept asking them to break up. He also introduced other boys to his girlfriend. Later, he saw his girlfriend being intimate with another boy and felt cheated on. After the two quarreled, Fu Wei stopped studying.

I didn’t even finish senior year of high school or take the college entrance exam, I just gave up.

When he arrived in Guangdong Province, Fu Ma asked him to find a job but he refused, and continued to live a decadent life. He asked Fu Ma for money to buy cigarettes and a computer, and then he lay at home, waiting for Fu Ying to wash his clothes and cook for him.

Fu Ying often quarreled with him about these things. When eating, Fu Wei would complain that Fu Ying overcooked the vegetables and put too much salt in them, and he refused to cook it himself, saying that he was doing this to guide Fu Ying to improve.

So as soon as he opened his mouth, Fu Ying would talk back.

The most serious and last time was on the weekend. Fu's parents went to work. I forgot why, but Fu Ying happened to block him from going out. He pushed Fu Ying out of the door. Fu Ying was so angry that she kicked him. The two started fighting. He pushed Fu Ying back in anger. As a result, Fu Ying fell to the ground with her head on the back. Fu Zhe found out and came to help her beat Fu Wei, but he was also pushed away by Fu Wei and sat on the ground. Then Fu Wei left and went to the Internet cafe.

Fu Ying felt something was wrong at the time, she felt dizzy and had a feeling that the back of her head was bleeding. At that time, the road was not asphalt or cement, but a mixture of mud and sand. Fu Ying looked at the ground and saw that there was no blood, so she asked Fu Zhe to look at the back of her head. Fu Zhe said there was blood, but Fu Ying thought it was not a big deal and did not take it seriously.

After get off work, Fu Ma was informed by a neighbor that her three children had fought. She looked at her younger son and daughter, who were fine, and scolded them to respect their older brother. In the evening, she scolded her older son, saying that he should not beat his younger siblings. As a result, the eldest son's self-esteem was aroused, and he stole Fu Ma's money and ran away from home the next day.

There was no news of Fu Wei after he entered junior high school. Fu's mother had mentioned him several times, and she began to forget about Fu Wei's bad deeds and miss her eldest son.