The sick man is responsible

When Liu Chenghan and his party went up to the cemetery, they saw the increasingly rickety but still strong grandfather. Both parties couldn't help but burst into tears. From adults to children, they kowtowed to the grandfather one by one, let's not mention these.Looking at the other side, Zhou Gaoer and Xiao Linzi entered the city from the south gate of Sanjiang County, walked half a circle around the city gate, and went out from the side gate to Zhoujiacun Wharf.

There are many shops and people in the county town, Zhoujia Village has also recovered a lot. Although it is not as prosperous as when they were young, it is much better than when they left six years ago.Zhou Gaoer kept urging Xiao Linzi to hurry up, and then hurry up, with a smile on his face involuntarily, and went home.

Walking to the street where Zhou's cake shop is, Zhou Gaoer simply closed the curtain of the carriage and looked out from the opening.The street shops on the left and right are open to welcome customers, but the door of Zhou's Bakery is closed tightly. The signboard and the door have an old and unpopular atmosphere.Xiao Linzi's heart skipped a beat, something must have happened, right?

Zhou Gaoer didn't have the heart to think about this, like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old brother, jumped out of the carriage in three steps and two steps while holding his trousers, and ran to knock on the door, "Father, Aya, I'm back."

There was a knocking sound on the door, and before the door opened, the people from the shop next door came out to look, "Oh, this is not cake, cake, you are back, your eyes are almost blind from crying thinking about you."

"Song Aya, aren't my father and Aya at home? Why isn't the store open, even after knocking on the door for a long time." Zhou Gaoer asked.

"It's been a long time since your bakery opened. Hey, I shouldn't say these things. Your father and Aya don't go through the front door now. You go to the backyard and knock on the door. They saw that you came back with a full body. , anyway, there is something happy." Song Aya said.

Zhou Gaoer was puzzled, but now was not the time to greet him, Xiao Linzi drove behind the carriage, and he walked ahead to the backyard to knock on the door. "Father—Aya—Man'er—"

After knocking for a moment, an old voice called out, "Who is it?"

"Aya——" Zhou Gaoer recognized Zhou Jinfu's voice, tears came out, and he knocked on the door louder and louder with sobs, "It's me, Gaoer, Gaoer is back."

Zhou Jinfu, who was sitting in a daze in the middle of the yard, supported the table, stood up and walked towards the door, muttering that I really heard Gaoer calling me, but the old man just didn't believe it.

As soon as the door opened, Zhou Gaoer saw the man with white hair and wrinkled face, and hardly dared to recognize him, "Aya?"

When Zhou Jinfu came to open the door, he didn’t expect to see Zhou Gao’er. In the past two years, he always had auditory hallucinations. He heard Zhou Gao’er calling him at the door. Forget about it during the day, and sometimes he would turn over when he fell asleep at night. Going downstairs to open the door for Zhou Gaoer, how many times has Zhou Chunguang told him.

"Gao'er, Gao'er, it's really you." Zhou Jinfu touched his face, the shock was too great, and he didn't cry for a while.

Zhou Gaoer burst into tears, "It's me, Aya, why did you become like this?" How did you age so quickly.

Only then did Xiao Linzi drive the carriage to the gate of the backyard, tie the carriage to the gate, and carry Sissi Zhou down, "Go call Da Da."

"Big--" Si Zhou ran towards Zhou Jinfu with his calves, his clothes were round, and if he didn't pay attention when he went down the steps, he rolled to Zhou Jinfu's feet, looking at Zhou Jinfu's astonished eyes from bottom to top, Feeling ashamed, she hugged Zhou Gao'er's calf and burst into tears.

Sixiang walked behind Zhou Gaoer and shouted to Zhou Jinfu, "Big brother."

Zhou Jinfu looked at this and then that, and suddenly ran in, "Old man, old man, come and see if my eyesight is bad. Why did I see that Gao'er came back with two little ones."

"You do this all day long." Zhou Chunguang's voice came from upstairs, "Who did you let in again?"

"Father—" Seeing Zhou Chunguang coming out of the room, Zhou Gaoer bit his lower lip and shouted. His father is also much older.

"Gao'er—" Zhou Chunguang took two quick steps and pressed Zhou Gaoer's shoulder, "You're really back." His voice trembled a little.

"I'm back." Zhou Gaoer nodded.

Kobayashi automatically knelt down on one side. "Master, the unfilial son brought back the cake."

Zhou Chunguang didn't even glance at him, and smiled back the tears in his eyes and said, "It's good to be back. Man'er, your elder brother is back, come down and have a look."

"Grandpa—" Homesick shouted.

Zhou Gaoer pushed Sixiang to the front, and lifted Sizhou, who was sitting on the ground and pretended to be crying, to stand beside Sixiang, "This is the elder Sixiang, who is four years old this year, and this is the younger Sixiang, who is two years old. God bless , we went north and found Guya and Brother Han very smoothly. I have lived in Guya's house for the past few years, and this time I came back together. Brother Han said that he will come to see you tomorrow."

"Okay, okay." Zhou Chunguang said three good things in succession, but he didn't know which one to say. He turned to Zhou Jinfu and said, "Look at you, you read it every day when Gao'er didn't come back, but now that you're back, why are you so far away? There are good grandchildren. No, I have to go outside to buy some food." Bend down kindly and said to homesickness, "Good grandson, do you want to go outside with grandpa?"

Sixiang looked at Ah Ya, who was hugging and crying, and Dad, who was kneeling, and nodded cautiously, "Master, I want to go."

"I want to go too." Sizhou said not to be outdone, Aya couldn't take care of him for a while, brother wanted to escape alone, but there was no way.

"Okay, grandpa will take them with me." Zhou Chunguang seemed to be several years younger, he hugged Si Zhou with one hand, and led Si Xiang with the other, and went out to buy vegetables.

Zhou Gaoer stepped forward and hugged Zhou Jinfu, Zhou Jinfu hugged him and cried aggrievedly, "Gaoer, why did you come back, Aya misses you."

"I miss you too, Aya." Zhou Gaoer said.

Zhou Man'er also came from the house, and when she saw Zhou Gaoer, she smiled shyly. Zhou Gaoer's glasses lit up when she saw him, and she happily said to Zhou Jinfu, "Man'er is tall and handsome now, are you engaged?" ?”

It’s okay not to talk about this, but when Zhou Jinfu turned his head to the other side, Zhou Gao’er didn’t think deeply, and went up to compare Zhou Man’er’s height, “It’s taller than Yuan Bao, but Yuan Bao is stronger than you, you have to see Don't be surprised by this nephew."

Zhou Man'er looked at him with a smile, his eyebrows were not gloomy, it seems that the elder brother has lived a good life in the past few years, so Dad and Aya can relax a lot, took out the pen and paper in his arms, and wrote, "Yuan Bao has been growing up since he was a child." Just stronger than me. '

"Yeah." Zhou Gaoer said, "He has a much more domineering temper than you." After finishing speaking, he realized that he looked at him hesitantly, "Why do you write with a pen?"

Zhou Man'er wrote, "The fever burned out the throat. It's no big deal. Fortunately, I was able to read back then. Now there is no problem in communication."

Seeing that Zhou Gaoer wanted to cry, he quickly wrote, "Brother, don't cry, Ah Ya has cried to death over this matter all these years, if you cry, he will cry too."

Zhou Gaoer quickly wiped away the tears from her eye sockets, took a deep breath, turned her head and said to Zhou Jinfu, "Aya, don't tell me, Man'er's handwriting is so beautiful now, and the handwriting written when I was a child is so ugly. Well, the private school teacher punished him to practice calligraphy, and I wrote those big characters for him."

"Gaoer, Aya was the one who lured wolves into the house back then. It wasn't that kind of conscientious family, and your younger brother wouldn't be infected with the disease. The high fever persisted and his throat was damaged." Zhou Jinfu gritted his teeth when he mentioned this matter.

"How to say?" Zhou Gaoer frowned and asked.Zhou Man'er hurriedly wrote something that he didn't want Aya to say, the best way for elder brother to know about this is to hear about it from his father.

"The epidemic has subsided. The elder brother found a few clothes from the dead outside the city and put them in your brother's room, and your brother got infected." It's a pity that Zhou Jinfu has already said it.

Zhou Gaoer was furious, "Really? That family is gone, there is no explanation for this?"

"They have a lot of family members. Your father said he wanted to report to the government. Xin'er knelt in front of your father and begged. At that time, I was worried about your younger brother's illness. Your father was afraid of offending them, so the three of us had to explain it. Let them go out." Zhou Jinfu said, "They have a good plan, you were not there at the time, your brother will have troubles, this week's family is that family, it's a pity that they can't see through their hearts, as if they were fascinated by ghosts If your heart is broken and you only focus on that family, your father will be disappointed and say that he will not have this son."

"Are they still living in Zhoujia Village?" Zhou Gaoer asked.

"It's like renting a house on the pier. Although Man'er is healed, he can't talk about it anymore. The family came to the door and said that he wanted to marry his younger brother to Man'er. Neither your father nor I are willing , he was spreading rumors outside. This week, there is no brother in Zhoujia Village who is willing to marry Man'er. As soon as your father opened the shop, the family of them licked their faces and sat at the door. They must help say hello. When others say it, it is the in-laws who help. As soon as your father chased them away, they rolled and cried in the street, saying that the Zhou family disliked the poor and loved the rich, and at the beginning they liked his son to be tall and good at protecting the family, but now that the disaster is over, they turned their faces and refused to recognize anyone."

"Your father just stopped opening the shop in a fit of anger." Zhou Jinfu said, "Fortunately, your younger brother is smart and thought of a way to supply the restaurants and inns in the city, making snacks at night and sending them out in the early morning. At least he can keep the family's livelihood. Don't invite those wolves. Just now your father and younger brother were in the room to catch up on sleep."

"Where is your heart when they are making trouble?" Zhou Gaoer asked.

"Do you still want such a son?" Zhou Gaoer asked, the anger accumulated to a certain level, Zhou Gaoer calmed down instead.

'Big Brother, Second Brother, he is already a husband and has a child of his own, so he can't help himself. Zhou Man'er wrote a note for Zhou Gaoer to read, Zhou Gaoer looked at him silently, his little brother, he carried it on his back before he could leave, and he was holding him all the time when he was writing. Holding a pen and teaching one by one, but such a good boy has now become a mute.

Zhou Gaoer helped Zhou Jinfu to finish the work on the stool, "Aya, I'm going out to find my father, it's the first time he brought two children."

After going out the gate, Zhou Gaoer took out a handkerchief to wipe away her tears, and asked a neighbor. "Do you know where Zhou Xiner lives now?"

Zhou Man'er looked at his brother's imposing back, and wrote, 'Aya, is your brother looking for your father? '

"I probably went to look for your second brother." Zhou Jinfu said wearily. Elderly people will feel tired if their mood fluctuates too much.

'will be all right? ’ Zhou Maner wrote.

"No, slap him at most." Zhou Jinfu said, "Your father didn't want to slap him at first, so he got used to it. Let your elder brother teach him a lesson."

'Brother Xiao Lin is still kneeling, why don't you wake him up? Zhou Man'er glanced at Xiao Linzi who was still kneeling there motionless.

"Let him kneel there, it's not on his own initiative, and our family doesn't need to be separated from father and son for so long." Zhou Jinfu was sad again after thinking about it, "I lack a bite for myself, and I won't miss a bite for my son. He What kind of intention do you have in picking up the cakes and going back to the Lin family?"

Xiao Linzi knelt down obediently, an impulse back then, but now it caused irreparable damage, the whole family is outsiders, if he and Gaoer leave like this, the balance of the Zhou family will be lost, and it will There is such a woe.

Zhou Gaoer asked for the address, and hurried over there. When he walked in, he saw Zhou Xiner hanging fishing nets in front of the house. He was a well-bred brother who rarely even entered the kitchen. Now he has rough hands and a rough face. , working with a big belly, and from time to time yelled at a child sitting next to him not to put sand in his mouth, just like all farmer husbands struggling for food and clothing.

Zhou Gaoer just stood there looking at him coldly, after a while Zhou Xiner seemed to have a feeling, looked back and saw that it was Zhou Gaoer, her eyes lit up, and hurried forward, "Brother, when did you come back? I miss you so much."

Zhou Gaoer opened the hand he extended, Zhou Xiner's expression changed, and she said sadly, "Brother, is Aya still angry with me? At the beginning, Big Brother also wanted to lighten the burden on the family, so he went to pick up some old clothes and came back. After cleansing, scald it with hot water and it will be fine. Who would have thought that Man'er would take it back, big brother, husband, they all blamed themselves, otherwise they would not say marrying the little brother to Man'er, the little brother will grow up Well, I’ll ask him to come out to show you, he has a good personality, he’s also a good embroiderer, and he’s a good match for Man’er.”

"Do you believe what you said?" Zhou Gaoer asked.

Zhou Xiner bit her lower lip and stood there, Zhou Gaoer said coldly, "I came here to slap you, to see if it would wake you up. Now I don't want to."

"Zhou Xiner, are you happy now?" Zhou Gaoer said, "After abandoning your loving father and aya, after abandoning your brotherhood, are you happy now? I guess you must have not seen your father and aya for a long time Boy, you don’t know that they have gray hair all over their heads, and their eyes are full of depression. I guess you must have never communicated with Man’er who can’t talk, and you don’t know that the warm brother who can laugh is holding a cardboard with you How does it feel to speak."

"Father and Aya don't want to see me." Zhou Xin'er murmured.

"So you can not go to see them with peace of mind, and use the reasons you told me to hypnotize yourself day by day. Those people in your husband's family are making trouble and your father can't open a shop, do you know? Maybe you know, let me guess Guess what they will say, Dad and Aya have misunderstood you, so you have to explain, life is not easy for Dad and Aya with a dumb son, you are going to help them. Is that right?" Zhou Gaoer asked, Zhou Xiner fiercely looked up at him.

"Zhou Xin'er, I hope you will live like this, really. You live a good life, and never regret your choice. Dad and Aya both have me, you live your life well." Zhou Gaoer said, " I hope there will never be a day when you kneel at the door begging for forgiveness, because I will never forgive you, never will."

Zhou Gao'er left after speaking, leaving Zhou Xin'er in a daze.

"Xin'er, what are you doing outside? Hurry up and turn over the dried sweet potatoes." Someone in the room shouted.Zhou Xin'er subconsciously let out a groan, then looked at the room, and then looked down at her own hands, where the nails were black that could never be washed off.

Am I happy?