Chapter 12 Second Sister
Sleep until dawn.
After packing his luggage, Fu Song was sadly aware that he had less than 5 yuan on his body.
It costs 2 yuan and 30 cents to take a car from Mucheng to Ying County, and 30 cents to get from Ying County to the commune. The road fee alone costs 2 yuan and 60 cents to get there.
Last time he went home during the Spring Festival, he spent about ten yuan to buy a cotton jacket for my mother, but it made me feel bad. I was not afraid of the cold in the middle of winter. I ran around the village every day, and I praised the youngest for the warmth of the new cotton jacket I bought for her when I saw people.
If I go back empty-handed this time, will I be laughed at by my neighbors to death?
But what is enough for two dollars? You can’t even buy a can of malted milk essence.
Sitting on the bed and sighed for a while, Fu Song gritted his teeth and pushed the door out, and came to Ji Manjiang and Qu Tongcai's dormitory.
The dormitory was not open, and no one responded when knocking. He lay on the window and looked in. Damn, the bedding on both beds was rolled up.
These two grandchildren have left!
I'm fucking you, I don't even say hello, why are you doing so urgently? I'm rushing to reincarnate!
You are leaving, who do I need to borrow money?
Come to the bus station in shame.
At this time, the city road transportation in Mucheng did not sell tickets at the window, but instead got on the bus to buy tickets.
"Where do you go?" The ticket seller was a young girl, sitting in a stool, and her little mouth was quickly knocking on melon seeds.
"Yingxian, no, Nanping."
The ticket seller rolled his eyes and said impatiently: "Are you Yingxian or Nanping? You don't know where you are?"
Fu Song was so angry. If I had money, of course I would go back to my hometown Ying County directly.
Nanping, yes, is the Nanping County where Director Liu of the Management Committee serves as the top administrative leader. It is located between Mucheng and Ying County, next to Ying County, Ying County is in the southwest and Nanping is in the northeast.
You have to pass through Nanping from Mucheng to Ying County, because the journey is shorter, and the ticket costs one yuan and two cents.
The cheaper train tickets are secondly, the most important thing is that Fu Song's second sister Fu Qiu married into Nanping County.
Cough, he planned to borrow some money from his second sister and then buy some things for me in Nanping County.
Alas, look at me, it’s really embarrassing to the reborn!
The journey was bumpy, and I arrived in Nanping at around 1:00 pm. The bus threw the passengers directly on the national highway entering the city.
My second brother-in-law Lin Dezhi's family is in the rural area next to the county town, and it takes about 20 minutes to walk.
Fu Qiu was holding a hoe and was about to go to the field to weed. As soon as he closed the door, he turned around and saw that the third brother suddenly appeared in front of him and was shocked.
He threw down the hoe, stepped forward and grabbed Fu Song's arm, looked up and down, and asked, "Three brothers? Why are you here?"
"Second sister, I'm on vacation, come back and have a look." Fu Song's eyes were a little sore when he saw his second sister when he was young.
Including the previous life, Fu Song and his second sister have not seen each other for more than ten years.
There are six brothers and sisters in the Fu family, and Fu Song and his second sister Fu Qiu have the best relationship.
Fu Qiu ranked third in the family, with elder brother Fu Chun and elder sister Fu Xia above, second brother Fu Dong, third sister Fu Xiang, and youngest Fu Song below.
Fu Song's father died of illness when he was 5 years old. At that time, his elder brother and sister had already started a family. His mother, Yang Qiaolan, was a widow, lived with four underage children.
Yang Qiaolan earned work points in the production team, and 15-year-old Fu Qiu became an old mother, washing clothes and cooking, taking care of children, and having to go to the field to help my mother during the busy farming season.
Fu Qiu has beautiful eyebrows and a sleek appearance. He has no worries about marriage at all. When he was seventeen or eighteen years old, the person who came to propose marriage almost broke the threshold of the old Fu family.
Other people's daughters should have been talking about marriage at this age, and some even had children. However, in order to help Yang Qiaolan take care of the family, Fu Qiu dragged her until Fu Song went to junior high school before getting married.
When we got married, Fu Qiu was twenty-three, and Xu Sui was twenty-four, and he was definitely an old girl.
In the countryside, the old girl is not a good reputation, and the second daughter of the old Fu family has become a laughing stock in the villages.
Yang Qiaolan is also a person who wants face and asks people to find her in-laws everywhere.
The problem is that rural people get married early, and young men of appropriate age look down on Fu Qiu at all. One reason is that they dislike her for being too old, and the other reason is that they dislike the Fu family for being too poor.
No family can live a hard life. Marrying such a wife and going home is equivalent to having several more hungry mouths.
There are many old bachelors who have the idea of beating Fu Qiu. Fu Qiu is a little older, but he is famous for being able to live and knowing how to live in a village of 10 miles.
Who doesn’t know that Yang Qiaolan of the old Fu family is in charge of the outside and Fu Qiu is in charge of the inside?
Look at Fu Qiu's three younger siblings, their clothes were covered with patches, but the pulp was washed clean and they were dressed upright, with different spirits.
This is all Fu Qiu’s credit!
People in the countryside are not afraid of being poor, but they are afraid that they will not be able to live. If they cannot live poorly, they deserve to be poor for the rest of their lives.
Marrying a wife like Fu Qiu who can live like this will have a future success!
Yang Qiaolan was not happy at first, but she couldn't stand other people's gossip and said everything. The most vicious thing is that Yang Qiaolan treats Fu Qiu as an old mother and is easy to use without spending money, so she deliberately did not find a family for Fu Qiu.
But Yang Qiaolan was so angry that she never dared to drag her down again. A matchmaker came to propose marriage, and the man was Liu Erlaizi from the next village.
Liu Erlaizi gave a 20 yuan betrothal gift, which is equivalent to Yang Qiaolan's work points income for more than half a year.
At that time, the production team was poor, and one work point was less than one cent. The old Fu family was even poorer. Others had at least two strong laborers, but the old Fu family had only one. Except for Fu Qiu, the remaining three children were still in school. Not only could they not help the family, but they also had to ask for money and food every month.
It can be said that the Fu family lives in Shihe Village as the tail of a crane.
For the sake of the twenty yuan betrothal gift, Yang Qiaolan did not refuse, but did not respond on the spot, saying that she even asked her daughter what she meant.
Fu Song lived for two lifetimes and still clearly remembered that day in September 1974.
Fu Song went to the first grade of junior high school, and it happened to be the weekend. When he came home from school, he just came in. He happened to see Fu Qiu standing next to the stove, poking his throat with scissors, and saying to Yang Qiaolan word by word: "Mom, if you sell me to Liu Erlaizi, I will die for you now!"
Fu Song was raised by his second sister. In his heart, his second sister was even closer than his mother.
When I was a child, I was naughty. Every time Yang Qiaolan beat him up, my second sister would hold him in her arms and use her thin back to block my mother's broom bumps for him.
Once, I was sick and said I wanted to eat meat, but my family was so poor that I didn’t have enough food to eat, so I couldn’t eat meat for him. Fu Qiu secretly cut his braids and changed them to five eggs and a small piece of pork. She couldn’t bear to eat them, so she finally got into Fu Song’s stomach.
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The scissors poked Fu Qiu's neck and even more poked Fu Song's heart.
Fu Song knelt on the ground, hugged Yang Qiaolan's thighs, and cried loudly: "Mom, I'm not going to school anymore. I'm growing up. I'll follow you to earn work points! Please don't marry your second sister to Liu Erlaizi. Liu Erlaizi is not a good person, he is not worthy..."
Before he could finish his words, Fu Song was slapped by Yang Qiaolan on the face. The slap made Fu Song dizzy, and his face instantly became swollen.
"If you dare not go to school, I will break your legs!" Yang Qiaolan's eyes were red, as if she was about to eat Fu Song.
Chapter completed!