Chapter 5385: Ruin and Decay
Changping Village.
Early in the morning, the north wind was still blowing, and the wind was still mixed with snow particles. Although the particles were only the size of mung beans, they fell into the palm and melted after a while, but it also indicated that this day was It's getting colder and colder, and it will soon be freezing cold.
Xiaojie's father borrowed a carriage from Yang Huazhong's family. Although there was a layer of warm cushions in the carriage, the eldest Sun, who said it was useless to raise a daughter, still took out a quilt from home and spread it in the carriage. .
When Xiaojie sat in the carriage, Mrs. Sun put a small copper hand-warming stove into her hand and said angrily: "Yan'er, you are here with us. Don’t worry, when you get to Zhang’s house, do what you should do, take care of yourself in the cold weather, and don’t worry about Yan’er.”
Xiaojie looked at her sharp-tongued mother, with red eyes, "Mom, Yan'er is so tired, so you have to worry about it..."
"This is nonsense, Yan'er is my granddaughter, you are talking about those things "What are you doing? Let's go quickly. When the snow falls, you won't be able to leave even if you want to!" After going, the next thing was the voice of Xiaojie's father: "Slow down on the road, don't be in a hurry."
Xiaojie nodded: "Don't worry, I will come back after I drop Xiaojie off. You Go back to the house quickly, Yan'er is still sleeping, and there will be no one around her when she wakes up later."
Da Sun nodded, turned around and entered the courtyard door, slamming it shut with a creak. .
In the car, Xiaojie lifted up the car curtain and saw her mother's behavior. Feeling guilty, she could only smile bitterly.
She knew exactly what her mother was angry about and what she was worried about.
She is also a mother, and from a mother's perspective, if Yan'er meets such a husband who deceives her feelings in the future, she will be completely hurt. In the end, Yan'er will have to return home when her husband becomes ill. If her husband's family goes to take care of him, then she, a mother, will be angry at her daughter's failure to live up to her expectations, and she won't be able to let go of that man.
However, from the wife's perspective, Zhang Ban is the person she married. No matter how Zhang Ban exchanged letters with that woman a while ago, at least in the past, she and Zhang Ban had the same mind. They fell in love and decided to become husband and wife.
One night and a hundred days of kindness between husband and wife, people are all about affection, and it cannot be broken off by just saying goodbye.
From Yan'er's point of view, the seriously ill man is her father after all.
Xiao Jie didn’t want Yan’er to lose her father before she was one year old.
If you have a father, it doesn’t matter whether that father is a very promising man or not. At least you have a father. When you are bullied, there will always be a man standing behind you without hesitation. Why are you fooling around outside, but you are sincere to your daughter after all.
The best example here is Yang Huaming, the fourth uncle of the old Yang family. No matter how confused Yang Huaming was at the beginning, his three daughters were raised by him.
Even Yang Ruohe, who was the most ignorant at the beginning and was reviled by everyone, was raised by Yang Huaming, and his natal family could shelter him from the wind and rain.
Therefore, Zhang Ban cannot die, and Yan'er cannot live without her father.
She herself did not want to be a widow, nor did she ever think about remarrying.
No matter how good the remarried man is, he cannot be as kind to Yan'er as Zhang Ban.
As for rekindling the relationship with Zhang Ban, she couldn't make up her mind. In short, on this trip to Zhang's house, she just wanted to help Zhang Ban overcome the disease and survive first. As for the rest, let's take it one step at a time!
While she was thinking wildly, the carriage swayed into Qingshui Town and drove straight towards the Zhang family.
The Zhang family is not in the center of the street, but on a roadside on the edge of the town. This place is used to open a shop. In fact, the location is not very good. But fortunately, the shops opened by the Zhang family are not those closely related to food, clothing, housing and transportation. What the Zhang family sells are farm tools.
The main road at the door is a thoroughfare from the town to several nearby villages. Villagers on this side of the town have to pass in front of Zhangjia Shop if they want to come to the town to go to the market. .
So the Zhang family’s farm equipment business is still well managed. In addition, Zhang Ban has the honor of being a civil servant. Many villagers in nearby villages put their fields under the name of the Zhang family to achieve relief. tax purposes.
Of course, during the holidays, it is also necessary to give something to the Zhang family to supplement the family income.
In addition, the government also provides subsidies for candidates. Every quarter, you can go to the Yamen Gate to receive a certain amount of rice and grain, as well as pen, ink, paper and inkstones converted into cash.
Furthermore, Zhang Ban himself teaches in a school in the town, with monthly classes and the respect of the parents of the students.
With these several channels put together, the Zhang family can be regarded as a wealthy family in the town.
It’s just that something like this happened to the Zhang family during this period. Zhang Ban was seriously ill and dying. The two elders of the Zhang family were busy taking care of their only son, and the shop had no intention of running the business, and it was about to close down.
Of course, there is no income from the school. The Zhang family has been relying on their previous savings. They hired a nearby doctor for Zhang Ban and took a lot of good medicine. The family’s money was exhausted. There is not much left, Zhang Ban is still gone.
In the past two days, the north wind was raging and the temperature was freezing. Zhang's mother was worried that Zhang Ban would be frozen, so she lit a charcoal fire in his house with closed doors and windows.
Zhang Ban fell into a coma, but fortunately he was discovered in time. Later, he opened the window for ventilation and took away the charcoal fire. After a lot of trouble, he finally managed to snatch Zhang Ban back from the gate of hell.
But his complexion is getting worse and worse. Just last night, Zhang Ban coughed up blood all over the floor. Even the doctor shook his head and said that there was no cure for the situation, and he implicitly said The old couple of the Zhang family made preparations for the funeral as early as possible.
Zhang Banniang collapsed to the ground at that time, and Zhang's father was also confused.
So at this moment, when Xiaojie got off the car and stood at the door of Zhang's house, she looked at the closed doors and windows in front of her, the fallen leaves in the courtyard were piled all over the ground but no one was cleaning them, and the chickens were clucking in the coop but no one was taking care of them. A section of the bamboo pole for drying clothes fell to the ground and there was no one to help it. Everything was decayed and withered. Xiaojie felt like she was in another world, thinking that she had gone to the wrong place.
The cackling of a few jackdaws on the eaves brought her back to reality.
An aunt from the neighbor's house next door happened to go out to wash vegetables. When she saw Xiaojie standing at the door of Zhang's house, the aunt came quickly to say hello to Xiaojie.
"Xiaojie, you are finally back. I heard that you had an argument with Zhang Ban and returned to your parents' home. You are right to come back this time. Zhang Ban is about to die. He vomited blood last night. Your father-in-law He went to the coffin shop in town to order a coffin early in the morning. You should go see him as soon as possible. Let’s meet for the last time. Let’s talk about what we want to say as soon as possible...”
Xiao Jie could not hear clearly what the aunt said later. She staggered forward and pushed open the door of the room. There was no one inside, and everything was dilapidated and dilapidated. She staggered to the backyard.
There is a sunny house in the backyard. The door and window still have the word '囍' on the door and window when they got married. However, after a year of wind and rain, the bright red color of the word '囍' has long faded. , has long become dim.
However, during that time when they got married, he would draw her eyebrows and always bring her two bunches of delicious snacks after school...
Those beautiful past scenes came to her vividly. Her mind was filled with tears, and she could not see anything.
"Zhang Ban, Zhang Ban..." Xiaojie called, staggering, and pushed open the door of the wedding room...
(End of this chapter)
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