Splendid peasant girl busy farming

5348 - Old Yang's past

"Hey, getting old is useless. Look, I named you at the beginning, and now you are so old in a blink of an eye. By the way, how old are you this year?" Old Yang asked again.

Yu Xingkui raised a few fingers and gestured: "I'm 45 this year!"

"45?"

"Yeah, he's 45 years old, two years younger than third brother Yang, he's 47." Yu Xingkui said.

"Ah?" Lao Yang opened his mouth with a dazed expression.

Obviously, the old man didn't know exactly how old Yang Huazhong was.That's why he was stunned when he heard it from an outsider.

"The days go by so fast. Your father has been gone for many years, huh? It seems that he left during the plague more than ten years ago?" Old Yang asked again.

Yu Xingkui nodded, and when he mentioned the plague caused by a flood more than ten years ago, his whole expression became depressed.

"That's right, that's when my father left. His life was miserable, and he never enjoyed a few days of blessings in his life. When he left, there was no one around him..."

Not only did my father die in that plague, but my original wife and a pair of children also died in that plague.

During the great plague that year, Yujia Village was the hardest hit area. Later, the government sent officers and soldiers to isolate the village before burning the village.

Fortunately, Luo Fengtang and Yang Ruoqing, who had not yet become the great generals protecting the country, ventured into Yujia Village and developed an antidote to the plague. Otherwise, they and their mother would be dead now.

"I won't mention the past, people live in this world, there will always be a day when they will leave, look at me, it will be soon, those unfilial children and grandchildren of my family locked me here, this is going to jail! "Old Yang raised his hand and patted the bed board, laughing at himself.

Yu Xingkui came back to his senses, and suddenly remembered the purpose of his standing here today, not really to accompany the old man to recall those bad past, but to make him happy, so that he would accept me to serve him.

"Old Uncle Yang, please don't say that. No matter what you do, at least you will always have enough food and clothing. Your children and grandchildren dare not be short of you. But my mother, compared to you, my mother will suffer..."

"Your mother is still alive?" Old Yang asked in surprise, a strange light flashed in his eyes.

Yu Xingkui nodded, "My mother is always here."

Old Yang became interested, and asked again: "Then your mother will be sixty one this year, right?"

This time, Yu Xingkui was astonished, this old man didn't even remember how old his own son was before, how could an old lady from someone else's family remember the age so clearly?

"Yes, old Uncle Yang, why do you remember it so clearly?" Yu Xingkui couldn't help asking.

Old Yangtou laughed out loud, and it sounded like his laughter made him ten years younger.

Old Yang's brows and eyes were crooked when he smiled, and his beard, which hadn't been groomed for two months, had already covered his mouth, but it didn't hinder him from speaking at all.

"Of course I remember clearly. Didn't I say earlier that your father and your mother were the red line drawn by me back then. Your mother is the girl of a friend of mine in another village."

"Because I'm close to that friend, so I helped her sister draw a red line by the way."

There are some things that it is inconvenient for Old Yang to tell Yu Xingkui.

Think back when he saw Yu Xingkui's mother Zhao Chang'e for the first time, he fell in love with her at first sight.

That was decades ago. At that time, Mrs. Tan had just given birth to her third child and was in confinement. He was already the father of three sons.

Tan had no eggs to eat during confinement, so he asked his good friend to borrow them. At that time, he was 28, almost 30 years old.

The younger sister of a friend’s family has been sending samples to other people’s homes, and just came home that day. The 14-year-old girl is slim and beautiful, just like the flower bone.

When I asked her name, she said it was Chang'e.

At that time, he thought that the name was really well chosen, the person lived up to the name, and he really looked like the fairy Chang'e on the moon.

Although he had never seen what the fairy Chang'e on the moon looked like, in his opinion, Zhao Chang'e's temperament was similar to that fairy.

At that time, he had an impulse, if he had money, he would rather give Tan a sum of money, let her leave Lao Yang's house with her three sons, and make room for Zhao Chang'e as the wife.

It's a pity he has no money.

Just because he has no money, he cannot get rid of his ex-wife, appease the children, and prevaricate the villagers.

It was also because he had no money that he couldn't come up with a decent gift to make the Zhao family agree to marry their daughter to him.

After weighing the two, he could only bury that impulse deep in his heart.

Ever since he knew that there was a beautiful younger sister in his good friend's family, his relationship with that good friend became better and better.

Later, something happened to my friend's house, and the pillars of the family were gone, and there was only an old lady and Zhao Chang'e who were pulling the friend's pair of children.

His mind came alive again.

They tried to take the four of them, orphans and widows, to live in their own home in Changping Village for a few days, under the banner of taking good care of their friends and family.

And Zhao Chang'e's old lady is a smart old lady, she saw what Lao Yang was thinking, and after staying for a few days, she took her two little grandchildren back to Zhao's house, and found an excuse to leave Zhao Chang'e alone in Lao Yang's house. .

The tacit attitude of the old lady of the Zhao family encouraged Lao Yang invisibly.

And Zhao Chang'e didn't eat in vain, and took care of all the housework of the old Yang's family. She followed Tan's sister-in-law and yelled shortly, and helped take care of Yang Huazhong, who was just under one year old.

At that time, his idea was to let Zhao Chang'e live first, let Tan Shi see Zhao Chang'e's goodness, and then slowly talk softly with Tan, so that Tan Shi could accept Zhao Chang'e.

But what he didn't expect was that Mrs. Tan was too narrow-minded to insert a needle in that area.

Not only did they not agree, but they made a big fuss, dragging Zhao Chang'e by the hair, beating and cursing all the way from Changping Village to Zhaojia Village, saying that Zhao Chang'e hooked up with everyone they met, and saying all kinds of nasty words.

Zhao Chang'e returned to the Zhao family, her reputation was ruined, and no one came to propose marriage.

He was so angry that if he really had an affair with Zhao Chang'e, he would admit it.

But the problem is that he has always regarded Zhao Chang'e as his younger sister, and that thought has always been hidden in his heart. Before he could do that, Tan's messed up.

But Tan's side was born to him and he couldn't make up for it. In desperation, he thought of Yu Maohe, an old bachelor in Yujia Village whom he met while digging the embankment.

If you pull the red thread and marry Zhao Chang'e, there are three advantages.

As a result, he blocked the mouths of outsiders and proved his innocence.

The second is to give Tan a confession, showing his future attitude.

The third thing is to find a place for Zhao Chang'e, and I am worthy of her calling her brother for nearly two years.

Unexpectedly, Yu Maohe didn't care about the gossip outside, and insisted on marrying Zhao Chang'e.

(End of this chapter)