Story: The son died and the daughter-in-law ran away, the 60-year-old woman who had been widowed for many years, and only the granddaughter was left with her for the rest of her life

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1

"Old Zhang, hurry up, something is wrong!"

At eleven o'clock in the night, I just lay down when I heard an urgent slamming of the door, and Sister Zhao's voice of changing tone came through the door panel, frightening me to get up and put on my clothes to open the door.

Sister Zhao was holding a broken umbrella separated from flesh and bone, wet and trembling, "The granddaughter of Mrs. Wu's family has run away from home!" ”

As we spoke, a bolt of lightning burned a hole in the dark night, followed by a rumbling thunder.

I let Sister Zhao into the house and poured her a cup of hot water to warm herself. Such a bad day, the little girl will pick the day.

Sister Zhao wiped the rain from her face, "Old Mrs. Wu reflected to the village at eight o'clock, saying that her granddaughter did not come home after school." ”

There is only one kindergarten in the village, Wu Xiaomei is in the sixth grade, every day at five o'clock in the morning to get up, and then walk along the field for more than half an hour, before seven o'clock to arrive at the town's primary school.

Considering that most of the children live far from the school, the school will be released at three o'clock in the afternoon, and Wu Xiaomei can get home at most 4:30, but today, at seven o'clock, there is no shadow.

I took a towel to wipe Sister Zhao's face and asked, "Will you go to your classmates to watch TV?" ”

Most of them are poor households, struggling on the subsistence line all year round, and television is still a luxury.

"I asked around and didn't see anyone!" The hot water made Sister Zhao shiver, and she put the cup on the table with a roar and asked me to go out to find someone.

At night, I can't see my five fingers, the rain is falling quickly and heavily, and the thunder in the sky rings from time to time, how to find it? It is not impossible for a child to play somewhere else and be delayed by heavy rain.

Sister Zhao straightened out the plastic sheet covered with red and blue stripes on her body, I don't know which garbage heap turned over, covering her back and covering her ass.

"Wu Xiaomei got into a fight with Mrs. Wu yesterday afternoon, and threatened to go to her mother, but today there is no shadow, you say why don't you hurry!"

"You didn't say it earlier!" Not caring about the rain, I also found a thick dress to put on and pulled her into the rain curtain.

2

Sister Zhao and I are the team members who were just assigned to Qianyangzhai a few years ago.

Qianyangzhai belongs to New Taipei Town and is a "deeply impoverished area" in our city. Here the mountains are high and the road is far away, the traffic is extremely inconvenient, the villagers have poor education level, and every household has been engaged in farming and family breeding for generations, there is no industrial foundation, and poverty alleviation is difficult.

Mrs. Wu's family is also the one that is difficult among the poor households.

As early as before the visit, some village cadres reminded me and Sister Zhao, "Old Mrs. Wu's family situation is complicated. It is really difficult for you to let two lesbians hook up with her family. ”

Sister Zhao and I grew up in the city, although we are not unfamiliar with the title of "poor area", but after all, it is not as good as seeing it.

On the mountain road to Mrs. Wu's house, we also cheered each other up, saying that wherever we were bitter, we would go anywhere. But when we really arrived at Mrs. Wu's house, we realized that we were still naïve.

There are thousands of causes of poverty, which boil down to nothing more than these: poverty caused by illness, poverty caused by lack of labor, poverty caused by lack of technology... If you calculate it carefully, it is estimated that old Mrs. Wu's family can account for ninety-nine out of a hundred.

It was not easy to get to her house, cars, motorcycles, and walks together, tossing and turning for more than an hour to arrive.

Even so, it could not hide the dilapidated atmosphere that came from the face: a low and small tile house, with a kitchen on the left, a house on the right, and a hall house of less than ten square meters in the middle.

Some bacon was hung on the beam of someone else's door, and only a few sparse packs of dried peppers were hung in front of her door. There were also a few broken tiles lying on the edge of the roof, so dangerous that it seemed that an accident was about to be created at any moment.

The pillar is black and dirty, and the spring union on it has been pasted for several years, one side has long been peeled off, and the other side can faintly see the words "fortune to fortune to fortune".

The door is woven with bamboo and is slowly nailed to a wooden board, which cannot stop people or avoid wind and rain.

The living conditions are poor, and the surrounding environment is not good.

The "Feng Shui Treasure Land" in Mrs. Wu's mouth is located in the mudslide-prone area, and the mountain is mostly composed of sediment, stones, etc., and the vegetation is mostly small shrubs, small trees, and loose soil.

On dry days, once it's rainy, the large and small stones are full of water and will roll down the top of the mountain, causing mudslides and even landslides.

The village cadre said with a bitter face, "Other villagers have moved away in response to the call for poverty alleviation and relocation, and as far as Mrs. Wu's 'nail household' is concerned, she refuses to move no matter how she says, she is an old man, and no one dares to come hard, so they have to follow her." ”

The price of "relying on her" is that every rainy season, the village has to arrange special people to trek several kilometers every three to five to check whether there is a danger of landslides near her home, which is very hard.

3

Speaking of which, Mrs. Wu has been very bitter in this life.

When he was a child, he fled from Linsheng Province, and in order to survive, his father and mother promised The Little Wu Old Lady to the Wu family and exchanged them for thirty pounds of corn ballast.

"My dad said he'd come and see me when he settled down, but I haven't seen them since." Mrs. Wu's cloudy old eyes were wet and red, and she didn't know whether she had an eye disease or remembered her family.

When Mrs. Wu was in her twenties and officially married into the Wu family, her man was already more than thirty years old.

I think it was because I was injured when I fled, and after five years of marriage, Mrs. Wu gave birth to a son, "My old man also killed an old hen, saying to mend me." Speaking of his own man, Mrs. Wu was happy, and the wrinkles on her face spread out in circles like ripples.

The child is not a full moon, suddenly high fever, she and the man take turns to use a towel dipped in cold water to cool the child, afraid that he will get cold, and then put into the chest to warm up.

After a day or two, the child did not get better, and one night he began to convulse, smoked and died.

Mrs. Wu pointed to the back mountain, "My son is buried there, if I leave, he will not be able to find me." ”

After lying in bed for more than half a year, Mrs. Wu reluctantly accepted the reality of her son's early death. After seven or eight years, she became pregnant and gave birth to her second son, which was Wu Xiaomei's father.

"The second oldest is capable, when he was four or five years old, he followed me and his father to the market, I can't even calculate the arithmetic, he pulled his finger and calculated it."

The second eldest went to primary school, and the village teachers all said that he was smart and wanted Mrs. Wu to cultivate well, so that he could become a cultural person in the future.

"There is no money in the family, the second brother just went to high school, his father picked mushrooms on the mountain, fell from the mountain beam, looked for several days in a row, and then looked for it in the lower reaches of the river, and was swollen by blisters." He went up the mountain to collect the fungus, and he fell into the water. ”

After the man's death, the second son, who could have become a "cultural man", had to drop out of school and go home. He has sold vegetables, moved bricks to construction sites, and sold cigarettes.

Mrs. Wu laughed heavily, "He went to the border to buy cigarettes, smuggled them here and sold them to make a difference, and was almost caught once." ”

"The people told him to stand in the back, and he ran forward with a cigarette. Later, he thought that if he was caught and put in prison, no one would take care of me. My son's filial piety was good, and while running, he opened the cigarette, and lost it all over the ground, and those few people were busy picking up cigarettes, and they couldn't care less about catching my son. ”

Wu Lao'er used the money saved from doing business to say a daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law was introduced by the old Liu of the same village, and it is said that she is a distant relative of her family.

"I thought that the daughter-in-law of Bai de had pickled a ham for others." When the ham was sent over, people said they wanted a bride price, five thousand pieces, not a lot. Remembering the situation at that time, Mrs. Wu was still a little indignant.

After marriage, Wu Lao'er became a vegetable vendor again, collecting some green and white small vegetables from the village to sell in the next town, and collecting mushrooms dug by villagers in the summer.

Life got better day by day, and the daughter-in-law gave birth to Wu Xiaomei in the third year of marriage.

If the day is so safe and stable, it is that it is, but a few years ago, Wu Lao'er went out to sell vegetables in the early morning and had a car accident, and when he was found, he was already cold.

Later, the daughter-in-law who became a widow fled, leaving Mrs. Wu and her granddaughter to live together.

The son died and the daughter-in-law ran away, and the 60-year-old woman who had been widowed for many years was left with only her granddaughter for the rest of her life

4

Sister Zhao and I, together with several village cadres, planned to find Wu Xiaomei along the main road, and the villagers who often went up the mountain to beg for a living took the foot of the mountain.

The night was like ink, I was facing six or seven hundred degrees of myopia, and I couldn't see clearly, so I had to open my throat and roar, "Wu Xiaomei, Wu Xiaomei." ”

I've never had such a big rain.

There was wind in the rain, and the wind wrapped around the rain, like a giant hand slapping the surface of the umbrella.

We were like a few bamboo rafts floating on the stormy sea, only the sound of wind, rain, leaves, and fleeting breathing in our mouths.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the rain was not small, and Sister Zhao and I had been dizzy by the rain, and our voices were dumb, leaving only a pair of frozen legs, mechanically moving forward.

"Go back," the village chief shouted, no more than four or five meters apart, and he drew a line in his throat, "the rain is too heavy, the road ahead is more difficult to walk, in case it falls, it will be difficult to explain." ”

The wind and rain poured into his mouth, and he spoke very hard.

Sister Zhao asked, "What should Wu Xiaomei do?" ”

The village chief replied, "Maybe she ran somewhere to hide from the rain, that doll is more refined than her father, and there will be no accidents." ”

A few village cadres next to me also advised me, "Let's go back first, maybe the other group has news?" ”

Village committee, by the fire, Sister Zhao and I changed into clean clothes and warmed up around the fire.

Hot water on the stomach, Sister Zhao and I both fought a cold war, goosebumps "poof" all came out, and drank a few sips, before the body slowly warmed up.

After a while, the group that was looking for someone along the mountain road also returned.

The black-faced man at the head took off his coat and put a pack of rain-soaked cigarettes next to the fire to roast, "Find a ghost, walk down the road for more than an hour, and the ghost shadow is gone." Xiong Laosi also fell off the fence, and his feet were swollen like steamed buns. ”

The other also scolded, "This knife-wielding doll, it's dark and murky, the rain is heavy, and I don't know if I'll find a place to hide." ”

Unconsciously, it was five o'clock in the morning, and the rain was getting smaller, but there was still no intention of stopping.

Some villagers wanted to drive the pigs to the town to slaughter, went out for half an hour and then turned back, saying that a few large stones fell down in the middle of the mountain, and the intersection out of the village was blocked, and the car could not go out.

After a night of torrential rain, the slopes of the mountain that lack vegetation cover were washed away by the rain overnight, and they were already very soft, most likely causing landslides.

In case Wu Xiaomei... We don't dare to think about it anymore.

5

At less than seven o'clock, Mrs. Wu ran to the village committee and hid under the eaves of the tile house less than a foot in front of the house to hide from the rain. By the time I saw her, she was half-wet, and a pair of army green rubber shoes were covered with mud spots.

I blamed her, "Grandma, why don't you call people?" ”

Her voice was hoarse, "I know you've been looking for a night, so you'll sleep more." ”

She stared at me for half a day before asking, "My little plum her?" ”

I honestly replied: "I haven't found it yet, I'm going to eat a bun and look for it again, and a few fellow villagers next to me will also go together." ”

Her already diminutive body suddenly became even more awkward, lowered her eyebrows, and stared at the ground for a while, "I want to go with you." ”

Mrs. Wu said that she has lived in the mountains all her life, where there are pits and where there are obstacles, she knows better than anyone and will never add chaos to us.

After all, she was old, and if something happened, no one could bear it.

Mrs. Wu "rubbed" and jumped up, and said urgently, "I don't want you to be responsible, even if you are buried by a stone, it doesn't matter anything." ”

Then the mood suddenly fell, "Dead or not, the death of a family, scattered, my old life is taken away by god one day, I will be relieved." ”

Everyone was strangely uncomfortable to hear, and they didn't know how to comfort them, and they didn't know who had added a piece of dry firewood to the fire pit, and black smoke was emitted outside, making people want to shed tears.

After a few minutes of silence, the village director put the enamel teacup on the table with a "whoosh" and stood up and said: "Grandma, we will go out to look for it again, you are still waiting in the village committee, otherwise you will not be able to find Xiaomei, it will be messy." ”

A group of people put on raincoats and were preparing to go out. The voice of Zheng Foreman, who helped build the road in the village, rang out outside the door, "Find it, Gua Wa'er is afraid that she was ready to come back yesterday, and the road is blocked." When I went to clear the road this morning, I saw the little girl hiding under a tree, all wet. ”

Sister Zhao asked with a furrowed brow and asked, "What about people?" ”

"I'm behind my head!" Zheng Foreman turned sideways, and we found that he actually had a girl behind him, and his thin and small body was tightly blocked by Zheng Foreman, who was only one meter six.

"You're a knife-wielding one." Old Mrs. Wu, who was sitting in the corner, jumped up and rushed over to beat her, "Where are you crazy, looking for you for one night." ”

The girl timidly took a few steps back, saw us grab her grandmother, and craned her neck and said, "You take care of me, you tell me to roll, I'll go and find my mother!" ”

"White-eyed wolf," Mrs. Wu was grabbed by me and Sister Zhao, her body did not go any further, and her mouth still scolded, "Lao Tzu helped you change your diaper and shit, carry your needles and take medicine, send you to read and recognize, where did your mother die?" You've grown up, you're gone, what are you going to do when you're gone? ”

This old lady, obviously just now, was anxious to go out with us to find someone, and when we met, it was like eating a gun, and she wouldn't say a good word.

Wu Xiaomei is not willing to show weakness, "You drive me away by yourself, I don't go mai, when the leper dog Mai?" ”

At the critical time, the village director came out to preside over the overall situation, "What are you two making trouble, this is the village committee, not your house, messy!" ”

Turning his face to Wu Xiaomei again, "Your grandmother is more than sixty years old, and you are afraid of one night, you are a junior, so you must apologize first." ”

Wu Xiaomei tilted her head, "She drove me away by herself." ”

Mrs. Wu also scolded, "What an apology, it is good that she does not kill me." ”

Wu Xiaomei still wanted to open her mouth, but was robbed by Sister Zhao, "Wu Xiaomei, your grandmother is not young, if you are not worried about you, why will you come to wait for the news at six or seven o'clock today?" You have also read books, you know what it is to respect the elderly and love children, do you say that you are doing the right thing? ”

Wu Xiaomei blushed when she was told, and she also pretended to be calm and "hummed".

The village chief smashed two puffs of smoke and said slowly, "Go home with your grandmother first." There are wild bears on the mountain, count your luck today, and then make such a fuss later..."

His gaze was nailed straight to Wu Xiaomei's face, frightening the little girl, and her face finally showed fear.

Looking at the distant backs of the grandparents, Sister Zhao frowned and asked, "Director, is there really a bear on the mountain?" ”

The village chief smoked a cigarette and walked away with his hands behind his back, "There is, polar bear!" ”

6

Every day to visit and fill out forms, collect information, report the situation, as well as from time to time to check and assess, the work in the village is almost the same every day.

After Wu Xiaomei left, Sister Zhao and I decided to go to see the grandchildren when we had time, although we could not solve any practical problems, but it was also good to chat with the elderly.

Some villagers saw me and Sister Zhao go to the Wu family to be diligent, and secretly told the two of them, "That family's grandchildren are very strange, Old Mrs. Wu has conquered her husband's son, and Wu Xiaomei's baby is also a thief, anyway, you have nothing to go." ”

Sister Zhao and I were helpless, the more poor and backward the place, the more the foolish ideas of these gods and ghosts prevailed, and "helping wisdom" can be described as a long way to go.

After coming a few times, Mrs. Wu also became acquainted with us. As soon as I reached the bottom of the mountain, I looked up and saw a figure standing on the hillside looking forward, and she was not wrong.

Sister Zhao nodded her chin upwards: "She is a foreigner, and everyone says that she has a hard life, and there are fewer people who come and go with her, so we will accompany the elderly more in the future." ”

After chatting for a while, Mrs. Wu wanted to stay with us to eat, and we were not polite, Sister Zhao carried a small wooden stool to the stove to ignite the fire, and I picked vegetables on the side.

When I first came, Mrs. Wu thanked us for helping her find her granddaughter, and had to kill the fat hen who laid the egg in the stew, which was stopped by me, "I have high blood lipids, and the doctor said it was best to eat small dishes." ”

Sister Zhao also helped, "I have high cholesterol, high oil and high salt things to eat less." ”

After that, she no longer insisted, eating either wild vegetables in front of the house and behind the house, or fresh seasonal vegetables such as corn and melon fruits that she planted herself.

Mrs. Wu is careful, although it is a light side dish, sometimes boiled, sometimes cold mixed, sometimes stir-fried, almost every time there are new dishes.

We were busy in the kitchen, and Wu Xiaomei also returned, greeting Sister Zhao and us, but ignoring Mrs. Wu.

Mrs. Wu sighed and said with a dark face: "The doll is big and has many ideas." This little knife, I hope to raise her alive, and she is not willing to tell me a good word. ”

Sister Zhao and I came several times and knew more about the Wu family.

Mrs. Wu was kind to people, and every time she saw a few of our team members, she had to have a good conversation and repeatedly invited us to dinner at home.

But in the face of her granddaughter Wu Xiaomei, she completely changed her appearance.

Xiaomei does housework, and Mrs. Wu scolds her for spending her time all day on messy things and not studying well; Xiaomei does not help her, and she says that her granddaughter is "a little knife" and does not understand herself.

Sister Zhao and I persuaded several times, but Mrs. Wu couldn't listen to it, and defended: "What is good to eat, am I not the first to think about her, the loess is buried in the throat, not for her, what else do I die to support?" ”

Seeing that Mrs. Wu could not be persuaded, we turned to persuade Wu Xiaomei, but she did not buy it, "Which classmate is not a parent who is not a heart and liver baby, and my grandmother scolds me every day, and what to do is not in line with her heart." ”

Sister Zhao said, "She is also for your own good." ”

Wu Xiaomei twisted her head, "Then does she know that long-term bad words are not conducive to the healthy growth of teenagers." ”

This child, talking one by one, Sister Zhao and I were dumbfounded.

7

Wu Xiaomei is about to go to the first year of junior high school, and Sister Zhao and I are ready to ask our superiors to help coordinate and reduce part of the cost of her schooling.

Thinking of going to the county seat, Wu Xiaomei was very happy, and when she had time, she ran to the village committee to ask about fee reductions and grants.

But more than a month passed, we did not receive any reply, called over, the staff said that they did not receive the relevant materials or notices.

The village is far from the town, so we hand over materials and other trivial matters, we all handed over to the village director to do the work, heard that the town did not receive materials, Sister Zhao ran to ask the village director.

The village chief smoked the hookah, the smell choking people breathless, "What material, when was it given to me?" ”

But no matter how Sister Zhao explained, the village director bitten to death and did not get the material in Sister Zhao's mouth. Sister Zhao was in a hurry, striding out of the office, and the sound of snapping footsteps gradually went away.

The village chief glanced at it, and Pi Xiaofeng did not smile: "The comrades from your city are a bit grumpy." I definitely didn't see the material, otherwise I would have done it for you a long time ago, maybe she forgot to give it to me herself, but blamed me. ”

I was not good at answering the phone, and continued to enter the personal information of poor households on the computer.

Not long after, Sister Zhao threw a stack of materials in front of the village director in a bad tone, "Isn't this the material I gave you, and said you don't know?" ”

The village chief did not look up, and laughed dryly twice, "That is, I forgot, there are many things in the village, and none of them have time to help you hand over materials every day." ”

Sister Zhao said anxiously: "Wu Xiaomei spends a lot of money to go to junior high school, how can Mrs. Wu afford it?" ”

"Don't worry," the village chief pointed to the stool with his finger, signaling Sister Zhao to sit down, "reading is not necessarily good, and not reading also has the advantage of not reading." ”

The village director said that Wu Xiaomei is not young, they are almost fifteen years old before they are in the first year of junior high school, and the conditions in her family are known to everyone, even if they finish junior high school, what will happen to high school?

"I see, it is better to let her go to work first, isn't there someone in the next village going to Guangdong and Fujian to work, making clothes, toys and so on, there is not much technical content, and primary school graduates can also do it."

"Do it for two or three years, save some money, come back and find a good family to marry, have a baby, and live a lifetime."

Reading is the only way for a cold student like Wu Xiaomei to change their fate, but in these remote small mountain villages, most parents do not have this concept, let the school-age children drop out of school and go home to work to earn money, disregarding the future of their children for the sake of small profits.

The village director's cultural level is not high, but the account of Wu Xiaomei's family is clearly calculated, "Even if the junior high school belongs to compulsory education, but the money for more than a thousand yuan of meals per semester is always necessary, and the cost of buying stationery and tutoring books is always necessary, at least 10,000 or 20,000 after three years, right?" ”

"High school costs a lot, not to mention college, where did Mrs. Wu get so much money?" Taking a step back, even if Wu Xiaomei finishes college, she will not come out to find a job in the end. ”

He continued to gush, "Some college graduates only have a salary of two or three thousand a month, which is similar to part-time work, so it is better to let her work now!" ”

The words of the village chief were harsh and realistic. But is a rural girl destined to be inseparable from the mountains?

8

The next morning, the thin figure of Mrs. Wu appeared at the door of the village committee, and she came for Wu Xiaomei's schooling.

The village director asked Mrs. Wu for credit with some pride, "I even found a job for her, and the probation period is more than a thousand yuan." ”

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Wu's first sentence hit the face of the village director, "Xiaomei still wants to study, not to work." ”

"Reading?" The director looked stunned and repeated the paragraph that was analyzed by me and Sister Zhao yesterday.

"Are you confused," the village chief pressed the cigarette butt on the ground, "girls are going to get married, what is the use of reading such a book?" Besides, reading costs so much money, can you get it? ”

Wu Xiaomei rushed in from outside the door, "I want to study, I can go pick up waste paper to sell, I can also sell vegetables, and I will have money in a province." ”

The village director smiled contemptuously, "How much can a pound of broken copper and rotten iron sell, how much money can a pound of small vegetables make, you need tens of thousands of yuan to study, where does the money come from?" ”

Wu Xiaomei's eyes were a little tide, "The state will provide me with reading." ”

The village chief replied: "The state is to give you free tuition, and you still need living expenses!" Besides, high school and university are not compulsory, and you still have to pay the fee. ”

Seeing that Wu Xiaomei did not answer, he slowed down his tone, "Your grandmother is not easy, she is also old, do you still want to smash pots and sell iron for you to study?" ”

Wu Xiaomei looked at Mrs. Wu and then at us, completely speechless.

The village director smiled, "That's right, I've helped you find a job, go to Guangdong to make a dress for a doll, more than a thousand yuan a month, get a salary to honor your milk." ”

Mrs. Wu didn't buy it, "The teacher said that Xiaomei is the material for reading, even if I am exhausted, I will let her read." ”

The village chief's eyes flashed a trace of surprise, "If you study again, you will also marry someone, so it is better to come out early to make money." ”

Mrs. Wu did not budge, "Give me the materials, I will hand them over myself!" ”

At the insistence of Mrs. Wu, Wu Xiaomei entered the county no. 1 middle school as she wished, and Sister Zhao and I applied for a monthly subsidy of 200 poor students for her.

The relationship between the grandchildren also improved significantly, and Wu Xiaomei secretly told me, "Before, my grandmother was fierce at any time, and I always thought that she hated me as a girl, until the last time she said something to the village director, I felt that she seemed to care about me." ”

How could Mrs. Wu not care about her granddaughter, she loved Wu Xiaomei, and sometimes resented the burden she was carrying.

She had nowhere to talk to and no one to share with her, and the long loneliness made her forget the taste of love and being loved, which made her use harshness and scolding as the only way to express love, and also created a gap between the two.

9

Towards the end of the year, Sister Zhao and I were tortured by various examinations. When I remembered, I hadn't been to Mrs. Wu's house for three or four months.

Taking advantage of the Spring Festival condolences, the two of us carried brown sugar and noodles, and struggled along the winding mountain road, and it took a long time to reach the Wu family.

There were two shouts at the door, and no one responded.

Sister Zhao said strangely, "Where is Ah Wei," turning around the courtyard and saying, "The ground is full of dead leaves, not her style." ”

Mrs. Wu is quite clean, so she let the yard be so chaotic, I'm afraid there is no accident?

I was startled by my own thoughts, and hurriedly pulled Sister Zhao to find someone in front of and behind the house.

When she was in a hurry, Mrs. Wu's familiar voice sounded behind the house, "You two don't say a word in advance." ”

She carried a vegetable basket in her left hand and a crutch in her right hand, her hair was messy, "I went to pick up chicken last month and accidentally twisted my foot." ”

Sister Zhao took her vegetable basket and helped her to the courtyard to bask in the sun, "You let us tell us, I and Lao Zhang came to see you." ”

Mrs. Wu pulled up her pants legs, and the joints of her feet were covered with a thick layer of drug residue, "I saw the doctor, said that it was dislocated, and prescribed medicine to me." ”

There is a barefoot doctor nearby, who is mainly engaged in doing things and seeing doctors part-time, and Mrs. Wu said that he was.

I asked, "Is it better?" ”

Mrs. Wu replied, "The pain is not painful, it is not swollen." ”

But we couldn't help it, Mrs. Wu took off the bag of black herbs, her wrinkled skin was red and swollen, growing dozens of blisters of large and small sizes, some of them also broke the skin, and the tissue fluid oozing from the skin was mixed with black and brown medicinal juice, which was simply unbearable.

Sister Zhao and I wanted to send her to the hospital to take a film, which frightened her into waving her hand, "It's good to pack a few more days, spend what wrong money, it's better to keep me Xiaomei to study." ”

I had to scare her, "If your skin is infected, it will not be easy to treat, and a small illness will become a major injury, why will you plant vegetables in the future?" ”

Sister Zhao also echoed: "Just take a film, listen to what the doctor says, just Xiaomei is in the county, you can still go to see her." ”

After a while of persuasion, Mrs. Wu reluctantly agreed to go to the county hospital for examination, but she could not let Wu Xiaomei know, saying that the child was making up lessons and could not delay her.

After filming, Mrs. Wu's situation is not optimistic: twisting her foot is a small injury, but because it has not been treated in time, the bone misalignment has signs of healing, so the joints have been swollen; and because of the erosion of the medicinal juice, the skin has symptoms of infection.

In short, to "cure the skin and treat the bone" now, the top priority is to do surgery.

Hearing that she was going to have surgery, Mrs. Wu stopped doing it, "You have to cut the skin of the flesh, break the bones, and then take it back?" She spoke bloodily, clamoring to go home. Several villagers who went with them were annoyed and blamed me and Sister Zhao, "You two just have a lot of things, you have to send her, now it's good, thankless." ”

In the end, the doctor came out of the horse, even coaxing and scaring, "Old man, the situation is not serious now, it will be good to open a knife and rest for a few days, wait any longer, the leg may be broken, your granddaughter is still young, who will take care of her?" ”

A meal silenced Mrs. Wu for half a day, and finally agreed to do the operation.

The attending doctor was thoughtful, let us find Wu Xiaomei, "It is best for the child to stay by his side, otherwise there will be three good and two evils at that time, and you will do bad things with good intentions." ”

10

As soon as Wu Xiaomei came, Sister Zhao and I were much more relaxed.

Don't look at her small, because she often does farm work, her physical strength is much better than that of Sister Zhao and me.

She can wash Mrs. Wu's face, dress, turn over, and scrub alone, which makes the surrounding patients envious and praises Wu Xiaomei's filial piety.

Mrs. Wu was also happy to blossom, taking advantage of her granddaughter's kung fu to go out to eat, and whispered: "My Xiaomei has grown up and understood things, and she also asked me not to worry, rest assured that she will make money to support me." ”

Old Mrs. Wu was old and wanted to stay in the hospital for observation for a few more days, so Sister Zhao and I went back to the village first.

A few days later, Mrs. Wu called from the hospital and said that Wu Xiaomei had not arrived at the hospital that night and asked us to visit her home.

I carefully asked her, "You two didn't have a conflict, did you?" ”

Mrs. Wu said anxiously: "No, she has been with me every day for the past two days, and she has also helped me find a doctor, and everything has followed me." But she was a little strange yesterday," Mrs. Wu said sharply, "she told me to take good care of myself, said she gave me money, she is a junior high school student, where does the money come from?" ”

I'm not good, this kid won't take any crooked road, right? Before I had time to greet Sister Zhao, I rode on the big motorcycle in the village and "suddenly" drove towards the Wu family.

Mrs. Wu was hospitalized for more than ten days, the yard should have been piled with fallen leaves, but at this time it was clean, it may be that Wu Xiaomei came back to clean, I am slightly relieved. But inside the house and outside the house looked around, stunned that Wu Xiaomei was not found.

When Sister Zhao arrived, I was walking around the back mountain.

"Old Zhang, Wu Xiaomei left a suicide note!" A phone call from her scared me away and she hurried back in a hurry.

Wu Xiaomei put a suicide note on the table and wrote: "Grandma took care of me for more than ten years, it was too hard, she was old, her legs were broken, how can she have money for me to study in the future?" She's so tired, I won't drag her down anymore. ”

"I bought accident insurance, the beneficiary is my grandmother, and the money she loses should be able to live well."

"By the way, I borrowed the money for the insurance from Wu Xiaodi and me, and when the time comes, please help her to return it to her, I don't want to owe anyone money."

She even mentioned me and Sister Zhao, "Thanks to the two grandmothers for taking care of me and grandma, after I left, I asked grandma to buy them a souvenir and say thank you again." ”

Sister Zhao squeezed the letter, and her voice trembled, "Wu Xiaomei committed suicide?" ”

I took a few deep breaths and kept telling myself to be calm, but the hand holding the phone was also shaking, and my brain was a paste: Where did Wu Xiaomei go, there was no accident, how should I tell Mrs. Wu?

There was a noise behind the "click" house, like the sound of a branch being broken, and then I heard a "oops" from someone. Sister Zhao and I glanced at each other and rushed to the back of the house.

Only to see Wu Xiaomei sleeping next to the firewood stack in the backyard, looking at the two of us suspiciously, Sister Zhao howled "wow" and rushed over to hug her, "You little knife, where did you die?" ”

11

Wu Xiaomei told us bitterly about her "escape" process.

It turned out that she once listened to a chat with her classmates and said that whoever had died in an accident had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation by the insurance company.

Wu Xiaomei, who is rarely even seen in red tickets, can hardly imagine what the concept of hundreds of thousands is, but still keeps this "way to make money" in mind.

After that, Wu Xiaomei went to the hospital to take care of her grandmother, and listened to the family members next to her talk about the operation fee, which was often tens of thousands, and some even needed more than 100,000 yuan.

This figure startled Wu Xiaomei, "If I really spend tens of thousands of yuan, how can I have the money to pay my grandmother?" ”

Desperate, she thought of accident insurance compensation, if the insured is herself, the beneficiary is Mrs. Wu, as long as she has an accident, mrs. Wu can not rely on insurance money to survive the rest of her life?

Sister Zhao laughed angrily, "You little fart, you want to get it, where did you go to buy insurance?" ”

Wu Xiaomei explained that she had gone to several insurance companies to ask, and people either ignored her or said that she was a minor and could not buy this kind of insurance.

She lowered her head, and her eyes carefully swept over me and Sister Zhao, "I found a person on the Internet, added him, he said that he was an employee, you can go through the internal channel of the employee to help me buy, let me provide the ID number on the line." ”

I asked Wu Xiaomei, "Did you give him the money?" ”

Wu Xiaomei nodded timidly, "He said 500 insurance 100,000, 800 insurance 200,000, I bought 200,000 insurance." ”

Sister Zhao raised an eyebrow, "Where did you get the money?" ”

Wu Xiaomei smiled, and a hint of cunning appeared on her red face, "I said I was a student and had no money." He said that the students had a discount, and I bargained with him, and finally bought 200,000 yuan of insurance for 200 yuan. ”

I looked at Sister Zhao, she was also crying and laughing, the insurance company can still bargain like this?

"He gave me a contract." Wu Xiaomei said seriously and took out a piece of paper from the drawer.

The so-called "contract" is just a template casually found on the Internet, and the "identity card" is also written as an "identity card", which is too careless for the scammer.

But Wu Xiaomei's social experience is small, coupled with the eagerness to save people, and she did not pay attention to this loophole-ridden contract. Knowing that Mrs. Wu's second half of her life was secure, she began a "suicide" plan.

She originally wanted to learn to take sleeping pills in the TV series, but it was a prescription drug, and she couldn't prescribe it, so she took a knife and prepared to cut her wrist.

According to Wu Xiaomei, she was very scared at the time, cut several times to succeed, and then felt that her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and slept by the backyard firewood stack for a night.

"In fact, the house is warmer, but I am afraid that if I die at home, my grandmother will be afraid."

12

Mrs. Wu called again, clamoring to be discharged from the hospital to find Wu Xiaomei. Wu Xiaomei whispered to me, telling me not to let her grandmother know about last night.

"Xiaomei found it," I lied, "the teacher assigned winter vacation homework, she forgot the exercise book at home, took the car home to get it, forgot to tell you." ”

Mrs. Wu did not investigate deeply, and scolded at the end: "This little knife," I didn't sleep last night, did she want to kill me?" ”

On the way to the county town, Wu Xiaomei tentatively asked me again: "Grandma, that person will not lie to me, he sent me a contract, and it is stamped with a red seal!" ”

I think of the shoddy "official seal" on the "contract", which was probably cut and pasted with a Meitu tool.

Sister Zhao answered: "Xiaomei, don't worry about your grandmother's medical expenses, the state will bear most of it, huh?" ”

Wu Xiaomei seemed to understand, and after a while, she asked: "Grandma, you said that I will not be deceived, two hundred yuan, or I borrowed it from a classmate." ”

Sister Zhao did not answer positively, but only said: "Xiaomei, if you want your grandmother to live a good life, it is definitely not okay to take a crooked and evil path, and you don't want to think about it, in case your people are gone, can your grandmother still live?" ”

Wu Xiaomei nodded, "Although I usually get angry with her, I also know that she is not easy, I am afraid that her feet are broken, I am afraid that she will fall again, and I will not have a grandmother." ”

As she spoke, Wu Xiaomei "whimpered" and sobbed, "My grandmother is so old, she still has to raise chickens and sell vegetables, she is so pitiful, she is so tired." ”

After a while, Wu Xiaomei stopped crying and made up her mind: "Our teacher said that only by studying well can there be a way out, I want to study hard, buy a big house for my grandmother in the future, and find a nanny to take care of her." ”

Send Wu Xiaomei back to the hospital for two days, Mrs. Wu can also be discharged, the village sent a car to pick her up, I and Sister Zhao helped her settle the discharge fee, more than ten thousand yuan, fortunately, the state paid most of it, she only needs to bear a thousand pieces.

Sister Zhao secretly consulted with me, "Old Zhang, if you don't want this money, let's go out, right?" ”

I nodded, "Let them take on some of the responsibility themselves." ”

Sister Zhao did not understand, I did not explain, the payment slip to Mrs. Wu, "Grandma Wu, more than ten thousand medical expenses, the state gave more than nine thousand, the village can also reimburse about a thousand, you only need to pay four hundred yuan." ”

The village chief tugged at my sleeve and said urgently, "There is no such policy in the village." ”

Sister Zhao also whispered a warning, "What are you anxious about, the money is anyway, it is me and Lao Zhang." ”

The village director was happy to sell his personal feelings, "Yes, the national policy is so good, you are going to live a long life of one hundred years," and then said to Wu Xiaomei, "Your grandmother is willing to let you read, you have to read it." ”

I also said, "This money me and Aunt Zhao put on the mat first, you study well, in order to make money to pay me back." ”

"Okay, old Zhang," sent away Mrs. Wu, Sister Zhao asked with a smile, "let that little girl owe us money, encourage her to study well?" ”

Wu Xiaomei still remembered to return the money to others in the suicide note, thinking that she was a character who had debts to repay, so I had to play a "means" to record the account on her head and urge her to bury her head in study.

Rural girls' way to study is not easy, and I only hope that more girls like Wu Xiaomei can go out of the mountains and have a bright future in the future. (Original title: "Human Affairs: Cursed Grandchildren")

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