reborn stepfather

Chi Qian took cold medicine and fell asleep. After taking a bath, I hugged him and slept for a while.

When his breathing became steady and long, I quietly closed the door and went out.

I called Wei Heng from the balcony.

It was sunny, and the pot of golden osmanthus on the balcony had passed its flowering period, but it was still luxuriant, stretching its green leaves to the sun carefree.

"Is something wrong?"

As soon as he answered the phone, he asked directly, probably in the process of painting.

"Can you help me get in touch with someone from the Epidemic Prevention Bureau?" I said, "I want to send my chickens to be tested. If there is nothing wrong, I want to sell them as soon as possible."

"Are you in a hurry to use the money?" He frowned.

I can't explain it to him. I can't say that I dreamed yesterday that a large-scale global infectious disease will break out in the future. Within two months, all chickens, ducks and poultry in Yunshi will inevitably be slaughtered, and countless farmers will beat their chests. , but had to do so.

Compared with their own lives, the lives of these poultry are insignificant.

Human beings are such selfish animals, but if it were me, I would also make such selfish choices, because I am also a layman.

I can't do anything to put my family in danger, not to mention that poultry, as a suspected spread pathogen, is related to the lives of the whole city, and human lives are more important than heaven.

I faltered and couldn't explain why, Wei Heng sighed and stopped asking, just asked the Epidemic Prevention Bureau to test according to my request.

I also know that it is not a good time to sell them. They are only four months old, their feathers are not very full, and their meat is not enough. They will be ready for slaughter in three months.If I am in a hurry to sell it now, the price will definitely be lowered by the slaughterhouse, but I can't wait any longer, and I can't control so much. If I don't sell it now, I will definitely not even be able to recover this little capital in the future.

No matter how low the price is, I will accept it.

If I remember correctly, at most until April, schools will be closed, pedestrians will be cut off on the streets, all shopping malls and restaurants will be closed, and the whole world will be depressed like the end of the world.

This situation will continue until mid-August, when the epidemic is brought under control step by step. Then, the Ministry of Health announced that there were zero cases of pneumonia in the country, and this old city slowly recovered like a person recovering from a long illness.

From February to August, the life that was supposed to go to school and receive wages was in vain. For more than half a year, I had to rely on this little deposit to support it.

While taking care of Chi Qian carefully, I waited for the test results.

Waiting is suffering. I can’t sleep well every day. I have repeatedly dreamed that the test results are not good. These hard-raised chickens are all thrown into the incinerator and burned alive. I was so scared that I jumped out of the bed suddenly. His back was covered in cold sweat.

What is more worrying is that I will not have any savings from now on. How should I live for the first half of the year?

When people worry about it, they tend to lose weight. After Chi Qian finally recovered, I was already so thin that I could shake in a sweater. The two of us stood in front of the mirror. They had the same pale face, swollen eyes, and were too haggard to look at the first one. Two eyes.

A week later, Wei Heng told me that the test result was negative and all the chickens were healthy. I was relieved.

It seemed that the sharp blade hanging above his head that was about to fall was suddenly removed.

I cheered up, and quickly contacted the slaughterhouse and the restaurant. The [-] chickens were sold as frozen and fresh meat. At that time, Wei Heng and my second brother accompanied me. I was in a hurry, and the price was indeed suppressed It reached a level that almost made my second brother go berserk.

Wei Heng glanced at him, and the second brother sat down angrily.

Scared by his slap on the table, the person in charge of the slaughterhouse poked his head out, trembling: "Brother Haodong, don't get excited, I, I, I... I will give you a chicken." You add two cents!"

The second brother was so angry that he hummed and didn't speak.

He used to follow my elder brother all over the street to collect protection fees. Although it has been many years, many shop owners still walk around when they see him from a distance.

Finally, at my insistence, a deal was made, and the money was paid while the delivery was made. The people from the slaughterhouse immediately sent a car to pull the chickens over, and they paid the money in the afternoon.I went to the bank to check if the account was received. The second brother looked at the number on it and sighed: "Aren't you just messing around?"

Invested 4 yuan and only recovered more than [-] yuan.

I carefully put the card back in my pocket.

It's not good enough, but it's better than nothing.

In the future, Chi Qian and I will have to count on the more than 4 yuan to live.

When I led Chiqian home, gray clouds piled up in the sky again, as if a heavy rain was brewing.

There has been a lot of rain in the past few days. Before three o'clock in the afternoon, the light has been buried in the thick rain clouds, and the sky is as dark as the night.

It seems to indicate the coming gloomy future.

The wind was blowing from behind, as if to push me forward, I quietly held the child's hand tightly, and he looked up at me for no reason, with innocent and pure eyes.

I am just a small person who knows the ending in advance, but I am very light-hearted. Even if I stand on a high platform and announce loudly that this is not pneumonia but suicide, hundreds of people will die of this disease, and who will believe it?Just be lucky not to be arrested by the police for spreading rumors.

All I can do is try my best to protect my relatives and friends.

I said to Chi Qian, "Go home."

"Father, shall we have meatball soup tonight?"

"it is good."

Others are beyond reach.

In a few days, Chiqian’s school finished the exam and had a holiday. I heard that there were two children in the class next door who didn’t take the final exam because of high fever. I took him back and gave him water boiled with wormwood. After washing twice, the clothes he wore that day were faded by me throwing them into boiling water. Recently, I have almost lost my life.

I warned him not to go to crowded places. Fortunately, Chi Qian is not a restless personality, and he can spend a day at home reading a book.

In the blink of an eye, the end of the new year is approaching, and my mother and sister-in-law are already sharpening their swords and preparing to stock up on new year's goods.I hurriedly stopped, how many people must have been in the shopping mall years ago!

It was only after their lips were worn out and their mouths were dry that they persuaded them with the reason that "the price will be lower if we go again in two days".Taking advantage of my spare time, I divided a box of banlangen into five parts, and sent one to my parents, two older brothers, and Wei Heng, and Chi Qian and I kept one for ourselves.

Although they were puzzled, they still accepted it, and I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The unease builds up in your heart, and the most excruciating thing is that you know what is going to happen and you are powerless to stop it.

On New Year's Eve, according to the old custom of the Hakka people, the general cleaning was carried out on this day. My mother is a very rough Virgo, not to mention the door panels, curtains, and electric fans hanging from the ceiling. The bulbs should also be unscrewed one by one and wiped clean.What is even more difficult is that every room in an old house of four to five hundred square meters has to be dragged seven times.There are only so many people, and they have to prepare the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. The first dish of Hakka people is usually chicken, which means "auspicious", so they have to be busy killing chickens, ducks and fish. Taro rice cakes, glutinous rice cakes and meatballs should also be prepared as soon as possible. Without them, this year will not be a real one.

In this way, even the children don't want to be lazy, they all have to go to battle, wash and wash, run up and down.

The three children were assigned to peel the taro. The hot potato that had just been steamed was stripped naked and placed in a large clean washbasin. Add starch to make taro pan.

The three children were working enthusiastically, giggling and laughing, and the atmosphere on our side seemed much more depressed.

My eldest brother and I are in charge of all the doors, windows (must be wiped seven times) and the ceiling, my sister-in-law is responsible for removing and washing the curtains and cleaning the railings on the second floor, my mother is killing chickens and ducks in the kitchen, with a knife in her hands, dripping with blood, and my father who is cutting vegetables is busy He took a bowl to hold chicken blood, which was poured on paper money when worshiping gods and ancestors.

The second brother is the worst. My mother has recently found him extremely displeasing, so she entrusts him with the tasks of cleaning the toilet and mopping the floor.

"Wash it well for me, seven times. If you dare to miss it once, you won't have to live in the next year." The mother shook the blood-stained kitchen knife and threatened the second brother viciously.

Facing his mother's despicable power, the second brother twitched his tail limply and scrubbed the toilet with a grunt.

When he finished cleaning the toilet and mopping the floor for the second time, Wei Heng came.

Wei Heng's family is different from other families. Their house is deserted during the Chinese New Year, because his father will bring a suitcase of Chinese Seven Wolves and Tieguanyin worth thousands of dollars to Yunshi to pay New Year greetings to the mayor, secretary and other leaders at all levels. , and his mother is a standard rich wife, and she went to Hainan with a group of official wives to enjoy the warm sunshine.

"Why are you here?" I looked down at him from the ladder, and the ashes on the ceiling made me cough.

"I came to collect the corpse." Wei Heng glanced at the second brother lightly, "Didn't you say that you are almost exhausted? How can you still stand here panting?"

The second elder brother was so elated when he saw him, he rubbed his hands and grinned from ear to ear: "I just sent you a text message to complain, I didn't expect you to come to see me, daughter-in-law, I knew you also had me in your heart .”

Wei Heng walked away.

"Ah, ah, don't go, please, please, I am your wife, please, please don't go." The second brother immediately gave in.

Although Wei Heng had no expression on his face, I dare say he was secretly feeling happy.

Sure enough, he stopped, and the second elder brother swished past him, smiling all over his face. Wei Heng almost wrote the word "loyal dog" on his forehead. If he had a tail, he might have turned into an electric fan.

I shook my head, and turned to look at Chi Qian. Tiantian and Pengpeng had already gone crazy, and he was the only one left, sitting in front of the huge iron basin, holding the wine bottle with both hands, pushing hard Pound the taro.

On such a cold day, my forehead was sweating.

After dinner in the evening, I quietly took him back to the room, found a bottle of medicinal wine from Dad's drawer, and dragged a stool over: "Juan, sit here."

"Father, grandma said that I will watch the night later." He put his hands behind his back, rubbed the soles of his shoes on the ground, and dawdled without moving.

I lowered my hands helplessly: "Aren't your hands sore? You've been doing it all afternoon."

"Not sour." His eyes drifted back and forth.

I sighed to myself, I couldn't even cover it up well, I really couldn't see that he would grow up to be a man that no one could see through, his eyes seemed to be hidden in a thick fog, and he didn't show any emotions and thoughts, even The smile is also flawless.

"Come here." I said emphatically.

He peeped at my expression before moving over hesitantly: "It's okay, Dad."

I directly pulled his arm over, and when the medicinal wine was rubbed on it, he couldn't hold back, and took a deep breath: "Hiss."

Children are at home, what can they do.

If it was Tiantian and Pengpeng, I'm afraid they would have rolled around in their mother's arms coquettishly and complained of pain.

"Didn't you say it's not sour?" I glanced at him, "Why do you care about this kind of thing? It's normal to be sore after working for so long. If you don't rub it, your muscles will be strained tomorrow, and you won't even be able to lift your arms. Oh silly!"

He looked up at me quickly, then looked down again.

In fact, how could I not know what he was thinking in his heart? He wanted to express himself well, and was afraid that he would not do well enough and cause trouble.

Because he knows that he is different from Tiantian and the others, he is not "pro".

All Tiantian Pengpeng dared to sneak away halfway, but he didn't dare, and Tiantian Pengpeng dared to act like a baby, but he didn't dare either.

He never complained in front of everyone, and always tried his best, playing the image of a good son very obediently.

In my previous life, I didn't pay attention at all, so I didn't know how scared and panicked he was.

Not related by blood, he positioned himself in his heart as the kind of person who couldn't make extra demands, like a guest at a relative's house, cautious, afraid of causing trouble to the host's house and making people angry.

After being reborn, it has been almost five months since I took him to my side, but on the surface, his intimacy with me cannot conceal his heart that has nowhere to rest.

At such a young age, my thoughts are so heavy.

"Fool." I flicked his forehead, "You don't have to do this at all."

He looked at me silently.

Why don't you believe that I will treat you well?

"Since I said I want to raise you, I am not joking." I said solemnly, "I am your father, so I will never leave you alone. You don't have to worry, you know? Don't feel embarrassed, look at Pengpeng How did you get along with uncle? There should be no grievances between father and son."

"And what if I make you angry?"

"Well..." I pondered for a while, and said, "Maybe I will scold you and teach you a lesson, but that doesn't mean I don't love you anymore, do you understand? No matter what the son does, being a father I will forgive him too, this is family affection."

"Anything?" Chi Qian asked.

"Well, whatever." I nodded firmly.

He stretched out his hand and hooked my little finger, and shook it: "The hook cannot be changed for 100 years!"

When he let go, he confirmed again: "Dad must keep his word."

"Well, I will."

That's why he laughed and stretched out his other arm: "Dad, this hand is also sore."

While rubbing his hands for him, I felt weird at the same time.

Hey, is there something wrong?