"Hey, it's coming." Sister Liu called, put down her work, wiped her apron, went to the door to get the letter back, and read it while walking.
"Who wrote it?" Liu Ge got up from the kang, poked his head out of the window and asked Liu Sao.
Sister Liu quickly put the letter back: "Well, it was sent by mistake." With that, she threw the envelope into the gap in the pig trough next to her.
Liu Ge is a paralytic. When he was working in a coal mine with Liu's father, he encountered a landslide. In order to save Liu's father, she was paralyzed by rubble.
In this way, his young man in his twenties ruined the rest of his life, and his mother Liu lived all day, making the family miserable.
In order to repay Liu Ge's kindness, Mrs. Liu got her parents' consent and married him. Although they are husband and wife, they still exist in name only after so many years.
Sister Liu's evasiveness made Brother Liu curious. How can she send a letter by name and say it's wrong? When Mrs. Liu went to Xigou's hut to feed the rabbits, he secretly picked up the letter with a cane.
"Dear LanEr,
How have you been these years? Three years ago, I left to travel to the city and promised to give you a happy home. Now I will come back with success. The vows of eternal love are still there, and I will honor my original promise as scheduled. I hope you will be fine until I come back.
Love Dong Zi. "
Laner is Liu's sister-in-law's nickname and Liu's childhood friend. Three years ago, she followed her master to the provincial capital. I didn't expect sister-in-law Liu and brother Liu to get married for so many years that they actually hooked up.
Looking at this love letter in his hand, Liu Ge was very angry. Even if he can't give Mrs. Liu real happiness, he can't lose his most basic dignity as a man.
"Liu, what would you like to eat at noon today? Mom cut fresh leeks and scrambled an egg? " Sister Liu came back from the rabbit house and stood in front of Brother Liu with a handful of leeks in her hand.
"Eat, you will know that eat! Have you finished the work in the field? I like leeks the least. You have served me for so many years, and you have never even seen this! I am embarrassed to go out and say that you are the daughter-in-law of others! " Brother Liu didn't order the letter directly, but he was furious with sister-in-law Liu.
Liu Jie's face, which had walked over, suddenly pulled down, frowning and opening her mouth, like a child who made a mistake.
The next morning, Liu Ge fell asleep in the room. Suddenly I heard the buzzing sound at the door, so I pricked up my ears and listened to two sentences.
"Laner, you, you have suffered." Listen, I'm Dong Zi.
Sister Liu didn't speak, just sobbed.
"I know everything about you. I married Liu Ge to repay my kindness, right? " Dong Zi wiped the tears from the corner of Liu's eyes and looked at this lovely person with a face of love. "My heart for you will never die. I will wait for you for three years and thirty years. "
"LanEr! Laner! who is it? Who is at the door? " Liu Ge really listen to not bottom go to, loudly rang rang.
Sister Liu quickly wiped away her tears, pushed Dong Zi away and went back to the house: "This is a scissors mill. My scissors are dull. I asked him to grind them. "
Looking at Mrs. Liu's red eyes and eyelashes wet with tears, her expression became dignified, and her sharp eyes seemed to shoot her through.
"pa!" With a loud cry, the spittoon at the bedside was knocked to the ground, and Mrs. Liu stood by, afraid to speak or move.
"How do you wait on your man! I'm up, it's convenient for you! You can sharpen scissors outside! Are you going to sharpen that pair of scissors? May I have a clean slate? " Lying on the kang, staring at Mrs. Liu with angry eyes, her voice is very scary.
Brother Liu was not like this before. He is very gentle with Liu Jie and always puts delicious food in her bowl. Now, this contrast inevitably makes Liu Jie feel that Dong Zi's letter was discovered by Liu Ge.
After a day of trembling, Mrs. Liu is like a kite that accidentally fell on the wire. In the spring breeze mixed with sand, she is not standing, sitting, working or resting.
In the evening, eldest sister-in-law Liu poured foot washing water as usual and carefully put his feet into the water. "Hua!" Without warning, Brother Liu knocked over the basin: "Do you want to burn Lao Zi?"
Sister Liu was splashed with water and didn't feel hot at all. It suddenly dawned on her that since the letter was sent, Brother Liu has been constantly finding fault.
"Liu, if you have anything to say, don't give me some nameless fire here and pick on me!" Sister-in-law Liu stood up, conveniently picked up the water on her clothes and said with grievance.
"I find fault? Don't you know what you've done? You loved this day, and if you don't love it, go! " Liu said, shaking with anger.
"What did you say?" Sister Liu's heart thumped, and tears rolled down her eyes. "Do you think I want to live with you?" I have worked hard for you for so many years, and you ran away because of a letter without asking me! Leave! "
Sister-in-law Liu Ran said, and went out to cry, while Liu Ge was lying on the kang, with tears flowing out and a runny nose wetting half the pillow.
"Get up and eat." The next day, my sister-in-law Wei Liu made breakfast.
Brother Liu sat on the windowsill against the wall, holding a steamed bun in one hand and a dish in the other: "When I'm full, I'll get a divorce. No burden, take whatever you want at home. "
Mrs. Liu slapped the chopsticks on the table: "I've already made peace with you." I marry you as my daughter-in-law. I didn't do anything wrong. I'm sorry for your old Liu family! I won't leave this marriage! "
"Hua!" Brother Liu overturned the whole table on the kang: "I just don't like you!" " I can't serve well, and I secretly see the old rules. I'm paralyzed, but I'm not deaf or blind! You have to leave this marriage, you have to leave, you have to leave! "Angry said, and picked up the bowl on the kang, the sister-in-law liu hit, hit her forehead.
Sister-in-law Liu stared at her brother Liu on the kang, covered her bleeding forehead with her hands and left a sentence: "I'm not leaving!" " He ran out crying.
"Huh?" Brother Liu reached out to pull his sister-in-law, but he closed his eyes, fell on the kang and beat the edge of the kang in regret. He knew that Mrs. Liu had never wronged him, and if she really divorced him, Mrs. Liu would even be poked at her spine by the villagers for life, saying that she would bite the hand that feeds her, and that she would wipe her mouth and be ungrateful.
That night, it rained heavily. Mrs. Liu went to Xigou Caotang to put a litter of newborn rabbits and didn't come home for a long time. Thunder is rumbling outside and the wind is blowing hard. Brother Liu was worried that Sister Liu's path was not easy to walk in the middle of the night and was prone to danger, so he turned a corner and wanted to go to the wing to find the old lady and visit the hut.
Maybe it was thunder and lightning. Liu Ge was in a hurry. When he went out, he tripped over the threshold. His head accidentally hit the stepping stone at the door, and his mouth and nose were stuck in the muddy puddle by the stone.
Because of the heavy rain, Mrs. Liu slept in the cabin all night. When she got home early the next morning, she found Liu Ge lying on the ground, dying. She was scared and cried sadly, and my mother fainted on the threshold.
Liu Ge left, which was hasty and unprepared. When his family was packing up his belongings, they accidentally found a letter he wrote to Mrs. Liu:
My favorite wife, thank you for your care in this life. But I know I don't have that blessing and can't give you happiness. I don't want to drag you down. When I learned of Dong Zi's deep affection for you, I decided to scold you and hit you just to make you dislike me and hate me, so that you can make up your mind to go with Dong Zi. But every time I scold you and hit you, my heart hurts like being pulled. I always hide under the covers and cry alone, and I dare not let you see it. My pillow is wet and I dare not ask you to change it.
I want to set you free, but I don't know how to help you without hurting you. Later, I thought of suicide. Maybe only when I die can you justly pursue your own happiness. I am content to marry you in my life, and I have lived enough, but I am sorry for my old mother and told her to send her white hair with black hair. After I leave, I hope you can take good care of her for me and don't make her too sad.
Although I haven't figured out how to leave without pain, I have written this letter. Maybe one day, I will drive a crane west. When I read this letter, I hope you don't blame yourself, because this is the only thing I can do for you. Live well and live happily for me.
After reading the letter, sister-in-law Liu lay on the ground sobbing. In this life, she is worthy of Liu Ge, and Liu Ge's love for her is undiminished.