Wang Jianyong has graduated and was assigned a job in the next city. He is now married, but he brings his wife to City A to visit his parents every month.

Wang Xuanying and Liu Hongmin have also settled down in City A, and their children are already in school.

It's reunion day again.

"Xiaomei, here I give it to you." At the dinner table, the gray-haired Wang Yongshun, leaning on a cane, used a ladle to stir the chicken in the big bowl for a while, just like he stewed the chicken as usual, and scooped two chicken wings into Liu Xiaomei's bowl.

Liu Xiaomei, who also had white hair on her temples, looked at the teasing eyes of her children at the table, blushed slightly, and said embarrassedly, "Xuanying and the others are here, can't I clip it myself?"

Wang Xuanying smiled and said, "Mom, my dad is worried about you."

Wang Yongshun was stunned for a moment, then he came to his senses, rubbed his face embarrassedly, and explained dryly, "Your mother likes to eat chicken wings, Jianlibao and salted peanuts."

Liu Xiaomei handed the chicken wings in the bowl to Wang Xuanying, "I eat everything. Come, Xuanying, have one, and Yanyan, have one (daughter-in-law)"

Wang Xuanying pushed Liu Xiaomei's bowl back and said, "Mom, I like to eat my claws, you eat them, otherwise my dad will glare at me later, hahaha, and won't let me in next time."

Liu Xiaomei was teased by her children and glared at Wang Yongshun unhappily, "He dares."

Wang Yongshun didn't refute and just laughed.

Wang Jianyong's wife couldn't help but smile as she looked at the loving old couple in front of her.

It was the first time she saw a couple this old but still as loving as newlyweds.

"Dad is so good to Mom."

Wang Yongshun was stunned for a moment and said embarrassedly, "Your mother and I have suffered for half of our lives. At that time, everyone thought she would break off the engagement, but she was still willing to marry me. It is only right that we treat her well."

Liu Xiaomei pursed her lips and smiled, "I married you because you are so good to me."

"Mom, how did you and Dad know each other?" Wang Jianyong's wife Yanyan asked curiously.

Wang Xuanying and his wife also looked at the old couple with gossip on their faces. Liu Xiaomei embarrassedly told her children about her fate with Wang Yongshun.

"I remember that year when I was only seventeen, I went to the mountains to collect pig grass early in the morning. At that time, our team had to weigh the pig grass. If it was not heavy enough, work points would be deducted. The surrounding areas cut it every day, and there was not much left. So I went to a place far away. I collected a lot of pig grass, but I was so hungry that I felt weak and uncomfortable. I couldn't even carry the pig grass. Your father passed by there and saw that I could hardly stand while carrying the pig grass, so he sent me to the village entrance."

Liu Xiaomei looked at Wang Yongshun tenderly, "He also asked my name and gave me a small stewed sweet potato."

Wang Xuanying looked at Liu Xiaomei in confusion, "Mom, just because of a small stewed sweet potato, my dad broke his leg at that time, and you are still willing to come to Ninety-Three?"

Liu Xiaomei shook her head and said, "I went to your father on my own. At that time, my family was poor and there was a famine. We had no food at home. Although my parents were good to me, they couldn't let my pregnant sister-in-law and my little nephew starve.

A pockmarked man came to my parents and said he was willing to give me 100 kilograms of coarse grains in exchange for my marriage. My parents did not agree, but I was very scared because there was no food left at home.

I came to Jiusan to find your father. I asked him if he had 100 kilograms of food. If not, 90 kilograms would be fine. I can ask your grandpa and grandma for help. "

Liu Xiaomei smiled and said, "You don't know that many people starved to death during that period. Even if you had money, you couldn't buy food. One hundred kilograms of food was a lot. I don't know why I was so brave at that time."

Wang Xuanying asked, "What happened later? Did my grandfather have 100 kilograms of grain at home?"

Liu Xiaomei looked at Wang Yongshun gently and shook her head, "No."

"He asked me to go home and beg your grandpa. I was so hungry that I couldn't walk. He went home and secretly took out ten pieces of dried sweet potatoes without telling your grandma. He asked me to eat them, but I didn't want to give them to my nephew. Your dad had a dark face and forced me to eat two pieces. He also carried me on his back and sent me to the entrance of our village."

"It seems to say later that your grandfather took him to borrow from all the relatives and friends he could, and even went to the home of a comrade in another town to borrow 20 kilograms of food. Only then did they collect 101 kilograms, and he and dad secretly carried it to my house in the middle of the night."

Liu Xiaomei had a smile on her face. One hundred and one kilograms of grain in that era was a life-saving grace. Although her family favored their son, they were not the kind of people who would not care about their daughter's life or death.

After Wang Yongshun got into trouble, her parents discussed it for a whole night and decided to return 200 kilograms of grain to the Wang family, including the principal and interest. In the countryside where people have to dig in the soil for a living, for a man to lose his legs is no different from losing his life.

Liu Xiaomei knew very well that if she insisted on breaking off the engagement, Wang Kaifu and Wang Yongshun would agree given their personalities.

Later, Wang Kaifu came to her house and gave her a choice. He said, "My son Yongshun's legs are broken, so he won't be able to work in the fields anymore. He won't be able to earn any work points. You will be more tired than most people if you marry into our family. But if you are willing to marry into our family, as long as I am alive, I will not let you suffer any injustice. I will build a house for you. Yongshun's mother is also a good person and will not make things difficult for you. If you don't want to live with us, you can live separately. I will ask the other sisters to help you out. Think it over carefully."

Liu Xiaomei's parents winked at her, and she knew what they meant because her mother had pulled her aside to talk in a whisper in the middle of the night the day before, telling her the consequences.

Her mother said, "Xiaomei, you have to think it through. If you really marry him, you will be ruined. Wang Kaifu is old, and Wang Yongshun will not be able to take care of the farm work in the future. He will even bully you..."

Liu Xiaomei came back to her senses from her memory. "Everyone said that if I married your father, my life would be ruined, but I felt that if I didn't marry him, your father's life would be ruined. I was young and full of energy at that time, and I thought that all difficulties were paper tigers and I would definitely be able to overcome them, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult."

Wang Yongshun held his wife's hand and said to his children, "You don't know, your mother smiled adorably when she first met me, and I was the one who dragged her down. After I got into trouble, I asked my father to come to our house. I told him to forget it if your mother didn't want to, and asked him not to embarrass your mother, but he came back and said your mother wanted to, and I couldn't bear to let her go."

"Looking at your mom so tired later, I regretted it countless times. I felt that I was too selfish. I was a useless person, and I delayed your mom. If it weren't for me, she wouldn't be so tired. I also hated myself for being useless. Other husbands are the support of their wives, and other fathers can let their children ride on their heads like a big horse. I can't do anything."

Liu Xiaomei held Wang Yongshun's hand with her backhand, "I never felt that you were a burden. The Wang family treated me well. Not to mention Yongzheng and Shuangshuang, my eldest sister and Xiaofen treated me well, and my mom and dad treated me well, especially my dad. When he passed away, he told everyone in his last words that the Wang family should treat me well and be good to me."

"I remember how good you were to me. When I was pregnant with Xuanying and couldn't go to the toilet, you heard that soaking cassia seeds in water was good, so you went to someone's house with a licking face to ask for it, and even said you would eat it yourself, but people laughed at you. My feet were cold, and you held them in your arms all night. I had cramps, and you massaged me in the middle of the night. When it was cold, we sat by the fire, and you would touch my cup from time to time. When you saw it was cold, you would change it for me. The most you did in one day was seven cups of hot water. You also went to my eldest sister's house to ask for brown sugar for me..."

"There are many things I didn't say, but I remember them all in my heart. I have never regretted having Jianyong and Xuanying with you. Although I am very tired, I am very happy. There is bitterness before sweetness. The days to come will be sweet."

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