Chapter 108 (2/2)
The children in the valley often make fun of his mother's life and death.
Yan Xiaohu has become numb to his mother's death.
”I say yes! If mom is still alive, don't cry. Let me see you cry again and see if I don't break your leg. ”
He glared at the bottom of his ground. Yan Ruyu looked a little cruel at the moment.
”Sister, I don't cry...”
”Don't cry is a good child.”
”Xiaohu, this is one of our Yan Family's difficulties. As long as we step past this difficulty, we will have a good life. At that time, my sister will take you and your mother to big cities, live in the lives of city people, and never go back to this inhuman place. ”
Reaching out to caress his brother's head and melon seeds, Yan Ruyu relaxed a little, but when she looked outside the door, her eyes suddenly became cold again.
It was as if those clansmen and debt collectors were enemies outside the door.
”I don't want to live a city life. I just want my mother and sister to be good...”
”Don't worry, mom and sister will be fine...”
……
Just then, there was a noise outside the door.
Then several voices came.
”Village head, why are you here?”
”I'm here to discuss my son's marriage. Is Ruyu in it?”
”Yes, like jade in it. However, village head, Ruyu's mother is dying. Is it inappropriate to say this now? ”
”I know it's not appropriate. However, if Ruyu's mother dies, the girl will not worry about us in Dawo village. If she runs away with Yan Xiaohu, where can I find my daughter-in-law here? ”
”Big fool, come in with me to see your daughter-in-law.”
A cold hum came out. The village head shouted to his son who was standing on one side and had some trouble in his mind, and then went to the house.
Just arrived at the door, but he stopped again.
”Hehe, Ruyu, here you are. I came here with big fool to discuss marriage with you. Fifteen years ago, your dead father lost me five thousand dollars in gambling. Promise to pay it back in a year. If you don't pay it back in a year, promise to give you to my family. It's a fool. Do you know that“
”I know!”
”Just know. When are you going to marry our big fool?”
”I know, but that doesn't mean I promised to marry your big fool.”
”Ruyu, what do you mean by this? Do you want to go back?”
The village head asked as soon as his face changed.
”I promised my father. I never promised.”
The depths of Yan Ruyu's eyes contain a touch of cold.
Her father was addicted to gambling. She knew that her father was a gambler when she was very young. She often gambled outside for days and nights.
As soon as I got home, I rummaged through the boxes for change, and then went out to gamble.
He almost lost his fortune in the end.
Yan Ruyu remembers that when she was a child, in addition to a bed, a table and some things for cooking, almost everything else was lost by her father's gambling.
In the end, he was ready to mortgage his mother and himself to creditors.
At the age of twelve, my father was gambling, owed a huge debt and had a conflict with others. Finally, he was beaten with intracranial hemorrhage and died after lying in bed for a few days.
When others died, his father would cry sadly, but Yan Ruyu laughed in front of his father's body for a long time, and then cried loudly.
The death of my father seemed to be a relief for my mother, myself and my baby brother.
But who would have thought that the debts owed by the dead were claimed to the living after many years.