Chapter 978: go or stay
Chapter 978 Go or stay
Liao Chunling felt very uncomfortable when she looked at her elder brother who was a little restrained in front of her.
In the summer of the eighth year of Jinglong's parents, Liao Yuandong was fifteen and Liao Chunling was eleven. Before that, the two were in Liao's house together. Although one grew up by his grandmother's side and the other by his mother's side, because they are brothers and sisters, the relationship between the two is still good. Liao Chunling couldn't wait for him to speak, so she took the initiative to say, "Brother, do you have something to do with me?"
"...Yes." Liao Yuandong hesitantly repeated what his mother asked him, "Sister, what do you think I should tell my mother?"
Liao Chunling asked, "Brother, why are you here this time?"
What are you doing here? Liao Yuandong was silent.
His father was the parental official of the county seat, and he was accustomed to growing up with his grandmother, so whether it was in Le County or Taikang, he always had to rain and wind, and he always thought that life could go on like this. Even though his parents separated the previous year and his mother brought his sister back to Kang'an, although he was uncomfortable because he couldn't see his mother and sister, his life was still the same.
But at the end of last year, my father's three-year term as magistrate of Taikang came to an end, but the next one has not been appointed. After the new Taikang magistrate took office earlier this year, the Liao family's position in Taikang became very embarrassing. His father ran around for the future, and his temper became more and more irritable; his grandmother scolded Jiang's family and mother every day at home, saying that they had harmed his father; the second uncle and second aunt stopped pampering him, and friends who used to play with Liao Yuandong began to attack him. Roll your eyes, run on him...
After the world was turned upside down, Liao Yuandong was at a loss, and he had no one to say what was in his heart. Now facing his sister, he could finally say it, "At the beginning of this month, my father and second uncle tore their faces for the money. My father said that the second uncle hid it privately. Yinzi, the second uncle said that he has been a cow and a horse for his father all these years, and his father's conscience has fed the dog. In a rage, the father sold Taikang's house, and gathered enough money to let the grandmother and the second uncle's family return to their hometown for the elderly. With me going to Beijing, I want to ask my mother to ask my uncle and second uncle to help my father find an errand."
Liao Chunling stared straight at her elder brother, "Brother, what do you think, you also think that your uncle and mother should help father?"
Liao Yuandong raised his hand and rubbed his face, "There is something wrong with my father, but he is really desperate now. If uncle can help..."
Liao Chunling left the Liao family, and the people and things she came into contact with were no longer limited to a small second-rate hospital, and things looked very different from before. She said calmly, "After my father became a jinshi, my grandfather asked for the first and second official positions for him. After my grandfather was killed, my grandmother and my father were not allowed to come back with us because they were afraid that the Liao family would be implicated. The third official position was obtained by him with money. The fourth official position was obtained by the second uncle for his father. Brother, do you still remember when we first arrived in Taikang, my father firmly said that he would make The results are impressive. But now?"
Liao Yuandong rubbed his stiff face with his fat palm again, unable to speak.
Liao Chunling continued, "I'll say something unfilial: It's because my uncle helped my father find an errand this time, and after three years he won't be able to go further on his own. What should I do then? Let my mother lower her face and bend over. Do you want Uncle and Uncle?"
Liao Yuandong said with a guilty conscience, "My father said that the eldest uncle is the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and the second uncle is the minister of the Ministry of War. They help my father to plan his future. It's just a matter of words."
Liao Chunling asked back, "Do you think so too, eldest brother?"
Liao Yuandong said in confusion, "I don't understand this either..."
"Brother. Let me ask this." Liao Chunling put it another way, "If you are the eldest uncle and second uncle, I am our mother. The husband I married treats me harshly, and you ask me to separate from my husband and take me back to Kang. An, spend Yinzi buying a house for me, thinking of me everywhere, but I actually ran up to you and asked you to sacrifice face and spend money to help my husband get promoted. Brother, are you willing?"
Liao Yuandong shook his head, he was unwilling.
"Brother, if I did this, wouldn't it be cold to your heart? Why did the eldest uncle and the second uncle help father?" Liao Chunling expressed her dissatisfaction, "Let's still When he was in Le County, the second uncle made a special trip to beat his father to make him treat his mother kindly and help him get a job in Taikang. But how did my father do it? He treated his mother like this, why should our grandparents help him? "
Liao Yuandong lowered his head and said, "I understand."
Liao Chunling sighed, "Okay, let's not talk about father. Do you want to go with father, or do you want to stay with mother, me and second brother?"
Liao Yuandong whispered, "If I stay too, there will be no one by my father's side, and the second uncle is not good for grandmother..."
Liao Chunling stood up, "Brother, decide for yourself, no matter where you are, you are my mother's son, both my brother and my second brother's brother. Do you still have trouble with your father?"
"There is still some money to sell the house." Liao Yuandong stood up with red eyes, "Sister, I..."
Seeing her brother like this, Liao Chunling felt uncomfortable. She tried her best to smile and said, "Our family is poor now, and my mother is very careful. I am learning how to manage the shop with the fifth and sixth cousins. Although my life is not rich, I am comfortable. If you find a way to learn the real skills of supporting your family, you should start a family soon. When I get married, I hope my elder brother and sister-in-law will help me add some decent dowry."
Liao Yuandong immediately raised his chest, "Don't worry, little sister. When you get married, I will definitely help you add a hundred acres to your husband's house. If my brother-in-law dares to bully you, I can't beat him to death!"
The two brothers and sisters talked for a long time before Liao Chunling returned to the main room lightly. She didn't go back to her west room, but asked in a low voice outside the east room door, "Mother?"
Jiang Pinglan responded lightly and walked out of the back room, "What did your brother say?"
After Liao Chunling explained it in detail, Jiang Pinglan stood quietly for a moment before handing her daughter a purse, "This is fifty taels of silver. When your brother leaves tomorrow, you secretly stuff it with him."
"Mother..."
Jiang Pinglan returned the purse to his daughter, "With the Liao family holding you back, your brother is no longer close to me. The two of you are brothers and sisters. Don't have a relationship. We should keep in touch in the future."
Liao Chunling took the purse and sent her mother back to the room, "My daughter will, mother, please rest early. If my brother doesn't leave tomorrow, we will go out together as a family."
After eating the next morning, Liao Yuandong said a few words, then knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to his mother, and went out to the inn to find his father. Shortly after Liao Yuandong left, Mrs. Jiang sent someone to call her daughter back to the house, mentioning that Liao Qingmo came to look for the eldest son last night, begging the eldest son to help Liao Qingmo enter the censor's desk, and then took her daughter's hand and said, "I was blind with your father back then. As soon as I saw it, I couldn't find a good family for you, so you suffered so many grievances..."
Jiang Pinglan naturally comforted his mother, and brought his two children to accompany his mother for lunch at Jiang's house before leaving the house and returning home.
Before reaching the door, Liao Chunling suddenly said, "Mother, my brother!"
Jiang Pinglan looked up and saw her eldest son standing alone outside the mansion with a burden, she accelerated her pace and approached, calling, "Yuan Dong."
In Shifeng Lane, where people come and go, Liao Yuandong with red eyes knelt in front of his mother and choked up, "Mother, father let my son stay by your side to honor you."
Tears rolled in Jiang Pinglan's eyes. She bent down to help her son and asked in a low voice, "Where's your father?"
"Father is out of town."
Liao Yuandong is not good enough, but no matter how bad he is, he is also Jiang Pinglan's son, Jiang Pinglan will not ignore him.
(end of this chapter)