inspire-indiana Chapter 567 Why Can't He Live?
Chapter 567 Why Can't He Live?
Wang Ershan didn't dare to tell his mother these things. His eyes immediately turned red and he hugged his mother and cried bitterly:
"Mom, my elder brother and his men are dead... They beat them to death in the mine. I am the only one who survived..."
Li Xia's body swayed and she almost fainted.
She heard that the missing people were captured and forced to mine, so the government sent troops to rescue them. Many people came back, and she also held on to hope that her son and four grandsons would all come back.
Who knew that the second one would come back.
They were all dead.
"You second brother, why didn't you protect them? They are your nephews and elder brothers!"
Li Xia slapped Wang Ershan directly on the face.
Wang Xiaoshan was gloating on the side.
"Second brother, you are the only one in our family who is strong. You were captured together with me, don't you know how to protect them?"
Wang Hu even directly accused:
"Uncle, why didn't you save my father? Why wasn't you the one who died? Why didn't my father and brother come back?"
The whole family actually started to blame and scold him, and even felt that he should not be alive, and that his eldest brother and others should be alive.
Wang Ershan's pupils shrank slightly.
He thought back to the past when he did the most work and ate the least at home.
His parents loved his eldest brother and third brother, and he, as the second oldest, was the least valued. Even his nephews had no respect for him and some even cursed him behind his back.
At this moment, the slight sense of guilt that he had felt for pushing his elder brother and the others into danger was completely gone.
They deserve to die!
Why can't he live?
"Mom, my second brother is very strong. It's good that he came back alive. The autumn harvest is coming soon, and it's a good opportunity for someone at home to work."
Wang Xiaoshan rolled his eyes and pulled his mother.
Li Xia stopped crying immediately and nodded.
That's true. The second son is the one who is most willing to endure hardship and work. It's better for him to come back and work at home during the busy farming season, and go out to work and earn money during the slack farming season.
"Okay, second brother, since you're back, you're lucky. It's time to water the fields these days. Let's live a good life from now on."
Li Xia patted the second child's shoulder and suddenly put on a kind face.
Wang Ershan sneered in his heart:
"Mom, I'm starving."
He spoke up and said that other families must have prepared meals long ago when they saw their relatives being rescued and so thin.
But his mother still wanted him to work.
He will quit doing it in the future.
He has died once, and now he is the only useful man in the family, so he should have the final say.
The third brother is a scoundrel. He is thin and small, and he pretends to be sick every day when he is asked to work.
My nephew Wang Hu is the apple of my mother's eye and she never lets him suffer any hardship.
In the past, there was an eldest brother and two nephews taking care of the family, but now they are all dead, and he is the head of the family.
Li Xia felt embarrassed and immediately looked at Wang Xiaoshan standing beside her.
"Hurry up and cook for your second brother."
Wang Xiaoshan looked bitter:
"Mom, what else do we have to eat? We are almost out of coarse grains. We only have some vegetables left."
Speaking of this, Li Xia was also worried.
Ever since the eldest brother and his family disappeared a few years ago, their family has been struggling to make ends meet.
We had just passed the natural disaster last year, so we were hoping to harvest more wheat in this summer harvest in June.
As a result, only the third son and Wang Hu were left as laborers, but they had never done so much work before. They could not water the land at home or weed it completely, so they focused on working on five acres of land, and the other land gradually became barren.
The harvest from the five acres of land was not good. I exchanged the wheat for silver and bought coarse grains. How many days can I eat them?
The autumn harvest hasn't even arrived yet, and they're running out of food again.
"Grandma, we still have to go to Daliushu Village. I heard that Shen Yuan married a princess, the emperor's cousin. He is now a prince consort and has such a big workshop. You are his grandmother, how can he let you live like this?"
The more Wang Hu thought about it, the more unwilling he became.
Just thinking about how capable my cousin is makes me feel like I can’t give up.
If he became the younger brother of the county lord, who would dare to look down on him in the future?
Cousins, they are real relatives, they should be the closest.
Why can he live a life of luxury and status while their family has to live such a hard life?
"Who are you talking about?"
Wang Ershan suddenly raised his head, somewhat shocked.
Is that what he thought?
Isn’t Daliushu Village the village where my eldest sister married?
Her son is a county horse? And a workshop?
Wang Hu saw his uncle was shocked and immediately stepped forward to explain:
"Uncle, you don't know yet, do you? My aunt's son, the one who retired from the army, is now very successful. He has servants at home, a large workshop, and even married a princess. He is so successful that even the county magistrate has to be three heads shorter when he sees him."
When he said this, Wang Ershan's mouth opened.
He is so capable!
I had been in the mines for eight months, and I had no idea that one of my nephews had become a county horse!
But.......
"Mom, I remember that when my eldest sister married to Daliushu Village, she severed ties with us."
Thinking of this, he was also a little disappointed.
"What if we're no longer related? Even if we're no longer related, she's still my daughter. We're blood relatives! I'm also his grandmother. That unfilial guy actually sent people to drive us out of the village. I'm really pissed off."
When Li Xia thought of this, she gritted her teeth, not knowing whether she hated herself for being so heartless back then, or hated Shen Yuan for being so heartless.
If I had known that my daughter's son would have such great fortune in the future, I would have beaten her to death rather than breaking off the relationship.
"That's right, my cousin is such a jerk. He even drove his own grandmother away. And the villagers all listened to him. When they saw us, they didn't even let us enter the village."
Wang Hu felt so angry when he thought about it.
They went there several more times, but were driven out each time before they could enter the village.
Wang Xiaoshan's eyes turned, and he suddenly said:
"Mother, my second brother has never been to Daliushu Village. He is a stranger. Let him go find Shen Yuan. He is a good talker. He has suffered such a great crime this time, but he is my second uncle. If we go to find him like this, I don't believe he will not care."
The old lady and Wang Hu's eyes also lit up.
"Yes, Third Uncle is right. Just let Second Uncle go. If he doesn't take you in, you can call him unfilial. The higher the status, the more people care about face and reputation."
Wang Hu also came up with an idea.
Wang Ershan snorted in his heart, they were using him as arrows.
He won't be fooled.
However, Shen Yuan still has to go look for it.
You have to be methodical.
If he could really become related to Shen Yuan, his life would be very successful.
"Son, what your third brother and nephew said is true. You are not at home, and you two are too weak to work. We didn't harvest much wheat in the summer, and now the family is really struggling to make ends meet. You should think of a way. If you are capable, go ask Shen Yuan to work in the workshop."
Li Xia was about to cry as she spoke, and this time she was really crying because her family was in such a difficult situation.