20 years ago, 42-year-old Zhou Mou'an was introduced to marry the widowed woman Chang Mouzhi, and the two did not register, but just invited neighbors and relatives to set up a few tables of banquets to be considered married. Chang Mouzhi's husband died of illness a few years ago, and it was very difficult for her to live alone with her two sons.
When Zhou Mouan was young, his parents were sick all the year round, and the family was very difficult, so he did not marry a daughter-in-law. When he sent his parents to the end of his life, he was 42 years old in a blink of an eye, but he wanted to marry a daughter-in-law but he was too old, and no girl was willing to marry him.
Under the arrangement of the introducer, Zhou Mouan and Chang Mouzhi met, and once the two talked, they had feelings for each other. Chang Mouzhi has two boys, one is 10 years old and the other is 8 years old, and Zhou Mouan did not dislike it. He said to Chang Mouzhi: "Both of us are quite old, and we won't think about having children after we get married, so you two children will be raised by me as my son." Dogs can be fed and close to their owners when they grow up, I don't believe it, after I raised these two children, I have no feelings for me? ”
In this way, Zhou Mouan took Chang Mouzhi and his two sons to his home, and under the arrangement of the village director, invited a few neighbors and relatives, and set up a few tables of banquets. After getting married, Zhou Mouan took good care of Chang Mouzhi and regarded his two sons as his own.
Before Zhou Mouan got married, he lived alone and did not feel difficult in life. Now that there are three mouths in the family at once, he knows that it is easy to marry a daughter-in-law, but it is not easy to support the two children brought by his wife. Zhou Mouan worked hard every morning and night, and had to take his children to school and get out of school, and he was tired like an animal all day long. Fortunately, Zhou Mou'an was in strong health, and he ran around the two villages alone, planting his family's contracted field and his wife's original contracted field to ensure that the whole family could eat enough and live a comfortable life.
Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, Chang Mouzhi's two children have grown up, the eldest graduated from secondary school, worked in a state-owned enterprise, and can earn more than 5,000 yuan per month. The second son has studied well since he was a child, and now he has graduated from college for several years and works in a public institution. Zhou Mouan was very happy to see that his two sons had become talents, he did not give up his responsibility, in addition to farming, every spring he went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables to sell in the market, and in autumn he picked mushrooms, fungus, and medicinal materials, which year can earn two or three hundred thousand. The two sons have a partner, and Zhou Mouan wants to earn money for his two stepsons to marry wives and have children.
Today, the eldest son, Li Cheng, is thirty years old, he has been married for three years and has a son. The down payment of 300,000 yuan for buying a house when he got married was paid by Zhou Mou'an, and the 200,000 yuan bride price for marrying his daughter-in-law was also given by Zhou Mou'an. The second son Li Dong is now 28 years old and just got married this year, Zhou Mouan was impartial and gave 500,000 yuan.
Zhou Mouan is 62 years old, and 17 years is like a flick of his fingers, and he is tired and sick. Now that the two stepsons are married and settle down, he thinks that he can live a long life and tease his grandchildren.
In the winter of 2022, neither Zhou Mouan nor Chang Mouzhi escaped the epidemic, after Chang Mouzhi was infected with the new crown, he was not saved and died, and Zhou Mouan was hospitalized for more than a month because of white lung before being discharged. During the hospitalization, Zhou Mouan was found to have a tumor in his stomach, which cost a lot of money. Most of these treatment costs were reimbursed by NCMS, and there was still a shortfall of nearly 100,000 yuan to be borne by himself.
Zhou Mouan gave everything for his two sons, and now he owes nearly 100,000 yuan in expenses that cannot be reimbursed for hospitalization, but he has no ability to pay. When the two stepsons heard that their stepfather was short of money, they both said: "I have no money left after I got married, and the savings of the two elderly people who are sick and hospitalized have also been spent, and I really have no money to help my stepfather solve the problem of arrears." ”
As soon as Zhou Mouan saw that neither of his two sons would give money, he sold his house and paid it back. There was no place to live, so he borrowed an old abandoned house in the backyard of the village committee. The house was originally a warehouse, the doors and windows were leaking, and the interior was dusty. Zhou Mouan could only use newspapers to paste the doors and windows, and installed a heating stove converted from an old gasoline drum in the house, and placed a marching bed next to the stove. Everything to get by, piled up on a broken table.
One day, stepsons Li Cheng and Li Dong came to find Zhou Mou'an, and as soon as they entered the door, the two of them stood in front of the stove, covered their noses and said, "Uncle, can you return the house license and land contract certificate of my family's old house in Dongcun?" It was the joint property of my mom and my dad when she was alive. We want to sell the house and transfer the land to someone else. ”
After Zhou Mouan was discharged from the hospital, his body was thin and weak, and he coughed every day. Today, when I saw two stepsons come to ask for the original house photos and land contract certificate of his wife's house, my heart was suddenly cold. This house Chang Mouzhi rented to others before his death, and the land has been cultivated by himself over the years, and the income from farming is used to maintain the normal life of the family. Right now, just a few days after I came out of the hospital, my two stepsons came to ask for these things. Thinking of this, Zhou Mou'an's nose was a little sour.
At this time, Zhou Mou'an's niece Zhou Xin came to visit her uncle, and when she entered the warehouse where Zhou Mou'an lived, she was stunned all of a sudden. She asked, "Uncle, how did you move here?" ”
Tears fell from Zhou Mouan's face, and when he saw his family, he felt a number of grievances and desolation in his heart, all of which turned into tears.
Zhou Mouan said: "Zhou Xin, after I was discharged from the hospital, I owed the hospital nearly 100,000 yuan, and I had no choice, so I sold the three houses, and the houses in the countryside could not be sold at a high price. ”
Zhou Xin saw Li Cheng and Li Dong and asked, "My uncle raised you two since childhood, and you owe that little money for medicine, so you can't pay it back?" You also forced my uncle to sell the house, you are really filial! ”
Li Cheng snorted with his nose and said: "He and my mother live together, and the two have not obtained a certificate, at most they can live together." Our brothers are not related to him by blood, nor are they stepfather-son, so why should we reimburse him for medical expenses? ”
Zhou Xin was very angry and asked, "Then what are you doing here today?" ”
Li Dong said: "After Uncle Zhou and my mother lived together, my mother took the house photos and land contract certificate of the East Village to the West Village, and lived with Uncle Zhou at home in the West Village. Now that my mom is gone, my brother and I want to take away the house license and land contract certificate. ”
Zhou Xin asked Zhou Mou'an: "Uncle, where are the things they want?" ”
Zhou Mouan pointed to the broken table and said, "There is a women's bag on it, which was used by their mother when she was alive, and the things were loaded there." ”
When Li Cheng heard this, he hurriedly went to the table and picked up the bag, he took out the contents and looked at it, and said to his younger brother Li Dong, "Let's go." ”
Zhou Xin was very angry when he saw the situation in front of him, and said, "Do you brothers still have a conscience?" If my uncle hadn't fed you up, would you be where you are today? ”
Zhou Mouan said to his niece: "Zhou Xin, forget it." I'm looking for my own sin, other people's sons, I can't raise them. I think I might as well have raised two dogs. ”
Li Cheng and Li Dong hurriedly walked out, and when they reached the door, Li Cheng almost fell.
Zhou Xin said: "Uncle, it's not too late for you to think about it now." In this way, tomorrow you come to my house, and I will support you in old age. ”
At this moment, the village director Zhou Xianmin came in. As soon as he entered the door, Zhou Xianmin said: "Big brother, I have good news for you, the area in the west mountain of our village has been expropriated by the high-speed rail project, and your contracted fields and forests are within the scope of the expropriation. You've got a good day this time! ”
Zhou Mouan was very surprised and asked, "Brother Xianmin, are you telling the truth?" ”
Zhou Xianmin said: "Big brother, we are brothers who have not come out of the five suits, can I lie to you?" I just arranged for someone to put up the expropriation notice, and many people are looking outside the front yard gate. ”
Zhou Xin said: "Uncle, great, you don't have to worry about it this time, with this money, you can make good arrangements for your life in your later years, manage the money yourself, and live a good life for a few days." ”
At this time, Li Dong and Li Cheng came back, and as soon as they entered the house, Li Chengcheng said: "Uncle, just now our brothers discussed it and are going to take you away, and our brothers will each take care of it for a month and take turns to provide for you." ”
Zhou Xin sneered and said, "You two brothers saw the notice in front of the village committee, and they changed their minds again, didn't they?" Let me tell you, don't think about it, my uncle's expropriation compensation will only be in his charge in the future, and no one will remember it. ”
Zhou Dongan glanced at his two stepsons and said, "You are not related to me by blood, can you still support me in old age?" Don't tease me, I'm not confused, you guys go. ”
Li Dong and Li Cheng left in disdain, with a look of regret in their eyes.