Occasionally, Shen Xi vaguely retorted a sentence or two, and Qian Xinmei immediately replied: "Don't say it, don't say it, I'm old, useless, and disliked, and if I live for another year and a half, it's time to go to your father." ”

It was as if Shen Xi was going to curse her to death.

But next time, she can say a lot of theories logically and clearly, and she is very clear-headed and very useful.

And before she got married, she had never had such a diaphragmatic emotion towards her mother. But to say how much her mother loves her and how much she loves her mother, it seems a bit hypocritical in their family, at that time, Shen Xi never put her energy into thinking about her relationship with her mother, her home is no different from the same school she has been to, and there is no difference between her mother and the mother of her classmate.

Her family is an ordinary family, and the role of the mother is to take care of the family's food, drink, and Lazar, ask the children about their grades, ask the children what they want to eat and wear, deliver umbrellas to the school gate on rainy days, and bring milk and snacks when staying up late to prepare for the exam. When Shen Xi wanted to help Qian Xinmei do some housework on a whim, Qian Xinmei would say, "Wash your hands quickly, busy with your work, I'll get these things." ”

Qian Xinmei thinks that doing housework is her job.

Before Shen Xi got married, reading accounted for 90% of the time, the mother was equal to the nanny, and Shen Xi was equal to the study, and they performed their respective duties in parallel at home, and they were at peace with each other, and they jointly constructed the joy of this family. This metaphor may not be appropriate, but there is absolutely no such thing as sharing the little secrets of adolescence with the mother, pouring out the troubles, and talking at length about the girl's thoughts and ideals, and there is no such impulse.

Of course, the mother never asked, and she didn't specifically tell Shen Xi what a girl's development is, what menstruation represents, how to get along with the boy she likes, and how the girl should protect herself.

Looking back, in the years when it was so long that it was a long time to count on the number of hands, she and Qian Xinmei were so incredibly adaptable and accustomed to each other.

The female classmates who are good with her are like this. They watch the crooked mother-daughter relationship in TV dramas and novels, and at the same time accept and recognize the mother in reality.

Since when did you want to have a deeper communication with your mother? It was the new family with Qin He that brought her a sense of frustration that frightened her, and she wanted to escape into the arms of a safe embrace, the arms of a woman who brought her into this world and gave her life, longing for the experience of opening the marriage code from this woman, longing for guidance, care and comfort.

And at this time, Shen Xi realized that she and her mother had been walking in parallel for many years, making it impossible for them to intersect again. It's like the earth revolves around the sun and the moon revolves around the earth, when Shen Xi first broke this perception and told Qian Xinmei that "she and her mother-in-law get along a little unpleasantly", "she regrets getting married", "she doesn't know how to raise Xiaohe", Qian Xinmei panicked.

Such a Shen Xi subverted Qian Xinmei's common sense. In her concept of family, Shen Xi should be the excellent daughter who never needs her to worry about it, like a porcelain doll placed on the coffee table, it should always be placed there brightly, and a crack suddenly appeared on the porcelain doll without warning, Qian Xinmei's only reaction was to patch this crack and quickly fill it.

It's not that the question of why cracks are unimportant, but Qian Xinmei is used to not having insight into her daughter. She knew that the earth revolves around the sun, and as for why the earth revolves around the sun, she has never thought about it in her life, and she has completely unconsciously imagined it.

In all fairness, as a mother, she has a bowl of water very flat, from childhood to adulthood, food and clothing, what her brother has, Shen Xi has. She cares about Shen Xi, so she looks forward to closing the crack quickly at all costs, Shen Xi is still a promising girl with a stable job and a happy family.

That's what she thinks of as home and everything.

"Mom, brother, play with Xiaoguan and Xiaojin. Shen Xi squeezed out a smile and greeted the people in the courtyard, but in fact, he mainly greeted Qian Xinmei.

Qian Xinmei stood up and took the steamed bun in her hand: "It's a big night, what are you doing here?"

"Oh, I saw that there were handmade steamed buns for sale after work, which were quite fresh, so I bought some and gave them to Xiaoguan and Xiaojin. ”

"It's not good for children to eat too many steamed buns, there are additives in them, which is not good. ”

Shen Xi didn't say a word, and didn't think much about her mother's direct entry with knives and guns, whether she thought that the things she brought were cold. It is also possible that, as she guessed, the mother was purely trying to express a simple opinion: "It's not good for children to eat too many steamed buns." ”

In order to make herself stand Qian Xinmei, Shen Xi could only think about the benefits, when Qin He was at home, when she didn't bring something for a few hundred yuan, I don't know how many toys she bought for her two nephews.

Shen Ming took the steamed bun: "When you eat breakfast, what can't you eat, my son is rough." ”

"Brother, where's my sister-in-law?"

"I didn't come back from overtime. ”

"Brother......

Shen Xi wanted to speak and stopped, the moon drifted into the clouds, and the light that was so dark that it was about to lose shone on a pair of brothers and sisters who had changed their faces. Here, Qian Xinmei stuffed the steamed buns into the refrigerator and said, "How have you gotten along with your mother-in-law recently?" Let me tell you that it is not easy for the elderly to help you take care of the children, do laundry, cook and clean, and subsidize both money and labor. Let me ask you, you don't have to bear the daily expenses of the family, right? Xiaohe goes to and from school is your mother-in-law's pick-up, right? You don't know the price of firewood and rice, you know how to buy your mother-in-law some food and clothing during the New Year's holidays, coax more, it won't cost you a few dollars, what does the old man want you, don't you just want you to have a mind, usually have a smile on your face, I see you with a bitter look and get angry......

Here it again was, and before she said anything, it made her angry.

Shen Xi whispered to Shen Ming: "I'm still not as good as my sister-in-law." ”

Shen Ming didn't answer, and pulled her into the living room, where there was a desktop computer and two large all-in-one printers in the most conspicuous place, which occupied almost one-third of the area.

Shen Ming casually took an apple from the fruit bowl: "Eat, it's washed." ”

Shen Xi held it in his hand and didn't eat it.

"Your mother-in-law came two days ago. ”

"Ah, what is she doing here?"

"Don't be nervous, I was home alone that day. ”

"What is she doing here?"

"Shen Xi, pay attention to the tone of your voice, you haven't been so ...... before"

"What's the matter?" Shen Xi didn't understand, she just wanted to know the purpose of her mother-in-law's coming to the house, which was exactly the same as when she was pampered in the past, when she said to Shen Ming "pour me a glass of water" and "help me get a bag of potato chips", she labeled and defined her at every turn, aren't they a family, and when they speak in front of their family, they have to think before and after thinking about it, and brewing good words.

"Forget it, Mom is right, you should be kind to the old man. ”