Chapter 20: First Chop and Then Prelude
"We are all like rocks rolling down the hillside, and in the midst of the bumps, the fangs have been wiped out. ”
Indeed it is.
When we are polished round and delicate, it is not only a sign of maturity, but also a sign of our gradual adulthood. But please keep in mind that no matter how bitter, difficult, wronged, or depressed, as long as we are there, our hearts are there, and the belief of "not giving up and not abandoning" is there, we will continue to learn lessons, and have the willingness to make changes, and make a little progress every day compared with the previous day, and life will be better day by day.
Don't choose comfort at an age when you should be suffering.
No matter how destroyed by the years and the environment, she can never wear out her mother's enterprising and fighting spirit. Life is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.
I can't remember what year it was, or how old I was. Although the family income is meager, there will always be some development thanks to the efforts of the mother. There is no such thing as immutability, and the thing that is eternal and unchanging in the world is "change", but the speed of change is just slow.
My father's work in the hardware machinery factory is not getting worse day by day, and the salary is also reduced and reduced, and reduced and reduced. In addition, there is one of the most fundamental reasons - his father is a "non-tech-savvy" technician, so his salary is bound to be less and less.
Thanks to my mother, who worked day and night on the construction site, she was not afraid of hardship or tiredness. With the strength of a "female man" and young capital, he works much more on the construction site than adult men of the same age, so he earns more, and his "salary" is naturally dozens of times higher than his father's "single-digit" salary.
Over the years, it has become a habit for my father to be idle at home, and a comfortable life has numbed his nerves to a certain extent, weakened his enterprising spirit and honest self-esteem, and at the same time, it has also strengthened his self-satisfaction and the "conceit" psychology of "self-esteem" to a certain extent.
A family of 4 barely survived. However, my father was content.
One day, my mother offered to build another house.
The father shook his head like a rattle, pointed to his mother's nose and roared loudly:
"Loser girl, don't you want to start 'tossing' again? Our current living situation and level are already very 'good', very 'comfortable', and very 'comfortable', so you can't do a little bit of what a woman should do like a woman? Tell you, Lao Tzu is 'sick', and 'can't do' physical work, if you want to toss yourself, you won't serve!"
After that, I pulled up the pillow and prepared to enjoy the "Spring and Autumn Dream".
But according to the mother's idea, the children are growing up day by day, 4 people are crammed into a small house, sleeping on a kang is already slightly crowded, not only is the rest not good every day, but as the daughter grows up day by day, there will be some inconvenience. At the very least, we should provide our daughter with an "independent" learning environment and living place, right?
In order for the children to have a more "spacious" home, it is necessary to build another house, even if it is a small south room!
This is the mother's determination!
Such "reactionary" ideas and "disobedient" behaviors will inevitably affect the authority of the monarch, and quarrels are inevitable.
You must know that quarrels will naturally not help, not only will they not have any effect, but they may also lead to a plague of sticks!
The bird's ambition is known!
Mother knew very well that in order to achieve this goal, there was a very important issue to be solved - funding.
The "financial power" of the family has long been controlled by the father alone, and the one person has taken it alone, and if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and if you want to "rise up", "weapons and equipment" is the most important link.
Although most of the previous "strategic encounters" ended in the defeat of the mother, this time is no exception.
But this time, my mother did not fully implement a series of unequal treaties such as the monarch's "land cession and indemnity", and secretly formulated and implemented a long-term strategic plan of "lying on the salary and tasting courage", and began to "repair the plank road in the open and Chen Cang in the dark", work hard, and hide the "private money" of the "money saving action".
The term "private money" seems to belong exclusively to our married male compatriots, and in my opinion, it is not an exaggeration to apply for a patent exclusive to the "gender". But here it is used on the mother, I have to say, there is still some sadness.
Although my mother's work on the construction site was tiring and hard, there was one advantage: labor income was directly proportional to working hours and labor efficiency. This means that if you want to earn more, you have to put in more time and effort than others.
Mother grasped this very well.
So in this way, in order to achieve her goals, my mother devoted herself to her work. At all times, my mother always chose heavier, more tiring, dirtier work, and even jobs that no one wanted to do, not to mention the "simple" ones such as moving bricks, cement, and sand, and the total amount of labor per day was twice or three times that of the average man.
In this way, she has become a well-known "stunned woman" on the construction site!
When the rest of the people on the construction site were eating and resting at noon, the mother continued with the steamed bun in her mouth and the sun, and after work in the evening, she had to discuss with the foreman for another 2-3 hours of overtime......
In this way, I did not rest for more than ten hours from morning to night, and insisted on it day after day.
Tired people don't want to eat, don't want to talk are common, and even breathing and rest feel extremely "luxury".
Over the next few days, in addition to paying a fixed amount of "protection money" to the hero every month, the mother secretly hid the few "surplus values" that part.
In more than a year, she saved more than 1,000 yuan at the cost of "overdrawing her life", and achieved a very small part of her short-term goals. But it also buried deep roots and hidden dangers in his body.
If there is a will, it will be done, and the one hundred and two Qin Passes will eventually belong to Chu;
Hard-working people, the sky is not bearable, lying on the salary to taste the gall, three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu!
Finally one day, everything is ready only to the east wind, and the mother, who has the dual conditions of "location, people", is ready to cut first and then create an opportunity for "time".
Without "reporting" to the hero, my mother contacted my two uncles privately and carried out a surprise attack in the style of "special forces".
On this day, the uncles brought a lot of people, and at the same time brought a lot of bricks, wood, sand and other materials for building houses, and piled up straw that was taller than the house...... are necessary to build a house.
My father was really dazed by this "live-fire exercise", and under the shock of the vigorous and crowded battle, he learned the outline of the matter in the process of chatting with his uncles, and the information he got was that his mother asked his uncles to find someone to help build a house, and the rest of the nature did not know anything, and the uncles also knew his character and would not explain much to him.
Although he was furious because his authority was challenged, the priority to know was ignored and other reasons, and there was no shortage of various questions about the source of funds, but in the face of the "premeditated mutiny" in the presence of so many "mother's family", he dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and he was lonely for fear of being outnumbered and forced to be helpless, so he had to "eat Coptis chinensis dumbly" and acquiesced to this matter.
At that time, how could I understand the open and secret strife and war situation in the world of these "adults", as long as my father followed the basic provisions of the "Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence", the weight of the "three mountains" on the other family members suddenly decreased a lot. Where else can I take care of.
I only know that my uncles are here, bringing a lot of people, and they have also moved back a lot of "fun" things, and the family has been working and eating a lot of food these days!
Unceremoniously summoned my childhood friends Lei Zi and Peng Chao to play together.
Due to the limited conditions at home, there are no transformers and toy cars, only sand and mud as companions, no televisions and computer games, only wooden sticks and bricks, no mobile phones, tablets and iPads, only all kinds of small animals that can be "ravaged and harmed" by us.
At that time, our "Three Musketeers" made their own script, climbed to the top of the straw stack for a while to enjoy the sunshine, and used stick weapons to reproduce the characters of the heroes of ancient costume martial arts such as "Dragon Babu" and "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", and used sand to stage the scene of "storm" and "flying sand and dust" for a while, and when the excitement was bursting, we would also use bricks to build a "big" fortress, review the heroic image of our party in the War of Resistance against Japan, and block those "little devil" troops who did all the bad things in their imagination and lost their conscience... ...
I don't know how long it took for another small house to finally be completed, and it "fits seamlessly and perfectly" with the previous one.
Of course, it was a great joy for my family. It is natural to invite relatives and friends who help to gather together.
During this period, my father also made it clear with his practical actions that he was opposed to building a house: he couldn't do it without helping to move a brick, pour a glass of water, or chat with the workers. But in the same way, there is no courage to storm up.
Just use "pointing fingers and shouting five and six to reflect the presence of the male host".
But since this experience, my father has added an extra job to himself every month - to check the accounts of his mother's unit.
The first thing I do when I pay my salary every month is to go to the financial department of my mother's employer to check whether the amount of my mother's actual salary is consistent with the amount paid.
This incident once made my mother suffer a lot of cynicism in the unit, and it became the talk of the good people after dinner. As soon as it spreads ten, ten spreads hundreds, and my father's reputation will naturally spread out.
"The iron rooster doesn't pull out a dime, and he still has the face to go to his wife's unit to check the accounts?"
"That's showing the authority of your husband!"
"It is said that he was idle all day long, never worked, either smoked or slept......"
"That's it, just rely on my wife to support you!"
"What a shame!"
Naturally, his father, who was the central figure in the incident, would not have heard these gossip rumors circulating on his mother's construction site.
The reason why my mother didn't have time to care about the behind-the-scenes discussions of these good people was that after the house building incident, my mother's body finally couldn't withstand the damage caused by excessive overdraft, and once it had to undergo surgery.