Chapter 22: Family discord and contradictions, father returned to his hometown for a hundred years
To be honest, I don't really want to see my parents, because there is always a knot in my heart that cannot be opened, why did you all appear when I had money, and you were there when I was down, when I was not rich, when I passed by death, did you ever think of me, how much I needed your arms at that time. Now that I have money, you have come to me, this is a hurdle in my heart, and I can't get over it. I can only endure this threshold silently, and it is impossible to say to anyone that my family is scattered because of money, and because of money, it is really joys and sorrows, only gold and silver can not forget. Maybe it's good that all of us don't have so many desires, just want food and clothing, and have fun.
Came to Xi'an Railway Station, my mother and my daughter to pick me up, which made me feel warm, I haven't had such warmth for a long time, I usually don't even have a talk, the phone address book, short message, QQ, WeChat, have become a decoration. Now my mother is leading her daughter to pick me up, I am so happy, I picked up my daughter, it was rare for a while, and then I took out delicious food from my backpack, rare toys bought from Shenzhen, and a big bag of candy. The mother pulled her daughter, I followed behind, the grandparents and grandchildren muttered, and they would follow their grandmother in the future, and they would not go back to the Mo Orphanage.
We took a taxi to my father's house, a dilapidated courtyard house in the countryside, and my father had a cerebral thrombosis, and now he has trouble standing up and is in a wheelchair. Seeing my father, who was in his sixties, with gray hair and not looking old, saw me standing up with difficulty, and said tremblingly: "I'm sorry, Dahai, I didn't take good care of you and made you suffer so much." I immediately left tears: "Dad will always be Dad, Mom will always be Mom, although parents are wrong, but they are not guilty." Dad, don't blame yourself, you can change your mistakes, you are still my good father. "Dad was moved to tears, Mom was also in tears, the family reunited after a long absence, full of emotion, I asked Dad why he was alone. My father said that my mother died of illness, and I also have a younger sister, and now I have a family, and my home is far away from Xi'an. I comforted my parents, don't worry about it in the future, I have money now, I can provide for the second elder, I also have a daughter, raise my daughter well, and we will live happily as a family.
However, things backfired, many things did not go well, my mother loved to nag, from opening her eyes in the morning to closing her eyes at night, she kept talking, even eating. At first, the child still talked to the grandmother, but the child was tired of listening to it, so he said that the grandmother shut up. My mother is still very rare for my girl, every time the girl says shut up, my mother will stop for a while and say, grandma will not say anything. But it won't last long and it will keep talking, as long as there are people, the mouth will not be idle. I don't know what kind of life it was to make my mother like this, maybe she was also pitiful. The mother still kept talking, and the girl told her to shut up, but it was not good, so the girl blocked her mother's mouth with her hand, and the mother struggled, moved her mouth, and in the next second blocked the gap in her mouth, and said another word. It can't be blocked. Mom is still very rare for my girl, every time I gag it, my mother will laugh, smile and say, grandma don't talk, grandma doesn't speak. It didn't take long for the gambling mouth to be difficult, so the girl would directly start to fight, and sometimes the girl pouted and opposed her grandmother, and could push each other back and forth for half an hour. When I stopped it at first, but later it was natural, the family is not good, can you teach good children, the old man is not serious and is very cheating on his children.
I take my children shopping when I have nothing to do at home, and every time I come back to buy a bunch of things, every time I buy something, my mother says to me, this can't be bought, that can't be bought, and I don't care if I pull things apart and put them at the door. Every time she saw something I bought, my mother would say, "The sea should go and clean up, and you can't do it immediately if you have entered it," and then she would say, "The sea should clean up quickly, and in less than a while, I can say it three times, four times, or even seven or eight times." At first, my mother would do whatever she asked me to do, but then I didn't want to do what I wanted to do. Because when you're done it's the next thing waiting for you, you can only leave far away. I bought my favorite things back and let my mother do them, every time she couldn't do it well, sometimes she forgot to put salt, some of them were simply not cooked, sometimes the children didn't eat a bite of the food she cooked, and after she finished cooking, sometimes I had to cook for the children. When you say, Mom, you didn't put salt in your cooking. My mother would glare, and she would say even more fiercely, don't eat the food I cooked! When I was angry that I hadn't bought groceries for several days, my mother would say that I wouldn't come back with any groceries. And she kept saying that when you bought it back, she would say that you didn't buy it, and that didn't work. My child and I really can't stand her muttering, and we really can't help it.
Sometimes, I also ask my dad, how do you two live, it seems that dad can stand mom's muttering, dad smiled and said, when they were together before, the family didn't cook, at that time the family conditions were good, three meals a day to eat out, at that time mom was tall and beautiful, fair skin, these years are also the destruction of the years. It's true that time can make a person stupid. Dad doesn't talk much now, and every time he sees me and my children, it's very rare. Forget the troubles, forget the nagging of the mother.
Once there was a rag collector at home, and no one had come to the family for a long time, my mother was very enthusiastic, and my father and I had to stay behind, and my mother's words burst out from her mouth, and she kept chattering. How old are you, 42 years old, how many children in your family, how many grades are they in, what does your daughter-in-law do, what does your father do, what does your mother do, what hobbies do you have, where is your home, when you learn that we are fellow villagers in Shandong, you have to stay and eat, people can't eat it, grab people's arms and don't let them go. There was really no way, so people stayed to eat. I stayed, and when it came to the meal, my mother didn't cook, so I had no choice but to cook, and when the meal was ready, I started eating, and my mother was not happy to say that she was adding a few dishes. I went out to buy groceries again, and after I finished buying them, I made them myself. We were eating here, and she was stir-frying in the kitchen, talking while stir-frying. is so enthusiastic, people praise me while eating, praise me for having a good mother, praise my father for having a good wife, praise my daughter for having a good grandmother, and envy others, saying how good it would be for my daughter-in-law to be like this. From people to people's homes, I didn't stop for a while, talking and chatting non-stop. Before leaving, he was reluctant to send people away. When I finished sending it off, my mother came back alone, scolding as she walked, saying that it was not good to collect more rags, and how much money was sold less.
Life is always firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, but if you understand these, this family is harmonious and happy. Whenever it's time to cook, my mother sometimes goes out for a walk and says the sea, you cook, I'll go out and buy something. When you cook well, she also comes back, and says while eating, the food you cook is delicious, and then eats violently, regardless of whether others are full or not, and when she cooks, breakfast is like that, drink millet porridge every day, and it will not change for a month or even a year, and when you ask for a change, she will say that we are willing to drink millet porridge. I talked to my dad about this, and every time my dad said that your mom is like this, and dad doesn't have a sense of existence in this family. But I kept listening to my mother's nagging, and I didn't resist at all. But recently, Dad has been babbling and arguing with Mom, maybe Dad is a little unwell.
Or on this day, as soon as I got up together, my mother said to me, go wash the socks, you see you threw the socks on the ground, I saw that the rice on the table was millet porridge, I didn't want to drink, so I went to wash the socks, after washing the socks to dry, the mother said again, you are drying in the wrong place, the water is wet to the child's clothes, you stinky socks, all bacteria occupy the child's clothes. I couldn't help it, so I moved my socks again. Last night, I dreamed that a little ghost pulled me to the tap water and told me that the tap water was leaking and asked me to fix it. Mom told me to repair the tap water these days, I didn't fix it, the water leakage is not bad, I can't drip a few drops of water a day, and I don't know how to fix it, and we are about to move away, take my father back to Jinan.
Mom still kept saying, after talking about me, said Dad, I was angry and didn't eat, Dad saw that I didn't eat, and I didn't eat. Mom was not happy and said, I was eating, I couldn't have leftovers, I picked up the pot and poured it into a few of our bowls, and said while pouring, I was eating, I was eating. The more you don't eat, the more she lets you eat. Bring the pot to my girl to eat, my girl pouted, raised her fist and hit her grandmother, her grandmother was not angry, I was very happy with this, she was very good to me and my girl. Seeing that my father and I don't eat, my mother and mother are grinning, two wild seeds, and it is difficult to serve. Dad exerted all his strength and said two words: "Okay!" This angered Mom. Mom picked up the mop, and the mop head was slammed on Dad's face, and Dad pushed it away and put it on. Dad stood up angrily, and Mom didn't want to let it at all. Dad fell to the ground, spitting blood from his mouth. I quickly called an ambulance.
Dad didn't wake up, our dream of going back to Jinan together was shattered, and my father, who had a bad life, passed away like this, and ended up with a bleak evening. I was waiting outside the emergency room and called my mom to say that my dad had passed away. But my mother scolded over there, she had done evil all her life, and she deserved to die, and she didn't know how many things she had done without conscience in her life. I'm in a lot of pain, is there really such a reincarnation as a human being?
I hugged my father's urn, rented a car, and returned to Jinan with my mother and daughter.