Chapter 4 The Expectant Lady Arrives: The Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Recruit the Child

It's still early to fill out the inconsequential firefighting knowledge questionnaire, and I don't want to go home. Wang Zimo doesn't like to go home, it is true that after adding a little life to the family, it is no longer quiet, painful and happy. Like many post-80s only children, most of the parents help after adding children to small families, which has mixed pros and cons. Knowledge is power, and this power is not enough to solve the war between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law without gunpowder.

There are more female teachers in colleges and universities, and there are more female teachers in humanities and social sciences. The most discussed topic among colleagues is the parenting scripture. Wang Zimo, a novice father, seems to be less competent.

Wang Zimo is the most step-by-step among the male doctors, he doesn't fall behind, he will choose what to do at what age, and he started a family with his master's girlfriend at the age of 27. Graduated on time in three years, neither postponed, nor particularly excellent. Then the job search and the addition of children at the same time, life is also complete, when the principal of the graduation ceremony plucks the tassels, the feeling of bringing his wife and children to the stage is also sassy.

When the peers around him were discussing the second child, Wang Zimo's heart was a little resistant. After all, raising children is very energy-consuming, and small babies need to be served by someone every day to eat, drink, and Lazar, and they must not relax for a moment. Two days ago, Wang Zimo and his daughter-in-law were lying on the bed, the little baby was lying on the edge of the bed, and when the little couple was busy looking at their mobile phones, the little baby suddenly fell out of bed. When they heard the cry, the two remembered that there was a little guy in bed... There are so many such things. Wang Zimo often laughed at himself, careless parents like me are not suitable for raising a second child, a child can grow up healthy, just want him to be happy.

Wang Zimo's parents, employees of large state-owned enterprises, although their industries have been declining and their benefits are not as good as in the most prosperous era, they are also facing the restructuring and mergers and acquisitions of state-owned assets, and buyouts have once become a high-frequency word in the family. Mother Li Yuemei retired at the age of 55 and is an outpatient doctor in a state-owned affiliated hospital.

Father Wang Xinghai should retire at the age of 60 according to reason, and there are still three years to go, and the leaders do work frequently, hoping that the old comrades can take the lead in making an exemplary role in the difficulties of enterprise development. Many of the young people with diplomas in the unit have handled the suspension of pay and left their jobs, and the old poles in their forties have been passive and slacking off but have not yet reached the age limit, and they have not reached the age of buyout. The old comrades between 55 and 60 are a little sad, they have worked hard all their lives, and they are almost out of rice. Wang Zimo's father is an old college student after the reform and opening up, and he was also a good fortune when the company was at its most prosperous.

The parents' economic conditions were acceptable when they were young, and they only had an only child under their knees, so they were still living comfortably. Wang Zimo's wife is not a native of City B, and the two were once opposed by the Wang family's parents during their relationship. His wife, Lu Anqi, is a girl who came out of the 18th-tier city under D Province by studying, with a beautiful appearance but not beautiful, and her personality is also gentle and obedient. However, girls who don't know how to enjoy are more family-oriented. In the eyes of his parents, Wang Zimo is a big man of 1.8 meters, but he is unruly when he fights, and there is not much difference between him and a wild horse that has escaped. Other families like to go around to promote that their children have good grades in school and have gone to a prestigious university. Wang's parents were more happy, and when they met people, they said that they had a group of wild horses at home, and they should seize the time to make money to buy grassland.

The parents of the Wang family were unfeeling, the girl was 1.58 meters, not tall enough to be well-proportioned and dignified, but she looked timid, unlike colleagues or neighbors' girls who saw people in three parts, and her mouth was like smeared with honey. When Lu Anqi saw the Wang family's parents for the first time, she involuntarily took two steps back, stood behind Wang Zimo, and whispered hello to her uncle and aunt, holding a bag of apples in her hand. When we first met, it looked a little shabby. The parents of the Wang family are reasonable, and in their eyes, Lu Anqi is also a child, she has not yet participated in the work, and she spends her parents' money, and the courtesy is light and affectionate.

After being busy greeting for a long time, Li Yuemei didn't get the opportunity to meet Lu Anqi alone, and Wang Zimo was interrupting all the time. Wang Xinghai understood his wife's spirit, and quickly found the reins to lassodate the wild horse, and arranged for him and himself to go to the supermarket to buy vegetables.

After the Wang family father and son went out, Li Yuemei beckoned Lu Anqi to sit on the sofa and began to check the household registration. "Angel, Auntie calls you that, you won't mind, right?"

"No," Lu Anqi didn't have any extra words. If this is put on the girl of Sister Zhao's house next door, I have to add: I am so happy that you can call me that.

"Anqi, which city in province D is your home?"

"G County in H City, now that the highway has been repaired, it is much more convenient for our family to go to the city" Lu Anqi subconsciously had a few fears about Li Yuemei, more because of the lack of confidence from the original family, and wanted to reduce the remoteness of her home address.

"Oh, that's pretty convenient. ”

"Hmm"

"Girl, how many people are there in your family" Li Yuemei has been imagining where the G county of H city on the map is, but unfortunately the veterinarian's geographical knowledge is insufficient, and she has no concept of the land, so she has to immediately move to the topic she is more concerned about.

"I have an older sister who is married, my sister and brother-in-law live in the city now, my younger brother is in high school, and he is about to take the college entrance examination" Lu Anqi seemed to know what Li Yuemei wanted to know, so she simply poured it out and said simply.

"Oh, then you are really a big family, unlike our family, which is very deserted during the New Year's holidays" Li Yuemei is not a doctor of heart surgery, with a knife in her hand, and she is unforgiving when she opens her mouth. There was no malice, but it was enough to speed up Lu Anqi's cramped feeling.

"Yes, Auntie, every year during the holidays, our family will kill chickens and slaughter sheep, and the mutton soup made by my father tastes very good, you and your uncle are welcome to come to our house" Lu Anqi did not understand Li Yuemei's voiceover.

"Okay, if I have a chance, I will definitely visit you Uncle Wang"

"Hmm"

"Are you a mentor with Doudou?"

"No, our majors are not the same, we met at the freshman meeting"

"The life of the students is really rich, and the school is better. Angel, what are your plans for graduation?"

"We're going to get married when we graduate!" Lu Anqi is very looking forward to developing in the same city with Wang Zimo in the future, and after coming to the house today, he has become even more determined in this idea. Compared with her hometown, the big city is still different, there are more opportunities, and there will be a better life. In the past, I always felt that my sister's life was good, my brother-in-law was a demobilized soldier in the army, went to the sea to do some small business, and quickly changed careers in the era of e-commerce, and the online store was also prosperous. My sister and brother-in-law bought a two-bedroom house in their hometown county. When I went home for the Chinese New Year, I heard from my sister that I wanted to change to a big house closer to the experimental primary school, so that the children could receive education conveniently.

"You are still very young, just graduated is the period of career growth, young people still have to focus on their careers, after all, you are all highly educated" Lu Anqi's graduation plan is still beyond Li Yuemei's imagination.

"Auntie, it's okay, our relationship is very stable, we won't have children immediately after we get married, and we will definitely not delay work"

"The scope of employment of your major in City B is also quite narrow, and it may not be easy to find a job" Li Yuemei wanted to convince the young girl in front of her, but everything was in vain. When they were young, there were not a few people who firmly believed in love.

"Auntie, I can submit more resumes when the time comes, and I believe I will find a job" Lu Anqi is very informative about her business ability, and she is also an honor student in school. When talking about the future, professionalism and ability, Lu Anqi's eyes flashed with a different light.

"Auntie believes in you, but... At this moment, the father and son of the Wang family entered the door with large bags of dishes, and the conversation between the two ladies was interrupted.

"What are you talking about? It's all to blame, if you don't say in advance that Xiao Lu is going to come to the house for dinner, we didn't prepare in advance," Wang Xinghai explained while busy unloading. The kind old father didn't want his children to lose face, and he didn't want to embarrass other people's girls.

"Uncle is fine, I'm not hungry, I'll help you get it" When Lu Anqi heard Wang Xinghai's words, she instantly felt that she had encountered a life-saving straw, and she was relieved from Li Yuemei's interrogation. She quickly got up, ready to leave the couch that had made her restless.

"Mom, what are you talking about?" Wang Zimo also came over, he was not nervous or worried. Yes, the boy doesn't know what it's like to be worried, what is there for him to worry about?

"I didn't talk about anything, I just wanted to know about Anqi's future plans. Li Yuemei concisely summarized their conversation just now. However, Wang Zimo knows his mother very well, he is not a tricky person, but he is not a good man and a woman.

"You don't embarrass Angel, Angel is an honest child. Wang Zimo did not fall in love with Lu Anqi at first sight, nor did he never forget goodbye. He hopes that his partner can be chosen by himself, instead of being like his cousin, who is thirty and matchmaking.

"You kid, no big or small. Okay, I'll cook with your dad, eat better at home for the first time, we can talk more" Li Yuemei got up and walked into the kitchen.

"My mom asked you something, it's mysterious"

"It's nothing, my aunt asked us what our plans were for graduation, and I said we planned to get married. Lu Anqi stared at Wang Zimo, hoping that he would be able to express his position in front of his parents.

"Mmmm, I definitely want to get married" Wang Zimo has plans to marry Lu Anqi, but as for when, he himself thinks that the current relationship does not seem to have a reason to make him unswervingly get married. The two have been together for more than a year, and they are not shocked, neither like other couples blowing their beards and staring at each other, nor like their girlfriends blowing out candles downstairs in the dormitory for their birthdays, nor like the kind of academic couples who are tired of being in the library every day. In short, the romance is insufficient, and it is a little less meaningful.

Wang Zimo is not unin love, nor is he the kind of reader who has no emotion. He is not handsome, but at least his facial features are there, and he can still be seen when combined, his height and the advantages of perennial fitness highlight his uprightness, and he lacks the taste of cream students, and he also has some fans on the huge campus. There are many boys and girls majoring in liberal arts, and in the middle of the stars, it is Lu Anqi who makes him a little tempted. But after getting along, I feel that before the love starts, it is already as plain as water, and it will be a couple of firewood, rice, oil and salt in the future.

"Then you can talk to your parents later, and we'll settle this matter today. "I haven't seen Lu Anqi so decisive, and I don't know what to smoke today.

"Well, I'll say it later" The prince Mo also felt that it didn't matter, let's say, there are always people who have to get married, and there are a few people who can find soul mates in this life, and most of them are struggling with each other in the marriage grave. Respecting each other as a guest is a sense of alienation.

"Look, this variety show has been very popular recently" Wang Zimo pushed Lu Anqi and pointed to the variety show on the mobile phone screen.

"Watch less variety shows, aren't you planning to take the Ph.D.? You have to review well in the summer vacation, and you should also review your English well" In terms of learning, Lu Anqi is very self-disciplined, and this kind of diligence and self-discipline is also her charm, she will think of an alarm clock, ringing in Wang Zimo's ears, reminding, urging.

"Yes!" Wang Zimo's humorous cell is as good as the name suggests. "Isn't variety show also a communication phenomenon? Only by watching the case carefully can we write a paper and answer the essay questions, and the lady will see it together, let's be on the same front, forward, forward!"

"Hey" Lu Anqi looked helpless, unable to resist Wang Zimo's temptation, and also leaned over. The young and beautiful girl in the middle of the stage is dazzling and versatile, which makes her envious. There is no talent, and the speech is not exquisite, only diligence can make up for the clumsiness, and redouble the effort can have a stable future in the big city. Lu Anqi has no sense of security, her self-confidence is limited, and she believes that God rewards her hard work. At least, God has not made her live too badly until now, the material foundation is not so rich, but the spiritual world is full enough, and she never misses the exam.

"It's time to eat," the Wang family's parents said.

"Let's go!" the prince silently led Lu Anqi to get up.

At the dinner table, everyone talked and laughed, but they didn't feel angry. It is also a prelude to a storm. Not long after the meal, Wang Zimo planned to send Lu Anqi back to the hotel. Tomorrow, Lu Anqi will be transferred back to her hometown for the summer vacation, and the most thing she brings back is books.

After a brief farewell, Wang Zimo arranged Lu Anqi in an express hotel near his home, so that he could send her to the high-speed rail station tomorrow. Lu Anqi's 18th-tier city is far away from City B, and it takes two high-speed railways, a bus and a walk to get there. Considering the long journey on the road and the need to get up early tomorrow to catch the car, Wang Zimo carefully prepared the food on Lu Anqi's train in advance, and Lu Anqi's heart rippled, and a little happiness involuntarily showed on his face.

Wang Zimo didn't stay in the hotel for long, and the old mother still needs to continue to explain honestly, and it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time.

"Mom, I'm back"

"Do you still know to come back?"

"Mom, what's wrong with you, why are you unhappy, is my dad upsetting you, hahaha" Wang Zimo was like a mirror, and he continued to shift his gaze. Daddy is undoubtedly the only option.

"You kid, how dare I make your mother unhappy, there is no one else in this family except me" Wang Xinghai snorted and managed to get out of the house.

"You rabbit cub, why don't you say it in advance when you bring your girlfriend back?" Li Yuemei sat in the center of the sofa, her face showing anger. Li Yuemei, who is in the C position, has a very serious facial expression, and she can feel the anger in her heart after three meters.

"Ouch, my own mother, just for this, we are all young people, Angel won't mind this" Wang Zimo obviously didn't want to answer Li Yuemei directly, and was still thinking about how to block the storm.

"I didn't mean that, why did you find me such a girl back?" Li Yuemei doesn't want to go around in circles, she is an absolute authority at home, she doesn't need to make her debut in the C position, she is always in the C position.

"Mom, what kind of girl is such a girl?" Wang Zimo argued with his head down as he changed his shoes.

"This girl is average-looking, her heart is quite high, her home is far away from us, she is still a family with many children, and her parents probably don't have any serious jobs," Li Yuemei's machine gun began. It is her ability to speak well, but ordinary people can't talk about her.

"Mom, I think Angel is very beautiful" Wang Zimo also knew that whether Angel was beautiful or not was not the point.

"Let's not talk about appearance first, our family is not an appearance association, you talk about their family is so far away, so many burdens, you will live together in the future, if you can't help, it will drag down" Li Yuemei cut into the essence of the problem.

"Home is home, Angel is Angel, besides, do you have to be like Aunt Zhao's family, just show off every day"

"What's wrong with Nannan, that's what a big city girl should look like, I like that, people still don't look down on you, you have no fate"

"Yes is also a bad fate, it is better not to have it" Wang Zimo disdained this little girl named Nannan, and always felt that this girl was as snobbish as her mother.

"What are your plans for graduation, won't you get married soon" Li Yuemei reversed the topic again, she was more concerned about when to marry a daughter-in-law and what kind of daughter-in-law she would marry.

"Didn't I tell you before, prepare for the PhD exam this year, and continue to study with Teacher Zhou when you graduate, and find a job if you can't pass the exam, it's hard to graduate with you and retire at home" Wang Zimo didn't have any shape in front of his mother.

"If you want to retire like me in the future, Lu Anqi's parents don't have a serious job, who will be responsible for the pension after retirement" Li Yuemei had no malice and told the more realistic problems in life. The savings of the elderly in rural areas are limited, and it is impossible to collect rent for houses like in cities, and there are not many medical and social security insurances, and there are many elderly people who rely on their children to provide for the elderly.

"If we get married, then I should also support Anqi's parents" Wang Zimo is a kind-hearted child, filial piety, gentleness, and will make the people around him feel warm.

"Mom doesn't mean that, if you start a family, it is necessary to support both parents. But we also have to take into account the practical problems, how difficult it is to find a job in a big city now, your liberal arts major is not more popular than other engineering majors, many places are not necessarily wanted, the civil service examination is crowded with thousands of horses, the private enterprise is unstable, and the foreign company is redundant, how can it be so easy" Li Yuemei spent a large part of her retirement day keeping up with the domestic situation and understanding the various dynamics of the examination and employment.

"Now it's better to prepare for the exam with peace of mind, and Mr. Zhou said that I am still very hopeful. However, there are a lot of brothers and sisters in the queue in front, some of them are teachers from colleges and universities who come back to get degrees and promote their titles, and some company bosses also want to come to gild or something, what is easy to do these days, and it is difficult to do anything without hard work" The prince looked at things clearly, and his self-confidence revealed perseverance.

With the growth of China's higher education level, PhDs are no longer a scarce resource in big cities, and in many major education provinces, there are even as many PhDs as dogs, and there are barbaric metaphors of masters walking all over the streets. The scene where a doctoral supervisor once took a number of PhDs is no longer there. Now the indicators of doctoral supervisors are also expensive, a doctoral supervisor can only bring one doctor, and in special cases, two can be bringed, which is also to ensure that the doctor is not a shoddy system. Ph.D. supervisors will also have a lot of consideration when recruiting students, and the recommendations of the bigwigs in the academic circle should give a little face, leave a line of life, and see each other in the future. If you are related to your family, you should think about it, and you can't let people say that they are ungrateful. Candidates who have the resources to be in a high position should consider it, after all, the doctoral supervisor himself also needs to develop, and the assistance is very important. Although students with good qualifications have nothing, they should also be considered, after all, there are only a few people who are suitable for academic research, and they are also very pleased with the success of training, and this sense of accomplishment cannot be brought by others. Of course, these are the entanglements in the hearts of doctoral supervisors when screening students in the early stage, and labels such as familiar, affinity, talented, wealthy, etc., are attached to each candidate, making it difficult to choose. They're even pretty chicken. If you can't do it, you can't graduate for a long time after admission, and your tutor has no face. In short, the doctoral supervisor must be an older brother and sister who can ride the wind and waves and overcome obstacles. Li Yuemei's worries and Wang Zimo's self-confidence reflect the various problems.

"Mr. Zhou said that I have a good foundation, I have a lot of papers, and the early results are good, and he understands me well and communicates well. But in the end, it's hard to say" Wang Zimo had carefully communicated with Teacher Zhou before returning from school, Teacher Zhou was very honest, straightforward, young and promising, and his career was in a period of rapid growth.

"Then you still have to prepare well, Anqi said that you plan to get married after graduation? There are many things that need to be prepared for marriage, and you can't be too rushed" Li Yuemei encouraged her son to prepare well, and also wanted to take this opportunity to delay the idea of getting married. She feels that after her son graduates, whether it is work or study, the circle of friends will change a lot, and it is difficult to say what it will be in the future and who she will meet. At this moment, it is not wise to rush into choosing to graduate and get married.

"Graduation does not conflict with marriage, Angel plans to find a job with us, she will not go back to her hometown"

"Of course she wants to find a job here, and a job is not something you can find right away if you say you want to find it, how easy is it?" Li Yuemei hopes that her son can recognize the reality.

"Let's talk about it then, isn't it still early" Wang Zimo was already a little impatient with Li Yuemei's interrogation and preaching, and the wild horse could run away at any time.

"When the time comes, is there still room for talk? I see that Angel has planned it, anyway, if you get married, my ability with your father is limited, don't expect us to prepare a garage for you" Li Yuemei began to put financial pressure on her.

"So many people who graduated from the north drifted north, but I didn't see anyone starve to death"

"Cheap couples mourn everything, as the old saying goes, there is a reason to say so, you just look at it" Li Yuemei was also very impatient, and felt that there was not much point in dwelling on this topic, after all, it had not reached that point, and it would be said one day.

The prince walked into his room with a few books in his hand and closed the door. I don't know when it started, but my parents started to become philistines and had difficulty communicating. The content of all family chats is mundane, and there is no joy of watching variety shows on the sofa on weekends as a family of three when I was a child. The home is still the same home, the sofa is still the same sofa, except that the TV has changed from 29 inches to 60 inches, there is not much change.

In the early '90s, televisions were a rarity, and smuggled Nintendo game consoles, Panasonic video recorders, and four-speaker Sony tape recorders were all a topic of conversation. Dad was a fan when he was young, and when he came back from the night shift, he had to watch the European Cup, the World Cup, and the First A. No matter how bad Chinese football is, it can't stop the enthusiasm of the majority of fans, and it is no longer the dream of a generation to rush out of Asia to the world, I don't know if it can be realized in Wang Zimo's generation.

In the 00 Japan and South Korea World Cup, China vs. Brazil, unprecedented has the possibility of going to the world, Wang Zimo was in high school at the time, and the principal decided that the teachers and students of the whole school organized to watch this game in the school to cheer for the Chinese team。。。。。! Taller。。。。。 Although there was no goal in this game, two generations of Chinese fans gathered together at that time, and the feeling of waving the flag and shouting will never be forgotten.

Sitting in his room, Wang Zimo looked back on his life before the age of 18 roughly, and still sighed that the older the person, the less he could talk to his parents, and distance produces beauty is the true meaning of life. Some students do not go home during the summer vacation and work near the school. Wang Zimo also asked them, don't you miss home? Didn't the sponsor ask you to go back quickly? A few classmates also laughed. Now think about the benefits of not going home.