Mother's Lover (short story) Zhang Baotong 2016.6.25

My mother hurried back from my second aunt's house, and when she saw me, she asked, "Where is the book in my drawer?"

Instead of answering her question, I asked her, "Do you have an unusual relationship with that man, a lover?"

Mom's face flushed, and her mouth moved, but she didn't speak.

I asked her in a stern tone, "Are you worthy of my dad by doing this?"

When my mom heard me talk about my dad, she started crying. Looking at my mother's pitiful appearance, I swallowed the following words. After all, she is my mother, and I don't want her to be pitiful and sad. So, I bought her a bowl of noodle soup, put it on the table, and went to work.

After work in the afternoon, as soon as I got home, my daughter-in-law said that my second aunt was here and asked me to meet her. I went to my mother's house, and I saw that my second aunt and my husband were at my mother's house. The second aunt is persuading my mother. My mom was still sobbing and her eyes were swollen from crying.

When my second aunt saw me and asked me to sit across from me, she asked, "What did your mother do to be sorry for your father?"

As soon as I heard this, I felt very uncomfortable, because I only said it to my mother, and I couldn't let anyone else know. However, my mother told my second aunt this, and now my second aunt asked me this, how should I answer? I thought about it and said, "You should ask my mother this." "Because I can't say it.

The second aunt said, "Your mother has been behaving well for decades, and who doesn't say that she is good? If she had been a little unruly, she would have stayed in Xinjiang a long time ago and would not have come back." ”

I said, "She's good, but she's also bad." For example, her relationship with that person is not good. ”

The second aunt said, "She is good with that person, and she is also well-behaved, and she didn't say anything nonsense with others." Don't talk about your mother, I also got along with that man, but your uncle-in-law is in front of him every day, did he say a word about not beating food?"

I said, "You're not the same as my mom. You and that person are together in the blue sky and the sun, and the sun is bright, but my mother is with that person, and no one knows. ”

The second aunt asked, "Then you mean that when your mother is with that person, she will beat gongs and drums so that everyone can know about it?"

The words of the second aunt really made me unable to answer. I said, "My mom and that guy are really in love." If my dad finds out about this, then it's worth it?"

The second aunt said, "Speaking of your father, my stomach is full of fire, and I wanted to kneel in front of your mother when I chased after your mother, but before he reached the age of fifty, he hurriedly left, leaving your mother alone." When he was alive, your mother went out to work to earn money as an adult, but when did he really care about and love your mother? What right does he have to be dissatisfied with your mother?"

I said, "Then you're wrong, my dad loves my mom very much." Every time my mom went out, he didn't want my mom to leave. ”

The second aunt said, "That's not to let your mother serve him for a few more days." ”

I shook my head, sighed, and said, "If you think like that, I can't help it." Then, I said, "My dad beat my mom, but he also loves my mom too much, and he's afraid that my mom will be nice to someone else." ”

When the second aunt heard this, she became even more angry, and her voice became louder, saying, "Do you think your father loves your mother? He thinks that your mother's face can only be touched by him, and no one else can touch it. If you touch it, you will violate him and make him lose face. If he loves your mother, can he beat your mother to death?, and her legs are left with problems?" ”

As soon as I saw that my second aunt had this attitude, I felt that it would be boring to continue talking, and maybe I would get angry and quarrel. I was very angry that my mother called my second aunt over, but with my second aunt and my brother-in-law in front of me, I was so angry that I could only hold it in my heart and wait for them to leave. So, I said I was in a bit of a hurry and went out.

I wandered the streets of the township for a while and then went home. When I heard my daughter-in-law say that the second aunt had left, I came to my mother's house again and wanted to have a good chat with her. After thinking about it for a long time, I feel that some things have been thought about as well. My mother does not have a place to be sorry for my father, as soon as my mother married into the Liu family, she began to have children for the Liu family, and did not wait for the children to grow up, so as to give me and my younger brother the sake of marrying a daughter-in-law in the future, now the family has built two buildings, I am also married and have children, and my younger brother is also working in Shanghai, my mother should be happy, but my father is not there, such a big house allows her to live alone, it is very lonely. If it weren't for the fear of letting the people in the village gossip, I really wanted to drive over and pick up the man and let him live with my mother. However, the countryside is not like the city, and what I am most afraid of is that people are terrible, and they will drown people by spitting stars!

So, I want to persuade my mother to make her feel that I really want her to live a happy life. When I got to my mom's house, it was already dark. At this time, I heard someone singing the Scottish folk song "The Good Old Times":

"We used to walk on the hills, and the wild chrysanthemums were very fragrant, but when we parted ways to wander, there was no longer a good time. ”

As soon as I heard this song, I was stunned, and a kind of association of good times suddenly came to my mind, and then I felt a stream of tears welling up in my eyes. The singing is not beautiful, but it is very low and passionate, like a passion rushing from longing. I could hear it was my mother's voice. But how could my mother sing this song? I think the man must have taught her. He taught this song to his mother, and also used this song to awaken the fiery passion in his mother's heart. No wonder his mother can't live without him and loves him with all her heart.

When I entered the house, I saw that my mother had not eaten dinner and her eyes were red and swollen. I just think that my mother has changed, and the older she gets, the more she is like a child, both willful and ignorant. I bought a bowl of noodle soup for my mother from the street and let her eat. But my mother didn't want to eat, so she put the meal aside, and then said to me in the tone of telling the future, "Juncheng, my mother has endured hardships and loves to be tired all her life, just to wait for you to build a house and marry your daughter-in-law, so that you can be idle and enjoy the blessings." Now that the houses have been built, you have married and started a family, and your brother has a partner, so Mom wants to live for herself for a few years. ”

I said, "That's what we want." We know you've worked hard for us all your life, that's why we don't want you to go out to work. ”

My mom said, "Mom is honest with you, Mom can't live without that man." That person is the person my mother loves the most in her life, and since she was with that person, my mother knew that my mother had never really loved anyone else in her life, nor had she been truly loved by others. That man made my mother understand that it's good to be a woman. ”

I said, "Mom, I've read all that book, and I know that guy is very good and pitiful, but he can't get a divorce, he can't get a divorce, he can't marry you." ”

My mom said, "I'm not going to marry him." ”

I said, "Women fall in love for the sake of getting married, what are you doing with him if you don't get married?"

My mom said, "I'm not marrying him." I just want to be with him and be content to love each other. ”

I said, "But if you don't get married, it means that you are not legal to be together, and you may break up one day." I don't want you to be like Chunyan, when the two are in love with each other, they are forced to break up because they can't get married, how cruel and painful it must be. ”

My mom said, "He's the sun and I'm the moon." If he loves me, I will revolve around him, and if he doesn't love me anymore, I will leave him. As long as he gives me a good reason, I am satisfied. ”

I said, "Mom, you're so stupid, aren't you? You don't want anything from him, so why should you risk your reputation and feelings?"

My mother said, "I don't want him anything, I just want him to be good to me." I don't think I'm old enough to live with him for a few years. When I am old and no longer need me, I will leave him contentedly and return home to live my life in peace. ”

I don't believe my mother's words, because she can't live without people now, and if one day people really don't need her, it's no wonder that my mother doesn't go crazy. I said, "Mom, you're a moth to a fire, and you're setting yourself on fire." ”

Mom said, "But I do." ”

No way, there are such fools in the world.