Chapter 8 Lost Lifeline No.2
Gao Tengyue and I took our luggage downstairs and put it in the car, he was going to take us to the airport, and Xinxin followed me with her baby bear in her arms.
"Xinxin, let's go!" I put the last piece of cloth on the couch and took her hand. Looking around at this house, this place has been cleaned up, I have lived here for a year, Qi Shaoyao has been here twice, and no one will come again. I will take my daughter back to the place where I grew up and start our lives all over again.
"Mom, Daddy really won't come with us?" Xinxin took my hand and raised her head, blinking her big eyes innocently.
I shook my head, not wanting to tell her anything negative, but saying, "Shall we go back to see Grandma?"
"Okay!" Xinxin nodded, "But doesn't Dad want to see Grandma?"
I smiled, crouched down and stroked her hair, a hint of bitterness in my heart. Qi Shaoyao probably doesn't really want to see my mother, he only met her once, on the day we got married, and then my mother nagged him all day, and when he mentioned my mother, he would only say that this old lady is really annoying, he may not even remember what my mother looks like, right?
Seeing me smiling bitterly, Xin Xin pursed his lips and lowered his head gloomily: "Mom, does Dad don't want us anymore?"
"Who said that?" I patted her on the head, "Daddy is busy...... "How am I going to tell you the truth? You're still so young, you'll understand when you're older."
"But he didn't come to see us off......"
I held her shoulders and looked at her seriously: "Xinxin, if you think about what your father told you yesterday, you will always be his most well-behaved daughter, and he will always be the father who loves you the most." β
"Yes!" Xinxin nodded again, "Then Daddy will be back, right?" Her eyes gleamed with hope, and my voice choked in my throat.
Qi Shaoyao, when you let go of Xinxin's hand, will you remember how much you relied on your father's thick palm and warm chest when you were young? "Dad" is actually a very happy and happy word, and people who don't have a father will never understand. It was you who told me what kind of person "Dad" was, "Dad" was the big bad wolf who woke her up in the morning; when she ate, he would sternly tell her that she was not allowed to be picky eaters, but he would put all the delicious dishes in her bowl; when he came home from school, he taught her to do her homework, and he was a kind teacher; after finishing his homework, he could roll with her regardless of his image; and he would gently tell stories and sing nursery rhymes when he slept at night...... She loves her dad so much, and without you, life is like a blank gap, and if this gap is filled with longing and anticipation, it will be much happier than being filled with hatred, right?
You broke my heart, but I have to be careful to maintain your image in front of my daughter, I can't let your hurt affect her growth, I want her to grow up to be the healthiest and happiest child.
The phone rang, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Is it okay for Mom to answer the phone first?"
"Good. Xin Xin nodded obediently again.
It was my mom who called.
"Baby!" my mom always called me that, and I've been calling me for almost thirty years, and I'm not afraid of people's jokes!
"Mom, what's wrong? We're coming back. "I'm too lazy to correct her title, and I can't anyway!
"Baby, I'm in the vegetable market! What do you think I'm good to buy?" My mother's voice was extremely excited, she didn't seem to be worried at all about her daughter just getting divorced! But also, Qi Shaoyao and I broke up for the first time and went home, she had already scolded him and his ancestors from head to toe from head to toe from the inside out, all the scolding words she knew were used up, and she didn't like Qi Shaoyao at all, because this young man didn't like to listen to her nagging! Her daughter's unhappy marriage with this impolite man, which should have ended long ago, was finally over, and she was happier than anyone else!
"Whatever! There's nothing special you want to eat. "I don't dare to tell my mother that I had a miscarriage, otherwise I don't guarantee that she will lose the vegetable basket in the vegetable field and fly over directly to kill Qi Shaoyao.
"I'm not making it for you!" My mother exclaimed, "I'll make it for my granddaughter! What does my little baby like to eat? I bought fish, shrimp, chicken, duck, and ribs! What else do I want to buy?"
"Enough, she loves shrimp!" I smiled lowly, my mother's sense of logic is so strong, I am a baby, my daughter is a baby!
"Really, I'll buy more!"
"Don't do so much, eat too much and get angry......"
"What's the fire in the winter! I won't tell you, I'll buy shrimp!"
After hanging up the phone, I pinched Xinxin's little face: "Grandma said that she would make shrimp for you to eat!"
"Really?" Xin Xin jumped up, "Oh yes!
Xin Xin was in a good mood, and began to excitedly describe her infinite hope for her shrimp and the grandmother who made her shrimp! After all, it is still a simple child, a plate of shrimp can make her forget her father, and I, when will I forget this man?
I got off the plane and got into a taxi to go home. Along the way, Xin Xin leaned on the window, curiously observing this new and unfamiliar city: "Mom, I counted, the highest house we came all the way is only 21 floors, not as high as G City!"
"Do you like it here?" I asked her with a smile.
"Yes, I like it!" Xin Xin nodded solemnly, showing her love for this new city.
I patted her little head, and the car turned into the factory compound, and suddenly her eyes lit up and she shouted: "Aunt Yuanyuan!"
I followed and looked out the window, and sure enough, it was Yue Yuanyuan. Carrying a sack on his shoulders and dragging a sack in his hand, he is struggling to move forward!
I told the driver to stop and poked my head out of the window: "Yue Yuanyuan-"
Yue Yuanyuan saw me, dragged her two sacks and ran over, without saying a word, she squeezed into the car with the sacks, only to find that there was no one in the car she expected, and her eyebrows twisted: "What about Qi Shaoyao?"
"Daddy is busy!"
"Oh!" Yue Yuanyuan nodded, but glanced at me and asked what was going on.
I shook my head, "It's okay, what are you?" I pouted at the sack Nunu, "It's like fleeing!"
She seemed to understand something, and lowered her head thoughtfully, her lips moved, and she swallowed back what she wanted to say.
At this time, Xin Xin suddenly clapped his hands: "Oh...... Aunt Yuanyuan changed her career to be a porter......"
The innocent words reminded her that it didn't seem like a wise choice to speak ill of her father in front of Xinxin. Her face regained its former glow, revealing a malicious smile: "You dare to laugh at me, huh?" she stretched out her clutches and scratched Xinxin's waist - tickling!
"Ahh......h
Looking at the two smiling faces in front of me, I couldn't help but be a little surprised, Xin Xin was so repulsive to Zhong Tian, but he was able to get along well with Yue Yuanyuan, what is the reason for this? Is Yue Yuanyuan too attractive?
Yue Yuanyuan was still messing with Xinxin, the driver's face was reflected in the rearview mirror, and he shook his head helplessly-
The car stopped in front of the building, and as soon as I got out of the car, I saw a green belt, which used to be a row of firewood houses, and later demolished and rebuilt flower beds, installed a lot of fitness facilities, and along the path was a row of stone benches. My building was built in the early 90s of the last century, it can be said that it was the first building of the factory, with only four floors in total, and the leaders lived at that time. Later, when a new house was built, the leaders moved out, and my mother and Yue Yuanyuan and I were the second batch of people to move in, and we lived there for more than ten years. My family is 403, and before we moved in, there was a sales section chief living here. Yue Yuanyuan's family is 303, and after their family moved in, her father became the head of the sales section.
Xin Xin was very curious about this old building with red bricks exposed, looking left and right, she couldn't imagine how one house could live for so many families, because her house only lived for their family!
The air smelled of the gloomy musty smell of the old house, but it was the most familiar and warm smell. It was 12 noon, and white smoke was rising from the windows of the kitchens of each house, accompanied by the sound of spatulas churning vegetable leaves and oil rolling in the pans.
Yue Yuanyuan stopped at the door of his house on the third floor and took out the key to open the door. I led Xinxin to continue upstairs, stepped up a step, and Xinxin turned around: "Why didn't Aunt Yuanyuan come to my house for dinner?"
Yue Yuanyuan had just pushed the door open, and when he heard her ask, he immediately turned around: "Come! You have good food at home, of course I'll come!" She threw the sack in and was about to leave, and there was an angry roar from the house: "Yue Yuanyuan! You come in for me! Wherever there is a bustle, you have to make up, and I don't see you get a boyfriend back!"
"Mom!" Yue Yuanyuan shouted inward, "Fei'er is back!"
"Boom!" a plush slipper hit her in the head!
"When you come back, you have to eat at home!" Yue Yuanyuan's mother stepped on one slipper and jumped out on the other foot!
"Fei'er is back!" she smiled all over her face, and before she could look me up and down, she saw Xinxin first, "Yo! where did you come from, so cute......" She squatted down and twisted Xinxin's face!
"Mom!" Xin Xin was so frightened by this fat woman with curly hair that she hid behind me!
I pulled her out funny: "Xinxin, call her mother-in-law! She is Aunt Yuanyuan's mother!" Then I looked up and said to Yue Yuanyuan's mother: "Auntie, she is my daughter, Xinxin!"
"Mother-in-law!" Xin Xin has always been obedient.
"Ah...... Your daughter is so old......" She didn't tease her anymore when she knew that Xin Xin recognized her life, but suddenly turned around and took off the only shoe left on her foot to knock Yue Yuanyuan's head!
"I know how to join in the fun! The daughters of other people's children are so old, and you haven't married me yet! I have to wait until what year and month will I have a grandson to hug!"
Yue Yuanyuan rushed into the house with his head in his hands: "If you want to hug your grandson, I will give birth to one for you tomorrow!"
"How dare you!" her mother chased after her with her slippers!
"Dad, help-" Yue Yuanyuan began to look for a backer!
I smiled and shook my head, this is the way Yue Yuanyuan's family gets along, although it is not like a joke, it is the warmest and most touching scene. In fact, my family is similar, although there are only two people, my mother and me, but with my mother's mouth, it is not cold at all!
I dragged Xinxin upstairs, and on the stairs I asked Xinxin to call Grandma. So Xin Xin shouted at the top of his voice: "Grandma ......"
"Hey! I'm comingβ" My mother probably had been squatting in the door and listening, so as soon as she screamed, she ran out!
"Ouch, my little darling!"
I was completely ignored.
"Xinxin likes my grandmother so much!" she leaned on my mother, kissed the left, kissed the right, and was so happy that my mother's wrinkled old face bloomed!
Next up was eating, packing up, and listening to my mom's chatter!
That's how my mom nagged -
She came into my room with a stack of photos while I was sitting on the edge of the bed folding clothes.
"Have you ever wondered what you're going to do in the future?" was a tentative sentence at first.
"I've thought about it," I said, "and I'll go for a job after the New Year." β
"I'm not talking about that!" my mom sighed and sat down, "I mean your life in the future." β
"Isn't looking for a job just for a living?" I pretended to be stupid, "Don't worry, I won't let you support me!"
She knocked me on a chestnut: "I can raise you, I will raise you!" It's just that, you know, after all, you are just a woman, and you have to take care of children......
When she said this, I knew that I couldn't escape, so I put down my clothes and said, "Mom, you are also a woman, didn't you bring me up?"
My mother sighed again and began to say bitterly: "It's because of your mother and I who came over, I know that it's not easy for a woman to take care of children, I don't want you to suffer hardship......" Speaking of emotion, she also left two lines of old tears, she rubbed it with the back of her hand, and her fingers ran along my hair: "Do you understand what I mean?"
It's no longer possible, I can't stand her tear offensive the most. "So what do you say?"
As soon as she heard that my tone softened, she immediately became energetic, and the tears and hazy eyes just now were pretended!
She spread out the photos in front of me one by one, "This is what I have collected over the past few years...... Uh, the right person ......" she pointed to one of them: "He, a doctor, has a good career, but he is a little older, 42 years old, his wife has been dead for almost ten years, and he has a son alone, and now his son is also older, and he is in college, so he can save snacks and ......"
"I don't like it, it's too old!" I dismissed him and continued to fold my clothes.
"That's this, this young one, only 31 ......"
"I don't like it, it's too ugly!"
"And this, 35, civil servant, and he was never married......"
"If you don't get married at such an old age, there must be a hidden disease!"
My mom continued to ramble on her, and I continued to fold my clothes, anyway, she said one, I have a lot of reasons not to like it, and I'll count these photos soon, I'm not in a hurry, to deal with this kind of old lady, I have to be patient with her, so that she won't think I'm rude.
And a certain man doesn't understand, he has been self-respecting all his life, and everyone around him obeys him and lets him send him, and suddenly a person appears in front of him and tells him that you want to do this, you want to do that, and he can't adapt to it, so it will be attributed to the fact that there is no big or small, lawlessness, and no respect for the elderly.
When my mother was nagging, Yue Yuanyuan downstairs was about to come up to me, and when he walked to the door, the phone rang at home.
"Yue Yuanyuan answers the phone!" her mother called from the room. Why is her mother's tone so fierce every time she calls her? Can't she learn to learn from Aunt Gao downstairs and use some softer words, such as heart and liver, baby and so on?
Sighing, she resigned herself to picking up the phone.
"Hey, is Yue Yuanyuan?" a familiar voice came from the phone!
Yue Yuanyuan actually recognized that voice a long time ago, but he still hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Are you ...... Qi, Shao, Yao!?"