Jiang Ping has been out for a long time and has not returned.

The more Lin Miao and Lin Guorong waited at home, the hungrier they became, and the more hungry they became, the more angry they became.

Half an hour later, Lin Guorong heard the movement of opening the door downstairs, and jumped up with anger, and was about to scold you old lady for being so abrasive, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he held back again.

The long-awaited father and son not only waited for Jiang Ping and lunch, but also waited for a group of neighbors.

Six or seven middle-aged women in their thirties and forties squeezed into the small kitchen of less than 10 square meters downstairs of Lin Miao's house, chattering nonsense. Applying the formula that 1 woman is equal to 500 ducks on the Internet in later generations, in the next few minutes, what Lin Miao and Lin Guorong felt was definitely the surround sound effect brought by thousands of ducks.

"Ah Rong, I heard that your son has skipped a grade and is in the third grade, and he is really as smart as you!

"Ah Miao, you go to your aunt's house at night and play with my Ah Kai, my Ah Kai is also in the second grade this year, you can teach our Ah Kai~"

"Ah Rong, Ah Ping said when did you become the section chief, right?

"Your family's life is really getting better and better, Ah Ping's life is really good, her husband is promising, and her son is smart. It's like the one in our family, who knows how to play cards all day long. You say it's okay to play cards, people play cards every day to win, he goes to play cards is to send money to people every day, this day can't live......"

"What do you eat at noon? Beef, buy so much?"

"Grapes? Now grapes cost 8 yuan a pound! You buy them so expensive? It's not cost-effective at all!"

"This knock fish soup is ready-made, isn't it cheap? I bought it last time I bought it for 15 yuan a bowl. ”

"Roast goose, ouch, good thing, your family's meal has caught up with our family's food expenses for two days......"

Jiang Ping has always been unsympathetic, but she laughed happily while arranging the plate.

Lin Miao squatted on the stairs and watched her mother pretending to be forced, grabbing the handrail, not daring to come down.

If they go on now, they will definitely be rubbed by this group of Obasans in turn, and they must not be given a chance to take advantage.

Fortunately, Lin Guorong has always despised his neighbors, and there is no room for politeness when he speaks, he was annoyed by the noise, and rushed to the people bluntly: "Dinner, dinner, I will send Ah Miao back to school later, if you have anything to say in the evening." ”

Section Chief Lin frowned, and a group of middle-aged women who were begging for a living in the vegetable market hurriedly ran away.

Xicheng Street is in charge of this area, and the urban management department - hehe, everyone understands.

"Noisy death. Lin Guorong closed the door angrily and turned on the fluorescent lamp in the kitchen.

Jiang Ping set up the table and put the cooked food she had just bought on a plate one by one, three dishes and one soup, plus a plate of grapes. Lin Miao estimated that the forty or fifty yuan that my mother took from my father just now should have half a dime left.

It's not a family, it's not a door.

Before Lin Guorong suffered, he was as lavish as Jiang Ping. He didn't even ask how much the meal cost, and he didn't plan to get back a few more yuan of gross tickets from the little money he had just handed over to his wife.

A family of three sat down around the dining table, Lin Guorong used chopsticks to open the lid of the beer bottle, took the empty bowl in front of Jiang Ping, and poured it for her first.

Lin Miao looked down at her empty bowl, and asked her mother, who was not in tune, "Where's the rice?"

"Rice?oh—look at my brain, I forgot to cook......!" Jiang Ping covered her mouth and laughed.

Lin Miao sighed secretly in her heart.

He actually hopes that his mother will always stay in this state, and his life is so chic.

Unlike after the age of 40, Jiang Ping has become a completely different person.

Picking the door, being stingy, and having to worry about half a penny of water and electricity bills - all of them are forced by life, her husband has collapsed, her son has not grown up, and the firewood, rice, oil and salt in the family have been supported by her alone, and she has lasted for more than ten years.

The parishioners she met in the church in the future, how could those people imagine that Jiang Ping, who was 40 years old, would be an "official wife" who spent so much money.

"You duck brain ......" Lin Guorong habitually complained about Jiang Ping, picked up the bowl in front of Lin Miao again, and was about to pour him wine.

Lin Miao hurriedly stopped and shouted, "I don't drink!"

Lin Guorong was stunned, rationality returned to his brain, and put the wine bottle down.

On the first day of elementary school, do you want your son to go to class drunk......?

"Drinking a little bit has a fart relationship. Lin Guorong continued to refuse to admit defeat, but turned his head and asked Lin Miao, "Is it okay to only eat vegetables?"

"Do I have any other choice......" Lin Miao muttered speechlessly.

Lin Guorong was amused by this sentence.

"I have a way. Jiang Ping suddenly picked up Lin Miao's bowl, got up and walked out.

After 2 minutes, she smiled and asked for a small bowl of rice from the neighbor's house next door and put it in front of Lin Miao.

Lin Miao had a small amount of food when he was a child, and he was used to anorexia by his parents, picky eaters, and all kinds of bad things, according to the speed he used to eat, this small half bowl of rice was enough for him to deal with it for at least half an hour.

So that's the root cause of my height injury......

Damn, don't be a dwarf again in this life!

White rice, Lao Tzu will fight with you!

Lin Miao picked up the chopsticks, picked up the bowl, and opened her mouth to take a big mouthful of rice.

Jiang Ping and Lin Guorong couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

This little thing, usually begging him to eat two more bites and still die unhappy, what is the situation today?

Is the power of education so fierce? It's only the first day of school, do you want to surprise your parents so much at once?

The white rice when I was a child was more fragrant and delicious than Lin Miao's memory.

In addition, all the dishes Jiang Ping bought met his appetite, and Lin Miao easily solved this bowl of rice in three or two clicks.

Jiang Ping and Lin Guorong glanced at each other and asked, "Why don't I go next door and ask for a bowl again?"

"Isn't it ugly? How can anyone in the world care about their neighbors asking for food like this? Not a beggar!" Lin Guorong said very dissatisfied, and accused Jiang Ping again, "Speaking of which, you don't have a long brain, and you can even forget to cook, what else can I expect you to do?"

Jiang Ping quit and shouted: "It's also my fault, that's also my fault, or divorce!"

Again......

How many thousand times has my mother said this?

Lin Miao couldn't help but interject: "Don't shout, okay, it will make people laugh." I don't have to eat, I'm full, just eat some more food. ”

Lin Guorong immediately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey and said to Jiang Ping: "I don't quarrel with you, my sons are more sensible than you." ”

"I won't quarrel with you!" Jiang Ping said, "I'll give my son face." ”

Lin Miao was silent and ate her own food.

A bite of beef and a mouthful of soup, when Lin Miao was nine minutes full, Lin Guorong's two bottles of beer also bottomed out.

The dishes on the table were solved, Jiang Ping put the leftovers into one plate, and there was no concept of plastic wrap, and they were stuffed directly into the refrigerator.

Speaking of this refrigerator - yes, it's glorious, the first one within a radius of 100 meters, it should have been bought less than a year ago.

Jiang Ping didn't mean to wash the dishes, after stuffing all the plates and chopsticks into the dishwasher, she first drew water from the water tank and wiped Lin Miao's face, and after wiping her son, she took the same towel and wiped it on Lin Guorong's face.

Lin Guorong has a natural resistance to personal hygiene, and when he washed his face, Jiang Ping said a few words.

The meal was noisy until nearly one o'clock, and when everything stopped, Lin Miao was finally able to sit down and be quiet for a while, and he was almost going to school again.

Lin Guorong has a meeting in the afternoon, puts on his coat, and goes back to the unit.

Before leaving, he instructed Jiang Ping: "You send Ah Miao to school in the afternoon, ask them what time they get out of class, ask me to come and call my office, and I will pick him up from school." ”

"You know, I'm not stupid. Jiang Ping replied unconvinced.

The wooden door downstairs slammed shut.

Lin Miao glanced at the time, and it was only more than 20 minutes before the class time.

But seeing that Jiang Ping was already asleep, he didn't wake up his mother, and was silently stunned.

From the morning to now, he finally had time to sort out his thoughts.

It is now September 1994, and if their family has had a good life, this year is the first year of the "era of good life for the old Lin family".

Two years ago, their family had just paid off a huge debt that was obviously owed by their aunt, but it had affected their family, and his father Lin Guorong had also reached the peak of his life.

In the next three years, although my father did not go further, he could be regarded as an official and prosperous.

first got acquainted with the leaders of a large number of districts, and then transferred to the Municipal Health Office, and followed a deputy mayor to inspect the country for two years.

In Lin Guorong's later words, this period of time is simply overdrawn all the blessings he can enjoy in his life.

Half of the 365 days a year are spent in the field.

Every day Moutai Wuliangye, I can't stop drinking until I pull blood.

There are also all kinds of nominal and secret incomes, as well as all kinds of unclear women......

"Mom, you've been green...... Many, many times......" Lin Miao turned her head to look at her mother and said pitifully.

But Jiang Ping is not unaware of these.

But even if she knew everything, she had never mentioned it for decades.

Even when Lin Guorong fell, when everyone left him, only Jiang Ping still stayed by his side. Give him and pee, dress and feed him.

"So my dad is actually still lucky to marry such a daughter-in-law. It's just that my mother has been cheated by him for most of her life...... Comrade Lin, you are simply a sinkhole......" Lin Miao sighed.

Keep reminiscing.

It was probably in 1998 that my father was conspired to cheat.

The specific process is probably that someone promised to arrange a full-fledged position for the father, but the premise was that the father must first remove the original position. Lin Guorong was already a little crazy about wanting to be promoted at that time, so he was very naïve, and he really listened to the other party's nonsense without any written guarantee, and took the initiative to resign from his job.

And what happened next was a tragedy.

My father's years of establishment were ruined, and he still wanted to hide his face from the family and not say anything. He lasted for more than a year, couldn't find a way to reinstate his official position, and had no source of income, and finally because of the double pressure of the economy and his family, he couldn't resist mentally and went crazy. Then there is his own brother, Lin Miao's uncle, who doesn't know why he shouted about this matter to everyone. Dongou City is a big place, but anyone with a little social status knows about it within a few months.

Since then, Lin Miao and their family have never been able to go back.

After Lin Guorong came to his senses, he worked as a guard for more than ten years. Until he suffered a stroke and was paralyzed, he could not take care of himself.

"So what is the key to solving the problem? Find an opportunity to kill the person who cheated on my dad in advance? Make reasonable use of the "Law on the Protection of Minors" non-sentencing clause for murder under the age of 14?" Lin Miao spat out.

Then he rubbed his brain, and suddenly he heard an exclamation.

"I'm late, late, late, late! I'm going to be late! Ah Miao, why don't you call me? It's going to be class......" Jiang Ping hurriedly got up from the bed, and was about to run downstairs.

But as soon as he walked to the staircase, he suddenly frowned, covered his stomach with anxiety, and said, "Ah Miao, you wait for your mother to first, will you ...... if you put on your own shoes?"

Lin Miao held her face with both hands, feeling that her life was still dark: "I will ......"