The Drifter (115) - The troubles of the parents
Since the old couple of the Yu family moved to a new house, they have been happy for less than a month, and they have become more and more unhappy.
First of all, it is far away from the original storefront, and it costs money and effort to take the car back and forth every day. The joy and happiness of living in a new house at the beginning is more and more offset by the back and forth.
At first, how happy I was! I lived in a new house, married a daughter-in-law, and had a well-behaved grandson. All the good things are crowded into a heap! Who doesn't say that the Yu family jumped from a chaff bucket to a rice bucket in Peach Blossom Town? The kitchen burns natural gas, and no longer has to endure the dust and carbon scum of coal. Use a water heater for bathing, and no longer need to boil water to take a bath or go to the Hongsheng factory to see other people's faces.
The new house is all good, new and brand-new, and as soon as the lights are turned on, it is simply brilliantly lit. The furniture is also new, the beds are also new, and it is hard to believe it when you sleep in the bed. There's no more noise of the big trucks rumbling along the road. No more dust flying down on top. There is no more unbearable summer heat because every room is air-conditioned.
However, there is no more than a long way to go. When I came back every day, I didn't know anyone around. The old couple found it too boring!
The Tiannan Haibei in the commissary downstairs bragged about the eighteen generations of the ancestors.
Every time I go again, I don't know where to start.
It turns out how good it is to be in Peach Blossom Town! Every day, how many acquaintances and friends can joke and chat at will.
Every evening, Yu Hongsheng set up a small table and put a stack of side dishes, or peanuts, or dried tofu, or braised pork head meat. Or a bowl of bean curd that has not been sold, pour a glass of wine, and start your own happy little life. When you meet people who have eaten and come out to hang out, feel free to chat a few words. In the summer, the largest number of people come out for a walk, and many people are naked. Yu Hongsheng is often shirtless or in a white coat, and he has to turn it up from the bottom to the top, revealing the middle section of Bai Shengsheng's waist and belly.
After eating and drinking, I also have to lie on the chair, smoking a cigarette in one hand and holding a fan in the other hand and shaking it slowly, as if time has slowed down in this slow shaking of the fan opening and closing. Yu's mother moved a small bench and sat next to her. Without saying anything, the tiredness and hard work of the day quietly dissipated in such silence.
The two brothers, Yu Yuanming and Yu Zhiming, grew up and began to have their own schedule. In the summer, I have to take a dip in the river behind the house in the morning and evening, and the weather is too hot. Not to mention the pu fan, even the ceiling fan that doesn't listen to the rotation doesn't work. The wind is still strong, but it's all hot wind, blowing hot on the skin!
The two brothers were white-skinned, and they were not afraid of the sun. It's tanned in the summer. When the temperature drops in autumn, I start to wear long clothes and long sleeves, and it seems that they are gone. When the spring of the second year comes, when the spring breeze blows in March, and a single coat dominates the world, lift up the hem of the clothes and roll up the sleeves, and you will find that the white skin is back.
The old couple of the Yu family are really not used to this kind of urban life without neighbors, no village party, no colleagues to chat with, and visit the door. I wanted to go back to live several times, but I was persuaded by Yu Yuanming.
The old couple just talked about it, and they couldn't go back.
The surrounding group is full of acquaintances, once you go back to live, it is inevitable that others will ask: The city is fine, why did you come back?
Is the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law not good? Or is there some conflict?
No matter how you explain it, there are people who will orient you according to their own understanding.
From ancient times to the present, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has been a difficult problem for the ages! Either the mother-in-law is in charge, and the little daughter-in-law bows down to obey orders. Either the daughter-in-law is domineering and strong, and as soon as she enters the house, she sets rules and grabs the class to seize power;
This is the biggest logic of the Chinese, either you kneel, I stand. Either you stand and I kneel.
It's too hard to see each other as equals and in harmony.
Chinese are not like Americans, who separate families when they become adults, and many families are like this. The family's right to speak will inevitably have the alternation or continuation of new and old forces.
The most difficult thing for the old couple to accept is waste!
Waste of water, waste of electricity, waste of gas, waste of money!
It turned out that in Peach Blossom Town, the electricity was pulled in the factory. Paying on a monthly basis is parity. The water is connected to the factory, and it is also received on a monthly basis, and the price is also cheap. As for fuel, burning coal, doing business, and selling other people's food and drink at the same time as my own family is also solved by the way.
It's different now, everything is good, but it costs money. What's even more unacceptable is to pay property management fees, and Yu Yuanming hired a part-time worker to clean once a week, which also costs money.
These expenses, in the eyes of the old couple, are all waste.
There was also a conflict between the young and the old for the sake of saving.
Qin Shasha saw that half a bucket of water was inhaled, and the faucet on it was very small, and the water was dripping into the bucket drop by drop.
Needless to say, this is the masterpiece of Yu's mother Yang Fengxiang. Because then the meter doesn't turn, so you don't have to spend money.
Qin Shasha felt that this was stealing water! It was not good to tell Yu's mother, so she asked Yu Yuanming to say after complaining.
When his mother came back at night, Yu Yuanming told his mother not to steal water like this in the future.
Yu's mother feels wronged, where is this stealing?
Everybody does it! It's not our family!
Besides, even if it's stealing, it's not me who uses it, everyone is using it!
This is also for the good of this family!
The mother and son broke up unhappily.
Yu's father also felt aggrieved.
It turns out that in his own territory, everything is up to him.
Clothes are also casual, and now the old woman has repeatedly told: If you have a daughter-in-law, don't be bare-chested. Don't wear clothes that show a bit, either. Also, don't smoke indoors, and don't spit anywhere.
It is inconvenient in all aspects.
There was no chat with the neighbors, and no one shouted at Master Yu or Mrs. Yu.
Standing on the balcony to smoke and looking at the mountains in the distance, Yu Hongsheng had all kinds of tastes in his heart, turning into wisps of smoke and drifting away with the wind.
The new environment is not adaptable, the old environment can't go back, and the hearts of the old couple are also a hundred times and thousands of times, and under the seemingly smiling appearance, they are actually dense and uncomfortable.
What makes them even more uncomfortable is another major reason.
That's the relatives upstairs.
Not long after Yu Yuanming and Qin Shasha met, the Qin family knew that Yu Yuanming had a house, and when they inquired, they actually had a house in the same community as the Qin family's brother's house, and it was a unit. It's just one on the fifth floor and one on the second floor.
Although it has not yet been renovated, if the two of them become independent and close to each other, the Qin family is still very happy.
There is even a sense of destiny in my heart.
And the Qin family's parents don't live far away, so it's very convenient to walk around and visit the door.
What parent doesn't want their daughter to live happily within their horizons?