Chapter 3: Mother-in-law's Words
At sunset, Aunt Guo sent the two children back, and seeing that the two children did not cry or make trouble, she thought that she was full of food.
"I used a thermos to fill you with a little rice soup, and you feed the children when they are hungry at night" Saying that, Aunt Guo put down a thermos, I knew that this must have been prepared for her little grandson, and now she has brought it to us again.
"I know, Aunt Guo," I said.
"Well, I'll go back when it's dark, and I'll bring you food tomorrow morning. Saying that, Aunt Guo was leaving.
"Wait a minute, Aunt Guo, I still have some cornmeal and millet in the grain jar, you can take it and use it to cook for me tomorrow morning."
"No, I still have food at home," Aunt Guo.
"Just take it, no one has enough food now, and your family is a big family," I said.
"Where...... Okay", Aunt Guo agreed, and when she left, she took a bowl of cornmeal and millet seeds for a night.
"Little doll, grandson, granddaughter" The mother-in-law watched the child tinker quietly, since she told her that it was her grandchild, she seemed to like the two children very much, sometimes I felt that the mother-in-law was not so stupid, but sometimes she said something without a beginning or an end.
Looking at the darkening sky, I said to my mother-in-law, "Mother, let's sleep."
"Sleep, don't sleep, I'm going to look at the baby" mother-in-law.
"It's dark and no one is coming to steal the baby, mother, you can sleep at ease, tomorrow during the day is watching" I said.
"It's dark, no one steals, no one steals, sleep, and watch tomorrow. Seeing her mother-in-law tinkering in her mouth, she went on the kang and took off the futon and spread it on the kang, took off her clothes and lay down in it, and fell asleep after a while.
At that time, every family went to bed when it was dark, and was reluctant to light a kerosene lamp, now it is July, there are still more than two months before the grain comes down, and the remaining food at home can be eaten for two months, plus some wild vegetables should be enough until autumn, thinking about sleepiness, thinking about the future, I will think about it later, close my eyes and fall asleep.
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The dazzling sunlight shone on his face through the window lattice, rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was already bright outside, and it looked like it was five or six o'clock, looking at the dazzling sunshine, it seemed that today was a sunny day!
Look at the two little babies who are sleeping next to them, although they don't look like little old men now, but I know that they will look very cute in the future, and the two of them woke up twice last night and drank a small half pot of rice soup.
Look at the other side, the mother-in-law has already gotten up and is sitting outside under the tree looking at her baby!
"Bang dang" opened the door, you don't need to look to know that it is Aunt Guo who came to deliver us again, today's meal is still the same as yesterday, a bowl of millet porridge, three eggs.
Looking at the eggs, I know it's useless to say anything, I will keep these in my heart, Aunt Guo took advantage of our dinner and quickly washed all the "mesons" that the child peed last night and put them outside. (Muzi is a soft cloth that is placed under a child's buttocks, and was previously cut from old adult clothes.) )
After we finished eating, Aunt Guo took the child over to breastfeed her third daughter-in-law, because I had no milk, Aunt Guo said that I should let the child stay there during the day.
Aunt Guo's son has three sons, the three sons are married to daughters-in-law, the old family has a son and a daughter, the second family has a son, the third family just gave birth to a son, Uncle Guo is a carpenter, his three sons, I don't know if I learned carpentry and learned bricklayering, without anyone else, the four of them can build you a house, because they have crafts, their family's life is still okay, Aunt Guo said that his family is the boss, When I was young, I had a serious illness, and if it weren't for my father-in-law's help and money, the child would have been thrown away, so he has been taking care of our family since then.
My mother-in-law, who had been sitting outside for half the morning, came into the house, looked at the kang as if she was looking for something, then looked at me and said, "Little doll, grandson, granddaughter, no."
I listened to her and said, "Aunt Guo took her away for dinner."
"If you have food at home, you can eat at home," said her mother-in-law.
"Our family's food can only be eaten by adults, the little doll wants to drink milk, I don't have milk now, and when I have money to eat something good in the future, I will have milk, and the little doll can eat at home." After telling my mother-in-law several times, she nodded as if she didn't understand. "Rich, well-fed, milky, grandchildren at home. "The mother-in-law is talking about what she understands, and you can't say that she understands it wrong, don't you think he understands it right?
"Rich, baby, baby, rich, daughter-in-law, our family is rich, baby, rich," the mother-in-law said, pointing to the tree outside, and then to the inside of the cabinet in the house.
"Okay, okay, I know that our family has money and treasures" I spoke, comforting my mother-in-law, this old lady is also really interesting, she used to only say that there are treasures at home she wants to watch, but now she even points out the place hehehe.
Mother-in-law talked to me for a while, and then went outside to sit under the tree and look at her baby, it is strange to say, since my mother-in-law was sick, she has forgotten a lot of things, many people she doesn't remember very much, only recognize the home that often appears around her, and only remember to look at his baby, the last life until her death, the old lady has never left this house, when she can move, she sits in the yard every day and looks at her baby, and when she can't move, she dies a few days later, and the baby baby listens to her for a lifetime.