Ten-year-old Zhu Xiaolan didn't want to go home, she stood at the top of the stairs with the new schoolbag her father had just bought for her. The neighbor's mother-in-law sat at the top of the stairs to enjoy the shade, shaking a round old pu fan while saying, "Xiaolan, don't go up yet, your mother will scold people again after a while!"

Wang Guixiang is famous for her pungency in this old factory dormitory, and her voice is so sharp and penetrating that these tattered red brick and cement walls can't resist it. When the neighbors talked about it, they made fun of Zhu Xiaolan's father for being a wife who had no ability to take care of his wife, and at the same time they also had the intention of making fun of him.

Zhu Xiaolan looked at her mother-in-law's lost front teeth, and then looked at her face smiling like a chrysanthemum, this mother-in-law was the most annoying, every time they quarreled at home, this mother-in-law was the most excited to go all the way to gossip about people, Zhu Xiaolan didn't like her. Zhu Xiaolan sat on the stairs with her schoolbag in her arms, and unconsciously painted on the gray wall with one hand, drawing pink and white traces, and her hands were full of cement ash.

Today is Sunday, and according to my father's words, I was going to take Xiaolan out for a day, but my mother was very angry, she scolded, "I know that I want my daughter to be like you in the future?

Zhu Xiaolan looked at her father and then at her mother, her father would not resist her mother, she had to carry her schoolbag and leave. But when she came home from school, she didn't want to go back, because every day at this time the family would quarrel over who would cook dinner. Xiaolan, it's still class on Sunday!" the mother-in-law asked with a smile.

Xiaolan nodded.

"Hey, I saw your mother just now, that face is not good! Xiaolan, you persuade your mother not to quarrel with your father, it's not good to quarrel every day!"

Xiaolan bit her lip and didn't speak. She thought that if she grew up in the future, she would definitely not quarrel, so what was the good thing about quarrelling? Quarrels make people tired and angry. Every time after the quarrel, my mother would cry as usual, and my father would go to the roof to smoke, and she would sit on the sofa and watch TV alone. Wait carefully for your mother to finish crying in the room and yell her to go in and do her homework. She thinks that her mother is so fierce, and the family is not without food, why does she always force her father to go out to work?

"Look at which one in this courtyard is not noisy, but there are really few noisy people like that!" said the mother-in-law while reminiscing, smashing it and smashing her lips. With gusto.

Zhu Xiaolan wants to say, I didn't make any noise, I was better than those children in the family!

She sat for a long time, watching the sun go down, and knew that if she sat down again, her little ass would be beaten to the ground, so she got up and patted the dust and went up. １６… Climbing up to the third floor, she slowed down, her ears pressed to the door, as if there was no sound. She pulled out the key and opened the door. I saw my father standing in the living room, my mother pulling his hair at the side, and her mouth made a whining sound. Zhu Xiaolan stood at the door at a loss, she didn't know whether to open the door and find someone to persuade her to fight, or close the door like her father said.

Dad seemed to be irritated and pulled back casually. A green kettle smashed from his hand onto Wang Guixiang's shoulder.

Zhu Xiaolan's eyes widened, watching the wooden stopper of the kettle fall and the hot boiling water flowing down her mother's neck and arms. Mommy was screaming. Screaming and letting go of his hand. The kettle fell to the ground. "Snap", shatter!

Dad seemed frightened. Standing with her shoulders hunched to the side, she watched her mother's hands swing wildly in the air, her body jumping and rushing into the kitchen.

"Dad...... Dad......" Zhu Xiaolan called out with difficulty.

Zhu Xiaolan didn't remember what her father said, she only knew that her father rushed out of the living room at that time, pushed open the door blocking her, and then rushed downstairs. The sound of his footsteps downstairs was so heavy that it seemed like the building was about to collapse.

Zhu Xiaolan walked to the kitchen, her mother trembled all over, took a towel to catch water under the hose and poured water on her body. She turned her head, her eyes blood-red and tearful, and her snot running down her lips. Zhu Xiaolan saw that the skin on her neck slowly formed strings of blisters, which were so scary.

Later, my uncle came to pull my mother to the hospital to bandage it, saying that he wanted to test his injuries and sue his father, saying that he had an affair and didn't want his wife and beat his wife.

Zhu Xiaolan was very frightened, because her father did not come home at night, her mother did not come back from the hospital, her uncle ignored her, and she was alone at home. The lights at home are only fifteen watts, so dim and scary. She opened the old refrigerator and tried to take out the food to eat, but the light in the living room went dark all of a sudden. Zhu Xiaolan hurriedly went to the place where her mother put the light bulb to find a light bulb to change, but there was no more, so she found another dollar change to go out and buy one.

She bought a light bulb and went home, and a dark shadow stood at the top of the stairs.

"Xiaolan!"

"Daddy!"

"Open the door to Daddy!"

Zhu Xiaolan hurriedly took off the key to the ground around her neck and ran upstairs to open the door, she was very happy, at least her father came home. But Dad didn't look at her at all, just went into the house, rummaged through the cabinets, found a big bag, came out, packed clothes, and was about to leave.

Zhu Xiaolan stood in the living room in a daze, "Dad!"

Dad opened the door and paused, and said, "Xiaolan, you have to listen to your mother in the future! Dad has no ability to support you, your mother is very capable." I can't drag you two down!"

Zhu Xiaolan took the light bulb and ran to the door, ran down the stairs, ran out of the gate of the community, and later saw a young woman there at the corner of the street. She stood for a long time and then walked home with a light bulb.

It's dark at home, and other people's homes are full of TV sounds.

Zhu Xiaolan couldn't see the change of light bulbs, so she had to turn on the TV first. She took advantage of the faint blue light of the TV to move a stool and put it under the light bulb in the center of the room, and then dragged her sandals and stood up. She remembers that her mother would put the good light bulbs in her clothes bag first, then remove the bad light bulbs and replace the good ones.

Zhu Xiaolan stretched out one hand and pinched the black plastic head on the bulb, held the glass bulb with the other hand, and twisted the bulb hard. She threw the bad bulb on the couch and pulled out the good bulb to install it according to the law. Suddenly the light in the room was bright, and the sudden bright light made her eyes uncomfortable, and she reached out to block the light, but the person fell down before she could stand on the stool. The sound of the stool on the concrete floor is really scary, Zhu Xiaolan thought.

Later, when my mother came back, she found that her father's things were missing and beat Zhu Xiaolan, and she never saw her father again. Zhu Xiaolan thought, how good, no one will quarrel with her mother anymore, and her mother will not be angry.

Sixteen years later, Wang Guixiang will immediately go to a small county town after dealing with her daughter's engagement. She is used to this factory dormitory where she has lived for many years, and many people have moved out one after another, and it is said that this place is going to be demolished, so she can live as long as she wants!

There was still a mother-in-law sitting at the top of the stairs, Wang Guixiang smiled, and the mother-in-law opened her squinted eyes and said nervously, "You're back?"

Wang Guixiang nodded, "I'm back!"

She is not her son-in-law, but she knows that this mother-in-law will never come back, so she promised to do a good deed. The mother-in-law was very happy, and pulled her to gossip for a long time, and Wang Guixiang went up with the excuse of cooking.

When I went home and turned on the light, the old lamp "snapped" twice before it came on, and the light was a little cold. Wang Guixiang calculated the time, took out the medical record book from the drawer and looked at it, and the operation was in a few days. She was not scared at all, she had done everything she had to do. She sat at the head of the bed and thought about her life, married at the age of twenty-four, gave birth to Xiaolan at the age of twenty-six, divorced at the age of thirty-seven, and is fifty-four years old this year. She took out an old photo album from the bottom of the drawer, flipped through it a few times, and found a lighter to light it, and the plastic burning smoke choked people's tears.

She didn't want to tell anyone that she was going to have surgery, after all, it was just an operation, and it was not life-threatening.

In the past ten years, she knows that her temper is getting more and more eccentric, her relatives and friends have been offended by herself, and her daughter is not very affectionate, but she has no regrets, although she has worked hard in the last ten years, what she wants to do has been done.

Zhu Xiaolan stood in the sun and watched Lin Shengjie beckon the workers to move tools into the house to decorate, this is her new house has just passed away, and she will start decorating it while she has time. She turned her head to look at Lin Shengjie with a smile, and suddenly felt palpitations in her heart, she stroked her chest with her hand and didn't understand why she suddenly panicked, how many years had she not felt like this?

Lin Shengjie smiled and turned his head to arrange the construction of the workers.

Zhu Xiaolan stood aside and thought, did she ignore something?

At that time, Wang Guixiang signed her own list before being pushed into the operating room, and the doctor accepted the list with some pity and let the nurse start working. Wang Guixiang lay on the bed, looking at the lights in a ring around the roof, feeling the cold anesthetic needles piercing her skin, only a moment her consciousness blurred, she thought what would she choose if time could go back?

When Zhu Xiaolan received a call from her hometown and Lin Shengjie rushed back, Wang Guixiang had already been discharged from the hospital, she bought a very comfortable chair and put it under a tree in the yard, and every day when she had time, she went down to sit there and talk to the aunts in the yard who had not left. When she saw Zhu Xiaolan walk into the courtyard, she stepped forward with a smile and said, "You're back!"

Zhu Xiaolan hugged her thin body and began to cry, Wang Guixiang patted her shoulder while looking at Lin Shengjie behind her, and said with a smile, "What are you crying about, what is there to cry about! I don't tell you because I'm afraid you'll cry me to death when I have surgery!

Zhu Xiaolan stood at the window of the old kitchen, boiling medicine and drying the steam on the glass, and her mother's figure was particularly blurred outside the glass window. She saw that her mother began to gossip with her neighbors for the first time in more than ten years, and couldn't help but wonder if she and her mother would have been happier in life if they hadn't experienced these things!

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