Chapter 18
Under the persuasion of her mother, Dongmei reluctantly returned to her in-law's house the next day. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
When Wei Guo's mother saw that Dongmei was back, she was overjoyed, and she really didn't expect it.
She felt that with Dongmei Niu's temper, she couldn't come back to her parents' house for a week, and she really wouldn't come when the time came, so she could only pull down her face, lower her head, and go to her mother's house to call Dongmei back.
At noon, Dongmei's mother made an exception to make a bowl of noodles, and took out the lard accumulated at home and melted it into the soup, which was the most delicious and delicious meal that Dongmei had eaten after marrying into the Cui family.
She ate three bowls in one bite, and wanted to eat the fourth bowl, for fear that everyone would laugh at her, so she drank a bowl of soup in the fourth bowl.
After eating, while washing the pot, Dongmei heard the sound of the door being opened, and hurriedly poked her head out to take a look, and the postman walked in with a letter in his hand.
She knew that Wei Guo's letter was coming, and this was the letter she was looking forward to the stars and the moon.
She wiped her dirty hands on her apron twice, and then went into her house with the letter in both hands.
The baby sleeps quietly in the center of the kang.
Dongmei sat in front of the window of the kang head, the window was paper-pasted, there were two window fans outside, she opened half of the fan, and the bright sunlight shone in, just shining into her position, which did not affect the baby's sleep at all.
She wet the envelope with a little spittle, and with a light tear, she opened it neatly.
Wei Guo told her in the letter that although he was working in the distant side, but in his spare time, his mind was full of the figure of the baby and Dongmei, he missed the baby too much, whenever he was tired and sleepy from work, he thought about his lovely child, the motivation came, and he would devote himself to work.
Every day after work, he wanted to see his dear baby, so he wanted to kiss his pink face, so he decided to take leave to come back, pick up Dongmei and the baby to Xinjiang, to his workplace.
At this time, the mother-in-law and father-in-law walked into Dongmei's room, and they were eager to know what their son had said in the letter.
Because the old couple are illiterate, every time Wei Guo sends a letter, he relies on Dongmei to convey it.
Dongmei happily told her mother-in-law the good news.
But the mother-in-law almost cried after hearing this, and resolutely disagreed.
Wei Guo's mother is a woman who loves children very much, and in her heart, children are even more important than her own life.
Before Dongmei finished reading the letter, her mother-in-law interrupted Dongmei and said, "The child can't go to Xinjiang, it's too far for me to let go." Again, the child has not yet "erranded" (smallpox), and I am not accustomed to the water and soil over there, I am afraid that in case the child has a three-grown ?????."
After saying that, the mother-in-law actually cried sadly.
Wei Guo's father was very helpless, ignored Wei Guo's mother, and let Dongmei continue to read.
After listening, Wei Guo's father explained to Wei Guo's mother: "You dead old woman, you don't know anything, there are sugar pills and vaccines in the city, and the child will not be "on an errand" after eating it, so you let Dongmei go with the doll." ”
Wei Guo's mother wiped her tears and said, "You are a dead old man, you have no heart and lungs, and you don't want to be a doll at all." ”
After speaking, Wei Guo's mother went out of the house angrily.
In the following days, Dongmei lived a very comfortable life every day, and she would not be sad and cry because of her mother-in-law's inexplicable blame for herself, nor would she be uncomfortable that she had no change to buy candy to eat, because she had hope in her heart, and she knew that Wei Guo would one day come back to pick up herself and her children to Xinjiang.
Think about the happy days in Xinjiang, not only did no one follow her ass and say that she was not right, that was not right, but Weiguo would also give her pocket money, thinking about the dollar that Weiguo gave him, she followed a few good sisters and went to the Uyghur villager's house to buy a lot of raisins to eat, and Dongmei's face was filled with a happy smile.
The baby will soon be almost eight months old, and he will simply say a little bit, he grows very fast, and the eight-month-old child is taller and heavier than the more than one-year-old child next door.
Dongmei often holds the child, sits under the big jujube tree in the middle of the yard, and speaks to the child: "Baby, baby, grow up quickly, mother teaches you to climb the tree, climb the tree to pick jujubes, jujube sweet, jujube jujube big, jujube is nutritious to eat (in that era of scarcity of materials, there is basically no fruit to eat)???????"
The little baby looked at his mother and smiled stupidly, and his mouth would follow his mother in a brabra: "Jujube???? Jujube ????"
Every day, Dongmei would stand at the west entrance of the village with her baby in her arms, looking in the direction of the northwest, and she knew that the day Wei Guo came back from Xinjiang, she would walk back from the northwest direction.
After waiting for a day, in the evening, the sun slowly set, twilight surrounded the surroundings, and Wei Guo did not come back, Dongmei did not leave, and she would not go home until it was completely dark.
On the way home, she will say to the baby: "The baby is good, the baby laughs, the baby knows to wait for the father, the father comes back and loves the baby, takes the baby to the frontier, eats grapes, eats melons, and the baby laughs happily haha??????"
In the mother's arms, the baby learned the mother's voice and said, "Guagua???? Guagua?????"
On the day when the baby was eight months and eight days old, Wei Guo finally returned home with a large bag and a small bag.
He has been away from home for seven months, and the baby has grown a lot taller from the little bit he was born.
Wei Guo hugged his son, looked at the big and round black-eyed Renzi in his eyes and said: "The baby's appearance changes so fast, when I left, it was like that in my memory, but now it has become like this, but it is really more and more like me, you look at this nose, like a garlic head, no nose bridge, how cute, and these eyes, not big or small, how suitable for this face shape." ”
Dongmei, who was standing next to her, said: "You just said that the baby has the eyes of a little mouse, which looks like yours, what is not big or small." ”
When Wei Guo's mother, who walked over from the yard, heard it, she immediately interjected and said: "My grandson's eyes are small, and his eyes are small, so he is powerful and blessed." ”
However, the baby stayed in Wei Guo's arms for less than a minute, and then opened his mouth wide and cried, he didn't know the person in front of him who was his father, a sense of strangeness, which made the baby cry involuntarily.
At the same time, Wei Guo also felt sorry for not being by his mother and son for many years.
One sunny morning, Wei Guo was carrying his luggage, Dongmei was holding the baby, followed by Wei Guo's mother and Wei Guo's father, a family of five, came to the familiar three-way intersection "pot crane" and waited for the car.
The moment they got into the car, Wei Guo's mother cried sadly, she didn't know how long it would take to see her grandson again.
And Dongmei's heart is full of joy, she fantasizes about the colorful prosperity of the outside world, the unrestrained life, and the beautiful days.
In short, everything is in anticipation.
On the train, Dongmei looked at Wei Guo, who was sitting opposite the black and thin, and said distressedly: "What's wrong this time, I'm much thinner than last time." ”
Wei Guo explained: "I moved home and was basked by the sun on the Gobi. ”
Dongmei didn't understand and asked: "Moving, why do you want to move?"
Wei Guodao: "The drilling team drills a well a year, and when the well is finished, it will move, move to a place, and continue to drill wells." We oil workers wear aluminum helmets and walk the world, where there is oil, there is my home. ”
As he spoke, Wei Guo sang excitedly.
Dongmei was satisfied with everything in the life of the drilling team, except for the "housing" nest, and she was full of sadness at the thought of taking her baby to live in a nest with poor air permeability and a small space.
Wei Guo saw Dongmei's tightly knit brows, and asked Dongmei with concern: "What's wrong, are you uncomfortable?"
Dongmei said worriedly: "As soon as I think about living in the nest after the past, I am worried, can I live in the nest?"
Wei Guo smiled and said, "You can live in the nest." ”
Dongmei thought that Weiguo was joking with her, because the unit house was tight, and even the ground nest was in short supply, she just said in her mouth, if you don't live in the nest, where to live.
Wei Guo wanted to dispel Dongmei's doubts, and continued: "The accommodation problem of the family members of the employees of the unit cannot be well solved, and the leaders of the bureau have already considered this problem. ”
Dongmei asked happily: "Then after we go, can we live in a brick house?"
Wei Guo patted his chest and said confidently: "Ordinary drillers have lived, will I, a technician who is a cadre, live?"
After hearing this, Dongmei deliberately suppressed the arrogance of the country and said: "Proud and arrogant, is it great to be a technician?"
After speaking, he said to the baby in his arms: "Baby, look at how good your father is, he is a technician, and when you grow up in the future, you will be like him, and you will be a proud technician." ”
When Wei Guo heard this, he felt very uncomfortable, and said: "After my child, don't do my job, not only tired, but also dangerous, it is difficult to return to a home, there is nothing to teach a son, and there is nothing to support his parents. ”
Wei Guo walked in front with his luggage, Dongmei followed behind with her child, bypassing the towering derrick and wading through a poplar forest, Wei Guo pointed to the row of dilapidated brick houses in the distance and told Dongmei: "Look, that is the house provided by the unit for the families of employees." ”
Dongmei looked around, only to see that the house in the distance was dilapidated, ruined and broken, and the brand-new brick house she imagined in her heart, a big difference, and she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart, thinking when she could live in a brand-new brick house with Weiguo?
Walking into the house, the walls and roof of the house have been smoked black, and the cement floor is also potholed and uneven, but what makes Dongmei happy is that Wei Guo has cleaned up the house in advance, and there are some decent "furniture" in it, two single wire beds are put together to form a large double bed for husband and wife, Wei Guo specially welded the guardrails at both ends of the bed with steel bars, he said that in order to prevent children from jumping around and accidentally falling down.
However, Dongmei looked at it and said in her heart that you have welded two ends, and you have not welded the left and right sides.
Directly in front of the bed, there is a tall wooden cabinet with a bright mirror inlaid on the door.
Dongmei has never seen such a big mirror, standing in front of her, she can shine the entire upper body of a person into it, unlike the palm-sized mirror used in the rural home, which can only reflect the face.
Near the door, there were pots and chopping boards, and the honeycomb coal stove had been replaced by a larger stove that burned large pieces of coal, and the rest of the hot water kettle, dishes and chopsticks were all available.
What made Dongmei happiest was that Wei Guo also prepared a radio for her and put it on the stool next to the cabinet.
Dongmei thought happily, it's good to have a radio, I'm bored, and I can listen to the radio, what a beautiful thing.
But what Dongmei didn't know was that this radio was temporarily brought back by Wei Guo from the well team, and if the well team wanted to organize everyone to listen to the radio program one day, Wei Guo would have to return it in its original form.
A month has passed in a blink of an eye, and the baby is nine months old, but not only is there no mother to worry about, but it is more troublesome, he still sleeps during the day, wakes up at night, and cries all day long, even the neighbors can't stand it.
The neighbor found Dongmei's house and said that your baby has to cry until midnight every night, is he sick, you should take him to the health center of the unit to see.
Dongmei said with a wry smile while making amends, I have seen the doll hugging the health center, but I still don't listen, maybe I was born so naughty and mischievous.
At that time, people were honest, medicine was not developed, if you put it now, go to the maternal and child health hospital to check, it must be that the baby is missing some trace elements in the body, such as zinc, iron and calcium, etc., hang the bottle to make up, the baby will not cry anymore.
The neighbor sympathized with Dongmei and said that your doll is too difficult to bring, and it is really difficult for a woman to bring.
Dongmei said that it was not, she was tired all day and was about to collapse, and the most distressing thing was that the baby recognized people, and could only hold it by herself, and no one could hold it.
The toilet of the well team was built very distinctively, first using an excavator to dig a very large and deep pit in the Gobi, and then erecting a super-large iron house similar to a thatched pit on it, so that a convenient and simple toilet was formed.
Because the baby is too clingy and can't be, Dongmei also took the baby with her when she went to the toilet, the ground was dirty, and she couldn't put it on the ground, so she squatted down, and squeezed the baby on the outside of her left leg against the wall, so that the baby was temporarily fixed in mid-air.
When the convenience is over, pick up the baby.
This is extremely dangerous, if the baby feels that the crowded posture is uncomfortable, three movements and two movements, Dongmei is not careful, the baby will fall into the manure pit, the consequences are unimaginable, five or six meters deep pit, which is full of liquid dirt, I am afraid that a few young men can not be salvaged.