Dongmei was so frightened that she was about to cry, she hugged the baby tightly in her arms, and while retreating, she thought, if the baby is snatched away, how can she explain it to Weiguo?

What does the mother-in-law think of herself, how does she see herself?

Without my beloved baby, how can I live?

Just when Dongmei was discouraged and her inner defense was about to collapse, the full moon in the sky showed a smiling face from behind the dark clouds, and a soft moonlight shone on the towering tree. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's just that he sees the bird's nest as a human head, and the few thick branches under the bird's nest as a human form.

Dongmei breathed a sigh of relief and saw that the little baby in her arms was still sleeping sweetly, so she lowered her head and kissed him slightly on the little cheek.

When she came to the doctor's door, it was already more than twelve o'clock in the evening, and Dongmei had a lot of effort to knock on the doctor's door.

The doctor took an eye, draped his clothes on his body haphazardly, and welcomed Dongmei in.

Dongmei was embarrassed and said: "Doctor, I'm really sorry, it's so late to disturb your sleep, but my doll is sick, and I can't afford to delay, so I can't do it if I don't look at it." ”

The quality of doctors in that era was slightly higher than now, and he smiled and said: "It's all from the same village, look at your politeness, the doll is sick, it's a big deal." ”

After speaking, he asked Dongmei to sit down and talk about her condition slowly.

Dongmei recounted it to the doctor, and the doctor said that it was not trivial for the baby to have dysentery and diarrhea, and it must be paid attention to and treated as soon as possible, so he prescribed a bunch of medicines, eating, drinking, and applying externally, etc., and told him to only take one-third of the adult dose when eating.

After wrapping the medicine and the doctor settled the account and opened the money, Dongmei put her hand into her pocket, feeling the empty pocket and the only five cents, and her heart was full of embarrassment.

The doctor took the abacus and called and told Dongmei that there were a total of two yuan and four cents.

Hearing that the medicine cost more than two yuan, Dongmei's face suddenly turned red, she knew that she only had five cents in her body, which was not enough money for the child's medical treatment, she lowered her head, and didn't know how to tell the doctor that she didn't have enough money.

The doctor held the abacus in his hand and waited for a long time, but he didn't see Dongmei's move, and his expression became very embarrassed, just when the atmosphere froze, there was a knock on the door outside the house.

The doctor was surprised for a moment and said, "It's strange today, the people who see the doctor at night are one after another." ”

The doctor got up from his stool and walked out to open the door.

Dongmei heard the knock on the door, and thought to herself that it must be a young mother who came to see the doctor with her little baby, and most people would not come to see the doctor in the middle of the night, so it was okay, she could also borrow a few yuan from her first, and then go to her mother's house tomorrow, and then pay it back after taking the money.

The door opened, and Dongmei was surprised to see the little uncle walking in with sweat on his head.

Dongmei was full of surprise when she saw her brother-in-law, and she just wanted to ask him why he came, but she didn't want her brother-in-law to speak first: "Sister-in-law, my mother is afraid that you won't have enough money, so she gave me five yuan and asked me to bring it over to see the baby." ”

After speaking, the little uncle handed over the five yuan that had been crumpled in his hand to Dongmei.

These five yuan are the most money in my hand since I married into the country.

The five yuan sent by Uncle Yu in time relieved the shy Dongmei in her pocket, and at the same time, a lot of her anger towards her mother-in-law disappeared in an instant, but she still decided to go back to her parents' house.

At the entrance of the village, Dongmei held the sleeping baby and said to the little uncle: "You go back, don't wait for me, I'll go to Yinjia Village." ”

The little uncle yawned sleepily and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be angry, go home, my mother has that temper, a knife mouth and a tofu heart, and the past is over." Let's go back. ”

Dongmei didn't give up: "What kind of knife mouth tofu heart, I think it's a knife mouth knife heart." You go back, I'm gone. ”

The little uncle saw that Dongmei's determination had been determined, and he couldn't stop him from going back, so he said: "You really want to go back, then I'll send you, or this month is dark and windy, there will be a bad guy, and no one will protect you." ”

Dongmei's temper was very big, and the nine cows couldn't pull it back, so she turned around and walked in the direction of her mother's house, and said, "I don't need you to send me, if you go back late, my mother is still worried about your safety." I don't need you to protect me, when I meet bad people, my doll will protect me. ”

After Dongmei finished speaking, she looked at the little baby who was sleeping with her eyes closed and pouting in her arms.

The little uncle stood in place and was in a dilemma, neither sending nor returning.

Dongmei held the child and just walked out less than 100 meters, and suddenly saw the corn stalks in the corn field in front of a person high, Dongmei was startled, she knew that in the rural cornfield, the corn grew tall and dense, if there were bad people hiding in, people walking on the road could not see it.

She gasped, thinking that this would not work, she had to go back immediately, would the little uncle have already gone away, she hurriedly turned around and saw that the little uncle was still standing stupidly in place.

The little uncle saw Dongmei's body turn around, and hurriedly shouted to his sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, let's go back, if I go back alone, my mother will definitely beat me with a broom." ”|

As soon as Dongmei heard that there were steps coming down, she hurriedly replied: "Let's go, go back, as long as your mother doesn't beat you, you can say anything." After speaking, he took the child and followed the little uncle on the way home.

The little uncle was like a child, following Dongmei's side, jumping happily.

Early the next morning, Dongmei didn't eat breakfast, so she packed up the package and walked outside the house with the baby in her arms.

The mother-in-law who came out of the stove room, when she saw that Dongmei was really coming, really wanted to go back to her parents' house with the doll, so her tone softened, took off the apron around her waist, and walked towards Dongmei, while saying, "Dongmei, what are you doing, get up so early." ”|

Dongmei kept a straight face, didn't look at her mother-in-law, and walked straight in the direction of the head door.

The mother-in-law accompanied the smiling face, followed Dongmei, who was walking, and said to her: "I have finished the rice, you go into the stove room, drink a bowl of corn paste, there is sugar in my cabinet, I will take it for you." ”

After speaking, the mother-in-law went to the back room to fetch sugar for Dongmei.

Dongmei stopped, licked her chapped lips with her tongue and said, "You don't need to take it, my mother's family not only has white sugar, but also brown sugar, and even foreign sugar, and I don't suffer this sin in your house." After speaking, Dongmei threw off her arms and strode out.

The mother-in-law took out a canned bottle from the cabinet, the bottle was full of sugar, and she was usually reluctant to eat it, so she took it out and put a little in the porridge only when the guests came.

She chased Dongmei, who had already walked out of the door, and said, "Dongmei, come back, I won't talk about you in the future." ”

Dongmei pretended not to hear, didn't look back, and walked faster than just now.

The mother-in-law wrapped her little feet, and she was short, she looked at the speed of Dongmei's walking, and then looked at the thin Dongmei, swaying her back in the wind, and said in her heart, you think I am really reluctant to you, I am reluctant to see my baby grandson, I can't see him for a few days, I think of panic in my heart, and I feel uncomfortable.

Dongmei, who returned to her parents' house, felt a lot more natural and happy, unlike in her mother-in-law's house, so restrained, so unable to let go, and from time to time she had to look at her stinky face.

In her own home, she felt relaxed, seemed to be holding the child, and felt less tired.

She compared, compared, although her home is not as spacious as Wei Guo, the tile house is not as large as Wei Guo's tile house, and the money is not as much as Wei Guo's money, but her family eats well and wears well, she really can't understand, Wei Guo's mother is reluctant to eat, reluctant to spend, what to do with so much money saved.

In the evening, when it was dark, Dongmei's mother came back from work in the field, and after the mother and daughter had eaten, they sat on Dongmei's original kang and chattered.

Dongmei's mother saw that Dongmei's milk child was tired and thin, so she took the child from Dongmei's arms and let her daughter rest for a while.

Dongmei sighed, took the baby from her mother's hand and said, "You sticky doll, you want to exhaust your mother." ”

As soon as the baby entered the mother's arms, he immediately stopped crying.

Dongmei's mother looked at Dongmei's haggard appearance and said, "What's wrong, are you fighting with your mother-in-law?"

Dongmei held the child in her arms, shook it gently, and said to her mother: "Don't mention my mother-in-law, it's unreasonable, the family law is very big, no matter how big or small, as long as you follow her method, otherwise she will say you and scold you." ”

Dongmei's mother couldn't rest her hands by the light of the kerosene lamp, and while listening to Dongmei's complaints, she started needlework and said: "The contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is difficult to break with Qing officials." However, as a daughter-in-law who has just passed the door, you have to adapt to the set of your mother-in-law's family, and if you marry someone else's family, you are a member of someone else's family. ”

Dongmei originally thought about the contradiction between herself and Wei Guo's mother, and her mother would definitely stand on her side, but she didn't expect her mother to speak for others, she explained to her mother: "Mom, you really don't know, I regard myself as his family, but my mother-in-law doesn't treat me as their own family at all." You know, she didn't give me tomatoes when she bought them, and she never put them in my bowl when she bought sugar??????"

Dongmei's mother's eyes were spent, and when she was doing needlework, there was a reading glasses on the bridge of her nose, she pushed her eyes up, lifted her eyes out of the lenses and said, "That's your mother-in-law's fault, but you, as a daughter-in-law, should be more considerate of her and understand her." However, listening to you say this, I think your mother-in-law is actually okay. ”

Her mother's words shocked Dongmei, and she said puzzled: "This is still called okay, if she is called okay, then there is no mother-in-law in the world who can't." ”

Dongmei's mother gave her daughter an example and said, "You don't know. A few years ago, Zong Kuan in the west of our village, you know, when her daughter-in-law first came, she was cleaned up by her mother-in-law, and the daughter-in-law poured the noodle soup after ordering the noodles, and the mother-in-law thought that the daughter-in-law was wasting food, so she picked up the board in the stove room, and threw it to the daughter-in-law, and beat the daughter-in-law on the spot and broke the blood and fainted. ”

After her mother finished speaking, she looked at Dongmei's reaction and found that Dongmei's mouth grew in surprise.

Dongmei's mother continued to give an example and said: "That's nothing, and the daughter-in-law of your ninth mother-in-law's family, you know, was locked in the house by her mother-in-law and almost starved to death." ”

Dongmei listened carefully, nodded quickly and said, "It's terrifying." ”

Dongmei's mother said slowly: "That mother-in-law is amazing." The daughter-in-law can't be a cow or a horse at home, she must have a long look, and she can do things according to her mother-in-law's thoughts, and if she doesn't go with her mind, her mother-in-law will go up to her daughter-in-law's head and face, and she can't be relieved after beating herself, and she has to call her son to fight together, and once, her mother-in-law took a rolling pin to beat her daughter-in-law's legs lame?????

Dongmei was shocked when she heard this, thinking that she would not live like that.

The mother seemed to be able to hear what she said in her heart, and continued: "But what to do, the dolls are all there, besides, our women's family, divorce is worthless, who wants, if you marry a second time, people's hearts are separated from the belly, who knows if it is not as good as the man in front." ”

Dongmei fell into deep thought.

Dongmei's mother continued: "So, your mother-in-law is already very good just talking about you without doing anything. In addition to the defense of the country, those who have studied and been admitted to school are knowledgeable, understand right and wrong, and be reasonable. Also, their family is also well-off, even if they don't give you tomatoes, sugar, or money, they don't make you hungry, so you have wheat flour to eat. Don't you know, there are some families in our village who are not well-off, and their daughters-in-law can't even eat enough for a day. ”

After Dongmei heard this, she felt that what her mother said was right and reasonable, but she wanted to stay at her mother's house for seventeen or eighteen days before going home, so she asked her mother if she could.

Without hesitation, her mother replied to her, "Forget it, don't stay so long, let's go back tomorrow." ”

Dongmei twisted her head and said with a reluctant look: "I don't want to go back tomorrow." ”