Chapter 256: Adoptive Mother
Unfortunately, many times, women here do not have the right to be the masters of their own households. When Sister Wang successfully gave birth to a healthy baby boy, the Tan family immediately began to arrange for the baby to be sent back. If it weren't for Sister Wang, who was still in confinement, to fight hard and desperately protect her eldest son, she would have been thrown back a long time ago.
After the eldest baby came to Tan's house, she changed her name to Tan Jing. He lost his father when he was a child, his mother ran away with someone, leaving him young and no one wanted to raise him, and he was sent to the Tan family by his grandparents after a long time before his relatives. He was 3 years old at the time and began to remember. Although his life was not rich after arriving at the Tan family, Wang's mother was very good to him and very gentle, and it was difficult for him to have a peaceful time.
But the good times didn't last long, and soon Wang's mother had a child of her own, and when she heard that he was going to be sent back, Tan Jing often secretly hid and cried. But what can be done? He has a younger brother, and now his father and grandparents don't like him in the first place, and his mother has a younger brother, who will keep him? On the day he was sent away, he just silently left behind the Tan family with tears in his eyes, and that pitiful little appearance made everyone feel distressed.
Tan Jing will never forget, when they have already walked to the entrance of the village, there is a mother's anxious call behind her, she ran over with her hair disheveled, hugged herself into her arms, and did not agree with the family to send him away, "When he arrives at our house, he is my son, no one wants to send him away without my consent!"
Mother's embrace is so warm and reassuring, Tan Jing hugged his mother tightly with his little hands, and swore in his heart, "I will be good to my mother for the rest of my life in the future, and I will always honor her!" Listening to his mother and the Tan family's arguments, he was not worried at all, with his mother here, he would never be afraid again.
"The family is already so poor that they can't open the pot, you still have to protect the wild child, who will feed it?" The grandmother of the Tan family was so angry, she was not her own baby, she couldn't get used to it since he came home, and now that she has her own grandson, she naturally has to send it away early, otherwise when the time comes, she can't send it away.
"If you don't raise it, I'll raise it!" Sister Wang said categorically to her parents-in-law. What a good child! He is sensible and intelligent, and he is destined to come to her, not to mention how much his situation has been improved by his arrival, but there is no one at home anymore, and if he is sent back, won't he just throw him away and let him fend for himself? Sister Wang, who is a first-time mother, will never allow such a thing to happen, so she keeps the child so strongly.
Later, she did what she said and did everything about this child by herself. Tan Jing is also sensible, and at a young age, he helped his mother take his younger brother and did the housework he could. Except for the Tan family, there is no one who does not say that he is ignorant. Later, the village school opened, and Sister Wang dug the lotus root in the lotus pond in the winter, picked it up in the city, sold it to him, paid his tuition, and made him a primary school student.
This kind of life experience, the teachers in the school know it, and they usually take care of it. There is lunch in the school - this is still set by Yang Xiaobei, and the Huang family's funds are provided free of charge, and other primary schools do not have this treatment. Every time Tan Jing eats, he orders soup for dinner, but he is reluctant to eat the dishes, saying that he wants to "take them back to my mother to eat." ”
The Tan family is indeed poor, and in the early years, the adoptive father of the Tan family had schistosomiasis, leaving a serious liver disease, and basically lost his ability to work, which is also the reason why his mother was infertile for a long time. At home, for the adoptive father's illness and my mother's home remedies, I don't know how many famines have been pulled. This is also the reason why the Tan family must send him away. Later, his mother insisted on keeping him and sending him to school, and the family was even more difficult.
In order to save money, meat stars are often not seen at the dinner table for most of the year. In addition to working in the fields, my mother had to take care of her husband when she came home from school, and when he came home from school, his mother would go out to do odd jobs and find ways to earn some money for the family's expenses. My adoptive father never ate any meat except fish because of liver disease, so all the meals at home were vegetarian.
In fact, this is very unreasonable, but the adoptive father didn't know where he heard the home remedies, saying that eating a vegetarian diet is good for liver disease, so he asked the family to ban meat. But he also loves to eat fish, so fish has become the only meat dish that can be eaten in the family. My mother did the most tiring work every day, but her nutrition couldn't keep up, and she looked old and haggard at a young age.
Even if it is the free food provided in the primary school, at least one meat and one vegetable per day is guaranteed at the request of Yang Xiaobei, which is also a large expense - you must know that it is not so easy for ordinary people to eat a meal of meat now, and everyone is used to opening meat on holidays and when guests come. Since going to school, Tan Jing, who has a yellow face and thin muscles, has improved his complexion, and he is not as thin as before.
He felt sorry for his mother, so he kept the food every day and went home to secretly give it to his mother and younger brother. Although he was bumped into by his adoptive father a few times, it was not burned at home, and he couldn't forbid others not to eat meat, and he didn't say anything. However, all this changed because of an illness, this time there was an outbreak of mumps at school, and he was unfortunately hit by the weak body.
My mother had no money in her hand, and she owed her tuition fees every year, so she slowly saved money from odd jobs to pay it. Seeing that his son was seriously ill with a high fever, he had to ask his parents-in-law to borrow money, which led to a family war, "I said a long time ago that I would send this wild boy away! I can't cure my own illness, and I can take care of other people's babies!"
"At the beginning, my daughter-in-law said, she will raise this baby, you see! This is meat, and there is money for school, and there is no money for medical treatment? I am not thinking of how to get our money, what am I saving this money for? It is not for my son's life-saving money for medical treatment! What a ruthless girl, she doesn't even care about her own man, and she only has that wild child in her eyes......" The grandmother of the Tan family refuses to give up, she never intends to let this baby stay at home, even if it is just a mouthful of food!
Sister Wang was exhausted and speechless. My husband pretended to be dead and didn't come forward, but in fact, where did he have any serious illness? It was just schistosomiasis liver damage, and the doctors said that there was no major problem, and the treatment could not be cured, but there was no danger to life at all. Since he got sick, he has naturally not gone to the field and done heavy work, and has been idle all day playing cards for fun. The burden of the family is all on her own woman, but now she can't even come up with the money for the child's treatment!
In the end, Tan Jing came out to speak with swollen cheeks, "Grandma, I don't go to school anymore, so I work at home, help take my younger brother, and go out to earn money for my father's treatment when I grow up, okay?" He was not afraid of pain, but he couldn't bear to see his mother's sad appearance, and took the initiative to drop out of school.
Even the child herself said that she would not study, and the old woman had no reason to quarrel anymore, so she patted her ass and went in, and she didn't hear about the money. The neighbor's uncle saw that he was pitiful and borrowed a few dollars for him to see a doctor. So after he got better, he didn't propose to go to school, no matter how much his mother asked, 8-year-old Tan Jing gritted his teeth and didn't agree - he didn't want to see his mother being blamed by the family for himself, no matter how good his grades were, even if he wanted to go to school again, he wouldn't go.