Chapter Eighty-Six: A Night Without Stars
Dinner was eaten at my mother-in-law's. The mother-in-law made www.biquge.info pie, and the three brothers and sisters of the Lu family went. Whenever her mother-in-law makes something like pies, oil cakes or dumplings, she gathers her children and grandchildren to come over and enjoy them. Actually, I didn't want to go. Even if I really didn't go, my mother-in-law wouldn't find out why I didn't go or call me to ask me to go, even if it was just a courtesy, but never. But that's not the main reason why I don't want to go, the main reason is that I don't think it's an unfair division of labor. Every time a family has a meal, my task is to wash the dishes, after everyone eats, I have to wash the rice bowls and pots and pans of more than a dozen people, and the task of the sister-in-law is only to help the cook, I say just, because she also does some small work such as peeling onions and pounding garlic, as for my concubine, she is full-time to watch the children, of course, just to watch her children. In this way, it seems that my work is heavy. Compared to my mother-in-law, who cooks in the kitchen, my work is not heavy, but I always want to compare with my peers, because I am not very great, and sometimes I am very vulgar. Helplessly, I have to go if I don't want to, because for Lu Tao and his son, I am like the clothes on their bodies, I put them on and leave, as if I was completely out of control. The difference is that if I don't go, Lu Tao is not cold, but angry! He can compromise with me in many aspects, except when it comes to his mother, he won't let anyone move an inch. I know this very well, so I am very interested in it, and I dare not mess around with it.
So, after dinner as a family of three, and by the time I had washed all the dishes, it was already past 9 o'clock in the evening when I finally came out of my mother-in-law's house.
Although the beginning of spring has passed, the temperature is still a little cool, and I regret not wearing a down jacket, and I shrunk my neck all the way, and rode my bicycle back in the cold. Yang Yang rides a bicycle himself, a small bike I bought for him a few months ago, and he is now proficient in riding. He rode in front of me and his dad all the time, as if he was intentionally showing us his riding skills. I didn't let him ride to school because the school didn't allow elementary school students to ride to school, and they had to be picked up by their parents. So, on Saturdays and Sundays, he will ride out. He was still at an age when he saw the bicycle as a toy.
Today is a cloudy day, there are no stars in the sky, but there are street lights on the ground, and the road surface can still be seen clearly, if there are puddles or manhole covers, you can see in advance. So Yang Yang rode in front, and Lu Tao and I didn't worry about anything. But soon we found that we were still inexperienced, although we have been raising children for more than ten years, we still have to make mistakes, because I didn't expect Yangyang to stop when he walked to the intersection, but rushed directly across the road, and when Lu Tao and I reacted, a tool cart had already flashed in front of us by the tail of his car!
"Ahh I hadn't gotten up from the ground yet, so I hurried to look over to Yangyang, but from the dust raised by the car, I couldn't see where Yangyang was, and I couldn't tell if he had been hit, I only saw that the passing car didn't slow down and didn't stop.
After all, Lu Tao was a soldier, he behaved calmer than me, he stopped the car when it came, and after the car passed, he kicked it and rushed over. Although I saw the father and son standing on the other side of the road unharmed after the dust cleared, it was still difficult for me to stand up, and I felt that my legs had no strength at all. In the end, Lu Tao came back and helped me and the bicycle up. Yang Yang also returned, he asked me, "Mom, are you okay?", I said to him angrily, "What's okay, Mom is about to be scared to death by you!", and I slapped him in the face.
We didn't rush on the road immediately, but stopped temporarily, because Lu Tao and I needed to dispel our fears, and we also needed to make up for the traffic safety lesson on the spot for Yangyang.
Lu Tao pointed to the intersection and said to Yangyang: "When you arrive at the intersection, you have to stop and see if there are any cars coming on the left and right, how dangerous is it to rush over directly without looking? If you are 0.1 seconds slower just now, you will die!"
"I didn't see a red light, so I didn't stop. Yang Yang felt very aggrieved and said.
"The more dangerous an intersection without a traffic light, the more careful you have to be!" I added. But at the same time, I blame myself, because I usually didn't make it clear to Yangyang, and I let him ride on the road before I gave him a good safety lesson, which is my dereliction of duty!
In this way, danger is everywhere, life can pass away at any time, and I feel that in the process of raising Yangyang, I am worried and frightened every day.
I was so frightened that I didn't dare to ride away, so I ordered my father and son to push my bicycle and walk home with me. Even if he was pushing a bicycle and walking, I didn't let Yang Yang take the lead, I let him walk between me and his father, he was a child, he should be a protected person, just now we were really careless.
After a while, we came to the door of Guo Mei's cake shop. But I didn't want to go in, I just wanted to go home early, so I pretended not to notice and walked straight ahead.
But Yangyang noticed, he stopped and said to me, "Mom, I want to eat meat floss bread." ”
"You've just had enough to eat at your grandmother's house, do you want to eat?" I said.
"Well, I'm going to buy it. Yang Yang said that he had put his bicycle on the side of the road and entered the cake shop.
There was no way, Lu Tao and I also stopped the car and followed.
When we entered the cake shop, we didn't see Guo Mei and her family, but saw a child squatting on the ground, burying his head in his knees, his shoulders and back trembling, as if crying.
"Xingxing, what's wrong with you?" Yang Yang asked, recognizing the child.
The star looked up at us, didn't say a word, and buried his head again.
"Where's your mother?" I asked the stars.
"Where's your father?" Lu Tao also asked Xingxing.
But the stars still don't speak, just cry.
I looked around the room and saw that the door of the operation room was open, so I walked in and found Guo Mei sitting on a chair with a wooden face and not speaking, while his husband was standing aside and smoking a cigarette. When they saw us come in, they were stunned for a moment, and then immediately returned to normal, smiling at us.
"Yo, why are you still out for a stroll so late today?" Guo Mei greeted us first.
"Because Yangyang has to eat your meat floss bread!" I said, subconsciously taking a step forward, but I felt something under my feet, and when I looked down, it was a violin, no, it was a broken violin, needless to say, the string was broken, and a piece was missing from the corner. "Hey, isn't this the violin of the stars, it's broken?" I asked, surprised.
At this time, Guo Mei's smile became unnatural, and she said in a slur manner: "Oh, yes, yes, it can't stand the use, it's broken." ”
Suddenly, the shouts of stars came from the business hall outside the house: "Nonsense! You smashed it, why do you want to deceive people?"
Listening to the shout of the stars, Guo Mei and her family stopped squeaking, and the smile on their faces was gone.
I already understood what was going on here, but I couldn't say anything in front of the children, and I couldn't turn around and leave, so I had to close the door of the operation room and whisper to Mr. and Mrs. Guo Mei: "Are you angry with the child?"
Guo Mei didn't say anything, just pouted at her husband. I looked at her husband, who was angry and said to me, "This kid is getting more and more disagreeable, and he is running to the Internet café!"
"Then you can't break his piano, and you'll have to pay hundreds of dollars to buy another one." I said to the couple.
"What to buy? I won't buy it for him in the future, and I haven't won a prize for years of piano learning. Guo Mei's husband still said angrily.
"Children will inevitably make mistakes, so don't get so angry with your children. I persuaded.
"Can you not make people angry? He hasn't been in the top 10 since he was in junior high school. It was still Guo Mei's husband who spoke. Guo Mei sat there and kept silent, I don't know if she was angry with her children or her husband.
"So what? Our family Yangyang can't even get into the top 100 in the grade now. I regretted saying this again, because Yang Yang was by my side, and it seemed to belittle him by saying this.
Hearing me say this, Guo Mei and the two looked at each other for a while and stopped talking, Lu Tao reacted quickly this time, and whispered to me: "How can you compare Yangyang with Xingxing? Xingxing has always been a good student, and Yangyang and others are not at the same level at all. ”
I think Lu Tao's words didn't care about Yang Yang's face, I peeked at Yang Yang, but found that Yang Yang was holding an iron rod and stirring the cream in a stainless steel bucket, stirring, and secretly picked a little cream with his fingers and stuffed it into his mouth. He may not have paid attention to what we were talking about, or he may not have cared at all.
"I advise you to educate your children in a different way, it is better not to destroy children's things, children's self-esteem is also very heavy, and it cannot be hurt. Speaking of this, I pulled Yangyang and said to Guo Mei and his wife: "It's time for us to go home, and we'll talk again when we have time another day." ”
Guo Mei, who had been silent, saw that we were leaving, and spoke, she said, "Doesn't Yangyang want to eat meat floss bread? ”
A group of us walked out of the operation room and came to the business room. Yang Yang excitedly picked out his meat floss bread, while I looked around the shelves full of colorful cakes and said to Guo Mei, "There are several more varieties? ”
"No way, you can't work hard, it's not like you have a regular job and get paid every month. Guo Mei said.
"Alas, all the money he earned was spent on the stars, but he became more and more discouraged. As soon as Guo Mei said a word, her husband stood behind me and sighed and added.
I glanced at Guo Mei's husband and signaled him not to say such things in front of the child, and then I looked down to find the star squatting on the ground, wanting to see his current reaction and emotions, or enlighten him a few words, but I suddenly found that the star was gone!
"What about the stars?" I asked.
"Hey, this kid, ran away?" After Guo Mei's husband couldn't see his son, he didn't show a trace of panic, but became even more annoyed.
Guo Mei, who was packing a cake for Yangyang, heard that the stars were missing, so she stopped and looked around the room to make sure she couldn't see his son, and suddenly shouted, "Stars!" and rushed out.
The rest of the people also ran out of the cake shop in a panic, and when everyone was chasing the stars in which direction, they suddenly saw the stars standing on the side of the door.
"Scared my mother to death, my mother thought you ran away. Guo Mei grabbed her son and said.
"Run, if only he had that backbone!" this is Guo Mei's husband's voice.
I didn't want to stay here any longer, I knew I couldn't solve their family's affairs for a while, so I said to Guo Mei: "Take the children home and go to sleep, it's not too early, we'll go back, goodbye!" )