Chapter 8: The Babysitter Turmoil
The home in the city is indeed comfortable, warm, heated house, no soot, and there is no need to worry about freezing the child. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter I moved back to live, I saw less of my mother, but more of my mother-in-law, and my mother-in-law came to me every now and then with my sister-in-law's child, she liked to put the two children together, comparing the length, comparing the fat and thin, comparing the size of the eyes, etc. Yang Yang not only grew more and more beautiful, but also grew faster, and when he was four months old, he was longer than his cousin who was fifty days older than him. His little hands had learned to grasp things, but whatever they caught, they were stuffed into his mouth, and he was gnawing to learn about this new world. In addition, my sister-in-law, who was as reluctant to pay attention to me as my mother-in-law, also came to me more, and sometimes, their mother and daughter would stay at noon to eat, of course, they would always fry a large table of delicious food for me and Lu Tao to eat. Gradually, the relationship between my mother-in-law and me became more harmonious, and she often talked and laughed with me, unlike in the past, when she always pulled a face and accused me of not cleaning the house or not cooking for Lu Tao on time. Everyone revolves around the two babies every day, and the unpleasant things in the past are temporarily forgotten, especially Lu Tao and I, who forgot our divorce agreement for a while.
But happiness is always like a dream, and at some point, you will be awakened from a sweet dream and return to the cruel reality. It was my mother who woke me up from my sweet dreams this time. One day, my mother came to see me with a basket of eggs, and my mother-in-law, who was there at the time, did not greet my mother who walked in, but ignored her mother's presence, pushed the door with her granddaughter in her arms and left. After my mother-in-law left, my mother cried and said that she would not come to see me in the future, saying that her mother-in-law obviously did not welcome her to come. After my mother left, I quarreled with Lu Tao that night, and strongly expressed my dissatisfaction with his mother's rudeness to my mother. In the middle of the quarrel, I said coldly: "I'll move out tomorrow!", but Lu Tao still had the attitude of never pleasing me, and directly threw me a sentence: "Okay, you can leave if you want, anyway, you have said this kind of thing countless times." ”
I had to leave because Lu Tao didn't give me the steps at all. Actually, I also had to have a home of my own, so that my mother could come and go freely without having to look at other people's faces! Later, I moved out half a month later, because renting a house and finding a nanny required a process. Although my mother-in-law and Lu Tao had already put down their cold and arrogant posture and persuaded me to stay when I left, I was already tired of their mother and son's cold and hot attitude towards me, I didn't listen to them, and resolutely left the Lu family!
After I moved out, Lu Tao would come to see me and the children during the day, but he would go back at night. We began to live in an official separation and agreed to go through the divorce process when the child celebrated his first birthday.
A month later, I returned to work after half a year of maternity leave. I hired a nanny to take care of the children after work, but the situation was not optimistic, the main reason was that I couldn't find a suitable nanny, and I actually changed three nannies in two or three months!
The nanny I hired at the beginning was an old woman in her 60s from the countryside. I originally thought that the old lady was experienced and patient in taking care of the baby, and would take good care of the child. But later I found out that the aunt fully retained her unhygienic habits in the countryside, for example, after feeding the child, she often did not wash the bottle and reused it, and every time I found it, she took the bottle to the water pipe to rinse it simply, and was too lazy to disinfect it with boiling water. For another example, after the child finishes pulling, he does not wash the child's buttocks, but simply wipes it with toilet paper, and it is too hard, and within a few days, Yangyang's little buttocks are wiped red and inflamed. As for the fact that she goes to bed at night and often does not wash her feet, I will not say more. Until one day, she gave the child a bite of unwashed apple, which caused the child's voice to be dumb and unable to make a sound, and I had to dismiss her. I took the child to the hospital for examination, and the doctor said that the pesticide residue on the fruit may have caused the child's throat to be hoarse, but fortunately, the situation was not serious, and the child returned to normal after half a month.
The second nanny I hired was a twenty-one-year-old girl who was unmarried. Actually, I wanted to hire a sister-in-law in her thirties and forties to take care of the children, but it was too difficult to hire a nanny at this age, so I had no choice but to take this little girl home. After the little girl came to the house, I tried to feed Yang Yang before going to work, because the little girl would not breastfeed the child at all. I also don't let the little girl do the laundry, because I'm worried that she won't be able to wash it. Of course, there is no need for little girls to cook. The little girl's task is to watch the child not fall and touch it. Isn't that okay? Actually, it just doesn't. One day, I took a leave of absence to go home and was going to take my baby to get vaccinated, but as soon as I walked outside the door of my rented house, I heard the sound of the house being turned on and the drums were noisy. Curious, I opened the door and walked inside, and found that dance music was playing on my house's stereo, and the little nanny was dancing to the rhythm in the middle of the living room, looking self-absorbed, unaware that I had returned. I was stunned by the scene in front of me, and I was at a loss for a moment, and stood at the door for a moment before I reacted, and then quickly walked over and turned off the tape recorder. As the music stopped, the little nanny stopped dancing like a robot that had suddenly lost power, and when she turned around to see the reason, she saw me standing in the corner with her glaring at her.
"Where's Yangyang?" I asked the little nanny with my anger suppressed.
"Sleep. The little nanny replied.
"Sleep?" I asked, looking at the babysitter in disbelief.
"Yes. The little nanny seemed very calm, as if there was no problem with her work at all, and she looked like she was ready to be checked.
I felt incredible, could it be that my son was born with miraculous abilities and could fall asleep to rock 'n' roll music? I hurried into the bedroom full of suspicion, and saw that the bed was empty, and there was no Yang Yang at all.
"What about Yangyang?" I was anxious and yelled at the little nanny.
The little nanny was standing outside the bedroom door at first, and when she saw me yelling at her, she leaned in from the bedroom door and looked in, and immediately the empty bed made her nervous, and she searched back and forth in the room with her eyes, while muttering to herself, "What about Yangyang?"
At this time, I couldn't care about getting angry with the little nanny, so I stood in place and rotated three hundred and sixty degrees, and inspected the entire bedroom, but there was still no trace of Yangyang, only Yangyang's small quilts were scattered on the ground. When I subconsciously bent down to pick up the small quilt, I suddenly noticed that my son was sleeping soundly under the small quilt on the floor. I hurriedly picked up Yangyang and put him on the bed, Yangyang didn't wake up from the beginning to the end, turned over and fell asleep again. I examined my son's whole body, and I didn't find any obvious injuries, but I saw that Yangyang's face was dirty, as if he had cried, there were obvious tear stains, and his nose was snotty. I speculated: maybe after Yangyang woke up, he rolled over and rolled under the bed with the small quilt, and then cried, but the little nanny dancing with music in the living room outside didn't hear Yangyang's crying, and then Yangyang was tired of crying, so he fell asleep on the floor by himself.
When people are extremely angry, they don't get angry, because there is nothing to say, because there is no need to say anything. I just took out one hundred and fifty yuan from my bag and handed it to the little nanny, and then quietly said to her, "You go, don't come again tomorrow"
Next, I took three days off with my unit, first took Yangyang to the hospital for a full body check-up, confirmed that he was fine, and then ruthlessly hired a sister-in-law in her forties to show me the child at a price of 200 yuan per month. My salary is only a little more than 300, so the nanny fee takes up more than half of my salary, plus the rent and living expenses, even if Lu Tao is responsible for buying milk powder, my salary is not enough. Every month I have to borrow money from my eldest sister.
At first, I was very satisfied with the sister-in-law I hired, she has more experience in taking care of children than me, and she loves to be clean, since she came, my house has been clean every day, and Yang Yang has gradually gained weight. Yangyang, who has been nine months old, has learned to climb and began to climb up and down like a little tiger, and he can't do without people for a moment. My sister-in-law has never let Yangyang fall into it, and the milk and water are fed very regularly, which is very reassuring to me. After my sister-in-law came, I found that Yangyang's food had increased greatly, and one can of milk powder a week was not enough for him to eat, and then two cans of milk powder a week also bottomed out. I chatted with my colleagues in the unit about Yangyang's food consumption in a boastful tone, and my colleagues couldn't believe it, Sister Xue from the unit said that her sister's child was about the same age as Yangyang, and she ate a can of milk powder a week. But I don't think so, I firmly believe that our little tiger is too strong to eat. Until one day, when my sister-in-law came home, she accidentally dropped the bag on the ground, and a plastic bag fell out of the bag, and some white powder was scattered from the plastic bag, and I didn't have to get close to see clearly, it was milk powder!
"Your milk powder is good, I took some back to my little nephew to taste. My sister-in-law quickly picked up the bag and the plastic bag containing the milk powder from the ground, and smiled at me awkwardly.
"Yes, yes, you can take it back and give it to the child. ”
I really didn't take it seriously at the time, I thought that my sister-in-law's family in the countryside was in difficulty, and she couldn't afford to buy good milk powder, so it was nothing to take Yangyang's milk powder to her little nephew to taste, once or twice a while, as long as it wasn't taken every day. I suddenly became suspicious, every afternoon after work, my sister-in-law went home, should she bring Yangyang's milk powder home every day for her nephew to eat? Thinking of this, I opened the milk powder can, and saw that the milk powder in it was not much less, I opened another can, and there was also half a can of milk powder in it, but I found that the color of the milk powder in the two cans was a little different, as if it was not a kind of milk powder, I washed some separately, and the taste was not very different. Later, when I found out that there was a bag of cheap brand milk powder in my trash can, I solved the case: my sister-in-law not only stole Yangyang's milk powder, but also transferred the cheap milk powder to Yangyang to eat, that is to say, most of the high-quality milk powder that Lu Tao bought for Yangyang went to the stomachs of other people's children.
What should I do? If I quit my sister-in-law, I will go there to find a nanny? If I don't, Lu Tao will soon not be able to afford milk powder. Unexpectedly, when I was in a dilemma, my sister-in-law took the initiative to call and quit her job. I know she's embarrassed to come to my house again.
When Lu Tao came to see us in the evening, I was crying with an empty milk powder can.
"What are you crying about? I'll buy it after I've eaten. Lu Tao thought that I felt sorry for him and couldn't afford milk powder, "I can't afford anything else, my son's milk powder has to be bought even if he smashes the pot and sells iron, you don't have to worry, your son's milk powder money definitely doesn't have to be borne by you." Lu Tao continued.
"Tomorrow I'm going to send Yangyang back to his grandmother's house. I wiped away my tears and said.
"Why?" Lu Tao didn't understand what I meant.
"Sister-in-law is not coming. ”
"Why?"
"I found out that she stole Yangyang's milk powder. ”
"Stealing milk powder?"
"Yes. ”
Lu Tao looked at me for a long time and didn't speak, this kind of thing is obviously something he can't think of, and he can't understand it at once, he needs to digest it well, he and I am still far from knowing the complexity of society and the hardships of life, our life has actually just begun, whether it is from the career aspect or the family aspect, it is like this.