At noon on Chinese New Year's Eve, Yang Xiaotong flew from Guangzhou to S City alone. After walking out of the airport, she got into a taxi parked on the side of the road waiting for passengers. As soon as she sat down, he took out a piece of paper with an address written on it and showed it to the taxi driver, who asked him to drop her there. It turned out that she was going to her son's house for the New Year.

Her face was thin and pale, the corners of her eyes were covered with deep wrinkles, like furrows of a plow, her head had short shawl hair, half of her black hair was mixed with silver threads, and she was wearing a black down jacket, she looked so lonely and melancholy; She was carrying a bag of high-grade children's nutritional food, and from time to time she glanced at the food in her hand, and a smile of expectation appeared on her face.

This woman, who looked so delicate twenty years ago, has now aged irreversibly, and she looks much older than her actual age.

She got out of the taxi and walked towards a villa area. The sky was overcast, and the cold wind was running rampant in the air, constantly invading her thin body, and she couldn't help but shiver, and secretly sighed that her body was getting worse and worse. But this is not what she is most worried about, what she is most worried about is not knowing whether her son will resent her and refuse to recognize her as a mother after seeing her. She searched for a long time, came to the door of her son's house, looked at the magnificent villa in front of her, she hesitated for a moment, but still mustered up the courage to press the doorbell.

Soon, someone inside opened the security door, and a young figure immediately appeared in the doorway, this person was Lin Ruoxi. I saw that she was wearing a bright red down jacket and a floral apron tied to her chest, obviously busy with housework just now, and the joy of the festival was presented to her.

As soon as Lin Ruoxi saw Yang Xiaotong, she asked, "May I ask if you are Lu Xiaobai's mother, right?" ”

Yang Xiaotong nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Lin Ruoxi said, "Mom, come in, I'm wondering if you're about to arrive now." ”

Yang Xiaotong smiled, feeling that there was a warm current flowing slowly in her heart, she walked into the house lightly, and did not see Lu Xiaobai, only Lu Xiaoyu. Lu Xiaoyu was playing with a Rubik's Cube, and when she saw Yang Xiaotong, she stopped playing with the Rubik's Cube, stood in place reservedly, and looked at the old lady in front of her in surprise.

In fact, it is normal for Lu Xiaoyu to have such a reaction, because she has never seen her grandmother, so she feels very strange to her.

"Call Grandma." Lin Ruoxi said to Lu Xiaoyu.

"Grandma." Lu Xiaoyu screamed. y

Lin Ruoxi said to Yang Xiaotong: "This kid is timid and shy. ”

Yang Xiaotong smiled, felt that her granddaughter was very cute, put the food on the coffee table, walked to Lu Xiaoyu's side, stroked her head, and said, "Good granddaughter, grandma brought you delicious food, do you want grandma?" ”

Lu Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "I don't want to." She glanced at the food and didn't seem interested in it at all.

Yang Xiaotong's smile immediately froze, and he quickly withdrew his hand, thinking sadly, my son doesn't recognize me as a mother, and even my granddaughter is very unfamiliar with me as a grandmother, I'm afraid that my wish to tease my grandson will be difficult to come true.

Lin Ruoxi blamed: "Xiaoyu, how can you talk to grandma like this, it's really rude!" ”

Lu Xiaoyu is a sentimental girl, and when she saw her mother scolding herself like this, she was so aggrieved that she was about to cry.

At this time, Lu Xiaobai paced out of the kitchen, only to see that his apron and sleeves were stained with specks of blood. He glanced at his mother and said nothing, as if he didn't know her.

When Yang Xiaotong saw her son, her dry lips moved twice, wanting to say something to her son, but seeing that her son was very indifferent to her, she swallowed what she wanted to say into her stomach.

She knew why her son treated her like this, if it weren't for the fact that she had an extramarital affair and was found out by her husband and killed her concubine and caused great harm to her family, then her son's heart would not have been shadowed, let alone because he had suffered all kinds of bullying, humiliation and bad luck since he left him.

She regretted the mistakes she had made!

Ever since her husband had killed her concubine, she had been disgraced and had never returned home, nor had she ever visited her husband in prison, because she knew that he would hate her to death and would refuse to see her.

In the past twenty years in a foreign land, she has not been doing well. She remembers that when she first went to Guangzhou, because she had no education and no skills, she had to work as a dirty and tired cleaner in a wood processing factory, with a pitiful salary, and even the living expenses sent to her children were lent to her by her brother-in-law, of course, her sister was completely unaware of this. Later, a widowed truck driver fell in love with him, and she felt that it was not easy for a woman to work hard outside and needed a man to rely on, so she agreed to be with him without much thought. However, the man loved to drink, and when he was drunk, he went crazy at her for no reason, and sometimes beat her, and she was very disappointed, and felt that she could not live with him, so on a hazy moonlit night, while the man and his fellow villagers were drinking and drunk, she quietly left without even taking her luggage. Counting the time, she only lived with him for one hundred and eight days.

She went directly to Dongguan.

Before going to Dongguan, a kind female lumber mill worker quietly introduced her to a boyfriend, who had never been masked.

The introducer once told her that the boyfriend she introduced to her was her brother, forty-one years old, divorced, with a son and a daughter under his knees, her brother was down-to-earth, did not drink, smoke, gambled, was in the fruit business, had some savings, and promised that as long as Yang Xiaotong lived with her brother with peace of mind, his brother would not treat her badly.

Before defecting to that man, Yang Xiaotong had planned for the worst, if she didn't like his looks, or his personality was not as good as the introducer said, she would resolutely leave him and never get involved with him.

Fortunately, when she saw the man, she felt good about his appearance and conversation, so she agreed to be with him.

originally thought that life could go on in peace, and she even dreamed of marrying a man and having children and rebuilding a happy family, but the man's children resolutely disagreed with their marriage, because his children were worried that after they got married, their father would give part of the family property to his wife's son. Because men are cowardly by nature, lack assertiveness, and succumb to the will of their children, he has not been able to marry Yang Xiaotong as he wished.

Yang Xiaotong is not a strong woman, although she feels that living like this is as unsteady as stepping on stilts, but she has nothing to do but resign herself to fate and live one day at a time.

Now that she is old and sickly, like a yellowing leaf on an autumn branch, her life may wither at any moment, and she hopes most that her son will forgive her mistakes and live with his family in peace. However, as soon as she entered the door, she felt that her son's face was wrong, as if there was a layer of frost, and she said in her heart that what she was worried about still appeared. She was very miserable in her heart, but she was helpless.

Lin Ruoxi turned on the LCD TV and asked her mother-in-law to adjust the channel by herself, she said that she would cook with her husband, and then everyone had a reunion dinner together.

"I'll take a hand, there are more people and things are faster." Yang Xiaotong said that he was about to enter the kitchen.

"Who wants you to take a hand!" Lu Xiaobai scolded loudly.

Yang Xiaotong was stunned for a moment, and retreated as if he had done something wrong.

Lin Ruoxi glared at her husband and said mercilessly: "How can you talk to your mother with this attitude, it's really excessive!" She said to Yang Xiaotong again, "Mom, you sit down, and Xiaobai and I can cook." ”

Yang Xiaotong sat lightly on the sofa and glanced at this beautiful house, she knew that although it was decorated like a small palace, it had nothing to do with her, and she even sadly thought that she would not be able to die in this room in the future.

Where she would die, she didn't know at all.

In the kitchen, Lin Ruoxi said to her husband: "What the hell is going on with you, do you want to drive your mother away?" ”

Lu Xiaobai didn't speak, and buried himself in chopping vegetables.

Lin Ruoxi looked down on her children who were indifferent to their parents and unfilial piety, and said, "You and your mother haven't been together for at least 20 years, right?" She rushed back from other places all the way, hoping that on this day of universal celebration, the family can reunite, reminisce, and feel the warmth of family affection, but you scolded her for no reason, it must have hurt her heart, and it is very wrong for you to do this. ”

Lu Xiaobai snorted coldly and said, "When she left me at my aunt's house, did she consider my feelings?" I was bullied, humiliated, and almost lost my life, where was she at that time? I didn't kick her out. Let me tell you, you'd better leave things with Yang Xiaotong alone! ”

Lin Ruoxi sighed and said, "I know that she does owe you a lot, but she may have had a hard time at the beginning, so she couldn't take you with her, and besides, so many years have passed, and you should eliminate how much resentment you have; Your mother is old, look at her full head of gray hair, look at her thin body, how pitiful. ”

Lu Xiaobai said resolutely, "Don't say it, I won't forgive her!" ”

"You're hopeless!" Lin Ruoxi said angrily, and then walked out.

Yang Xiaotong saw her daughter-in-law walking out angrily, so she asked in a low voice, "You quarreled with Xiaobai just now, didn't you?" ”

Lin Ruoxi glanced at Yang Xiaotong, only to see that her cloudy eyes were full of disappointment and sadness, she felt pity for the old man in front of her, and said, "Mom, don't worry, we'll be fine." ”

Yang Xiaotong sighed and said, "If I knew this, I wouldn't have come." ”

Lin Ruoxi also felt that if she knew this, she shouldn't have let her mother-in-law come.

Lin Ruoxi went into the kitchen again and silently gave her husband a hand. This time, she didn't mention his mother.

When eating Chinese New Year's Eve, Lu Xiaobai still did not call his mother, let alone give his mother a chopstick dish.

Lin Ruoxi picked up the vegetables, and she enthusiastically asked her mother-in-law to eat more, don't be polite.

This Chinese New Year's Eve, they spent it in a not salty atmosphere.

This article is from Reading Rim Novels