Seeing the land covered in snow, a new world covered in snow ushered in a new year. The sons are coming back, it's their first holiday after leaving home, and the family is counting the date of their return.

I went to see Huang Liqin, only half a year, Huang Liqin seems to be a different person, there is no such endurance and sorrow on her face, the skin is very tight and smooth, and she has a solid body, indeed as her mother-in-law said, it is a great labor in the countryside. Especially a pair of big eyes, when they see people smile, they are very kind and warm, no wonder Cheng Jiahui said that he remembered his mother's smiling crooked eyes since he was a child.

I saw that she cleaned up Cheng Jiahui's room neatly, obviously she was waiting for her son to come back, she saw me looking at Cheng Jiahui's room, and quickly explained that she wanted Cheng Jiahui to come and live for a few days before going over, I patted her arm and smiled understandingly.

Huang Liqin asked me to sit down, brought a glass of water and put it in front of me, and said hesitantly that Zhang Dezhu came to find her.

I looked at her and asked, "He wants you back?" ”

"That's what he said, but I said it was impossible," Huang Liqin said, bowing her head.

"What are you going to do? Divorce him? I asked.

"I haven't thought about it yet, Jiahui definitely doesn't want me to be with Zhang Dezhu anymore, but he is still Duoduo's father," Huang Liqin sighed and said.

When I look at Huang Liqin's expression, she doesn't have that kind of resolute expression without hesitation, maybe it's because of her kindness, or maybe because she is imprisoned by traditional thoughts, she has some submissive compromises about her unfair treatment. I don't know what Zhang Dezhu told her, and I don't know what she thinks about Zhang Dezhu and his family now, as an outsider, neither I nor anyone else can control her life, and the final choice is still in her own hands. Anyway, she is not in a hurry to marry again, and now Zhang Dezhu can no longer do any harm to her, so there is no need to make a decision in a hurry.

I changed the subject and asked, "What else did he say?" ”

Huang Liqin looked at my face, lowered her head and whispered: "He also said that he wanted his eldest daughter to come and live, the eldest daughter is also in high school in the city, and she is going to take the college entrance examination this year, so it is more convenient to live here."

I looked at Huang Qin's somewhat ashamed expression, and realized that he and Zhang Dezhu may have reached a compromise, after so many years of hurting, when Cheng Jiahui and I have not forgiven Zhang Dezhu. I suddenly felt that neither I nor Cheng Jiahui really understood Huang Liqin, she was too far from our way of thinking, no wonder Cheng Jiahui had such a strong sense of loss after living with her for a while.

I sighed helplessly in my heart, and asked quietly on my face, "What do you mean?" ”

Huang Liqin lowered her head and said: "There is no one to take care of that child, it's pitiful, I have taken her for nearly ten years, and she still has feelings, and the child is not wrong."

I looked at this kind-hearted woman, thought for a while and said, "It's okay to come and live, but you have to pay living expenses and accommodation fees, 1,000 yuan a month."

Huang Liqin looked at me in surprise and said, "So much?" Zhang Dezhu has no money", obviously she still has the intention of defending Zhang Dezhu.

Her attitude really made me angry: "More? Both daughters are his, he has an obligation to raise them, no money? If you don't have money to earn, will the money come when you lie in the house and drink and beat people? Don't be soft-hearted to such a man, if he is still a man, he should change his past wrongs, do whatever he should do, as long as people are willing to do it, how can he not make money? If he's the same as before, you'd better drive him away and never pay attention to this man again."

Huang Liqin sighed while holding the cup and said: "He said that the cotton yield in the field this year is not high, the labor is too expensive, and he has not made any money."

I sneered and said, "That's right, people who don't do anything in bed can earn money, then God is so unfair, you leave him alone, let him and his family figure it out."

Before leaving, I wanted to leave some money for Huang Liqin, but she resolutely refused. said that although the salary he earns now is not much, it is enough for himself and his daughter to spend, and his brother and sister-in-law can't eat the chicken and meat sent by his brother and sister-in-law when they come to the city.

I saw that her attitude was very resolute, so she didn't force it, but just took the time to buy a lot of New Year's goods on the street and sent them over. Since I promised Cheng Jiahui to take care of his mother, I don't want to break my promise to him.

Before the Spring Festival, Mei Duo helped cook meat, steamed buns, fried oil fruits, and make dumplings at my mother-in-law's house. In previous years, the eldest sister helped her mother-in-law prepare for the New Year, but this year, Mei Duo was busy in this busy, and the eldest sister became her assistant, and her intelligence and ability won the praise of her mother-in-law and the eldest sister. Mei Duo knows that I like to eat steamed buns that have just come out of the cage, and every time I estimate that I want to go home, I like the smell of wheat with the smell of the earth.

"The steamed buns from the flour milled by the new wheat in the mountains are more fragrant, but unfortunately I rarely come across them," I said.

"The wheat in the mountains matures half a month later than the outside, and the yield is low, and there are very few people who grow it," Cheng Shaojie continued.

"Because few talents are rare," I said with a smile: "Nowadays, people are eager for quick success, and are not willing to do those really good things, just like Mei Duo's craftsmanship, which is now almost lost, and now girls like Mei Duo are about to become rare."

I can feel that Mei Duo likes me very much when I go home, but she rarely has any particularly intimate actions, even if she has received the great grace of our family, I have not seen her put words such as gratitude on her lips, but she is not humble or arrogant in her mother-in-law's house and naturally does things, treating the elderly respectfully, as if she is a member of this family, and she should work here, I like her generous manners, calm and stable attitude.

She embroidered a pair of insoles for her father-in-law, mother-in-law, Li Haoyu, Cheng Jiahui, and me and Cheng Shaojie. Li Haoyu and Cheng Jiahui and I were pasting her twisted window flowers on the window glass, and my mother-in-law stood in front of the window with her embroidered insoles and praised her, and the eldest sister said with a little jealousy: "Why are there only a few of you who don't have us?" Mei Duo, you're too eccentric! ”

Mei Duo smiled and said, "I don't know what size of your feet are, I'll look at the size of your feet and make you a pair later."

"Then you make a pair for our Sun Linbing, his feet sweat all day long, it's better to put an insoles, why don't young people like to pad insoles now? My feet stink," the eldest sister hurriedly said.

I smiled and said, "Eldest sister, don't fight for Sun Lin for everything, they young people may think that it is very useless to pad a flower insoles, and besides, they only use it and are too lazy to wash it, no matter how good things are used for them, it will be ruined."

Li Haoyu said: "No, Sister Meiduo's embroidered insoles are so beautiful, where are we willing to step on them?" ”

Cheng Jiahui grinned slightly: "Are you going to put it under your head?" Sister Mei Duo, why don't you embroider a flower pillow for him! ”

Li Haoyu didn't mind and said with a grin: "Sister Mei Duo, embroider a mandarin duck pillow for me, and use it when I marry my daughter-in-law."

Everyone laughed, and I turned my head to look at Li Haoyu and said, "You don't really have a girlfriend, right?" You're only a freshman year old! Don't let me hang up for four years, and I won't even be able to get a graduation certificate."

Li Haoyu smiled and said: "Handsome, there is no way, you can't stop it." I only hung up one class this semester, and I promise to only hang one class per semester."

I slapped Li Haoyu on the back and said, "Do you want your mother to quit her job and go to your school to accompany you?" ”

Li Haoyu turned around and grabbed my shoulders, pushed me to the chair and sat down, and said with a smile: "Mom, please give me some freedom!" You better take care of my grandparents and grandparents, so I don't have to worry about you."

Everyone laughed, and the mother-in-law smiled: "It's still Haoyu with a good temperament, talking and laughing and laughing, which is like the elephant cow in our family, there is no smile on his face all day long."

Cheng Jiahui just twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard this, but looked out the window and said, "My dad and Brother Lin Bing are back."

I heard Cheng Jiahui say the words "my dad", and my heart was lightly scratched by my fingers. I rarely heard these two words from Cheng Jiahui's mouth in the past, and occasionally said them with deep hatred. But this time is different, although there is no usual intimacy between father and son, I can feel that the antagonism between Cheng Jiahui and Cheng Shaojie this time is obviously smaller.

After Cheng Shaojie and Sun Linbing entered the house, they saw Mei Duo cutting window flowers, we were pasting window flowers, Sun Linbing walked to the table and said to Mei Duo: "Do you still use yourself to cut this?" On the street I saw that there were all kinds of things for sale, and all kinds of things were wanted."

The eldest sister sneered at him and said, "Is it the same thing to cut it yourself and buy it?" The New Year is to have a lively time, what is the meaning of everything being ready-made".

Sun Linbing reached out and picked up a freshly twisted window flower and asked, "What is this twisted?" ”

Mei Duo said: "This is called a flower blooming rich, it is a peony flower"

Sun Linbing took it in his hand and looked at it for a long time and said: "It's a peony flower, it's very good, and we'll hang some for our family, I'll take it back and paste it, and when I paste this, I feel that my family is a little jubilant, as if it's going to be the New Year."

Mei Duo smiled and said, "Okay", then turned her head to look at Sun Linbing's feet and said, "What size shoes are you wearing?" Your mom asked me to make you a pair of insoles."

Sun Linbing picked up the insoles in my mother-in-law's hand on the table and looked at them and said, "That's it?" ”

Meadow nodded with an "um".

Sun Linbing raised his foot and said, "44 yards"

"Oh, it's so big," Mei Duo sighed, "how much effort it will take me!" ”

The eldest sister pointed to Cheng Jiahui and Li Haoyu and said, "Are the two of them small in their feet?" Don't be biased, Meadow."