Chapter 7: Recognizing the mother-in-law as a mother
Mrs. Sun Zhou is already forty and two this year, before her husband's family in the early years, she was just an ordinary peasant woman who rose in the day and rested at sunset, and had to do everything herself. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info But even so, Mrs. Sun at this time is much better than her memory image.
Recalling that in the past, she suddenly encountered a catastrophe and was fortunate to have the old man's desperate protection to get peace for a while, but when she died, she didn't have time to see his last face, and even wore filial piety for him, and did not have the qualifications to cry for the funeral, and finally she could only wear a filial piety dress in that prison and bow three times to the distance, silently reciting the Sutra of the Past in her heart, and did not get up all night.
Failing to fulfill the last bit of filial piety to the Zhou family has always been an indelible regret in Lu Yuanyuan's heart, and now that they meet again, she can't help but be excited and look at the old man on the couch with some greed. Zhou's face was as kind as she remembered, but there was not such deep pity and love in her eyes, after all, she had only been in the house for a few days, and there were still a little 'strangeness' between them.
When she entered, Zhou was leaning on the pillow with her eyes closed and pretending to sleep, hidden under a thin blanket under her chest. Lu Yuanyuan kowtowed, walked forward a few steps on his knees, and didn't dare to hold down the old lady who was only holding the corner of the blanket and wept.
"When the mother is sick in bed, Yuanyuan can not serve in front of the bed, it is really unfilial, today the unfilial son comes, one is to ask for peace, the other is to ask for sin, please punish the mother!"
Zhou Shi saw that as soon as she came in, she greeted her and asked for sin, and the three heads heard it really, but they didn't mix it with half a penny, and now they were crying so pitifully, thinking that she was just a little girl after all, but she didn't understand anything when she just married into the house, and she must have thought that she didn't come to ask for peace for a few days for fear of breaking the rules, and she didn't know what she was scared of. He had pity in his heart, and he did not call anyone to come, but he bent down and lifted up the man who was still kneeling in the ground.
"Okay, okay, don't keep kneeling on the ground when it's cold on the ground, the old woman also knows that you haven't been able to come because you've been unwell for a few days, not to mention that there is no shortage of people to take care of me by my side, you have this filial piety, the old woman is happy in her heart, hurry up, hurry up!"
Zhou's eyebrows smiled, but stiffened the moment Lu Yuanyuan raised his head and saw her face. She exclaimed, subconsciously stepped back, and let go of Lu Yuanyuan, fortunately, a few girls didn't really let Zhou alone to help people, one on the left and one to help, but Lu Yuanyuan still flashed because of her movements, and her half-bent knee hit the soft solid wood leg firmly.
Lu Yuanyuan gasped in pain, but his first reaction was not to take care of his injuries but to look at Zhou on the couch, and said with an innocent and worried face: "Mother, what's wrong with you?" But what's uncomfortable? Yuanyuan will go and ask a doctor for you! ”
"Don't come here!" Zhou took a few steps back in fear, and saw that Lu Yuanyuan really stopped and didn't come over, so he stroked his constantly beating chest and chanted Amitabha Buddha several times before he felt at ease, and when she looked up at Lu Yuanyuan again, her face was a little strange, and she hesitated a little and said: "Second daughter-in-law, you are dressed like this, ......."
Before she finished speaking, she heard a girl outside shouting, "Grandma is here!" ”
Turning his head to look, sure enough, after a while, the curtain of the inner house was lifted, and he didn't see his person but first smelled a strong fragrance of flowers, ringing lightly, a graceful posture finally came into view, but it was a red satin cloisonné mandarin duck gown, peach pink wrapped chest long skirt, swaying three times, full of style moved in, and then looked at it and then could not move away, her figure was plump and unexpected, her face was like a full moon cheek appliqué with a smile at the corner of her eyes, looking forward to the romance between the bright and tactful, people couldn't help but sigh, what a coquettish pretty girl!
This person is the widow of Lu Yuanyuan's uncle, who has never met because of his early death-Chu family.
Chu walked to the middle, his beautiful eyes were light, and his hands were stacked on his waist, but one squatted down and saluted Zhou's and said, "Daughter-in-law has asked my mother to say goodbye!" After speaking, without waiting for Zhou's answer, he got up on his own, and the peony on his head that was obliquely inserted in his temples trembled twice, making his skin more and more white and greasy.
She was dressed very gorgeously, and when Lu Yuanyuan saluted her in the past, the two of them were like clouds and mud, and they were immediately emerging.
A touch of disdain slipped in his eyes, and Chu Shi held a handkerchief to his lips and said with a smile: "I was still strange when I heard the sound of the knock outside before, thinking about how the workers who repaired the yard in front of me were so distracted, and how would it be good if they made such a loud noise and disturbed my mother's rest, and I didn't want to enter the house to realize that it was my younger brother and sister who were asking my mother for peace." The younger siblings came so early, and they made such a big salute to their mother, so filial piety, otherwise how can they say that their mother is close to their younger siblings? ”
When Lu Yuanyuan heard this, he knew in his heart that what she said was good, but it was just a good sarcasm with a gun and a stick, but he didn't pick it out, his eyes turned red for a moment, he returned to Zhou's side and knelt on her knees, holding her hands with both hands and gently touching her cheeks, "What my sister-in-law said is very true." I died when I was young, thanks to my father's single-handedness, I have no impression of my mother in my memory, and I always feel that I am missing something and regret it. ”
She raised her head, without the dazzling red as a contrast, a small face less than the size of a palm was pale and fragile, pitiful, and that sentence was like a soft knife stabbing people's hearts, it was really sad, and those who saw it shed tears.
Lu Yuanyuan wiped away the tears on his cheeks with one hand and continued: "It is also God's mercy, and then I married into the Sun Mansion and met my mother, since I saw you for the first time, I feel very close, I just want to be with you always under your knees, and I will do my filial piety every morning and dusk." Mother...... No, mother, can I call you mother? ”
Cold teardrops slid through the palms, flowing through those lines, wet, Zhou's hands were already full of calluses because of the early years of labor, and the old marks were mottled and rough, but now they were gently rubbed by the soft cheeks, and the heart was also rubbed as if soaked in water, soft and messy.
Thinking that although she was rich and noble in this life, she was half a life, and then experienced the grief of the white-haired person sending the black-haired person, the ups and downs of the world, she has experienced too much, like her, even if she has thousands of family properties, what about the servants, but there is no one to know, and what I want to do most in the rest of the days is just the ordinary life of sunrise and sunset, and laughing at Sun.
Now Lu Yuanyuan's words are talking to her heart. Looking down again, I saw her looking at herself cautiously, looking forward to and afraid of rejection, as if shivering or begging in the rain to look at the little beast you want you to take it home, the watery eyes went straight into people's hearts, and I couldn't help but feel pity in my heart, Zhou actually personally stayed to help her up, and sat beside him with his hands.
"You're a poor man, too!" Zhou sighed lightly, "It's rare that you are so well-behaved and sensible, but it's a pity that my mother-in-law who has never met is a blessed person, and I didn't have time to enjoy this family fun and went early, and now you are married into the house is destined for me, as the saying goes, marrying a daughter-in-law is to get half a son, and then you and I should be closer to each other." ”
Lu Yuanyuan burst into tears and smiled, and his face was a little more colorful, and he suddenly looked much better, and then kowtowed to the ground and said, "Mother...... No, it's a mother, the child listens to you, and in the future, he will definitely take you first in everything to repay your kindness! ”
Zhou stopped the person in his arms, and kept shouting.