002 Aman
When it was time for dinner, every house lit candles, and the faint light of the fire dotted the mountains and fields, like fireflies.
Countrymen don't have much entertainment, so after dinner, they just go around and talk about the daytime anecdotes with their friends, or chat about family life.
When someone walked to Chen's door today, they heard a fierce quarrel coming from the house.
The mother-in-law of the Chen family is a well-known spicy girl in Pingtou Village, and if someone offends her on weekdays, she will not hesitate to pester others to quarrel, and when she is in a hurry, she can even roll up her sleeves and fight with others, regardless of whether the other party is a man or a woman! After a long time, everyone knows what kind of character she is, and she can let some go.
Today, this is still at the dinner table, but the sound of the quarrel has spread to the family next door, and others are still ugly, so she wants to make it known to everyone.
Why did Chen Dading's honest and good old man marry such a mother-in-law!
"Chen Dading! You must tell me well today, why you refuse to send Ah Man to semi-Ancun, do you say that you see Ah Man born beautifully and have a ghost in your heart! The woman pointed at the man in the main seat and cursed, her eyes full of anger and her face distorted.
"Don't make a fuss!" Chen Dading was an honest man, and shouted to stop her, then raised his eyes to look at Ah Man, who was silent on the side, and said apologetically: "Ah Man, you take Miao Miao and Zhuang Zhuang to the room first." ”
"Don't go! You tell me clearly in front of everyone, this is for the good of Aman, and Aman can't leave! The woman's tone became more and more extreme, but her face still looked her most reasonable.
"Damn it!" This time, Rao is Chen Dading couldn't help but get angry, "Congchun, don't think I don't know what you're thinking, Ban Ancun's old Zhang Tou is fifty-two years old this year, not to mention the hunchback stroke, it is said that there is still ice on the body, you are also called A Manhao?" I'm afraid you have taken a lot of benefits from him! He sneered, frowning at the woman's wicked deeds.
The woman immediately denied it: "Chen Dading, don't talk nonsense!" I said that I was for Ah Man's good, Zhuang Zhuang had been sick for the first two years, our family had no money in order to treat him, and now raising a son and a daughter can just live a tight life, but Ah Man came I didn't pick the door, she alone has a pair of chopsticks, but in two months, Ah Man will regenerate the child, how do you plan to help her raise? Are you planning to let our whole family drink the northwest wind?! As he spoke, his face turned red, and his eyes were a little aggrieved.
This is also reasonable, after all, the family is not rich, and it must be a big burden to add two people at once.
"But, no matter how you say it, you can't let her go to Lao Zhangtou's house, that dead ghost has half a foot in the coffin, and you don't look at Aman's current age, what do you want her to do in the future?" Chen Dading hesitated a little and said, after all, the woman was not wrong in what she said, it was impossible for their family to take care of Ah Man for a lifetime.
"How bad is the old Zhang head, how bad is it!" The woman opened her voice again and shouted: "It's because Lao Zhangtou is old enough and an old bachelor, and their family will belong to Ah Man alone in the future, I am all careful about it, you are funny, why don't you let Ah Man pass?" She also lives like this in our house, and she lives like this when she goes to Lao Zhangtou's house, what's the difference! Or do you really have the heart to accept the second room? ”
"What nonsense are you talking about! Why is it here again! Chen Dading was annoyed, angry, and stood up all of a sudden, raising his hand.
"What! You're going to hit me! Scold! You're going to hit me for her? Come on, you've got a kind."
The two children watched their father and mother quarrel on the side, and they were so frightened that they didn't know what to do, Zhuang Zhuang mustered up the courage and carefully interjected: "Daddy and Auntie, don't you quarrel, okay" The voice was immediately drowned in the war of words between the husband and wife, and Zhuang Zhuang was so anxious that he wanted to cry.
Miao Miao is a strong sister, twelve years old this year, but she is more sensible, and she understands what the reason for her father's quarrel is - isn't it this big-bellied woman from an unknown source on the side!
Not to mention that she caused Daddy and Auntie to quarrel like this, since she came, Zhuang Zhuang is not as close to herself as before A trace of viciousness flashed in the eyes of the young girl, her lips were deflated, her eyes suddenly swelled with water vapor, grabbed Ah Man's sleeve and shook it: "Sister Ah Man, do you promise to go to Grandpa Zhang's house in Ban'an Village, I beg you, I beg you."
Aman's body stiffened, looking at the little girl's eyes full of moisture, and he was speechless.
It was already dark, and I could occasionally see a few stars twinkling in the sky, and the surrounding scenery was still so strange even after a month of viewing. Everything told her how out of place she was in this place, just a superfluous existence, and now she was dragging down her savior.
The temperature in the countryside dropped sharply at night, and a gust of wind blew from outside the door, and my body shivered with cold.
After a long time, she reached out and touched her stomach, and the warm feeling gradually came from the palm of her hand to warm her whole body.
Her mind was blank, she forgot everything, the old Chinese medicine doctor said that she hit her head on the rock when she drowned, causing the accumulation of blood and amnesia, and she didn't know when she would remember, and she might not necessarily think about it in her life. She was terrified, but she vaguely remembered that someone seemed to have called her Aman, so she took Aman as her name and lived in Pingtou Village.
She didn't intend to bother her benefactor, but now that she has a big belly, where can she go. Maybe in the future, when the child is born, she can still muster up the courage to go to the outside of Pingtou Village to see the world, but at the moment she is afraid of being displaced and has no fixed place for her, it doesn't matter to her, but if the child is gone, how can she insist on living!
She doesn't know anything about her life, and she only dares to cry and choke at night, the child in her belly is all her spiritual support, even if she doesn't even know who the child is.
The husband and wife stopped arguing, Zhuang Zhuang was taken away by her mother, Miaomiao saw that her eyes were full of pleading and accusation, and Chen Dading seemed to be a little loose as for Chen Dading.
Ah Man is a little self-defeating, if Lao Zhangtou can let her give birth to a child and raise a child, she will follow him for the time being!
It's just that at night, I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and I was a little sleepy, and a trance voice appeared in the dream calling her softly: "Aman, Aman give it to me" Then I felt that my head hurt so much that I couldn't sleep after waking up.
Who is this person who calls her Aman, who is it, it hurts her head so much, she must not be a good person.
Ah Man thought, it doesn't matter who he is, she just needs to give birth to her own child now.
Before the fifth watch, Aman got up and put on her clothes, and got out of bed lightly, her bed was placed next to the utility room, there was no door, and there was an alley next to it. The bed was made of two or three wooden chests and a board and two quilts, and she burned a charcoal fire every night and put it in the alley, but she didn't feel cold.
I got up early today to make breakfast for everyone, so she specially asked Aunt Xu next door to learn from yesterday.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of person I used to be, even if ordinary women don't know how to cook, most of them are good at delicate work, and they can do it well even if they don't do laundry.
But she was able to cut the potatoes as thin as cicada wings when she cut a potato, but as soon as she got out of the pot, she immediately lost her spirits, and the soy sauce and salt were put in a mess, and she fried them and put them on the plate, but found that the potatoes were still raw. The same is true for other picks, others laugh at her that she may have been a daughter in the past, so her fingers do not touch the spring water, but there is a golden daughter miss who will be like her, both hands are calloused!
She was missing a finger on her left hand, and I don't know if she was born like this, or if she had used a very good plaster before, and the place of her little finger was bare, and there was no scar at all. And when she does things, she doesn't feel uncomfortable, probably because she is very used to it, and she thinks it may be innate. If you have a physical defect, then you must be unfavored in a big family, what do you think?
Ah Man shook his head and shook off the distracting thoughts in his mind, and continued to cut the vegetables in his hand, striving to make breakfast as soon as possible.
I have to say that she has no talent in cooking, even if she has asked Aunt Xu clearly what to do, and when she is ready, the shredded potatoes are burnt and the dried plum vegetables are salty, but fortunately, the pot of porridge is not bad, and I eat it with the dried radish pickled a few days ago, which is crispy and sweet, and the taste is also good.
The Chen family and his wife looked at the table in front of them, but they were stunned, although there were failed works, but they were much better than the previous two days, which shows that Ah Man secretly had a thought.
After the woman drank a bowl of porridge, she put down the dishes and chopsticks, and her face was a little hesitant, and finally gritted her teeth and opened her mouth: "Aman." ”
"Hmm." Ah Man responded, and a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes looked at the woman gently, waiting for her to speak.
What a beautiful man! Even though she is now wearing coarse cloth clothes, her hair is tied at random behind her head, and her eyebrows are furrowed without saying a word, occasionally when she raises her eyes, it seems that there is a wave of light circulating in it, which is more radiant than the stars in the sky!
It's a pity that I ended up in this poor country, with a big belly and a loss of memory, I am afraid that in another two years, the light in my eyes will be dimmed and finally disappear.
The woman finally opened her mouth and asked, "Aman, are you still going to Ban'an Village?" (To be continued.) )