Chapter Twenty-Nine: Mom and Dad Quarrel
On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the tofu is grinded, and the windows are pasted in some places, but there are ready-made ones in the tofu space, and grandma can fry them in oil. And now most people don't have the need to paste the windows, but grandma bought some window flowers and pasted them with the word blessing.
Dad and Mom didn't go to the city yesterday, but today from the city, Fang Monan felt that the atmosphere between the two was weird, as if they were quarrelling.
Fang Monan stepped forward to pull the old ** hand, "Mom, it's over." ”
The old **'s face was long, and the father was obviously standing next to him with a flattering face, and he didn't see the old **'s face getting better.
"It's fine." Mom pulled out a smile that was more ugly than crying.
"Hey, what about your new coat," Fang Menan's mother asked in her half-worn clothes. "Didn't you walk yesterday in your new coat, don't skip words.
"I still have something, ask your dad." My mother explained, stepped on the stone steps, and entered the house with a hum.
Dad looked at his daughter who was blinking and waiting for an answer, and smirked, "Hehe....... I went to my grandfather's house yesterday, and my aunt looked good-looking...... "Go" hoarse, sore throat, sucking water and snot, rubbing with a handkerchief from time to time.
"Dad, you have a cold." Fang Monan thought about it and guessed what was going on, humming that the family couldn't feed the dogs, so his father was so stupid and filial.
After his grandfather went from the countryside to the city, he disliked the grandmother in the countryside for being uneducated and uneducated, and he was not worthy of his background as a cadre of the Commercial Bureau, so he left his grandmother who was about to give birth at home, and he came forward to say that it was a divorce, but in fact, it was a divorce.
At that time, it was promised to give the children living expenses every month, but in that era of scarcity of materials, they couldn't eat enough, not to mention that the grandfather married a wife and had children, of course, it was empty talk. Grandma took the child to graduate from high school alone, until the body could no longer support it, then told the father, the grandfather's business, let him go to the father, hoping to stay in the city for the sake of the child, and the grandmother died not long after.
The father who lives with his grandfather is naturally a nail in the eyes of others, a thorn in the flesh. always reminds the later hostess that she is a second marriage. Since my dad graduated from high school and is an adult, let's go out to work and send it out. There is no such cheap thing, and when I go out to work, I have to pay living expenses to my family every month.
A simple poor boy from the countryside has just seen the world of flowers in the city, and there is a 'rich and powerful' father, and his thoughts and senses are impacted. The most important thing is that the missing father's love has been filled, and looking at the transformation from rural to urban hukou, you can imagine the gratitude. Even if I was bullied, I silently endured and endured it.
"Dad, you are also a person with a family, and you are now the heaven and pillar of our family." Fang Monan took out a bottle of medicine and gave it to him, "Put it in your mouth." "Just left, she had to go and comfort her mother.
"What do you mean" Dad took the medicine bottle, opened it, and swallowed a pill. It was cold and cold, and I suddenly felt that my throat was much more comfortable, and my body was much lighter.
It means that when your child is bullied, you have to stand up and protect them. Silly boy. "Old man Lin walks aisle." Let's go and talk to me when I go into the house, when I am happy, when my face is like Changbai Mountain. ”
Dad also felt aggrieved, and followed Mr. Lin into the house, and the old man handed him a cup of hot tea and waited for him to complain.
After my mother entered the house, she began to count the experiences of her in-laws, "They dislike that there are too few vegetables and not enough to stuff their teeth, and they have to have some sincerity to give them, and the dim sum is picked by others and sent to them to ask for food." He didn't help, and nodded yes. ”
Grandma is glad that she didn't tell her granddaughter about her passbook, if she did, she might have given it to the other side.
"Alright, Dayan, don't be angry. Stepmothers are like this, don't be picky, the number of etiquette has arrived, as long as you have a clear conscience. Grandma handed her a cup of hot water to warm her hands, "When I got married at that time, I wouldn't have been angry today." ”
"I'm angry at his inaction, and I didn't grow up with them. are all self-reliant, how can the feelings be so deep as such soft bones? In a filial family, it is impossible for people to treat him as a family, he doesn't understand that if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather. Mom said angrily.
"What's wrong with your clothes?" Grandma asked.
"Don't mention the clothes, they're in tatters. I went in new clothes, and my sister-in-law saw it and boasted that it looked good and wanted to try it. As a result, I put it on, went to the big courtyard to show off, dyed a few dirty handprints, and said to leave it for washing, and give it to me when we go again next time. The old mother trembled angrily, "This is a meat bun and a dog that will never come back, I want to take it." His dad didn't let out a fart. The two of us came out like this, shivering from the cold of the winter, he put on my coat for me, frostbite, deserved it, and saw who felt sorry for him. ”
"Alright, Mom, we're making a new one, better than that one." When Fang Monan came in, he heard his mother's righteous and cruel words, "They don't feel distressed, we are still distressed, they don't treat their father as a person, can we still throw my father out?" This matter has to be considered in the long run. ”
"Let's sum up, change Dad's thinking, and treat the disease from the root." Fang Menan said, otherwise, the things in the previous life would continue to happen, and in the end, it would not be good. It's that he is rich in life, but he is still short in spirit.
The two are older and one younger, and the three of them are working together to change their father. And in Mr. Lin's house, his father also complained about his grievances.
"Besides, that's also the elders, that's also my father, the son doesn't say anything, the father's fault." Dad said in a hoarse voice.
"Nannan Dad, do you want to listen to the truth and don't skip words. Old Man Lin looked at him seriously and said.
Dad looked at him, worried, "um" nodded.
"Do you think that coming out of the countryside feels inferior to them, and the peasants are ashamed, are you? The background you look down on, even your own mother, you are ashamed to mention it, or even look down on it. Or maybe you want to grow up in the city. Old Man Lin didn't directly say that the elders were not, but directly said the inferiority complex in his heart.
"I didn't, that's my dad." Dad's argument was pale and weak, so vulnerable.
"You just said that the Son does not speak, but the Father is at fault. Then you have also heard that it is the fault of the father to raise or not to teach. Think about it. Old Man Lin said earnestly that I am Nannan's own granddaughter, so I also treat you as a person. I say things that you don't like to hear, even harsh things. The grievances of their previous generation, people can let go of death, don't care, you just live well, your mother didn't let you resent them. But you shouldn't lose the backbone of your life, your mother raised you with backbone and independence, you shouldn't be inferior and cowardly in front of them. The children she raised shouldn't be so bad and so easy to be tempted. ”
"Farmers', counting up generations, everyone is from a farmer's mud leg." Old Man Lin said with a smile.
"You're married, and you've got a daughter. It's time to think about it later. Old Man Lin patted his father's shoulder and said.
The quarrel between the father and the old ** was revealed, but the persuasion of the old man did not work, anyway, the father tried his best to please his mother. Fang Monan didn't see if his mother was really not angry, this could only wait to be tested.
Liang Zi closed the door of the store and hurried to Fang Mennan's house.
Fang Menan gave Liang Zi three large cardboard boxes, "These are you, the thin monkey, and the fat man." It's the New Year, I'll add some New Year's goods to you, it's just not much, don't dislike it."
After Liang Zi opened a box, there was a chicken, a duck, a fish, and two catties of meat; There are also tomatoes, spinach, beans, leeks, etc. I guess the other two boxes are the same.
"What can we ask for this Nannan?" Liang Zi's eyes were red, and he was moved and didn't know how to say it, so he secretly decided in his heart that he must do it well.
"If there's anything you can't want, isn't it just some food, don't people give benefits to state-owned factories during the New Year?"
Fang Monan pushed the box, "Take it, don't act like a girl." "She said again, don't open the store again, it's the New Year soon, I'm tired enough these days, take a good rest, recharge my energy, and we'll do a big job next year."
"No, my mother's New Year's goods at home are purchased by my mother, and it is estimated that the thin monkey and the fat man don't want to close down, and want to sell more before the year." Liang Ziwan refused, "I can also buy more goods when I go to Yangcheng in the coming year." ”
"Well, you decide." Fang Monan gave up.
Liang Zi hugged the three big boxes, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart and thinking about it a lot. If he hadn't met her, his eyes would still be gray.
Fang Monan didn't think about it as much, but he just felt that there were too many animals in the space to consume, and it was better than nothing.
On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the meat of the New Year will be cut from this day onwards, and the purchase of New Year's goods will begin. In the villages, this day is the big market day, the people of the villages around the market have gone to the market to buy New Year's goods, cigarettes, wine, fish, meat, firecrackers and gifts for relatives are also not missing, the taste of the New Year has gradually become stronger.
Their New Year's meat has not been cut, Da Chengzi came to get the seedlings and sent his own pigs, after killing, he got a hind leg, weighing more than 30 catties. It is estimated that there is not enough meat to eat, and the whole family is a meat tiger.
When Da Chengzi was leaving, Fang Menan told him that if the corn stalk was gone, it was estimated that it would rot in the wind and sun in winter. It was okay to use meadow and straw felt, but after hearing this, he didn't even bother to eat, so he left. When he went home, he replaced the rotten corn stalks with grass felt, tidied up the vegetable patch, and put on the farmer's manure so that the vegetables could grow better. The family is busy inside and outside, the men are busy planting vegetables, and they are responsible for buying New Year's goods.
Da Chengzi sent the meat, and the grandmother led the family to separate the meat, and began to chop the dumpling filling, and the excess meat began to fry meatballs, radish silk vegetarian meatballs, and steamed jujube flower steamed buns.
The large bones and flesh left behind were not shaved clean, chopped into sections, and fried in hot water in the steamed bun pot at home to wash the blood. Then put in cold water, add green onions, ginger, garlic, pepper, star anise, astragalus, wolfberry, jujube, salt, and cook over high heat.
After cooking, he held the big bone in his hand, and gnawed Fang Monan's mouth full of oil, which was so fragrant
In the past two days, although the mother accepted the child's precociousness, she still felt a little awkward, but looking at Fang Monan's eyes was always weird, which made her feel furious.
"This kid ......," the mother looked at her daughter, who was designing a coat.
"Nannan is very good, sensible and obedient. Big Swallow. Old Man Lin said, he saw that his mother was hesitant, hesitated, and interjected rarely. The more such children are, the more difficult it is to educate. Precocious, sophisticated, and even stoic. With such a quality, it will have a lot of power in any direction. But only she can decide her direction. Dayan, I see that every time you come, Nannan always surrounds you secretly, her eyes are full of affection, you have nothing to do with her," Old Man Lin said.
"Is it?" the mother was very happy, her daughter's dependence on them made her relieved, and she also let go of the hesitation in her heart.
In the traditional folk customs, in these two days, it is necessary to concentrate on bathing and laundry, removing the bad luck of the year, and preparing to welcome the new year of the coming year. On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the bath is "washing Fulu".
In the past two days, Fang Monan put the hot spring water in the space into the large vat in the kitchen, so that the people in the family can wash it well, in fact, they usually bathe with the hot spring water. It's just that they wash less often, and this time there is more water, which is enough.
Twenty-seven, slaughtering roosters (killing stove chickens); Twenty-eighth, put the face hair; Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns; There is a powerful kitchen in Fang Monan, so grandma is very leisurely, and she has been working for several months in a row, taking advantage of the Chinese New Year to take a good rest. Grandma and Fang Monan are all tinkering with food in the 'kitchen'. In fact, sometimes, the New Year is more tiring, but everyone is still looking forward to the New Year and reunion.
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