Chapter 16: The Dumb Mother-in-law
Ye Han held a black umbrella and stood quietly at the mouth of the alley, silent.
The first time I saw her was on a rainy day, but I didn't expect the second time I saw her it was still a rainy day, but the wind was stronger, and the rain was also bigger. She still squatted in the old place, still holding the broken umbrella, still holding the eaves of the umbrella very humble, and still a small basket of cleanly washed potatoes in front of her, as always, blown by the wind and beaten by the rain.
In Ye Han's eyes, she was like a flame so weak that it could be extinguished in the cold wind and cold rain at any time, but sometimes the flame was about to be extinguished, but she didn't know where a force came out of nowhere to help her support it!
"It's like my grandmother!" The figure of the grandmother and the mother-in-law opposite fused together, and Ye Han, who had burst into tears at some point, muttered and looked at it attentively. The appearance of mixed thoughts and sadness makes people can't help but want to let go of everything and take her into his arms to comfort her wholeheartedly, before King Zhou You lit the beacon fire, he should have seen such a voice.
Ignoring the mask that was soaked in tears and taking off the sunglasses that were in the way, Ye Han stepped forward quickly, and suddenly, she stopped, and in front of her eyes, two middle-aged women holding umbrellas sneakily walked up to her mother-in-law, as if they were going to buy potatoes.
Ye Han approached quietly and stood not far from them, staring firmly at them, her inexplicable intuition telling her that these two women had bad intentions.
"How do you sell potatoes?" One of the women asked in a local dialect mixed with an unknown accent, and Ye Han knew that this was a foreign woman who should have been here for a long time.
Hearing that someone wanted to buy potatoes, the mother-in-law immediately raised her umbrella and stood up tremblingly, maybe because she had been squawing for a long time, or because the wind and rain were a little strong, she stumbled for a while before she could barely stand firm, but the two women ignored this, without a trace of the meaning of stepping forward to help, but there was a sense of schadenfreude in her eyes.
Ye Han stopped and stepped out, but his eyes became colder and colder when he looked at the two women.
The mother-in-law stood firm, but she couldn't stand up straight, her back was more rickety than that of an ordinary old man, and her short gray ear-length hair was pinned with a thin black hairpin, which had been disrupted by the wind and rain at this time, and was scattered in embarrassment. On his wrinkled face, a pair of gray eyes struggled to open, trying to see the blurry world in front of him more clearly.
Barely squeezing out a smile, the mother-in-law struggled to hold the umbrella with one hand, pointed to the potatoes with the other, and then raised her palm and spread out five fingers to compare.
"Five cents a pound?"
The mother-in-law nodded.
The two women subconsciously glanced at each other, as if confirming something, and then the woman just now continued: "Okay, bring me a catty." The tone was very cheerful.
The mother-in-law grinned, bare gums. She squatted down again, struggling to hold the umbrella between her face and shoulders, then took out a worn-out but well-folded plastic bag from her body, and began to carefully select the potatoes, and put the cleanest and fullest ones into the bag.
She didn't see that the woman in front of her, who had not spoken all this time, took out a red note and secretly stuffed it into the hand of the bargaining woman.
The mother-in-law put down the rusty scale, laboriously handed a pound of potatoes to the woman, and then watched the woman hand over a hundred-dollar bill, at a loss.
"What are you doing in a daze, looking for money!" The woman was in a hurry, urging in a low voice, and at the same time pressed the umbrella on her head down.
The mother-in-law hesitated and reached for the hundred yuan, but someone was faster than her!
A slender jade hand that was as soft as a bone grabbed the note first.
The woman panicked for a while, looked up and looked at the strange woman who suddenly appeared in front of her in fear: "You...... What do you want? I ......"
"Smack!"
In the crisp slap sound, red fragments of counterfeit money flew away, and most of them were not afraid of breaking, wet and sticking to the woman's drooling and rapidly swollen ugly face.
The woman was blinded by Ye Han's unhesitating slap, covered her cheeks in horror, and didn't even care if she lost her umbrella, trembling and unable to even say a word.
The other woman next to her was also stunned, and finally reacted after a while, reaching out and scratching Ye Han's face, shouting: "Kill ......"
"Smack!"
"Hit ......"
"Smack!"
"Save ......"
"Smack!"
Ye Han didn't have any nonsense, when the woman said a word, she slapped it, with her current strength of 11 points, it was equivalent to a strong young man slapping it.
The woman was really scared, her mouth was already full of blood, and several teeth had fallen out, she had never met such a person, who slapped her in the face one by one arrogantly and domineeringly, without the slightest hesitation, categorically, without thinking about the consequences.
The woman's eyes were like the deepest part of the snowfield that had not melted for thousands of years, revealing the coldness and ruthlessness of the bone!
Not daring to say another word, not even a single movement, the two women froze in the cold wind and rain like lambs stared at by a ferocious beast, letting the rain penetrate their clothes, until a faint smell of urine spread from them.
Ye Han frowned and glanced at them in disgust: "Get out." ”
The two women turned around and fled in a panic as if they were in amnesty, not daring to leave a single dissatisfaction or a cruel word.
In the cold wind and cold rain, the small commotion in this corner did not cause any ripples, and as the two women fled, calm was restored here.
The mother-in-law stood to the side trembling slightly, not knowing if it was because it was too cold or because she was frightened by the scene just now.
Ye Han walked up to her and hugged her gently.
The mother-in-law was stunned for a moment, she couldn't remember how many years no one had hugged her, and in the few memories that remained, the last person who hugged her was her son.
She remembered very well that that day, her son was about to leave with the troops, and before leaving, he hugged her tightly and whispered in her ear: "Mom, when the Japanese devils are driven away, I will come back to honor you, you must wait for me!" ”
She firmly remembered her son's words, and kept waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, and she supported the days of suffering, but her son never came back, until one day, a soldier hurriedly sent her an iron plate, and a blank piece of paper with the address written on it, and left in a hurry, leaving without leaving a word......
"Mother-in-law......" The memory was interrupted by a soft cry like a yellow bird, and when she looked up, she was stunned.
Ye Han hugged it for a long time before letting go, so her mother-in-law should be warmer, right? She took off her mask, smiled, and shouted like her granddaughter was playing coquettish with her grandmother, "Mother-in-law, I want to buy potatoes." ”
This smile brought the April day in the world, bright, warm, brilliant and dazzling, as if bringing the warm sunshine of spring directly to the bottom of people's hearts.
Looking at this pretty face in front of her, her mother-in-law also smiled, and her face was full of wrinkles, like the most beautiful chrysanthemum in late autumn.
She pointed to a basket of potatoes, then pointed to Ye Han, and then made a gesture of sending out her hands, and said in her mouth: "Ahhh ”
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