Chapter 11: The Unlit Flame
It's another morning. It was drizzling outside.
Just as I was getting used to being alone with my mother-in-law, my mother remembered me.
This would have been a good thing. But she's very homely these days! I couldn't have fun with her.
As usual, she would have taken me around the fields! But recently, she has become obsessed with knitting sweaters, and she doesn't go out all day, and she can't even go out with me. So I pinned all my hopes on my mother-in-law.
My mother-in-law is "idle" right now because my cousins and cousins have recently been taken away by their grandparents.
The mother-in-law who is idle will go out every day. It's the same today, listening to the meaning of her conversation with her mother, it seems that she is going to the sister's house on the other side today, borrowing a machine, and squeezing chili sauce.
"Mother-in-law, I'm going too! Take me along, okay! ”
The mother-in-law stood under the eaves, holding a basket on a high stone slab with one hand, and putting an iron bucket into it with the other. I came out of the kitchen door, ran to my mother-in-law's side, hugged her thigh, and begged.
Before my mother-in-law could answer me, my mother, who was sitting in the open hall, opened her mouth.
"Yan Yan! Don't mess with your mother-in-law! Your mother-in-law is going out on business today! Mom said, frowning, as if remembering something again, and said to her mother-in-law: "Mom, slow down on the road, it's raining on the road today, pay attention to safety!" ”。
"Oh, I know, Yingzi, you've read it several times, so you can rest assured!" My mother-in-law put things away, leaned over and touched my head, and smiled lovingly at me. He was ready to pull me away and set off.
"No, I'm going out too! Mother-in-law, just take me there! "As soon as my mother-in-law moved, I hugged me tighter. The voice was also excited, getting louder and louder.
"Behave, let go. My mother-in-law will come back in a moment to buy you lollipops to eat. My mother-in-law patted me on the back helplessly and coaxed me.
"No, I don't! Mother-in-law, I just want to go" Hearing that my mother-in-law didn't mean to take me out, I suddenly felt a little aggrieved, and I started to be coquettish without thinking about it.
"Yan Yan! Let go! Hear me! When my mother saw me like this, she got angry and yelled.
"I don't! Just going! Just going! ”
"I'll count to three, if you don't obey again, I'll come out!"
Threats, threats, obvious threats!
But I'm stubborn, and I can't care about these things anymore.
"...... "I held my mother-in-law's hand, not only did not spill, but also clenched it tightly!"
The silent resistance made my mother angry all of a sudden.
"Yan Yan! Come over to me! It's not over for you! My mother jumped up and stepped out of the hall, pulled me away, and isolated me from my mother-in-law.
"Wow~" I didn't meet my desire to go out, as if I was experiencing life and death, and suddenly cried.
"Alas, Yingzi. Be gentle with your children! Don't scare her! My mother-in-law looked at me helplessly, then muttered to my mother, opened the umbrella, and walked away with her things.
Seeing her mother-in-law, she stepped down the stairs and walked along the path in the direction of the opposite road.
I was a little one, but I couldn't take a step and continued to chase out.
Mom doesn't care about me anymore. She seemed to know that I was scared.
I stood where I was, looking into the distance, and my mother-in-law had turned from the small road to the main road, but still on the dirt road. Didn't go out onto a big road made of concrete.
When I calmed down, I was a little confused. Why did I cry just now? Want to make trouble? Is it just because you want to go out? No, I clearly know that the desire to go out is not so deep!
I...... I just want to be with my mother-in-law.
I'm used to being taken care of by my mother-in-law!
In the evening, the sky showed a trend of black clouds overwhelming the city and gradually enveloping the small village of Baiguo Village.
The farmhouse is fine, go to bed early.
The Yan family is no exception!
In the evening, after eating, Yan Yan and her sister, under the urging of Yan's mother, washed up, returned to the room, and prepared to sleep.
Yan's mother was also ready to go back to the room, but she didn't mean to sleep.
She pushed open the door to the bedroom where she lived, turned on the flickering electric light, walked over to the television, and bent down to take out a small basket from the wooden cabinet where it was kept.
Inside the little blue is a bunch of balls of yarn, which Yan's mother found for the two little girls and prepared to use to knit hats.
Yan's mother has made a lot of sweaters, woolen pants, woolen shoes, and even woolen socks these days. She was going to make the rest of the woolen hat, so she left the two children with her mother at home to bring. She plans to go out to work with her children's father this year.
The child's father has urged her several times, and she is reluctant to hold the child at home. It's just that something happened to Lao Wu's side this time, and she couldn't stay. I just went out at the end of this month.
Thinking of this, Yan's mother sped up the speed of needle and thread shuttle. Yan's mother was skillful and soon weaved a pattern.
The lights and shadows were sufficient, and in a trance, Yan's mother frowned, stopped the guy in her hand, she took a deep breath again, and faintly noticed that something was filling the air.
Suddenly, she trembled, took away her things with one hand, turned over, got out of bed, limped her shoes, and ran to the room where the two daughters lived.
Now that it was late autumn, she didn't even have time to put on a coat, only an autumn coat, and hurried out of the door.
When she came to the room of the two girls, Yan's mother felt that the smell was stronger.
But her two daughters, as if nothing had happened, were still asleep!
She shook her hands, lifted the quilt, held it in her hands, and shouted at the two people who suddenly woke up in a hoarse voice: "Get up quickly!" You all give me the old lady, get dressed, and get out! ”
After speaking, she clutched the quilt in her hand, and walked out hurriedly, regardless of the frightened two.
The two sisters, Yan Yan and Yan Feng, glanced at each other, and saw that in each other's eyes, in addition to inexplicability, there was only fear left. Apparently they don't even know what's going on. I don't understand why my mother is angry with them.
They followed as they were told.
At this moment, the Yan family is brightly lit. Yan's mother also turned on the door of the hall house, the headlights, and the lights under the eaves, for passers-by, and for lighting.
Yan Yan's bedroom was already in the middle of the hall, so as soon as they walked out, the lights and cold wind shook their eyes and confused their hearts for a while.
"Mom, what's wrong? Don't be angry. Yan Yan, who loves to be coquettish, asked Yan's mother innocently.
If usually, Yan's mother was angry, and Yan Yan spoke coaxingly, there would be nothing to do. But today is different, she is really angry.
"What's wrong? How dare you ask me what's wrong! Tell me, what did you all do tonight? Give me an honest account! When the words fell, Yan's mother didn't know when a loose strip in her hand was hit hard by her on the long high bench at home.
“……” Yan Yan was shocked and speechless. The same is true for Yan Feng. Apparently they all thought of something.
Seeing that the two of them were silent, Yan's mother was even more angry, turned around and carried a long high bench, and scolded: "Okay, don't speak, right?" Hmph, come, get up and kneel for me! When will it be explained! When to go back to bed! Do you understand? Deaf? ”
“…… Well. Answering Yan Yan like a mosquito and a fly, Yan Feng was so scared that her legs trembled, how could she dare to get close to Yan's mother?
At this moment of hesitation, Yan's mother's temper suddenly exploded. The pine strip was on the bench, beating it again and again, and what was even more terrifying was that she was holding the pine strip and pointing at the two sisters.
Yan Yan had long felt that her mother might not be angry in the next second, and she was going to use this weapon to hit them. And Yan's mother's current posture crushed her last nerve, and she immediately cried in fright.
"Mom, I'm ......" Yan Feng saw that Yan Ma was in a posture that you don't admit your mistakes, and I won't give up, and just as she was about to explain truthfully, she was interrupted by a sudden call.
"Oh, Yingzi, what are you doing? Why don't you sleep in the middle of the night, tossing the children? ”
Before she saw anyone coming in the door, Yan Yan knew that it was her mother-in-law who came. Suddenly, as if she had seen a savior, she was so excited that she whispered: "Mother-in-law! It's my mother-in-law who is here! ”
Yan Feng didn't react as much as Yan Yan, but he was also relieved.
Only Yan's mother, who is called Yingzi, seems to have a headache.
There is no way to have a child, her mother-in-law Zou, is very conniving at her own baby, and she is very protective even if she makes a mistake.
No matter what she tells her, if she is too indulgent to the child, the child will be pampered and arrogant, and it will be difficult to discipline her in the future! She couldn't listen to it, and she said very reasonably, "Oh, the child is still so young, how can it be as serious as you say!" Besides, don't you often yell at the kids, uh-huh, it's gone, it's all there. ”
As soon as the words changed, she still had to be nervous, "I think that at the beginning, my father and I were also singing with a white face and a black face, and we didn't teach people well!" ”
Whenever he encounters this situation, the Yan family can't wait to hide the child and educate it, so that the Zou family will not see it! Today she is also confused!