"Why did you give Yangyang a bath, it's not that you're her father?" Lao Ma walked out of the bathroom with his mouth slightly open, walked up to Gui Ying, tilted his head, and looked mysterious and mysterious.

"Didn't you see me working?" Gui Ying, who was disturbed, spread out a puddle of things between his arms, indicating that he was super invincible and busy.

"How can there be a big man who bathes the female doll and cuts the nails of the foot!" The old horse's face was wrinkled.

"She's only four years old, she knows a fart!" Gui Ying is irritable.

"If she doesn't understand, you have to teach her to understand now! The problem is that the baby clearly understands, and you are stunned and think that the baby doesn't understand! You are so confused that you feel that there is no problem, it doesn't mean that the baby doesn't! Yangyang has long had the concept of gender, and has long known that men grow beards and women have hair! You're forty years old, so confused! Lao Ma pointed at Gui Ying and scolded fiercely.

"What if you know! There are a lot of fathers bathing their children, it's normal, don't make a big deal here! "Gui Ying Datiao.

"Oops, my lord! I've never seen you so messy! Confused and ridiculous! You think more about it for the baby in the future, okay! Lao Ma patted the table very excitedly, and continued to spit: "The baby is so little, let the big man bathe her and cut her nails, and when she gets older in the future, she will think that the man is just serving the woman!" When she is in love, she has to ask her male doll to cut her toenails, is this like a word? ”

"If the boy doll is willing!" Gui Ying raised her head and opened her round eyes.

"If you want a willing male doll, what backbone can he have! Do you want Yangyang to be the second you? The old horse stretched out his arm and pointed at Gui Ying's eyebrows.

"What about me! Am I breaking the law or am I immoral? I live my life well, what is there to forgive? Why is it so filthy in your mouth, my family of four! ”

Gui Ying finished, pretending to continue working with a straight face.

The old horse was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, pointed at Gui Ying's index finger and shook it, gritted his teeth and grinned, and was speechless.

He Zhiyuan, who had heard the two arguing earlier, dressed Yangyang, settled Yangyang, and came out by himself and bent over to adjust: "That...... Yingying, Yangyang's hair hasn't been washed yet, you go wash it. ”

"I'm not going! Not available! Gui Ying half-opened her eyes and raised her head to the old man.

Lao Ma's anger did not subside, and he turned his head and pointed at Zhiyuan and scolded: "You are also skinless and faceless!" After the age of three, if you become a father, don't bathe the girl doll, don't you know at such an age? ”

Zhiyuan blushed and explained: "She...... Six didn't take a bath, and I could scrape mud off my neck......"

"Dirty is dirty, dirty won't be dirty! She's not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry? I've never seen a man get down on one leg and cut the nails of a girl—what's that called! ”

"Yours looks like what my family has done, and I can't see what I can't forgive! Why don't you give the baby a bath and cut her toenails! Yangyang has been in charge of Zhiyuan all her life, from and peeing, eating and drinking, wearing clothes and shoes, her father is taking care of it, what's so strange about taking a bath! From the time you came home to the present, it has been Zhiyuan bathing Yangyang, did you only see it today? Which tendon is wrong, what are you making trouble about? What the hell do you want? Gui Ying yelled at the old man unceremoniously.

"Oops! What am I messing about? Even the boy knows how to avoid suspicion, why don't you avoid being a father! What do I think? It's time for you to take a bath, it's time for you to take a bath! Mother-in-law's family doesn't care about the baby, busy with a hammer work! The old horse pointed at Gui Ying again and shouted loudly.

Zhiyuan pleaded at Guiying: "Hurry up Yingying, you wash Yangyang's hair!" Work is put on hold for a moment. ”

"I'm not going!" Gui Ying leaned back in her chair, her hands on her chest, her nostrils facing.

"Are you going?" The old horse and lion roared.

"N-go!" Gui Ying is not afraid of danger.

The old horse pursed his lips, snatched the things on Gui Ying's table, tore them all up, and then threw them on the ground and stepped on them. When the couple saw the old man fighting, Zhiyuan was so frightened that he twisted his body and shrank back, but Gui Ying held his breath and sat motionless and sat straight.

After a while, Gui Ying calmly spoke: "I'm not going, I'm going to go!" After slamming the big bottles and cups on the table, he threw them on the ground, and then left gracefully with his head held up, and went to the house.

The father and daughter have the exact same pattern of tantrums.

Rattle, clang, clang, clack Hearing the movement, Yangyang hid in the innermost part of the bathroom and didn't dare to come out, but the cry that came out was heartbreaking. The old horse turned his head to look at the bathroom, sighed, and slowly walked to the balcony by holding on to the wall.

Zhiyuan looked at the things on the ground, worrying and heartbroken, not for himself, but for his wife. What the father-in-law tore was Gui Ying's recent record of work, many phone calls, contacts, and to-do matters were written down one by one when he was on a business trip, and many new jobs that he had just called to chat with customers were also written down on it.

Zhiyuan couldn't cry, took a broom and cleaned up the glass slags, cups, teapots, etc., and then picked up the paper torn off by the old horse one by one and put it in a relatively private compartment in the kitchen, and then he ran to the bathroom sweating profusely to coax the child. The old horse slanted at his appearance, and his heart was even more despised and panicked.

Since he came to this house, what Lao Ma has seen and heard is deaf. It is Zhiyuan who washes Yangyang's face and brushes his teeth, it is Zhiyuan who sharpens pencils and buys books for Yangyang, Zhiyuan who picks up skirts and adds vests and socks to Yangyang, it is Zhiyuan who brushes Yangyang's shoes and cleans up toys, it is Zhiyuan who wipes Yangyang's buttocks and deals with bedwetting, and it is Zhiyuan who coaxes Yangyang to sleep and buys headbands for Yangyang...... At first glance, people who don't understand are still babies without mothers!

The rest of the old horses can tolerate the fact that your half-hundred-year-old man bathes a four-and-a-half-year-old girl...... The old horse was so angry that his teeth were itching.

Children avoid their mothers, and daughters avoid their fathers - how big is it? Isn't it when children have gender concepts? In the era and concept of the old horse, the girl is more expensive, whether it is a daughter, a granddaughter, or a granddaughter, after the age of three, the old man rarely touches the body. The female dolls are all taken care of by the woman's family, in order to inherit the good qualities of her grandmother and mother - introverted, gentle, tolerant, industrious, delicate, neat, and considerate...... Words, what did Yangyang learn from her mother - not going home or getting drunk?

Zhiyuan coaxed Yangyang, carried Yangyang into her room, and picked up two toys for her to play with. After settling down the woman, Zhiyuan turned around and slipped into his room to look at the big woman, I don't know how Gui Ying felt after being quiet for a while. Zhiyuan sat quietly on the edge of the bed, looking at his sulking wife who was leaning on the head of the bed. Gui Ying, who had been holding back, saw that Zhiyuan was coming, and she was even more angry, and she didn't say anything.

"Don't be angry, honey." Zhiyuan spoke in a low voice.

"What am I angry about?" Gui Ying pressed her throat and asked with contempt on her face.

Zhiyuan turned his head and was silent, thought for a moment and replied: "Dad's also makes sense, you can bathe the child in the future." ”

When Gui Ying heard this, he was furious, and in an instant he jumped up and knelt on the bed, pointing at Zhiyuan condescendingly and yelling: "Everything is right for him!" Everything is his! Don't you have a brain? If he's right, why are you wrong? Why do you know that he is right, and give him a handle to scold you? ”

"Uh...... Before...... I don't think so! Zhiyuan told the truth, his voice was unusually unconfident, and his rickety back looked even more pitiful.

Gui Ying patted the pillow and yelled: "He's not unconscious, you're unconscious, you're conscious as soon as he is - do you still have brains!" I speak for you everywhere, I care about your feelings everywhere, but you have no principles at all, and when you open your mouth, you always follow him and say to me - am I wrong? I just don't wash it, I don't wash it, you want me to wash it as soon as you enter the house! Have you considered my feelings? What qualifications do you have to ask me to do or not do? ”

Obviously, at this moment, Ma Guiying is already angry and has lost her mind - half crazy.

When the old horse heard them arguing in the house, he snorted, and his heart was refreshed, but not happy. Their problems must be solved by them, and if they do not think that there is a problem, no matter how much outsiders quarrel.

"Didn't ask you for anything...... It's not ...... It's so big! You really have to take a shower. Zhiyuan lowered his brows.

"I'm going to bathe her, are you going to make money for her?"

Gui Ying finished, knowing that she regretted it, and tears fell down in a hurry.

Zhiyuan was ashamed and speechless.

The couple sat dry for a long time.

The aggrieved Gui Ying is not pleasing on both sides. Grievances are grievances, money has to be earned, and work has to be done. The woman sobbed as she changed her clothes and cleaned up, and when her things were ready, she was going out in tears. Zhiyuan saw that she brought some extra paper and pens in her bag, and rushed before Gui Ying went out: "Dad tore it up, I'll glue it up for you later, take a photo and send it over." ”

Gui Ying ignored it, and a new wave of tears came more violently.

After leaving the house and finding a café, Gui Ying reopened the stove and reorganized her work in a more private place. Zhiyuan was busy recovering, sitting alone on the floor of the room, gluing paper piece by piece, and then using his mobile phone at the best angle to shoot it and send it over, thinking that he could help her and be useful to her.

The mobile phone ringed every once in a while, and every time Gui Ying received a restored photo, she felt a little more guilty. Every time they quarrel over the general principle, He Zhiyuan always uses words such as cooking for you at night, I'll buy you fish, and I'll charge you when your phone is out of battery, Gui Ying couldn't cry or laugh.

She complained that he was spineless, unprincipled, and incapable, but she coveted his kindness to her—the kindness of dripping water, and the good of still water; She thinks he is weak and indisputable, but she relies on his weakness to do whatever she wants, and is free to be the overlord of this family; She was angry that he had no income, was unsociable, and was at home all in the circle, but she was obsessed with the steadfastness, security, and belonging she had thus obtained.

She dislikes him, and it is she who loves him deeply.

Is she so embarrassed about herself because of a lack of love in her childhood?

Approaching six o'clock in the evening, most of her anger was gone, her stomach was hungry, and Gui Ying, who was in a new mood and had a new idea, packed up her things. The contradiction between parents and children, no matter how deep it is, is not sparse; The contradiction between the in-laws and the daughter-in-law or the father-in-law and the son-in-law is shallow, not close. Gui Ying left the coffee shop, and on the way home, she kept searching in her mind for which sentence to use to break the ice and relieve the old man's suspicions.

After arriving home, Zhiyuan was cooking dinner, and Tsai had just come back from the cram school to eat fruit snacks, and his eyes swept around, but the old man was gone. Gui Ying was embarrassed, so she didn't ask, who wanted to be asked first.

"What's wrong with my grandfather?" Tsai grabbed a bottle of soda from the fridge and walked towards the restaurant.

"What's wrong?" Gui Ying sat at the dining table and quietly raised her eyes and asked.

"I came back at half-past five, and he was sleeping all the time, and he was rarely seen sleeping. Just now I listened to him sleep while I was changing...... Breathing like crying, obviously a little short of breath. Tsai imitated the way his grandfather breathed after falling asleep.

Although it was funny, Gui Ying couldn't laugh, she chuckled in her heart, and deliberately put on a straight face: "Who knows which tendon is wrong with him!" Pack it! ”

"What? You're arguing again? Seeing that his mother was unhappy, Tsai Tsai hurriedly pulled out a chair and sat next to her mother and asked, "Why?" ”

"Your dad bathed Yangyang, Yangyangliu didn't take a bath, he was bumped into by your grandfather, shouting, our family is not normal...... Ay! Gui Ying shook her head, rubbing her cheeks, thinking of the quarrel at noon, her heart was still unhappy.

"This question...... I'm on a line with my grandfather! "The boy drank the soda without pain.

"Why?" Gui Ying shrank her head back, surprised, but suppressed surprise.

"It's not ...... Yangyang is almost five years old! What's why! Tsai Tsai was embarrassed to say it clearly, and the words that came to his mouth returned to his heart along with the cold soda.

"Five-year-olds are children! She can't take a shower at five years old! Gui Ying didn't care.

"When I was five years old, you bathed me, and I was embarrassed! Now it's rippling again, can our family be a little more normal! Tsai Zai's face was mixed with disgust and embarrassment.

"What's not normal?" Gui Ying turned to face her son and asked.

"I'll go! Oops, I'll give you an example, once...... Before my grandfather came, the four of us went out to eat, and there were many people coming and going in the restaurant. I reprimanded her, and she scolded me! My dad saw it and quickly pulled the skirt down, you were on the side, you didn't notice anything, you kept playing with your phone! As if it had nothing to do with you! Tsai Tsai recalled the past, and there was a heavy helplessness in the dragonfly's expression.

"I didn't see it!" Gui Ying was not impressed at all, innocent and surprised.

"yes, that's the problem! You don't see it, you don't find it, you don't find it, it's okay, she's still - that's the problem. Do you know what I am most afraid of when my classmates come to my house? I'm most afraid that she will suddenly be abnormal and dance, roll and lift her skirt. Moreover, you didn't notice that she loves to wear skirts this year, which shows that she is already old! You yourself are unconscious and nervous, don't you feel ashamed to let my grandfather bring this question? The young man finished with an understatement and continued to drink soda.

The middle-aged man was dumbfounded.

After a while, Gui Ying found herself to go down the stairs: "Na...... I'm really busy, when my mother came home, Yangyang went to bed early, how to bathe her? Gui Ying half muttered and half asked.

"That's your question, don't ask me." Tsai Zai's face was fluttering.

The mother and son sat in silence for a few minutes, Gui Ying calmed his mind and said: "Modern people are like this, not only in our family. You weren't your classmate Chen Hejin's parents separated from each other, and his father made money in Cambodia, don't you still suspect that his parents are divorced? And what is the name of your former classmate, Sasha's mother opened a company in Nanjing, not in Shenzhen, so how does she live with her father? And the fat man when you were in school, his parents opened a company in the city, and when he went on a business trip, he was thrown at your classmates, lived in the same school, ate at the same school, and you laughed at him for being half an orphan! ”

Hearing this, Tsai was stunned for a moment, and shot back: "So! Do you use the negligence or disappearance of other people's parents to prove that you are at fault or not at fault? Then I can only be, you are such a good mother! The greatest mother of the 21st century! Tsai Tsai put his thumb up in front of his mother's nose, and his whole body was sarcastic.

"Where am I so bad! Don't be picky! Who pays for your new shoes? Who sponsored that sweatshirt you wore earlier? Who pays for your tuition, living expenses, and the cost of buying gifts for girls? I've been pulling your and up, what qualifications do you have for me! ”

Obviously, when the mother's authority was stepped on and turned her face.

"Yes! I'm not qualified, you're doing a great job! Very good! It's just that I never have time to attend my parent-teacher conferences! Do you know what is my current homeroom teacher's last name? It's been five years since junior high school and high school, how many times have you been to school? The first time you came to school after I was in high school, you slapped me because my grandfather wronged me for stealing his German pen — right? Last semester's final exam, I took the exam with a sick stomach because of eating barbecue, and you came for a few minutes and left—right? Anything else? ”

After the boy, he unscrewed the bottle cap and pretended to return to the room with the soda.

Unguarded, Gui Ying was cold, as if someone had poured a pot of hail from her hometown.

Is it really my own negligence? The woman fell into deep thought.

At half past seven, dinner was ready. Zhiyuan made a big table of dishes for his angry father-in-law, for his busy wife, for his motivated son, and for his growing daughter. Five dishes and one soup were served, and the rice was scooped into the bowl.

"Where's Dad? Tsai is going to call your grandfather for dinner. Zhiyuan sweated profusely and instructed his son while distributing chopsticks.

Tsai Tsai ran around and came over to reply: "My grandfather is not moisturized, let's eat first." ”

"What do you mean?" Zhiyuan didn't understand.

"It's just uncomfortable." Gui Ying explained.

The couple looked at each other and said nothing.

"I'll call it, maybe I'm still angry!" Zhiyuan Chong Guiying.

"No, you don't! I'll go. ”

The woman who was scolded by her father, criticized by her son, and cried because her husband was so angry that she stood up heavily, put down her dignity that she had lost a long time ago, and slowly walked to her father's room with a complicated stomach. Zhiyuan followed.

Pushing open the door, Gui Ying quietly walked to his father's side, looking at the old man condescendingly, his mouth that couldn't be closed when he was asleep, his breathlessness, his wrinkled forehead lines, and his uncomfortable face...... His father's decaying color instantly crushed Gui Ying's last stubbornness.

Gui Ying scratched his eyes, bent down, and called him in the same tone as he called his father in childhood: "Big, eat!" ”

As soon as I came out, the timbre changed because the nasal cavity was blocked.

The old horse woke up and saw the two standing on the side, turned his body, waved his hand without looking back, and said, "Ah! You eat first, I'll take it slowly, and then rest for a while, it's not very beautiful. "I gasped a few times.

Gui Ying saw that she was really a little short of breath, so she hurriedly squatted on the side of the bed and asked in a low voice: "If you are not beautiful (not beautiful, meaning unwell in dialect), do you want to go to the hospital?" ”

"No, you don't! Just take a break. When the old horse finished, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Gui Ying licked her lips with her tongue, bit her lower lip with her upper teeth, looked at the old man in frustration, and did not move for a long time.

Seeing that he was really asleep, Gui Ying went out of the house, Zhiyuan closed the door, and the woman didn't feel a good feeling. The old man is really old, he fought with her on an equal footing, and he fell ill after fighting.

A sumptuous dinner, a family of four ate tastelessly.

After eating, everyone was busy, and Gui Ying sat in the dining room, stiff. She felt guilty, blamed herself for forgetting that the old man was already a seventy-year-old man, blamed herself for neglecting her daughter's growth on weekdays, blamed herself for neglecting her son when she was busy with nothing, and blamed herself for saying the most cruel words to the person she loved the most...... Gui Ying complained that she had done poorly in all aspects.

Self-pity is accompanied by guilt, and the woman is depressed and self-harming all night.

In the middle of the day, the old horse woke up and ate, and then went back to the room to lie down. I had a quarrel with Gui Ying this afternoon, and after the quarrel, I was flustered and short of breath and my chest was blocked. Looking at this life, it is almost okay to fight with others and win every battle, without losing an inch of land, and now I only shout a few words, and my heart is useless first.

Aging, what an ironic but irreversible excuse. The old horse lay on the bed, sighing at the fact that he was old.

"Why are you sleeping?" The children who used to listen to their grandfather's stories every night did not wait for their grandfather to appear, and the empty children took the initiative to find the door.

"I'm not feeling well." The old horse lay flat.

"Why are you yelling at my dad and my mom now?" Yang Yang asked in his grandfather's ear.

"For you." The old man didn't move, but he rolled his eyes.

"Why?" People don't understand.

"Nothing." The old man sighed and closed his eyes.

"Then you can do it for me...... Don't quarrel with my mom and dad? "Suddenly the man who is on the line of God is cunning.

"Hey...... OK. But it's not school yet," the old man intermittently.

"Why?" People don't understand.

"For you." The old man is deeply involved

"Why me?" Silly Xian'er pointed to the tip of her nose and asked quietly.

"It's nothing, I'm going to sleep, you can play by yourself." The old horse waved his hand, and after his nervous system arranged for him, he eagerly inhaled a quick breath and exhaled a long breath.

"Don't disturb grandpa, grandpa needs to rest when he's sick." The older brother, who was doing his homework at the desk, motioned for his sister to go out.

The younger sister looked at her brother aggrievedly, fluttered her eyelashes, pouted, looked at her grandfather who closed her eyes and slept ignoring her, and leaned on the bed helplessly, like a boneless person, moving inch by inch to the door.

Two minutes later, the long-eared rabbit doll holding her pushed the door in. Silently walked up to Grandpa's head, poked his fingers at Grandpa's nose, and then pinched Grandpa's mouth.

"What are you doing?" The disturbed old man opened his eyes and asked.

"Here's for you." Yang Yang held her soul mate, her favorite long-eared rabbit doll, in front of her grandfather's eyes.

When the old man saw that this was something she had to hold every night when she went to sleep, he opened his eyes and asked, "Are you willing?" ”

Yang Yang nodded brightly, "Is it okay to let Bunny sleep with you?" ”

"And what are you doing?" The old man is worried.

"I've got a bear! It's that chubby bear. Yangyang pointed out the door.

The old horse understood, and said, "Okay then." ”

The old man stretched out his hand to take it, turned around and faced the wall in a dazed state, and held the rabbit to his chest with both hands, and his heart was a little sweet.

When people saw their grandfather turn his back to her and face the wall, they knew that grandpa was really going to sleep. She rubbed beside the bed for a long time, and her face was embarrassed, because there was a very, very, very important word. But the grandfather ignored her, the person bit her lip, buttoned her nails, and was afraid that her brother would train her and drive her, so the helpless girl jumped out and jumped to the head of the bed and climbed into the grandfather's ear and asked, "Then can you give me back the rabbit?" ”

When the old man and his brother heard this, they laughed silently.

"Yes."