Chapter 9: Mismatched pots and spatulas
When I get home, I always think about what I just happened and stare at the screen with my computer on.
Mom walked over, glanced at it, and said angrily: "I don't know what to do at home all day, like your father, you will pretend, do you read books for a lifetime?" I'll see how much you scored in this civil service exam! If you want to make up your mind to stay in Rongcheng, I will treat it as if I never gave birth to your daughter! ”
I watched my mother's mouth crackle like a firecracker, and the words seemed to be stored in her mouth at any time. Although I said that I didn't want to go to the civil service, I did my best to prepare. Actually, I don't have a bottom in my heart, and this is not the job I want to do.
I sighed and didn't explain. Seeing that I didn't react, my mother seemed to be very puzzled: "Let me tell you, I worked hard to raise you, and your surname is not conscience!" Your dad is the same, without me, he can have today? Marrying me is the blessing of the Xiang family! Without me, he wouldn't have gotten the house yet! ”
I just sat in front of the computer like this, and I didn't expect to be involved in these things, but I could tell that these words were for my father.
Dad was stir-frying in the kitchen, the spatula and the pot were clanging, and he could be heard sighing from time to time. It's not so much a sigh as a muffled hum with a breath of breath.
Mom lit the fire again: "What's the matter? Don't even go cooking! If this is the case, why don't you go to your son? I'm afraid my ex-wife is also angry with you, right? ”
I sometimes really can't understand when my mother's temper became so weird, even the slightest trivial, can be quarreled. Sometimes just they talk about other people's gossip, and the two of them can quarrel with each other.
My dad and I seem to be in a state of trepidation, and my mom is like a powder keg that can be lit at any moment. Dad goes to his son when he can't avoid it, and he always has a place to go. I don't seem to have any, not like, it's really nowhere to go.
I sighed deeply and closed my computer.
"Are you going to knock? Knock it and just knock it out! Mom rushed into the kitchen, picked up a spatula and slammed the pot.
"Don't eat! Don't eat! Don't eat it! Dad roared too.
"What do you want? Is it going to be a fight? Their voices were higher than the other, and they heard the sound of pushing each other.
I hurriedly ran to the kitchen and pulled the two of them apart, only to see that both of them were glaring at each other, their back molars were creaking, and they were clenching their fists into each other, as if they were about to fight to the death in the next second.
A big hole was also broken in the middle of the iron pot, and the noodle soup leaked everywhere on the stove, and the spatula also flew to the ground, and there were splashes everywhere and a little greasy.
"Okay, okay, haven't you all calmed down? What's the noise? Dad, you can leave it to her, haven't you been like this for so many years? "I really can't find a good word of advice.
"You also know how to live for so many years, this person is evil-hearted! She just wants to starve to death! Dad said viciously, and slammed his fist on the wooden door of the kitchen, and in an instant the wooden door cracked a crack.
"It's you who just take money to support him, and don't teach him to support himself! Who is not responsible? Mom roared in response.
"What's the matter with you?!" Dad seemed a little annoyed, and rushed up again with a fist.
"You're not smart yourself, you only cook your own cooking, what do you eat?! Why don't you die if you live like this? My mother was furious.
"You're dead! You're going to die! "Dad was also enraged to the point of madness, and they had already started cursing each other.
I tried to push him away, pulling Mom out of the kitchen and into the living room.
Instead, the three of them pushed each other together. Dad had a lot of strength, and with a wave of his hand, I couldn't stand steadily, and I stumbled into the corner of the table, and my back hurt until I reached the ribs in front of me.
My mother was pushed and unkempt, and one of my slippers fell off, and the two of them scuffled together, so anxious that I couldn't care about myself and rushed forward to pull it away.
"Knock knock!"
I don't know who knocked on the door at this time.
I ran to open the door while I pulled them away a little, and whoever it was, it would be a good time to give them a pause!
The door opened was Aunt Shen upstairs.
When they saw me open the door, the two of them each waved their fists, but they were both panting, and everyone knew what was going on when they saw it, not to mention that our family was famous here.
"What's the matter with you? I heard it upstairs, and I wasn't afraid of other people's jokes during the New Year! Aunt Shen entered the door with a smile, pulled away my mother, and said, "You two are almost done!" My daughters are so old! It's time to get out! ”
After the two were pulled apart, Mom went to the room to sit, Dad went to the kitchen to stay, and Aunt Shen went to Mom's room to persuade them.
I was left alone to cry as I watched the mess at home.
Actually, I don't like Aunt Shen to come, she is the person with the biggest mouth around, and she has not passed on the affairs of my family over the years, and often pulls the surrounding neighbors to say that the east and west are short. When I was a child in school, she led a few old aunts to sit and talk, and when I walked by, I could always see them pointing and talking while looking at me, and they would pay attention to each passing by.
I once heard her give her some bad ideas to my mother, and I always felt that my mother's temper became more and more eccentric, and she couldn't get rid of her. She told her mother, "You should have a fight with him!" Endless noise! If it doesn't work, it's noisy to the unit! If everyone knows it, people will know that you are the one who is wronged, and you are the one who is kind. At that time, I was young and didn't know how to refute Aunt Shen's remarks on the spot.
Although after that, I persuaded my mother that such a quarrel would not solve the problem, and the quarrel would hurt feelings. However, it was rejected by my mother, she thought that I was towards my father, my surname was Xiang, and it was not a good thing.
With tears in my eyes, I simply cleaned up the living room, tried to push open the door of my mother's room, but it was locked, and I returned to sit on the stool in a daze. I'm a little scared that Aunt Shen has some idea for my mother in the room.
Got up and went to see his father, who was sitting on the ground with his head on his knees, though the fierce god he had just looked like he was about to eat people, and now he was as decadent as a robbed.
I cleaned up the kitchen, poured out the remaining noodle soup, wiped down the stove and floor tiles, and threw away the broken pot, leaving a spatula. Dad never looked up, and when he swept to his side, he only retracted his legs.
"It's cold on the ground, Dad, go to your room."
"Xiang Wan, you are also older now, I plan to go to live there, and I will come back when the relationship is better." Dad looked up as he spoke.
"Well, you can decide for yell." I bit my lip and tears fell to the ground mixed with the soup, and I couldn't tell anything. It's not that I haven't thought that it's better for them to be separated like this, but when I think about separation, I'm still a little sad.
I silently cleaned up, walked out of the kitchen, changed my clothes and went downstairs, there were outsiders at home, and there would be no more fights for a while. I threw a pile of trash into the trash, along with the broken pot. The muffled sound of the crash was as heavy as falling in my heart.
Wipe away the tears, look up at the sky, it was pitch black, the whirring wind poured into the collar, it was really cold to the bones. I craned my neck and buried my face in my collar.
When I bought a pot and returned home, Aunt Shen was no longer there, my mother was lying on the bed, and my father was missing.
I guess I'm going to live there, I sighed as I thought, and washed the pot and put it on the stove, along with the spatula that didn't match it in the first place.