(1) A family in a small town
This is an unpleasant night, in a room in the courtyard of the Yao family, the atmosphere is particularly solemn, the Yao family is sadly sitting around the table full of dishes, obviously not in a high mood ready to eat dinner.
Yao Zhiwen and Shen Rumeng were husband and wife, one holding their granddaughter and the other holding their grandson, they looked at the two flower-like baby daughters sitting in front of them with tears in their eyes, and they were all so sad that they couldn't say a word. Although the food cooked by the two daughters was fragrant, the husband and wife didn't have the heart to move the chopsticks at all.
Yao Jingrou, the youngest daughter of the Yao family, divorced her husband a few years ago. Since the divorce, the youngest daughter has been living with them in the Yao family's courtyard with their little granddaughter. thought that the divorce of the youngest daughter and her ex-son-in-law did not hurt her feelings, and it was a matter of time before she and her ex-son-in-law remarried, but after waiting and waiting, the couple did not wait for the reunion of the younger daughter's family, but waited for the marriage of the eldest daughter Yao Jingshu to break down.
Just today, the eldest daughter and the eldest son-in-law have completely ended their 7-year married life, and the eldest daughter has also divorced the eldest son-in-law with their grandson. Seeing that the beautiful daughters of the two people who were the envy of everyone suddenly became single mothers, how could the Yao family and his wife not feel sad and sad?
"Dad, Mom, there will be no more annoying people in our family in the future, and no one will make you angry again! My sister and I are both young now, and we both work hard, work hard to make money, and work hard to live! You can relax, let him pass the people and things in the past, from today onwards, let's all look forward together, I believe that the good days of our family are still waiting for us! I also believe that my sister and I will definitely not be worse than others in the future, you just wait and see, wait and enjoy happiness with your daughter! ”
As soon as the younger daughter Jing's soft voice fell, the eldest daughter Jingshu also looked at her parents with tears in her eyes and said, "Dad, Mom, I'm really sorry, I let you worry about it!" But my thoughts are the same as my little sister now, and I've adapted to the life of the two of them. In the future, without Cao Biwu's harassment, you don't have to worry about Ming Ming's little life anymore, and it will definitely get better as Xiaomei said! ”
Yao Zhiwen and Shen Rumeng looked at their two well-behaved and filial daughters, and listened to the words of the two people looking forward to a better future, and their feelings were exactly the same: they felt distressed and felt that their two daughters had experienced an unhappy marriage; I feel relieved that my two daughters are so strong and optimistic.
What else can the couple say at this moment, except for the unconditional support for their two daughters, it is still unconditional support!
Time reverses, everything returns from now to more than 40 years ago, the lives of sisters Yao Jingshu and Yao Jingrou, let me start slowly from the time their parents Yao Zhiwen and Shen Rumeng got married!
In the 70s, there was an ordinary and unusual town in the northeastern county, which was said to be ordinary because it was as ordinary and simple as many small towns on the land of China; It is unique because the town is home to the birthplace of the Qing Dynasty, the last dynasty in China's modern history.
It is a place with four distinct seasons and simple folk customs, and it was a warmer day than usual in April, which had just ended a long winter. A young couple welcomed their first child, a beautiful girl named Yao Jingshu, in the only hospital in the area.
Xiao Jingshu inherited her father Yao Zhiwen's facial features, big eyes and double eyelids, a high nose bridge, fleshy lips, and only a pointed chin like her mother Shen Rumeng. The little baby is very cute, and at first glance it is a standard beauty, and it will definitely be an unscrupulous beauty when she grows up in the future.
Yao Zhiwen is the second oldest among the brothers and sisters of the Yao family, because the eldest brother got married a year ago and went out with his wife, so Yao Zhiwen lives with his parents, three younger sisters, a younger brother, and his grandmother.
In those days, it was very common for a family of 6 brothers and sisters to be, and the second Yao family was an ordinary worker in a collective unit in the town, and they were all honest and conscientious workers. Although the life of the Yao family is still far from the word wealthy, they finally have their own three tiled houses to accommodate, and the family has a large population and lives happily together. But as the children gradually grew up, the Yao family's three tiled houses became more and more insufficient.
The second elder of the Yao family finally married his eldest son and came back, but in less than a year, the marriage of the second son was soon placed in front of them again, and the Yao family's house was really no longer able to provide a place for the second son and the young couple to live, so the eldest son and his wife moved out of the Yao family and the young couple went out to live alone. But even so, the house that can marry the second son Yao Zhiwen is not rich, and the second elder of the Yao family can only let the young couple live on a kang with their grandmother.
Although the second elder of the Yao family knew that it would be inconvenient to do so, this was the only way to solve it. So in order to let the grandmother, grandson, and granddaughter-in-law not disturb each other, Mr. Yao pulled a thick cloth curtain in the middle of the kang, and temporarily reluctantly used it as a dividing wall between the two sides.
The second son Yao Zhiwen's new wife Shen Rumeng is a big grinning optimist with no heart, and Yao Zhiwen himself is a stuffy gourd who doesn't talk much and has a good temper, so the two of them don't care too much about these small problems in the details of life, and they happily accepted such a careful arrangement by the second elder of the Yao family.
The young couple has been living with the Yao family since they got married, and what the family didn't expect but was overjoyed was that Shen Rumeng, who had just been married for a month, immediately spread the good news of pregnancy. At this moment, the second elder of the Yao family began to think in their hearts about how to arrange the accommodation of the second son's family of three, and they were thinking about renting a house for the second son like the eldest son after the grandson was born.
Shen Rumeng is an accountant at a state-owned unit, and she has to take the unit's bus on the morning from Monday to Saturday, and it takes more than an hour or so to arrive at the unit. At that time, there were no weekends, only one day off a week, and there were still a lot of meetings, so Shen Rumeng could only return home after 6 or 7 o'clock in the afternoon every day.
Yao Zhiwen works in the same unit as his parents, is a very diligent and studious person, only the initial level of Chinese because of his very strong technical level, so he is already a mechanical technical person in charge of the unit at a young age. Since Yao Zhiwen is the person in charge, he has a lot of key and specific things to do, so he comes home late every day from work.
Yao Zhiwen's eldest sister is a teacher in elementary school, and she is also a diligent and hard-working person, who is busy every morning and evening. His third sister and younger brother are still young, and they are still students in school, so in this way, the cooking work of the Yao family's family all falls on Yao Zhiwen's second sister, who is unemployed at home.
Originally, Shen Rumeng had been getting up early and going to bed late to help her second sister-in-law do housework since the first day of marriage, but when she was pregnant, the people of the Yao family were afraid that Shen Rumeng would have something to lose, so no one dared to let her work with her. Especially the second elder of the Yao family and Grandma Yao, they didn't let her do anything anymore, for fear that they would tire her out of fetal gas or something, which made Shen Rumeng very grateful, but she was also very embarrassed. In this way, under the care of the Yao family, the pregnant woman Shen Rumeng soon reached the fifth month of pregnancy, and her unit suddenly came with good news, saying that she was going to give the married workers a new house to live in.
The young couple were very happy after getting the news, Shen Rumeng immediately filled out the housing application in the unit, and the application was approved quickly, so when Shen Rumeng was pregnant to the eighth month, they happily moved into the first new home belonging to the two of them.
The couple's new home is the closest to the roadside in a series of beams of the new bungalows, and the residents here are newly married young colleagues in Shen Rumeng's unit. There are five houses in succession, three of which have doors facing north and two doors facing south.
The house of the young couple has a door facing north, and the house is divided into a kitchen, two bedrooms, one large and one small, and a yard that is not too large. Because the location is on the very edge, the two vegetable plots that the little couple got are the two largest of the five, in front of the house and behind the house. Although the house is not big, compared to the half-baked kang in Yao's house, their mood is like living in a villa, which makes the two of them feel happy in their hearts!
At that time, although prices were very low, everyone's salary income was not high, so everyone was not very rich, and their lives were very economical. Because Yao Zhiwen is a dutiful son, since the first salary he earned after he went to work, he has always been handed over to his mother to supplement the family, and even after marrying his wife Shen Rumeng, he has never changed at all.
When the two of them got married, they didn't buy anything, just a bedding and a few sets of new clothes. After marriage, although the two of them spent their own expenses, although they were all Shen Rumeng's salary, but the arrogant Shen Rumeng never said a word of provocation in front of her in-laws' family, even with her husband Yao Zhiwen herself, she didn't even say a word of displeasure. Although Yao Zhiwen didn't say anything, he was actually very moved in his heart, and when he saw that his wife was so virtuous, he was even more smiling at his wife Shen Rumeng for 24 hours, and never spoke loudly to her, always gentle and got along with his wife very well.
When the young couple finished sorting out their only bedding and clothes, and put the few pots and pans sent by the two old people and colleagues, Yao Zhiwen looked at Shen Rumeng affectionately and said excitedly: "Rumeng, we finally have our own home now, my mother also said yesterday that she will not ask for my salary in the future, she asked us to live our own little life in the future!" Ru Meng, everything I will leave to you in the future, and our future children, okay? ”
When Shen Rumeng heard this, tears of excitement immediately rolled down, and she also looked at her husband affectionately and said with a little choked up: "Zhiwen, I will also hand over everything I have to you, and in the future, we will work together as a family of three, and I believe that the small life of the three of us will definitely get better and better!" ”
The two stared at each other affectionately for a long time, and then looked at Shen Rumeng's already high bulging abdomen, and they couldn't help but smile sweetly. At this moment, there is no other feeling in the hearts of the little couple except happiness!