Chapter 12: Seemingly Peaceful
Today, the Huo family came to He's house to visit the mother and newborn child. When Huo Yibao first arrived, the whole person looked stiff, and he was always rubbing his hands at a loss. Standing on the side of the curtain and hesitating for a moment, he asked softly, "Are you breastfeeding?" After receiving the reply of 'no' from his daughter, he rubbed his hands again, then scratched his hair, and breathed a long sigh of relief before going in. After standing for a while, I glanced at the newborn baby a few times, then lifted the curtain and turned around to leave.
"Dad, do you want to hug the baby?" A smile appeared at the corner of Huo Xiaorou's mouth, she knew her father best.
"Okay, okay!" Almost without the slightest hesitation, Huo Yibao happily stretched out his arms to take the child, "Oops, it's so small!" It's scary-soft, but it's not as small as when you were a child! It's better to put the child in the bed, so as not to freeze! Huo Yibao's nervous expression made Huo Xiaorou laugh.
"Look at your dad nervous!" Zhang Xinghua smiled and recalled: "I remember when you were a child, once the candle fell and the quilt was lit, and your father was in a hurry, so he took the quilt away directly with his hand. There is a stick next to it! As a result, my hands burned! β
"At that time, it was a short circuit in the brain, and I couldn't think of anything else, so I couldn't think of burning Xiaorou!" Huo Yibao said with some embarrassment.
"Really, how could I not know? How's your hand burning? Huo Xiaorou looked at her father with emotion and asked nervously.
"You weren't even a year old, how would you know? The burn was so bad that I couldn't do anything for many days! Zhang Xinghua's tired face completely devoid of a trace of anger and nervousness, this was probably the most relaxed state she had been in in many days.
"Uh-huh! I'll go out and have a look first, and I'll come back later! Are you going out for a walk? Huo Yibao pulled his suit, cleared his throat, and went out with Zhang Xinghua.
"Our dad is shy! Ha ha! Oh, that's right," Huo Dajin's daughter-in-law, Qian Xiaoqin, said, while stuffing her daughter Huo Yuanyuan, who had been clamoring for her aunt since yesterday, into Huo Xiaorou's arms, and then said, "Today, our mother will go with her!" β
"Hmm!" Huo Xiaorou smiled and nodded.
"Then you have to take care of yourself, if there is anything you don't know, you can send me a message or call!" Although Qian Xiaoqin is three years younger than Huo Xiaorou, she has been married for three years and her child is almost two years old. Qian Xiaoqin looked at her sister who was smirking, and sighed in her heart: This sister, her heart is so big that she can fit an aircraft carrier all day long, which is really reassuring!
"Okay, got it!" Huo Xiaorou pursed her lips and smiled: "Listening to the way you speak, I don't know that I think you are my sister!" β
"It's obvious that you look too stupid!" Huo Dajin glanced at his sister, whose face was a little swollen, as if he had caught a prisoner, and then turned his head to look at his younger brother and pretended to tease and seek recognition: "That's right, Chaoyang!" β
"Yes, it does!" Huo Chaoyang looked at his haggard sister, frowned a little distressedly, and quickly raised his voice to hide his worry.
The scene of the three of them chatting together really reminded Huo Xiaorou of the time when she was still at home, and she couldn't help but hug her niece's hand a little tighter, her eyes were suddenly hot, and tears almost flowed out. She was naturally very happy because her family came to see her and the baby. Thinking that her mother is going back, she is always a little reluctant in her heart, but she really doesn't want her mother to work so hard anymore, and if her mother goes back, her husband will take care of herself, so there is nothing wrong with this.
In fact, in the past few days after being discharged from the hospital, Huo Xiaorou not only had to endure physical pain, but also felt the helplessness of not being able to take care of herself, and had to mediate between the two families. When she was awakened in the dead of night, she would silently put her finger under the child's nose, lest that weak life would come to an abrupt end. She felt like a peacock with its feathers plucked, her dignity and arrogance shattered to the ground, death seemed to be in her ears, always blowing the cold wind like death, and the fear of the unknown was like an uncontrollable snake burrowing into her mouth, the more she pulled it out, the more it drilled in, and the mouth that was deprived of language could not say a word "I'm afraid" in the end. The more time passed, the more Huo Xiaorou could feel that her situation was getting worse, so she would send messages to her husband every day, but her husband never replied to her, so she didn't know if he had read the message.
If you can take this opportunity to communicate well, maybe you can resolve the misunderstanding between each other-Thinking so, Huo Xiaorou immediately raised her head to find her husband's trace. At that moment, she saw that her husband seemed to be rolling his eyes, and next to him was her aunt, who was talking to him. So she told herself that her husband was just blinded, but was then denied by his disgusted look. glared at her husband viciously, and just when she wanted to open her mouth to scold, she suddenly found that her lips were a little painful, it turned out that she was so controlled by anger that she lost her mind, and her front teeth were so fierce that she almost bit her lower lip.
"Come, give me the child! Come, baby, my aunt is tired and needs to rest! Qian Xiaoqin considered that her sister's health had not yet recovered, so she hurriedly reached out and took the child.
"Hmm!" Xiao Yuanyuan didn't want to leave her aunt yet, but when she heard her mother say that her aunt was tired, she reluctantly left her aunt's arms.
Because it was already more than eleven o'clock in the morning when Huo Yibao, Huo Dajin and Huo Chaoyang came over, and the group had seen the children in turn, He Weiye's parents took the group to a nearby restaurant for dinner.
After the toss of the previous day, He Weiye had completely given up struggling, and he didn't want to lose his temper with anyone anymore - whoever asked him to do it, because it would definitely not go wrong.
He sometimes really feels like a kite being flown by someone else, and the string is always in someone else's hand. If the wife pulls it, she has to show that she feels sorry for her wife, and her parents pull it, and she can't help but show that she feels sorry for her parents. In fact, for him, both sides are important, but both sides have to compete with each other.
It's really troublesome, I really don't understand what marriage is for, is it to be angry, he thought. Every night, my parents would always break down the day's events in detail. Although it was very verbose, it also made him thoroughly understand that the key to the problem was not his wife, let alone his parents, but his wife's family, and the root cause of everything was because his wife's family managed too much. He knows very well that the wife he chose is kind and considerate, but he can't bear to be instigated by someone on the side, and his parents, He Chenggong and Si Damei, love him the most, and they will definitely not harm him. What's more, the parents have rich experience in life, and they always hit the nail on the head when they look at people and things; And his wife Huo Xiaorou is indeed too stupid and naΓ―ve, she always only looks at the surface of problems, and she has never seen the true intentions of others.
He Weiye looked at the group of people who obviously had nothing to do with him, but they were all like uncles, he tried his best to keep the surface calm and receive everyone with his heart, but these people were just talking about some things that they didn't have. Every word they uttered, every word reached his ears, as if it were automatically wrapped in a thick layer of insult, which violently stimulated the fountain of his pride, and the doubling anger gushed out one after another, almost burning his reason. He Weiye has always been a real person, he disdains to pretend to be calm, and listens to his parents' nagging every day, which is filial piety, and now so many people say so many boring things, they can say it, but he doesn't want to listen to it at all! But it was not good to find an excuse to leave, so he had to pretend to cough and turn his face to the side, although he was wronged to listen to them with his ears, but when the guests couldn't see it, the white eyes rolled as neatly as if he had drunk rat medicine - this eye-rolling effort really got the true biography of his mother Si Damei! He also felt a lot better because of this. However, he didn't expect that his behavior was all watched by his wife sitting by the window!
For Si Damei, the arrival of her daughter-in-law's family has changed from a group of Zhang Xinghua to a group of Zhang Xinghua, which only makes her feel more angry. Listen to what they said one by one - treat her (Huo Xiaorou) well, as if their He family bullied their Huo Xiaorou! The key is that Huo Xiaorou's father didn't say anything, Huo Xiaorou's younger brothers, daughters-in-law, and aunts began to ramble one by one like shrews, is there anything wrong with them? All of this fueled Si Damei's already high anger. The only good thing about the girl after she was born is probably that her son is more mature than before, and her son is really much more scolding than before - I couldn't say two words before, and I couldn't wait to lift the table. Now even if she scolded her son with the most ugly words she could think of, he smiled and didn't say a word. For this miraculous discovery, Si Damei was really like a treasure, and vented all the anger she received from Zhang Xinghua every day on her son's body.
Although Si Damei feels that scolding her son is very relieving, she will never listen to others talk about her son, not to mention Huo Xiaorou's younger brother, younger sibling, and aunt, is anyone who can't beat her worthy of talking about her son? So, she deliberately used more vicious language to teach her son in front of those people, one is to point at Sang and scold Huai - the listener has a share; The second is to show that he never favors his son - to show his noble character of selflessness.
Although He Chenggong felt that Huo Xiaorou's family was very unreasonable, after all, they were going back this afternoon, and he was a person who could support the boat in the prime minister's belly, so he was too lazy to entangle with them who were not qualified. It's just that it has cost more than 6,000 to give birth to a granddaughter, and today I have a meal and I lost more than 1,000 words, and my heart hurts a lot! Their family is here to waste his money, what can they do with this money, they have to engage in these false formalisms! Although Zhang Xinghua gave a meeting gift of 5,500 yuan to the female doll, it also fell into the wallet of her son and daughter-in-law, didn't it? Although He Chenggong's heart is full of bitterness, he is the most face-conscious, and he still patted his chest and said a lot of good things on the wine table.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, after sending the Huo family and his party away with great enthusiasm, He Chenggong specially ran to Huo Xiaorou's room and deliberately said loudly: "Oh, it cost more than a thousand, giving birth to a child is expensive, no way!" β
And at this time, Si Damei was really relieved - she finally didn't have to be so careful when talking to her daughter-in-law! These days, she speaks insincerely, and even the arrangement of her expression has to be determined by Zhang Xinghua's eyes. Now it's okay, whether she is crying or laughing is completely according to her mood, she feels that the sky has suddenly become bluer, and she is really in a much better mood! However, Si Damei is not as unreasonable as some people, although she has suffered a lot of grievances in vain in the past few days, she still decided to take care of her daughter-in-law and granddaughter wholeheartedly, as long as Huo Xiaorou does not lose her temper and make trouble unreasonably, she will never deliberately find fault!