In the evening, after eating, the workers all went back, leaving only He Chenggong, Si Damei and He Weiye and a family of three sitting around the dining table.

"What's going on? Why didn't your daughter-in-law come back? Si Damei is very dissatisfied with the current result, she really doesn't understand that Huo Xiaorou has given birth to children, why is she still so naïve? I really don't know how I can live a good life in the future? But after all, Huo Xiaorou didn't come back, she just wanted to say that she couldn't reach her, so she could only vent all her anger on her son. "You said you, you went to live in someone else's house for a week or two, and you didn't do anything, what did you do in the past?"

His mother's tone full of disgust and reproach made He Weiye impatient, he pursed his lips and said angrily: "Okay, stop chattering!" ”

"Don't say? I don't talk about you, why didn't you get your daughter-in-law back? Why just put your child in someone else's house? Si Damei glanced at her son with disgust.

"What the hell? What are you doing all this all day long? Anyway, I'm reconciled with Xiaorou now, but my daughter-in-law is all about me! He Weiye raised his chin high and said proudly.

"Reconciled?!" The son's triumphant and happy expression was like a fish bone, and he suddenly stuck Si Damei's throat, although it didn't hurt much, but it was really uncomfortable! She pursed her lips together, pursed her lips downward, snorted coldly with great disdain, and her index finger—pointing at He Weiye—dotted in the air like a woodpecker, gritting her teeth and saying, "It's going to make trouble all day long, how many times have you made trouble since you got married?" What can happen in the end? I have to ask you to run over and pick it up every time. In the end, it's all because you're too cowardly, and she's really pinching you to death now! As soon as people make a fuss, you will run over with a! Just look, you will have a 'good life' in the future! ”

The expression on He Weiye's face finally dimmed under his mother's 'education', he bit his lip and stopped talking, the things he experienced in the Huo family began to flood his heart like a tide, and the humiliation and grievances began to spread to his entire body.

"Say less! Weiye, since you are gone, why don't you bring your daughter-in-law back? What's going on with you now? It's almost the New Year, don't you take her back, are you going to go home with her parents? So did she say whether she would be at home for the New Year? After all, the Chinese New Year is approaching, and He Chenggong is most concerned about going home for the New Year.

"What's the matter, can she not go home for the New Year?" Si Damei, who was full of disbelief, was stunned for a few seconds, then pursed the corners of her mouth in disgust, and then said, "It's good not to come back!" If you don't want to come back, let her stay at her mother's house to see if her mother can guard her for the rest of her life! ”

He Weiye lowered his head, his upper teeth biting his lower lip hard, and the lips bitten by the teeth were a little pale. He was silent for a while, and seemed to be a little embarrassed to speak, but he couldn't bear the stormy urging of his parents, so he had to break the jar and tell the truth: "She said, that, she won't go back to our house for the New Year!" ”

He Chenggong took a puff of cigarette, and after slowly exhaling it, he was silent thoughtfully for a while, and said as if talking to himself: "This is not good, if your daughter-in-law doesn't go back for the New Year, your mother and I will be lost, really, it's really not okay if you don't go back!"

As soon as she heard her husband's words, Si Damei suddenly remembered her dignity, and shouted loudly: "Oh, this is not good, you can't let the people in the village laugh at it, you tell her, let her go home for the New Year!" ”

"I, I'm ......" He Weiye hesitated for a while, but he never found the right words to express himself.

"I'm afraid, that family deliberately didn't let her come back!" He Chenggong frowned, took another deep puff of cigarette, and said helplessly: "The girl is a good child, but she is too assertive to stop her family from coming up with ideas!" ”

"The children have been born, can she really divorce?" Si Damei asked a little panicked.

"Divorce is not enough, you see, this time it is like this, and once the great cause is gone, not all of them have been solved! Marriage, it is definitely inseparable, I am afraid that the Huo family will deliberately not let Weiye's daughter-in-law go home for the New Year, and we will not be embarrassed at that time? Think about it, this is a baby, don't set up a banquet? After setting up a banquet, the guests can't see their daughter-in-law and baby, can they be curious? When the time comes, what shall we say? Even if we can find a reason, can our relatives believe it? He Chenggong couldn't help but regret his original impulse when he thought of such a serious problem, but he still had to blame this dead old woman, why can't he bear it?

Her husband's phrase 'won't divorce' kept repeating in Si Damei's mind like a loop, which made her nervous mood slowly relax. She was actually afraid that her son would divorce just because of her impulsive words, wouldn't it all become her fault?

"So, what to do?" He Weiye was completely disassertive, and the whole person was only left in a panic.

"What can I do, what can I do! You tell her that she has to go home for the New Year! Look at your cowardice! As soon as Si Damei saw her son's panicked appearance, she suddenly became angry.

"It's like, what's the panic? As long as your daughter-in-law doesn't want to get a divorce, you can cure her! He Weiye's helpless appearance made He Chenggong angry.

He Weiye was already panicked, and his parents yelled at him together, and he felt dark for a while, as if it had reached the end of the world, and all kinds of grievances came to his heart for a while, and his eyes turned red. "You don't know what I've been doing these days, you know how much I've been wronged, do you know how much I've been wronged? You know how to scold me! ”

His son's words and the aggrieved expression suddenly pierced He Chenggong's heart, and he knew that his son must have been angry. "You, you said you, a manly man, who is not a little wronged?" Although He Chenggong was still persuading his son, his tone had completely softened.

"What's wrong, son, did they bully you?" Si Damei asked in shock and concern.

"A little grievance? Hehe! He Weiye, who was full of lovelessness, sneered, and then said: "I was beaten, do you know?"

He Weiye's words were like an atomic bomb exploding, which blew up all the sanity of Si Damei and He Chenggong at once.

"Tut-tut, this, this, why is this, I haven't even beaten my son!" He Chenggong smoked hard, shaking his legs restlessly, and repeated in a low voice of disbelief: "How can this be? Can it be so unreasonable? No way! ”

"Ouch, I'm dripping! Come here, let my mother see, how can a shameless family bully people like this? Why don't you die! Si Damei, who had a snot and tears, hugged her son and cried loudly, as if her son had been beaten and disabled for life, at this moment she completely became an ancient man who had suffered great grievances and had nowhere to redress her grievances, crying and crying: "How can they beat you? Is there any royal law left? ”

"Mom-Mom!" Seeing his mother crying so sadly for himself, He Weiye couldn't help but feel soft in his heart, and poured out all the pain and grievances he had suffered these days.

People are creatures that are strange, things that can be endured, once someone is sad for themselves, even if they can endure it, they can't bear it, they have to exaggerate their grievances, and watch others cry and indignate for themselves, and they feel that they are more important than usual.

Listening to her son tell her grievances, Si Damei hugged her son and cried bitterly, and He Chenggong couldn't help but feel so distressed that his eyes were red. At this time, the family of three threw all their usual indifference and mutual irony behind them, and comforted each other the pain caused by outsiders.

He Weiye told his grievances over and over again as if showing off his great achievements, and the experience of a week—what actually happened plus his inner speculation—he just told his grievances for half a month.

He Chenggong and Si Damei listened to it with relish as if they were listening to a big play, interjecting a few words and scolding from time to time, and chattering for two or three hours before the emotions of the three finally calmed down.

"No, we can't give in anymore, we have to let your daughter-in-law go home at the end of the year, do you hear?" He Chenggong's evaluation of Huo Xiaorou took a sharp turn for the worse, and he decided that she had been completely assimilated by her parents.

"Look, look, what do I say! Your father still says that she is good all day long, look at her well! Still want to be nice to her? If you see it, she is a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised! Anyway, there is no good thing in that family, they are all unreasonable shrews! Si Damei decided in her heart that the Huo family was not a good person, and she was even more disgusted with Huo Xiaorou.

"I know, don't worry, she doesn't want a divorce. I embarrassed her, and she would have made concessions! He Weiye never thought about divorce, but after being reminded by his parents, he also knew that he should not suffer that nest of anger in vain, if he didn't get back a game, then the He family's face would have nowhere to put it.

"I have to embarrass her, they are all married, and they are entangled with their mother's family all day long, what is going on? Your daughter-in-law's mouth, it's really not good, you have to report it to your mother's family if it's a big fart. You just tell her that if you don't go home at the end of the year, let her not go home, she can get by, but she can't leave! I tell you, son, if you don't embarrass her with this momentum, the days of your embarrassment are still to come! Did you know? "The more Si Damei said, the more angry she became, if she hadn't spent 100,000 bride money, she really wanted to divorce her son immediately." It's such a troublesome way to give birth to a daughter, if she gives birth to a son, she won't be able to go to heaven? When the time comes, how will I live with your father? ”

"Hey! I don't think we can count on great things, we can't count on them, that's it, hey! It's better to let them live alone-" He Chenggong glanced at his son and sighed helplessly.

He Weiye listened to his parents' words, and couldn't find any reason to refute them at all, so he had to be silent. His parents' sarcastic words seriously challenged his manly self-esteem, and also fueled the resentful prejudice against Huo Xiaorou and his family.