Chapter 51: Auntie's Tears
"Mom, can you not go to my mother-in-law's house?" The aunt yelled at Grandma Anne angrily.
"What's wrong? I went to your mother-in-law's house once the day before yesterday and sat for less than 20 minutes, what's wrong with me? Grandma looked at the angry aunt and said with a blank face.
Anne was sitting in the living room of her aunt's house, eating an apple, when suddenly the sound of a fierce quarrel in the dining room caught Anne's attention.
"Lao Wang scolded me yesterday! Say won't let you go to the house! disgusted with you! The aunt said almost with a crying voice, and roared hoarsely.
"I~ What's wrong with me? Didn't I also think that she was my in-laws, otherwise what would I be going back to? Am I not still for you? Grandma said in a pitiful voice.
"Lao Wang's mother said that your tuberculosis is afraid of infecting his mother!"
"I've had tuberculosis for half a year. It's not contagious at all! Grandma said in a small and weak voice.
"Also, not only did you say that you were infected with tuberculosis, but your mother also said that you carried a plastic bag all day long, picked up drink bottles all over the world, embarrassing and unhygienic, Lao Wang's mother said that she saw you in front of his house in the garbage can, poked half of her body into it, and went back and forth to pick up garbage!" Auntie's voice is getting louder and louder.
"I don't have it, I just have nothing to do when I walk around the corner every day, I see a drink bottle on the road, pick up a few, sell a scrap, what's wrong with me?" Grandma said in a weak voice.
Anne listened to all this quietly, feeling very uncomfortable, Anne wanted to rush in to stop her aunt, but Anne still held back, Anne couldn't bear to make her grandmother even more embarrassed in front of her granddaughter.
Anne's grandmother had four children, two sons and two daughters, but in fact, there were only two daughters around her, because the remaining two sons were almost never seen, of course, my uncle died last year, but when he was alive, I didn't see him see my grandmother and us.
Anne's mother was the first child of her grandmother and grandfather, and Anne's grandfather died when Anne's mother was 17 years old.
That year, Anne's mother had just graduated from high school and was still a minor, and the remaining younger siblings were about 2 years apart from each other, and they were younger.
In other words, my grandmother was only 40 years old, and she had already lost her husband, and she grew up alone with 4 children, and the eldest was still a minor.
Despite such a hard life, my grandmother did not have a formal job in the system at that time, and she had been burning boilers in the boiler room of the agency compound where her grandfather worked, relying on the meager income of a temporary worker to support herself and her four children.
Grandma barely thought about herself, in fact, she was just 40 years old at the time, and she had every chance to remarry, have a new life, and find a lifelong support for herself.
However, the grandmother was afraid that the children would be wronged by their stepfather, so she never considered personal problems at all, so she worked hard to support the four children and supported Anne's mother until she graduated from college.
Later, my grandfather's unit system recruited workers, and in order to have an iron job bowl with insurance, my aunt gave up her studies at the age of 15 and went to work as a female worker in a state-owned garment factory.
Anne's grandfather and grandmother are almost the same disease, both of them are orphans in the old society, grandpa lost his father and mother since he was a child, and grandma lost his father before he was born.
The teenage grandfather almost grew up eating the hundred family meals of the old society, and he didn't know exactly what year he was born, and he didn't know what his surname was.
In the early 50s of the 20th century, when the Korean War broke out, my grandfather was conscripted into the army from the Central Plains, which means that today's grandfather's name and age were written at random when he was conscripted into the army.
In October 1950, the Chinese People's Volunteers went to fight in North Korea, opening the prelude to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Grandpa Anne joined the Korean War in full swing with her comrades-in-arms, which is the famous "War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" in history.
During the war, the Volunteer Army received the full support of the entire PLA army and the Chinese people, and the cooperation of the socialist camp led by the Soviet Union.
Anne's grandfather served as an artillery soldier in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and when he was on duty, he was injured in the line of duty, and his ears were deaf because of the continuous sleepless fighting, and his hearing was only 1/10 of a normal person.
This time, my grandfather was awarded the second-class meritorious medal of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and also became a glorious hero of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but the hero's medal was exchanged for blood, and the disability of hearing impairment and shrapnel remaining in the body tortured my grandfather every spring, summer, autumn and winter in the future, and the pain of war also accompanied my grandfather's short life and glorious life.
There are also injuries on the body and legs, and the bullet fragments in the calf of the right leg have accompanied my grandfather for a lifetime, whenever the weather changes, my grandfather has more than a dozen injuries all over his body, which will have a collective attack and pain.
After more than two years of bloody fighting, in July 1953, the two sides signed the "Korean Armistice Agreement", and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea ended.
In 1958, all the volunteers withdrew to China, and Grandpa Anne crossed the Yalu River with all his comrades-in-arms and returned to the embrace of the motherland.
After transferring from the army, Grandpa Anne was assigned to the China National Petroleum Corporation and became a junior carpentry apprentice.
Later, Anne's grandmother and grandfather formed a happy family under free love, and they came a long way together, raising four children, grandpa was responsible for earning money to support the family, and grandma was a full-time housewife, although the life was simple, but it was quite happy.
Unfortunately, in the twentieth year of my grandfather's marriage, my grandfather died of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by high blood pressure. He left behind his 40-year-old grandmother and 4 minor children.
In the past 20 years, grandma's difficulties and grievances do not need to be repeated, but they can also be seen.
That's all for the past, and the topic returns to today's quarrel between grandma and auntie.
In the early nineties, my aunt was still working in a state-owned garment factory, and the work was very heavy and hard, but she was finally a worker in the system.
Later, the aunt and the sister-in-law got married, and soon after the marriage, they gave birth to Anne's younger brother Xiaofei, (Xiaofei was born in 94).
After Xiaofei was born, when Xiaofei was 2 years old, that is, in 96, Xiaofei's work changed, because of the impact of the national wave of layoffs, female factory workers like Xiaofei, who had no education, no technology and were not young, were collectively laid off.
My aunt suddenly changed from a worker in the iron rice bowl in the system to a "jobless vagrant" today.
The newly married aunt is young and beautiful, has a job, and her uncle-in-law treats her well, the change is from 96, when the aunt gets older and becomes a laid-off unemployed person, the attitude of the sister-in-law begins to change gradually.
began to be obsessed with gambling, often gambling for two days and two nights without going home, and the life of the family became stormy because of this.
In addition, he began to have fun later, often playing with women outside, and had sexually transmitted diseases more than once.
This time my sister-in-law fell ill because of gambling overnight, not eating or sleeping, and working hard, and he was only in his early 30s at a young age, so he got himself to mei poison + stroke, and Anne felt that sooner or later he would have to kill himself.
Because of the early death of her husband and the poverty she grew up, Grandma Anne has always developed the habit of thrift and thrift.
Even though she doesn't have to worry about eating and drinking now, Grandma still often picks up wine bottles, drink bottles and waste cardboard in the afternoon.
Until now, there are a lot of cardboard and drink bottles that grandma picked up in the storage room of her own house, the basement of Anne's house, and the basement of my aunt's house.
For this aunt, I don't know how many times I told my mother about my grandmother, but my grandmother just didn't listen.
Three years ago, my grandmother had tuberculosis, and my mother took my grandmother to Yanjing to see the best infectious disease hospital in the country.
Unexpectedly, my sister-in-law's mother disliked her just because her grandmother had tuberculosis.
complained to my grandmother in front of my sister-in-law, and my sister-in-law was not a thing, so I quarreled with my aunt about this when I went home.
In the end, things became what everyone saw at the beginning, and the aunt yelled at her grandmother angrily.
The aunt herself has no dignity at all in this marriage, which even the underage Anne sees in her eyes, and I don't know what the aunt thinks in her heart.
A man, a husband, he can openly dislike and humiliate his wife's mother in front of you, I really don't know how my aunt feels in her own heart.
Two people from different families of origin form a family, both carrying the imprint of their respective families of origin and the values they have heard and seen since childhood.
Anne sat in the living room, fidgeting, and the sound of fierce quarrels in the dining room made Anne feel dizzy for a while, but now it suddenly fell silent.
With a bang, grandma opened the door with red eyes and walked out alone.
Anne immediately got up and was about to chase out, but the aunt ran out of the restaurant crying, this was the first time Anne saw the aunt crying.
For a moment, Anne stood on the couch, not knowing what she should do. Should I chase him out to find my grandmother, or should I first appease my aunt who is completely out of control.
After half a second of ideological struggle, Anne decided to stay and appease her aunt who was out of control first.
Auntie came from the dining room, threw herself on the sofa with a heavy butt, and cried loudly, at that moment in Anne's eyes, Auntie looked like a helpless child.
Anne hurriedly tore off a tissue from the coffee table with one hand and wanted to hand it to Auntie, and held Auntie's shoulder with the other hand.
At this moment, the aunt suddenly hugged Anne's body, and her whole face was buried in Anne's stomach, crying earth-shatteringly.
For a while, Anne was a little frightened, in the eyes of 15-year-old Anne, the cry of her aunt made Anne's liver and intestines broken, and the whole person was so panicked that she didn't know where to put her hands and feet.
"Auntie, don't be sad, don't be sad, I'm here, I'll accompany you!" Anne's weak voice was like a mosquito.