Chapter 2: My Mother (2)
The fire broke out in the middle of the summer night, and nothing was snatched up, but fortunately, the family was safe, but since then the good days have died away with the fire. The neighbor's family was also implicated in the fire, so the family, who had no place to live, owed compensation.
My grandmother cried, my uncle cried, but my grandfather and my mother didn't.
My grandfather knew that no matter how hard it was, I had to get through it, and my mother knew that I couldn't read a book.
The most important thing at the moment was to find a place to live, and my grandfather begged a lot of people, and finally someone in the village was willing to take them in. Then he borrowed money from relatives and friends to build a house, because he knew that his grandfather would make money, and it was not difficult to borrow money.
A month after the money was raised, the house was built, but it was not as comfortable and spacious as before.
It was not so happy to move into the new house, because the poor family still owed a lot of debts.
My grandfather kept taking jobs outside, going out early and returning late every day, desperately trying to make money to pay off his debts. My grandmother was busy with farm work every day to earn her share. Despite this, the family still can't come up with the money for my mother's junior high school education, and my uncle has also reached the age of going to school.
That day, my mother took the initiative to tell them that she was no longer in school and that she could help her grandmother at home, but she had to let her uncle go to school. She said very firmly, not showing the slightest grievance, in fact, the bed had already been soaked a few nights ago.
Maybe that's why my grandfather liked his daughter so much.
Bidding farewell to the school, my mother did not lose hope in life, she gave her schoolbag to her uncle, and carefully put away all the books, maybe her younger brother can still use it in the future, and maybe she will have the opportunity to go to school in the near future.
This hope will always be with her in the days to come.
In the following years, my grandfather seemed to be much older and had a lot of gray hair on his head, but he still maintained a clean habit, and no matter how busy he was, his grandmother would always prepare clean clothes for him to go out the next day.
My mother, who is almost an adult, works with my grandmother every day, works at sunrise and returns at sunset, and she never says she is tired. Every day when my grandfather came home, he would count the money he earned to his mother, because my grandfather knew that it was the happiest thing for my mother.
In this way, my mother counted the money day by day, added it day by day, and finally paid off the debt.
But before I knew it, my mother had grown into a big girl, and it was time to talk about marriage.
Mom didn't object to my grandmother inviting someone to talk about matchmaking, but she didn't want to, Mom knew that she was getting farther and farther away from her dream of returning to school, and it seemed that she had been separated by several mountains. Grandpa knew his daughter's thoughts, and he knew that his mother was bitter.
Because my grandfather is also a well-known craftsman, I know that he used to work in the provincial capital, and I also know that the family conditions are not good, but there are many people who ask people to propose marriage to my mother.
However, the mothers of the people who were close couldn't see each other, and they still didn't like it after a few hours or two of each other. Later, my grandfather asked an acquaintance to help keep an eye on Nan County, so my father walked into my mother's life, because at that time, my father was also on blind dates everywhere under the arrangement of my parents.
Dad's father, who is also my grandfather, used to be a township cadre, just two children, and the family conditions are not bad, so my father and aunt can go to school until they can't pass the exam and don't want to go.
My aunt, who didn't go to school, worked as a lady at home, and my father got a job in a factory, but his monthly salary had to be paid to his grandfather.
In the eyes of grandparents, although my mother is beautiful, 1.65 meters tall, smart and hardworking, her family conditions are not good, and her education level is not high, so she is not a satisfactory candidate for her daughter-in-law. But my father, who had seen my mother, no longer agreed to the blind date, and only insisted on marrying my mother, so I had hope.
That winter, my mother got married.
Mom didn't have a lot of dowry, but there were a lot of people who took her relatives and sent her relatives, and there was once again a bustle in the family that she hadn't seen for many years. My uncle promised my mother that I would be obedient and study hard, and my grandmother took my mother's hand and told her that when she arrived at her mother-in-law's house, she should bear hardships and stand hard work, know how to be patient, and live a good life.
The people who picked up the relatives left, and the relatives and friends dispersed in the evening, and the uncle opened the schoolbag that had been used for many years, took out the textbook and began to do the day's homework, and the grandparents were silently with him at the table for the first time until late at night.
The father who married his mother felt that he was very happy, but the grandparents didn't seem to be very happy, including the aunt, they seemed to think that the mother was superfluous, when they were idle all day and just waiting for dinner, and chatting and waiting for the next meal after eating, they never saw that their mother was busy serving them, and they didn't stop getting up early in the morning.
In half a year, my aunt got married, and that pomp may have been many, many times better when my mother got married.
With one less person to serve, my mother was a lot more relaxed, but until the day she gave birth to me, my mother never ate a meal that she didn't cook by herself.
After my aunt got married, I often came back to get things, rice, oil, it is estimated that only salt will not come back to get it, grandparents leave everything to her, even the sugar and fruits sent by relatives will wait for my aunt to come back to eat, of course I can't eat it, maybe the reason is not only that I am too young.
Dad felt very annoyed and expressed his dissatisfaction to his grandparents, but he didn't expect this to lead to the separation of grandparents and parents.
I was less than a year old at the time.