Chapter 43: I'll Be Good to You
That's it, your grandmother still picks her nose and eyes every day, a word is wrong, she didn't expect anything at all, she cried and scolded me and said that I am a stepmother, I am ruthless, and I want to kill your dead-faced eldest sister! Your father was also guarding against me at the time, as long as your milk cried and made trouble, your father didn't give me a good face for a few days, I was in this Mei family, like boiling oil, until I had your eldest brother, it was a little better, my mother was careful every day at that time, until she gave birth to your eldest brother, she was considered to have a firm foothold in the Mei family. For so many years, I can't tell you what I have suffered. If you weren't cruel to yourself, would you be able to get through?
Later, when you and they went, my mother had your brother and you again, and she was in charge of her own house, and life was better. I thought that I could enjoy the blessings of my son and daughter-in-law now, but this son got married, and there was one more person next to the pillow, so I was selfish.
Let's just say that your sister-in-law, your eldest brother is an honest man, your sister-in-law has a plan in her heart, and she has always thought that she is the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law, and your father and I are not dead, so I regard the Mei family as hers. I thought it was great to give birth to three sons to the Mei family, so I thought about separating you all. Those ideas are all leftovers from my mother's play, if I don't press her, I'm afraid that it will turn the sky upside down.
And your second brother, who also has no conscience, is at home for him to study, and the money spent can be a villain, he is good, married a daughter-in-law in the city, and simply hides in the city and does not go home, and every year when he goes home, he cries poverty to his mother, saying that it is not easy to live in the city, phew! It's just that I was blown by the wind on my wife's pillow and lost my conscience and forgot my father!
Your third brother is also an unsuccessful person, he doesn't have a home all day long, and there is no difference between him and him. You see your third sister-in-law is pitiful, right? One person dragged three children, and he didn't even have a handle on weekdays. This is also a loss to our family, if it were someone else's family, the daughter-in-law who couldn't keep the man would have been kicked out a long time ago. You know, the pity is also made by herself, just married to our family, crying and mourning all day long, as if our family is sorry for her, and she doesn't have a smile on her man, and she doesn't say much, which man can stand it? The wife at home doesn't know whether it's hot or cold, so can a man run out?
My mother has lived for most of her life, although she has not read any books from your second and third sisters-in-law, but she has read a lot and can understand that from ancient times to the present, it is this world that women live hard. If you want to live well, you have to coax men, follow them, and make them happy, so that you can get what you want.
You are my daughter, can my mother harm you? Now that your father and I can still work, I think that in the future, you will marry nearby, and your mother will give you a thick dowry, so that you can straighten your waist in your in-law's house and be close to home, and your brothers will take care of it, and your in-laws will not dare to bully you. As long as you get married, fight for your stomach, and give birth to a son, you won't have to worry about it in this life! You can rest assured, your father and mother will definitely not find you a family to marry and suffer in the past, you must choose a good family for you, and keep you smooth and obedient for the rest of your life, so that your mother can close her eyes. ”
These words were really said by Mrs. Li from the bottom of her heart, not her daughter, who is willing to spread this out and make it clear.
Mei Xiaotong could naturally feel Mrs. Li's hard work, "Mother, I remember what you said." I know that my mother is dedicated to my good, I just feel sorry for my mother, I gave birth to me and my brothers, and now I can't enjoy the happiness, and I have to worry about us. I'm ashamed to think about it! ”
"Nonsense! My own girl hurts herself! When my mother gave birth to you, I naturally wish you had everything well! My mother told you, you are an honest person, find someone who knows the roots, and after you get married, your mother's family is your reliance, you have those brothers, who dares to touch your fingers to try? When Mrs. Li heard her daughter's words, her heart was soft and a little sour.
"Mother, you scold your sister-in-law so much on weekdays, they also have a mother's family? Won't they go back to their parents' house to complain? Why didn't I see their mother's family come to our house? Mei Xiaotong said she didn't believe it.
Mrs. Li sneered: "It also depends on what kind of maiden family it is!" Your sister-in-law is settled by your grandmother, and she is a relative of your grandmother's family, otherwise she is worthy of marrying our family with her mother's family? When the dowry cost our family five taels of silver, I accompanied a box of old clothes, not even a bed quilt, just this, your sister-in-law and her mother's family in our Mei family can't talk, if your sister-in-law didn't give birth to three sons, I and your father looked at her, she can have today? ”
"Your second sister-in-law thinks that she is from the city, and looks down on our Zhuang family, anyway, she doesn't live with us, and I don't bother to pay attention to her, she has been married to your second brother for so many years, and she gave birth to a daughter, no son, and she can't raise her head in front of the old lady, and she can't afford to take the money of the city lady, as long as she dares to her tail in front of the old lady, the old lady will say that she can let your third brother divorce her.
And your third sister-in-law, their family took the initiative to climb our family back then, and now their family is so ruined that they can't even afford to eat, where can they have the ability to support their married daughter? ”
Mei Xiaotong then understood the complex relationship between the characters at home.
Mrs. Li was afraid that her daughter would not understand, so she simply said directly: "Xiaotong, you must know that a mother-in-law like Niang in Lingshan Village is already good, although her mother often scolds them, they are also not angry, and they are the ones who are black-hearted, who prick their daughter-in-law with needles on the soles of their shoes every day, and who instigate their daughter-in-law to beat their daughter-in-law's mother-in-law, I am afraid that they will be tortured to death long ago!" Between this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, to put it bluntly, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind, I don't treat them harshly, can't they let them climb on the head of the old lady to make a nest? To put it mildly, they didn't crawl out of my stomach, and their own mother-in-law didn't feel distressed and didn't come to support them, why did my mother-in-law rush to feel distressed? Am I not without a daughter? It's their life! Gotta accept your fate! No wonder no one else! ”
Mei Xiaotong was brainwashed by Mrs. Li's words, and her three views were almost destroyed.
There was a mess in my mind, and I felt for a while that Mrs. Li's words actually made some sense, between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, mother-in-law is not a mother-in-law, and there is no obligation to feel sorry for you.
After a while, I came to my senses, no, I am the successor of socialism, and I must be firm-willed, and I can't be shaken by Mrs. Li's words with ancient feudal thoughts!
No matter what the relationship between other people's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is, but in their own family, it is obviously Mrs. Li's words, and neither son and daughter-in-law dare to disobey, okay?
However, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in ancient times, either the east overwhelmed the west wind, or the west wind overwhelmed the east wind, each with their own ability, but at this time, filial piety is the first, and when the mother-in-law occupies a filial piety word, occupying a congenital advantage.
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Mei Xiaotong had two kinds of views, old and new, intertwined in her mind, and some couldn't come back to her senses and stayed there.
Mrs. Li also knows that she can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and today she is a little anxious, and when she sees her daughter enlightened, she can't wait to teach her all her life experience.
But the girl probably couldn't accept it for a while.
Therefore, she didn't bother Mei Xiaotong, thinking that she would think about it carefully, and if she could listen to a sentence or two, it would not be in vain to say what she said today.
After giving her daughter a life experience lesson, Mrs. Li was worried about Mei Zhongzhong in the house.
Lifted the curtain and entered his room, he saw Mei Zhongzhong lying on the bed, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and when he saw her come in, he got up, leaned against the wall, and said unhurriedly: "You persuade your daughter to return to your daughter, why do you turn out the things about the old sesame seeds and rotten grains?" Isn't that long gone? After you gave birth to the boss, didn't your mother say anything? Why do you still have to take it out and say, how many times do you have to make a mistake? ”
This is to hear the private words of the mother and daughter.
Mrs. Li's eyes widened, "What's the matter, if you can do it, I can't say it?" How much suffering did I suffer back then, and you didn't have any points in your heart? I just married into your Mei family, what did you do to me? How did your mother torture me? Said that I entered the door of your Mei family in a suit of clothes, and said that I was the girl who laid eggs bought by your Mei family, and if I could give birth to a son to your Mei family, I would stay, and if I couldn't give birth to a son, I would get out! I also want my mother's family to lose money! Phew! If your Mei family doesn't spend money, you can marry a yellow flower girl like me with a second marriage? Take me as a cow and a horse, serve your mother during the day, and serve you at night, what kind of life do I live, don't you know? ”
Speaking of which, in the past few decades, when I think of that day, Mrs. Li can't help but have red circles in her eyes.
Mei Zhongzhong just said it casually, but she just felt that her father and mother had passed away, and she was a child, so why bother talking about them again? Isn't it unfilial?
As soon as the words came out, I saw the old woman's eyes glaring and knew that things were going to be bad.
Sure enough, Mrs. Li's words reminded him of when she first married into the door, speaking of that year, he did feel a little guilty and empty-hearted, because he was worried about the daughter left by his former daughter-in-law, and watched her coldly from a shy little daughter-in-law who lifted her red hijab, smiled at herself, and had a hopeful light in her eyes, and slowly grinded into a woman with a pungent and unforgiving personality.
So over the years, firstly, because Mrs. Li gave birth to four sons to herself, and after the Mei family had it, she was a great hero.
On the other hand, he really felt a little sorry for the remarried wife in his heart, so he has been tolerating it for many years.
I thought that this old woman should have forgotten what happened many years ago, but where would I have thought that after many years, when I mentioned it again, the old woman who has always been spicy still seems to have an unresolved knot.
After a pause, Mei Zhongzhong sighed: "Back then, I couldn't stand you and made you wronged, and now you are also a grandmother, why are you still holding on to the things of the year?" Not afraid of kids jokes? Could it be that you will come down in the future and have to worry about this with me? ”
Mrs. Li sneered: "Which card am I the person on the card?" Where is the girl you bought with money worthy of sleeping in a coffin with you? Bury the same grave? Your original partner is still waiting to be reunited with you down there! ”
As soon as he spoke, Mei Zhongzhong's eyebrows twitched, and she wanted to say something, but found that what she said was not right.
Just shut up.
Mei Xiaotong was in the room over there, and vaguely heard a few words, and after thinking about it, she figured it out, I am afraid that this is to make herself understand, and to take out the things of the year has aroused Mrs. Li's mind, and the two of them are arguing.
I feel more and more in my heart that Mrs. Li, the mother, is really all the softness given to Mei Xiaotong, the girl, and there is no hiding at all.
As a daughter, Mei Xiaotong's heart was hot and warm, and she was about to go over to take a look, when she heard a knock on the courtyard door, and the two brothers Mei Xiaoque came back from the field with Tianlong and Tianhu.
Wen also happened to make lunch, and asked Xiaoque to invite the old couple and Mei Xiaotong to dinner.
At the dinner table, everyone had thoughts, especially Mrs. Li's face was very ugly, after a meal, everyone didn't even dare to come out, and only drank the porridge silently.
Zhou, Wen, and Xiaoque were all worried that Mrs. Li's fire would come towards them, and they all wanted to lower their heads under the table so that Mrs. Li could not see them.
Mei Changgui, a person who is so arrogant and heartless, has a very strong desire to survive today, although he wanted to speak several times, he finally held back.
However, to everyone's surprise, although Mrs. Li's face was ugly, she did not scold, only silently finished the porridge in the bowl, pushed the bowl on the table, did not speak, got up and went back to the house to lie down.
If Mrs. Li had a big fight with herself, Mei Zhongzhong might still feel in her heart that Mrs. Li's family just likes to have nothing to do.
But this Mrs. Li didn't say anything, but it made Mei Zhongzhong feel that things were big.
Thinking about it, he glanced at Mei Xiaotong: "Go and see how your mother is doing?" Is it uncomfortable? ”
He made an excuse to save face.
Mei Xiaotong pouted, cut, didn't you hear it? Still pretending at this time?
However, she herself was worried about Mrs. Li, so she obediently got up and entered the house.
Mrs. Li was lying on the kang, facing inside, motionless, not knowing what she was thinking.