Chapter 3 The human heart is the length of flesh
In fact, Li Lamei is not a hard-hearted person, nor does she not know that she feels sorry for her daughter, but she is distressed, or her heart is already painful and numb.
A few years ago, when the village was in a big collective, Li Lamei could still fool around, although the annual rations in the team were not enough, but her husband Jiang Yuanming was a regular worker in the county sugar factory, and he was paid a monthly salary, so his life was not as tiring as it is now.
But just from the implementation of the package production to the household, her family suffered.
Li Lamei is a sick seedling, dragging three babies, and has to plant food rations for four people, so she really can't care about the children.
In order to help herself take care of her two younger children, the eldest daughter Jiang Duo only went to primary school at the age of nine, and is now sixteen years old, studying in the third year of junior high school in Lishu Town Middle School, seven or eight miles away from the village.
Although the boss Jiang Duo is smart and willing to study hard, he doesn't like to help the family. Even though today was Sunday, she said that the teacher at school asked her to go back to school to help print the papers, and after breakfast, she got on her bicycle and ran away.
Although the second Jiang Mi is a sensible person, it is a pity that she is a girl, short and weak, and she can't push two and a half baskets of corn.
If this is a boy, he can already be a half-laborer at the age of twelve......
When she first gave birth to these two girls, her mother-in-law was all kinds of rubbing and white eyes, so that she didn't even sit down for a month, and in February, she braved the biting cold wind to go to the well platform to draw water, and was slipped by ice, broke her kneecap, and even fell into the root of the disease, and frequently slipped tires......
Although she finally gave birth to a son, Li Lamei finally ate the old hen in confinement, but her body and bones became worse and worse, and she couldn't raise it back......
In addition, because the youngest son was overborn, he violated the national family planning policy and was fined by the town, which made the whole family's economy worse.
Thinking of the difficulty of pulling children alone in the past, Li Lamei couldn't help but feel all kinds of sourness in her heart.
Over the years, as long as she has been aggrieved because of her frailty and illness, she can't help but resent her second daughter for being a girl.
If the second daughter is a child, she will not be rubbed by her mother-in-law, she will not go to the well to fetch water in winter, she will not fall ill, and she will not be fined for overbirth.
Although I know that I can't resent this child at all, but in the end, I have a stalk in my heart, and I can't help but vent at this child if I am angry.
She had long known that this was wrong, but in fact, she felt uncomfortable after every beating.
"Erni, you go to the field to break buds, and Mom pushes the car home."
Li Lamei wiped away her tears, picked up the handlebars of the cart that had been re-tied to the basket, and arched her waist to the bridge deck tremblingly.
Jiang Mi was a little confused.
The real scene in front of me doesn't look like a dream at all!
Her mother was crying, crying so hard that her heart hurt, and at the same time, she had already realized that her mother was sick, and she was not lightly ill.
"Mom, you can do it, I can do it! I'll push! ”
At this time, Li Lamei had already pushed the car onto the bridge with all her might, and when she saw that her second daughter insisted on pushing the car, she put down the handlebars.
At this time, her eyes were black, like flying flies, like a layer of window paper, she couldn't see the road clearly, her legs were trembling with pain, and she couldn't transport buds home at all.
"Erni, you slow down, don't fall anymore......" People's hearts are flesh and blood, looking at her thin little daughter, Li Lamei was a little unbearable.
"Mom, you sit and rest, I'll go back to the village to find grandpa to help!"
Whether it was a dream or a rebirth, because of his mother's pity, Jiang Mi would just push the cart hard, and at the same time wondered in his heart how to take back the corn in the two acres of corn field under the slope, so that his seriously ill mother could rest.
"Erni, don't look for it, your grandfather...... They have their own ......," Li Lamei's chapped mouth turned into a touch of bitterness.
Jiang Mi was stunned.
I thought, her mother is sick like this, and her grandfather's family is embarrassed to watch from the side?