Gao Jianjun wanted Lin Xiaoman to go back for the New Year in advance, "I have to be on duty at night in my thirties, you can't spend the New Year at home alone!" ”

Lin Xiaoman shook his head stubbornly, "No, I'll be at home alone, and we'll go back together on the first day of junior high school." ”

Gao Jianjun persuaded her for a long time, and he didn't fight this seed, this is what he said, "You are a strong seed!" ”

The New Year's event is settled.

Lin Xiaoman is very happy, the restaurant is closed, she makes dim sum at home, steamed dry food, fried tofu puffs and meatballs, and sauces a few cooked foods. Every morning, I buy and buy, and I do it at home in the afternoon. Like a busy, diligent little bee.

There are three days left before the Chinese New Year, and Lin's father and mother called from the township, "Xiaoman, Mom has something to tell you......"

Mother Lin's somewhat guilty voice made Lin Xiaoman sigh in his heart, it couldn't be that something was wrong, right?

"Mom, what's the matter? Are you so serious? ”

"That's right, yesterday, your brother sent a letter, saying that the child was too young, it was too cold for the New Year, and it was inconvenient to reverse, so he wouldn't come back. He wants us to spend the New Year. Your father and I don't want to go, but your brother said that your sister-in-law has to take care of the children, and we can't even eat dumplings during the New Year. ”

Lin Xiaoman breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, as long as nothing happened, "Then you can go over, too, in this weather, the child is only half a year old, and it is really sinful to hug him around." ”

Mother Lin said: "But we are leaving, you, what should you do when you go back to your parents' house in the second and third years of junior high school?" ”

Lin Xiaoman said: "The thirty children of the Jianjun will be on duty at night, and we will only go back on the first day of the new year, so we will be at my mother-in-law's house for two days." ”

Mother Lin felt that it was not good to leave the girl, but she couldn't celebrate the New Year, so she muttered and explained: "Your father and I don't like to go, you don't know yet, your sister-in-law is like that!" When she was a child in the summer, I used to serve for half a month, and I cried several times because of that problem......

Lin Xiaoman knew about this, Lin's mother stayed for half a month and came back, or Da Kui called her and asked her to go to the station where she picked up, she originally wanted to keep her at home for a few days, but she was worried about her wife and business at home, so she only stayed for most of the day, and talked to her about her sister-in-law.

"Mom, don't mention the past."

Mother Lin sneered, "Yes, don't mention it." We will take the afternoon bus to the county seat, and I heard that the county has opened a big bus to the city......"

Lin Xiaoman said: "I know, I'll pick you up at night." ”

Putting down the phone, Father Lin said to his wife, "I'm going to go for the New Year, what are you talking about?" ”

Lin Mu said: "I'm not afraid that Xiaoman will have ideas!" ”

"Xiao Man is sensible!" Father Lin scolded her: "I can tell you, if you keep thinking about your daughter-in-law making you cry, don't go to your son's house during the New Year, and you won't have to quarrel again." ”

Mother Lin muttered, "I'm so old, what am I arguing with her?" She said, holding Xiaoping's hand tightly, "Let's go, if you rub it any longer, you won't have time to eat." ”

Lin Xiaoman put down the phone and continued to busy her.

In my heart, I thought about the fact that Mother Lin cried a handful of snot and tears.

and the sister-in-law also complained about her mother, disgusted that she served the confinement for half a month; I think my mother-in-law has a lot of things, and I don't serve my confinement well, just knowing that I am happy to hold her grandson, and I throw her mother behind; I suspect that my mother has only stayed for half a month, and a grandson and daughter-in-law can't keep her, she only thinks about the family's business......

Anyway, the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is getting worse now.

Mother Lin came back because Ma Junxiu's mother-in-law had passed, and she said that the family needed to be taken care of, so she asked her son to buy a ticket to come back. She didn't think it was necessary for both of them to stay there.

But Ma Junxiu didn't understand.

Lin Xiaoman had a headache at that time.

Unexpectedly, it's only been half a year, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are going to get together again, and they can't fight anymore for the New Year, right?

It's funny to think about it, I'm really useless.

She prepared dinner and then took a flashlight to pick up the station.

It's almost the Chinese New Year, and there are a lot of people at the bus station.

She waited in the waiting room, and it was almost time before she went outside. Entering and exiting the station are not in the same direction, she went to the bus stop, and waited for about ten minutes, her feet were about to freeze, and the bus drove over.

Father Lin got out of the car first, he carried a bag of hemp, Lin Xiaomanxin went over to help him unload it, "Dad, where is my mother?" "Later." As soon as she finished speaking, Mother Lin carried a big triangular bag and appeared at the door of the car with Xiaoping in one hand.

She looked at the corners of her eyes, took a few people, and said angrily: "Mom, Dad, what did you take?" My brother has everything, you guys take so many things from afar, how heavy! ”

"It's all our home-grown dried vegetables, as well as some mushrooms, and some of the new millet this year for you and your brother, and then our home-squeezed soybean oil, and we also got you a bucket of ......."

This big man also took soybean oil?

Because the family has a business, they don't grow wheat and rice, otherwise they would not have to carry rice and white flour......

Lin Xiaoman said: "You guys are waiting here, I'll go out and stop a taxi." ”

Mother Lin hurriedly grabbed her: "How expensive is it to take a taxi?" Let's take the bus! ”

Father Lin said again and again: "Yes, yes, just take the bus, it's too expensive." "The bus in the city now costs five cents per person, and it costs five yuan to take a taxi, which is a lot of more than three yuan for Lin's father and mother, who have always been able to live.

Lin Xiaoman said: "Listen to me, there are so many things, and I have to walk to the station again, and I have to walk for a few minutes after getting off the bus, so tired." ”

Ignoring their objections, she went to the gate of the compound and hailed a taxi, stuffed the sacks and triangular pockets into the back box, and several people got into the car.

Soon arrived at the door of the house, Lin Xiaoman said: "It's better to take a taxi, right?" If you're taking the bus, you're probably just getting on the bus. ”

Lin Mu muttered: "But it's cheap to take the bus?" You kid just won't get by. ”

Father Lin said to her: "Okay, the child also feels sorry for us." ”

Mother Lin has only been to the house once, but Father Lin often comes to the city to deliver goods, sometimes there are too many goods, and he can't catch the train back that day, so he will come to the girl's house for one night. Therefore, it is familiar with the way.

went upstairs, put down the luggage, everyone sat and rested, Lin Xiaoman went to put the stewed pork ribs he had made before back on the fire, put the soaked vermicelli and cabbage, "Mom, you wash your face first, rest for a while, and eat for a while." ”

The vegetables to be fried have already been cut out and prepared, and she started to stir-fry the vegetables with an electric cooker, the two dishes here are fried, and the vermicelli and cabbage are also stewed there, plus the meat skin jelly prepared before, the sauce elbow and the cold vegetables, and soon the six dishes will be on the table.

"Just a few of us, why do you make so many dishes? I can't eat it and waste it. ”

Lin Xiaoman said with a smile: "Mom, you just eat hard, you can't eat it, this elbow and meat skin jelly, you just take it to the car tomorrow to eat." This one is not afraid of the cold. ”

It's not hot on the train, at least you don't have to take off the padded jacket you wear, and you're not afraid of the skin of the meat frozen.

Mother Lin said: "You are thinking strangely and thoughtfully, that's okay, your father and I, we are in a hurry, so we packed some dry snacks and some pancakes and pickles, ready to deal with a meal in the car." It's okay now, don't deal with it," Lin Mu said, and she couldn't stop talking, "You don't know, your dad is hungry now, if you don't get him a few pieces of meat this day, he will definitely want to eat stew the next day." ”

Father Lin said while eating his elbow: "Now that life is good, it's not that there are no conditions, your mother will be poor for a day." "Compared with pork ribs, he likes to eat elbows more, this is affordable, unlike pork ribs, not to mention the old ones, not to mention, he also eats half and throws half away, which is distressing.

After dinner, Lin Xiaoman chopped the meat that had been slowed down into a filling, and prepared to make dumplings for the second elder tomorrow morning.

"Don't be busy, just eat leftovers tomorrow morning."

"It's fine, it's not bothering. I ate the leftovers at noon. ”

Mother Lin went to pick up the kitchen knife in her hand, "Here you go, I'll chop, I'm stronger than you." ”

Lin Xiaoman didn't do anything, put down the kitchen knife, and went to clean up the dishes and chopsticks. The two of them were working in the kitchen while talking.

"Your sister-in-law's mother-in-law knitted a set of small sweaters and pants for the child to carry. I look at the weird good-looking, and her hands are weird. Mother Lin first led out the chatterbox.

Then, she said with some hesitation: "Your brother also said in the letter that he wants us to stay there and not come back, saying that the child must also be watched by someone......"

Lin Xiaoman was stunned, "Then what do you and my dad think?" ”

She felt that Father Lin and Mother Lin were still very young, so there was no need to get together. Now there is always a contradiction when we see each other a few times a year! But she also knows that people's thinking now is not as open as everyone will think about it twenty or thirty years later, especially in rural areas, where everyone has the idea of preferring sons over daughters and raising children to prevent old age.

She opened her mouth to persuade, "Mom, I don't approve of you living with my brother. You're only in your fifties, and if there is a conflict in the future, can you move out again? "Not an outsider, she speaks very straightforwardly and practically.

Mother Lin actually discussed with her husband and felt that she had to help.

When she talked to Lin Xiaoman about this, she didn't discuss her, but wanted to give her a message.

"Your dad and I understand what you're saying. But you don't know, I've been serving for half a month, and your sister-in-law has an opinion, if I don't help her take care of the children, then after that, when we get old, she can kick us out. ”

"What nonsense? The daughter-in-law is not that kind of person, and besides, there is still a big kui! Father Lin moved a stool, sat at the door outside the kitchen, lit a cigarette, and took a few puffs before saying, "Xiaoman, just like your mother said, your brother said this...... You said, when our son needs us, we don't care, and we don't have the face to say that they will take care of it in the future! ”

Lin Xiaoman can understand their thoughts to some extent.

After decades, isn't it always someone who says, "You haven't taken care of my confinement, why should I take care of your illness?" Raising you old? ”

She thought for a while, "Mom, let's talk to my brother and buy or rent a house near where they live, so that you can help them take care of the children and not live together, which also saves a lot of conflicts." ”

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