Chapter 44 of the Year of Tranquility
(a)
In the decoration of Yaxin's house for more than half a year, Ya opened a small commodity store. It was the summer vacation, and when her son was four months old, Ya asked her mother to take care of her son and daughter, while she came back from wholesale from the small commodity wholesale city. The dazzling array of small goods, especially the sparkle of the jewelry, attracted Ya's curiosity, and she had a feeling of love for the exquisite accessories. She has never sold small goods, so she is full of curiosity. The unknown has a mysterious attraction for Ya.
When the mothers and aunts learned that Ya was going to open a store, they blocked her, they said that in some families as big as their sons, a few adults can't take care of a child, not to mention that Ya's son is only four months old, and her daughter is only four years old. Ya also regretted it a little after hearing this, but the rent had been paid for a year, so she had to do it head-on.
It was the scorching heat, the sun licked Ya's skin, her face flushed with the sun, and her arms and hands quickly darkened a few degrees from her body. She couldn't eat, she sweated profusely every day, she only felt thirsty, and she drank a lot of water in a day. Near noon, Ya bought a small watermelon for lunch. She rode her bicycle to the store several times a day. It wasn't until late evening that she rushed home exhausted. After more than two weeks of being busy like this, the store finally opened.
This façade is not small, and there is a room in it that can accommodate people. Ya and her daughter and son stay in the store at night, and she sends her daughter to a nearby kindergarten.
The door of the store faces north, and the east side is set up as a hair area, and the west side is set up as a small commodity area. Ya bought several grids to hang on the wall, and they were covered with trinkets. Underneath the grid is a row of glass cabinets that house cosmetics.
The business in the shop is intermittent, and the annoying thing is that the customers come to get a haircut, and the son will cry after lying in the stroller for a long time. After opening the store for a month, my son kept diarrhea, and after looking for a clinic for half a month, she didn't get better, and Ya felt panicked. The mother said that Ya was busy opening a store, and when it was hot, her son would not stop running thin after eating the hot milk. Ya took her son to several clinics to see, and finally looked at a clinic near the store. The doctor at that clinic is an old doctor, and he sees both Chinese and Western medicine well.
Some guests come and not only have to get a haircut, but also dye and perm their hair, so that the time is relatively long. The son, who was originally very well-behaved, ended up crying, and it turned out that the son had. There was feces and urine drowning, and my son was very uncomfortable. Ya changed the diaper, and the diaper had swelled into a big bag. After doing this many times, there were many small red spots at the base of his legs. At that time, a female customer who had come to the elegant shop for the second time to put on bridal makeup saw the base of her son's leg and said, "You have to watch it quickly, if you delay it any longer, it will rot." ”
Ya ran to a few clinics with her son in her arms and didn't see any improvement, she blamed herself in her heart: her son suffered with herself at such a young age, and it wasn't that she couldn't live, so why should she toss herself and cause her son to suffer! But the store has already opened, so I have to continue to open it. Fortunately, I saw this disease in a clinic near the store, and prescribed the medicine to my son, and Ya applied it several times a day, and the small red spots at the base of my son's legs finally disappeared.
Since the opening of the store, his son has had diarrhea at first, and then red spots at the base of his legs for a long time, which made Ya panic and remorse. Poor well-behaved son, he is so young, he should have been taken care of, but he wanted to open a shop, so that his son suffered a lot of sin, and he was exhausted. Sleeping late, her son has to feed at night, which makes Ya feel tired all day long. In the middle of the night, the store was silent, Ya looked at her sleeping daughter and son, and couldn't help but cry with regret, self-blame and guilt tightened her heart......
My son learned to walk when he was one year and one month old, and he staggered to the road while Ya was giving a haircut. There are people coming and going on the road, and Ya is very worried. At night, it is relatively good to have a good intention, and I don't sleep, and my son and daughter don't want to sleep. After finishing the business and closing the door, it was very late, and Ya Chang felt dizzy and sleepy, and his body was overdrawn. She reflected on the gains and losses of opening a store, and the business can only be said to take care of life, but people are very tired, especially for her son, and the store opened at an inopportune time. Thinking of her son's fear of running out when she was busy, Ya decided to turn the store around.
The store quickly went out, and Ya used the money transferred out to buy a very good quality air conditioner. There seems to be nothing missing at home, and Ya also thought that she could stay in her spacious and bright house from now on to coax the children to read and write.
Soon, Ya's dream was shattered. The downstairs neighbor, Aunt Lan, is a relative of the Ya family, her son and daughter-in-law go to work, and she takes her grandson at home. In winter, it was cold and windy outside, and Aunt Lan's grandson liked to run outside every day. Aunt Lan is afraid of the cold, and her grandson has just learned to walk, and she is too tired to hold it. So she took her grandson to Ya's house every day like she went to work, and as soon as she came, she covered her waist and said that her back hurt and her legs hurt. Ya had no choice but to stand behind her grandson, helping him walk around, accompanying him to pick things up, and feeding him water and food in the middle, but her son didn't have time to coax. Aunt Lan came, either lying on the sofa or sleeping on the bed in the bedroom. Ya can't read if she wants to, she can't write if she wants to, at the end of the day, Ya is so tired that her back hurts, her son has never let herself be so tired, she has never helped her son to walk around like this for a day. When will these days end? Ya's heart was weeping. I knew that this was the result, so why not open a store? What's the use of regretting? The days passed like this, and Ya's heart was full of sorrow......
After working in Guangzhou, Ya encountered a similar situation again, but this time it was not only Ya who was troubled, but also her daughter and son. The upstairs neighbor sent his son, who was in elementary school, back to his hometown to go to school, ready to enjoy a quiet life for two. Maybe it was because they saw that Ya and his wife took their children to school and work here without delay, and they also brought their two or three-year-old daughter to kindergarten. The girl is timid, and she goes to Ya's house to play after school. The girl was a cryer again, and when she was not satisfied, she cried and said that she would tell her parents that they would not play with her. The daughter and son had to do their homework, but the little girl didn't cry, so the son and daughter had to play with her. At noon, the daughter and son wanted to take a nap, but the little girl didn't do it, so she had to play with her. Even if the three of them were playing, the little girl would suddenly sit on the ground, kick her legs back and forth and cry: "You don't play with me, you don't play with me, I'm going to tell my mother." The daughter and son hurriedly said, "Aren't we just playing with you?" "My daughter and son sometimes cry profusely, and coaxing the little girl in the neighborhood seems to be a must after school.
At that time, Ya was very busy at work every day. One Sunday, Ya rested at home:
The night shift was finally over, and the night was as long as a bottomless black hole. After four o'clock in the morning, the body and consciousness no longer seem to belong to themselves. Dense sleepiness is pouring in like a mountain and a sea. The fence of the eyelashes was pulled down by an invisible force, and the consciousness tried its best to break a crack, and the two undercurrents were fierce. The body wants to be like a big tree that has fallen down, merging with the earth and diving into the earth's heavy dreams......
When she came back from the night shift, Ya slept until noon. Although she usually stays up until two or three o'clock in the morning, or even three or four o'clock in the morning, she still gets up to work until dawn. After a few days, the headache was hoaky, so I took painkillers to relieve it.
But now that I'm on the night shift, I'm so sleepy that I can't open my eyes after three or four o'clock, so doesn't sleeping during the day work? Or is the human biological clock powerful?
Today is Sunday, and my daughter and son are all at home. Ya woke up and looked at her phone. The female neighbor upstairs led her daughter Xinxin in, and she hurriedly put down her phone and closed her eyes. The female neighbor may not have noticed or realized that there was someone in the bed.
Ya heard the female neighbor shouting at her daughter and asked, "Why did you cut Xinxin's hair like this?!" Uh-huh, you say! The daughter and son didn't make a sound.
Yesterday Shin Shin spent a day here. The daughter usually cuts the hair of herself and her younger brother, and the vision of children may be different from that of adults. Last night, the female neighbor called Xinxin back after work, and then she heard Xinxin crying as she was beaten, and she also heard the female neighbor's angry shouting: "Who cut your hair like this?!" It's ugly! I don't want you anymore......"
"What's wrong with Shin Shin coming to your house to play?! Why did you just let her go back! Say! Why don't you let her go back and not play with her! How good your sister Jiaojiao was to you when she was here, tying your hair and leading you to play. Why can't you treat Xinxin the same way as Sister Jiaojiao?! You're as big and tall as Sister Jiaojiao! When you come to my house in the future, don't pick up things! Don't take anything! You can only eat what you eat, and you can't eat if you don't eat it! Or just eat a little! ”
Jiaojiao is the daughter of a neighbor on the same floor as Ya, and when they came to live here, Jiaojiao was already in the fifth grade, Jiaojiao was tall and fat, and she was about the same height as Ya. But her daughter is only in the third grade, and she is a head shorter than her, why does the female neighbor say that her daughter is as tall and big as Jiaojiao? Jiaojiao is good to her daughter, and her daughter also likes Jiaojiao, and even has a sense of dependence on her. Jiaojiao went back to her hometown this year for the first year of junior high school.
Last year, Jiaojiao and the children of the neighborhood often came to the house to play, and they were called to eat delicious food at home. Once, my husband bought a big bag of all kinds of sugar and biscuits. The next night, when she came back from work, she saw that it was gone, and asked her daughter, who said that Sister Jiaojiao kept eating and finished eating. Yajia often has two children at home alone, and the neighbor's children often come to play. The snacks you buy are also placed on the table, and anyone can eat them.
Once, last year, Shin Shin said that she had chocolate candy at home, and asked her daughter and son to eat it, and they might have eaten too much. The female neighbor came back and found that there was less sugar and beat Xinxin. You must know that Shin Shin plays with her daughter and son at her house almost all day long, and she is called to eat whatever is delicious at home.
Xinxin is estimated to be freer in Ya's house than in her own home, she can pick up things and climb on their beds at every turn. Once, Xinxin said that her mother had bought her a lot of cards, and she wanted to give some to her daughter. After all, her daughter coaxes her to play all day long, which is much better and more patient than her own brother, and the child also knows how to do it. In the evening, the female neighbor came back and found that there was a shortage of cards, beat Xinxin, and ran to complain. Ya asked her daughter to return the cards to Xinxin, and she had bought those cards, and there were many pairs on a paper cardboard for two yuan.
"In the future, I want to take them to play like Sister Jiaojiao, do you hear? Don't make her cry! I'll make lunch now, and I'll call your parents to eat later. Ya listened to the female neighbor's vicious voice and didn't dare to come out, for fear that she would find herself embarrassed in the house.
The female neighbor walked to the door and called again: "Shin Shin go back, their mother is sleeping." Ya listened and secretly complained: finally found her sleeping in bed!
I didn't see Xinxin's mother come to call Ya for dinner until the afternoon, did she let her hear it on purpose? But I know that she is in the house, why is her tone so harsh?! Because he looks weak and deceitful? A girlfriend once said to her: "You look like a bully, and people with bad eyes want to bully you." ”
In the afternoon, Xinxin came to her house to play again, and Xinxin cried when she was a little unhappy, and her daughter hurriedly coaxed her. The daughter took out a bag of spicy strips, but she cried again when she didn't know if she gave it to Xinxin less, or if she didn't give it to her first. The daughter also cried: "Give! It's all up to you! I'm not eating! Woowoo woo...... "The son also said: "Xinxin, your mother is so fierce!" ”
Xinxin seems to know that her daughter and son are afraid of her crying, and she has a magic weapon to make her daughter and son obey her. Ya heard her daughter crying and said, "We can't sleep even if we want to, and you will knock on the door as soon as we get to bed." Why aren't you in your own house, why do you always come to my house......" The daughter seems to have been "morally kidnapped", she dares to lose her temper with her brother at will, but she wants to cry and coax Xinxin not to cry......
"Mom has to sleep, she has to go to work at night, and we go out to play". The daughter led her younger brother and Xinxin to the corridor to play, and after playing for almost an afternoon, she heard Xinxin's crying in the middle, and then immediately heard the daughter's voice scolding her brother: "Don't let Xinxin cry, her mother will quarrel with you when she comes back." ”
Because the efficiency of the factory is not good, the children who go to school here are gone with their parents. The only children in the courtyard are daughters, sons and Xinxin. The neighbor went to work, and the child could only be accompanied by his daughter and son, but the female neighbor also scolded her daughter and son for being bad to Xinxin. They put their 10-year-old son in his hometown to study with his grandparents, but took 3-year-old Xinxin to kindergarten with them, and coaxed Xinxin to become the responsibility of their daughter's son, who is only slightly older than Xinxin......
Ya didn't know what to do, she was also afraid that Xinxin would cry, afraid that Xinxin would go back and say that she was not good to her. She felt aggrieved for her daughter and son, and a tear rolled down her pillow......
(b)
One night, Xinxin's mother came to Ya and said that her daughter and son had come to her house and drank all the milk in the Xiaoice box, saying that her daughter could not watch the house. The daughter and son must have asked Xinxin to come to her house, Ya doesn't like to visit the house, and she doesn't let the children go to other people's houses casually. Other people's children can push the door and go straight to Ya's house, they can pick up things, they can jump on the bed without taking off their shoes, but Ya's children don't dare. Once, a little girl in the neighborhood asked her daughter to come to her house to play and closed the door casually, and her son wanted to go too, but he didn't dare to knock on her door, so he had to bend down and secretly listen to the girls playing in the house. After Ya got off work, he saw his son in the dark shadow, so he called him back: "Son, come back, what are you doing there?" ”
"I want to play with my sisters." The son said.
"Then knock on the door and go in." Ya said.
"But I didn't dare knock on the door." The son said aggrievedly. Ya's heart suddenly sour: how bold other people's children are, but their own children are so cowardly.
When my husband came back from work, he learned that his daughter and son had finished drinking Xinxin's milk, and kicked his son hard, and his son was so scared that he didn't dare to cry and ran into the bathroom to hide. The husband turned around and kicked and hit his daughter, Ya hurriedly went up to stop her, the husband pushed her to the ground, and slapped her daughter in the face again, and the blood beads the size of beans flowed out of her daughter's nose and dripped onto her clothes, and her daughter was frightened, she didn't dare to cry or run, so she let her husband beat her. Ya got up and desperately protected her daughter and cried: "You have beaten her to the point that her nose is bleeding, and you still want to beat her to death!" ”
"Just shoot her!" The husband roared. Ya desperately stopped her husband, slapped Ya in the face, and kicked Ya with a kick. Ya feels so painful, if this falls on her daughter, I'm afraid it will break her daughter.
The husband went out angrily, Yara's daughter went to the bathroom to wash her nosebleed and change clothes, looking at the frightened daughter and son, Yara burst into tears: poor young daughter and son, helplessly took on the responsibility of coaxing the neighbor's little girl, and was beaten so hard for it.
I remember that when my daughter was two or three years old, Ya took her to Guangzhou for half a year and sent her to a kindergarten, but she had to pick her up, so Ya could only find a manual job to do at home. The factory can't get off work until 6 p.m., and it has to work overtime at night, and there is generally no rest on Saturdays. Go to work like Shin Shin's mother and let your children go to the neighbor's house to play? Ya had never thought of it that way. At that time, there were neighbors who were completely at home with children, and they had a good relationship with Ya. Keya didn't want to trouble people at all, and she didn't want to owe favors to others. There is such a young child who can't go to class, but Xinxin's parents still go to work without delaying work, and the little daughter and son are indispensable, but they didn't expect to be beaten by drinking a few more boxes of their milk. The son also entered kindergarten at the age of two or three, but he has a daughter to play with him. It's also unfortunate to think that my daughter is still a child, but she has to bear the task of coaxing her younger brother and the little girl in the neighborhood. She can quarrel with her son, but she can only blindly tolerate the little girl in the neighborhood, for fear that she will cry and pity her daughter! The more Ya thought about it, the more sad she became, thinking that her daughter was beaten by her husband and her mouth was covered with blood, and her nosebleed stained her shirt red, Ya couldn't help but cry.
Once, Xinxin chased her son on the stairs, and her son fell down in a panic, his chin hit the iron nail on the stairs, and the right side of his chin was cut. Another time, her daughter's son Xinxin was playing outside, and her son used a mop to scare her daughter and Xinxin. Xinxin pushed, and the mop somehow poked her son's eye, and her son's lower right eyelid and upper eyelid were cut with blood. The son cried and ran in to say that it hurt, and Ya looked at his son's eyes, which were so hanging that he almost hit the eyeball. Ya's heart was anxious and painful, so she picked up the hanger and hit her daughter fiercely, shouting while beating: "Let you coax your brother, how did you coax!" You see! I almost hit the eyeball! The daughter jumped in pain: "It's not me, it's Xinxin!" ”
Ya was worried that her son had eye problems, so she hurriedly took her son to the clinic on a motorcycle, and the doctor also said: "It's so hanging, I almost scratched my eyeballs!" ”
Ya thought about it and was afraid: If it was Xinxin who was injured today, would Xinxin's mother not be relenting? How can I whisper and say good things and ask for forgiveness? Xinxin's mother knew that her son's eye wound was related to Xinxin, but she didn't mention it.
Ya hated herself for being too cowardly and incompetent, unable to say anything to refuse, and let the child be wronged. is like his parents, when he was a child, he had a conflict with the neighbor's children, and it was not his fault, but his father beat him up......