Chapter 5 of the Year of Tranquility
The days flowed calmly, sparkling with the broken gold of the sun, rippling with the clear light of the moon. The warm breeze of spring is still expected every year, but it is always accompanied by the cold of spring. The days are as calm as water, and the whirlpools march under water......
Liunian secretly has a hidden face, and it has been nearly ten years since Ya and her husband got married in a hurry, shaking her head, stretching out her fingers to calculate, and I don't know if there have been two years at my husband's house. Still like a wandering wanderer, home is always calling from afar, where is the duckweed with fixed roots? Ya spends most of her time either working outside the home or living in her mother's house. Ya is like a sad bird, her mother's home is the bird's warm memory, the eternal nest.
The three-story building with a small courtyard made into flowers by his father's hands is Ya's maiden home, his father and mother live on the first floor, his brother and sister-in-law live on the second floor, and Ya lives on the third floor. It was originally a three-bedroom and two-living room layout, but the third floor did not have a living room. In this way, the sun is more abundant, it is more convenient to dry clothes, and the quilt pillow is filled with the smell of the sun all year round.
There is also the rich fragrance of flowers that refreshes the heart and spleen, and Yachang is the beauty of bringing children to linger in flowers. Every time Ya finished eating, she washed the dishes and went upstairs, upstairs is a quiet and beautiful world. Every time it was time to eat, my father shouted downstairs: "Xiaoya, come down to eat." ”
My father's main job in life was to go to work and cook for the family. He is like a diligent old scalper, conscientious in his work, and the award of model worker every year is waiting for his arrival. He is like a diligent gardener, turning his home into a beautiful garden. My mother cooks and eats by herself in the store, and when she is busy, she asks the restaurant next door to prepare and deliver it, and my father will also send it if she cooks it. Ya and her daughter also often go to her mother's shop, and her mother's shop also gives people a sense of home.
My father cooked for his family all his life, and his expression never got bored. The appearance of his family eating with relish, like a sunny sun, warmed his heart, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. My father's cooking was very flavorful, he always prepared plenty of condiments, and then started stir-frying. Ya sometimes felt that her father was working hard and wanted to cook, but her father always said, "If you don't let you do it, you won't be able to do it." Ya stuck out her tongue mischievously and smiled like a child, beside her loving parents, Ya felt that she would never be a child who would be disliked.
Ya seems to be able to cook anything, but for some reason it doesn't taste good. The picky husband said that Ya's cooking was pig food, but Ya didn't think so, and still thought it was delicious.
My father once said that Ya Tai is not particular about eating, just eat a steamed bun for a meal, and Ya's sisters can't eat without food.
Ya thinks that people eat to survive, not to survive to eat. In real life, people go to great lengths to eat, exhaust their means, consume time and energy, and Ya feels really incomprehensible. No matter how good you eat, you still have to consume it.
Ya had seen some written records that some delicious people drove the donkey to the scorching iron plate, and when the donkey was hot and thirsty, people poured boiling hot soup into the donkey's mouth, and the donkey was roasted. There are also people who dig holes in monkeys' heads and suck the brain marrow with tubes...... These are probably things from a long time ago.
Ya felt heartbroken when she saw these words. These people should be cold-blooded by nature, or their animal nature as high-level animals has not been extinguished. The terrible condition of the suffering animal is already unbearable, how can those people eat it! These people are nothing less than beasts of prey, poisonous snakes.
Compared to the sky, man is just a wisp of clouds; Compared to the sea, man is just a wave; Compared to the desert, man is just a grain of sand; Compared to the earth, man is just a speck of dust.
God created the heavens and the earth and made arrangements for the survival of countless living beings. Look at the birds in the sky, the fish in the water, the cows, horses and sheep in the grassland, how much space God has given them to eat.
God has given human seeds to grow vegetables, food, and fruit trees. People eat a lot of food, so why be greedy to reach out to innocent animals. All beings are equal, and they are God's people.
Human beings have more to do, such as building a better environment for living in, so that future generations can live in a beautiful home. Human beings are inseparable from food, clothing, shelter and transportation, which are necessary for human survival, but there is no need to pursue them excessively.
Ya gave birth to her daughter at her mother's side, and her husband came to serve her for a month before going back. My daughter is very awake in her sleep and always loves to cry. In the middle of the night, Ya still had to hug and sway. It was easy to fall asleep, and Yaya was tired and wanted to fall asleep, but before she could close her eyes, her daughter started crying again. Ya had no choice but to get up again and walk around with her daughter in her arms. Two months later, Ya was so tired that her waist and hips hurt unbearably, perhaps because when she was breastfeeding her daughter, she lifted her clothes and coldened her waist, and she was tired all the time.
Once, Ya went downstairs with her daughter in her arms, and when she walked to the second floor, she suddenly couldn't lift her feet. The pain in her hips made her dare not lift her legs, and her father saw it and hurriedly helped her down.
Later, her father took her to find a local gynecological doctor to grab Chinese medicine to take Chinese medicine, and then her father's health was deteriorating, and his walking was heavy, and he went out to travel by an elderly electric car.
Yazi has a daughter, and she never seems to have slept well, thinking that there are a few people in her husband's house, and they may help coax her when she goes back. She returned to her husband's house with beautiful hopes, but at night they all fell asleep one by one as if they couldn't hear their daughter's crying.
During the day, Ya coaxed her daughter, washed clothes, and washed diapers, as busy as ever. My husband and his parents went to the field to plate shiitake mushrooms, and when it was time for dinner, his mother came back to cook.
My husband, like his father, loves mahjong and runs to the mahjong hall whenever he has free time, and it seems that the sound of mahjong stimulates his excited nerves.
Ya came back for half a month, and her husband's parents couldn't stand it anymore, and they quarreled with her husband in the yard all day long: "You don't know how to play mahjong all day long!" How old are you, and you still want us to help you raise your wife and children! ”
Ya was very angry when she heard it: her husband and father-in-law love to play mahjong, but they are engaged in mushrooms from chopping wood to buy firewood and sawdust to build a shelf, these energetic work is mainly done by the husband, and now is the season of picking, they are nothing more than cutting more mushroom feet and sleeping less at night. They could not bear even their own sons.
My husband said to Ya that the main thing is that you can't eat in one pot. The most unbearable thing about my mother-in-law is probably that she cooks and eats, she thinks that she is Bai Yangya, she should think that Ya is an outsider.
In those days, my parents-in-law quarreled with my husband in the yard every day, and my husband rode a motorcycle out to hide from Qingjing. After her husband left, her father-in-law and mother-in-law still said in a loud voice: "...... How old are you, let us raise your wife and children for you! Ya felt that they clearly wanted the neighbors around them to listen to it, and let Ya listen.
Ja never heard his parents complain about their sisters, and his father, who had been a lifelong cook, especially liked what his children had to say. The younger brother sometimes cooks and eats by himself, but his father is silent, but his face shows unspeakable loneliness.
Ya couldn't stand it the most, her father-in-law and mother-in-law said that she had raised her mother, and she felt a stuffy breath in her chest: her husband can't support his wife and children? Isn't it just because my mother-in-law cooks and eats Ya, I feel that I have suffered a loss. You must know how much money Ya borrowed from her mother's family to build a new house for her parents-in-law to live in, saving them a lot of money. Ah Wei next door is the same age as her husband, and her parents built a building for their son early. In her husband's place, many parents built a new house for their son and married their daughters-in-law, but they still lived in the old house, but Ya and her husband let her father-in-law live in the new house, and the money from the sale of shiitake mushrooms was also in the hands of her mother-in-law.
Ah Wei's mother was angry when she talked about the separation of the family: at that time, her in-laws were partial, so she gave them a basket of bowls, and it all took the hard work of the two of them to get what they are today.
Ya's in-laws said disapprovingly: "I didn't borrow her mother's money." "It's as if I don't have to pay back the money I borrowed from my mother's family. Ya's father-in-law and mother-in-law visit relatives every day, and the money borrowed when they have no money is enough to afford a house.
Ya's father-in-law often explained in front of the guests why he couldn't afford the house: my husband's grandparents lived older than others, so they used 10,000 yuan per person a year, and 200,000 yuan in ten years, which was enough to afford a house.
Ya saw that her husband's grandfather helped when he was busy farming, and usually went to the mountains to feed a cow. Grandma is even more busy all day long, cooking, washing, feeding pigs, which is almost all done by the skinny grandmother. After grandma left, it was my mother-in-law's turn to do it. When my grandmother was alive, my husband's parents didn't have any worries about going to relatives, and they often went for a day or two, and people of my parents-in-law's generation envied them. The relatives who left here were mainly the mother-in-law's mother-in-law's mother-in-law's family, and the mother-in-law's family rarely stayed when they came, and always went back on the same day.
Ya and her husband went out to work and left their daughter with their parents-in-law, and the father-in-law immediately said: "If you delay your work with the child, you have to pay the nanny." After that, they said that they had no money to buy mushrooms, no money to buy firewood, and so on, and asked their husbands to pay back.
Ya is very envious of her parents-in-law: when she got married, she had a new house and new furniture, and two children were born, in addition to breastfeeding, one slept with her grandfather and the other slept with her grandmother since she was a child, until she grew up.
My husband's parents should devote their energy to family building and make their home no worse than anyone in the village, but they don't want to do more until they make their home the worst in the village.
Ya now figured it out: her father-in-law and mother-in-law must have felt that she had done it for her husband's grandparents and suffered a loss, so she was reluctant to do more. But they always like to tell people how hard they work and suffer a lot of sins, and they support the old and the young.
Ya heard her husband say that the money he and his sister used to go to school was still loaned, and her husband went out to work in the first year of high school, and his sister graduated from junior high school. The loan was repaid by the brother and sister who went out to work. My husband's sister actually wants to go to school, but she has no money to go to school. Let's say that my husband's family is poor, and my father-in-law is indispensable for every meal, and he can't do without cigarettes every day.
It is said that when my father-in-law was young, he was still the village party secretary, and he often spoke at the villagers' meetings without a script. Ya thinks that it should be caused by her husband's grandparents' doting.
When Ya and her husband got married, they lived in a half-room separated by an earthen house in the backyard, which was not soundproof at all, and Ya and her husband had to whisper when they spoke. My father-in-law often lost his temper and said that he built the house and the furniture, and asked his husband to get out of the way at every turn.
Ya has never seen such parents, and she is very upset for her husband. In a fit of rage, Ya borrowed money from her mother's family to build a new house in the front yard.
Ya didn't expect that even though he and her husband built a new house for her parents-in-law to live in, they still disliked her for eating for nothing. In fact, she didn't eat in vain, but she didn't do it herself, but her mother-in-law did it.
Ya couldn't figure it out, and the breath in her chest became bigger and bigger, until finally she held the pain in her chest and felt as if she was choking when she drank saliva. Later, the family was separated, and Ya's parents-in-law didn't quarrel much. Now that she thinks about it, she was probably going to be depressed at that time.
Even if the family is separated, it's just that they don't eat in the same pot. The father-in-law still showed his merits through wine. He is the least contributeable to the parents in the village, but he is the most fond of showing merit.
The father-in-law and mother-in-law even said that the house would not have been able to get up without them, and the father-in-law even more simply, saying that the house was built by him.
Ya felt that she really couldn't stay here any longer, and she didn't want to make herself angry again.
Ya's parents-in-law have left many relatives, and Ya's husband also said that his parents spend half of the year visiting relatives. Now it's better to make mushrooms, and in the past, relatives sometimes needed to borrow money. They like to go to their relatives, other people's homes go to relatives, relatives go alone, and the other person is at home to live. And Ya's parents-in-law often go together.
There are relatives who go to Ya's mother's house, eat a meal or don't eat and come back, Ya's parents often put down the gift and leave, no matter how the main family persuades, always say that they can't leave.
When my husband goes to visit relatives, he usually has to eat two or three meals at the main house, and even stay overnight and do not come back. At night, the men played mahjong all night and the women slept.
Ya still can't name many relatives in her husband's family, and she doesn't know how to call them, and she has been in her in-law's house for a short time. During the New Year's holidays, people continue to live every day, and there are more than ten or twenty dishes on a table during dinner, and Ya has to help cook on the fire. This doesn't count, the biggest headache for Ya is that some visitors don't know what to call. Abon doesn't like to greet people, but now he wants to meet people hard. She often went into the house and couldn't come out when she was done, which made people there talk about her a lot.
When Ya was in her mother's house, those aunts, aunts, uncles and uncles, Ya was common since she was a child, so it was natural to greet her when she saw her. Especially with a few aunts, Ya felt very cordial.
But Ya felt restrained about her husband's relatives, and she didn't know what to say next after saying hello, and it was not common in normal times, and she often came during the New Year. Ya feels that she is always an outsider, so Ya also doesn't like to spend the New Year at her husband's house.
Ya's in-laws always tell people that there are many people who eat and work too little at home, and she does all the work at home. Outsiders even echoed her, saying that her life was miserable, that she had suffered iniquity. Ya's husband and sister also said the same, and Ya also believed it. Later, I found out that my mother-in-law mainly built a small vegetable garden, mainly cooking and housework, and the physical work was mainly done by her father-in-law.
There is a woman in the village who lives alone with her son who is in elementary school, and her husband has gone out to work. Like Ya's mother-in-law, she builds a vegetable garden, does housework, feeds pigs, and walks relatives alone. She does no less than her mother-in-law, why does her mother-in-law always look bitter and tired? She and her father-in-law never built a house in their lives. My parents started from scratch and worked all their lives, why do they always smile when they look at the Ya sisters?
My father-in-law and my mother-in-law often argued, and whenever my father-in-law said something during the meal, she would say, "You planted the land?" Did you cut the firewood? The in-laws were silent, but she would still say the same next time.
Whenever she needed to grind wheat and rice, her mother-in-law always chose to push it with a cart when her father-in-law was not at home, and she called Ya to help carry it onto the cart. Ya said, you will let him push and grind when your father is at home in the future, after all, he has more strength. But the mother-in-law still pushed to grind by herself, and there were several people sitting in front of the store where the grain was crushed, and they were waiting and chatting, which was a good place to spread public opinion.
Except for the husband's family, where seven or eight neighbors live together, the rest of the village is scattered in the deep mountains. Grinding grain allows them to get together, and the parents can spread it in this way, and they also communicate with each other in this way.
When the people who were waiting to grind things saw Granny Ya, they asked, "Why don't you ask the child's father to grind?" The mother-in-law sighed deeply and said, "You don't know, I'm running a mahjong parlor again, who is doing it if I don't do it?" Don't fall into the house all day long...... "The mother-in-law seems to be complaining to these people that her father-in-law is not, so when these people go back to chat, they have a good topic, so everyone said that Ya's husband's family did everything in Ya's mother-in-law, so people said that Ya's mother-in-law is so bad and hard.
Of course, Ya's husband would definitely not let his mother grind the grain if he was at home. Ya also knew that the people here would definitely bring themselves with them: if they found a city daughter-in-law, they wouldn't do anything......
Ya heard that her father-in-law and mother-in-law often quarrel and fight, mostly because of who has more work and who has less. Since Ya got married, her father-in-law and mother-in-law have been unprecedentedly united, and they have always been angry with each other. As soon as Ya and her husband went out to work, they reverted to their old ways and resumed their lips......