Chapter Ninety-Nine: A Slap in the Face
The third aunt persuaded for a long time before Xiaohong's mother stopped crying. She frowned, looked out the window very nervously, and found that it was already dark, and sobbed and cried again: "Her third aunt, what do you say I do?" Children and adults are not worry-free, let's go out and have a look, your second brother is still lying in the yard and rolling there! If there is no good person to take care of this, you will have to sleep! Saying that, Xiaohong's mother wiped the tears on her face and came to the yard with the third aunt, and after they finally got Sun Guodong on the kang, the few people who went to see off their relatives were also sent back by car.
After Xiaohong's mother let them into the house, she wanted to cook something for them, but they were all in a hurry to go home, and they didn't stay at home for a long time, so they all left. The third aunt saw that Xiaohong's mother was fine, and also walked out of the door: "Second sister-in-law, I think you don't have to worry about it, the children are quite sensible, don't be dissatisfied." You've been around for a few days, tired and tired, hurry up and rest! What's going on at home, by the way, I'll come over right away, how can I say that I'm so old, I can't help but mix, I want to open something about it! I'm still waiting for me to eat at home, so I won't talk to you anymore! With that, the third aunt hurried out of the yard.
Time is the hand of the devil, and it always makes some unsophisticated children grow up slowly in pain. Under the gray blue sky, Sun Xiaohong stood in the courtyard, looking at the stars in the sky, she faintly understood: Slowly moving forward on the ferry boat of fate, if people live without dignity, they are like walking corpses. She didn't want to live like this anymore, even though she didn't have a bright future, she still wanted to change everything about herself by her own efforts. But there was no way out around, and she didn't know which way to go!
Sun Guodong snored like thunder and lay on the kang, like a reckless man in the wilderness, vulgar and humble. He was dreaming, like he had so many years ago, a dream that would never be repeated. He wasn't like that before, the things he had been through, it was hard for people to understand, he had been stepping his feet in the dirt with his bare hands all the year round, the sack had bent his spine, the long whip had broken the wheels, he stood in the wind, like a big tree about to fall, once it fell down, he could never stand up again.
Xiaohong's mother didn't prepare anything for her sister to marry, and her sister married into the city with resentment, and she can be regarded as climbing a high branch. Xiaohong's mother couldn't figure out what she didn't do well from beginning to end, and made her sister so ruthless. Dad drank his body badly, and Mom cried and swollen her eyes. When she went to work in the field, she always repeated the sentence "like her uncle" in front of Sun Guodong. When Sun Guodong listened impatiently, he didn't quarrel with her, he walked away indifferently, making Xiaohong's mother hysterical with herself.
She looked forward to the stars and the children raised by the moon, and she treated herself like this. Her clenched hands, raised and lowered, put down and raised, never grasping any hope, she gritted her teeth and glared when she was heartbroken. Those silent tears, like beads with broken threads, crackled down and merged into a bitter river. The summer sun, with its sharp thorns and cold light, suddenly poked her whole body into a thousand holes, and then pierced her numb heart. Xiaohong's mother remembered what had happened to her for most of her life, and she trembled her lips and said angrily: "What kind of sin did I create, I actually raised such a child!" ”
Grandma was not angry when she heard this, she sat cross-legged on the kang with no anger on her face, lowered her head, and smoked the cigarette stick one by one, without saying a word. In fact, grandma also understands in her heart that she, a rich and powerful son, was also raised for nothing, not as good as the big black dog outside the window, although it is not humane, but after raising it for so many years, when she sees the owner, she still knows how to wag her tail, he is good, and he can't even see a figure.
But they know better than anyone else in their hearts: All this, how heavy, like a shackle, can't break free, can't escape, can only face quietly. Every family sells soju, and they are not good at it. The people in the village, the generation of the son and the generation of the father, all endured in this way. Many grievances are kept in their hearts and not said, and others cannot know.
Although Xiaohong's mother had ideas for her sister, when her sister returned to the door in three days, she still made a sumptuous banquet to entertain them. According to the old rules of the village, the new aunt is a guest at the door, killing chickens, cooking wine, and having to sit in the right position. They came happy and satisfied, without any pickiness. The wine and dishes on this table with meat and vegetables are worlds different from the meal made for Ren Haoxuan. Sun Xiaohong's eyes didn't rub sand, she was suspicious in her heart, it was obvious that her mother was too partial. The same son-in-law, two treatments, isn't it because my sister married into the city and fought for her face? And what about yourself? Didn't you find a rural object and be squeezed!
But she was still afraid of her mother, and she dared to be angry but did not dare to speak. In these years, people don't dare to live well, and some things can't be said clearly, and when they are clear, time has passed. Sun Xiaohong doesn't want to leave regrets for herself, she is her, her mother is her mother, the concept of the two generations cannot be compared, the things she identifies, and the people she identifies, will definitely not give up easily.
There is no need to show up to preach, everyone also knows it: a marriage that is not recognized by parents is never happy, a man can abandon after hitting a wall, and then seek a new love, after a woman is injured, she will give up on herself, and then make a mistake again and again. There are many vivid examples in the village, and they are all vividly displayed in front of them.
But Sun Xiaohong just doesn't believe in evil, she has known Ren Haoxuan for so long, and she hasn't seen anything bad about him. People don't lack noses, a lot of eyes, but my mother just doesn't like him. The weather is very good these days, she doesn't know when Ren Haoxuan is, in case she is not at home, her mother will not look good at people. Therefore, Sun Xiaohong did not go to live in the school, and she rushed back immediately after getting off work.
At dinner in the evening, my mother pointed at Xiaohong with a tiger face and said, "You kid is too willful!" You can not listen to other people's words, you say that being a father can trap you, or being a mother can harm you. You believe everything others say, but you don't believe your parents. Still fighting all day long, do you think we are all your enemies! When my mother said this, she still picked up her rice bowl and filled it into her mouth as if she hadn't heard it.
"Don't think that if you don't speak, I can't talk about you. Let me tell you the truth, you and Ren Haoxuan, your father and I don't agree, in the future, you don't go home to bring him back. If you bring him back again, you can cook for him yourself, and I won't have time to serve. Xiaohong ate slowly, she still didn't speak, she secretly thought in her heart: Actually, needless to say, I have already seen it, don't you just hate the poor and love the rich. You give your brother-in-law big fish and meat, Ren Haoxuan came to the house, you didn't even make fish scales for him, it's really too partial, if I listened to you, I would have married Liu Congxin who killed the donkey and fell the horse, and it would be better to become a nun with a person like him for a lifetime.
It's not me talking about you, you go to the alley to inquire, whose little girl is looking for a partner, it's not good to inquire. They pick and choose, choose and choose, but they can't find anything they want, you can do it, it's good to dig it into the basket, and you don't even look at it, it's done. I don't know what you think! When she said that she was excited, she was so angry that she trembled, and she didn't have so much anger in her heart, so she lit the fire, fortunately Xiaohong didn't speak, if she talked back to her, she would easily disfigure Xiaohong.
Xiaohong continued to bow her head to eat, still didn't speak, and when her mother saw that she didn't speak, she continued to chatter: "You are too good to speak, you have said three thousand six good things, if you don't listen again, you will be happy and suffer when the time comes, don't blame us." When she said this, her face was very ugly, and she didn't look like a mother at all. It may be that she was stimulated too much, and the resentment in her heart was too deep, and she was even angry with her daughter. When the mother is angry with the children, she does not allow anyone to talk back, and if she does, she uses violent methods to make the children submit. This is what she used to conquer children, and now that the children have grown up, her feudal domestic violence is no longer useful.
Now, Sun Xiaohong looked at her fierce and vicious look, Sun Xiaohong thought that her own mother could understand her suffering, but she didn't expect her to choke her weakness and whip herself viciously. She bit her lip, her eyes widened, and she wanted to break herself into pieces to relieve the hatred in her heart. She's heard enough, and she's tired of hearing it, and her ears are calloused.
What kind of mother is she? She really couldn't listen to it, she threw the rice bowl on the table, she looked at her mother in a daze, and when she listened to the words that were no more chilling than this, the corners of her mouth moved, and she turned her heart sideways, and murmured: "I already knew that you would say this, compare me with Lingzi at every turn, in fact, you and my father are both poor and love rich...... Sun Xiaohong's lips squirmed, anyway, she also let it go, and some words were more uncomfortable to hold in her heart than to say it.
"What do you say? Who hates the poor and loves the rich? I really don't know what to do, say two words to you, and you still talk up! I don't know who gave you the temper you are used to! Before the shrill roar fell, only "Smack!" With a loud mouth, a loud mouth shook over, and two lines of blood immediately flowed out of Sun Xiaohong's nostrils. Xiaohong immediately covered her cheeks with her hands. The bleeding didn't stop and ran down her fingers. A heart-piercing pain immediately spread throughout the body. This slap was too hard, and Xiaohong's nose was immediately bruised. She touched it with her hand, and her whole face swelled.
Ke Xiaohong's mother didn't feel how pitiful she was, and still chattered and shouted: "I'm used to you eating and drinking, but I'm not used to you talking back to me." I've been reading books for you for so many years, and I haven't read the emotional book well, but my temper is quite hard. I just said a few words from you, and I didn't want to hear it! Listen to me, I'm your mother! If you can't get along with me, your good days will be over! ”
The blood, still dripping down, dripped from Xiaohong's hand, all the way to the clothes on her chest, and then to the rice bowl on the table. In the dim light, Xiaohong's clothes were stained with blood. She sat there motionless, the wounds on her face ached from her heart, she forced her tears into her stomach, she did not hide, she did not escape. She squeezed out a few more frightening words from between her teeth:
"Yes, you're my mother, I don't dare to mess with you! You gave me this life, if you look at me as an eyesore, you can kill me as soon as possible, I don't want to live anyway! Even if I'm dead now, I won't let you pay for your life, maybe donate an organ or something, and you can still get a lot of money! Sun Xiaohong raised her bloody hands, raised her face, and slowly stood up. When she saw her mother sitting there in astonishment, she turned and walked towards the door.