Chapter 45: The Unpredictable Heart
Feng Shui takes turns, and I don't know who I will go to one day. Things must be reversed, everything can't be overdone, Xiaofeng's mother has never felt how she went overboard. She does everything right, she is right in everything she says, if her daughter-in-law comes against her, it is abuse of the elderly, it is a beast. She counted her small accounts clearly, and the money in her pocket was so stubborn that she didn't take out a penny. I don't know where I got it behind her back, and she said that she had spent it all for the family, she ate her son's, drank her son's, and told outsiders all day long that she would support herself.
What's even more infuriating is that she hangs out with some old ladies outside every day, and her daughter-in-law comes back from a day's work, and she can't even eat a mouthful of hot rice, so she can only eat a mouthful of boiling water to soak in rice, and she also threatens to cook for her daughter-in-law every day.
said that the family does not bully outsiders, Xiaofeng's mother is hypocritical, and her goal has been achieved. She was fine all day long, staring at her daughter-in-law with two eyes, playing with her nose and eyes, setting up rules, unashamedly showing the attitude of a parent, and exercising the power in her hands indiscriminately, and thinking how majestic she was.
It's not the meat that fell from his body, and of course he won't feel distressed. Xiaohong's mother's high-flying trick is nothing more than trying to manage her daughter-in-law well, and then respect her in a low voice and fear her. But some people eat her set, and some people don't eat her set. People's hearts are long, since the mother-in-law is disrespectful to the old, there is no need for the new daughter-in-law to support her face. Whenever Xiaofeng's mother glared at her daughter-in-law and made trouble unreasonably, she didn't succeed as smoothly as before.
The daughter-in-law used to be very good to her, but when she saw her like this, she couldn't change back to the same size, and after a long time, she didn't care about her anymore. In fact, I don't blame others, it's all self-inflicted. She used to cover the sky at home with one hand, and she could turn the world upside down if she had anything to do. But the current situation is very different from before, the daughter-in-law has changed, the style of the family has also changed, and her status in the family has also changed.
In the face of her daughter-in-law, who is several times stronger than her, her status at home has really plummeted, and she is like a cat and mouse all day long, and she doesn't dare to come out. Actually, Xiaofeng's brother also hates her, although he doesn't say it, he also complains in his heart. But what can she do if she complains, she is a mother, what she says and does is reasonable, no matter how domineering she is at home, her son provokes his mother, isn't that a big rebellion?
Therefore, he just didn't want to swallow his breath, he had to bear it, and he couldn't pant loudly. He is her son, and the son is born with a son who has to survive in the cracks, and he is angry at both ends, and he is not allowed to make a noise.
The son is raised by himself, he can endure everything, the new daughter-in-law of the family, you haven't raised it, she doesn't eat this, Xiaofeng's new sister-in-law has also heard what kind of person her mother is, she didn't put her in her eyes as soon as she entered the door, she wanted to pick a thorn in front of her, but she didn't dare, she just muttered blindly behind her back, and no one listened.
It's hard to buy regret medicine with money, and she only now feels that she is holding a hedgehog full of hard thorns in her hand, and if something goes wrong, she will make a mess, and she deserves to do evil, and the people in the entire alley are gossiping about her behind her back, and basically no one sympathizes with her! Xiaofeng's mother does this every day, and she doesn't know what she wants? However, Xiaofeng's sister-in-law is indeed excessive, she is so old, no matter what, she is also a mother-in-law, living under one roof all the year round, and competing with her, it is indeed despicable.
The courtyard was very quiet, and it was always the same voice that was noisy, maybe the woman with the purple tooth bed was tired of arguing, and the alley calmed down. Sun Xiaohong sneered and glanced at the courtyard of Xiaofeng's house, and scolded in a low voice: "Hmph, if anyone asks for such a daughter-in-law, it will be really bad luck!" ”
Xiaohong lowered her head and walked forward, coldly remembering the clothes she had washed in the afternoon, so she quickened her pace. She pushed the door into the courtyard, came under the clothes pole, and slowly collected the clothes from the clothes pole, she collected them, and suddenly found that her favorite red blouse was missing. She thought it was her grandmother who helped her put it away, so she turned around and shouted at the window, "Grandma, have you taken back my red dress?" ”
"Red clothes? No wow! I just sat down to rest for a while, and I didn't help you collect your clothes! Look for it again, have you been blown into the garden by the wind? When Grandma heard the shouting, she was afraid that Xiaohong would be in a hurry, so she walked out of the house with a big pipe in her mouth. She handed Xiaohong a flashlight, and stood quietly at the door of the house, smoking a cigarette while looking at the anxious Xiaohong, walking around the yard with her waist bent.
"Grandma, the red dress my sister bought for me is really gone, I thought you just helped me take it back! It's okay, you go back to the house, I'll look elsewhere!" Don't worry about me. Xiaohong said and looked for it in the yard, but she searched for a long time, and she didn't see the shadow of this dress, and she felt incredible.
"It's really strange, I obviously hung my clothes on the clothes pole, how can it say that it is gone? Could it fly on its own? The wind in this yard is not strong, at most it can fall to the ground, and it can't run far! Xiaohong lowered her head and searched the entire courtyard with her horns and corners, but still didn't find the dress.
She pushed open the small door of the garden, and stepped in, she walked around the garden a few more times, but did not find the dress, and she wondered even more: "This dress is not worth much, who took it?" Sun Xiaohong frowned and thought, she looked up at the few families in the front yard, and wondered in her heart.
These families are old neighbors for many years, they are all from their own families, and there are no girls in the family, they can't climb over the wall for a beautiful dress, in case they are discovered, where is their face.
Whether they take it or not, it's not good to ask at home, and the matter of losing things is a trivial matter, and if you are too loud, it is easy to misunderstand between neighbors. In the case of succumbing to the death of others laughing at the thief, even if the clothes can't be found, no one dares to doubt it. She would rather believe that the dress was blown away by the wind than that it had been stolen by a neighbor for many years.
Sun Xiaohong held a flashlight and walked along the wall. When she walked to the back wall of Xu Fengshu's house, she suddenly found a row of footprints of different shades. These footprints came densely through the damp ditches, and they were gone all the way through. When she saw this, she suddenly felt that Xu Fengshu's wife was a little suspicious. It's just a guess, and I didn't hold people down, in case people didn't take it and annoyed others, wouldn't it be a lawsuit to win?
This is an adult woman's footprints, which may have been stepped on by Xu Fengshu's wife, but what can these footprints mean? It didn't say that she took the clothes! There is no conclusive evidence, and even if someone actually took the clothes, it is difficult to prove it.
It seems that this dress is indeed lost, no need to guess, it must have been taken by Xu Fengshu's wife Nie Yarong. She is very stingy, like a tigress, she doesn't understand human language at all, and if she steals this dress, it will be equivalent to fat meat entering the tiger's mouth.
If you want to get the clothes back from her, it's not easy, Xiaohong obviously knows who took it, but she doesn't dare to ask for it in person, Xiaohong stood there in a daze, thinking: There are no girls in her family, the clothes are so thin, she is so old, she can't wear the clothes of a little girl, she can't take this clothes back, she can't use them when she takes them back, Nie Yarong stole this dress, what does she want to do? For a while, Xiaohong was at a loss.
"It's not poor to lose a piece of clothing, but it's a pity for my sister's heart. Forget it, just throw it away, or don't cause such trouble! Sun Xiaohong weighed outside the wall for a long time, but she still didn't dare to speak out, in order to take care of the faces of the two families, she quietly retreated. The more Xiaohong thought about it, the more angry she became, "How can she be like this, she loves her little so much, she can't make a fortune if she takes away a piece of clothing, what is she trying to do?" ”
It is difficult for people who can be tempted by a piece of clothing to look down on. Sun Xiaohong looked at the courtyard of the Xu family, and returned to the house sullenly, she was lying on the kang, the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, so what, she could only consider herself unlucky. If her mother knew about this, she should complain that she has no brains and doesn't have a long memory.
When he was holding the lamp, a ray of light shot out from the back window of Xu Fengshu's house. This light is like a condescending monitor, monitoring everything in Xiaohong's yard anytime and anywhere throughout the night. Sun Xiaohong sat quietly in the room, looking at this ill-intentioned light, and suddenly felt disgusted in her heart. From then on, when Xiaohong saw Nie Yarong in the alley, she looked like a thief with eyebrows and rat eyes, and her impression changed greatly, and she had to look at each other coldly.
Xu Fengshu is a carpenter, and when his family first moved to the front yard, they lived in two dilapidated adobe houses, which were in danger of collapsing due to disrepair and heavy rain at any time. Xiaohong's mother saw that his family's life was pitiful, so she lent them the two houses that were idle in her family for more than a year, and lived there until their family built a new house, and then moved back to live. It stands to reason that this kind of help is quite big, their family is good, and the children and adults are as they should be, and they haven't even said a word of thanks.
His family consists of two boys, both of whom are seven or eight years old, studying in a primary school across the alley. Every day when they walked in front of the door, Xiaohong's mother had to stuff some delicious things into their schoolbags, and they were also screaming one by one, and nothing wrong happened to the two families. Later, they built their own house, and the family of four moved out of this yard and changed the doorway, and in the future, the children went to school, and they did not leave the door of Xiaohong's house, and the relationship between the two families became more and more cold.
I think of the past, the two families moved around very well, and there were no big or small things, and the two families came and went, and they got along like a family. His wife is not as hateful as she is today, the real person is unpredictable, and she is unkind in the blink of an eye. When Xiaohong thought of the red dress, her heart was very awkward.
Forget it, if you lose it, you can lose it, you can't get it back anyway, whoever likes to wear it can wear it, and you have the right to help poor households.