Li Xiaocan hadn't seen her son for a long time, she missed it so much that she forgot the feeling of holding the child in her arms.

On that day, the married colleagues in the company who had children got together to discuss the parenting scriptures, and talked about their children one by one, which is called a number of family treasures, when the child pulls the poop, what color of poop is pulled, and whether the diaper is not wet or not, can be discussed hotly.

Everyone's topic shifted to the growth of children, and some people said: "My baby is eight months old, and only two small front teeth have grown, Xiaocan, how old are your children's teeth?" ”

Li Xiaocan was sitting on the side playing with her mobile phone, because she didn't know about this topic, and she couldn't participate in it, she was suddenly asked coldly, she was stunned, and raised her head blankly: "Ah? I don't know! There was an awkward tone in his tone.

"You're afraid you're raising a fake child, right? This child isn't your own, is it? A colleague quipped.

Li Xiaocan's face was red and hot for a while, holding his mobile phone, speechless.

"You still have to stay with your children, otherwise your children will become left-behind children, it's too pitiful, three years old is young, and your parents are not around, which has an impact on your child's growth and psychology."

"Yes, grandparents are next generation, it's too easy to spoil children, and there are many problems with children, you see those who are rebellious, all because their parents are not around. My child, growing up with his grandparents, learned the first word 'grandma', I held his hand, he didn't know me and I wouldn't let me, I gave him candy, he took it, and then ignored me. Alas, I owe so much to my children......"

"I didn't come out until I brought him to kindergarten when he was three years old, otherwise, I would have missed his growth. In this life, the time for children to stay by their side is actually only when they are young, and when he goes to school, works, gets married, and goes to other places, he will have his own circle and family, and if he wants to be with him in the future, he will not have time and opportunity, so he should cherish it......"

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As a mother, she doesn't know when the child will have teeth, she doesn't know when the child will pronounce the syllable of "mother", and she doesn't know when the child will sit, crawl and walk, these are rare growth marks in the child's life.

And Li Xiaocan did not participate in the whole process. In the process of raising a child, you have to have a handful of and urine, and then realize from the hard work that the child's growth will reap happiness. This is a process of giving and getting, just like "The Little Prince" - because the little prince watered the roses and paid energy, he would rely on the roses, and he would have feelings and associations with them.

Left-behind children have directly omitted the most down-to-earth steps in their daily lives.

What Li Xiaocan has gained is just a child who has changed dramatically and unfamiliarly.

Li Xiaocan was eager to see the child. On this day, it finally came, Li Xiaocan asked for leave early and went to the high-speed rail station to pick up her parents-in-law and baby.

The mother-in-law walked to the exit of the station with the child, and the father-in-law walked beside him with a bag on his back, although the crowd was bustling, Li Xiaocan saw his mother-in-law at a glance, and hurriedly stretched out his hand and shouted: "Mom!" Mother! Over here! ”

The mother-in-law and father-in-law saw Li Xiaocan and walked towards the station door.

Li Xiaocan saw that her son had grown up, and her son was wearing a small hat, just like a young man, and he was no longer the baby she only knew was sleeping in swaddling clothes in her memory. In his son's small mouth, a few white teeth have grown, and he still likes to eat his hands, so he stuffs two fingers in his mouth, which is cute. As soon as Li Xiaocan saw his son, his heart melted.

But in the black grape-like eyes, there is the gaze of a stranger. Li Xiaocan couldn't wait to hug the child: "Mom, I'll hug it, you can rest for a while." ”

Li Xiaocan stretched out his hand enthusiastically to probe: "The baby is here, the mother is here, the mother is hugging." But the baby turned his head in fear, lay tightly on his mother-in-law's shoulder, and "hummed" impatiently.

Li Xiaocan felt an indescribable feeling in his heart. The child doesn't know himself at all, and he doesn't blame the child, he only blames himself for not accompanying him.

Li Xiaocan walked behind her mother-in-law again, grimaced, and teased him: "Baby, look at me, I'm a mother!" ”

Seeing his son's delicate and cute appearance like a handsome young man, Li Xiaocan couldn't help but secretly kiss his son while his son was not paying attention.

Unexpectedly, his son straightened his waist, stepped back, and looked at Li Xiaocan with strange eyes.

The son is conscious and will recognize people. Li Xiaocan was happy for his son's reaction, and felt sad for his son's strangeness.

"Son, mother, hug you! I'm your mother! Li Xiaocan couldn't help but take over the child from her mother-in-law, and if she didn't seize the time and opportunity to get close to the child, I was afraid that the child would really not recognize her mother in the future.

Seeing this, the mother-in-law hurriedly comforted Li Xiaocan: "My mother will never forget it anywhere, and when he grows up, he will still recognize you, and when the child gets acquainted after playing for a while, he will let you hug and stick to you." ”

Li Xiaocan hugged his son, and his son hummed and chirped dissatisfiedly, his brows furrowed together, his mouth pouted, with an aggrieved expression, and he twisted his body, facing his mother-in-law, and stretched out his hands to ask his mother-in-law to hug him.

Li Xiaocan forcefully turned the child's body around and walked forward. spent the first strange moment in this way, and his son was held in his arms heavily, and Li Xiaocan felt steady.

The son's little eyes looked everywhere, the sound of "dropping" when swiping the card on the subway, and the small plastic red flower on the wall, the son was fascinated, and his little head was full of freshness and curiosity about the world. Li Xiaocan looked at his pure and lovely son, there were no worries, and his life was still very enjoyable and hopeful.

Li Xiaocan took her parents-in-law and baby to the house she rented. It's a fifteen-square-meter master bedroom with a small balcony. In the living room is a table and four chairs, and there is also a shoe cabinet, which is the common living room. At the front is a dirty kitchen.

A 120-square-meter house was divided into four rooms by the intermediary, and the other three rooms were inhabited by three girls, and the four families shared two toilets. Sharing a house, even going to the bathroom is a robbery.

For this single room, the monthly rent is 1,000, plus water, electricity, gas, property fees, and Internet fees, and it costs 15,000 per month. The cost of living in Wuhan has risen to more than 2,000.

In this Wuhan, where every inch of land is valuable, Li Xiaocan, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and baby are crowded in a master bedroom, which is crowded.

Li Xiaocan moved the small table and chairs to the balcony, spread a quilt on the ground, put a mat on it, and started the floor.

In order to prevent dissatisfaction among his roommates, Li Xiaocan also went to the roommate group and sent a red envelope of 200.

Let's make do with it, fortunately there is a place to stay, even this crowded single room, Li Xiaocan and the intermediary at that time wore out their mouths, ran all over the four nearby communities, and downloaded n rental software to find it.

The next day, my mother-in-law offered to decorate. The decoration has to be receiving, and the key has to be paid a garbage disposal fee of 10,000 yuan.

Li Xiaocan has been moonlight for the past few months, and he has no money at all, so he had to ask Zhang Gang for help and send a message to Chen Gang: "Zhang Gang, fire line emergency!" Your mother wants to decorate, I have to go and get the key, and I have to pay 10,000! ”

Zhang Gang was already busy with work, and when he heard Li Xiaocan call "your mother", he suddenly felt uncomfortable, and asked him for money again, and he didn't have anything to say: "You won't ask my mother for it yourself, what are you doing with your mouth?" ”

"How can a daughter-in-law ask her mother-in-law for money?" Li Xiaocan felt unhappy.

"I don't have any money, my mother is next to you, you don't ask him for it yourself, you don't have a long mouth?"

Li Xiaocan was extremely embarrassed, how could she open her mouth? So he also asked Zhang Gang: "I can't open my mouth to your mother, or you can ask my father for money to try, do you think you can say it?" ”

"Okay, got it." Without waiting for Li Xiaocan to say more, Zhang Gang didn't even say hello, and hung up the phone impatiently. As soon as it came to her mother-in-law, Li Xiaocan knew that things were more tricky than she imagined, and now the two of them were already having an unpleasant quarrel.

Li Xiaocan feels that the less marriage his parents are mixed with, the higher the happiness index will actually be. In the end, Zhang Gang opened his mouth to explain the situation to his mother and asked for money.

Who knows, this is just the beginning, Li Xiaocan and her mother-in-law have different opinions about decoration.

First of all, it is to choose a decoration company, because of her experience in the past, my mother-in-law thinks that it will be better to find acquaintances to decorate, and there are people in my hometown who are doing small jobs in Wuhan, and the new home can be decorated by them.

Li Xiaocan disagreed: "The old family is not necessarily real, how many people earn the money of the villagers now, and the cement workers in the hometown definitely don't know how to decorate and design." Maybe the style of decoration is from the seventies and eighties of the last century. ”

The mother-in-law disagreed: "Decoration is such a big thing, the water and electricity have been safe, you have to live for a lifetime, if there is a problem in the middle, you have to pry open the floor, it is too troublesome, this invisible place has to use real materials to find the outside decoration company, maybe how people use cheap materials in the pit!" ”

The two of them had an unpleasant quarrel about this, but in the end it was her mother-in-law who paid for it, Li Xiaocan couldn't help but be unhappy, so she had to let the fellow come and install the house. Li Xiaocan thought to himself, this home, when the time comes, will be ugly and dirty.

For the sake of face, the mother-in-law is also a smart person, and within half a day, the two reconciled again, but then, there was a disagreement on the door of choosing a room.

Li Xiaocan insisted: "Mom, the door should be beige white, high-end atmosphere, simple and generous, and easy to match furniture." ”

The mother-in-law's face collapsed and raised her eyebrows: "White? White is so unlucky, and it is not resistant to dirt, when the time comes, how can you have time to wipe it! Dark red, good-looking, classical and luxurious, and Chinese flavor, there are carvings on it. As she spoke, the mother-in-law stretched out her hand and stroked the red door, as if it had been installed in her room.

Li Xiaocan swallowed a mouthful of spit, and endured it again, the money was not in his hands, and he couldn't do anything.

After installing it, Li Xiaocan looked at this rustic Chinese-style door and couldn't laugh or cry.

Li Xiaocan's ideal new home is Mediterranean style, and the home is a patchwork of blue and yellow, which produces a lively and fashionable visual effect, so the door should be white, so as not to affect the overall bright and bright style. The mother-in-law's big red door forcibly lowered the grade of the whole family and laid the rustic atmosphere of Chinese style.