Nine times out of ten, life is unsatisfactory, not to mention a family, so many people, so many people's lives, unsatisfactory things are one after another.

Originally, the matter of buying a house and repaying the loan was discussed, although the family would have a little more difficulty, but Qiao Xinman would not have to go out to do things and make money to subsidize the family. No one thought that the new member of the family, Yuanyuan, would suffer from such a serious congenital heart disease, and he would have surgery and hospitalization as soon as he was born, and he would spend a lot of money.

Even if she has undergone two surgeries, Yuanyuan is not life-threatening now, and she looks similar to a normal child, but she is relatively weak after all, so she has to be carefully cared for, and she has to go to the hospital often for examination and treatment, and when she spends money in the future, she will have more.

Qiao Xinman is worried, what if Yuanyuan falls ill in the future and suddenly has to spend a lot of money on treatment, what if the family can't come up with the money?

She now goes out to do housekeeping, and the hard work is a little harder, and she is quite angry when she meets a picky employer, but she thinks that after these two years, the family will have some spare savings, and it would be nice to be a little easier, so she gritted her teeth and did it without complaint.

Seeing that her daughter was unhappy and worried about her, Qiao Xinman slowed down, and said seriously: "Yunfeng, Mom was afraid that you would be worried and disagree, so she didn't tell you." Now that you know, you don't have to worry too much, my mother is in good health and can hold on, just go to help other people's houses clean up and clean up the house, buy groceries, cook, and do not do heavy work, it is similar to normal at home. You have to do these jobs at home, and you have to do these jobs when you go out to help other people's families, and it's not the same everywhere, and there's money to be made, what's so bad. Mom is a little older, not so old and confused, what Mom does, you know in your heart, you don't care so much, live your own life, Mom will rest assured. ”

These words made Tao Yunfeng angry, and he couldn't refute it.

Tao Yunfeng, as a daughter, is naturally worried about her mother, but her mother has to go out to do things, even if she disagrees and is unhappy, she can't stop it. What else could she do to tie up her mother at home and not let her out?

But she was still angry: "Mom, don't treat me as such an unreasonable person, if I hadn't been personally touched, when would you plan to hide it from me?

At this point, Qiao Xinman knew that he was at a loss, and then explained a little weakly: "I don't plan to keep it from you, at the beginning, I didn't know if I could do it, how long I could do it, a few days or a few months, it was all uncertain." When I first started, I thought, will you be unhappy and disagree, whether I can do it is uncertain, or not let you know first, if you can't do it, there is no need to tell you, if you can do it, I plan to wait for it to be stable, so I can tell you, this is not for you to know first. ”

Tao Yunfeng was angry and angry, and she couldn't do anything to her mother.

remembered that when she was cooking at Zhao Jing's house, Sister Zhao told her that her mother went out to do things, did some grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning up the housekeeping at home, and let her do it if she could do it. Think about those, take your parents to live with you, your parents like to pick up garbage, you can't persuade them, and you can't help them.

Listening to her mother's words to this point, Tao Yunfeng didn't have anything to say, just persuaded her mother that she had to go out to do housekeeping, she didn't stop her, but she must pay attention to her body, don't tire yourself, if there is anything, let her know as soon as possible, and she can't hide it from her anymore.

Qiao Xinman nodded again and again, her daughter didn't object to her going out to do things, just say anything!

Tao Yunfeng returned to her home, Huo Jinliang didn't come back from a business trip, and the two old men at home, she couldn't tell them that she was bored and didn't sleep well all night.

The next morning, Tao Yunfeng took her son out for a walk, and when she saw the old man and old lady walking outside, she looked leisurely and leisurely, and she felt that this was her ideal mother's old life.

However, reality and ideals, many times, are contrary to each other.

There are two weeks to start school, Shifeng company received a slightly larger order, Tao Yunfeng frequently ran to the company, and wanted to help everyone set the design before the start of school.

When Tao Yunfeng was busy, she rarely thought about other things, and she almost didn't think about her mother's housekeeping.

After a busy day, when she was about to go home for dinner, Lu Lanshi took out two tickets for her and told her: "My mother and their troupe will perform at the Grand Theater next week, and give me the task of giving me two tickets, and ask me to send it out, invite your father-in-law to join the show, and let him take Grandpa Huo to see it with him then." ”

"The Grand Theater, the newly built Grand Theater of the Cultural Palace?" Tao Yunfeng asked uncertainly.

Lu Lanshi nodded: "It's the one." ”

After confirming it, Tao Yunfeng couldn't help but sigh: "Oh! Mother Lu, they want to perform in that big theater!"

In her opinion, those who can perform in the newly built Grand Theater of the Cultural Palace are all real artists, art troupes, etc., but she didn't expect the amateur middle-aged and elderly choir formed by Lu's mother and her to also perform there.

I heard Lu Lan say before that Lu's mother was pulled into a middle-aged and elderly choir, and Tao Yunfeng thought that the so-called choir was just a hobby of a retired old man and an old aunt, who usually practiced singing and recreation.

Lu's mother used to go to KTV to sing with her group of volunteer brothers and sisters when they had time, and someone heard her sing well, so they introduced her to the choir. She met with the head of the choir and had a good conversation, so she joined.

Lu Lanshi talked about her mother's retirement life, and lamented that her mother is now very chic every day, and she can't help but be a little envious. Thinking about the fact that her mother's daily life was to go to and from work, buy groceries and cook, which seemed simple and boring, such a bitter turtle life, day after day, and retirement in the blink of an eye. Unexpectedly, after her mother retired, the boring life that was almost black and white suddenly became colorful and colorful. It's no wonder that some people say that your true life begins with retirement.

In the past, Lu Lanshi thought that her mother's life was like this, but now she can't help but feel that she is too young and short-sighted after all!

Tao Yunfeng thought that Jiang Yiqian and Lu's mother were getting more and more familiar, and they could chat, Lu's mother had a ticket for the performance, so it was quite appropriate for Jiang Yiqian to watch it.

She took the ticket directly into her hand and promised, "Okay, when the time comes, let my father Jiang go to see it." ”

"Great, you must go!" Lu Lanshi also emphasized.

Tao Yunfeng returned home, gave the ticket to Jiang Yiqian, and asked him to go to the concert with Old Man Huo at that time. Jiang Yiqian is also idle, since Lu's mother's performance will give him a ticket, he will go to see it, how can he not give face to others. But Mr. Huo said that he wouldn't mix it up anymore and didn't like to go to places with too many people.

If Old Man Huo doesn't go, Jiang Yiqian can't take two tickets and go alone, right? He doesn't know anyone else who is suitable to go with him, who can he go with him?

Jiang Yiqian had a little headache about this, returned the ticket to Tao Yunfeng, and said that Tao Yunfeng would give it to her mother and Pei Hongqiu to see it.

The ticket was given to him by Tao Yunfeng, and Tao Yunfeng also had a bit of a headache.

With two tickets, Jiang Yiqian won't go alone, but Tao Yunfeng feels that if she asks her mother and Pei Hongqiu to go with her, although both of them know Lu's mother, they are not very familiar with it, Lu's mother's ticket is obviously for people who are very familiar with her, and she specified that Jiang Yiqian was invited to cheer, how could she let others go?

Tao Yunfeng thought about it and struggled for a while, so she decided to ask her mother to help and let her mother go to the show with Jiang Yiqian. Qiao Xinman also knew that Tao Yunfeng had intentionally wanted to get Jiang Yiqian and Lu's mother together, and now she asked her to do a favor, which was trivial, she agreed without saying a word.

On the day of the performance in the blink of an eye, Qiao Xinman deliberately took a day off, dressed up, and went to the theater with Jiang Yiqian to watch Lu's mother's singing troupe perform.

Jiang Yiqian also deliberately cleaned up, and at the suggestion of Tao Yunfeng and Huo Jinliang, he also wore formal clothes, suits and leather shoes, looking younger and handsome.

After having dinner early, Jiang Yiqian drove to pick up Qiao Xinman, and then went directly to the Grand Theater.

Because the two parents have a common topic on the issue of cooking, they can talk quite openly, and it is quite easy to get along alone.

When they entered the concert hall where they wanted to see the performance, both of them couldn't help but sigh: "This theater is really big, can it seat 2,000 people, right?"

Speaking of which, this grand theater was designed by Huo Jinliang, and Jiang Yiqian couldn't hide his sense of pride. Also thinking of the interior design of the Grand Theater, Tao Yunfeng also participated, and Qiao Xinman was also a little proud in his heart. The two of them sat in the design work of their children, and they felt very different. When children become instruments, they are the pride of their parents.

Before the performance began, Lu's mother and her teammates were preparing backstage, but Jiang Yiqian and Qiao Xinman didn't see her.

On the huge painting on the stage, there is a line of particularly conspicuous big characters "XXXX Year XX Citizen Choral Exchange Concert", that is, the citizen choral exchange concert of X city and F city. There is also a piano on stage and a backing band.

When the performance began, after the host Balabala said something, the giant curtain opened, first the middle-aged and elderly choir of X City performed "Wandering Love" and "Distant Place", and the third song "Where Has Time Gone", the old aunts in white dresses and the old men in suits with bows went up in a row, Jiang Yiqian and Qiao Xinman found the face of Lu's mother in the choir of fifty or sixty people.

Mother Lu was standing in the first row, on the right hand side of the conductor. She is in good shape, and in the slightly wide waists of the old aunts in the front row wearing the same white dresses, she looks a little slimmer, especially eye-catching, and especially spiritual.

At the beginning of the singing, Jiang Yiqian and Qiao Xinman were very quiet, with focused expressions on their faces, and they had their own thoughts.

"After giving birth to children and raising daughters for a lifetime, my mind was full of children crying and laughing...... After half a lifetime of firewood, rice, oil and salt, in a blink of an eye, only wrinkles were left on his face......"

When he heard these two sentences, Qiao Xinman felt a special feeling in his heart.

I think back to when my daughter fell to the ground and babbled, she was a little older, carrying a small schoolbag, and started to go to school...... Qiao Xinman's face couldn't help but show the happy expression of being a mother. Thinking about it now, her daughter has grown up, has her own family, and lives her own small life, and she herself is already wrinkled, and she is indeed old, Qiao Xinman couldn't help but sigh in her heart: Time flies so fast, in this life, looking back, it is just a blink of an eye.