Chapter 35: The Bright Moon in Hometown
The night breeze swayed the shadows of the trees in the elegant courtyard with a cool early autumn feeling, and a leaf wrapped in a thin layer of moonlight like a cicada's wings swirled away from the branches, swirled in the air, fluttered and fell to the ground, and the moonlight like water quietly leaked on the bed and quilt through the thin light veil in front of the window, sprinkling the coldness of the room.
“…… Mom! Zhao Qing sat up abruptly.
Looking at the curtain in front of him that was dyed with a layer of clear brilliance by the white moonlight, and the vaguely recognizable tangled flowers on the pillow at his hand, it took a long time for Zhao Qing to come to his senses.
Dreaming again!
I dreamed that when I was a child, I sent my mother on a business trip, and my little aunt stood at the door of the house with her, watching her mother's back with a big suitcase hurriedly getting farther and farther away from her, no matter how much she cried and shouted, she refused to look back...... until you wake up crying.
The figure of her mother when she was young was still clearly imprinted in her heart, and she couldn't sleep, so Zhao Qing simply put on her clothes and went to the ground, slowly came to the window, opened the curtain, and looked up at the blue satin starry sky outside the window, a high bright moon......
The camphor tree in front of the window, the small pool in the middle of the courtyard, the rockery, and the hand-copying verandah with carved beams and painted pillars all stand in the haze. The night is clear, the wind is clear and the moon is clear, and it is charming into ink.
Such a night, such a month, even the memory becomes transparent.
“…… I think Guo Shengrui is very good, he has an upright character, a calm temperament, and can tolerate your fiery temper, he comes to pick you up rain or shine, and comes to accompany me and your father for three days. ”
“…… Such a good man, you actually think he is too warm and unmanly! ”
“…… What exactly are you looking for? ”
"Find someone who's as grumpy as you, and the two of you have turned the sky upside down?"
“…… This time this man is a vice president, your Aunt Li has put a lot of effort into it, this time you have to talk to me about Huang again, don't enter this house in the future! ”
……
The mother's nagging echoed in his ears over and over again, and Zhao Qing's hand subconsciously stroked his lower abdomen, which was already slightly bulging.
Mother, when you say these words, you must have hated and loved yourself, right?
She is tough by nature, she remembers when she was a child when she went up to the tree to dig out the bird's nest and fell, her calf was broken, and she was sweating profusely in pain, but she didn't say a word, and smiled and comforted her cousin who was so frightened that her face turned pale and the little brother who was waiting for her under the tree together, "It's okay, it's just a broken foot and neck." ”
But even so, she also felt hardship and felt what it means to live like a year!
As soon as I saw the food, I was afraid and flinched.
I never knew that she was so guilty of conceiving a child, if it weren't for her life, she would have retreated and given up.
How much hardship does a child have to pay as a mother from conception to birth, and then to grow up?!
If you don't know your parents, you don't know your parents.
Only when you really experience it can you know how deep your parents' kindness is to you!
Unfortunately, she found out too late!
When I want to repay, I have been a human being for two lives, and I have been separated from my parents by a red dust!
“…… If you don't get married, as long as you have children, you don't have to worry about being a father? Feeding, dressing, changing diapers, which is so easy, do you think it is so easy to raise a child, and you will grow up as soon as you blow your breath?! When she heard that she wanted to be a single mother that day, her mother's angry words were especially in her ears, and she vividly remembered hearing the low sobs from her bedroom when she woke up at night......
How could she be so ruthless at that time, and after eavesdropping for a long time, she could quietly go back to the bedroom and cover her head with a big quilt!
The foreground gradually blurred.
"Mom, if I can go back, I will definitely stop being angry with you, and I will no longer be shocked to be a single mother!"
"Mom, if I can go back, I will definitely listen to you, find a man to marry, and give birth to a white and chubby grandson."
"Mom, if I can go back in the future, I will no longer work so hard, I must go home often, pour a basin of hot water to help you scald your old cold legs at night, and comb your mottled white hair in the morning......" muttered silently in his heart, and a long-forgotten song gently overflowed from Zhao Qing's lips.
The emptiness of the long night makes me nostalgic, and the bright moon is relative to my mother; Parents are loving, soft and kind like the blue moon, how can they not be sad when they miss it.
The long night is empty and the pillow is cold and the night is half crying, and the blue sea is far away to show my heart; Parents are as loving and gentle as Biyue, and they often ask in their hearts what day to report? Relatives should be repaid, should be cherished filial piety, but I parted, unable to comfort my relatives. Flick the rhyme in a dream!
Who's singing?
It sounds so good.
Xia Zhu, who slept in the warm pavilion, went to the ground and followed the sound to the bedroom.
I saw the cold back in front of the window.
Dressed in a moon-white robe, the long satin hair cascaded down to the waist, and the cold moonlight shone through the bright glass, shining on the body, outlining a slender but graceful silhouette like a tough willow.
I don't know why, it's obvious that this is a touching ink painting, but Xia Zhu has an inexplicable sentimentality for no reason.
Staring at the lonely figure under the moonlight, I couldn't help but sobbed lowly.
Yes, I was widowed at a young age, I tossed and died every day, and I came to the breeze in the middle of the night, and my mother-in-law didn't like it, and my sister-in-law was disrespectful, and there was a big lady who was ready to find fault at any time, this day...... It's hard for anyone!
"Who?"
Zhao Qing suddenly turned around.
Only then did I realize that at some point, my face was full of tears.
"Third grandma!" Xia Zhu hugged her, "If you want to be sad, just cry out happily!" ”
Zhao Qing was taken aback.
Suddenly realized that Xia Zhu had misunderstood.
"It's okay, it's okay......" she hurriedly patted Xia Zhu on the back, "I just found out that being a mother was so hard, and I suddenly missed my mother." And he said, "Don't cry, be careful to wake up the others." ”
"If the third grandmother misses her mother, it is better to go back to the old lady and the eldest lady tomorrow, please Mrs. Fang to come and see you......" Xia Zhu wiped away her tears embarrassedly.
Please...... Mrs. Fang is coming?
Zhao Qing looked stunned.
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The eldest lady sneered when she heard this.
"She finally can't stand it anymore!"
"How can it be so easy to keep an empty room?" Su's mother laughed, "I heard that she ate and spit out, and she lost a lot of weight." ”
The eldest lady laughed too.
There was a sense of relaxed joy in the room.
The steward of the sacrificial room sent a list of sacrifices for Shen Huaiyu to burn five or seven, "...... Big lady, look, what's missing? ”
Looking at the list absentmindedly, the eldest lady muttered to herself, "...... is such an old toss, why doesn't the child fall off? ”
Mother Su's face couldn't help but change greatly when she heard this, "Spit like this, will the old lady let her go out of the house for the ceremony?" ”
Her expression stiffened suddenly, and the list in the eldest lady's hand fell to the ground lightly.
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The old lady was also looking at Qingmei in surprise, "...... Crying in the middle of the night? ”
Qingmei nodded, "I woke up Mother Wu, and when I asked in the past, I said that I was thinking about Mrs. Fang." ”
"In the end, it's still a child, and I'm pregnant......," Tian's mother sighed, "It's okay to be unbearable." ”
"There are still three days to burn for the third master, and it's been a month since she entered the door......," the old lady muttered to herself, "Why hasn't Mrs. Fang come to see her?" ”
Mother and son are connected, it is said that Mrs. Fang should have come to see her a long time ago.
Could it be that there is something hidden here?
A freshly cut flower branch in his hand was straightened and simmered, and straightened again...... Before she knew it, it became a section, but the old lady was completely unconscious, and her brows were twisted into a ball.
"Oh, do you need to talk about that?" Huamei said with a smile, "My daughter has done such a humiliating thing, if it weren't for ......" If it weren't for the only blood of the third master, she would have been retired a long time ago, "It's too late to hide, how can she still have the face to see you?" ”
It makes sense to think about it, and the old lady laughed in surprise.
"That's right." Throwing his hand full of broken flowers and branches into the tray, "This man is old, and he loves to think blindly." ”
"She tossed too much, to keep this child, the old lady still bowed her head, please Mrs. Fang." Tian's mother took the opportunity to persuade.
"She doesn't care if she's serious, mother-in-law doesn......'t care," the old lady said hesitantly.
In this matter, it is best for the second wife to come forward and beg the eldest wife.
From picking up Ai Dai and others to buying maids and then agreeing to Zhao Qing to eat empty salaries, this village made the eldest lady thunderous one by one, but fortunately, the old lady took advantage of it.
It's a different story.
If the name is not right, if the old lady decides without authorization, once the eldest lady justifiably rejects it, her old face will have nowhere to go.
Now the Shen family's livelihood depends on the big house!
After a turn of thought, Mother Tian understood the old lady's difficulties, and couldn't help sighing, "...... I don't know if the second wife can think of this? ”
Even if you think about it, you don't dare to speak, right?
Thinking of the second wife's cowering and cowardly nature, Huamei sighed for Zhao Qing in her heart.
The second old man was persuading the second wife who was leading the maid to stack the gold ingots:
"These things have been prepared in the sacrificial room, don't worry about it, go to Lijing Pavilion to take a look, if you are really homesick, go back to the old lady and the eldest lady and invite Mrs. Fang in." Of course, the dead are sad and remembrance, but if you are alive, you must live.
In particular, there is a child who gives them hope and needs to be cared for!
Put the folded gold ingots into the cardboard box, and the second wife Wuzi picked up a piece of cut gold paper and folded it in half from the middle, "Yu'er has a big hand since she was a child, and I'm afraid that my sister-in-law will not prepare enough flowers for him." Feeling that her husband's eyes were always looking at her, she didn't raise her head and said, "Mrs. Fang doesn't come to see her daughter by herself, how can she be a mother-in-law to invite her?" Shaking his head, "This is not the dignity of the Shen family, and my sister-in-law will not agree." ”
Remembering that Zhao Qing changed the Lijing Pavilion minions three days after entering the door, and tossed the house in five days, and even asked for the empty salary of twenty-one people for the first time, which made the people in the mansion collectively lose their voices, and the eldest lady was so angry that she almost vomited blood, and the second master sighed.
If the eldest lady can agree to invite Mrs. Fang, it would be strange.
The atmosphere was a little dreary.
The room was filled with the sound of rustling origami.
The little maid brought the purple cuckoo in.
"I heard that the third grandmother thinks of Mrs. Fang, the eldest lady doesn't mean as well as the second wife to take a look, if you really want to think about it, please ask Mrs. Fang to come over, so that you can eat something and keep the child."
She was wrong, her sister-in-law was originally a cold-hearted, warm-hearted and open-minded!
When the second wife heard this, her eyes lit up.
She put down the work in her hand and instructed Shuxiang, "Find out my set of jade head noodles and send it to my sister-in-law." ”
A contemptuous smile flashed in Zijuan's eyes.