At night, Nan Sheng called his mother to tell him what happened during the day, and his mother just sighed and said, "Bear with it first, as long as you and Zhao Yang have not divorced, they are still your parents-in-law, and you still have to call them parents." Didn't they say they wanted to stay in Los Angeles for the New Year, wait until the New Year is over, if you have something to do with Zhao Yang, I will go over and help you take care of the children. ”

Nan Sheng frowned: "Mom, I don't understand, why do we have to live so aggrieved." ”

But the mother said, "The one who was the daughter-in-law didn't come over so aggrieved. ”

"That's how you came here?" Nan Sheng asked, cautiously.

In my impression, my mother and my grandmother got along well, and even my grandmother was sick and bedridden for half a year, and she always thought that her mother and grandmother got along very harmoniously, and there was no legendary mother-in-law and daughter-in-law troubles. Now when I hear my mother say this, I feel that my mother is also a person with a story.

"Alas!" On the other side of the phone, the mother first sighed heavily, and then opened the conversation: "Your father and brother, when I got married, your two uncles had already married wives. Your second aunt is domineering and powerful, but she also met your second uncle, who is used to listening to his daughter-in-law, and she is not in charge of this Nanjiamen. ”

"Isn't it a separation?"

"Before I entered the door, I didn't separate the family, and after I entered the door, your second aunt made a fuss about splitting the family. Your grandparents are not wealthy families, and there are many children in the family, to be honest, there is nothing valuable at home, but your second aunt, pick up the baby in the tatters, whether it is a flat burden, a bucket, or a crockpot containing grain, you have to pick it up with her, and we have to follow your uncle and aunt first, after all, the eldest brother is like a sister-in-law. When this family is finished, there will be very little that your father and I can ask for. ”

"You're too good to talk to my dad."

"What if you can't speak, learn from your second aunt at home? Who's embarrassed, it's not your grandparents. They are not easy, in that era, family planning was not popular, and there were so many mouths to eat in the family, and it was all a credit to be able to raise all the children. ”

Mother said, sighing again: "Don't talk about your grandparents, even your grandparents are not easy." Poor, in those days, everyone was poor, and there was nothing to fight for. ”

"Then how did you and my dad raise me and my brother?" Nan Sheng desperately recalled his childhood, but could only remember some vague fragments.

"How else can you raise it, a handful of and a handful of urine."

"Mom, can you answer me seriously."

"Okay, okay, I'll answer you seriously, you kid, why are you asking these things in a good manner, it's all in the past." My mother was nagging, but she couldn't help but recall the past: "I remember that when we first separated, your father and I only shared a crockpot of multigrain noodles. The crockpot, the blue-black kind of small crockpot, is the one that raises flowers in our backyard. ”

"I know, when I was a child, our family used that flour too."

"In order to fill my stomach, your father and I went to the one-acre three-point field day and night." The mother seemed to stretch her voice a little: "You were born in April, don't talk about minced meat in the confinement, even if you want to eat noodles made of multigrain noodles, noodles are a luxury." Every day is thin soup and little water, and even the millet grains in the bowl can be counted. Your grandmother felt sorry for me, so she saved her own rations and gave me a dry cake, which was a thin and crunchy cake. But I couldn't cook a few pieces of that bread, so I hid them all and took them out when I was too hungry to do anything. ”

Nan Sheng was sad to hear it, but he couldn't bear to interrupt his mother.

"I remember very clearly, the confinement sat for fourteen days, one day and half a month, and the millet seedlings in the field should be harvested, but your grandparents have to be busy with their own things in the field, and they have to help your two aunts from time to time. At that time, it was still raining, and if it didn't take a day, the seedlings would grow. I can't help it, I can only take you and go to the land with your dad. It's a shame that you were hard when you were a child, so you didn't get sick much when you tossed, but I fell a heel pain, and it hasn't been good until now. ”

"How did you survive such a hard time?"

"If you work together, you can't starve yourself to death." The mother on the other end of the phone smiled: "I am so strong that I can't see that my life is sadder than other people's, so I take advantage of the slack time to look for work everywhere." Your dad also began to follow the construction team, starting with the most basic brick pulling and moving bricks. At that time, it was really hard, I got up at four o'clock in the morning every day, worked until it was dark and came back, and only earned three yuan a day. ”

"Three bucks? What can you do with three dollars? ”

"At that time, the three yuan was used as money, and life could be improvised." Mother continued: "Your father is doing manual work, and I feel sorry for him, and I am reluctant to let him worry about family affairs. There are two people in this family, and I can only do it myself if he can't take care of it. ”

"You also know our family's land, one in the east, one in the west, one in the north, and one in the south, and there were no electric cars at that time, so I put the rack car at home on top of the hay, spread a small mattress, and pulled you to the ground together. If the weather is bad, I beg your grandmother again, but she is also reluctant. ”

"I'm done with the work in the fields, and when I get home, I have to cook in a hurry. Your grandfather doesn't care about anything, and your grandmother is only willing to help me when I'm cooking, but she often stuffs you back before I can finish the meal. When the meal is ready, eat it tightly with your dad first, and then you have to go to rest after eating. What about you? Dozing off, I have to coax you first, and when I finish coaxing you, the rice in that pot will already be cold. ”

"Mom-"

"Hey, what am I talking about, the people of that era, which one didn't survive like this." Mother sighed: "Nansheng, Mom knows that you are bitter, but if we have something to do, we have to face it positively and bravely." Complaining doesn't work, and crying doesn't work. ”

Nan Sheng agreed and hung up the phone, and then sent a message to Tang Yan, saying with emotion: "I never thought that it was so difficult for my parents when they were young, especially my mother. ”

Tang Yan replied: "I don't know anything else, but I very much agree with what your mother said." ”

Nan Sheng asked, "Which one?" ”

Tang Yan replied: "Whose daughter-in-law is not aggrieved." ”

Following the above sentence, Tang Yan said again: "Do you know? My sister was almost tricked into the house by her mother-in-law. ”

Nan Sheng hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Tang Yan replied: "It's not because she's stupid!" I didn't ask for anything before marriage, and I believed in the promise her mother-in-law gave her, saying that she didn't give a bride price in order to save up to buy them a house after marriage. When they got married, they said that they could live in the existing house, and they would buy it when they had children. Seeing that the second child is about to be born, the matter of buying a house has not yet been settled. ”