Chapter 18: Beating the Side Drum

18.1

When I came home from work that day, my mother was busy in the kitchen. Bu Li put down his backpack and walked into the kitchen, rolled up his sleeves and said, "Mom, I'm back." Need help? ”

The mother was serving food, and when she saw that Bu Li wanted to come in, she smiled and said, "Oh, you don't want to come in." The smell of oil smoke is too big, do you know how to cut it? Right away, you go wash your hands and get ready to eat. ”

Bouli looked around and asked, "Our dad hasn't come back yet?" ”

"Don't wait for him." Mother said, "Isn't it the end of the month again, your father has a lot of work to do, and he called back, saying that he won't come back for dinner tonight." ”

Bouly turned to clean up the table.

There are not many dishes tonight, two side dishes, and a winter melon and shrimp skin soup. But it's all Bouli's favorite dishes, slugging pork, and sweet and sour short ribs. In particular, sweet and sour short ribs, fat and thin, crisp and tender, sweet and sour, are the favorite food of Buli, who likes sweet and sour and is willing to try fresh.

The two chatted while eating.

After talking about some things about Buli's work, my mother suddenly said, "On the way to the vegetable market this morning, I happened to meet my parents on the road. ”

"Oh?" Bu Li looked up at his mother and said, "It's normal, it's all neighbors in the neighborhood next door, and there's only one vegetable market in the neighborhood, and you can't look up and see it when you look down." ”

Mother smiled and said, "There's nothing abnormal about meeting, but then Xiaolu's mother said a call inexplicably, I haven't fully understood it yet, you help me analyze and analyze?" ”

Bu Li's heart tightened, thinking: What will Xiaolu's mother say to her mother? It can't be related to himself and Wang Youjie, right? It's just that I didn't tell Xiaolu repeatedly not to tell her family first?

On the surface, he still pretended to be calm. Bree smiled and said, "You have to tell me what the hell is going on?" How else can I help you analyze it? ”

The mother thought for a moment and said, "Actually, it's not a big deal. Both are talking about the divorce of two young couples in their community. ”

"Oh, there aren't many young couples divorced now, it's normal? What's so strange about that? Bli breathed a sigh of relief.

"yes, that's what I thought at first." The mother put down her chopsticks, scooped the soup for Bu Li, and said, "The first couple she said was a man from outside the Northeast, and a woman from Ala Shanghai. Just because of some trivial things in life, in the end, the chickens and dogs jumped, and the two families could not live in peace. I heard that the two of them were classmates in college, and Chenguang and the two of them got along well when they were studying, and they have only been married for less than three years. ”

Bu Li thought for a moment and asked, "What kind of trivial matter can be so serious that you have to divorce in the end?" ”

"said that this Northeast man from other places, since he got married, has lived in Shanghai, has not done anything at home, and has to be served by his wife, and he will scold if he doesn't go well. After a lot of trouble, the two of them couldn't get by, so they had to divorce. ”

Buli eats and eats, and is silent.

"Xiaolu's mother also said an example, which is also about her son-in-law in Shanghai." Seeing that Bu Li did not speak, the mother paused for a moment and said,

"This example is Xiaolu's mother's colleague, an only daughter in Shanghai, who married a man from a small county town in another country. This man is doing business in Shanghai, and he should have made a little money and done some good things for the people in his village. It's okay now, it's out of control, and I'm starting to be insatiably greedy for the people in my own village, and I'm still so tired, and outsiders are even more about squeezing out the oil and water, as if the whole family is getting rich by this Shanghai son-in-law. The whole village wants to come to Shanghai during the New Year's holidays, and you have to buy a plane ticket before leaving, which is funny? ”

Bully ate in a muffled voice.

The mother looked at Bu Li and said: "You know, this man's parents are not in good health, and he often needs to fly back to take care of him, and sometimes this only daughter in Shanghai has to go back together, watching her go back and forth, even the colleagues in the unit think she is very tired----,

Bu Li couldn't listen to it anymore, and couldn't help but interject: "Mom, what do you mean by Mother Xiaolu talking to you about this?" ”

The mother smiled and said, "It's because I didn't figure it out that I waited for you to come back and ask you?" ”

Bu Li put down his rice bowl, thought about it, and said: "If it is according to Xiaolu's mother, is it possible that the combination of Shanghai women and outsiders will not have good results?" I don't think that's all like that, is it? ”

The mother looked at the cloth and did not make a sound.

Bu Li slowed down his tone and said: "I remember that it was said in the newspaper that according to data, Shanghai handled more than 50,000 'marriages between the two places' in Shanghai last year, accounting for more than 30% of the total number of marriage registrations of domestic residents. Now in Shanghai, there are more and more local girls and outsiders getting married. ”

The mother still did not speak.

Bree laughed, "Don't just hearsay. Among so many 'marriages between the two places' in Shanghai, can't you really find a couple with a good life, I don't think it's possible, right?! Besides, now the male baby in Shanghai must be stronger than the male in other places? ”

There was silence in the room at first. Neither Buri nor her mother spoke and ate separately.

After a while, it was the mother who spoke first: "These are two examples. You know, when Xiaolu's mother met again, she deliberately pulled me aside and said a few other inexplicable words to me. ”

Be all abroad? What's the ----? When Brie heard her mother say this, her heart suddenly rose to the top of her throat. Having nothing to say, she looked at her mother's rice bowl and said, "Mom, do you want to add more rice?" I'll give you some first. ”

Mother put down the dishes and chopsticks, stared at Bu Li, and said, "Don't interrupt yet." I can beat the side drum with you, have you been hiding from us now, and you are alone with outsiders? ”