When I arrived at the vegetable market, it was like returning to the time when I was not married, surrounded by familiar faces, after all, it was an old neighborhood that had lived for more than ten years, and everyone was so lively when you came and went.

"The flail is back! It's been a long time since I've seen it. ”

"You're so happy today, isn't your son-in-law coming back?"

It's impossible for my mother to tell these people about my divorce, and she doesn't want to be seen as a joke, because she is so strong in her bones. Hearing someone around me asking about her son-in-law, my mother smiled and said, "He's very busy, he's on a business trip, and we're very worried." ”

"Get busy! It's not like my son, who stays at home all day and eats my old bones, and dies of sorrow. ”

My mom smiled and didn't say anything more.

I bought pork ribs, pork belly, and a chicken, and seeing that my mother was going to buy a fish, I hurriedly grabbed her, "It's just the two of us, I can't eat it if I buy too much." ”

My mother didn't listen at all, "Look at your skinny, I'll make you fish soup to make up for it!" ”

My heart was sour and sweet, and I couldn't say anything.

My mother used to be like this, as long as I came back with Zhang Xu, I would definitely have to make a big table of dishes. Zhang Xu often said that my mother's food here was delicious, and I rolled my eyes and wanted to say that it was all prepared by my mother for a day.

The family has a small population, and there are so many meals prepared that they can't eat at all.

I also learned later that I came back with Zhang Xu once, and a week after I left, my mother was basically eating leftovers. After saying it several times, she promised not to eat the leftovers, but she turned her head and ate alone. So I don't dare to let her do so much now, and if she does more, she will keep eating leftovers.

On the way home, I went around Watsons to buy hair dye, thinking that I would start dyeing my mother's hair myself at night.

This woman is old, and her hair is the most important thing, so she has to dye it often, otherwise she will look very old when she looks gray.

And I, looking at such a mother, feel distressed.

Although the environment outside is harsh, when I return home, enter the kitchen, and when the mother and daughter cook together, talk and laugh, in fact, the days seem to be back to the past, warm and comfortable.

I looked at my mother, who was killing fish and chickens with neat hands and feet, and suddenly I wanted to hug her.

In fact, I did the same, and she was a little unaccustomed to being hugged by me, and laughed and said, "You are almost thirty years old, why are you still coquettish." ”

My eyes were actually sour, but I didn't dare to show it, and complained in a low voice, "I'm only 27, where is 30 years old." ”

"Twenty-seven is not thirty in the blink of an eye, and the matter between you and Zhang Xu, my mother knows that it is irreparable. But you can't just hang it all the time, it's only right to find another one while you're young. ”

Something blocked my throat, thinking about Peng Zhen, I almost didn't dare to answer my mother's words.

My mother thought that I was still sad about Zhang Xu's betrayal, so she sighed and didn't say more.

But where can this topic be bypassed, after eating, when I was washing the dishes, my mother stood next to me and began to persuade again, "You can't just give up on yourself, you found someone to marry earlier, and you can prevent that Peng Zhen from making trouble for you again, right?" Listen to my mother. ”

My heart jumped, my mother was absolutely stern against me being with Peng Zhen.

Not to mention being together, even if there are some things to do, she doesn't want to.

I didn't know what to say, so I could only nod my head to cater to it.

Then, I remembered to say to my mother: "This house, I don't think it can be lived, you help me go there, that house can't be sold by Zhang Xu's fuss, let's live in it ourselves, she has nothing to say after all, if she still wants to make trouble, we are not afraid of her." ”

My mother smiled mysteriously and said, "Just go back and live, I'll live here for a while." ”

"Why?" It's all in ruins like that, and it's dangerous to live here.

"This house was originally your Aunt Cheng's, you know?"

"Hmm." This house was not ours originally, it belonged to Aunt Cheng Lenghui, a good friend of my mother, Aunt Cheng was the first batch to go abroad when she went abroad, and she entrusted the house to my mother at that time, and Aunt Cheng has never come back for so many years, so we have been living in this house.

Now that the house is going to be demolished, the resettlement fee and other money should actually be given to Aunt Cheng, which has little to do with us.

My mother smiled and said, "Your Aunt Cheng called me and said that she only needs a basic compensation for this house, and if the developer's price is high, the higher part will be given to me." ”

I'm a little confused.

According to Aunt Cheng's house, we have lived in it for more than ten years, we should be very grateful to her, and now the house is going to be demolished, and we should give Aunt Cheng all the money such as resettlement fees.

However, it is not right to think about it again!

I immediately said, "She's going to make you a nailer!" ”

How can we make the resettlement fee a little higher, that is not a nail household.

Now that the demolition is so powerful, how dangerous it is to be a nail household, I don't want my mother to do this thing anyway!

"No way!" I vetoed my mother's idea, "You move out with me quickly, we don't want all that extra money, and it's not that we don't have a house, so why gamble with your life!" ”

My mom obviously had a lot more than I thought.

She persuaded me, "You kid, don't want anything, where is the reason why you don't want money." I've thought about it carefully, although you are divorced now, and the house has been awarded to you, but the mortgage still has 20 years to pay, and you can bear it alone, and you won't be tired to death! Even if you remarry, my mother wants us to pay for this house ourselves, and this is your pre-marital property, and you will not be afraid of losing confidence in the future. ”

It's a shadow-free thing, but it's a long-term plan.

I didn't want to talk about it, so I said, "Are you running out of money now?" Otherwise, I wouldn't have thought of it! ”

My mother used to have a job, but it was all odd jobs, and in the years she raised me, she did everything, and never refused the hardest and most tiring work. The first thing I did after I went to work was to tell my mother to stop working, stay at home, go out every day to square dance, and take a walk.

My monthly living expenses come out of my salary.

My mom also had some savings of her own over the years, so she agreed to come down at the time.

When I got married to Zhang Xu, my mother took out all her savings and paid a down payment with Zhang Xu's family. After I got married, I still had to pay my mother for living expenses every month no matter what.

Now I have been locked up by Peng Zhen for three months, and I don't know how my mother came over.

If she hadn't had any money in hand, she would never have thought of being a nail household.

My mom was so happy about this that she turned around and ran back to the bedroom to pull out a card, which was my salary card when I was at work, and I left it for my mom when I left home that night.

Then I remembered that there should be a one-time bonus in this card when I quit my job, which should be enough for my mother to survive this time.

Who knew that my mother said: "In the past few months, this card is still paid on time, do you think your school accountant has forgotten about your resignation?" ”

My mom said that she was happy, as if she had taken advantage of it.

I didn't think the same thing as my mother, and the school is not a private company, so it was impossible for me to quit my job and continue to pay my salary, and there was definitely something wrong with that. Most of the time Ji Hetong or Peng Zhen spoke, Peng Zhen didn't like me to go to work, so Ji Hetong was more likely.

Thinking of Ji Hetong, I trembled subconsciously.

Peng Zhen said that he wanted to scare and scare me, and he did it, and now not only do I dare not disobey Peng Zhen, but when I think of Ji Hetong, I will subconsciously dodge.

I don't want my mom to know about my hardships outside.

I only picked what I could say and said: "Isn't it better, I have a salary, the provident fund is also very high, and although the mortgage payment is a little tight, I can still afford it." You don't have to live here, look at the outside, you're not afraid! ”

When I said this, my mother was so arrogant.

"I don't care about the flood outside, I can't be safe and happy!"

After washing the dishes and walking out of the kitchen, I actually felt something. Don't look at the outside is so dilapidated and depressed, but my mother was stunned to clean up the house, the white fabric wrapped in her own crochet flowers on the sofa, and even the small bench next to the coffee table, my mother carefully made soft cushions to put on.

Although our mother and daughter's lives have not been very rich over the years, my mother has never let her home look dilapidated.

When I was the poorest, I would still buy newspapers to stain the walls, buy flower cloth to make bed sheets, and the home was always warm.

I asked my mother to sit on the small bench, and I took a bath towel and dyed her hair around her neck, and dyed her gray hair one by one.

"If you want to get a higher resettlement fee, as long as you don't move, you don't have to live here." I still advise that this place really can't stay for long.

My mother held a mirror in her hand, watched me stand behind her and dyed her hair, and smiled very proudly, "You are stupid, people don't live in it, there are many ways for those people, it's not that the house was demolished overnight!" I live here, and they don't dare touch these treasures of mine. ”

After saying this, she sighed seriously, "It's not all about money, we have lived in this house for so many years, I really can't bear it." ”

When I was four years old, my mother divorced my father and took me out of the house, and since then I have been displaced for nearly ten years. The one who has lived for the longest time is the small courtyard house where Xu Heng and them are neighbors, and the place is mixed with people and snakes, and it is not decent. Otherwise, Xu Heng would not have been pregnant at the age of seventeen and had a miscarriage.

Xu Heng's father was an alcoholic, and he beat Xu Heng every time he got drunk.

My mother ran over to persuade me several times, and the last time, Xu Heng's father almost raped my mother, and my mother didn't dare to go from then on.

I feel unbearable to look back on those days now, and the peaceful and peaceful days with my mother did start from living here, thinking about it like this, in fact, I am quite reluctant.

I wanted to say: I'll live with you.

Since I understand that my mother has made up her mind to take root here and be a nail household, then what I, as a daughter, can do is to accompany me.

But before he could say anything, he stopped, and the sound of a car horn came from downstairs.

When I came back just now, the driver said that the long honking was a code, indicating that it was time for me to go back.

But looking at my half-dyed hair, how can I walk out.

I pretended not to hear and continued to dye my mother, and after dyeing, I helped her to wash it. After washing, it needs to be blown dry to complete it thoroughly.

After finishing my hair, I lay on my mother's lap, and the warmth from my mother made my bones go soft all over my body, "Mom, I still want to sleep with you at night." ”

Really want to.

Being able to hold my mother and sleep in my own bed is probably my biggest wish now.

The horns downstairs were blaring one after another, and there was no intention of stopping.

My mother stroked my hair, "Good boy, you go back to live, live here with your mother, what are you going to do when you go to work?" After all, you graduated from Normal University, and it is not difficult to find a job! I still have to have a job for myself, so that my mother can feel at ease. ”

I shook my head, not wanting to move.

Seeing me like this, my mother's heart softened, "Don't worry about me, I've lived here for ten years, everything is convenient, and I'm familiar with people." I can't get used to living in your place, and I always have to be angry when I meet Zhang Xu's mother, your mother is old now, and I don't want to be angry. ”

"You can come back and see me often."

As soon as the conversation changed, my mother said again: "You have been hiding for a few months, and I think that Peng Zhen's son should have forgotten you, but you still can't be careless, you must avoid intersecting with him when looking for a job." I watch TV, he is now in An's, there are several schools under An's, you must not go! ”

Although my mother's attitude towards Peng Zhen avoiding him like a snake and scorpion is very much in line with my heart, it is somewhat strange.

"Mom, do you know Peng Zhen?"

"I don't know!" My mom was very quick to answer.

Sometimes it's weird to be too eager to get it clear.

I looked up from my mother's lap and looked into her eyes, a little confused.

My mother probably found that her attitude was too eager, and she added and explained: "Those rich people don't have any good things, especially people like the An family and the Peng family, it has been reported on TV, these wealthy families like to bully women the most, you listen to your mother, the farther away from them, the better!" ”

I nodded.

I admit all of what my mom said, but she just likes to bully women. But the farther away the better, obviously not so easy.

Just thinking so, there was a knock on the door of the house, the very violent kind.

Knock knock! Knock knock!

I shook my body in fright, and almost instinctively understood that this was Peng Zhen coming.

Whew, he stood up all at once!

My mother just said that she should stay away from Peng Zhen, if Peng Zhen appeared at my door at this time, it would be really ........ It's going to die.

"Don't be afraid, it's just those little tricks used by developers, I'm used to it." My mom was pretty plain.

My eyes stood up, "What did you say?" How dare they do that! ”

I thought that being a nail household was just living and not leaving, where did I think that these things would happen.

"What is this, water and electricity cuts are a frequent thing, but don't look at who I am, the house we used to live in had no electricity or water, and we didn't live like this." My mom said she was confident.

I couldn't accept it all at once, "No! You can't stay here! ”

There is no water and electricity, and how can people live.

Maybe I said too much, my mother was a little annoyed, and pushed me to go back quickly.

"It's okay, it's okay, your mother and I are measured, so don't make a mess with it. You are going to marry for the second time now, which is not better than when you were the eldest daughter of Huanghua, and I, as a mother, always have to save some dowry for you. ”

What is this?

I stomped my feet angrily.

Then there was another knock on the door, heavier and more urgent than the last time.

My mother walked over quickly and opened the door, the lights in the corridor had already broken down, and it was dark outside, and my mother scolded at the air, "If you dare to knock on the door again, you will be severely crippled with boiling water!" ”

I looked at my mother's fierce appearance, and almost saw how she was running around for life when she was young, and no one could stop her.

Completely speechless.

My mother quickly packed me a lot of things, her pickled leeks, bacon, etc., and told me, "You go quickly, these people don't know what moths are going to be born yet, you hurry up." ”

I really can't take a step.

"Mom, listen to me, this place can't be lived, can you live there with me?" I almost pleaded.

How can I rest assured of such an environment?

My mother saw that I was really sad, patted me, held back her tears and said, "Okay, okay, Mom will hold on for another month, and then I'll go with you, okay?" Don't cry, you stupid boy, it's not all like this now, what are you crying about. ”

I don't know why I'm crying.

But I just couldn't help it.

My mother was about to send me downstairs, but I stopped it, maybe Peng Zhen had already come downstairs, and I was afraid that my mother would see it.

"You stay at home, don't go out at night, don't open the door. Did you hear that? "I told her word by word, I was really worried about her.

My mother behaved very freely, without the slightest fear, "Don't worry, who is your mother?" They are still too tender. ”

All the way down, I really struggled every step of the way.

Black is one thing.

Worrying about my mom is another story.

As for the developer that my mother said I should be wary of, I am not afraid, where Peng Zhen is, there is no possibility that those people want to harm me.

Walk out of the unit door.

Peng Zhen was indeed there.

He was still dressed in the formal clothes he wore when he left in the morning, and he looked out of place when he stood in this dilapidated place.

In the night, I can still see Peng Zhensenran's expression. It has been nearly two hours since the first horn was honked downstairs.

I turned my head to look at the window of my mother's house, not sure if my mother was looking.

Fortunately, there is no light in the courtyard of this building now, and it is estimated that it is not so easy to see clearly.

I walked up to Peng Zhen and whispered, "Let's go." ”

Peng Zhen pinched my chin with his hand, his movements were always as fast as lightning, and his tone was even more dangerous, "Have you cried?" ”