Chapter 12: Misfortune
Open the door, it's me. I just finished eating the dishes and chopsticks in the morning. I haven't had time to sprinkle water to clean the courtyard. Aunt Cousin's loud voice sounded at the gate of the courtyard.
Auntie, here. My mom and I looked at each other. Each other's eyes are full of joy and fruition.
Hey, hey, here we are. I grabbed my shoes and ran out. Mom also sat on the kang and looked at the door with a smile.
Due to physical reasons, my mother has difficulty moving, and she gasps when she gets off the ground, and she has to breathe for half a day when she walks a few steps. It's still early autumn. It's a little better. If it's winter, every year when you're sick, you can't even get off the kang. When it was serious, he couldn't even sit, so he could only kneel on the kang, and his instep had long been calloused. Although my mother's serious illness when she was young saved her life, it seriously damaged her lungs. The lungs are not good, which leads to severe emphysema, which in turn develops into cor pulmonale.
When I gave birth to my two elder brothers, because I couldn't take medicine and injections during pregnancy, I gave birth with a high fever and oxygen every time, wandering in front of the ghost gate. One is because the parents have a good relationship. One is that the mother has always liked girls, and the first ones are all sons, and the mother insists on wanting a little padded jacket. When I was a child, my second brother was sometimes called two by me who was not sensible, and two was redundant. Anyway, if you don't have to, you don't call me brother.
When she was pregnant with me, my mother clearly felt the difference. Pregnancy reactions and the shape of the pregnant belly are different from before. The mother was very happy that she did not get sick throughout her pregnancy. After I was born, my mother took the upper step of childcare. I didn't get pregnant again. My parents were more fond of me when I was young, and I was still a girl. Because of this, I have developed a sharp personality. After being sensible, it becomes very strong.
I am not as good as my eldest brother and second brother in science, but I am definitely at the top of my junior high school and high school grades in liberal arts. When I was in elementary school, I participated in an essay contest and won awards in my district.
When I was a child, there was a wall in my house, which was specially pasted with the awards of my second brother and me. It is also because of the heavy burden on his family, since junior high school, he began to find ways to help his family make money. In high school, he only attended vocational high school, but he was also assigned when he graduated. After graduation, he was assigned to a small hardware state-run shopping mall as a salesman. Fell in love with vocational high school classmates, got married, and had children. Like most people in that era, he lived his own small life.
I opened the courtyard door excitedly, and saw my aunt standing slightly awkward, and behind her was actually the eldest sister-in-law, still carrying a Raschel blanket in her hand, with a gloomy face.
I was in a panic, auntie, sister-in-law......
I don't know what to say.
My aunt walked past me embarrassedly, took my sister-in-law directly, and walked into the house.
Mom also saw everything in front of her. His face turned white, his lips turned purple, and he couldn't help but tremble. Her mother's severe heart disease had overwhelmed her. Cannot tolerate overstimulation.
Auntie, with distressed eyes, said to her mother, Tsinghua, I don't believe in the work of Yadan for the time being, and I can't urge it. My daughter-in-law asked me to bring her here, and I specially told her, but I can only wait for now. No way. If it doesn't work, just try it with someone else.
It's not that I don't care about it, it's that I really don't believe it, and I can't urge it, for fear that it will backfire.
Seeing that her mother looked ugly, the aunt hurriedly added.
My mom and I both exhaled deeply. Mom, gradually stabilized, no longer panting, and the color of her lips also eased.
The eldest sister-in-law didn't say a word, and kept her head down the whole time. Occasionally have a look of eye contact with my aunt.
Seeing that her mother's state was much calmer, the aunt hurriedly got up and said goodbye. The eldest sister-in-law, who had been sitting on the chair, walked out of the courtyard first, as if she had been amnestied, regardless of etiquette. The aunt deliberately rubbed the kang and put on her shoes. took my mother's hand and said, my eldest daughter-in-law forced me to come, if you don't come, you can't do it, you ask the girl not to call her, she also struggled. She has a bad temper, her heart is not bad, and she probably regretted it when she saw your body like this. Don't worry, with me, she will work hard. I know you have to be strong, you don't want to come, you can't come if you don't come, my family's temper comes up, I can't say it. Tsinghua, don't get angry, there's really no bad letter over there, I didn't say no, let's just wait, it's all fate. I have to go, I can't let my eldest daughter-in-law wait outside.
Mother looked at Aunt Cousin gratefully, her eyes red. Excited, gasping again, followed by a violent cough. I was so busy helping my mom knock on the back. Said to my aunt, it's okay, it's an old problem, and it will be fine in a while.
Auntie walks slowly, and comes back when she has time. Because I was taking care of my mother, I couldn't send it out in person as usual. I could only shout at the aunt who walked to the gate of the courtyard.
The aunt walked away step by step. The eldest daughter-in-law was waiting outside the courtyard, and she didn't say anything more.