Chapter 11: The Foolish Filial Girl in the Early Nineties (11)
After Li Zhan finished speaking, he looked at his wife's expression, and he also saw the changes in his wife these days, but he was afraid that after his mother came, his wife would be the same as before, and it would be bad to quarrel at that time.
He knows that he won't ask for his salary, but he doesn't want him to give the money to his mother-in-law, if he knows that he will give his salary to his mother-in-law to keep, he will definitely make a fuss.
He had also heard about some cases of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law getting along badly in his workplace, so he was also worried that his wife and mother would be angry.
He thought that if his wife didn't want his mother to live for a long time, he would think of some excuse to avoid them getting along.
Who knew that his wife just thought about it for a while, and then nodded, "Zhenzhen and Qizheng's room is also big enough, let my mother sleep in the same room with them when the time comes, and it just so happens that our salary has also come down, so we can take my mother to buy some things." ”
"We haven't been back for the Chinese New Year, and we have to make up for a few children."
Li Zhan nodded, the family's money was in the hands of Su Jin, and she had no opinion on how she wanted to spend Li Zhan, let alone buy things for his nephews and nieces.
Su Jin was counting the money in her mind, while Zhenzhen and Qizheng were excited, and grandma was coming, which meant that fish and meat were coming.
The loaches and rabbits that my grandmother brought last time, they didn't eat a bite, they all went into the stomachs of their cousins and cousins.
The cousin also deliberately threw the loaches on the ground, so that they could pick them up if they wanted to eat them, and scolded them for eating white rice at home.
Damn, they never ate white rice at their grandmother's house, only coarse grains and gruel that pulled their throats.
Originally, I wanted my parents to promise that they would never send anything to my grandmother's house, nor would I go to my grandmother's house for dinner, but when I thought of what I overheard during the day, I felt that my grandmother was not so bad, and my mother was too pitiful when she was a child, so she immediately closed her little mouth.
Li Zhan also breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what his wife thought in her heart, anyway, she just welcomed her mother to stay for a long time.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it was Friday, after Aunt Su went back that day, she was in a low mood, and she didn't have the heart to do it for a large family, Su Daqiang couldn't see his daughter-in-law wasting food, so he made dinner in a wheelchair.
And Aunt Su, who was not in the mood to eat, inexplicably had a nightmare of killing fish all night and then being eaten by fish, so she figured it out again.
She thinks it's good that she feels sorry for her daughter, but now that her daughters are married, and they are not her family members, what's wrong with her taking something to compensate.
So I came to the door a few more times, forcing Su Jin to buy a color TV and a washing machine, so that Su Jin would not be so used to being a child.
But when I heard Su Jin say that the habitual children all learned from her, she was distressed that the children were not habitual children.
Aunt Su has nothing to say, she can't say that she doesn't feel sorry for the child, so she can't explain how good it is for Su Jin and Su Jinbao.
The two children are also accustomed to their grandmother coming to the door from time to time, and they don't feel terrible when they witness their mother's insistence on theory for them.
As the two children did not shy away from confiding in the old ladies the reason for their grandmother's visit, Aunt Su's mean image and Su Jin's filial image have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Zhou Guihua arrived at noon on Friday, without notifying anyone, it was a surprise attack, her son gave her a key when she came last time, and she entered the house with a familiar way, and found that it was different from what she imagined.
She has always known that her son and daughter-in-law go to her in-laws' house for dinner, so she is also grateful to her in-laws for taking care of her son, and has no opinion on giving her in-laws money as a living allowance.
But Wang Fen took a telegram and came back to tell her that the in-laws were not human, so they bullied their son and daughter-in-law to be kind and filial, but they were squeezed, and the two of them spent a month's salary on the Su family, and the poor two children lived like little beggars, and their father didn't love their mother, and their grandmother and grandfather ignored them, so she was so angry that she wanted to come to the provincial capital to see her son.
I thought that what I saw when I entered the house would be an empty house, but I didn't expect that rice, noodles, bowls and chopsticks were all available.
There were still some leftovers and dried beans in the cabinet, as well as a few jars of pickles, and the room was clean and full of warm atmosphere.
This is different from what she imagined.
Zhou Guihua was silent, she sat on the stool, began to deal with the things she brought, estimated that the time was up, and began to cook.
Fortunately, she fiddled with the gas when she went to the town to see her daughter, otherwise she would have been blind when she burned firewood at home.
The school is about to take the final exam, and Su Jin is responsible for the Chinese test papers of the second grade of high school, and the teachers of different grades in their school have always staggered the questions, so they get off work late these days.
Sometimes it's too late and I catch up with the evening self-study, so I take my children to eat in the school cafeteria.
So as soon as she opened the door and smelled the aroma of the food, she thought it was her husband in the kitchen, until Li Zhenzhen exclaimed: "It's grandma here."
Su Jin saw that there was a big basket in the room, some hay was spread on the basket, and two large cloth bags were placed on the ground, Zhou Guihua heard the child's voice, poked her head out of the kitchen, and saw the two children who were clean and tidy, with a smile on her face: "Xiao Jin is back, the meal is almost ready." ”
"I thought it was a struggle, Mom, why didn't you let us pick you up." When Su Jin saw Zhou Guihua, she hung up her bag, took out the story book with pinyin she had written and put it on the table for the children to read by themselves, and then wore an apron and went into the kitchen.
The two children looked at the big basket and were about to move, and they were immediately attracted by the novelty storybook.
"It's not that you're busy with work, I'm afraid of bothering you, and besides, it's not that I don't know the way." Zhou Guihua said indifferently.
Seeing Su Jin enter the kitchen, he also asked her to go out, "You are busy with work, you can finally go home and rest, just wait for food." ”
"It's okay, Mom, I can, I won't let me be at home or let my mother into the kitchen, how can I let you go into the kitchen, you have worked hard all your life, it's time to rest." Su Jin said indifferently.
I saw pig's trotters and dried beans stewed in the pressure cooker, two large grass carp still swimming in the basin, and the mother-in-law in the pot was frying crispy meat.
"Didn't I bring some crispy meat last time, I saw that Zhenzhen and Qizheng liked it, so I brought more pork to fry this time." Zhou Guihua listened to Su Jin's words and felt comforted, after all, this daughter-in-law is not only towards her mother's family, she is also filial to her mother-in-law.
"Then I'll come, I'll do this too, Mom, you go out and help me watch the children, they are reading books outside, and I don't know if they are serious about it."
"Yo, read books, you started studying at such a young age?" Zhou Guihua remembered that the two children were not yet three years old.
"I sent them to kindergarten in the second half of the year, and before that, I wanted them to know a few more words." Su Jin explained.
In Zhou Guihua's opinion, studying is a big deal, so she didn't need Su Jin's persuasion to go out of the kitchen.
The two children were indeed studying very seriously, and the immature sound of reading made Zhou Guihua very happy, so she sat next to them lightly, and her daughter-in-law asked her to watch, and she watched without blinking.
Seeing her grandmother coming, Li Zhenzhen hurriedly moved the stool, next to her grandmother, and said close to her grandmother's ear: "Grandma, my mother knew that the lobby brother wanted to be a pilot, so she bought him a model airplane, and prepared mock questions and pens for the lobby sister and the eldest cousin who were going to take the high school entrance examination, as well as the second cousin's famous book and the little cousin's ......."
The more Li Zhenzhen said, the bigger Zhou Guihua's eyes widened.
She's not dreaming, is she still her little daughter-in-law?
"That's a lot of money." It's not that the money is in the hands of the family, where did the money come from to buy so many things.
"My mother writes manuscripts, and there is a manuscript fee, and there are publishers who come to my mother and want to buy this set of storybooks that my brother and I read, and we have a rich grandmother." Li Zhenzhen said with a smile.
"My mother said that my grandmother taught her to be fair as an elder, so my cousins and cousins have it, and my cousins and cousins also have to say that it was not because I wanted to remember the bittersweet memories and cherish the current life." Li Qizheng seemed to see his grandmother's doubts and added slowly.