Changping Village, Lao Wang's house.
"Meier, you've seen it, right? They are treating me like a beggar. For such a big deal as Mianmian's marriage, they didn't even come to pick me up as a grandmother to have a banquet. This is going to turn the fifth house upside down. Your fifth brother's The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of Bao Suyun and Jiang Guiling have no bones at all!"
In the west room of Old Wang's house, Mrs. Tan was sitting in a fire barrel, warming herself by the fire. At the same time, she and Yang Huamei complained in a deep voice to everyone in Old Yang's family.
Yang Huamei sat by the bed and fed her eldest grandson his morning egg custard. It was getting cold, so his eldest grandson usually washed and ate in bed. After eating and drinking, and procrastinating for a while, the sun rose. , the temperature is not as cold as it was early in the morning.
Today, the eldest grandson spent the whole morning in bed. No, it was lunch time, and Yang Huamei brought the custard to the bed again.
"Meier, I'm talking to you, why are you ignoring me?"
Mrs. Tan sat in the fire barrel and condemned the old Yang family for a long time, but did not get any response from Yang Huamei. The old lady became unhappy and questioned Yang Huamei with a drooping face.
Yang Huamei was about to speak when her eldest grandson choked without knowing why. The child coughed and spat out a mouthful of custard.
The egg custard rolled down the clothes and scarf on the chest, and some dregs fell on the quilt.
Yang Huamei was busy stroking the eldest grandson's back, and then wiped the corners of the eldest grandson's mouth and neck first, step by step, and finally it was her turn to clean up the dregs on the bedding.
She moves slowly, Tan's eyes are quick, and Tan's mouth is faster.
So, the old lady who was already very unhappy with Yang Huamei's attitude suddenly found an opportunity to start complaining.
"It's noon, and the sun is directly overhead. Why don't you bring your baby to the table to eat?"
"I eat, drink, and have diarrhea on the bed. The bed is a place for sleeping. Your bedding is sticky and greasy. I slept for a while that day. Oh my god, it smells like sesame oil. I almost vomited. How can I still sleep?" ?”
Yang Huamei's back was turned to Mrs. Tan. When she heard these words of exhortation, her back stiffened.
Although she has long been familiar with Tan's way of speaking, she also understands that Tan likes to exaggerate and be picky. She also knows that despite being exaggerated and picky, Tan still treats her, an old girl, with all her heart...
However, Tan's unabashed dislike of her eldest grandson prevented Yang Huamei from thinking too much about being close to and grateful to Tan.
Because her eldest grandson is her darling, Yang Huamei would rather Tan be less considerate of her old daughter. As long as she can get Tan's love for her eldest grandson, Yang Huamei will be satisfied.
"Mei'er, my mother told you a lot of things, but why didn't you say a word? What do you mean?"
Mrs. Tan seemed to have noticed something was wrong with Yang Huamei's attitude, so she asked with a straight face.
Yang Huamei came back to her senses and shook her head, "I'm busy right now and don't have time to respond. Mom, you can talk to yourself first. I'll talk about it later when you decide not to talk anymore."
Tan's gray and sparse eyebrows raised: Hey, what did the old girl say?
This conversation shouldn't be a question-and-answer sequence. Why should she say she's tired and stop talking before she talks?
Okay, then I will continue to say it, until I have to force you to say it!
Mrs. Tan regained her composure, picked up what she had said before, and continued to criticize the Old Yang family. She made all kinds of criticisms and faults. In short, everything was the fault of the fifth family of the Old Yang family and the laissez-faire and connivance of the other members of the Old Yang family!
And she herself was not wrong!
Yang Huamei turned her back to Mrs. Tan and continued to feed her eldest grandson numbly.
The eldest grandson loves to eat her stewed sesame oil and egg custard. He can eat a bowl at a meal. Yang Huamei puts two eggs in one bowl, so even if the child is not with his parents and is with her as his grandmother, he can still be well-fed. Yes, the flesh on both cheeks drooped to the neck. I carried my chubby grandson to the gate of the courtyard for a walk. Who among the neighbors would not praise the child for raising him well?
Anyway, Yang Huamei has a principle: she will be friendly with anyone who praises her eldest grandson as cute.
"Mei'er, I'm so thirsty after talking about this, why don't you respond? Is there anyone like you who is a daughter? Could it be that you made an appointment with the old Yang family? Are you going to isolate me, a poor old lady who is blind in one eye?"
In the fire barrel behind her, Mrs. Tan kept talking alone for a long time. Yang Huamei still didn't respond. The old lady really couldn't sit still this time. She tapped the edge of the fire barrel with her fingers and questioned Yang Huamei loudly.
Yang Huamei turned her face, her face was full of fatigue and irritability.
"Mom, how many times do you want me to say this? No one in the old Yang family isolates you. Everyone treats you as an ancestor. It's you who acts like a monster. You insist on making trouble, and you make trouble indiscriminately. I I can’t stand it anymore!”
Mrs. Tan was dumbfounded and stared at Yang Huamei in shock. She really didn't expect that the old girl she cared about would say such hurtful words.
"Even you... dislike my mother? What's the point of her being alive?" Mrs. Tan looked straight at Yang Huamei and murmured.
Yang Huamei was shocked when she saw Tan's expression.
Because Tan's face looked as defeated and desperate as she had ever seen before.
"Mom, no, I didn't mean that..." Yang Huamei picked up the bowl and stood up and walked towards Mrs. Tan.
"Mom, don't think too much. I just hope you can be calm and don't be impatient. When people lose their temper, why don't we all sit down and discuss everything? It has to be noisy. This is really bad!"
Tan changed his previous irritability and looked at Yang Huamei calmly, without interrupting Yang Huamei's words.
After Yang Huamei finished saying what she wanted to say, a sarcastic smile appeared at the corner of Tan's mouth.
"When you get older, everything becomes unpleasant to others. I've always had this temperament since I married your father."
"When you brothers and sisters were young, I also talked and acted like this. No one said anything about me at that time."
"Why, now you are getting married and starting a business one by one, and you have become grandparents, parents-in-law, and mother-in-law... I, an old woman, suddenly became ignorant in your eyes and started making trouble. I was puzzled. I have been here like this all my life. , I haven’t changed at all, why do you all say that I have changed! What on earth am I doing!”
Tan talked to himself and stopped Yang Huamei from asking.
Yes, ever since I can remember, my mother has had this kind of temperament. She can speak to whomever she wants to say and scold whomever she wants to scold.
Take for example the slap that fifth brother received yesterday. Among the five brothers, who has never been beaten when they were young?
Not to mention when we were young, even if the third and fourth brothers later married their sister-in-law and started a family, the families were not separated at that time. If my mother was not happy, she would beat and scold the third and fourth brothers, especially the fourth brother, too little.
