After Li Fendou finished speaking, he looked at his wife's expression. He had noticed the changes in his wife these days, but he was afraid that after his mother came, her wife would be the same as before, and it would be bad if they quarreled.
He knew his mother very well. She wouldn't ask for his salary, but she wasn't happy for him to give it to his mother-in-law. If he knew that he gave his salary to his mother-in-law to keep, there would definitely be a fuss.
He also heard about some cases in the workplace where the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law did not get along well, so he was worried that both his wife and mother would be offended.
He thought that if his wife didn't want his mother to live there for a long time, he would think of some excuse to avoid them getting along.
Unexpectedly, my wife just thought for a moment and nodded, "Zhenzhen and Qi Zheng's room is big enough. Let mom sleep in the same room with them. It just so happens that our salary has also come down, so we can take mom to buy some things." .”
"We haven't been back during the Chinese New Year, and we have to make up some supplies for the children."
Li Fendou nodded. Su Jin was in charge of the family's money. She had no objection to Li Fendou spending it however he wanted, let alone buying things for his nephews and nieces.
Su Jin was counting money in her mind, while Zhenzhen and Qi Zheng were excited. Grandma's arrival meant that fish and meat were coming.
They didn't eat any of the loaches and rabbits grandma brought last time, and they all went into the stomachs of their cousins.
The cousin also deliberately threw the loaches on the ground and asked them to pick them up if they wanted to eat them. He scolded them for being freeloaders in the family.
Damn it, they never had white rice at grandma's house, only whole grains and porridge that hurt their throats.
I originally wanted my parents to promise that they would never send anything to my grandma's house or go to her house for dinner, but when I thought about what I overheard during the day, I felt that grandma was not that bad. My mother was so pitiful when she was a child, so she immediately shut up. Little mouth.
Li Fendou also breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what his wife thought in her heart, she just wanted to welcome his mother to stay for a long time.
Time flew by and it was Friday. After Aunt Su went back that day, she was in a low mood and had no intention of doing it for the whole family. Su Daqiang couldn't see his daughter-in-law wasting food, so he made dinner in a wheelchair.
Aunt Su, who was not even in the mood to eat, had an inexplicable nightmare of killing fish and being eaten by fish one night, and then she figured it out again.
She thought it was good that she felt sorry for her daughter, but now that her daughter was married and no longer a member of her family, why should she take something as compensation?
So he visited the house a few more times, forcing Su Jin to buy a color TV and a washing machine, and asking Su Jin not to be so spoiled.
But when she heard Su Jin say that she learned how to spoil children, she felt that she felt sorry for her children rather than spoiling them.
Aunt Su had nothing to say. She couldn't say that she didn't feel sorry for her children. Then there was no way to explain her kindness to Su Jin and Su Jinbao.
The two children have become accustomed to grandma visiting the house from time to time. Witnessing how their mother insists on her theory for them, they no longer find grandma scary.
As the two children openly confided to the old ladies the reason for their grandmother's visit, Aunt Su's mean image and Su Jin's filial image have become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Zhou Guihua arrived at noon on Friday without notifying anyone. It was a surprise attack. When she came last time, her son gave her a key, and she entered the house by familiar means. What she found was exactly what she had imagined no the same.
She has always known that her son and daughter-in-law go to her parents-in-law for meals, so she is grateful to her parents for taking care of her son, and has no objection to giving money to her parents-in-law as living allowance.
But Wang Fen came back with a telegram and told her that the in-laws were not human beings, so they bullied their son and daughter-in-law into being kind and filial, and exploited them so hard that the couple spent a month's salary on the Su family. The two poor children lived like little beggars, and their father didn't She loves her mother but doesn't love her, and her grandmother and grandfather ignore her, so she is eager to come to the provincial capital to see her son.
I thought I would see an empty house when I entered, but I didn't expect that it would be fully stocked with rice, noodles, bowls and chopsticks.
There are some leftover vegetables and dried beans in the cabinet, as well as a few jars of pickled vegetables. The house is clean and full of warmth.
This is different from what she imagined.
Zhou Guihua was silent. She sat on the stool and began to deal with the things she had brought. She estimated that the time was up and started cooking.
Fortunately, she had played with the gas when she went to town to see her daughter, otherwise she would have been blind while burning firewood at home.
The school is about to take the final exam. Su Jin and her first-grade Chinese students are responsible for preparing the Chinese language test papers for the second-grade students. Teachers from different grades in their school have always staggered the test papers, so they have been late from get off work these days.
Sometimes it’s too late and I have evening self-study, so I take my children to eat in the school cafeteria.
So when she opened the door and smelled the aroma of food, she thought her husband was in the kitchen, until Li Zhenzhen exclaimed: "It's grandma here."
Su Jin took a look and saw a large backpack in the room with some hay spread on it and two large cloth bags on the ground. When Zhou Guihua heard the child's voice, she poked her head out of the kitchen and saw The two neat and tidy children had smiles on their faces: "Xiaojin is back, the food will be ready soon."
"I thought it was a struggle. Mom, why didn't you let us pick you up?" Su Jin saw Zhou Guihua, hung up her bag, took out the storybook with pinyin she had written and put it on the table for the children to Look, he put on an apron and entered the kitchen.
The two children looked at the big backpack and were about to move, and were immediately attracted by the novel storybook.
"It's not that you are busy with work and I'm afraid of troublesome you. Besides, it's not that I don't know the way." Zhou Guihua said nonchalantly.
Seeing Su Jin enter the kitchen, he asked her to go out, "You are busy at work. It will be good if you finally get home and have a rest while waiting to eat."
"It's okay, Mom, I can do it. I don't even let my mother enter the kitchen at home. How can I let you enter the kitchen? You have worked hard all your life and it's time to take a break." Su Jin said indifferently.
I saw pig's trotters and dried beans stewed in the pressure cooker, two large grass carps were still swimming in the basin, and the mother-in-law was frying crispy pork in the pot.
"Didn't I bring some crispy pork last time? I saw that Zhenzhen and Qi Zheng liked it, so I brought some more pork to fry this time." Zhou Guihua listened to Su Jin's words and felt comforted. At least, the daughter-in-law here is not just She is also filial towards her mother-in-law.
"Then I'll come. I know how to do this. Mom, please go out and help me look after the children. They are reading outside. I don't know if they are reading carefully."
"Hey, reading, you started reading at such a young age?" Zhou Guihua remembered that the two children were less than three years old.
"Fendou and I will send them to kindergarten in the second half of the year. Before that, I want them to learn more words." Su Jin explained.
From Zhou Guihua's point of view, studying was a big deal, so she left the kitchen without much persuasion from Su Jin.
The two children were indeed studying seriously. The sound of childish reading made Zhou Guihua very happy, so she sat quietly next to them. Her daughter-in-law asked her to watch, and she watched without blinking.
Seeing her grandma coming over, Li Zhenzhen hurriedly moved her stool, got close to her, and said into her ear: "Grandma, my mother knew that my cousin wanted to be a pilot, so she bought him an airplane model and gave it to my cousin who was about to take the high school entrance examination. , The eldest cousin prepared simulation questions and pens, as well as the second cousin’s masterpieces, the younger cousin’s..."
The more Li Zhenzhen spoke, the bigger Zhou Guihua's eyes widened.
Isn't she dreaming? This is her little daughter-in-law who has nothing to lose?
"It's a lot of money." It doesn't mean that the money is controlled by the in-laws. Where can I get the money to buy so many things?
"My mother writes manuscripts and gets royalties. A publishing house came to my mother and wanted to buy the set of story books that my brother and I read. Our rich grandma." Li Zhenzhen said with a smile.
"Mom said that grandma taught her to be fair as an elder, so there are cousins, and the cousins also have to say that they didn't have it in the past because they have to remember the bitterness and sweetness and cherish the life now." Li Qizheng seemed to see it. After hearing grandma's doubts, she slowly added.
