"Mother!"
"Oh, my sweet girl, I finally woke up! Bless my ancestors! Old man! Old man! Yin Yin woke up! What are you doing? Diarrhea? It's been a long time and it's not gone? Are you smoking inside again? Don't let me discover it. Discover it. You’re dead, I tell you!”
Father Xu, who was hiding in the bathroom and smoking a cigarette, quickly hid his pipe after hearing this, straightened his trousers and walked out.
Seeing the beautiful girl, the wrinkles on her face deepened.
Xu Yin shouted sharply: "Dad!"
The corners of Xu's eyes turned into chrysanthemum folds with laughter: "Hey! Just wake up! Just wake up!"
Xu Yin took her two elders on her arm and walked towards the main room.
Seeing my nephew sitting next to a small bench under the eaves with a dumpling of wild vegetables in his arms, he smiled and waved to him:
"Doudou, come here, I will take you to wash your hands and eat."
The three-and-a-half-year-old little Douding looked at her timidly.
Hearing this, he desperately sucked the snot out of his nose, and moved his little butt to the corner with the bench, not daring to step forward.
He was extremely afraid of this aunt.
He would often be smiling one second, and then pinch his arm and call him a dirty little kid or a beggar the next.
Xu's mother was still immersed in the joy of her daughter's awakening, and her mood was not generally good.
What's more, he is the only grandson. As long as his daughter-in-law is not an eyesore, she still loves him very much:
"Listen to your words, wash your hands and start eating."
Little Douding then spread his legs and ran into the house, and washed his hands obediently.
Xu Yin saw that he had thin arms and short legs, and was not as tall as the washbasin stand. She stood on tiptoe and put her hand into the washbasin, pounding it a few times before washing it.
Worried that he wouldn't be able to clean himself, I wanted to step forward to help, but seeing that he looked frightened and on guard, I had to give up.
Rome wasn't built in a day, take your time.
In short, the nephew must not be allowed to lose his biological mother at a young age, and eventually be praised and killed by the stepmother and become the control group of the stepbrother.
In that compartment, Xu's mother quickly filled three large and one small bowls of porridge and put them on the table.
Xu Yin was a little speechless and looked at the backyard through the kitchen window: "Mom, there is also my sister-in-law."
"No matter what she does, she will eat it after she's done."
"..."
This is indeed like Xu's mother's brain circuit.
Not only that, but he almost finished the porridge in the pot.
The three large bowls were filled to the brim, leaving only a thin layer of porridge and soup at the bottom of the pot.
Xu Yin: "..."
This is because we want the cows to work, but we don’t want to feed the cows grass!
He quickly stopped: "Mom, I can't finish such a full bowl. Let's ask my sister-in-law to eat together. After eating, I still have work for her to help."
"What kind of help? Isn't it right to let your sister-in-law do the work? Just leave it there, and when she comes back from chopping firewood, I'll talk to her. If she doesn't do it, I'll kill her!"
"But I'm in a hurry! I'm going back to school tomorrow, and my school pants still have a hole..."
Xu's mother was not happy with this statement: "You are in good health, why don't you rest for a few more days before going to school?"
"It's been delayed for two days."
During the busy farm break last week, I came back with some classmates from the same village.
But don't expect her to do farm work in the fields. At most, she can help boil water and deliver meals.
When taking care of her nephew at home, she has to look at her mood. If she is not in a good mood, she will pinch and scold her.
Even so, the little work assigned to her was done to pieces.
I almost sprained my foot while delivering a meal, but my foot was fine and my head hit a tree.
I fainted for a day, but fortunately I was fine.
But seeing how much money the doctor spent, Xu's mother felt sorry for her daughter and was reluctant to scold her, so she took her anger out on her daughter-in-law.
In the rural areas of the 1970s and 1980s, when families generally favored sons over daughters, it was completely bizarre for the two elders of the Xu family to dote on their daughters without any principles.
Xu Yin uses her skill of blowing rainbow farts for customers when she was a designer, and she can coax:
"Mom, there's only one year left for my senior year of high school. I have to hurry up and get into a good university. Firstly, I can earn face for you and my father. Secondly, good universities are all in big cities, and the best ones are of course the ones in the capital. It’s time to go to school, and then I’d like to take you and your two elders to the capital to climb the Great Wall and see Tiananmen Square!”
Xu's mother was immediately coaxed to the point where she couldn't even see her eyebrows and couldn't smile from ear to ear.
Xu Yin and Xu Yin even moved most of the porridge out of Dahai's bowl without saying anything. Instead, she moved some of the porridge in her own bowl to her daughter:
"Eat more! You just ate too little, that's why you got dizzy and hit the tree."
"..."
In farmers' families, there is no rule that you must sit at the table to eat.
Like Mr. Xu, he put a few chopsticks of pickles on the porridge, held a large bowl, squatted at the door of the courtyard, took a few mouthfuls of porridge and looked at the fields in the distance.
Xu's mother also paced to the chicken coop while eating.
Let’s see how many eggs were harvested today and whether the chickens are well.
Sprinkle a spoonful of porridge from time to time to give the chickens some extra food.
Xiao Douding also wanted to slip off the table, but was really a little afraid of Xu Yin.
But his hands were too small to hold the bowl, so he leaned on the table even after getting off the chair. He glanced at Xu Yin secretly, then quickly took two mouthfuls of porridge.
Xu Yin wanted to laugh. She stood up and added half a salted duck egg yolk to his bowl: "Eat it, and give the remaining half to your mother."
After saying that, without even looking at his nephew's reaction, he went to the backyard to call his sister-in-law for dinner.
"Sister-in-law, Mom said we have enough firewood. Come and eat first, and then help me sew some pants for me to wear to school tomorrow."
If there was only the first half of the sentence, Mrs. Xu might not stop.
But when I heard that my sister-in-law had clothes to mend and wear for school tomorrow, I said "Hey".
He quickly put down the hatchet, piled the chopped firewood into the usual firewood basket, washed his hands and went to the kitchen.
She thought that today was the same as usual, and she was still sticking to the bottom of the pot.
It's too thin if you mix it with water, and it's too thin if you don't mix it with water. You'll feel hungry every time before noon.
Unexpectedly, this time she was left with a thick bowl that was almost overflowing. There was also half a salted duck egg on the table.
"Mom, eat! I gave it to you."
Seeing that her aunt was not here, Xiao Douding became much bolder.
Sister-in-law Xu's eyes were a little hot.
After four years of marriage to the Xu family, this seemed to be the friendliest time my sister-in-law had ever treated her, and it was also the most filling breakfast she had ever had.
After finishing the meal without being urged, I quickly washed the dishes, wiped the stove, put the tables, chairs and benches against the wall, swept the floor, and then went back to the room to change into clean clothes before coming to my sister-in-law's room.
"Yinyin, where are the pants you want to mend? How about I take them to my room to mend?"
Sister-in-law Xu looked at the bright and clean boudoir, the neatly folded quilts, the flat sheets, the spotless floor, and rubbed her rough hands nervously.
"No, sister-in-law, just make up for it here. My place is bright. Doudou, come in too."
Xu Yin waved to mother and son.
Her boudoir belonged to the main west room, and after her brother got married, he opened up the second half of the room for her to use.
The layout is the same as the second elder's main house, with windows on three sides, making it very bright.
On the contrary, my brother-in-law's wedding room was a wing built before the marriage.
Although the area is large, the foundation is not as high as the main house.
There are only two windows, east and west, which are relatively dark.
And the original person likes to decorate very much.
The curtains are made of elegant tie-dye fabric, the red paint on the rhombus window ribs was newly painted by Mr. Yang Xu, and the dressing mirror, writing desk, and chest of drawers were also added one after another in recent years.
Even though the wood is old, with a new coat of paint, it looks like new.
This makes the room brighter.
