Hao Dongmei, can’t have a baby?
The cigarette in Zhou Zhigang's hand fell to the ground, and the ashes scattered, staining his cloth shoes. Li Suhua's face felt as if it had been ironed.
The couple looked at Lin Yue, then at Hao Dongmei, and finally fixed their eyes on Zhou Bingyi's face, asking and interrogating.
The protagonist of this incident was completely dumbfounded. Only their friends at the work unit and the attending doctor knew about Hao Dongmei's inability to have a baby. Where did Zhou Bingkun get the news? What was even more uncomfortable was that he told his parents the truth.
Things are getting serious.
He originally wanted to hide it, but when he couldn't hide it anymore, he even planned to take the responsibility on himself for the sake of Hao Dongmei's face and lie to his parents that he was infertile. Fortunately, he was caught off guard.
"Bingyi? Bingyi? Is that so?" Zhou Zhigang's hands were trembling, and so was his voice.
What does being unable to have children mean to the Zhou family? As the old saying goes, the worst of three unfilial piety is not having offspring. Although it is a new era, this concept is heavier than a weight in the hearts of the older generation.
"Dad...yes, this is what happened, but don't worry. When I have time, I will take Dongmei to Beijing and find experts from Union Medical College Hospital to treat her. Now that medical technology is so advanced, it will definitely be cured. .”
Zhou Zhigang knew that his son was comforting him, so he reached for the cigarette case on the bedside of the kang, took out a cigarette from it, put it to his mouth and took a few puffs before he realized that it was not lit yet. He reached behind his back twice and found no matches. , then turned his head and glared, shouting at Li Suhua: "Where is the fire?"
fire?
"The fire is here." Li Suhua quickly picked up the matchbox with the word "Botou" printed on it at his feet and handed it over.
Zhou Zhigang took a match in his hand and struck it several times without igniting the match head. Instead, he broke the weak wooden pole. He was so angry that he threw it on the ground. The fire was not lit and the smoke was gone. He smoked and sat there puffing up his cheeks.
Zhou Bingyi was so angry that he didn't dare to take a breath.
Hao Dongmei's face changed many times. She couldn't hold herself tight or sit still. She excused herself to go outside to see if she was awake, turned around and left the room, opened the door and went out.
"Dongmei, Dongmei...Dad..."
He called his wife's name twice, looked at his father who was sitting on the bed with his back hunched over and looked sad, and still chose to chase her out.
When Zhou Zhigang saw the boss and his wife leaving, he gave Lin Yue a hard look.
"Okay, I made your sister-in-law angry. Are you satisfied now?"
"I'm so angry? Am I wrong? You don't blame your elder brother for hiding this from you. Zheng Juan's mother is old, how many more years can she live? His brother is taken in by the abbot of Beituo Temple. Disciple, she said that she has wisdom and will enter the monastery to practice as soon as she reaches adulthood. She is dragging me down. Why is she dragging me down?"
Zhou Zhigang became angrier as he listened and wanted to pick up things and throw them at him.
"It's okay to make your sister-in-law angry and run away. You missed her... She was already very sad when this happened to her. If Bingyi divorces her again, how will she live in the future?"
"Now you are considerate of your elder brother and sister-in-law? Then why don't you be considerate of me and Zheng Juan? Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng, Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei, why are you tolerant to them and strict to us? In the final analysis, don't you just think they have some problems? Culture, wings are strong, and they are not from the same class as you. They have their own views on love and ways of living. Can't you control them? And Zheng Juan and I are the lower-class people of Guangzi Film. We are not as promising as my elder brother and sister. You are opinionated, not even as good as you, an old worker. You have authority and status here, so you want us to follow your wishes. Yes, I understand you, you do do it for my own good, but can you accept Zhou Rong And Hao Dongmei? Why can't you accept Zheng Juan? "
"I, I, I will beat you to death, you unfilial son."
Zhou Zhigang came down from the kang, picked up the shoes on the ground and hit them with his hands.
Lin Yue couldn't hit him anywhere. He twisted his body twice, opened the door and ran out.
Zhou Zhigang wanted to chase but was stopped by Li Suhua.
"You tell me, why are you talking about this during the Chinese New Year?"
"If I don't say it now, will there be time after the new year?"
Li Suhua stopped talking because Zhou Zhigang had to leave in the third grade of junior high school.
…
Lin Yue came out of his home and pushed his bicycle for two steps when he bumped into Zhou Bingyi who was walking back.
"What are you going to do?"
"Go to Taiping Hutong."
"What?" Zhou Bingyi looked at him angrily: "You still think Dad is not angry enough?"
"It's my fault. He insisted on telling me the truth."
Lin Yuechao was speechless. Zhou Bingyi, the eldest son of the Zhou family, had lived his whole life for others, so why would he be admitted to Peking University to give Zhou Zhigang a vanity satisfaction and fulfill his filial piety? hehe. The second oldest, Zhou Rong, had been living a self-centered life since she was young. It was only when she was in her 50s or 60s that she got a new idea and gave Zhou Bingkun 60,000 yuan as start-up capital. But as she said, this Money is nothing compared to the thirteen years Zhou Bingkun's family took care of Yue Yue.
Zhou Bingyi said: "Then you are going to confront him tit for tat? That's our dad!"
Lin Yue said, "You are so considerate of him, why don't you break up with Hao Dongmei? There are three unfilial piety, not having children is the worst. Between love and filial piety, you chose the former, but now you teach me to be filial. Is this how you treat yourself as a big brother?" Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you, okay?”
If this guy hadn't talked too much, Hao Dongmei wouldn't have left in anger, and Zhou Zhigang wouldn't have been furious. Zhou Bingyi was already angry. When he heard this, he couldn't suppress his anger and kicked him directly. He didn't expect Lin Yue to press his hand down. Hold down the raised leg.
"You're so angry that you want to hit someone?"
"How do you know Dongmei is sterile?"
"Is it important how I knew it? What's important is whether it's true. You hid such a big thing from your parents, but if I told it, it would become my fault?"
"That's because the time has not come yet. When the time comes, I will explain it to them personally."
"What does it mean? In order to protect Hao Dongmei, is it right to say that you are infertile? After all, love is better than parental kindness."
Lin Yue pushed him back and pushed the bicycle away.
Zhou Bingyi stood under the eaves with his hands down, not knowing what to say when he returned.
The third child has always listened to his parents the most. I don’t know why, but he made the same mistake as Zhou Rong when it came to Zheng Juan. After all, Feng Huacheng is a poet. What about Zheng Juan? Zheng Juan have what? How could an uneducated woman be so obsessed with the third child?
…
The fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
Sun Qianchao, Yu Hong, Xiao Guoqing, Wu Qian, Cao Debao, Qiao Chunyan, plus Lin Yue, the seven of them had a dinner at the restaurant where Wu Qian worked.
"Brother, your godfather left in the third grade of junior high school, so you can go back and live there. My godmother misses you. Really, she said, your father is gone, and your brother is gone too. Now the house is deserted. She miss you."
After three rounds of wine and five tastes of food, Qiao Chunyan began to mediate and act as a peacemaker.
"If I don't go back, I'm living quite well in Taiping Hutong."
"Brother, I've been to Zheng Juan's house. Her house only has two rooms, an old lady and a woman. She also has a blind brother. Plus you, how can four people squeeze in?"
"Zheng Juan's mother has been dead for more than a year."
"ah?"
Several people looked at each other, thinking to themselves, no wonder this guy was so happy that he didn't want to be in Sichuan. The blind brother was like a free gift. The two of them were basically living in a world of two. Which one of them had better conditions than them?
Wu Qian said: "You don't know that the two sisters have been back to the city for more than half a year during the National Day. They have been unemployed. Not only are we eating and drinking, but the family of six is crowded into two rooms."
Xiao Guoqing couldn't help but said: "That's my sister, where will she live if she doesn't go home? Kick them out? What are you doing? If you want to, just tell people this when you see them. It's not up to you."
When several people saw the two of them quarreling, they quickly broke up the fight.
Lin Yue took out a letter and threw it on the table: "Everyone from Lu Chuan should take a look at it."
Cao Debao took it over and read a few sentences before Chun Yan'er was taken away and burned. When he was done, he brought the topic to the affairs of Lao Zhou's family.
"You said Brother Bingyi and Sister Dongmei, they are all good students who have actually gone to school. As for you, I am not talking about you. Brother Gan, you are the same as all of us. How can you say that? , Yes, those who dig their food in the dirt are all people who dig their food in the dirt, I don’t think you should compare with them, it would be meaningless to compare with them.”
Sun Qianchao, Xiao Guoqing and others nodded together. Yes, Zhou Bingkun went to school for a year or two more than them, but what's the use? He was only better at Chinese, and other subjects were given for free. In the words of the teacher, he said a sweet potato egg.
Lin Yue said: "Who said I can't compete with them? I'm not studying now. If I am studying, you can see if my results are comparable to theirs."
Cao Debao threw the melon seed rinds on the table: "Just do it, you are talking nonsense every day."
Others all agreed, laughing and scolding Lin Yue for bragging.
