National Tide 1980.

Chapter 586
The cousin was so ashamed, she was so angry that she left without looking back.

Yin Yue's two half-old brothers were so impressed by her sister's hand that they secretly covered their mouths in the room.

Talking, laughing, and fighting, the two brothers fell down.

Rolling around the house at will, without rules at all, fully revealing the freedom and joy that can only be had during the Chinese New Year.

Only grandma in the whole family was very unhappy about this incident.

But the old lady knew that her granddaughter had an idea, and she knew that she didn't like the person introduced by her cousin.

And I also feel sorry for her that it is not easy to pull this family.

So it was not easy to interfere just now, and I could only sigh and complain a few words afterwards.

"You, you, how can I say hello? I don't know what is good or bad, I don't know how serious you are! Three people become tigers! How can you make up your own rumors? Sooner or later you will marry someone? Such a reputation If you want to make public, which man would dare to want you? It's too late for you to regret it."

"Besides, after all, my cousin is a relative and an elder of yours. It's not good for people to be too embarrassing. You have to leave room for meeting in the future. I know that you think she is troublesome, but she is also kind. That man It looks a bit ordinary, but he is an only child, and his mother passed away long ago. Now he lives separately from Xuxian's father, and he has a one-bedroom apartment. If you want to marry, you won't get along with your sister-in-law , and won't be angry with my mother-in-law. This is a benefit after all."

"Grandma is already a person who has no tomorrow. I take off my shoes at night and don't know if I can put them on in the morning. In these limited days, my only concern is that you can marry a good family , life is dependable..."

As he spoke, the old lady cried, silently shedding tears.

Yin Yue was still afraid of this.Knowing this situation, you must comfort grandma and let her feel at ease.

So he quickly made a joke on the surface, sat next to grandma beside the bed, hugged the old man, and comforted him tightly.

"Grandma, it's New Year's Eve, you have to laugh, why are you shedding tears. Come, let me wipe it off for you."

"I know you're doing it for my own good. But marriage is a big deal, and I can't wrong myself. How many men can match my current income? I want to pick anyone at random and marry. Who is that? Who do you rely on? I can't find someone to eat softly. If you want to marry, you have to marry someone stronger than yourself, right?"

"Besides, marrying someone can become a lifelong reliance? Your idea is outdated. It's better to rely on yourself than anyone else. Besides, I have two younger brothers. I earn money for them to go to college. When they are successful in their studies become adults, they will be my reliance in the future."

"Grandma, I decided not to consider personal issues for the time being after careful consideration. How old am I? Are you afraid that I won't be able to get married? Are you willing to bear me? Let me stay by your side for another two years. Don't worry, I rely on no one but myself, and I will definitely make your life as good as possible for you and your brothers. Let the neighbors envy our family more and more."

"But if you keep urging me, then I will be sad. If you want to drive me away, I will go abroad by myself. Then I will simply marry a foreigner and give birth to a blue-eyed bastard. , I’ll come back again. Hmph, I see that you see such a great-grandson who has been planted with rice seedlings and has been planted differently. Are you heart-warming? Do you regret it?”

Yin Yue's sincere words really had an effect.

Especially at the end of the speech, she made grandma laugh with her deliberately exaggerated nonsense.

Grandma poked her finger on the head, followed her words, and made fun of her.

"If that's the case, then tomorrow, when I go out for a walk with this blue-eyed child in my arms, the neighbors in our alley will gather around and say, why did you come back with a poodle?"

Just playing hi-hats to each other like this, the old and the young hugged each other, having fun for a long time.

But enough laughing, although grandma felt much more comfortable, she still didn't stop there.

The old man was a little worried, so he inevitably gave his granddaughter a few extra words of persuasion.

"Xiaoyue, grandma knows that you are a strong kid, more capable than many big men. But after all, you are young, you have experienced few things, and your life is too smooth. Grandma is afraid that when you encounter rough times, I can't stand being bumped."

"Grandma? What are you talking about? I'm doing well! It's not easy for me to survive until the end of all hardships!"

Yin Yue opened her eyes wide and smiled wryly.

Thinking about her life from childhood to adulthood, she couldn't understand what grandma meant.

"Silly boy, what is the hardship you endured? No matter how hard your generation is, you were born without catching up with the chaos of war, right? No matter how poor our family is, the government has always taken care of it all these years. Let our family not be hungry. If grandma was born with such a blessing like you, I really have to recite Amitabha..."

"Ouch, my grandma. My granddaughter loves you dearly, and knows that it's not easy for you. Okay, let's not remember the bitterness and sweetness, and don't think about the past..."

At this moment, Yin Yue just thought that grandma was complaining to herself, so she coaxed grandma like a child.

Grandma, however, shook her head.

"Hey, grandma said that when people are good, there are also bad times. Although you are proud of yourself now, but people are lucky, and fortunes take turns. Maybe in a blink of an eye, your luck will be gone. Then What about the time?"

Then, grandma talked about the allusion that almost everyone in the capital knows-you don’t see big sesame seed cakes if you have money, but big sesame seed cakes if you don’t have money.

The main idea of ​​the story is that there is such a son, who is so miserable when he has money, and how pitiful when he has no money.

Of course Yin Yue has heard it, and she has listened to it since she was a child, and she is already tired of hearing it.

Even if I was patient, I couldn't hold on until grandma finished speaking, so I had to interrupt.

"Grandma, I get it. Be prepared for danger in times of peace, isn't that what you want to say? Don't worry, your granddaughter, I am not a wasteful spender. In fact, I can save money. I still count on money to make money, why? It may be a waste of money..."

She didn't expect her to take the initiative to express her opinion. She still didn't think about grandma, and she was still a little bit short.

"You child, you can go anywhere. But when you are proud, you will also be self-righteous. Grandma is afraid of you. You are right. Grandma wants to tell you that if you have money, you have to remember the days when you have no money. Don't forget when you are proud. But this is not all, you obviously understand the story told by grandma too simply."

Grandma patted Yin Yue's hand, then looked into her eyes seriously and said.

"Grandma is not afraid that you will make mistakes. What grandma wants to let you understand today is that sometimes difficulties come suddenly and cannot be reversed by manpower. It is really not easy for you to live such a good life. So grandma is very worried. If you lose all of this again, can you bear it? If there is such a day, will you have enough courage to face it?"

"Grandma, how is it possible? I'm afraid you don't know how much money I have in my hand. There is really no need for you to worry. Anyway, my granddaughter will guarantee you today, and our family will never suffer from poverty again in this life."

Yin Yue retorted subconsciously, thinking that the old man was a bit unfounded.It's completely unnecessary.

But what grandma said next completely changed her mind.

"Believe it or not, nothing in this world is impossible. From good to bad, from prosperity to decline, I have seen too much. Don't mention anything else, my dear brother, your uncle Grandpa. I think he was the most capable peddler in the fruit market back then. From picking up fruits to opening a fruit shop by myself, I walked steadily step by step. But what happened in the end, my life savings, a thousand oceans It turned into a golden round coupon like waste paper. Because of this, he took advantage of it, left his family behind, and jumped the moat.”

"Also, there used to be a goldsmith who lived in our alley. During the siege of the city on the eve of liberation, he used a gold bar and some gold jewelry from a high-ranking official who was about to escape, and bought a small shop near the Yongding Gate. Courtyard. The senior official left, and he picked up a bargain. But Gao Xingxing didn’t live in it for two years, and then caught up with the demolition and road repair, and the house was still gone. He lived in our courtyard here, but this He couldn't think about it, and he didn't smile every day. As a result, he got liver disease within two years and died of depression."

"Originally, there was a TCM Shou doctor in Chashi Hutong, who opened a ginseng shop at home. His medical skills and reputation are no worse than those of the 'Four Famous Doctors' in Beijing. He specializes in treating difficult and miscellaneous diseases that others cannot. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has the ability to bring the dead back to life. But because the family background is too high, and he is lonely and out of gregarious. After the liberation, private clinics were banned, and no hospital in Beijing was willing to accept him. He used to drink away his sorrows at home every day, but was hit by a car at night. But just a week after his death, the letter of appointment from the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was sent to his home."

"My child. What grandma told you is that there are inevitable disasters in life, and a 100% safe life never exists. God will always have a way to toss mortals. But no matter how difficult you encounter, don't lose confidence. What? Sometimes, you have to think about it. Even if one day your money is really gone and we go back to the way we were before, it doesn’t matter, just start over. The most important thing is that people are fine. As long as people are there, there is still hope. , and it is possible..."

There is basis and evidence, there is cause and effect, grandma's words are earnest and very philosophical, which makes Yin Yue have to think deeply.

Money is money!Could it be that my money...can be lost out of thin air?

No, no, definitely not, I have 5 yuan!What can happen?

But... just in case... If grandma really said it...

no no!too frightening!I can't stand it, I must not let this happen...

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Unmarried people are worrying, struggling to find their life goals, and trying to figure out what kind of life they want to live.

People who have become families are actually struggling in the world of mortals, and the distress in this regard is not necessarily less.

For example, Mi Xiaoran, who is far away overseas, was due to Zhao Hanyu's strong support during the Spring Festival last year.

She got her wish and moved out of Zhao's villa, rented an apartment with Zhao Hanyu in Manhattan, and lived a two-person world.

But with the freedom, the troubles of independent living also came.

The first is the economic issue. Zhao Hanyu's salary is not high, and the monthly salary during the internship period is about [-] US dollars.

This money is needed to pay rent, support two people, and pay Mi Xiaoran's language school tuition, which is not enough at all.

So the two of them can only rely on family funding.

In the case of supporting them with a thousand dollars a month, neither of them can afford to spend money too freely.

After all, they are short-handed, and Zhao Hanyu's mother will come over to see when she is uncertain.

Mi Xiaoran doesn't make money, so she has to act like a daughter-in-law who knows how to live.

In this way, she discovered that the freedom gained by co-authoring is also limited.

Although there is no need to make amends with Zhao Hanyu's parents every day, even if they are not around.

I also feel the pressure they put on me.

I can't be lazy every day, and I have to clean the house spotlessly.

I also have to work hard to learn how to cook, and write down a sum of family expenses to straighten out.

In case the mother-in-law visits and inspects at any time, she can confess.

Secondly, there are also great inconveniences in life, although the house Zhao Hanyu rents is not far from Chinatown.

Mi Xiaoran walks to buy things, just walks back, there is no need for her husband to drive to deliver them.

But language has become the biggest obstacle.

Because the ancestors of Taishan people in Guangdong were the first to land on this land, almost all the bosses in Chinatown are Cantonese.

There is a popular saying here: "If you don't understand Taishan dialect, it's hard to get a part-time job."

The adults and children here all speak Taishan dialect that Mi Xiaoran cannot understand, and the swearing "cross the sea on horseback" can be heard everywhere.

Even the Chinese teacher who taught her English at the bilingual school spoke Taishan dialect.

Mi Xiaoran found that finding Mandarin-speaking people in this place was like a fantasy.

Even for a family like Zhao Hanyu, they know how to speak Mandarin, but they can also have a Taishan dialect accent.

Sometimes, when she communicates with these store owners, she speaks English instead, and it is easier to understand each other's meaning.

God knows how strange and awkward it is.

She always has the illusion that Chinatown in New York is not a gathering place for Chinese at all.

Because of the language barrier, in her eyes, it looks like a Korean street or a Vietnamese street.

Finally, in terms of diet, Mi Xiaoran was extremely unaccustomed to it.

Unfortunately, America in this day and age is like a desert of Chinese food.

The level of the Chinese restaurants here can be described as nonsense, and they are all sweet and sour dishes fried in a big pot.

Foreigners like it terribly, but Mi Xiaoran feels nauseous and greasy as soon as he eats it, and is so sick that he wants to vomit.

To put it bluntly, there are not many serious Chinese chefs here.

Even Zhao Hanyu's not-so-authentic Cantonese chef is considered a master.

So most of the time, Mi Xiaoran and Zhao Zhenyu use foreign fast food and make their own to solve their stomach problems.

Ke Mi Xiaoran is an out-and-out domestic appetite.

If she eats too much foreign fast food, she is prone to indigestion and feels uncomfortable in her stomach.

And choosing to cook by yourself is cost-effective from an economic point of view.

But the problem is that she is just a beginner in cooking, and the simple meals are just passable, that is, at the level of barely swallowing.

No way, a bowl of tomato and egg noodles has become her most frequent meal.

But what's worse is that there are no pickles that Mi Xiaoran can buy here.

Mi Xiaoran is a native of the capital, and the northerners of this era in China have a heavy mouth in terms of diet.

Every meal has the habit of eating pickles, just like Sichuan people eat chili.

But how could the United States have it?

Forget about eight-treasure vegetables and shredded spicy cabbage, and there are no big pickled radishes and mustard greens.

It made Mi Xiaoran's mouth so dull that he could buy some fermented bean curd and salted duck eggs, thank God.

The pickles most bought here are Chongcai from Guangdong and pickled vegetables from the south.

Generally speaking, unfortunately, in the second year in the United States, although Mi Xiaoran successfully moved out of her husband's house with the help of her husband, she started her new life.

But in addition to the anxiety of studying, it is the physical and mental exhaustion of doing housework. In addition, I can't eat well or sleep well.

So much so that her weight approached the ninety-jin mark without knowing it, and she was a little out of shape for being thin.

But the saddest thing is nothing more than not being able to receive too much domestic news here, the spiritual emptiness and incomprehensible thoughts and emotions.

So every letter from home.Mi Xiaoran always keeps the letter with her, and reads it over and over again when she has time.

(End of this chapter)