The story of a cook

Chapter 311 Mother's Words
I clearly remember that at ten o'clock in the morning on December 28, [-], at the long-distance bus station in the provincial capital, Lin Yan, carrying a large luggage bag, resolutely walked into the ticket gate of the bus bound for her family, and checked the tickets She got into the car through the gate and went back to her mother's house.

I called her from behind, but she didn't look back, didn't say a word, she was very firm.

Standing there in a daze, I was a little dazed at that moment, not knowing what to do.

Is that woman who doesn't go home with me for the New Year still my wife?
What was she thinking?

Doesn't her mother know when she goes home for the New Year?
Does her mother also want her to go home for the New Year?
I don't know if we just got married this year, should we go back to my house for the New Year?

This woman named Lin Yan, do I still want her?
I was so angry that I felt like I was going crazy, and I really wanted to swear.

I feel that Lin Yan is too unreasonable, and doesn't understand the world at all.At that time, I wanted to divorce, so I quickly divorced. I was determined not to want such a woman, even if I was a bachelor, I didn't want this woman.

So annoying!

The Spring Festival of [-] was very bad.

When I got home, my mother saw me coming back alone and asked Lin Yan why she didn't come back. I said she went back to her mother's house for the New Year.My mother didn't ask any more questions. I saw disappointment in my mother's eyes.

I didn't dare to look into my mother's eyes. I felt that as a son, this was the situation in the first year of marriage: I went back to my house alone for the New Year, and my daughter-in-law went back to her house alone for the New Year. What's the matter?
I'm sorry mother.

My mother made dumplings, cooked them, and sat on the kang to eat dumplings with my mother in silence.

Mother said: "I'm just an old lady at home, and you can celebrate the New Year if you don't come back."

"It just so happened that the restaurant I worked for was on holiday for the Chinese New Year, so I came back." I said, without confidence.

"Lin Yan doesn't want to come to our house to celebrate the New Year, so you can go to her house with her to celebrate the New Year."

"Can that work?" I said, "If she doesn't come to our house to celebrate the New Year, I can't go to her house to celebrate the New Year."

Mother said: "It's an easy New Year's Eve and a sad one. Where can I live a broken New Year? Whose family will I get? You are also stubborn."

I said: "It's not stubborn, it's not that kind of thing, how can there be someone who doesn't get married at the in-law's house for the New Year in the first year of marriage."

My mother said: "You are on vacation at the hotel. If the hotel is not on vacation, you will not be able to come back, and you will not be able to spend the New Year at home?"

I said, "That's two different things."

"I'm getting old, and I don't want to care about your affairs. You can do whatever you want and live a good life," said the mother.

I said nothing and took a sip of my wine.

I said in my heart that I can live a good life, but if it doesn't work out, I'll just let it go, how can I be so unreasonable.

"Now that you're back, let's celebrate the New Year at home. After the New Year, go to Lin Yan's house to see her mother." The mother said.

"I don't even intend to live with her, don't go." I said.

"Look at what you can do. You can't pass it. You can go after the second day of junior high school." The mother was angry.

I said nothing.

My mother was right in saying that, but she was still in a state of suffocation and didn't want to go.

Mother asked, "Did Qiuping come back with you?"

"No, she will come back tomorrow, with her classmates."

"What's she doing there? Is she still with you?" asked the mother.

"Not with me. She's doing a good job. She's with my second sister-in-law's niece in the backyard."

Mother said: "No matter who you are with, you have to take good care of it, and keep talking when you have nothing to do."

I said, "Well, she goes to my house when she has nothing to do, and sometimes goes to see Lin Yan. The two of them work near each other."

"You and Lin Yan don't plan to have children yet?" the mother asked.

"Yes, I want a child after the Chinese New Year."

"Go ahead, you're 29 after the Chinese New Year, it's time to have a baby, don't wait any longer."

"want."

Mother ate a dumpling and ate very slowly.

"I can live for a few more days. I'll take a look when you have children. I can't take care of your children. I'm already seventy. My eyesight is not good enough to help you," said the mother. .

I said, "We don't need you, we can bring it ourselves."

"It's enough for him to have one girl, and he can be regarded as having descendants. He lives by being extraordinary. If there is no one, then what's the point of living, there must be someone." The mother said.

"It's fine without kids," I said.

"It's good to have no children. If I didn't have you, my sons and daughters would be gone by now. I can't live up to now because of you and my sisters." The mother said.

I said: "That is, who is blessed with your old lady."

My mother said: "In my life, I have suffered for the first half of my life, and the second half of my life is okay. Fortune tellers say that I enjoy the blessings of my children. I can do it. There are few old men and old ladies in our camp like me. I don’t care if I eat spare food. No matter what, no one makes me angry, eat whatever you want, do whatever you want, this is considered a blessing."

I looked at my mother and felt that my mother was full of energy, there was nothing wrong with her body, and she was a little fat.Pretty good for someone in his late 70s with a physique like this.

The elderly are in good health and have nothing wrong with them, which is the blessing of their children.

Eating dumplings and chatting with my mother, I feel less energetic.

In [-], the family changed a lot.

The eldest sister has a grandson, the second sister's family has built a new house, and the third sister's family has also built a new house.

Mother said that the third sister's house is larger than the second sister's house, and it is more grand, and the courtyard is also bigger, like a prince's mansion.

I asked, "Mom, how many houses does my third sister have?"

"There are four rooms from the outside, but there are quite a few rooms inside." My mother said, "Anywhere is good, but I don't like the northern kang. Who lives in the northern kang? Everyone lives in the southern kang, and I find it awkward."

I laughed and said, "You're used to sleeping on the southern kang, and the northern kang is pretty good too."

"In the past, the big car shop used to be the South and North Kangs. When we live, who sleeps on the North and South Kangs? I find it awkward, but I'm still used to sleeping on the South Kang." My mother still had the old tradition.

I asked: "Then my second sister's house has a south kang and a north kang?"

"Your second sister's house is also Beikang, which is awkward."

I smile.

"Your second sister's house has three rooms, and it's quite spacious." The mother said, "Aren't your second sister's family two girls? They will all have to belong to other people at that time. When they get married, they will leave, and your second sister and you will be left." Second brother-in-law, three rooms are enough." Then he said: "I think it is better than your third sister's house. Doesn't your third sister's house have a boy, you have to make plans for the boy, and then you will not be able to marry a wife for the boy, and you will not be able to renovate the house. , this time we built it together, so we can save it when we marry a wife."

"That's not necessarily true. It's not allowed at that time. You don't have to ask for a building."

My mother said: "What kind of buildings do you need in a rural area? How do you plant the land? Return the buildings? It's not in the city. If you live in the city, you have to build the whole building."

I said, "Look, in a few years, if you marry a daughter-in-law in the countryside, you will have to ask for an apartment."

"Why do you want a building? Go live in the city?" My mother said, "That building has a nice name. It's better not to catch up with the earth kang in our countryside. It's no use for a farmer to want a building."

I said, "Those who farm the land can also live in buildings."

My mother said: "I don't want to live in whatever I like, I can't see it in my life. If I have the conditions, let alone live in a building, even if I live in the sky, no one cares. I just have money."

"You have watched it all your life, and you will watch it when your grandson gets married."

"Where is the grandson?" My mother glared at me and said, "Just say you're getting married before Ying'er is born, and let me hug your whole grandson first, and you're still getting married? If you haven't had a child yet, just say you're getting married, huh! Second, go to Lin Yan's house."

"Ah."

I promise.

"Don't make a promise, leave early in the morning on the third day of junior high school, and arrive at two o'clock in the afternoon." My mother was afraid that I would not go, so she told me again, and then asked, "Does her mother still raise pigs?"

"Nurture it."

"Then does that big brother of hers have a date?"

"not yet."

"His elder brother is one year younger than Lin Yan, so it's time to find someone."

"Well, I found it too." I said.

The mother said: "It's enough for Lin Yan's mother. An old lady and two sons have no income at home. It's not easy to point the old lady to raise some pigs to make money. You and Lin Yan earn money to help Old lady, give it to her elder brother first, let's talk about it with my daughter-in-law."

I said, "Well, Lin Yan of my family is in charge of the money. If she wants to give it to her, she can give it to her. I don't care."

The mother said: "Lin Yan has a big head, a family with a big heart, and even a girl loves my mother--"

"It's just like our family. I haven't relied on your eldest sister and the others these years. Now you and Lin Yan are outside our family. I'm just a dry old lady at home. I can't spend much money for a year. Every month, your fifth sister opens Give me money for all the money, if you can’t spend it, you and Lin Yan are earning money outside, and those who live are left behind, and the rest will help her mother.”

"Yes, I need help."

(End of this chapter)