military marriage

Chapter 45 Father-in-law and mother-in-law (1)
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On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Sheng Gen, who had been yelling for ten years that he was about to die and had to prepare a coffin, actually died in the best hospital in City A.This sad news came suddenly, Yusuo and Chuanlong did not have any psychological preparations in advance, as if they were used to hearing the cry of "wolf is coming" when they were children, not to mention that Chuanlong became cruel, and after a big fight with Yusuo, he sent the troops The more than 6 yuan of house purchase subsidy when I changed jobs were all used for rooting surgery.

Chuanlong learned that his father Hu Shenggen was suffering from esophageal cancer. He stood at the traffic police station by the side of the road, wearing a traffic police uniform and directing the busy vehicles.

Ding Ni's crying on the phone broke Chuanlong's good feeling!Poor father, Rooting, actually suffered from esophageal cancer!Urgently need surgery!

"Brother! My uncle is so pitiful. I haven't enjoyed a day of happiness. You must save him. He is only 60 years old. Only you can save him, only you can save him!" Ding Ni cried on the phone.

Yu locked the bus, carried vegetables, and hurried home, it was already seven o'clock in the evening.While taking off her leather shoes and putting on slippers, she turned on the light with one hand.Chuanlong, who was lying in the dark smoking in a daze, was suddenly stimulated by the strong incandescent lamp, and jumped up from the sofa, startling Yusuo.

Yu Suo glanced at him reproachfully, and knowing that Yuanyuan was doing homework at the neighbor's house opposite, he rolled up his sleeves and hurriedly prepared dinner, hoping to find some time to read.

"Qian, what about the more than 6 resettlement fees for my job change?" Chuanlong suddenly ran into the kitchen.

"Isn't that for buying a small house?" The advertisement for the 70-square-meter small house of the intermediary company has been touched by Yusuo's hands many times, and the four corners are rolled up, and Yusuo's eager eyes I have stared at it hundreds of times. When she came to the real estate center, all the staff knew her, and they all knew that she wanted to buy this apartment and felt distressed. As long as we pay a down payment of more than 7 yuan and borrow more than 9 yuan, we will have our own nest in this city..."

Chuanlong suddenly became furious, grabbed the red cabbage moss in Yusuo's hand, threw it on the ground, and stomped a few times after thinking about it.

"You're always looking for a house, a house! Don't you live in a house? You sleep on the road? Well, tell me, maybe I don't have a house for you?"

Yu Suo was dumbfounded.

"Dad has esophageal cancer and is about to die. After the annual leave, I will pick him up for surgery..."

Yu Suo nodded, feeling that her dreams would come to naught again. After carefully inquiring about her father-in-law's condition, she said to Chuanlong in a discussing tone: "Let's think about it calmly and rationally! With Uncle's body and physique, it is Is it better to have surgery, or Chinese medicine and chemotherapy..."

Before Yusuo finished speaking, Chuanlong's lips were already purple with anger, and the bulging veins on his neck were bouncing like a rabbit.He said: "What do you know? You may not be able to do better than a doctor? After all, you are afraid of using money. Look at your stingy appearance. Every penny you spend is like cutting your flesh. Your heart It's too ruthless, completely like a bloodless person, I feel scared when I think of a person like you..."

When Chuanlong was furious, the landlord walked in and said, "I'm sorry for your family, my wife's younger brother is not used to living in the dormitory in the university, so we decided to vacate this house for him to live in..."

Yu Suo glanced at the landlord, thanking him for coming to destroy the house in time to stop the family war, and at the same time glanced at Chuanlong.

"Brother, look, it will be the new year in two days! Where do you want us to find a house now?" Yu Suo begged, "Brother, can you wait for a few days, and we will look for another house after this year is over? house?"

"I'll wait for you? But my brother-in-law won't wait for me!" said the landlord, "We must find a house and move out as soon as possible!"

Yu Suo leaned against the wall helplessly.

As soon as the landlord left, Chuanlong kicked over the chair and yelled at Yusuo: "Noisy, noisy, I'm looking for a house to move again, now you feel better?"

"You..." Yu Suo wiped away his worthless tears, as if he had caught two unruly water snakes bursting out of the sea of ​​hearts, pinched them tightly in his hands, and shattered them into wet .What reason is there for those who beat back?In family battles, the prophet is always the first to give way!Yusuo's thoughts instantly wandered through the eighteen bends of the mountain road, and then came back to his eyes.She turned around, calmly picked up the vegetables on the ground, rolled up her sleeves and washed them, "I will ask Minghui to help me find a house on the Internet tomorrow, and when the rent is settled, you will go back to your hometown to take uncle over for treatment after you are on vacation." Bar!"

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Early in the morning, Yusuo pulled Yuanyuan up from the quilt. In the newly rented house, except for the bed made to cope with the tired sleep, other items were still packed and piled up in the living room.

"Yuanyuan, your father went back to his hometown to pick up his grandparents. Let's go to the street after breakfast, and then go home and tidy up the house, okay?" The mother and son had a hasty lunch and started tidying up the room.Every time a house is moved, the woman's hands have to wipe the corners of the house several times.Otherwise, after cleaning several times, the house will stare at you indifferently and lifelessly like a stranger, making you feel hairy.

Yusuo stewed a pot of pork ribs and lotus root soup in a rice cooker, and stewed a Nanjing old duck soup in a large sand pot... The fireworks in the room rose, and there was a little fragrance of water chestnuts, and the strong flavor of the old duck soup added to the atmosphere. When you come in, you can mix some flavors of the year.

However, Yusuo always felt that there was still something unfinished.

By the way, the parents-in-law are afraid of the cold, so they must hurry up and go to the supermarket to add two beds of cotton wool; also, the elderly may not be used to the water heater for taking a shower, so they must prepare a big bathtub; the father-in-law loves to smoke and cough, so he must prepare a spittoon, the landlord The floor is all laid, so you can't spit casually.

Yusuo turned down the coal fire, tasted that the food in the sand pot had been stewed, turned off the fire, ran to the living room, turned off the TV with one hand, and couldn't help but delay the source.

He was busy until nearly eight o'clock in the evening, when the supermarket was about to close, when Yu Suo hurriedly came out of the supermarket with two beds of cotton wadding on his back and a big bathtub, dragging a spittoon, stumbling after Yu Suo.

Walking on the brightly lit street, Yusuo complained in his heart that city A was too big, and he had to travel a long way to buy an item. Thinking about it, if he was in the northwest, and had the time to cross streets and roads, everything would have been ready to stop.

Alas, living in a city is sometimes like living in a wilderness. The cold buildings are like mountains, the indifferent faces are like thatched grass, and the flow of cars and people is like undulating water!Yusuo thought, only by making the living quarters a little warmer can we resist this feeling of imbalance.

Yusuo returned home and dropped his belongings, ran to the kitchen to turn on the gas again, stirred the two cans of soup with a spoon, adjusted the taste, filled a small bowl of soup for Yuanyuan, and asked him to calm down obediently at the table .She had to spread out the batting quickly and prepare dinner.

When the lights came on, a long-distance taxi brought Chuanlong and his father-in-law, but the mother-in-law, Qiu Bapo, didn't come because she was reluctant to part with the few chickens raised at home.Yusuo blamed Chuanlong in her heart, her mother-in-law worked hard all her life, at least they had a place to stay, and she was well prepared for the New Year's goods, so she should bring the elderly over to enjoy the blessings.

Chuanlong carried Root on his back from the taxi and went straight to the bathroom.Hearing the sound of running water in the bathroom, Yusuo quickly found a brand new set of underwear for her father-in-law, and let them go in.

The father-in-law half leaned on the bed, drank the soup, and said to Chuanlong: "You have such good conditions, I am not willing to die, I have a few more days to live, I want to see a doctor, I want to have an operation, you said you should contact me early Yes, you won't change your mind, will you?"

Chuanlong patted his chest to make sure that he didn't hesitate to lose his family and property, and searched for all relationships, so that his father could be admitted to the best hospital in the city and get the best medical treatment.

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During the seven-day holiday of Chinese New Year, Chuanlong kept looking for his classmates and comrades-in-arms in City A. Whenever he heard that there was any relationship with the hospital, he would come to ask for help. Until the eighth day of the first lunar month, Hu Shenggen was finally admitted to the hospital smoothly.

During the seven-day vacation, Yusuo was more tired than going to work. The cigarette butts that took root were always thrown on the floor. One night, the house was full of smoke, and Chuanlong was startled. He pushed open the door and saw the cigarette butts burning on the floor. .

Chuanlong stepped on the fire and told his father-in-law that this was a wooden floor, unlike the land in his hometown where he threw cigarette butts at will, but the roots were always ignored, and the cigarette butts were thrown on the ground casually. Yuanyuan pay more attention to her father-in-law, put out the fire or pick up the cigarette butts quickly.

In addition, Yusuo has to cook six meals for her father-in-law every day, and let Yuanyuan deliver them to the rooting bed. Sometimes she looks at the father-in-law who is eating in a big bowl and thinks, if there is no operation and insists on Chinese medicine recuperation, she will definitely live another five or six years. no problem!But Chuanlong, who has made up his mind, is insane, as long as Yusuo tells him to act rationally, not just relying on enthusiasm, he will mistakenly think that Yusuo is afraid of spending money, and the look he despises Yusuo is like a knife.

Before going to the hospital on the eighth day of the lunar new year, when Chuanlong was helping his father take a bath, he complained that other people's children were filial, and parents would always boast in front of others, but you never boast in front of others after we have paid like this. One mouth only knows to be poor and miserable!
The father-in-law hurriedly said, when have I never missed you?I always told the villagers that one child I gave birth to was worth ten or eight others!
Chuanlong showed a complacent smile imperceptibly, and put it on the sofa with his father behind his back.

Yu locked in the room, sorted out her father-in-law's clothes, medicines, and nutrition, and put them back in a luggage bag.

"Yusuo, come here, come here, I have something to tell you!" the father-in-law shouted from the sofa in the living room.

Yusuo's eyes felt hot. Did the father-in-law want to say a few words of thanks to her before entering the hospital?The father-in-law has witnessed her hard work these past few days, and finally changed his previous disdainful and filial views on her?Yusuo thought to himself, in fact, this is the right thing to do. The honest mountain village people are easy to be satisfied and moved!
Yu locked her hands and walked to the living room: "Family, no guest..."

Sheng Gen coughed, and stared at Yuanyuan's building block box in the TV cabinet: "What good wine do you have at home? You can save two bottles for me. My son is an official, and he is older than the Chinese New Year. There may be no one under him. Give him some good cigarettes and bottles of good wine? After the operation, when I return to the village, I always invite my relatives and relatives to have a drink and taste good cigarettes. You don’t know, in our place, the village The Chang’s family is different from other families, they eat delicious food, drink spicy food, and drink Sprite all day long!”

The father-in-law was admitted to the hospital contentedly, but on the tenth day of the lunar new year, the body that carried his life stopped breathing.According to the rules of the old life, Chuanlong's family returned to their hometown with Root's ashes.Because Yuanyuan was still in school, Yusuo hurried back to City A after waiting for her father-in-law's coffin to be buried.

After leaving the group that didn't like her, Yu Suo felt so good.She threw herself heavily on the sofa, letting its tolerance embrace her.After relaxing for a while, I started to contact Minghui.

"Thank you for what?" Minghui said on the phone, "How about this, you take a car to East Lake Crystal Palace, I pick up Yuanyuan, and we have dinner together?"

"This..." Yusuo thought for a while, Minghui took care of Yuanyuan for a few days, and it was appropriate to treat her to a light meal, so he agreed, "That's fine! I'll treat you!"

Minghui smiled noncommittally: "Your dime money, all the affairs of the three generations of the family depend on it, can you afford it?"

"Anyway, I can still afford to ask you once!" After Yu Suo finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

When Yusuo arrived at the Crystal Palace, it was already 06:30 in the evening. The vast East Lake water was shimmering under the misty neon lights, which contrasted with the quaint teahouses and elegant farmhouse restaurants.

As soon as Yusuo arrived at the Crystal Palace, she was led to the Crystal Pavilion on the second floor by the waitress. She opened the door and was surprised to see Heiran and Yuanyuan happily playing the game of "rock, scissors, paper" while Minghui was at the round table. The other party was drinking tea, seeing Yusuo coming, he hurriedly stood up to greet him, and Yuanyuan quickly rushed over with cheers.

Heirloom immediately greeted the waiter to serve the dishes, sweet and sour Wuchang fish, braised crucian carp, fatty fish clear soup, fish ball pot, hot pot fish head, spicy fish kernel...

"Mr. Hu said that the life there is very hard, so he specially prepared a fish feast for you in the Crystal Palace by the East Lake. You can eat freely and avoid getting out of shape. You are smart?" Minghui sat down with Yu Suo, "Your family Yuanyuan is so funny, he is always very happy when we are with Mr. Hu, and he doesn't mention his own father at all!"

Yu Suo was startled, looked up, Yuanyuan sat down next to Chuanjia, took a piece of fish and put it on a small porcelain plate in front of him, picked out the thorns with chopsticks, and put it in Yuanyuan's bowl, they sometimes met head to head, face to face , a natural pair of father and son!
Yu Suo looked at them, unable to tell whether he felt pleasantly surprised or melancholy.

"So, you have brought Yuanyuan with you these three days?" Yu Suo patted the empty seat beside him, and greeted Yuanyuan, "Come over and sit next to Mom. Mom will choose stabs for you. Don't bother uncle!"

Chuanjia quickly pulled Yuanyuan: "After all, I brought it a few times, so let me..." He really wanted to say that I should do my best, but he looked at Minghui on the side and swallowed the topic, "Let me first Practice what it's like to be a father!"

"Yeah, he doesn't make noise, so let him sit next to Mr. Hu." Minghui put the milk-like fish soup in front of him, spoonful by spoonful, into Cherry's mouth, "Yusuo, Hu I have always boasted many times that your place is Jiangjun County, where the men are particularly brave and the women are especially willing to give, why don't you tell us a story?"

Yu Suo smiled: "It's not like you don't know that I'm stupid, how can I tell stories?"

"Oh, mom, don't be modest, you can tell stories!" Yuanyuan raised her head innocently, "Didn't I grow up listening to you tell stories?"

"Yes, yes! You see, Xiaowa just doesn't tell lies!" Heirloom looked at Yusuo encouragingly.

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After breakfast, the mother-in-law cried and said, "Chuanlong, it's my uncle and aunt who have suffered and suffered at home all these years. For your uncle's illness, they contributed money, money, and effort... ..."

Degen twisted his thin neck: "Don't talk about those useless things, owe money and pay back money, this person is dead, and the debt he owes is not repaid, where will I put my old face? Because of your uncle's illness, I will Take out my old face and let someone else sit on it, and now you have to pay back the money to redeem my old face. Otherwise, I have no way to explain to others."

The mother-in-law was crying: "Chuanlong, it's only natural to owe money and pay back money, don't make things difficult for uncle and the others..."

Chuanlong's sad tears filled his eyes.He said: "Debts are only repaid, not owed. I know what debts you owe and why. Do you have any books?"

The mother-in-law blinked her fearful eyes: "This... this is all decided by your uncle and his family, I don't know... I don't know..."

"It's better to ask the wall than to ask her!" Uncle's face changed, "What does she know about it? I'm not asking about the injections and medicines, the ins and outs?"

The mother-in-law said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, uncle has suffered and suffered at home. Uncle has a account in his heart."

Chuanlong looked at Degen.

Degen said: "If you are afraid that I will cheat, I will take one family and you will pay the whole family yourself. You can know how the debt is owed."

Chuanlong said: "Then - we have to waste uncle's time."

The mother-in-law said: "When you are away, don't you expect your uncle to take care of it? Then waste your uncle's time. Uncle has suffered and suffered at home..."

Chuanlong pushed the bowl in front of him, stood up, and was about to go out.

The mother-in-law looked at Chuanlong tearfully: "When will you come back?"

Chuanlong turned around and gave eight hundred yuan to the eighth wife: "I just went to work, so it's not good to always delay like this. On Friday, I get off work early and come back. At seven o'clock, I don't have time to buy vegetables and cut meat. The money , you just take and prepare the food and drink for the day.”

Chuanlong went out under the teary eyes of the eighth wife.

The eighth woman thought about it, then chased after him worriedly, and shouted from behind: "Speak nice things when you meet people!"

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Holding the teapot high, Yu Suo looked at a ray of light yellow tea wrapped in thick mist-like heat and exuding fragrance, accumulating in the cup, turning into a fragrant, steaming golden yellow tea.

(End of this chapter)