Seeing her son being beaten up and screaming, Mrs. Li suddenly looked refreshed, put the crutch aside again, curled up a three-inch golden lotus and smoked a cigarette bag, and glanced at Li Mulin: "What do you think I'll raise you for? When I was a child, I made my mother worry about it. When I was older, I didn’t show my filial piety, and then I ran away and disappeared. Your eldest brother didn’t come back for a few years because of the war. Later, after he was sent to Fujian, he left Beicha and straddled the whole country. I can't come back. Your brother is excusable, and I don't blame him. What reason do you think you have?"

Li Mulin's tears came down when he was asked. In recent years, Zhang Chunhua used work, pregnancy, and small children as excuses to drag him out and didn't want to go home, but he didn't use the same excuse to prevaricate his uneasiness. Speaking of which, although Zhang Chunhua is not good, the responsibility still lies with him.

Seeing her 30-year-old son standing beside her with red eyes and weeping, Mrs. Li felt uncomfortable and took two more puffs before saying, "You are also a father now, so that's all I have to say. Just make up your own mind."

"There are numbers! There are numbers!" Li Mulin wiped his tears and nodded again and again, glanced at Mrs. Li's crutches, and took a step forward cautiously: "Mother, I also applied for a house last year, you and I will go to Bingcheng to live for a while. day!"

"Don't go!" Mrs. Li rolled her eyes at him and snorted coldly, "When you wrote last year, I didn't let Dongzi reply to you. I'm not going anywhere, I'll just stay at home comfortably!" Tai knocked off the ash, and held the cigarette bag in his hand and knocked on the edge of the kang: "Besides, your second brother and second sister-in-law are filial, and I live with them every day happily. Do you think the two of you can be better than you? Second brother, did they serve you well?" After speaking, Mrs. Li knocked on the edge of the kang, making a loud "dong" sound. Zhang Chunhua was frightened and shook his head subconsciously.

Mrs. Li was very happy, pointed at Zhang Chunhua with the cigarette bag, turned her head and said to Li Mulin: "Look, your wife admits that you can't do what you can't do, your second sister-in-law, don't say this in the future, I listened. All embarrassed for you."

This afternoon, Li Mulin was either beaten or scolded, and he was tortured madly. The daughter-in-law over there either added fuel to the fire or demolished the platform, and kept holding him back. Li Mulin couldn't help but glared at Zhang Chunhua, then turned around and immediately assured his mother, "If my mother doesn't want to go to Bingcheng, then we will come back to see you twice a year from now on."

Mrs. Li snorted arrogantly: "If I can't return my love, I'll save food if I don't come back."

Li Mulin couldn't help but wanted to kneel down to the old lady: "Whatever you say is justified, or you can hit me twice."

Mrs. Li raised the cigarette bag and pot, Li Mulin nervously shrank his neck and closed his eyes, ready to continue being beaten. Zhang Chunhua was so frightened that he didn't dare to move. It's a good fight, scolding the street while pinching the waist, why is it a style of beating up when a word disagrees? This is different from what thought at the beginning.

Mrs. Li raised the cigarette bag high and put it down gently, and tapped her son's head lightly: "Come on, it's not ashamed to pretend to be like that. You are not afraid of hurting me, but also afraid of breaking mine. As for the tobacco pouch, it's a family treasure."

Li Mulin glanced at the white kang edge that was knocked on, and couldn't help muttering: "Why aren't you afraid of breaking it when you knock on the edge of the kang?"

"What did you say?" Mrs. Li slowly touched the cigarette bag in her hand again. Li Mulin hurriedly smiled and said, "I mean, I brought cigarettes to my mother. You can try it later if it is better than a cigarette bag."

"I don't like smoking that stuff, it's boring!" Mrs. Li snorted, and finally moved her gaze to Zhang Chunhua: "The daughter-in-law of the fourth family."

"Yes!" Zhang Chunhua jolted, sitting on the stool with his legs trembling with fright.

Mrs. Li put on a kind face and said with a smile: "You didn't come home when you got married. Mu Linguang wrote to you about your family's situation. It stands to reason that I should go to Bingcheng to visit your parents, but I am A pair of small feet can't go far, so it's not over, talk to your parents later, don't let them take offense."

Zhang Chunhua wiped the fine sweat from his forehead with his sleeves, then forced a smile and said, "That...it's not surprising..."

Mrs. Li nodded: "That's good. When I leave, I will prepare a few gifts. You can take it back to your parents for me, even if you have seen your in-laws."

Zhang Chunhua glanced at Li Mulin at a loss, Li Mulin smiled and said, "Well, mother, we have been married for so many years..."

"We can't let people say that our family is rude." Mrs. Li interrupted her son's words, and a trace of sarcasm flashed on her face: "It's just that your mother has prepared the money for your daughter-in-law, and your brothers will share one share. It's just that you didn't go home for the wedding event you had in Bingcheng at that time, so the money was useless." Then he turned around and took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and after opening it, there was a roll of money inside: "The money for your marriage is from the Yue family. Is it out? Go back and give them the money back for me."

Li Mulin hurriedly pushed it back: "It was the money I saved for work, and I asked my colleagues to borrow some, but it was all paid back. Mother, please take the money back. My son has worked to earn money, and I haven't been able to serve you for so many years. I should have given you the money."

"One yard is one yard!" Mrs. Li rolled up the handkerchief and put it into her son's hand, saying, "I have never done anything wrong in my life. This money is to pay you back for marrying a daughter-in-law. Let outsiders say that the son gets married and the mother does not contribute at all."

Li Mulin thought about it for a while and put the money up: "Okay, but it's okay, you can't push the pension money for you when I leave."

"I specified not to push." ​​Mrs. Li said, "Even your eldest brother sends money back every year. I rely on him for food and lodging at your second brother's house. I can't let him suffer, I have to supplement him. "

"Mother said yes." Li Mulin nodded: "Actually, I take part of my salary every month and collect it. I have saved a lot over the years, and I will give it to my mother when I go back."

Zhang Chunhua's eyes widened when he heard this, pointed at Li Mulin and shouted in disbelief, "How dare you keep private money?"

Li Mulin glanced at his wife calmly: "Not much. How much is given to my father-in-law's house every month, and I also keep a share for my mother."

Zhang Chunhua blurted out subconsciously: "That's different!"

"Why is it different, daughter-in-law, sit down with your mother and talk to her well." Mrs. Li suddenly interjected with a smile and waved to Zhang Chunhua.

Zhang Chunhua glanced at Mrs. Li's crutches standing at the base of the wall and the cigarette bag pot in her hand, and silently retracted her hands, her legs trembling again: "Mother, why don't I just sit here."

"That's fine." Mrs. Li adjusted a comfortable posture: "Then tell me, what's the difference?"

Zhang Chunhua glanced at Li Mulin, whose face was a little ugly, and said bravely, "After we got married, we lived in my house for several years. My mother has always taken care of my child and confinement, I think it should be given to my family. more money."

Mrs. Li nodded: "Chunhua's words are also reasonable."

Li Mulin glanced at Zhang Chunhua and said in a low voice, "When I lived in my father-in-law's house, except for the money for meals and money for my mother, all the other money was handed over to my mother-in-law, and I moved out in the past two years. Not so much."

Zhang Chunhua said confidently: "I used to have to pay for coal to live in my house. What's wrong with turning it in? I'm talking about now!"

"Then how do you give it?" Li Mulin asked.

Zhang Chunhua glanced at Mrs. Li, and quickly turned around and said, "My parents are my only child. If you give them more money, they will feel at ease."

"But……"

"Okay!" Mrs. Li shouted loudly, interrupting the two of them: "You should have explained this at home, why did you come to my house to make a noise?"

Zhang Chunhua blushed and wiped his tears with his sleeve: "Do I still need to say these words? He should have thought of it himself."

Mrs. Li sighed, looked at Zhang Chunhua and said, "Actually, I can guess what your family thinks."

Zhang Chunhua felt a chill in his heart, and stood up in fright, but his face was pale but he didn't know what to say.

Mrs. Li sneered: "I have lived so old and have never seen anything. Don't look at my little feet. I have killed two devils before." Seeing Zhang Chunhua's face turning paler, Mrs. Li said: "But I'm not an unreasonable person. I don't like the kind of people who play tricks on others and treat others as fools. You said that if your family is simple and clear, tell me that you want Mu Lin to give his father-in-law and mother-in-law the care in the future. How can it be delivered?"

Li Mulin was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Mrs. Li and then at Zhang Chunhua, a little dazed.

Mrs. Li pointed at Li Mulin and Zhang Chunhua with a cigarette bag and pot and said, "Look at my stupid son. I have been with your family for so many years, but I still don't understand these twists and turns."

Zhang Chunhua's tears fell to the ground like beads. She lowered her head and bit her lip, not daring to say a word.

Mrs. Li took some more tobacco leaves and stuffed it into the cigarette bag, lit the fire and took two sips, and then said slowly: "It's definitely not acceptable to enter the family, but after reading the name of Mingshu and Mingxin, I know that you don't have this intention. As for There is nothing wrong with asking Mu Lin to give your parents the care of them. Your father is his master. In the past, the master was the same as his father. What's more, after you get married, your parents are also his parents, and being a son-in-law is the same as being a son. , what's so hard to say?"

Zhang Chunhua covered his face and started to cry. Li Mulin looked at Zhang Chunhua and was still confused: "The father-in-law doesn't have a son, so who cares if we are not in the old age? What's there to cry about?"

Zhang Chunhua raised his head and looked at Li Mulin in disbelief, with a mixture of surprise and annoyance on his face, Mrs. Li couldn't help laughing when she saw this: "It would have been better if I said it earlier, it's really troublesome to see this whole mess. Heart!"

Liu Xiulan watched the audience with relish from the side, seeing her sister-in-law crying like tears, she couldn't help laughing: "It's not that my brother-in-law thinks too much, the ideas of the older generation are all married off. As for the water splashed by their daughter, they are also afraid that no one will care about them in the future."

Mrs. Li snorted coldly: "Do you see me like that? Don't talk about how many of your wives are, it was the sweet-scented osmanthus that I raised when I used soybeans in exchange for it. I didn't treat her so harshly. Don't let her take things home and take a look."

Liu Xiulan couldn't help laughing: "It's not like a sensible old lady like Mother!"

"It's alright, alright, stop flattering me!" Mrs. Li waved her hand and smiled: "I heard that the East House is very lively, you went over and asked your second sister-in-law to carry Zhen Zhen over to her uncle to see, this is our The first daughter in the family."

Zhang Chunhua went out to find a basin to wash her face and came in. Mrs. Li simply and rudely untied her many years of heart knot, which made her look much more cheerful than when she was in Bingcheng, and the smile on her face was also a lot more sincere. .

Liu Xiulan got up and called someone. Zhang Chunhua was a little embarrassed to sit there, so she could only find herself to go down the steps: "Mother used to like girls, but now there are not many girls who hurt girls like you."

Mrs. Li was instructing her son to take a palm fan to fan the smoke away, and she glanced at Zhang Chunhua: "Don't eat this sour vinegar in front of me, I will tell you clearly that my granddaughter is more expensive than my grandson, but Zhen Zhen is more expensive than my grandson. The only golden flower of five generations in my family."

Zhang Chunhua blushed with shame, and said with a smirk, "Didn't I say nothing?"

Mrs. Li pouted: "I like to talk about ugly things in my head, and some people in the province who are celebrating the New Year find me uncomfortable."

Zhang Chunhua closed his mouth and didn't dare to say any more. He stared at the door to see what kind of golden baby made his mother-in-law like this.

It didn't take much effort, Wang Sufen came with Zhen Zhen in her arms, followed by four stalkers, holding small toys such as rattles and making Zhen Zhen laugh.

As soon as Mrs. Li saw Zhen Zhen come in, she couldn't help laughing, she sat on the kang and hurriedly stretched out her hand: "Hurry up and let me see if our Zhen Zhen has gained weight again?"

Mingbei couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Damn, you read it eight times a day, what can my sister eat to gain weight so fast?"

Mrs. Li picked up her crutches and hit Ming Bei on the buttocks, she turned her head and hugged Zhen Zhen in her arms with a smile: "Oh, seeing us Zhen Zhen smiling at grandma, this small appearance looks more and more long. You are more handsome." Zhang Chunhua called his second sister-in-law, and without even bothering to greet her, she hurried over to look at Zhen Zhen.

It stands to reason that the shape of the head of the child in the confinement period is not good-looking, and the face is not open, most of them are a bit ugly, but Zhen Zhen has a face of melon seeds, the eyes like black grapes are particularly attractive, and the long eyelashes are like a small fan Yes, with tender white skin and delicate red mouth, a natural beauty. Although his heart is a little sour, Zhang Chunhua has to admit that this little girl is strangely beautiful.

Mingxin squeezed in front of Zhang Chunhua, raised his face and asked sincerely: "Mom, tomorrow you will give birth to a younger sister, as good-looking as younger sister Zhen Zhen!"

Zhang Chunhua subconsciously replied: "What's so good about the girl..."

Halfway through the words, Mrs. Li couldn't help but want to touch the cigarette bag. Zhang Chunhua turned her words in a hurry: "This girl is so good-looking, I'm afraid I won't be able to give birth."

Mrs. Li put the cigarette bag back in its original position, and continued to look at her granddaughter happily, without letting Zhang Chunhua take a blank look: "With your virtue, you really can't give birth."

Zhang Chunhua covered her chest, her mother-in-law was too upright and heartbroken!