That night, I was in a stable and complicated mood of gains and losses.Sleeping in bed with my mother until dawn.Of course we did nothing, we just held hands.
Another day later, before I could enjoy the warmth after reuniting with my mother, I went to my grandmother's house with my mother.
My mother was born in a small town in Jiangnan with beautiful environment and pleasant climate.
In my impression, my grandmother's house is a separate three-story western-style building with a courtyard in front of the building and neighbors around it.
Although it is relatively modern, it still needs to be much more flavorful than the city!
The town has small bridges and flowing water, and the blue brick streets and alleys are also available!
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The day before New Year's Eve, a cloudy afternoon.
quick!Don't let your grandma wait too long...
At this time, my mother was wearing a black coat, extending all the way to her lower body, revealing her straight calves wrapped in beige tight velvet pants.
Walking in front of me, my steps as light as vu.
From time to time, I turned around and urged me, and my short hair was fluttering and swaying, revealing her delicate and beautiful face at various angles.
Huh... Huh... can't do it... let's take a break!
I was carrying two suitcases that were about to be as high as my waist, and my mother's white handbag was hanging around my neck.Stopped on the half slope of the small blue brick bridge, gasping continuously, exhaling a lot of water vapor and white smoke from his mouth.
Tired after just a few steps?Where did you usually play basketball?Mom stood upright in the middle of the bridge, lifted one side of her black short hair behind her ears, and said with some dissatisfaction.
Huh... You carry these two boxes... Huh... Let's try it... I arched my waist and held it on the box and gasped, thinking that you are standing and talking without any pain!
I can't carry it... Can you walk?If I don’t leave, I will leave first... When my mother saw that I didn’t move for a long time, she was too lazy to talk to me. She turned around and walked down the other side of the bridge with her hands in her chest, and soon disappeared.
Alas!Mom...wait for me...ah Ah!I quickly picked up two large boxes and rushed towards the bridge slope.
Small bridges and flowing water, blue brick streets, may really have a unique scene, but the premise is that you have to experience it at no cost...
For the first time, I felt that going to my grandmother's house was so far away and so tired!In the past, it was obviously the work my father did, but now it is my turn to realize that it is not easy!
After passing through the streets and alleys, I followed my mother from afar and finally arrived at the end of this trip, my grandmother’s house!
……
Bu Ping is back... Hello, aunt... sister
Well...Mom!
Where is Xiaoxuan?
What's behind!
……
When I threw two big suitcases to the door of my grandmother's living room, I paralyzed on the sofa in the crowd, and felt that I had finally regained my life and returned to the world!
Huhu... Huhu... I didn't have the strength to say hello to my relatives around me, but just lay down and gasped.
Boy!I don’t call anyone when I come. How did my sister teach you...uh...how did I teach you before?
My uncle, who was sitting next to me, started to tease him first, and his mother, who was standing opposite him, changed her words with a sharp look.
I gave my uncle a blank look and ignored it. I knew that he was unrestrained and had never looked like an elder since he was a child.
Hello grandma... Hello aunt... Tingting hasn't seen her for a long time, and she is getting better and more beautiful as she grows!After a few seconds of gasping, I greeted the people around me one by one, and they responded to each other.
Hey!What do you mean by kid? I won’t say hello to me, right!Do you still have my uncle in your eyes?The uncle next to him was unhappy.
How can I hold such a big eye poop in my eyes?I curled my lips and gave him a blank look.
Hahaha... Everyone in the living room smiled.
Good Ah!The boy hasn't seen him for so long, but he is still so sharp-tongued!Look at my throat locking skills!My uncle was not really angry either, he just jumped over and pressed me on the sofa.
Cough...Mom...Help!
My uncle's adult physique is much stronger than mine. He is 178 cm tall, a little taller than me. I just went through a long journey with heavy loads, but I was strangled to subdue me by him without much physical strength.
Let him go!Mom stood opposite, pointed at her uncle and frowned and shouted coldly.
...Hey, sister, isn't this a joke!So what's the point?My uncle faced my mother, like a mouse seeing a cat, quickly and obediently let me go and sat upright again.
Xiaoxuan, your body is a little weak!Just carrying those two small boxes makes you tired like that?It seems that I have to give you a few days of special training. How can such a big boy be so weak?
My uncle looked at me, who was still breathing slightly, disappointedly.
You go!It’s what you taught him before, so you can stay away from my son in the future!My mother looked at her arrogant uncle and scolded her angrily.
Sister...the children are listening!You gave me some face... My uncle looked at my mother with some fear.
snort!Mom glared at him and said nothing more.
As the saying goes, nephew is like uncle...
In addition to looking similar to my uncle and having good looks, my personality has been more or less influenced by him.
I was fine when I was a child. Although I was a little playful and naughty, I was also considered to listen to my mother and would not do anything bad from her.
But since my grandparents passed away one after another and changed to coming to my grandmother’s house for the New Year every year, my personality has become subtly like my uncle, which means what my mother thinks has become bad!
Okay, you two siblings really can’t grow up!I’m still like this after getting married... Xiaoxuan, Tingting, come and have pastries!This is made by myself... At some point, my grandmother had already entered and exited the living room and brought a plate of exquisitely-shaped pastries in her hand and placed them on the coffee table in front of me.
Thank you grandma!Thank you grandma!Tingting's cousin and I said happily in unison.
Is it tasty?Grandma sat on the small sofa in the main seat opposite us, held down her thin-framed glasses, and looked at us with a kind smile.
I just nodded and smiled while eating, but the cousin next to me was a little exaggerated.
Well, the hazelnut crisps made by grandma are the most delicious!Grandma is so nice!
As my cousin said, she threw herself into my grandmother's arms, wearing thin-framed glasses like her grandmother. The two of them, who looked a little similar, leaned against each other, as if they were a mother and daughter, not grandma and granddaughter.
I looked at this crazy girl speechlessly...
She is my cousin, Liang Yuting.
I am only two years younger than me and I am in the second grade of junior high school this year.
Her height can also be considered to be a good gene for her mother, and it is estimated that she is about 1.6 meters tall.
It’s hard to say what Tingting’s personality is!I feel that she doesn’t follow her parents, or that she combines her parents’ dual personalities... In short, it’s very difficult to deal with!
Tingting gets up and becomes a big girl, she still feels like this!I'm not afraid that your cousin will laugh at you...
Grandma slowly pushed the cousin in her arms away, tidied up the beige sweater that was a little messed up by her, and sat upright on the sofa in a gray long cloth skirt, looking gentle and elegant.
From childhood to adulthood, my understanding of the elegant and gentleness of Jiangnan women basically comes from my grandmother!
Just like at this moment, her black hair band was formed on the back of her head, and a strand of black hair fell on each side of Emei, revealing a gentle and intellectual melon-shaped face.
Her face was also fair and flawless, with only a few fine lines in the corners of her eyes confirming the traces left by time on her body.
Grandma's name is very nice, just like her gentle appearance and temperament, and is called Li Simin.
Although she is fifty-four years old this year, she does not look old at all!
Her figure and appearance are as gentle and pleasant as a woman in her thirties or forties, and her temperament is even more elegant. Her words and deeds reveal a bookish atmosphere, which may be related to her opening a bookstore!
She is only 1.6 meters tall, and has a plump figure, with an indescribable gentle and beautiful appearance.
In short, it can be said that the current family in the living room is definitely due to the grandmother’s good appearance genes...
Xiaoxuan cousin, grandma said you would laugh at me, really?My cousin got up and took grandma's hand, looking at me with grievance, with an unknown light flashing in her eyes.
I know this crazy girl is best at pretending, but I don’t have the heart to play with her now and am about to speak...
Tingting, how many times have you told me that I call you cousin, why should I add Xiaoxuan in front?Improper!
The person who spoke was her aunt standing next to her mother. Her name was Chen Xiaolin. She was only one or two centimeters shorter than her mother, but her legs wrapped in white tight velvet pants looked particularly slender.
Paired with a short yellow jacket on the upper body and a delicate and delicate facial features under the slightly yellow hair, it looks like a college student who has just walked out of campus for a few years!
It is impossible to tell that she is already the mother of a junior high school girl and a wife in her thirties.
But I know that like my uncle, she has never been to college, and they do not have the excellent grades that their mother has since childhood.
They are college classmates and got married after graduation, which is only two years later than my parents.
The crazy girl who was verbally educated by her aunt stood beside her grandmother and pouted at me, maybe she was thinking about something strange to deal with me, so I had to pretend to be generous and relieve her.
Haha, aunt, it's okay!Tingting can call her anyway.
that is!Xiaoxuan's cousin said it was okay, but my mother knew that she was just polite!Yes, grandma.
My cousin took grandma's hand, sat on the edge of the sofa, leaning affectionately on grandma's shoulder sweater, and said with a vile and powerful look.
...You are waiting for the New Year to come home... My aunt smiled and looked at her daughter sitting next to her mother-in-law kindly.
Grandma...Mom threatened me that she would clean up after she got home!I was so scared... My cousin immediately hugged between my grandmother's neck like fear, looking at her aggrievedly.
Xiaolin, this is the New Year, don’t scare the children!You are the same as Xiaotao, and you have no one to do it all day long.It’s still Tingting who is obedient, otherwise you would have been ruined by you!
Grandma obviously didn't know that the crazy girl was different from her insides and was deceived by her weak appearance.
Mom, what's the matter with me?Tingting is so obedient and well-behaved, obviously she just follows me!The uncle next to him defended.
……
But what we all got was a roll of our eyes.
……
My mother and I didn't interrupt too much from beginning to end. We just stood and sat and watched our uncle and grandmother talking about the trouble. It was not that we couldn't integrate, but that our uncle's family of three was too lively.
In general, my current personality is a little closer to my mother without realizing it.
Later, it was dark, and after dinner, my grandmother pulled her mother to the sofa and talked to her in a gentle voice. I vaguely heard that they were talking about their parents' divorce.
When I watched my grandmother chat with my mother, I looked a little worried. Compared to the situation where my uncle and aunt were sitting aside playing with their mobile phones and grabbing red envelopes, my grandmother should have known it not long ago.
Xiaoxuan, why are you looking at grandma Ah?Tingting, who was sitting next to me watching TV, suddenly asked.
The sound was not loud, but the living room was quite quiet, so everyone looked at me.
Um?Where do I have it?I'm watching...I...I'm watching who has something to do with you?
Feeling the puzzled eyes of the people around me, I became a little incoherent and glared at the crazy girl who was laughing at the side without explanation.
My uncle and the others didn't pay much attention to it and continued to chat on their phones.
I had no intention of watching TV, playing with my phone, and even more so I had no intention of talking to the crazy girl next to me, so I had to lean on the sofa and stare at the bright incandescent lamp in my grandmother's living room.
Again, the little girl Tingting started to try to tease me again.
Xiaoxuan, why don’t you continue to peek at grandma, why are you looking at the light?If not, you can see that I can do it!
This time, the crazy girl said nothing to attract other people's attention, but it interrupted me to gradually become ethereal.
I turned my head, looked at Tingting wearing glasses next to me, and asked me curiously, her words and deeds seemed to be like a gentle and good girl, which made me feel a little headache.
Now, after experiencing many things, I can no longer have a fuss with her like before, so naturally I am a little afraid of her.
Why don't you speak?Did I become ugly?When Tingting saw me turn over to look at the lights again, she was a little confused that I didn't take her, so she got up and put her little face in front of me to block the lights.
I had to lean to the back of the sofa, and while keeping a distance from her, I squinted my eyes slightly.
Although no one around cares about what we said, it doesn't mean they are not paying attention.Suddenly, my aunt got up from the chair opposite me, put away her cell phone, and looked at me seriously.
Xiaoxuan, if you don’t look at Tingting, do you want to watch your aunt take a shower again?After saying that, she even gave me a tempting look.
Hahaha……
The people in the living room burst into laughter again, and even the mom and grandmother who were whispering warmly on the other side couldn't help but turn their heads and look at me and laugh.
I was very dedicated to watching it in front of the TV, and I was amused by various sketches of crosstalk from time to time, and no one played with my phone or something like that...
Xiaoxuan, come with me... Suddenly, my uncle, who was sitting on my left, touched me, finished speaking softly, and got up and walked towards the stairs.
I was a little confused, and looked at my mother and grandmother on my right hand. I was fascinated by the sketch of the Comedy King Chen Teng, and then got up and quietly followed my uncle's figure.
My uncle took me directly to the roof of the second floor, which was an empty open-air balcony. He walked straight to the side of the railing, and looked down at the courtyard below with his back to me.
I looked at his back and felt a little depressed inexplicably, thinking, where are you playing with?!
Uncle, what's the matter?What can’t be said in the house in this winter? I have to come here?
We had just come out of the room and were not much dressed. I stood beside him with my hands holding my body and shivering. Although there was no snow, there was north wind.
Xiaoxuan, what did you think about your parents’ divorce?My uncle pushed his head to the railing and turned to look at me, his expression of being a little serious.
I've left, what can I think?When I heard my uncle talk about this, I didn't look like he was careless.
Um!It’s pretty good to see... Then... what would you think if your mother makes other friends or remarries in the future?Don’t say you haven’t thought about it, your dad has remarried!Your custody now belongs to your mother, and you should have thought about these issues!
My uncle then asked more realistic questions. Obviously, he knew a lot and thought a lot about me and my mother!
I...I don't know, my mother probably won't do it in a short time... I did think about it, but I didn't dare to think deeply, and instinctively rejected this possibility.
She won't know now, she will do it in the future!I hope she will!My uncle's loud voice interrupted my luxury.
I looked at his serious face and subconsciously wanted to refute it, but he turned his head and continued to look down at the courtyard below, with memories flashing in his eyes, and he started to speak on his own.
Since I was a child, the one I feared and respected the most is your mother!It’s not because she beat me hard since she was a child, but because of her personality and ability!
I know that my uncle is three years younger than my mother and is even naughty since he was a child, so he was beaten by his mother a lot.
This is different from when I was a kid!
Before I talked to my mother, she never beat me or scolded me.
So he told me now that he actually respects his mother very much, which surprised me!
This was the first time he told me this.
But then my uncle said something that surprised me even more and I had never known before...
Your grandfather passed away when I was very young, and your mother was in the third and fourth grade at that time... At that time, our family of three still lived in an old house, the family was in poor conditions and did not have much savings.Your grandmother doesn’t have much education, so she can only go to the streets and alleys to buy pastries and rely on the little money left by your grandfather to support me and your mother.
My uncle looked a little heavy, obviously the hard life he had made him feel.
Then what?I only know that my grandfather passed away early and didn’t know the details, so I was very curious about how my mother lived when she was a child.
My uncle looked at me, then looked into the distance with respect, as if he was thinking about something, and a smile hung on the corner of his mouth.
Later, something happened soon, and everyone in the radius of ten miles knew your mother... The social environment and public security were not good back then. Your grandmother was younger than your mother now and was still a widow... So when she was selling pastries from the streets, she met many hooligans. Although they were all from the town, they didn't dare to do anything explicitly, but there were always those who were brave!
As my uncle spoke, the smile on his face had long turned into a ray of frost.
Once, a gangster in the town teased your grandmother in the street, holding her hands and yelling to marry her and passing the door.In the end, because there were too many people watching, and a neighbor who knew came forward to stop the gangster, the gangster had to let go... My uncle's face was full of anger, as if he wanted to travel through time and teach the gangster lesson with his own hands.
Then, that afternoon!After school, your mother listened to people talking about learning about this on the street. Do you know what her first reaction was?
A smile appeared on my uncle's face again, and he looked at me with a slightly comfortable expression.
I shook my head. I couldn't imagine how my mother could react, a little girl in grade three or four, and what could she do?
Haha...you would never have imagined!After your mother knew about this, she went home and threw down her schoolbag, took off the old door frame at the entrance of the courtyard, carried the two-meter-long thick wooden stick on her shoulder, walked two or three kilometers to the gangster's house.The moment he saw him, he started to smash the gangster's head without saying a word... My uncle's tone was full of pleasure, obviously he supported his mother's behavior very much.
And I was already stunned!
Because of this scene, it seems familiar...
But my uncle didn’t know that I was beaten by my mother some time ago!
Only now I know that this is not the first time my mother has been holding a stick for two kilometers!
It is hard to imagine what kind of momentum a little girl about ten years old would be carrying a two-meter-long thick wooden stick and walking for two or three kilometers!
It's hard to imagine how she took turns to hit people...
Then what?I asked quickly, because I was beaten, but it was because my mother asked me to hold my hands.
Then of course the gangster ran away fast... but he was beaten to the point of being beaten to death at that time. Later, things got a big deal and the police rushed over.But the gangster had a ghost in his heart, and he was teasing him in the street first!Finally, we negotiated and settled... So, after that, almost the whole town knew that we had a girl like your mother!Your grandmother and I have never been bullied since then.Because after your mother beat the gangster, she put the blood-stained wooden stick at the door of her house and left it for several years...
call……
Maybe I grew up in a modern city and have never been exposed to these more violent things.So after hearing what my uncle said, I couldn't help but feel shocked!
And because of this incident, for many years after that, no one in the town dared to challenge your grandmother, and no one would introduce her to her partner, so that until now, your grandmother is also alone.
When my uncle said this, he didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow, so he looked at the black night sky in the distance again.
A widow with two children, in that era, it was difficult to make a living, and she also had to support my mother and I to study... Your grandmother's personality was not as strong as your mother later, so they both had a hard time in the first few years, and I was in the first grade and didn't understand anything... My uncle gradually talked about the topic just now and asked me the question.
But fortunately, although your grandmother is alone, she has your mother!Your mother started in the fifth grade of elementary school and her grades were the best in the school, and it was the same until the middle school entrance examination!Later, because she was considering that she was close to home, she went to an ordinary high school in the county, but in the end, she was also the second place in the entire county and district in the college entrance examination, and she also received an admission notice from 985211 University!During this period, she never asked your grandmother to pay a penny. She relied on the school to provide free education, and various scholarships to help her supplement the family... Of course, I was not as outstanding as her. Even afterwards, I went to the ordinary high school she had studied, and I could still hear teachers praise your mother, saying that their school was thanks to the excellent students as your mother, so that the Municipal Education Bureau could receive some attention!
When I heard this, I was silent and my mood was very complicated.
Now, you should also know what I want to say... Your mother is very outstanding!But she is also a woman like your grandmother!Although your grandmother has not looked for anyone else, she is enough to rely on her with your mother!And what about your mother!Who does she depend on?Behind her excellence since she was a child, do you know how much effort she has put in?You think about how long she will work hard in the future?
My uncle saw me falling into deep thought and patted me on the shoulder.
You are very smart, no worse than your mother when she was a child. You should understand this at your age!
……
Haha... I'll just say a few words, not forcing you to make any decisions!Boy, why do you look deep?Walking down to watch the Spring Festival Gala... My uncle looked at me for a while and realized that something might be wrong with my face, so he started to laugh and say again.
No, uncle, go first!I think about it again, cool off and cool down... Let's go!I'm fine!
I looked at my uncle with a smile and signaled that I was very good.He didn't think much about it, and then turned around after a few words of advice.
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call!I exhale heavily with a turbid breath, and I feel the qi and blood in my chest rolling, and my face is a little hot. I really need to cool down!
I used to know one thing but not the other about my mother's past.Tonight, my uncle told me this, which really made me a little overwhelmed.
I only now know what kind of woman my mother is!
She is my uncle and I, the pillar of my two families!
She is like a manufacturing machine for ideal life, never working tirelessly at the goal, and always stands in front of all kinds of difficulties!
At this moment, I feel very sorry for my mother!
I also hate my previous actions very much. Compared with her, I am really like a clown.
And at this moment, I truly realized how far apart my mother and I are, whether it is human, doing things, or abilities and ideas!
During the time when my mother left before, I also thought about the personality of her mother when she got along with others, and what she did when dealing with people?
I didn't know at that time, but now I still don't know.
But I have seen the difference with her, that is, I am far inferior to her...
Moreover, I found that at this moment, I seemed to really fall in love with my mother, and even said that I fell in love with my mother... I feel sorry for this woman, this peerless and independent woman, she is also my mother, Liang Buping!
I held my hand on the railing and looked into the distance of the night sky. There was no light in the sky, only endless darkness... I thought that my current surging mood could only return to peace.
A person’s growth is not at a certain period of time, nor at a certain age, but at a certain moment!
Just like at this moment, I looked up at the dark night sky. After the cold wind blew my face calmed down, I felt different...
Another day later, before I could enjoy the warmth after reuniting with my mother, I went to my grandmother's house with my mother.
My mother was born in a small town in Jiangnan with beautiful environment and pleasant climate.
In my impression, my grandmother's house is a separate three-story western-style building with a courtyard in front of the building and neighbors around it.
Although it is relatively modern, it still needs to be much more flavorful than the city!
The town has small bridges and flowing water, and the blue brick streets and alleys are also available!
……
The day before New Year's Eve, a cloudy afternoon.
quick!Don't let your grandma wait too long...
At this time, my mother was wearing a black coat, extending all the way to her lower body, revealing her straight calves wrapped in beige tight velvet pants.
Walking in front of me, my steps as light as vu.
From time to time, I turned around and urged me, and my short hair was fluttering and swaying, revealing her delicate and beautiful face at various angles.
Huh... Huh... can't do it... let's take a break!
I was carrying two suitcases that were about to be as high as my waist, and my mother's white handbag was hanging around my neck.Stopped on the half slope of the small blue brick bridge, gasping continuously, exhaling a lot of water vapor and white smoke from his mouth.
Tired after just a few steps?Where did you usually play basketball?Mom stood upright in the middle of the bridge, lifted one side of her black short hair behind her ears, and said with some dissatisfaction.
Huh... You carry these two boxes... Huh... Let's try it... I arched my waist and held it on the box and gasped, thinking that you are standing and talking without any pain!
I can't carry it... Can you walk?If I don’t leave, I will leave first... When my mother saw that I didn’t move for a long time, she was too lazy to talk to me. She turned around and walked down the other side of the bridge with her hands in her chest, and soon disappeared.
Alas!Mom...wait for me...ah Ah!I quickly picked up two large boxes and rushed towards the bridge slope.
Small bridges and flowing water, blue brick streets, may really have a unique scene, but the premise is that you have to experience it at no cost...
For the first time, I felt that going to my grandmother's house was so far away and so tired!In the past, it was obviously the work my father did, but now it is my turn to realize that it is not easy!
After passing through the streets and alleys, I followed my mother from afar and finally arrived at the end of this trip, my grandmother’s house!
……
Bu Ping is back... Hello, aunt... sister
Well...Mom!
Where is Xiaoxuan?
What's behind!
……
When I threw two big suitcases to the door of my grandmother's living room, I paralyzed on the sofa in the crowd, and felt that I had finally regained my life and returned to the world!
Huhu... Huhu... I didn't have the strength to say hello to my relatives around me, but just lay down and gasped.
Boy!I don’t call anyone when I come. How did my sister teach you...uh...how did I teach you before?
My uncle, who was sitting next to me, started to tease him first, and his mother, who was standing opposite him, changed her words with a sharp look.
I gave my uncle a blank look and ignored it. I knew that he was unrestrained and had never looked like an elder since he was a child.
Hello grandma... Hello aunt... Tingting hasn't seen her for a long time, and she is getting better and more beautiful as she grows!After a few seconds of gasping, I greeted the people around me one by one, and they responded to each other.
Hey!What do you mean by kid? I won’t say hello to me, right!Do you still have my uncle in your eyes?The uncle next to him was unhappy.
How can I hold such a big eye poop in my eyes?I curled my lips and gave him a blank look.
Hahaha... Everyone in the living room smiled.
Good Ah!The boy hasn't seen him for so long, but he is still so sharp-tongued!Look at my throat locking skills!My uncle was not really angry either, he just jumped over and pressed me on the sofa.
Cough...Mom...Help!
My uncle's adult physique is much stronger than mine. He is 178 cm tall, a little taller than me. I just went through a long journey with heavy loads, but I was strangled to subdue me by him without much physical strength.
Let him go!Mom stood opposite, pointed at her uncle and frowned and shouted coldly.
...Hey, sister, isn't this a joke!So what's the point?My uncle faced my mother, like a mouse seeing a cat, quickly and obediently let me go and sat upright again.
Xiaoxuan, your body is a little weak!Just carrying those two small boxes makes you tired like that?It seems that I have to give you a few days of special training. How can such a big boy be so weak?
My uncle looked at me, who was still breathing slightly, disappointedly.
You go!It’s what you taught him before, so you can stay away from my son in the future!My mother looked at her arrogant uncle and scolded her angrily.
Sister...the children are listening!You gave me some face... My uncle looked at my mother with some fear.
snort!Mom glared at him and said nothing more.
As the saying goes, nephew is like uncle...
In addition to looking similar to my uncle and having good looks, my personality has been more or less influenced by him.
I was fine when I was a child. Although I was a little playful and naughty, I was also considered to listen to my mother and would not do anything bad from her.
But since my grandparents passed away one after another and changed to coming to my grandmother’s house for the New Year every year, my personality has become subtly like my uncle, which means what my mother thinks has become bad!
Okay, you two siblings really can’t grow up!I’m still like this after getting married... Xiaoxuan, Tingting, come and have pastries!This is made by myself... At some point, my grandmother had already entered and exited the living room and brought a plate of exquisitely-shaped pastries in her hand and placed them on the coffee table in front of me.
Thank you grandma!Thank you grandma!Tingting's cousin and I said happily in unison.
Is it tasty?Grandma sat on the small sofa in the main seat opposite us, held down her thin-framed glasses, and looked at us with a kind smile.
I just nodded and smiled while eating, but the cousin next to me was a little exaggerated.
Well, the hazelnut crisps made by grandma are the most delicious!Grandma is so nice!
As my cousin said, she threw herself into my grandmother's arms, wearing thin-framed glasses like her grandmother. The two of them, who looked a little similar, leaned against each other, as if they were a mother and daughter, not grandma and granddaughter.
I looked at this crazy girl speechlessly...
She is my cousin, Liang Yuting.
I am only two years younger than me and I am in the second grade of junior high school this year.
Her height can also be considered to be a good gene for her mother, and it is estimated that she is about 1.6 meters tall.
It’s hard to say what Tingting’s personality is!I feel that she doesn’t follow her parents, or that she combines her parents’ dual personalities... In short, it’s very difficult to deal with!
Tingting gets up and becomes a big girl, she still feels like this!I'm not afraid that your cousin will laugh at you...
Grandma slowly pushed the cousin in her arms away, tidied up the beige sweater that was a little messed up by her, and sat upright on the sofa in a gray long cloth skirt, looking gentle and elegant.
From childhood to adulthood, my understanding of the elegant and gentleness of Jiangnan women basically comes from my grandmother!
Just like at this moment, her black hair band was formed on the back of her head, and a strand of black hair fell on each side of Emei, revealing a gentle and intellectual melon-shaped face.
Her face was also fair and flawless, with only a few fine lines in the corners of her eyes confirming the traces left by time on her body.
Grandma's name is very nice, just like her gentle appearance and temperament, and is called Li Simin.
Although she is fifty-four years old this year, she does not look old at all!
Her figure and appearance are as gentle and pleasant as a woman in her thirties or forties, and her temperament is even more elegant. Her words and deeds reveal a bookish atmosphere, which may be related to her opening a bookstore!
She is only 1.6 meters tall, and has a plump figure, with an indescribable gentle and beautiful appearance.
In short, it can be said that the current family in the living room is definitely due to the grandmother’s good appearance genes...
Xiaoxuan cousin, grandma said you would laugh at me, really?My cousin got up and took grandma's hand, looking at me with grievance, with an unknown light flashing in her eyes.
I know this crazy girl is best at pretending, but I don’t have the heart to play with her now and am about to speak...
Tingting, how many times have you told me that I call you cousin, why should I add Xiaoxuan in front?Improper!
The person who spoke was her aunt standing next to her mother. Her name was Chen Xiaolin. She was only one or two centimeters shorter than her mother, but her legs wrapped in white tight velvet pants looked particularly slender.
Paired with a short yellow jacket on the upper body and a delicate and delicate facial features under the slightly yellow hair, it looks like a college student who has just walked out of campus for a few years!
It is impossible to tell that she is already the mother of a junior high school girl and a wife in her thirties.
But I know that like my uncle, she has never been to college, and they do not have the excellent grades that their mother has since childhood.
They are college classmates and got married after graduation, which is only two years later than my parents.
The crazy girl who was verbally educated by her aunt stood beside her grandmother and pouted at me, maybe she was thinking about something strange to deal with me, so I had to pretend to be generous and relieve her.
Haha, aunt, it's okay!Tingting can call her anyway.
that is!Xiaoxuan's cousin said it was okay, but my mother knew that she was just polite!Yes, grandma.
My cousin took grandma's hand, sat on the edge of the sofa, leaning affectionately on grandma's shoulder sweater, and said with a vile and powerful look.
...You are waiting for the New Year to come home... My aunt smiled and looked at her daughter sitting next to her mother-in-law kindly.
Grandma...Mom threatened me that she would clean up after she got home!I was so scared... My cousin immediately hugged between my grandmother's neck like fear, looking at her aggrievedly.
Xiaolin, this is the New Year, don’t scare the children!You are the same as Xiaotao, and you have no one to do it all day long.It’s still Tingting who is obedient, otherwise you would have been ruined by you!
Grandma obviously didn't know that the crazy girl was different from her insides and was deceived by her weak appearance.
Mom, what's the matter with me?Tingting is so obedient and well-behaved, obviously she just follows me!The uncle next to him defended.
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But what we all got was a roll of our eyes.
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My mother and I didn't interrupt too much from beginning to end. We just stood and sat and watched our uncle and grandmother talking about the trouble. It was not that we couldn't integrate, but that our uncle's family of three was too lively.
In general, my current personality is a little closer to my mother without realizing it.
Later, it was dark, and after dinner, my grandmother pulled her mother to the sofa and talked to her in a gentle voice. I vaguely heard that they were talking about their parents' divorce.
When I watched my grandmother chat with my mother, I looked a little worried. Compared to the situation where my uncle and aunt were sitting aside playing with their mobile phones and grabbing red envelopes, my grandmother should have known it not long ago.
Xiaoxuan, why are you looking at grandma Ah?Tingting, who was sitting next to me watching TV, suddenly asked.
The sound was not loud, but the living room was quite quiet, so everyone looked at me.
Um?Where do I have it?I'm watching...I...I'm watching who has something to do with you?
Feeling the puzzled eyes of the people around me, I became a little incoherent and glared at the crazy girl who was laughing at the side without explanation.
My uncle and the others didn't pay much attention to it and continued to chat on their phones.
I had no intention of watching TV, playing with my phone, and even more so I had no intention of talking to the crazy girl next to me, so I had to lean on the sofa and stare at the bright incandescent lamp in my grandmother's living room.
Again, the little girl Tingting started to try to tease me again.
Xiaoxuan, why don’t you continue to peek at grandma, why are you looking at the light?If not, you can see that I can do it!
This time, the crazy girl said nothing to attract other people's attention, but it interrupted me to gradually become ethereal.
I turned my head, looked at Tingting wearing glasses next to me, and asked me curiously, her words and deeds seemed to be like a gentle and good girl, which made me feel a little headache.
Now, after experiencing many things, I can no longer have a fuss with her like before, so naturally I am a little afraid of her.
Why don't you speak?Did I become ugly?When Tingting saw me turn over to look at the lights again, she was a little confused that I didn't take her, so she got up and put her little face in front of me to block the lights.
I had to lean to the back of the sofa, and while keeping a distance from her, I squinted my eyes slightly.
Although no one around cares about what we said, it doesn't mean they are not paying attention.Suddenly, my aunt got up from the chair opposite me, put away her cell phone, and looked at me seriously.
Xiaoxuan, if you don’t look at Tingting, do you want to watch your aunt take a shower again?After saying that, she even gave me a tempting look.
Hahaha……
The people in the living room burst into laughter again, and even the mom and grandmother who were whispering warmly on the other side couldn't help but turn their heads and look at me and laugh.
I was very dedicated to watching it in front of the TV, and I was amused by various sketches of crosstalk from time to time, and no one played with my phone or something like that...
Xiaoxuan, come with me... Suddenly, my uncle, who was sitting on my left, touched me, finished speaking softly, and got up and walked towards the stairs.
I was a little confused, and looked at my mother and grandmother on my right hand. I was fascinated by the sketch of the Comedy King Chen Teng, and then got up and quietly followed my uncle's figure.
My uncle took me directly to the roof of the second floor, which was an empty open-air balcony. He walked straight to the side of the railing, and looked down at the courtyard below with his back to me.
I looked at his back and felt a little depressed inexplicably, thinking, where are you playing with?!
Uncle, what's the matter?What can’t be said in the house in this winter? I have to come here?
We had just come out of the room and were not much dressed. I stood beside him with my hands holding my body and shivering. Although there was no snow, there was north wind.
Xiaoxuan, what did you think about your parents’ divorce?My uncle pushed his head to the railing and turned to look at me, his expression of being a little serious.
I've left, what can I think?When I heard my uncle talk about this, I didn't look like he was careless.
Um!It’s pretty good to see... Then... what would you think if your mother makes other friends or remarries in the future?Don’t say you haven’t thought about it, your dad has remarried!Your custody now belongs to your mother, and you should have thought about these issues!
My uncle then asked more realistic questions. Obviously, he knew a lot and thought a lot about me and my mother!
I...I don't know, my mother probably won't do it in a short time... I did think about it, but I didn't dare to think deeply, and instinctively rejected this possibility.
She won't know now, she will do it in the future!I hope she will!My uncle's loud voice interrupted my luxury.
I looked at his serious face and subconsciously wanted to refute it, but he turned his head and continued to look down at the courtyard below, with memories flashing in his eyes, and he started to speak on his own.
Since I was a child, the one I feared and respected the most is your mother!It’s not because she beat me hard since she was a child, but because of her personality and ability!
I know that my uncle is three years younger than my mother and is even naughty since he was a child, so he was beaten by his mother a lot.
This is different from when I was a kid!
Before I talked to my mother, she never beat me or scolded me.
So he told me now that he actually respects his mother very much, which surprised me!
This was the first time he told me this.
But then my uncle said something that surprised me even more and I had never known before...
Your grandfather passed away when I was very young, and your mother was in the third and fourth grade at that time... At that time, our family of three still lived in an old house, the family was in poor conditions and did not have much savings.Your grandmother doesn’t have much education, so she can only go to the streets and alleys to buy pastries and rely on the little money left by your grandfather to support me and your mother.
My uncle looked a little heavy, obviously the hard life he had made him feel.
Then what?I only know that my grandfather passed away early and didn’t know the details, so I was very curious about how my mother lived when she was a child.
My uncle looked at me, then looked into the distance with respect, as if he was thinking about something, and a smile hung on the corner of his mouth.
Later, something happened soon, and everyone in the radius of ten miles knew your mother... The social environment and public security were not good back then. Your grandmother was younger than your mother now and was still a widow... So when she was selling pastries from the streets, she met many hooligans. Although they were all from the town, they didn't dare to do anything explicitly, but there were always those who were brave!
As my uncle spoke, the smile on his face had long turned into a ray of frost.
Once, a gangster in the town teased your grandmother in the street, holding her hands and yelling to marry her and passing the door.In the end, because there were too many people watching, and a neighbor who knew came forward to stop the gangster, the gangster had to let go... My uncle's face was full of anger, as if he wanted to travel through time and teach the gangster lesson with his own hands.
Then, that afternoon!After school, your mother listened to people talking about learning about this on the street. Do you know what her first reaction was?
A smile appeared on my uncle's face again, and he looked at me with a slightly comfortable expression.
I shook my head. I couldn't imagine how my mother could react, a little girl in grade three or four, and what could she do?
Haha...you would never have imagined!After your mother knew about this, she went home and threw down her schoolbag, took off the old door frame at the entrance of the courtyard, carried the two-meter-long thick wooden stick on her shoulder, walked two or three kilometers to the gangster's house.The moment he saw him, he started to smash the gangster's head without saying a word... My uncle's tone was full of pleasure, obviously he supported his mother's behavior very much.
And I was already stunned!
Because of this scene, it seems familiar...
But my uncle didn’t know that I was beaten by my mother some time ago!
Only now I know that this is not the first time my mother has been holding a stick for two kilometers!
It is hard to imagine what kind of momentum a little girl about ten years old would be carrying a two-meter-long thick wooden stick and walking for two or three kilometers!
It's hard to imagine how she took turns to hit people...
Then what?I asked quickly, because I was beaten, but it was because my mother asked me to hold my hands.
Then of course the gangster ran away fast... but he was beaten to the point of being beaten to death at that time. Later, things got a big deal and the police rushed over.But the gangster had a ghost in his heart, and he was teasing him in the street first!Finally, we negotiated and settled... So, after that, almost the whole town knew that we had a girl like your mother!Your grandmother and I have never been bullied since then.Because after your mother beat the gangster, she put the blood-stained wooden stick at the door of her house and left it for several years...
call……
Maybe I grew up in a modern city and have never been exposed to these more violent things.So after hearing what my uncle said, I couldn't help but feel shocked!
And because of this incident, for many years after that, no one in the town dared to challenge your grandmother, and no one would introduce her to her partner, so that until now, your grandmother is also alone.
When my uncle said this, he didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow, so he looked at the black night sky in the distance again.
A widow with two children, in that era, it was difficult to make a living, and she also had to support my mother and I to study... Your grandmother's personality was not as strong as your mother later, so they both had a hard time in the first few years, and I was in the first grade and didn't understand anything... My uncle gradually talked about the topic just now and asked me the question.
But fortunately, although your grandmother is alone, she has your mother!Your mother started in the fifth grade of elementary school and her grades were the best in the school, and it was the same until the middle school entrance examination!Later, because she was considering that she was close to home, she went to an ordinary high school in the county, but in the end, she was also the second place in the entire county and district in the college entrance examination, and she also received an admission notice from 985211 University!During this period, she never asked your grandmother to pay a penny. She relied on the school to provide free education, and various scholarships to help her supplement the family... Of course, I was not as outstanding as her. Even afterwards, I went to the ordinary high school she had studied, and I could still hear teachers praise your mother, saying that their school was thanks to the excellent students as your mother, so that the Municipal Education Bureau could receive some attention!
When I heard this, I was silent and my mood was very complicated.
Now, you should also know what I want to say... Your mother is very outstanding!But she is also a woman like your grandmother!Although your grandmother has not looked for anyone else, she is enough to rely on her with your mother!And what about your mother!Who does she depend on?Behind her excellence since she was a child, do you know how much effort she has put in?You think about how long she will work hard in the future?
My uncle saw me falling into deep thought and patted me on the shoulder.
You are very smart, no worse than your mother when she was a child. You should understand this at your age!
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Haha... I'll just say a few words, not forcing you to make any decisions!Boy, why do you look deep?Walking down to watch the Spring Festival Gala... My uncle looked at me for a while and realized that something might be wrong with my face, so he started to laugh and say again.
No, uncle, go first!I think about it again, cool off and cool down... Let's go!I'm fine!
I looked at my uncle with a smile and signaled that I was very good.He didn't think much about it, and then turned around after a few words of advice.
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call!I exhale heavily with a turbid breath, and I feel the qi and blood in my chest rolling, and my face is a little hot. I really need to cool down!
I used to know one thing but not the other about my mother's past.Tonight, my uncle told me this, which really made me a little overwhelmed.
I only now know what kind of woman my mother is!
She is my uncle and I, the pillar of my two families!
She is like a manufacturing machine for ideal life, never working tirelessly at the goal, and always stands in front of all kinds of difficulties!
At this moment, I feel very sorry for my mother!
I also hate my previous actions very much. Compared with her, I am really like a clown.
And at this moment, I truly realized how far apart my mother and I are, whether it is human, doing things, or abilities and ideas!
During the time when my mother left before, I also thought about the personality of her mother when she got along with others, and what she did when dealing with people?
I didn't know at that time, but now I still don't know.
But I have seen the difference with her, that is, I am far inferior to her...
Moreover, I found that at this moment, I seemed to really fall in love with my mother, and even said that I fell in love with my mother... I feel sorry for this woman, this peerless and independent woman, she is also my mother, Liang Buping!
I held my hand on the railing and looked into the distance of the night sky. There was no light in the sky, only endless darkness... I thought that my current surging mood could only return to peace.
A person’s growth is not at a certain period of time, nor at a certain age, but at a certain moment!
Just like at this moment, I looked up at the dark night sky. After the cold wind blew my face calmed down, I felt different...