Chapter 2 The best sister-in-law in the 1980s (2)
"Mother!"
"Oh, my sweet girl, I'm finally awake! Bless my ancestors! Old man! Old man! Yin Yin is awake! What are you doing? Diarrhea? It's been a long time and it's not gone? Are you smoking inside again? Don't let me discover it. Discover it. You’re dead, I tell you!”
Dad Xu, who was hiding in the toilet and smoking a pipe, quickly hid his pipe after hearing this, adjusted his trousers and walked out.
Seeing the beautiful girl, the wrinkles on her face deepened.
Xu Yin shouted crisply: "Dad!"
The corners of Xu’s eyes turned into chrysanthemum folds of laughter: “Hey! Just wake up! Just wake up!”
Xu Yin took the two elders on her arm and walked to the main room.
Seeing my nephew sitting on a small bench under the eaves with a vegetable dumpling in his arms, he smiled and waved to him:
“Come here Doudou, I’ll take you to wash your hands and eat.”
Three-and-a-half-year-old Xiao Douding looked at her timidly.
Hearing this, he desperately sucked the snot out of his nose, and moved his little **** to the corner with the bench, not daring to step forward.
He was extremely afraid of this aunt.
I would often be smiling one second, and then pinch his arm and call him a dirty little kid or a beggar the next.
Mother Xu was still immersed in the joy of her daughter's awakening, and her mood was not generally good.
Not to mention the only grandson, as long as her daughter-in-law is not an eyesore, she still loves him very much:
“Listen to your words, wash your hands and start eating.”
Little Douding then took off his legs and ran into the house, and washed his hands obediently.
Xu Yin saw that he had thin arms and short legs and was not taller than the washbasin stand. She stood on tiptoe and put her hand into the washbasin, pounding it a few times before washing it.
I was worried that he wouldn't be able to clean himself, so I wanted to step forward to help, but seeing that he looked frightened and on guard, I had to give up.
Rome was not built in a day, take your time.
In short, we must not let the nephew lose his biological mother at a young age, and eventually be praised and killed by the stepmother and become the control group of the stepbrother.
In that compartment, Xu’s mother quickly filled three large and one small portions of porridge and served them to the dinner table.
Xu Yin was a little speechless. She looked at the backyard through the kitchen window: "Mom, there is also sister-in-law here."
“It doesn’t matter what she does, she will eat it after she finishes it.”
…”
This is indeed like Xu’s mother’s brain circuit.
Not only that, he almost finished the porridge in the pot.
Three large bowls were filled to the brim, leaving only a thin layer of thin porridge and soup at the bottom of the pot.
Xu Yin: “…”
This is because I want the cows to work, but I don’t want to feed the cows to eat grass!
He quickly stopped: "Mom, I can't finish such a full bowl. Let's ask my sister-in-law to eat together. After eating, I still have work for her to help."
"What kind of help? Isn't it right for your sister-in-law to do some work? Just leave it there until she comes back from chopping firewood, and I'll talk to her. If she doesn't do it, I'll kill her!"
“But I’m in a hurry! I’m going back to school tomorrow, and my school pants still have a hole in them…”
Xu's mother was not happy with this statement: "You are in good health, why don't you take a few more days of rest before going to school?"
“It’s been delayed for two days.”
It was a busy farm break last week, and I came back with a few classmates from the same village.
But don’t expect her to do farm work in the fields. At most, she can help boil water and deliver meals.
When taking care of your nephew at home, you have to look at her mood. If she is in a bad mood, she will even pinch or scold her.
Even so, the little work assigned to her was not done at all.
While delivering a meal, I almost sprained my foot, but my foot was fine and I hit my head on a tree.
But seeing that the doctor spent money, Xu's mother felt sorry for her daughter and was reluctant to scold her, so she took out her anger on her daughter-in-law.
In the rural areas of the 1970s and 1980s, when families generally favored sons over daughters, it was completely bizarre for the two elders of the Xu family to dote on their daughters without any principles.
Xu Yin used her skill of blowing rainbow farts for customers when she was a designer and coaxed her: "Mom, there is only one year left in the third year of high school. I have to hurry up. I will get into a good university and give it to you and my dad." To earn face, the best universities are all in big cities, and the best ones are of course the schools in the capital. When the time comes, I also want to take you and I to the capital to climb the Great Wall and see Tiananmen Square!"
Xu’s mother was immediately coaxed to the point where she couldn’t even see her eyebrows and couldn’t smile from ear to ear.
Even Xu Yin and Xu Yin emptied most of the porridge from Dahai's bowl without saying anything. Instead, he emptied some of the porridge from his own bowl and gave it to his daughter:
“Eat more! You just ate too little, so you were dizzy and hit the tree.”
…”
In farmers’ families, there is no rule that you must sit at the table to eat.
Like Mr. Xu, he put a few chopsticks of pickles on the porridge, holding a big bowl, squatting at the gate of the courtyard, taking a few mouthfuls of porridge and looking at the fields in the distance.
Xu’s mother also paced to the chicken coop while eating.
Let’s see how many eggs were harvested today and whether the chickens are well.
From time to time, sprinkle a chopstick of porridge to give the chickens some extra food.
Little Douding also wanted to sneak off the table, but he was really a little afraid of Xu Yin.
But his hands were too small to hold the bowl, so he leaned on the table even after getting off the chair. He glanced at Xu Yin secretly, then quickly took two mouthfuls of porridge.
Xu Yin wanted to laugh. She stood up and added half a salted duck egg yolk to his bowl: "Eat it, and give the remaining half to your mother."
After saying that, he didn’t even look at his nephew’s reaction and went to the backyard to call his sister-in-law for dinner.
“Sister-in-law, Mom said we have enough firewood. Come and eat first. After that, help me sew some trousers for me to wear to school tomorrow.”
If there were only the first half of the sentence, Sister-in-law Xu might not stop.
But when I heard that my sister-in-law had clothes to mend and wear for school tomorrow, I said "Hey".
Hurryly put down the hatchet, piled the chopped firewood into the usual firewood basket, washed his hands and went to the stove.
She thought that today was the same as usual, just the little bit left on the bottom of the pot.
It is too thin if mixed with water, but too thin if not mixed with water. Every time it does not last until noon, I will be hungry.
Unexpectedly, a thick bowl was left for her this time, so full that it almost overflowed. There was also half a salted duck egg on the table.
“Mom, eat! I gave it to you.”
Xiao Douding became much bolder when he saw that his aunt was not there.
Sister-in-law Xu’s eyes were a little hot.
After four years of marriage to the Xu family, this seemed to be the friendliest time my sister-in-law had ever treated her, and it was also the most filling breakfast she had ever had.
After finishing the meal without being urged, I quickly washed the dishes, wiped the stove, put the tables, chairs and benches against the wall, swept the floor, and then went back to the room to change into clean clothes before coming to my sister-in-law's room.
"Yin Yin, where are the pants you want to mend? How about I take them to my room to mend?"
Sister-in-law Xu looked at the bright and clean boudoir, the neatly folded quilts, the flat sheets, the spotless floor, and rubbed her rough hands nervously.
“No, sister-in-law, you can fix it here. My place is bright. Doudou will come in too.”
Xu Yin waved to mother and son.
Her boudoir belonged to the main west room, and after her brother got married, he also opened up the second half of the separated room for her to use.
The layout is the same as the main house of the second elder, with windows on three sides, making it very bright.
On the contrary, the brother-in-law’s wedding room was a side room built before the marriage.
Although the area is large, the foundation is not as high as the main house.
There are only two windows, east and west, which are relatively dark.
And the original person likes to arrange things very much.
The curtains are made of elegant tie-dye fabric, the red paint on the edge of the diamond-shaped window was newly painted by Mr. Yang Xu, and the dressing mirror, writing desk, and chest of drawers were also added one after another in recent years.
Although the wood is old, if it is painted with new paint, it will look like new.
With such a lining, the room will be brighter.
(End of this chapter)