I’m Your Mother-in-law

In the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, the cold wind whistled.

During the Spring Festival of 1973, the villagers of Lushan Village had to kill pigs during the Chinese New Year. The educated youth gathered around and learned how to use the butcher's knife with the butchers in the village. The tractor in the village pulled up lace banners, and Li Hongwei, the leader of the battalion, drove the car in a circle and gave the villagers of Lushan Village raw sweet potatoes that were cut into pieces as thin as a hair to eat.

It was not long after the famine/famine year, and the village did not dare to let it go. The food they received was still sealed under the firewood. The size of the palm of my hand, I picked up a handful of fine grains.

The old Li family received the pork in exchange for work points, and Mrs. Chen said that when eating dumplings, Chunhua and Du Juan gathered around, chopped the meat finely, put it in the ingredients, put the green onions to make dumplings, and Du Juan made dumplings just like her. The stuffing is big and the skin is thick, but it doesn't hold much.

Chunhua had to smile and show Du Juan how to make dumplings again. Du Juan studied it seriously, but then the first dozen or so were packed neatly, and nothing was revealed.

The old lady has become a teacher, and she is also very particular about the New Year. She asked Comrade He Boshu to take the paper with a red bottom, waved her hand squarely and wrote two Spring Festival couplets, and pasted them on the door. ", with a capital "Fu" in the middle.

Chen Ke looked at the calligraphy she wrote with satisfaction, and Xiaoya and Xiaobao on the side were so excited that they praised their milk writing well, and Comrade Chen Ke felt a sense of pride.

"Hey, Mrs. Chen, your words are so good, you can write me two pictures when you go back!"

Chen Ke looked back, and Aunt Huang took a bag of dried sweet potatoes, "Oh, how embarrassing this is!"

Aunt Huang said with a smile, "My daughter made it in the county department store. It's not a New Year's Eve, and she distributed a lot of dried sweet potatoes. On weekdays, you take our family's hair to study, so you have to keep it!"

Mrs. Chen didn't refuse, and smiled: "Then I'm welcome. When you come to pick up the Spring Festival couplets tomorrow, I promise to write a prosperous one for you!"

"That's great!"

Originally, there was a lot of people in front of Old Li's house, but since Mrs. Chen became a teacher, and the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the people who came to the door were about to break the threshold of the hospital.

The old Cai family gave a small bag of eggs with brown sugar, the old Zhu family sent a package of dried sweet potatoes, and Li Hongwei, the leader of the team, also praised Mrs. Chen for teaching and educating people, and she was a good example, and even sent an enamel cup and a towel.

Everyone in Lushan Village said that since the family split, the old Li family has grown.

The big girl and the little girl gradually grew flesh, and she was no longer shriveled and her face turned yellow and collapsed. After the new year, the big girl was fifteen years old. When it was time to draw the bar, Chen Ke took the brown sugar egg and soaked it in water, and gave it to the two granddaughters. One person soaked in a bowl.

Li Lei was holding a small bag of dried sweet potatoes. He met several good comrades in school. Next to him was Comrade Da Mao, who was seven years old. Comrade Ergou wanted to be a glorious soldier on the right.

Li Lei, he is Comrade Xiaobao.

His grandmother said that those who are older during the Chinese New Year should not eat alone, and that good children who are willing to share will be helped by nobles in the future.

Da Mao and Ergou were both overjoyed and said that Comrade Xiaobao was especially loyal! Comrade Xiaobao was cheerful, and when he was almost done eating, he **** his pockets and said with a serious face, "I said, there is a little leftover, and I will eat it after the new year, it will be called Suishui Yuyu!"

Big Mao Ergou also said quickly: "Mr. Chen is right, we have to learn from Mr. Chen for more than a year!"

Chen Ke, who was listening happily on the side, stopped smiling, "Oh, being more than one year old is not a description of a person!"

The entrance of the village suddenly became lively again, and the ding ding ding sound reached the door of Lao Li's house.

Aunt Niu excitedly ran over to hold Mrs. Chen, "Quick, come and see with me! Your third child is so beautiful now, this is the first time in this village!"

"What's wrong with him?"

"He came back on his bike today!"

It turned out to be this, and Mrs. Chen smiled and let go: "Aunt Niu, I'm not going, what am I going to do, he will naturally ride over when he wants to come."

Aunt Niu was stunned for a while, then suddenly looked left and right, leaned over and asked, "I heard that you and your younger son had a falling out. Is this true?"

Mrs. Chen turned her head sideways: "Who said that?"

Aunt Niu glanced at her: "Who else, He Lanhua, let me tell you, don't say it was me!"

Chen Ke nodded.

Aunt Niu moved closer to the old lady Chen and whispered: "He Lanhua now loves your Xiao Cong more than her daughter! I once saw Chen Mei running out of the old Chen's house crying, Her eldest brother shouted from behind: "Don't come back if you have the ability, you will be messing around all day! Then Li Xiaocong didn't even look at her, he was dragged in by Boss Chen and He Lanhua for dinner, and Chen Mei was left alone crying outside the house, waiting. Tired of crying, I went back to the house slowly, oh, I can see it, it's really weird."

"Why do you still love your son-in-law more than your daughter-in-law these days? I found out later, what do you think?"

"What?"

"Tsk, your eldest son is a genius. He buys clothes and meat for He Lanhua, and a few kilograms of loose liquor for Lao Chentou! He also gives Boss Chen some pocket money. No, the old Chen family treats Li Xiaocong as if The ancestral messenger of loose money!"

Yes, Li Xiaocong let Mrs. Chen be an ancestor for 30 years, and now she is going to someone else's house to spread the money! Really promising!

Old lady Chen's face was neither happy nor sad: "I can't control people who want to be a boy with scattered wealth, and they are all divided up. Our old Li family is a poor peasant with strong roots, unlike their old Chen family. Feng Shui, whoever goes to their house will be able to grow!"

Aunt Niu understood: "Who said no, I'll just say it! I'm not envious!"

Capitalist landowners are all going to be overthrown, so the old Chen family kept their speculations under wraps. They said that Mr. Chen was working as a worker in the county, but no worker could fish for three days and two days. Posting on the Internet, I'm really afraid that others won't know what Boss Chen is doing.

Now put Li Xiaocong, one plus one is greater than two.

Knowing that Li Xiaocong developed with Boss Chen, Chen Ke didn't want to join in the fun, and Li Weiguo and Li Weicheng also treated Li Xiaocong coldly.

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Li Xiaocong came back on a bright bicycle. Along the way, the envious eyes of the villagers never left the bicycle. Even the newly arrived educated youth looked at him with a different look, and those big watery eyes had not been worn down by the life in the countryside. Lost, it is the curious and lively eyes.

Li Xiaocong's heart was agitated, as if he had married his daughter-in-law again. This daughter-in-law was still an educated youth, with a tender face, fair complexion, and orderliness.

"Oh my good son-in-law, why did you come back on a bicycle!"

At the entrance of the village, his mother-in-law He Lanhua was so exaggerated that she had to run over to meet him. Li Xiaocong looked behind her, followed by the eager-to-try Boss Chen, the relieved old man, and his daughter-in-law, Chen Mei, who was looking up at the sky with a vain expression.

It's just that he didn't have his mother who raised him.

Li Xiaocong's show-off mind was like a raging flame, and when the cold wind blew, it gradually went out.

He gave the bicycle to He Lanhua, and He Lanhua touched the horizontal bar, the wheel, and the shiny handle, and his body trembled with excitement, "Xiao Cong, why can you bring the bicycle back?"

"The person who brought the goods has a bicycle ticket, and I'll find someone who has access to change it."

Li Xiaocong said lightly.

Everyone in the village said that the better the old lady Chen was when the family was separated, and Li Xiaocong's face immediately became better. Just having a good time?

He gritted his teeth with the thought of making his mother regret it, and spent 180 yuan and a bicycle ticket to get this bicycle.

A bicycle, he ran in vain for a month and a half. Who knows, the whole village came out, and his mother didn't come to look at him.

Li Xiaocong is no longer the old Li Xiaocong of the old Li family. He was crawling around in the county town. He called him a brother with a second skin face, and swore with that buddy. During the day, he was scolded by Boss Chen for being stupid. He was ignorant, and when he closed his eyes at night, he thought of his mother and said with a distressed face: "Xiao Cong, don't go down to the ground, you are tired."

Li Xiaocong felt a pain in his heart. He was ashamed of himself when he said that he was here.

He helped Chen Mei and said to Mrs. Chen, "It's right to say that Mom is old, Mom is old."

"Mom, hurry up and grab the eggs with me to pick up Chen Mei from my mother-in-law's house!"

"Mom, hurry up, Chen Mei is angry!"

Li Xiaocong thinks of this one, no, thinks of thousands of this one, and he feels uneasy.

When he made money, he felt that his mother was better, his family was better, and his eldest brother and second brother also protected him.

This is what I think at night, but during the day, Chen Mei's words come into my ears, "Your mother has become a teacher, and she doesn't teach Dabao to read!" "Your mother doesn't even come to see you, like you don't have a son."

The villagers looked at him as if Mrs. Chen had thrown a burden, Li Xiaocong secretly swore that he would have to make his mother regret it, and then asked his mother to say, "Xiao Cong is still sensible and capable, come back and live with his mother."

Thinking of that scene, Li Xiaocong felt itchy in his heart.

Unexpectedly, when the bicycle was brought back, the whole village envied him, his mother didn't come out, his brother didn't come out, Li Xiaocong felt very boring all of a sudden.

Like the God of Wealth, the old Chen family opened the way arrogantly and welcomed Li Xiaocong back to the old Chen family.

He Lanhua pointed at Boss Chen: "Go and put the bike away, don't lose it!"

Then he smiled at Li Xiaocong: "Son-in-law, let's eat dumplings today, what kind of stuffing do you like?"

Chen Mei looked at Li Xiaocong with a light face: "I like to eat pork and cabbage stuffing, shall we eat this?"

Old Man Chen nodded: "Get some more wine, I'm happy to eat it!"

Li Xiaocong said to Chen Mei with a sullen face, "You go to my mother's place for dinner at noon, and let's talk about the rest." After that, he went back to his room and closed the door with a snap.

He Lanhua and Chen Mei looked at each other, Chen Mei dazedly didn't speak, He Lanhua frowned: "Meizi, why are you making Xiao Cong angry again?"

Chen Mei looked at the closed door, then at her mother, and suddenly felt that everything was wrong.

"Mom, I want money to buy candy! Anyone else has it?—" Li Ming rushed into the room like a cannonball, pulling her newly bought shirt in a rogue, and Chen Mei hurriedly bent down to coax him, "Go and coax you first. Dad, I'll give you another dollar after coaxing."

Li Ming reluctantly agreed.

It was useless to promise, Li Xiaocong still took his wife and son to Mrs. Chen's house.

The weather is cold, and every household in Lushan Village emits gray-white cooking smoke, and the fragrance of the New Year is wafting from the stove.

Du Juan was watching her cooking dumplings on the spring lace, and suddenly heard Li Weicheng's voice: "Why are you here?" Du Juan stuck her head out and was shocked, she turned her head, "sister-in-law, the third one is here!"

"Huh? Let me see."

Chunhua wiped her hands with a rag, and ran out of the house with Du Juan. Standing at the door, Chen Mei and Li Xiaocong were really dressed in new clothes.

In the room, Chen Ke shook off a piece of white cloth. Here was the candy she bought from the supply and marketing agency with her wages. The hard candy was chubby. After peeling off the thin candy wrapper, there was orange candy inside, and the sorghum candy wrapper was Egg yolk, peeled and soft inside, the air is full of sweetness.

Chen Ke couldn't help but taste an orange candy, and the sweet orange flavor overflowed from the tip of his tongue.

This fight came from her to Lao Li's house, and I haven't seen the children eat it yet. When she thought of Xiaoya and Xiaobao's greedy appearance, Chen Ke was delighted.

"Mom, mom, Xiao Cong is here!"

Du Juan's voice was suddenly high-pitched, and Chen Ke shook abruptly. Hearing footsteps outside, she wrapped the fruit candy and sorghum jelly again, and opened the door.

Li Xiaocong hasn't seen his mother so close for a long time. His heartache was brewing at the door, and he was unwilling. The moment he saw his mother, he blurted out, and the taste changed:

"Mom, why didn't you come to me?"