"Hongyu, you're back!"
"Hongyu, come back and stay a few more days before you leave, spend more time with your mother!"
"Hongyu, would you like to eat the fried fish that your aunt makes? Your aunt will go home and make it for you right away!"
...
Zhou Hongyu was in a hurry to go back to see her mother, so she smiled and dealt with the old ladies at the village entrance.
After they left, the women looked at each other in disbelief.
What's wrong with Zhou Hongyu? In the past, she was never in a good mood when she went back to her parents' home, and it was rare to see her with a smile.
Only Zhou Laohan's wife was preoccupied with another matter: whether Zhou Hongyu would return their tricycle in the future!
When she arrived home, Zhou Hongyu parked her car next to the door.
Chang Shuying, carrying a bag in one hand and leading Chang Meiying out of the car with the other, knocked on the door: "Mom?"
No one answered.
"Mom!" Seeing the old cat, who was always with Granny Zhou, curled up in the yard, Zhou Hongyu raised her voice and walked into the room.
I pushed the door open.
Someone blocked him from the inside with a stool.
It wasn't a big deal, and the person who did it probably didn't care much. Zhou Hongyu changed direction and pushed gently, opening the door.
"mom."
"Hmph!" Granny Zhou sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) smoking her pipe, raising her eyebrows in displeasure.
Zhou Hongyu wanted to burst out laughing, but not wanting to embarrass her mother in front of her, she bent over and walked out.
Granny Zhou threw her opium pipe onto the kang (a heated brick bed) and roared, "You come back here right now!"
This heartless daughter used to come home at least twice a month, but this month she's acted as if her mother had died without a trace!
This is the first time I've come back this month!
Zhou Hongyu covered her mouth to suppress her laughter, then went back, affectionately took the old lady's arm, and sweetly called her "Mom."
Granny Zhou's face relaxed, and she put her legs down and stood on the ground.
"Did our Mei-ying come back too?"
Just then, Chang Shuying, carrying a bag and holding her younger sister's hand, entered the room. She looked at Granny Zhou with fear in her eyes and tried to shrink away.
Granny Zhou couldn't stand it and immediately got angry: "Chang Shuying, you're in your first year of high school, sixteen years old, and you're still like this. How will you protect your mother in the future!"
She's afraid even of her own grandmother; if she's still family, then she'll be at the mercy of others when she goes out into the world.
Chang Shuying shrank her neck, lowered her head, and tears welled up in her eyes.
She can protect her mother, but her grandmother is really scary!
Zhou Hongyu felt a headache coming on from the scene; she used to have heart pain, but she had made significant progress in recent times.
Why can't the two people who love her and the people she loves get together?
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Chang Meiying smiled and ran to grab Grandma Zhou's hand, saying loudly, "Grandma, I drew a rabbit in the pedagogy class and got a little red flower from the teacher. Come and see the little rabbit I drew."
Mei Ying felt helpless. Compared to her doting grandmother, she didn't like her stern-faced maternal grandmother as much. However, for her sister's sake, she would temporarily be a good girl.
Granny Zhou gave Chang Shuying a look, and then Chang Meiying pulled her onto the kang (a heated brick bed) to examine the little rabbit.
Zhou Hongyu sighed; her mother had always been like this!
Granny Zhou's life was legendary. She was incredibly capable and had a notoriously eccentric temper. She was unruly and wouldn't even bother to smile at people she didn't like. She was kind to Chang Shuying, which was only because Chang Shuying was the child of her favorite youngest daughter.
When it came to her other three children, Granny Zhou could kill someone with just a glance if she displeased them in the slightest.
Zhou Hongyu put her arm around her eldest daughter's shoulder and went out to comfort her, and Chang Shuying gradually calmed down.
But when she heard laughter from the old woman and the child in the room, her eyes welled up with tears almost at the same time.
Chang Shuying looked at Zhou Hongyu cautiously, wondering if it was true, as the adults said, that three children were enough for a mother.
The second brother stays home to retire, the third brother will serve the country in the future, and the mischievous and clever little sister.
Zhou Hongyu raised her child roughly, while Chang Shuying, who was delicate and highly sensitive, was someone Zhou Hongyu had never encountered before. She was having a headache and didn't know how to deal with it. Was she really just going to let nature take its course?
Compared to the other three children who frequently encountered problems, the eldest daughter, despite her shortcomings, was still the most reassuring child.
Perhaps Shuying doesn't need to change.
Living like this for the rest of my life would be quite nice.
Just then, Chang Meiying's laughter came from the room: "Grandma, my sister can also draw. She's the best artist I've ever seen!"
"Shuying can draw? I didn't know that. Have your sister come in and draw something for me."
"Sister, come in quickly and draw for Grandma!"
Chang Shuying immediately looked to Zhou Hongyu for help.
She didn't want to go, and she didn't dare to go.
"mom……"
Zhou Hongyu shook her head and forcefully stopped her by the shoulder: "Go inside and draw it for Grandma."
No one knows a mother better than her daughter. When Zhou Hongyu was a child, she got single-digit scores on her exams, but her mother-in-law, Granny Zhou, believed that she was a god of literature descending to earth. Granny Zhou valued not the result, but the attitude.
If Chang Shuying could withstand the pressure and simply draw a few strokes to complete the task, Granny Zhou would definitely think more highly of her.
Zhou Hongyu also harbored a plan: she would take care of Granny Zhou in her old age, so Shuying couldn't possibly avoid contact with Granny Zhou!
Give it a try; maybe this will slightly improve the relationship between the two of you.
As soon as she entered the room, Granny Zhou began to stare at her, which increased Chang Shuyingya's pressure.
With the pencil placed beside her, Chang Shuying reluctantly took it and asked, "Want to draw a rabbit?"
Chang Meiying clapped her hands with a smile: "Sister is drawing a rabbit!"
Rabbits are the easiest to draw. When Grandma sees the beautiful rabbit my sister drew, she'll definitely smile and praise it, just like the teacher in the preschool class.
Granny Zhou snorted and tapped her pipe: "Your sister draws rabbits, and you draw rabbits too? That's not right. You should draw a forest instead!"
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