Chapter 27 The eldest son is still the best
Zhuang Chaoying was very sleepy. He didn't want to argue, he just wanted to sleep.
But Zhuang Ganmei pushed the door open with a bang.
"Zhuang Chaoying! We asked you to come here to take care of your mother, not for us to serve you!" Zhuang Ganmei said angrily.
"I just thought Lin Fang was more convenient. Besides, I didn't sleep all night last night and now I want to catch up on some sleep. I'm afraid I'll sleep too soundly at night and wake you up again." Zhuang Chaoying was telling the truth.
From inside the room, Zhuang's mother's voice rang out: "I'm sorry! I've been up so many times. I can't help it!"
"Look, mom has apologized to you! How can you be a good son! What's wrong with taking care of mom at night? Are you so tired that you come back to catch up on some sleep?" Zhuang Ganmei became more excited.
"Then come tonight! It'll be okay for us to have one night each! Aren't you also my son?" Zhuang Chaoying was so angry that he stood up and shouted.
"Hey, you're right!"
"Am I wrong? I am also a son, and you are also a son. I also work a day, and you also work a day. You are not on the night shift now. What's wrong with each person having a day? It's you today! I'll come again tomorrow."
Zhuang Chaoying was really angry and tired. He didn't want to compromise at all. He rushed out of the house, got on the bus and went home.
When he got home, Huang Ling had just finished cooking.
Seeing him come back, she just glanced at him and said, "Just in time, let's eat!"
Zhuang Chaoying was surprised: "I cooked more food"
"I calculated that you would have to come back today." Huang Ling sneered.
Zhuang Chaoying was stunned.
It seems that she could foresee what kind of situation Zhuang Chaoying would face, and she knew that he would not be able to bear it and would come back.
Tunan asked sweetly, "Dad, is grandma feeling better?"
"Yeah." Zhuang Chaoying sat down at the table with his head lowered.
"Dad, aren't you going to take care of her today?" Xiaoting's soft voice made Zhuang Chaoying feel a pang of pain in his heart.
If Huang Ling hadn't insisted and asked Xiaoting to take care of grandma, then it would have been Xiaoting, a child of a few years old, who suffered last night!
"Dad!" Xiaoting called again.
"Oh, Xiaoting, your uncle will take care of you today. Dad will go tomorrow."
"Oh, I get it! When you get old, my brother and I will take turns taking care of you, so that someone can have a day off. I understand." Xiaoting answered obediently.
Zhuang Chaoying was stunned again.
This is something even children understand!
"Xiaoting, be good. It's okay! Let's eat!" Huang Ling touched Xiaoting's head.
Zhuang Chaoying ate in silence.
Garlic rapeseed, minced meat, green beans and tofu, tomato and egg drop soup.
Warm and delicious.
He thought again of the bowl of vegetarian noodles with only salt that he had eaten yesterday.
After finishing the meal, he took the initiative to clear the dishes and then went to wash them.
When I came back, I saw Huang Ling picking up the basin to wash clothes, so I also took the basin to put my own dirty clothes in to wash.
For the first time, he took over Huang Ling and the children's clothes to wash.
After washing, put it in Huang Ling's basin and let Huang Ling clean it.
Now that running water has been brought into the yard, the two men spoke in lowered voices.
Zhuang Chaoying talked about the suffering he had endured yesterday and the pain he had endured today.
"Zhuang Chaoying, I told you the day before yesterday that your hard days have just begun because I am no longer there to support you." Huang Ling was not surprised at all.
"You are right."
"Don't think about outsourcing your filial piety! There's no way I can do it for you. You just have to bear it yourself!" Huang Ling said calmly.
"I know it's my responsibility, but I want to split it half with the third brother." Zhuang Chaoying seemed to have made up his mind and was encouraging himself.
"Guess how many times your mother got up tonight," Huang Ling suddenly smiled playfully at him.
“How would I know?”
"It will only get up once." Huang Ling said firmly.
"Impossible... She got up four or five times yesterday, almost once every hour."
"That's her obedience test. She wants to test your bottom line. She knows now that your bottom line can't be once an hour. If you do that, you'll go crazy and run away and ignore her."
Zhuang Chaoying was a little confused, so Huang Ling continued:
"She will only get up once tonight, and because the first time, Zhuang Ganmei will have to scold her, so Zhuang Ganmei's bottom line is once and only once."
"So..." Zhuang Chaoying pondered Huang Ling's words.
"So tomorrow night, she might make it every two hours, just in case you run off like you did today."
"I understand. Should I delay it a little longer..." Zhuang Chaoying suddenly realized.
"Don't even think about it. You can't beat your mother. She could cough herself to death in bed. Oh, it's a fake cough. You're a soft-hearted person, so just bear with it! You get up every two hours. At least you can get some shut-eye."
Huang Ling looked down on him.
Zhuang Chaoying said nothing more. He seemed to have a vague idea in his mind, and at the same time he was sighing at Huang Ling's clarity of mind.
At night, Zhuang's mother tried to endure it again and again, and only started screaming when she could no longer bear it.
"Lin Fang! Lin Fang! I need a spittoon!"
Lin Fang heard it and kicked Zhuang Ganmei.
Zhuang Ganmei muttered, "I'm calling you! Maybe you need to go to the bathroom!"
"No, I asked for a spittoon!"
"Then go ahead!" Zhuang Ganmei pulled the quilt and said impatiently.
"Big brother said it's your turn tonight! Don't count on me! I'm going to vomit to death just by hearing her voice! I feel nauseous just thinking about it~~"
Lin Fang started to feel nauseous before she even went there.
Zhuang Ganmei could only get up and curse, go into Zhuang's mother's room, and use her foot to push the spittoon to the head of the bed.
"Why is there so much phlegm every day?"
"Gan Mei, it's too low, I'll spit on the ground, cough cough..."
"You still want me to scoop it up with my hands! So disgusting! Seriously! If you vomit, I'll have to mop it up tomorrow! I'm so annoyed! Is there anything else you want to say? Just say it all at once, and don't yell again later! I'm so annoyed! I have to go to work tomorrow!"
"You, if you give me another sip of water, it will be gone, gone..." Zhuang's mother glanced at her impatient little son with a distressed look on her face.
Zhuang Ganmei walked to the table and put the enamel pot into Zhuang's mother's hand.
There was leftover cold water in it.
Yesterday, Zhuang Chaoying mixed warm water before giving it to her to drink.
"It's cold..." Zhuang's mother said pitifully.
"It's so hot, why don't you drink cold drinks instead of hot drinks? If you don't drink it, I'll go to bed!" Zhuang Ganmei snorted.
Zhuang's mother could only take a small sip of the cold water and handed the cup back.
Zhuang Ganmei threw the jar down with a swear word, muttering as she walked away, "I think Huang Ling is right, what an old fool! He walks looking up at the sky instead of watching the road, and then he comes to yell at me when he sprains his ankle! He's so annoying!"
Zhuang's mother heard it clearly, but dared not say a word.
She didn't scream again that night.
Now she desperately hopes that Zhuang Chaoying will come to take care of her.
But she was afraid that Zhuang Chaoying would not come, so she started to play the victim again.
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