Chen Xiaoying, eighty-eight years old, is about to die.
She has had Alzheimer's disease for a long time, and lives her life in a daze every day. Sometimes she has to think for a long time about who the person standing in front of her is.
This time, she fell hard again, and her children sent her to the hospital. The hospital said she needed to undergo a craniotomy, which would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Also, she was so old that she might not be able to get off the operating table, so they pulled her back.
He pulled her back and took the paralyzed girl directly to the new house built by the eldest brother.
It seems like many days have passed.
In her trance, she heard waves of angry shouting, as if she had been treated unfairly:
"Our mother is already in such a state, and the eldest and his wife only know how to work in the fields. I'm going to go find him!"
"We stayed by my mother's side day and night and couldn't sleep well, but they couldn't even provide her with hot water."
"All you do is make noodles all day. It makes me sick to eat them."
What kind of human language is this?
Chen Xiaoying opened her eyes with difficulty and saw the third brother grabbing a fruit knife and waving it angrily: "He has caused our mother so much injustice in the village over the years. I'm going to settle the score with him."
The boss never let me suffer any injustice.
Chen Xiaoying was so anxious that she couldn't breathe, so she passed away.
The last sound I heard was the scream from my eldest daughter: "Mom? Mom! My eldest daughter pissed me off to death."
She began to cry and kept shouting, "Mom, Mom!"
She is just like a filial daughter.
Not the boss, not the boss!
It's you, a bunch of heartless people!
Angry Chen Xiaoying has closed her eyes.
In a daze, she watched her confused and tragic life like a movie in her mind, and also saw the ending of her seven children.
She was just an uneducated, illiterate country woman who spent her life raising children and taking care of housework. When she was alive, she asked herself if she had ever done anything wrong.
Only after she died did she realize how wrong she had been.
Of the seven children she gave birth to, none of them became successful: some were cunning, some were greedy, some were lazy, some were stupid, some were too selfish, and some were too honest.
She only treats married daughters as her own family and married wives as outsiders. Not only that, she even bullies the weak and fears the strong. When the fourth son's wife makes a fuss, she dares not to provoke her, but instead tries to please her.
A granddaughter is not as good as a grandson...
How could she be so confused?
If God could give her a chance to do it over again, she would never do it again.
She couldn't help crying, but there was no medicine for regret in this world!
I thought she was going to report to the underworld, but...
A childish voice sounded in her ears.
"It must be so painful that my milk is crying."
Chen Xiaoying opened her eyes subconsciously and was suddenly stunned.
In front of her was a floor made of wooden boards, and next to it was an old lattice window covered with paper, on which were pasted little rabbits, magpies, peaches, tigers and other things that she had cut out herself.
She was lying in the old house where she had slept all her life. The walls were still made of mud. There was an electric wire pulled down from the beam, and a small light bulb was hanging underneath. What was going on?
"Grandma, you're awake, are you feeling unwell?"
She quickly turned her head and saw her eldest granddaughter Li Yutong crawling beside her pillow, her little face looking at her with concern.
Before his death, his eldest granddaughter Li Yutong, who was already married with children, was still just a teenage elementary school student.
"Xiao Yu, are you Xiao Yu?"
Li Yutong looked at her grandmother in confusion: "Grandma, did you fall and get confused? How come you don't even recognize me?"
"I fell?" Chen Xiaoying was still a little confused.
Li Yutong nodded: "Grandpa said that the sheep hit you when you were feeding them."
Chen Xiaoying then remembered that this was true. She had actually gone back twenty years. Her heart was filled with tears and they rolled out of her eyes.
She has had a hard life.
When I was young, I had my parents to protect me and I was fine. But ever since I married into Old Li's family, I officially began a confused and miserable life.
The old man in her family has always been very tight-fisted with money, and you have to ask him for every penny you spend.
Even if you are buying a packet of salt or a packet of laundry detergent, you have to ask for it.
She didn't want to live like this forever, so she asked her second son, who was working outside, to buy her a few sheep. She raised the sheep and earned some pocket money.
As a result, she was almost sixty years old, and the sheep hit her from behind, and she fell down all of a sudden, hitting her head on the stone trough and fainted.
It's a pity that she is in this state and only has her granddaughter who is in elementary school to take care of her.
"Where's your grandfather?"
"My grandfather..." Li Yutong hadn't finished speaking.
Chen Xiaoying suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from the yard, and a familiar female voice said in a loud voice: "The sheep is here, take a look."
Then I heard the buzzing sound of several people talking.
She suddenly remembered something.
"Hurry, Xiaoyu, help me up."
Li Yutong didn't know what she wanted to do, but she still helped her up from the kang obediently.
With the help of her granddaughter, she walked into the yard.
I saw four or five people standing outside the sheep pen in the corner of the yard. One of them was a middle-aged woman in her forties with a Hu Lan hairstyle. She had a shrewd look on her round face and spoke in a loud and crisp voice, sounding very noisy. It was her eldest daughter, Li Hongyan.
When she died, she was already a grandmother of five grandchildren, and her first daughter-in-law has not yet been married.
"Look at how well the sheep are being fed. If you like any today, take them all away, big or small."
"We are old acquaintances, so the price is negotiable."
Chen Xiaoying took a look and found that they were the same people who bought her sheep last year.
"Hongyan, what are you doing?"
In her previous life, when she saw her eldest daughter helping her sell sheep, she was standing aside and looking very happy. Her eldest daughter was very filial to her and always thought of everything for her.
Now.
She felt it was very dazzling when she saw the scene in front of her.
Because a few years ago, it was her eldest daughter who helped her sell the sheep, and the money from the sale of the sheep totaled more than 5,000 yuan, which was all kept by her eldest daughter. She once asked her for it back, but she said that she was old and her mind was confused, and she always forgot where she put the money, so it would be better for her to keep it for her.
She believed it.
If she had not refused to admit that she had the money in front of her eldest daughter-in-law Liu Lanxiang before her death, and when her eldest daughter provided evidence, she would have gone back on her words and said that all the money had been spent on her, an old woman. I'm afraid she still wouldn't be able to see through her eldest daughter's true face.
Until her death, she would always believe that her eldest daughter Li Hongyan was the most filial of the seven children she gave birth to.
Li Hongyan looked up and saw that it was her unconscious mother who had woken up. She hurried forward to support her: "Mom, your head is so bad, why don't you lie on the kang instead of getting out of bed?"
Chen Xiaoying glanced at her calmly and said, "You are already selling my sheep, why can't I come and see you?"