Curious about what kind of new store it was, so many people gathered there that Ye Jiaying stopped and squeezed into the crowd to look inside.
It turned out that it was not a new store opening, but a fight.
This is a noodle food stall.
Now the big pot for cooking noodles has overturned on the ground, and some flour has been scattered. An old woman in her fifties or sixties with disheveled hair is sitting on the ground crying and cursing.
Next to the old woman was a young woman in her twenties, with red eyes, who was supporting her.
Opposite the two men was a young man and woman. The man was kneeling on the ground with red slap marks on his face and neck.
Another young woman was cursing and trying to pull the man up.
Ye Jiaying really couldn't understand what was going on.
Is this an old mother who is unhappy with her son’s girlfriend and is trying to persuade her to break up?
Why don’t you go home and resolve this matter instead of cursing in public?
After observing the surroundings, I found an aunt who looked like she was experienced in watching the fun.
She leaned over and asked.
"What's this for?"
The old lady was trying to persuade the old lady who was crying and cursing on the ground.
Seeing a young girl with a curious face, she looked at a few people and whispered.
"It's heartless to call his son a bad person."
"What's going on? His son asked her for money?"
The old woman and the young woman on the ground had flour on their hands and aprons tied around their waists. It was obvious that they were the ones in charge of this noodle stall.
The man brought his girlfriend to ask me for money, and ended up being scolded.
"What? Her son brought another woman here to eat noodles without his wife's knowledge. Isn't that funny? His wife earns money to support his schooling, working from dawn to dusk every day, yet he doesn't even know where his own noodle stall is, and he even uses the money his wife gives him to bring another woman here to eat noodles."
Ye Jiaying was suddenly overwhelmed by this complicated relationship.
She thought it was a story about favoring boys over girls.
The old mother and her sister worked together to earn money to support her son, and she started making a fuss because her son asked for too much money.
What is this, a modern "Chen Shimei"?
Seeing that Ye Jiaying was stunned and didn't respond to her, the aunt moved closer.
"Usually this elder sister treats her daughter-in-law very well, but she was scolding her son. But it's hard to say, maybe she was doing it for us to see."
Ye Jiaying looked at the man kneeling on the ground. The slap marks on his face were even more swollen. It was obvious that he had slapped him hard.
"How did you find out?"
Ye Jiaying also leaned close to the aunt and asked in a low voice.
If he had been having dinner with a woman alone, things wouldn't have turned out like this.
Although it is now 1984, a man and a woman eating alone on the street are generally a couple.
Special circumstances cannot be ruled out.
If these two people hadn't done something truly unbearable, the mother wouldn't have made a scene in public.
"Hey, didn't you see that woman next to him? She's so shameless, like she has no bones, she's almost lying on top of the man. It's obvious that this is not a normal relationship. The main thing is, this woman is also... Oh, I'm embarrassed to say it."
When the aunt heard Ye Jiaying ask this, she became visibly excited, and the voice she had just suppressed was almost unable to be suppressed, especially the last few sentences.
Maybe she was really embarrassed, so she twisted her body and stamped her feet.
This attracted several middle-aged women who came behind her to come over and kept asking her what was going on.
"Well, that's it. Look at the red streak under the man's neck. That's the woman's lipstick."
The aunt hesitated for a long time, but couldn't say it out loud, so the two of them kissed in the street.
Find a different angle and let them see the lipstick on the man's neck.
Just now, everyone only noticed that the face of the person kneeling on the ground was red from being hit. After the aunt said this, everyone realized that there was a vague lip mark under the red and swollen slap mark.
"Oh, young people nowadays, why are they so..."
"That's right, you're so shameless."
"Tsk tsk, no wonder he got beaten."
Several middle-aged women watched and shook their heads.
In other words, these two people came to the noodle stall to eat noodles, and the woman kissed the husband in front of the other man's wife.
I don’t know whether this woman knows that the man has a family, and I don’t know whether she does it intentionally or unintentionally.
"Although it's immoral, a kiss and two spankings are enough. Why is he making her kneel?"
A fashionable middle-aged woman followed suit and criticized for a long time, then suddenly changed the subject and raised a question.
"You just came here, let me tell you, the girl next to that eldest sister is the daughter-in-law. I don't know what the girl opposite is, bah, she looks weird and has a dirty mouth."
The old lady curled her lips and spat at the young woman who had been arguing with the old woman on the ground.
Several aunts exclaimed again.
Ask about the cause and effect.
The aunt sighed first.
"Ah, this elder sister has a hard life..."
Ye Jiaying didn't leave either. She mingled with a group of middle-aged women and listened with great anticipation.
This time, what was said was not something that a little girl should not listen to, and the aunties did not chase her away.
The auntie who has been talking the whole time runs a small shop next door, so she is called the small shop auntie.
The auntie who runs the convenience store has known the mother and daughter who run the noodle stall since they started setting up their stall a year ago.
Sometimes it rains heavily and the roads are muddy, making it difficult to bring things back, so I just leave them at her shop.
You'll get familiar with it after a few visits.
The aunt said that the two people who set up the snack stall together were not mother and daughter, but mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
There is also a promising son in the family who is attending college.
When business is not busy, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will cook a bowl of noodles for the aunt to thank her for helping to look after things.
Sometimes when the weather is hot, the auntie in the convenience store will give them some sugar water to cool them down.
After getting to know each other, it is inevitable that we will chat about family matters, and then we will learn about their family affairs.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are from a rural area near Beijing. Now there are only three people in the family: her, her son, and her daughter-in-law.
Four years ago, their son was admitted to university. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law couldn't bear to separate the young couple just after their marriage, and were also worried about their son going to school alone, so they followed their son to the city center of Beijing.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have no jobs in the city and no land to farm.
In order to make a living, the two of them started out helping others with cleaning and mending. Later, when they were able to do business, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law discussed doing some small business as well, so that they could at least make a little more money than before.
They didn't have any other skills except cooking, so they started selling food.
At the beginning, they didn't have much money, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law carried food on a shoulder pole and sold it door to door. They gave all the money they earned hard to their son who was in college.
Upon hearing this, Ye Jiaying raised his eyebrows.
Don’t the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law know that going to college is free and there are subsidies?
But the aunt was talking excitedly, so she didn't interrupt.
After three years of hard work by the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, their son finally graduated from university and was assigned a job in the city.
Now that the son has started earning a salary, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law no longer have to give all their money to him.
Walking around the streets every day is too tiring and wears out your shoes.
The two of them discussed finding a fixed stall, and after some inquiries, they decided on this place.
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