At the police station, Old Mrs. Chu kept calling Bi Yue "granddaughter".
But when she returned to Moon Bay and put the candy in her mouth, she suddenly seemed to understand everything. If she didn't know, she would have thought that the candy was a panacea.
Said Liang Yinqiu: "Go home, do whatever you want, I have nothing to do."
Ask Chu Yiqing: "What are you doing here? Staring at me with wide eyes."
He also changed his tone, patted Bi Yue's hand and said, "Yue girl, is it time for me to take a nap?"
"Grandma, remember we just came out of the police station, right?"
"Remember, you guys thanked me profusely. Actually, I was just going through the aisle to buy some candy. It's not my fault, there were too many tall buildings, and they all looked the same. I was so scared that I can't remember anything. I'm too old to be useful anymore."
After hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
At least you understand sometimes and are confused sometimes. Being confused at the beginning is better than being completely confused.
Liang Yinqiu didn't even bother to discuss and coax her, and she didn't care about her face when the old lady scolded her in front of her daughter-in-law. She packed the apple cake and orange juice, picked up Old Lady Chu's small schoolbag, and told Bi Yue to take care of her own business. She also thanked her mother-in-law.
Just like that, with Chu Yiqing's help, three generations of people, young and old, finally went to the hospital.
Liu Yafang stood at the entrance of Moon Bay and watched the car leave. She sighed deeply and sighed out loud.
Bi Yue patted her mother's shoulder and said, "You must study hard."
“I’m not going to college.”
"That can help me exercise my brain. See? I'm such a worrier! I was so scared that I was sweating all over my forehead. I didn't do anything all morning."
"Humph. You'll have to endure my day of aging if I'm stupid. Everyone gets old one day. When the two babies grow up, I'll be completely finished."
After saying this, Liu Yafang turned around and went back to the lobby to press the elevator.
Bi Yue turned her head to look at her mother's graceful back.
…
That night, Bi Yue said to Chu Yifeng, "Grandma was almost lost." She repeated what happened, but there was no response from the other end of the phone for a long time.
After hanging up the phone, Chu Yifeng and Wang Daniu each had half a pound of braised beef and a glass of white wine. For the first time, he admitted to an outsider:
"Your sister-in-law didn't marry me well. I am lucky to marry her."
At this time, Liang Yinqiu was also saying to Chu Hongtian:
"Mom, this is just an old thing. The examination didn't tell me anything. I asked, and there's no treatment plan. Just take some medicine and see if it helps."
After hearing this, Chu Hongtian went upstairs immediately.
He wanted to chat with his mother, but the old lady smiled and said she wanted to play cards. He even sat cross-legged on the bed and started playing with her seriously:
"Two or three."
"Two sixes."
This went on for quite a while.
After Liang Yinqiu came upstairs and called everyone to eat, the old lady went downstairs and ate a satisfying meal of wontons. While eating, she talked to her son and daughter-in-law:
“Why do I love eating this? I can never get enough of it.
Datianer, do you still remember?
One time I took you to your third uncle's house at the east end of the village to borrow grain. His family was really a landlord at that time, and they always provided that cabbage stuffing.
We happened to arrive when they were having dinner, and they didn't even ask you to come to the table and eat something, even just one bite.
You said he was stingy, no wonder he was criticized, that's right!
At that time, not to mention that you, a child, was drooling as you watched them. I was watching them sprinkle coriander and pour vinegar, and the aroma went straight into my nose.
I still remember the smell.”
Chu Hongtian nodded: "I seem to have some impression, but I was too young, so some things are vague. Mother, did we borrow food at that time?"
"Borrowing shit. You can't even write the word 'Chu' with one stroke, you're not a human being. Do you believe me when I say I have no food at home even though I often eat wontons? But what can I do with my clear mind? I have to be thick-skinned and say it's nothing and take you away, then bite the bullet and change houses to continue borrowing."
Chu Hongtian quickly scooped a few more wontons for the old lady. At his age, he would only joke around with his mother, teasing:
"Mom, you should eat more now. I really didn't know there was a story behind what you like to eat."
"Of course I have to eat more. I was just greedy at the time and I could never get enough. They say people go through three periods of poverty and wealth until they grow old. What can't I eat now? Look at your third uncle's family. They might be picking up sticky rice dumplings in the ditches right now. They're so poor."
Liang Yinqiu listened to this and also glanced at the spoon.
She had never lived like that before, and there were some feelings she had never tasted before.
In fact, she knew when she was young that her mother-in-law looked down on her, mainly because she didn't know how to manage a life.
She doesn't know how to live and won't listen to her mother-in-law. If she wants to obey her, she has to buy food. She wishes she could live with just a bag of flour.
Then her mother-in-law looked on coldly as if she wanted to see her having fun. She refused to help with the children. Unlike other old ladies who would queue up for groceries or something, she didn't even lift a finger to do any work. This made her angry, so she started to fight with her mother-in-law. She pretended not to hear what she said, so her mother-in-law started to quarrel with Chu Hongtian. This went on and on, she was arrogant and unreasonable.
But now I think calmly: no wonder, my mother-in-law relied on saving to support the children during those difficult years. What's so great about them being rich?
After so many years of frugality, it has become ingrained in her bones and cannot be changed. One can even think of it as: frugality is my mother-in-law's pride and the achievement of her life.
She is old now and she is a mother-in-law. Sometimes Bi Yue doesn’t listen to her. They should understand each other more.
Thinking of this, Liang Yinqiu took the initiative to suggest: "After dinner, I will play with you. Yueyue, don't tell me, you like playing Landlord instead of Upgrade."
Old Mrs. Chu immediately raised her eyelids and glanced at her eldest daughter-in-law. Seeing her lukewarm face, she lowered her head to scoop the wontons, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. There was a smile in her eyes, but she was still very arrogant and only said "hmm".
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