Excerpt from the novel "Pro" – Grandma

Three, Grandma

The second uncle did not expect that his father brought his grandmother! Mother and child meet each other with mixed sorrows and joys.

After three o'clock that night, Dad went to sleep in the big brother's house. The father and son felt angry, and after a few back and forth between questions and answers, they tacitly pretended to be asleep. In the darkness, the eldest brother felt his father quietly turn over the flapjack, wondering what his father was worried about.

The second uncle slept next to grandma under the windowsill. Bathed in the starlight from the three-foot-square window, mother and son bit their ears and talked privately.

The second uncle said, Mother, I thought I would never see you again in this life, I really thank my brother! Grandma whimpered and cried, saying, "If he wants to take me, I'm going to come alive or dead, and anyway, as soon as he leaves, I'm a dead!" Why not die on top and come to see you? The second uncle asked what was going on? Grandma began to cry about all the sufferings that the second uncle suffered after being arrested, saying that her father and mother had not given her a smiley face, and she asked a question, either when she did not hear it, or she replied with hatred and hatred. Although the meal was still the first bowl for her, the black sealed face was disgusted with her eating idle food! Saying that dad went to the market, he never asked her what she wanted, he was afraid to spend money on her... You want to be there, can I make people dislike it like this? After sobbing for a while, he said, This is still good, when your brother is taken away, your sister-in-law will not abandon the mother, but will live to death and starve the mother! This time, as soon as your eldest brother came to Hetao to find you, did I not fall into the hands of your sister-in-law again? Can you and I escape this time? It's better to die on the road on top and come to the loop with your brother! I couldn't stop crying. It took a lot of effort for the second uncle to understand how the mother had starved her grandmother to death again and again. If it weren't for Grandma's great fate, she would sleep next to him now! Grandma also said that she endured humiliation and secretly lived in the hands of her father and mother, just so that she could live to see the second uncle! He also said that Japan surrendered, the second uncle did not go back to see her, the whole country was liberated, and did not go back to see her, she did not hate the second uncle, replaced by her not going back - the family business has become the boss, go back to do what?

That cold light flashed in the second uncle's heart. The second uncle got up, felt grandpa's cigarette pot from the rafters of the roof in the dark, slept down again, put the smoke pot in front of Grandma's eyes, and asked, Mother, why do you keep Daddy's cigarette pot? We are not welcome to see, all because daddy recognizes the boss, you still keep his things, and give them to me thousands of miles! I'll burn it tomorrow! Grandma said, can't do it! Anyway, he is my man, your father, give us food, give us drink, people must have a conscience!

Grandma, like the women at that time, lived trembling under the authority of men, not to mention that Grandpa was more irritable than ordinary Shandong men. Grandma also longs to have a son who hurts her, so that she can cover herself. Grandma's first two babies, both women, were dead. Grandma's situation is precarious. Daddy fights for her, not only is the boy baby, but also alive! At that time, it was not an exaggeration to say that Dad was grandma's lifeblood! Grandma also thinks that since her father, the baby she gave birth to can survive, so that the more she can live out, unexpectedly, she has two in succession, and they are all male babies! Grandma wondered, thinking that Daddy could survive because of Daddy's name - Yuanbao!

Originally, Grandma was opposed to giving Daddy this name, according to custom, the more cheap the baby's name, the better it is to survive. Grandpa was annoyed and said, those two babies we gave the name one more than the other, aren't they all dead? Let's just give the baby a golden name, and give Daddy the name of Yuanbao. Grandma did not object again: If Dad really has a three long and two short, the responsibility can be pushed to the name of Grandpa, maybe he can save his own fate. I didn't expect Daddy to really survive! The next two male dolls died, although Grandpa gave Jin Bao and Jin Gui names. Grandma felt that the name Yuanbao was very magical, and when the second uncle was born, she wanted to give it to the second uncle, but she did not expect that the grandfather would try her best to oppose it. This made Grandma hate Grandpa, and naturally hated Daddy, as if Grandpa and Daddy didn't give life to The Second Uncle. And Grandma most hopes that the second uncle will survive, because the domineering grandpa gradually monopolizes the father, and the father slowly opens the grandmother, which makes the grandmother very afraid: although she has a foothold at home, she has to live under the authority of two men! She must raise another male doll, and hold him tightly in her hands, so that she can have hope! When the three-year-old second uncle had measles and was dying, Grandma desperately tried to make sure that the second uncle was called Yuanbao. Grandpa gave in – after all, saving the second son's life was important!

The second uncle survived, but Grandma felt that he had nothing, and she had nothing either. Grandma wants to take back what the second uncle should have from Grandpa and Daddy: Grandpa's love, and even Daddy's status as the eldest son! But she didn't know how to seize the law, she would only blindly spoil the second uncle and protect the second uncle and hate grandpa and father, naturally, the second uncle also hated grandpa and father. In fact, when Grandpa and Dad wanted to get close to The Second Uncle, Grandma was afraid that they would take the Second Uncle away and strongly rejected them.

Hate doesn't die, it just lurks.