Story: After the death of her husband, she became a widow, took her daughter alone for many years, and met true love again at the age of 46

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01

More than 30 years ago, he was 19 years old and she was 38 years old.

The first time we met was in her clothing store. He was work-studying and needed a job.

Her shop is mostly female customers, and it is actually not very convenient to hire a male student, but when she hears him say, "Auntie, I am not afraid of hardship, I can do any work", she inexplicably has a little maternal softness in her heart.

He was so tall, but he was very white and thin, with long eyelashes, and his eyelids hung shyly when he spoke to people. Such a boy, let him do the manual work of carrying plates and bricks, he can't do it, right?

As soon as her heart softened, she should come down.

It's been many years.

During college, he never changed his other part-time jobs.

At that time, every day, as soon as the bell rang at the end of class, he grabbed his school bag and ran outside.

Housemates often joke behind him: "Zhao Xin, I am so active in working, I don't know, I thought you were going to meet your new wife!" ”

He turned his head and glared at his roommate, "Go! He couldn't allow those jokes to blaspheme Aunt Tian.

Many times, he felt that Aunt Tian's shop was not a shop, but the appearance of his dream home. When he was very young, his father died, and his mother could not stand being poor and remarried and went to other places. He was brought up by his grandfather.

Grandpa also hurt him, but it was a kind of dry and obscure love from the elderly, and he had never felt the delicacy and softness of motherhood before meeting Aunt Tian.

In the store, Aunt Tian taught him how to keep accounts and how to communicate with customers; afraid of delaying his study, she even prepared a small round table, when he was not busy, she urged him to study in the store; the salary she gave was enough for his full living expenses, and there was a slight surplus; on snowy days, she gave him a new cotton suit, and also lied to him that it was sent by the store owner when the goods were approved...

In my life, the first birthday was also in Aunt Tian's shop.

It was a rainy day, there were not many customers in the shop, aunt Tian made a steaming stew, filled him with a bowl of meat full of bulges, and brought out his own steamed hair cake.

Aunt Tian said that in their hometown, they had to eat hair cakes for their birthdays. She broke a piece of cake and handed it to him, with a gentle look like a water lotus: "Eat quickly, eat enough on your birthday, so that you can not be poor and untied for a lifetime." ”

The hair cake is soft and silky, and the entrance is sweet with the hints of yellow glutinous rice.

He and Aunt Tian sat in the small shop, with warm yellow lights overhead, and a light rain drifting outside the eaves.

It was as if it was raining in his heart.

Moist, slightly sweet...

That scene, that smell, he would never forget for the rest of his life.

Aunt Tian said, "It's really fate to meet you." The day you came, I said in my heart that this child is not easy, just stay. Unexpectedly, the store is really thanks to you. She sighed, "After two years, you finish your career, and you don't know where to go to find the right helper..."

He couldn't hear her sigh, and without thinking, he said, "After finishing my job, I will also come to help!" ”

Aunt Tian looked at him, did not speak, lowered her head and smiled.

She regarded him as a child, how could the child's words be taken seriously?

But she didn't know, in fact, he had already said it in his heart a million times, if he could, he would always be willing to guard this store.

02

In the university Chinese class, the teacher is talking about a poem, "Jinser".

"Jinser unprovoked fifty strings, one string and one pillar Sihua Nian." ...... Can this be a memory? It was just that I was confused at the time. “

The teacher was very engaged: "This poem expresses the confusion of life like a dream, expresses the poet's sorrow for love and sentimentality about the years..."

Zhao Xinxin's strings fluttered, and somehow, Aunt Tian's eyes that had traces of age appeared in front of him.

He didn't think it was an old pair of eyes. On the contrary, those eyes looked particularly calm after the baptism of time, like a fountain of warmth.

Aunt Tian didn't tell him much about her own experience, he only knew that she came out to work at the age of 17, never married, but had a daughter who was three years younger than him. Shortly after the daughter was born, the child's father was stabbed to death.

That shattered youth created her now.

She became stoic and heavy-handed, running a shop alone and taking care of her daughter.

He couldn't imagine how she had survived all these years.

That night, Zhao Xin woke up from his dream.

As the moonlight clearly reflected into the dormitory, he heard the grinding of teeth as he got out of bed, and his roommates were still asleep.

His heart seemed to be about to jump out of his chest, and he did not dare to move, for fear of waking up to others and catching a glimpse of his dirty secrets.

How could he, how could he have non-pointing thoughts about Aunt Tian?

Just a few days ago, Aunt Tian also said that she would introduce her daughter to him.

At lunch together, she made small talk and asked him, "Did you talk about your girlfriend?" ”

He shook his head, he has no money, and he is busy working part-time every day, where does he have the energy to talk about his girlfriend?

Aunt Tian smiled and said half-jokingly, "So I still delayed your love?" It's okay, then when you graduate, introduce my girlfriend to you! Such a good young man, others are not rare, Aunt Tian is rare. ”

Because of that dream, when he got along with Aunt Tian again, he had a different taste in his heart.

Only by working harder can we hide the secrets of our hearts.

Gradually, as long as he is there, the business in the store will be much better.

He was originally handsome, and in the past two years, Aunt Tian's food has fed him strong, and he has a manly attitude when he speaks. Most of the customers in the store are female students from universities, or small white-collar workers from nearby companies, and the girls are happy to have a little handsome guy to serve.

At that time, it was not popular to use mobile phones to surf the Internet, in order to better sell goods, he collected a number of expired fashion magazines from the stalls, and flipped through the magazines to learn collocation.

He knew more than a girl - a plain coat, he put on a beret, immediately fashionable; flared pants with a short top, and then exposed a little belt, to appear longer legs; white shirt to unbutton two buttons to wear, only to line the face small...

The shop originally did not sell accessories, but at his suggestion, Aunt Tian also entered some accessories. Accessories do not make money, only to match the clothes to ship well.

Gradually, word spread, and we all knew that on the street behind the school, there was a well-style male clerk, who was handsome, patient, and very good at helping people choose clothes.

Many female students only pick him to come when he is part-time.

When business is good, the store is crowded with people who can't turn around.

Aunt Tian had to order a bigger store.

He accompanied her all the way to choose the location of the store, decorate and decorate, and they built green vines in the store and hung wooden wind chimes. When the wind blows, the bells are crisp and the vines are gently shaken, and it is a shop that people are willing to linger...

When wiping the plaque, Aunt Tian consulted with him: "You say, do we want to change the name of the store?" You have the culture, help Aunt Tian think. “

Almost without thinking, he said, "Why not, just call it", "Jinse". ”

The poem seemed to grow in his heart—

He told Aunt Tian the meaning of poetry, he did not dare to say too thoroughly, only said that Jinse is the beauty of the world, there are also the sentimentality of the passage of time, I hope that guests who come to the store can feel the beauty of the years under the decoration of beauty.

He spoke very seriously, and Aunt Tian looked up at him and listened intently. Those calm eyes flashed from time to time, like ripples of the lake being blown.

When he realized that there was appreciation and admiration in those eyes, his face immediately became hot and his heart pounded.

Many words rushed to his chest, but he couldn't say them.

"Jinse" - in his mind, there is nothing more suitable for the name of the store than these two words.

Those time spent with Aunt Tian were the vicissitudes of the sea and the moon in his heart, and the blue field jade warmth.

The little party shop, behind closed doors, is his and her little world. There is no worldly vision, no age barrier, some are just the gentleness of time and the strings of time...

Many years later, in his dreams, he will still flash the raindrops that are constantly dripping under the eaves, the bells lingering in the breeze, and the gentle smiling face of Aunt Hetian...

03

In 1994, Zhao Xin graduated from university.

As promised at that time, as a middle school teacher, he still "Jinse" helped every day after work.

He told Aunt Tian that he didn't have enough salary and had to earn some extra money to save money.

One year, two years...

The shop owner of the neighbor looked at the hilarity and joked: "Tian Yingzi, you can really recruit employees, this young man is also too loyal, this is to take the place where the part-time worker is his home, right?" ”

The widow is not much in front of the door, Tian Yingzi thought, her reputation is not tight, but Zhao Xin still has a good future.

So she hired two female students to do part-time jobs in one fell swoop.

When he came again, she blocked him at the door: "Zhao Xin, Aunt Tian's shop is small, and she can't afford to open so many people's salaries." You should be a good teacher and delve into the business well while you are young! “

Looking at the busy new clerks in the store, when he thought that there would be no reason to come to "Jinse" in the future, Zhao Confidence was tense.

God sent the ghost, and he scratched his head and stammered, "That... Aunt Tian, didn't you say that when I graduated, you would introduce Yue Yue to me? ”

Tian Yingzi stared at him for a long time, very stunned.

For a long time, she suddenly shook her head in understanding: "I said how can I be so positive, it turns out..." And laughed relievedly, "Yue Yue hasn't graduated from college yet?" However, it is not bad for these two years. Okay, wait for the summer vacation to arrange for you two to meet. “

When Zhao Xin first came to work, Tian Yueyue was a freshman in boarding school, and when she occasionally came to the store, the two young people had also been in contact, so they were not strangers.

Tian Yingzi thought, Maybe, the love root was planted at that time? Her mother is really not qualified, patronizing and making money, she didn't see a hint.

During the summer vacation, Tian Yueyue, who was a junior in college, returned.

After arranging for the two to pick up the head, Tian Yingzi did not care, the young man had the way of the young man, and she was inconvenient to interfere.

Unexpectedly smooth, Tian Yueyue was particularly satisfied with Zhao Xin.

In those days, Yue Yue couldn't help but smile when she even ate. One summer, the two were like lovers who had been talking for several years, eager to give up.

Yue Yue only knew to learn since childhood, there was no experience in love, if it were not for the fact that Zhao Xin knew the roots, the daughter's head into the posture, Tian Yingzi was really not at ease.

After having this relationship, Zhao Xin came to the store more diligently.

Mopping the floor, wiping the table, helping to buy goods, hard work he has wrapped, he is like the real man in the store, Tian Yingzi every day idle only to calculate the account.

Looking at Zhao Xin's busy back, Tian Yingzi would often be in a trance, remembering that when he first came to the store six years ago, he was still a young teenager, and he would shyly bow his head when he spoke. At that time, she thought that they had only met briefly, but she did not expect that the fate was planted so deeply.

No one joked with them anymore, and as soon as they graduated, the two young men were licensed.

Marriage joy candy, Tian Yingzi sent it to his neighbors.

Zhao Xin was used to shouting "Aunt Tian", and did not change his name to mom after getting married, but no matter what, they were really a family.

At this point, everyone only has a share of envy for Tian Yingzi - the good daughter who went to college, the handsome and diligent good son-in-law, how much virtue did you Tian Yingzi accumulate in his previous life, in order to catch such two good children who came to repay the favor...

04

In the second year after marriage, Zhao Xin received a call from his uncle in his hometown, saying that his grandfather had died of illness.

The old man walked suddenly, the first day he went to work in the field, turned the day to cook in the yard, and the person fell to the ground, and he lost his breath.

Yue Yue was still interning in other places, and only Tian Yingzi accompanied Zhao Xin home to mourn.

When they arrived at Zhao Xin's hometown, they lived in Grandpa's old courtyard, and the spiritual hall was in the courtyard.

Late at night, Zhao Xin's uncle and aunt went back to rest, and only he was still in the spirit hall.

The candles flickered, and Grandpa's voice and smile were condensed in that black and white photo,

Remembering the scene where Grandpa brought himself up, Zhao Xinxin felt pain like a knife.

When he was six years old, the children in the village threw stones at him, calling him a "wild breed without a father", and when he saw him flee home with his head broken and bleeding, his grandfather took up his flat burden and took him door to door.

Grandpa poked the flat shoulder into the mountain: "Who dares to bully my family's xinwa anymore, I broke his leg!" I'm old, I'm not afraid of going to jail! ”

When he was in college, in order to pay for his tuition, grandpa carried him to the uncle's house to borrow money, he didn't know how much white eyes grandpa endured, only to borrow back a bunch of zero tickets, only to hear his aunt standing in the courtyard pointing at Sang scolding: "Your father is so eccentric, then he will find Zhao Xin for the elderly, don't look for you!" ”

On the day of school, Grandpa picked up the burden and silently sent him to the village entrance. Jumping on the dilapidated wild bus, he swore in his heart with tears in his heart: "Grandpa, I will change my grandson to take care of you later." “

Finally he survived to work, but Grandpa was gone.

The physiotherapy apparatus and warm pants he sent to his grandfather were put away in the cabinet without moving...

Tian Yingzi was relieved and went to the Spirit Hall to see.

He was on his knees, crying like a homeless child.

Looking at the shrugging back of his shoulders, she suddenly appeared in her mind the way he looked when he first came to the store, a very thin teenager, exuding a lonely forbearance around him, and he said to her: "Auntie, I am not afraid of hardship, I can do any job..."

Tian Yingzi saw that her throat was tight, and she put on a coat for him: "Zhao Xin, you want to open some." You and me, and The Moon..." She picked him up and sent him to the West House where he was sleeping, "Go back to sleep." You're fine, Grandpa is relieved to go..."

He walked with him to the door of the house, and when he turned to leave, he suddenly grabbed her hand.

Before she could react, he was already holding her from behind.

His body clung to her, with great force, as if he were going to hold her into his body.

She was taken aback and wanted to push away. But I heard him say in a dumb voice, "Don't move, just for a while..."

His body trembled violently, and tears fell down her cheeks.

The innocent moonlight sprinkled down, stretching their shadows long and long.

The yard was quiet, and a big yellow dog was sleeping in the corner.

Time and space seemed to be still, and only the moonlight wordlessly witnessed all this.

She saw the silhouettes on the ground, no longer teenagers and "Aunt Tian".

It's – the man and the woman who hugs each other...

Suddenly, memories are like the wings of butterflies, coming and going——

She remembered that under the eaves of the dripping rain, he had read poems for her, one after another, tirelessly; when moving the store site, he called for his roommates to come to help, and she heard the boys joking with him, "You wouldn't like Aunt Tian, would you?" ”

He stared at them angrily, but his face was red; he accompanied her to the field to buy goods, and when he got out of the car, she was pushed down by the crowd, broke her knees, and he was anxious to fight with people; 6 years, he obviously had a lot of job opportunities, but he found various reasons to keep this store...

My heart pounded, and guilt was accompanied by a hint of intoxicating sweetness.

She did not expect that at such an age, she could still be loved cleanly.

But more than that, it is pain.

She was ashamed of the sweetness she felt.

She was a woman of fifty years, and she would still have such a thought?

The man behind her is her son-in-law, the husband of her daughter!

In the midst of the pain, the poem he had read for her sounded in his ears: "Zhuang Sheng Xiao dreams of butterflies, wangdi chunxin to cuckoos ..."

Almost at the same time, she realized that she was in love with him too—from very early on.

It's just that because of her age, because of those experiences that made her inferior, she never dared to think about that aspect...

She closed her eyes, two lines of clear tears pouring out, in her lonely half life, there was a dream he had with her, it was enough.

After taking a deep breath, she said in a tone as calm as water: "Zhao Xin, go and rest." Moon and Moon are still waiting for you at home. “

Hearing the words "Moon and Moon", Zhao Xin woke up like a nightmare and released his hand.

05

After returning home, Tian Yueyue's internship is not over.

Only Zhao Xin and Tian Yingzi were left in the family.

They tried to pretend that nothing had happened, but those avoidant glances and cautious words made the atmosphere even more awkward.

Tian Yingzi decided to take care of everything before her daughter returned.

On this day, she made the stew that Zhao Xin loved to eat, and closed the shop early.

Halfway through the meal in silence, she got up and took out a passbook and handed it to Zhao Xin.

"You and Yue Yue move out." Young people have the way of life of young people, and I am pure and pure. There are almost 100,000 in the fold, enough for you to buy a new house. ”

Zhao Xin pursed his lips, did not look at Tian Yingzi, did not pick up the fold, and muffled: "I will not go, this is my home." “

Tian Yingzi cut through: "You have to go." “

"Snap!" He slapped his chopsticks on the table and looked up at her, his eyes filled with grievance and resentment: "Why? Grandpa just left, and you drove me away? “

The look in his eyes hurt as he watched her.

But she couldn't let go: "You have to go." This is not your home. Your home and the moon are your home. “

His chest heaved, he jerked up, childishly trying to grab her hand: "I'm not leaving!" I married Yue Yue so that I could take care of you..."

"Snap!" A loud slap interrupted him.

"Bastards! What do you think of the moon and the moon? Her voice was sharp and broken.

The hand that had just been hit froze in mid-air, trembling.

Zhao Xin squatted down, hugged his head, and let out a painful sob: "Why?! ...... Why is that!? ......“

Why? Because, that's fate.

In this bumpy half of life, the most determined skill she learned was to admit her destiny.

Tian Yingzi held back her tears and did not look over her face: "You go, go now." You don't go, I go. ”

Zhao Xin stood up from the ground and staggered to get his coat.

As soon as the door opened, a cold breath poured into the store.

I don't know when, there is a drizzle outside the door,

Zhao Xin was crazy, running and jumping into the night rain of late autumn.

In the end, she couldn't be relieved, and she chased out: "Zhao Xin, you are a good man... But I... I'm Yue Yue's mom... The moon is really for you... Don't hurt her... You're fine..."

He didn't look back, his chest choking violently.

The rain poured them all through, and it was cold to the bone.

They were silent with each other, unable to say a word again.

After a long time, he turned his back on her and nodded, "Don't say it, I understand..."

06

Zhao Xin and Tian Yueyue moved to the new house.

Every New Year's Festival, the two came to see Tian Yingzi.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tian Yingzi made a full table of dishes at home, Zhao Xin brought the welfare issued by the unit, bought watermelon roast chicken, and Tian Yueyue came to dinner.

Anyone who looks at it, this is a happy family.

Yue Yue picked up a piece of stew, frowned, and threw it into Zhao Xin's bowl: "A little fat..." She said to Tian Yingzi: "Mom, you know that he loves stew, so you will go back and make it." He's not fat, I'm going to be fat. ”

Like the strings were plucked a little, Tian Yingzi's heart trembled. Yes, it seems that every time she comes to eat at home, she can make it according to Zhao Xin's taste.

She smiled and said, "After that, I won't make this dish, and next time my mother will make your favorite bamboo shoot stewed mushrooms." “

"Don't do anything else, just do this, Zhao Xin loves to eat it!" I'm happy to see him eat! Yue Yue held the bowl and pounded Zhao Xin with her elbow, and her smiling eyes were full of the girl's disgust.

Zhao Xin didn't answer, put down the bowl and stood up: "I'm full, go cut watermelon for you." ”

Yue Yue's gaze was like a searchlight, chasing Zhao Xin all the time. When he entered the kitchen, she turned around.

"Mom, you don't know, this time during the holidays, I wanted him to accompany me on the tour, but he was fine, and every time he said, 'No, you can't let your mother be at home alone!'" Yue Yue sat down, grabbed her mother's arm, and said like a child: "Sometimes, I suspect that I am not your own child, he is!"

Tian Yingzi stroked her daughter's hair, her heart was full of mixed feelings, and she didn't know how to answer the call.

Yue Yue tilted her face up and smiled as if asking for merit: "Mom, do you have to thank me for finding a good son-in-law for you?" ”

Zhao Xin brought the melon over and sat down.

Tian Yingzi looked at the two of them and said solemnly, "There is something, tell you about it." Before, when the moon was small, I had to take care of the store again, and I didn't have the energy to think about my own affairs. Now that you're married, I want to plan for myself. ”

Yue Yue let go of her mother's arm and widened her eyes: "Mom, you mean... You want to find a wife? ”

"Well, someone else introduced me to a retired old cadre who was talking about it." She raised her head and glanced at Zhao Xin's face, "You have no opinion, do you?" ”

Yue Yue said happily, "Of course there is no opinion! Before, I said let you find a companion, but you wouldn't. How did you get started this time? ”

Tian Yingzi smiled faintly, and his watery gaze stopped on Zhao Xin's face: "Because, we all have to be well... I have a companion so you can rest assured. ”

Yue Yue touched Zhao Xin with her elbow: "Hey, why don't you take a stand?" ”

Zhao Xin did not answer the call, picked up a piece of melon, bowed his head and nibbled it.

The sound of melon breaking in the mouth overwhelmed the sound of the broken heart.

With a mouth full of melons, he rolled his throat and said vaguely, "I have no opinion, as long as Aunt Tian is happy." ”

07

Tian Yingzi is really in love.

The retired old cadre surnamed Xu was very attentive to her. He was a teenager older than Tian Yingzi, with white hair, a large body, and spoke as loudly as Hong Zhong.

He was treated very well, because of this, after he was widowed, the people around him who introduced him to the object were not broken, and there was no shortage of door-to-door people who had stable jobs, but he did not look at any of them, and he liked Tian Yingzi, who was arranged by the marriage agency.

After the two of them had a meal, he went to Tian Yingzi's shop every day.

He didn't know how to sell goods, and he sat there with a straight waist and a tiger face, like a door god, but he was very capable of occupying the place.

Tian Yingzi suspected that he was affecting the business in the store and did not call him to come.

He stuck in the meal, and when the time came, he smiled and squinted at the door, and drove Tian Yingzi out to eat.

People in their sixties, also learning the romance of young people, all kinds of flowers are sent to the store in a bunch.

The neighbor looked at the heat and said that Tian Yingzi could meet him, but it was really a blessing for the second half of his life, which meant that Tian Yingzi climbed high.

Those people spoke to his face with the intention of politely currying favor, but he was not happy to hear it.

He pulled open the bench and sat down, as if holding a meeting, making a list of one, two, three, and four, and seriously hugging Tian Yingzi: "It can't be said that Ying Zi is not only beautiful, but also capable, but also hard-working, a woman who does not rely on men to raise her daughter so well, I really admire." She does not dislike my old age, which is my old Xu's blessing! ”

He is such a person, straight forward, there are no twists and turns, but it is also reassuring.

Tian Yingzi made a decision with him.

When it came to the holidays, before Tian Yueyue and Zhao Xin came home, Tian Yingzi greeted her daughter first, saying that she was going to play with Old Xu where to go, and let her daughter and Zhao Xin do what to do, leave her alone.

She and Lao Xu went out on a trip, bought souvenirs, and brought a copy for her daughter and Zhao Xin, sometimes with the clay man Zhang in Tianjin, sometimes with the porcelain from Jingdezhen...

She used her wordless action to convey to Zhao Xin that she was living happily.

The daughter often came back for dinner, but Zhao Xin came less and less often.

This winter, Lao Xu bought Tian Yingzi's mother and daughter a mink coat each.

Tian Yingzi asked Tian Yueyue and Zhao Xin to come to the house for dinner, and asked Yue yue to bring her clothes back by the way.

But only Tian Yueyue came.

After eating, Old Xu went downstairs and walked, and the mother and daughter chatted in the living room.

Tian Yingzi asked Yue Yue, "Zhao Xin is very good to you, right?" ”

Yue Yue smiled and said, "Mom, you found me a good man." You know not? As long as he is at home, I don't have to do any work at home, and the salary is handed over to me every month. Mom..."

Yue Yue leaned over, just like when she was a child, and lay down in Tian Yingzi's arms, "I sometimes think that if you were young, you could also meet a man like Zhao Xin." Then you don't have to suffer so much..."

"Silly kid!" Tian Yingzi hugged her daughter, and her heart flooded with soft sourness.

She remembered when she was young, when she was alone with her daughter, moving everywhere, from factory dormitories to leaky bungalows; in winter, her daughter followed her to set up a night market, and she could only put her daughter in a cardboard box full of clothes...

When the daughter is older, she does not complain that her mother is useless, but she is particularly distressed.

It is not easy for her, but is it easy for Yue Yue to be born in such a family?

She suppressed the sourness that was pouring in her chest and said softly, "If you meet, it will be good." Seeing you happy, Mom is happy! ”

Yue Yue looked up, and there was starlight flashing in her eyes: "Mom, I am really happy now!" No, not only happiness, but also fulfillment! There is no longer that feeling of emptiness, every morning when I wake up, as long as I think, my mother is here, he is also there, and my heart is sweet! ”

"By the way, Mom, how are you and Uncle Xu?" I see that people are really fond of you! Yue Yue shook Tian Yingzi's arm and gossiped playfully.

Tian Yingzi smiled, did not answer, and asked her back: "What about you?" When will you and Zhao Xin have children? You've been married for more than two years, don't you want it, or is he? “

Yue Yue muttered, her eyes darkened, "I'm thinking about it... But he said he had to run first. He said he was a man and couldn't live in the house his mother-in-law bought. You don't know, he still wants to quit his job and go it alone! I see that he is holding his breath and has to save money to return it to you! ”

Tian Yingzi was silent, her heart surged with a thousand emotions, and her daughter Fangcai's words echoed in her ears: "Mom, I really feel very happy." Not only happiness, but also consummation..."

She did not have great ability, did not give her daughter a full childhood, nor could she give her daughter a rich life, and now, her daughter has a perfect life that is not easy to have, no matter what, she must also protect...

Old Xu had mentioned marriage to her several times.

She had been hesitating, but at this moment, she suddenly settled down: "Didn't you just ask me about your Uncle Xu?" We're getting our licenses soon. Next week, Uncle Xu invited you to dinner and officially informed you. ”

08

Lao Xu is a scene man, and the banquet is located in the most luxurious hotel in the city.

In addition to Tian Yueyue and Zhao Xin, there were several of his old friends who attended the banquet.

Tian Yingzi and Lao Xu were dressed up to attend, the two wore a red cardigan of the couple's style, Lao Xu dyed his hair without revealing a trace of white, Tian Yingzi put on light makeup, the two sat together, more and more Tian Yingzi was petite, and Lao Xu was more manly.

Lao Xu was very excited and repeatedly stated on the wine table:

"Rest assured, my two sons are abroad, they have their own careers, they don't eat old. I'm looking for a wife, and they're a hundred in favor! ”

His gaze fell on Tian Yingzi, and his blade-like sharp eyes flashed a trace of tenderness, "Oda... She's had an uneventful life in this life! I dare not say anything else, but I can guarantee that if I follow me, I will not let her suffer or suffer again, and she will not be wronged in the slightest! My retirement salary is all handed in! The clothes store, do not want to make money, just try Oda has something to do, she is happy on the line! ”

"Good!" A few friends cheered.

They took the lead in raising a glass, saying a lot of blessings, and inevitably reminiscing about the friendship of the past.

Tian Yingzi didn't want to say more, but Lao Xu must let her say a few words.

She can't speak the scene, the wine glass is up, and all she says is the words of the heart, and the people present listen to it and sigh-

"Old Xu asked me to talk, then I'll say a few words." Not afraid of everyone's jokes, I am 46 years old this year, but it is still the first time to get a marriage license. When I was young, my family was poor, and my parents wanted to promise me to others for the bride price, in fact, they were changing relatives for my brother. I didn't do it, I ran. When I went to the city to work as a teenager, I couldn't avoid being bullied, and when I met a person who was willing to fight hard for myself, I thought it was true love..."

She choked up for a moment, then raised her head, still smiling on her face, but tears flashing in her eyes, "Who knows, when my daughter was just born, the short-lived one was stabbed to death." I was alone with the moon and the moon, and I didn't need to say anything, but God had eyes and gave me a sweet and good daughter.

Later, there was a good son-in-law who was strong, and now, I have Lao Xu again, who understands me and hurts me. If it sounds good, I will not talk about it, I will say a word: I Tian Yingzi, in this life, I will receive this certificate, as long as you are old Xu is not abandoned, I am willing to accompany you to old age and death! ”

After the death of her husband, she became a widow, took her daughter alone for many years, and met true love again at the age of 46

After saying that, she leaned back and dried half a glass of wine.

The remaining half cup, she raised a glass to Zhao Xin: "Zhao Xin, you are a good child who knows how to be grateful, aunt Tian knows that you have a heavy heart and are worried about a lot." Today you see, Aunt Tian has a good home. From now on, I and you Uncle Xu, you and Yue Yue, we are all fine. ”

She leaned back, and the remaining half of the cup dried.

There was a moment of silence at the dinner table, and they all clapped.

Zhao Xin stood up with red eyes, he poured a full glass of wine, his mouth opened and opened, and he poured a full glass of wine into his neck.

"Aunt Tian, Uncle Xu, you must be fine!" Holding out this sentence, he sat down and said nothing more.

On the way back, Old Xu held Tian Yingzi's hand tightly, and smiled red, like a rewarded child: "Yingzi, tonight is good, great!" I haven't been so happy in a long time! ”

After half a ring, as if he had scratched out something, he came up with a sentence without a head and a head: "It's our son-in-law, who is too stuffy and doesn't like to talk..."

09

In 2000, Zhao Xin resigned from the school.

Before resigning, he asked Tian Yueyue's opinion, and Yueyue only had one sentence: "I support you in making any decision." “

Zhao Xin joined forces with a newly established study abroad agency in the city to start English training.

In those years, just in time to catch up with the fever of going abroad, Zhao Xin's training institutions became bigger and bigger, and soon became famous in the city.

After making money, Zhao Xin bought a new car for Tian Yueyue.

The 100,000 yuan that Tian Yingzi gave him to buy a house, he doubled it and sent it to Tian Yingzi.

On that day, Old Xu was not at home.

The two stood in the living room, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

Tian Yingzi refused to accept the money, stared at him and asked, "What, still gambling?" “

He avoided her gaze and said to himself, "It's not a gamble, I think you're older, and I and Yue yue are not around..."

Tian Yingzi rushed to prove something, interrupting him: "You don't have to worry, Old Xu has money!" Give me money, he doesn't feel bad! She raised her wrist, "You see, this is the emerald bracelet he just bought." “

Zhao Xin pursed his lips, no longer defending, and put the bank card on the table.

Without waiting for Tian Yingzi to react, he turned and walked outside.

When he came, he muffled: "You still have to have some money on your body, and whoever has it is better than himself." ”

Tian Yingzi chased out, looking at the back of Zhao Xin hurriedly going downstairs, her eyes were sour - when she first met Zhao Xin, he was still only a thin teenager; now, she has two sideburns, and he has become broad shoulders and a strong step, he is no longer the teenager who needs to be cared for, he is already a mature man, capable of guarding the people who want to protect...

In 2004, zhao xin and Tian Yueyue's son was born.

This is their sixth year of marriage.

This year, Zhao Xin bought a small villa with a garden near Tian Yingzi's home, so that Tian Yingzi could take care of his grandson.

Zhao Xin hired a gold medal nanny at home, and Tian Yingzi used to tease the child and take the handle.

The two families often have dinner in the villa, Zhao Xin knows how to avoid suspicion, and the cut watermelons are all brought to Tian Yingzi by Tian Yueyue; he is also very respectful to Old Xu.

The days went on like inertia.

That moonlit night many years ago, it seemed like it was really just a dream, a distant and vague dream.

The irreparable regret that fate had given Tian Yingzi had turned into fulfillment.

Many times, looking at the lively and lovely grandson, the daughter who was white and rich, Tian Yingzi felt complete, and she was grateful to Zhao Xin for walking into her life and making her cold life rich and lively...

In 2007, the daughters of Zhao Xin and Tian Yueyue were born.

Zhao Xin became the standard daughter slave.

However, he was too busy at work, and Tian Yueyue, who was entangled with two children, had to resign and become a full-time wife.

Idle and bored, Yue Yue brought her daughter to Tian Yingzi's shop, and the mother and daughter still talked as before.

Gradually, the moon and the moon also had the troubles of ordinary women.

"Mom, you said, if I don't go out to work all the time, will there be a gap with Zhao Xin in the future?" Now, I can't interject in his work, and I'm afraid that one day, he will dislike me. ”

"No, it won't!" Tian Yingzi blurted out.

"That's how you trust him?"

Tian Yingzi smiled, and his weathered eyes had the indifference to see through the world: "Yue Yue, there is a poem you have heard?—— "If life is only like the first sight', it means that in this life, people want to be like a day for decades, it is difficult to maintain the original intention, and most people can't do it."

But Zhao Xin was different. You look into his eyes and you know. More than ten years have passed, he has grown taller and stronger, and his identity has changed, but the clean temperament in his eyes has not changed. He was a nostalgic man. You have accompanied him through so many ups and downs, and now, you have Tuan Tuan and Yuanyuan, you must be confident, in his heart, you are his dearest person in this world..."

Tian Yueyue tasted her mother's words, lowered her head, and was silent.

Tian Yingzi took her daughter's hand and said decisively: "Besides, isn't there still this family business laid down by your mother, what are you afraid of?" In the future, the shop is your business! You come to the store more often, and your mother teaches you. Women have something to do, and their hearts do not panic! “

As she was talking, her two-year-old granddaughter pulled a scarf from nowhere and draped it over her head, looked in the mirror, turned her face, and asked in a milky voice, "Mom, Grandma, you see, do I look like a bride?" “

Both mother and daughter laughed.

At this scene, the poem suddenly sounded in her mind: "Jinser unprovoked fifty strings, one string and one pillar Sihua Nian ..."

The older she gets, the more she can appreciate the meaning of this poem - the cycle of time, how magical, she is fifty-six years old, eighteen years ago, she would not have thought that one day, she and Yue Yue's small family, will extend zhao Xin and Yue Yue's home, her and Lao Xu's home, as well as Tuan Tuan and Yuanyuan...

10

After Yuanyuan went to kindergarten, Tian Yueyue was able to keep the shop in order.

Tian Yingzi and Lao Xu, who were idle, lived a few years of pure life.

Knowing that Tian Yingzi likes to travel, in those two years, Old Xu accompanied Tian Yingzi through many places.

Old Xu often said to Tian Yingzi: "You, you have been rooted in factories and shops for half your life, and you have hardly ever been out of the city, and I will accompany you to make up for the scenery that you have not seen in your life." ”

After watching the domestic, they also went to Thailand and Singapore together.

In the last few years, Lao Xu's lung disease was serious, he could not walk, and could only lie on the hospital bed. The two sons dragged their families abroad, and it was not easy to come back. Tian Yingzi reassured the children and entrusted Lao Xu with full authority.

In the last days, Lao Xu could no longer eat, and intubation, suction, turning over, and massage were all carefully taken care of by Tian Yingzi.

When he was dying, Lao Xu held her hand and wept, the intubation in his throat made it impossible for him to make a clear sound, he could only express with his eyes: "Ying Zi, I didn't expect it, or let you suffer..."

Tian Yingzi shook his hand back and shook his head vigorously.

She leaned down and said softly in Old Xu's ear, "Old Xu, do you remember what I said at the engagement party?" I Tian Yingzi, in this life, will receive a certificate, as long as you old Xu is not abandoned, I am willing to accompany you to live until old age and death..."

Old Xu slowly closed his eyes with tears in his eyes.

Tian Yingzi kissed his forehead: "Old Xu, marry you, I don't regret it..."

Sending away Old Xu, Tian Yingzi suddenly grew old for many years.

At night, she often had insomnia, and after eighteen years of marriage, she had long been accustomed to the snoring of old Xu Rulei. Now, guarding the lonely and silent night, Lao Xu's voice and smile lingered in front of him like a dream.

In fact, they are not considered to be perfect partners, and many of her delicate thoughts cannot be experienced by Lao Xu at all. Old Xu is anxious, she is strong, and the two often have times to talk.

But the first to serve soft, must be Lao Xu.

Even if he doesn't apologize, he will buy back the pepper chicken and intestinal powder that she loves to eat, and put it in front of her as if to please;

He didn't know music, but as long as she went to square dancing, he must be by her side, chasing her like a light, as if in his eyes, she was not a sixty-year-old lady, but a little girl with flowers; on her birthday, he would buy her an expensive and vulgar mink coat and give her a brand-name bag...

When she first married him, she did not have any extravagant expectations, just to make her two children feel at ease.

Even when she dreamed back in the middle of the night, she had secretly flashed regretful resentments, and had also imagined that if she had been younger, if fate had not been so mocking, would everything have been different?

But now, Lao Xu is gone, and in the endless emptiness of time, she has become more and more aware of how solid and fiery love this rugged man has given her...

11

In 14 years, Tian Yueyue was very keen to capture the network information, and she moved "Jinse" to the network platform.

In 19 years, Jinse was already a three-crown store.

With tens of thousands of transactions per day, Tian Yueyue was too busy to come alone, and Zhao Xin closed the training institution and operated an online store with Tian Yueyue. The physical store of "Jinse" has also been retained, and the thirty-square-meter shop has long been bought by them.

This year, Tuantuan was admitted to college, and Yuanyuan also went to junior high school. Both children are sensible. During the New Year's Festival, even if their parents are busy, they will take time to visit Tian Yingzi.

Also in this year, Tian Yingzi was diagnosed with coronary heart disease, but she did not say anything. She personally cared for people who had been seriously ill, and she did not want Zhao Xin and Yue Yue to suffer this crime, and she did not want them to see her own embarrassing appearance.

It wasn't until she was breathless and admitted to the hospital that Zhao Xin and Tian Yueyue knew that she was critically ill.

There is no shortage of money for a caregiver at home, but both want to take care of it themselves.

Zhao Xin was more attentive than Tian Yueyue.

He cooked soup for Tian Yingzi, turned over and massaged, cleaned, and did not complain.

The patients who lived in the same room all thought that Zhao Xin was a son and Tian Yueyue was a daughter-in-law.

Tian Yingzi did not explain, just smiled faintly.

Over the years, she had become accustomed to it, and she was used to being envied for the rest of her life because of Zhao Xin.

When she left, she was very serene, with tears in the corners of her eyes, but a smile on the corners of her mouth.

From the time she was hospitalized until her death, there was only a little more than a month in total. Tian Yueyue suddenly received bad news and cried so much that her hands and feet were paralyzed.

The cleaning of the remains in front of the funeral home was done by Zhao Xin.

He straightened her legs and arms, trimmed her nails carefully, wiped her face; then stripped off her clothes and wiped her body little by little with a towel dipped in warm water.

Her body was still very soft, as if it still carried the residual warmth.

As he wiped it, he burst into uncontrollable tears.

He remembered that when he was young, he was alone in a different place, and he met her who was also alone. She took him in and he accompanied her. They squeezed the bus together in the early morning, went to the wholesale market like a war, landed goods, tally goods, and later chose shops together, decoration...

In that small shop, they had spent countless drip days together, snowy dusk...

At this moment, lying in front of him was the person he had loved when he was young.

But apart from lamentation and gratitude, he did not have a trace of evil thoughts.

He was grateful to her, grateful that she had taken him in when he had nothing; had been with him when he was in pain; and even more grateful that she had given him a home.

When he was young, he also resented the ridicule of fate, but after a thousand sails, he finally understood that everything was the best arrangement...

She didn't leave any last words.

But he understood.

The secret that cannot be said is their tacit understanding.

Between him and her, the word "love" was never mentioned, or perhaps, it was not love, but the pity of two tragic fates.

The only time he confessed was that he had read the poem for her.

With tears in his eyes, he dressed her and choked up and recited the last chant for her.

Then he leaned down and whispered in her ear, "You can go with confidence... I get it all. I and Yue Yue will definitely be fine..." (original title: "Jinse")

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