Wen 丨 Xingyu is addicted
Tells the story of Aunt Xiu xiu 69 years old
At the age of 69, I have had a very different New Year than I used to.
It is not so much about becoming a single person, but rather about a family reunion in the future.
The penetration and triggering of things dates back to childhood.
01
My original family had only two sisters, and I was a younger sister.
My father died unexpectedly when I was two years old.
At that time, the preference for sons and daughters prevailed.
Families that do not give birth to boys are looked down upon, let alone a purely female single-parent family without men.
Poor our relatives and friends all advised our mother to remarry, but her mother never talked.
There was a young beauty as a widow, and there was no male in the family to continue the lights, the emperor was not in a hurry, and the eunuch was in a hurry.
Once, a relative didn't even say hello, so he took a man from the next village who had a good feeling for his mother to our house to talk to the mediator.
The man was born tall and tall, with thin eyebrows.
In terms of appearance, you can be a pair with your mother. My mother's heart was also a little moved.
But he was very traditional, did not accept me and my sister, and proposed to my mother to send us away.
Considering my sister and my feelings, my mother suddenly extinguished the spark in her heart, picked up a broom and blasted the man and relatives out of the house.
This move made the unsuspecting villagers distort the facts into: My mother dog bit Lü Dongbin and did not know the hearts of people.
Since then, no one has given her mother a blind date, and this woman who cannot give birth to a boy is regarded as an outlier.
But she did not regret it, insisted on not remarrying, and chose to support the family alone.
02
When I was ten, my sister was thirteen.
My mother has been working day and night for us to be able to study smoothly, ploughing the fields, weaving hemp rope, pasting paper bags, and even learning to pull bricks and tiles by men.
She said that hard work can definitely change lives.
The sister did not fail her mother, her academic performance was in the top five in the class, and the middle school was also admitted to the most famous middle school in the market.
And I, somehow, don't have the talent of my sister.
Looking at the figure of her mother working day and night, she was once called "Izumi Hibiscus", and within a few years, she became a weak little woman with dry skin and thin skin.
It looked like she was ten years older than a woman her age.
At that time, a fortune teller secretly calculated for his mother, and spread behind his back: This bitter woman could not live to be 60 years old.
At that time, I didn't know how far away 60 years old really was, but in order not to let my mother work alone, I resolutely dropped out of school.
My mother asked me: Do you regret it?
I nodded affirmatively: I don't regret it, as long as my sister can continue to study.
Other people's family force stick boys shine on the lintel, our family is a female general, a daughter is glorious, the whole family is glorious.
So, our sub-cooperation.
My sister studied hard, my mother focused on living expenses, and I was responsible for my sister's tuition.
Later, because I was young and powerful, and I was quick to get started with a new job, I entered the restaurant as a river master, squeezed my spare time to learn tailoring, and started a second side job: making wedding dresses for others.
My income gradually surpassed that of my mother and became the financial pillar of the family.
03
Ten years later, my sister graduated from college and worked for a year to get married, and the next year I got married.
My mother wanted to prepare a new quilt and a new clothes cart for me, but I refused.
I knew very well that my sister had just graduated and could not work for a year to immediately accumulate wealth. My mother is old and needs money to defend herself.
So I said to my mother: My mother's money is kept by myself, and I have the ability to prepare a dowry for myself.
My mother looked at me affectionately and laughed and burst into tears.
04
Two years after my marriage, I gave birth to a son.
Family planning is strictly enforced, and my husband and I decided to respond to the call of the state: only one child, eugenics and excellent breeding.
We shift our focus to our work.
I continued my two main side hustles, and my husband was successfully transformed from a mason to a contract foreman.
Our income, such as sesame blossoms, is getting higher and higher.
In the mid-1980s, foreign-funded enterprises entered the mainland, the cotton yarn textile industry gradually improved, and some bold people started fabric business and made a lot of money.
My husband and I looked hungry and followed the trend to invest in the factory, but the technology and management experience were insufficient, the factory soon closed down, and we did not make money and lost money.
With a lesson from a failure, my husband and I knew that we were not the material for business, so we had to continue to work hard along the original trajectory to make up for the lost funds.
05
A few years later our lives are on the rise than before.
Although it is not rich and noble, it can also be called a solid level of well-off.
There is a saying in Guangdong: beggars dress up, dog kennels, people hide pearls under straw.
I am this kind of person.
In contrast, during this period, the sister's life was very ordinary.
Although she has a stable job, her brother-in-law's original family has a large number of children, and in order to subsidize the family, she often cannot make ends meet.
So from the day I got married, I gave her and my mother 5 yuan a month.
At that time, 5 yuan was a big deal, which was a meal money for a few days. An ordinary family's monthly income is only a few tens of yuan.
My mother knew that my sister's family was in difficulty, so she gave her the 5 yuan I gave her to my sister.
I understand that my mother is embarrassed to let me spend money again, but in the face of difficulties in the face of my relatives, as a sister, I can't stand by and watch.
Later, I adjusted to give my sister 10 yuan a month and my mother 5 yuan.
I believe my sister is capable, just like her grades, but slowly precipitated and accumulated.
06
In May 1994, my sister and brother-in-law visited our house to discuss and wanted to borrow our funds to invest in a knitting factory.
At that time, the brother-in-law had been working in the cotton mill for 10 years, was a workshop director, and the sister was doing finance in the textile machinery factory.
The brother-in-law's youngest sister had come out to work, and his heart had finally settled down, and he wanted to give it a go, but he lacked funds.
Hearing their thoughts, my husband and I couldn't help but shake our hearts, this is the factory dream that we have wanted to achieve for many years, but we can't achieve.
If the sister's family can achieve it, it is also a happy thing.
My husband and I looked at each other and asked in unison how much money do we need?
"Seven hundred thousand."
At that time, we had a total of 800,000 yuan in our hands, and if we gave them to our sister, it was equivalent to cutting 80% of our own financial resources.
The number is so large that I dare not immediately agree, after all, 65% of our savings are earned by my husband's foreman.
Just when I was distressed, my husband took the lead in saying a "good" word.
Maybe neither my sister nor my brother-in-law thought it would go so well, because we didn't bargain.
A month later, we handed over 700,000 to them, and they clapped their chests and swore to heaven: In the future, we and the Zixiu family will have porridge and porridge, and there will be rice to eat, and today they will suffer with us, and on other days we will be rich with them!
The pride and ambition of the sister and brother-in-law tied the four hearts together.
07
When my sister's factory started, it was very busy.
There were only sisters, brothers-in-law, nephews, nieces, nieces and nieces in the factory.
Except for the rent of the factory building and the purchase of large machinery and equipment, they did not dare to ask for help.
The brother-in-law is very cautious in doing things, he said that the funds are not easy to come by, except for the more than 200,000 yuan that his own home has hollowed out, it is all the hard-earned money of my husband and me.
He must use a part of the money as a reserve fund in case of unforeseen needs, can attack, retreat can be defended, a company that can take shape, at least after three to five years of training to see the direction of development. There is bound to be a shortage of funds during this period, and with a reserve fund, the problem can be filled.
Before me and the old open factory, never considered so meticulously, only know that there are funds to try to rush forward, there are orders immediately after shipment.
But I don't know that this management also has a reserve fund, as well as checking the goods and failing.
The times make heroes, the brother-in-law's strict control of the factory, and he has experience in all aspects of the maintenance of textile machines that many people are not familiar with, saving a sum of maintenance costs for the factory and establishing the trust of customers in the factory.
Seeing that the family was so busy that they could only sleep for three or four hours a day.
After my husband and I finished work, we went to the factory together to help my sister buy vegetables and cook rice, hoping that they would make some time to rest.
Even when a niece and daughter-in-law gave birth to a daughter (named Yingying), she didn't have the time and energy to take care of the children.
Seeing that childish little round face, my heart melted at once.
I don't want to spend my days in the factory, smelling the pungent smell of cotton yarn, and listening to the mechanical sound that doesn't stop for almost 24 hours.
I took her back to my own house, fed her like a daughter, coaxed her to sleep, and played with her.
365 days, 80% of the time is with me.
The son said that he had one more sister, the niece and daughter-in-law said that she had more mothers, and the sister said: Xiu, you are the baby's grandmother.
This is also the reason why Yingying has always called me my aunt and grandmother.
08
Kung Fu pays off.
Five years later, my sister's factory became a small business of 30 people.
They have truly experienced the strong spring breeze of reform and opening up, and indeed let some people, with unremitting efforts, get rich first.
Credibility and quality have opened up the way forward for the factory, the performance has soared, and the factory has also specially invited a cooking aunt.
My brother-in-law said that I had been their free nanny for a few years and now let me enjoy it.
The factory had three meals a day, and they prepared meals for our family of three, and the factory became my second home.
No matter where we travel, my sister and brother-in-law will never leave us behind, just like the promise of the year: the same suffering, the same wealth.
That feeling made me understand a sentence: the eldest daughter is like a mother.
09
The children are growing up slowly, Yingying has read the third grade, and the niece who has been picking three or four is also married and has children, which is a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, which makes the brother-in-law very happy.
Usually, he always nagged at the mouth, can not favor sons over daughters, sons have, daughters also have to give.
This time, his niece added a pair of little people to him, and once made up a good word, he felt that it was lucky and blessed.
Considering that the son-in-law works outside the home for 900 yuan salary, plus the daughter's income is a total of 3400 yuan, and has to support two children, as a father, which heartache, ah, afraid of the daughter's hard work and grievances.
He did not consult with his family and asked his son-in-law whether he was willing to work in the factory, giving him a salary of 2500 yuan, the same income as the family members of The Jiangshan, and the position was an administrative staff.
There are only a few dozen people in the factory, which uses what administrative staff, more than ten years, I helped my sister to buy vegetables and cook rice, and later invited an aunt, and attendance records, stationery and miscellaneous expenses, etc., were controlled by the niece and daughter-in-law in an orderly manner.
The brother-in-law's practice, expressed in the Cantonese language, is to raise pigs and dogs.
The niece and son-in-law are a wise lord.
Suddenly pie fell from the sky, and there was no reason to take it, let alone the father-in-law's family business.
Just as the so-called people go to the high place, the water flows to the low place, and the person who does not agree is the fool.
Everyone was caught off guard by the questions and answers of the brother-in-law and the niece and son-in-law, but the words of the head of the family had come out, and the opposition was invalid, plus the niece was also a founding hero, and the niece and daughter-in-law could not be allowed to work in the factory, but opposed to the niece and son-in-law!
We can only expect the new members to be serious and responsible.
10
The brother-in-law is a generous man, not only good for his family, but also for his employees.
Factory package employees three meals a day, the food is recognized by everyone as a sufficient portion, delicious and delicious.
Therefore, the turnover rate of employees is very low, and several old employees who have followed their brother-in-law for 8 years have received their families to live and work in Foshan, and they said that if there is a factory, there is their presence.
However, less than three months after the niece and son-in-law came to the factory, employees began to have opinions about the food.
Pork belly becomes full fat meat, green vegetables are less than two-and-a-half less than before, white rice is free to eat, as long as all eat, not taken out, sister and brother-in-law will not blame. But now each person is only enough to give a bowl of rice.
Ninety percent of the factory's employees are men, ages 30 to 45, who can't fill a bowl of rice.
How many portions each meal the employees want, my sister knows best.
She took the ledger, looked at it one by one, and found that the food expenditure column was twice the same in the past three months, which should be praised by the employees, but the opposite was true.
She told her brother-in-law about this, and the brother-in-law, who has always treated people fairly, was unusual, gritting his teeth and retorting: "You don't even believe in your own daughter?" ”
The sister did not speak, maybe her husband also has a reason, it may be the hands and feet of the cooking aunt.
But looking back, this aunt and her partner for many years, there has never been a similar incident, usually there are leftovers, waiting for everyone to eat and drink enough, feed the two watchdogs, she packed.
She didn't believe that her aunt would suddenly become so greedy, and if so, how could she explain the whole fat that the employees reflected? The aunt just recruited to cook rice and did not have the right to buy vegetables.
Since the niece and son-in-law entered the factory, the brother-in-law let the niece and son-in-law take full responsibility for the staff and office food in order to make the sister not too tired.
The sisters were a little annoyed because the meals in their office hadn't changed much, just a little more greasy than before.
She wanted to see it for another month, praying in her heart for an unexpected change.
But some people are greedy, and the more you accommodate, the more rampant he becomes.
Before my sister could think for half a day, two teachers who had been working in the factory for 8 years suddenly ran to the office in a huff and said their resignation to their brother-in-law.
The brother-in-law was anxious, and the teacher Fu was the one who followed him in the cotton mill.
After the sister's factory was stable, they were invited to jump ship, seeing that the brother-in-law was honest and reliable, and would think about the employees.
The brother-in-law asked why, and the teacher Fu did not hide it:
"Old Chen, where are we not doing well enough?" The food in the factory is getting worse and worse, and every day is fat pork, a little bit of green vegetables and rice. Some workers proposed to your new administration that each meal subsidy is 5 yuan, and it is better to eat outside than the factory, and your administration said that eating is the best welfare of the factory, and eating or not eating is with us. Then we also tell Lao Chen that you will do not do as we please! ”
A word, let the brother-in-law feel that the situation is serious, and his old friend who has been in the company for more than ten years, not a picky person, but suddenly the opposite does not recognize people, there must be a reason.
The sister was clever and promised that the food would return to its original good, and finally coaxed the teacher Fu to stop.
So, I accompanied my sister to the canteen to find my aunt, and before we could speak, my aunt preemptively said:
"Lady, I've been thinking about it for days, and I don't want to do it. In the past, employees' meals were almost the same as those in the office, and I would at most fry one or two small dishes for the office. The first two months were better, although the fat meat was more, mixed with fried, everyone felt greasy. But this month, your administration requires employees to separate from the office meals, fat to employees, lean meat to the office, I not only do double the thing, others still think that I am full of money, but I just take 800 yuan salary. ”
It's really a wave of unevenness, a wave of rising.
Employees feel a bit out of control as if they are addicted to resignation.
My aunt was introduced to my sister by me, and I kept comforting her, and she directly pointed out to us the fat meat next to me that did not move the knife, and brought a sentence: the administration bought it.
It was really a pile of snow-white meat, not a little thin, like the fat meat that the Chaoshan people used to make meatballs.
I took a breath and my head "buzzed" without knocking.
My sister rushed out of the canteen without looking back, and I saw the pile of fat meat and followed her back to the office.
11
As the saying goes: to catch a thief is to catch a stolen goods.
Faced with fat meat, the niece and son-in-law had to admit their misdeeds.
Although the sister usually takes care of her brother-in-law's ideas, but the matter is crucial, she does not stop, immediately takes back the right to buy vegetables from her niece and son-in-law, and all the work in contact with money must not be delivered to him, and he is responsible for the hygiene and grooming of the factory.
The brother-in-law no longer speaks, he is taking a stone to drop his own feet this time, after all, the sister did not do the best, still gave him a salary of 2500 yuan, the factory spread: reading well is not as good as marrying well, easy to be a golden turtle son-in-law, a lifetime do not have to worry.
Satirize the whole thing.
12
After things calmed down, the factory was quiet for a while.
Due to their dedication to the factory, although the sister's family has accumulated wealth, she has not been able to find time to buy a new home for herself.
And because I lent my sister a large amount of money that year, I later quit my job in Dahe in order to take Yingying, and I carried her day and night to make clothes for others.
It may be excessive use of the eyes, and the vision is not as good as before.
I like to eat pretzel nuts, once, ate three pounds a day, felt that the eyes were very uncomfortable, went to the hospital to check, found that suffering from glaucoma, the doctor said must do surgery, otherwise it will affect the other eye.
But after the operation, I didn't feel very good, and a series of medical expenses greatly reduced my savings.
At the same time, the husband's contract foreman industry is becoming more and more competitive, and the income is no more than before.
My son works in a securities firm, low salary is not high, the performance is average, the most worrying thing for us is that he has not found a girlfriend when he is over thirty years old, and starting a family is like a water moon mirror flower, which is out of reach.
So the matter of buying a new house for yourself is swallowed back into the stomach.
13
Until 2007, when I saw my sister's family buy a new house of 180 square meters, my heart itched, and my son also told me that if we could buy a new house, he could also take out his savings and make up for me and my husband to have a good environment for the elderly.
I told my sister what I thought, but I actually asked her indirectly if she could return the seven hundred thousand I had borrowed from them.
My sister was smart and immediately took me to pick up the new property they had bought, at that time 6,000 yuan per square meter.
I am not greedy, chose a house of about 110 square meters, thinking that my sister will not pay me back, directly help me pay for the house, all taxes and miscellaneous fees will be almost the same, I will take 100,000 to decorate, it is enough.
My sister is my sister, she not only bought me a new house, but also renovated the house, did not let our family pay a penny, my husband told me that this house is packaged and repaired at least 780,000.
I was embarrassed, but I took 80,000 yuan in cash to return to my sister.
She pushed it back to me, smiled and said, "Your brother-in-law said that even if Zixiu picks a house of 200 square meters, we will give it to her, because you have paid for us for so many years and have not received a penny of wages." ”
In an instant, I cried out, and my sister wiped my tears for me with her dry and wrinkled hands, just like when I was bullied when I was a child, she stepped forward and coaxed me to laugh, just as warm.
14
I thought happiness would go on.
Just half a year after the new house was occupied, I did not eat at the factory that day, and my old friend traveled to the northwest to bring me a lot of specialties.
Taking advantage of the freshness, I carried a large bag of Li Guangxing to my sister.
I was just about to push the door into the office when I heard a cauldron inside.
"I said that my aunt shouldn't go to the factory to eat all the time, which is also a cost!" Give her a suite now! ”
"My aunt's family has been eating in the factory for more than ten years, and no one dares to point fingers at her, and their small meal is not as good as one-half of the meal you brought back to feed the dog." As for what we send to the aunt, you are not qualified to interfere, because without the aunt, there is no factory! Which turn is your turn to judge! ”
......
Every sentence can be heard clearly.
Because of me, I had a big fight between my nephew and my niece and son-in-law.
I silently put the apricot in the doorway, and when I turned to leave with tears in my eyes, I saw Yingying coming from outside: "Auntie Grandma, have you eaten?"
"Eat, friends have come to the house, I want to hurry back, you take the bag of apricots in for everyone to eat!"
I didn't want Yingying to see tears in my eyes, and before I could finish speaking, I trotted up.
Only to hear Yingying ask loudly all the time: "Aunt and grandma, what is wrong with you?" ”
But I didn't dare to look back, I didn't dare to make a sound, I was afraid that my choking would make Yingying suspicious.
If I didn't go to the factory that day, how good it would be, it would be difficult to be confused, at least it would make people happy forever.
15
We haven't been back to my sister's factory since.
Despite my sister and brother-in-law, calling many times and even driving to pick me up, I also refused.
My brother-in-law said that I was hard-hearted and would not give him face.
Can this face be given?
Giving him face will only destroy their home.
A few months later, Yingying suddenly called me, saying that she did not want to go to the factory for dinner during the summer vacation, and that there was often no one at home, and asked me if I would like to take her in.
I have treated her as a granddaughter since I was a child, and if she accepts or not, she is welcome whenever she comes.
I asked my husband to clean up the guest room, maybe Yingying would squat here for a holiday.
Sure enough, I guessed correctly, she dragged a bunch of luggage and said that she was going to my house for a vacation, and also said that she found a summer job, helped in a small restaurant opened by a classmate's father, and her uncle ate at noon, gave me a small reward of 50 yuan a month, and when her food expenses were given to me, I asked if I was too little?
"Aunt and grandma can afford you!"
"If you don't accept the money, I'll go." He also pretended to be trying to pull his luggage away.
"Collect!"
I can only say that in the face of Yingying, I have no resistance.
In this way, Yingying would come to my house every summer vacation. To go to school, you have to live on campus, and you come back every week or two to sleep one night, and the same is true when you get to work. After two or three years, I was given a new smartphone, said that my grandmother had a new mobile phone, and also gave me a new one to play, and also gave me a hand-drawn mobile phone operation manual to guide me how to use it.
I knew that this was the most precious gift my sister's family had given me.
Of course, it also needs Yingying's true feelings to be able to last a long time.
16
2021 is an eventful year.
The son died suddenly in the second stroke, and the husband suffered from depression because of the death of his son, chose to commit suicide, rescued fruitlessly, and followed his son away.
In those days, I didn't keep the house every day, and I didn't understand why I was left alone in a good home.
We have not done evil, but the disease has silently crawled into the house and devoured the body of the family.
Suddenly, I felt that the world was very unfair, shouldn't there be good rewards for good, and evil for evil?
Every day I wash my face with tears, the only thing I can see in the darkness is yingying to sleep at my house every night, and accompany me through one terrible night after another.
I asked her: Aren't you afraid?
She said: Don't be afraid! Cousin and uncle will bless us!
That's the last motivation in my heart that lifts me.
17
In June of the same year, although her mother, who had lived for 98 years, broke the lie of the fortune teller, she slowly closed her eyes.
She walked peacefully, without the pain of her son and the sadness of her husband.
With a smile on the road, she left me her only 200 square meter ancestral house.
At the last moment, she took the hand of her sister and brother-in-law and said, "Take good care of Zixiu, without her, there would be no life for you now." ”
The mother's words had an effect in the back.
Because my husband and I were already out of the city when we were young, we could not buy a peasant apartment that was two-thirds cheaper than a commercial house like my sister, and it was close to the factory.
At that time, my sister had already purchased a lot of real estate, one for herself, one for her children, and two sets for rent. It turned out that the set in the same neighborhood as me was favored by a foreigner, and he sold it and made a lot of money.
However, the peasant apartment is a collective real estate certificate, which cannot be renamed, and many people feel that the value of the purchase is not high, and it is easy to dispute. Moreover, the peasant apartment is relatively remote, and the migrant workers cannot afford to rent this finely decorated house.
Yingying suggested to her sister that it would be better to let her aunt and grandmother live in the farmer's apartment to facilitate care.
She also considered that my pension was not high and let me live in the apartment, so that I could rent out my current house and increase my income.
This baby really has my heart.
This time I didn't refuse and moved to my sister's apartment before the New Year.
Chinese New Year's Eve night, my sister and Yingying took me to a nearby hotel to have dinner with my family.
The niece and son-in-law, who had not been seen for a long time, smiled and asked me: "Is my aunt's own house empty now?" Didn't Grandma leave the ancestral house to you? ”
"It's not about you, huh."
His face suddenly turned the color of pig's liver.
Having experienced the wind and waves, I will no longer be angry and cry for irrelevant people, and I know very well in my heart who values me, who loves me, who takes care of me.
Shifting her gaze to Yingying, who was sitting next to her, she winked mischievously at me with one eye, secretly gave me a thumbs up, and whispered, "Uncle has been kicked out of the factory by Grandpa, lol." ”
My heart suddenly lit up, and my brother-in-law finally saw the true face of a person, otherwise a rat would stir up a pot of porridge.
And I, on the other hand, have a bottom for everything I should do when I am old.
The words of the star language
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