Nanny Grandma
Text/Wang Qingle
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Feng Xia has been living in the city for three months, and every day in addition to watching his grandson who is learning to speak, he also has to clean the room, wash and cook. The son is a soldier, has been in the army for many years, and the army has been treated very well in these years, so even if he is separated from his daughter-in-law, he is reluctant to let him demobilize and return home.
The daughter-in-law is a nurse in the hospital, but also an only child, perhaps in the mother's family is more pampered, what housework will not be done, the son at home is the son to do, the son returned to the army, the housework fell on the shoulders of the mother-in-law.
Fengxia originally had two vegetable greenhouses in the countryside, and her husband was busy at home two sheds are also early out and late return, now they come out to see the children, the work at home falls on the man alone, how busy he is, Fengxia often thinks, sometimes the phone asks him if he can be busy at home, the man can choke people to death with a word: "You are dead, others can not live."
Feng Xia didn't blame him, she knew that there was resentment in leaving him alone at home, but what could be done, the son and daughter-in-law were not idle, they had to go to work, they had to work hard to make money to pay off the mortgage, the child always had to be watched, now which child is not the grandmother watching?
Do you think I am willing to live in the city, is not all for the sake of children, in the face of men's complaints, Fengxia always says this, this is not, taking advantage of the daughter-in-law's vacation for a few days, Fengxia decided to go home to see, that morning, the grandson is still sweetly asleep, she whispered to the daughter-in-law, took the bus home.
Fengxia sat on the car, her head was not idle for a moment, she often saw in the TV series that some men were not honest, the daughter-in-law was not around for a long time and would hook up with other women, would her husband be able to do it, as soon as this idea came out, she immediately denied it, he would not, he did not have that skill, and he did not have money, long and ugly, talking is still ugly, who is blind will look at him?
After getting out of the car, Fengxia felt kind and strange, she laughed and greeted the acquaintances she met, and a neighbor who called her aunt joked with him: "You don't come back in the city, my uncle found a warm bed at home."
"Find better, someone cooked for him to eat, I hung him for free" Fengxia laughed, and the neighbors were also amused.
I saw his own door from afar, but when he looked in, the door was locked and there was no key. Feng Xia decided to go to her own greenhouse to see, the child's father may be working in the vegetable shed.
Coming to the outside of the greenhouse, Fengxia really heard the voice of a woman talking in the greenhouse, her heartbeat was a little faster, she stopped and listened carefully, it seemed that it was not a person who was talking, who was this? Fengxia was confused, decided to go to see the end, she opened the cotton curtain at the door of the greenhouse, a hot air rushed in, she fixed her eyes on it, several middle-aged and elderly women in the greenhouse were hanging ropes for melons, it turned out that the husband was too busy to hire people, Fengxia was relieved. When the man saw her, he couldn't hide his joy, and he smiled and asked, "Why didn't you come back without making a phone call?"?
"The phone is in arrears, and you don't want to charge me."
Feng Xia looked at the man with disgust, then took off her coat and got busy with the women in the shed.
When he returned home at noon, he found that the house was a mess, the ground seemed to have not been cleaned for several days, the bed quilt was piled up haphazardly, like a kennel, the man just wouldn't take care of himself, there was no woman in the family who really didn't look like home, she started to clean up the bed, and then took the clothes piled up on the sofa to the washing machine, washed one by one, and the hanger rope in the yard was full.
In the evening she fried the dishes that two men loved to eat, the man poured a glass of wine, while watching TV while talking and drinking wine, she looked at the man's tanned face, asked what news had happened in the village, she returned to the familiar life, although the home environment and conditions were much worse than in the city, but she still liked home, at home she felt down-to-earth and casual.
The bed had been neatly packed by her, the newly washed sheets emitted the faint fragrance of laundry detergent, and she snuggled up next to the man, happy and satisfied. Although the son is close, but once he marries the daughter-in-law, he kisses the daughter-in-law, gives the money to the daughter-in-law, talks to the daughter-in-law every day, or opens the video, and asks for warmth, only when watching the child, he carries a few words with the old woman holding the child, and the real heart with himself is this old and ugly man who can't speak.
The daughter-in-law's vacation ended quickly, Fengxia bought a few pounds of mutton for the man to stir into meat filling, all wrapped into dumplings and frozen in the refrigerator, she instructed her husband: "When you don't want to cook, order some dumplings to eat" and feel that it is not enough, and then instructed: "Don't fool yourself with rice, buy something to eat if you want."
Muna's man just agreed to it, and later thought she was too nagging, and said impatiently: "Got it, got it." Feng Xia sighed, did not say anything more, and waited for the family to explain clearly, she reluctantly got on the bus, left the countryside, left her husband, and went to the city to continue to live a nanny-like life.
【About the author】Wang Qingle, who loves to read, likes to write.