【Novella】There are two elders in the family (5)

Chapter XVI

Lin Hui heard the sound of Fang Cheng entering the door and hurriedly shouted upstairs: "Nong is back!" When the rice is cooked, you eat it first. ”

There was no response, only a muffled sound of Fang Cheng slamming his wallet heavily on the coffee table.

Lin Hui felt strange and immediately went downstairs to check it out. Seeing Fang Cheng sitting on the sofa, Tie Qing's face, without a word, the frightened Lin Hui hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with you?" What happened? “

"I don't know what kind of heart you have at peace?" You obviously know that all the contradictions between mom and dad come from the group on Dad's Internet, and our whole family has a hard time persuading Dad to come here, just to stay away from those right and wrong in China. But you are good, and you also took the initiative to let your father contact those people who are messing around in the country again. ”

Fang Cheng was like eating gun medicine, Lin Hui was caught off guard by the attack, stunned, and suddenly full of grievances. But she immediately calmed down and replied unashamedly, "Yu! You have to be reasonable, oh, I don't know what's going on in your house. There's more to you than that you're hiding from me! “

"You... What do you mean? ”

Lin Hui said unhurriedly, "Fang Cheng, I didn't mean to ask my father to go online." He asked me if my computer could read the domestic news, and who knew that Fang Wen lied to him that he couldn't get on it? If you want to deceive people, and if you want me to cooperate, you have to notify me, don't you? ”

Fang Cheng was choked to the point of speechlessness.

"Well, tomorrow when Daddy comes, I'll pull out the network cable at home, and say I can't get on the internet, can't I?" Lin Hui knew not to look at Fang Cheng and not speak, but he was the one who hid everything in his heart, and immediately comforted him with kind words.

"Then how can it be hidden?" The network cable is broken for one day, bad for two days, can it still be broken every day? Fang Cheng sighed and told Lin Hui how his father had entered the group again, how he had gotten the news of Yu Fen's suicide, and how he had protected "Hongxia" and his mother to start exchanging fire again.

"Ah!" Lin Hui was so surprised that he could not speak. She did not expect that her unintentional behavior would inexplicably cause another smoke. Can she be blamed for this? However, listening to Fang Cheng's tone, in Fang Wen's eyes, her sister-in-law must be difficult to blame for her duties, and the increasingly relaxed relationship with Fang Wen instantly became tense again.

"Or ... Don't let Daddy come and send Niu Niu and Ermao to Fang Wen's house? Lin Hui tentatively asked Fang Cheng.

"What's the use of that?" Dad is now asking for internet access at Fang Wen's house. Dad was stubborn, and if he didn't promise him, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to do it. Fang Cheng raised his eyes again and looked at Lin Hui. Lin Hui saw at a glance the complaint that still existed in his eyes.

At this moment, Lin Hui felt how wise it was to choose to secretly take the real estate agent license! Judging from these two recent events, men simply can't be relied on! Not to mention that such a thing will happen to the in-laws of the two of them, Fang Cheng, who has always trusted him wholeheartedly, will not hesitate to stand firmly on the side of his own family no matter what happens to his family. Do you really want to be like a fool, surround your youth around the pot and the child, and finally may not even get a "good wife and good mother" archway?

The answer, of course, is no, but Lin Hui can't show it. She knew she was in her infancy, and it wasn't time to get tough yet. So, she pretended to be very aggrieved and said, "Well, I know I didn't do it right, and I apologize." Now figure out what to do next! ”

Originally, when Fang Cheng started, reason told her that Lin Hui hadn't done anything wrong, how could she think of so many complicated relationships in it! But because of Lin Hui, his sister poured gas on him, and he also felt that he needed a punching bag. Now that Lin Hui has taken the responsibility on himself, he feels wronged for Lin Hui again.

"You're right! Now what's next? ”

Lin Hui thought about it and said, "Let your mother come to our house for two days!" Now that both of them are angry, so that they can avoid conflicts with dad, I also want to talk to my mom. ”

"What are you talking about with your mother?" Fang Cheng asked curiously.

"Just talk to your mother and relax!"

When Fang Cheng told Fang Wen about Lin Hui's idea, Fang Wenqi didn't fight. "What's the dirty idea of your mr. bookkeeper?" I know that my mother is here to take care of my confinement, which is good, not only can help her take care of the children, but also cook, more than the father is more useful, right! ”

"Fang Wen, don't always think about your sister-in-law with the heart of a villain!" She just wanted her mother to go and see her grandson to relax. You let her and her father see it every day in that little bumpy place of your house, and this anger cannot be extinguished. Rest assured, your sister-in-law not only does not want her mother to cook, she also wants to make Huaiyang dishes for her mother, will you do it? ”

"Brother, don't you just make a meal, what's so great?" Fang Cheng poked Fang Wen's weakness, so angry that she hung up the phone at once.

Lin Hui personally came to pick up Shuying. Seeing her mother-in-law, Lin Hui was startled by the decline and listlessness of her mother-in-law's whole person. After a few days of not seeing, the mother-in-law suddenly grew much older, her eye bags seemed to be swollen by tears, and her cheeks could not hang on to the flesh on her face.

Lin Hui hurriedly caressed her mother-in-law's back and said softly, "Mommy, Allah is gone!" (Mom, let's go!) ）”

This familiar rural sound made Shuying, a wanderer who had suffered from wind and frost and rain, feel like hearing the call of her homeland. In the dream, I still have a vague attachment to my hometown, and in an instant, like a green vine crawling all over my heart, and like a bamboo artemisia bringing up the ripples of the heart lake, "if you don't mention it, you can just mention it, and when you mention it, you will spill the river with tears." Finally, a mother's family came to take her home, and Shuying's bitterness and grievances poured into her eyes. Before leaving, she glanced again at the hut where the old man lived, and the door of the hut had not been opened.

After Shuying left, Lao Fang came out of the house, and Fang Wen said with a strong attitude: "I need to go online." ”

Looking at her father's resolute eyes, Fang Wen knew that she could not resist his request, so she had to hand over the computer to Lao Fang, hide her dissatisfaction and disappointment in her father, and return to her room, not wanting to argue with him anymore.

Feeling that his family had deceived his old Fang, he didn't care about Shuying and Fang Wen's attitude. He was determined that from now on, he would no longer wronged himself and live for others. Whoever kills his freedom again will turn his face to whomever he wants. Can't wait to enter his own group, like returning to the organization that has been separated for many years, and the old party who has been irritable for many days because of nothing, his heart has finally calmed down. He greedily flipped through the chat records of the group, looked at the pictures of the wonderful activities, and felt envious. It seemed that he had thought that the dead group had been resurrected, even more active and lively than before. In many pictures, Lao Fang easily saw her, because she was still so dazzling and outstanding. Since she still didn't reply to his message, as long as she was happy, just look at her silently, Lao Fang said to himself silently in his heart.

At night, Shuying, who was in Fang Cheng's house, couldn't sleep over and over, saw that the light in the study was still on, thought that Fang Cheng was still staying up late at work, knocked on the door and went in surprised to find that it was Lin Hui.

"Hui, is that you?" Why don't you sleep so late? ”

"Mom, I'm ready to take the exam. You go to sleep first. ”

"Exams? What to test? Shuying was very strange, "Why have I never heard you say that?" ”

Lin Hui lifted her head from the book, waved to Shuying, signaled her to come in, and spread the book out for Shuying to see. "I'm preparing to take the real estate agent license."

"Why are you looking for a job?" Does Fang Cheng know? ”

"I don't know." Lin Hui smiled slightly, "I don't want him to know." ”

"Why?" Shuying was even more surprised.

"I don't want to be a housewife all the time. I also have my own value. If a man wants to leave one day, I can let go and make sure I and my children don't go hungry. ”

Shuying was taken aback. "When did you have this idea?"

Lin Hui looked into Shuying's eyes, his big eyes flickered, and he said unhurriedly: "I have always had such ideas, but they have not been put into practice." Something that has happened recently has reinforced my thinking. ”

What shocked Shuying even more than her daughter-in-law's understatement of divorce was that Lin Hui had already paved the way back for herself. What kind of family and education has created her young age, no matter what kind of waves she encounters, she can achieve light clouds and light winds? Moreover, she, as a mother-in-law, heard this but did not hate her daughter-in-law at all, but wanted to help her. As a young man, Fang Wen compared with Lin Hui, saying that the good one is called the Heartless City Government; the bad one is a mountain bamboo shoot with a thick skin and a hollow belly. I know that I win in my mouth, but I don't know that people have already won in their hearts.

"No wonder! With such an unshrewd mother and a father who doesn't know what to do, Fang Wen is strange if she has a heart! Shuying caressed the loose and rough face and sighed. After all these years of maintaining a good state, in just a few days of collapse, the sad old woman in the mirror in the morning has scared herself.

This can't go on any longer! Shuying's heart is full of mixed feelings. She regretted that she had looked down on Lin Hui before and had never spoken to her heart-to-heart. Just today, her daughter-in-law made her feel that after living such a long time, eating so much salt and walking so many bridges than others, she was really not qualified to be a mother-in-law.

Lin Hui's words made Shuying no longer feel that divorce was a terrible thing, nor did she feel that she could not live without Lao Fang. Her pension was no less than his, and her retirement treatment was no worse than his, so why should she serve a man who gave her a temperate heart? Yu Fen should not have been, and she also took her own life in vain. Now the one named "Tianya" doesn't know how to be happy with the "toad"!

At the thought of Yu Fen, Shuying couldn't help but want to cry bitterly. "Either die or leave!" Yu Fen's one-lined words were like wild vines wrapped around Shu Ying's mind. If time can be turned back, "We will not die and will not leave!" She must have told Yu Fen so firmly, "There are still many roads in front of us, we can hide or hide, we can ignore and redeem..."

Thinking of this, Shuying seemed to have gathered enough courage to say to herself: "You can also leave... No big deal..." She wiped the tears that had unconsciously made the trip and murmured, "Yu fen, you rest in peace!" I know what to do. ”

Chapter XVII

Shuying was not there for a few days, and Lao Fang and Fang Wen stared wide-eyed, waiting for each other to go down to the kitchen to cook first. Fang Wen feeds the child every day, hungry to the front of the chest against the back, want to drink hot soup and eat hot rice, even if the old Fang is still there waiting for Fang Wen to cook for him. It was not easy for several times that Lao Fang was hard to make a few meals for Fang Wen, the taste was the same as chewing wax, Fang Wen shouted that it was difficult to eat, and finally fang Wenqiang could only support himself to deal with a few meals or call for takeaway. Unable to eat enough and because of the tired half-death of taking care of the swaddled baby, Fang Wen's anger grew stronger and stronger, and several times urged her father to go to her brother's house to bring her mother back, and the old Fang couldn't pull down this face with his neck.

There was no way, Fang Wen had to call Fang Cheng again to say angrily: "Brother, you are going to send your mother back, the family has already eaten a meal without a meal." ”

"Wenwen, it's not that I don't want to send my mother back, it's that my mother herself doesn't want to go back!"

"What? What ecstasy did your family give your mother, not even caring about the lives of your daughter and husband? When Fang Wen heard that her mother did not want to go back to her home, she couldn't believe her ears.

"Hey, I don't know." Fang Cheng's tone could not hide a little pride, saying: "Tell you, my mother can eat well and sleep well here, and your sister-in-law makes various snacks for her mother-in-law every day." What's going on back to you? Be an old motherfucker! ”

"Brother, why are you like this?" Fang Wen was anxious, "Don't use me as a scapegoat!" If mom doesn't come back, I'll go to your house and rub rice! ”

"Come on, come on, it's best if Dad can come with you." Fang Cheng suppressed his laughter.

"Talk to him yourself!" Dad's temper you don't know, more sharp than a donkey! Fang Wen looked around and lowered the last sentence.

"Well, then come on your own. I don't advise my father anymore, he wants to come, he doesn't want to come reluctantly. ”

"What kind of medicine is sold in this gourd?" Fang Wen put down the phone and felt that no one in the family was normal.

She quietly paced to the old fang's hut, and saw her father chatting happily on the Internet through the gap in the hidden door, and a pleasant smile appeared on her face from time to time, which was in stark contrast to the snub of her mother.

Fang Wen immediately lost her temper, pulled out the network cable at home, and then quickly hid in her room.

Sure enough, as Fang Wen expected, Lao Fang shouted in the room: "Wen Wen, why can't the net be opened?" ”

"I don't know! Dad, you can skip eating, I can also not eat, but the baby can't not eat! What time is it? It's almost noon, and I haven't even eaten breakfast. Let's go to my brother's house for dinner and pick up my mother by the way." ”

"I'm not going! You have to go with your own children, and you can still live in your brother's house without having to come back! "The old party seems to have made up his mind, and no one can change it."

Fang Wen shook her head helplessly, and plucked up enough courage to say, "Dad, you are so stingy!" ”

Lao Fang felt that his "stinginess" was justified. It wasn't that he didn't want Shuying to make hot bun buns, or that he didn't want to get together with the children, but that he felt that Shuying hadn't made a single phone call in the past few days. The fact that she was able to ignore Fang Wen and him so cruelly was to show that she was still angry. Since she was still angry, if he went to coax, turning over and over was just a few words, he felt tired. Yu Fen's death originally had nothing to do with them, and the things that the eight rods could not hit could also cause such a big reaction from Shuying, which made it difficult for Lao Fang to understand. He felt more and more that the tolerance and understanding between him and Shuying was decreasing year by year.

But there was one thing that made him very happy, "Hongxia" finally resumed contact with him! A few days ago, he thought that it was almost the lunar year, so he wrote a letter to "Hongxia" to celebrate the New Year in advance, and thanked her for organizing activities to commemorate Yufen and for advancing money for herself. Lao Fang didn't hope that she would have any response at all, but just insisted on doing one of the things that should be done. Unexpectedly, she had a reply very quickly.

Time is the best healer. "Hongxia" did not mention a word about the scene before Shuying and Yufen went to the swimming pool, and Lao Fang did not feel that she was short in momentum. "Hongxia" spoke to him in the same way and tone as ever, as if everything had never happened. Lao Fang was also relieved, tangling with the past was a waste of time, not to mention that he did not have much left in his life.

Lin Hui went to class again, a secret that only Shuying knew. Knowing from Fang Cheng that Fang Wen was coming, Shuying was already looking forward to it.

Fang Wen and the baby finally arrived. I haven't seen my mother for a few days, and before I came, Fang Wen thought that my mother would be haggard every day when she washed her face with tears, and as a result, when she met, she found that her appearance was much better. It seems that the sister-in-law took good care of her mother, which made Fang Wen's dissatisfaction with Lin Hui half eliminated.

Shuying first held Fang Wen's face for half a day, saw that her daughter's face had lost a circle, her eyes were red, and then picked up the baby and began to shed tears.

"Mom, I was just about to praise you for your good recovery, why are you crying again?" Fang Wen wiped Shuying's tears, "I know, I know, you don't go home because your father is unreasonable and doesn't come to pick you up, otherwise he won't ignore me and the baby, right!" ”

"Child, I cry because I miss you and the child!" Rest assured, I won't be angry with him anymore, and I'll want to live a few more years with you!" Let's not talk about this, go into the house, wash your hands, I made you a lot of dishes that you love to eat. ”

"What do you mean?" Fang Wen was shocked. She heard something in her mother's words, but before she could understand, she had already been pushed into the restaurant by her mother.

Watching Fang Wen wipe out the food in the rice bowl like a whirlwind of clouds, thinking that the children may not have a complete mother's family in the future, Shuying's heart was sad, and she felt more and more sorry for Fang Cheng and Fang Wen. This feeling has nothing to do with whether they are adults or not. In Shuying's eyes, no matter how old the children are, the parents' home will always be a haven of tranquility and shelter for them. When the harbor is lost, the fate of the children is shaken, just as the tree has no roots, where will the leaves fall?

Fangfang, who had not eaten a full meal on time for several days, noticed a slight change in her mother's eyes. She put aside for the time being what her mother had just said, her mind was focused on the delicious food in front of her, and she talked to her mother one by one. It is said that "a child with a mother is like a treasure", Fang Wen felt that it was the warmest and happiest at this moment, and did not notice that her mother did not even ask about her father's situation. Now that she was full, she suddenly remembered what her mother had said just now, and hurriedly asked, "You just said that you will no longer be angry with your father." What does it mean? When are you going to go back to me? ”

"Oh, nothing," Shuying remembered the promise between her and Lin Hui, lightly brushed it over, and then solemnly said to Fang Wen, "I will not go back for the time being, just help your sister-in-law here for two more days." So close, you come over every day to eat. I said I wouldn't be angry with him anymore, that is, who he likes to talk to and who to talk to, and I despise him. ”

Fang Wen carefully observed Shuying's face and did not believe that her mother was speaking from her heart. "Really not angry? Mom, tell you that he and the old fox spirit are in touch again, and they can talk vigorously every day. Before leaving today, let him pick you up and he won't come, I was so angry that I pulled the network cable, see how else he got on? ”

As soon as he heard that Lao Fang had reconnected with "Hongxia", Shuying's calm just now could not be hidden, and her heart was scratching her liver and felt uncomfortable, and she felt that pulling his network cable was not relieved at all.

At this moment, the sound of the garage door opening came, and it was Lin Hui who went home. Shuying quickly adjusted her demeanor, and Fang Wen was also sitting up.

"Fang Wen is here!" Mom started preparing meals for you early in the morning, eat more, you're welcome! As soon as Lin Hui entered the door, she immediately greeted him warmly as the owner.

"Well, yes, after eating a meal made by my mother, I have to go to the door every day to ask for support!" Fang Wen said without saltiness.

"Wenwen, you walk every day, which is good for recovering your figure." Shuying was afraid that her daughter's speech was not heavy, affecting the atmosphere, and hurriedly played the round field.

"Mom—" Fang Wen was anxious when she saw that her mother actually spoke for Lin Hui. But as soon as she shouted, she was interrupted by Lin Hui: "Fang Wen, what is Daddy doing at home?" ”

He said he wouldn't come at all. When I went out, I was pulled by the network cable because he was chatting with the old fox spirit. ”

"Huh? It's true? Does Dad know what's going on? Lin Hui hurriedly asked.

"I don't know wow! Also shouted at me how I can't get on the Internet! I said the network cable was broken. I guess I'll have to fix the network cable as soon as I get home! Fang Wen's description amused Lin Hui and Shu Ying.

Everyone was happy, and Lin Hui took the opportunity to say, "This is a good opportunity." ”

"Huh??" Fang Wen and Shuying were puzzled.

Lin Hui turned to Shuying and said, "Mom, I suddenly thought of a way to make this old fox appear in its original form." However, I can't guarantee that I will succeed, and maybe there will be a purpose that is not achieved, but it will further irritate Dad's possibility. Are you mentally prepared for this? ”

Shuying bowed her head and pondered for a long time, and finally slowly raised her head and said firmly: "Can there be a worse ending than now?" If there is, I am not afraid. ”

With Shuying's permission, Lin Hui turned to Fang Wen, who was full of doubts: "Fang Wen, we need your cooperation!" ”

——To be continued——

The text, pictures and music of this public account (unless otherwise indicated) are original, the copyright belongs to the author, and may not be reproduced without permission.