On the sixteenth day of the first month, the year is over. Although the weather was bad, Sister Chen still wanted to take advantage of her old colleague Sister Zhou's residence in the city, and invited her to come out for a meal.
The following is for the convenience of narration, in the first person of Sister Zhou.
I'm Sister Zhou, and I'm 65 years old today. My husband used to work as a plumber, and when he was busy, he earned a lot of money every month. I also listened to the propaganda of others and bought a single-family house in a county near our city. When I bought this place, one is to consider that the total price is relatively low, about 1 million, there are lakes and mountains, and there are natural hot springs not far away, and it is convenient to retire fishing in the future, the most important thing is that there is a shuttle bus to the junction of our city every day, and it is more convenient for us to go back.
After my son got married, the big house in the city became his wedding room, and there was a single room for rent temporarily.
Everything was well planned, and we lived in the villa after my husband completely retired. The villa has a large yard of more than 100 square meters, I raised a few chickens, planted some vegetables, my husband went out early and returned late to fish, and helped me take care of the yard when I was free. After the son gets married, he sometimes brings his wife over to live for two days, like a vacation, he is not in a hurry to have a child, we do not urge him, he is far away, and there is no contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The days went on like this.
My husband used to work in water and electricity, and although his income was good, he worked hard, which is why I let him retire. Usually I have a headache and brain fever, take some medicine, and sleep will be much better, so that time my husband told me that I didn't pay attention to the headache, so I asked him to go to bed quickly and not go out fishing.
That night, my husband had a terrible headache, and he thought about calling a taxi to the hospital after dawn, after all, it was far away from the city, and it was not convenient to call a taxi. In the second half of the night, my husband had a headache and couldn't help vomiting, and I completely panicked and called an ambulance. When the ambulance sent my husband to our city hospital, it was almost dawn, and my husband was not rescued.
After my husband left, I lived alone in the villa, very scared and lonely. There is still half a year left in the lease period of a single room in the city, and it is not easy for people to move immediately. There are just two months to go before the Chinese New Year, and my son told me that I should live with them for a while, and then move when the tenants expire, and the villa should be empty for the time being.
I thought to myself that after all, it was my son, and I still had a mother in my heart.
I still maintain the Xi of living in the villa, getting up early every day to make breakfast for my son and daughter-in-law. But they often don't get up until the last minute, get up, brush their teeth, wash their faces, and go out. On weekends and Sundays, I would sleep late, and breakfast was so cold that the two of them didn't get up. At noon and at night, I didn't want to eat fried dough noodles and porridge for breakfast, and I tried my best to eat for them.
The weather was getting colder, and they turned on the underfloor heating early. I thought that after they went to work, I didn't need to turn it on at home alone, so I turned off the floor heating during the day, and turned on the floor heating half an hour before they got off work, and then turned on the living room and their bedroom. After a long time, my son found that the floor heating at home is always not hot, and asked me before I said what I did, my son looked helpless and told me that the floor heating should not be turned off, and if it is turned off, it will be the most expensive to turn it on. I thought about the heating in the house by myself, and even more so when I didn't live here, they went to work and turned on the heating in every room, and their hearts were bleeding.
During the entire Chinese New Year, because of my family's new filial piety, I didn't go out to pay New Year's greetings, and my relatives just greeted each other. My son and daughter-in-law are completely free at home, and I don't even know when they get up and when they go to bed. I cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, I don't eat big fish and meat, and I often order takeout. This year is also true, you can order takeout on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve. I looked at the table of dishes and was worried, and my son said, if you can't eat it, pour it, don't eat it to your stomach. I ate so much by myself, and in the end I poured a lot, alas, my heart was dripping blood again.
No, it's the Lantern Festival. The son and daughter-in-law went out in the afternoon, saying that they wanted to feel the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival. When it was time for dinner, I thought that they probably wouldn't go home, so I would order some rice balls for myself. There were sesame seeds, peanuts, bean paste and shepherd's cabbage filling in the refrigerator, and I took the soup balls with shepherd's cabbage filling because my blood sugar was a little high in my recent physical examination. Just as it was about to go, my son and daughter-in-law came home, and when I entered the door, I shouted that I was hungry. I ask you why you haven't eaten outThe son said: There are many people outside, and the restaurant has to queue up, so I just go home and eat rice balls. I said, there are shepherd's cabbage dumplings in the pot, and there are sesame bean paste and peanut fillings at home, and I will give it to you right away.
At this time, the daughter-in-law spoke: I just want to eat the stuffing with shepherd's cabbage, those are sweet and greasy, and I don't want to eat them now. The son also said, "Mom, you can eat that, this pot is just the two of us eating."
I opened my mouth and didn't speak, my medical examination report was on the cabinet in my room, and I guess my son had never seen it and didn't care.
During the Lantern Festival, I didn't eat a single rice ball. It's not that the son is unfilial, it's just that we're already like people living in two worlds.
In the evening, while my son and daughter-in-law were at home, I told them that tomorrow you will go to work again, and I want to go back to the villa. If the Spring Festival is not there, you should go back and see. Soon spring will come, and the yard over there will also be tidyed up. The tenant of the one-room room expires, we don't renew the lease, but I won't live there forever, the villa and those two sides of the house, okay?
I felt that my son and daughter-in-law also breathed a sigh of relief, and my son said: Okay, but not on both sides, but on three sides, you can come here at any time. The daughter-in-law also nodded and said, "Yes, yes."
I said, "Okay, listen to you, live on three sides."
This is what Lao Zhou talked to me about every day. Yes, housework is all short in the family, **There are so many rights and wrongs. It's just a step back and a different way of life. However, when you are older, you must have regular physical examinations, go to the hospital in time if you are sick, and don't be too far away from the big hospital, so that you can get treatment in time. Do you think I'm right?