60s Splendid Life

During the Dragon Boat Festival, other people’s homes would make a few vegetarian rice dumplings to suit the occasion, but the Lu family’s old house was quiet here, and there was no one outside the yard, let alone making rice dumplings, and not even half of the leaves of the rice dumplings were visible.

Since the separation, there is no mother-in-law to take care of her. Every day, Chen Aihong sleeps until almost noon before getting up. Her daughter cooks the meals and washes the clothes. don't do it.At this time, she could finally understand why her mother-in-law always liked to order their daughters-in-law to work. Since there are others serving them, why do they have to do it by themselves?

When Chen Aihong woke up, the men in the family had already gone out to go to work. She yawned and opened the door and came out of the house, only to see her sister-in-law standing outside leaning on the wall to vomit. She was in the house just now. Hearing this voice, they thought it was coming from outside, but it turned out to be from their own home.

"Ouch--vomit--"

Although we live under the same roof, Chen Aihong does not have many opportunities to meet this sister-in-law. This sister-in-law runs out every day, and she is a person who likes to lie in bed and spend her days when she has nothing to do. She only comes out when eating. Outside, this sister-in-law sometimes stayed in the town and didn't come back, and she couldn't even catch up with her for dinner.

As for what this little sister-in-law is doing outside, other mothers don't care, let alone her second sister-in-law.

But now seeing her sister-in-law holding her chest and standing outside vomiting, Chen Aihong realized that this sister-in-law seemed to be a little thinner recently.As a person who has been there, no matter how she looks at it, she thinks that this sister-in-law looks like she has it?

Once she had doubts, Chen Aihong felt more and more that her guess was right, her complexion suddenly became strange, and she deliberately asked: "Jianhong, you are not feeling well, why are you vomiting?"

Upon hearing this voice, Lu Jianhong was startled, and her already pale complexion turned even paler.

Seeing that it was her second sister-in-law who came, Lu Jianhong was about to speak when she felt sick again, turned her head hastily and retched again.It's just that she vomited for a long time and only vomited some water, and there was nothing to vomit with an empty stomach.She couldn't eat anything these days, and she felt nauseous when she ate it, and she didn't even want to eat anything.

"If you don't feel well, you should go to see a doctor." Chen Aihong asked pretending to be concerned.

After vomiting, Lu Jianhong was a little guilty and didn't dare to look at this powerful second sister-in-law. She lowered her head and said in a low voice, "It's, it's okay, it's just that the food from the previous night hurt my stomach, no need See the doctor, I'll just go back and lie down." Throwing down these words, she walked back to the house she lived in with vain steps.

Chen Aihong, who was standing at the back, saw that someone had entered the house, and she scoffed unceremoniously, and she just said, no wonder a girl in her teens and 20s ran out of the house all day, she wouldn't sleep with a man The stomach is back.She didn't know what her mother-in-law would look like when she knew that her daughter had gotten pregnant with a man before she got married, she suddenly felt a little hopeful in her heart.

Taking a look at the quiet main room, I'm afraid her mother-in-law doesn't know about it yet.

But at this moment, Chen Aihong was not in a hurry to talk to her mother-in-law about this matter. It was almost noon and she hadn't eaten her breakfast yet. She was starving to death. If she wanted to watch a play, she would wait until she was full before she was in the mood to watch it. .

Chen Aihong went into the kitchen to find something to eat. There was sweet potato porridge left for her in the pot, and she didn't find a few grains of rice when she scooped it up with a spoon. After eating half a bowl of rice soup, I ate the few pieces of sweet potatoes and a few grains of rice in my stomach, and my stomach felt better after being hungry for so long.There was also a bowl covered on the table, and there were a few pieces of cucumber at the bottom of the bowl, which she picked up with chopsticks and put into her mouth.

In fact, their life was not very good after the separation. Except for the first period when there was no mother-in-law to take care of them, they could eat a full meal every meal, but the following days were worse day by day.In the past, relying on the elders, they could still have a full meal. After the separation, the husband and wife are not people who know how to live. If there is rice in the pot, they will add two spoonfuls of rice. They squandered it all in a few days, the rice tanks were all gone, and the autumn harvest would not come until next month. It seemed that their family would run out of cooking until the autumn grain came.

Her two daughters are as lazy as she is, and they have to be whipped to do a little work at home. She is reluctant to let her only son work, but the youngest daughter is a little more diligent, but she is also forced by several Sisters and brothers are oppressed and have no choice but to do it.

At this moment, the daughters and sons didn't know where they went. Chen Aihong didn't even know when her sons went to school or when they were on vacation. As for the daughters, she didn't care about them.

After drinking two bowls of porridge and water into her stomach, Chen Aihong put the bowls and chopsticks she ate on the table without washing them, and went out of the kitchen, went to the room where her mother-in-law lived, knocked on the door and Shouted, "Mom is me, come and open the door for me."

She stood outside and waited for a long time but no one inside came to open the door for her. If she hadn't been waiting to watch a good show, Chen Aihong would have turned around and left, but this time she waited patiently and did not leave. It took a while to get inside. There were footsteps.As soon as she opened the door, it was her mother-in-law's calm face inside.

Ever since their fourth uncle was sent to the labor camp, her mother-in-law has become even more gloomy. She hasn't stepped out of the door all day, and she hides in the house all day and doesn't know what she's doing. Of course Chen Aihong didn't care about this either.

Today she came to talk to her mother-in-law, and regardless of the unhappiness on her mother-in-law's face, she pushed her into the room, and when she closed the door with her backhand, she looked up at the door of the closed room opposite, "Mother, I I have something to tell you."

"Just talk if you have something to say, and do it mysteriously." Mrs. Lu didn't feel that she had anything to say to the second daughter-in-law behind closed doors.When the family was not separated before, the second daughter-in-law supported her mother-in-law all day long. Since the separation, she still dared to show her face to her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law even quarreled several times.

But at this moment, Chen Aihong seemed to have forgotten about the quarrel with her mother-in-law. She whispered to her mother-in-law about the strangeness of her sister-in-law recently. Seeing that her mother-in-law didn't seem to understand her words, Chen Aihong took another dose of medicine , "When I was pregnant with the first two babies, I couldn't eat and vomit all day long. My sister-in-law looks like this... don't have it."

Sure enough, after hearing Chen Aihong's words, Mrs. Lu's face became very ugly, as if she didn't believe that her daughter would be pregnant, "What nonsense are you talking about, Jianhong is not married yet!" May be pregnant!

Why can't we have a relationship if we don't get married?Chen Aihong sneered in her heart, your daughter will be able to have a baby if she sleeps with a man, but when she thought about it in her heart, she put on a face that I couldn't believe it, "I'm not worried... I'm not afraid if I'm afraid of ten thousand In case, my sister-in-law is not married yet, if something bad comes out, how will I behave in the future, right?"

"Don't go out and talk nonsense about this, I'll ask her right away!" Mrs. Lu seemed to remember that her daughter often stays out at night, and it seems that this month's menstrual event hasn't come yet?Since her son had an accident, she was not in the mood to take care of this daughter anymore, but if the daughter had a child before getting married, she couldn't ignore this matter.

"Yes, Aunt, you'd better go and ask. If you have someone you like, if you do... our family will have a happy event, right? Auntie, it's not easy to raise a girl, we can't give you a little gift money I sent the girl to someone else's house without even asking." Chen Aihong said pretending to be concerned.

As soon as she saw her mother-in-law's eyes changed when she heard the word "betrothal gift", Chen Aihong knew that her mother-in-law had listened to her words. out.

When she came out of her mother-in-law's room, she heard the sound of her mother-in-law knocking on the door of her sister-in-law's room. Chen Aihong didn't go far outside the door, and stood outside the wall of her sister-in-law's room, listening to the noise inside. sound.

"Boom bang bang-"

Lu Jianhong was feeling uncomfortable all over. She couldn't stand the knocking on the door outside, so she got up cursingly and opened the door. Seeing that it was her old mother who knocked on the door, she asked impatiently: "Mother What are you doing?"

"What are you doing hiding in the house in broad daylight? I have a few words to ask you." Mrs. Lu pushed her daughter back into the house, and closed the door behind her back and fastened the latch.

After a while, the mother and daughter in the room started arguing.

Chen Aihong stood outside the corner and listened, and knew that her guess was right. Sure enough, the sister-in-law in the room got pregnant after sleeping with a wild man outside. went to a house.

***

When the men in the family returned home from work outside at noon, the closed room was opened, and Mrs. Lu came out of her daughter's room with an unkind expression.

On this day, Boss Lu went to have lunch with his wife and children, and only Lu Laogen and Lu Jianqun went home at noon.Ever since his youngest son was taken away, Lu Laogen suddenly looked as if he had aged in his teens, his back became even more hunched when he walked, and his face showed no expression other than calm.

As soon as Lu Jianqun came back, he saw his old lady's complexion was not good, so he went back to his room and asked his wife: "Daughter-in-law, what's the matter, mother? Why does she look unhappy?"

"Tch..." Chen Aihong laughed as soon as she heard this, and said to the man who asked her, "When did your old lady feel happy?"

"..." Lu Jianqun thought about it, but there really wasn't one.

"Put your ears over here." Chen Aihong hooked her fingers to her man, and waited for someone to attach her ears to her mouth. She told her man that she found out that her sister-in-law was pregnant.Lu Jianqun opened his mouth wide, "Isn't it?"

"If you don't believe me, ask yourself." Chen Aihong rolled her eyes.

Lu Jianqun sat on the kang with an expression of disbelief, as if he was digesting what his daughter-in-law told him just now, could it be true?