Chapter 12 eleven

Both Dalin and his wife were laid off, and the foundry where they worked closed down.Sooner or later, the foundries will close down. Their castings are always out of size and full of blisters. In the planned economy, they can barely survive. When the market economy opens up, the factories will have to close down. The closure of the foundry is no different from the collapse of the world to the Dalin family.Both of their children are in junior high school, and both of them have no wages. Before that, the factory’s efficiency was not good, and the wages were paid at a discount, which was barely enough to feed the family. Therefore, the family had no savings. Now they can only drink Northwest It's windy.

Dalin and his wife went out every day, and all parties contacted each other to find a job.The matter of Dalin and his wife alarmed his mother. My mother thought that Dalin and his wife were already old enough to have a family and live together. She didn't need to worry about them. She didn't expect that she would have to worry about them. During the day, she would go to Dalin's house twice a day, and when Dalin and his wife went out to find a job, she would just sit there and wait, as if she would feel more at ease this way.Every time Dalin came back, his mother was very nervous, and looked up to see Dalin's face. Dalin didn't say anything, but just sighed. Needless to say, mother understood what was going on.When the mother returned home, she sighed and went home.Xiao Lin was very upset, and blamed his mother for worrying about all those useless thoughts, so Xiao Lin said: Mom, what's the use of worrying, and you can't help, let the elder brothers take care of themselves.Who made them not work in a good unit.

After listening to Xiao Lin's words, the mother felt sad again. She recalled again that when Da Lin entered the foundry, she put a smile on her face and committed herself to Lao Su again and again on Lao Su's desk. The desk was not firm. , creaking under the body.At that time, she thought: so be it, as long as Dalin has a job and will be steady for the rest of his life, she will accept it that way.Unexpectedly, Dalin hadn't been able to work all his life, and he was unemployed just half of his life. His mother took a deep look at herself. If she didn't do that, maybe Dalin wouldn't come to the foundry, maybe Dalin wouldn't be unemployed now.Thinking of this, my mother wished she could slap herself in the face.While my mother was scolding herself, one night, Dalin's daughter-in-law came in a panic.She brought something that my mother never dreamed of.Dalin was arrested by the police.

It turned out that Dalin was really desperate. The family still had to eat, and the children had to go to school. He couldn't sit at home and drink the northwest wind.He and a few workers who were laid off at the same time went to the factory to rummage things, and then sold them to the scrap yard. After rummaging around, someone called the police. Soon, Dalin was sentenced to three years in prison for theft.Dalin failed to find a job, but ended up in prison.Let the whole family feel very disappointed, the most sad and sad is naturally the mother. Dalin's entry into prison caused a series of reactions in the family. First, Dalin's wife and children returned to her natal home, and soon she proposed to divorce Dalin. Son, my own grandson, the student who is in the third year of junior high school.During this period, Shuzhen had a talk with her grandson.

Shuzhen said: "Your mother is going to divorce your father, who do you plan to marry?" The grandson poked his neck and said, "With whom? Of course with my mother." Shuzhen said again: "Your father has only been sentenced for three years, and he will be released after you graduate from high school." The grandson blushed and said, "Don't talk about him, I don't have such a father, he made me unable to be a human being." Shuzhen said again: "Why doesn't he let you be a human being?" The grandson stopped talking, with tears in his eyes.

Shuzhen also said: "Your father's sentence is not for the sake of living." The grandson stood up suddenly, and said coldly, "I won't be named Wen anymore. I don't have this father, and I don't have relatives like you." After speaking, he walked away. Not long after, Dalin's wife finally divorced him, and his grandson also changed his wife's surname.Her mother was ill, and she felt heartbroken for Dalin. Her family was gone, and even her grandson was gone, and her son was serving his sentence in prison alone. The mother couldn't take it anymore. After recovering from her illness, she went to the prison. She saw Dalin. Dalin was old and thin.He knew what he needed to know, and he didn't ask any questions, just gobbled up the roast chicken his mother brought him.Finally, Dalin raised his head and said, "Mom, next time you come here, bring me a pack of cigarettes." The mother looked at Dalin and endured it. As soon as she walked out of the interview room, she squatted on the ground and cried loudly. She saw Dalin The numbness, despair, and self-abandonment, Dalin's appearance broke her heart.

Since then, my mother has to visit Dalin every month, and Dalin makes her worry.My mother thought, how difficult it is for Dalin to be alone. At such an age, she is alone in the prison, no one asks and no one cares. She can’t let Dalin bear this difficulty alone. To be caring and warm. The three children, Daxiu, Xiaoxiu, and Xiaolin, went to see Dalin together once, and then they stopped talking about going to see Dalin.They're all busy with their own business, and it's not easy.The mother understands all this and does not blame the children. Mother took the train and then the car, and went to the prison to visit Dalin.Every time I come back, my mother has to lie in bed for several days.Daxiu felt sorry for his mother, so he said: "Mom, don't go anymore, I will send money to Dalin every month." Mother will go as usual, money does not represent love, what mother brings to Dalin is mother's love.The mother started to pick up trash again, she couldn’t ask the children for her monthly expenses, she had to pay the travel expenses to see Dalin, and she had to buy food and smoke for Dalin, all of which needed money, how could she ask the children every time? The child wants the money.

Her mother picked up her old business again. Daxiu couldn't take it anymore. She found her mother and said with tears in her eyes, "Mom, what are you going to do at such an old age? I'll just give you money if you need it." After Xiu finished speaking, she took out a current passbook from her pocket and handed it to her mother, but the mother refused to take it, so she forced it to her mother.Daxiu said again: "You go to see Dalin every month, go if you want, don't pick up the broken ones, at such an old age, there is something good or bad to fix." Daxiu is worried about her mother's kidney. After all, she has only one kidney, and the other kidney grows in Daxiu's body. Daxiu can feel her mother's presence all the time.

The mother said: "The palms and backs of the hands are all meat. Mom is so capable. I can't create conditions for you. Mom feels uncomfortable." When the mother said this, she would cry a lot as usual. Sadness would make the mother cry. Through tears, vent the sadness and sadness in the heart.The mother couldn't bear to use Daxiu's money to see Dalin. Daxiu's health was not good, and she had to open a clothing store. Both children were in junior high school, and their registered permanent residence was not in the city, so they had to spend a lot of money to support their two children's education .It's not easy to make a big show, and it's not easy to have a few children.

The mother didn't touch Daxiu's money, and staggered to pick up the trash.Every evening, people can easily see my mother on the street, carrying garbage in a woven bag, walking staggeringly forward, her eyes full of love and expectation.That is mother.She is looking forward to a certain day every month when she will be able to see her son Dalin.This is when his mother came to see him, and when Dalin accepted the food and cigarettes she brought, his mother would feel relieved. For some reason, Xiaoxiu always likes to run back, saying that she is coming back, and she only goes to sit in the room where her mother lives, and she rarely enters the room of Xiaolin and the couple.At first, my mother didn't think there was anything wrong. After a long time and more times, my mother felt that something was wrong.After all, it is a mother, and the strangeness of every child cannot escape the mother's heart.

Once, my mother said: "Xiaoxiu, what happened, tell mom." Before her mother could speak, Xiaoxiu began to cry. It turned out that since Xiaoxiu's husband became the general manager, he was often away from home. He always said that he was busy with work and had entertainment.Later, Xiaoxiu discovered that her husband had raised a woman outside.The husband makes a very common mistake. It is easy to make such a mistake when you are over middle-aged and have achieved little success in your career.Xiaoxiu's husband is no exception.The most hateful and fortunate thing is that when Xiaoxiu questioned her husband about this, the husband refused to admit his mistake, and said straightforwardly: How boring is it for a man to spend his whole life with a woman, and I didn’t divorce you. What else do you want to drink. Xiaoxiu didn't want to do anything, she just wanted her husband to change his mind and focus on her alone.It seems that it is impossible for the husband to do this.So Xiaoxiu was in pain, what kind of divorce, noisy, Xiaoxiu thought about it.Xiaoxiu is a very sensible person, so the result is not too good. After all, she is also in her forties, and her children are so old. Now her family conditions are not worse than others, and she has everything she should have. If she divorces, Is it possible to live like this? Xiaoxiu denied her initial idea of ​​divorce and quarrel, and could only endure it. While Xiaoxiu was crying, the mother looked at Xiaoxiu sadly. The child felt uncomfortable, and the mother felt even more uncomfortable.After listening to Xiaoxiu's analysis, the mother thought that Xiaoxiu's thinking was reasonable, what else could she do, bear with it, life is still going on, the mother saw a white hair on the side of Xiaoxiu's temple, and stretched out her hand to pull it out. When she got down, the mother sighed deeply in her heart, and she could only sigh like this. From then on, every time Xiaoxiu came back, she had to nag her mother, and her mother listened.Then the mother and Xiaoxiu sighed together, and said some helpless words of relief. Xiaoxiu relaxed a little, and then said goodbye to her mother, and went on to do what she should do. Mother has another worrying clue.