Chapter 32 Section ten

In the later days, there is no doubt that Guan Tong wished to turn himself into a private worker, so he gradually calmed down his wife's anger - he and Xie Jiarong divided the work, Xie Jiarong mainly went to the hospital to take care of Guan Liming, and he was responsible for serving tea and water at home. Saddle up and back up to serve Gu Xiaoying who is bedridden.Because of her sincere attitude and the ancient principle of "quarreling at the head of the bed and making peace at the end of the bed", Gu Xiaoying naturally stopped fussing when she was calm. However, thanks to this episode, Gu Xiaoying learned from the pain and figured out a reason: one should avoid encountering unexpected situations in this life, but try to think in advance of possible countermeasures in case of unexpected accidents, so as to save losses Minimize.For example, she should have taught Xie Jiarong how to use a mobile phone earlier - although the teaching process will be longer, it is better than not being able to find anyone.

Fortunately, Guan Tong is home now, so Gu Xiaoying entrusted Guan Tong with the task of buying a mobile phone and teaching Xie Jiarong how to use it.Guan Tongyi felt that Gu Xiaoying's move was quite reasonable, but it was because of a loss of reason, so even if his wife was unreasonable, he would honestly carry it out.As a result, even Guan Tong himself had to admit that it was not an easy task for Xie Jiarong to learn and get used to using mobile phones. At the beginning, Xie Jiarong couldn't tell the difference between the dial button and the stop button for a while, or often forgot whether to press the dial button or the number first. It happened that she hung up as soon as you answered, or you had already started shouting "Hello", but Xie Jiarong didn't have the consciousness to talk to you at all; when Xie Jiarong finally learned to speak to the mobile phone, But it's still the same as not having a mobile phone - because she either didn't remember to take her mobile phone with her when she went out, or she took her mobile phone with her when she went out.Later, when she finally got used to the ringtone of her mobile phone, she didn't know how to check the balance or charge the mobile phone... New problems always emerged one after another, and these problems may be unimaginable to many people.

Seeing even Guan Tong's broken expression, Gu Xiaoying finally forgave him with a little gloat - she knew that this kind of thinking was unkind, but the heavens can learn from it, no one will change this kind of thing. Will there be no emotion at all?What's more, she almost lost her child, and she was accused of not taking good care of the elderly... She was injured both physically and mentally, isn't she wronged? Compare your heart with your heart, as the old saying goes, "If you don't raise a child, you don't know your parents' kindness." Now she has extended another sentence: If you don't get married, you don't know your parents.

Because Gu Xiaoying can only stay in bed according to the doctor's advice, someone needs to do things like cooking and washing dishes.The first few days were fine, Gu's mother had a public holiday, so she could come to the provincial capital to take care of her daughter, but the holiday was short after all, coupled with her busy work, in the end Gu's mother had no choice but to leave her daughter's house without hesitation.When she was leaving, Gu Ma baked her daughter's favorite pancakes, ordered four lunch boxes of steamed buns, and made two boxes of small chaos... Gu Xiaoying was lying in the bedroom, listening to the sound of her aunt chopping meat in the kitchen, I couldn't help but want to cry many times.

Maybe, always at such times, a daughter can appreciate the benefits of living with her mother—you can fight with her, she may have a loud voice, but she will never be mad at you; you can complain about her today The fried food is not tasty, she will roll her eyes and say "Don't eat it if you don't like it", but the next day she will cook for you in a different way... It's like this, no matter how big and prosperous the outside world is, it's actually not as good as a small town There is peace and tranquility around your mother, because with your mother there, someone will protect you from the wind and rain; with your mother around, you will never be able to bear grievances.

However, to know this, we always have to pay the price of being far away from home—even if we are not far away, we have to wait until we become the daughter-in-law of someone else’s family before we know how happy it is to be a mother’s daughter in our own home . After Gu's mother left, Guan Liming was also discharged from the hospital. There were four adults crowded in the small house, two of whom were still bedridden, so in Gu Xiaoying's words, every day the house was filled with a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine. Smell and bed breath. Gu Xiaoying has never been with her in-laws under the same roof for such a long time, and she only knows when she really gets along: those memories that she thought were classic and tough in the past, such as Guan Liming's spittle star and Xie Jiarong used to tick The tip of the chopsticks of the teeth... are too insignificant.

On the first day after Gu's mother left, Xie Jiarong was handed over the cooking of the family's meals. Gu Xiaoying still remembered that Xie Jiarong's roast beef was so good, it was simply extraordinary, so she didn't worry about the quality of her diet before. But she didn't know until that day that the so-called roast beef is a dish used to express joy and celebration during festivals or occasional family reunions.On normal days, there is actually no meat on the housekeeper's dinner table. For example, for lunch on the first day, the staple food is steamed buns, and the vegetables are stir-fried rapeseed and lotus root. The staple food for dinner is steamed buns, and the vegetables are fried potato shreds and spinach vermicelli soup; the staple food for lunch on the second day is still steamed buns, and the vegetables are vegetables. Stir-fried zucchini and scrambled eggs with tomatoes...Guan Liming was still "snorting" while eating, and praised: "Xiaoying, your peanut oil is so good, it smells delicious!"

Gu Xiaoying looked at a table of green vegetables with a sad face, and replied, "Dad, we haven't eaten meat for several days." Guan Liming and Xie Jiarong seemed to realize that there was indeed no meat on the dinner table. Guan Liming laughed a few times and instructed Xie Jiarong: "Fry some meat for dinner." Xie Jiarong nodded. So, fried shredded pork with celery appeared on the dinner table at night... Gu Xiaoying looked at the limited number of shredded pork on the plate, and felt even more saddened by it. In two weeks, there will be a "pregnancy reaction" that makes people turn pale. If she doesn't accumulate some fat before then, she may not be able to eat meat for a long time after that.So after dinner, while Guan Liming was watching TV, Xie Jiarong was washing the dishes, Gu Xiaoying went back to her room, closed the bedroom door secretly, called Guan Tong, and whispered: "Guan Tong, can you let your mother cook some meat? "

"Meat?" Guan Tong was working overtime and didn't realize it, "Isn't there still meat in the refrigerator?" "I've been eating rabbit food for two days," Gu Xiaoying complained in a low voice, and patted her eyelids in front of the mirror, "If I keep eating like this, my stomach will turn red! I'll be pregnant in a few days Response, what should I vomit with?" "If you want to eat meat, just tell them no." Guantong thought it was a big deal, but it was funny when he heard it. , you can ask mom to put more meat when cooking."

"Just put some meat in the cooking, doesn't that mean you're eating grass?" Gu Xiaoying said with a sad face, "Can't we dump the ribs in the pot? I can't get enough to eat grass every day, and I start to get hungry after nine o'clock in the evening." "Then let me tell him," Guan Tong agreed, "tomorrow the pork ribs will be stewed." Gu Xiaoying put down the phone contentedly. Sure enough, there were ribs on the dinner table the next day, but... why is there a thick layer of oil floating on it, making it look greasy? Gu Xiaoying thought about what Guan Tong said, "You don't need to look outside like this", so she asked Xie Jiarong directly: "Mom, don't we even skim off the oil on the pork ribs?"

"Oil skimming?" Guan Liming found it inconceivable, "Isn't eating meat just to make up some oil? After all the oil is skimmed off, what's the taste of meat?" Gu Xiaoying was tongue-tied, rolled her eyes, and stopped talking. In any case, Gu Xiaoying finally lived a life of "eating meat" on a regular basis. Although the ever-changing dish of "seasonal vegetable stir-fried pork" is still the same dish on ordinary days, but there is meat. It's better than no meat, Gu Xiaoying knows the truth that life can't be too perfect, so she endured it. Two days later, a new situation appeared—because Guan Tong never went home for dinner, Xie Jiarong and Guan Liming decided to stir fry more vegetables at noon, and not to stir fry at night. It was very convenient to reheat the leftovers , It is said that it is more flavorful. So Gu Xiaoying once again ate the leftovers for a few days with a sad face - at the beginning, she was not unjust in her heart, thinking that when Gu's mother was here, she would cook in different ways every day, wishing to bring the whole banquet in front of her daughter, but If I change my parents-in-law to cook, I can only eat leftovers... And the omnipotent search engine tells us that "some overnight vegetables, especially overnight green leafy vegetables, not only have low nutritional value, but also produce nitrite and nitrous acid for curing diseases. After the salt enters the stomach, a substance called NC (N-nitroso compound) will be produced after certain conditions are met, which is one of the risk factors for gastric cancer."... This caused Gu Xiaoying to feel the pain every time she picked up the chopsticks. Every now and then, I feel that a cloud of resentment is gradually expanding in my heart, and I can't spit it out. Fortunately, he didn't lose his temper rashly after all - because she just took a second look and found that when she was allocating the rest of the tomato and egg soup at noon, Xie Jiarong gave Gu Xiaoying all the eggs in the soup, He seemed to realize that Guan Liming or Xie Jiarong didn't treat her badly until then, but it was only because of their consistent poverty in life that they were so different in the way of expressing "good". So Gu Xiaoying didn't go to bed early that night, but waited until Guan Tong came home, and told him about her life for the past week, and the truth she discovered from a tomato and egg soup. At the end, Gu Xiaoying sighed: " I know they treat me very well and leave all the good things for me to eat, but leftovers are really unscientific. I used to cook a lot of dishes when you came home because I wanted you to eat more homemade dishes. It doesn’t matter if I eat leftovers every day after you leave. But it’s different now. I’m afraid it’s bad for the children to eat too much of these things, so I’ll tell my mother that I’ll cook less for each meal in the future and try not to eat leftovers Let's eat." After Guan Tong finished listening, he also sighed heavily, sat next to Gu Xiaoying and said, "Okay, I'll go and tell Mom." He looked at Gu Xiaoying, as if sighing: "They have really suffered all their lives. They used to only eat two meals a day, but now they eat three meals, and they cook every meal. They are not used to it..." In this way, under the coordination of Guan Tong, the leftovers disappeared from the dining table, and Guan Tong also discussed with Xie Jiarong to cook a few more dishes for each meal, and cook a little less for each meal, so that there are more varieties and more nutrition. Comprehensive, Gu Xiaoying was delighted with this change, and kissed Guan Tong a few times at night as a reward. Gu's mother, who is hundreds of kilometers away, is also worried about her daughter's diet, but she is even more worried that her daughter is not sensible because she has never suffered any grievances since she was a child... As a result, every time she calls, Gu's mother has to ask her daughter to "" Don’t say so if you don’t like food, anyway, there is still a Chinese service called ‘takeaway’.” Gu Xiaoying naturally nodded in agreement, but she agreed. Act like you didn't see anything?For that guy, spending a little money is like killing him, even though it's not the money he earned. In this way, during the days when Gu Xiaoying was pregnant, because she couldn't cook herself, she was lucky enough to eat all kinds of food that she had never seen before—such as noodles mixed with soy sauce.Simply put, noodles are boiled and served with soy sauce. According to Guan Tong, this was a luxury in the past.However, under Gu Xiaoying's efforts, Xie Jiarong would stir-fry "seasonal vegetables and shredded pork" every time she ate noodles mixed with soy sauce. The style of "Yangchun noodles". There are also a lot of "cold humor" style jokes besides eating - for example, Xie Jiarong is not used to using the refrigerator, so she always puts the leftovers on the dining table, and then covers the leftovers on the plate A piece of newspaper, Gu Xiaoying hesitated after seeing it, and told Xie Jiarong "The newspaper is not clean, don't put it on top of the food". There is no gauze cover to cover the dishes and flies at home, but in the countryside, almost every household has this kind of essential item. It can be seen that the people in the city are really unsanitary... Gu Xiaoying couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this, so she had to explain: "Mom , Our place is very clean, no flies." Living together will also face communication barriers - for example, Xie Jiarong can only understand the simplest vocabulary and language, and can't understand something that is slightly written.One day Gu Xiaoying was watching TV, and it happened to talk about a case where a child accidentally swallowed a battery and corroded the esophagus, which was almost life-threatening. Gu Xiaoying told Xie Jiarong with lingering fear: "Mom, have you seen it? Children should not be allowed to chew on things. There is dilute sulfuric acid in this used battery, and if swallowed, it may corrode the esophagus and even kill you." Xie Jiarong couldn't understand, so she just repeated: "Death? What kind of life?" Gu Xiaoying was stunned , suddenly realized something, and then re-translated while drawing his own throat: "It means that children should not be allowed to eat indiscriminately. Just now it was said on TV that a child ate an old battery. There is poisonous water in the battery. The poison ruined his throat, and he almost died!" Xie Jiarong suddenly realized, and Gu Xiaoying was speechless. Of course, there is an even more unique allusion - Gu Xiaoying has to stay in bed according to the doctor's advice, so doing laundry has become a hassle, but fortunately he doesn't need to go out, the clothes that need to be washed are nothing more than underwear and a nightdress, so often Guan Tong does it for her. Gu Xiaoying likes the way Guan Tong washes her clothes. That virtuous and virtuous posture is really enough to make any woman inflate her vanity and increase her sense of happiness, but this kind of life is not long. Because soon Xie Jiarong snatched the job from his son.Guan Tong was naturally delighted at this. Seeing how he had made a fortune, Gu Xiaoying rolled her eyes and said nothing. The problem was that one day when Gu Xiaoying went to the kitchen to find something to eat, she accidentally discovered that her Underwear, panties, and nightdresses were thrown on the floor in front of the kitchen sink... Gu Xiaoying was terrified. So there was the following conversation... Gu Xiaoying asked puzzledly: "Mom, why did you throw your clothes on the floor?" Xie Jiarong looked at the clothes on the floor, and replied very nonchalantly: "It's dirty clothes for washing." Gu Xiaoying was surprised: "No matter how dirty it is, it is much cleaner than the floor!" Xie Jiarong was even more surprised: "How could it be? Our land is so clean! In our hometown, the ground is covered with mud, and you still have tiles here." Gu Xiaoying choked for a moment: "But this is the kitchen floor after all, there are oily fumes everywhere, and water spilled from the sink..." "No way." Xie Jiarong waved his hand, "It's not as dirty as you said, and even if it's dirty, just put it in the basin and wash it in a while." Gu Xiaoying cried and said: "But, mom, underwear should be worn next to the body, it's unhygienic..." "Why would it be unhygienic? Wear it on your body and don't eat it in your mouth." Xie Jiarong was noncommittal, turned around and took the water spray, pushed her underwear and pajamas into the water, then turned her head and smiled honestly at Gu Xiaoying. Gu Xiaoying was speechless, turned around and left the kitchen that had become Xie Jiarong's jurisdiction, and kept comforting herself along the way: the first quote from Ms. Let it go, don't be picky; Ms. Luo Xinping's third quote... But when she lay back on the bed, Gu Xiaoying still felt more and more crazy: Underwear and underwear!What two important things for a woman!One is related to whether the "job" of the child is healthy in the future, and the other is related to whether the "gate" to protect the child is safe... how can it be thrown on the floor! Thinking of this, Gu Xiaoying finally couldn't help getting up again, picked up the dirty clothes basket in the house and sent it to the kitchen, telling Xie Jiarong: "Mom, from now on, put the dirty clothes in this basket. It doesn't matter if the basket is on the ground." Xie Jiarong felt that Gu Xiaoying was making a fuss out of a molehill, but she had always been good-tempered, she smiled and said nothing, which probably meant she agreed.Gu Xiaoying turned and walked out of the kitchen, thinking, she used to think that Xie Jiarong and Guan Liming were two completely different personalities, but only now did she realize that both of them are actually quite stubborn, but Xie Jiarong has a better temper, let's consider her as Gu Xiaoying lucky. In this way, during those days, Gu Xiaoying had to teach Xie Jiarong little by little how to wash and dry clothes of different textures, how to use a rice cooker, and how to use a refrigerator crisper... Although in the end, Gu Xiaoying had completely given up on it. Let Xie Jiarong use microwave ovens, electric pressure cookers and other difficult appliances, but even the simplest range hood, Xie Jiarong does not have the consciousness to turn it on, so for a long time, Gu Xiaoying's family will be surrounded by smoke every time they cook. But no matter what, Xie Jiarong is still integrating into the city life little by little after all, getting acquainted with this world that was once very strange to her.Her goal is simple, to be with her grandson or granddaughter.The slogan has not changed, and it has always been "Where the grandchildren are, I will be there", but Gu Xiaoying can't help but smile wryly when she hears this sentence. In the past, Gu Xiaoying also felt that what Gu Ma said was right. It is not the duty of the elderly to take care of children. If someone is willing to help you take care of the children, it is your blessing. After all, no one loves children more than the children's grandparents. It is even more reassuring for parents. However, you have to experience it to know that reassurance is one thing, and the troubles in life one after another are another thing-don't say or describe it exaggeratedly, you will never imagine it if you don't experience it yourself. There is indeed such a kind of "ups and downs", which makes you wish you could spend money to hire a nanny, even if you take the risk of "not at ease", you don't want to continue living under one roof to torture yourself like this. Sometimes, Gu Xiaoying lay on the bed and looked at the green leaves outside the window, and couldn't help but think - from now on, she really wants to live with Guan Liming and Xie Jiarong.It's not that he didn't see Guan Tong's joy. After all, it was his parents, the biological parents he had sworn to bring to the city to live a "good life" together. They had differences and generation gaps with them, and they were finally willing to do their best. Gu Xiaoying couldn't shirk this filial piety, she just... just felt that the road ahead was too long. Really, life is always much more trivial than what can be described in novels—although they also prepared a house for the old couple, but the children couldn’t live without people when they were young, and the old couple rushed to take care of them, so they must live in a house. Under the same roof, when the child grows up and becomes independent, and the old couple grows old, can they really let the two elders fend for themselves in another house?After all, in the next 30 to 40 years, they will spend much more time living with Guan Liming and Xie Jiarong than imagined. You can't say it's suffering, even though you know that challenges will be everywhere in the long days ahead.