Chapter 3 Three on one education class

Li Juan returned home with accusations from her second boss and unfinished work, her mouth pouted into two Taiwanese sausages. "Yaping! I'm so sad!" Lijuan acted coquettishly as soon as she entered the door. "Yaping won't come back for dinner, and I will work overtime until 10 o'clock in the evening." The mother-in-law stood at the door and took the bag again. "Why didn't he call me?" Li Juan asked. "Isn't it the same as calling at home? Just get a letter. Eat, eat!" As soon as Li Juan walked into the dining room, her appetite lost.On the table, there was leftover pork stewed with cabbage from yesterday, and there may have been some vermicelli in it today, and the pork was probably finished yesterday, so what is left today is cabbage vermicelli soup.Next to it was a small bowl of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.The bright red tomatoes are very active, while the sporadic eggs seem to be sluggish. "Eat, eat!" the mother-in-law yelled, and kept adding vermicelli to Lijuan's bowl.The father-in-law didn't even look at the leftovers, and the chopsticks only went to the tomatoes.

"Mom, didn't you buy food today?" "I bought it. I put the braised pork on the fire and stewed it. As soon as Yaping said no, I turned off the fire. There is no one at home, so I don't have to work so hard. The leftovers from yesterday There are still dishes, let’s make do with it, and eat new ones tomorrow. Eat, eat, eat!” Li Juan sneered in her heart, hum, there is no one at home? I am not a human, you are not a human? Is your son a human? I remembered the joke that Yaping told Li Juan before, saying that women have no status in their place, if men are not at home But someone knocked on the door outside, and the door was not opened, so I replied: "There is no one in the house!" At that time, I thought it was very funny, but when it was my turn, I thought it was not funny at all.

Yaping's mother was holding a plate of leftover fried cabbage from yesterday.The green leaves of the cabbage were picked out yesterday, and today there is only a pile of white and crumpled cabbage.Because there is no heat, there is a little lard cream on it, and the oil in Yaping Ma's cooking is skimmed from the broth. "Why didn't you throw away yesterday's food?" Li Juan asked. "Why did you pour it down? It's neither rancid nor bad. What a pity! I eat what I eat." "Then you have to heat it up too! Eating it cold will ruin your stomach." "What's hot, just these few vegetable leaves are not worth the price of fire, the rice is piping hot, and it's just right to mix the two together."

"Why bother, mom! It's not that the family can't afford vegetables. Yaping will be sad when he sees you like this. A handful of vegetables cost only a few cents, and eating fresh ones is healthy." "It's not a matter of money, it can't be wasted! You all had a hard time. You don't know that in 1960, let alone vegetable gangsters, even better grassroots could not be found! Although money is not It’s a lot, but saving a penny is a penny, isn’t it? There will be more places to spend money in the future! When I lived with my mother-in-law, women didn’t eat at the table. Good, fresh meat, all men and children eat. Women eat leftovers. They men have to work hard, and they will not suffer. It doesn’t matter if we eat more or less, as long as we are full.”

"Mom, I don't eat leftovers. My father used to eat them. After we got married, I just threw away the leftovers. I can't eat this." Li Juan thought about it, couldn't help it, and decided to speak out.She could obviously hold back and listen but ignore it, but she felt that what she said was an attitude, otherwise she would be tacitly acquiescing to her subordinate position in the family, and this was intolerable in Li Juan's eyes.In big Shanghai, which one is not the boss of women? The husband coaxes her like holding her heart and baby. Li Juan's mother eats a piece of fish at home, and her father always picks out the thorns first.Lijuan neither wants Yaping to be humble, nor does she want to be trampled underfoot.Equality - this is very important.If you want to eat leftovers, everyone will not eat; if you want to do work, everyone will not do it.If a person condescends himself first in terms of personality, this marriage has no meaning of existence.

"Oh! I just said it, I didn't tell you to eat it! I eat it, I eat it!" The mother-in-law hurriedly took the empty plate to her hand again, and then soaked the leftover soup into the rice. "Look at your house, even if you live in it, the loan will have to be repaid for 20 years! 20 years! After the repayment is over, you will be half an old man and an old lady. With this debt, you will feel uncomfortable all over. If you can pay it back quickly Hurry up and pay it back! How much is the interest on your loan?" "It's five o'clock!" "Look, this is living your own life with other people's money. It's five o'clock a year, it's more than fifty in ten years, and it's more than doubled in twenty years! It's like working for a bank. If I You guys can’t even fall asleep, heavy stones weigh on your heart. If you want me to say, if you save, you save, and it’s over long ago, so you don’t feel oppressed psychologically.”

"Mom, it's all like this now. Who buys a house and pays in full? That's a nouveau riche. If you don't buy it now, it will be more expensive in the future. You also know that our house has almost doubled since we bought it. , which is equivalent to earning back the interest of the bank for the next 20 years. If you don’t enjoy it now, save money to pay off the house, don’t eat well, wear clothes, don’t eat well, and get sick again, isn’t it even more uneconomical? You We need to change our concept, now it is people-oriented, everything is good if people are good, and we must live a quality life.”

"You youngsters! Oh! I haven't suffered. We said that sweet potatoes must be prepared in the cellar at any time, and some old rice must be stored in the granary at any time. Every step needs to be looked at. Everything should be planned for the future. Plan. There will be plenty of places to spend money in the future! I don’t have children yet, but once I have children, it’s money for every move, so I have to prepare in advance.” The mother-in-law picked up a few rotten vegetable leaves and put rice into her mouth. "Then don't have children. When you don't feel burdened by raising children, you will have them. You must take care of yourself before you can take care of other things. Like before, a family has a pair of trousers and a litter of children. , Didn’t you blame yourself? Not to mention that adults are suffering, children are also suffering! Having a child is responsible for the child, and if you can’t give the child a good life, it’s better not to give birth.” As soon as Li Juan’s voice fell, the father-in-law began to cough loudly, cough His face turned red. With a "snap", he threw down the chopsticks and walked out of the dining room.Li Juan squinted and said nothing.

Both Lijuan and her mother-in-law ate quietly.The father-in-law turned and came in again, tilting his head, and said angrily: "How can a person only think about his own comfort in his life? People have social responsibilities, and your responsibilities are not only to live a good life, eat enough, It’s over if you enjoy it. There are old people on the top, and you will take care of them in the future. There are children on the bottom, who will contribute to the society and carry on the family line. Now it’s not like before. Boys and girls, how much effort and money will it cost you to give birth? What's more, we old people are still healthy and can help you. With such good conditions, whether you will give birth or not, what kind of thinking is this? This is called selfishness! If you think like that, humans have long since become extinct like that dinosaur!" The old man's hand was knocking on the table in front of Li Juan, making a bang bang bang.Lijuan bowed her head and said nothing.Ignore it, neither nod nor refute.

"Okay, okay, don't you gossip? Who said no? Yes, yes, then you can't say you want it today! Have you finished eating? Go watch TV after eating!" Yaping's mother said from Round the field.Yaping's father coughed loudly and went to the living room. "Lijuan, don't talk to your dad, he's just like this, he can get angry when he says it. Let's talk about the child's affairs later. Don't worry, don't worry." The mother-in-law comforted Lijuan gently. Li Juan still didn't say anything, but there was a dark shadow in her heart.The in-laws have only been here for two days, and Li Juan already feels that the days are like bones embedded with meat scum, a little hard to chew.

Li Juan put down her rice bowl and went straight to the living room. She saw her father-in-law sitting on the sofa and holding the remote control in her hand, trying to figure out how to use it. He walked around to the study room, closed the door and started writing. Seeing Lijuan close the door, the mother-in-law quietly took a cup of tea and put it on the coffee table, and said to the old man, "Drink some water to moisten your throat. Your coughing just now made me worry." The old man sighed In a low voice, he said: "Did I just say something serious, didn't it sound good? I didn't want to say it, but I didn't hold back. It's not good for my husband to talk about his daughter-in-law? I thought that Li Juan should be angry." "It's okay, it's okay, my own children, I have to talk straight. I want to beat and beat, and the other problems are not serious problems. Having a child is a major issue related to the country, society and family. It is a matter of principle. You have to talk about it. But you must pay attention to the method and method. , It got stiff at the beginning, and the child is prone to rebellion. It should be gentle and drizzle, and work slowly, and the son should also talk about it. This Lijuan, I like it at first glance, the child is not very discerning, Smiling, not like some daughters-in-law who have a donkey face all day long and don't look like they are smiling, which makes people feel chilled. Don't you think Lijuan and Yaping of our family are married? They look like brothers and sisters, It's really not a family, don't go into the house. But this kid is not very sensible, is he? After eating, he didn't even say to help clean up. He turned around and went straight to the room, and left everything to me. I'm not afraid of work, This kind of thing is not tiring, but I am not a nanny hired by the family. I don’t need her to work, at least I have to stand by the side to talk, pass things or something, this is like a home. Otherwise, I go out early in the morning I left and didn’t see each other when I came back at night, and didn’t even have a chance to chat. I feel that the house is deserted. Don’t you think so?” "Who said it wasn't?! In the first two days, she also sat in front of the TV after eating. There were five people and six people, holding a remote control in her hand. She didn't say to let the old man choose a program to watch. I originally wanted to listen to it. Those who were on my TV series saw her sitting alone in the middle, so they had to go to sleep. There are no rules." "You are a real person. If you want to see you, just say it. You are still waiting for people to invite you three times! If you say it, will she not let you?" "What's the point of asking someone to say it? , Like respecting the elderly and raising children, these are the basic principles of being a human being, and you have to go to class? I won’t talk about it. I will come out and sit down today to make a rule and see if she understands it in the future.” Yaping's mother smiled, pushed the old man's shoulder and said, "What kind of rule is this? Don't let it be understood that whoever finishes eating first will get the TV. Eating has become a competition. Pull you down!"