Chapter 8 Eight get together and two unhappy

Li Juan called to inform her parents to come over for dinner on Sunday.As soon as Lijuan's mother answered the phone, she said: "No, I don't care for his pork stewed cabbage! I can't cook it, and I want to save money. My big girl gave it to his family for nothing, and his family has no knives. I have a foothold in Shanghai without moving my gun, and I don’t even have the courage to invite me out for a meal. Tell them, it’s free.” Li Juan went crazy on the phone: “Don’t give me face! If you don’t go, I'll just tell my in-laws that you look down on them and don't get in touch with them in the future." "I don't plan to get in touch with them. What's the point of such poor relatives? We're already doing well. If it weren't for you, I would know them for a long time." How many? I won’t go.” “Very well, I’m a member of their family now, so please don’t associate with them in the future.”

Li Juan was about to hang up, when Li Juan's father's voice came from the other end: "Don't listen to your mother, tell your in-laws, we will see you on Sunday. What do you want to bring?" "It's fine if someone comes. His father seems to be drinking , bring a bottle of good wine!" Li Juan's father put down the phone and said, "What are you doing? Their parents are reasonable and invited us. No matter where we are, we will always go. If we don't go, we don't show that we don't value our daughter. What will they do when they bully us, Li Juan?"

Li Juan's mother suddenly came back to her senses, and immediately said firmly: "You are right! I must go. Take this opportunity to educate them, don't think that there is no one in our natal family." On Sunday, Lijuan's mother wore gold and silver, and put on all the jewelry including gold-plated ones, and went on the road grandly.Before going out, he said regretfully: "It's a pity that there is no diamond. No amount of jewelry can compare to a diamond now. Only those with that weight can hold them down." "Diamonds are easy. Buy them at any shop on Xiangyang Road." One imitation diamond, more than 100 yuan is enough to scare the country people. What should we bring to meet the in-laws?" Lijuan's father asked.

"Didn't the girl ask for wine? Better Shaoxing rice wine with a bottle is better, the most expensive is no more than 20 yuan. I heard from Li Juan that Yaping's parents would save money, so they must not be willing to buy good food. I think 20 yuan wine is good enough." It’s time to serve the food. There’s no need to go to the country people to make a fool of yourself. They can’t drink Moutai if it’s too high-end, right? I guess they just watch it on TV and put some Erguotou in it, and the old man doesn’t even know.” Lijuan's parents brought a bottle of Shaoxing rice wine and a handful of Panama bananas into their daughter's house.

"Yo! Mother-in-law! I've been wanting to see you for a long time! I haven't been able to find the time to see you until today!" Li Juan's mother took out her unique kung fu of turning her hands into clouds and rain, and grabbed Aya as soon as she entered the door. Ping Ma's arms patted back and forth like old acquaintances, calling Ya Ping Ma warmly. "My mother-in-law looks very healthy at first glance. Unlike me, she is sick and unable to do activities. Look at this house. When you come, it is neatly organized! This is all thanks to you! There are many capable people. Thank you! It’s really hard work for you!” Li Juan’s mother took Yaping’s mother’s hand and affectionately ran around the room, her voice was so loud that she couldn’t tell that she was a sick person.

"Where is it! I'm not in good health either! I insist on doing more, so that children can work less. I also have high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. I can't be anxious or angry. I just want to do it while I'm here. Teach Li Juan here, and when we leave later, she will be able to live a good life by herself." "Oh, mother-in-law, our Lijuan has been spoiled by us since she was a child. She never does housework. I am also responsible for this! When I got married, I found that she couldn't do anything. It was too late, and I couldn't teach her any more. Yes, so when I got married, I entrusted Lijuan to Yaping and asked Yaping to take care of her."

"It's not too late, no one is born to know how to do it, and it will come naturally if you do more. Lesbians generally have this talent, and you can learn it as soon as you teach it." "Nowadays children are busy with work. It's not like we used to go to the unit to report and go home. Now they are laid off and laid off, with a knife hanging on their head. It is impossible to work without working hard. This is a new era. Men and women are equal, we don’t talk about who does more and who does less, and whoever is free will do it, don’t you think so?” "Yaping is busy with work! He intends to do more, but he is afraid that he won't be able to separate himself. And gay men are so heartless that they can't do many things, such as sewing and tidying. The division of labor between men and women is still different. Work with great strength Of course it's a man, I don't want my son, Xiaodong Xiaoxi, I want Lijuan to take care of it."

"Mother-in-law, what are you talking about! What kind of work is there now? You don't need pots for gas, you don't need to make briquettes, and you buy all the furniture ready-made, so you don't need to build a house. As for sewing, who still sews quilt heads and embroidered pillows at home now? The processing factory at the alley entrance of a quilt cover only sells for 18 yuan, which is easy to use forever! I have thrown away my sewing machine a long time ago. I think Yaping is still He is very diligent. When you are not around, he is very willing to work, and sometimes he takes the initiative to help me! Don’t worry too much about the juniors! Let them go! When you are here, do what you want Do it, if you don’t want to do it, hire a part-time worker, and it’s only five yuan an hour, so everyone saves effort.”

After listening to Yaping's mother, she couldn't catch her breath and almost held back.Like a mother, like a daughter, Lijuan's mother is like this! The needles hidden in the cotton wool of the two mothers did not give in to each other, and the shadows of swords and swords were used frequently at the banquet.Because of their deep morality, the two mothers are not uncomfortable, and the two children can't say anything except eating. Most of the father is reticent, except you toast and I toast, most of the time to watch the performance of the two mothers. Lijuan and Yaping sent their parents to the station. Yaping's father pointed to the empty wine bottle and said: "When you come to someone's house, you either don't bring anything and look comfortable, or you bring good wine. A bottle of horse urine, three rotten bananas, I feel sorry for them. I couldn't drink this stuff, and insisted on staying with her father. He was lucky, he didn't care about others, and finished it on his own. He even pretended to give it to me. Did you pay attention? Her father's enthusiasm for eating? The chopsticks are as frequent as rain, no wonder Li Juan doesn't know how to send people, so she learned this from her father."

Yaping's mother also sighed: "Lijuan's mother is also ignorant. When we meet, she asks her father to get her chopsticks. If her chopsticks fall off, she doesn't go to pick them up. What is it like? Her mother always calls her father like this, Li Can Juan not order us Yaping? Get married! You must meet your mother-in-law before marriage. From now on, your wife will look like her mother. I haven’t asked Li Juan to work yet! Look at her mother! Do some work How much can you suffer? Your own man, your own family, shouldn’t it? A woman must support her family when she gets married. My daughter is married, how can I still be a little girl? Also, look at her Mother's dress, the bride in white bone hardcover - she looks like a demon, Indians don't have as much gold as hers, and those who don't know think it's a brothel madam. The mother doesn't look like a mother at all. She loves to dress up so much, wearing Clothes don’t depend on age. No wonder Lijuan is willing to wear clothes. A set of hundreds or even thousands. I found that Lijuan took the shortcomings of both parents. He is delicious and lazy. He really has no advantages. What do you think of her, this marriage is really worthy of sitting on the egg-it's a mess!"

As soon as Lijuan's mother got into the car, she said to Lijuan's father: "I taught Yaping's mother a good lesson today. The old woman wanted to show her power in my house and asked my daughter to be her maid. Dear, treat them equally, why don’t you ask her Yaping to work, and train my daughter? She also keeps saying that she has strength to do her son’s work. What is strength? Now besides the strength used on the bed, where can I use strength? I will give She pushed it back. Look at the clothes she was wearing. The ones I donated for the flood in East China last year were better than hers. Speaking of which, there is a job, and I deliberately showed us a look of reminiscing bitterness and sweetness, but we didn’t look at it. How rich she is! The money must have gone to her daughter. Only 20,000 yuan is paid for marriage! In a place like Shanghai, 20,000 yuan is thrown on the ground to beg for food. Her son should be regarded as my family, do something Shouldn't it be a job? The old man will definitely provoke her son to treat my daughter badly. You are optimistic, there will be conflicts sooner or later. The young couple are living a happy life, and she insists on interfering in it, and go back early. it is good." Li Juan's father echoed: "You are right. It seems that the custom there is that men enjoy women's work. When his father drinks, his mother stands by and pours it. When his father eats, he pours the bowl on him. As soon as his mother stuffed it in his hand, his mother ran over to fill it. Yankees really can't find it, they are too feudal, they don't know how to hurt women, women are used to hurt, they are good, women are treated like animals. Not as chauvinistic as his father, Li Juan used to pour water to wash her feet." "It's because his parents are not here, and his parents are here. If you give him some advice and indoctrination, he will learn from it sooner or later." Li Juan and Yaping walked on the way home. "Today's meal was really uncomfortable, and your mother kept saying, 'This kind of stiff cabbage is only one yuan a catty, right? Braised pork or fried diced pork, cut so small?’ Invite her to dinner, my mother is busy all day, she just sits and waits to eat, and she doesn’t say anything nice.” Yaping squeezed his voice to imitate his mother-in-law’s tone vividly . "Is your mother saving trouble? My dad still drinks the wine he brought with him. Look at her, why is she distressed? She still wants to save it for your dad to drink? Also, did your mother not invite guests? Those dishes! Peanuts, dried tofu, braised ducks are sold downstairs, why are you not willing? I gave her 200 yuan yesterday, because I was afraid that she would not be willing to spend money, treat my family poorly, and not give it to me. Save face. This table meal is considered to be my invitation. As a daughter-in-law, I invite my parents to dinner. What else is there to say? Just like this, she still wants to pick up a big piece. I wonder if she has spent 50 for the food today. " It was supposed to be a meeting and meeting, but no one was happy.When Yaping went home and saw his parents' gloomy faces, he didn't dare to show his anger. At least he had to go along with his heavy face, showing his disdain for Li Juan.Lijuan was in a panic because her parents were treated poorly. "Lijuan is here to wash the dishes! I'll clean up the house." Yaping's mother simply jumped from the previous encouraging education to the imperative education.For such a daughter-in-law without a tutor, it is absolutely not enough to coax her with good words.It has to be lit like a candle. Li Juan turned her head to look at Yaping who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, but she didn't respond at all, as if she didn't hear his mother's words.Li Juan stood at the door of the kitchen, staring at Yaping to see how long it would take for him to respond.Yaping withstood the power of the flame-throwing gun and was as stable as Mount Tai. "Yaping! I'm washing the dishes, you come to help, otherwise it won't be clean." Li Juan suppressed the fire and said as coquettishly as possible. "You're such an adult, it's just a few bowls, what can't be cleaned? If you can't wash clean, you have to learn. Wash more and you'll be clean. I'll stand with you, we girls also talk, let them busy Go." Yaping's mother began to tie the apron around Li Juan.Yaping still kept his composure, and kept his ears to himself. "You don't need to accompany me. I'll wash it by myself. Hurry up." Li Juan looked for rubber gloves everywhere, and after putting them on, she started to turn on the tap to rinse off the impurities on the dishes. "It's enough to boil the water halfway, or it will splash all over." Yaping's mother followed behind and turned down the faucet in a panic. "How can you pour detergent into the pool like that! You use half a bottle to wash the dishes once! You should take a rag and wipe it one by one, so that there is no waste." Yaping's mother snatched the detergent. Carefully squeeze a little of the bottle onto the rag, and hand it to Li Juan. "There's still foam hanging on the bottom of the plate! Just wash the dishes on one side? Just like you put on makeup, only draw half of the face? You have to rinse both sides!" If you use a vernier caliper to measure, Li Juan's apple face with the tip of the nose as the center and the cheek as the radius has undergone significant changes, and it is approaching the direction of the banana. Li Juan piled up the bowls on the shelf, took off her gloves and walked out of the kitchen, letting Yaping's mother shout behind her: "Don't wash the dishes? Don't wash the stove? It's not like work. You're not sincere." Lijuan, there is a pot here! Really!" Li Juan turned around and walked into the kitchen, staring straight at her mother-in-law and said: "If you want me to work, you have to follow my method. If you don't like it, you can do it yourself. I don't wash this pot specially. I used to wash it when I burned it." , and now you are burning it, I decided not to wash it, because according to your savings, I think there are two drops of oil at the bottom of the pot, which can be saved for frying the next pot of vegetables." After finishing speaking, he went upstairs with a thud, wishing he could Stamp the floor. Lijuan's mother-in-law really took a look at the pot, took her fingers to walk around the side of the pot vigorously, and then scraped her fingers carefully on the side of the bowl containing the remaining oil, and said, shouldn't it be fine now? Yaping is in front of the TV and his heart is in the study upstairs.On the surface, he is calm and expressionless, but his heart is like an ant in a hot pot.If you want to go up to coax your wife, your mother will listen with ears in the kitchen; if you want to accompany your mother down there, you will have to be a "bedside table" again at night. You are in a dilemma, and you are scratching your heart. The most difficult job in the world is to be both You can be a good husband or a good son, but you cannot be a good husband and a good son at the same time.Now Yaping finally understands why Baoyu, Shunzhi, Haideng, a series of people finally went to become monks.The main reason is that having a home is not as easy as not having one.If it can make both mother and wife happy, Yaping doesn't mind doing more work. The pain now has completely surpassed work.Busy people look forward to being idle. In fact, being idle is not necessarily a good job, not necessarily a pleasure.It is said that Little Japan does not fire employees. If they don’t want you, they will let you sit on the bench, promote you to a nominal manager, and leave you alone and ignore you.Now Comrade Manager Yaping feels that he is a spoonful of eggs, being pinched on both sides by an iron plate at high temperature, painfully turning into delicious egg rolls. Yaping lay on the bed and waited for Lijuan.As soon as Lijuan lay down, Yaping put his arms around Lijuan to prevent her from escaping, and then said: "My wife, I beg you, can you not embarrass me? You know my mother hates me to work, you If you insist on calling me, isn’t this embarrassing me? In private, I can be a cow or a horse. As long as you want, I will carry you around this room until tomorrow morning. You can save some face in front of my mother. No?" Lijuan closed her eyes and refused to open them, and said coldly, "Go away. Don't touch me. Your mother loves you, who loves me? I am a motherless child? Li Yaping, let me tell you, today I will It’s already very face-saving to your mother. Next time she asks me to work by my name, I will take her bag outside and ask her to leave. Whether she likes to do the work at home, no one asks her Do it, don't hold your heart and hold your waist to show me every day when you see me coming home. You are in your 60s, pretending to be a Xi Shi? This house is mine, and she can't have the final say. I can do it whenever I want. I want to wash clothes once a week. I don’t need to tell me that this one needs to be washed by hand and the other needs to be soaked. The way I work is to put it all in the washing machine. I go to work for 9 hours, and go back and forth for 3 hours on the road. When I come back, I have to work overtime to write articles to earn extra money to support my family. Is she trying to exhaust me to death? Also, every penny of the clothes I buy is my own blood and sweat. I haven't paid half a dime from her pocket. What right does she have to think it's too expensive or too cheap? As a wife, I should spend the money her son earns. What can she feel bad about? It costs hundreds of dollars to go out to prostitutes. She can't stand that no one invites her to see!" Lijuan's volcano erupted violently, she stared at Yaping fiercely and said: "A year and a half before your mother came , you told me, I didn't freeze you, I didn't starve you, I did housework once a week, the furniture didn't collapse, and the clothes didn't get mothed, even if it was really mothed as she expected, I would , I have money, I will buy a new one! Before she came, we had no record of quarreling. When she came, the whole house made me breathless. Obviously I bought the house, but now I have become I have nowhere to go, and I feel nauseous when I think about going home all day long. You go tell your mother that it’s cool, I don’t eat or drink, go to Xintiandi to borrow debts, go to Xintiandi to accompany drinks, and I have to scrape together 20,000 yuan to pay her back. Please don’t come here in the future. When is she leaving?" Yaping also became angry, and said in a low voice with threats: "Hu Lijuan! I have known you for so long, and I realized that you have not broken away from the habit of a petty citizen. You are exactly like your mother! You are ashamed to say any dirty words! I am warning you here. You: First, don’t equate yourself with a whore, make me feel dirty sleeping next to you; second, she’s my mother, she just doesn’t pay a penny, raised me so much, sent me to college, She comes to live with me, and I should be filial to her; third, you are my wife, you are her daughter, you have to listen to what she says, and when you become a mother-in-law in the future, try to feel like a daughter-in-law Fourth, I don’t know when my mother will leave, and I don’t intend to ask her, she can live as she likes, as long as she likes! If you don’t like it, that’s it, if you dare to anger my mother, I call you pretty!" Li Juan jumped from the bed to the floor and poked Yaping's head with her fingers, "Li Yaping! Then I'll tell you, first, your mother raised you, not me. You repay her what you should, and I will repay her. Love. She can order you, but not me. I work in my own home voluntarily instead of following her orders. Second, I will never carry on the family line for your family. Your parents have scared me, so , I don’t have the problem of being angry with my daughter-in-law at all; third, if I really have children, the purpose must be to hope that the children will be happy. Staying at my daughter-in-law's house, I just watch her face and live my life. I don't say what I shouldn't say, don't do what I shouldn't do, and don't make my daughter-in-law uncomfortable, so that she won't kick me out. I go to my daughter-in-law's house just to be a guest. Thinking of climbing to the wife's house to be the master; fourth, you have pushed me into a hurry, I will throw your mother out now, and I want to see how you make me look good!" Although Li Juan was burning with rage, she still did not lose her mind, her voice was as low as a whisper, but the deadly determination in her tone was clear at a glance. Li Juan stood on the floor with her bare feet, ready to pull the handle and rush out at any time . In the stalemate between the two, Yaping took the lead in disarming and surrendering like a deflated ball.He pushed his hand over his head, lowered his head, with a look of failure and frustration on his face, shook his head very sadly to stop Li Juan and said: "Okay, you are ruthless, I surrender. I beg you, okay? Juan, please For my sake, please see for the sake of our difficult family, can you give my mother a smiling face? I beg you." Yaping knelt on the bed and buried his head deeply in the quilt . The silhouette reflected on the wall is the tall and strong Yaping, who is curled up like a cat and is as soft as a tree trembling in the cold wind. The forced begging for mercy knocked him down completely, and the two women who are like mountains , has already squeezed him to the point where he has no way out.He loves these two women, but it is so difficult to love them. Li Juan takes the soft but not the hard, the original idea of ​​killing the blood, suddenly gave up.She walked back to the bed, knelt on the bed, touched Yaping's head and said, "Yaping, I didn't mean to be against your mother. But I don't like the way your mother protects you. In this way, I will try my best, I will Try not to confront your mother head-on. I really endured it for a long time." Li Juan began to cry. Li Juan is not a woman who loves to cry. She calls many emotional blockbusters that other people watch with a tissue to wipe their noses. She can sit on the sofa and eat melon seeds while watching the news broadcast without being moved.Yaping seldom saw Lijuan in such pain.Li Juan's cry was suppressed in her chest at first, and she only shrugged her shoulders. Tears flowed down like a gurgling stream, and wet Yaping's pants. When Yaping held Li Juan's shoulder silently, At the beginning, I couldn't help the flash floods, grievances, grievances mixed with tears and snot all over Yaping.