Chapter 9 Nine have a hard time returning home

Li Juan keeps her promise and does not confront her mother-in-law.Not conflicting doesn't mean submitting, it doesn't mean swallowing one's anger, it doesn't mean compromise, it's just facing the sharp edge and adopting a slanted approach, the price of doing so is that Li Juan starts to have a home and won't return.As soon as she was about to get off work, she started to call around, make appointments for dinner, and arrange all the things she thought she had no time to do in her spare time schedule, so as to minimize the time she spent at home.For example, she started dating again with the little sisters she got to know well before marriage; for example, she looked around in the newspaper for free lectures or rehearsals; for example, she went to sign up for a fitness season card , I plan to go to the gym to do aerobics three times a week.When buying this card, Li Juan also carefully selected the time.First of all, one month is too short for Lijuan to dare to hope to be liberated in such a short period of time, and one year is too long for Lijuan to despair.In fact, Lijuan set the residence period for her mother-in-law, which is the period she decided to endure without humility—three months.

Li Juan has already made up her mind, and when she returns home every day, the moon and stars are already scarce, so she basically doesn't need to meet the old man face to face.For her, home is like an inn. She goes to sleep at night, passes through the aisle in the morning, calls out "Mom" politely, and walks past her mother-in-law quickly, even avoiding looking directly at her when she calls. Avoid confrontation.For Lijuan, the word "Mo" no longer represents any emotional color or family relationship. It is exactly the same as calling someone "Master" when going out to buy breakfast or calling "Liu Bian" in the office. It is a title. The appellation cannot attract the respect or love that the word itself should have, nor can it be said to be disgusted. Anyway, for any person, you must have a specific appellation, otherwise, you will not be able to communicate with others. "Mom" is just a title.This address is completely different from when I call "Mum Ma", the voice is ups and downs, the ending is trembling, with a delicate and soft charm, which includes intimacy, miss, and heartfelt love.

After arranging the activities every day, Li Juan only called Yaping politely and said, "I won't go back for dinner tonight." She was speechless.The dialogue between Lijuan and Yaping has decreased sharply, from the previous talk about everything to the present concise and concise, saving as much as possible.In the past, when Lijuan pinched her finger in a drawer, she would call and complain to Yaping to win a few "little darlings".Now, Li Juan felt that she was becoming as hard as a rock. Hardness and softness are a relative state. When a man is a big tree to rely on in his mind, he will be a coiled vine around the tree, tired and unwilling to come down; and when a man is covered by an umbrella by his mother Now, when she is called "my son is long, my son is short" every day, even if it is the same man, Li Juan feels that this man has a snotty nose and wears a butt curtain, besides making people feel ridiculous and weak , can't arouse Lijuan's admiration for males at all.

And this, to a large extent, affected Lijuan's estrogen secretion. In the past, she had to rest on Yaping's arm every day to fall asleep, and she felt at ease only after smelling Yaping's smell, but now she couldn't even touch her. Disgusted, even if he cared a little carefully, asking if it was cold, hot, or thirsty, Li Juan felt that this kind of greeting was hypocritical.So what if I’m hungry? Will you cook for me? So what if it’s cold? Will you cover me with a quilt? ask.Yaping opened his mouth to ask Lijuan any word, but Lijuan refused with the shortest word "no", and made it clear that he did not want to talk anymore.

When Li Juan calmed down, she also felt that she was going too far.The husband is still that husband, and all the resentment cannot be placed on him because of the existence of the mother-in-law.But the husband is clearly not that husband anymore, although they still share the same bed, they can no longer find attachment.The bodies of the two are separated by layers of quilts, and the hearts of the two are separated by layers of fences. Lijuan in this room wants to settle down, but Niang Yaping in that room doesn't intend to.Yapingniang regards Lijuan's usual indifference as the result of the only time she was asked to wash the dishes.At the beginning, Yaping Niang could pretend not to see Li Juan's expressionless face, but in reality she was dripping with gloom, and she still helped carry bags and hang clothes when they met, impressing Li Juan with her old man's kindness.It's a pity that Li Juan has firmly established her position on the principle of non-violation between well water and river water, and she doesn't want to have a little stickiness. The favors bestowed by her mother-in-law are all coldly inferred by her as a policy of softness, and she behaves in front of her son. Come back and answer, and immediately return to the previous track of being arranged, controlled and tribal.She only promised not to confront Yaping's mother head-on, but did not promise that Yaping would sacrifice her own will to win her mother-in-law's favor.In Lijuan's view, what she is doing now is the greatest contribution she can make to her family.

Yaping's mother found out that Lijuan began to go home late at night, first refusing to eat dinner at home, and then not coming back until Yaping's mother couldn't bear it anymore and went to bed.The resentment in Yaping’s mother began to grow vigorously like wormwood in the wild. There were only a few bowls, and they couldn’t be washed clean. After being beaten, she immediately shook her cheeks and pulled her face. Who will show it? Bowl, wipe it for a lifetime, even your wife’s underwear is washed at home, what’s wrong with telling you to wash a few bowls? Have a grudge? Yaping’s mother originally hoped that she would persevere in housekeeping performance, plus play hide-and-seek with her daughter-in-law every day Searching for underwear everywhere, washing it, drying it, and placing it conspicuously on Li Juan's pillow touched the heart of the daughter-in-law.Unexpectedly, the daughter-in-law was unmoved, and locked herself in the bedroom every day when she came home, and left after washing up in the morning and carrying her bag.Without a thoughtful word, without a grateful heart, it is harder than a stone in a latrine.

Ever since her mother-in-law complained that she didn’t tidy up, Lijuan carefully hides her underwear every day, and washes them when she has enough rest on the weekends, so as to prove to her mother-in-law that it’s the same as washing me without you. can pass.Li Juan can obviously rub off her underwear and bra after taking a shower every day.But Lijuan is not willing, the reason is that this is not Lijuan's way of life, but her mother-in-law's way of life. If she does this, it will be in line with her mother-in-law's wishes, so it is completed without showing the mountains or the water. The process of the mother-in-law transforming herself.Moreover, Li Juan didn't want to soak her hands in soapy water, watching the lines on her fingers thicken and the cuticles on the back of her hands peeling off.Lijuan's idea is that I will wait until the weekend to save enough clothes for a laundry tub and wash them together.Li Juan is very disapproving of what her mother-in-law said that the washing machine will wring underwear.That was the old imperial calendar in the past. The current technology has already achieved the effect of hand washing, and with the protective net cover, it will not damage the clothes. Otherwise, why do we need technological progress? Besides, according to magazine reports, underwear The actual service life of the steel wire is only half a year, and it cannot be worn when the steel wire is deformed or the elasticity becomes poor, and it will be harmful to the body to wear it again.The mother-in-law still expects that she will wear her underwear for ten years? If the clothes are worn until they are worn out, she will mend them. When is that the old imperial calendar?

And the mother-in-law rubbed and washed Lijuan's underwear with her hands many times in front of Lijuan. Maybe there were traces of secretions on it. She rubbed it and said, how can such an expensive thing be washed in a washing machine? It was ruined after a few times.How much money can I afford to buy every day like this? Lijuan especially hates her mother-in-law touching her underwear, those private items that are close to her happy parts, so Lijuan can't help being associated with the boudoir, as if she can see her husband's Hands walk over it, and the husband's body touches it.And such a private thing is now covered with wrinkles, with cracks, washed fat, mixed with onion and ginger in rough hands. Li Juan feels that it is not her mother-in-law who is washing underwear, but her mother-in-law. Putting her private parts in the sun wantonly ravaged her, which made Li Juan feel uncomfortable all over her body.In the past, Li Juan would say, Mom, leave it alone, and I will wash it later.Lijuan's meaning is very clear: 1. I can do it myself; 2. I don't need you to arrange when I do it; 3. Please don't touch my personal things.But the mother-in-law is very ignorant, so the mother-in-law intends to perform for Li Juan in this way that half humiliates her daughter-in-law and half humiliates herself. I am not ashamed to do it, and I will demonstrate it to you in person. I don’t believe me Doing this in front of your eyes day in and day out, can you turn a blind eye?

Later, the two began to play a game of hide and seek.After taking a shower, Li Juan stuffed her underwear under the pillow, under the mattress, into the gap in the closet, and into the unused bag. No matter how Lijuan stuffed her, Yaping's mother would persevere, patiently and meticulously rummaged through every corner of the bedroom with great interest and the excitement of tracking her prey. I can't beat the hunter's thrill of victory, and then I still insist on rubbing it clean with my hands, drying it in the sun, and handing it to Li Juan in person. Lijuan has played this kind of game too much, and Lijuan has started to get bored. Lijuan has clearly felt that she is far from her mother-in-law's opponent in terms of persistence in life. move.You like to wash, you wash well.From then on, Li Juan openly threw her underwear on the shelf in the bathroom, and her mother-in-law took it away.

The mother-in-law felt vaguely resentful because her daughter-in-law escaped the game and jumped away. This kind of result was not the happy ending that the mother-in-law hoped for.After washing, there will be no conquesting joy in the past. During this period, Yaping's mother was extremely upset. First of all, her performance at home has no audience at all. The only old man in the house is Yaping. No matter what she does, she should do it. She has nothing to complain about, and she is even reluctant to show a little fatigue.Secondly, Lijuan couldn't see all the work, because she didn't have time to watch.The third and most important thing is that she failed to achieve the purpose of education after doing the work. It felt like punching the air without any rebound.After she did it, Li Juan showed guilt, anxiety, and even anger, and she felt that her power was worth it.Now it is, she fucked, totally unresponsive, no one saw!The most terrifying thing about people is indifference!The old lady thought to herself.

So this kind of grievance broke out when Li Juan went to do aerobics one day. "Where is Lijuan?" Yaping's mother asked knowingly. "She went to aerobics, don't come back for dinner, don't wait for her." "If you don't come back for dinner, why don't you call home? What will you do with the meal in the future?!" Yaping's mother took advantage of the situation and knocked the vegetable basket heavily on the table, and the potatoes in the basket jumped out of the basket in panic. "There is no old man in my eyes. I make it specially for her every day. The fresh ones are hot and the cold ones are not rare at all. I don't even look at them. I think she won't come back to eat for a while. I'm afraid it doesn't suit my taste. She doesn’t like to eat pork stewed with cabbage, I change to stewed potatoes, she doesn’t like dry rice, I cook porridge instead, everything is according to her wishes, why can’t she go home for a meal? Son, my mother-in-law is really useless!" Yaping's mother beat herself when she got angry. Yaping quickly grabbed his mother's hand and said: "You are overthinking. Didn't she go to aerobics if she didn't come back? Fitness, exercise, is a good thing, and it's not because of you at all. Aren't you angry with yourself?" "Fitness, what do you want to keep fit? There are so many jobs at home, filtering it from top to bottom is enough to keep fit, and I have to spend money to go outside. I'm sweating all over my face someday? I haven't seen her stretching out her hand. It’s weight loss and exercise. Eat less meat, do more work, and have everything. I think she feels uncomfortable without spending money. Don’t follow her back! Your daughter-in-law is just what you are used to! She has no shape at all. It's delicious, lazy, arrogant, and you don't care about her! We are polite as old people, I'm sorry to say, you are a big man, why don't you say it? Does she see me? Home is a hotel, I am a free waiter, underwear I washed her panties, but she couldn’t change them and she yelled. This morning! She yelled at the shoe rack, mom, in a voice so soft that she couldn’t hear her! I was in the kitchen! Who was she calling? In the past, the daughter-in-law had to be careful in the morning and evening, but now the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law can’t get a smile when she waits on her. I used to praise her for her good-tempered smile, and she always showed her emotional smile, so she put on a donkey face when she came home! Her?" Yaping rubbed his hands and walked around his mother, not knowing what to say would not only add fuel to the fire, but also calm the incident.The only one he can communicate with is his wife. He obviously cannot tell his mother: "Lijuan works hard every day, so don't find fault with her." In Yaping's eyes, his wife is one with him, within ten feet of him. The scope that can be governed is the object that can be discussed and united. But mother, you can only bow your head and bow your eyebrows forever.He knew that what the old lady said would definitely not suit his daughter-in-law's heart, but he couldn't say to his mother, "If you talk nonsense, I'll make you look good!" Say it to your wife who is lingering on the same bed with you, and maybe will be with you for life in the future.There is an old saying here that the ruler, the minister, the father, the father, the son, the son, the two are equal to your wife, but to your mother, you can only obey with humility and gratitude.And mother, you have no reason at all. In the eyes of a mother, she has contributed everything for you, including your bones and blood, and she can continue to contribute everything for you. As long as you need her, she can even give you her heart. Therefore, she also has an absolute right to you. The right, this kind of thorough dedication, can only be given to a son by a mother, and even a woman brought back by her son from outside will not make such a thorough dedication.Her jurisdiction includes not only her own son, but also the outsider brought back by her son—no matter how much this outsider son likes it, but it is undeniable that she is an outsider. She stole his son's heart and his mother's love. He stole the money from his son's filial piety to his mother, and even relied on his son's son to hit her on the head in the end.When this woman becomes the mother of her grandson, this woman who has made no contribution to the family, this woman who has completely invaded the family can instantly be equal to the mother who has dedicated her whole life to the family. Yaping's mother has already foreseen her position in this family in the future. When Li Juan's belly grows bigger, when Li Juan bears the burden of continuing the family's incense, even if she is unwilling and reluctant, she is nostalgic for history. The stage also had to leave hastily under the dim lights, and since then lost the right to speak.Lijuan's belly will be the key to the protagonist's transformation.Therefore, Yaping's mother must put the whole family on her own track before Lijuan's belly bulges out, follow the family life path she planned, and turn her daughter-in-law into the Nth generation successor of the Li family. .Because, when Yaping's mother was young, she was coerced by her mother-in-law in this way, and her internal strength was shaped. So, when Lijuan came back, she saw Yaping, who had been brainwashed by her mother again, sitting on the sofa and waiting.Yaping can no longer make any demands with Li Juan.Lijuan did what Yaping said.As for love and respect, this cannot be demanded. It must come from the heart and be convincing, otherwise all definitions are empty. "Lijuan, come back so late? I'm too tired, I can't take it anymore, let's go home for dinner in the future! How nice is the family reunion?" Lijuan immediately recognized that this was the result of her mother-in-law's advice, maybe The mother-in-law's words were even more blunt. When I came to Yaping, I didn't know how many catties of powder was applied and how many flowers were worn to make it so soft and beautiful. "No need. This home is yours, not mine. When your mother leaves, I will come back. That's good. Don't touch each other. I will do as you said, without conflict." "Lijuan, what can I say to make you happy? She is my mother and you are my wife. Think about it for me, okay?" Lijuan was too lazy to talk nonsense with Yaping on the same issue and argue again As a result, Yaping may repeat the old trick, kneeling in front of himself and begging himself to give in a little bit, maybe this time it will be even worse, as shown on TV, plus slapping himself a few times, making him look more pitiful and win Li Cuckoo's sympathy.Lijuan doesn't want to have only sympathy and pity for Yaping, but no love anymore. Li Juan ignored Yaping and turned back to the room. Yaping faced Li Juan's cold back for another night.