Chapter 586 Be prepared for danger in times of peace
My cousin was so embarrassed that she was so angry that she left without looking back.
Yin Yue's two half-year-old brothers admired their sister's hand so much that they secretly covered their mouths in the room and laughed.
Talking, laughing, and playing around, the two little brothers began to fall and fall.
Rolling around in the house casually, with no rules at all, fully demonstrating the freedom and joy that can only be found during the New Year.
In the whole family, only grandma was very unhappy about this incident.
But the old lady knew that her granddaughter had an idea, and knew that she did not like the person introduced by her cousin.
And I feel sorry for her that it is not easy for her to support this family.
So it was not easy to interfere just now, and I could only sigh and complain a few words afterwards.
"You, you, how can I say good to you? You are so ignorant and don't know the importance of you! Three people are like tigers! How can you create your own rumors? Sooner or later you will get married, right? With such a reputation
It's time to go out in public, which man will dare to want you then? It'll be too late for you to regret it."
"Besides, after all, my cousin is a relative and your elder. You don't want to be too embarrassed. You have to leave room for us to meet in the future. As an outsider, I know you think she is nosy, but she also has good intentions. That man
He seems to be a bit ordinary, but he is an only child, and his biological mother has passed away long ago. Now he and Xu Xian's father live separately, and he has a one-bedroom apartment. If you want to marry him, there will be no discord between your sister-in-law and your sister-in-law.
, and you won’t be angry with your mother-in-law. This is a benefit after all.”
"Grandma is already a living person. I take off my shoes at night and don't know if I can put them on in the morning. In these limited days, my only concern is that I hope you can marry into a good family.
, I have something to rely on for life..."
As she talked, the old lady cried, silently shedding tears.
Yin Yue was still afraid of this. Knowing that in this situation, she must comfort her grandma and make her feel at ease.
So I quickly laughed, sat next to my grandma on the bed, hugged the old man, and comforted her.
"Grandma, it's Chinese New Year, you have to laugh, why are you wiping tears on your eyes? Come on, I'll wipe them for you."
"I know you do it for my own good. But I can't bear to do anything wrong with myself when it comes to marriage. Do you think my current income is comparable to that of many men? If I want to marry anyone at random, then who is it?
Who can I rely on? I can't find someone who is a softie. If I want to marry, I have to marry someone better than myself, right?"
"Besides, marrying someone can make you a lifelong supporter? Your view is outdated. It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on anyone. What's more, I have two younger brothers. I earn money to support them in college. When they finish their studies,
When they grow up and become adults, they will be my support in the future."
"Grandma, I decided not to consider personal issues for the time being after careful consideration. How old am I? Are you afraid that I won't be able to get married? Are you willing to let me go? Let me stay with you for another two years. Don't worry,
I don’t rely on anyone, I just rely on myself, and I will definitely make your and your brothers’ lives better and better, and make the neighbors more and more envious of our family.”
"But if you keep urging me, then I will be sad. If you want to drive me away, I will go abroad by myself. Then I will simply marry a foreigner and wait until I have a blue-eyed son-in-law.
, I’ll come back again. Huh, I see you see your great-grandson who has changed the seedlings like this. Do you feel sad? Do you regret it?”
Yin Yue's sincere words really had an effect.
Especially at the end of the conversation, her intentionally exaggerated nonsense made grandma laugh.
Grandma poked her on the head with her finger and followed her words and teased her.
"If this is the case, then tomorrow I will go out for a walk with this blue-eyed child in my arms. The neighbors in our alley will gather around me and ask, why did you come back holding a poodle?"
Just playing cymbals with each other, the old and the young hugged each other and had fun for a long time.
But after laughing enough, grandma felt much better, but she still didn't give up.
The old man was a little worried, so he inevitably gave his granddaughter a few extra words of advice.
"Xiao Yue, grandma knows that you are a very strong child and you are more capable than many grown men. But after all, you are young and have not experienced much. Your life is too smooth. Grandma is afraid that when you really encounter ups and downs,
I can’t stand the bump."
"Grandma? What did you say? I'm fine! It's so hard for me to endure all the hardships and finally get the joy of it!"
Yin Yue opened her eyes wide and smiled bitterly.
Thinking about her life from childhood to adulthood, she couldn't understand what her grandma meant at all.
"Silly boy, what does the hardship you endure mean? No matter how miserable your generation is, they were never caught up in the war when they were born, right? No matter how poor our family is, the government has always taken care of us all these years, so why can't we
Let our family not go hungry. If grandma had been as lucky as you when she was born, she would have recited Amitabha..."
"Oh, my grandma and granddaughter feel sorry for you. I know it's not easy for you. Okay, okay, let's forget about the bitterness and sweetness, and don't think about the past..."
At this time, Yin Yue just thought that her grandma was complaining to her, and she was coaxing her like a child.
But grandma shook her head.
"Hey, grandma said, there are good times and bad times for people. Even though you are so proud now, people have their luck, and luck turns around. Maybe in the blink of an eye, your luck will be gone. Then when the time comes
What should I do when the time comes?"
Then, grandma told the story that almost everyone in Beijing knows - if you have money, you will not see big sesame cakes, but if you don't have money, you will see big sesame cakes.
The gist of the story is that there is such a young man, how he behaves badly when he has money, and how pitiful he is when he has no money.
Of course Yin Yue has heard it, and she has been listening to it since she was a child, and she has long been tired of it.
No matter how patiently she was, she couldn't hold on until grandma finished speaking, so she had to interrupt.
"Grandma, I understand. Be prepared for danger in times of peace. This is what you want to say, right? Don't worry, your granddaughter, I am not a person who spends money randomly. In fact, I save money. I still count on money to make money, why?
Maybe he’s being extravagant…”
Unexpectedly, she took the initiative to express her position and still failed to meet grandma's thoughts. It was still a little bit wrong.
"You kid, you are good at everything. But when you are proud, you will still be self-righteous. Grandma is afraid of you. You are right. Grandma wants to tell you that if you have money, you need to remember the days when you have no money.
Don't forget when you are proud and frustrated. But that's not all. You obviously understood the story grandma told too simply."
Grandma patted Yin Yue's hand, then looked into her eyes seriously and said.
"Grandma is not afraid that you will make mistakes. What grandma wants you to understand today is that sometimes difficulties come unexpectedly and cannot be reversed by human power. It is indeed not easy for you to live such a good life now. So grandma is very worried.
If you lose it all again, can you bear it? Will you have enough courage to face it one day?"
"Grandma, how is this possible? I'm afraid you don't know how much money I have. There is really no need for you to worry. Anyway, my granddaughter made a guarantee with you today that our family will never be poor again in this life."
Yin Yue subconsciously retorted, thinking that the old man's worries were unfounded and completely unnecessary.
But what grandma said below completely refreshed her mind.
"Don't believe it, nothing is impossible in this world. From good to bad, from prosperity to decline, I have seen too many things. Not to mention, my brother, your uncle
Grandpa, I think he was the best hawker in the fruit market back then. From picking up fruits to opening his own fruit shop, he walked through it step by step. But what happened in the end? All his life savings, a thousand oceans.
It turned into gold coins like useless paper. He therefore took advantage of it and abandoned his whole family and jumped into the moat."
"It turns out that there once lived a goldsmith in our alley. When the city was besieged on the eve of liberation, he used a gold bar and some gold jewelry to buy a small goldsmith next to Yongding Gate from a high-ranking official who was about to escape.
The high-ranking official left, and he took advantage. But Gao Xingxing didn't live there for two years before he caught up with the demolition and road construction, and the house was still gone. He lived in the big courtyard here, but this
He couldn't think about it and couldn't smile every day. As a result, he got liver disease within two years and died in depression."
"It turns out that there was a traditional Chinese medicine doctor named Shou in Chashi Hutong, who ran a ginseng and antler shop at home. His medical skills and reputation were no worse than those of the 'Four Famous Doctors' in the capital. He specialized in treating difficult and complicated diseases that others could not cure. Before liberation, he visited a patient once.
He had to be picked up and dropped off by car, and the consultation fee was at least two gold bars. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has the ability to revive the dead. But because the family background was too high, he was aloof and unsociable. After liberation, private clinics were banned, and no hospital in the capital was willing to admit him.
.He drank wine every day at home and abroad to relieve his sorrows, but he was hit by a car in the middle of the night. But just a week after his death, the letter of appointment from the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was also sent to his home."
"My child, what grandma tells you is that there are inevitable disasters in life, and a good day that is 100% safe never exists. God will always have a way to torment ordinary people. But no matter how big the difficulties are, don't lose confidence.
At any time, you have to think about it. Even if one day your money is really gone and we are back to the way we were before, it doesn't matter, we can just start over. The most important thing is that people are fine. As long as people are there, there will be peace.
Hopefully, it’s still possible…”
There is basis and basis, there is cause and effect. Grandma's words are so profound and philosophical that Yin Yue cannot help but think deeply.
Money is money! Can my money... be lost out of thin air?
No, no, definitely not, I have fifty thousand yuan! What can happen?
But...what if...if grandma really talks about it...
No, no! It's too terrible! I won't be able to bear it. I can't let this happen...
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People who are not married are worried, struggling to find their life goals, and trying to figure out what kind of life they want to live.
People who have married have families, but they are also struggling in the world of mortals, and their troubles in this regard are not necessarily less.
For example, Mi Xiaoran, who is far away from abroad, received Zhao Hanyu’s strong support during the Spring Festival last year.
She moved out of the Zhao family's villa as she wished, rented an apartment in Manhattan with Zhao Hanyu, and started a world of two.
But along with gaining freedom, came the troubles of living independently.
The first is the economic issue. Zhao Hanyu’s salary is not much, and his monthly salary during the internship is about US$1,300.
This money is not enough to pay rent, support two people, and pay Mi Xiaoran's language school tuition.
So the two of them can only rely on family support.
With a thousand dollars to support them every month, it is not easy for the two of them to spend money too casually.
After all, the handler has short hands, and Zhao Hanyu’s mother never knew when she would come over to take a look.
Mi Xiaoran doesn't make any money, so she has to act like a daughter-in-law who knows how to live a good life.
Only then did she realize that the freedom gained from co-authorship was also limited.
Although I no longer have to apologize to Zhao Hanyu's parents every day, even if they are not here.
You will also feel the pressure they put on you.
I can't be lazy every day, I have to clean the house spotlessly.
I also have to work hard to learn how to cook and write down the household expenses in order.
In case my mother-in-law comes to check at any time, she can explain everything.
Secondly, there is also great inconvenience in life, even though the house Zhao Hanyu rents is not far from Chinatown.
Mi Xiaoran can just walk and come back when shopping. There is no need for her husband to drive to deliver it.
But language has become the biggest obstacle.
Because the ancestors of the Taishan people in Guangdong were the first to land on this land, almost all the bosses in Chinatown are Cantonese.
A popular saying here is "If you don't understand Taishan dialect, it will be difficult to find a job."
The adults and children here speak Taishan dialect that Mi Xiaoran cannot understand, and the curse word "horse riding across the sea" can be heard everywhere.
Even the Chinese teacher who taught her English at the bilingual school also spoke Taishan dialect.
Mi Xiaoran found that it was a fantasy to find people who spoke Mandarin in this place.
Even in a family like Zhao Hanyu's, they know how to speak Mandarin, but they still have a Taishan dialect accent.
Sometimes, when she communicates with these shop owners, she speaks English instead, which makes it easier to understand each other's meaning.
God knows how strange and awkward this is.
She always had the illusion that New York's Chinatown was not a gathering place for Chinese at all.
Because of the language barrier, in her eyes, it looked like Korean Street or Vietnamese Street.
Finally, Mi Xiaoran was extremely unaccustomed to eating.
Unfortunately, America in this era is like a Chinese food desert.
The quality of the Chinese restaurants here can be described as ridiculous. They are all sweet and sour dishes fried in large pots.
Foreigners like it very much, but Mi Xiaoran feels tired and sick as soon as she eats it.
To put it bluntly, there are not many serious Chinese chefs here.
Even Zhao Hanyu's chef, who is not an authentic Cantonese cook, is already a master.
So in most cases, Mi Xiaoran and Zhao Zhenyu use foreign fast food and cook their own meals to solve their stomach problems.
But Mi Xiaoran has an out-and-out domestic appetite.
If she eats too much foreign fast food, she will easily suffer from indigestion and stomach discomfort.
And choosing to cook by yourself is cost-effective from an economic point of view.
But the problem is that she is just a beginner in cooking, and the simple meals are just fine, just barely swallowable.
No problem, a bowl of tomato and egg noodles has become her most common meal.
But what's worse is that there are no pickles that Mi Xiaoran can buy here.
Mi Xiaoran is from the capital city. Northerners in this era are characterized by their heavy eating habits.
It is the custom to eat pickles with every meal, just like Sichuan people eat chili peppers.
But how could it be possible in the United States?
Don't even think about the eight-treasure vegetables and spicy shredded coriander, nor the big pickled radish or mustard knots.
It left Mi Xiaoran's mouth feeling extremely bland, so he was thankful to be able to buy some fermented bean curd and salted duck eggs.
The most commonly purchased pickles here are Cantonese pickles and southern-style pickles.
Generally speaking, it is unfortunate that in the second year after arriving in the United States, Mi Xiaoran successfully moved out of her husband's house with the help of her husband and started a new life of her own.
But in addition to the anxiety about studying, I was physically and mentally exhausted from doing housework. In addition, I couldn’t eat well or sleep well.
As a result, her weight approached the 90-pound mark without her realizing it, and she looked a little thin.
But the saddest thing is that we can't receive much domestic news here, and our spiritual emptiness and thoughts and emotions are incomprehensible.
So every time he received a letter from home, Mi Xiaoran would take the letter with him and read it over and over when he had time.