On the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, Lao Tan's five sisters and five brothers-in-law all came to the fifth sister's house, and the whole family celebrated the festival lively and happily.
The next morning, Lao Tan picked up two cabbages from the yard, picked a handful of peppers, and pulled out a dozen green onions, washed them by the well, and prepared dumplings stuffed with cabbage, green onions, and chili sauce for lunch.
Mother put on thick clothes and sat on a stool in front of the hall to bask in the sun.
Lao Tan took the cutting board out of the house, set it up on the steps, and started chopping cabbage.
"Put some meat in. It won't taste good without meat." The old lady said to her son.
"Yeah, put the meat in." Lao Tan agreed.
"Give me some without meat. You can eat the meat with it, but I can't digest the meat." The old lady muttered.
"I'll cook it for you a little longer," Old Tan said with a smile.
"It won't work even if you cook it for a while. You have no teeth and can't bite. When you get older, it's better to eat some vegetarian food. Just a little oil and water will do. You should also eat less meat. You're too fat. Fat people will develop high blood pressure. High blood pressure."
I won’t remove my roots even if I love them, and I’ll love them so much that I’ll have cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction------
You see, the people who died now are all young people, not very old, in their forties or fifties, either suffering from cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, or myocardial infarction------all eating and drinking heavily-
-----Those of us who are too old to die, don’t eat meat, don’t drink alcohol, and don’t touch fried or oily food, how can we get sick?”
"It's better to eat whole grains," Lao Tan said.
"What's better than whole grains? Rice and white flour are good, but not nutritious. I don't like to drink rice porridge at all. Your fifth sister always makes millet porridge for me. It's mushy. I can drink it, but you can't. You guys
You have to drink something a little harder."
The old lady may be too hot, so she unbuttoned two buttons of her coat.
Lao Tan finished cutting one cabbage, put the second cabbage on the cutting board, and then lit a cigarette.
After cleaning up the house, the fifth sister came out with the brewed tea and took the kitchen knife from her brother's hand.
"The mooncake with jujube paste filling that Guohua brought back is quite soft, and it's okay to eat------" the old lady muttered casually.
The fifth sister smiled and said to her brother: "Look, I want to eat moon cakes, and I have to eat what you brought back."
Lao Tan laughed.
The fifth sister teased her mother: "Eat what your old son bought for you? Why, what he bought is better than what I bought?"
"Isn't that made from jujube? I can bite it." The old lady defended.
The fifth sister laughed, got up and went into the house to get a jujube paste mooncake.
The old lady broke the mooncake in half and handed one half to the old girl. Then she used her thin hands to break off a small piece from the other half and put it into her mouth, slowly rubbing it with her toothless gums.
After swallowing a mouthful of mooncakes, the old lady thought of the past and said: "Back when we were in the production team, there were no two of you at that time, it was just your eldest sister and your second sister. There was nothing to eat during the August Festival, so just grab a bowl of millet."
That's it ------
Dr. Xu from the mine is kind-hearted. Seeing that our family has nothing to eat, the two children only have a bowl of rice and pickles ------- I will give you a moon cake, and your eldest sister and your second sister will each have half -------
The child has never eaten mooncakes at this age. Your second sister takes a bite. Your eldest sister hasn’t eaten that fragrance. Give it to me and tell me, Mom, you can eat it------"
As the old lady spoke, a handful of bitter tears flowed from her scarlet eyes------
The fifth sister's eyes were filled with tears, and the root of Lao Tan's nose was sore------
Those hard days——
The old lady wiped the tears from her face with her wrinkled hands, sighed, and then said in a relieved tone: "Life is so good now, you can eat whatever you want, not to mention moon cakes, there are also royal banquets. Still.
The society was good. At that time, no one thought that such a society existed. It would be good to have a full stomach.
You see, every day in this family is just like the Chinese New Year. They are tired of eating meat and are starting to eat seafood. If you ask me, there is nothing better than the whole grains in the fields and the eggplants and peppers in the garden. A common man digs in the soil to eat.
Yeah, what kind of seafood do you want to eat?”
Fifth Sister and Lao Tan laughed at the same time.
The old lady was very talkative. She shifted her focus from food to health. She said to her son: "Eat less seafood, less meat, and less wine in restaurants. Look at you. You just turned 41 and you have high blood pressure. You are not as good as I am."
Woolen cloth.
Nothing is better than having a good physique. What is your own? As long as your physique is yours, it is better to be free from illness and disaster. For people of my age, you must have a good physique. It is your blessing to have no problems.
.If I collapse on the kang and live there, you won't be worried."
The fifth sister said to Lao Tan: "My mother is in good health. The weather changed in spring and I caught a cold. I had to be put on a bottle for several days before I recovered. There was nothing wrong with my mother, and she still cooked for me. At the same time,
While doing this, I muttered: Are you the only ones who don’t catch a cold? No one in good health is as good as an old lady like me."
Old Tan smiled and looked at his mother.
Mother broke off another piece of moon cake and put it in her mouth, chewing it slowly.
The autumn sunshine shines warmly into this cozy farmyard, and a kind of sweetness of family affection and happiness of home ripples.
People, no matter how old you are, if you have a mother, you should always have a family.
Zhou Xiaomei spent the August Festival with her parents, brother, sister-in-law, nieces and nephews, and her baby son. She did nothing for the next two days and spent all her time with her son.
I haven't seen my son for more than half a year, and the little guy has grown taller and looks like a little man.
Her son followed her, was very adventurous, always spoke adult words, and was sensible, just like she was when she was a child. Xiaomei's mother said that her son always got little red flowers in kindergarten, and he was good at drawing. If he enrolled in an art class in the city, he might be able to make a living.
Woolen cloth.
Zhou Xiaomei also wants to take her child with her, but reality does not allow it - she is single, goes to work every day, and doesn’t know when she will get off work, so how should she take care of her?
She also wanted to buy a house in Hohhot and bring her parents over, but the two old people were used to living in the countryside and not in the city. Besides, they had a brother and sister-in-law at home, and the parents could not live without their grandchildren.
She feels relieved that her children are at home. They have parents to take care of them and her brother's two children as playmates. They live a good life. However, education in rural areas is not as good as in the city. As a mother, she hopes that her children will receive a good education.
She plans to take her child to Hohhot when he is in elementary school, go to school there, and hire a nanny when the time comes.
She told her parents about this idea, but her father didn't say a word. Being silent doesn't mean he doesn't have an idea.
Mom said: "It's okay to hire a nanny, but it's best to find someone. After all, you can't live alone for the rest of your life."
What mom said was what dad meant. Parents all over the world are the same. They can't bear to see their children living alone, let alone they are still young.
It's not that she hasn't thought about this, it's just that she hasn't found the right one.
A woman's first marriage must be for love and she has no worries. But her second marriage may not be so, especially if she has children, she will have more worries no matter how much she thinks about it.
This does not mean that people lose love when they reach middle age. In fact, the love of middle-aged people is purer and deeper. It is just that with the experience and constraints of life, they think more and be more cautious.
Because I think too much and are cautious, I often love and care deeply in my heart but don’t express it.
This may be the reality of love for adults.
Of course, there are also people who are open-minded and regard love as a simple relationship between the sexes. As long as two people look at each other, they will obey their inner feelings and live together quickly. If they don't like each other, they can separate and be free and comfortable.
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Our Zhou Xiaomei, a woman with a model figure and very beautiful temperament, is not yet so chic. The traditional moral values in her bones have made her more cautious in interacting with men since she became a divorced woman, and sometimes she even avoids them.
Reputation is very important to a woman. Once she indulges herself, bad reputation will accompany her for a lifetime.
Due to the special nature of the job, it is inevitable to come into contact with all kinds of men. In addition, due to good looks, there are many suitors, including successful men with successful careers.
But Zhou Xiaomei politely refused, because whenever she had an idea, her lovely son would appear in front of her.
Thinking that my son was happy inside but also feeling guilty, I came up with an idea: How can other men be good to their children? Obviously, they are here for their looks. If they are not beautiful, no one will notice them, and they will not
Pursue.
Can these people accept themselves and their sons? They will feel like a burden.
Just be a dad when you enter the house, it will save you trouble. This is just a joke and cannot be taken seriously.
It is difficult for a woman to find a second home for a boy. It is easy to be a step-husband, but it is difficult to be a step-father.
Having said that, at this age, most men are divorced, and 80% have children. When two people start a family, they will face the embarrassing situation of two children with no blood relationship, and a stepfather.
, a stepmother is difficult to deal with.
This is an unavoidable reality and cannot be ignored.
It might be much easier to just pursue one's own happiness, but is it possible? She, Zhou Xiaomei, can't do this yet. Leave the child to her parents, find a man to marry, and then live a sweet life.
But it is not easy to find a man who loves himself and his son and treats his son as his own son.
"I have a child here, so it's not that easy to find." Zhou Xiaomei said to her mother.
"Hey, when I told you not to have children, you were disobedient. It's been almost two years and I haven't received a penny in child support--" Xiaomei's mother complained about her daughter.
"No need, I can support my son."
"If I can feed you and take him away, I won't have a toothache from talking about it."
"Take it away, take it away." Xiaomei lost her temper.
Xiaomei's mother looked at her daughter helplessly, breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Let me and your father take care of the child. You can find someone who doesn't take care of the child, and then have another one. The man can wait until he has his own child, and think more comprehensively.
We can live together."
"Mom, don't worry about me. I can take care of it. You and my dad take good care of your health. No problem is better than nothing. I can rest assured outside and don't worry about it."