Lao Tan originally planned to go directly from the provincial capital to Changsha. After hearing about Cao Jiadong, he changed his itinerary and went to Hohhot first.
After arriving in Hohhot, I visited Cao Jiadong and said a lot of words of comfort. Then I went to Zhang Yu's house and chatted with the couple for a long time.
Zhang Yu said that the catering situation this year is a bit tight. He has been in Hohhot for a long time. Most of what he said was the current situation in Hohhot. What he meant in his words was that Hohhot will not expand or open stores this year and will rest and recuperate.
Lao Tan agreed with him.
"When I came here, I talked with Yanhua on the phone and she agreed." Lao Tan said.
"Have you met her son?" Yanzi couldn't help but ask when talking about Yanhua.
Lao Tan smiled and said: "No, she just came home from the hospital and wanted to go. Didn't something happen to the house? She didn't care."
Yanzi looked slightly disappointed, then glanced at Zhang Yu and said, "We plan to go to the provincial capital when her child is one month old."
"You haven't been back to the provincial capital in two years, right?" Lao Tan asked.
"That's not true. This time I will celebrate the full moon for Yanhua's son, and by the way, I will stay for two more days to meet my old brothers and sisters." Yanzi said.
"Look at the children too." Zhang Yu said.
Lao Tan joked: "Meeting my son is fake, but meeting my unmarried daughter-in-law is real."
It was getting dark when we came out of Zhang Yu's house, so Lao Tan didn't go to the store and went straight back to his residence.
Five minutes after entering the house, there was a knock on the door. Lao Tan called out and Li Zhiwen and his mother opened the door and walked in carefully.
After Li Zhiwen and Meng Meng divorced, they regretted it so much that they changed their appearance and became depressed. He drank heavily all day and never left the house, turning the young man in his twenties into a sloppy middle-aged uncle.
His family is from Jining, and his mother has been working in a Jining store. In order to get her son married, her mother spent all her savings. To be honest, no matter how much money a rural woman can have, that is, she has been working hard all these years to earn money.
of those.
She originally expected her son to live a good life after starting a family and starting a business. She worked part-time to earn money and supplement the supplement. She didn't ask for anything else. She just wanted peace and quiet and nothing wrong with her. Who could have imagined that her son would not live up to his expectations and that he would be divorced from a good wife?
They left without saying a word, but they still broke up and couldn't survive. It was really uncomfortable for the mother.
I couldn't bear to see my son like this, so I persuaded him to go out and find a job, firstly, to earn some money to support himself, and secondly, to get in touch with more people. Don't stay at home and drink alcohol for fear of getting sick.
Li Zhiwen is not a disobedient child, but the shock of divorce was too great and he couldn't get out for a while. He knew what his family was like, and he also knew that it was not easy for his mother.
It's a pity that my heart is not in my heart, something always goes wrong at work, and I was fired from two jobs I found. After that, I was introduced by friends. Everyone knew what he was like, and I didn't like to introduce him anymore.
His mother was anxious and worried that something would happen to her child if he continued like this. After thinking about it, she went to the store manager Tong Xin and asked if she could ask her son to go back to work in Aqiao, so that she could have someone to take care of her, and she could rest assured that the other son
He is an experienced employee and is familiar with his job so he will not make mistakes.
To be honest, this is the last thing a mother can do. Ah Qiao did not resign her son, it was her son who resigned because he felt embarrassed. Everyone in Ah Qiao knew what he did. It was unethical, and even if he asked people to point fingers at him, he would have no shame in going back.
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But what can we do? We can’t just watch our son go on like this, right?
Who would be willing to be a mother?
No matter how bad the son is, he is still the flesh that fell from his mother's body. His own child will hurt himself——
But having said that, Li Zhiwen did make mistakes in the first place. What he did was very particular and even angry. That's why Zhou Xiaomei got angry and said she would never hire him.
Tong Xin was also in a dilemma. Seeing that Li Zhiwen had been working diligently in the store for all these years, it stands to reason that Li Zhiwen should be the one to choose. Besides, people’s hearts are made of flesh, and she also has such a big son. If this matter happened to her,
No way.
But Zhou Xiaomei said she would no longer hire Li Zhiwen, and it was hard for her to agree.
So he gave Zhiwen's mother an idea, saying that she had to talk to Lao Tan about it. If Lao Tan nodded, Zhou Xiaomei would have nothing to say, so she immediately agreed.
I said this half a month ago. Tong Xin called Zhou Xiaomei at noon today to ask about Cao Jiadong's situation. Zhou Xiaomei told her about Lao Tan's visit to Hohhot.
After Tong Xin found out, she told Zhiwen's mother that she didn't have to go to work in the afternoon and quickly took her son to Hohhot to find Lao Tan.
When Lao Tan saw the mother-in-law, he thought of something. He enthusiastically let the mother and son into the sofa, and then asked directly: "Sister, do you want to see me for anything?"
Zhiwen's mother burst into tears before she opened her mouth. A fifty-year-old looks like a sixty-year-old, with most of her hair white and her body much thinner than in previous years. She is very thin.
Looking at her, Lao Tan remembered his mother when she first came out to work. She was very similar to her mother at that time, lonely and helpless.
"Hey, look at your eldest sister, no matter what tears you shed or what you have to say, I will do whatever I can." Lao Tan comforted her.
Zhiwen's mother wiped her face and stopped crying.
"Dr. Tan, I don't even have the nerve to come to you. There's nothing I can do about it--" Zhiwen's mother said and glanced at her son beside her, "It's such a shame. A good wife has left you, and I have to do nothing at home all day long."
If you drink, you just sleep. If you don’t drink, you’ll just sit around and look like a fool------"
Tears flowed out of this miserable woman's eyes again and fell down.
"Mom——" Li Zhiwen called out in a low voice.
Zhiwen's mother stopped crying and said to Lao Tan: "I found several jobs for him, but they didn't work, so I asked the boss to resign. I also got angry - he worked at our house after he was beaten, right?
Our life is familiar------
Hey, I really can’t help myself, Mr. Tan, if I had any patience I wouldn’t bother you------"
What a miserable woman.
"It's no trouble." Lao Tan said with a smile: "Don't get angry, your health is important. I know a little bit about Zhiwen."
Lao Tan looked at Li Zhiwen. Li Zhiwen and Lao Tan looked at each other and then lowered their heads, looking depressed.
"Zhiwen, how old are you?" Lao Tan asked.
"Twenty-three." Li Zhiwen replied and lowered his head.
"Twenty-three -------" Lao Tan muttered, and then said: "Twenty-three is not too young, and you should understand the matter. I will not comment on your divorce. This is private and no one else will participate.
But whether it’s marriage or divorce, it’s just a result, it’s your choice. Since it’s your choice, you have to accept it. There’s no use regretting it, being upset, or blaming yourself. Don’t have illusions, it won’t help.
If you want to recover what you have lost, you have to do better than before, be like a man and be able to take on responsibilities, instead of being dejected and pretending to be pitiful to make people pity you. This will only aggravate the other person's disgust and contempt for you. Even if you want to give
I also gave up the opportunity because it wasn’t worth it.”
Li Zhiwen still lowered his head, but moved his body.
"When your cousin came to introduce you to me, he said that you were sensible, filial, and smart. I didn't care that you were sensible and smart. To be honest, as long as this child is obedient and not stupid or pinched, he can do a good job in our family and earn a lot of money.
Money that should be earned.
But filial piety is different. If a person is not filial, he will not be filial to his parents or to anyone else. Such people have no virtue, and Ah Qiao does not want them.
After you came to our house, I learned that you were indeed filial, otherwise I wouldn’t have asked for your mother’s salary, do you understand this?”
Li Zhiwen raised his head and nodded at Lao Tan.
Zhiwen's mother's eyes were filled with tears again.
"Son, as long as a person is filial, it proves that he is not bad and is a good person. But filial piety is not temporary, but a lifetime.
You are already twenty-three, and you should have stopped worrying about your mother. Even if you can't live a good life without having to work, you should at least make her happy, right?
Look at your mother, what's she like now? Her hair is gray, her body is weak, she paid you to marry her and asked you to divorce her. If you feel uncomfortable, doesn't your mother feel uncomfortable too? Make your mother feel uncomfortable and anxious too.
When you get angry, is that called filial piety?"
Li Zhiwen tilted his head, his mother's gray hair was particularly dazzling------
Zhiwen's mother's tears fell thickly.
Li Zhiwen's eyes were filled with tears, and he yelled with heartache in his self-blame: "Mom——"
Then the root of my nose felt sour and tears of guilt flowed down.