Chapter 14 two

Aunt Lan has lived in our house for a week, and her voice and laughter are everywhere in the house.Dad went to work, and Mom went to Guang'an Market to buy vegetables, and she and Song Mom were talking and laughing.She scolded Uncle Shi's family enough, first talking about Uncle Shi's old appearance, then talking about his stinginess, his meanness, and his inhumanity, and then she whispered something to Song's mother, and they laughed loudly Chirping, the nanny was so happy that she burst into tears. Aunt Lan has a round and flat face with a neat row of white teeth. I like the gold-inlaid tooth on her left the most. When she smiles, the left corner of her mouth tilts upwards, and the gold teeth are properly exposed.There is also a dimple in the left mouth, which swirls with the laughter.

Her braided bun is much more playful than Mom’s ingot bun. Watch her twist her hair into two strands, and then twist it into a bun. A row of jasmine flowers is always quiet, lying half bent beside the bun.She is dressed lightly, with the linen handkerchief tucked on the right breast, like a white chrysanthemum sticking there.Sitting in a foreign car with Aunt Lan was very comfortable. She put her arms around me and kept saying: Lean in, lean in.Unlike my mother, she wore a big belly every year in her black floral skirt.Riding in a foreign car with my mother, her big belly made me uncomfortable, and she said straight: Don't squeeze me, okay!Now mom is pregnant again.

With Aunt Lan, Mom is not lonely when doing housework. She and Mom have endless things to talk about. Nanny and Mama Zhang like to come and listen. Looking at Aunt Lan's expressive face.She asked her mother: Mrs. Lin, how old was Yingzi when you gave birth? Only sixteen years old.Mom said. Aunt Lan smiled: I am also only sixteen years old. What are you laughing at?I asked in a hurry. Don't interrupt, kids!Mom scolded me, and said to Aunt Lan: Be careful what you say in front of the child, Yingzi is a ghost, she will go out and talk nonsense. Aunt Lan sighed: I was brought into Beijing from Suzhou when I was fourteen. When I was sixteen, I met a lot of people in four years. When I was twenty, I followed Shi Da, an old ghost.

Brother Shi, how old is this year?Mom interrupted and asked. No matter how old he is!Sixty, seventy, eighty, old anyway, very old! I remember he was in his sixties or sixties?Mom still asked. He, Aunt Lan laughed, and looked at me: he was as old as Yingzi, minus a week of Jiazi, and he was only eight years old! You have been with him for five years, aren't you twenty-five years old this year? Even though he is sixty-eight years old, he looks tough!If I go on, I can't survive him. Their family treats me alone, and I still have a few years to live!I don't want to bury my young days in their house.However, the world is vast, and I have come out, so what should I do?I have no relatives, but there is a mother in Suzhou who sold me when I was three years old. I can't remember which street she lives in!I just remember that there was an oil lamp in that room, illuminating my elder brother who was lying on the bed. He was sick, and my mother sat by the bed and cried. It must be because of this illness that my elder brother sold me!It's like a dream when I think about it, I don't know if it's just my imagination or it's real

Aunt Lan said with tears in her eyes, maybe she didn't want to cry, and she forced a smile on her mouth. Mom can't speak, she is clumsy, and she doesn't try to persuade Aunt Lan.I thought of how I broke down with my mother in the crowd when I watched the Fa-burning boat in Beihai in July and a half last year, and cried so anxiously. How can a person live without a mother?I lost my mother when I was three years old, and I wanted to cry too. I said: Aunt Lan, just live in our house, my father likes to keep people to live in, there are several vacant rooms! Good boy, have a good heart, finish your studies tomorrow and become the headmistress, don't get married, there are no good men in the world!If your parents are willing, I will live with your family for the rest of my life, let me worship your mother as an older sister, and ask her if she is willing?Aunt Lan said with a smile.

Mom is willing?I really asked. willing!Mom's voice seems to have been soaked in vinegar, why is it so sour! I'm very happy, if Aunt Lan can stay in our house for a long time.Why did she also say that I want to be the headmistress?Once, I was standing by the character test stand across the street to watch the excitement, and the man who measured characters suddenly pulled out a folding fan from his back collar, pointed at me and said to the fortune-tellers: Do you see it?This little girl is going to be the headmistress tomorrow, her nose is high and straight, she has big ideas!Manly.Aunt Lan's words and Mr. Jizi's words made people feel very comfortable listening to them, and made me feel very great.

Dad was also kind to Aunt Lan. That day I followed my parents to Ruifuxiang to buy clothes. After Mom happily selected some clothes for me and my younger siblings, Dad suddenly said to me: Yingzi, you pick another one for Aunt Lan, do you know what color she likes? I know, I'm very excited, she likes an egg blue Indian silk, trimmed with a black border, and then pressed with a white bud. , Mom was frowning and staring at me.The clerk brought several bolts of silks of different shades and shades, and Dad picked the one with the lightest color, and said humbly to Mom: Do you see if the material is okay?Is it silk?

Ma tensed her face, grabbed the end of the cloth, and clenched her hands tightly, as if trying to squeeze someone to death.The hand was loosened, and the ball of silk was slowly unraveled, full of crepes. Ma said: Buy it if you like it, I don't understand! I really don't understand why Mom suddenly got angry with Dad, until one day, in the smoky opium smoke, I also smelled something wrong with the smell. Uncle Hu, who made Jiuliu government bonds, often came to my house to play cards. He had a set of smoking sets in our house, and my father sometimes lay there to play with Uncle Hu.

Aunt Lan is very good at burning cigarettes, because Uncle Shi also smokes opium.It's time to have dinner. Dad and Aunt Lan are lying on the bed, facing each other. They are resting on the embroidered pillow with lotus leaves. On it is the zipper peony flower embroidered by Mom. I like the smoking set in the middle. It looks like what Dad gave me from Japan. A box of toys brought back.A small smoke lamp was placed in the white copper smoke tray, emitting blue and yellow flames. Aunt Lan used a silver pick to pick out a pinch of smoke cream from a coin-shaped silver box, and burned it on the lamp. Then, she soaked the smoke in her red palm and rolled it back and forth like this. When it was finished, she inserted it into the bong and pulled out the silver stick. There was a small hole in the middle.The pipe was handed to Dad, and Dad sucked his mouth and smoked steadily at the light.I sat on the small bench and looked at Aunt Lan's hands in a daze, that way of burning cigarettes was really skillful.Suddenly, in the mist, Aunt Lan's hand was grabbed by Dad, who said:

You are cinnabar hand, you are blessed! Aunt Lan slapped Dad's hand with her other hand, then withdrew her hand and stared at Dad with a smile: Don't mess around!Didn't see the child? Maybe Dad really forgot that I was in the house, he raised his head sideways, and smiled at me unnaturally, that face of Dad!I shuddered, and for some reason, I immediately thought of my mother.I stood up, lifted the curtain, walked out of the bedroom, and ran to the kitchen in the outer yard.I don't know why I am looking for my mother at this time.When I ran to the kitchen, I yelled: Mom!Leaning against the door frame.

Mom stood in front of the big stove, her head was covered with sweat, her face was flushed, her belly was too big, and it was sticking out, as if she was going to give it to someone else!The oil in the pot was hot and smoking. She poured the vegetables into the pot, and then she turned around and asked me impatiently: What are you doing?I couldn't answer, and looked straight at Mom's face.She was anxious, and urged me again: Speak up! I was forced to find something to say, seeing her knocking on the bottom of the pot with a shovel and putting the fried vegetables on the plate, the technique is also skillful, so I can only say: I'm hungry, Mom. Ma had no idea how much I felt sorry for her, she just scolded me: What are you in a hurry for?Are you going to die if you eat it?She raised the spatula to chase me away.Go, go, it's hot, don't mess with me! In my tearful eyes, the image of my mother was blurred, and I finally cried out with a wow.Mother Song pulled me out of the kitchen, what did she say?I don't know how to feel sorry for your mother, seeing such a hot day and such a big belly! I jumped up and cried. Aunt Lan also ran out from the courtyard, she said: Wasn't it fine just now?Why are you messing around in the kitchen again this time! Mom said: Go get her daddy to beat her up! It was getting dark, and I was surrounded by the women at home. The more they told me to eat, the sadder I became; the more they said I was ignorant, the more I cried. In the chaos, I suddenly saw a white shadow passing by me. It was Uncle Dexian who hadn't seen me for a long time. He didn't even look at me, and walked straight to the inner courtyard.Looking at the back of his fluffy white silk gown, I gritted my teeth, hating everyone in front of me; including Uncle Dexian.