Some people are used to wrapping themselves up and showing them with sharp tips. In fact, when she peeled off the shell, she felt extremely soft inside.
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When I got home from get off work, there was still half a staircase away from home, Tang Jing heard a noise. She opened the door, her voice suddenly stopped, and her eyes were on her. She changed her shoes quietly, put her bag on, and walked to the sofa and sat down.
The two old ladies looked at each other, and the first one was their mother-in-law, "Why is the face so smelly? Who is calling you again?"
"No, I've been working for a day and I'm tired." Tang Jing was listless. I felt a little uncomfortable when I was scolded by the leader today.
Mother-in-law stood up, snorted, "It's so delicate", turned around and entered the kitchen in her slippers.
"Jing, tell me." Mom held Tang Jing's hand.
Tang Jing looked at the short and fat figure busy in the kitchen, thinking that maybe this is the difference between mother-in-law and mother.
"It's nothing, mom, what's wrong with you?" Tang Jing lowered his voice.
"This old lady is unreasonable. She believes in fortune telling. She uses your birth date and horoscope to pray for a child. I said that the person was cheating her of money. She didn't believe it yet, so she quarreled with me all the way."
"I'm a master, don't talk nonsense." The mother-in-law's voice came from the kitchen, loud and powerful.
"That's feudal superstition." Mom replied to her mother-in-law.
"Don't be stubborn, you'll know when you wait for three months." My mother-in-law started singing a small song again, and she sounded good.
Tang Jing then figured out what was going on. The old lady thought she couldn't get pregnant and went to pray to God for her. I met my mother by chance. As a people's teacher and a staunch materialist, how could she watch her mother throw money to a fortune teller and naturally stop it.
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Tang Jing's husband Xu An was born in the countryside. After graduation, he stayed in a research institute in the city. He devoted himself to experiment all day long. He was not good at dealing with people and had a simple mind. Tang Jing was attracted by this purity. She works as an investment analyst at in a company, and works with a big data analysis attitude. She has seen the coldness of life and joys and sorrows. When she meets such a man who loves her innocently, she feels that she has picked up treasures and cherished them very much. The couple's salary is not low, so they paid the down payment of the three bedrooms and one living room house and paid the monthly installment.
Xu An is the only child and Tang Jing is the only child. But the two old men in the family are both widows. When buying a house, Tang Jing proposed to be closer to her mother, and Xu An agreed. Not long after, my mother-in-law moved in and said that she had just vacated one, so she came to help them clean up the house, so that she could not hire a nanny.
Tang Jing didn't want to agree, she and her mother-in-law were really incompatible. My mother-in-law has a high voice and a loud voice. She is very stingy about one or two pieces of money, and she always puts it on the table to dislike her. She said she didn't know how to save and always threw things around, and was still lazy. She said proudly, "My son is very diligent."
Since ancient times, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has been a war without gunpowder, and Tang Jing has understood it. She was also a princess who was held in her palm since she was a child. She couldn't stand this anger. At the beginning, she had a few arguments with her mother-in-law over trivial matters. The two of them were so angry that they refused to speak softly. The husband was in a difficult position in the middle, and they said good things at both ends, and they were both angry.
Tang Jing feels sorry for her husband.
Mother-in-law feels sorry for her son.
So the two began to reconcile and run in, but there are always some things that cannot be run in. So she tried to talk as little as possible to reduce the number of quarrels. Tang Jing could hold back, but her mother-in-law's slightly mean mouth didn't tightly.
Tang Jing knew that her mother-in-law wanted to hold her grandson. But after a year and a half of marriage, her stomach was still not moving, and her mother-in-law started to complain. Tang Jing also figured out her temper, which was just talking nonsense and had no bad intentions. Moreover, they always curse people in person, and do not talk about right and wrong behind their backs. They just treat it as training their verbal skills.Recently, Tang Jing's company is quite busy. Every day after get off work, she just wants to sag on the sofa and doesn't even want to move, so she doesn't have the energy to talk back to the old lady.
She didn't stand it, and the old lady had no interest in singing a solo show, so she ended up and occasionally mentioned it.
It turned out that the old lady secretly went to pray to her to God and Buddha.
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Tang Jing had not waited for what her mother-in-law said, but her mother went to the hospital first. After the doctor checked, he said it was gastric cancer . Her mother said she would not have surgery, but she had a psychological shadow. Tang Jing's father died not long after the lung cancer surgery.
The doctor suggested radiotherapy and chemotherapy at the same time. My mother agreed and was hospitalized. At the beginning, it was fine for her mother to move freely, so Tang Jing went to work normally every day and went to accompany her mother after work. A few days later, the company leader sent her on a business trip with her. Tang Jing knew very well that if this business trip went smoothly, the promotion and salary increase would be stable before the New Year.
But my mother needs someone to take care of her, and Xu An can take care of others, but like her, an experimental project is at a critical moment, so she can only visit her after work.
Tang Jing was surprised when her mother-in-law took the initiative to take care of her mother. After all, as we used to look at it, the mother-in-law and mother were not considered to be a match for each other, and they also disliked each other. Like Tang Jing, my mother-in-law was rude, barbaric and unreasonable.
Mother-in-law drove Tang Jing away, "Go quickly and go quickly, talk about your work, your mother will leave it to me." Her tone was not very good, but Tang Jing felt a little relieved.
originally planned to go on a business trip for half a month, but who knew that this time I had been away for nearly a month. The contract was not agreed upon and the leader did not leave. She dared not leave. She was anxious. My mother-in-law called her the next day and said a few words of comfort. Her tone sounded like a swearing person, but it also gave her the motivation to work with peace of mind.
When Tang Jing came back, her mother had already struggled to stand and had to rely on someone to help her in a wheelchair when she went to the bathroom. She was basically a semi-paralyzing state. In addition, when I vomit as soon as I eat, I become more and more powerless.
radiotherapy has great side effects, hair loss, dizziness and headache. The mother shaved her hair bald and put on a hat. Looking at her mother's haggard appearance, she forced herself to smile and said nothing, and then turned around and went out on the excuse of going to the bathroom.
I couldn't stop crying as soon as I went out. My mother has always played a strong role in Tang Jing's life. Since Tang Jing lost her father at the age of six, her mother has been her god. With her, I feel at ease. But if it is about to collapse today, how can she break the last trace of her mother's strength...
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Tang Jing was really pregnant after three months.
My mother is still in the hospital and still can’t eat. She relies on nutrient solution to maintain it every day. The doctor advises not to undergo radiotherapy and suggests going home to rest for a while before talking about it.
Mother went back to her own house, and her mother-in-law followed her to help take care of her. When Tang Jing was six months old, at the mandatory request of her mother-in-law, she took maternity leave and went home to give birth. Then, the mother-in-law and mother moved over to take care of each other.
The day when the amniotic fluid broke, there was more than a month left before the expected delivery period. Tang Jing woke up from her sleep and immediately called 120. She lay flat on the bed without moving, in order to reduce the loss of amniotic fluid and . At this moment, Xu An is still working overtime in the research institute.
Tang Jing called out, and her mother-in-law immediately pushed open the door of her room. My mother-in-law then called Xu An and asked him to go directly to the hospital. After hanging up the phone, she quickly packed up the package for delivery , and then gave Tang Jing two pieces of bread, "Eat some bread first, having a baby is a physical job."
Tang Jing took it and started stuffing it into her mouth. My mother's voice came from another bedroom, "What's wrong?" The mother-in-law said to go over and explain. Not long after, I came in with hot milk again.
Everything is ready, my mother stays at home, and my mother-in-law and Tang Jing get into the ambulance together. As soon as he arrived at the hospital, Tang Jing was directly pushed into the delivery room.
Tang Jing on the operating table was so painful that she lost her soul and screamed desperately. At this time, a hand held her hand. She seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, holding it desperately, and holding it desperately. She heard someone talking in her ear, and didn't hear what she said, but she felt inexplicably at ease, like the kind of peace of mind snuggling in her mother's arms...
The child landed on the ground. Tang Jing looked at the blurry little ball, then turned to look at the short and fat old lady with red face on her side, sweating like rain, and finally lost the strength to close her eyes.
Due to premature birth, the child stayed in insulated box for more than half a month. After leaving the insulated box, they went home directly. During the past half month, my mother-in-law ran away every day. She was on one side and mother was on the other side.
Tang Jing felt uncomfortable.
After Xu An took off, he went back to work. After all, all the family has to be supported by him.
⑤
When the child was five months old, his mother passed away.
Before leaving, she explained to them one by one. "Xiuyun," my mother stretched out her hand. Xiuyun is the name of her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law walked over and held her hand, "Hey, here."
Mother looked at her with her eyes open and shivered, "Thank you."
Mother-in-law lowered her head, hardened her tone, and choked, "What are you thanking, you are not allowed to leave, I...I haven't argued with you enough!"
Mother-in-law laughed in a low voice, "Xiaojing, you have two mothers."
After pulling her grandson's little hand, the mother closed her eyes with a smile.
Mother told Tang Jing to ask her to take good care of her mother-in-law. In fact, if my mother didn’t say it, Tang Jing thought so too. In the past year, my mother-in-law has helped take care of her mother... taking care of her mother's food, drink, defecation, sleeping, changing clothes, and pushing a wheelchair for a walk. And her daughter, first for work, and later became pregnant, treating her mother less than one-tenth of what her mother-in-law treats her mother.
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Mother is right, she has two mothers. Now that one has been sent away, there is another one that needs to be filial to you.
On her 60th birthday, Tang Jing gave her a pair of jade bracelets. The mother-in-law angered her to waste, "The hands of the old women in the countryside are scratched by the calluses and scratches. That thing can't be worn, and it will be useless if they hit it."
Tang Jing brought it with her, "I will buy new ones when I hit it, I will be filial. I must keep it."
The mother-in-law looked at her, "Look at this daughter, I think she has too much money." She was angry, but she still asked Tang Jing to help her put it on. Tang Jing looked at her hand and suddenly remembered that on the day she gave birth, she stopped scattering her hand when she grabbed her. When she finally let go, her hand turned purple and black, and she didn't even realize it.
In fact, my mother-in-law has always been a knife-like mouth and a tofu heart.
I remember when my mother-in-law moved here, she was not familiar with her mother and had never had a fight. At that time, Tang Jing got off work early, and she could see her sitting alone by the flower bed in the community, sitting towards the sunset, watching the people coming and going. The warm yellow light shone on her back, looking particularly lonely. An old lady who has lived in the countryside for most of her life, left the familiar place, and came to this strange place alone, without using a smartphone, and no acquaintances can chat. At that time, she was out of place, but whenever she saw her son, she would change into a happy face.
The old lady dressed herself up as hedgehog . She was afraid of being bullied in this strange place, so she wrapped herself up and showed her sharpness. In fact, when she peeled off the shell, she felt extremely soft inside.
In fact, mother-in-law likes a noisy life, and she says she has the motivation to live.She wanted to quarrel with Tang Jing and her daughter if she had something to do, but because she treated them as family members, the kind of family members who would never part with no matter how they quarrel...
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In the sixth year after her mother passed away, her mother-in-law also left.
Before the mother-in-law left, she grabbed Tang Jing's hand with one hand, and pulled out the passbook from under the pillow and stuffed it into Tang Jing's hand, "I saved it all my life, but I haven't saved much. Old lady, I know I've failed. You daughter, please take it. Xu An is not bad, but he just doesn't understand the world. Some things have to be dealt with. You two must be well and take good care of my grandson." There are 80,000 yuan in the passbook on
. Eighty thousand is nothing to the couple, but for an old lady from the countryside like her mother-in-law, it is hard-earned money for half her life.
In the past, Tang Jing always felt that her mother-in-law and her husband had very different personalities, but now she found that the word "like mother, like son" was originally a compliment when she was used on her mother-in-law.
Tang Jing took the passbook and held her mother-in-law's hand tightly with her other hand, "Mom." Tang Jing suddenly leaned over and kissed her on her forehead.
"What is this for?" The mother-in-law stared at her.
"I engraved my mark, and in the next life, it will be the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."
The mother-in-law smiled, slowly closed her eyes, and her smile froze on her wrinkled face. The sunlight fell, bursting out infinite brightness.
Tears fell silently, Tang Jing knew that in this world, her two mothers, two women who called her "daughter", would never come back...
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