urban life

Chapter 349 Disappointed Lu Yulan
"Don't worry too much about the old man."

"it is good."

"Don't make a scene with her."

"Ah."

"She is your grandmother after all."

"understood."

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While Zhou An was driving the car carefully on the road, he responded calmly to Lu Yulan's nagging.

Seeing her son's expressionless face, Lu Yulan didn't want to say anything, she turned her head and said to her future daughter-in-law, "Tingting, my mother has a weird temper, don't take it to heart."

"Auntie, it's okay." Hou Mengting smiled lightly, holding the hand of her future mother-in-law, "It's normal for an old man to have a bad temper."

"Sisters, then you are wrong." Zhou An retorted, "My grandma is not a temper problem, but a brain problem. My mother, a tigress, can't do anything about her. You have to be mentally prepared. , but. Fortunately, we can leave after paying homage to my grandfather, and at most we can have a meal there."

In the past, when Zhou An teased Lu Yulan, he usually suffered a blow, ranging from disability to reopening.However, at this moment, the irritable mother didn't make any movements. She turned her head out of the window, frowned, and sighed helplessly.

Because today is the anniversary of the death of Grandpa Zhou An, and Hou Mengting came to the house for the first time, Lu Yulan took the two of them to the place where she grew up, and told her that the old mother and the father under Jiuquan had a daughter-in-law, and they would soon have a daughter-in-law. Grandchildren are gone.

To be honest——Zhou An didn't want to go, because every time he went to grandma's house, he couldn't get a smiling face.

There is only one reason, and that is Grandma's rock-solid patriarchal ideology.

Because Lu Yulan is a woman, she never received the care of her mother since she was a child. After she got married, she was implicated in Zhou An.

Fortunately, grandpa is a gentle person, he has always been considerate to his only woman, and he also loves Zhou An very much.It's a pity that this gentle old man had bad luck, had terminal cancer, and passed away early.

When my grandfather was alive, Zhou An's family would go to see the old man every year.After her death, usually only Lu Yulan would visit her mother, but even so, her grandmother still rejected her daughter.

Teacher Zhou is a gentle person. Although reserved, he can talk to everyone (except Zhou An). He has been a grandson in the system for a long time, but he can't adapt to his mother-in-law's temper and making things difficult. It can be seen that the mother-in-law difficult to get along with.

Mr. Zhou was on holiday today, but he went fishing before dawn, obviously not wanting to visit his mother-in-law.

Lu Yulan didn't force her husband either, even though Teacher Zhou would agree with her [-]% as long as she spoke, but she knew her mother's behavior and attitude too well, so there was no need to worry about it.

Usually Lu Yulan is a positive, optimistic and cheerful person, but now she fell into silence, staring at the distant scenery with her eyes.

Looking at the calm face of the old mother, Zhou An sighed deeply. This was not the Lu Yulan he knew well.

Hou Mengting noticed that the atmosphere was tense, and patted Lu Yulan's back lightly, hoping to ease her inner pain.

"Tingting, I'm fine." Lu Yulan turned her head, with an embarrassed smile on her face, "If you can't bear it, don't go today, anyway, it's just like that."

"I'll accompany you." Hou Mengting responded with her lips pursed.

"Okay!" Lu Yulan was very happy when she heard this, and the momentary sadness disappeared.

Grandma lives in the countryside, in a valley. Fortunately, the traffic construction is developed now, and all roads lead to the mountain village, and there is no such muddy or swampy land.

About ten minutes later, the car turned a corner and stopped in front of an old house. The house was made of tiles, grass, and bricks. Because it had not been repaired for a long time, white powder appeared on the walls of the old house.

There was an iron gate in front of the gate. Lu Yulan opened the car window and called out to the old lady who was sitting in front of the threshold having breakfast: "Mom, old man, help me open the gate."

The old lady was wearing a thin woolen overcoat and a plain dress, her unkempt white hair was still as rich as a net woven of white linen, her body was thin and old, as dry as a withered leaf, but her cloudy eyes There is a spirit in it.

The old lady glanced curiously. Seeing her daughter's figure, she was unmoved for a moment, took a sip of porridge and said, "Don't you have long hands? Do you want me to invite you in personally?"

With disappointment written all over Lu Yulan's face, she hurriedly got out of the car, opened the door, and the car entered the small courtyard.

An ordinary farmyard, the ground is paved with bricks, and fruits and vegetables are planted around the small courtyard.

After entering the yard, the old lady put down the bowls and chopsticks in her hand, walked to the trunk of the car excitedly, and opened it directly, with a stiff smile on her face, rather unhappy: "Can you stop buying clothes, supplements, etc. , I don't need it."

"This is Tingting's honor to you." Lu Yulan next to her introduced, "This is Xiaoan's fiancée, Hou Mengting."

"Hello grandma!" Hou Mengting smiled and bowed deeply.

"Okay!" The old lady still put her eyes on those gifts and nodded nonchalantly, "Don't buy these things in the future, discount them."

Although I knew a little bit about the old man's temper from Zhou An, but when they met, Hou Mengting could only reply embarrassingly: "Oh."

Having said that, the old lady still carried those gifts into the house neatly, not caring about the opinions of the three people next to her. Even from the moment she entered the door, she didn't say hello to her grandson Zhou An, as if she were a stranger .

"How is it? Isn't this old lady interesting?" After seeing too much, Zhou An was still in a good mood, holding that slender hand, and teasingly said, "I can't say, but you just want to come."

Zhou An didn't have any good impression of this grandma, and never got a favor.

When he was young, he and a cousin competed for a toy that Mr. Zhou bought for him. The two had an extremely unpleasant quarrel. In the hands of my cousin, I muttered that the younger brother should give way to the older brother.

Cao!
What a shocking statement this is.

Hou Mengting replied while holding the gift: "It's okay!"

"Hee hee!" Zhou An kept silent and just smiled.

While several people were carrying presents, Lu Yulan walked around the old house a few times, scrutinized everything in front of her eyes, her eyes were full of doubts, she raised her eyes to the old lady, and asked softly, "Mom, why is your house still old?" Is that so?"

"How else can it be otherwise?" After packing up the gifts, the old lady sat down in front of the threshold again, drinking porridge by herself, completely ignoring the juniors, and after hearing the question, she said slowly, "Do you want to live here?" Is it the palace?"

"." Lu Yulan took her mother's words for granted. While disposing of the sundries at hand, she said, "Last year, I was renovating the old house and asked me to transfer money. It's been a year. Why is it still the same as before?"

"Not enough money!" The old lady rolled her eyelids and wrote lightly, "You can turn around."

"Mom, isn't one hundred thousand enough?" After hearing this, Lu Yulan was a little surprised and panicked, "Did you get tricked by others?"

Tens of thousands of yuan is more than enough for this kind of old and dilapidated house.

The old lady seemed unwilling to talk to her daughter, she was silent for a while, and said: "Your nephew bought a house, and I gave him money."

"Mom" Lu Yulan stopped the farm work at hand, frowned, and raised her voice a little bit, full of dissatisfaction and blame, "That's the money I gave you for renovation, how can you use it to buy him a house, your old house is too old It’s old, how can people live in it? In case of an accident, this old house is prone to collapse.”

Even though the old mother never loved Lu Yulan, and her old face was full of disgust and disgust, Lu Yulan was still filial to her.

One is that the old lady is her biological mother after all, and it is her due responsibility to give birth to her and raise her.

The second is, for the face of the deceased father, the father loved her very much.

Therefore, even after she married and had children, Lu Yulan still satisfied the old lady's requirements.

The old lady wasn't embarrassed at all, she didn't notice her daughter's complaints, and her voice raised a bit: "Am I not human? I've lived here for decades, can there be an accident? Since you gave me the money That's my money, how to deal with it is none of your business?"

Originally, Lu Yulan opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something more, but restrained her inner words with great tolerance, and placed the sundries in the small courtyard as if to vent her emotions, with crackling sounds.

Seeing that Lu Yulan was devastated, Zhou An didn't empathize with what happened to her mother.

Zhou An suggested to leave after paying homage to grandpa. It was the old mother who wanted to see the lonely grandma herself.

Over the years, Lu Yulan has been harassed quite a lot, but she only remembers eating but not beating.

Nothing can be done.

There is one thing to say, Zhou An feels that her mother is really strong in her heart. She suffered unfair treatment since she was a child, but she still faces the world with an optimistic attitude and lives with a smile every day. This is a powerful skill.

Grandma's words seemed to hurt Lu Yulan's heart. She tidied up the sundries in the courtyard by herself, put them aside, and left the old house with a bag of paper money. Mom, do you want to see Dad together?"

"Don't go!" The old lady put her hands behind her back, turned her head and walked into the house, muttering in a low voice, "What's so good about that old man?"

After Lu Yulan heard this, her expression was deeply helpless and sad. Hou Mengting patted her on the back, hoping to relieve the pain.

On the side, Zhou An's tone was joking with great interest: "Grandma, grandpa died a long time ago, it's not that he is old and immortal."

The old lady's movements were sluggish, and then she ignored the grandson's teasing words.

"Fuck you!" The old lady didn't move, Lu Yulan slapped Zhou An on the back of the head, "It's not big or small."

"You will bully me, you bully the old lady, bully the weak and fear the strong."

"Still?"

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Grandpa's grave is on the mountain behind the old house, about a hundred meters above the ground. Although the distance is short, it still takes a lot of work to avoid farmland or steep places, and to go up the mountain.

"Tingting, are you tired? I'm really sorry." Lu Yulan thought that her future daughter-in-law would be an urban beauty, the boss of a company, and in charge of hundreds of employees in Shanghai. It was a bit embarrassing for her to ask others to climb such a high mountain for her first visit.

Hou Mengting smiled, and shook her head indifferently: "I exercise often, it's just a little way, I'm not tired, I also grew up in the countryside. Moreover, the scenery here is different from that in the Northeast, so it has a different taste. I have to thank you What about you. Auntie, you are in such good health that you didn't catch your breath all the way."

The countryside is a bit better, and the scenery is good.

There are white clouds floating in the light blue sky, the fallen leaves blowing on the roadside, and the birds jumping back and forth on the trees "twittering", without the noisy atmosphere of the city, it makes people feel calm and relaxed.

"Why are you two so tired?" Zhou An rolled his eyes and said contemptuously, "I carried all these paper money, candles, and ingots by myself."

Along the way, these two women seem to be traveling in mountains and rivers, but they still have the face to care about each other.

"Shut up!" Lu Yulan took the slender hand of her future daughter-in-law and gave him an unhappy look.

Fortunately, there was no rain during this period, and the road up the mountain was less muddy.

After a while, the three of them arrived at the grandfather's grave.

Coming here, the atmosphere in the world became a little more solemn. If grandma is an out-and-out villain, then grandpa is a purely good and gentle man.

Because of him, Lu Yulan can be so positive and optimistic.

Otherwise, the childhood injury was enough to make her feel inferior and introverted.

With bursts of crackling firecrackers resounding through the mountains and forests, the worship is over.

"Don't play with fire." When the three of them went down the mountain, Lu Yulan couldn't see how her son, who was about to get married, still had a cannon in his pocket, and threw it into the flammable bushes from time to time, "One in the morning." Fire, the police station in the afternoon."

This kid is good at everything, but he is too naive.

"Hee hee!" Zhou An smiled hippiely, put away the cannon, patted Hou Mengting's shoulder with one hand, straightened his body, looked at the forest from Gao Linxia, ​​and gestured in front of him with the other hand, "Sisters, Isn't it pretty?"

"Pretty!"

"Okay! Since you like it." He paused, "I want everyone to know my love for you, and I want everyone to know that this mountain forest is contracted by you."

Domineering President, Zhou An

Hou Mengting chuckled at the rustic love talk.

MDZZ.

Zhou An was painting cakes for his fiancée while going down the mountain. Just as he was painting the entire mountain forest and planting roses for Hou Mengting, the mountains and plains were full of bright red to show his love for this woman, a Toyota appeared in front of him and drove straight. Enter grandma's yard.

Zhou An squinted his eyes, and easily saw three people getting off from the Toyota car, two men and one woman.

A middle-aged man, about 50 years old, with wrinkles engraved on his forehead, silver threads mixed with his temples, his eyebrows and beard have lost their former glory, his body is slightly fat, his belly is gradually protruding, and his clothes are loose.

A young man in his twenties, dressed in a black suit, with an average build, a thin face with paleness, and a hint of handsomeness.

A young woman, wearing a red turtleneck sweater, brown jeans, and a purple beret, looks like a fashionable image. She is average-looking and can be regarded as a beauty. She wears a small handbag diagonally, full of texture.

When the three of them got out of the car, Zhou An's unreasonable grandmother seemed to be a different person, changing from indifference to enthusiasm in an instant.

The old lady had a happy smile like a flower blooming on her face that had experienced many vicissitudes, and her narrowed eyes revealed an intoxicated kindness. She hurriedly approached the three of them, held their hands excitedly, and said a series of words with her mouth , the joy is beyond words.

It was in stark contrast to the indifference just now.

Seeing those three people, Zhou An frowned. The middle-aged man was his uncle, Lu Guang; the man in the suit was his cousin, Lu Qijun; as for the young woman, he didn't know him, but she was obviously his cousin. girlfriend.

When he saw the three uncles, the other party obviously also saw the three uncles.

Lu Guang walked to the side first, with a smile on his face: "Little sister, why are you back?"

"Today's father's memorial day, I'll come and see his old man." Lu Yulan introduced, "This is Xiaoan's fiancée, Hou Mengting, let's stop by."

"Hello, I'm Uncle Xiao'an, Lu Guang." Lu Guang glanced at Hou Mengting, stretched out his hand and said.

Hou Mengting is a shrewd and capable person, and she could sense that something was wrong with the atmosphere. Facing the handshake, she bowed at ninety degrees: "Hello, Uncle, I'm Hou Mengting."

The scene was a bit embarrassing for a while, and Lu Yulan did not express any dissatisfaction. Lu Guang withdrew his hand politely and awkwardly, looked up at Zhou An, with a smile on his face: "Long time no see, Xiao An, you are getting more and more handsome Yes, your cousin is also handsome, our old Lu family has good genes."

"My dad is quite handsome." Zhou An replied with a smile.

The genes of the old Zhou family are not bad either. Teacher Zhou was also pursued by many girls when he was young.

Zhou An has always had a bad impression of this uncle. On the one hand, this uncle has achieved nothing and knows how to play around all day long, even if he has a family and starts a business, and he often gets into trouble. After entering a game, I restrained myself a little.

On the other hand, Lu Guang relied on the old lady's patriarchal philosophy and bullied Lu Yulan since she was a child.

Bullying his mother is not the same as bullying Zhou An.

Even Lu Yulan didn't have a good impression of her brother. In a word, mud can't support the wall. It's really embarrassing to ask the old lady's 10 yuan at such a young age.

"Hey!" Lu Guang was not embarrassed. He smiled slightly and said hello, "It's just that we have lunch together at noon today. I haven't seen you for so long. Let's get together."

Zhou An wanted to shake his head, but he glanced at the old mother who was in a state of hesitation, and then agreed: "Okay!"

"Why are you chatting outside and reminiscing about the past when you go home?" The old lady tugged on Lu Guang's arm while talking, and walked towards the small courtyard.

He ignored Zhou An and the others.

"Hahaha" Zhou An couldn't help smiling, "Lu Yulan, I will suffer even if I follow you."

"Get out!" The old mother gave the unfilial son a vicious look, her voice almost squeezed through her teeth.

However, she could only say a few words, and she couldn't say more, and she felt apologetic.

Maybe my uncle knew that his sister bought a house with 10 yuan from this sister, so he was a little more enthusiastic than when we met in the past. After all, people are short-mouthed and soft-handed, because Lu Guang is in it. unobstructed.

In the blink of an eye, the warm sun slowly climbed directly above, illuminating the earth and emitting heat wantonly.

The old lady walked into the living room while washing rice, and said, "Sister Yao, you and your unmarried daughter-in-law are going to cook."

"Mom, I'll do it." Lu Yulan took a deep breath, stood up and said, "There's no need for Tingting."

"There are seven people at noon today. How can the two of us be so busy? I can't do it if you want to be exhausted." The old lady rolled her eyes and said unhappily, "You don't need a daughter-in-law here in your family. Is it just a decoration for you to marry home? ? It’s okay if you don’t know how to cook, but you can always chop vegetables and make a fire.”

Lu Yulan bit her lip, as if she wanted to say something, when suddenly Hou Mengting said, "Okay, grandma."

After speaking, she dragged her future mother-in-law into the kitchen.

Like a victorious general, the old lady shook her head, quite complacently.

Zhou An smiled.

Well, it's implicated in the sisters again.

Today's meal is really not good.

"Tingting, that's fine if you let it go, Auntie will do it." Lu Yulan felt a little guilty for her future daughter-in-law. Such a mother really made her helpless, so she quickly picked up Hou Mengting's thin hand and looked it over carefully, "Such a beautiful hand, It would be a shame to use it for housework.”

"Auntie is fine. I often do housework at home. Zhou An cooks and I chop vegetables." Hou Mengting shook her head.

"Xiao An stays at home all day and asks you to chop vegetables. That kid is lazy." Hearing this, Lu Yulan didn't say anything more, "You need to take care of him from now on, he's a toad , don’t be polite to him, or you will be the only one who suffers.”

Hou Mengting smiled sweetly: "Zhou An is very kind to me."

"Illusion! Illusion of a man." Lu Yulan said, "Zhou An's father also called me nice before he got married. After marriage, he seems to be a different person. He must develop the habit of doing housework, so that his life will be harmonious after marriage. "

If Mr. Zhou was here, he would definitely be very wronged. You cared about me before marriage, and you still cared about me after marriage. How has our life changed?
Lu Yulan, you are too deceitful!

Zhou An watched the old lady greet her cousin Lu Qijun, love her girlfriend, and warmly entertain her grandson and grandson-in-law. He shook his head. This old lady has such a long heart.

It is the eighth wonder of the world.

Zhou An has never been favored by the old lady, but Zhou An feels okay, doesn't take it seriously, and doesn't need this love.

I just feel worthless for my old mother. In the old Zhou family, she belongs to the master of one person and above ten thousand. No one dares to provoke her except her grandparents. When she returns to her natal family, her status is so humble.

Zhou An pondered, Lu Yulan did not give less money, bought expensive gifts every year, and fulfilled her filial piety. As a daughter, she paid far more than the idle uncle beside her, but she did not get the support of her mother. beloved.

Sometimes I feel that there is such a mother in the world, isn't Lu Yulan pregnant for ten months?Isn't Lu Yulan her own?Isn't Lu Yulan the flesh that fell from her body?

People in the old lady's era originally felt the pain of patriarchy. As a woman, she should have changed, but now she dislikes and hates her daughter so much.

What is this called.

(End of this chapter)