Chapter 453 The warmth of my mother’s family
In mid-December, the second snow of 1984 fell, covering the earth thickly, dyeing the ancient capital into a white world.
Yang Yujiao came out of the school with her head lowered, and habitually turned right to go to the bus stop, only to find that at least two hundred people were crowded around the bus stop.
The little girl immediately began to beat her heart. This was what worried her the most.
Usually everyone queues up in an orderly manner when taking the bus, and there are not so many people. However, it snowed today and there are fewer cyclists. There are definitely not enough buses on the normal schedule.
What to do?
Squeeze! Whoever has the ability will do it.
While squeezing into the bus several times before, Yang Yujiao was scolded, "Do you understand the rules? Are you just from out of town?"
Everyone squeezed up. , why do you think something is wrong with me?
Maybe the other party didn’t mean to despise Yang Yujiao, nor did he have much malice. He was just irritated by the oppressive atmosphere at the bottom, but Yang Yujiao, who had a gentle temper, always felt that she had done something wrong.
So when she saw this situation today, Yang Yujiao only hesitated for a second, tightened the straps of her schoolbag, quickened her pace and started jogging on the snow on the roadside.
She wanted to run home in the snow.
Because Yang Yujiao’s Beijing household registration has not yet been settled, Yang Yumin asked a classmate of Peking University’s Class of ’78 to arrange for Yang Yujiao to study in a middle school here in Haidian, six meters away from her home in Zhongguancun. It's seven kilometers away, and it takes nearly an hour to trot.
Yang Yujiao is not daunted by the one-hour journey. In the past, she had to walk an hour on a mountain road to go to elementary school in her hometown. In addition, Yang Yujiao often walked back without taking the bus, which could save money on the ticket.
But recently, my mother, Yang Huaihua, gave Yang Yujiao an order to help her sister-in-law cook during this period. She must not be tired.
My sister-in-law Li Yue will be home at 5:30. So if I don’t take the car and run back by myself today, wouldn’t I have to “eat ready-made food when I get home?”
What are you talking about! How could there be such a lazy sister-in-law?
But Yang Yujiao had just taken two steps when she heard the familiar sound of a trumpet from behind.
"Didi didi~"
"Yujiao, where are you looking? You didn't see me!"
Only then did Yang Yujiao look back and found that her sister-in-law Li Yue's car was parked on the left side of the school gate. She had habitually lowered her head when going out and turned right, but she didn't even see it.
"What else are you looking at? Get in the car quickly."
Seeing her sister-in-law Li Yue waving to her in the car, Yang Yujiao ran over and opened the door and got in the car.
Only after getting in the car did I realize the comfort and superiority of car owners in such bad weather. It was so cold outside the car that my nose was running, and the inside was as warm as spring. They were two completely different worlds.
As the person in charge of the Beijing-Tianjin film channel of Pengcheng No. 7 Factory, Li Yue has a relationship like Li Ye, so the treatment in the unit must be first-class,
The previous Volga has been transferred to Wang Jianqiang, and he is driving a brand-new Santana, which is not much different from later generations of cars in terms of driving comfort.
Yang Yujiao said enviously: "Sister-in-law, your car is really nice."
Li Yue said with a smile: "It's nice, right? From now on, if it rains or snows, I'll just wait at school obediently. I'll ask my sister-in-law to come and pick you up."
"No, no, no," Yang Yujiao quickly shook her head and said, "Sister-in-law, you have important work to do. I won't be in the way. If it rains, there will be umbrellas and if it snows, there will be leather boots. Mother said so. "You can't be dissatisfied."
Li Yue turned to look at Yang Yujiao who was a little worried, but he could understand her "contented" mood.
Just a few years ago, wasn't she, Li Yue, the same as Yang Yujiao before?
Do you have leather boots when it snows? You can pull it down! When it snows in Qingshui County, most people wear shoes made of cattail grass. They are warm and practical, but they are incomparable to boots.
As for an umbrella when it rains? How many umbrellas do you have at home?
Children can put a non-dirty plastic sheet on their heads to show off. Many people put a fertilizer bag on their heads to protect themselves from the rain.
That's why Yang Yujiao, who suddenly came to the capital and was loved by her brother and sister-in-law, instinctively felt flattered and uneasy.
The road was slippery in the snow, so Santana couldn't walk fast, but seeing that she was not far to the north, Li Yue turned left and headed straight for Zaojun Temple.
Yang Yujiao blinked in surprise, and then heard Li Yue say: "Today your brother's unit has a reception event, and my mother will be busy until seven o'clock in the evening. We don't want to go home and go to my brother's place. Let’s eat.”
“Huh?”
Yang Yujiao said with some embarrassment: "Is that suitable?"
"Why is it inappropriate?" Li Yue said without any surprise: "I called just now to ask, and I will go to his place to eat hot pot tonight. , Xiaohui and the others also went over, and we only had two pairs of chopsticks.”
"Oh~"
Yang Yujiao envied Li Yue very much. After getting married, she could go to her brother's house for dinner at any time, and she did so confidently.
In the minds of many people in this era, a married daughter should not just go back to her parents’ home, let alone her brother’s home.
Sangtana returned to Zaojun Temple and happened to see Li Ye and Li Dayong wielding big brooms and sweeping snow with several neighbors.
This is a tradition in Beijing's alleys. Once it snows, everyone at home has to go out to clear the snow. Although no one supervises or shouts, everyone is very conscious. No matter how lazy a man is, he has to go out and clear the snow. Work hard. Seeing Li Yue's car coming, Li Ye stopped what he was doing and waved his hand to signal her to take Yang Yujiao in quickly.
"Xiaohui and the others are preparing food inside! Wait a moment, we will finish cleaning."
"Okay, let's go help."
Li Yue led Yang Yujiao and happily went in to find Pei Wenhui and Wen Leyu. Although the Yang family treated her well, living with her mother-in-law all day long was not as comfortable as with her best friends.
Li Yue felt that the happiest time in her life was the days she spent in the past two years sitting in front of the TV with Wen Leyu and Pei Wenhui, enjoying unlimited watermelon drinks and chatting and laughing.
When they saw Li Yue coming back, the aunts smiled and said: "Okay, young man, stop sweeping and go back quickly!
My sister finally came back, and her family must take good care of her. Don't let her think that she is rejected by her parents."
Li Ye also smiled and said: "No, it's not much. Looking at how hard these uncles and brothers are sweeping the snow, it's the most. It only takes a matter of minutes.”
After hearing Li Ye’s praise, an uncle suddenly said proudly: “Hey, I don’t dare to say anything else, but if you want to clear the snow, then. We Beijing people want to be second, no one dares to say first.
When I came to Beijing that year, I wanted to see the Great Wall, but it had just snowed heavily at that time. Guess what? So I participated in that activity, and the snow was swept away wonderfully”
Beijing’s Kanye is Kanye, and he talks clearly and eloquently, and he doesn’t just talk blindly.
Listen to what this man said, when the president of Beacon visited China twelve years ago, he didn’t know whether he thought, “You are not a true man if you don’t visit the Great Wall”, or he wanted to see if there were any gaps in the snow plows in the capital. How old he was, he suddenly wanted to see the Great Wall,
Then the capital mobilized 800,000 people overnight and swept all the way from Diaoyutai to Badaling.
It is said that the person who got up the next morning was stunned for a long time. After returning to China, he said, "I will never defeat a country with such mobilization capabilities in my life."
The uncle next to Li Ye is one of the 800,000 people, and one thing can last a lifetime.
Anyway, after hearing this, Li Ye was surprised and envious.
In a collective activity of 800,000 people, can participating in it once mean that one can boast about it for a lifetime?
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When Li Ye returned home after clearing the snow, the charcoal hot pot was already burning brightly.
The weather in Beijing is getting colder and colder, and there are fewer and fewer fresh vegetables on the table.
In the winter of 1984, there was not yet a sufficient supply of greenhouse vegetables. Most people relied on potatoes, radishes, and cabbages to make the table stand. No matter how many different ways they were cooked, they would eventually get tired of them.
But if you cut a few pounds of beef and mutton and eat hot pot with these three heroes, it will be completely different.
"Hurry up, hurry up, we can't let my sister go hungry! We must let her feel the warmth of her mother's family."
"Sister, don't do it, you can't do it today! It used to be You cook for us, and we will serve you today."
Pei Wenhui, Wen Leyu and Fu Yiruo were chattering about setting out the seasonings and tableware, and forbidding their sister Li Yue to do anything. As expected, she enjoyed the care and attention of her natal family. .
Only Yang Yujiao was a little at a loss, especially when Fu Yiruo served her a can of Pengcheng Red Bull.
Li Yue pulled Yang Yujiao's sleeve and said with a smile: "No need to be restrained, we are all our own people. If you are a man, you call me brother, and if you are a woman, you call me sister."
Yang Yujiao Then they shyly called each other brother and sister.
The charcoal hot pot boils very quickly. A table of young people who are not so particular about it quickly start cooking and eating.
After a few bowls of beef and mutton, even Yang Yujiao's slightest restraint was completely gone, and everyone was laughing and joking with joy.
In this small courtyard of Zaojun Temple, there are never any broken rules, just a carefree attitude. Otherwise, why would the married Li Yue like to come back to have a meal?
And after Li Yue got high, he even ordered Li Yedao: "Bring me a jar of the sauce you prepared when I leave! I'll go back and give them a taste."
Li Ye pointed to the door: "It has been prepared for you a long time ago. Here, it is on the cabinet at the door!"
Yang Yujiao looked at her sister-in-law who was "taking food and taking it", and then looked at Looking at my nearly clean sauce bowl, I suddenly felt that it would be perfect if this tradition could be passed down to my family through my sister-in-law.
The married girl throws away the water. Yang Yujiao will also get married in the future. If she can return to her brother's house at any time like Li Yue and be welcomed at any time, that will be such a blessing.
What Yang Yujiao didn't notice was that Fu Yiruo, another girl at the table, had the same look in her eyes.
Fu Yiruo, who has lived with his mother in Malay since childhood, has a stronger desire for family affection than anyone else.
The Malay Fu family is Fu Yiruo's grandma's family, and it can also be regarded as my mother Fu Guiru's natal family. However, the treatment that my mother Fu Guiru received in the Fu family is really hard to describe.
The sister in front of Fu Yiruo is very good, the brother is very good, and the sister-in-law is also very nice, so she thinks that what she will encounter in the future will definitely be ten times or a hundred times better than that of old lady Fu Guiru.
(End of this chapter)