Chapter 586 Be prepared for danger in times of peace
My cousin was so embarrassed that she was so angry that she left without looking back.
Yin Yue's two and a half-year-old brothers admired their sister's skill so much that they secretly covered their mouths in the room and laughed.
The two brothers started to fall while talking, laughing and playing around.
Rolling around the house casually, with no rules at all, fully revealing the freedom and joy that can only be found during the Chinese New Year.
Only grandma in the whole family was very unhappy about this incident.
But the old lady knew that her granddaughter had an idea, and knew that she did not like the person introduced by her cousin.
And I feel sorry for her that it is not easy for her to support this family.
So it was not easy to interfere just now. I can only sigh and complain a few words afterwards.
"You, you, how can I say hello to you? You are so ignorant of good and bad, and don't know the importance of you! Three people make a tiger! How can you create your own rumors? Sooner or later you will get married. Right? With such a reputation going out, what man will dare to want you? It will be too late for you to regret it.”
"Besides, my cousin is a relative after all and is your elder. Don't let anyone make you too embarrassed. You must always leave room for us to meet in the future. As an outsider, I know you think she is nosy, but she also has good intentions. That man He seems to be a bit ordinary, but he is an only child and his biological mother has passed away a long time ago. Now he and Xu Xian's father live separately, and he has a one-bedroom apartment. If you want to marry him, there will be no disagreement between his sister-in-law and his sister-in-law. , and I won’t be angry with my mother-in-law. This is a benefit after all.”
“Grandma is already a day-to-day person. She takes off her shoes at night and doesn’t know if she can put them on again in the morning. In these limited days, my only concern is that I hope you will marry a good family and have a life-long dependence..."
As he spoke, the old lady cried silently.
Yin Yue is still afraid of this. Knowing this situation, you must comfort your grandma and make her feel at ease.
So Mian Mian quickly laughed, sat next to grandma on the bed, hugged the old man, and comforted her tightly.
"Grandma, it's New Year's Eve, you have to laugh, why are you wiping away your tears? Come on, I'll wipe them for you."
"I know you do it for my own good. But marriage is a big deal, I can't help myself. How many men can match my current income? If I want to marry anyone, who can I rely on? Yes. If you want to marry, you have to marry someone better than yourself, right?"
"Besides, marrying someone can be your lifelong support? I also have two younger brothers. I make money to support them in college. When they succeed in their studies and grow up, they will be my support in the future."
"Grandma, I made this decision after careful consideration. I don't care about personal issues for now. How old am I? Are you afraid that I won't be able to get married? You should just let me stay with you for another two years. Don't worry, I don't rely on anyone but myself. , It will definitely make your and your brothers' lives better and make the neighbors more and more envious of our family."
"But if you push me again, I will be sad if you want to kick me out. Let's go. I'll just go abroad on my own. Then I'll just marry a foreigner, and then I'll come back when I have a blue-eyed son. Humph, I see you've changed your mind. Do you feel sorry for your great-grandson? ”
Yin Yue's sincere words did have an effect.
Especially at the end of the conversation, her intentionally exaggerated nonsense made grandma laugh.
Grandma poked her on the head with her finger and followed her words and teased her.
"If this is the case, then tomorrow I will go out for a walk with this blue-eyed child in my arms. The neighbors in our alley will gather around me and say, why did you come back with a poodle?"
< br>Just playing cymbals with each other, the old and the young hugged each other and had fun for a long time.
But after laughing enough, grandma felt much better, but she still didn't give up.
With a bit of worry, the old man inevitably gave his granddaughter a few extra words of advice.
"Xiaoyue, grandma knows that you are a very strong child and you are more capable than many grown men. But after all, you are young and have not experienced much. Your life is too smooth. Grandma is afraid that you will really When you encounter ups and downs, you can’t stand the bumps.”
“Grandma, what are you talking about? It’s so hard for me to endure all the hardships!”
Yue opened her eyes wide and smiled bitterly.
Thinking about her life since childhood, she couldn't understand what her grandma meant at all.
"Silly boy, what does the hardship you have endured mean nothing? No matter how miserable your generation is, they haven't caught up with the war since they were born, right? No matter how poor our family is, there will always be troubles over the years. The government is taking care of it, so our family will not go hungry. When grandma was born, if I could be as lucky as you, I would really recite Amitabha..."
"Oh, my grandma. Granddaughter, I feel sorry for you. I know it’s not easy for you. Okay, okay, let’s not forget about the bitterness and sweetness, and forget about the past..."
At this time, Yin Yue just thought that her grandma was complaining to herself. , just like coaxing a child to coax grandma.
However, grandma shook her head.
"Hey, grandma said that people have good times and bad times. Even though you are so proud now, people have their luck, and luck turns around. Maybe in the blink of an eye, your luck will be gone. Then when the time comes What should I do when the time comes?"
Then grandma told the story that almost everyone in Beijing knows - if you have money, you will not see big sesame cakes, but if you don't have money, you will only see big sesame cakes.
The gist of the story is that there is such a young man, how he behaves badly when he has money, and how pitiful he is when he has no money.
Of course Yin Yue has heard it, and has been listening to it since she was a child. She is already tired of hearing it.
No matter how patient she was, she couldn't hold on until grandma finished speaking, so she had to interrupt.
"Grandma, I understand. Be prepared for danger in times of peace. This is what you want to say, right? Don't worry, your granddaughter, I am not a person who spends money randomly. In fact, I save money. I still count on money to make money, why? Maybe she's lavish..."
I didn't expect that she took the initiative to express her position, but she still didn't meet grandma's thoughts, and she was still a little bit behind.
"You kid, you are good at everything. But when you are proud, you will still be self-righteous. Grandma is afraid of you. You are right. Grandma wants to tell you that if you have money You need to remember the days when you have no money, but don’t forget the times when you are proud. But that’s not all. You obviously understood the story grandma told too simply.”
Grandma patted Yin Yue’s hand and said seriously. He looked into her eyes and said.
"Grandma is not afraid that you will make mistakes. What grandma wants you to understand today is that sometimes difficulties come unexpectedly and cannot be reversed by human power. It is indeed not easy for you to live such a good life now. So grandma is very worried. If you lose everything again, can you bear it? Will you have enough courage to face it one day? "
"Grandma, how is this possible? I'm afraid you don't know how much money I have. There is really no need for you to worry. Anyway, my granddaughter will guarantee you today that our family will never be poor again in this life."
Yin Yue subconsciously retorted, thinking that the old man was a bit unfounded. It's totally unnecessary.
But what Grandma said below completely refreshed her mind.
“Don’t believe it, nothing is impossible in this world. From good to bad, from prosperity to decline, I have seen too many. Not to mention anything else, my My dear brother, your great-uncle. I think he was the most successful hawker in the fruit market. He started from picking up fruits and then opened his own fruit shop step by step. But what happened in the end? All his savings and a thousand oceans were turned into gold coins like waste paper. So he took advantage of it, abandoned his family and jumped into the moat. "
"It turns out that there was a goldsmith who lived in our alley. On the eve of the liberation, when the city was under siege, he used a gold bar and some gold jewelry to buy a small courtyard on the Yongding Gate side from a high-ranking official who wanted to escape, and he took advantage of it. But after only two years of living there, the house was demolished and the house was still gone. However, he couldn't think about it and couldn't smile every day. He contracted liver disease two years later and died in depression.”
"It turns out that there was a traditional Chinese medicine doctor named Shou in Tea and Food Alley, who ran a ginseng and antler shop at home. His medical skills and reputation were no worse than those of the 'Four Famous Doctors' in the capital. He specialized in treating difficult and complicated diseases that others could not cure. Before liberation, he visited a patient once. He had to be transported by car and paid at least two gold bars for consultation. It was no exaggeration to say that he had the ability to revive the dead. But because his family background was too high and he was aloof and unsociable, no hospital in the capital was willing to accept him. . He drank wine every day at home, but he was hit by a car in the middle of the night. But just a week after his death, the letter of appointment from the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was sent to his home. "
"My child. What grandma tells you is that there are inevitable disasters in life, and there is no such thing as a 100% safe life. God will always find a way to trouble everyone, but no matter how big the difficulties are, don't lose faith. You have to think about it. Even if one day your money is really gone and we are back to the way we were before, it doesn't matter. We just have to start over. The most important thing is that people are fine. As long as people are around, there is still hope. It's possible..."
There is evidence, there is cause and effect. Grandma's words were so profound and philosophical that Yin Yue couldn't help but think deeply.
Money is money! Can my money... be lost out of thin air?
No, no, definitely not, I have fifty thousand yuan! What could happen?
But...what if...if grandma really talks about it...
No, no! How terrible! I won’t be able to bear it, I will never let this situation happen...
…………People who are not married are worried, struggling to find their life goals, and trying to figure out what they have thought about. What kind of life.
People who have married have families, but they are also struggling in the world of mortals, and their troubles in this regard are not necessarily less.
For example, Mi Xiaoran, who is far away from abroad, received Zhao Hanyu’s strong support during the Spring Festival last year.
She moved out of the Zhao family's villa as she wished, rented an apartment in Manhattan with Zhao Hanyu, and started a world of two.
But along with gaining freedom, came the troubles of living independently.
First of all, there is the economic issue. Zhao Hanyu’s salary is not much, and his monthly salary during the internship is about US$1,300.
This money is not enough to pay rent, support two people, and pay Mi Xiaoran’s language school tuition.
So the two of them can only rely on family support.
With a thousand dollars to support them every month, it is not easy for the two of them to spend money too casually.
After all, people are short-handed, and Zhao Hanyu’s mother can’t tell when she will come over to take a look.
Mi Xiaoran doesn't make any money, so she has to act like a daughter-in-law who knows how to live.
In this way, she discovered that the freedom gained by co-authoring was also limited.
Although I no longer have to apologize to Zhao Hanyu's parents every day, even if they are not here.
I will also feel the pressure they put on me.
I can’t be lazy every day, I have to clean my house spotlessly.
I also need to work hard to learn how to cook and write down the household expenses in order.
In case my mother-in-law comes to check at any time and can explain it.
Secondly, there is also great inconvenience in life, although the house Zhao Hanyu rents is not far from Chinatown.
Mi Xiaoran can just walk to buy things and come back. There is no need for her husband to drive to deliver them.
But language has become the biggest obstacle.
Because the ancestors of the Taishan people in Guangdong were the first to land on this land, almost all the bosses in Chinatown are Cantonese.
A popular saying here is "If you don't understand Taishan dialect, it will be difficult to find a job."
The adults and children here speak Taishan dialect that Mi Xiaoran cannot understand, and the curse word "horse riding across the sea" can be heard everywhere.
Even the Chinese teacher who taught her English at the bilingual school also spoke Taishan dialect.
Mi Xiaoran found that it was a fantasy to find people who spoke Mandarin in this place.
Even for a family like Zhao Hanyu, they know how to speak Mandarin, but they still have a Taishan dialect accent.
Sometimes, when she communicates with these shop owners, she speaks English instead, which makes it easier to understand each other's meaning.
God knows how strange and awkward this thing is.
She always had the illusion that New York's Chinatown was not a gathering place for Chinese at all.
Because of the language barrier, in her eyes, it looks like Korean Street or Vietnamese Street.
Finally, Mi Xiaoran is extremely unaccustomed to eating.
Unfortunately, the United States in this era is like a Chinese food desert.
The quality of the Chinese restaurants here can be described as ridiculous. They are all sweet and sour dishes stir-fried in large pots.
Foreigners like it very much, but Mi Xiaoran feels tired and sick as soon as he eats it.
To put it bluntly, there are not many serious Chinese chefs here.
Even the chef of Zhao Hanyu’s family who is not an authentic Cantonese cook is already considered a master.
So in most cases, Mi Xiaoran and Zhao Zhenyu use foreign fast food and cook their own meals to solve their stomach problems.
But Mi Xiaoran has an out-and-out domestic appetite.
If she eats too much foreign fast food, she is prone to indigestion and will feel uncomfortable in her stomach.
It is cost-effective from an economic point of view to choose to cook by yourself.
But the problem is that she is just a beginner in cooking, and the simple meals are just fine, just barely swallowable.
No way, a bowl of tomato and egg noodles has become her most common meal.
But what's worse is that there are no pickles that Mi Xiaoran can buy here.
Mi Xiaoran is from Beijing. Northerners in China in this era are characterized by heavy eating.
It is the habit of eating pickles with every meal, just like Sichuan people eat chili peppers.
But how could it be possible in the United States?
Forget about the eight-treasure cabbage and shredded spicy cabbage, as well as the big pickled radish and mustard greens.
It made Mi Xiaoran's mouth feel extremely dull. Thank God for being able to buy some fermented bean curd and salted duck eggs.
The most commonly bought pickles here are Cantonese pickles and southern-style pickles.
In general, unfortunately, in the second year after arriving in the United States, Mi Xiaoran successfully moved out of her husband's house with the help of her husband and started a new life of her own.
But in addition to the anxiety of studying, I was physically and mentally exhausted from doing housework. In addition, I couldn’t eat well or sleep well.
So much so that her weight approached the 90-pound mark without her realizing it, and she was so thin that she looked a little out of shape.
But the saddest thing is that we can't receive much domestic news here, and our spiritual emptiness and thoughts and emotions are incomprehensible.
So every time I get a letter from home. Mi Xiaoran would always take the letter with him and read it over and over when he had time.
(End of this chapter)