Rebirth: My Mother is a Virgin Mary

After Ms. Lin's words, everyone present was filled with mixed feelings. My aunt had already cried with tears in her eyes. She stood up and poured herself a glass of wine, then raised her head and took a sip: "I said that my left eyelid kept twitching when I woke up this morning, and your eldest brother even told me to buy a lottery ticket on my birthday, hahaha! This is really a happy thing!" Then she pointed at her eldest uncle, "Lin Daiping, what did I say? Qingmei will come to her senses sooner or later! It doesn't matter if it's later. Both children are sensible, so it's easier to deal with! I'm not taking credit for myself. I know those words are not very useful, but they have a subtle effect of dripping water through a stone. I was saying that when Yuyu came, she brought a cake from the eldest brother. I was wondering why Qingmei was so willing to spend money this year. In previous years, Qingmei gave me clothes, but this year she not only gave me clothes but also cake! This year, I had a comfortable birthday!"

The uncle didn't say anything, he just kept pouring wine, but the smile on his face couldn't hide his joy. After two more glasses of wine, he laughed out loud: "When did you, Sun Miaoxi, miss it!"

He stood up shakily. Cheng Xinyuan wanted to help him, but the uncle patted Cheng Xinyuan's hand and gently pushed it away. "Don't think that I drank a lot. I know what's going on. There are some things that can only be said under the influence of alcohol!" The uncle patted his chest and said to Ms. Lin, "Sister! I can see that you are determined to divorce that bastard! Good! Divorce! It should have been a long time ago! If we can divorce peacefully, then we can divorce peacefully. I still think highly of that bastard. If you don't want to settle down peacefully, then sue him! I know a lot of lawyers. If I call any one of them, that bastard will be scared to death! I've been to the battlefield, what am I afraid of!"

Then he sat down again, but his emotions were not as passionate as before, "For so many years, I have always felt guilty. If I had not agreed to you marrying him back then, there wouldn't be all these messed up things later..."

"Brother, what you said is both right and wrong. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have such good children like Linlin and Yuanyuan." Ms. Lin walked to her uncle, patted him on the back and said comfortingly.

"Yes! This is a great achievement for him! But other than that, there is nothing else!" The uncle emphasized this to Ms. Lin, fearing that she would be too compassionate and feel sorry for Cheng Xingmin.

"I know. I was just stating his biological father's identity. I didn't mean anything else." Ms. Lin gave her uncle a reassuring look.

The uncle sighed, "You just thanked us and said that without us, Lin Lin wouldn't be alive today, but without you, I wouldn't be alive today either, Qingmei!" He turned to Cheng Xinyuan and the other three, "Your sister knows about this, but you may not know... Today, the uncle will tell you all about it!"

Cheng Xinyuan and the other three sat up straight upon hearing this.

"We have so many brothers and sisters, and I love and care for them all, but I am closest to your mother. In the summer when I was fourteen, I took your mother to play on the river bank in the village. At that age, there was nothing to do except to play. I put your mother on the bank and went into the river to catch fish. I had been going to the river frequently before and had experience, but that summer, the river water rose a lot due to the rainy season. I didn't pay attention and my leg cramped and I started to convulse in the water. At first, your mother thought I was teasing her and laughed on the bank. After a while, she saw me choking on water and realized something was wrong. Your mother was scared and cried loudly, but there was nothing she could do. The bank to the river was a slope and there was no open space. It would be fine if I went down. Your mother was only six years old at the time. What could she do? But she only cried for a short while and then ran back to call for help. Although I was tumbling in the river, I could see that your mother's short legs had never run that fast. I was overjoyed! Your mother called a bunch of people over, bringing everything from shovels and brooms to hemp ropes. Fortunately, I was not seriously injured. The adults said that if your mother had not run fast and called for help in time, I might have been dead! I still remember how your mother looked at that time. She had two pigtails and wore a floral dress. Although her face was dirty from crying, I still think that was when your mother looked the best! When I got home, I found out that your mother fell several times on the way back, and her knees were full of wounds! Later, your grandfather punished me to stand all night. Ouch, I was bitten by the poisonous mosquitoes. I still feel itchy and painful when I think about it now! But at that time, all I could think about was that my life was saved by your mother. At that time, I thought, no matter what your mother does, I will protect her! "My uncle talked about the events of more than 40 years ago vividly, and even performed actions, as if it happened again yesterday.

Cheng Xinyuan and the other three, plus Lin Shuang, were all listening intently, holding chopsticks in their hands. Ms. Lin also had a smile on her face, listening to the eldest brother talking about the past. Only I kept eating with chopsticks. I didn't eat in the morning, so I took a big gulp of wine as soon as I came. My stomach was upset now, how could I not eat quickly? Seeing that I was eating happily, my aunt kept putting food in my bowl. It's not that I didn't listen. I have heard this story from my uncle hundreds of times. I am familiar with it and can recite it by heart. I reminded them: "Can we talk while eating? After all, this is the dish that my uncle made early in the morning. It would be a waste if we don't eat it!"

The uncle was not as drunk as before, and he reacted to take care of everyone: "Come on, come on, you are busy drinking! Luo Tian and Xiao Yuan, you don't know that this is uncle's cooking! You don't know, when your sister was young, she brought Yuan Yuan here when she had no food to eat. Your uncle's cooking skills are not to be underestimated! Look at your sister Shuangshuang, your aunt and I are not tall, but I fed her first child! If Yuyu was fed by me like Shuangshuang, she would be taller than she is now!"

"Uncle, 1.64 meters is not short..." I "resisted" softly while sucking on my chopsticks.

"Then you're not even as tall as your sister!"

Ms. Lin felt sad after hearing this. She put down her chopsticks and started to blame herself again. Her aunt stuffed the chopsticks back into Ms. Lin's hands and said, "Alright, alright, instead of thinking about those things, you might as well think about how to compensate your daughter in the future. No matter how good we, her uncle and aunt, are to her, we can't compare to you, her biological mother!"

Ms. Lin looked at me, and I gave her a look that said "It's okay", and then she started eating again.

My uncle looked at me, then at Ms. Lin: "You are lucky because you married such a man. You are unlucky because you have these two good children..."

Ms. Lin took a bite of the ribs and said with a smile: "I am lucky, but I am not motivated and always side with the wrong people..."

"That's right, you hit the nail on the head. I was really mad at you all those years ago! How could my good sister become like that after getting married and having a child? She's always nice to outsiders and believes everything they say, but you don't care about or trust your own child. Don't be unhappy with what I say. Without your daughter, who knows what your son would become!"

"Uncle, you are absolutely right!" Cheng Xinyuan raised his glass and toasted his uncle again.

"Brother, what you said is the truth. Why shouldn't I like to hear it? Lin Lin is the lucky star of our family. With her around, everything is fine..." Ms. Lin looked at me tenderly.

"Oh! Speaking of this makes me even more angry!" The uncle slapped his thigh, "What kind of people are those Chengjia people? Oh, except your eldest sister-in-law. Without her, Yuyu would have died when she was seven years old... What era is it now? They still believe in those crappy fortune-telling things, saying that our Yuyu is unlucky for them. Bah! What a useless thing! What a little girl can say! What's wrong with being born on July 15th? The fact that our Yuyu was born safely on that day shows that she is blessed! Humph, I don't believe that Yuyu is the only one in the world who was born. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, what? They are all doomed to die. They are all killed by them! Also, I know you have blamed Yuyu because our father’s death anniversary is also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. You know exactly how our father died. The experts said that it was a miracle that he could live for another month, otherwise we would have lost our father a month earlier. What does Yuyu have to do with it? Maybe it was Yuyu who was lucky enough to let our father live for another month! If you blame Yuyu for this again, I won’t indulge you!"

"Oh, brother, please don't say it. I regret it so much! Lin Lin was only three years old at that time. I heard those words so many times in Cheng's family that I actually thought about it that way! Now when I think about it, I want to beat myself to death! I was so stupid and disgusting back then!" Ms. Lin scolded herself to death...she was really clear about it.

My uncle seemed to have just remembered something. He looked at me and said, "Has our Yu Yu never celebrated her birthday?" I was stunned, Ms. Lin was also stunned, and everyone was stunned.

I was stunned because I was involved, and others were stunned because they realized they had overlooked something.

"Why should I celebrate my birthday? It's not a custom..." I took a bite of the cucumber and it was refreshing and crisp.

"This is a bad habit, we need to change it!" It was my aunt who said this.

"Your aunt is right. In the past, you were just given a red envelope on your birthday and that was it. You didn't take it seriously, and no one took it seriously either..." The uncle looked at Ms. Lin complainingly, and Ms. Lin felt even more guilty. "Start celebrating it this year! You didn't even have your 18th birthday ceremony... Never mind, I'll make it up to you later!"

"Forget it. It's been so many years and I'm not used to celebrating it again... Some people still remember it! You and my aunt give me red envelopes, Yuanyuan says happy birthday to me every year, and even my aunt calls me!" I made up reasons for not wanting to celebrate my birthday and ignored Ms. Lin's increasingly sad face.

"That's fine too!" Ms. Lin suddenly said, "Lin Lin, it was mom who neglected it. I'm sorry..."

"Oh, don't be like that... Isn't it said that a child's birthday is the mother's suffering day? I think..." I said weakly, pinching my fingers.

"That was my happy day!" said Ms. Lin proudly.

"Go ahead, go ahead~" Cheng Xinyuan gently elbowed me, "What's the point of just saying happy birthday, sister, I've never eaten your birthday cake~"

“Well... just celebrate it. I’ve never eaten my own birthday cake..." I spread my hands to show my agreement.

"Alas, I am not qualified to judge the marriages of my two sisters, but I personally checked these two brothers-in-law! Although Jianfei (my uncle-in-law) does not have much ability, we can all see how good he is to Xuemei (my aunt). On the other hand, Cheng Xingmin... you are really short-sighted! I know what he is thinking. It's true that he likes you, and it's also true that he likes our father's reputation. He thought that being our father's son-in-law would allow him to climb the ladder of promotion. But he didn't expect that our father had been incorruptible all his life, and he would not allow his family to gain anything by relying on his name. He made a wrong calculation, and his true colors were exposed!" The uncle scolded Cheng Xingmin again.

At this moment, the person who was scolded by the uncle was standing at the locked store door with his luggage, and sneezed without any defense...