Rebirth: Finding Happiness

"Okay, okay, let's talk when you two come in, it's so cold outside and be careful of catching cold." My mother saw that my brother and I were standing at the door talking and didn't come in, because I was afraid that we would catch cold in the cold weather.

"Xiao Zhong, did your aunt send you back?"

"Mom, my aunt and uncle came to see grandma today, and they are all at grandma's house now. Auntie asked me to bring my younger sister to grandma's house for dinner at noon. Auntie bought a lot of dishes."

"Okay, mom puts the things away first and then goes to grandma's house. You can play with your sister first." After that, put the half-assembled sweater in the bag and put it in the upstairs room, and prepare to come back in the afternoon and continue Put together the unfinished ones so that my brother and I will have new clothes to wear the day after tomorrow.Seeing my mother went upstairs, I went downstairs with my brother to listen to him talk about things at school and at my aunt's house.After my mother put away the things, we came to grandma's house together, and followed my mother to grandma. After calling two aunts and uncles, we sat next to them and listened to them.Hearing grandma asking the two aunts why they didn't let her cousin come with her, she hasn't seen them for a long time.My aunt said that my two cousins ​​are getting older and my cousin Jianping is going to get married next year. I don’t know where I went to play now. My cousin Jian’an also went to a friend’s place to play and he is not at home. The second aunt said that my cousin Lingling Today I took my cousin Xiaowei to buy clothes for the New Year.

While listening to their chat, I thought about what I knew about the two aunts and uncles in the past.My aunt is a soft-spoken person. If my mother quarreled with my father at home or was wronged, she would tell her, and my aunt would cry with her while scolding her for being useless. Knowing that my mother had no money, my father would I don’t know how to give money to my mother, and my mother is not willing to buy vegetables. She takes us to eat pickles at home every day. She knows that she would not want to give money to her mother, so she will say that the money is for us in the name of my brother and me. For food, it’s okay to eat pickles by yourself, but the child needs to eat some good ones when he grows up. Until my brother starts to go to school, my aunt directly takes my brother to her home. She and my uncle cover all the tuition fees.Auntie has a loud voice, as if she is arguing with someone, but her heart is the softest.My uncle is a math teacher in their village, and the principal of the school is a kind person. My uncle sometimes quarrels with him because of his bad and kind personality.The second aunt is a very selfish and self-righteous person who thinks that everything she says is right and does not allow people to refute her words. She only knows how to take in but not to take out, but it is still okay for her sister.The second uncle is a very hard-working farming family. He only knows to work in the fields all day long, but he is very filial to the elderly and good to the children, so cousin Lingling and cousin Xiaowei like their father more than their mother.I heard my second aunt say that cousin Lingling will not go to school next year, and she will learn how to step on the sewing machine to make pants to earn money. Grandma and the others disagree, saying that her cousin has not graduated from middle school, at least she has to wait until she graduates from high school before starting to work to earn money, but The second aunt said that my cousin didn't study well and couldn't learn anything in school, so she wasted money so she didn't have to go to school.Grandma asked the second uncle, but the second aunt was always a talker, and the second aunt took care of the family affairs, and she just told the grandma that the cousin agreed and he couldn't help it.Speaking of these, the atmosphere was not very good, but after a while under the deliberate reconciliation of the uncle, the atmosphere became better again, and then grandma took the two aunts and mother to the kitchen to cook, and asked the elder brother to bring I went to ask two uncles and aunts to come here for lunch at noon (the little uncle built a new house and moved out with his wife and children last month).After lunch, the two aunts gave a red envelope to me, my elder brother, and cousin Ke from my uncle’s family. The red envelopes couldn’t be seen from the outside, but I knew that my elder brother and I must have more than my cousin, and the two uncles also gave My mother also gave my cousin a red envelope for me and my brother.Auntie and uncle sat for a while and then went home, and we sat for a while because our family was far away. When we were about to leave, grandma gave my brother and me a 50 yuan three A ten-yuan banknote, my mother would not let us take it, saying that grandma can keep it for herself, she has no money and can’t buy anything for grandma, how can she still ask for grandma’s money, but grandma said it’s not for you, it’s for my grandson and The granddaughter asked you to be busy and let us take it because we thought it was too little money. We looked at our mother and didn’t pick it up. My mother looked at us and nodded, let us take it and told us that grandma was so good to us. We should be filial in the future. grandmother.Grandma said to us again: "Don't tell others, if someone asks grandma if she gave you New Year's money, you will say you don't know?" My brother and I nodded and said we knew.

After returning to Shi’s house, my brother and I took out the red envelopes and looked at them. My aunt gave me and my brother a hundred banknotes each. , my brother and I received a total of four hundred lucky money this year, so happy, but the money was confiscated by my mother before it was hot, but my brother and I are not unhappy, because we all know that we have no money at home. It's no use holding money.This year is very happy because there are new people by my side.But after the twelfth day of the first lunar month, my aunt came to take my brother away again, because school was about to start.When my aunt came to pick up my brother that day, my brother cried. I knew he wanted to stay at home with us, so I told him with red eyes that I would go to see him with my mother when I had time, and my brother reluctantly left with his aunt. .That night my mother cried, so I said to her, "Mom, when the family has money, take my brother back so we can be together, okay?"

"Okay, mom will work hard to earn money, and then bring my brother back."

"Mom, come on, Xiao Ting will help mom, so that we can bring my brother back sooner." Maybe because I was tired from crying that night, my mother and I slept very well.

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