The courtyard: the atmosphere of human life

I don’t know if it was because her rebelliousness today was supported, but Darong was in a very good mood the whole morning, and the morning passed very quickly as she strolled and played with Zhong Yunxing.

"I won't take you in. My mom asked me to bring a bag of noodles back."

Zhong Yunxing sent Darong to the entrance of the alley, then turned around and went to the grain store to buy noodles. Darong walked briskly into the courtyard alone.

"Mom, I'm back."

Darong came in and greeted her mother. Although the pride in her heart had not yet dissipated, she tried her best to keep a calm expression.

"Here, you can put on makeup if you want in the future. I won't care about you anymore."

Darong's mother directly handed Darong a small cloth bag, which contained the newly bought powder, lipstick and eyebrow pencil. Darong looked at the things in the bag, then looked at her mother, and their shallow smiles reflected each other's stubbornness.

In fact, in the strength that you cannot understand, there is always a way for your parents to love you.

Darong's father came back very early that day. He got two meat bones from a friend. As soon as he entered the yard, he asked Darong's mother to help him clean up the bones, while he took firewood and lit the small stove.

"Hey, what fell in here? What's that smell?"

As soon as the stove was turned on, a strong smell of chemical plastic wafted out, choking Darong's father so much that he had to cover his nose.

"I threw away the cosmetics." Darong's mother said this coldly while washing the pork ribs under the faucet.

Darong's father knew that Darong's mother didn't like Darong to dress herself up with painted eyebrows and eyes, and he was unhappy when he heard the tone, so he immediately pointed to a bloodstain on the bone of the penis and tried to change the subject.

"I burned it one day, and then my boyfriend got married and asked me to put on makeup and go out to play. I rushed to the department store and bought him a new set of makeup."

Darong's father didn't want to ask any further questions, but Darong's mother started talking and told Darong's father everything about the mother-daughter struggle and her own "complete defeat" that happened that morning.

"Hahaha... you, you are just meddling in other people's business. Our Darong has never been that pretentious child since that day. What little girl doesn't love beauty? If she really dresses up in a shabby way, I won't let her pass even if you don't care."

Darong's father is actually more open-minded than Darong's mother. He never thinks that children's love of dressing up is a sign of bad behavior. As long as they are steady and not ostentatious, they should be recognized and supported.

It's just because he is a father, and he is more willing to respect the mother's views on disciplining his daughters. Therefore, he seldom participates in the teaching of Darong and Xiaoying. Only when the fourth brother and the third brother need physical education, he will lend a helping hand to Darong's mother.

"Yeah, I was so worried that she would dislike me, but I didn't expect that her boyfriend just liked it, so he quickly bought everything for her, wasting more than ten dollars of my money."

Darong's mother sighed, shook her head and smiled self-deprecatingly.

Darong in the inner room had actually woken up when her father came in, so she naturally heard the conversation between her parents clearly.

The girl at that time only remembered the narrow victory in the contest between mother and daughter, but many years later, she began to understand the love of her mother that flowed in "failure".

"Dad, you're back?"

After Darong tidied up the inner room, she opened the curtain and walked out of the room.

"Ah, you're back. Didn't you get more sleep?" Darong's father looked at Darong and glanced at her mother happily.

"I can't sleep, let me do it, Mom." Darong smiled and prepared to take over the work from Darong's mother.

"Don't get involved. Go and boil some water. The bones will come out soon so we can stew them."

"Well, okay."

With Darong getting up to help, Darong's father felt relieved. He washed his hands and went into the house to rest.

While the bones were stewing, the third child and Xiaoying returned home from school one after another.

"Wow, are we eating meat today?"

As the third brother entered the yard, his eyes lit up. After all, back then, people couldn't eat meat every day like they do now. Whenever someone in the family had meat, everyone in the front and back rows would follow and smell the scent.

"Our dad brought back some meat bones. We'll chew on them tonight."

"Hey, Xizi has gone to his grandma's house. I'll take your bike with me."

The third brother really loves Xizi. When he saw there was a bone at home, the first person he thought of was not his eldest brother who had not finished get off work, but Xizi who had gone to his grandmother's house.

"Stop! It's already late. It will be dark by the time you get back. Don't throw the bones away. Keep them for Xizi."

After all, it was the beginning of autumn and the days were gradually getting shorter. The journey to Zhouzhuang was not short, and Darong's mother was still worried about the third child rushing back and forth.

The third child thought about it and it made sense. After all, the bone could not be thrown away at home, and it would be the same if he gave it to Xizi when he came back. So he listened to his mother and did not go to Zhouzhuang.

"Brother, why does Xizi always come to our grandma's house recently?" Xiaoying asked the third brother.

Ever since he had a falling out with his third uncle last time, Xizi hasn't been to his grandmother's house for a long time. He lived very well at Zhong Yunxing's house during the summer. If he hadn't been targeted by the dog-catching team, he would have stayed there for a while longer.

Darong's home is in the town, where the population density is high, so the houses are crowded. Xizi doesn't feel comfortable staying in this small yard. Since he hasn't been to Zhouzhuang for a long time, the dog-catching team no longer keeps an eye on him, so Xizi moved back to Darong's grandmother's house.

"When I went there the day before yesterday, grandma said that there might be a female dog outside the yard. I called it to come back but it didn't come back with me. It's so unfaithful to me!" The third brother shook his head and smiled helplessly.

If Xizi were to be placed in the dog world, he would be considered an older single dog. If he hadn't been beating dogs so hard in recent years, he would have fathered countless litters with bitches. It's normal that he doesn't want to come back after finally getting a girlfriend.

"Don't just eat the vegetables. There's a big pot of bones here. If you chew on two pieces, they will be saved for your descendants. Eat them quickly."

Darong's father picked out a piece of bone with more meat and put it in Darong's bowl. Darong's father always favored Darong among the children.

Darong really enjoys the feeling of being spoiled by her father. When she was a child, she often felt that her mother did not love her, so for Darong, family warmth comes more from her father.

After dinner, Darong packed up and went to work.

Darong was riding her bike halfway when Xiao Ling suddenly jumped out and scared her.

"Oh, Ling, you scared me so much that I almost bumped into you."

"Sister, he got off work a long time ago. He didn't even go home, right?"

Before Xiao Ling finished speaking, tears had already started flowing.

"Don't cry yet, talk to me if you have anything to say."

Darong looked at Xiao Ling's condition and had already guessed most of what was going on. Although she said words of comfort, she felt a little helpless in her heart.

In essence, Darong never approves of the self-sacrificing way of love. Even though Xiao Ling has loved him for four generations, Darong only thinks she is pitiful and sad.