Seeing her younger daughter admit she was married, with no letters sent, is it because she didn’t want to go back?
Mother Yun could hardly believe it, that delicate young daughter, would rather stay in the countryside than return to the city?
How good could that man possibly be?
"Do you want to stay here for the rest of your life?" Mother Yun frowned slightly, this house was made of brick and tile, but on rainy days, it was very inconvenient to go out, and it was also inconvenient to shop, plus having to earn work points by working the fields?
She was to continue living such a life.
"Now that the country has opened up, reformed, and opened up, why would I stay in the countryside forever?"
It had reformed and opened up.
But shopping still required coupons, but where could you get those in the countryside?
"How many years have you been married?" Mother Yun held back her anger, this wasn’t the right time to erupt, better to persuade first.
Her heart was even more troubled, she should never have listened to the old man back then, sending her daughter to the countryside to adjust her temperament.
"I got married the year I moved to the countryside, you know, I couldn’t support myself by farming, so I married, my husband has been good to me, after getting married, we split from the main family, he built me this brick and tile house. These past few years, I haven’t worked the fields, otherwise, how would I look so young."
And she had kept it hidden all along.
"Where are the children?"
Mother Yun seemed very calm, but her feelings were rather complex.
Not just one or two years.
The year after her younger daughter went to the countryside, her younger son proposed financing her return.
But the eldest couple hesitated and were unwilling to pay, so the matter was temporarily shelved.
Out of the four children, only the youngest daughter had been forced to move to the countryside.
She owed this daughter.
This was also why Mother Yun felt guilty towards this younger daughter. At first, she sent things every month, then once every two months, then once every three months.
"Playing in the room."
But she seemed to see children’s clothes hanging under the eaves.
"Where is your husband?" Mother Yun did want to meet this future son-in-law and had no idea what he looked like.
But Mother Yun also realized, the rural young men, dark-skinned, physically strong, but all dependent on earning work points in the fields.
"He has gone far away, not at home."
Why isn’t he at home?
"Bring the children here, let me see?" Mother Yun, facing this polite and distant daughter, felt somewhat uneasy because she was the youngest and sweet-talking, and she was still fond of this daughter.
But now it was as though she, the mother, was a familiar stranger.
They used to be close mother and daughter, the daughter would act coquettishly towards her, but now things had changed.
"Then sit for a while, I’ll go call them."
Need to be so polite?
Once, Mother Yun hoped her daughter would be more polite, but now she no longer needed it, wanting her daughter to call her mother cheerfully as before.
"Da Bao, Xiao Bao, come out for a while."
The two children hurriedly came down, bringing them into the main room.
"This is your Grandma, say hello." The introduction was mild, lacking warmth, very calm.
Mother Yun then looked at the two children, one bigger, one smaller, both looking quite well, with fair skin, their clothes free of patches, the smaller one chubby and fair.
They seemed better nourished than the two grandsons at the eldest’s home.
The two children were a bit reserved, but they knew that Grandma was their mother’s mother.
"Good, good, what are your names?"
"My name is Xiao Bao."