After Wu Fangge came back, he gave his mother 200 yuan as living expenses for temporarily living at home. His mother was secretly unhappy about this. She always felt that her own son said such unfamiliar words. However, because his son was not good at going home on the first day, he took his son to the street the next day. After buying clothes worth more than 270 yuan, he hinted: "Didn't the money you give to your parents, and you have spent too much on you?"
How could Wu Fangge not understand? It’s just that he really didn’t have much money left. Before he retired from the army, he spent some people on his favor and gave Dinglilac another 400 yuan. A conscript can only do this, so he just smiled and pretended not to understand.
After returning home, my mother wanted to wash the military uniform he had changed. Wu Fangge insisted on washing himself, but his mother said, "You can't wash it clean."
Wu Fangge smiled and said, "Then how did I get through these four years?"
The mother gave him a blank look and said, "Who knows how you came from the battle?"
Wu Fangge continued to insist, and his mother finally said, "You don't know how to use the washing machine at home!" At this point, there was no need to fight anymore. My mother took the clothes to the bathroom. But after a while, Wu Fangge felt something was wrong. No matter how quiet the washing machine was, it was a little louder. Why did it take a long time to go in and there was no movement inside? I was worried, so I went in and looked, but found that my mother was sitting on a small stool, holding her military uniform and crying. Wu Fangge hurriedly asked, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
My mother didn't speak, just cried, and turned her face away
This action is so familiar. I have experienced it as early as I was young. There are two manifestations of my mother being angry. One is that she is furious and beats her when she grabs something. The other is that she is silent and presses the bed. It can last for half a month for a long time. However, sometimes these two methods are used together and are quite lethal.
Although he was his mother, Wu Fangge had no effective way to deal with this temper. So after asking several times without responding, he had to go back to the living room to watch TV. While watching, he was thinking about what his mother was doing. As for the content of the TV, he couldn't watch it at all. But just as he was watching, he suddenly heard his mother say loudly inside: "What's the matter of your TV that loud? Annoying!"
Wu Fangge immediately turned off the TV when he heard it, but he was so angry that he thought about it and said, "Mom, I'll go out."
"Please beg you," said the mother
Wu Fangge then came out and said to himself: "It's the next day, how can you live your life in the future?"
But it’s good to be around outside. After all, I still need to get familiar with the environment again. So I wandered outside for an afternoon. Until I felt hungry, I remembered that my mother had not cooked today and had not even eaten lunch. When I saw a small bun shop, I went in and asked for a cage to eat. Then I remembered that my mother was angry and probably couldn’t cook dinner, so I bought two more cages and took them home.
When I walked downstairs, I met my father after get off work. When I saw him buying buns, I asked, "Do you want to eat buns?"
Wu Fangge said: "No, my mother is angry and didn't cook at noon."
"It's so troublesome." The father frowned and asked, "Why are you angry?"
Wu Fangge said: "I don't know, it's all good at the beginning, but it's inexplicable." After pausing for a moment, she added: "I didn't expect that she was still like this after I left for four years."
My father said, "I'm afraid I can't change at her age." He went upstairs with him.
When he got home, his father asked him to sit on the sofa and coax his mother himself. The two of them spoke in a low voice. The mother cried for a while. Wu Fangge didn't hear what they were saying. In fact, he didn't deliberately listen to it for a while. The father and mother came out. The mother didn't cry anymore, but she still had a stern face. The father said to him kindly: "Son, you have been a soldier outside for four years. When you grow up, you should be sensible. You should know that your parents are actually doing your best for your own good and will not take advantage of you. Look, you gave your mother 200 yuan yesterday, and the mother bought more than 200 yuan for you today."
Wu Fangge still didn't understand what was going on, so he said, "I know this."
"You know what a big deal!" Mother said silly
The father immediately stopped his mother and said, "Son, I have taught you since childhood that you must be honest in life, and that you should treat your family members in this way."
Wu Fangge said in thought: Some things really can't be said, but why did my father suddenly remember to ask these words? So he said: "I'm not dishonest. I have written a letter to tell you about my situation in the army. Sometimes the news is a little late because the army has discipline."
The mother said at this time: "You are honest, you are very honest! Then tell me what's going on!" She said, throwing four or five hundred-dollar bills on the coffee table.
Wu Fangge was stunned, I don't know what's going on
The mother explained again: "This is taken out of your military pocket, and there is this." She said and threw out another letter. It was the one He Jianlin gave him when he broke up and continued: "I haven't taken it apart, I'm too lazy to read it."
Wu Fangge's brain was running rapidly - why did he pay more than four or five hundred yuan for no reason in his pocket? After thinking about it, the most likely thing was that Lu Xiaowan didn't know when it was quietly stuffed into his pocket, because only she knew that he gave Dingxiang four hundred yuan, for fear that he was short of money. He was such a good woman, but... it also hurt me.
Seeing that he didn't speak, my mother thought she had the truth, so she continued, "Son, you said you would give me living expenses as soon as you came back yesterday. I was unhappy when I heard this. I am your mother, why are you so careless about speaking? You even said that you gave your money to your comrades and you have no money on them. Will your real mother still embezzle your money?"
Wu Fangge explained: "Mom, I did give my comrades four hundred yuan. The money in my pocket may have been secretly stuffed and returned to me by my comrades. I really don't know."
The mother said, "You are in your early twenties, and you don't know how much money you have in your bag? Your soldiers are useless? Well, even if your comrades pay you back the money, there are five hundred here. Your comrades are idiots. If you give him four hundred, he will give you five hundred?"
At this time, the father inserted in and said, "Don't you say that you are so anxious, let your son explain it well."
"What's the point of explaining?" the mother said angrily, but temporarily stopped the attack.
Seeing that the mother stopped talking, the father said to Wu Fangge again: "Okay, son, tell me your reasons."
Wu Fangge almost fainted after hearing this. He thought his father would slowly get rid of his mother, but he didn't expect that he would kick the ball to him in the end. What's the explanation for this? He couldn't think of the lyrics for a while, so he was stunned for two or three seconds, but in these two or three seconds, his mother caught the excuse. She said: "Look, there is no lyrics, your comrades are so worthy of your work. Why are you going home and not going to accompany your comrades?"
Wu Fangge could no longer hold it back. If he were still the honest young man in his early twenties, he might be able to bear it, but he was not. A middle-aged man's mentality would not allow others to be criticized like this. He said: "Mom, I really don't know how the five hundred yuan was in my pocket. Last night, I called two hundred yuan for living expenses and had no other meaning. I just wanted to reduce the burden on my family. After all, I am in my twenties and should be independent..."
Before he could finish his words, his mother said, "Self-reliable, then you can go to be self-reliant, just by you..." Then she said this, and was persuaded by her father again
Wu Fangge continued: "Also, you shouldn't say that, my comrades-in-arms have a lot of troubles. I'm afraid you're worried that you won't dare to tell you in your letter, Dad, the good news of the army's meritorious service has been sent to our family."
"Sent here" the father said, "I'll take it for you." He stood up and went into the inner room, but no matter how Wu Fangge looked, he felt that he was trying to escape from the place of right and wrong. If he could leave for a while, he would count for a while.
Within a few minutes, my father came back with the good news of his meritorious service, put it on the coffee table, Wu Fangge took a look and said, "I have won two second-class merits in the army this time, but this merit is not mine, it was my comrade who exchanged his life for his life. If a comrade had not blocked the enemy behind me and allowed me to retreat safely, if another comrade had not cared down my position regardless of his injuries, Dad and Mom, I would not have sat in front of you today."
The father stopped talking, and the mother felt indecisive, but she was still stubborn and said, "Then, what's going on with this money?"
Wu Fangge said: "Mom, my son almost threw his life out when he went to the army this time. He shouldn't be angry with me for a few hundred dollars."
The mother said unconvincedly: "Didn't you ask yourself? Don't go to the cram school to study well, and make decisions to join the army without authorization?"
Wu Fangge sighed, and suddenly felt that quarreling with his mother this time was not a bad thing. This gave him a chance to leave home and show his strength without being restrained. Parents always care about their children and always hope to use their life experience to plan a ready-made path for their children. But most of them fail more often, so there is a saying that a kind mother often defeats the child, and good intentions do bad things. Wu Fangge's parents are only in their forties and less than fifty years old, which is similar to his true psychological age, and obviously have a lag behind in their experience, because Wu Fangge's experience is all accumulated in the last twenty years and is very targeted. If you surrender this time, then you will inevitably be hindered by your parents when you want to fight again. I really didn't expect that the first obstacle to work hard when you come back is your own relatives. It is simply inexplicable irony. But it is better to argue early than later. The later the conflicts accumulate, the more conflicts you accumulate, and it is not suitable for the final resolution of the contradiction.
Thinking of this, Wu Fangge stood up, went to the bathroom first, picked up all the military uniforms placed on the washing machine, and even pairs of pants were already in the water. He also took out a plastic bag from the water pipe and put them in. Then he walked out, pulled out a travel bag from the sofa, put the clothes in, and then took out to change the clothes.
The father didn't know what he was going to do, so he asked, "Son, your mother wants to wash those clothes for you, why are you putting them up?"
Wu Fangge said: "Don't my mother want me to be independent? I'll be independent now."
This sentence was like poking a hornet's nest, and my mother suddenly broke out again