I looked out of the window at the scene of rapid retreat, lifeless reply, "I know."
Soon, we went back to Huo's house. They were still drinking tea in the courtyard. They changed their black clothes in the morning and wore casual clothes.
"You're back," my mother-in-law said carelessly. "Is the funeral over?"
"Well," said uncle song, holding Song Yu's urn, without leaving his hand for a moment, "this time has caused trouble for Mr. and Mrs. Huo, and I moved out today."
My father-in-law got up from his chair and came to us. He said with regret, "Mr. Song, we are very sorry about Song Yu. We have to take care of our health."
Uncle song could not hide his sadness, but he nodded.
"By the way, I'll stay for a while." Her mother-in-law also followed, "I see your face is not good, at least recuperate the body."
"Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Huo. I want Xiaoyu to settle down early." Uncle song still insists on his decision.
"Father in law, mother in law, we've been here for a long time. We're going home with brother song this afternoon." Said the father.
"Will the in laws leave, too?" My father-in-law said, "we want to keep you for a while more."
"No, come back next time." His father politely refused his father-in-law's invitation. He took a look at Uncle song, "the store at home has been closed for a long time, and there are many things that need to be taken care of."
"Well, then we won't keep you." My father-in-law said.
When the party came into the house, their parents and uncle song went to the house where they had lived before and cleaned up their things. I gave Yanyan to my mother-in-law.
"Ouch, the big eyes are red. Let Grandma have a look." looking at Yan Yan's eyes which are still red and swollen because of crying, she said nervously, "look, look, my little granddaughter is not beautiful. You are late. Why do you let the child go to that place?"
Sure enough, they still don't want to let Yan Yan go to the funeral. I'm afraid Huo Qingchuan said something about it.
But why? Yan Yan and Song Yu have such a good relationship. Song Yu is her dearest little uncle, and it is this dead little uncle who has saved Yan Yan's life. With love and reason, shouldn't the child go to the funeral?
"Mom, I don't have a brother. I regard Song Yu as my own brother. Yan Yan has called him his uncle for a long time. I just want my child to send him for the last ride." Swallow back the fiercer retort in my heart, I explained to my mother-in-law.
"That's right," the mother-in-law held Yan Yan tightly in her arms. "Just let the child go. How can you still let her guard in front of the throne? The child is still so small, "Mom, I don't think I'm ashamed of the Huo family like this." I said.
If I'm humiliating the Huo family, don't I deny Song Yu?
"You," mother-in-law looked shocked. She rounded her eyes and looked at me in surprise“ What did you just say? "
No wonder she would react like this. Since I married the Huo family, I haven't disobeyed their opinions once, even slightly. I've always been a typical Chinese good daughter-in-law, submissive and without any opinions of my own.
This is the first time that I disobeyed her wishes in such a big event that they thought was related to the face of the Huo family. She must think that I was wrong.
But I don't have any mistakes. Song Yu is no longer here. I don't want him to become a stain in other people.
"Mom, Song Yu is kind to our family. Can I go to the funeral of my benefactor and discredit the Huo family?" I elaborated my own view: "you didn't like him very much at the beginning. How could you treat him like this when he left?"
My mother-in-law didn't seem to expect that I would ask her back. She couldn't answer my question for a moment.
When she realized my disrespect, she glared at me.
"Chi Wan, do you mean I'm ungrateful and forgot that Song Yu donated a kidney to us?" My mother-in-law came to me, very close to me.
"I don't mean that," I said. "I just want to remember him. After all, he just left."
"That's not what you mean?" My mother-in-law didn't listen to my explanation at all. She began to be a bit reluctant, "that's what you mean!"
See the old man really angry, I chose silence, this time, I don't want to quarrel with anyone.
"Well, you, late," my mother-in-law's temper did not disappear because of my silence, but more exuberant, "you spend so many days in the hospital with other men, what do we say about you? You don't go home all day and all night. Did Ogawa say anything about you? Don't forget that you have a family. You are the daughter-in-law of the Huo family! "
Her mother-in-law let out her dissatisfaction with me these days. "We are grateful to Song Yu. We gave him a lot of money and asked him to come to our house to take care of his illness. We asked him to have the best doctor and the most expensive herbs. Are these not enough to repay his so-called kindness? Take the kidney for example. Even if you don't give it to Yan Yan, he will die if he keeps it. Take it out and do a good deed to benefit the two families. Isn't it a matter of course? "
Listening to my mother-in-law's more and more excessive words, I gradually couldn't control my emotions.
"Mom, how can you say that?" My voice was a little louder. "Xiaoyu has no relatives in a city. As you can see, uncle song is the only one in his family to take care of him. As a good friend of his family, what's wrong with taking care of him? I may not come back these days, but he understands me. And what you said is taken for granted. In this world, it is taken for granted that no one helps anyone. "
"On an equal footing," said the mother-in-law, "you are angry with me." don't think you entered the house of Huo, and became the grandmother of Huo family. You are entitled to be equal to me. I tell you, this family has the final say.
I really don't want to quarrel with her or be rude to her, but I can't listen to her similar slander to Song Yu.
If I don't speak any more, I will be scolded as a woman who is not filial to my parents in law.
During the confrontation between my mother-in-law and me, Huo Qingchuan and my father-in-law came in together. When they saw two women standing face to face, their faces were a little angry, and suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"What's the matter?" My father-in-law came up and asked.
My mother-in-law turned around and sat down on the sofa, complaining about me like, "our good daughter-in-law, my mother-in-law just said a few words to her, and then she quarreled with me. It's really not big or small."
After listening to my mother-in-law's words, my father, son and son all looked at me with puzzled and surprised eyes.
"Late, late, what's the matter?" Huo Qingchuan asked me.
It's not my fault, but I really don't have the energy to explain. I feel tired.
"You had a fight with mom?" See I don't speak, Huo Qingchuan then asked.
"I'm not wrong." Omitting the process, I just explained my own point of view.
"See, see," the mother-in-law even more intensified, "people say that there is nothing wrong, that is my mother-in-law is not a chant, really good filial daughter-in-law ah."
With that, the mother-in-law held her shoulders in her hands and turned her face to one side.
"No matter what happens, you shouldn't fight with mom." Huo Qingchuan said to me, "apologize to mom."
I didn't do anything wrong. Why apologize?
I look at Huo Qingchuan. If I don't believe he doesn't care about anything, let me apologize.
But Huo Qingchuan face is unquestionable, he is waiting for me to apologize. Eyes swept my father-in-law and mother-in-law, they are also a pair of dissatisfaction.
I suddenly feel isolated. In this case, I don't have to be annoying here.
Push away Huo Qingchuan, I did not turn back on the floor, Huo Qingchuan behind me, I did not stop.
"Look, you're looking for a good wife..." my mother-in-law still complained. I quickened my pace and went back to my room before I heard more sad words.
After closing the door, I threw myself on the bed, my head humming, and my clothes smelled of incense lit by the Lingtang.