Aunt fighting with a glass of fresh milk

Smoke Sorrow is the first collection of essays by Qi Jun, a famous essayist in Taiwan Province. It has been reprinted for 52 times in Taiwan Province Province, and was rated as "Taiwan Province Literature Classic" by the Supplement of Taiwan Province United Daily News. This book contains 35 of Qi Jun's most representative prose works, such as The Story of Yangmei, The Wedding Banquet, The Golden Box and Fresh Milk.

Qi Jun had a happy childhood. She has an official father, a kind and simple mother, a cheerful and capable grandfather and a kind and long-term worker. These people gave her endless care. Some people tell stories in one article, while others appear in many articles. From the text, we can see that Qi Jun has a very sincere memory of them.

However, there is a person who occasionally appears in some articles and has only a few words, and these words are full of dissatisfaction. The only thing written about her in this book is the fear of a little girl, which is different from other articles.

This person is Qi Jun's common mother and her father's concubine.

Qi Jun is 12 years old. In Hangzhou with her father and aunt, aunt taught her: "Whenever your father asks you what you want to eat, you have to say' Stop eating, Dad, eat by yourself'. Children have plenty of days to eat in the future, and they should know how to be filial, you know? "

Therefore, my father drinks a glass of fresh milk every morning. She obviously wants to drink, and she can only resist rejection. However, children's minds are easily seen through by adults, especially fathers who love their daughters. So, my father handed the milk to the Qi army.

"I put the cup trembling to my mouth, fearing that my aunt would come downstairs and teach me a lesson." Qi Jun was both happy and afraid. "I was drinking when the stairs rang. I hurriedly put down my glass and accidentally knocked it over. The milk spilled all over the table, and a large pool of white milk spilled on the mahogany table, which made me even more flustered. " Fat Lao Liu mistook milk for a handkerchief because of myopia and failed to wipe it off in time.

Finally, Qi Jun's drinking fresh milk was discovered by her mother, and she was severely reprimanded. Qi Jun felt wronged in all aspects and became more and more timid.

This is the first small scene of the story of fresh milk, and there is a second small scene.

Qi Jun fell down the steps with fresh milk, and only a little milk was spilled. Fat Liu had an idea. He washed the condensed milk with boiling water and put it back in the bottle. But my father didn't want to drink milk that day. My aunt said she would be exposed soon, so she asked Liu for help.

Liu knew that her mother didn't eat milk and boiled eggs, but she added an egg to it. Sure enough, her mother was angry and Qi Jun ate the milk again.

On another occasion, when Qi Jun's parents died, her mother became her only relative in the world. My mother came to Shanghai and lived in the same hometown as Qi Jun. She felt that she was malnourished and drank milk. My mother always frowns like taking medicine when drinking milk, and there is always a little left. Moreover, milk is not allowed to be poured into the pot and can only be steamed by water. The temperature can't be cold or hot, it should be as hot as her lips.

In order to wait on the warmth and coldness of her milk, the servant rarely can do it for more than a month.

"Why are you always unpleasant?" Qi Jun is always thinking.

Why is she always unpleasant? For a glass of milk, the common mother competed with the 12-year-old girl and never let go of the servants at home. There are probably the following reasons.

Qi Jun's father became a high official in other places. Even if he has a wife and children at home, he inevitably feels lonely. Long-term separation between the two places, different life and cognition, kept him away from his wife. The misshapen feet of his wife are unacceptable to his newly educated father.

My father met his common mother, a big-footed and beautiful mother. During the war, he can bring laughter to single fathers.

At that time, men could still marry concubines, so my father naturally took her home and announced her existence to the family.

It has been a family model for many years that men are in charge of the outside and women are in charge of the inside. The mother in this family is recognized by everyone from top to bottom because she is reasonable, simple, kind and frugal. This family cannot live without her.

An ordinary mother can't and doesn't need to support a big family. She just needs to make her father happy and healthy. Her father's happiness is her happiness, her father's health is her happiness, and her father is everything in her life. She will find fault with anyone who doesn't take good care of her father and won't allow anyone to influence her father, including her own daughter.

A growing girl, even if she wants to coquetry and drink a glass of milk in front of her biological father, will be considered disrespectful, because she doesn't care about anyone except her father.

Compared with the kindness of mothers, ordinary mothers are undoubtedly more arrogant and unreasonable.

My mother is a flag bearer with different educational background. She doesn't know much about modesty, but cares more about her emotions. What's more, this aunt met her father when he was in the officialdom. His father's position is not small, and there must be many people begging him.

As can be seen from the article, my father dotes on this concubine and is arrogant. My mother knows this man too well. As long as she is not out of line, my dad probably turns a blind eye to ordinary little things.

She hopes that all servants will strictly follow her instructions. Perhaps, only in the small environment of family can she find her dignity and value. As a result, a glass of milk finally went, and small details became very important things in her eyes.

From our modern eyes, an ordinary mother is very hardworking, but looking back, a woman who lives in a narrow circle can care. It can only be trivial.

At the end of the book, Qi Jun said that the evening scene of an ordinary mother is lonely, and she should have never given birth to a child in her life.

It is a very sad thing that women can't have children of their own, especially in those days.

My father loves his children very much. Even in the patriarchal age, he hired a tutor for Qi Jun and took her to a public middle school in Hangzhou when she was 0/2 years old. For the cultivation of children, the father does not bother.

The common mother followed her father for twenty years without leaving a child. Qi Jun never mentioned the reason in his article, and we don't know.

My mother doesn't like her mother's children. My brother was picked up by his father, who was not at home. My mother doesn't care whether he eats or not, she just goes out to play cards. Finally, my brother died of acute nephritis. Qi Jun lived with them carefully and never felt the love from her mother.

Her father's love for her two children is a threat to her, and she dare not brush her father's wishes, so she can only vent her emotions with a cold attitude.

In the season when my father was ill, the blind fortune teller said that my mother's horoscope did not match my father's, so they could not meet for two years. My mother believed it, and then signaled her mother to stay away from her father. Only then did she know her father's attachment to her mother. She was willing to believe a blind man's story just to hide her eyes and ears.

In the article "Yunju Bookstore", he talked about his father's many precious books, and he was always uneasy and told Qi Jun to properly handle them. When the war broke out and his father died, Qi Jun wrote many times to tell his mother that his father's books should be transported to a safe place in any case. My mother wrote, "The most important thing to mention is that your father's coffin will be transported to the ancestral temple in the mountains, followed by mahogany furniture and clothes, and books can't be transported."

Even after living together for twenty years, mom and dad didn't get along after all, and mom wasn't the last person to understand dad.

Those years of living together and sharing prosperity and wealth were finally erased by his father's death. After loneliness and hardship, my mother finally understood that life needs to be paid, not to deprive others of happiness with jealousy, but to exchange kindness and sympathy for the same happiness as others.

When Qi Jun ordered fresh milk for her elderly mother, she often kept it for Qi Jun, and specially gave sugar to the buyer in Qi Jun, saying that sugar cubes were cleaner than sugar. This old woman who has been fighting with fresh milk has finally put everything down.

Through these reminiscence essays, the author expresses his memories of his hometown landscape, his deep nostalgia for his parents, teachers and close friends, and his attitude towards life with a warm heart. The style is delicate and gentle, simple and moving.

For the hometown that can't go back, prose has become the best carrier for writers to express their feelings. Faraway homeland, lost time, lost relatives and the taste of the tip of the tongue all constitute the most beautiful and melancholy part of homesickness. They will follow people's life, always jump out of memory and gather in the author's pen, making people taste.