Single Mom in the Eighties

Baolai Hutong

When the sun was in the west, Kangkang ran out of the door time after time, looking around, Yan Ruxu knew why, but he didn't care. She was very curious about what Kang Kang's little head was thinking, how much she understood what she and Kang Congxin said to him, and whether it had any bad influence on him.

After a while, Kangkang couldn't stay in the house anymore, so he said he was going to catch bugs in the vegetable field. Yan Ruxu saw that the sun in the courtyard only left a narrow strip at the base of the wall, so he let him go.

Kangkang squatted in the vegetable field with a small body, looking here and there, uprooting weeds for a while, catching a bug for a while, and staring at a butterfly flying by for a while. Yan Ruxu also came out, sat on the platform, flipped through the magazines, and looked at Kangkang. Seeing Kangkang squatting in one place without moving for a long time, I was curious about what he was doing, so I approached him quietly.

"Dad...Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad".

Kangkang practiced calling Dad to a piece of grass. He thought he had practiced many times and was already very proficient in calling. He secretly smiled while calling.

Yan Ruxu's nose was sore, and tears rushed out of his eyes immediately.

She hurried back to the platform quietly, and after a while, the soreness on her face felt the news, she raised her voice: "Baby Kangkang, do you want to listen to the song?"

Kangkang turned his head: "Mom, can I watch cartoons?"

Yan Ruxu raised his hand to look at his watch, "There are no cartoons at this time."

Kangkang: "Then can I watch TV?"

Yan Ruxu is infinitely tolerant towards the child at the moment: "Okay, come in, Mom will turn on the TV for you."

Kangkang cheered, dropped the grass in his hand, and ran into the house. When he was about to climb the steps, he remembered something, turned back and turned on the faucet under the platform to wash his hands.

Yan Ruxu inserted the plug, turned on the 12-inch black and white TV on the combination cabinet, and pressed the buttons to tune the channels.

Hearing the sound of the TV, Kangkang hurriedly climbed onto the platform, shaking his hands, "Mom, mom, is there anything to watch?"

"Look, mom, let me see."

Kangkang hurried in and stood in front of the TV, his eyes fixed on the TV screen.

Yan Ruxu just looked at him: "What did mom say?"

Kangkang hurriedly stepped back, retreated to the sofa and sat down, his eyes were always on the TV screen, motionless.

Yan Ruxu laughed: "I've watched it so many times, haven't I seen enough?"

Kangkang was so engrossed in the TV that his ears could no longer hear other sounds.

Not long after, there was a knock at the front door, and Aunt Hua opened the door and came in. Yan Ruxu happened to have something to tell her, so she told Kangkang to sit on the sofa obediently, not to touch the power supply, and then came out of the room.

Aunt Hua usually has to pick up her little grandson, Xiao Shitou, to and from school, so she always comes here ahead of time to prepare the meals, but on weekends, she usually comes over to make Yan Ruxu fresh.

Aunt Hua took care of her and Kangkang for four years. Yan Ruxu knew Aunt Hua's family well and trusted her, otherwise she wouldn't have given her the keys to the house.

Yan Ruxu was straightforward: "Then Aunt Hua, I'm married and there are more people in the family. In the future, your workload may be slightly more than now."

Just now Yan Ruxu said with a serious face that he had something to tell her, which scared Aunt Hua so much that she thought that Yan Ruxu didn't need her anymore, but when she heard that she was going to get married, she breathed a sigh of relief, and the breath hadn't finished yet. He opened his mouth wide, took a breath for a while, closed his mouth, and asked, "Well, you've already moved in? When did this happen?"

Yan Ruxu nodded with a smile, and Aunt Hua searched around.

Yan Ruxu: "He's gone out, he'll be back in a while, I'll introduce him to you when he comes back."

Aunt Hua nodded with a smile, and breathed a sigh of relief, "You finally think about it, and I was worried that you would live like this for the rest of your life. Sometimes when I can't sleep at night, I just think, such a good girl, young Life is like a nun, but what to do! What kind of job does he do? Is he a young man? Is he good for you? Is he good for Kangkang?"

A smile appeared on Yan Ruxu's face, and he said, "He works in the Machinery Group, and he is very tall. What about his looks..." Yan Ruxu thought of Kang Congxin's face, which was darker than before and more weathered, and smiled even bigger, saying : "Not bad, handsome. He is good to me and Kangkang. Also, he is 30 years old. Although he is not a young man, he has no marriage history. His surname is Kang, so you can call him Xiaokang."

Aunt Hua laughed when she heard that: "You have finally come to the end of all hardships!"

Yan Ruxu nodded in agreement.

Aunt Hua was really happy for him, "Then this well-off comrade likes to eat something, let him **** cooking!"

"He ate it last night and praised you for your skill! Why don't you make pancakes, your pancakes are excellent, he must love them."

"Oh, fine, I'll make a face-to-face meeting right away!" With the approval of the future hostess, Aunt Hua was full of energy.

"Bake a few more, he eats a lot." Yan Ruxu urged.

"Mom, is he back?" Kang Kang, who was watching TV, ran out at some point and asked excitedly. He ran to the platform and looked around, but he didn't see Kang Congxin's figure, only the flower. Aunt Hua stopped in frustration, but still greeted Aunt Hua politely: "Grandma Hua is good."

"Okay, okay." Aunt Hua came over, hugged Kang Kang gently, and said, "Grandma Hua will give you pancakes."

"Well, thank you Grandma Hua." Kangkang replied politely, but his small mouth was so pouted that he could hang an oil pot.

"Why is Kangkang unhappy? Don't you want to eat pancakes made by grandma?"

Kangkang shook his head: "I want to eat."

"Then why are you unhappy, who messed with you?"

Kangkang turned his head away, obviously not wanting to answer her question.

Aunt Hua chuckled, "You little clever ghost, I'll give you to the clever one, and I'll eat pancakes later."

Aunt Hua walked off the platform and went to the kitchen. There is a secret to her delicious pancakes. The first is the temperature of the water, so that it is soft and soft. Rest the noodles for at least an hour. It is Yan Ruxu's family conditions that can eat a meal from time to time.

Yan Ruxu saw his son's small figure returning to the house lonely, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he walked into the house, sat beside his son, and said, "I miss Uncle Kang, do you want him to come back quickly?"

Kangkang couldn't watch the TV anymore, nodded his head, and said in a low voice, "It's Dad."

Yan Ruxu was overjoyed, and hugged Kangkang into her arms, "Baby, are you willing to call him daddy!"

Kangkang buried his face in his mother's chest and whispered, "He was my father!"

Yan Ruxu kissed the top of his son's head and said, "Father went to grandparents' house and told them that they had such a lovely baby as Kangkang. In the future, Kangkang will not only have parents, grandparents, aunts, Auntie Nahua, Brother Xiaoshitou, and Grandparents, uncle, aunt, second uncle, second aunt, and brothers and sisters, they are all your relatives, they will like you and love you!"

Kangkang just counted with his fingers, counting with his fingers twice before he could count clearly.

"Wow, there are so many people!"

"Yes, so many people love Kangkang, Kangkang is not happy."

"Happy!" Kangkang swung his calf in his mother's arms, looking forward to it: "Mom, can I play with my brothers and sisters?"

"Okay, brother and sister live at grandparents' house, next time we go to grandparents' house, we can play with them."

"Hmm," Kangkang nodded vigorously, and played with his fingers again: "Mom, why hasn't Dad come back?"

The voice of "Dad" was much louder and more natural. Yan Ruxu's heart was filled with warmth. The feeling at this time was no less than the warmth he felt when he heard Kangkang call his mother for the first time.

Yan Ruxu: "Grandpa and grandma live very far away." Yan Ruxu stretched out his watch in front of Kangkang, "It's past four o'clock now, and Dad is on his way back. Let's wait a little longer, shall we?"

Kangkang put on a show and looked at his watch seriously for a while, repeating: "It's four o'clock, Dad is on his way back, and he will be back in a while."

"Then you want to call him Dad when he comes back?"

Kangkang lowered his head and fiddled with his fingers without answering, Yan Ruxu just squeaked at him, "Should I call, should I call?"

"Call, call, mother, I called." Kangkang was very itchy.

"What's your name?" Yan Ruxu didn't let him go.

"Call Dad, call Dad."

Yan Ruxu finally let go of him, and Kangkang quickly broke free from his mother's restraint and ran away. I thought in my heart, when my father came back, I wanted my father to avenge me, so I also yelled at my mother.

The hour hand passed five o'clock, and when Aunt Hua was kneading the dough and was about to start pancakes, Kang came back again.

At that time, Kangkang was standing at the door of the kitchen, ready to wait for Aunt Hua's pancakes to come out of the oven. When he turned his head, he saw the person he was expecting came back. His small body pressed against his chest.

"Did you miss me?"

Kangkang nodded, remembering that he promised his mother that he would call his father when he saw him. Although he was still a little shy, he still pressed his ear and called out "Dad" in a breathy voice.

Kang Congxin felt his heart beating vigorously, and immediately felt hot, as if his heart had been taken out and exposed to the sun. It was warm and comfortable, but his eyes were itchy, and he wanted to cry.

He hugged the child's small body tightly, "Kangkang, what did you call me? Can you call me again?"

Kangkang felt the joy of Kang Congxin's "Dad" and couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. He couldn't help but raised his head from his father's arms, facing his expectant face, he called out again: "Dad!"

"Oh, my son, my Kangkang!" Kang Congxin's tears flowed out, and he buried his head in Kangkang's small body, allowing the tears to seep silently into the child's clothes.

Although it was very depressing, the child still noticed it, and he asked in a low voice, "Dad, are you crying?"

"Well," Kang Congxin raised his head and smiled at Kang Kang with tears in his eyes: "I heard you call Dad, Dad is so happy!"

Kangkang giggled, and poked tears on his father's face with his fingers to play. He was still young and couldn't understand so many emotions and emotions, but the fact that his father made Kang Congxin happy and cried made him very proud, thinking that he was great, and that his father really loved him so much!

Yan Ruxu stood on the platform and looked at the father and son with a happy smile on his face.

Kang Congxin waved at her, and Yan Ruxu walked over quickly, and when he was close to her, Kang Congxin hugged her into his arms, pressed him against Kang Congxin's chest, and met Kang Kang's condescending big eyes. The two had the same smiles on their faces, and Kang Congxin wrapped his long arms around them, holding them tightly in his arms.

Aunt Hua heard movement outside, and looked out through the window with her hands tied to her face, and saw the family of three embracing each other, intimate and forming a world of their own, Aunt Hua hurriedly retreated quietly, fearing that she would The sound startled them.

The first pancake came out of the pan, and the smell of oil wafted into the yard.

Kangkang's little nose twitched vigorously, patted his father's arm, and whispered, "Dad, the cake is ready."

Kang Congxin's arms were slightly loose, and he was still a little puzzled. Yan Ruxu stood up pushing his chest, and said with a smile, "You didn't understand, let him go, he's going to eat pancakes."

Kang Congxin was taken aback for a moment, then laughed loudly, shaking his son in his arms: "You boy, do you want to lose your father just because of the cake?"

Kangkang felt a little guilty, but then took it for granted, "I still want daddy after I finish eating the cake."

Kang Congxin laughed even louder: "Why are you so smart, you don't waste anything, do you?"

Kangkang became even more proud.

"Let's go, Dad will carry you over to eat cakes." Kang Congxin carried Kangkang and walked past, not forgetting to embrace Yan Ruxu, and asked in a low voice, "Is that Aunt Hua?"

Yan Ruxu nodded.

"I have to thank her very much, thanks to her help all these years." Kang Congxin said.

Yan Ruxu told him about the day Kangkang was born.

It turned out that Yan Ruxu had calculated well, booked a ward in advance, planned to move in three days before the due date, and packed the waiting bag in advance. But one night, half a month before the due date, she was awakened by a stomachache in her sleep. According to the doctor's instruction, she counted the contractions and decided that she was about to give birth. Aunt Hua lived with her, and when she learned that she was about to give birth, she was also anxious. In this case, she had to go to the hospital immediately, but she couldn't send Yan Ruxu, who was in pain, to the hospital by herself, so she Smear ran home, called his son Sun Qiang and his daughter-in-law Zhan Xiuchun, and pushed the neighbor's cart parked in the yard.

Zhan Xiuchun was very strong, and supported Yan Ruxu, letting her put most of the weight on her body. Aunt Hua spread the quilt on the cart and took the delivery bag, and Sun Qiang pulled the cart, ready to go at any time .

At that time, the street lights on the street were turned off at 9 o'clock, and Sun Qiang was running in front of the scooter. Aunt Hua was sitting in the car, supporting Yan Ruxu. Pushing the cart behind the cart, the family took Yan Ruxu to the hospital in the dark at night.

After Song Yanru entered the delivery room, the three of them also waited outside the door until Kangkang was born smoothly.

When Yan Ruxu recounted the past to Kang Xinxin, he said: "When I was on that scooter, I was thinking wildly in my mind, what should I do if the delivery is difficult, what if the child is born with a disability... With the three of them helping me, I was very relieved. After I was sent to the hospital, the three of them were covered in sweat. There were three children at home, but none of them left, just thinking that if something happened to me, what would happen? Personal care. After Kangkang was born, they were all very happy. I am also very happy that there are people who look forward to Kangkang’s birth and share my joy. Although I thanked them later by sending things , but they did their best to help me that night, like sending charcoal in the snow, and I will always remember it."

Kang Congxin was very willing to listen to these details of the past, as if he could participate in the lives of mother and child in the past few years by hearing them. When listening to them, his mood was ups and downs, sometimes painful, sometimes happy, but also happy.

Kang Congxin thanked Aunt Hua's family very much. Without them, I don't know if Kangkang could have been born so smoothly.

The smell of pancakes became stronger and stronger, and Kangkang's small body leaned forward vigorously, the corners of his mouth were wet.

Yan Ruxu: "Then Aunt Hua must have guessed something, but she has a sense of propriety and never asked me."

Kang Congxin: "She is a shrewd and transparent person. She used to get along with you two day and night, and it's normal to guess anything. It just so happens that everyone understands it, and it's less troublesome to get along with each other."

Kang Congxin put Kangk down at the door of the kitchen, and Kangkang lifted the curtain and ran in, only to hear Kangkang's milky voice: "Grandma Hua, I want to eat pancakes."

"Okay, grandma will put it on a plate for you, and you can dry it before eating."

"Um"

"Here you are, hold on tight, go out to eat, there is a lot of oily smoke here."

Then Kang Congxin and Yan Ruxu saw Kangkang coming out of the kitchen cheerfully holding a plate. The small mouth was oily, and the small arms held the plate up, as if offering a treasure: "Father, I'll eat it for you."

Kang Congxin bent over, the yellow orange was slightly burnt, the edge was missing a corner, and there were two clear small tooth marks on the pancake. He gently tore off a small piece and put it in his mouth, "Well, it's really delicious!"

Kangkang smiled, and handed the plate to Yan Ruxu: "Mom, eat."

Yan Ruxu smiled and patted his little head: "Mom will eat later, you can eat by yourself, sit down and eat well."

"Well," Kangkang sat down on the small bench under the apricot tree.

Yan Ruxu dragged Kang into the kitchen again: "Say hello to Aunt Hua first."

That Aunt Hua was turning over the pancakes before she put the lid on the pot. When she turned her head, she saw a tall man coming in with his head slightly bent, blocking a lot of sunlight.

"Aunt Hua, this is my partner, Kang Congxin." Yan Ruxu introduced.

Aunt Hua took a quick look at her, and said hello repeatedly with a smile, "You two really deserve each other, you're both talented and beautiful!"

Kang Congxin stood at attention, bowed straight to Aunt Hua, and said, "Aunt Hua, thank you for helping Yanyan and Kangkang all the time!"

Aunt Hua received such a big gift from Kang Congxin abruptly, she was at a loss, and a little confused, she hurriedly walked aside, "This is... this is..."

There was a slightly burnt smell coming from the pot.

Kang Congxin: "You are busy first, we will talk when we are free, and I will continue to trouble you in the future."

Aunt Hua quickly went to take the blame, and before she turned her head, she smiled awkwardly at Kang Congxin and said, "What's the trouble, isn't it what it should be."

Yan Ruxu and Kang came out again, Yan Ruxu smiled: "We didn't go at the right time, you scared that Aunt Hua, we'll have to eat muffins soon."

Kang Congxin took her shoulders and said in a low voice, "I'll eat the mushy ones."

Kang Congxin ate the paste cake as he wished, but the paste was not bad, only one side was burnt. Aunt Hua's pancakes are really amazing, they are soft and salty, no wonder Kangkang loves them so much, Kang Congxin is full of praise. Aunt Hua's face showed joy. Obviously, she was deeply honored to be praised by Kang Congxin.

"Then Aunt Hua, sit down and eat together," Yan Ruxu said.

"No, I'll go back first after you eat as a family. You should put your bowls in the pool after you eat. Editor Yan, don't forget to put your laundry on the platform. I'll come and wash it tomorrow morning."

"Okay, Aunt Hua, you baked a lot of cakes, you take two pieces of cakes home for the children to eat." Yan Ruxu said.

I don’t often make pancakes at home, it’s too oily, and it takes a month’s worth of cheap oil at home to bake pancakes once. Ordinary people live their daily lives and earn so much money every month, so how can they be willing to spend so much. The pancakes she baked are not only loved by Kangkang, but also by little stones. Normally, Yan Ruxu would happily take them for her, but there are more male masters in this family.

She has been with Yan Ruxu for so many years, and she knows Yan Ruxu's character very well. This person is used to making decisions by himself, and he is a leader, so he is relatively independent. He doesn't ask others' opinions very much. He usually makes decisions and let others to execute. If you are married and live with someone else, if you still decide everything by yourself, you may have conflicts.

After all, no matter who owns the house, if two people are married, the house belongs to two people. If there are more male masters, they have to respect other people's opinions, right? She didn't want to cause the newly married couple to have conflicts because of two cakes.

Aunt Hua took a look at Kang Congxin, and saw that he was taking care of Kang Kang's meal with a gentle face. Kang Kang ate the cake first, and now he was drinking loofah egg soup. He was already full, and now he was just eating and playing, "hissing" like a ghost while drinking the soup.

That Aunt Hua nodded in satisfaction, then she winked at Yan Ruxu again, and when Yan Ruxu understood, she smiled and said, "Then Aunt Hua, go and get it, we won't get into trouble over these trivial matters, besides, he not only I want to give you cakes, and I want to invite your family to dinner."

When Kang Cong Xin mentioned himself, he hurriedly raised his head.

Aunt Hua felt a little embarrassed, and pushed the dish in without looking for trouble.

Yan Ruxu smiled and said: "Really, Aunt Hua, don't worry, we have a very good relationship, and he respects me very much." Yan Ruxu continued: "The two of us are not going to make a big deal, but Kang and I have been together for a long time. Kang Cheng is taken care of by your family, and now that I have a husband and my child has a father, I thought of inviting your family to our house, and let's have a meal together, whether it's a celebration or a reunion between our two families."

Kang Congxin: "Yes, Aunt Hua, I hope you and your family will appreciate you."

"This...Look at this, why are you still inviting us to dinner? Don't dare to take it seriously. That's okay, that's okay, when the time comes, just leave it to me, and I'll do it!"

However, the two of them had to go to the Kang family to get the certificate next week, and the Kang family and the Yan family would always have to meet each other, so the matter of inviting Aunt Hua would only be moved to next week. Naturally, Aunt Hua didn't care, and happily took two cakes home.

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Celebrating the 70th collection of "Migrant Girl" to be released in the next book, thank you little angels for your support, hahahaha