Chapter Twenty-Three: The Love Flower of the Sea of Evil
Grandpa Zhang He was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then turned his head to look at Grandma Zhang He, who was also shocked by his grandson's words and had a complicated expression written on her face, and was a long time late, before asking him, "Who told you?"
"You don't care who told me? I know anyway. I just want to ask you, why did you end up when you didn't agree to my mother's marriage? Didn't my mother and my aunt always listen to you?" Zhang He asked seriously.
"Adults don't care, children. Grandma Zhang He said with an unhappy expression.
Zhang He turned his head to look at his grandmother, and he didn't bother to care about the seriousness of his words, so he said directly to his grandfather: "Why is it none of my business? I feel sorry for my mother, I think my father is not good to my mother, and I want to divorce them." ”
"Divorce!" Grandma Zhang He repeated, then stopped what she was doing, walked quickly to the square table, pulled a stool from under the table and sat down, stared at Zhang He's eyes and asked, "What are you talking nonsense about? Do you know what divorce is?"
As soon as Zhang He saw his grandmother like this, he immediately smiled and said, "Why are you so excited? I know what divorce is! I just don't want my mother to live with him!"
"Where did you hear these words?" asked Zhang He with a straight face.
Before his grandson could speak, Grandpa Zhang He interjected: "You tell Grandpa first, what do you know? Did your mother tell you something? Or did you hear what they said when they quarreled?"
"What do you say? Can't it be my own opinion? You say it yourself, is my father good to my mother? Are you satisfied with this uncle? Do you think your daughter is happy?" Zhang He said impatiently.
The two elders were speechless, so they glanced at each other, and didn't say anything further, but looked at Zhang He while full of doubts, and sighed in their hearts: "What's wrong with this kid? In the past, as long as he mentioned his father, he was like talking about a tiger." Why did you even say the word divorce today?"
Zhang He naturally understood the psychology of the second elder, so he said again: "Okay, grandpa, don't think about me first." Or do you disagree with my parents' divorce? Say it in advance, don't talk about me, I don't have my father, and I can still live well. With you who love me, I don't lack anything. ”
"What's wrong with you kid today, Liyun, come in and ask you something. Grandma Zhang He suddenly shouted outside the house with a loud voice.
Seeing this, Zhang He immediately jumped off the stool, frowned and looked at the kitchen and said:
"Grandma, why do you call my mother? I told you all about it, I thought it myself! If you want to do this, I won't say anything to you in the future." ”
It's a pity that as soon as the words fell, Zhang's mother entered the house while wiping her hands, and asked Grandma Zhang He, "Mom, what's wrong?"
"It's okay! Your mom told you to make more, and we'll all eat this at night." Grandpa Zhang He stared at Zhang He with a serious expression and said casually.
"I think so too, this is a day of driving, and the province of thin soup and water comes at night. That's it, then I'll cook!" After Zhang's mother finished speaking, she turned around and went to the kitchen again.
At this point, it was quiet for a while, and then Grandpa Zhang He asked again: "Tell grandpa, why do you want your father and mother to divorce?"
Zhang He looked out the window with a displeased expression, and only sat back on the stool after a while and replied: "I just think my mother is unhappy, and I think my father is not a person." ”
"Hey, don't be big or small, how can a son scold his father?" Grandpa Zhang He immediately straightened his face and rebuked Zhang He when he heard this.
"Hmph! Scolding him is light, do you know how he treats my mother? Do you know why my mother comes back with me every big night?" Zhang He said with a serious face.
"Because they're quarreling again, your dad is beating your mom again!" Grandma Zhang He replied casually, as if she was not distracted.
"You know!" Zhang He always thought that it was only after his parents divorced that his grandfather and grandmother knew about his mother's domestic violence, but he didn't know that his grandfather and grandmother had already known. So he immediately widened his eyes and asked, "Then why are you willing to put my mother back and let him beat him again? Why didn't you get them to divorce earlier? Grandpa, you know this?"
"What then! It's good to get through this age. Grandma Zhang He said with tears in her eyes, looking out of the window blankly.
"Grandma, you are confused! How many times have you been here, do you have to let my mother be beaten to death by him one day?" Zhang He said even more excitedly.
"Do you know why your father lives in our house, so close to our house, he doesn't come over?" said Grandma Zhang He with a calm expression looking out the window.
"Why? Doesn't he just have to be the best every year! He also has to work overtime on Sundays. Do you think you live in your room, and your waist is not hard?" Zhang He replied angrily.
"Hmph, it was your grandmother who gave him a mouth because he beat your mother back then, in our house, right here, right here. So he hasn't been on our door since that day. Grandpa Zhang He turned his head into the room and pointed to the ground next to the bed, as if he had seen the scene reappear.
"My grandmother gave him a mouthful? When did it happen? Why didn't I know? I never heard my family tell me. Zhang He asked, staring at his grandmother's face.
"It wasn't you at that time? They were arguing in the factory, and your dad kicked your mom off a stack of steel plates. Grandma Zhang He wiped her tears with her hand, looked out the window with a serious expression and replied.
"A stack of steel plates, my mother's legs, and that work injury?" Zhang He immediately connected the three, so he immediately exclaimed: "My mother's legs can't bend, is he the one who caused it?"
"Just the legs! You have a sister above you? It's all formed, and it's been lost by this fall!" said Grandma Zhang He with an angry face.
When Zhang He heard this, he immediately jumped off the stool angrily, pinched his throat and forced his tone to suppress his voice, and roared at the second elder: "Leave! I had to leave in the first place! Why didn't you persuade my mother to leave him at that time?"
"Persuaded, your mother didn't leave! I was persuaded by your father to go back in a few words. If you don't have it, you don't have it. Grandma Zhang He looked at Zhang He with a complicated expression and said.
"Holy, my God, is this my mother's life?"
"Miss my mother! 1.68 meters tall, beautiful, and a top student!
I miss my mother! Long black hair, forty years of age, and no white silk hanging armor. It's a pity that the working class was the boss at that time,
Therefore, I don't want to stay in school, and I just want to enter the factory to serve the country.
Unexpectedly, a lone crown sunset, the good man smells the fragrance of butterflies and loves flowers,
There are tens of millions of people who are near, but they can be broken off by gangsters.
From then on, flowers are not flowers, trampled under their feet. ”
Zhang He listened to what his grandmother said, and instantly turned out two pictures from his memory that he would never forget.
Four years after his parents were officially divorced by the court, when Zhang He was about to enter the third year of junior high school at the age of 14, he and his mother and father, whom they had not seen for many years, went to the Qianmen Bicycle Shop to buy bicycles.
He clearly remembered that his father, who had been late that day, had a gloomy face the whole time after seeing their mother and son, and never had a word of greeting with his son, except that after randomly selecting the cheapest permanent bicycle in the shop, he asked him to sign a certificate, and then turned away without looking back. Although Zhang He was not very old at that time, he also understood that asking him to sign after buying something was by no means a manifestation of fatherly love. However, he found that his mother did not think so, and always treated this person who had hurt and betrayed her with affection.
The other is on the eighth day of the Spring Festival in 1995, the day of my mother's funeral. At that time, all the relatives, including Zhang He, tried to close Zhang's mother's eyes, which were frozen and stiff, but still not closed, and always had a slit. But no one succeeded, and it was not until the last moment that the crematorium staff pushed away the cremation was about to be carried away by the crematorium staff when the father suddenly appeared, and the mother miraculously closed her eyes. Although you may think this is a coincidence, for Zhang He, who has had the experience of closing his grandfather's eyes, he firmly believes that his mother definitely wants to see his father at the last moment of his life.
Therefore, these two pictures have been deeply engraved in Zhang He's mind, and it was not until just now that he seemed to have solved the puzzle that had been bothering him for many years. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: "I was in love before I was born, and I was reluctant to give up after I died, is this my mother's unswerving love?"
Poetry: Crazy men believe in women's love for the sky,
The bitterness is also the sweetness of the world.
Sincere mistake will never be complained,
I also want to continue the frontier in the next life.
I don't know if God didn't want Zhang's mother to hear her son's words, or because Zhang's mother was distracted for a while, so her ears blocked the sound. In short, Zhang He's low roar did not attract her, but just made grandpa and grandma speechless in an instant. I saw the three grandparents and grandsons looking out of the window together thoughtfully, until Zhang's mother entered the room with a hot face, and then came back to their senses.
"Hmph, the leek flower nest egg noodles you want to eat! This bowl will be given to grandpa first, you will wait a while. The careless mother did not notice the change in the atmosphere, so she put the bowl on the table in front of her father, and then turned around and went to the kitchen.
"Grandpa, grandma, let's not talk about it today. You all know what I mean, I just don't want my mother to be wronged anymore, you two elders just understand. Zhang He looked at his mother's back and explained to his grandfather and grandmother in a low voice.
"Hey, don't say it!" Grandma Zhang He got up and wiped her eyes, then got up and went to the kitchen to help Zhang's mother serve noodles. And Grandpa Zhang He looked at Zhang He blankly and did not speak.