After the divorce was officially decided, the atmosphere of the Chen family changed. used to be the feeling of a family forever, but since then, Yang Donggu is no longer a person in this family, but just a guest in this family temporarily, this feeling is obviously felt even by Yang Donggu herself. In order to give the child the last impression, Yang Donggu made an exception and did not let Chen Hansheng sleep with Xie Chunxiang, but wanted to keep him until the last night.

Because the divorce has been agreed between the husband and wife, Chen Huaguo is polite and respectful to Yang Donggu, but the two children can't feel the complicated feelings in it, and they even mistakenly think that the father and mother may be reconciled. Some naughty Chen Hansheng even played with his sister in bed, which made Yang Donggu want to cry when she saw it.

Thinking that the heavens would eventually go to different sides, Yang Donggu knew that things had already been negotiated freely, but she wanted to ask Chen Hansheng tentatively, "My mother will leave tomorrow, are you willing to go with my mother, or are you willing to stay?"

Chen Hansheng didn't think about it and said, "What about my sister?"

"My sister is going with me!" Yang Donggu said.

"Then I'll go with you!" Chen Hansheng said.

"Are you willing to let go of your grandparents and your old man?" Yang Donggu further probed.

Chen Hansheng didn't squeak, because he was really reluctant, but he didn't want to say this true feeling in front of his mother, he was afraid that his mother would dislike him because of this.

"Okay!" Yang Donggu didn't want to embarrass her son, so she accepted it when she saw it, and said, "When I want to leave tomorrow, you can each go with me, and stay if you don't want to." ”

When Chen Hansheng heard this, he was sad again, he couldn't figure it out, the family is fine, why do they have to separate?

"Didn't you say you would have to stay for a while?" Chen Hansheng asked puzzledly, "Why do you leave tomorrow?"

"I'm not talking about tomorrow. Yang Donggu said.

"What day is that?" Chen Hansheng was confused.

"I'm talking about tomorrow is the day I can't tell," Yang Donggu seemed to want to give her son a sense of stability for as long as possible, but she was afraid that her son's expectations would be too high and she would be even more sad when the time came, so she added, "Maybe, just these days." ”

Chen Hansheng's mood really changed in his mother's judgment, and he even seemed a little anxious.

One morning a few days later, the civil affairs officer Xu walked into the family that had officially decided to divorce on time, and then said a few polite words, and began to handle the voluntary divorce agreement.

After filling in everything written on the form, Chen Huaguo and Yang Donggu each drew their names in that column and made a handprint, and then, Director Xu sent a dark green book to the two, and said a few kind words again, and left. If it is a marriage certificate, of course Director Xu will come to congratulate him on his old age, and he doesn't know what to say about divorce, and it will only make people sentimental and uncomfortable.

When she received the book, Yang Donggu took the initiative to say, "I can go back to my parents' house tomorrow, Chen Huaguo, can you send this original dowry with me? There are not many things, and one load is enough." ”

"No problem!" Chen Huaguo said, "I know what to do if you don't say it." ”

"Aren't you afraid of seeing my mother's family again?" Yang Donggu was even joking, "You're not afraid that my mother's family will be angry and want to beat you?"

"Fight and fight. Chen Huaguo said responsibly, "I brought up this divorce, and they wanted to beat me a few times, of course I could only endure it." ”

"You're really a man!" Yang Donggu couldn't tell whether it was sarcasm or sentimentality, and suddenly felt a little vulnerable, so she instructed Chen Huaguo, "Then you go and prepare with me now, I will leave tomorrow morning." ”

Hearing that his mother was leaving, Chen Hansheng's heart began to feel sad.

On the last night, Chen Hansheng slept almost next to his mother.

At dawn, his mother got up, and his father got up early, but what Chen Hansheng couldn't figure out was that they still slept in the same bed in the end, but they had to separate.

After Chen Huaguo got up, he began to sort out Yang Donggu's luggage, in fact, there was nothing, one end was a foot basin toilet, and the other end was a small wardrobe, which was all Yang Donggu's dowry back then.

Xie Chunxiang got up earlier than everyone else, she made an exception to make a delicious meal of rice, and made a few more dishes, and then the family sat together and began to eat. At the dinner table, no one spoke, but someone was crying. Finally, someone couldn't control it, and said a few words that didn't make sense, as if they wanted to say it, they kept it in their hearts for the time being.

After breakfast, Chen Huaguo had already picked Yang Donggu's things to the field outside the door, and was about to get ready to go on the road. The people who learned the news all came to see Yang Donggu, and those who came, almost all of them were women, and as soon as they came over, they pulled Yang Donggu and said that they would talk about it, and asked Yang Donggu to come and walk around in the future, and come to see these sisters and sisters.

Chen Hansheng began to sense that something was wrong. My sister was dressed in new clothes, and it was obvious that he was going with his mother. But he doesn't seem to be cared for yet. Whether it is his own mother, Chen Hansheng has a kind of anxiety about being abandoned, and he looks around uneasily.

Just as Chen Hansheng was looking around, his grandmother Xie Chunxiang suddenly picked him up, and then his mother came over to him and said, "My son! After I leave, you must listen to your grandmother and study hard! ”

Although Chen Hansheng didn't understand all those words, he had a stronger anxiety in his heart, he opened his seven small hands and asked Yang Donggu to hold him to walk, Yang Donggu hugged him, and gave him back to Xie Chunxiang. Chen Hansheng began to feel that something was wrong, because his sister was about to follow his mother, but he was held by his grandmother. Chen Hansheng began to cry and struggled down, and as soon as Chen Hansheng struggled, his grandmother hugged him even tighter. The tighter his grandmother hugged him, the more Chen Hansheng felt that something was wrong, he began to cry desperately, and tore his grandmother with his hands, and even grabbed his grandmother's face, pulled his grandmother's hair, and kicked his grandmother with his thin feet.

However, Zu was holding on, she even tilted her head left and right in turn, and let Chen Hansheng pull and scratch, and she didn't let go.

Chen Hansheng cried loudly, crying so much that the sky was dark, the river was flowing backwards, but his grandmother still didn't let go.

Chen Hansheng cried loudly while looking at his mother. How she wished that her mother would come back and take him away, but her mother, who turned back three times and saw him crying so hard and crying with tears in her eyes, finally turned around and ran forward a few steps after her father, who was carrying the burden.

Chen Hansheng was completely desperate, he was very sad, on his grandmother's shoulder, he didn't have the strength to continue crying, but he was still sobbing, and his whole body seemed to be swinging.

Chen Hansheng, who was a young man, couldn't understand why his mother didn't take him with him when he was leaving? If his sister didn't follow his mother, he might think better, because his mother only took his sister but didn't take him away, which was very difficult for him to accept.

Could it be that his mother didn't love him?

A few years later, Chen Hansheng wrote about his mother, a detail that once heart-rending him became a beginning of the novella.

But that's just the beginning, and there's more to come.