Chapter 2: Rebirth
Magnolia is awakened by the heat. She tried to open her eyes and look, but found that her eyelids were heavy, she tried to raise her hand, but she only moved her fingers and hung them down in vain, and she tried to speak, but she only let out a cat-like moan.
A warm hand reached over and touched her forehead. After a while, the man gently wiped her mouth with a wet cotton swab dipped in warm water, with gentle movements. Magnolia fell asleep again in a daze.
The room was silent, and Magnolia woke up again in the morning light. Glancing at the surroundings, the first thing that catches your eye is the yellowed ceiling. A long beige curtain hangs down from the ceiling, dividing the two beds in the ward into two separate spaces. The painted iron frame bed, the blackened infusion stand, the drips in the glass bottles hanging on the shelves are still slowly dripping, and the other end of the infusion hose dripping with liquid is hidden under the thin quilt.
Magnolia lay motionless on the hospital bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze. She remembers being knocked down from the 22nd floor. Falling from such a high place, there is no chance of survival. But now she is lying in the hospital, except for the knuckle of the infusion is slightly stiff, the biggest discomfort is only fatigue.
Could it be that her life was saved? Yulan was lucky.
Raising her hand to touch her forehead, Yulan was horrified to find that this little hand with baby fat was clearly a child's hand!
She was shocked and said to herself, "What the hell is going on, how did I become a child?"
The voice is also a very immature baby sound!
Magnolia's gaze fell on the small hand with the needle inserted. I saw that the palm of the hand was stretched out, and a palm-sized plastic infusion board was tied to the palm of the palm, and the bandage was circled around the left side, and the hand was wrapped tightly. Yulan is familiar because she remembers that Lei Lei looks like this every time he goes to the hospital to hang saline. She touched the needle, the tentacles were cold, and when she pressed lightly, the pain was obvious, obviously not dreaming.
Magnolia was panicking when someone pushed open the door and came in. The moment she saw the person coming, Magnolia's tears fell.
That's clearly what A-Niang looked like when she was young!
Yulan clearly remembers that when she was 17 years old, she shyly and timidly told A-Niang that she wanted to marry that person, and A-Niang had just celebrated her 50th birthday.
Ah Niang reacted violently when she heard the news. She scolded her angrily while beating her, saying that she was crazy, that she was willing to be cheap, and that she would rather strangle her than embarrass the old Chen family. Yulan remembered that she still swore that she was true love with that person, and even accused A-Niang of only caring about face and not caring about her daughter's happiness.
Many years later, Yulan felt painful every time she dreamed of A-Niang's heartbroken look at that time. In those years, Yulan always thought repeatedly, if she hadn't been fascinated by phlegm at that time, wouldn't the tragedy happen later?
Yulan clearly remembers that day, the father, who was reluctant to touch one of her fingers since she was a child, slapped her in anger. However, that slap not only failed to wake her up, but also aroused her rebellious heart.
What happened next?
Yulan couldn't stop her tears when she remembered the past.
She remembered that Daddy and Auntie locked her in the attic and wanted to keep her sober. But she coaxed her little sister Yuzhu to steal the key and open the door, leaving a letter and running away with someone.
When things started out, there was an uproar in the village. Because of the outbreak of the anti-pornography incident in D City, the whole country was in an uproar, and the fact that Yumei used to work in D City was also picked up. A-Niang has heard enough rumors. He eloped with someone at this moment. Ah Niang felt that she had failed in her children's education like never before. Coupled with the encouragement of someone with a heart, Ah Niang was disheartened, and the more she thought about it, the more she couldn't think about it, and finally went straight into a dead end, and then quietly drank paraquat one night, and when she was found the next day, her body was already stiff.
Daddy was crushed by this bad news.
Yuzhu, who knows what happened, thinks that everything is his fault. She felt that if she hadn't helped her second sister steal the key, the second sister wouldn't have run away. Then, A-Niang will not die, and A-Dad will not get sick. Yuzhu, who blamed himself and was frightened, stepped on the air when he went downstairs in a trance, and when he rolled down the stairs, his head hit the foot of the bluestone pillar at the foot of the stairs, and he died on the spot.
Daddy, who was exhausted because of the funeral of Ah Niang, heard the bad news, so he didn't come up in one breath, and followed behind Ah Niang and left.
A-Niang's funeral is not over yet, and two coffins, one large and one small, have been added to the mourning hall.
Yulan remembers that when she called her little sister and begged her to bring news to her father, she couldn't hide her little sister's sympathy and pity through the distant telephone line.
She said, your father, your mother, and Yuzhu are all ...... Nope. If you come back now, you'll be able to catch them off in time.
Yulan was stunned, thinking that the little sister was joking with herself, and scolded the other party in anger, saying that if she didn't help report the news, how could she curse her family.
When she called home, she clearly heard the mournful music on the phone, and Yulan was terrified.
When I returned home in despair, I saw three coffins, one large and one small, placed side by side in the center of the hall.
Magnolia howled and cried, she really regretted it.
If she could turn back time, she wouldn't do anything stupid again.
It's a pity that there are no ifs in this world.
Yumei knelt in front of the mourning hall in a white linen dress, her pretty face was frosty, her back was stubbornly straightened, and her thin body revealed endless sadness. She whispered: "Daddy, little sister, Chen Yulan killed you, I am ashamed to be a sister with her." In this life, unless you can go back in time and you can come back to life, otherwise, I will never forgive her. ”
The eldest brother Yushu hated and poisoned himself. Not only did he refuse to let her worship, but he also unceremoniously threw her out of the mourning hall.
"You have killed them, but I cannot avenge them. You are not allowed to appear before me from now on. Since you chose the road yourself, in the future, you can do it yourself. We don't get along with each other. ”
At that moment, Magnolia was in despair.
She finally realized that she had nothing but the name Chen Yulan.
From this year onwards, she went away from home and never set foot in her hometown until her death.
Remorse accompanied her every day and night of her life.
Midnight dream, whenever I think of A-Niang's heartbroken face and Daddy's expression of hatred for iron and steel, Yulan can no longer sleep peacefully.
More than once in the silence of the night, she thought that if God could make her life happen all over again, she would trade her life.
She had no shame to see her family, so she had to secretly inquire about her family's situation.
Only then did I know that the eldest sister Yumei's marriage was not smooth and she had been single, and the eldest brother married a shrew, and the family had a noisy and poor life.
She wanted to do something for her older siblings, even if it was just to improve their financial situation a little.
So, she began to work hard to make money, shining shoes, washing dishes, selling clothes and setting up a stall. In the end, from a pattern maker in a garment factory, she later learned design by herself, opened her own shop to sell clothes, and finally established her own fashion design studio. Thanks to the setbacks and tribulations in the process of years of hard work, she finally gradually came out of the haze.
Although she sent money to her family again and again, and was returned again and again, she was happy to do it. As if this is the only way to calm your heart.
When she finally decided to live for herself, a disaster happened, and her life came to an abrupt end.
Magnolia felt that fate was full of malice towards her.
However, at this moment, when she saw her young A-Niang walking towards her, Yulan's heart was full of gratitude, thanking fate for opening a window for her again.
Li Aihua walked in the door with a thermos pot. She is in her thirties, with neat short hair, a goose egg face, curved willow eyebrows, a pair of large and bright almond eyes, obvious laugh lines at the corners of the eyes, red lips under the small bridge of the nose, and slightly upturned lips, giving her a natural smile. She wore a square-necked, short-sleeved, waist-cinching beige floral shirt with shoulder pads that made her look serious and playful, a pair of loose black cloth pants underneath, and a pair of rubber-soled sandals under her feet. The clatter of the soles of shoes on the concrete floor shattered the silence of the morning.
Li Aihua put down the thermos pot, walked to Yulan's side, touched her forehead, and was slightly relieved to find that there was no fever. Seeing her daughter's face crying like a little cat, she couldn't help laughing and said, "What's the matter, A-Niang is not by your side, you're scared?"
"A-Niang...... Mother...... A-Niang ......" Yulan threw herself into Li Aihua's arms and cried heartbreakingly.
This posture frightened Li Aihua. "What's the matter? I still have pain? I've got a fever, I shouldn't be. I'm going to ask the doctor what's going on!" he said, standing up and leaving.
Yulan hugged Li Aihua hard, for fear that she would run away, and said aggrievedly: "A-Niang, don't go, I don't hurt." I just have a nightmare, I dream that you and Daddy don't want me anymore, and I'm so scared. ”
Li Aihua patted Yulan's back lightly and said with a smile: "Silly girl, that's just a dream." Daddy, how could Daddy and Auntie not want you? Are you hungry? A-Niang brought you sweet potato porridge, can you drink a little?"
Yulan shook her head and said very childishly, "A-Niang, I want to eat the potato soup you made." Let's go home. ”
Li Aihua said dotingly: "Dr. Li said that you can go home when you wake up today." We'll ask him when he goes to work before we leave. It's still early, and the potato soup can't be cooked until home. Alain obediently drank porridge first, and the illness was cured quickly. ”
Looking at A-Niang's gentle words to coax herself to eat, Yulan only felt sour and soft in her heart. She couldn't help but think of her mother-in-law's way of patiently coaxing her son Lei Lei to eat every time. On the other hand, every time I say less than three words to my son, I will start to lose my temper. Her in-laws thought she was impatient with her children, but she felt that her son was too squeamish and her in-laws were too pampered, so that in retrospect, there was little interaction with her children.
It is a failure to be a child, and it is not qualified to be a mother, Yulan feels very frustrated when she thinks about it.
Magnolia thought about it for a while, and only came back to her senses when she tasted the slightly sweet taste in her mouth. She secretly swore in her heart that since God let her live again, she must be a good daughter of A-Niang.
The mother and daughter fed one seriously, the other ate attentively, and the soft morning light hit their faces, condensing into the most beautiful picture in the world.