Chapter 6: A Promise to Mother-in-law

Thirteen years ago......

Xu Lanru graduated from university, and this sensible and obedient child returned home, a poor home, and slowly settled down this very beautiful girl.

At that time, she called Xu Qingming's mother grandma, and Xu Qingming was undoubtedly called Dad, but it was a promise that completely changed the relationship.

Grandma was eighty-two, with gray hair, and she couldn't afford to be sick in bed, and all day long she could hear her coughing in bed.

On the night of early autumn, there are a lot of mosquitoes in the mountains, Xu Qingming is not at home, I heard my grandmother say that she went into the mountains to burn charcoal, and when she went, it was ten days and a half months. No one knows which deep mountain jungle he is in.

It's been ten days since she came back, and Xu Lanru hasn't seen Xu Qingming, who was called her father at that time.

Late at night, Lan Ru was woken up by her grandmother's cough, she came to her bed, and her grandmother took her hand with that solemn mood and said: "Lan Ru, you have also grown up and graduated, I will tell you the truth, when we picked you up, we didn't want to raise you as a daughter, I regarded you as a daughter-in-law from the beginning, Qingming His father died early, the family was originally poor, and he raised you, how could he have the money to give him a daughter-in-law, originally when you were fifteen or sixteen years old, I was ready to marry you to Qingming, but I didn't expect him to agree." He said that he wanted to take you as a daughter, and he would never marry for the rest of his life. ”

It was the first time Lan Ru had heard her grandmother say this, and she had already known about picking it up, but she had never heard of it when she wanted to be Qingming's wife.

She cried and cried with her grandmother.

"Women just need to find a man who loves you, Qingming for you, you said he didn't do anything, when you were in high school, the family had no money, he went to someone's house to steal dogs and sell them, but he was caught, his front teeth were broken, and his hands were disabled. When you were in college, he couldn't do heavy work, so in order to raise money for your tuition and living expenses, he had to go to the hospital every ten days to sell blood. In your four years, your living expenses and tuition fees have all relied on Qingming to sell blood. ”

Under Grandma's pillow, she pulled out a handful of slips.

She knew that this kind of emotion might not be able to do it for her own woman, but he would definitely be able to do it for her daughter. The father is a mountain, and what he gives his daughter must be a great shore. But all this has torn her girlhood dream!

"Grandma, I promise you. ”

Xu Lanru didn't know where she got the courage. Women, in the blind spot of feelings, she has realized that in this life, this man who is forty years older than herself is the sustenance of her feelings, and in more than ten years, she has learned a lot of things that cannot describe this kind of affection in the world.

She understands a deep truth, if she didn't bring herself back from the mountain of mass graves, where could she be at this time? Qingming, you can be raised by me, why can't I be born for you.

The night is deep, and the wind in the mountains is so cool, it blows away the girl's dreams and all the beauty in the world. In this life and this life, only for one person, a man who sells blood, steals dogs, and carries knives for himself!

Xu Qingming is very unaccustomed to wearing sunglasses, he took them off and saw them so clearly, yes, after so many years, this tree is still there, and every time he sells blood, he will sit under this big tree for a long time......

"Husband, the sun is too big, go back to the ward. For the first time, Xu Qingming heard it, he had never heard of this kind of name, and it was so kind to hear it, so it made people think, he couldn't express his love for this woman in words, he obviously felt his excitement. He really wanted to stand up and hold her deep in his arms.

Here, for Xu Qingming, it is the most emotional place, the tree is still there, and the person has become a useless shell. The past second has become history, and the second in the future will eventually come, and it will also become the past, feelings, for Lan Ru, are just kindness, but Xu Chunming only has love!

The next day, grandma left this world peacefully, and Xu Qingming did not come back.

It was all thanks to her grandmother's maiden relatives who helped bury her.

Three days after his burial, he returned, went to the mountains to burn paper money, and invited relatives and friends who helped him to have a meal.

That day, he was drunk, and after the banquet was over, Lan Ru helped him to the bed and scrubbed him......

The moonlight was like a remnant, the slightest bit of darkness, in front of the bed obliquely on the broken window, with the shyness of a girl, the feeling of gratitude, lying on the bed that had been called my father for forty years, willingly, willingly. gave him the heart of a young girl.

In the middle of the night, Xu Qingming woke up and saw Lan Ru, he gave her a slap hatefully, but still didn't wake her up, she hugged him tighter, crying and saying: Xu Qingming, you picked me up, I was originally going to be a daughter-in-law, you paid for me, I already know deeply, I have nothing to repay your kindness, I only give you the most primitive tenderness and love of a woman.

Xu Qingming didn't understand what love was and what love was, he just felt that she was a fire, slowly burning himself out......

Before dawn, Xu Qingming got up, didn't say anything, and hid in the mountains to burn charcoal.

It's still yesterday's moonlight, it's still the same star, but his concern is no longer his affection for his daughter, and in his life, the spark of life and passion that sprouts are burning deeply. He didn't know what love was, let alone how to express it, but he felt a kind of family affection formed by thinking about the past, which could not be erased even in the middle of the night when the moon was in the sky.

Before dawn, he returned home.

There is no expression in words, because love cannot be expressed, and there is no affection, because it is a kindness!

The passion of nature drowned the mountain......

The feelings of nature set off the waves in the mountains......

Xu Lanru clicked on the small video of his son and daughter taken by the secretary to the kindergarten this morning, held it in his hand, and put it in front of Xu Qingming, he looked at a pair of children, the corners of his mouth showed a long-lost smile, he was not good at words, he wanted to say thank you, but he couldn't say it, he slowly looked away from the children's video, looked at Lan Ru, and thought with emotion, how could this woman be his wife?