After Su Hanchen and Jiang Ying went out, Tao Ying put away the photo albums. She went upstairs, put the album on the bed, then opened the suitcase and put the album on the bottom, these old photos were too precious to be placed here anymore, she remembered something, let out a long sigh, then closed the suitcase, took a new set of sheets from the closet, took out the bedding, and walked to the small room next door.

The movements were gentle and slow laying out the sheets, Tao Ying thought of her daughter again, and her thoughts about her daughter were all the time, regardless of time, whether it was during the day, at night, or in her sleep, she never missed her for a moment, she was like a hole in her heart, if she was not found for a day, this hole would be empty there, no matter what method was used, no matter who appeased her, how much medicine she took, it was useless.

Having made the bed and the quilt made, she sat on the edge of the bed, with a shallow sad smile on the corner of her mouth, she stroked the soft pillow, thinking in her heart how much she thought, how much she wished to be able to make the bed and fold the quilt for her with her own hands, watch her sleep peacefully at night, watch her wake up in the morning light......

After Shu Wei finished talking to Fu Yu on the phone, she sat on the bed a little distracted, from seeing her mother to now, she didn't dare to ask that question, she didn't know what the answer was, but she was afraid of that answer, if her mother's answer was yes, she thought she would be relieved first, but whether her mother would still not tell the truth, she was not sure, and if the answer was yes, she thought of her brother and stepfather, what should they do?

Grasping the mobile phone in her hand, Shu Wei suddenly wanted to stop looking for answers, if she left now, everything would not change, her mother would go back to live with her brother and stepfather, she would go back to City B, everyone would return to their original lives, why did she have to know the truth? She asked herself repeatedly, feeling the contradiction and pain in her heart. She didn't even dare to think about Aunt Su, feeling that her current thoughts were sorry for her, and she felt in a dilemma and difficult to make a choice. Is there a way to preserve both phases?

She opened the communication record and didn't look at the time, she just wanted to listen to her stepfather's voice at this moment, he was a good stepfather, from him she felt the love of her relatives, and the love of her parents, who had been missing since childhood, was reflected in her stepfather.

The phone was quickly connected, Shu Wei listened to her stepfather Du Yueyang's "Xiaowei", the corners of her mouth smiled slightly, and she said softly: "Dad, are you sleeping?"

Du Yueyang leaned on the bed to read a book, and while answering the phone, he glanced at the clock on the bedside table, and said, "I'm about to sleep, you haven't slept so late, is there something bothering?" Tell Dad, even if he can't give you a good idea, it's good for you to pour it out." ”

Shu Wei clenched her phone, and she tried her best to make her voice inaudible: "Dad, I have something that worries me, can you teach me how to do it?"

"Say, Dad, listen. Du Yueyang said.

"If, if I'm going to do something that hurts a person, but it makes another person happy, should I do it? I hurt that person because she did something wrong, and she's a very important person to me, and if I expose it, the consequences for her will be very serious, and the other person's joy is because she has lost it, and half of her life's pain is caused by that person's injury. These two people are very important to me, I want them to be good, but there is no way to protect each other, and now that I know the truth of the matter, what should I do?"

Hearing the embarrassment in her words, Du Yueyang sighed and said, "Xiaowei, it's very difficult to think about both worlds in this world. You can't have it both ways, and there are so many things in the world that have the best of both worlds. These two people are very important people to you, if you choose this, it doesn't mean that you will abandon that, you have a shot in your heart, you know what to do is right, you just need to follow your heart and go in the direction of justice, that is right. As for the consequences, it is also the debt that the person has to repay if he does something wrong, everyone is an adult, and they are psychologically prepared to bear the consequences of things, it is not your fault, you don't have to worry about self-blame. You are a child, you are too kind, you embarrass yourself, can you solve the problem? What should you do, as long as you think you are right, Dad will support you. ”

Tears could no longer be suppressed and flowed down her cheeks, afraid that her stepfather would hear it, so Shu Wei had to endure it: "I know, Dad, go to bed early, I'll hang up." ”

Du Yueyang knew that she always liked to be bored in her heart when she had something to say, so she had to say: "Xiaowei, if there is anything unhappy, you can call Dad, don't care how late it is, Dad is here, this year's New Year, you come back, let's have a good New Year as a family, and have a good time." ”

Shu Wei didn't dare to speak, just nodded, and hung up the phone in a hurry.

At that end, Du Yueyang sighed with his mobile phone, this child was crying, what was so difficult about it, he put down his mobile phone, walked to the opposite room, opened the door, and saw Du Guoping playing the game on the computer as excitedly as if he had played chicken blood.

"Guoping, are you still playing, have you finished your homework?" This is the third year of junior high school, and he is still not growing up, and he will inevitably feel a little angry in his heart.

Du Guoping listened to this reprimand, and he was used to it, he didn't even look back, his fingers quickly hit the keyboard as if he was flying, and said: "Dad, let me finish this game and review it for you tomorrow!"

"What do you want me to review! You read for me to read? Let me tell you, the road of this life is a wrong step, it may be a wrong step, you don't study hard now, and you will regret it in the future, hurry up and close it for me!"

Du Guoping shouted anxiously: "Ten minutes, just ten minutes!" Dad, I beg you, you let me play for ten more minutes!"

Du Yueyang had no choice but to sigh, shook his head and closed the door.

The next day, Shu Wei and her mother went up the mountain to sweep the tomb, there is no special cemetery in the small county, the cemetery is on the mountain, Shu Wei followed behind her mother, and helped to take some sacrifices in her hands, the road on the mountain is not difficult to walk, but it rained lightly at night, and the mountain road that was not trimmed will be a little slippery, Shu Wei reminded her mother to pay attention to the mountain road, which provoked her to look back at her.

The two didn't talk all the way, and when they arrived at the cemetery, Shu Yun looked at her parents' grave, quietly, and even her sad look didn't show much, she just stood silently for a while, and then bent down to remove the weeds for her parents' grave, which grew more than half a person tall, Shu Wei put down the offerings and silently sorted out the grave with her mother.

After tidying up the wild grass on the grave, Shu Yun still didn't speak, knelt in front of her parents' grave to offer incense, kowtowed, and her expression did not change much.

Shu Wei didn't know what her mother was thinking at this moment, but her mother's appearance made her a little worried, since her mother married her stepfather, her mother rarely showed such a sad and like she had a lot to say but didn't say anything, knowing that her mother wouldn't say anything to her, Shu Wei knelt down, took a pillar of incense beside her mother, kowtowed and plugged it in, after doing all this, Shu Wei looked at her mother beside her.

Shu Yun maintained such a movement for a long time, kneeling straight, just looking at the tombstone, as if she was out of a trance, no one knew what she was thinking in her heart.

Shu Wei was by her side, neither asking nor talking, she felt that there were a lot of unhappy things in her mother's heart, these unhappiness, since she could remember, had always existed, she had never understood her mother, Qin Xuyang, it was a matter of her mother's heart that she understood, and it was also the first time she heard some of her mother's past from others, but other than that, she didn't know anything about her mother's past.

Qin Zhenzu called, Shu Wei had to stand up and walk to the side to answer, Qin Zhenzu said that there was nothing wrong with him, and he could come to her in the afternoon, she didn't ask him why, she only answered in a low voice, and hung up the phone.

Shu Yun finally moved, she took out the sacrifice and burned it, Shu Wei wanted to help her, but she raised her head, and said in a slightly indifferent voice: "It's good that I'll come by myself." ”

Shu Wei didn't dare to go over, so she had to take back the steps she had stepped out. Shu Yun didn't stay busy for long, watching the sacrifice burned, she slowly packed up everything, then stood up and said to Shu Wei, "Let's go." ”

The two went down the mountain together, returned to the old house, Shu Yun opened the pure water she bought and boiled a pot of hot water, she went to the tea shop yesterday to buy some tea, she took a pinch of tea leaves and put it in the purple clay pot she turned out, and then began to make tea.

"If you're okay, go back to City B in the afternoon, I'll go back too. She said as she made tea, speaking as slowly as she did when she made tea.

Shu Wei's heart jumped, she raised her eyes to look at her, and asked, "Then when will you go back?"

"I'll leave tomorrow," Shu Yun also looked at her, and said very calmly: "You will go home for the New Year this year, Guoping always talks about you, and your father misses you a lot, don't think too much, it's useless to think too much." ”

Shu Wei sat there in a daze, unable to say anything, this is the first time she has been working for many years, her mother opened her mouth to call her home for the New Year, her eyes were red, tears were about to burst out, she stood up, grabbed the bag and rushed out of the door.

Walking on the crowded street, Shu Wei told herself that this matter would wait until the end of the New Year, and she couldn't ask now, she couldn't say, she couldn't. Walking along the street, Shu Wei wiped the tears from his face, and walked farther and farther, until in the end he didn't even know where he had gone.

Just raised his eyes and saw a temple in the mountain in front of him, thinking about going into the temple to worship the Buddha, didn't he say that the Buddha can meditate the most, even if the heart is not quiet, but worshipping can always be more reassuring, Shu Wei did not hesitate to go in the direction of the temple. Climbing more than 100 steps up the stairs, Shu Wei didn't seem to hear anything outside the window, she bought a ticket and went to worship the Buddha in the main hall.

She wanted to say a lot in her heart, but looking at the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha, the solemn and peaceful Buddha statue, she didn't say anything to the Buddha, what could she say, who could help her, she only worshiped the Buddha, walked out of the main hall, and then she sat down by a pool behind the hall.

She didn't know how long she had been sitting, Fu Yu got off the plane and called her, she just listened quietly and didn't say anything, after a while, Qin Zhenzu also called and asked her where she was, and she told him the address.

She didn't know where she could go now, she didn't know how to face her from her mother, so she simply stayed in the temple, there were not many people in the temple today, and there were many fewer birds in the mountains, it was a solemn and simple image, she sat under the vermilion pillar, looking at the pool of calm water and was fascinated.

Qin Zhenzu bought a ticket to come out, he also came to this temple for the first time, after a little look, he looked around, and looked for Shu Wei everywhere, the temple was quite big, he walked east and west, without half a point of impatience, and finally saw Shu Wei by a pool, his footsteps paused, looking at Shu Wei who was sitting there with his knees crossed and in a daze, his mood also sank.

He walked over to her and sat down, blocking her view, he looked at her, looked at her for a moment, and then smiled, "What's the matter?

Shu Wei also looked at him, his face was a little haggard, as if he hadn't slept all night, although he asked her with a smile on the corner of his mouth, she could also see that he also had troubles in his heart, not only today.

Shu Wei didn't want to talk about herself, but she wanted to hear about him, so she said, "Are you in the mood to tell me about your heart now?"

Qin Zhenzu smiled, he looked at the scenery in the distance, then lowered his head and picked up a small pebble at his feet, and threw the pebble into the pond with his hand, causing a small circle of ripples, and then there was no movement.

He lowered his head and stepped on another pebble to and fro, sighed and said, "I didn't want to tell anyone, but for the sake of you really caring about me, it's okay to talk to you," he looked at her and said with a smile: "You don't dare to tell my secret." ”

Shu Wei just looked at him quietly and smiled at him slightly.

Qin Zhenzu looked into the distance, and only spoke after a long while: "I came back to mourn, my biological father's funeral." ”

Shu Wei was a little surprised, and his brows furrowed inexplicably: "Your biological father?"

"I didn't expect it, I was actually adopted by my parents, my biological parents were too poor, there were five children in that family, I was the youngest, so they didn't want me anymore, my parents adopted me and took me to live in a big city, I was only about three years old at the time," his brow furrowed slightly, " I only knew that I was adopted by my parents, in fact, I can't remember who my biological parents were, until one year I followed my parents back to worship my ancestors, walked on the street, and was recognized, I also felt quite curious, so I followed him on a trip, which led to today's events. ”