Chapter 11: The Past
My hometown hasn't been going well lately. Mom called Su Yue, and Su Tao got into a fight with someone again.
To be honest, Su Yue was not surprised.
Su Tao is Su Yue's half-brother. In Su Yue's memory, her younger brother has no other hobbies besides being lazy and fighting. But even so, he is still Su's father's baby bump, holding it in his hand for fear of falling, and holding it in his mouth for fear of melting. Su Tao didn't fight once or twice, so Su Yue didn't panic,
It's just that I heard that he was beaten this time, and the beating was still very serious, and he was actually admitted to the hospital.
Su Yue immediately knew why her mother called her. Dad asked her for money again.
Su Yue thought it was too funny. Since her parents divorced, she was awarded by the court to her mother, whether it is the tuition fee for each semester or the living expenses of the family, her mother has found a way to pay for it, and only they know how hard it was during that time. When she arrived at university, in addition to shrinking her clothes and diet, she also had to work part-time and do various part-time jobs, just to afford the high tuition fees and monthly living expenses. While others are enjoying the good life of the university, she is worried about money every day. Throughout her four years of college, she barely participated in a single group activity because she didn't have time. Others think that she is beautiful, tall and cold, how can they know her suffering! And she didn't even have time to explain the misunderstanding.
And the life can not be lived like this.
Originally, according to the verdict, their father would give them 2,000 yuan a month for living expenses. It's just that he never cashed in. Mom didn't want to lick her face and beg him, after all, she was divorced. Over the years, she was occasionally dragged back to her hometown by her grandparents for a few days, and she was also disgusted by them. I only heard the woman sighing and sighing, there was no money to spend, and my father never made a sound. So like her mother, Su Yue never opened her mouth to ask for money once.
I heard that the children who beat Su Tao are often bullied by Su Tao, and they have never resisted before. This time it was such a big move, which also surprised everyone. Su Yue felt that Su Tao must have bullied too hard this time.
Because the child is an orphan with no father or mother, and his relatives don't care about him, he naturally has no money to pay for Su Tao's hospitalization, so he can only be locked up in the bureau for a few more days.
Su Yue felt that this was retribution.
She told her mom not to give them money, and she wouldn't give it either. On the other end of the phone, my mother sighed heavily.
But Su Yue didn't expect her father to call her that night. Over the years, he has called her with both hands to count, almost every time for his son, is it still this time?
And yet it really is.
He said that Su Tao's right leg was broken and he had surgery, but fortunately the operation was successful, but he still needs to stay in the hospital for a few days.
They really don't have any money.
Su Yue was silent for a long time, and then asked, "Dad, do you think I have worked for five years or ten years? Is it 10,000 or 230,000 per month?
Dad Su on the other end of the phone was speechless.
"Why did Su Tao fight with others this time".
"Dad, you don't care about Su Tao anymore, I'm just afraid that he will be able to kill people and set fires in the future. ”
Father Su finally sighed heavily: "He's going to take care of it." ”
At the end, Su's father said: "Su Yue, let's go home and have a look when you have time, Dad knows I'm sorry for you, but Dad is old!" After speaking, he hung up the phone.
This call evoked many old things, which Su Yue was very reluctant to remember.
I heard that Su's mother when she was young was a rare beauty, and there are many people who like her within a hundred miles, and many of them have good economic conditions. However, in the end, he married Su's father, who was not ordinary in all aspects.
They also had a happy time. However, since Su Yue can remember, the most common thing I have seen is that my father was inexplicably angry, smashed a table of meals that my mother had worked so hard to make, and then slammed the door, and my mother hid aside and cried quietly. Gradually, she knew that the main reason for her parents' bad relationship was her, because she was a girl.
Their generation is relatively old-fashioned, thinking that the family must have a son, and the father is the only one in the family who has no son, and always feels inferior. However, Su's mother had a difficult birth when she gave birth to Su Yue, and her body suffered losses, and there was no news of her stomach for several years after that.
Mom has always felt sorry for her father for this, she has lowered her eyebrows and pleasing her eyes for many years, and even with Su Yue, she feels that she is at fault, and she never dares to speak loudly at home, but her father doesn't seem to understand.
When Su Yue was 7 or 8 years old, she knew from others that she had a younger brother and was already in kindergarten. At that time she wondered how they could have known, how she had never known and had never seen her? She also ran home in a hurry and asked her mother when she had given birth to her brother and where he had gone, and she still remembered her mother's desperate and sad eyes, and she never dared to ask anything like that again.
It wasn't until she was older and listened to what others said more that she gradually understood. At that time, Dad rarely lived at home. She remembers once asking her mom why she wasn't at home and where he had gone. Mom didn't seem to expect her to ask this, she was silent for a long time before saying that Dad was on a business trip, he was too busy with work, and asked her to be more considerate. At that time, there were already some rumors, and Su Yue never asked her mother similar questions after hearing them. But from then on, for some reason, Su Yue was always afraid, walking on the road, sitting at school, staying at home, and even more so when her father was at home. Even though she is at the top of her grades and looks good, her life seems to be a stagnant pool without any waves.
In Su Yue's first year of junior high school, her fear became a reality, and her parents' marriage finally came to an end. They decided they were going to get a divorce.
Since her parents divorced, she has been dependent on her mother, and her father rarely comes to see her, and even if he comes, he is in a hurry and sneaks.
My mother had never worked much before the divorce, and in addition to her elderly and frail grandparents, there was only one sister in her family who married to the distant city of X, and she had almost no financial support. And in order to make a living, she had to go to work in the factory, get up early and be greedy late, and work for many years.
She once asked her mother why she was working so hard, and didn't the court sentence her father to be responsible for the monthly living expenses?
Later, she learned that her father had given it for a few months and had not given it again.
In the gap of time, Su Yue gritted her teeth and grew up slowly. Every day I go to school alone, go home alone, cook and eat alone, and sleep alone. Mom has to go to work early every day, and she doesn't come home until midnight, so she can't take care of her at all. She felt that it was very hard, not only in life and study, but also spiritually. When it was the hardest, she once secretly went to her father, she wanted to ask him why he didn't send living expenses regardless of them, and wanted to tell him how hard his mother worked, how hard and lonely she was. As a result, she was surprised to see her father wearing an apron and diligently stir-frying and cooking, the woman leisurely watching TV and eating fruit in the living room, and their son playing with headphones and computer in the room. She sat in his new home for hours, asking only a few words about how she was doing, and the rest of the time he was immersed in his present family life with a look of enjoyment, even though his wife ignored him, he licked his face to coax her to tease her, and his son almost got into the computer, and he scoffed at the advice to him to play less with the computer, and he looked at him with a doting look on his face.
From that day on, she understood that father's love was conditional, that is, if mom gave birth to a son, if she was a son.
Su Yue didn't tell her mother what she had been there and what she had seen. The 200 yuan that her father secretly gave her when she left was deposited in the bank and has not touched a single penny.
That experience always reminded Su Yue that no one is reliable, and he can only rely on himself. She is determined to make a lot of money when she grows up, so that her mother will not work so hard anymore, and those who favor one over the other will regret it.
She didn't bother them anymore.
Now that she was finally able to support herself, why did he get it? What did they rely on?
Su Yue ignored it and continued to go to her own class!