Chapter 13: Born Stubborn

NO.32

If you stay in an unfamiliar place for a long time, even if you are facing the delicacies of the mountains and seas all day long, your appetite will not be good.

I really want to go home, and I'm going to use the rest of the winter break to review my homework from last semester, and of course, I have to prepare for the next semester. The other students in the class were coerced and lured by the class teacher, and they did not have a good rest during the winter vacation, and participated in the winter vacation tutoring class organized by the school teacher.

"Sister, when are we going home? I don't think there's anything particularly fun here, and the smog is still very serious!" I said to Sister Jianing during the break.

Sister Jianing smiled, "If you want to leave, we can go back tomorrow." I don't know if Xiaojie wants to go back?" After speaking, he looked at Zhong Xiaojie, who was gnawing on the duck's neck, in the past few days in Beijing, he didn't let his mouth sit idle except for eating.

"I go with the flow... You guys back... I'll just reply, but... When I got home, I had to see my father's face all day long, and I felt good... Uncomfortable. Because the duck neck is too spicy, Zhong Xiaojie can't speak well, and he makes a hissing sound when he speaks.

"When you go back, you can come to my house, and I will cook for you, otherwise I will have to order takeout all day long at home alone." ”

NO.33

I don't remember how the topic came to the story of the third uncle and the third aunt that day, but I remember that Sister Jianing told us a very touching story, ordinary and true.

Once Zhong Xiaojie asked his mother why she had never met Sister Jianing's mother, and was warned that in this family, especially in front of the third uncle and Sister Jianing, she couldn't mention this matter no matter what. After that, Zhong Xiaojie and I never dared to mention it again.

Sister Jianing said that when she was young, she would also ask her father noisily: "Why do other children have mothers, but I don't?" At first, she thought that her mother had abandoned her and her father, so she secretly hated her mother in her heart. Every time Dad came home after drinking too much, lying on the sofa and talking nonsense, he would always shout the word "Shuyun", and she knew that it must be a woman's name.

Later, she asked her grandmother who "Shuyun" was, and her grandmother told her that "Shuyun" was her mother's name.

The third uncle was busy with business and had no time to take care of her, so she had been living at her grandmother's house before she officially went to school. The story about the third uncle and the third aunt was told to her by her grandmother when she was nine years old before she transferred to study abroad.

"Dad has always been the least worrying one in the family since he was a child. Skipped school during school, ran into his boss after work, beat his colleagues to the hospital, and did everything until he married his mother. Grandma said: "There is an old saying passed down from the ancestors in my hometown: when you start a family, a man will really grow up", so grandparents asked relatives and friends to introduce them to Dad.

At that time, free love was not popular, and of course arranged marriages were no longer popular, but "small meetings", which were similar to blind dates now. Dad is usually a big person, and when he met his mother when he met at a "small meeting", he was even embarrassed to say anything, and his mother asked and his father answered.

Unexpectedly, the two of them chatted about their feelings.

The term "flash marriage" was not popular at that time, but the way of flash marriage has been passed down for a long time. The man and woman met and got along for less than two months, and when they felt that the other party was suitable, they began to prepare for marriage.

After knowing each other for less than two months, my parents got married in a flash.

Dad had a bad temper when he was young, and he didn't like anyone except Mom. According to his own words, when they met for the first time, he felt that the woman in front of him was fierce and wanted to be spoiled.

People in the 70s didn't understand that it was love at first sight.

Grandma said that machismo is popular in her hometown, and the man has the final say in everything. It's just that my mother is an assertive person, although she is slow and doesn't like to get angry, but there is a stubbornness in her bones, and no one can change what she decides to do.

At that time, my father partnered with others to do business, making and losing, and his life barely went on. As for her mother, she is pregnant, but she doesn't want to be idle all the time, and she is ready to open a grocery store in a small town by herself, thinking that her father will support her, but she is disappointed.

Opening a grocery store was strongly opposed by my father, who was already pregnant, and now I want to open a grocery store, and for the first time, my father felt that my mother did not know how to be considerate.

In fact, my mother saw that my father was too tired, and she was afraid that she would become a burden to him, so she wanted to open a small grocery store, even if she couldn't make a lot of money, she could earn as much as she could.

Dad didn't stop Mom in the end, and the grocery store opened in a hurry in less than half a month. Mom is a strong person, and she didn't ask her father for the money to open a grocery store, but borrowed it from her parents.

That's it, he's busy with him, she's busy with hers, no one bows their heads, and the days are still the same as before.

When he was about to be born, his father's business was lost, and all the money was cheated away by his partner.

I've always felt like my mom was the best person in the world, even though I hadn't met her. A soft and weak woman who is about to give birth can actually cheer up the father who was not afraid of heaven and earth.

On the day I was born, my mother died of childbirth, and this time my father did not fall. He said to his grandmother, "Mom, don't worry, I'm fine." Shuyun named the child "Zhong Jianing" a few days ago, and this child will have to trouble you and my father to take care of it in the future. ”

After my full moon, my father didn't say hello, I ran to Shenzhen alone, and when I got there, I called my grandparents, and my grandparents were in a hurry on the phone, and my father was crying alone on the other end of the phone. He said that he wanted to earn more money before I became sensible and came back, and he had wronged my mother before, and he couldn't wronged me again in the future.

When I became sensible, he really came back, and brought back a lot of money, no one knows how my father survived in those years in Shenzhen, and he never said it.

Later, he was reluctant to let me go back to Shenzhen. We're on good terms now, but I didn't like him very much in the first few years he came back, and maybe you'll never understand that feeling. Suddenly a very strange person wants to approach you, someone tells you that he is the closest person you have in the world, but you don't know anything about him, and the first thing you feel is not warmth but fear. ”

Sister Jianing touched the tears in the corners of her eyes after speaking, at that moment, I really wanted to hug her, it turned out that my little princess sister had no mother since she was a child, and I couldn't help crying.

"Actually, I think the third uncle is very good, I think he is like a warm man, much better than my father. Zhong Xiaojie said. "The third uncle has a good temper and often buys me toys and delicious food when I was a child. ”

"Slowly I also like my dad very much, he treats me as a baby, although he doesn't have a mother, but he gives me more than twice as much love as my parents in ordinary families, not only materially, but also spiritually, I think he is the greatest dad in the world. Sister Jianing's voice changed slightly, as if she was about to cry.

"Sister, don't worry, I will protect you well in the future. Zhong Xiaojie said with an oath. For the first time in 18 years, I felt he was talking properly.

"Uh...... It's almost as good as my sister protecting you, my sister seems to be a black belt in taekwondo. I said.

"Brother, why are you like this, as a man, shouldn't you protect our dear sister?" Zhong Xiaojie asked rhetorically.

"Okay, well, it's up to you two to protect your sister in the future, my precious brothers. ”

"Remove 'we', I am the only one in our family, and my brother is not counted. Zhong Xiaojie said proudly.

"I'll go, you guy is really shameless, but for your cuteness, forgive you. ”

"Brother, I love you. I almost didn't throw it up when he said that.