Chapter 11: He's Dead

"What's going on at home?"

Tong Ling's tone did not have the strong feeling of the past, and the speed of speech slowed down.

"Your biological father has died, and he left you a fortune. ”

From childhood to adulthood, the word father is familiar and unfamiliar, in the eyes of other children, father is a majestic mountain, which can shelter the family from the wind and rain, and is a safe haven for children.

In Tong Ziru's eyes, his father is just a "stranger" who is biologically related by blood. She often wondered, did her father really hate her and her mother so much, he had never taken care of her for so many years, just as an accessory to life?

There is a saying in the West that children are the product of men and women seeking pleasure.

Unfortunately, that's how her parents thought she was.

Tong Ziru put down the phone, she promised her mother to go back tomorrow, so she hurriedly went to pack her things. Then I went online and prepared to book a plane ticket.

After a while, the mobile phone rang again, and it was Yu Chengyi calling.

"Paul, is there something wrong?"

A hearty voice came from the other end of the phone, "Tina, do you have time in the afternoon, let's come out and see the calligraphy and painting exhibition." ”

"I'm sorry, my family wants me to go back to Auckland tomorrow and I'm going to book a plane ticket and buy something in the afternoon. ”

"You can also order online, I can teach you, I will accompany you what to buy, you are not familiar with Linxi. ”

"Do you have time, it won't be a hassle for you. ”

He replied cheerfully, "It's okay, I'm bored at home, I'll go with you." See you at the school gate in the afternoon. ”

The two agreed to meet at the school gate at 3 p.m. At three o'clock in the afternoon, Tong Ziru appeared at the agreed place on time, today she wore a short black leather jacket, with black trousers, her legs became more and more slender, her willow waist was slender and sexy against the background of the leather coat, looking like a capable working woman.

Yu Chengyi looked at her and asked, "Aren't you cold when you wear so little?"

She shook her head and gave him the handbag in her hand by the way, "I'm not cold, thank you for your scarf last time." I washed it clean. ”

He pushed away and turned and walked forward, "I told you I don't want it, if you don't want to surround it, throw it away." ”

I heard him say that it was a pity to throw herself away, so she simply took it out and surrounded it again. It just so happened that the scarf was dark gray, and it also matched Tong Ziru's clothes.

If you plan to buy some ink and calligraphy, after all, it is not convenient to buy these things when you go back, and you plan to practice calligraphy when you go back. My mother also has to celebrate the Spring Festival every year, so I buy a Chinese knot and bring back some Linxi specialties to thank her for her material help.

The two of them went to the calligraphy bookstore first, and the children's characters bought a few calligraphy calligraphy, with hard pens and tablets, she always felt that the hard pen words she wrote were not good-looking, and she had to practice more.

I want to ask Yu Chengyi which copybook to buy, Yu Chengyi doesn't know where to go, this antique bookstore has three floors, maybe he went downstairs to buy something else.

After a while, just as she finished choosing the copybook, Yu Chengyi came over.

"What did you just do?"

Yu Chengyi's eyes were a little floating, he stretched out his hand and smoothed his hair, "I didn't do anything, go to the bathroom." What's wrong?"

Tong Ziru smiled embarrassedly, "I want you to help me read these books, which one should I buy?"

He pointed to one of the hard-pen notebooks, "Pang Zhonghua and Tian Yingzhang are fine, depending on which one you like." The former is biased towards the willow body, and the latter is biased towards the European Zhao body. Your style may be biased towards the latter, if you are interested, you can try them all, and you can feel them separately. ”

If the child character is understood, they will almost buy it, and they will go downstairs to pay the bill.

At the checkout, the clerk was overjoyed, and the other party said to her, "Hello, we have a lottery to buy things these days, you can draw one of the cards to scratch it off." We have one, second, and third prizes. ”

Tong Ziru was a little surprised, "Yes, why didn't I see this activity written in your store?"

"I'm sorry, I just launched it in the morning, and I didn't have time to post it. Let's try scratch cards first. ”

Tong Ziru immediately took out one of the three cards, scratched it off, and saw that the first prize was written on it.

"Wow, you're so lucky, congratulations on winning the first prize in our store. The first prize is a 2015 Parker Zall matte fountain pen imported from France. Take it. ”

So, the clerk gave her the black gift bag next to her, and she opened it to see that it was indeed a Parker fountain pen. This fountain pen is a world-famous brand, and a small bookstore would give away such a valuable thing? Not to mention that she only bought something for less than 400 yuan.

"This fountain pen looks genuine and exquisite. Yu Chengyi on the side said with a smile.

If the child character was embarrassed to accept it, she motioned for him to accept it, "You take it, this pen is so good, I think you like it too, I just practice casually." ”

"No, don't you like it very much, I've seen that you like Mr. Li's Parker fountain pen very much. You take it, I don't need a pen, and besides, you got it by lottery. ”

Tong Ziru had to accept it, she liked this fountain pen very much, the outer layer and the nib are said to be 23K gold plating, the pen is composed of 17 elements, I have to say that the workmanship is really exquisite.

After the two of them finished buying, Yu Chengyi went to the department store with her to buy other things.

After he and her left, the clerk said to her colleague: "Now the young man is really romantic, just now the boy was a gift for his girlfriend, but he was embarrassed to say that he made such a play, and he also gave me 100 yuan to ask me to cooperate." ”

Another person cast an envious look, "Oh, it's really gentle~ The girl is so happy, I saw that the pen was worth a lot of money, not thousands or hundreds of dollars." ”

"Yes, I don't look like Chinese that girl, she seems to be interested in calligraphy." The two of them are really talented and beautiful!"

The two of them were quite happy that day, and the next afternoon, Tong Ziru went to the airport alone, Yu Chengyi was going to send her there, but Tong Ziru insisted on going by herself, she didn't want to trouble Yu Chengyi.

Since Linxi is in the north and is not a first-tier city, there are no direct flights to Auckland. She needs to take a plane to Guangzhou and then transfer to Auckland, which also takes a day and a half, and the ticket costs 20,000 yuan.

Tong Ziru just tossed and turned, although she was exhausted at this time.

New Zealand was still in the summer at this time, and as soon as she got off the plane, she changed into black half-sleeves and shorts.

As soon as I got home, I saw that annoyed face, my stepfather and younger brother were not at home today, and there was only my mother at home.

"I thought you were dead outside. "Mother's beautiful eyes are so eerie and terrifying at the moment.

Tong Ling is also a woman who looks beautiful and elegant on the outside, but she only looks elegant, but in fact she is spicy and strong. is also a European-style big double eyelid, Tong Ling has given birth to two children in her forties, and her figure is still bumpy.

She, like her mother, has a slightly high forehead, but it doesn't affect her beauty overall.

"What's the matter?" Tong Ziru returned to the freezing point as always, and his voice did not carry any emotional warmth.

"You girl don't know how to greet your mother? You don't know how to be grateful? You still want me to ask you how you are doing? What's the matter, are you going to break off your friendship with me?"

"Didn't you say that I don't bother if I'm fine, you now have a new family, a happy career and marriage, and you still need me? ”

Tong Ziru exploded, over the years, she and her mother would talk less than five sentences, and her mother's words seriously hurt her again and again, so that she had no feelings for Tong Ling for a long time.

She once said: Even if you resent my father, you should not be angry with me, why is that? But her mother always hated her.

"I'm telling you, even if you don't have a job right now, I'm not going to give you money. According to the laws of New Zealand or China, I have no obligation to care about you after the age of 18, I am telling you today, if China can't get along, come back as soon as possible, what kind of calligraphy do you learn, do you think you have a future!"

Her mother began to machine fire again, once again denying her dreams, which was a deep sting to her.

"I won't give up, I'll prove it to you! If you're telling me to come back and give up or laugh at my dreams, then you can give up, I'll leave now!"

"Okay, I won't care about you anymore! It has nothing to do with me if you love to live or die! Now you can't leave, your old man left you money, your relatives want to snatch it away, now find a way to come back!"

She has long been accustomed to this kind of conversation, and her heart is "inviolable." ”

What did her mother mean by that sentence, she heard it right, did her father really leave her an inheritance? Didn't her father dislike her?

"Did he really leave me a legacy?"

"Can this be fake? To be precise, he left it to the two of us, and before he died, he entrusted a lawyer to call me and say that he apologized for us, so he made it up to us. There is also a house in his name that is to be left to you, and the people on your grandmother's side will not let it. You'll have to go over there with me another day. ”

Tong Ziru has not seen those relatives over the years, but listening to this tone, those relatives are not very good, there is a saying in China, not a fuel-efficient lamp, should be able to describe them.

Tong Ziru dragged a heavy suitcase back to the bedroom that he hadn't entered for a long time. In the past years, except for school, I would only live at home during the holidays. And most of the day she's not much at home.

The furnishings in the bedroom hadn't changed much, she didn't have many things, and the room was covered with dust.

After a brief tidying up, she took out the things one by one, and also took out the Chinese knots and paper-cuts that she bought in China and gave them to her mother, and also brought back some Linxi specialties, flower buns and vinegar.

"Didn't you say you missed the vinegar from your hometown, I brought it back with me. ”

Tong Ziru sometimes resents her mother, but she still cares about her mother, in her opinion, maybe this is a flattery, just like growing up in order not to make her mother angry or laugh at her, she studied hard to be able to sing and dance.

"It's kind of a conscience. The mother took it and said this, but she kept holding the vinegar in her hand.

Tong Ziru was expressionless and returned to the bedroom.

Maybe in a few days there will be another family storm.