Chapter 001: Pity the hearts of parents in the world
Qijiatun County, Jizhou District, Jiangdong Province.
In a family room in Qijiatun No. 2 Middle School. Six o'clock in the morning.
"Are you still going to Yangjiang? Do you really want to leave your seriously ill mother behind? The doctor said that her heart was already very fragile and could no longer withstand any major stimulation. A middle-aged man in his mid-fifties said to a young man in his early twenties.
The young man kept silent with a gloomy face, but the work in his hands did not stop. He held a clean snakeskin bag in one hand, and busily packed the winter and autumn clothes from the wooden box into the snakeskin bag with the other.
"If you really make your mother angry, you will feel guilty for the rest of your life. If you don't talk about me, your sister won't forgive you. The middle-aged man continued.
The young man remained silent.
After a while, a younger girl walked into the bedroom and said, "Brother, is your heart really so hard?" You go to see your mother, her breathing is very unstable, her face is also very ugly, I think I will be sent to the hospital again. With that, the little girl hurried out of the bedroom.
In another bedroom, a middle-aged woman is lying on the bed.
The young man did not speak. After picking out two sets of clothes and pants for the summer, he went out.
"Cheng Chuifan!" The middle-aged man finally couldn't help it and called out the young man's name.
At the same time, the little girl rushed out of the other bedroom and grabbed the young man's hand, and said eagerly: "Brother, mother, mother, she really can't do it!"
"Really?" the young man asked disdainfully.
"Brother, what do you mean by that?" the little girl struggled to accept her brother's expression. Could this be her brother, so cold-blooded, so ruthless?
"Just ask Dad. I'm gone, Xiao Ying. The young man walked towards the living room.
"Stop!" the middle-aged man stopped in front of his son, "You really read this book in vain, and seeing that your mother is gone, are you still leaving?"
The young man glanced at his father, whose hair was already nearly a third of the white, suppressed his voice, and said, "Dad, please stop acting, okay? Don't scare me, don't frighten Xiaoying." Xiaoying, you go to the room and call your mother out. β
"Acting?" the middle-aged man was stunned, his facial expression uncertain, "So you know everything?"
The little girl looked at her father in amazement, then turned to look at her brother and asked, "Acting, what is acting, what is acting?"
Soon, the middle-aged woman who was lying on the bed, moaning in pain a few seconds earlier, came out of the room and into the living room, and she ran her hair back from her forehead.
"Mom, are you alright? Aren't you very sick in your heart?" the little girl was even more surprised.
"Damn, my heart is good. The young man snorted coldly, "Do you know, Xiaoying, my parents sang a double reed with us." β
"No, Dad, Mom," the little girl's eyes widened, and she finally understood, "Mom, are you playing a bitter trick?"
"How do you know, Exemplary?" the father's decision is no longer hidden.
"Yes, Shui Fan, how did you know? Dr. Liu told you?" the mother looked at her son.
"I went to Dr. Liu. The young man paused, "Dad, Mom, I'm really leaving." I had to catch the 7:20 bus. β
"This Doctor Liu, didn't I repeatedly tell him to keep it a secret?" the middle-aged man was extremely annoyed.
"Chuifan, you still said to leave, why did you still decide to leave? Your father and I took such great pains to stop you, and you were indifferent?" the middle-aged woman said bitterly, "I have been lying in bed for a week. You know, son, it's hard to lie in bed when you're not sick. β
"You brought it on yourself. You co-starred in the double reed to deceive me, I didn't complain, and you blamed me in turn?" the young man finally couldn't control his emotions a little, "Dad, Mom, you've been delaying me for a whole week by doing this. If I had gone a week earlier, maybe the transfer would have been done a long time ago, and I would have already been in class at Jiangcun Middle School today. Dad, you're a teacher, don't you know that today is the first day of school at major schools?"
"......" is a father's desire to stop talking.
"What trouble have you caused me by doing this, maybe I won't be able to transfer normally at all!"
"If you don't go, won't there be nothing?" said the middle-aged woman.
"Mom, I've said it a thousand times, I have to go to Jiangcun Middle School in Yangjiang County anyway. Even if I was there, I had to go as a substitute teacher. β
"Look at it, look at it," the middle-aged man's chest rose and fell sharply because of his anger, "You still have this attitude! For the sake of so-called love, you actually gave up so much? I won't talk about you if you give up such a good opportunity to stay in school, and now you have to give up Qijiatun No. 1 Middle School." Do you know? Yesterday, just yesterday, the Deputy Secretary for Education personally came to my school to ask me about you. I don't have the face to say the real reason why you went to Yangjiang. If you want to go to a developed city to start a career and seek development, I can barely accept it. Do you know where you are going? A remote and backward corner! You will listen to your parents once on the major issues of right and wrong, matters that affect the happiness of your life. If you stay in Qijiatun No. 1 Middle School, you are very valued, do you know? Qijiatun No. 1 Middle School does not have a master's degree graduate. β
"Dad, you've said this countless times. We've been arguing for a summer and I really don't have the time or energy to argue anymore. I'm leaving! I'm going to rush to the Yangjiang County Education Bureau today no matter what!"
"Exemplaryβ" The middle-aged woman made a desperate voice.
"You go, you have the ability, you go!" The middle-aged man roared, "If you walk out of the door of my Cheng family today, you will never step into this door in the future!"
The young man walked out of the living room with a snakeskin bag.
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About an hour later, at the Qijiatun County Bus Station, a shuttle bus bound for Yangjiang County was slowly coming out of the station.
"Master driver, please wait, please wait!" a girl's eager voice came from the side of the road.
The young man sitting in a position by the window knew that his sister was chasing after him just by listening to the voice, and he shook his head: Why don't parents give up?
After a while, the girl appeared in front of the window. But to the young man's surprise, his sister was the only one who came!
"It's good to catch up," the young man gasped, looking happy, "Brother, you take it." β
"What's that?"
"The camera, and the pocket money I usually save. β
"......" The young man's heart seemed to be touched by something, and his eyes moistened. He knows that the camera is his sister's most precious thing, and the pocket money is what his sister usually saves a dime.
"Don't listen to Dad, he's angry. Remember to come back during the winter vacation, remember to come back with a photo!" the little girl waved.
"I will," the young man choked up, "Xiaoying, you have to listen to your parents, your grades must not fall." β
"Well," the little girl nodded, "goodbye, brother." β
"Goodbye. β
Passing over his sister's back, the young man suddenly noticed that his father and mother were standing on the corner of the bus station. His parents stepped back together when they noticed him looking in their direction.
The young man couldn't control it anymore, and tears were falling from his eyes.