Duan Bo nodded again and again, but the young woman shook her head: "No, foreigners don't have the habit of living together for three generations in a family, let alone the custom of letting their parents help bring their grandchildren, that will make people laugh off their big teeth." The old people abroad drive out to rent their own houses after their children graduate from college, how can they be like the Chinese, who have been guarding their children to get married, and also have to bring their children's children, which is really a bad habit!"

Kaohsiung snorted: "Yes, it's really a bad habit to pick up an abandoned child and not send her to an orphanage, but to adopt her!"

"Shut up!" the young woman finally became angry, "I was only a few months old at the time, and I didn't threaten him to support me, he did it of his own free will. Even if he suffers, no one forces him, right? Maybe he feels happier than anyone else? People do everything for a purpose, and there is no love for no reason, and the same is true for their children. He is not a bodhisattva, if he said that he felt very happy to raise me from childhood to adulthood, do you have to thank me?"

I find it unbelievable that I have never heard of children thinking that way about their parents. He said, "It's a fact that Duan Bo didn't marry in his life for fear that you would suffer a loss, right? Shouldn't you appreciate it? If you don't get married in your life, can you do it?"

The young woman said, "Of course I can't do it, because I'm a normal person, and I'm afraid that I'll suffer a loss, who knows what's going on?" Maybe it's because my father has a physical problem and can't get married! Besides, I'm just an adopted daughter, and I have no blood relationship with him, so why do I have to guard him for the rest of my life? Aren't you afraid that others will gossip and say that you have a bad idea about beating me?" This stunned all three of us, and Duan Bo opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak, pointing at the young woman with his finger, his body trembled, and his expression was very painful.

Kaohsiung's eyes widened, and when he walked up to the young woman, he raised his hand and slapped him. The beating made the young woman stunned, she covered her face: "You, are you crazy? You dare to hit someone, I, I want to call the police to arrest you!"

Kaohsiung took out his mobile phone and handed it to her: "Call now, if you don't fight, I'll fight for you." The young woman was so angry that the young woman didn't dare to look at him, and she didn't take the phone to call the police, but she didn't speak, and her chest fell together. I thought that Duan Bo must be angry, and would scold the young woman for having no conscience, and she was not as good as a beast, and she could actually say such a thing.

After a while, Duan Bo said slowly: "Let's go, I won't keep you anymore." ”

The young woman looked at him with a look of surprise and guilt: "I just guessed, not necessarily right. Duan Bo interrupted angrily: "Shut up, let's go now, I don't want to see you for a second longer!" The young woman said Dad, don't be angry, I hope you can calm down and seriously think about your daughter's happiness and future. Since you have done so much for me, and you are now in your sixties, and there is no happiness at all anyway, why don't you do good deeds to the end and let me get more happiness?

"Hurry up!" Duan Bo suddenly shouted, he had no strength to speak because of his illness before, and he couldn't even stand steadily, I didn't expect him to be able to roar so loudly.

The young woman was also frightened, she took a few steps back, looked at him, then at me and Kaohsiung, and said to Duan Bo: "This is what you said, stop accusing me of having no conscience and not supporting my parents." Duan Bo stared blankly at the wall, just crying. On the wall in that direction was an old-fashioned picture frame, a large wooden frame with glass inlaid with dozens of photographs pressed inside. The young woman asked Duan Bo to completely unravel the insect powder, Duan Bo slowly stood up against the wall, begged me to open the mattress and bed board again, and pulled out the glass bottle with a green rubber stopper from the shoebox.

Duan Bo said: "Boss Gao, please help me go to the kitchen and use a small bowl to catch a bowl of water." Kaohsiung took it as he said, and Duan Bo asked me to pour the powder from the glass bottle into the water, hand it to the young woman, and ask her to stir it well with her fingers before drinking.

The young woman asked, "Is it really good to drink this?I will never have a bad sore in the future?Can you guarantee it?" Duan Bo nodded, and the young woman hurriedly stirred the water well, and drank it all in one go, drinking it cleanly, for fear that a few drops would have no effect. Duan Bo waved his hand at her, the young woman walked out of the bedroom, and after a while, she stood at the door again, and I saw that she had already changed her clothes, holding a trolley case in her hand, and whispered Daddy, I'm leaving, you take care of yourself.

Duan Bo slowly raised his head and looked at the young woman's face, as if he was looking at a long-lost relative. Then he turned his head and never moved again. The young woman didn't say anything, her face still had the pale red palm print of Kaohsiung's slap just now, turned around and walked out of the apartment, the door shut. Duan Bo immediately turned his head again, and through the door, he could still hear faint footsteps outside and the sound of trolley box rollers. Duan Bo listened carefully, his footsteps getting quieter and quieter, until he couldn't hear anything, but he was still listening.

"Forget it, Lao Duan," Kaohsiung flattened the bed board and mattress, "The twisted melon is not sweet, you should see it clearly, right? You are only sixty years old, according to the latest international standards, sixty-five years old is considered an old man, and it is not a problem for you to find a woman of the same age now!" Duan Bo did not speak, only stared blankly at the picture frame on the wall. I walked over and saw that there were both old black-and-white photographs and new color photographs. There are several portraits of single young men in the old photos, judging from the facial features, it is obvious that it is Duan Bo, who was quite handsome at that time, and there are also photos of him holding a two- or three-year-old girl, that is his adopted daughter Xiaowen, and Duan Bo's young face is obviously tired. Then there are girls getting older and older, seven or eight years old, teenagers wearing student uniforms, and twenty-something wearing doctoral uniforms, and Duan Bo is getting older and older, until now.

I said, "Uncle Duan, you don't have to be sad, women don't stay in the middle and girls are outgoing, this is also an old Chinese saying." In the future, I will often come to see you, you can also listen to Boss Gao's words, consider finding a wife, after all, you are in good health now, find a single old lady with comparable conditions, and there will always be more than ten or twenty years to live in the second half of your life. The best years of your life have been given to your adopted daughter, and you have to enjoy yourself. ”

Duan Bo nodded, thanked the two of us, and asked me to bring his coat from the hanger and take out my wallet. I hurriedly stopped it, saying that I don't want this hard money, and I am embarrassed that I can't help you get things done. Duan Bo shook his head: "It's none of your business, you have to be trustworthy, otherwise what's the difference between you and a brute?" He insisted on giving me two thousand Hong Kong dollars, and I didn't accept it, but Duan Bo's attitude was very resolute. Kaohsiung quietly glanced at me, and I had no choice but to accept it. The two comforted him for a while, and Kaohsiung went to the kitchen for the first time to make a bowl of hot egg noodle soup, and brought it to the head of the bed, before the two of us said goodbye and left.