2. Memories

Geng Qiu had been walking through the mountains for a day, tired and freezing, and he didn't dare to sleep with his eyes at night, and it was cold, so he had to pick up some dead branches and hay and raise a fire in a clearing by the river. He broke two arm-thick branches and put them beside him as weapons, and sat down all night.

The silent mountains and forests, alone, and it was dark night, although Geng Qiu was a big man, he was also scared, he always held a stick in his hand, and he didn't dare to close his eyes at all, although he was too tired to do it. In the second half of the night, the sleepy insects kept making trouble, and for fear that something would happen to him while he was asleep, he began to think about it. Think carefully about your life experience in the past 28 years.

His mother died when he was five years old, leaving him with only a vague impression of being pale and weak. And the father just appeared when the mother died, and after dealing with his wife's funeral, he didn't bother to say a few words to his son, he left a sum of money and left.

Geng Qiu was brought up by his grandmother in a mountain village. His father didn't take him for a day, and he later married a young and beautiful city wife and formed a new family, so he didn't have Geng Qiu's eldest son. If it weren't for Yan zhòng's patriarchal and grandson's grandmother, Geng Qiu's life would be very sad. His father's new wife gave birth to two daughters in a row, and the second daughter was also fined a large amount of social support. When his father remarried, he moved his hukou to the bustling metropolis. Of course, Geng Qiu's hukou has always stayed in the small mountain village where he was born. His father's household registration book did not appear in the ex-wife and eldest son at all. Even when he married his stepwife, he received a marriage certificate for the first marriage.

Anyway, such an unreliable father has never treated Geng Qiu badly materially. When Geng Qiu was in elementary school, because his father was rich, his father directly bought a homestead in the most prosperous area of the town and built a three-story building for their grandparents and grandchildren to live in. After finishing elementary school, he went to the county to go to junior high school. By this time, his father already had two daughters. His grandmother valued him even more, thinking that his father probably wouldn't be able to have another son. His father then bought a commercial house in the best community in the county, and by the way, he also bought several shops in this real estate, all of which were recorded in Geng Qiu's name.

From this time on, the two elders had already begun to fight for Geng Qiu's family property, because his father's stepwife was very at odds with his in-laws in the countryside. The old man is patriarchal, and he doesn't like the two daughters she gave birth to, and he can't get used to her behavior, but her two daughters have lived a princess-like life since they were children, and they are all aristocratic consumption. The two old men were quite dissatisfied, so the old people felt that it was better to give all the money to their grandson than to let the three of them waste their son's money.

When he was in high school, Geng Qiu arrived in the provincial capital. Similarly, his father bought a commercial house near the high school and put a shop in Geng Qiu's name. At this time, he also wrapped a mountain in his hometown, which was also recorded in Geng Qiu's name. In fact, Geng Qiu's father began to buy family property for his eldest son when Geng Qiu was young, first to make the old couple feel at ease. The second is also because he knows that he has no feelings for this eldest son, and he is uncomfortable when he looks at the eldest son's skin similar to his ex-wife. But some of the possessions will be given to him. What's more, he himself has patriarchal thoughts, but it is not so obvious. For the two daughters born to his stepwife, he didn't say it, but he still felt pity in his heart.

It's just that the two old men only know that they want their son to buy a house for their grandson, but they don't know how much they want their son to share with their grandson, but they don't know how much assets their son has. These properties, shops and so on, are really nothing to Geng Qiu's father.

Until graduating from high school, Geng Qiu's life was good, although he didn't have his father's love and mother's love, but his grandparents regarded him as his life. In addition, the family's economy is really good, and his father has enough living expenses for him and his grandparents. Under the inducement of his grandmother, his father would occasionally bring him some high-end luxury goods from abroad, metropolis, and local areas. So no one could tell that he was from a small mountain village. was not excluded by his classmates in the city, and even got along well with his classmates and teachers.

His grades are not bad, he has always maintained the top ten in his class, and he has always attended the best class of the best local school, so he has been admitted to a good university. If it weren't for Geng Cong's birth, although his future would not be bright, according to the previous assumption, he would have graduated from college and gone abroad for further study, and then came back to work in his father's company, maybe he had the opportunity to hold on to power. Over the years, his father's business has become bigger and bigger, and he has long become the CEO of a listed company. Nuoda's family property always needs an heir, so his father also began to pay attention to his eldest son who is about to become an adult.

But Geng Cong's birth broke this qiē balance.

In fact, since he had a stepbrother, not only has his status in his father's mind plummeted, but even his grandmother has changed a lot. He clearly remembered how excited and happy his grandmother was when she came back after going to see her little brother for the first time. Even if he didn't care about the filthiness with his daughter-in-law, he often went to visit his little grandson, and he had to ask him to accompany him. As everyone knows, the consequence of doing so is just to make Geng Qiu feel how redundant he is again, and it just makes both parties hate each other even more. Although the daughter-in-law dislikes these two old people in the countryside, she can't stop the passion of the old people to miss their grandchildren.

I was nineteen years old and had just been admitted to university. Growing up so big, he has never enjoyed his father's arms and never felt his father's love. This father is not close to the eldest son, it can almost be said that except for materials, he has not raised the eldest son for a day, and Geng Qiu grew up with his grandmother. Every time Geng Qiu saw his father, his father would only say two words to him: "Study hard and listen to your grandparents." ”

Geng Qiu saw his father hugging his little son and kissing him again and again, looking like he had a son who was full of everything, and his grandparents were also carefully surrounding Geng Cong, looking like he was a treasure, and his heart throbbed uncontrollably.

Even his grandmother told him that he should be good to his little brother, help him in the future, and divide the family's property equally with his younger brother, and don't take advantage of his own big brother and bully his little brother. Over the years, his grandmother has also saved some family funds, which he used to say would be left to him, so his grandmother did not avoid him. But now, the family's money and grandma began to hide it in front of him.

What made him most sad was that in order to see his little grandson, his grandmother would rather he, the eldest grandson, suffer the ridicule of his stepmother and stepsister and the cold reception of his father. At this time, they only have the youngest grandson in their eyes, and the eldest grandson has become the background, and the eldest grandson has to feel the affection of the family on the side, not to mention, and has to be treated unfairly, every time at this time, Geng Qiu feels that he should not be born. And so on and so forth, all of which hurt him exceedingly.

Then, Geng Qiu started the late second phase of secondary school, all kinds of demons, contrary to the image of other people's children in the past, fighting, smoking, drinking and making trouble. In fact, it was just to redeem the previous favor, and later realized that it would not be good for me to do this. But he was designed by his stepmother a few times, and after seeing his father's completely one-sided attitude, he simply broke the jar and broke it, most of the time it was just banishing himself, maybe he wanted to see if his father was a son.

After the age of 25, maybe it's older and more experienced, and a lot of things start to look down. Knowing that what should be yours is always yours, and what shouldn't be yours is not what you can't fight. So I don't care that my father basically forgot about him, the eldest son.

He no longer cares about his grandmother putting her little grandson to her mouth all day long, and secretly giving Geng Cong praise money behind his back, in fact, he doesn't care about money at all, and just that little money, it's not enough to stuff Geng Cong's teeth.

Remember, for the first time, he said: "Just this amount of money, still left to Geng Cong, there are more than so many clothes and toys for people, besides, will his parents lose this amount of money from him?" ”

Grandma said instead: "Autumn, don't be so careful, Geng Cong usually spends more than you, and he is expensive." But this era is different, and your father's family background is also different. You can't compare what you spent a decade or two ago to what you spend now. Today's children, which are not raised like this. We didn't just leave Cong Cong behind, if there is him, there must be yours. ”

Hearing such words, Geng Qiu's heart was mixed, he had said several times about similar topics, but every time, he was criticized by his grandmother, saying that he had no brotherly affection for Congcong, that he hated his father and didn't like him as much as he liked Congcong, and so on. Later, his grandmother still believed his stepmother's words, such as: "Congcong is almost twenty years younger than Geng Qiu, and now he still uses his father, so he hates us for being better to Congcong, and Geng Qiu will be the master of the house in the future, and he will not die to fix Congcong." ”

Grandma was afraid that Geng Qiu would really do this, so she kept brainwashing in his ears, saying good things about his father and Geng Cong, and even helping his stepmother and not letting him enter the company, for fear that he would support his power now and start to deal with Geng Cong. He also said: "You see that there are several houses under your name, but Congcong is not yet." From then on, Geng Qiu no longer wasted his tongue talking to the two elders about any topic about Geng Cong.

For example, when I went back this time, my grandmother deliberately took out the items that my little brother brought back when he traveled abroad, saying how much the little grandson remembered the two elders. He also echoed and said a few words, in fact, everyone knows that it is not like that.

His ten-year-old little brother has a high vision, he has been raised since he was a child, he is a Hong Kong hukou, and he lives in Hong Kong most of the time, just like his mother and two sisters, he dislikes the two elders in the countryside very much, and even wishes that they would die soon.

Because these two elders and the child's mother are very wrong. When the old couple goes to their son's house, they always have to quarrel with their daughter-in-law, because the daughter-in-law always thinks that the two old people in the countryside have made a lot of messy things to dirty their own house, making them tasteless, and they hate the two old people for disliking her daughter, and so on.

When she didn't have a young son before, this woman didn't dare to mess with the old couple, and she didn't live together anyway, so it was good to see each other all year round. Everyone can still pretend to be kind. But now it's different, people have a son, especially this son is especially valued by his father and grandmother, and that confidence is sufficient, so every time the two sides meet, it's a disaster.

These two old men are in their seventies, their bodies are still very tough, and their tempers are sometimes quite big, and they are already the sons of big bosses in their fifties, and they will be scolded when they open their mouths, and they will smoke them when they hold sticks. Although Geng's father is not close to the old couple, he is also his own parents, and when the old man is angry, he has to bow his head and admit his mistakes. So in order to prevent Geng Qiu from getting the family property, the stepmother asked the younger son to show off in front of the old couple from time to time, saying that he remembered his grandmother. is to let grandma speak more about the family property, and squeeze Geng Qiu with it.

Geng Qiu's father, who has been getting better and better over the years, these things for his eldest son are really nothing to him, but he can't stand his son's growth, and he looks better and better. I don't know if Geng Qiu's fate is good, or if his stepmother is superb, anyway, his father couldn't leave a seed outside.

Although Geng's father is only fifty-five years old now, his body has long been similar to the color of wine and busy work, but the younger son is young, and the daughter is not favored, and the stepmother is afraid that he will want the eldest son to come to work by his side from time to time and train him to be the successor. So his stepmother has been trying her best to prevent him from entering the company all these years, and has kept designing and smearing him, for this large amount of family property.

After graduating from college, Geng Qiu also entered the company, and as soon as he entered the door, he was ruthlessly scolded by his stepmother's people several times, making him disgraced. When he was full of energy and wanted to show himself well, where did his father look down on his son, he only thought that he had lost his face, and simply threw his son in the corner to fend for himself. In the stepmother's pillow wind day after day, year after year, coupled with the younger son's cuteness on the side, his father completely forgot the eldest son.

Geng Qiu later simply left the company and returned to his hometown to listen to his grandmother's words. First, it was a fulfillment of grandma's wish that he was afraid that he and Geng Cong would compete for the family property, and the most important thing was that he considered that the two elders were old and needed someone to take care of them nearby, anyway, he was also disheartened, and he happened to be far away from the family.