Chapter 24: Late
If you want to talk about Shen Chi's childhood, you can't say that he is a poor child, after all, he was born in a rich family, and he is luckier than most children. But he was by no means a happy child.
Shen Chi's father, Shen Nian, has been withdrawn and taciturn since he was a child, but he is smart and good at learning. He was admitted to university at the age of seventeen, and at the age of twenty-two, he was introduced by his family to marry his first wife, who unfortunately died shortly after giving birth to a child. This may have been the source of his life's misfortune. Although he doesn't love her.
After that, he met Shen Chi's mother, Zhang Shuqi.
She's so beautiful! So good! So energetic! Like a little sun, it lit up his world! She has all the good things he yearns for!
Naturally, he fell in love with her. The madness of love! I can't help myself!
When a person who is usually silent and calm is crazy about love, it's very touching, right? Anyway, Zhang Shuqi was moved by him, and she also fell in love with him.
Again, of course, they got married.
Marriage is the grave of love, and they know this sentence very well.
Shen Chi's grandmother is an authentic rural old lady, in her eyes, women have to serve their own men! The daughter-in-law has to serve a large family!
Her eldest daughter-in-law, Lu Zizhen, is the head of the regiment, and she is domineering, she doesn't dare to provoke her. Shen Nian's first wife disappeared before she could grind, this Zhang Shuqi, she has to set up rules well, otherwise it will be upside down!
And Zhang Shuqi is the kind of person that the old lady looks down on the most. A girl is not good at home with her husband and children, what's the use of reading so many books! If you dress up every day, you know how to seduce men! The people who seduced his good son don't listen to her anymore! The most important thing is that a child of the stinky old nine families is like a young lady, and her fingers don't touch the spring water! She has to be a mother-in-law to serve her!
At that time, the Shen family was in a difficult period of career development, and the old man Shen still had the thoughts of a feudal patriarch, and the family was not allowed to separate. So everybody lives together.
Grandma Shen was cynical at first, then foul language, and finally even made a move!
Zhang Shuqi's family is not an ordinary stinky old nine, her parents are both international students! At the beginning, I returned to China with the idea of serving the motherland and became a professor at a university! She is an old woman again, she has been spoiled since she was a child, when has she ever been wronged like this!
At the beginning, Zhang Shuqi cried to Shen Nian, and Shen Nian was also on her side, but what was the use? He has a son, can he still do something to the old lady? You can't even talk about it! And if you reason with her, people will not hear it! What should be done, even worse!
As a doctor, Shen Nian is usually very busy with work and is often away from home. Grandpa Shen and Shen Kuan Shen are busy with their careers and are not at home. Shen Kuan's daughter-in-law said a few times that she almost caught fire, and that's it; Shen Quan's daughter-in-law has been watching from the wall; Sister-in-law Shen Miao went to school in other places.
Zhang Shuqi had nowhere to say that she was suffering, so she pressed all her resentment on Shen Nian. She decided to get a divorce! She can't live a day like this. She felt that if she continued like this, she would become crazy and twisted, and her face would be hateful, not herself!
Unfortunately, however, she found out that she was pregnant. For this child who came on the verge of marriage, her heart is entangled. Her mother's nature made her reluctant, and her disappointment in her marriage made her complain about this belated child.
It would have been nice if he had come earlier, if he had come early, she would have spent her mind and time on him and not care about other things, or Shen Nian could have defended her more, or that old woman might have treated her less for the sake of the child, and she would not be as resentful as she is now.
It's a pity that it's too late to say anything now, her heart is already dead.
In the end, she decided to give birth to this child, which was regarded as a memorial to this unfortunate life, or the end of their love. At the beginning, she really loved Shen Nian.
Three days after the birth of the child, she left her books and ran away. There was only one sentence on the letter: The child's name should be Shen Chi.
When Shen Nian went to look for his father-in-law's house, the building was already empty. It seems to have been planned for a long time.
He went crazy for a while, and finally fell into depression. He was not without a premonition about all this. But what could he do? It's useless to say mother, tell your father, people don't have time to care. I want to divide the family, and people say that they will not give a penny. He has to pay a large part of his monthly salary for living expenses and pension money. How can the remaining little be enough for two people to go out? He also started to make money secretly outside, and it was enough soon, and he planned to move after the confinement! But
I blame this kid! Why didn't he come late! Even if it's a month late, he'll have saved enough money!
So the sad Shen Chi, my father doesn't love my mother. At that time, there was no nanny at home, and his grandmother took him. You can imagine what kind of life you lived! When he was six years old and sensible, the Shen family developed, Shen Nian got married again, and Grandpa Shen happily split up.
Shen Chi lived with Shen Nian. As for the eldest brother Shen Yudong, he lived in his grandmother's house when he was a child.
Shen Nian's new wife Lin Zhen is married for the second time with a daughter Liu Huiting, but because she just got married, Liu Huiting did not live in the Shen family, but in her grandmother's house. Lin Zhen is a nurse, and she is busier than Shen Nian! And she is a little cowardly, perhaps because of her ordinary family, her status as a second marriage, and she is a little unconfident when she marries into the Shen family.
Lin Zhen has always been taciturn and cautious. Seeing that Shen Nian didn't wait to see Shen Chi, he didn't dare to be friendly to Shen Chi.
Since then, Shen Chi has become a transparent person. No one cooks when you come home from school, and no one gives you pocket money. He was often hungry with his chest pressed against his back. Hunger became one of the most indelible memories of his childhood.
Later, I was really hungry and had no choice, so I went to my grandmother's house for dinner. Every time I went to my grandmother, I had to sneer at him, or scold his mother for what was going on. He really didn't want to go. After a few times, he swore that he would rather starve to death than go! But he couldn't really starve to death, so he opened his mouth to ask Shen Nian for pocket money.
Since he was a child, he didn't know what his mother was or what his father was. No, he knows what someone else's father is. His own father never hugged him, kissed him, or praised him. He was wronged, no one could cry, and when he was happy, no one could be coquettish. No, he doesn't remember when he was happy when he was a child, and he doesn't remember that he once shed tears.
He longed, disappointed, and hated Shen Nian, until now, it doesn't matter. He is just a shallow parent, and he can't ask for it.
Shen Nian had to frown first every time he saw him, and then immediately looked away, as if he was some kind of dirty thing, unbearable! He didn't even want to look at him.
Little Shen Chi is also stubborn, you don't want to look at me, I don't want to look at you! So he never took the initiative to talk to Shen Nian. Let him take the initiative to ask Shen Nian for money, but there is really no way.
He didn't know Shen Nian's expression at that time, he didn't dare to look up, he only remembered that Shen Nian waited for a while, and just when he thought he wouldn't give it, he took out his wallet from his pocket and gave him all the money in the bag.
For a moment, he burst into tears.
Shen Chi remembered very well that it was eight hundred and thirty-eight yuan, which was a huge amount of money for him at that time.
After that, Shen began to talk to him, and it seemed that all he remembered was "Have you eaten?" This sentence. And it was only when they happened to meet him. And Shen Nian often got off work in the middle of the night, and Shen went to bed sooner or later. When Shen got up, Shen was gone sooner or later. They don't meet a few times a week.
Every week, Shen Nian would put fifty yuan on the coffee table in the living room as his living expenses. No more, no less.
Shen Chi in childhood has been busy since then, busy making money! He's going to feed himself! He learned how important money is! Money, for him at that time, was life and dignity! If you don't have money, you have to starve to death, and if you don't have money, you have to bow your head.
Oh, how ridiculous, this is the son of a rich businessman, and his father is already the chief physician.
Shen Chi's classmates never thought he was a child of a poor family. At first, he sold small goods, pencils and stationery, sticker cards, whatever was popular in the school. It was also from this time that he put on a mask and learned to greet people with a smile and be polite. Put away the coldness all over your body.
Later, when I got older, I started to participate in competitions! As long as it is a competition, he participates, and the prize money is preferred! This is how Xueba is made. Except for art competitions, he had no money to learn. Go is an exception, this one costs almost nothing, and there are many prizes, and he learns very seriously.
When he was a child, he never talked nonsense except for selling things. Later, things were not sold, and they hardly spoke. Although he wears a gentle mask, everyone knows that he is cold.
Only when no one is around, he will take off his mask and become sharp, as if he wants to choose someone to devour.
If it goes on like this, it will definitely not work, and the personality will be distorted. Fortunately, he met a noble man.