Chapter Ninety-One: The Father's Answer
The father finally stopped moving the cup in his hand, and there was no friction on the table, only to hear him say slowly: "Gao Qu has told me everything, including that you are not boyfriend and girlfriend at all, and you are not here to see your parents at all, and you ...... You go to counseling. β
"What?!" Jia Yi slapped the table, and the old piece of wood fell lightly, instantly cocking something opposite like a lever, and at this time it was slowly tilted towards her side, she held back a burst of anger in her heart, and secretly cursed: "How can he do this!" β
"Are you really not allowed to have contact with the opposite sex around you?" The father continued, and for some reason, the table quickly went back to him.
"Right...... There can be no intimate physical contact...... "Jia Yi had to admit frankly, but her nose was very sore, she didn't know whether this discomfort came from her father's questioning or Gao Qu's leak.
"Are you afraid of me?"
"I ......" Jia Yi was at a loss again, she didn't dare admit it to his face, even though she couldn't see his face clearly in the night.
The father sighed suddenly, a long sigh, as if the veil of darkness had been blown through by this long sigh.
"Is it because I'm bad for you?" He asked, but not like she was asking herself, but as he twirled the cap again, and in a moment the wine stirred the walls of the glass, and water droplets fell to the ground, rippling with a strong fragrance.
The table shook again, but there was little movement.
Jia Yi was still silent.
"I don't know if it's good for you, and when I hear this news, your mother and I don't know what to do. What does the doctor say and what do you want us to do? The father poured the wine but did not drink it, perhaps he did, but he could not hear it, but listened to him.
The doctor said...... It's not a big deal, maybe I'll figure it out......" Jia Yi finally spoke.
"That'...... That's good...... I think I should think about it, but I don't think too much about it, I don't have anything to think about......" he tightened the cap.
In the darkness, there was the sound of the cap and the bottle trying to fit each other.
"So what do I do?" Father still asked.
"What?"
"How can I change it, so that you are not afraid of me? Don't you have an opinion about me? β
"I ......" Jia Yi just wanted to speak, when suddenly there was a "snap", and the light above her head turned on, shining silver and dazzling.
Jia Yi didn't come to her senses for a moment, and only an old face was reflected in front of her, covered with ravines, like a barren field, which had been over-cultivated by time, and the water and fertilizer flowed to the other face, yes, it was herself, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a slightly upturned upper lipβit turned out that she was so similar to her father.
Her father was also looking at her, so she had to bow her head, pluck up her courage, and say, "I want to know if you are out of ......," but stopped the car when the last word was about to blurt out, and her eyes fell straight on the old wooden dinner table.
It turned out that the corner of the dining table close to him had already been lifted in the air, the legs were separated from the legs, but the table top was still stable, and his father's hand had been pressing his head, and the green tendons on his hands were slightly raised.
Only then did she see a small piece of wood lying under her seat, which was supposed to be used to help the legs and corners of the table meet.
Jia Yi suddenly remembered that when she jumped on the stool just now, she accidentally touched the corner of the table, and when the table shook, something clearly fell, but she didn't care so much at that time.
And my father kept holding on to the table, all the time, for fear that it would lean down on his side.
"No, you're not wrong...... I'm going to get better. Jia Yi raised her head and smiled at her father, trembling as she tried to suppress her tears.
That night, Jia Yi chatted with David again, and she said, "I don't want answers anymore." β
"Why? Do you know the answer? David asked.
"No, I don't know, but I don't think there's any need to know. Whatever he has done is his life. I just need to know that I'm not lacking anything......" she said, her eyes reddening slightly.
"So, do you forgive him?"
"Of course I don't forgive, he is really super annoying when he speaks, and he really doesn't do it well enough......" Jia Yi burst into tears and laughed, paused, and said, "But for this family, there is no more suitable father and husband than him." β
There is no better fit for this family than him, there is no better fit for himself than this family, Jia Yi not only said this to herself, she also persuaded Jia Xing in the rebellious period.
Like Jia Yi before, he has a natural distance from his parents, and escaping, isolating, and leaving have become his only direction, and he even once said to Jia Yi that he would move out of this home when he grew up.
"No, you'll regret it." Jia Yi persuaded.
"Didn't you just move out? You haven't been home in years......" The younger brother complained dissatisfiedly, not understanding that his sister, who had taken the initiative to keep him away from his family's troubles, would now oppose his decision.
"But I'm not doing well outside...... Always helpless, always afraid of getting sick, afraid of going home without food......" she said as she looked at her brother.
The younger brother still shook his head in dissatisfaction, and he said, "Don't you have a brother-in-law?" If you're sick and don't have anything to eat, won't he care about you? β
He ...... Who knows, I need to look forward to him, but for your family, you don't need to expect this at all, because you know that they will definitely manage you and manage you unconditionally! Jia Yi replied.
She knew better than anyone else that the uncertainty that Gao Qu had brought to her would increase day by day. But now she inevitably expects more and more from him, and he keeps pulling her into the ups and downs by losing contact and calling the wrong name.
This infatuation is inevitable.
"But the family is arguing like this...... I really can't stand it! The younger brother protested and continued: "Other people's families have never been like this, and Ah Fan's family is better than me!" He thought his sister, who was also a child, would understand her.
Jiaxing's Ah Fan is his good buddy, his parents are divorced, Ah Fan follows his father, and his partners sympathize with him for a while, but later everyone learned that his stepmother is not as vicious as imagined, and Ah Fan's new family is also happy.
"You can't think like that, Jiaxing, I know my parents didn't do a good job of this, they were so immature. But...... Mom and Dad love you very much, but in the wrong way. She touched her brother's short black hair and said, "Mom and Dad love each other too, they won't be separated, they will keep arguing, they will keep arguing...... A good family should be one in which mom and dad rely on each other in a familiar way, mom and dad guard the child in the way they can, and the child should understand and love their parents in their way...... This is a happy family, regardless of what it is and whether it is harmonious or not, whether it has money or not! β
"Do you think your parents are in love?" The younger brother asked, puzzled.
"Love, if you don't love, you just don't speak, how can you quarrel every day, and if you pay me back, will you quarrel with classmates you don't like?"
"Of course not, I'll just beat him up!" The younger brother raised his fist and waved it in front of Jiayi, but soon he lowered his face again and said, "But do you think your parents love us?" β
"Love, it's just that they don't say it well, but they're trying to do it, and they're doing it well, aren't they? They are the only people in this world who love you unconditionally, it's their instinct, do you know what instinct is? It's-" Jiayi suddenly threw a very fast punch in front of Jiaxing's eyes, and Jiaxing quickly closed his eyes, his long eyelashes fell on Junxiu's face, and a pimple protruded from the corner of his eye.
"Hahahaha!" Jia Yi smiled and collapsed on his bed.
The siblings began to fight again, and there was a long-lost laughter in Jiaxing's room, as if many years ago, many years ago, the siblings sat in the room holding a frozen watermelon and watched a funny variety show.
Jia Yi didn't know if her brother could fully understand herself, she could only say that even if he still wanted to continue to carry out the "departure" plan one day in the future, she would still support it.
She is also just a sister and daughter, and all she can do is to help everyone in the family give more support and encouragement when choosing the life path they want to adhere to, so as not to let their selfishness become an obstacle to their progress.
Just like the sentence she once asked her family for, "everything is good at home", she is working hard for the life she wants to live, and she, selfishly, hopes that her home will no longer be an obstacle for her to move forward.
She always used that sentence as a talisman, and walked forward without any scruples, without any burden or guilt.
She was indeed looking forward to the phrase "everything is good at home" on the phone, and the fear of selfishness to the point of bad news had nothing to do with the news itself or the family, but the fear that she would no longer be able to live the life she wanted.
- She was selfish, she had known it for a long time.
During this time, because of Jiayi's words on the top of the mountain that day, the parents tried their best to maintain a peaceful situation, even if they couldn't help but scold each other, they would pull each other out to buy groceries, and then they both disappeared in front of Jiayi and Jiaxing, and when they came back, it was already calm.
- She knows, but she is still selfish.
She is invisibly destroying the way her parents are used to getting along, and perhaps that way is an expression of their dependence on each other, and she is so selfishly asking her parents to force a smile and act like a model couple in most families in front of her.
Just like many years ago, she yelled for her parents to become Zhu Bajie and Sun Wukong, she knew that they were not, but she still asked them to cooperate.
Their intellect and experience determine their way of life, the rhythm of their lives, they were already stereotyped before she was born, and they received the destiny of heaven from heaven late one night, and they have always been such a role, before they have time to learn to be parents, their children have grown up non-stop and every second; Maybe they're still learning, running in between two people and two generations, albeit for almost thirty years, and even longer, who will keep them parents forever?
So now, she knows it's time to make way for her family.
She spread out her hands and said to her parents, "Mom and Dad, you can do whatever you like...... Don't be too loud when you quarrel, don't swear, don't smash the pot and wave the kitchen knife, and ah, quarrels are quarrels, don't deliberately make salty dinner...... Quarrel, do as you like......" (To be continued.) )