Chapter 2: The Cruel and Unforgiving Reality

The meal that Sun Ziming ate when he woke up was chicken soup and rice, and Hu Juan sat on the edge of the bed and fed it to him while blowing it with her small mouth. After waiting for Sun Ziming to finish eating, Hu Juan carefully took out the remaining half bowl of chicken soup and rice, and came in with a rice bowl in her hand, which was sweet potato shreds mixed with a few white rice grains.

Looking at the four walls of the family and Hu Juan's rice bowl, his grandson Ming Bulin was sad. Hu Juan, who was still a little girl, finished eating sweet potato rice calmly, cleaned up the outside with her hands and feet, returned to the bedroom and sat on the edge of the bed, and turned on the charcoal fire in the brazier.

The grandson looked at the burning charcoal fire wordlessly, this little girl was his childhood playmate. That year, her father saved her life at the age of four, and as soon as her two friends of the same year were happy, she became her own baby parent.

After that, she became her own little tail, and no matter where she went, she had to follow without twittering or crying. I still remember that once when a movie came to the countryside, she sat under a big tree and fell asleep on the way home, so she sat quietly next to her and waited for her to wake up. Until the evening when my father came to look for them, one was still sleeping, and the other was waiting quietly.

When did the estrangement begin? It seems that after he was in junior high school, because of his talent, his grades have always surpassed his peers, and the two began to drift apart. During the Chinese New Year, she always had to go to her house with her father, and every time she hid in the distance to look at herself secretly, and when she saw her, she blushed and hid away.

And then? Later, with the support of his family, he went to Peking to study at university, and a ******** ruined himself. After graduating from university, he was politically punished and assigned to a remote area. Later, unwilling to be lonely, he became a northward drifter and a third-rate screenwriter.

One year, during the Spring Festival, I went back to my hometown to sweep the grave and saw her, who was already a wife. Hu Juan, who had not given birth for several years, stood under the big tree, staring blankly at herself approaching, suddenly burst into tears, and choked up and called herself 'Brother Ziming'.

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After more than ten years of hard work, I finally changed from a screenwriter to a director, and the women around me were like moths to a fire. But in the dead of night, I can't forget the face full of tears, and the choked 'Brother Ziming'.

After years of hard work, he finally became ill in Hengdian, and the diagnosis of the hospital was advanced stomach cancer. The surroundings are quiet, except for a few old friends for many years, even the people who vowed to join hands with themselves have left.

The third brother and the seventh brother took themselves back to their hometown, and Hu Juan, who had been divorced for many years, heard the news and rushed back to her hometown from Shenzhen overnight. In the end, I fell into her arms and lost my memory, I only remember her face that was already a little old, and I said guiltily after the end: 'Juanzi, I'm sorry for you! ’

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Sun Ziming, who had woken up from the 'past', looked away and looked at Hu Juan carefully. There is not a patch in a coarse cloth dress, the figure is a little developed, the small face is handsome, the skin is a little dark, the willow eyebrows are apricot eyes, and the immature expression is very cute.

Realizing that Sun Ziming was looking at herself, Hu Juan felt a little shy, and turned sideways to sit a little sideways. Since marrying Chongxi, it is the first time she has been alone with a sober him.

When they were young, the two stayed together every day to play, and when they were a little older, they could see him once or twice a year, but now the two are so strange that they are embarrassed to say a word.

Sun Ziming's grades are very good, and he has been the first in the school since he was a child, while Hu Juan is just not slippery.

Since elementary school, she can only look up to Brother Ziming, who will always be the first in the school. When she was older, after her grandson was in junior high school, she was often ridiculed by her friends when she was in the third grade of primary school, saying that she was married. There are also ignorant children who will ask her, when will she give birth to a baby? Although she was embarrassed every time, she held down the person who made fun of her and beat her hard, but in this ridicule again and again, the figure in her heart became more and more ingrained.

Later, no one dared to make fun of her to her face, but she was looking forward to someone saying, 'This is Sun Ziming's daughter-in-law'.

As Sun Ziming became more and more dazzling, his father also sighed and said to her behind his back, 'Juanzi, forget Ziming!' People are Wenqu stars, not a country girl like you! ’

The naΓ―ve Hu Juan hid in the back mountain and cried for a whole day, and then slowly recovered. But in my heart, I still pretended to be the little boy who took me to the big play.

Uncle Sun passed away with joy, Hu Juan followed his father to come to mourn, and when he saw Sun Ziming, who was numb and pale, he couldn't help but feel sad for him, and the half-broken love thread was unconsciously tied to him again. When he heard that the Sun family wanted to let him go to Chongxi, his father was embarrassed to ask for his opinion, and he shyly agreed. Although the mother clearly told herself that it is impossible to want her grandson to come back to life!

married Chongxi, Brother Ziming has always been half-awake and half-dizzy, and the two have not even said a word, but Hu Juan does not regret it. In the past two months, she has even helped Brother Ziming do things like scrubbing her body.

Three or two companions came to see her, and reminded her in a louder whisper, don't take it too seriously, it will hurt you then. But she is willing to take care of him like this, sometimes she hopes that he will get better immediately, and as she did when she was a child, she goes to the countryside to watch movies behind her back. But sometimes, she still hopes that Brother Ziming will always be like this, and she can take care of him like this forever.

On the day when Brother Ziming breathed, it was as if the sky had fallen, and even if her sister-in-law was so mean, she just cried silently and was too lazy to quarrel with her.

The two were relatively speechless, and after a while, when the uncle came, Hu Juan hurriedly got up and poured a glass of water for the uncle. Standing on the edge of the bed, Hu Juan twisted her fingers around the hem of her clothes and spit out a sentence with difficulty.

"Brother Ziming, now that you're okay, I'll go home later!"

After speaking, two lines of tears climbed up the delicate little face, making Sun Ziming's heart sour.

"Juanzi, what are you going to do back? You're married to me, and this is your home! ”

"Ziming!"

The uncle interrupted Sun Ziming sharply, startling Hu Juan and making Sun Ziming's body tremble. Yesterday, when he was drowsy, he vaguely heard his uncle and father-in-law discussing outside, and the people in the countryside were courteous, but it was also more realistic. If Sun Ziming was just a villager, everyone would be happy to see their family affairs come true, but now that Sun Ziming has been admitted to university, and it is Peking Yan University, this will not work!

This is not in ancient times, it is a virtue not to abandon the wife of the chaff, and now the cruel reality has made everyone have to abandon those traditional virtues.

A hukou problem decided that Hu Juan could only be a farmer, and after Sun Ziming graduated, he would definitely not return to the county, and his teacher said that at worst, he would work in the provincial capital. With his salary of 180 yuan a month, he could not support a wife with no income in a big city. What's more, the two will have children in the future?

The long pain is better than the short pain, and the elders on both sides asked Hu Juan's opinion with great difficulty, and Hu Juan agreed with tears.

Hu Juan came to her senses, covered her face and rushed out, crying all the way, and staggering all the way back to her home ten miles away. Sun Ziming let his uncle roar, his mood was agitated, and he was dizzy again.

Under the care of his sisters-in-law, Sun Ziming recovered quickly, and Mr. Zhang also took the time to come and told him that he had applied for a one-year leave of absence at Yenching University and would go to Peking to study in September next year. But when he heard that Sun Ziming still insisted on marrying Hu Juan, even Mr. Zhang, who was a moral gentleman, objected.

"Ziming, you're too impulsive! Reality is not better than ideals, if in ancient times, you were noble. But when was this? Do you want to live your life in the future? She'll drag you to death! She won't be happy either, the gap between you is too big! ”

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Half a month later, it was already the twentieth year of the new year, and Sun Ziming had recovered most of the time, except that his steps were still a little vain, but he was no longer dizzy at every turn. In the past 20 days, no one has told him about Juanzi, as if the girl has nothing to do with him. Sun Ziming begged his cousin to inquire several times, but his cousin refused.

Today it was his turn to have breakfast at the uncle's house, everyone else ate silk, and he was the only one who ate white rice, steamed eggs, and chicken soup, and he was uncomfortable and difficult to swallow, but he had to eat, and he had to enjoy the care of his uncle's parents and cousins. After breakfast, the grandson left his uncle's house as if he were fleeing, and he really couldn't enjoy the heavy love in peace.

The cousin helped his grandson Ming to the head of the village, and several little daughters-in-law sat by the straw pile to bask in the sun and take the soles of their shoes.

"Do you know the way? Hu Juan is ready to get engaged to Zhang Daniu in the secluded village."

"Ah, no, wouldn't it?"

"She's only sixteen, so there's no need to be in such a hurry, right?"

She came up with it herself, and her father and mother agreed. I heard that Zhang Daniu's house went to Hu's house today to 'step' (the man went to visit the woman's house)".

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Sun Ziming couldn't listen anymore, so he held his cousin's shoulders with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and returned home with his feet in turmoil. Looking at the poor home, as well as the portrait of his father, remembering the past, he knelt on the cold ground, hugged Xiao Qi and knelt down, crying and begging: "Xiao Qi, help the fifth brother, send me to the Hu family!" ”。

The cousin of the same age, when he saw Sun Ziming as if he was stunned, he was so frightened that he couldn't speak, let alone pick up his cousin.

The heartbroken cry attracted the third brother next door, and the third brother who came back from the army heard Sun Ziming keep kowtowing to Xiao Qi and begging, so he hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his cousin tightly.

"Little Wu, don't do this! No one wants to do this, it's all forced by the world! ”

Sun Ziming hugged the third brother with his backhand and begged bitterly: "Third brother, help me, I can't watch Juanzi jump into the fire pit?" She's only sixteen! ”

The fierce third brother also shed tears, and choked up with difficulty: "Little Wu, it's not that the third brother won't help you!" But you can't, how will you support your wife and children in the future? The third brother can't hurt you! ”

"Third brother, I have a way, believe me! I really have a way, since I was a child, have I lied to you? Trust me, third brother! ”

The third brother still shook his head ruthlessly, and Sun Ziming, who was in a hurry, had no choice but to gamble on his future.

"Third brother, believe me! If I can't prove that I can support her before I graduate from college, I'll break up with her! Trust me, I can't be sorry for her! If you don't promise me, I won't go to this university, no matter what you do, I won't go to it! ”

The third brother still refused, studying in college was the last wish of the third uncle, and it was impossible for Xiao Wu not to obey it.

Sun Zi Mingdu was about to go crazy, and finally reminded him of one thing, when it became a lifesaver!