Chapter 49: Life History (2)
Grandpa went back to the back room to sleep, and my mother secretly came over and put a cotton pad under her knee, until she moved her knees, she found that her legs had fallen unconscious, looking at her grinning appearance, my mother stuffed her with a piece of hot steamed bun in distress, and made a "silence" gesture with her fingers on her lips, her eyes were so gentle, but she couldn't speak, just gently touched her head.
Later, the honest father came over, grinned, rubbed his oil-stained hands on his body, pulled her up, and went into the house to say a few words to her grandfather, which exempted her from kneeling.
In fact, grandpa is not often like this, most of the time he is kind and strict to teach her the principles of reading, writing and life, how many days and nights she sat in the dim hall, grandpa sat while nodding and looking at her while pointing at her.
She knew that her grandfather was a scholar, and his knowledge was far better than that of the teachers in the school, astronomy and geography, hundreds of schools, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, there was almost nothing he was not proficient in.
"Grandpa doesn't ask you how much you have achieved in this life, as long as you are innocent, upright, worthy of heaven and earth, worthy of conscience, worthy of your ancestors and ancestors, you are my good granddaughter."
Whenever she completed the homework assigned by her grandfather excellently, her grandfather would look at her with emotion, with relief and expectation in his eyes.
Although her family is poor, and although she is ridiculed and despised by her neighbors, she still feels happy and warm because this is her home.
But such a gentle mother died silently in that broken night, and lying with her was the father who had no words but was honest, she was only fourteen years old at the time, and she didn't understand that they were clearly just going out to buy her a birthday cake, and why would she never see them again.
This is a car accident, she naturally understands, but she can't understand why it is going to happen to her, and why God wants to take away such a pair of good people.
Looking at the blood on the ground and the motionless parents, she and her grandfather did not even have a single tear, but it was the perpetrator and his family who cried hoarsely, they were frightened, and kept apologizing to them, and even knelt down and kowtowed.
There were no tears, but they all knew that they had lost everything.
Grandpa became more old and haggard, and finally after the first seven years of his parents, he called her to his side, and told her everything that happened fourteen years ago with complicated eyes, it turned out that grandpa was not grandpa, but grandpa, and his father and mother were uncles and aunts, and it was her biological mother who had never met her who was talked about.
In fact, in the past few years, from the rumors around her, she has faintly understood the truth of the matter, when she heard all this from her grandfather's mouth, there was not much acceptance of incompetence, and there was no hysterical feeling, only a confirmed powerlessness and sadness, it turned out that what those people said was true, her mother was really an indecent woman, she was really a wild seed.
Although she has been unwilling to accept this truth over the years, she has always given herself psychological hints that her life experience should not be so unbearable, she thinks she is frank enough, but she still can't let go of this matter, and her grandfather can't come out either.
This old man, who has straightened his back all his life, has been completely bent for this matter, and has been exiled for more than ten years for this matter.
"I, Chen Shushi, am frank and innocent, but I didn't educate this daughter well, at that time I was locked up in the farm labor camp, my son had a fever and became a fool, my daughter was foolish with messy people, and she didn't study, and when I came back, this family was also scattered, and I wanted to take care of her, but I couldn't do anything, your mother didn't even recognize me as a father." Chen Shushi laughed very wildly, every time he thought of this daughter who brought endless humiliation to himself, he always couldn't control his emotions, he didn't know that Chen Zheng's heart had frozen into ice inch by inch, "I didn't educate this daughter well, she was willing to degenerate and did such shameless things, I can't wait to finish her in front of the tablet of the ancestors and ancestors, and the reputation of the Chen family will be ruined in my hands!" Chen Zheng, I gave you this name because I hope you will be an upright gentleman and don't repeat your mother's mistakes......"
The Chen family is a hundred years of scholarly family, poetry and book heirlooms, ancestors even once had five chaste archways, Chen Shushi is a generation of Confucianism, but because of the old-fashioned thinking in the catastrophe was tortured to death, no matter what kind of disaster he encountered, he has never done a thing that is ashamed of his conscience, never said a word contrary to his principles and beliefs, whether it is for himself, or for his family, his moral requirements are beyond ordinary people, but I didn't expect his daughter to destroy the Chen family style for hundreds of years.
Every time he sees Chen Zheng, Chen Shushi's heart doesn't know what it's like, remembering that his daughter used to be a well-behaved and obedient little girl when she was a child, and Chen Zheng is indeed well-behaved and obedient and highly perceptive, and her attitude towards this granddaughter can't help but be a little gentle, but thinking of her daughter doing such shameless things, and deeply hating this evil seed, this kind of emotion has tormented Chen Shushi for more than ten years, sometimes sober, sometimes confused, sometimes crazy, until he was terminally ill and dying.
On that day, Chen Zheng was sixteen years old, his adoptive parents died for two years, his grandfather had been bedridden for two years, the hall was full of the smell of traditional Chinese medicine, the family had no money to see a doctor, his grandfather took his pulse to see a doctor, she went to the Chinese medicine shop to grab medicine, the medicinal materials were not too expensive, and the family could still afford it, but his condition did not improve at all, watching his grandfather cough heartbreakingly, the spittoon was full of shocking blood, and worry still involuntarily surged up on her expressionless face.
"Grandpa, let's go to the hospital." She sat on the edge of the bed and whispered.
"Don't go," Chen Shushi looked at her coldly, as stern as ever, "There is no money left at home to see a doctor, and you don't want to make a bad idea, starving to death is a small matter, and losing a festival is a big matter!" I don't allow you to bow your head for a mouthful of rice and a bowl of soup, and if you dare to do this, you will never recognize me as a grandfather again! ”
She moved her lips, the family should still have money, when the adoptive parents died, the perpetrator lost more than 50,000 yuan, and the grandparents and grandchildren had cut down on food and clothing in the past two years, and the money spent should be only 20,000 yuan, but the grandfather clutched the passbook tightly and refused to give it to her.
"Chen Zheng, you kneel!" Chen Shushi forced himself to sit up, looking at his granddaughter who grew up with his own hands, his heart was filled with sadness and joy, he has not been good to her all these years, but she has never complained about him, but I am afraid that she will no longer be able to support her to grow up in the future.
She knelt straight in front of him, her eyes clear and determined.