Chapter 6 The Game of Choice
"Toot, toot, toot," the communication sound sounded 3 times, and his father's familiar voice came from the phone, "Hey, Xiaowen, Dad will call you later..."
"Dad, I'm Xiaoya..."'s voice was exceptionally calm, and it sounded like a machine synthesized sound, at this time, in the "causal mirror" in front of Lu Ya's eyes, it was Lu Jianming's figure who had just hung up his son Lu Wen's phone, about her younger brother asking her father for living expenses, Lu Ya never thought about what a bad thing it was, on the contrary, she always took it for granted. It's just at this moment, especially after a night of silence, at this moment, her heart seems to be brewing a jar of bitter wine, sour, bitter, dazzling, and all her senses are fermented into an emotion called jealousy. That's right, why, why can't it be myself who asks my father for living expenses, why is it my younger brother who has been taken care of since I was a child, I am so good to my younger brother, why do I have to give my younger brother pocket money in addition to the money I earn from my scholarship to pay tuition fees and work for my own living expenses, why, why, why?
It's not fair.
This, no, male, flat.
Taking a deep breath and pressing the sponge that absorbed the bitter wine of jealousy back to the bottom of the sea, Lu Ya spoke: "Dad, that's the case, I need some money recently, so can you..."
What has never been done before, it is definitely impossible to be as perfect as Lu Wen, and there will still be a kind of emotion called shame.
How much? 50,000. It's good, the script is written, and the blockbuster is about to be staged.
"Although you didn't say the reason for asking for money, it's already very good, and the next thing is to see how your father will choose after the second male number plays!"
"He's gloating, it must be," Lu Ya thought to herself, but sadly, "I'm also a little gloating..."
"Lu Jianming, it's me, Meifeng. The voice on the other end of the phone, Lao Lu will never forget in his life, but such a familiar voice has become so strange at this moment. Yes, for anyone, what would it be like to receive a call from a deceased loved one, isn't it familiar and strange?
"You, are you a human or a ghost?" Lao Lu hurriedly asked, "Meifeng, are you still alive, are you?"
"Jianming, listen to me, I'm dead, I'm gone," Hearing that Lao Lu Gang wanted to ask, Meifeng interrupted him, "Don't talk yet, my time is limited, I can only make a long story short, Jianming, you have to listen carefully to the next words." ”
Lao Lu originally believed in ghosts and gods, and at this time he was even more sure that this was the phone call of his deceased wife, and he left tears in his eyes, grabbed the phone and nodded vigorously: "You say it, I won't interrupt you." ”
"Jianming, after I came down from Wangxiangtai, I went to the ninth hall of hell, and they all said that human death is empty, but in fact, everything we do in the world must be repaid after death. In my life, I am an ordinary ordinary woman, whether I marry you or have two babies, I have never done anything hurtful. The only thing I'm sorry for is my good daughter. Growing up, Xiaoya has never let me fuck a penny, let alone anything else. But people are like this, the better you do, the higher I demand from you, but Xiaowen keeps making mistakes and keeps causing trouble, and I keep spoiling. I did treat my children equally, although I didn't treat Xiaoya harshly, but in many ways, I didn't treat a bowl of water evenly. Therefore, after I die, I need to serve my sentence here with King Yama Ping of the Ninth Temple, and I am also indebted..."
"What, what is serving a sentence?" As soon as Lao Lu heard that his wife was suffering in hell, he exploded at once.
"Don't worry, listen to me," Meifeng quickly interrupted him, "It's also a shame that I'm just partial, so King Ping asked me to do ordinary errand work in the Ninth Palace, specializing in the education of resentful souls, and I need to explain the laws of the Ninth Hall to the resentful souls serving my sentence all the time, and recite the scriptures excessively, and when my sentence expires, I can be reincarnated." ”
Afraid that Lao Lu would be anxious again, Meifeng hurriedly finished talking about her situation, and then said the key points of this call:" In terms of treating your children, you are better than me, whether it is a son or a daughter, you can take care of it properly, so there is no need to worry about your afterlife, but there is one thing I want to tell you, you are now facing a choice, you have 50,000 yuan, which was originally intended to compensate Boss Zhang's losses, so that Xiaowen could be brought back, but now Xiaoya is also in trouble at school, if she doesn't handle it well, not only will she be expelled from Huaqing, but she may also have a lawsuit, she also needs 50,000 yuan, you have to make a choice. I owe Xiaoya too much, I have to make this situation clear to you, and you stay away from that surnamed Wang, and Lao Lu... Toot beet, beet, beet..."
"Hey, Meifeng, hey, Meifeng, why did you hang up?" Suddenly the phone hung up, and Lao Lu was at a loss for a moment, so he could only hold the phone and shout.
"Because she's talking too much. According to the procedure, she can only communicate with you in the form of dreams, and as for how much you can remember in the dream, it's your own business, but this time the time is urgent, so you can only talk to her on the phone here, but what she said has crossed the line, so it must be cut off. I don't know when, Boss Zhang's originally smiling face became cold, "Then you are already clear about the situation, and then Mr. Lu, it's time for you to make a choice." ”
The information exploded enough to penetrate people's hearts, and Lao Lu fell into a stupor for a while.
"What, what do you mean? Why can my son and daughter only help one? Isn't it just an extra 50,000 yuan, I'll borrow a little more, I... I'll make a phone call first. Lao Lu was inexplicable by Boss Zhang's words, and trembled and picked up the phone and wanted to dial.
"Please, but I just want to remind you that whether it is a son or a daughter, you need to deal with it within today, otherwise, it will be overdue. Boss Zhang's face changed again, and his words were extraordinarily reasonable, and he refused to speak thousands of miles away.
Lao Lu first called Brother Li, and wanted to take care of Brother Li to borrow some more, but he didn't think that Brother Li's phone couldn't get through, so he could only call Wang Tou'er again, Wang Tou'er answered, he first told Lao Lu that Brother Li and the company's team went to Thailand to participate in the team building, and only returned after 10 days, and then Lao Lu just mentioned that he wanted to borrow money from Wang Tou'er, and he heard a few words on the phone, "Hey, hey, hey", and it seemed that the signal was not good and hung up again. There was no way, Lao Lu could only call his relatives one by one. After the phone rang, this relative was not a child who wanted to study, but a relative who wanted to buy a house, in short, those who had borrowed money before were unwilling to borrow again. Also, it's so easy to get it back, who wants to borrow money all the time these days. After borrowing a circle to no avail, Lao Lu thought about it, gritted his teeth, and said to Boss Zhang: "In this way, Boss Zhang, I will go home now and take the house book, my house will be mortgaged to you first, and I will take my son back first, my 50,000 yuan is still waiting to save my daughter." ”
Boss Zhang smiled and said word by word: "Lao Lu, do you think I really want your house? I don't want anything today, I just need 50,000 yuan in cash." ”
When Lao Lu heard this, he only felt that his eyes were dark, and he instantly lost his ability to think...
"I have a question. Since the last phone call with her father, Lu Ya, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly spoke.
The black shadow Ge who had been accompanying him shook his figure and said, "Miss Lu Ya, may you ask." ”
"I've been watching the 'Cause and Effect Mirror' for a whole day, and I found a problem, the pictures I want to see are not coherent, always intermittent, some fragments I can make up for myself, but some I think are inconsistent, so these pictures, what I want to see, or..."
"You... What do you want me to see?"
Lu Ya pointed to the picture of the "causal mirror" in front of her, as well as the previous picture when she asked that question, one is that after Lu Wen was caught by Boss Zhang, in addition to calling Lao Lu to ask for money, he has been sitting on the stool in the center of the small room at the end of the second floor of the Internet café without saying a word, and the other is the picture of Boss Zhang receiving Lao Lu and preparing to go up to the second floor to find Lu Wen.
"Is there any problem? Lu Wen and your father are about to meet, and you can see how your father chooses right away. Ge Li was puzzled, in fact, the "Mirror of Cause and Effect" could not be tampered with, and he did not have the ability to tamper with it, so he didn't understand what Lu Ya's question was.
"Yes, you're right, you do know that there is a devil living inside me, and this devil does make me make a lot of different choices. Lu Ya said word by word, she knew very well what she was thinking at the moment, "The so-called fairness is indeed my desire since I was a child, I hope my mother can feel sorry for me like my brother, this is the biggest obsession in my life, you have successfully used my obsession and transferred this obsession to my father." I really care about what my father thinks of me and my brother, or in your words, how my brother and I will make choices when faced with a last resort, this is indeed the devil in my heart, what he wants to see. ”
Ge Li didn't reply, he was waiting for Lu Ya to finish.
"Even so, you ignore the fact that my brother and I should get along with each other. Although the resentment in my heart will cause jealousy towards him, the relationship between sister and brother for more than 20 years cannot be forgotten. My brother really encountered such a big thing, he would indeed ask his father for help, but he should have called me in the first place!"
The strong self-confidence from being a sister was vividly displayed at this moment, as if with a sky-high hostility, which shook the black shadow on the other side and retreated.
At this time, all that appeared in Lu Ya's heart were pictures of Lu Wen's mistakes when he was a child...
"Sister, it's me who is wrong, I shouldn't be bored in class and pull Zhao Xiaowan's hair, can you not tell your parents about the teacher staying in our school?"
"Sister, let me tell you, I'm having a stomach trouble in this exam, otherwise I will fail, just kidding, with my Nanxiang Middle School No. 1 student... Hey, hey, it hurts, it hurts, can I not pull my ears when I'm such an adult, good sister, best sister, this time the parents sign it, you can help me sign..."
"Sister, I just don't like that bastard, who made him block you every time he gets out of school, can such a good person as my sister be chased by this kind of bastard? What's wrong with the fight, you see that my mouth is bleeding and he is more seriously injured, eh, don't touch it, it's okay, remember to tell my parents that I fell on a bicycle..."
"Sister..."
"Sister..."
"Sister..."
In this world, there is something more powerful than the "mirror of cause and effect", which can preserve every memory worth cherishing. That's the love that comes from family.
"Do you know? Ge Li," Lu Ya lowered her head, her long hair covered her face and she couldn't see her expression clearly, but she could hear the tremor in her voice, "What I feel the saddest thing is that it's not the so-called unfairness, but..."
"I was really at one point, deeply resentful of my mom and dad..."
"And for Xiaowen, I actually have a deep-rooted jealousy!"
Suddenly raised her head, Lu Ya's red eyes were full of tears, but her eyes were no longer confused, but unprecedentedly firm————