When my father came home from the construction site in the evening, he carried two bottles of wine in his hand, saying that it was a New Year's gift from the construction team.

During the meal, my mother and father told me about Chen Sheng and I going to school in Qiantang Town School after the New Year, and my father did not speak, but opened a bottle of wine, and then brought two wine cups and put them on the table, and he poured two glasses of wine and put one of them in front of Chen Sheng.

Chen Sheng raised his head and looked at his mother, who looked at his father and said, "What kind of wine do you let him drink, little child?" ”

The father said: "What's wrong with a man drinking a glass of wine, I was already drinking Lao Baigan when I was eight or nine years old, and a man can't drink so much that he doesn't like it anywhere." ”

After his father's words were finished, Chen Sheng raised his hand and dried up the wine on the table.

"Drink slowly, how can it dry in one sip, and I'm not afraid of choking." Mother said distressedly.

Chen Sheng said: "I drank wine when I was at home, and I drank baijiu twice. ”

"Then have another drink." The father said that he was going to pour wine for Chen Sheng again.

"I'm going to drink it too." I looked at my father and said.

My father glared at me, took the wine cup in front of Chen Sheng, and my mother reached out and gently pressed it on my father's wrist, and said, "Zhengyang, it's enough for children to drink a cup to satisfy their hunger." ”

The father ignored his mother, poured the wine glass in his hand, and then put it in front of Chen Sheng, who picked up the wine glass and dried it again.

"Massive!" The father laughed and asked, "Can you still drink it?" ”

Chen Sheng didn't think about it and said, "Yes." ”

"If you can, then drink it again, when you drink it, talk about it, sleep well at night, and go to the police station with me tomorrow to register your name, and enter the household registration of our Jiang family, and you can go to school with your sister Jiang Rong in the next year." Father said.

When her mother saw that her father was about to pour wine for Chen Sheng again, her face became ugly, and she asked, "Do you need a household registration book to study in the town school, how can anyone care about these things in these years?" ”

The father said expressionlessly, "Nobody cares? The children of our Jiang family go to school, my surname is Jiang and his surname is Chen, what do outsiders say when they know? ”

Although his mother was born before marrying his father, his mother had always adhered to women's morals and worked hard, but his father's heart couldn't get over, he couldn't listen to the slightest tongue from others, and wanted Chen Sheng to change his surname to Jiang.

Chen Sheng is a smart man, he heard what his father meant, and now he drank two glasses of wine, his face was already a little red, and he was waiting for his mother to speak for him.

The mother looked at Chen Sheng with an embarrassed face, yes, the owner of this family is surnamed Jiang, and Chen Sheng's existence is to discredit his father, and it is natural to ask him to change his surname.

Chen Sheng saw his mother's attitude, his jaw twitched, and his eyes suddenly turned red.

Chen Sheng said: "My father's name is Chen Gongbo, and my surname is Chen. ”

Father expected that Chen Sheng was a hard bone, so he didn't get angry, but began to eat in large gulps, Chen Sheng waited for his mother to make a statement, and his father was also waiting for his mother's statement.

The mother put vegetables in Chen Sheng's bowl and said gently: "Son, in fact, the surname Chen and Jiang are the same, it's just a different name, what's the big deal." ”

Chen Sheng stared at the table, didn't agree with his mother's words, and said stubbornly: "My surname is Chen, not Jiang." ”

As soon as Chen Sheng's words fell, my father knocked all the food on the table to the ground, I was so frightened that I began to cry, and my father yelled: "Cry, get out and cry!" ”

My mother sat at the table as if nothing had happened, she brushed the hair scattered between her eyebrows behind her ears, got up and put away all the dishes and chopsticks in the sink outside the door, cleaned up the food scattered on the floor, led me outside and wiped my crying face with a hot towel, and then whispered to me, "Go and call your brother out, I have something to say to him." ”

I hummed, walked behind Chen Sheng and said, "Brother, Mom told you to go out and have something to say to you." ”

Chen Sheng was sitting at the table and angry, and when he heard his mother call him, he got up and walked out of the hall.

When they arrived in the yard, their mother pulled Chen Sheng aside and said with a sad face: "Son, what is the difference between the surname Chen and Jiang, you see the stubbornness of your child's family, since my mother married into the Jiang family, it is naturally a member of the Jiang family, your father wants you to change your surname, listen to your mother, then your surname is Jiang, Jiang Sheng, what a beautiful name." ”

Chen Sheng said: "My father's name is Chen Gongbo, he is not my father, so my father will not be so fierce to me." ”

"He's very good, otherwise how could my mother marry him? As long as you are obedient, he will not murder you again in the future, didn't that Uncle Li say, he will pick you up in two years, you will change your surname to Jiang in these two years, and then your surname Chen will be when you return to Shanghai in the future. Mother said.

Chen Sheng said aggrievedly: "My surname is Chen, and I want to go home." ”

"Why are you so stubborn?" Mother said. "Your surname is Chen, outsiders know that you are the son of me and Jiang Zhengyang, and they will definitely ask you why your surname is Chen, my mother is sorry for the Jiang family, if you don't change your surname, wouldn't it be more people poke his backbone?"

Chen Sheng said: "Then I can't go, I want to go back to Shanghai." ”

"If you can go back to Shanghai, people will send you back?" The mother's voice suddenly became choked. "You are just a seed born to a woman with no name, and you won't be welcomed when you go back, since your father asked people to send you to me, he must also know that a catastrophe is coming, the newspapers are full of news that Wang's puppet government is going to perish, that Uncle Li also told me, Wang Jingwei is terminally ill and has no real power, and now he has become a traitor to the Japanese, your father follows him to do things, and now it is difficult to ride a tiger, and you go back to accompany the funeral."

"You talk nonsense!" When Chen Sheng heard his mother say this, he suddenly glared at his mother and shouted. "My dad is not a traitor!"

Mother's eyes suddenly became helpless and resolute, she said: "Anyway, you will stay in Sanlitun in the future, and your Uncle Li will not come to pick you up again, from today on, you will be called Jiang Sheng." ”

Chen Sheng said: "My surname is Chen. ”

The mother was angry and said in a stern tone: "Jiang Rong, bring the ruler!" ”

In the house, I had been listening to the conversation between my mother and Chen Sheng, and when my mother asked me to take a ruler, I hid the bamboo ruler that my mother usually used to measure clothes behind my back.

When my mother saw that I didn't move, she went into the house to look for a ruler, and I retreated to the door and looked at my mother with her eyes wide open, and my mother looked at me without finding a ruler, and I said, "Mom, don't hit my brother." ”

My mother didn't go to see my father in the house, she snatched the bamboo ruler from behind my back and walked into the yard, looked at Chen Sheng and said, "Stretch out your hand." ”

Chen Sheng looked at his mother stubbornly, stretched out a pair of small hands in front of his mother, and his mother raised the bamboo ruler and hit the back of Chen Sheng's hand fiercely.

Although my mother usually beat me, I knew that she didn't use much strength, but this time she was obviously angry, and the bamboo ruler hit the back of Chen Sheng's hand with a snap.

Chen Sheng's tears fell down in pain, and a long bruise appeared on the back of his hand. He didn't expect his mother to really beat him, and his mouth made a voice of grievance, but he didn't let himself cry.

The mother asked, "Say! Is your surname Chen, or is your surname Jiang? ”

Chen Sheng said: "The surname is Chen! ”

With a snap, the bamboo ruler fell down again, making Chen Sheng's little hand spasm.

The mother asked again, "Is the surname Chen or the surname Jiang?" ”

Chen Sheng sweated in pain, and he cried and said, "The surname is Chen!" ”

The mother was so angry that her chest rose and fell, and she slapped it on the back of Chen Sheng's hand several times, so that Chen Sheng couldn't lift his hand, Chen Sheng was so painful that he died, several shocking scars on his hands, and the bamboo ruler was also dipped in blood.

The mother asked, "Is the surname Chen or the surname Jiang?" ”

Chen Sheng cried and shouted: "The surname is Chen, if you kill me, I will also be surnamed Chen!" ”

I whimpered and cried in front of Chen Sheng, and kept calling my mother to tell her not to beat Chen Sheng again, my mother's hand was also trembling, I took the bamboo ruler from my mother's hand, and my mother looked at the stubborn Chen Sheng like this, and suddenly raised her hand and slapped her face fiercely.

My mother's slap was so loud that my face turned red in three or five strokes, I was so frightened that I didn't know what to do, and Chen Sheng watched his mother's behavior like this, watching his mother slap the corners of his mouth and bleed, he was also scared.

Chen Sheng ran over and grabbed his mother's hand, crying out in his mouth: "Don't fight, mom don't fight." ”

The mother stopped, her eyes flickering, the corners of her mouth dripping blood, and she asked, "Is your surname Chen or Jiang?" ”

Chen Sheng whimpered and cried, choked up and said, "I...... The surname is Jiang, and from now on, I will be called Jiang Sheng. ”