(xxxii)

Before the summer vacation, the father wrote three letters to the school, asking Zhongshan to go back to Qingshan this holiday anyway, and not to go out to work anymore, the mother missed her son and felt sorry for her son, and cried several times, saying that if he didn't go back, the old couple would buy tickets to come to Jiangcheng to see their son. Zhong Shan had no choice but to give up the idea of going to the dock to work and step on the train back to his hometown.

During the summer vacation, Zhong Shan had a conflict with his parents, and returned to school early before the vacation ended.

When he returned home, Zhong Shan saw that his mother was getting thinner and thinner, and his father was getting older. Meihui is busy performing all day long, and the two of them can communicate two or three letters a semester when they are in school, and the two of them also get together less and leave more during the holidays, so naturally they didn't find a suitable opportunity to showdown the fact that they have another relationship. Zhong Shan is actually avoiding the fact that he can't predict what the outcome of the showdown with Mie will be. Subconsciously, he was still a little grateful to Meihui for being so busy that he didn't have to deliberately hide his relationship with Fang Jing.

After dinner that day, my mother put away the bowls, and the family sat in the living room watching the TV series "Shanghai Beach". My father lit a cigarette and didn't say anything. Zhong Shan found that in the three years he was in college, his father smoked more often than in the past.

The first-level TV series is over, and the mother goes back to the room to get the half-finished woolen pants for her son.

Zhong Shan said: "Dad, there is something I want to tell you, I have a girlfriend in college, it is my classmate, named Fang Jing, my hometown is Huangshan, Anhui Province, and I have been in it for more than two years. The voice was so low that the other could barely hear what he was trying to say.

When the mother heard this, she was stunned, looking at her husband's face and not speaking.

The father snuffed out the remaining half of the cigarette and asked in a loud voice, "Did this kid make any mistakes?" ”

"That's not true, the two of us have a big difference in cultural level, and we don't have more common language together."

"Nonsense! Your mother and I are still very different, why don't we have a common language? I think I've had a good life in this life. ”

"What age are you, or is it an arranged marriage arranged by your grandmother? It's the 80s now, how many years have you been talking about the freedom to marry? Moreover, breaking up with Mie is not necessarily a bad thing for her, she can choose her more suitable partner. ”

"What is more suitable, if there is a more suitable one, why does she still get along with you and not propose to break up? It can be seen that she still likes you wholeheartedly. Zhong Shan, I solemnly tell you today, with my father's lifelong experience, people live for a lifetime, especially men, and there will be many temptations in society, depending on what you absorb and what you reject. In short, you can't want everything, and in that case, you may end up empty-handed, unable to grasp anything, or lose the best and catch the worst. ”

Zhong Shan knew that his father was going to talk about his big truth again, so he no longer argued, but he did not waver in his heart at all.

Seeing that his son was speechless, the father thought that his words had persuaded his son, and then slowed down his tone and said: "In school, male and female classmates have been together for a long time, and it is understandable that they have close and alien feelings, but there must be a bottom line in life, and exceeding the bottom line is a harm to each other and a destruction of a reasonable social order." ”

Zhong Shan remembered the old story between his father and Zou Jingzhi that he vaguely heard, and said in his heart: I don't know if your old man has stuck to the bottom line, coaxing his mother, and at the same time having an affair with a female subordinate, something happened, and he smeared oil on the soles of his feet, but let the female subordinate carry the black pot alone. He could only mutter these words in his heart, of course he didn't dare to say it to the old man.

Seeing that the father and son stopped talking, the mother finally had a chance to say after holding back for a long time: "You and the girl in Anhui, where are you going to go in the future after graduation?" ”

His mother's words hit Zhong Shan's fate, and he couldn't answer for a while, so he only said vaguely: "There is still a year to graduate, and everything has to be arranged by the state." ”

"Your father and I are both old, you better go back to our Qingshan City!" Mother said almost pleadingly.

The father didn't care much about this, and said the great truth that a good man is ambitious in all directions, but the foothold still falls on the "good man", not only to set up the ambition of serving the country, but also to honor his parents and treat his wife and children well. Zhong Shan has heard these words too many times since he was a child, and his ears have been ground out of calluses, and naturally he has not entered his brain and heart.