Chapter 10: A Tragic Past
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In the countryside of Baishan City, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival twelve years ago, there was a full moon in the sky, just like tonight.
At that time, seven-year-old Xiao Danyu was changing his baby teeth, and he couldn't sleep at night with a toothache, so he moved a small slab and sat in the yard to let the cool breeze blow, and the wind also blew the dead leaves on the corn stalks in autumn.
Mom's old problem of stomach pain was committed again, and she rolled on the kang for an afternoon, and at this time she had just fallen asleep. In another room, grandma stroked the big tanuki cat with one hand and smoked with a cigarette pouch in the other. Under the moonlight, you can see the yellowed New Year's pictures pasted on the wall, which is the image of Li Tiemei dressed in a white shirt with white flowers on a red ground, combing a long braid, and holding a red light high. The yard of the production team is brightly lit, and the members are threshing corn with machines in full swing. These images, like the pictures of the movie, are deeply imprinted in Wang Danyu's memory, and they can't be erased.
Later, the sound of the commotion came to their house from far and near, and a group of people carried their father, who was the captain of the production team, into the hospital, and the father lay quietly on the plank, as if he had fallen asleep from overwork.
That night, his father, who was working nervously, suddenly fell to the ground, and the members tried to help him up, but when they failed, they carried him to the kang in the rest room of the production team. When the barefoot doctor arrived, his father was already out of breath, and the barefoot doctor regretfully said that there was no way to save him from a sudden heart attack, and if he didn't move, he might be able to survive if he was given first aid when he arrived.
Danyu remembers his father healthy and optimistic, and after work, he sits on Danwoo's lap in his arms, tells her stories, and listens to her newly learned nursery rhymes. The mother is always sick and sad, it is said that it was a problem when she gave birth to Danyu, and Danyu has not been born after her.
At noon that day, Mr. Xu, an educated youth, came to the house and brought Danyu a sweet five-kernel mooncake. Mr. Xu was originally divided into the second team where Danyu's father was the production captain, and when he first went to the countryside, he was not built at all, and he lived in Danyu's house with his grandmother for a period of time, every time he saw Danyu, he couldn't help touching her face and mentioning her pigtails. Later, Danyu's homeroom teacher gave birth to a child in confinement, and Mr. Xu went to the primary school to substitute for teaching, and Danyu was naturally closer to other classmates, always praising Danyu in front of his father for being a spiritual girl, and his little head was thinking about adults. At noon that day, grandma went to her mother's brother's house, and Mr. Xu and his father talked for a long time in grandma's room, as if Mr. Xu also shed tears, what Danyu didn't know, but remembered that in the afternoon after Mr. Xu left, his mother's old problem of stomach pain was committed.
My father died, put in a scarlet coffin, and was carried out of the courtyard gate by a large group of people and buried in the ancestral cemetery. Teacher Xu hugged Danyu, who was crying, and he cried into tears, his mother's face was pale and she didn't shed a single tear after being busy, and her grandmother, who lost her only son, fell ill.
Less than half a year after his father's death, his grandmother, who had always been physically strong, also left, and his sick mother suddenly became stronger, and Mr. Xu never came to Danyu's house until he returned to the city.
These memories were packed into her little heart when she was seven years old, and they became heavier and heavier as she grew older. Girls without fathers are sensitive and suspicious, with a cautious inferiority complex. Tonight, under the special circumstances, she told these heavy thoughts to listen to the same heavy thoughts as the junior who was suspected of being adopted, and her mood was much more relaxed.
Wang Danyu finished talking about his family affairs intermittently, and he couldn't cry anymore.
There has never been a girl crying so loudly beside her. His girlfriend Lin Meihui has a big grinning personality, and when she talks about her special life experience, her face is plain as if she is talking about someone else's business, and he feels relaxed when they are together. And the first close contact with Wang Danyu made Zhong Shan feel very heavy. He sympathized with her misfortune, but was at a loss because he could not help her with her sorrows.
After walking two more laps, Wang Danyu's mood gradually calmed down, and Zhong Shan said that it was not too early, and the dormitory should be closed. The two men left the playground and walked towards the dormitory area.