Text: Chapter XVI
The next few days were superficially calm.
Summer is coming, the Liu family is up and down, and they are beginning to be full of joy, Lingzhen and Zhang Lisong finally chose to get married on July 15 after many years of love. Since May, the Liu family has been busy, buying clothes, making dresses, choosing furniture, booking halls, buying jewelry, and preparing dowries...... I don't know how I have so many things to do, so busy. Even Lingwu was busy inside, printing invitations, buying firecrackers, running errands, and doing chores...... It's all him. He smiled and said, "After the eldest sister, it's time to be busy with the second sister." β
"After finishing the second sister, it's your turn!" Zhang Lisong said.
"Me? It's early! Lingwu was not ashamed, and said generously: "My girlfriend is much younger than me!" β
"Then, you wait for Chu Chu to grow up!" Lingzhen said.
"Less!" Mrs. Liu interjected. "It's a mess!"
"Hah!" Lingzhen smiled and said: "Mom, if Lingwu really falls in love with Chu Chu, it has nothing to do with the bloodline, and there is a generation difference in seniority, is this considered incest?" β
"Of course!" Mrs. Liu said: "The last time a movie started filming, because the heroine called the hero's mother a godmother, the information bureau didn't approve it. It can be seen that we Chinese think deeply of the word 'lun'. "I know there is such a story," Mr. Liu said, "I have a friend who fell in love with the daughter of his brother-in-law and ex-wife." Although the two people are of different generations, the age difference is only two years old, they are completely talented and beautiful, and they are a pair made in heaven, but they can't get married. "What happens next?" Ling Shan asked anxiously.
"Later?" Liu Siqian said slowly: "My sister sympathizes with my younger brother, my father loves his daughter, and in the end, my sister and brother-in-law divorced and became a small couple." As soon as my sister and brother-in-law divorce and the in-law relationship is terminated, there will be no 'Lun' to mess with. β
"It doesn't make sense to break up a pair and make a pair." Mrs. Liu was quite unimpressed. "The story is full of touching," Lingzhen said, "It's a good material, but if you write it, you will be scolded, and it is called 'freak love'." β
"Little brother," Zhang Lisong said to Lingwu with a straight face: "So, you must not like Chu Chu, this matter is dangerous!" Great danger! β
"You guys don't talk nonsense!" Ling Shan scolded with a smile.
"The little devil?" Lingwu also scolded with a smile: "Only people with abnormal nerves will like her!" She's a little devil, little beast! β
And these days, this little devil and little beast are surprisingly obedient, since that day, after Ling Shan was slapped on her behalf, she seems to have a little conscience to find that she is not as violent and arrogant as Ling Shan a while ago. It's not as willful and obedient as it was a while ago. However, Ling Shan always felt that this kind of calm was only superficial, and faintly, there was always such an uneasy emotion, which stirred in Ling Shan's heart, but there was always such an inappropriate feeling, which often made Ling Shan's heart beat and her emotions restless. Sure enough, at dusk that day, when Ling Shan got out of class, she found Ah Xiang standing at the school gate waiting for her, and when she saw her, Ah Xiang said anxiously:
"Second Miss, have you seen Chu Chu?"
"Chu Chu?" Ling Shan was stunned. "Didn't she come home at noon?"
"She's not coming back, she's gone!"
"Didn't come back?" Ling Shan was shocked: "Didn't you pick her up at noon?" β
"I picked it up, she said to go to Ding Zhong's family and come back immediately, I thought Ding's house was in the building next door, so I let her go, but just now I went to Ding's house to pick her up, Ding Zhongyi said that she didn't go at all!" "Is there such a thing?" A thought flashed through Ling Shan's heart: "Is this the first time this has happened?" She asked.
"There have been two or three times before, she said to go to Ding's house or Wu Huihui's house, but she came back by herself at three or four o'clock in the afternoon. It's the first time I haven't come back so late today. "Before?" Ling Shan's face changed. "How long ago?"
"It's the last month," Ah Xiang said stupidly, "She seems to like to make friends all of a sudden, in the past, every time I asked her to go to play with children, she refused!" β
"Little friend?" Ling Shan muttered to herself: "I really wish I was just a child, but I'm afraid it's not a child!" She looked up at Ah Xiang and handed her the book in her hand. Okay, Ah Xiang, you go back first, help me talk to the family, don't wait for me to have dinner, I'll go to Chuchu! "You-" Ah Xiang said suspiciously, "Do you know where Chu Chu is?" β
"I think I know!" Ling Shan said, "Let's go!" Rest assured, nothing will happen to her. She thought for a moment and then admonished, "Don't tell her dad she's missing, just say she's with me, and I'll take care of bringing her back!" β
As soon as Ah Xiang left, Ling Shan went to the public phone booth, found the phone directory she was carrying, and dialed a phone number to Ah Pei's house.
It was Pei himself who answered the phone. Ling Shan's first sentence asked:
"Ah Pei, is Chu Chu there with you?"
Apei paused, then let out a long sigh and said:
"Lingshan, I'm sorry, you listen to my explanation......"
"No need to explain," she interrupted Pei. "You just tell me, is she there with you?" "Yes. I was getting ready to send her home. β
Send her home? Ling Shan looked at her watch, at this time, if she didn't do it, she would collide with Wei Pengfei! Moreover, something is already wrong with this matter, there is a problem. She hurriedly said, "Don't send her, I'll pick her up!" β
Hung up the phone, she called a taxi, and went straight to Pei's house, fortunately, the memory of that night was still fresh, the road was not wrong, half an hour later, she had stopped at the door of Pei's room. The door opened, and Ah Pei habitually wore a white dress and stood at the door of the room. Ling Shan looked at her and couldn't help but be secretly taken aback, she hadn't seen her for a month, she was a lot haggard, and she had lost a lot of weight. She was already thin, but now she seems to be even more skinny and weak. She had a slight sorrow on her eyebrows, a resentment in her eyes, only the corners of her mouth, but with a light smile, and that smile looked pitiful. Ling Shan took a deep breath and thought to herself, she seemed to be sick, otherwise, it was Lu Chao who completely betrayed her? Thinking of this, Ling Shan couldn't help but look at that set of drums, it's okay! The drum is still placed in the corner of the wall, very eye-catching, so that it attracts attention, the gold words on it, flashing a little bit of Jinqiu Lingshan walked into the house, only then did she see Chu Chu, she was sitting in the middle of a pile of cushions, playing with a toy called LEGO, which is a small piece of plastic, which can be pieced together in various shapes. At the moment, there is a big robot and five or six small robots. Ling Shan's heart tightened again, she knew that this kind of toy was very expensive, Ah Pei actually went to buy it! Moreover, it seems that they are mother and daughter working together, so it is possible to spell out so many things, Chu Chu himself, has never had such a lot of patience!
"Lingshan," Ah Pei was still holding a piece of plastic in her hand, she chased after her, and said as if begging for mercy: "Don't scold Chu Chu, it's all me...... I'm not good, I'm ...... I couldn't stand it to pick her up. I...... I miss her! Lingshan, don't be angry, don't scold her, okay? As soon as Chu Chu saw Ling Shan, he was already screaming there:
"I don't want to go home! Aunt Zhang, I want to live with you! I don't want to go home! Aunt Zhang ......" Ling Shan looked at the situation, grabbed Ah Pei's sleeve, pulled Ah Pei all the way into the kitchen, closed the kitchen door, she didn't want Chu Chu to hear her conversation with Ah Pei. She said bluntly:
"Ah Pei, you don't keep your word! You promised me, you only saw her! β
"Yes, Lingshan." Ah Pei said frankly, his eyes shining darkly, "I'm sorry for you!" "It's not a question of being sorry, being sorry!" Ling Shan said: "You are doing this to Chu Chu is harmful and not beneficial! You taught her to lie, you taught her to deceive, and you played with her, delaying her from studying...... You're not loving her by doing this, you're harming her at all, do you know? "I'm sorry." Pei said again, his eyes widened, and his eyes were foggy. A face of resignation, a face of apology, a face of pity. She just said repeatedly: "I'm sorry, Lingshan, I'm really sorry!" "If you don't want to be right, just say you're sorry!" Ling Shan was a little angry. "This child was originally a little tyrant, and now she is spoiled and doted on by you like this, who will take care of her well in the future? Why don't you have any sanity at all? You ......"
"I know." Ah Pei said in a low voice: "I have lacked reason all my life, and every time I do something wrong, it is because I have no reason. I...... I really can't help it. Ling Shan," she groaned, biting her lip lightly, "You forgive me." One day, you will also be a mother, and at that time, you will understand "If I become a mother," Ling Shan burst out: "I will never abandon my daughter, if I do, I will no longer mess with her life!" Ah Pei was stunned, and in an instant, her bloodless face immediately became even whiter, she held the water with her hand, and her body shook, as if she was about to faint. Ling Shan shouted, hurriedly hugged her, and said hurriedly:
"Don't be sad, I didn't mean to! Hey, what's wrong with you? β
Ah Pei groped and sat in a chair, Ling Shan saw that her face was wrong, and her body kept shaking, so she didn't dare to let go of her. She grabbed her shoulder, only to realize that her shoulder blades were bony. Ah Pei held her forehead with her hand and remained silent for a long time, and then, she groaned and said, "Please hand me a glass of wine, in ...... In the living room! β
Ling Shan ran to the living room, and Chu Chu sat in the pile of cushions to play with the robot again. Ling Shan didn't have time to care about Chu Chu, took the wine bottle and glass, and she went back to the kitchen. Ah Pei leaned back in the chair, her face was like white paper, her eyes were closed, she seemed lifeless, Ling Shan was startled, and hurriedly shouted: "Ah Pei! Ah Pei! Ah Pei opened his eyes and smiled at Ling Shan reluctantly, and Ling Shan breathed a sigh of relief. Pouring a glass of wine, she handed it to Ah Pei's lips, and Ah Pei took it and threw herself up. Ling Shan looked at her worriedly and asked, "Ah Pei, are you sick?" Are you uncomfortable? β
"Nope." Pei reluctantly said, "I'm not sick, I'm just not feeling well here," she pointed to her heart with her finger. "It's an incurable disease."
"Heart disease?" Ling Shan asked stupidly. She felt that she would always be a little silly in front of Ah Pei. "You know it's not a heart attack." Ah Pei whispered, took the bottle, she drank another glass of wine, two glasses of wine, her cheeks only slightly revealed a little red. "It's a heart disease." Ling Shan looked at her in a daze. "Ah Pei," she said apologetically, "I was too excited to say just now, and I didn't mean to provoke you. "I know." Ah Pei stared at the wine glass in her hand, she spun the glass, and looked at the reflection of the crystal glass intently, "You are right, it makes sense." Ling Shan," she gritted her teeth, "take her with you, I promise you, I won't see her again!" I shouldn't have seen her again! I've long since β I didn't have the right to see her! β
Ling Shan stood still, looking at Pei as if hypnotized.
Pei finally cheered up, put the wine glass on the table, she stood up, threw off the long hair of the shawl, and she said resolutely:
"Let's go! Lingshan! Take her with you! β
Ling Shan passively walked to the door and reached for the knob.
Suddenly, Ah Pei's hand was on her hand, she turned her head, Ah Pei's eyes were shining, the expression on her face was very strange, and she whispered:
"Chu Chu told me, you are about to be her stepmother!"
Ling Shan's heart pounded, she met Ah Pei's eyes, and was silent. Ah Pei stared at her deeply, and for a while, they looked at each other, and they seemed to have a thousand words, and they didn't know where to start. After a while, Ah Pei spoke first, and she said in a hoarse voice: "Please take good care of that child!" β
"I'm just afraid that she won't accept me!" Ling Shan said involuntarily.
Pei shook his head gently. "She'll accept you!" She said: "She has been scolding you all the time, saying that you are not good like this, that you are not good, that you are bad, that you are hateful...... However, she only talks about you from beginning to end, and not about others! She said in her heart...... "She said deeply, deeply, and powerfully: "Only you, no one else!" Lingshan's heart raced. Again," Pei said, "Congratulations! You have found a man who has the most depth, the most understanding of feelings, and the most worthy of people's affection! I often wonder who will be blessed to be able to get him in the future! She looked Lingshan up and down. Ling Shan, you two are very discerning. Ling Shan's heart beat faster, her blood accelerated, she couldn't speak, she just stared at Ah Pei stupidly. The latter's eyes gradually filled with tears, and she said a few words in a trembling voice: "Remember a song I love to sing?" Message to lovers, cherish the flowers! Lingshan, don't despise the happiness you have in your hands, never despise it! β
Opening the door, she strode into the living room before Lingshan's consciousness could regain her senses. Chu Chu was already impatient there, and when she saw Ah Pei, she pounced and shouted, "Aunt Zhang, you take me to the movies!" β
"No way!" Ah Pei said: "You're going home with Aunt Liu!" "I don't want to go home! I don't want to go home! Chu Chu jumped violently.
Ah Pei squatted down and hugged Chu Chu tightly in her arms, she hugged her so tightly that she seemed to want to swallow Chu Chu into her stomach. Then, she stood up, quickly pushed Chu Chu into Ling Shan's arms, and said in a rough voice:
"Take her! She's yours! β
Ling Shan grabbed Chu Chu's hand in amazement, looked at Ah Pei, Ah Pei walked to the side of the wine cabinet to pour wine, turned his back to them, and said in a dumb voice:
"Don't go yet!" Ling Shan suddenly understood that Ah Pei was determined to say goodbye to Chu Chu forever, and she also said goodbye to Ling Shan, and she didn't want to disturb their lives anymore. Everything she has had: Chu Chu, Peng Fei, family, happiness...... Now it's all Lingshan's. She had her back to the door, and her back was slender, lonely, and lonely in the empty room, standing tall in the twilight of the twilight.
Ling Shan didn't dare to look at her anymore, and couldn't bear to look at her again. Pulling Chu Chu out of the room, she closed the door and rushed down the four floors like a refugee, and when she got downstairs, she was already in tears, and her chest was sore. In my mind, what has been haunting is Apei's lonely back, and her bleak tone:
"Don't despise the happiness you have, never despise!"
Back in Anju Building, it is already time for thousands of lights to turn on. Afraid that Wei Pengfei and Ah Xiang would be in a hurry, she directly sent Chu Chu to the fourth A. Those who are calculating in their hearts, how to say to Wei Pengfei about Chu Chu's whereabouts. Before he could figure out the result, the door opened, and then, there was a cheer from Chu Chu:
"Grandma! Grandmother! Grandma is here! I want to kill you! I miss you so much! β
Ahh Ling Shan thought that the two elders of the Wei family came to see their daughter-in-law, and they were dressed too casually, so they should hide home first. She was about to sneak away quietly, but Wei Pengfei grabbed her wrist, dragged her into the room, and said with a smile:
"Dad, Mom, this is Lingshan!"
Ling Shan couldn't escape, and stood there, facing Mr. and Mrs. Wei. After looking closely, I found that the couple was not very old, about 50 years old, and Mr. Wei was tall and thin, with a clear appearance, and a polite appearance. Mrs. Wei was already blessed, slightly chubby but not bloated, noble and elegant. Both of them looked at Ling Shan, both smiling, but they also had a sense of "review". Mrs. Wei was still holding Chu Chu in her arms. Ling Shan didn't dare to look at it more, she only felt her heart pounding, her cheeks were hot, she bent down slightly, and she shouted crisply: "Uncle Web!" Mother Web! Mrs. Wei looked her up and down, then walked over and said to Ling Shan with a pleasant face: "Ling Shan, we have been coming to Taipei to see you a long time ago, just because your Uncle Wei is too busy with work to leave, and you will not come until today, don't be surprised." β
"Auntie, what did you say there?" Ling Shan hurriedly said: "I should go to Kaohsiung to greet my uncle and aunt, I didn't go first, you two came first, it already made me uneasy enough, don't be polite to me!" β
Mr. Wei looked at Ling Shan with a smile.
"Ling Shan, I heard that you have cured my son of alcoholism and depression, and you are curing my granddaughter's bad temper, and you have helped us for two generations...... No, it's a big favor for three generations, how do you want us to thank you? β
"Oh, Uncle Web," Ling Shan looked at Mr. Wei with a red face, and said with a shy smile, "Don't joke with me! I have given them as much as they have given me, so how shall I thank you both? "Thank you?" Mr. Wei was puzzled. "Why thank us?"
Ling Shan glanced at Wei Pengfei and was silent shyly.
Mr. Wei suddenly came to his senses and couldn't help but stroke his hands and laugh.
"Yes, yes! Lingshan, you should thank us, without us, there is Pengfei there, although we have given birth to a good son, but we have also created a ...... for you"
"Uncle Weber!" Ling Shan called softly, interrupting Mr. Wei's words.
Mrs. Wei had been looking at Ling Shan on the left and on the right, and when she saw her feet from her head, she suddenly turned her head and said to Wei Pengfei Zhengse:
"Pengfei, you kid is so hateful!"
"What's wrong?" Wei Pengfei was startled, peeking at Ling Shan, and Ling Shan also changed color slightly. "You only tell us how beautiful, elf, and delicate Ling Shan is! You didn't tell us that she was so good-spoken, so generous, and so knowledgeable! If you talk about it in detail, we should have come to see her sooner no matter how busy we are! If I had known that it was such a lady, I would have put a hundred and twenty hearts at it! Wei Pengfei patted his chest with his hand:
"Mom, you are really scary, one sentence scared my heart to the present, so scared that Ling Shan's face turned white, you see! She's just afraid that your evil mother-in-law is not good, and you still have to play tricks! "Pengfei!" Ling Shan shouted, her face reddening. "What do you say?"
"How?" Mr. Wei smiled and asked, "Don't you want this evil mother-in-law?" Or don't you want my wicked father-in-law? β
"No, it's not...... As soon as Ling Shan said it, she found out that she had fallen for Mr. Wei, which meant that she was willing and couldn't wait to be the daughter-in-law of the Wei family. She didn't expect that Mr. Wei, who was fifty years old, would be so funny and free. Although she immediately stopped talking, Mr. Wei had already laughed out loud, and while laughing, he said:
"Evil mother-in-law, why don't you take out the meeting gift and give it to our beautiful daughter-in-law!" Mrs. Wei really took out a box from her purse, and inside it was a white gold necklace studded with diamonds, and Ling Shan hurriedly said:
"No, no, Aunt Web, it's too precious!"
"Don't be stupid!" Wei Pengfei said: "Damn's abacus has been laid a long time ago, give it to you, you haven't brought it back to Wei's house, and you won't suffer at all!" β
"Pengfei!" Mrs. Wei laughed and scolded. "Do you think your mom is a little ghost? This kid has no respect for his elders at all, Ling Shan, don't learn from him! Come here, let me put it on for you. Ling Shan walked over shyly and timidly, bent down, and asked Mrs. Wei to help her put it on. Mrs. Wei smiled and swept her long hair, sighed with satisfaction, and said:
"In the end, it's a young man, everything you wear is beautiful, and everything you wear is beautiful!"
"It's not a young man," said Mr. Wei, "it's a beautiful child, no matter how you dress up!" "Uncle Web," Ling Shan said in surprise, "Is Aunt Web's reassuring of you?" β
"How?" Mrs. Wei was stunned.
"I think Uncle Weber is dangerous!" Ling Shan stretched out her hand and took Mrs. Wei's hand affectionately. "Uncle Web, you have to be strict with him, Uncle Weber is so good at talking! It's so good that girls like it! Mr. Wei laughed again, Wei Pengfei also squinted at Ling Shan and smiled, Mrs. Wei also laughed, and for a while, the room was full of laughter. Then, Chu Chu said softly: "Grandma! I am hungry! "Ouch!" Mrs. Wei shouted: "We forgot all the major events of eating, hurry up, Pengfei, go next door and tell the in-laws, we should leave for Shunli Garden!" β
"In-laws? Shun Shun Garden? Ling Shan was confused.
"Don't you know?" Wei Pengfei said: "As soon as my parents came, I first made friends with your parents, and my father booked a table of banquets in Shunli Garden......
Before he finished speaking, the door opened, and Lingwu stretched his head in sweaty, shouting in a mess: "I'm sorry, chrome vanadium steel, my second sister hasn't come home yet...... Ouch! Second sister, you are here! I'm looking for you everywhere! You know that your father-in-law and mother-in-law are here, and you don't even want a home......" "Little brother! Lingshan shouted. Just right, Lingwu," Wei Pengfei said, "It's time for us to leave for dinner!" You tell your dad and mom. "Dad, Mom, Eldest Sister, Zhang Gongzi...... You're all set! Lingwu said, "Let's go, chrome vanadium steel!" β
Mr. Wei looked at his son and asked in confusion:
"Can you tell me why you changed your name? This Luo Fangang's three words are not bad, but forgetting the ancestors is always a bit inappropriate! β
Before Wei Pengfei could answer, Liu Siqian had already made great strides:
"This?" Liu Siqian said: "This is a long story, you should ask me, let me tell you slowly!" When the two families set off for Shunli Garden, Lingshan was still fluttering, like a dream. She really couldn't believe that Wei Pengfei's parents were so approachable and amiable. Due to the failure of Wei Pengfei's first marriage, Ling Shan somewhat thinks that the two elders of the Wei family have to bear some responsibility, thinking that they may be tricky and eccentric and picky! Now I know that on the contrary, Ah Pei's words just now floated in her ears: "Don't despise the happiness you have in your hands, never despise it!" β
It turns out that this happiness is so much, so rich, so full of a big handful!
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