Chapter XXVIII. A Letter
Zhou Yiya stood by the gate and watched her husband and son disappear at the mouth of the alley, turned around and closed the door and returned to the courtyard, seeing that her daughter's door was still closed, she sighed sullenly and turned back to the back room.
At this time, in the dim room of the west wing, a thin girl figure was lying on the bed, the light blue pillow under the girl's head was dyed dark blue at some point, and the empty eyes were like dry wells, and there was no trace of vitality fluctuations, only despair that made people want to escape.
I don't know how long it took, the "dark blue" pillow under the girl's head changed back to light blue again, but what remained unchanged was the girl's empty eyes.
Bang bang bang...... There was another knock on the door, but the girl on the bed didn't seem to hear it, and her empty eyes still didn't change.
The window paper in the west wing room broke a small hole, Zhou Yiya saw her daughter lying motionless on the bed in the dim room through the window paper hole, and saw that her daughter still did not move for a while, Zhou Yiya quietly left lightly, was she too heavy on her daughter yesterday, thinking about it, she was really dizzy yesterday, and Mother Xie couldn't help but worry when she saw her daughter's decadent appearance.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yiya's brows couldn't help frowning slightly, why are other people's daughters all beautiful girls, and how can their own daughters be taught to be a wild girl, thinking of this, Zhou Yiya sighed and said to herself: "This is really what I owe her in my last life." ”
After sighing, Zhou Yiya remembered the conversation with her husband in the morning, and her husband put forward a very bold conjecture: her daughter may have known the fact that she was not biological ten years ago, and her daughter has hidden this secret in her heart for ten years, which is why her daughter has always wanted to run away from home secretly, so she has been wanting to be independent for a long time, and she wants to find her biological parents.
This is just a conjecture that her husband said casually, but the more Zhou Yiya thought about it afterwards, the more she felt that it was very possible, Zhou Yiya did not want to adopt her daughter back then, and even had the idea of returning her daughter to her biological father Xie Yingchang, but it was only later that those changes occurred, and Zhou Yiya had the idea of adopting her daughter by her side.
Thinking about it carefully, there were really a lot of people who knew the true life experience of their daughter back then, and the servants in the family also knew about this matter at that time, although this topic was later forbidden to be discussed, but maybe there would be so many good people who told their daughter the secret of their life history.
There are some things that you can't figure out, and the more you think about it, the more you go crazy. And now, Zhou Yiya fell into this crazy idea.
Zhou Yiya's eyes slowly became solemn, she recalled that ten years ago when she was in Nanjing, her daughter suddenly fell seriously ill without warning, and the doctor said that the family was going to prepare for the future, but that time her daughter miraculously recovered. After that illness, the woman forgot many things, since that illness, many of the daughter's behaviors have become less like a seven-year-old child, often pretend to be adults to speak, do not play with children of the same age, often inexplicably in a daze, often pull herself and her husband to teach her foreign languages or hide in the room alone to read and learn words silently.
At that time, I just thought that my daughter was more mature and sensible than children of the same age, but I didn't care too much, and even thought that this was a good thing for children. But now that I think about it, are these really the normal signs of a child under the age of 10? It's incredible when I think about it now. If it is true that according to her husband's assumptions, the daughter did not lose her memory at that time, then why did the daughter pretend to have amnesia to deceive herself? And reluctantly call mom and dad for a period of time after recovery? …… Zhou Yiya didn't dare to think about it anymore, she was taken aback by her own analysis, many doubts appeared in front of her eyes little by little, she instinctively wanted to refuse to believe these, she would never believe that a seven-year-old child would have such terrible thoughts, but her daughter's many behaviors after that illness made Zhou Yiya have to face this fact, maybe she really never understood this daughter.
At this time, Zhou Yiya suddenly had an indescribable complex emotion in her heart, she sat on the rattan chair in the courtyard with her brows locked, her eyes were filled with too many complex emotions, she chose to hide her daughter's identity, just hoping that her daughter could grow up happily like a normal child, if the truth is really as she thought, then she is undoubtedly the most failed mother, and she didn't find that her daughter has been carrying such a heavy burden of thought for a long time. Maybe the suicide of her daughter not long ago is also related to this long-term heavy thoughts, thinking of this, I saw her slowly lower her heavy eyes, and gently put her hand against her somewhat swollen forehead, as if doing so could make her more comfortable.
After a while, Zhou Yiya opened her eyes again, her eyes fell on her daughter's west wing, she seemed to see a lonely soul hidden in the west wing, and heard the cry for help......
Zhou Yiya, who was sitting on a rattan chair under the begonia tree, looked at her daughter's room and lost her mind for a long time, her godless and lost eyes suddenly released and condensed, as if she had suddenly made a decision, she suddenly got up and returned to the back room to rummage in several large wooden boxes, and after a long time, she took out a dusty Russian "Selected Works of Gorky" from the pile of books, Zhou Yiya looked at this book that she had not read for many years, and she did not forget to take it with her every time she moved over the years......
Zhou Yiya, who returned to the rattan chair in the courtyard with this book, gently opened the book that exuded a somewhat musty smell, and what caught her eye was an article called "The Melody of Spring", and the blank space near the last paragraph of the article was full of secret and dense words that could not be seen clearly, Zhou Yiya did not look at the dense handwriting that had long been unreadable, but continued to flip back quickly, and soon found several pieces of paper with brown stains that had been clipped, one of which had several holes.
Gently opening these pieces of tattered paper, this is a letter written by a mother to her daughter with a pen, which has been hidden by Zhou Yiya for nearly twenty years. Many of the handwriting on the letter paper has become a little blurred, but you can still recognize some of the words, the first few words of the letter for some reason The handwriting seems much clearer, it seems that the years can't bear to blur the beautiful handwriting, maybe the mother was too reluctant to write these words at that time, because she knew that this might be the last ...... for her and her daughter
The letter reads:
"Jie'er Ping'er
Seeing the word, I must become a girl, a mother wants to grow up, I must read a book, I wish to have fun, I want to listen to my father, I am not allowed to ......"
This letter has not been taken out for nearly ten years, and many words on it are not readable clearly, but Zhou Yiya can recognize it, because no one is more familiar with this letter than her, and when she saw this letter again, tears flashed in the corners of her eyes, this letter spanned twenty years, and today it will finally be delivered to the recipient.
Without too much sadness, Zhou Yiya gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, carefully sandwiched the letter in the book, and slowly walked towards the west wing with the book......