Chapter 40: A Shocking Secret
Yang Ping had already said everything that should be said in the evening, and felt that she got along very harmoniously with Grandma Fan, like an elder and like a good girlfriend, and talked about everything. In front of Grandma Fan, I can feel my mother's love, which I have never enjoyed before, and sometimes I really suspect that she is my mother in my previous life.
Thinking that she still had a shocking secret hidden in her heart, Yang Ping felt that she should be honest with Grandma Fan at this time. Thinking of this, she continued: "Auntie! There's one more thing that I've never mentioned to anyone. โ
"What's the matter? Apple! Hurry up! Don't tune my appetite, I'm nervous! Grandma was a little nervous, afraid that something would happen again, and urged Yang Ping to hurry up.
"Don't be nervous, it's the night before my dad is leaving, I'm the only one by his side. I kept telling him how the two of us had fun with him when we were young, and what did our father and daughter do, just talking like this. Suddenly, my dad came back to the light and told me this shocking secret: Guo'er was picked up by him when he was playing cotton in the north, and he was worried that he would be angry with my mother sooner or later. He had prepared it early, and he had written the specific things a long time ago and stuffed them into the secret compartment of the chair that Qiao Jun gave him. After saying these few words, he fell unconscious again, and only a little breath remained. Speaking of this, Yang Ping's sad past was recalled, and she couldn't stop choking, and her tears couldn't stop flowing.
"How so? No wonder, I quarreled with your mother that day, and I casually talked nonsense about whether Guo'er was your daughter or not. Your mother also smiled and told me that Yang Guo was not her own. It's no wonder that she has always regarded Guo'er and our family as a thorn in the flesh. I see! Pity my fruit, I have been abused by this adoptive mother who is like a wolf and a tiger and a leopard since I was a child! Grandma said and spoke, she couldn't help wiping her tears for her daughter-in-law.
Qiao Jun hugged the little Pete who was asleep, listened to them quietly, and did not persuade them, he just wanted the two of them to vent well, and even more wanted them to communicate well, and there were no reservations between each other.
After a while, Yang Ping sorted out her emotions and continued: "Later, when I was keeping a wake for my father, when there was no one else, I looked around nervously, Qiao Jun went to open the secret compartment of the chair and found a letter that my father left for Guo'er. I secretly took it home, thinking that I would wait for the consequences to go home and then give it to her. โ
"Apple! Did you read the letter? What did the letter say? Do you know where Guo'er is from? Can you still find her biological parents? Grandma was very curious about the content of the letter, and she was a little worried about Guo'er's future, and she didn't know what kind of people Guo'er's biological parents would be.
"Qiao Jun and I both read the letter, I was about to cry to death at that time, my dad and he have carried the black pot for a lifetime for the sake of fruit in his life. It's really wronged to death his old man, what kind of life has my dad lived in the past few decades! He guarded this secret alone, swallowed his anger, endured my mother, who should have been cut by a thousand cuts, constantly insulted by her, and tortured by her changing tricks, coming! It's here! It's hard to die when you're old. Ahh Oh my God! My poor fatherโ" Speaking of this, Yang Ping became more and more grief-stricken, and wept bitterly.
"Take a break! Apple! Passed! It's all gone! It's also a relief for your dad to go away like this, your dad is a good man, and he will go to heaven. Grandma Fan comforted anxiously.
"Apple! No matter what kind of suffering it is, it has passed with Dad leaving, and Dad has been willing to take responsibility for Guo'er since the day he took it back, including all the suffering. It's all over, let's cry less! Don't scare the kids!" Qiao Jun enlightened his wife with his heart.
As long as little Pete sleeps in his arms, he sleeps soundly no matter what movement is around.
Fan Ya was busy and watched her cartoon very fascinated, where could she still hear Yang Ping crying so loudly downstairs.
After their persuasion and a short rest, Yang Ping continued to say the content of the letter:
Because his grandfather would get seasick when he was young, his grandfather didn't let his grandfather go fishing with him when he became an adult. Grandpa asked my grandfather to learn a craft - playing cotton.
The one with a large wooden bow has a string made of ox tendon on it. When playing, a wooden air frequently strikes the strings, in order to make the cotton gradually loosen, accompanied by the vibration of the cow tendons, the cotton is loosened one by one, and the cotton wool flies all over the sky.
That's what my grandfather liked to do the most - play cotton and listen to "Bang-pop!" Watching the cotton wool flutter like snowflakes and turn into a quilt in my hand, it is very rewarding.
Grandpa is smart and fast-learning, the quilt is good and honest, so his business is very good. He always went to the north to play cotton alone, and when he was too busy, he hired a local worker to help. During the Chinese New Year, I only went back to my hometown, lived in my hometown for more than 20 days, and was not idle, and people kept coming to play cotton, of course, the business in the south of the family was definitely not as prosperous as in the north, and he was anxious to go back to the north to play cotton after the New Year.
One year, in the early hours of the northern winter, snowflakes flew all over the sky without warning. They are like feathers, like jade shavings, and they are gently sprinkled; They danced in the sky, as light as smoke, as soft as catkins; They are so pure, so pure that they are crystal clear; They're so light, so light that they're silent.
In order to catch up with the mountains of goods, my grandfather got up in the early hours of the morning to start work, and today I vaguely heard the cry of a baby somewhere. I think it's strange, I've lived on this street for several years, and people of all ages on the street basically know each other, and no one has had children recently, so I want to open the door and go out to see.
When I opened the door, my eyes lit up, and there was a white expanse on the roof, on the bare branches, on the roof of the car, and on the road, the wind was blowing, and the snow was still fluttering in the wind.
The snow was so beautiful, my grandfather wanted to go out to see, just about to lift his feet to go out, he didn't pay attention to his feet, kicked something, and there was a baby cry. At this time, I looked down and found that I don't know when there was an extra cardboard box at the door, as if the baby's cry came from here.
When I opened the cardboard box, my grandfather was surprised to find that a little baby with his eyes closed and still crying in a hoarse voice hurriedly brought the box into the house with the child.
I picked up the child again and flipped through the cardboard box, which was full of some baby clothes, milk powder, feeding bottles, diapers, and a letter wrapped in a small black and white photo of the baby.
My grandfather opened the letter, and inside it was written in a very beautiful font: Brother Yang! Maybe you don't know me, but I've been secretly watching you for a long time, and I know that you are kind-hearted. Because I have a last resort, I ask you to take this child, and I will definitely repay you if I have the opportunity in the future. The child has just been full moon, and his birthday is ร o'clock on the ร of the ร year ร.
Looking at these things, my grandfather felt strange, the conditions of this family should be good, why not this little girl.
Feeding and drinking the child, my grandfather liked her more and more in his arms, with big clear eyes and a red face, and she didn't cry or make trouble in her grandfather's arms.
My grandfather hugged the child and thought: Maybe I have a relationship with this child! sent to the door on a snowy day, and he didn't dare to transfer her to someone else, in case that person asked him for a child at that time, it would be unclear. There are three lawless stinky boys in my hometown who are spoiled by their wives, and they have a headache when they look at them. I like my little daughter Ping'er, who is just over two years old and obedient and sensible, so take this little baby home and be a companion with our Ping'er! Well! It's simply called Guo'er, and the two sisters together are a pair of little apples.
My grandfather couldn't play cotton anymore with a small baby, so he didn't feel distressed at all, and transferred the store where the business was booming......
Grandpa took the baby like a treasure and rushed home happily.
Grandpa's ideals are very plump, but the reality is too skinny. From then on, he began the second half of his painful life......