Chapter 31: Instinct

In the middle of the moon, Zhang Shuqiu and Ning Ye returned home together.

The lights in the house have long been quiet, only in the lounge on the second floor, a floor lamp was turned on, Zhou Ting leaned on the sofa, reading a novel with her mobile phone, and waited for Zhang Shuqiu.

"You haven't slept yet? I'm tired all day, what are you waiting for me? Zhang Shuqiu asked in a low voice.

Zhou Ting followed Zhang Shuqiu into the room, the light was on, she looked at Zhang Shuqiu carefully, and said with a playful smile: "There is a situation." ”

Zhang Shuqiu was busy looking for clothes, and he didn't dare to look back, and replied a little unnaturally: "I'll go take a bath first, don't wait for me." ”

"I'm going to sleep with you, Sansa snoring." Zhou Ting squinted at Zhang Shuqiudao.

"Okay, you go to sleep first, don't catch a cold, it's cool down at night." Zhang Shuqiu took his pajamas and walked out.

Zhou Ting climbed into bed satisfied, got into the quilt, stretched her waist on all fours, and hummed comfortably.

Zhang Shuqiu lay into the quilt lightly, Zhou Ting leaned closer to her, and said in a confused voice: "So fast? ”

"Well, it's too late, I didn't wash my hair."

"Why did you come back so late, but also, how could that Ning Ye be willing to let you come back, there are so many homestays in front of you, won't there be no rooms." Zhou Ting suddenly stopped being confused, but began to joke.

"You're really, as always, with a yellow heart." Zhang Shuqiu was very helpless.

"Instinct, animal instinct, human instinct, if people don't even have instincts, what kind of life are they going to have."

Zhang Shuqiu laughed when Zhou Ting said, Zhou Ting arched to Zhang Shuqiu's side again, put her head next to her head, and said softly: "Xiaoqiu, don't live like this, you look glamorous, your heart is desolate, living like this, there is no human taste." ”

Zhang Shuqiu was stunned for a moment, his eyes open, and he looked at the ceiling in a daze in the dark night.

After a long time, the sound of dripping rain sounded outside the window, and Zhou Ting took a beating from Zhang Shuqiu and said, "Do you remember?" The first day I slept with you in the dormitory, it was a rainy day. ”

"Well, it was spring, and it was quite cold, I remember." Zhang Shuqiu replied in a hoarse voice.

"I thought it was so hard to live, I couldn't understand why my mother gave birth to me, and every time I passed the river at the back of the school, I wanted to plunge into it. That night, if you hadn't picked me up, I might have been gone. Zhou Ting's voice was full of memories.

The house rented by Zhou Ting's family is a room, with cooking in the front, a three-person sofa in the middle, a coffee table, a curtain, and a bed in the back. Zhou Ting's mother often does business at night, so Zhou Ting has to stay outside. For an adolescent girl, this kind of torture is as painful as slowly cutting flesh with a blunt knife......

Hearing this, Zhang Shuqiu suddenly turned sideways and said: "I guessed a little, but I didn't feel like you wanted to jump, I remember the look in your eyes when you saw me, it was not despair, but like you saw hope......

"That's right, ants still steal life, not to mention that I grew up like that. It's just that I was in adolescence at that time, and I was just a little more sensitive. You know, you let me sleep with you, share a quilt, I really think, I can still live. In the past, the classmates around me, no matter how poor the family was, never took me straight when they saw me, and in those eyes, it was clear that the three big words "you are dirty" were clear. Zhou Ting took a deep breath.

"It's not that serious, you may just not be confident."

"I always thought so, before you, I didn't have a friend, but then with you and Sanshan. Do you remember the first time we spoke, when you came out of Shanshan's house and saw me wandering in front of the house, and offered to invite me to dinner? Zhou Ting asked suddenly.

"Yes, I was supposed to go to Shansa for dinner that day, but she wasn't home. And then I saw you, and saw that your lips were white, and I ......"

"Actually, you've already eaten that day, right?"

Zhang Shuqiu didn't expect that Zhou Ting was already so sharp at that time, and in the dark, she twitched the corners of her mouth and said, "It's not important, why are you talking about this now?" Didn't you know it but didn't tell it? ”

"I think it's very important, it's because of your food and that bed that I survived to get to where I am today. Actually, you didn't have a good time at that time, how could you remember to invite me to dinner? ”

"I was brought up by my grandmother, and she told me that at all times, you should have good intentions, and when you can reach out, don't be stingy. Although I was in a bad situation at that time, I was not short of money. ”

"I've heard you mention your grandmother before, what kind of person is she?"

"My grandmother is amazing, she used to be the head of a rich family, not only in charge of the house, but also in charge of the outside business. Later, I married my grandfather in my thirties and became a young grandmother in charge. Later, Jiangcheng fell, and my grandparents accompanied the elders back to the ancestral house to avoid disaster.

The place in my hometown is full of mountains, and it is the best place to escape the scourge of war. My grandmother said that it was because she had a little kindness in her heart that she did not suffer much in the special period later, and the family survived well. Speaking of his grandmother, Zhang Shuqiu's heart was warm and proud.

"Your grandmother's family background, at that time, life can be difficult, so how much ability can you protect the family." Zhou Ting sighed.

"My grandmother's family used to practice medicine, especially good at pediatrics, my grandmother was influenced by ancestral medical skills since she was a child, and later went to school to study medicine. After they returned to their ancestral home, my grandmother, a foreigner, relied on her medical skills to gain a firm foothold in my hometown.

Children from all over the country, which one has not received the favor of my grandmother, even my father, who was treated by my grandmother when he was a child. My aunt was a weak child and was a frequent visitor to my grandmother's house. My father said that at that time, the family was so poor that he carried his sister with a high fever to the bottom of the mountain to seek medical treatment, and my grandmother not only managed the brothers, but also took care of the brothers and sisters' meals. My dad really didn't have anything to repay, so he always fetched firewood and sent it, and then filled the water tank in the house before leaving.

Later, my dad graduated from college, so he went to my grandmother's house to ask for a kiss, my grandmother thought that my dad was red, and he knew that he was grateful, and he was tall and handsome, and it was not easy to be a college student in that era, so she married my mother to him. It's a pity that my mom doesn't love my dad, and I always think that my dad marrying my mom is the biggest misfortune in his life. Zhang Shuqiu thought of his father and couldn't help but feel sad in his heart.

"Then why? It stands to reason that it shouldn't. Zhou Ting was very surprised.

"Yes, my grandmother didn't think it should be, but that's the reality. No matter how warm my dad is, my mom's heart can't be warmed.

You don't know how good my dad is to my mom, my mom is my grandmother's only daughter, and her health has not been good since she was a child, and my grandmother has been very pampered. I can't cook and wash clothes, my dad does it all, and my dad also brings my mom foot washing water. My mom doesn't know anything and doesn't care much about me, she just looks in the mirror every day, thinking about how to comb her dark and shiny hair and draw her eyebrows with a charcoal pencil......

Later, one year, my grandmother was seriously ill, and the doctor said that there was no good way, if I could buy some bird's nest for the elderly to eat, it would be able to delay for a few years. At that time, first, there was no money, and second, bird's nest was really difficult to buy.

Later, my dad finally scraped together the money, asked his college classmates, and found a way to buy some bird's nest, but found that the money in the box was gone.

My mother said that she saw that there was money in the box, so she asked someone to order a washing machine, and she had already paid for it. When I looked at my dad that time, it was really distressing. My dad has always stood there like a mountain in my heart, and that day he fell down like that, on his back on the bed, tears flowed down the corners of his eyes to the roots of his ears, and the corners of his eyes were blood-red, and he was reluctant to move a finger of my mother.

That winter, my grandmother didn't make it. Later, when my grandmother came to the house, she found out that there was an extra washing machine in our house, and after asking for clarification, she was so angry that she scolded my mother for splitting her head and covering her face. My mother also complained to my grandmother, saying that she had found such a poor family, that she had to wash even a bed sheet once a month, and that she had no money to buy a washing machine, so she couldn't let her sleep in the pig's kennel every day. Besides, the old lady was raised by money, and everyone was clean when she died early.

My grandmother was so angry that she almost had a heart attack, and she really had no choice, so she bent down and apologized to my father, saying that she couldn't live with him and couldn't raise her daughter well, but she would definitely raise me to be a good child. Since then, my grandmother has moved to our house.

My mom had my grandmother hold it down, so it stopped a bit. Although I don't have a good mother, I have a good father and a grandmother who loves me, and my childhood is really happy. When it comes to childhood, Zhang Shuqiu's tone of speech is much softer.

Zhou Ting listened to it with relish, and said with infinite yearning: "In your grandmother's life, if she writes a novel, it will definitely be very exciting." ”

"My grandmother said that she was born in the wrong era, and that it will definitely be very different in our generation, so I must study hard and find the foundation of my life. She told me from a very young age that it is not easy for a woman to live well. I couldn't figure it out at the time, because I thought my mom was doing well, and I didn't see her doing anything great.

My grandmother just sighed and said that it was good that she had accumulated good fortune and reported it to my mother. My grandmother used various versions of the story to tell me that people should have good thoughts, everything is related to cause and effect, not to compare the length of a moment, there will always be a time when cause and effect meet......" Zhang Shuqiu said of his grandmother, very spiritual.

"Xiaoqiu, your grandmother, really taught you very well. I've never had anyone talk to me about that. If you want to say that the little heat in my heart is transmitted from you. Do you ever feel that kindness can be contagious? Zhou Ting sighed.

"Well, actually, I invited you to dinner at that time, but I just thought that the two of us were a bit alike, and we were also sympathetic. Although I have a mother, since my grandmother died, my mother has been nothing. Later, my dad died, and the last words he wrote before he went to fight the flood were that if he couldn't come back, let my aunt pick me up and let my mom be free again. Zhang Shuqiu's words were already full of wetness.

Zhou Ting got up from the darkness, illuminated it with her mobile phone, took a few pieces of paper for Zhang Shuqiu, and asked softly, "Then why don't you go with your aunt, but you must follow your mother?" ”

"I was in the rebellious period at that time, and I felt that my dad was going with a certain heart to die, in order to make my mother free, and my dad was killed by my mother. I treat my mother as an enemy, how can I make her feel better. And I still have something very important in my heart that I can't let go. ”

Grandma told Zhang Shuqiu countless times before her death that her mother Wang Yixuan had no other skills, but the loser was the most powerful. Wang Yixuan once exchanged a handful of jewelry for an electronic watch.

Grandma once told Zhang Shuqiu that after she died, she would leave the ancestral house and all the intimate jewelry, as well as the ancient books that she tried her best to keep, plus a little deposit, to Zhang Shuqiu, no matter what, the ancestral house could not be sold, that was the root of the Wang family, she didn't want to go into the soil, shameless to face the ancestors and ancestors. Grandma made a will and gave everything to Zhang Shuqiu's father, Zhang Yuan.

After her grandmother died, Wang Yixuan asked to sell her ancestral house many times, because of this incident, Wang Yixuan almost became the target of the Wang family, and later almost all of the Wang family broke off contact with Wang Yixuan. The sale of the ancestral house was forcefully stopped by the Wang family and Zhang Yuan.

After Zhang Yuan's death, Wang Yixuan became Zhang Shuqiu's only legal guardian, and at that time, Zhang Shuqiu was not an adult, and no one could stop Wang Yixuan from disposing of Zhang Shuqiu's inheritance.

Zhang Shuqiu was very scared, taking advantage of Wang Yixuan's inattention, he secretly hid the title deed, there was really no other way, he didn't dare to leave the house for a single step, and he used to run to the toilet. Fortunately, Zhang Heng came early, and hurried over when he got the news of his brother's death.

Zhang Shuqiu knew that Wang Yixuan couldn't wait for her to follow her aunt quickly. So Zhang Shuqiu took advantage of Wang Yixuan's psychology and borrowed her aunt's momentum to talk to her mother about the conditions.

Zhang Heng didn't want to see this sister-in-law, but he also knew what his brother married her for. In the past, there were many contacts, but now that my brother has passed away, and his savior has a will first, and it also involves the interests of his brother's only blood and blood, Zhang Heng has no affection at all.

Zhang Heng first helped Zhang Shuqiu take away all the things left by his grandmother, and then asked Wang Yixuan to sign a letter of commitment to recognize the legal validity of the will, and not to dispose of all the inheritance she inherited before Zhang Shuqiu was a minor.

Wang Yixuan has been used to spending a lot since she was a child, and these things are not worth anything in her eyes except for being able to exchange some money, but if money is compared with Zhang Shuqiu's burden, it is more important to throw off the burden. So Wang Yixuan quickly signed the letter of commitment, and Zhang Heng immediately took the letter of commitment and the suicide note together for notarization.

Zhang Shuqiu finally used the methods taught to her by her grandmother to protect what she was thinking about, and started the next round of battle.