【Chapter 21】The Secret Shared
He flashed his eyes and said with a smile: "My sophomore year has basically been completed, and there are very few classes in my junior year, so I don't live in the school permanently, but I have to do some things recently before I go back to the school to live on campus." ”
At that time, I stared at his eyes and found that Hua Zheng and Hua Ming were indeed a little similar, especially as a boy, their eyelashes were longer than that of girls.
In a hurry, I wanted to know a lot of things about Huaming, so I smiled and said:
"Hua Zheng, can you tell me about your eldest brother again? I want to know why the Fu family, who is now famous in Luoyang, appeared in our poor and remote Huai River valley? ”
Hua Zheng glanced at me, got up, and left the hospital bed.
I timidly thought he was leaving, but he turned and locked the door of the ward, turned back to the bed, sat down in a chair, and smiled:
"This is a secret of our Fu family, and we have never told outsiders, but since you also know the eldest brother, I don't plan to treat you as an outsider, I believe you will keep it a secret for us."
In the quiet hospital room, he told me a sad story without sadness.
He spoke quietly, with warmth, eloquently:
"A few decades ago was a sensitive period, my grandfather was a not too small official, and the arrangement of the 'uncle' had to go to the official career, and the 'second uncle' to go to the mall. My grandfather gave me an uncle's marriage, the daughter of my grandfather's officialdom colleague, and the daughter of an executive in Beijing.
Young couple, uncle and aunt had a period of love, the two married for two years and finally conceived a child, but because the aunt injured her body when she gave birth to her first child, not only did the child not survive, but the aunt could no longer have children.
As the situation gets better, the eldest uncle is on the rise, but he has no children under his knees, which is a heart disease for the entire Fu family.
A career requires an innocent style, but my uncle met an empathetic and beautiful woman during those days when he was haunted.
The woman is gentle, considerate, and understands the uncle very well, and the uncle starts an extramarital affair that is not tolerated by the two big families. Their love secretly bore fruit and gave birth to a healthy and lovely baby boy.
The uncle and the woman secretly raised the child, until the little boy was in elementary school, the woman died in an accident, leaving the uncle to take time to take care of the child on weekdays, and the uncle's secret was discovered by the aunt.
The eldest aunt wanted to find the backer of her mother's house to make trouble, and in order to cover up the ugliness for the eldest uncle, the grandfather asked the second uncle, who already had a wife and children, to carry all this.
Grandpa asked the second uncle to find a public opportunity, saying that the child who was born secretly was the second uncle's, and the woman was also the second uncle's, and even the second aunt couldn't know the truth about this matter.
Grandpa's original words were: If the second daughter-in-law makes trouble, she will make trouble, so that it looks real in the eyes of outsiders.
My second aunt, she lived up to expectations.
Stubborn, she left the Fu family angrily with her son and returned to her parents' house.
Grandpa ordered that the second uncle was not allowed to look for it, and he would avoid the limelight before talking.
Half a year later, the eldest aunt's family was convinced that something was wrong. The second uncle hurriedly went to the second aunt's house to look for someone, but found that his father-in-law had sold the compound in the town.
The second uncle inquired about the neighborhood, but he didn't know where the family had moved.
In the end, the second uncle asked many people in the Fu family to inquire in private, but they didn't dare to make too many moves.
allowed the second aunt and mother and son to live outside for 4 years, and in these not short four years, it also confirmed that the child was the second son of the second uncle's family.
In the end, the second aunt and mother and son seemed to have encountered a very important thing in the countryside, and the two had to find the Fu family in Luoyang.
When the second aunt and the child returned to the Fu family, the second uncle told the truth of the year, the second aunt and the old man and the second uncle had a big quarrel, although angry, but the second aunt was very kind, she also took pity on the child who was born secretly, afraid that with her sister-in-law's temperament, it would be difficult to tolerate this child, so she regarded the uncle's child as her own biological child, recognized it under her knees, and Hua Ming was commensurate with her own brother.
This "stolen child" is me.
The second aunt who left angrily is now the 'mother' who treats me very well.
The second uncle is also a gentle and graceful 'father', and the child who has spent 4 years in the field with his mother is my eldest brother - Fu Huaming.
And my biological father is my current 'uncle'.
And in the future, as long as my aunt's family is as stable as Mount Tai, and I will always die until I die, my biological father can only be my 'uncle', hehe, you see, I will become the second son of the second family of the Fu family. ”
Fu Huazheng shook his head and smiled: "However, fate treats me very well." I first met my eldest brother when I was 10 years old, and he was 11 years old at the time, but when I heard that my father might have secretly given birth to a woman outside, he didn't hate me much, and was willing to play with me and smile at me. But the strange thing is that when I saw my eldest brother again four years later, he had grown into a reserved and deep 'adult', and after knowing my identity and the truth of what happened back then, he knew that my father had not betrayed my mother, but he was unwilling to smile at me anymore. However, that's just growing up, when you grow up, you will have the responsibilities and burdens of the family, who made him the eldest son of the Fu family..."
I sighed: "It turns out that you are cousins", I had a trace of doubt, and continued to ask: "Did they have to return to Luoyang because something very important happened in the countryside?" But at that time, I heard his grandfather come to the school and say that something very important had happened in Luoyang's own family and summoned him back to his own home..."
Hua Zheng shook his head: "Then I don't know, my eldest brother and mother never told me what happened in the past, it is estimated that my mother misses my father, they loved each other very much when they were young."
He then smiled and asked me about Hua Ming's situation in the countryside back then: "What was the eldest brother like in the countryside back then?" Is the name really Zhong Pengfei? ”
I poured my memory at will, but all of it was Hua Ming's good, I nodded, and my eyes looked into the distance:
"At that time, his name was Zhong Pengfei, he was a tall boy in the class, more white and good-looking than other boys, more than a year in the same class, I was thin at the time, and I always sat in the first row. He was so tall and sat in the second row all the time.
The students behind the third row would always complain that he was blocking the blackboard. But complaining is complaining, every time we adjust the seats, we are ranked according to the grades: let the students who study well choose their favorite seats first, no matter how big the seat is adjusted, I am in front and he is behind, this formation seems to have never changed.
And the same is true for academic performance, I am first, he is second, and this battle has always been the same. But no one knows how early in the winter I got up in order to secure the number one position! And he seems to be comfortably in second place.
He is very righteous, I once went to the boiler room to get hot boiling water, the water bottle was broken, the hot water splashed through my shoes, burned my feet, or he scolded the man, pulled the man to help me to the township clinic, let the man pay for the medical bills.
Another time, a boy whistled at me, and then I saw the boy with a blue nose and swollen face come to apologize to me, and I didn't know until much later that your big brother had beaten someone. Haha, at that time, I thought, the boy behind me, he is so good.
During the winter vacation of the first year of junior high school, a certificate of merit was awarded, and the teacher wanted to award me the only certificate of merit for three good students, but I refused, your eldest brother is excellent in character and learning, and the certificate must be his. ”
“…”
In this way, I don't know when Fu Huaming started to pull me and Fu Huazheng closer and closer like a link. As I communicated more and more with Fu Huazheng, Hua Zheng became a close friend of my freshman year.
And Fu Huaming, who said that he would come back to me soon, ask me about the junior high school teachers, and would come to me again to talk about the past, did not show up for a long time.
Even though I was almost ruined by a boy, he still didn't show up.