Chapter 23: The Price of Fun (1)
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
Just after the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, students returning to school after winter vacation are returning to school one after another, and Professor Lin and his wife will fly back to Beijing from the United States in two days.
Hua Nianping and Lin Si'er are inseparable in their hearts, but this happy little life between the two of them will inevitably come to an end after all, and a bad luck is approaching them.
One Sunday in April, Lin Si'er woke up in the morning and suddenly vomited one after another while her mother was making fried snacks.
The mother thought that her daughter had a cold, but when she saw that her body temperature was not high, she was so worried that she had to take her to the hospital for examination. Lin Si'er had a bad omen, insisting that she would not let her mother accompany her, saying that she could go to the hospital alone.
The father saw that the mother and daughter were arguing, and that the daughter was pale, so he stood firmly on the mother's side.
Lin Si'er had no choice but to follow her mother in despair and went to the hospital slowly. The results of the examination were just as Lin Si'er was worried, she was almost two months pregnant.
Professor Lin waited until his wife told him the truth with a blushing face, and sat down on the sofa like five thunderbolts.
He couldn't take the face of intellectuals more seriously, and he thought that he was a person with a very strict family education, and the Ministry of Education was about to appoint him as the vice president of Beijing University.
However, his wife closed the doors and windows tightly and repeatedly asked Lin Sier who was the man who made her pregnant?
Lin Si'er let her mother scold and didn't answer a word.
Professor Lin saw that his wife was not good, so he had a separate conversation with Lin Si'er in the way of a father-daughter heart-to-heart talk.
He first asked Lin Si'er, what are you going to do yourself?
Lin Si'er said that she had made up her mind to drop out of school, give birth to a child, or marry someone she loved immediately.
Professor Lin also asked whether the person she loved was a student, a worker, or a businessman, and how old he was, and that his parents always had to meet and talk to each other before they could consider it.
When her father asked, Lin Si'er was a little hesitant, wondering whether she should say Hua Nianping's name.
She stared at her father for a long time, not knowing whether what her father said was true or false, but she still asked her father with a glimmer of expectation that if she said her lover's name, would she agree to marry the two no matter what kind of person he was?
Professor Lin was asked by her daughter, so she had to say that it depended on her mother's consent.
Lin Si'er said, you and your mother will discuss it before talking.
Professor Lin called his wife and told her the truth about the conversation with his daughter.
The wife was helpless, sighed and said, since the daughter's body was given to that man, and now she is pregnant, she is already making raw rice and cooking, if the other party's family background and personal conditions are acceptable, you can negotiate.
Lin Si'er had no way back, so she had to say bluntly to her father: "Hua Nianping, you know!" ”
When my father heard this, his face was immediately gloomy and silent.
The wife had never heard of this name, so she asked Professor Lin, "Who is Hua Nianping?" ”
Professor Lin let out a long sigh and replied to his wife, "A student in our college. The grades are very good, and the appearance is outstanding, but unfortunately he is a disabled person. ”
The couple avoided Lin Si'er and discussed for a long time, but the wife resolutely opposed finding a lame son-in-law, saying that she couldn't afford to lose this person. She called her younger brother, who held an important position in the General Staff Department, and decisively asked her brother to take Lin Si'er away immediately, find a good hospital to remove the fetus in her womb, and not be allowed to go out for a month.
Lin Si'er lost her temper and refused to leave with her uncle.
With tears in her eyes, the mother swore an oath: "If you dare to give birth to this evil seed and continue to associate with that lame leg, my mother will die for you." ”
The uncle ordered the driver and the guards to come in, and the two mighty soldiers dragged them and forcibly put the crying Lin Si'er into the car.
On Monday, Hua Nianping saw that Lin Si'er did not come to class, and felt a little uneasy, and begged Hong Fang to go to Lin Si'er's house to see if she was sick. He saw Lin Si vomiting when he was a child some time ago, as if he had an upset stomach, and he couldn't stop thinking about it.
In the afternoon, Hong Fang secretly told Hua Nianping that she had gone to Lin Si'er's house at noon and met Lin Si'er's mother, and the other party told her with a straight face that Lin Si'er had gone to the United States. Hong Fang also said that looking at Lin Si'er's mother's demeanor, it seems that something has happened in their family.
Regarding the words of Hong Fang and Lin Si'er's mother, Hua Nianping couldn't believe it, but he had to believe it.
Every few days, he would sneak to Lin Si'er's house in the dead of night for a while, but he couldn't see the lights in Lin Si'er's house, and his heart shrank into a handful. I just hope that Lin Si'er will suddenly appear in the class one day.
When the summer vacation is approaching, Hua Nianping still has no news of Lin Sier.
Because he didn't go home during the winter vacation, his brother said that his father's health was not good and he was admitted to the hospital, urging him to go home early during the vacation. He had to put aside his concern for Lin Si'er for the time being and returned home for the summer vacation.
On the first day of school in her senior year, Hong Fang mysteriously told Hua Nianping that she had met Lin Si'er once during the summer vacation, and it turned out that she did not go to the United States at all, but relied on her father's relationship to transfer to the Department of Journalism of Beijing Normal University, which happened to be her senior year.
But for some reason, Lin Si'er's mother moved in with her daughter, and Lin Si'er was not allowed to return to her home at the School of Economics of Beijing University alone.
Hong Fang wondered if his underground affair with Lin Si'er had been exposed, and her mother had been watching her.
Hua Nianping asked Hong Fang if Lin Si'er had ever asked him.
Hong Fang shook her head sadly on his behalf, saying that she and Lin Si'er met by chance on the road, and her mother had been watching them talk.
Hua Nianping thought that as long as Lin Si'er was safe and sound, everything would be fine, and he was relieved a lot in his heart.
Although it takes several buses to get from the School of Economics to Beijing Normal University, Hua Nianping spends half a day almost every week walking around the downstairs of the university's journalism department.
He worked so hard for more than two months, and finally found Lin Si'er holding a textbook and walking over with a few female classmates one afternoon in winter.
Lin Si'er seemed to have noticed him, but she didn't mean to say hello. Hua Nianping wanted to meet him desperately, but saw Lin Si'er secretly shaking his head at him.
Hua Nianping knew that there must be a reason, so he had to let Lin Si'er walk by in a daze.
He looked forward along Lin Si'er's figure and saw a woman in her fifties following Lin Si'er and her classmates, gradually walking away together.
During the time when the two were together, Lin Si'er showed Hua Nianping the family album, and he immediately remembered that the woman was Lin Si'er's mother.
Hua Nianping stood still and didn't move, he was convinced that Lin Si'er would try to find him. Sure enough, it didn't take long for it to get dark, Lin Si'er ran all the way from a distance, and the two of them didn't care about anyone nearby, so they immediately hugged each other tightly.
Lin Si'er kept kissing Hua Nianping, and said hurriedly that she had sneaked out while her mother was cooking in the kitchen, and she had to go back immediately. It will be Christmas in ten days, and she wants Hua Nianping to remember that at seven o'clock in the evening on Christmas Eve, wait at the east gate of the Normal University on time, and she will definitely see her then.