In the afternoon, there was no wind, but the black bamboo forest made a "rustling" sound, and Xing Ruyi knew that there was a new guest coming to the door.

As soon as she put down the things in her hand, she turned around and saw a slightly cramped young man standing in the doorway.

"Hello, is this a Ruyi rouge shop? I, I want to buy a box of rouge, a box of rouge that makes people look a little younger later. ”

"Is it for the elders?"

The young man nodded, "It's for my stepmother." ”

"Stepmother?"

"Hmm." The young man nodded: "Don't you think it's a little surprising?" ”

"Nope." Xing Ruyi shook his head: "Now is not the past, if the relationship is not harmonious, it will naturally divorce, if you divorce, you will remarry, and if you remarry, you will have a stepfather or stepmother." You can come and buy rouge for your stepmother, which means that your mother-son relationship is not bad. ”

The young man bowed his head and did not speak for a long time. Xing Ruyi waited quietly and did not urge.

The black bamboo forest was quiet, and the rouge shop was so quiet that it was as if all the breath had disappeared.

"When I was seven years old, my parents got into a big fight in front of me and went out cursing at each other with red faces and thick necks. When it was almost dark, they returned, and both of them had their heads bowed, not daring to meet my gaze. My mom hugged me and told me that she was leaving, so that I could listen to my dad in the future. I reached out and pulled her, but she pushed her away. In my memory, the last impression of my mother is that she dragged her luggage away. Later, I realized that they had divorced that afternoon.

From the age of seven to eleven, I thought about them every once in a while because I didn't know if I should resent my father or blame my mother. ”

"When a marriage comes to an end, both parties to the marriage have problems and responsibilities."

"My father, to say that it sounds good, is a good man with a big heart, and if it is ugly, it means that one person eats enough for the whole family and does not go hungry, and he doesn't worry about anything. He lived quite comfortably for most of his life, and when my grandmother was alive, he counted on my grandmother. After my grandmother left, he was counting on my mother again. Don't worry about everything, everything is good, but don't do anything.

But people live, they always have to eat, they have to survive. My father's extreme laziness caused my mother to work hard and choose to carry the family on her weak shoulders. Her temper is getting worse and worse, and looking at my father, it is becoming more and more unpleasant, and in the end, it can only be divorced. Poor couples mourn everything, this is the real reason for the breakdown of their marriage, one has to get by, and the other always wants to run his life better. ”

"Your father is not wrong, he just had the wrong birth from the beginning. As a man from an ordinary family, as a husband and father of an ordinary family, he just wants to be comfortable, and he doesn't think about how to be the support of a family. ”

"Yes, I'm a man, and I don't like my father's attitude towards life. But so what, I am his son, he is my father, I can't change him, all I can do is accept this reality and try to change myself. ”

The young man's hands were clasped together.

"What kind of woman is your stepmother?

"Diligent, neat, soft-natured, and my mother is a completely different type of woman." The young man laughed: "I think it was after my eleventh birthday, about the same time as now, in the afternoon, when my father took my stepmother to me, pointed to her, and asked me to call her mother.

Of course I didn't call it, but my father kicked me out and threatened to never go back for the rest of my life. I thought about it so seriously that I even wanted to go to my grandmother's house to find out where my mother was, and I never wanted to live with my father again. ”

"Did you go to your mother?"

"Nope!" The young man shook his head: "I have no money, and when I was kicked out, I had nothing on me." My mother was married from out of town, a child with no money, and there was no way to go that far. Just when I didn't know what to do, my stepmom opened the door and walked out, and she asked me if I hated her very much. ”

"How did you answer?"

"Of course I replied that I hated her, and I hated her very, very much, because I felt that she was not supposed to appear, and that there was no one in the world who could replace my mother."

"And how did she answer?"

"She touched my head and said she knew. She also said that she came to take care of me instead of my mother, and I could call her aunt instead of calling her mother. She also said that in the world of children, no woman can easily replace her biological mother, and she also has a son, and she can understand this feeling. If I feel awkward in my heart, I can just think of her as an aunt who is responsible for cleaning and cooking every day. ”

"Your stepmom is nice, at least she didn't force you to approve of her."

"Yes, it was because of her words that I felt that I could go back to that house for a while, and then for the time being, very reluctantly, get along with her first. As an adult, I realized that at that time, my stepmother was actually looking for me to go down the stairs.

The stepmother and father only received a marriage certificate, and did not hold any special grand wedding ceremony, not even a family-type dinner. The day after receiving the certificate, she cleaned up the outside of the house. It was the first time since I was seven years old that I saw how clean our home was, and every corner felt like new.

After marrying his stepmother, his father seemed to have grown up suddenly, and suddenly realized a man's sense of responsibility for the family, and he began to work hard to earn money and work hard to support the family. My stepmother felt sorry for my father and found a job nearby to support the family, but no matter how busy she was, she would arrange my studies and life properly. She didn't treat me harshly like those stepmothers in the story, and no one did anything to do anything with the former and the latter. ”

"Stories are stories, and most stepmothers in life are still good. Since they choose to get married, they all want to live a good life. As for those ruthless stepmothers, it should be said that they didn't plan to live a good life from the beginning. ”

"Hmm!" The young man nodded: "The dull days passed day by day, and if it hadn't happened later, I would probably have called her aunt all the time, even though I had called her mother countless times in my heart." ”

"What's the matter?"

"On the eve of the college entrance examination, I had a car accident and suffered a comminuted fracture of my right leg, and the doctor said that I may never be able to stand up again, and even if I do, I may leave sequelae and become a lame. To be honest, I can't accept it, I can't accept that I've been lying in bed all the time, or getting out of bed and becoming a cripple. I refused treatment like a madman, refused to eat, and even lost my temper and threw things. Just as I was venting my emotions, my stepmother, who had always been gentle, rushed into the hospital room and shaved my ears at me, hitting my head until my head was buzzing, and both eyes were in a trance. ”

"Your stepmother is a grumpy person, too."

"Not only does he have a temper, but he also scolds people quite ugly." The young man smiled brighter and brighter: "At that time, I really felt that she was cursing me in the most vicious language in the world, and I even felt that her kindness to me in previous years was disguised, and she wished that I would die, that I would become lame, that I would become a joke in the eyes of everyone." ”

"She must have done it on purpose, right?"

"Yes! She did it on purpose, but I didn't think about it at the time. Some people say that the power of love is great, but the power of hate is also great. I relied on my hatred for my stepmother, tried hard to cooperate with the hospital's treatment, endured all the pain, worked hard to recover, and even took the college entrance examination in the process of recovery, and performed at a super level, and was admitted to a school that I didn't even dare to think about before. Half a year later, my leg is better, better than normal. When my father took me home, I saw my stepmother standing in the doorway. As I walked over, she suddenly grabbed my hand and put it in front of her face. I was stunned, but she said, let me slap me back all the slaps she had given me. ”

"Did you hit it?"

"Of course not, I hugged her and called her mother in front of my father. Mom is left to my biological mother, and my mother is what I gave her. She cried and cried and asked me if I still hated her. I laughed, and I said, I understood everything, and my father told me. In order to treat me, to save my leg, and to make me suffer less sin, during the time when my father was not working to take care of me, my stepmother worked two jobs alone, and the money became my treatment expenses. ”

"Are you still in school?"

"Well, sophomores." The young man raised his eyes: "I originally thought that when I graduated from college, I would find a good job and be filial to her when I earned money." Although she is only my stepmother, over the years, she has also fulfilled the responsibilities and obligations that a mother should do to her son.

A month ago, she went to the hospital for a check-up because she was unwell. The results of the examination showed that she had stomach cancer, which was already at an advanced stage. My father and I insisted on treating her, but she disagreed, saying that she knew that her illness was beyond cure, and that we didn't have to spend all that money for her. She also said that I will graduate from college in two years, and when the time comes, I will have to get married and marry a daughter-in-law, and she asked me to learn to be selfish, after all, she is not my real mother, and I have no obligation to treat her. ”

"You're really not saved?"

"To be honest, I thought about it, but I still have a little conscience, I negotiated with my father and sold the house we lived in, and then gave the money to the hospital for my stepmother's surgery and chemotherapy." The young man pursed his lips: "She is in pain, she is in pain every time she undergoes chemotherapy, her hair falls out, she is thin, and the whole person has become very haggard." She had also been married to my father before she married, and she had a son in that marriage, and she hoped to see that child in the last days of her life, hoping to make a good impression on him. I bought cosmetics, but they couldn't hide her illness, so I found here. ”

"I see." Xing Ruyi stood up: "Don't worry, I will help you find a box of rouge that is most suitable for your aunt." ”