31: Love is to run
His father said that if he had two glasses of wine, then he would honor his parents for the first one.
After a lifetime of hard work, his temples are gray;
This second cup, he wants to honor himself.
People don't take young people lightly, but in this life, he has made too many mistakes, but they can't go back, he only hopes that in the next life, he can say all this with a smile, he knows that this life will not be.
The father didn't go on anymore, and Zhao Xun knew that this time his father was completely drunk.
My father has only gone through two times in his life, and this is the second time, at least Zhao Xun thinks so.
Looking at her sleeping father, Zhao Xun suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of relief, she thought that she might never forget the past in her life, and of course she would not forgive him again, but in fact it was not, and she didn't know when the relationship between their father and daughter had undergone this subtle change.
Maybe this is what the ancestors said that blood is thicker than water, flesh and blood are connected, how can the father and daughter have any overnight hatred.
If the daughter is her father's little padded jacket, Zhao Xun thinks that she should be a shoulder at most.
Zhao Xun slowly moved his sleeping father to the bedroom, and then dialed his brother's phone on the bed.
At the dinner table, he listened to his father talking about his younger brother, Zhao Xun knew that his father was thinking about his baby son, but then his father was drunk and didn't care about this matter anymore.
Doodoo ......
Hello, your call is currently unanswered, please call again later.
Immediately after saying a long list of English that even she couldn't understand, Zhao Xun sighed and hung up the phone, alas, it's really terrible to be uneducated, it seems that you still have to learn English in the future.
Zhao Xun washed his face hastily while thinking about it, and went back to the house to sleep.
After going to bed, I thought about calling my brother again, and I thought about this kid from time to time, I guess he was working overtime again! I haven't called home in a few days.
Doodoo ......
"Hey, sister?"
There was a familiar voice from his brother on the other end of the phone, and Zhao Xun suddenly heard his brother's kind voice and almost didn't react.
"Ouch, isn't this my brother, at work? Busy or not? ”
I haven't called my brother for a few days, and I still stutter from time to time.
"Sister, I'm off work, I'm on the subway just now, there are too many people, I didn't hear it, and now I just got out of the subway station."
"Oh, you haven't arrived home yet, so pay attention to safety on the road! Didn't eat, did you? ”
"I haven't eaten, sister, I'll go back and eat with Lisa later, sister, have you eaten, what is Dad doing?"
"Let's eat, my sister fried two side dishes for Dad, Dad was happy today, drank two cups and went to bed."
"Well, don't let Dad drink too much, Dad is in good health, right? I've been busy with work lately, so I don't have time to call home at any time. ”
"Dad is very good, the family is very good, you don't have to worry about the family outside, but you, but you have to take care of yourself, I don't want to see you thin when I go home."
"Okay, sister, you and your dad should also pay attention to their bodies, eat more nutritious, don't be reluctant to spend money, if you don't have money, just tell me, I'll call my dad some."
"My brother has really grown up, by the way, Dad will eat and talk to you, and you will go home to see Dad when you are free."
"Well, I've been homesick for a long time, wait for eighty-fifty-five, and then I'll see with the unit if I can take a few more days off and go home for a few days."
"Okay, as long as it doesn't delay your work, by the way, what's going on with you and Lisa, if Dad is in front of you, you can't mention things with Lisa."
"I know, Dad doesn't really want the two of us to be together, but sister, I really like Lisa, I want to be with her, okay, okay, let's not talk about me first, by the way, sister, how are you doing, have you found a job?"
"Alas, it's bad to talk about finding a job, no, unless a job falls from the sky, I really can't go anywhere!"
"Sister, do you want to stop going to the previous textile factory and ask?"
"Forget it, that manager is still the same manager who drove me before, he must still be thinking about this, so he won't go."
"Sister, if you don't, you might as well come to Beijing! Mess with me! ”
"Okay, sister, think about it again, tomorrow Saturday, do you go to work, don't work overtime!"
"Rest tomorrow, I'll call my dad back during the day tomorrow."
"Okay, then you take care of yourself in Beijing, be good with Lisa, and we'll talk again when you're free."
"Okay, goodbye sister."
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Xun was still immersed in the call with his younger brother, and his mood couldn't calm down for a long time.
She was even a little worried about her brother and Lisa, her father was an honest traditional thinker, and the old feudal ideas in China could not be said to be deep-rooted, but they still had a subtle influence.
Besides, in this small town, the biggest thing everyone has ever seen is to go to Beijing once in a few years, and my father has never been to Beijing in half his life, let alone seen any foreigners, and that is all on TV.
Including the last time my brother brought Lisa home during the May Day holiday, she was shocked, and her father pulled her brother over for questioning in front of Lisa, if the younger brother brought Lisa to his father next time he went home, and told his father that this was the woman he was going to live with in the future, she really didn't dare to imagine what kind of ridiculous things his father would do.
Maybe it was because I drank a lot of liquor yesterday, my father was not very comfortable, and early the next morning, before he ate anything, his father ran to the toilet twice.
"Dad, are you alright? Should I drink some haloperic acid? ”
(Haloperic acid: scientific name norfloxacin, the drug is a third-generation quinolone broad-spectrum antibacterial antibiotic, mainly used for the treatment of various sensitive gram-negative bacteria infection, abdominal pain, and water-like stools.) )
"It's okay, it has nothing to do with that, I guess I drank some wine yesterday and my stomach was upset, so I'll drink some porridge later."
"It's okay, then Dad, I'll boil you a red bean and lotus seed soup."
"Okay, I'll go to the store after I'm done."
Yesterday, Zhao Xun said that he was going to the store with his father today, so the two of them went over together after eating.
"Uncle Zhao, why didn't the restaurant open yesterday, what's wrong, what's wrong?"
On the way, I met Liu Ruiping's eldest son who came to the restaurant to eat every day, working in Unicom, he had to come over to eat a quick food and then go back to rest every day after work, a young man in his early 30s, there was no social circle around him, and he was still a single dog.
At this time, there are some people who are upside down behind their love and begin to say, alas, look at you, whose son can play soy sauce, look at the eldest son of the old Liu family, he is in his thirties, and he has not married a daughter-in-law yet, and he will definitely be a bachelor in the future.
But he never listened to other people's crazy gossip, he can say whatever he loves them, anyway, I don't explain, I still live alone, I'm happy, why care so much about what others say, I just want to be myself.
Besides, how can life be like pants, do you have to carry what other people fart?
This may be the view of Liu Ruiping's eldest son.
"Kid, there was something going on at home yesterday, I'm really embarrassed, let you run away in vain, right?"
"It's okay, I think I'm used to eating what you cook, and now I eat more than my mother cooks, and I feel uncomfortable not eating a meal, haha."
"Then Uncle will make one for you today, you will come early after work, and Uncle will leave you a favorite window seat."
Seeing his father chatting happily with the boy in front of him about eating, Zhao thought that maybe he hadn't come to his father's small restaurant to help for a long time, when she was a child, she was always ridiculed by those shirtless men when she helped in her father's bone tube, but now the relationship between her father and the guests is so harmonious.
My father waved it in the kitchen with a big spoon in his hand, and every posture was so handsome, although he was about 50 years old, he still did not lose the style of the year.
Although there are not too many customers in the restaurant, my father is very attentive to the ordering of every customer.
Maybe it's a simple bowl of knife-cut noodles, or maybe it's a plate of scrambled egg rice with tomatoes, my father has also poured all his heart and soul into it, and none of the guests have given a bad review after eating, that is, the logistics industry in the town is underdeveloped, otherwise if you join Meituan Takeaway, then my father's small restaurant will definitely be more popular.
Zhao Xun was cleaning up the table where the guests had finished eating.
Suddenly, an aunt snapped, put down the chopsticks in her hand, and shouted:
"Lao Zhao, Lao Zhao, come on, come quickly!"
"Ai, here is Auntie, what's wrong, you tell me, my dad is cooking inside."
"Come, kid, come over and taste this meal, come and taste it, tell me what's wrong with this meal?"
Zhao Zhaoshan looked at this plate of fried yam with fungus, and felt that there was nothing wrong with the color, flavor, and taste, but looking at the old aunt with a serious face, Zhao Xunshan still chose to obediently turn around and take a new pair of chopsticks and taste it.
Oh my God, except for a little spicy, there really doesn't taste like anything else, is it because there is no salt! Of course, this is what Zhao Xun thought in her heart, she didn't dare to say it directly, otherwise she would have to smash this signboard herself.
Zhao Xun hurriedly apologized to his aunt, saying that he would take it back and fry it for you immediately, and everyone looked up and didn't look down, and the guests didn't stop being unrelenting.
Zhao Xun returned to the back kitchen with the dishes and saw that his father was seriously cooking for the next person, and he didn't know what was going on outside just now.
"Dad, didn't you forget to put salt in the fungus fried yam rice bowl you made for table 3 just now?"
"What? Didn't put salt? No, right! I remember I let it go! The father suddenly stopped what he was doing.
"Then why don't you try it?"
As he spoke, his father picked up the chopsticks in his hand.
"Bah, really, why didn't I put salt, I remember I let it go! Come on, hurry up, you go out and explain to other guests. ”
"It's okay, Dad, don't worry, I told that aunt, everyone is a regular customer, they can understand, let's make a new one for her!"
"Okay, then Dad will make another one for someone."
Watching my father carefully bring the meal to the guest's table like a child who has made a mistake, he also poured it down again and again.
Zhao Xun wondered if his father had been tired recently, and his work was always upside down, or he had forgotten about this and that, his father had never been like this before, and it was the first time he made a low-level mistake like today.
"I'm really embarrassed, I'm old, I'm in a hurry, I just wanted to hurry up and make a meal for you, but I forgot it, okay, I'll treat you to this meal, I'll give you a free order!"
"It's okay, just wait a little longer, then I'm welcome, Lao Zhao."
"It's okay, it's okay, I'll come back more in the future......"
After the guests left, they never saw Liu Ruiping's son who came to the store in the morning, and his father also reserved a seat for him and mixed him with a pig ear, and his father said that the pig ear did not cost money, in order to make up for the compensation for letting the child run away in vain yesterday.
After cleaning up the guests' tables, it was almost 14 o'clock, and it was estimated that there were no more guests, so my father fried two dishes and ate them with Zhao.
"Look, Dad wants to tell you something."
"Well, okay, I'll listen, you say,"
"Looking for a child, have you missed your mother all these years, do you want to go to her?"
"Dad, why did you suddenly remember to talk about this."
"For so many years, whenever I see you, I can always think of your mother, in fact, your mother was ......"
"Don't say it, Dad, I know it all!" Zhao Xun suddenly interrupted his father's words.
"You got it? Have you been to her? ”
"Yes, I'm sorry Dad!"
"Alas, mother and son are connected, I know that I can't control it, but I still have the hope in my heart that you will not leave me and this home."
"Dad, why do you say that, aren't I still fine at our house now, how could I leave!"
"If it weren't for your mother's absence, you wouldn't have come back, I asked someone to ask me about your mother's current situation a few days ago, and then I came back and said that your mother passed away a few years ago, and I haven't dared to tell you, I'm afraid of you, I'm afraid you're sad."
"My mom died miserably, I know!"
"It's me who I'm sorry for your mom, can you forgive dad?"
"There is nothing to forgive or not forgive, I said it, I believe in fate, this may be her life, it is my life, I only have you and my brother now, I don't want to lose anything, I just want to cherish the present, cherish you."
"Good boy, I'm sorry for you two, as long as you can forgive Dad!"
"I may have had a grudge in my heart before, but now I don't blame you."
"Child, in a few days, the store will not be busy, let's go to your mother's grave to see her."
"Okay."