Chapter 19: Mu Shengnan's Past
Wu Wei stayed for two days, and learned about Mu Shengnan's unknown side from Mu Yuan's mouth.
Mu Shengnan has a beginning of Chinese, and in the rural area is also regarded as a well-behaved intellectual in the past. Thanks to the ex-husband relationship at that time, he got a job in a city factory, and his small life was prosperous.
Mu Yuan took out a few black-and-white photos and a color photo with a dry cigarette in his mouth.
The black-and-white photos are all Mu Shengnan's appearance when he was a child, very handsome. Only one color photo is a wedding photo, which is more beautiful than his mother Xie Lan.
Very beautiful, very quiet, Mu Yuxun is probably influenced by his mother. Wu Wei recalled, if you don't recall, I really didn't realize that my aunt has changed so much in more than ten years, although Aunt Mu was haggard when she was a child, she was more gentle and beautiful than her mother, it should be that Aunt Mu is more like a mother, so I think she is more beautiful, because she is not a mother, so she strives to make herself a good mother, but it is her own mother because she is indeed a mother, not like a mother.
Grandpa Mu continued to reminisce,
Just because he picked up an irrelevant girl, Mu Shengnan's maternal instinct can't bear to abandon it, if he can't find his biological parents, then he will be her mother, and Mu Shengnan did this.
But Mu Shengnan's husband is a government employee, and these gossips will affect his career, so he won't do anything. Even Mu Shengnan's parents persuaded her, saying that they would take the child away and raise it, but it would not work. Mu Shengnan's reason is also very simple and simple, she can't let her children grow up in the countryside, she herself is a rural person, and she knows how difficult it is for rural people to go to the city, in that era, household registration was like a shackle, and hard work may not be able to change.
For this reason, her husband divorced her, and the house was given to her, which was also regarded as an apology, this farewell, never seen again, the only man in her life, she didn't blame him.
It's just that in the countryside, there are many rules in the village, and there is a lot of gossip, the two brothers can't tolerate her, and her parents are angry and don't let her enter the house, just like that, Mu Shengnan raised Mu Yuxun alone, and he relied on a meager salary to worry about food and clothing.
Later, Mu Shengnan was laid off, in order for his daughter to continue to go to school, Mu Shengnan did all the work, sweeping the streets, selling vegetables, moving bricks, repairing roads, and almost did all the jobs that could make money in five or six years.
It wasn't until two months ago that the child, whom he hadn't seen with his family for almost 17 years, returned to the village. On the day they came back, Mu Yuan and his wife could no longer recognize her as their daughter, her body was a little swollen, and she was very old.
Even so, the Mu family was happy, and the eldest brother and second brother also came back to see their sister, no matter what, blood was thicker than blood. If it weren't for knowing that Mu Shengnan's life would not be long, it would probably be a rare celebration.
Listening to Grandpa Mu's story about Aunt Mu Shengnan, Wu Wei was depressed, why are good people not rewarded.
Wu Wei wanted to accompany his aunt to the last journey of her life, only two weeks.
"Wu Wu, you should go back, when you are admitted to the university, you must come to see me and tell me."
"Auntie, can I call you Mommy?"
Mu Shengnan smiled, a kind smile that a mother treats her child.
Wu Wei didn't dare to cry, and he couldn't laugh, a large bag of thoughts and wishes in his hands, looking at the rough needlework of this sweater, there were not many words of cultural heritage on the envelope, but it was full of a mother's love.
This woman, who has never given birth, has done what countless mothers can't.
Embarking on the journey home, Wu Wei has grown up at this moment, and he wants to live as a man who can be relied on by others. This look, this hope, is goodbye. Wu Wei knew that the next time he came back, he would bring Yu Xun and do a filial piety that could never be conveyed.