Chapter 34: The rain pours
At noon, my dad came over to call me for dinner, and I was very happy, it turned out that my dad didn't go to work today.
"Dad, why didn't you go today?"
"Well, I was going to go, but ...... I took a leave of absence and asked Uncle Lu to help with the shift. ”
"Oh, that's great, Dad, what are we going to eat for lunch?"
"I made you your favorite braised pork stewed potato, let's go."
"It's great~ I'm going to eat one more bowl today." I smiled happily and held a big umbrella with my father, so happy.
Back then, when I lived with my father in his unit, my father would occasionally cook for me to improve the taste. My dad is a good cook, and he can cook a lot of dishes, but my favorite food is braised pork and stewed potatoes. The meat melts in your mouth, the potato flour is not rotten, and the fragrance is hot, which is simply irresistible.
"Xiaoxiao, why didn't you come over for breakfast in the morning?"
"Oh, I'm not hungry, and it's raining, I'm too lazy to move." Actually, I thought it was only my stepmother, and I didn't want to see her face. I made such a fuss yesterday, and I definitely won't look good today. If I had known that my father was home, I would have gone in a hurry, and I wouldn't have been hungry all morning.
Lifting the curtain, a scent came to my nose. I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at my dad with a smile. Dad tilted his head slightly, meaning, get in quickly.
On the table, there are several dishes: braised pork and stewed potatoes, stir-fried beans, spicy chicken, mushroom greens, mapo tofu, seaweed egg drop soup...... It's so rich!
At first glance, it is Dad's craftsmanship, with all the color, flavor and taste, and it is well matched!
I secretly looked at my stepmother, maybe it was the reason why my father was there, my stepmother's face was much gentler, not as cold as usual. She packed the last bowl of rice and put it on the table.
"Yingying, come over for dinner." My sister is doing her homework in the back room.
"Oh, here we go."
"Yo, there's no drink at home, let Xiaoxiao go buy you a bottle?" The stepmother looked at the empty cabinet and asked Dad.
Dad doesn't drink, but he loves drinks, and there are usually two bottles at home, and Dad has them when he comes back and wants to drink. However, today, the drink is gone, and it is estimated that it was drunk by my sister again.
"Well, I'll buy it." I took the money from my stepmother and prepared to go out.
"Sister, I'm going too, you wait for me, I'll change my shoes."
"It's raining outside, don't go, I'll come back as soon as I buy it."
"No, I'm going." Yingying stubbornly insisted, I had no choice but to wait for her.
She quickly changed her shoes, grabbed another umbrella, and followed me out.
"Sister, I actually want to go to the commissary to buy something, so I just happened to go together."
"What do you want to buy, can I bring it back for you?"
"No, I want to go." Ying Ying said and walked forward.
The kiosk is not far from this building, and you can walk through a basketball court and cross the path, which is only a hundred meters away.
Oops, my shoelaces were open, and I looked down to see that it was raining, and if I didn't re-tie them, they would get wet on the ground. I didn't want the clean shoelaces to get dirty, so I said to my sister, "Yingying, you wait for me, my shoelaces are open." ”
"Then I'll go first, and I'll wait for you at the commissary."
I crouched down, with an umbrella around my neck and my hands tied awkwardly with my shoelaces.
Suddenly, a loud collision was heard, and at the same time, there was a sharp "quack"-
I was startled, quickly looked up, and rushed to the commissary without thinking.
Just in front of the commissary, my sister was lying on the ground, and there was a pool of blood on the ground~
I was stunned, how could this be, I hurriedly called my sister: "Yingying, Yingying, how are you?" My sister ignored me, and I ran home like crazy, shouting as I ran: "Mom, Mom, my sister was hit by a car!" Mom, Mom......"
When I ran home, my dad and stepmom were eating, and when they heard me crying, they threw their chopsticks and asked me, "What did you say!!" ”
"Yingying, Yingying, she was hit by a car~"
Dad and stepmom hurried out, and I followed.
The rain was still falling, and when I ran over, my father was already holding my sister in his arms and sitting in the car of the person who hit her.
My stepmother followed me and got into the car, and my father said to me, "You go back first." He shouted at the person who hit his sister, "Go to the hospital!" ”
Watching them leave quickly, I stood there crying.
The uncle from the commissary came out and handed me an umbrella, "Xiaoxiao, don't cry, your sister will be fine, you should go home first, don't get sick in the rain." ”
I took the umbrella and took home my underground sister's umbrella, which had been badly deformed.
Tears and rain are intertwined, and it is impossible to tell what it is.
I went back, packed up the chopsticks that my father and stepmother had thrown on the ground, and a bowl of overturned rice, and sat at the dining table in a daze.
It's all my fault, if I hadn't looked down, my sister wouldn't have been like this. It's all my fault, if I hadn't stopped my sister, she wouldn't have been fine. It's all me, it's all my fault. I felt so guilty that I felt that everything about my sister was because of me.
It was a good table of dishes, a rare meal with my father, and a rare vacation for my father, just like that, in my negligence, it was ruined......
I couldn't take another bite of this meal, and I sat here, anxious, but there was nothing I could do.
Guilt is a torture that makes it impossible for me to forgive myself.
If something really happened to my sister, how should I explain it to my stepmother, how to explain it to my father, and how to explain it to my conscience......
I fantasize about everything possible, the worst, the best, even ...... I prayed to Heaven to let me go and bear this torment in my sister's place. I am willing, even if I am allowed to die, I am willing.
Time passed minute by minute, hour, two hours, three hours...... I was terrified when my father and stepmother came back, and there was no news. It's like falling into a black hole with no light, bottomless, so quiet that you can hear the wind blowing your hair.
I froze here, motionless.
My sister just hit me, I don't really know how badly it was. In a panic, I just wanted to tell my father and stepmother quickly, and I didn't look at my sister's injury at all. I prayed in my heart, hoping that God would have mercy on my sister, and that my sister would not suffer too much harm when she was so young. If I could, I would trade my luck for my sister's safety.
My heart began to ache, and guilt and worry were tormenting me alternately, what could I do to help my sister through this difficult time?
It was getting dark, and I put away the afternoon's food from the table to the kitchen. I didn't eat a bite, I couldn't eat a bite. In my stomach, it was like being choked by something, and I wasn't hungry at all.
I sat on the couch and the tears flowed uncontrollably.
I hated myself, and I began to wonder, could I really be the mourning star that my stepmother said, the broom star? I shouldn't be close to people, I should live alone, so that it won't affect the people around me, and the people around me will be safe and healthy......
I was blaming myself when my phone rang at home without knowing who.
I followed the voice and ran to the back room to see that it was my stepmother's, and the caller on my phone was my father.
I quickly picked it up, "Hey? Dad, how is Yingying? "I tried to refrain from crying.
"Xiaoxiao, we won't be back tonight, you take care of yourself, Yingying is fine, just had surgery, everything is fine."
Hanging up the phone, I was spread on the floor.