Chapter 16: The Father's Illness

After a meal of food and clothing, my mother and I embarked on the road to study. Maybe it's a bit of a misuse of the word. Because I said I don't really like to study.

From time to time, there were strange glances on campus, blaming my mother for looking younger.

In the afternoon, I was in a meditation class, so I just took my mother to the appropriate classroom and promised to wait to pick her up.

I walked a few steps and saw her sitting in the last row, like the innocence of my school when I was young.

I laughed at the teacher who didn't think she was the school leader to listen to the class, and then took the class seriously, that would be interesting.

My teacher Sixiu combed his hair like Chen Duxiu in a history book, and he really looked like an antique professor with a pair of glasses.

When I first came into contact with this course, I thought that it was the same as the ideology and morality in elementary school, it was nothing more than some brainwashing stuff, so I didn't listen to it.

In the first class, after listening to the teacher explain the format of the final exam, everyone had the same idea as I do now, and it was okay to mix. It's a great opportunity to sleep and recuperate.

And I mostly chose to take out a copy of the current popular "Those Current Affairs of the Ming Dynasty" and look at it.

I don't know why my impression of the Ming Dynasty is always so vague, I have been familiar with the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty since I was a child, except for Zhu Yuanzhang, the traitor Yan Song, and Zheng Chenggong who is a little farther away, there is nothing profound.

This book took me into a new era, and it turned out that history books can be so interesting. It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had killed so many people. It turned out that Liu Ji ended up like this.

I often look forward to this, Lao Shi, come out with a book of "Those Things in the Yuan Dynasty" soon, and save those of us who don't like to read or have a text reading disorder.

I now remember that I relied on "Hundred Lectures" to make up for the history of junior high school, and later everyone knew that Yi Zhongtian who talked about the Three Kingdoms, Ma Ruifang who talked about Zhai, Liu Xinwu who talked about Dream of Red Mansions, and Kong Qingdong who talked about Jin Yong were all popular.

I thought that such a beautiful book would make me intoxicated and unable to extricate myself, but Mr. Sixiu's unique views on things really attracted me, and many times.

He speaks of the extinction of nations without cultural continuity, the discord between husband and wife that he speaks of is nothing more than a difference in the concept of love, and he asserts that all morality is based on economic trade-offs.

Later, I would sit in the first two rows of his class, in fact, what he talked about was philosophy in my opinion, and I liked his style of daring to make assertions, I liked such hardcore professors, behind closed doors, what they didn't dare to say.

The bell always rings on time, urging us to the next place, the next scene. Once upon a time, we were used to this kind of rush-like life.

My mother was still sitting in her seat, and she didn't get up until she saw me come in.

"I'm old, I don't know a lot of words." She sighed.

"It's nothing, I don't know a lot of people, and I was stumped by three dirt a few days ago." I comforted.

The last time I walked the long tree-lined path with her was when I was in high school, and she said, "I can run several laps on a track like this." ”

Now she said to me, "Mom will have to rely on you in the future." ”

After a while she found a secluded place, sat on a cold, lonely bench, and watched me quietly. After a while, he pulled out a piece of colored letter paper with a delicate pattern from his pocket.

Looking at the familiar badge pattern, isn't it the love letter I want to give to Xu Qing.

During Couples Experience Week, I also wanted to be as brave as those who confessed on April Fool's Day, but apparently I didn't take that step in the end.

"You're rummaging through my stuff again?" My first reaction was to express inexplicability for her behavior.

"You still like to put things in books, and it's still the book "Thousands of Rivers, Thousands of Mountains."

"So what, didn't I tell you not to rummage through my things?" I continued to blame her.

"I've read the content, do you have someone you like?" She asked in a slow tone.

I knew she was going to oppose it again, as long as I was a girl from childhood to adulthood. She either warned me or went to the other parent, which made me lose face in front of everyone.

They will say how I have such an unreasonable parent, like a madman, persecuting delusions all day long.

So this time I didn't wait for her to open my mouth and decided to turn my face with her.

"That's right, I don't just have someone I like, I also took her home, we sleep in the same bed, and we plan to move to the province after graduation. So what, I'm an adult now, and I don't have to worry about you. I don't want you to care. ”

I want to be angry with her, but I can't see the way she interrogates me, and I won't be silent like before.

"Yes, you're an adult, but you're not old enough to get married, are you? What do you want to do? ”

She looked at me fiercely, and she had a feeling of hating iron but not steel.

"I don't want to do anything, I just don't want to see you, I'm annoyed when I see you, okay."

I turned around and didn't want to look her in the eye.

"Seeing that I'm annoying, it's not that I've been taking care of you with hard work all these years, you have starved to death, you know? Now say it's annoying to see me, you white-eyed wolf. How do I give birth to ......?"

She was starting to get a little emotional, and although I didn't look at her, I could tell it in her tone.

"Where have you got?"

She pulled me to her side, and the corners of her eyes were a little ruddy, and the crow's feet could no longer be hidden.

"You don't need your pretense of concern, don't you just want to break us up? Then I tell you that I will not listen to you this time. ”

I shook off her hand, and I still remember her eyes, full of disappointment.

"Okay, if you insist on doing this, then I want to see that girl, and you will take me tomorrow." She finally gave in.

"Impossible, don't you think I don't know what you're going to do, and I'm going to threaten people again, or find the other party's parents, don't you feel ashamed? If you don't feel ashamed, I'll be ashamed of you. ”

I was mentally prepared to say this, and her hand finally went up but didn't fall.

"What's the matter, I'm reluctant, you're beating, it's better to beat me to death."

She lowered her hand, tears already unconsciously creeping up on her face, and then turned to wipe them.

In fact, after saying these words, my heart will ache faintly from time to time, but I am determined to say it today, and I will never regret it.

"Xiao Yi." After a while, she gently called me by my nickname.

"Don't be ......," I yelled viciously, just as a classmate was passing by, so I lowered my voice until I was silent.

And my mother immediately turned her back to wipe away her tears, put down her hand, and pretended that nothing happened.

After the classmates left, she slowly spoke.

Naturally, I got impatient and decided to walk away, until I heard the words she said, "Xiao Yi, your father is sick and hospitalized, gallstones, and is about to be operated." ”

I stopped, "What did you say?" ”

I couldn't believe the news, but it didn't look like a lie.

"Originally, your father was going to come with me, but suddenly his condition deteriorated......" she began to sobble again.

"Wasn't it good before? How I never knew he had this disease. ”

It's a little hard for me to accept, in my eyes he has always been in good health, has he been hiding it from me? Do you adults like to hide from children so much?

"Actually, he found out a long time ago, and he has endured it, and he won't let me tell you. But I think you should know the truth by now. ”

"Does my sister know about this?"

She shook her head, "Your sister is at the beginning of her career, you shouldn't tell her, and you shouldn't tell her." ”

"Understood, I wouldn't be so stupid."

I turned around and picked up the lady's purse she had placed on the bench, "Let's go, go home and pack my things, I'll buy a ticket to go back to see him now." ”

"No, he said that you don't have to worry about him, and he also said that you study hard is the best blessing for him."

She handed me this word in a serious voice, and I felt that I was the most unfilial person in the world at the moment. Especially when I saw my mother crying angrily in front of me.

We didn't communicate on the way back that day, and both of us were silent, but the main reason was that I didn't want to talk.

Dad is sick and doesn't let his son go back to visit, what bullshit.