Chapter 26: Back to the Hour (3)
According to unreliable sources, a neighbor's sister who lives on the first floor and was recently promoted to the rank of Great Mother went to the balcony to open the window to cool off after feeding the baby in the middle of the night.
Because it was too close to the stairway, I heard the following conversation.
Later, according to Che Songhe's understanding of his parents, the situation of that night was restored as follows.
"Can't you just settle down?" Father said to Mother.
He thinks his attitude when he speaks is okay.
The mother glanced at the father out of the corner of her eye with disdain, and couldn't believe where he had the confidence to say this.
She arrogantly criticized him for his actions tonight.
"You don't have to do these boring things. It's only a matter of time before we get divorced, I have no feelings for you, and I just came back to fulfill my responsibilities as a mother, you know this.
Now we should be together and dispersed, you are so inexplicable, and colleagues will have a lot of speculation when they see it.
In the past, I put forward opinions to express dissatisfaction, but you didn't care, but now the grievances are deep, and it is useless to do anything. ”
"You're amazing!"
The mother's eyes and words caused exponential damage to the father. The original plan for a peaceful deal collapsed in an instant.
He has maintained the image of a tough guy for decades and has always been successful, and outsiders have avoided three points when they see him speaking loudly, and the most disgusting thing in his life is the accusations and ridicule of others.
At the moment, he spoke in a low voice, and he didn't want to be sarcastic, but he suddenly became angry, his dark face turned blue and purple, and his speech was a little incoherent.
"Look, who's such a powerful person. You've got a new love, and you're doing great, but of course you don't have any feelings for me and your children.
You don't have any points in your own heart, your story is known to everyone in the unit, and I am ashamed to see people, you want to leave, is there such a cheap thing, who do you want to use as a stepping stone?
You're not young anymore, you're a mother of a child, and those people outside are just trying to deceive you, take advantage of it and find an excuse to slip away.
You have to be clear-headed, don't ignore your family, and end up alone. Father lowered his throat and gritted his teeth.
"That's their jealousy, rumor-mongering!"
The mother shouted angrily, at an astonishing volume, as if to make this aggrieved accusation pierce the sky and cross the galaxy.
"Only a brainless fool would believe such nonsense.
Rumors have always been based on one mouth, and when they see others better than them, they are as uncomfortable as being bitten by ants, and they have to make others unstable to be happy.
They just expected that you loved face so much that they deliberately said this to exacerbate the conflict, even if it was nothing, you would have a big quarrel with me because others said it. ”
Her fingers moved up and down her arm to show him how humans are bitten by ants.
"Look at our family, from marriage to now, both hands are empty, there is no deposit, the money has been eaten and drunk by you, and those friends who drink and meat, we have been left behind by our colleagues.
Other people's families change every year, but in our family, you don't love your children or cherish your family, but you won't mess around all day long if you have a sense of responsibility.
Don't talk about those useless things, I don't want to talk to you for a minute or a second, if you can hurry up and go through the formalities, I'd rather leave penniless. ”
The neighbor's sister, who was listening through the wall, kept an eye on the baby in the cradle and thought to herself, this is not wrong at all, and it is undignified to count all kinds of unbearable things when it is irretrievable.
The loss of emotion can easily disintegrate a family, and when the trivial contradictions are reflected, you have to cheer up and deal with it.
The mother wanted to leave, but was grabbed by the father and dragged to the second floor.
It started with the sound of an argument downstairs, and after a while shifted positions.
The key twisted the keyhole, and the blue steel entrance door of the home was violently opened, and the silence was broken by the sound of a "clang" like an alien invasion.
After a small movement, it was smashed like a vent, and the sound of cicadas on the summer night was silent for a moment.
The loud slamming of the door caused their poor daughter, who had been squinting for a moment, to open her eyes, and her parents, in their rage, had always forgotten that there was a child at home.
She clutched the quilt in confusion, listening to the movement of the room outside with bated breath, and she didn't dare to come out.
After a brief silence, the mother's hysterical cries were heard, accompanied by feelings of despair, resentment, and disgust.
The sound of objects rolling down and smashing, the dull sound of collision during scuffling, and the sound of scolding each other one after another.
The girl sat up and stared blankly at the shadow of the falling poplar leaves on the windowpane.
Her home had long been a battlefield of war, and the words of attack were the weapon of hurt, and she was almost accustomed to it, but the moment of repeated outbursts still terrified her.
At this point, the parents are like a completely different person, they are fierce, violent, and destructive.
People who are emotionally out of control lose their minds and engage in many horrible and unpredictable behaviors, and the children who go through them feel tormented every minute and every second.
Will the wind be raging soon, those poplar leaves twisted together like an abominable face at this moment.
Che Songhe felt that it was not others who were hateful, but like himself.
It all seemed to be her fault, otherwise how could it be.
Did they fight because of her bad grades, because she wasn't pretty, because she spent too much pocket money, or because she talked back when she was reprimanded.
She was thirteen years old.
Her mother was afraid that her father would be angry with her, so she did not leave alone, and could only live a miserable life in disgust and rejection, which was not what she wanted, and she was carrying a heavy sense of guilt for it.
Nor could she anger her father.
The bossy father is too likely to get into trouble at school and interrupt his studies, just to prove that he has authority that cannot be provoked, and if someone dares to do it, then he will make that person look good.
She can't go against him, she can only go with it.
Can she find anything else she can do at this age except studying, she can't think of it, she must make up her mind to find a way to survive under her father's hands, and plump her wings.
If she could escape from this frightened day, she wished that they would divorce as soon as possible, just to be clean.
She made a simple idea and plan for her departure.
First, with my father's permission, I left home and went to my grandmother's house.
His face is not damaged, and he does not overdo things.
My grandmother was kind-hearted, she only thought about the good and didn't remember the bad for everyone, and she had a better relationship with him and had a greater grasp.
After a period of time, I have adapted to the ease of not having children at home, and it will be troublesome to pick it up, how to discipline and raise is a big problem, and then talk about how to stay with my grandmother all the time, and it will naturally come naturally.
The thought of being homeless at such a young age was like a torrential rainstorm that drenched her from head to toe.