Chapter 6: The Lives of Multiple Stepfathers
Since he was a child, Roland secretly swore that he would never be like his mother Lan Xiaoyun in the future.
Although in the eyes of the world, her mother Lan Xiaoyun is so kind, gentle, virtuous, and empathetic.
However, Roland hated this kindness, gentleness, virtuousness, and understanding.
Because, it is this kindness, gentleness, virtuousness, and empathy that made Lan Xiaoyun a scumbag harvester, and finally buried herself.
The first husband Lan Xiaoyun met, that is, Roland's biological father, a man named Yu Chenyi who likes to look for flowers and willows.
Although his name is Chenyi, this man has nothing to do with sincerity from the inside out. It is said that among his many girlfriends, this merry man chose Lan Xiaoyun as his wife, in addition to being beautiful, mainly because this wife is really too sensible, no matter how she spends her days hugging outside, she can clean up her sadness and feelings, pack up everything at home, and wait for him to come home.
What about cheating? What about domestic violence? The sensible Lan Xiaoyun still abides by the three obediences and four virtues, and can keep one day at a time, and one time at a time, until this husband dies of illness.
Although the first husband died, he left Lan Xiaoyun with a posthumous son, that is, Yu Lan, whose name originated from a poem that the late ex-husband liked, "Step Yu Ma Yu Lan Gaoxi, gallop Jiaoqiu and stop".
When Lan was two years old, Lan Xiaoyun was forced to live under pressure, and at the suggestion of her mother's family, she married her second husband, who was twenty years older than herself, that is, Luo Lan's stepfather Luo Gang.
At that time, Luo Gang was already in his forties, and he had never been able to marry a daughter-in-law, not because of material shortcomings, but because no family was willing to marry their daughter to such a man who was not doing his job all day long and was idle.
But Lan Xiaoyun's family feels that they are already married for the second time, so they don't have to be so picky, and although Luo Gang has no quality, no character, no principles, and no bottom line, he has a little money! Moreover, Luo Gang's parents had just passed away at that time, leaving Luo Gang with a five-story small building for rent collection, plus a billiard hall that he had been operating, which was more than enough than the top, and more than enough, if nothing else, it would be more than enough to support Lan Xiaoyun and his wife.
Since then, Yu Lan has changed to Roland.
Lan Xiaoyun's remarriage not only started a new round of tragedy for herself, but also tore open the hole in Roland's dark life.
Compared with the first husband's search for flowers and willows, the second husband is not as good as that, not only lustful, but also good at gambling.
In the second year of marrying Luo Gang, Lan Xiaoyun gave birth to a second baby girl.
Luo Gang had a child in his later years, and he was very doting on this baby girl, holding it in his mouth for fear of melting, holding it in the palm of his hand for fear of falling, and gave the baby girl a nice name, Luo Mingzhu.
As soon as Luo Gang got home, his biggest hobby was to hold Luo Mingzhu and call softly: "Mingzhu, Mingzhu, my baby Mingzhu, my pearl in my palm." The baby girl also responded with "babbling and babbling", a picture of quiet and happy years.
Looking at this picture, a weak smile will appear on Lan Xiaoyun's face during the confinement period, although Luo Gang has never been so gentle with himself, but it is enough to be able to enjoy the warmth of this kind of home.
Lan Xiaoyun's smile still didn't last long.
After giving birth, Lan Xiaoyun was taken home by Luo Gang on the same day, but unexpectedly, she had heavy bleeding after giving birth, and she was infected after returning home, causing her to close her eyes forever before she finished the confinement period.
When sorting out the relics, it is said that under Lan Xiaoyun's pillow, all the loose hair fell out, and it was a strand of hair when he grabbed it.
She must have been too tired to close her eyes so peacefully, maybe another world would make her more relaxed.
That year, Roland was only three years old, but he was forever without his own parents, and he was reduced to a person who had no emotional roots.
Lan Xiaoyun's sudden death made Luo Gang understand the fragility of life, the impermanence of the world, and no one knew when the accident would come back to his side.
It just so happened that at that time, there was a friend who did insurance, and he sold insurance to Luo Gang from time to time. Under the introduction of this insurance officer friend, Luo Gang immediately bought an insurance policy for Luo Mingzhu.
And Roland, she is what she is, anyway, she is not biological.
Once a person sees and realizes his situation, he can only gradually change it in the process of commitment, and since ancient times, there is no other way.
In the case of a bowl of uneven water, Luo Mingzhu is like a dou who can't be supported, and his grades have been the first since he was a child, while Luo Lan, on the other hand, has the first grade in the period, and he has won various scholarships softly.
However, the two sisters have inherited Lan Xiaoyun's beauty, but in terms of appearance, the two sisters look surprisingly similar. Although the two sisters have no impression of their mother, especially Luo Mingzhu, she has never seen her mother in person since she was born. However, when they saw the expressionless photo hanging on the shrine at home, they still had to believe what the neighbors said, they and Lan Xiaoyun were indeed carved out of a mold.
Perhaps, this is what they will look like when they grow up.
Soon, Roland was in junior high school, and his body began to develop, and at the same time, he grew up with the loneliness of his bones becoming harder and harder, and he was destined to have no one to share with in the future.
It's loneliness, not loneliness. Loneliness is just a person, loneliness is the fear of being alone, but Roland is not afraid of this loneliness.
At this time, Luo Gang's eyes were obviously different, and his temper became better. And all this made Roland feel very disgusted.
After junior high school, Roland was admitted to boarding high school, and since then, she has secretly vowed that she will never return to that so-called home again, and never face the neighbors who point fingers at her.
The unbearable growth made Roland lose trust in the people around him, and always looked at everything that happened around him with a pair of doubts.
After three years of hard work, Roland was finally admitted to a university far from home. At this time, Luo Mingzhu's high school entrance examination was countdown, and his father Luo Gang spent tens of thousands of yuan to whisper, begging his grandfather to sue his grandmother, and finally let her go to Roland's high school.
After graduating from university, Roland moved to Shenzhen, which was further away from home.
At this time, Luo Mingzhu, who was repeating his studies, finally failed the second college entrance examination under the careful cultivation of various training classes and cram schools, and became a social person at the same time as Roland.
This social person under 20 years old, because of his father's habit of gambling and lost all his family property, and he still owed a lot of gambling debts, he could only follow his father to hide in Tibet, and came up with a way to make money that ordinary people can't think of - cheating insurance.
Luo Gang contacted Neiying, who worked in the insurance company, and actually had such an opportunity, in a car accident, an unclaimed homeless woman became Luo Mingzhu's stand-in, and the on-site investigators and medical investigators all issued false certificates. A few months later, a huge amount of insurance was paid into Luo Gang's account.
It's just that since then, Luo Mingzhu has become an invisible person without an ID card.
I remember someone on the Spring Festival Gala sketch one year: "The most painful thing in life is that people die, and the money hasn't been spent!" ”
Luo Gang, who didn't spend his life, suddenly died of cancer not long after getting this huge amount of insurance money.