Chapter Seventy-Four: A Different Kind of Father's Love
On the last day of the National Day holiday, after breakfast, Minghao took his mother and daughter Tian Tian to the campus for a walk. Tian Tian ran in front and turned around to take pictures of her grandmother and dad with her mobile phone.
"The trees here are far worse than ours! In autumn, the trees in the mountains are colorful, just like the ones in the paintings. Ming's mother said.
"No matter how beautiful that scene is, can you catch up with your granddaughter? If you want me to say, you don't toss back and forth! Let's just stop living here! Minghao took his mother's hand and said.
"If it weren't for my eldest granddaughter, I wouldn't have come! During the day, when you go to work and go to school, I am the only one left at home, and I don't even have anyone to talk to. In this city, high-rise buildings live, but every house is tightly closed with security doors, and neighbors and neighbors do not move. It's like in our forest farm, and the neighborhood is hot! β
"Our neighbors are so nice! When I was a child, I ate every family's food. Whoever wants to make something delicious will send a bowl over! - Although the food and clothing at that time were not as good as they are now, life was very interesting! β
"In our forest farm, which family doesn't have your father's students? Everybody spoils you! - Otherwise, why is your dad so strict with you? I'm afraid you'll be spoiled! β
"Yes! Until now, Aunt Yan's second treasure has complained when he sees me, saying that as long as he fights with me, no matter who complains, he will be beaten when he goes home. β
Ming's mother said, "Your father didn't beat you. However, punish you for standing in a corner, that's often! β
"I will never forget that corner! - Every time I go back, I stand there for a while! Standing there, it was as if I heard my dad say again, 'Do you understand what's wrong with you?' ββ
"Your dad is old-fashioned!"
Ming Hao took out his mobile phone and flipped out a photo, which was the door frame of the forest farm's house. The wooden door frame was marked with notches.
"Mom, look! This picture is always on my phone! He handed the picture to his mother.
"This ,ββ are all your father's marks. Every year on your birthday, your dad pulls you to the door frame and compares your height and engraves it. - Look, from the bottom up, how many marks are there? The top one is your current height, and you haven't grown any more since then! - Alas! In a flash, so many years have passed! β
"I remember when I was a child, because my dad was too strict, you didn't get angry with my dad!"
"Isn't it? - I remember when you first entered junior high school, you wanted to buy a pair of pull-back sneakers, you said - our family can't afford it? Your dad wants you to follow those adults to pick hazelnuts! You have to earn enough money for a pair of shoes! When you came back, your hands were covered with blood from the hazel wood! - Can I not quarrel with him? β
Ming Hao put his arm around his mother's shoulders and said, "I especially understand my dad's good intentions now!" β
"Yes! Your dad has too much hope for you! The more this is the case, the more he is afraid that you will be too cowardly and not self-reliant. The mother sighed, "At the beginning, when your mother gave birth to you, you were only more than 5 pounds, just a little bit." Now ......"
"Mom, you mention this again!" Minghao stopped.
"Son, there's nothing taboo about this! Didn't your dad make everything clear before he died? Your dad is gone! I can't be with you for the rest of my life! If you recognize your biological parents and have a brother or sister, you won't be too lonely in the future! - Besides, now we all know where they are, so why not? - If the two of them don't get together, let's recognize our relatives, which may affect the harmony of other families. However, the situation is different! In that home, dad is my own dad; Mom is my own mother. None of them are used as paternity tests! - I saw your father on TV, that look, you are father and son at first glance! β
"Mom, why don't you wait?"
Ming's mother stopped, held her son's hand, and said sincerely, "Don't worry about me!" I figured it out, I'm going to do it myself this time! I brought the little sweater that Wen Min knitted for you back then! Moreover, the two of us also know each other,ββ even if we are old, but if we change, where can we change? Will they still not know each other? β
"Mom! Don't worry, okay? - Admit it, it's a matter of time. But, now is not the time! β
"If you have to admit it sooner or later, why not sooner?"
"Mom, you also know their identity and status, I really want to recognize them, that's not an explosive news! A dignified city leader suddenly appeared with an illegitimate child, that ......, this influence, you want to ...... Doesn't ruin someone's future? β
"I ......, I really didn't think about it that much! - However, we know each other in private, how can outsiders know? β
"As the saying goes: there is no such thing as an impermeable wall. - Besides, how can the affection of flesh and blood be so easy to hide? β
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"Teacher Mingββ!"
Ming Hao followed the shouting and looked, it was Chen Chuan, and there was another person.
"You don't rest during this vacation, and you still come to school? INTERVIEWER Do you still have to rehearse the play? Chen Chuan asked.
Ming Hao greeted him and said, "Give the child a day off today, and the class will start tomorrow!" - My house is nearby, take my mom for a walk. - What are you doing here? β
"Isn't your school going to build a laboratory building, let's take a look, make a budget, and prepare for the bidding!"
"Your company wants to bid, who else dares to bid?"
Chen Chuan said: "You don't understand the situation ββ, this time!" We may not win the bid. β
"It's just such a laboratory building, this project is too small for you!"
"The project is not big! However, it means a lot to our family. You think, my two children go to school here. My children graduated, and my building was completed. Years later, when the children came back to their alma mater, they saw the building and said, 'Look, this building my dad built the year I graduated!' What a memorial! This is not simply a building, but a monument! Chen Chuan said intoxicated.
Ming Hao smiled: "It is indeed of great significance!" - When my daughter graduates, what will I give her a gift? β
"So, the size of the project doesn't matter. I'm not here for profit! Make a budget first, look at the situation, as long as you don't lose money, it's OK! β
"If you bid with this mentality, I guess no one will rob you! - If you don't make money, who will do it? β
"No one grabs the best!"
"Pity the hearts of parents all over the world!"
Chen Chuan sighed: "You, don't say that! My father deserves to fail! - Did you know? I'm separated from Jiabao! - I completed the formalities before the summer vacation. β
Jia Bao said. Fortunately, this time it has no impact on the child, he is mentally prepared and understands you. Ming Hao patted Chen Chuan on the shoulder and said, "In the future, what are you going to do?" Reunited with Jiayi's mother? β
"Alas! This little in our family is enough blood! Compound? - You don't know Lu Chang, that's also a high-minded and arrogant woman! Reunited with her, how can I still have that face? I'm just an embarrassing person, so I always encounter embarrassing things! - However, it's good now, at least the family affection is there, and I'm content! Chen Chuan held Ming Hao's hand and said, "It's been more than a year, I really have to thank you!" If you don't solve it, I don't know how long this embarrassing situation in our family will last! Especially Jiabao, it has changed so much! β
"How's your relationship with Jiayi now?"
"The child is older, and his mind is heavy! I don't know if she still hates me in her heart! Her mother took her on a trip during the summer vacation. I knew that her mother was deliberately away for a while to give me a chance to reunite with my parents. But ββ, honestly, I want to be reunited with my daughter the most! Chen Chuan's eyes were a little moist.
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Lu Jiayi was at school at this time. Last night, my mother mentioned the bidding for the laboratory building, which made her very excited. She knows that over the years, her parents have built many high-rise buildings in various places, but for her, there is no special meaning except to make her living conditions better. However, this laboratory building is different. When she graduated, her parents built an experimental building at her alma mater. She is sincerely grateful to her parents for this initiative.
Since her parents divorced, Jiayi has never called Chen Chuan "Dad" again. Many things later made her understand her father more or less, but there were still obstacles in her heart to re-accept her father.
Human feelings are sometimes very delicate, especially flesh and blood. Although Jiayi can't completely let go of her father's past, she often can't help but miss her father, although she doesn't say it. Just like she can accept Jiabao as an older brother emotionally, she also hopes that Jiabao can get better in all aspects. But she hated Jiabao's mother in her bones, and hoped that her father could leave that woman as soon as possible.
When Jiayi learned the news of her father and Jiabao's mother's divorce, although her wish was fulfilled, she added a lot of melancholy to her heart. - Dad is so pathetic! Such a bold entrepreneur, in married life, is like duckweed in the water, floating around, and the direction is completely controlled by himself!
She hopes that her father can return to their original family, but she knows that this is just a good wish, and her mother will not accept her father again! Because she knows that her mother is a proud woman in her bones.
Especially after her father moved out of Jiabao and their mother and son, she felt even more sorry for her father. Of course, there is no shortage of housing in their family. However, is a house considered a home? When she remembered that her father lived alone in that house, she couldn't help but feel sad in her heart.
Last night, my mother said that my father would come to the school this morning to inspect the scene, so after breakfast, Jiayi came to the school under the pretext of an excuse. The south window of their classroom faces the site of the laboratory building. She stood in front of the window and waited, and finally saw her father's car parked at the door, and the expectant figure appeared on campus.
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She Jiayi picked up an exercise book casually, turned around and was about to leave the classroom.
"Huh? What are you doing here? β
It's Wu Haotian.
"I ......, it's too stuffy at home, come out to breathe." Wu Haotian said hesitantly.
"Your mother let you out alone?"
"Why can't I come out alone! Am I a puppet? Wu Haotian suddenly yelled.