18. The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings
I staggered all the way home with my baby like a lost ghost. My husband has been waiting anxiously for a long time. The mother-in-law lowered her head and said that she would go with us, so that we could take care of it.
I didn't say anything.
When we arrived non-stop, my father's body had already been parked in the hospital morgue.
The mother-in-law said that there was a lot of anger inside, so she waited in the car with the baby in her arms. My husband helped me and stumbled all the way to the end of the corridor in the basement of the hospital.
In the distance, I saw my stepmother and my little sister sitting alone on the bench. The dim light set off the two figures, one large and one small, particularly cold.
I suddenly remembered that when my mother died more than ten years ago, my father and I were so lost. But no matter how painful it was at that time, at least I still had my father by my side!
And now?
Half a year later, my father remarried, and soon after I had another baby with my stepmother. This was also the beginning of my estrangement with him. My stepmother's attitude towards me is not very bad, but it is difficult to be beaten and blinded.
Dad didn't know if he couldn't see or pretended to be blind, but he never asked me if there were any scars on my body anyway.
After graduating from college, we had a bad relationship with almost all contact. If it weren't for Zhang Li's insistence when I got married, I wouldn't have called him.
Several times during the Chinese New Year, he called me to go home for a reunion, but I shirked it for various reasons.
It was really his indifference that broke my heart at the beginning, and I didn't want to go back to that cold home at all. I even thought that I wouldn't be sad if he died one day.
But now I know that I really just thought it was just that!
My stepmother's cold fingers held me tightly, and tears filled her eyes as she told me about my father's disappearance.
Originally, I thought that the next day was a weekend and I didn't have to go to work, so I asked three or five friends to go to a small restaurant to catch up. After they had enough to eat, they went home.
The stepmother waited until twelve o'clock, and she didn't see him come back. I didn't answer his phone, and I called a few of his friends, all of whom said they didn't know.
The stepmother was shocked to realize that something was probably wrong. I searched all the way from the restaurant to my home. Then I saw my father's body by a ditch.
The doctor diagnosed death from angina pectoris, caused by excessive alcohol consumption.
My stepmother squeezed my hand vigorously, "I found out that he had a heart problem two years ago, and asked him not to drink, but he just didn't listen!" Now it's okay, even my life is on the line! Whining...... After I hit 120, I went to touch his body, and his feet were cold, his hands were cold, and only his stomach and chest were still a little hot. I screamed at him and rubbed him, but he didn't move. By the time the doctor arrived, his chest and stomach were cold. The doctor told me that I was out of breath. I said, why is it out of gas? His chest was still hot, huh? I can't believe it's... A big living person who was fine before, how can he say that he is gone? As he walked, his mouth was wide open and his feet were crooked. The hand seemed to be pointing at something. Whining... I think your dad must have something to say, and a place he wants to go! ”
As she spoke, she bent down with tears so much that she couldn't even stand on her feet.
My husband went to help her, and I walked to the door, grabbed the doorknob and pulled it, and an inexplicable chill immediately hit my face.
My whole body trembled.
There was a big white shadow in front of me, but I felt that the whole world was dark.
He staggered over and saw his father lying quietly on a small bed, his face covered with a white cloth. I wanted to remove the white cloth, but my trembling hands didn't listen.
When I think of this person in front of me, no matter how much I love or hate him, he has left me forever. With a thud in my heart, a wave of heat gushed out of my chest and went straight to my eyes.
I stepped forward and stiffly grasped his cold hand, and hot tears came out of my eyes.
"Daddy...... I am back. ”