"Your home is so far away," the journey was tiring, and the crowding during the Spring Festival made Huayan complain.

I smiled, dragged my suitcase off the coach, looked up at the unfamiliar streets and unfamiliar houses in front of me, and vaguely remembered that I hadn't been back to my hometown for seven years, no wonder I felt so strange.

However, although the county town has changed a lot, the houses we live in are still standing in the cold wind, and there is not much change.

My father is an ordinary civil servant, we live in a staff house, more than ten years of age makes the appearance of the six houses look very dilapidated, fortunately the greenery in the family yard is not bad, in the dry yellow lawn, the familiar basketball court still exists, and there are some half-used fitness equipment farther away, these things were only added when I was in college, and I didn't have the opportunity to use them, after all, I rarely went home at that time, except for the Chinese New Year.

As soon as we walked into the courtyard, we heard the security guard poke his head out of the guard room and ask, "Who are you looking for?" ”

"Hello master, I'm Yun Xueli's daughter, and I just came back from outside for the New Year," I smiled at him and took the initiative to explain my identity, the security guard obviously knew my father, and muttered a few words in confusion when he heard this, "Isn't Yun Xueli only a son, when did he have such a big daughter?" ”

I saw that he no longer blocked and had no intention of continuing to talk, so I didn't hear his muttering, and pulled Huayan towards the courtyard.

It's no wonder that the security guards feel strange, even I feel that there is no warmth of home here, how can outsiders be familiar with me?

When we moved here, I was only 11 years old, my mother was already terminally ill, and she was completely dependent on medicine, and my father was depressed all year round due to the high medical bills every year.

The moment I knocked on the door, I remembered my mother's reluctance when she was dying, her thin fingers always held my hand, and she refused to let go, and tears kept rolling down her eyes that could not be opened.

Her eyes blurred unconsciously, and when her stepmother opened the door, she was obviously stunned.

I immediately raised my head, blinked desperately and swallowed the mist in my eyes back, and only when my expression recovered did I look at her faintly and called, "Aunt Sun." ”

My stepmother's name is Sun Youxia, she is a full eight years younger than my father, she looks like she is in her early forties, and she is well maintained, with red lips and white teeth, curly hair, and a well-maintained figure, she looks like my sister rather than an elder.

Hearing me call her, she quickly reacted, and greeted with a smile on her face, "Yo, it's Xiaoya who is back, what a rare guest, you see, I don't say hello when I come back, I asked your dad to pick you up at the station, hurry up and enter the house, it's cold outside." ”

As she spoke, she reached over to carry my suitcase, but I politely excused herself, and I pulled Hua Yan to introduce, "This is my friend Hua Yan, who came back with me for the New Year." ”

"Oh, hello, hello, since you are Xiaoya's friend, naturally you are not an outsider, come in quickly."

Under the greeting of Sun Youxia, we entered the house, but we felt very cramped, and there was no warmth and cordiality at home.

Seeing us standing in the hall, Sun Youxia hurriedly beckoned us to sit down, turned around and ran to boil water and pour tea, and then took me to the guest room, explaining slightly apologetically, "Xiaoya, you see that you are now also settled in a big city, and you usually don't have much time to come back, so we didn't leave a room for you, and this room is usually not occupied, so I'll put on a new sheet and quilt for you, if you dislike me, I'll let your dad go out and find a hotel for you to stay in for a few days, what do you think?" ”

I smiled indifferently and said, "It doesn't matter, I'll go back to Nancheng in the third year of junior high school, and it's okay to stay for a few days." ”

"Leaving so soon?" She showed a reluctant look on her face, but a trace of joy flashed in her eyes, "Your father has been talking about you, hoping that you will stay at home for a longer time, you will go back so soon, he will definitely be sad." ”

"Where's my dad?" I pretended not to see the joy in her eyes, and quietly changed the subject.

"As for work, they won't have a holiday until the 27th of the lunar month, and the unit is still very busy these days."

"Then I'll pack my bags first, and I'll talk about it when my dad comes back."

Seeing that I seemed to have a plan to end the topic, Sun Youxia said "yes" with a curtled expression, but looked back at me as she walked, with thoughtful eyes in her eyes, and I don't know if I suspected that the purpose of my coming back this time was not very simple, it was really the heart of a villain.

I beckoned Hua Yan in, although the room is not big, but the bed is not small, more than two meters wide, enough for the two of us to make do.

Originally, I also planned to stay in a hotel, but seeing Sun Youxia expecting me to leave so much, I didn't feel very comfortable. Besides, this is my home, and I have a share, and she is a foreigner, so why should I fulfill her and make myself unhappy?

Therefore, when Sun Youxia brought the clean sheets and quilt covers to change, I unceremoniously took them, and stuffed the dirty quilt sheets that had just been changed to her, pretending to be polite and said, "Aunt Sun, then please wash these up." ”

She hurriedly took it, "Why are you so polite, it's not an outsider." "That said, before leaving, she looked back at us from time to time, as if we were going to steal something from her, and even Huayan, an outsider, saw her hypocrisy, stretched out her hand, slammed the door, and completely cut off her uneasy gaze.

The two of us looked at each other and smiled, quickly changed into clean sheets and quilt covers, and simply stuffed the contents of the suitcase into the half-empty wardrobe.

"That's your stepmother, isn't it?" Hua Yan sat on the edge of the bed, bored with two small thin legs and asked.

"Can you see that?" I didn't look back, but my heart was a little sour.

"Of course, if it were your biological mother, she would definitely not be like this, her eyes are full of calculations and suspicions, and she is not a good person at first glance."

I turned around, leaned my back against the windowsill, looked at her and said, "Yes, my mother died early, she married later, and she has a son with her, and she is not related to me." But my dad liked his son and changed his son's surname to Yun. ”

"How can this be?" Huayan pouted and asked me very unhappily, "Is there any difference between a son and a daughter?" It's really strange, isn't it all the blood of the Yun family? ”

I don't know how to answer her, in a country like ours, there is indeed a legacy of the concept of a daughter who marries out and spills water, so most people think that the son is their own family, and the daughter will marry someone else's family sooner or later, so the continuation of the incense This kind of big thing naturally depends on the son to complete.

Even an intellectual, like my father, who had read books, still thought that his son was the heir, and his daughter was just a passerby. Even if that son is not his own, just because his surname is Yun, the child born in the future will also be surnamed Yun.

I sighed for a few minutes, and a man's cough came from outside the door, and I knew that my father was back, and my emotions became nervous for no reason.

Sure enough, two minutes later, someone knocked on the door, and the man's low and slightly hoarse voice came into his ears, "Xiaoya, you're back, it's me, I'm your father." ”