Chapter 8: Mother's Suspicions
Shi Ting took her and walked away with a smile, and I slowly paced back alone.
The night breeze is slightly cool after the rain.
This is the characteristic of Xiamen, no matter how hot it is during the day, as soon as the sun sets, the temperature immediately drops, and there is never a shortage of wind. This is very similar to Xinjiang, except that it has a typical island climate, which is mild and humid.
If I go home directly, it will be there in ten minutes, and it will be fine anyway, so I specially walked around for almost an hour to exercise and eat.
Passing by the park, there was square dancing music, the same as the day my father died, and I stood and listened for a while. A strange feeling pervades my mind, time is like a blank sheet of paper, and you can go back to a certain point again with a fold in half.
I wiped my face, took away the tears that were about to ooze from the corners of my eyes, and slowly walked away.
It's almost home. I like the feeling of standing on a small bridge in the dark and watching the lights of thousands of homes, as I have written in the past when I wrote that there is a story in every bright window.
When I was studying on my own night in high school, I counted the windows of my house when I was almost home, imagining what delicious supper my mother had made for me. Others have lost weight in the college entrance examination, but I have gained several pounds. A few years have passed in the blink of an eye, and now no one is waiting for me, and the windows of my house are dark. For a moment I felt like I was the only one left in the world.
Seeing that it was still early, I went to get a haircut, shaved a board, and officially shaved my face. Aside from four years in college, this was my only haircut. Because my father has been cutting my hair since I was a child, whether I want to or not, he has always given me a soldier's barge. My mother calculated when I was 18 years old that my father saved the family at least $5,000.
I remember coming home during the winter vacation of my freshman year of college, and I refused to let my father cut off my long hair that I had kept for more than four months, and then I struggled with my father over hairstyles for four years, and I not only succeeded in keeping my hair long for four years, but also combed it in the middle. I distinctly remember the hateful look in my father's eyes when he looked at my hairstyle, and now that I think about it, I regret it a little, and sure enough, I was stupid in the middle.
As soon as I entered the house, my mother's phone call came. Usually she doesn't call at night, because she always thinks of herself as a stylish person. She thinks it would be unlucky to call someone suddenly at night, and she said that many elderly people in Xinjiang don't visit their homes at night, just don't want to knock on other people's doors. I asked her why she didn't say that the herdsmen on the grassland couldn't ride to someone's house at night, because it would be mistaken for robbery or funeral. My mom shook her head and said that it could be extended like this.
My mother sounded a little anxious, and it really made me feel unlucky, so she asked, "Is Jiang He with you?" ”
While thinking about whether my mother's menopause had passed, I honestly replied, "No, I have dinner with Shi Ting in the evening." ”
"You are also an adult, and I hesitated for a long time about some things, but in the end I still think it is better to explain it clearly to you, so as not to regret it in case something goes wrong. And there are some things I don't say, Jiang He will say sooner or later, you are a person with soft ears and easy to preconceive. ”
"Mom, if you have anything to say, just say it." I started to get upset, but whenever my mother emphasized her motives before she said something, I would suffer.
"Okay, then I'll get straight to the point. The first thing, after Jiang Feng and the others left, Jiang He wrote some letters to you, but they were intercepted by your father and me and did not give them to you. ”
My mother stopped waiting for me to lose my temper, but I didn't say anything. I was not very surprised by this, I suspected that they had intercepted my letters, and I had made trouble with them, but I was not only reprimanded by them so that I had nothing to say, but I was also beaten for crying unreasonably.
When I grew up, I also analyzed the feasibility of their interception of my letters, in fact, it was very simple, the letters sent to the troops were sent and received by the Political Department in a unified manner, and only after inspection were distributed to various units, and it was as easy as my father to intercept my letters. Poor me, I didn't know the trick at the time, and I ran to the doorman every day.
I didn't make a sound for a long time, my mother thought I hung up the phone, and I was too lazy to cooperate with her to stage a furious scene, if I expected that she would catch me with a bad attitude and beat me up, everything would be mine. But I really can't understand why they did this, Jiang He and I grew up together, often eat and live together very closely, they haven't always been happy, they have conflicts with adults, even if they turn their faces, we were still children at the time, what was in the way?
"Why did you make things so ugly?" I couldn't help but ask her.
This time it was my mother's turn to be silent, and I sighed and shook my head. My mother, who had always been a child, was so aggressive that she should have expected this to be the question I was bound to ask, but she wasn't ready for it. So I also fed and screamed.
My mother's screaming at me helped her to express herself fluently: "What the hell is your name!" I really don't have the face to talk about these dirty things, our two families broke off relations so decisively, all because you and Jiang He are likely to be related by blood! ”
This was completely unexpected, I was a little confused, and stammered to ask my mom what was going on, and my mom sighed and said, "I really don't have the face to say it."
"Mom, you have to make it clear if you don't have the face to say it, do you mean that you cheated back then, and I am your and Jiang Feng's child?"
My mother didn't react for a while, and it took a long time to roar: "Little bastard, who do you say is cheating?" You bastard! ”
"Then what do you mean, you keep saying that you don't have the face to say it, but you have the face to scold me."
Mother roared angrily: "You little bastard, why don't you suspect that your father and Li Ting have a leg?"
"Suspect that my dad and Li Ting have a leg? Why don't you suspect that my dad and Chang'e have a leg? "Although my father is not guaranteed in his later years, I don't believe it if he wants to say that he has such a high rank for messing around.
Li Ting is Jiang He's mother, and she is also the vice principal of our military school at that time, she is beautiful and very strict, with her versatile and arrogant character, it is really far-fetched to say that she is mixed with my father, I think my mother's own tone is bottomless.
Since I was a child, I have always felt from the bottom of my heart that my father is slightly inferior to Jiang Feng in terms of temperament and appearance, but the key problem is not here, but that the two of them are not all the way at all, even if they want to make a cheating movie, the actors will not put them together, and the audience will not approve of it!
Of course, it is not to praise my father for being a righteous gentleman, my father's problems are all in the fact that after he transferred to a local job, he called a gun to provoke a slut in his unit, and he was brave and upright, not only his waist, but also the style mistakes that he did not dare to make in the army. The change was so sudden that my mother thought for a long time that the South was bad.
In the end, my father was accidentally caught, so he was criticized by his mother for more than ten years. However, according to my later side understanding, my father was not idle in those years when he was beaten, and he stubbornly insisted on walking birds, and he had a lot of eyebrows with a few beautiful girls in the unit. My mother is also obviously not intelligent enough, and she only cares about the punishment before and ignores the after.
Now my mother is actually suspicious of Li Ting and my father, which feels like after I won a pheasant award for playing the piano in junior high school, she firmly believes that I will become a pianist, completely ignoring the reality of my lack of talent and lack of childish skills. Sometimes inappropriate faith in your abilities equates to humiliation.
But in view of his father's dark middle-aged history, don't talk about death, maybe he used a gun to force people to obey? It was so vivid that I was too embarrassed to imagine it.
When I asked my mother what evidence she had, she replied simply: "No!" ”
However, her mother's next analysis at least proved that her domestic TV series was not in vain. She said that her father, whether he was in love or married, ran to Jiang Feng's house almost every day in the name of work, and he couldn't pull it. She also inquired, in fact, Jiang Feng had no contact with his work. Forget about these, after all, it is reasonable for young people to cooperate in their careers and spare time, and the relationship between the two adults and children is so good that they are all honey and oil, and it is really hard to say who is tired of being together, until the day of the breakup. The two men said that they turned their faces, although their mother and Li Ting did not come forward, but they also spoke out to persuade each other, and the mother said that she heard them talk about blood and the like very clearly, she remembered that she subconsciously glanced at Li Ting, and Li Ting's face was pale at that time.
After so many years, my mother asked my father many times why he broke up with the Jiang family, but my father just refused to say, so my mother combined the situation that night and my father's middle-aged performance, and slowly concluded that my father was likely to cheat for a long time. Although she also questioned her father many times about this, she was categorically denied by her father.
I comforted my mother not to think nonsense, if Jiang Hezhen and I were related by blood, Li Ting was a person who knew it, and it was impossible to let two young people who didn't know the truth get along. Now that everyone is relieved, it means that these are completely cranky. If two men really want to quarrel over a green hat, how can they give up, and it is impossible to just quarrel so simple and finish. And his father's funeral not only Jiang Feng himself came, but also brought Li Ting with him, did he come to see off the adulterer for the last time? What a big heart, it doesn't make sense to be reasonable.
"But I always feel that Li Ting keeps in touch with your father, and my sixth sense has always been very accurate. Who notified them to attend the memorial service this time? I never figured it out. ”
"If you get to your sixth sense for everything, it's going to be endless. It can't be that no one notified Li Ting by his father, right? Dad's unit organized the aftermath and must have notified the original army to assist in notifying his former friends, which is entirely possible. Now that everyone is gone, and the tea is cold, what's the point of saying this, and any conflicts with his family should be written off. ”
Mother is still not at ease: "The tea may not be cold, I warn you that you should clean yourself, you young people must not mess around, Jiang He came to you Whether her parents know is unknown, and the current girls are not sure." In short, it is better to be careful. ”