Chapter Ninety-Six: Telling

"After leaving, I asked my mom, 'Mom, why doesn't Dad want that big sister and little sister.' My mom said, 'Because he didn't want your brother Runcheng's mother ten years ago, he won't want me again in ten years.' ’。 My mom is a woman who doesn't like to cry, and I've never seen her cry since I left that house, she just laughs, and laughs from time to time. A year later, a doctor said she had schizophrenia. Another year passed, and that day I came back from school, and on the way, I saw her running towards a speeding car with a smile, and was knocked more than ten meters away, covered in blood. I was so scared that I cried, I ran over and picked her up, she had tears in her eyes when she was always just laughing, and she said to me, 'Tingting, be good, don't cry, a woman who can cry is too cowardly.' I nodded desperately, trying not to let myself cry. She said to me again, 'Tingting, don't follow in your mother's footsteps in the future.' With that, she smiled and closed her eyes. But the tears in those eyes kept flowing. I kept wiping and wiping, but the tears seemed to be inexhaustible, and she was still crying until the funeral home's car came. ”

"She left, I was alone at home, and there was no electricity that day, I was so scared, I was so scared that I just wanted to cry, but I didn't dare to cry, so I lay alone in the quilt and bit the back of my hand and cried desperately. The next day, my dad and his third wife came. He buried my mother and took me back to his house. The home at that time was not the same home as it was two years ago. It was their new home, a big luxury villa. They put me in a princess-like room with all kinds of clothes and shoes. I looked at the room and was so happy, so happy that I forgot all the fears I had had the night before. That night, the little sister fell down the stairs and broke several skins, crying in pain. She was very beautiful, and I liked it very much, but as soon as my aunt pushed me away and was about to pick up my little sister, I didn't mean that I deliberately pushed her off from above, and raised her hand and gave me a slap. She also told my dad that I didn't call her mom disrespectful to her, and it was another slap in the face. So, I didn't go back to that house after school the next day. I don't know what I thought at the time, I was only a little over ten years old, so young, I just didn't want to be found by them. Regardless of this, I skipped school and went to a small river outside the city for a few days and nights. When you are hungry, you steal some melons and fruits from other people's fields to eat, and when you are sleepy, you can find a pile of firewood and straw and fall asleep. After wandering like this for several days, I returned to my home, where there was no longer a mother and I was alone. Unexpectedly, Brother Runcheng, whom I hadn't seen since my mom and my dad divorced, actually appeared downstairs in my house. When he saw me come back, he was still as reluctant to see me as he had before, but he was silent for a while and then said to me, 'I heard that you ran out, you are so young, and you are a girl, don't you know how dangerous it is outside?' Even if you don't encounter danger, how can you live alone? ’。 I didn't know what to do, I just knew I didn't want to go back to that home. And he said, 'Come with me.'" Without much thought, I went with him. He took me to the city where he was in college. Although my father said that he was very rich at that time, he didn't give him a lot of life, just like a child from an ordinary family, just enough for his daily pocket expenses. There was no way, he started to work and study part-time to solve the problems of our lives. However, I was at the age of going to school, and going to school was the most important thing, so he begged everywhere at a young age and with a thin face, and then finally let me enter the elementary school attached to their university. Because my expenses have increased, he has had more to do since then. He loved me very much, completely different from my brother, who never treated me two years ago, he took good care of me, even in every detail. He said that I couldn't go hungry when I was growing up, and that he would always let me eat first when there was good food at home. I asked him to eat too, and he always said that the food in the restaurant where he worked was better than the food he bought for me. Actually, I knew in my heart that it wasn't like that. In this way, countless times, I have been swallowing tears while eating that delicious thing. After a long time, his skinny body finally made my dad find out that it was abnormal. At first, he was still fooled, and later, he didn't go back during the winter and summer vacations, which finally made my dad suspicious. Later, my dad found out about me and asked me to go back to City C with him. I didn't want to, but I was reluctant to let Brother Runcheng live too tired because of me, so I hesitated. Brother Runcheng said clearly and firmly, 'Tingting, as long as you don't want to go back, then don't go back, just live with your brother, and your brother can support you.' Other children can have it, and my brother will naturally not let you be left behind! ’。 That was the first time he called himself 'brother' and I liked it when he recognized him as my brother. So, I didn't hesitate any longer and didn't go back to City C with my dad. After a few more days, my dad came again, and he asked Brother Runcheng to take good care of me. Since then, he has given Brother Runcheng a lot of money, and we have never bothered about money again. Later, after graduating from college, he went to study in the United States, and I followed him to the United States. A few years later, when he returned to China, I asked him, 'Brother Runcheng, why did you take me to you in the first place?' After you went, you were so bitter and didn't think about abandoning me? I asked him this because I knew that if my mother had not intervened, he would have been his father, his mother would not have died, and his childhood would not have been so lonely. He said, 'That's not your mother's fault. I asked him again, 'Then why did you always get annoyed when you saw me before that?' He said, 'As a person grows, the thoughts of a teenager, the thoughts of a teenager, and the thoughts of a teenager will naturally change.' You'll understand when you're older. When he had finished speaking, he smiled and said, "Fool, although I hated you at that time, and especially hated your mother, you were very cute, with big eyes, watery, red mouth, and a pink face, especially when you followed him and called him 'brother' sweetly, in fact, I was really happy in my heart, and the face was purely pretended." At that time, you were simply a moving Barbie doll. ’。 ”