Chapter 15: An Absurd Play
It's been the next day since Kuribana returned to the United States, and Kurita has already received a text message that he has arrived safely and told his mother. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
As is customary, he should call his mother as soon as possible to report his safety. However, no phone calls have been received from him until now.
This night, the chestnut bantan accompanied her mother, first put a cup of steaming boiling water next to her, then put reading glasses on her and watched TV with her. Li Hanqing was quietly writing his homework in the study.
Li Hanmei lay next to her grandmother's chair, muttering to herself as she installed the toy airplane she had just disassembled. Her side was covered with all kinds of metal and plastic components, large and small.
At this time, the landline phone at home rang, and the chestnut board trotted to pick it up. He said a few words, and everyone heard his voice become more and more excited. After finishing speaking, he excitedly said to Li Hanmei: "Meimei, hurry up, mom is calling!"
Li Hanmei grabbed the phone, and when she heard it, it was her mother's voice.
"Mother, you are so ruthless, you have no conscience! Why did you leave me alone that day? Let me look for you everywhere, but you don't know where to run," Li Hanmei cried loudly, angry like an angry little leopard, "Later, an uncle from the People's Liberation Army brought me to the second uncle. ”
Tie Lianlian hurriedly said, "Precious daughter, that day, when our car was driving to that place, it suddenly broke down, - by the way, you were asleep at that time, and you didn't know anything. ”
Li Hanmei slowly stopped crying and asked in a somewhat disbelieving tone, "Oh!
Tie Lianlian explained: "At this moment, my father received a call from the unit, saying that there was an urgent task and he was going to fly to the UK immediately to participate in a scientific research project. Let me go with me and take care of my father. ”
Li Hanmei was a little angry: "It's an urgent task again, don't exhaust my dad." And what about later?"
"Later, I called a PLA uncle who was following us -- yes, you were asleep at the time, and you certainly don't know what happened next-" Tie Lianlian began to patiently recount the whole thing, "When you were asleep, we continued to drive forward, and when we ran into the PLA convoy, we stopped and greeted them, it was really a coincidence, and one of them was a friend of my father and my second uncle!
"Hey, is there really such a coincidence? Mom, then you go on. The more Li Hanmei listened, the more interesting and curious she became.
Tie Lian continued: "After I finished greeting them, I continued to drive forward. Uncle PLA is far, far behind me. After my father received a call from the unit, I called this PLA uncle and said, "My father and I are going to catch a plane and fly to the UK immediately, so we have to put you in a very safe place." When he arrives at this place, he will come to you and take you to the second uncle. Then, we immediately called the second uncle and asked him to come to Lhasa to pick you up. ”
Li Hanmei asked again: "Oh, what about later?"
"Later, I'll put you in that safe place on the hillside. Then, in order to catch the plane, my father and I took someone else's car and left first. Daughter, Mom and Dad are very sorry for you and left you alone on the hillside. ”
Speaking of this, Tie Lianlian couldn't help crying.
"That's it, Mom, you're so ruthless, what if I'm eaten by the big bad wolf? When you're old, who will take care of you!" Li Hanmei blamed her mother and cried.
There was silence for a while.
Tie Lianlian continued: "My good daughter, you are a little hero who specializes in fighting the big bad wolf, and the big bad wolf is afraid that you will not be too late!"
Li Hanmei was angry again at this time: "However, when I woke up, I found that I was the only one on the hillside. I didn't even see that PLA uncle! He didn't come to me at all. I don't like him. ”
"Daughter, please don't get me wrong! Uncle PLA's car is a big car, and it drives slowly, and when you wake up, he hasn't arrived yet!" Tie Lianlian tried her best to be gentle and tactful, and said to her patiently.
"The PLA cars are too backward and have to be replaced. It's so bad that I've been looking for you and my father, and I'm shouting while looking for it, but I can't find you. I was scared, I thought ...... I thought you had been eaten by wild beasts!" Li Hanmei cried again.
"Daughter, don't cry, okay? We are all fateful people, we are all well-wishers, wild beasts will not eat us, we will be safe. Don't cry, baby girl!" Tie Lianlian hurriedly comforted her, and cried as well.
After a while, Li Hanmei asked again: "Then, you and Dad left first like that?"
Tie Lianlian replied: "Yes, because we have to catch a plane, my father and I had to stop another car and ask it to speed up and rush to the airport first." It's really too rushed, too hard!"
Li Hanmei asked, "What about our car?"
Tie Lianlian said: "Our two cars were dragged back by the mechanic to repair. ”
"Mom, remember to ask him to give it back to us. That's our car, we can't give it to someone else. Li Hanmei reminded.
"My daughter is so sensible! He will definitely return it to us, don't worry. Tie Lianlian praised it.
Li Hanmei asked again: "Mom, then why don't you take me to the UK with you?
Tie Lianlian was silent for a few seconds, as if she was thinking about something.
"Because this is an arrangement of the unit, only my father and I can go. Moreover, we have already discussed with the second uncle, you will go to Beijing to study next semester, so you can't go. Once Mom and Dad are stable in the UK, they can come back to pick you up. Tie Lian Lian seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief, and explained with the greatest patience.
"They're too stingy, and one more person can't do it, alas!" Li Hanmei, with a childish tone, criticized the iron rooster-like unit.
Tie Lianlian laughed on the phone for a while, and then asked, "After the PLA uncle received you, he must have contacted the second uncle, right?"
Li Hanmei said: "Yes, I was contacted! He asked me if I could still remember the phone numbers of my uncle and uncle. I don't know the phone numbers of my uncle and uncle, I only know the phone number of Sister Qingqing, so I asked him to call Sister Qingqing's house. ”
Tie Lianlian asked again: "Who answered the phone then?"
Li Hanmei said happily: "I thought it was Sister Qingqing, but it turned out to be not, it was the second uncle." It's so much fun!"
"My daughter is so smart!" Tie Lianlian gave her another heavy reward in time.
"Mom, I think it's strange, that PLA uncle knows the second uncle, you say that he is a good friend of the second uncle, why didn't he call the second uncle himself? Hmph, you also want me to tell him the phone number of Qingqing's sister's house. Li Hanmei said angrily.
Tie Lianlian said: "I think, he may be deliberately trying to test whether your memory is good and whether you can remember a few key phone numbers." ”
Li Hanmei praised herself and said, "Mom, fortunately, I remembered Sister Qingqing's number." ”
Tie Lianlian raised her voice: "Yes, I'll give you a hundred points!"
"By the way, Mom, where are you and Dad now, when will you be back?" Li Hanmei soaked in pride for a moment, and then asked the question she was most concerned about.
The other end of the line was quiet for a few seconds.
"My mum and dad are in the UK and they won't be back until five years later because of their work. You have to go to school well in Beijing, and you have to help grandma beat her back and wash her feet," Tie Lianlian repeatedly told in a very gentle and serious tone, "You must listen to the words of the second uncle and aunt carefully, and help the house clean and wash the dishes, and my father and I will call you every Saturday to ask grandma and second aunt if you are doing well." ”
Li Hanmei immediately said: "Okay! I listen to my mother." But, Mom, you can't lie, come back early. I'll behave well, let's pull the hook—"
Tie Lianlian replied loudly: "Come, pull the hook-"
The two promised at the same time on the phone: "Pull the hook, for a hundred years, and don't change ......"
Next, Li Bansuo said a few more words to Li Hanmei. Next, all the people at home talked to Li Bansuo and Tie Lianlian for a while, all of them were ordinary, shh
When it was grandma's turn, grandma burst into tears and said, "My third son, you and Lianlian should work hard outside, pay attention to your body, pay attention to rest, and come back to see your mother when you are done." Five years, five years from now, I'm not going to be alive......"
When Li Hanmei saw her grandmother crying, her eyes immediately turned red, and her long eyelashes became damp as if they had been soaked in water. She stroked her grandmother's hand as rough as the roots of a tree, looked up at her grandmother, and said, "Grandma don't cry, I will tell my parents to come home early, don't work outside to earn money, I will earn money to support my parents when I grow up." ”
Li Hanmei's words, like a needle, deeply pierced the hearts of the chestnut bantan couple.
He hurriedly turned around and looked at the city outside the window, his nose was sore, and he wept secretly.
Que Ni couldn't control it anymore, so she strode into the bedroom, locked the door, threw herself on the bed, and cried.
One is an innocent child, the other is an elderly and kind mother, and they cannot afford to lose their loved ones! If they know the truth, the consequences will be unimaginable.
In order to completely conceal the news that the Libansuo couple might have been killed, Libanzhen and the Libantan brothers made a decision after careful discussion to act in this play:
My cousin Li Baohua and his wife Wu Yan, who are working in the UK, pretend to be a chestnut and a couple, try to imitate their voices, call back every Saturday, say hello to the elderly, warm up to the children, create the warmth of family affection, and give them a good mood.
This is done with the sole aim of not letting them know about the loss of their loved ones too early and not allowing pain and grief to take over their lives.
This decision is very helpless, and this live drama is very cruel.
They are also worried that if one day, the truth comes to the surface, how will it be explained and how will it end?
Chestnut Plate True, Chestnut Plate Tan believes a little, and when Li Hanmei is sensible, if she knows the truth of the matter, although this thunderbolt will make her suffer for a long time, even a lifetime.
However, she will become more tenacious and resilient because of it.
Sooner or later, this day will come.
In order to prepare for the arrival of this day, Li Ban Zhen and Li Ban Tan decided to carefully select an educational institution and invite experts to train Li Hanqing and Li Hanmei sisters in special courses such as healthy psychological guidance and willpower tempering.
Libanzhen and Libantan believe it even more, because Li Hanmei is not only talented and smart, but also extremely filial since she was a child. For the sake of grandma's health and happiness in her later years, in the end, Li Hanmei will also choose to stand with them and never expose the truth of the tragedy.
However, no one can tell what this confusing truth is.