Chapter 159: In the Name of Love
In the evening, He Tian was reading a book in his room.
Tomorrow is the final exam, he is still very proficient in the application of science, but there are too many things to memorize in the three subjects of language, politics and history, and people's memory ability is limited, and what should be forgotten will still be forgotten.
He is also accustomed to doing a round of review of these recitations before the exam.
"Walking one hundred and twenty steps west from the hillock, separated by bamboo, smelling the sound of water, like a ring, the heart is happy. Cut down the bamboo to take the road, see the small pool below, the water is particularly clear. The whole stone is the bottom, near the shore, and the bottom of the stone is out, which is the di, the island, the ridge, and the rock.....
"The Story of Little Stone Pond" had just been silently written at the beginning, and the doorbell rang, interrupting He Tian's study.
He Tian walked to the living room, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw a depressed face.
Geng Geng lowered his head and walked in without saying a word, as if he had entered his own home, lying directly on the sofa, and pulled a pillow and hugged it on his chest.
He Tian closed the door, opened the refrigerator, took two bottles of Coke from it, put one bottle within Geng Geng's hand, and sat on the sofa diagonally opposite her with the other bottle.
"Let's talk about it, what is it that makes Miss Geng angry again?"
Geng Geng looked straight at the ceiling, and said with blank eyes: "Oh God, do you think my parents will not love me one day?"
As soon as Geng Geng said this, He Tian knew what was going on.
"Does your dad have a new partner?"
Geng sat up suddenly, with question marks and exclamation marks popping up on his head, and said in surprise, "How do you know?"
The plot, there is this one on TV, but He Tian doesn't remember when Geng Geng's father told Geng Geng about it, it turned out to be tonight.
But he couldn't tell the truth, so he had to fool around, "Guess."
"After your parents divorced, your mother devoted herself to her work and became a senior executive of the city branch by herself. is also because she is too busy, she sees you very rarely on weekdays, and she often hangs up in a hurry when she is busy on the phone. You're used to it, so even if you're going to be sad, it's not like this."
"So nine times out of ten, your worries come from your father. But your dad and your mom are just the opposite, and your uncle is very relaxed at work, so he spends a lot of time around you on weekdays, and you can't think that he has snubbed you, and when I came back today, I saw him running to the supermarket and buying a bunch of your favorite drinks and snacks. I don't think your father has changed for you, but you have a sense of crisis, so it's probably because of external factors."
Geng Geng is still a little suspicious, He Tian has fooled her a lot since she was a child, and she is somewhat immune, but her mind is not here at this time, she just nodded according to He Tian's words, and said, "My dad just told me that he wants to take me to see an aunt tomorrow."
"My dad said, that aunt's surname is Qi, and she is a nurse in the third hospital of the city." Geng Geng said that he felt a little sour on the tip of his nose, took a breath and continued, "My dad said that she is very nice, very educated, has a very gentle temper, and speaks softly. I've never heard my dad praise my mom like that.....
Geng Geng's voice was full of loss and unease.
"So do you think that if your father gets along with this aunt, then he won't love you in the future?" He Tian asked.
Geng Geng nodded, but quickly shook his head again, "My dad shouldn't love me, but..."
Looking at Geng Geng, who fell into silence, He Tian reached out and opened the Coke in front of her, handed it to her, and waited for her to reach out to take it before saying, "It's just that you're worried that your father will share the love that originally belonged to you with others, right?"
Geng Geng didn't answer, but he didn't refute either.
Since her parents divorced, she has been living with her father, and suddenly in that small house, there is one more person, no, two people, my father said that the woman surnamed Qi has a son who is a few years old.
There were two strangers crammed into her small world.
Not only to invade her living space, but also to take away her father's love.
And she's always missed mom and dad
It's a real suck to get back together, but now that hope is about to be dashed.
He Tian sighed heavily, looked at her after attracting Geng Geng's attention, and said, "Geng Geng, I know that you have always wanted your father and mother to be able to reunite with each other, but no matter how hard you glue the broken mirror, those cracks that exist on it will not disappear."
"But my dad liked my mom so much, he knew that my grandparents didn't like my mom, they thought my mom was poor, and they were very opposed to my mom and dad being together. My father has always been very filial, but he didn't let me take a step in this matter, and walked with my mother under the pressure of my grandparents, which gave birth to me. It can be seen that in my father's heart, my mother's weight weighs! So why can't they get back together?" Geng argued, tears welling up in his eyes.
He Tian looked at Geng Geng, at this time she raised her head, like a wounded little beast, baring her teeth to protect the home in her mind, the home that had been broken.
"Whether you like it or not, and whether you like it or not, are two different things. Geng Geng, you know your aunt's personality very well, a person as strong as her can't stand the kind of eyes your grandparents look at her no matter what, so she will spend a lot of energy on work after marrying your father. If not, Auntie would not have climbed from an ordinary clerk to the senior position of a city branch today."
"Unlike my aunt, my uncle doesn't have too high a passion for work, he prefers the simple life of his wife and children. Otherwise, most of your relatives are in the financial industry, but only your father has taken refuge in the pension department of a municipal party committee, and he has been in it for decades."
"Auntie and uncle want different things, so naturally there is a lot of friction in life, and my uncle feels that my aunt doesn't care about the house, and she is so busy all day that she just treats the home as a place to sleep. The aunt felt that her uncle was not motivated, and she was obsessed with flowers, grasses, insects and fish all day long. We can't deny that they may like each other in their hearts, at least they used to like each other very much, but their life together is not as good as you think." He Tian sighed.
When he first moved here, Geng Geng's parents were not divorced.
He had seen Geng Geng's parents quarrel with his own eyes, so his words were also emotional.
He Tian's words were like a heavy punch, breaking the barrier in Geng Geng's mind, and the memories sealed in his mind suddenly poured out.
In the living room, in the parents' bedroom, and in the kitchen, there were parents arguing, and there were sporadic scolding.
When they quarrel, they will subconsciously avoid her, not wanting to affect her, but the home is not big, and when she wakes up in the middle of the night, when her parents think she is not at home, she has witnessed or heard it.
It's not that she doesn't remember this, it's just that after her parents divorced, she subconsciously let herself ignore these things, and just recalled the beautiful clips of her parents being with her.
She thought that they were a happy family before, and they were, and they will be, but that's what she thought.
Two lines of tears ran down his cheeks and dripped onto the floor, wetting the dust on the ground.
A tissue covered his face, gently wiping away the tears on his face, Geng Geng looked up at He Tian.
He Tian threw away the soaked tissues in his hand, drew two more sheets, and continued to wipe them, and when Geng Geng had cried enough and stopped crying, he stopped and looked at her and said, "Geng Geng, I know that what I just said may be a little cruel to you. But people must first learn to accept reality before they can face it. After the divorce of the uncle and aunt, didn't they all live well? And they didn't ignore you either, did they? When you grow up, you have to understand that uncles and aunts have the right to pursue their own happiness and pursue their own lives, and they love you, but we can't restrain those who love us in the name of love."
Geng Geng pursed his lips and said weakly, "I don't mean to restrain them, I just..."
He Tian continued her words and said, "I understand, you just hope that your uncle and aunt can be together again, and you think you will be a very happy family together. There is nothing wrong with your intentions, and as a child, it makes sense to want to have a healthy family. You're not wrong, uncle
Auntie is not wrong, everyone just made the best choice for themselves."
He Tian stretched out his right hand and gestured above Geng Geng's head, "Geng Geng, when I first met you, you were only a little over a meter, but now you have grown so tall. I've grown up. When we were young, we were selfish and selfish to accept the love given by our parents, and now that we have grown up, we should also give back to our parents and love them in a way that makes them happy."
This is also He Tian's experience in the past few years.
He came into this world, and the parents of this body are still alive, but he is no longer the same child he used to be.
As far as he and his parents are concerned, in his eyes at first, they are more connected by blood, and have nothing to do with soul and will.
So in the first two years when he moved here to live with his grandfather, he almost never expressed his concern for his parents, and he would not look forward to his parents' phone calls and count the days when his parents came back like other children.
When he reunites during the New Year's holidays, he just behaves very politely and sensibly, and being polite and sensible is a compliment, but if it is too much, it seems alienated.
He didn't know about it.
It wasn't until one day that he overheard his parents chatting with his grandfather and realized that doing this was a disservice to his parents in this body.
It is true that He Tian's parents are very busy and busy, so busy that they don't have much time to spend on him, but it doesn't mean that they don't love him.
In terms of material, they will give the best they can.
In terms of spirit, they will always remember what He Tian said, even if they are busy, they will remember He Tian's birthday, and the gifts they give him are mostly carefully made or selected by themselves, rather than perfunctory.
They may not be doing enough, but they are doing as much as they can, on the premise of maintaining their own lives.
But in contrast, He Tian did not let them feel much love and dependence from their children.
Some are just alienated and indifferent, which only makes them uncomfortable.