Chapter 2 Jumping the River for Love
Father Du looked at Du Manlin's back as he rushed out of the house, and felt that something was going to happen, so he hurriedly chased after him: "Manlin, Manlin, come back, come back, don't do anything stupid!" ”
Du's mother yelled at Du's father: "You stop me, let her go if she wants to go, like her, a sinister seed who doesn't take her parents in her eyes, it's better to have her than not her." ”
Du's father, who has always been quiet and kind, is energetic at this moment: "I can tolerate you for other things and don't care about you, but if you force your daughter to be anxious, if there are three long and two short, I will definitely not forgive you." ”
Du Mu said disdainfully: "You are a dead old man, you have learned to worry about the sky." Don't worry, your daughter is in love with Kang Jiawei, Kang Jiawei is not dead, will she go to death? ”
"I mean just in case."
"No case, only 10,000. Eh, I said you dead old man, why are you so calm, your daughter's marriage is a big event, you don't even let a fart go. ”
"What do you tell me to say, saying that you saw the money and opened your eyes, and ruthlessly broke up a pair of loving mandarin ducks for the sake of money."
"You're not in the water, are you? What am I for, I am thinking about my daughter's future happiness. ”
"Do you think you will be happy if you marry Li Shijing? If you want to marry him, you will really fall into the stone well, and if you don't drown, you will be suffocated to death. ”
"That's better than marrying Kang Jiawei, at least we have a light on our faces. I want to marry Kang Jiawei, and others ask me who your daughter is marrying, how can I answer? Did I tell people that the old woman who was widowed at a young age and picked up rags on the street every day was my own mother? Where do you tell me to put my face? After all, in Tucheng, we are also boss-level characters with heads and faces. ”
"What's wrong with picking up the rags? If you want me to say, picking up scraps is no different from selling fish, they are all for a living, for a bite to eat. You look down on others, maybe they still look down on you, don't you have a few more stinky money than others? What's the big deal. ”
"Eh, eh, eh, why are you like a turtle girl, your elbows are turned out."
"Let me tell you the truth, in fact, I have long taken a fancy to Kang Jiawei, a good look, dedicated, kind, diligent, educated, educated, and first-hand interior decoration skills, maybe he will also be a big entrepreneur in the future. Manlin is blessed to marry him. ”
"It's nonsense, I won't talk to you. Anyway, I don't agree with Manlin marrying a 'poor second generation'. ”
"It's useless if you don't agree, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you then."
Du Mu ignored him anymore, fiddled with her waist and walked to the bathroom.
Father Du's face was tense, and he was always worried that something big was going to happen.
Sure enough, Du Manlin's younger brother Du Manlang carried his schoolbag and ran home like the wind. When he arrived at the door of the house, he shouted in a sharp voice: "Dad, Mom, go and save my sister, my sister is about to jump into the river at the Xunjiang Bridge." ”
Hearing this, Father Du rushed out of the house, his face pale: "Who did you listen to?" ”
"What I saw with my own eyes was at the Xunjiang Bridge, surrounded by a lot of people, and there were a lot of policemen!"
At this time, Du Mu walked out while tying her pants: "Manlang, you won't collude with your sister to scare us, right?" ”
"Mom, when is it, you still don't believe me, if you don't go again, you won't be able to see your sister."
"Yo, this turtle girl is really in a hurry with her mother." Du Mu looked a little flustered, and dragged Du Manlang away, "You lead the way in front, and your father and I follow." ”
Du Manlang looked back as he ran ahead, urging his parents to hurry up from time to time. Du's father and Du's mother had a lot of weight, and it was very difficult to run.
Du's father poured his anger on Du's mother: "You forced it, you have to agree to their marriage, can she jump into the river?" ”
Du Mu ran out of breath: "Don't worry, she is going to jump early, she wants to act for us!" ”
Xunjiang Bridge was built in the eighties of the last century, is the main passage connecting the east and west of the county, the flow of people and vehicles are larger. At this time, a cordon was set up at both ends of the bridge, guarded by police, and no people or vehicles were allowed to pass. The black pressure on both sides of the bridge was crowded with people, and the more and more people gathered, it seemed that the whole city was rushing here. In the middle of the bridge, Du Manlin stands outside the bridge railing, grasping the bridge railing with both hands, facing the bridge deck and facing the river with his back, as soon as he lets go, he will fall into the surging river like a falling object in the air.
A middle-aged policeman was approaching Du Manlin step by step, and Du Manlin raised a hand to stop: "Uncle policeman, if you want to take another step, I will jump." ”
The middle-aged policeman stopped and asked, "Can you tell me how old you are?" ”
Du Manlin replied, "Twenty-five." ”
The middle-aged policeman smiled: "Twenty-five, it should be the most passionate and romantic age in life, how did you think of ending your precious life in this way?" If I'm not mistaken, you're out of love. Do you think it's a rational choice to end your life to get rid of the pain of falling out of love? I know that you want to prove your love for your boyfriend by dying, and torture your boyfriend by dying so that your boyfriend will suffer for the rest of his life. I'm telling you, you're wrong, if you die, and you get your boyfriend's wish, your boyfriend will really get rid of you completely. ”
Du Manlin shook his head desperately: "Uncle policeman, you are wrong. I haven't fallen out of love, my boyfriend and I love each other deeply, our hearts are mirrored, and no one can do without anyone. ”
"In that case, why did you commit suicide?"
"We love each other, but we can't get married."
The middle-aged policeman was confused by her words: "Since you love each other, why can't you get married?" Is it no money, no house, no car? None of these should be obstacles to having a lover eventually becoming married, and now there are not many young people advocating naked marriage before starting a business and getting rich? As long as the two of them have a relationship, are they worried that they can't afford to buy a house or a car in the future? ”
"You don't say anything, it's not. It's my mother, she thinks his family is poor, she has to break us up, don't let us get married, and marry me to a rich and powerful bastard who I don't love at all. ”
The middle-aged policeman finally understood what was going on.
At this time, dozens of firefighters and swimmers on the river drove assault boats and pulled up life-saving nets at the place where Du Manlin might have fallen into the water.
The middle-aged policeman had a good chance of winning, and he took a few steps closer to Du Manlin: "Just because of your mother's obstruction, you want to end your life easily." Girl, don't you think that if you do this, the pain left for your relatives is too great? I won't say that you haven't repaid your 25 years of parenting, I'll just say that when you leave this world, what will happen to your boyfriend who loves you deeply, he may not be able to bear the pain and will go with you. Besides, once your mother repents, she is very likely to choose the same extreme way to get rid of her suffering. Then you will hurt all your loved ones, and you will be the culprit who causes their suffering. ”
Du Manlin seemed to be moved, and she wiped her eyes that had been blurred with tears with her sleeve.
The middle-aged policeman took another step forward, only two steps away from Du Manlin.
"Don't you just want to marry your beloved? Leave this matter to me, and I will make sure that this beautiful marriage of yours will be completed. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I am the director of the Public Security Bureau who just arrived today, my surname is Wang, my name is Wang Shengyang. Unexpectedly, as soon as he took office, he sang the good story of 'heroes save beauty'. ”
Du Manlin's cold expression was released, and a faint smile appeared on her face.
The middle-aged policeman seized the opportunity: "Girl, I have only one wish today, to see you walk off this bridge alive, and I hope you can make my wish come true." If you look at both sides of the bridge, thousands of people have come because you have put down the work at hand, and they have only one wish, hoping that you will live well. You can't bear to let so many people's wishes come to naught? ”
Sure enough, Du Manlin looked up at both sides. At this moment, the middle-aged policeman flew up, hugged Du Manlin and pulled him in, turned around a few times, and stood firmly in the middle of the bridge.
Just when Du Manlin was rescued, Du's father and Du's mother came in a panic.
Seeing that his daughter was safe and sound, Du's father knelt down towards the middle-aged policeman: "Thank you for the police's life-saving grace, thank you, thank you!" ”
"This big brother, Xie doesn't need to, it's the duty of the police to save people in danger." The middle-aged policeman helped him up, and then looked at Du's mother, "This sister-in-law, you are the girl's mother, right?" ”
Du Mu replied with a "uh-huh" and nodded.
The middle-aged policeman said: "There are a few words that must be made clear to you on this occasion. Our country's marriage law clearly stipulates that the freedom of marriage is practiced, and arranged marriages, buying and selling marriages and other acts that interfere with the freedom of marriage are prohibited. Looking at the dignity of the old sister-in-law, she should be a person with a lot of life experience, and she won't know this regulation, right? ”
"Yes, of course I know, I am still a victim of an arranged marriage!" Du's mother pointed to Du's father, "He and I have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, but my mother said that his family used to be a landlord, and the composition was not good, so she didn't agree to our marriage, and broke up the two of us, and then forced me to marry an honest farmer in the countryside who was so poor that he couldn't even open the pot." I didn't want to, and within a few years I got divorced and remarried him. ”
"If you are a victim of an arranged marriage, then why would you interfere in your daughter's marriage?"
"I don't want her to follow in my footsteps. She insisted on marrying herself to a 'poor second generation', 'scavenging second generation', 'widow's descendant', you see, what is the difference between this and my first marriage? After a few years, they will still get divorced. ”
"She's not like you."
"How is it different?"
"They have feelings, and their feelings have reached the point where they can give up their lives for the loss of each other, and this kind of feelings are inseparable and endless. And the reason why you and the peasant can't get along is because there is no emotional foundation, and this kind of marriage without emotional support is doomed to failure. ”
"But feelings can be cultivated, my policeman."
"If you can cultivate it, why don't you cultivate a relationship with that farmer?"
Du Mu was speechless for a while.
The middle-aged policeman continued: "The reason why you can't have feelings for that farmer is because you already have your current husband in your heart. At this point, your daughter is the same as you, she already loves a man in her heart, how can she fit into a second man, even if you break them up and marry her into a wealthy family, she will not be able to experience the happiness that wealth brings her. Therefore, I advise you that young people should make their own decisions about their own affairs, and you parents should not interfere. ”
"No, I wouldn't agree to my daughter marrying into a family that doesn't even have a decent house."
"Since you are so stubborn, then I can only let your daughter go through the judicial process to remove your interference in their marriage."
At this time, Kang Jiawei ran up sweating profusely and in a hurry, hugged Du Manlin, who was full of tears, and the two hugged each other and cried together. The crowd of onlookers around was all moved by such a tragic love.
The middle-aged policeman stepped forward and asked Kang Jiawei, "You are the girl's boyfriend?" ”
Kang Jiawei nodded while wiping his tears, and was about to open his mouth to speak, when he was stopped by a gesture from the middle-aged policeman: "Don't say anything, your feat has said everything, and all the people present can be witnesses to your marriage." Since the girl's mother does not agree, then I will make the decision for you, and you will go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register your marriage and get a marriage certificate now. ”
Du Mu was anxious and jumped like thunder: "Are you the director of the public security bureau or the director of the civil affairs bureau?" Aren't you just a little cop? What qualifications do you have? ”
A female policeman next to her whispered to her: "He is the new director of the Public Security Bureau, Wang, who saved your daughter's life as soon as he took office." ”
Du's mother suddenly wilted, and forcibly dragged Du's father and Du Manlang's hands into the crowd.