Chapter 1 Death
When the police told me to claim the body, I was stunned for a moment.
Under the thin white cloth was my mother.
She committed suicide by jumping into the sea.
When she was fished by fishermen, her body was swollen and swollen, her whole body showed an unnatural grayish white, and the left half of her body was bitten out by the fish, and all the internal organs in her stomach flowed out.
The policeman looked at me apologetically.
[Sorry, couldn't find all of your mother's organs.] ]
I shook my head and didn't speak.
The funeral is very simple, the relatives come to the symbol to cry twice, and eat a few more tables and it is over.
On the day of the burial, it rained in the sky, and I felt a sense of relief when I looked at the handfuls of loess covering my mother's coffin.
Half a year ago, she was diagnosed with advanced cancer.
This disease is undoubtedly bad news for a family like ours, and I don't have a father.
My mother raised me.
For 20 years, she went out early and returned late every day, with three jobs on her back, busy from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Mom is tired out of the disease.
But we don't have the money to heal the disease, especially when I have to talk about marriage.
I don't think anyone wants to marry a cripple, especially if this cripple has a mother who has cancer and has to spend money on treatment.
So, on a bright morning, I found the suicide note left on my bedside.
It's just ten words.
[I'm gone, don't look for me, mom stay.] ]
I didn't call the police, and the police could help me find my mother, but they couldn't find the future that my mother and I wanted.
So, I connived at the development of events.
Five days later, I received a call from the police.
The young and handsome policeman innocently asked me why he showed a calm attitude towards my mother's suicide.
I told him that I had received a suicide note.
[But you didn't call the police.] ]
He was facing me, his eyes glued to mine.
[If you look into my family background, you'll know why I didn't call the police.] ]
I looked back at him with a calm expression.
[Now the question is, you are suspected of instigating your mother to commit suicide.] ]
[Are you going to arrest me, then?] ]
[also...... Not the time. ]
His eyes drifted to the upper right as he said this.
He's lying.
It's trying to trick me.
Suddenly, I felt a wave of boredom.
When I spoke again, I was a little nervous.
[So, officer, I'm going back, and if the next time the interrogation is going to begin, do so when the evidence is sufficient.] ]
With that, I limped out of the police station.
When I got home, it was late at night.
Wallets bulging.
I sat in the living room and put the money I had withdrawn from the ATM on the couch.
200,000 yuan, a sofa full of beds, under the light of incandescent lamps, it seems that the whole room has become red.
I've been watching like this for a long, long time.
After a long time, the sky outside the window began to white, and the sun quietly rose.
The money from a sofa fills my heart and gives me great satisfaction.
It's the first time I've ever seen so much money when I've grown so big.
It's not a bits and pieces of money from my mother, it's not a coin that I've saved up for a long time, and it's a real red banknote.
That's nice, I think.
It's good that my mother bought herself insurance before she died.
It's good that the beneficiary is me.
I haven't eaten since the day and now my stomach is rumbling.
Looking at the bills in front of me, I decided to have something good for breakfast.
Do you eat the newly opened soup dumplings, or eat the time-honored dumplings?
As I was thinking about it, I suddenly smelled a familiar smell.
Following the taste, I came to the square table where my mother and I used to eat.
A steaming breakfast was served on the paint-mottled square table.
Steamed buns, porridge, pickles.
Steamed buns and porridge emit white smoke.
The pickles, as usual, were dull and shriveled.
Looking at the familiar breakfast in front of me, I froze in place.