The people around me are secretly spreading behind my back that I am not my father's biological daughter. I used to scoff at these rumors, but I can't help but start to doubt the recent events......

I am an only child, and my father opened a small workshop in Licheng, which is commonly known as a handmade repair workshop. From clocks, radios, phonographs and even automobiles, as long as it is related to machinery, he can figure out solutions, because of his specialisation in dealing with old objects, Dad is quite famous in the collecting world, and many collectors come to the door with old objects to ask for help. My mother used to be an English teacher, she was frail and sickly, and she never left the medicine cup for many years, and she completely retired from her job in the first two years and recuperated at home. A year ago, I had a serious illness and joined the camp of "need to be carefully recuperated". In the past year, under the strict supervision of my father, I have never exceeded the scope of "drawing a circle with a radius of three kilometers around the home".

The cicadas in the hot summer are hidden among the branches, and their hoarse voices are exhausted to show their life. I was weeding in the courtyard, squatting under a tree, and saw a column of ants hurrying forward with round termite eggs held aloft. Sure enough, in a moment, the cloudless blue sky was in the corners, and the bean-sized rain particles fell straight down, hitting the banana tree in the corner, and there was a crisp "crackling" sound in the ears.

It's raining!

Seeing the pouring rain coming, I ran and fled under the eaves. Looking up at the sky, the source of the rain curtain shrouded in a thick gray, I was about to lament the impermanence of the weather, when I heard my parents chatting in the house, and they mentioned me.

My dad said, "I'm going to meet Zhan Ming first...... Selangor and I went with me, I had already bought the train ticket, and at 5pm, we will leave in a while. ”

Where is Daddy taking me?! My dad wanted to take me out of the house, and he bought all the tickets, but he didn't even tell me......

Is he serious?

I wanted to listen carefully, but they suddenly lowered their voices, and the sound of the rain was noisy, and it was a few intermittent sentences in my ears.

"You want to send Selangor to ......," Mom sobbed and couldn't continue.

"She should know her ...... too"

I don't know what my father said, but my mother cried. The cry was mixed with the sound of the rain, and my heart tightened. In the sound of the rain of tears, I remembered an incident that happened not long ago-

That day, I went out to pick up medicine for my mother, and when I walked halfway through, I found that I had forgotten my wallet, and when I returned to the door, I saw my father and Uncle Ji sitting in the hall and drinking. Uncle Ji used to learn the craft from his father, but now he has set up his own door, and he will come to visit his family every New Year's holiday.

I was about to call someone, just when Uncle Ji timidly asked my father, "...... Brother, don't you really send him home? ”

Unexpectedly, this question made the face of the father, who was usually quiet and pleasant, change greatly, and the father slammed the wine glass in his hand to the ground angrily: "He is my family, if you dare to mention this matter in the future, you will get out of me immediately!" I don't think you're a brother! ”

I was so frightened by my father's anger that I didn't dare to come forward to greet me. And Uncle Ji saw that his father was really angry, and he didn't dare to say anything more.

Uncle Ji treats me politely and detachedly, almost avoiding. In fact, not only Uncle Ji, but also the neighbors around me looked at me with a lot of meaning, and they would always knock on the side and ask me if I remembered the past, and that look was in the same vein as Uncle Ji. I suddenly understood that the person Uncle Ji and Dad said they were going to send away that day was me...... I decided to ask Uncle Ji if I understood.

On this day, my parents were not at home. Uncle Ji is here. He was about to leave when he saw that his parents were not there, but I caught him: "Uncle Ji has something to say to me." ”

"Nope."

"A secret about my origins?"

"Who, who are you listening to...... Uncle Ji was nervous, and he stumbled, he looked around to make sure that there was no one else, "Selangor, you can't talk nonsense." If Brother Sheng hears this, he will ......"

"Then why do you hide from me every time you see me?"

"You kid is talking really, how can I hide from you." Uncle Ji said embarrassedly, stopped talking a few times, and finally asked me, "How are you doing lately, do you think of anything?" ”

I was a little frustrated: "No. It's still the same. ”

Uncle Ji sighed deeply: "Your father is a good person, no matter what he does, it is also for your good." In the future, I hope that in the future, you don't blame him......" Uncle Ji said this and left. His hesitant appearance only deepened my suspicions.

I was going to forget about it. Today, when I heard my father's words and my mother's whimper, that absurd conjecture came to my mind like a ghost......

The pouring rain didn't stop my dad from traveling.

I simply packed my bags, clenched the star-shaped pendant on my chest, and boarded the train with my father. We roared all the way north to the capital. I learned that my father, who ran a small repair workshop in Licheng, actually knew Lu Zhanming, a prominent figure in the business world.

"He and I were classmates, and we got along well when we were in school." Dad spoke calmly, and he looked out the car window, the shadows of the trees intertwining his face. I could hear in my father's voice an incomprehensible floating sadness.

I got off the train and changed cars, and finally stopped in front of a large gate. Dad rang the doorbell, and after a few moments, the door slammed open.

"When you enter the lawyer's house, you must be polite." Dad said to me as he looked at the slowly open door.

"Oh." I answered.

We were greeted by a lady who claimed to be Secretary Gao. Dad then went to talk to Mr. Ritsu in the study, and I waited in the hall.

Behind the minimalist high-walled courtyard gate, classical architecture blends with modern ideas. There are not only twists and turns in the corridor, dripping dew in front of the steps, but also floor-to-ceiling high windows, white walls and red maples. The courtyard is deep and turnaround, just as the gardener is building flower branches, and the sap of the trees is spewing out the fragrance. I felt like I was in the courtyard of a deep house in a southern city. I used to think that in the lush metropolis, the mansion was a multi-room multi-hall made of cement and steel bars, with duplexes and villas, but now it seems that I am too shallow. Like the Lijia family, the gray walls and tiles, the beams and pillars are beautifully carved, and the modern style is really luxurious.

I sat alone in the living room until it was dusk, and then my father came out of Mr. Ritsu's study.

The first thing my dad said when he saw me was, "Selangor, dad is gone." You stay, and after that, this is your home. ”

My ears were like thunder, and I was stunned.

In fact, the purpose of my father's visit to Mr. Lil is that I can guess a few points even if I don't say it. A few years ago, I heard that a university hospital in the United States had a lot of research and breakthroughs in this kind of disease, and my father moved his mind to take my mother to the United States for treatment. This year, my mother's condition deteriorated rapidly, and my father knew that he couldn't continue to delay, so he asked for help from friends from all over the world, and finally asked Mr. Lil......

"Selangor, I decided to take your mother to the United States for medical treatment, I don't worry about leaving you alone in Licheng, your Uncle Lu suggested that you stay, I think it's also very good, when your mother is well, I will come to pick you up."

Me: "Dad, I don't have to live here. I'll go out and look for a job, I'll take care of myself......"

"How can you be so ignorant! What will you do now, wash the dishes and serve the dishes! Dad suddenly burst into flames, he gasped for breath and muttered, "If you don't stay, your mother will definitely not agree to go to the United States, even if it is not for you, you have to be for your mother...... How else can I do that......"

I didn't speak again, my eyes were dry and aching.

After I was saved from falling into the water, I had a continuous fever, and when the fever subsided and I woke up, I completely forgot about the past.

The doctor said he was lucky to be sane. After recuperation, now I live a worry-free life, even the professional skills I relied on to survive have also been scattered, and naturally I can't stay at the post, my father submitted to the unit on my behalf, and I have completely become a jobless vagrant. Dad said that it's good to live, even if I don't work for the rest of my life. I couldn't remember a little bit of the past, I had no professional skills, and I didn't have any specialty. Even if my father wanted to indulge me for the rest of my life, there was nothing he could do. If I am like this, what can my father do if he doesn't leave me in the lawyer's house?

Seeing that I bit my lip and was silent, my father held my hand tightly with red eyes, and said, "Selangor, you want to stay, you must stay!" Even if someone forces you to go, you can't go. Only if you stay, your mother will have peace of mind to be treated in the United States! ”

Dad was about to say something, Secretary Gao was coming, she glanced at us, turned and walked to the door, and fixed her steps to the door, as if waiting for something. Seeing this, Dad quickly took out a box of snacks from his bag and stuffed it into my hand: "Your mother made pastries, this box is reserved for you, you eat slowly...... Selangor, be sure to remember Dad's words. ”

After speaking, Dad walked quickly to Secretary Gao, after he said a few words to Secretary Gao, he glanced at me from afar, and suddenly he raised his hand and waved, quickly turned around and stepped over the threshold of the gate, and walked without looking back......

I don't know how long it took, but I still stared at the last place where my father's back was missing, and something in my heart fell straight down, as if there was no end.

"Miss Selangor, Mr. Lil wants to see you." At this time, Secretary Gao said to me in an undulating voice.

She was about forty, dressed in black, with a small amount of hair gathered at the back of her head, tightly tied in a clump. Her thin lips pursed, and her voice was like a metal forged, just like her expression, cold and stiff.

Secretary Gao glanced at me and said, "I heard that Miss Selangor's mother is a great beauty, I don't know if Miss Selangor is more like her mother or more like her father?" ”

"I'm not quite like my mother."

My mother is a classical beauty with slender phoenix eyes, small nose and small lips. I'm the complete opposite of her, with thick eyebrows and big eyes...... Uh, like, I'm not like my dad either......

I was like a product of a genetic mutation.

"Miss doesn't look like Mr. Ritsu either." Secretary Gao added lightly.

“……”

Although I did not answer, my heart was beating and I was very shocked......