One

Shen Sumaung lived in Jiangnan when he was a child and relied on his mother to sell umbrellas to make a living.

It rains a lot in the south of the Yangtze River, and it rains a lot, and the business of the umbrella shop will be better. But Shen Suxiang is the most jealous of rainy days. He always thought that if it hadn't rained at that time, that person wouldn't have come to the umbrella shop to buy an umbrella, and if he hadn't come to buy an umbrella, he wouldn't have met his mother.

And that person is his biological father, Shen Tianwang of Chang'an Tianwang's Mansion, General Shen, who holds the power of the Four Lands.

There is an umbrella shop in Su Yangfang in the south of the Yangtze River, the girl who sells umbrellas has a gentle temperament, and speaks a soft language of Wu Nong, I don't know how many umbrella buyers' hearts have been broken, but I just chose the muffled wood.

This is the first time Shen Sumaung heard about his biological father from his mother who was a member of the Youth League when he was a child.

When Shen Sumaung was very young, he knew that his mother was in charge of the hard work inside and outside the home. Almost every child on the long street in Suyang Fang is holding small hands with big hands, one side is the mother and the other is the father, and they are happily moving forward. But he never saw his father.

A group of children play together, and when someone is different from other children, they will become the object of bullying, such as the little fat man of Chen Tofu's house next door, such as Shen Sumei, an umbrella shop boy without a father.

That day, Shen Sumaung came home with Wuqing's forehead and said to his mother aggrievedly: "Mother, they all say that I am a wild child who has a mother and no father......"

His mother picked him up and sat on her lap very gently, took out an egg and rubbed his forehead, and whispered: "Nonsense! We look like children with fathers and mothers. Your father is the most majestic general in the four continents, and at this moment he is leading troops to fight on the frontier to defend the people's mountains and rivers. ”

"Really?" Shen Sumung immediately jumped off his mother's lap regardless of the pain.

"Of course it's true. Mother nodded his little nose and laughed, "When Maung'er grows up, Daddy will come back." ”

"Then I must grow up quickly!" he puffed out his cheeks and secretly clenched his little fists in a determined manner.

Two

"I have indeed seen your father! Your father is used to wearing black clothes, and he doesn't like to talk when he stands at the door of the umbrella shop to sell umbrellas.

The eldest lady of the Youth League said to him, "I also learned later that he was a general, no wonder he is different from the men in this workshop." However, the great general also has the disadvantages of the great general. When your mother was about to give birth, I was still the midwife. The man hugged you and left, saying that he was going to war. It's been a few years, how old are you now...... Eh, what am I doing with one of your children?"

The eldest lady babbled on and on and on, and sighed a long sigh as she looked at the poor child who was winking at her. She thought that Shen Sumaung must not understand those words, but she didn't know that the child was precocious and precocious, and he understood all of this.

Xu is family's situation is more special than any on the long street. Shen Sumaung learned the ability to disguise himself early.

Children with sweet mouths have candy to eat, and pretending to be stupid and selling well-behaved is his personal magic weapon.

Coupled with his pure and harmless white face, not only is the eldest lady of the Youth League, but also Chen Tofu next door, the old man Zhang who picks tea, the Jinli sisters who dye the cloth village, and the vendor who sets up the bookstall...... I like this little guy who is very talkative.

Even sometimes in front of his mother, he would accidentally disguise himself.

At this moment, the eldest lady looked at the child in front of her who was staring at the Qingtuan stall with a wrinkled face, her eyes were empty, and she reached out to hold a Qingtuanzi and gave it to him, "Xiao Mao'er, are you still thinking about your father? Don't think about it, the eldest mother will give you a sweet dumpling to eat." ”

"Thank you, Auntie! The Youth League made by Auntie is the most delicious in the world, and Maung'er likes to eat it the most!"

"Since you like to eat it, why don't you eat it and hide it? This dumpling has just been made, and it is soft and glutinous. ”

"Auntie, it's not that Maung'er doesn't eat it, it's that my mother also likes to eat it, and Maung'er wants to take it back to my mother to taste. ”

"Hey, what a filial child, your mother didn't hurt you in vain! ”

"Thank you, auntie!"

Look, you can get two Qingtuans without spending a copper plate.

"Mother, you see, Maung'er helped the eldest mother of the Youth League work today, and she rewarded Maung'er with two Youth Leagues. ”

"Yes, it's awesome!"

......

Xiao Su Maung thought that his little cleverness was invincible in the world, but he didn't want to, and soon after, a huge ordeal was waiting for him.

Three

In addition to orphans and widows, there is another extremely important reason why mothers work so hard. Her little face was sick, coughing and wheezing, and her face looked fairer than the other children. Her little appearance had a lump in her heart, and it was difficult to calm down when she coughed and wheeze. Every time, it was like she was going to vomit her whole heart out, and she was terrified.

This is a problem brought out of the mother's womb, and the doctor said that it can only be cured by medicine, not radically.

In addition to the money earned by the umbrella shop, a large part of it is spent on medicinal herbs. Chuanbei, loquat, and pear meat are all ordinary things, but the difficulty is that the doctor prescribes a difficult and strange prescription. Even if his mother taught him to read, Shen Sumaung couldn't understand it. Only the mother treats these with extra seriousness and patience.

There was incense wafting on the medicine cup, and Shen Sumaung saw that every time his mother had to taste it herself, she would feed him one bite at a time. After drinking these medicines, the chest will become a little more comfortable, but the taste is indescribable.

Shen Sumaung furrowed his brows and drank all the medicine under his mother's eager gaze. He wiped his mouth and asked, "Mother, this medicine is so bitter, why do you have to drink it? You are not sick." ”

"Because my mother takes a sip first, no matter how bitter the medicine is, she will drink it. The mother wants to tell Maung'er that a manly husband can't be afraid of medicine. ”

......

At that time, Xiao Sumaung didn't know that it was a three-part poison.

By the time he really knew, it was already too late.

When Shen Sumaung was ten years old, his mother suddenly fell ill in bed, her lips were blue, and her face was extremely pale. In the next two years, the gentle beauty in Suyang, Jiangnan was tortured by illness and turned into a woman with a yellow face and thin muscles.

From the age of ten to twelve, Shen Sumaung spent the most difficult two years of his life.

In the past two years, Shen Sumaung found that all the little cleverness and tricks in his mouth in the past were not enough. My mother was bedridden, the umbrella shop business was withering, and others avoided their home, let alone say hello, and they didn't dare to take a step closer.

Only the eldest lady who is a youth league will come to the umbrella shop every first and fifteenth day of the new year to send the youth league to their mothers. At this time, the mother would support herself and let Shen Sumaung pour tea for the eldest mother.

The eldest lady hurriedly waved her hand and persuaded: "Umbrella lady, what are you polite to me! ”

She looked at the four walls of the house, and she looked more poor than ever before, and couldn't help but cry.

"Eh, I said Umbrella Lady, do you have any news about your man? After all these years, I see that the bookseller at the end of the street still has some heart for you, or you will ......."

"What do you say, auntie!"

The two of them said secretly with their backs to Shen Sumaung, and Shen Sumaung hurriedly walked over with tea when he heard the movement. I only heard my mother say to the eldest mother with some excitement, "Maung'er has a father, Maung'er has a father......"

Maung'er has a father. Once upon a time, Shen Sumaung also thought so.

But only two years have passed, and Shen Sumaung feels that he has grown up.

For twelve years, the man, his father, never returned.

The beautiful dream in my mother's heart should have been dispersed a long time ago.

That night, he stayed by the bedside, half-hugging his mother, who had some difficulty breathing, and looked at the moonlit ground in front of the window, looking extremely sad.

"Maung'er, mother, mother is afraid that I can't wait for you, your father is ......"

"Mother, mother, what are you talking about? Maung'er is by your side, Maung'er will always be with you!" Shen Sumaung grabbed his mother's withered hands, feeling so desperate and heartbroken for the first time, "We don't want Daddy, we don't want him! Maung'er wants to be with her mother forever!"

"Silly, silly boy......"

His mother looked at him, the light in her eyes finally dissipated, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, as if she closed her eyes and dreamed of a man with that person.

Twelve-year-old Shen Suxiang watched as his withered leaf-like hands blew down from his palms, and his limbs were cold and numb. He stood motionless for five days over his mother's stiffening body.

On the fifth day, the door of the umbrella shop was opened.

Shen Sumaung almost fainted.

The moment he closed his eyes, he finally saw the figure of the tall, temperamental man.

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