Chapter 65 Section 3

Back in the ward, it was okay for my father to be cautious, and I was also in a good mood. A nurse came to bring us hot water. I used to fetch water by myself. Before she left, she politely said that she could ask them for help whenever she needed help. My father smiled and said to me: "My family's vines are promising, and my father will follow suit." I shook his arm and said, "Your vines are blooming and everyone loves her. Friends are willing to help her." Dad stroked my head and smiled, and after a while, worry appeared in his eyes again, "Manman, you... Song Xiang..." He finally couldn't bear to continue, sighed softly, and changed the subject, "Lu Licheng This young man looks good, thanks to his help during this time."

I smiled, hugged his arms, squeezed to him, and lay down with him, "Dad, tell me a story! I want to hear your story when you were young. Also, how did you know... Mommy ?” I hesitated, and spit out the mother I hadn’t mentioned in front of my father for a long time. Dad smiled, eyes narrowed, "It's been a long time, your mother..." He glanced at me and sighed, "You are really not as handsome as your mother. Your forehead is like your father's, which is not good-looking." I moaned and refused to agree, "I asked you to tell me how you met my mother, why do you speak ill of me? If you want to speak ill of me again, I will be angry."

"Okay, okay! I'll tell you. At that time, I was a truck driver and I didn't pull people. Your mother had an urgent business to go to the city that day, and she heard that I was going to the city to pick up goods, so she came to ask me to take her for a ride." Cheng. I didn't pay attention to what she looked like at the beginning, but I remember her two braids flicking back and forth, making my eyes dazzled. Her hair is really fragrant, and there is a fragrance of Sophora japonica in the carriage..." The father's smile was not as forced as usual, and his happiness was very real, as if he had returned to that winter afternoon, he was nervously leading a girl on the road, and he could smell the fragrance of her hair in the carriage, and he couldn't hear what she said clearly. What, I only heard my heart beating as if it was going to pop out of my chest...

On my father's shoulders, I also smiled happily.They used to be so happy, and as long as they have memories, this happiness will not go far.Song Xiang is right, for his father, he is willing to talk about his mother, because that is his joy and happiness, she has never left, and she will live in his heart forever. My daily life is monotonous and busy. I get up in the morning and make breakfast for my father, and then go to the hospital to accompany him. When he is being treated, I take the dirty clothes home and wash them.Make lunch, go to the hospital to see my father, eat lunch with him, chat with him, play chess, take a walk, and have dinner together.

We chatted a lot together. My father told me about his childhood, every little thing about him and my mother, and stories about my grandpa and grandma. I often lost track of the time. Come and chase me away. My father’s body was getting worse and worse due to chemotherapy, and his hair gradually fell out. When the side effects were severe, his body curled up into a ball in pain, but I could do nothing. I could only stand by and watch my father’s pain. Rushed to the bathroom, hid and cried.After crying, I went back to be with my father and let him tell me stories. With my savings almost gone, I called the agent and asked how the house was doing.The intermediary said excitedly, "Don't worry. Now two of you are interested in your house. I'm raising the price with both sides. It's already 60,000 more than we expected."

I don't understand, "what's going on?" "At the beginning, a woman came to see the house. She said she was buying it for investment. She saw that the location was easy to rent out, and she said that the house was well maintained. She agreed to the price of 600,000 yuan. We were about to sign a contract. Another The old lady who inspected the house looks very rich, and she also likes your house, especially the paintings on the wall. I heard that someone wants to buy it, so I added 10,000. Let’s talk to the original house , that one increased by 20,000. We told the old lady again, and she added another 30,000 in one breath. Now it is 660,000, and we are planning to call another company to see if she will increase the price or give up."

I calculated in my heart, and after excluding the money I owed to the bank and the handling fees to the intermediary, I would probably have a net loss of 300,000 yuan, which was already higher than my expectation. "I'm really bothering you, I'm in a hurry to use the money now, please try to sell it for me before next week." "Okay, no problem, we will help you get the best price." "Thank you!" I really don't have to worry about this, the intermediary takes a commission proportionally, the better the price, the more they get. The eldest sister was drinking the soup I left for her in the kitchen. When she heard the conversation between me and the agent, she looked relieved and said in a low voice, "It's okay, it's okay! Although I'm in a hurry to sell, the price is not bad."

I said: "Dad helped me choose that house back then. I wanted to buy another house that was cheaper, but my father said that the location is good. Although it is a bit more expensive, it will be easy to sell in the future. It seems that although my father does not understand finance , but with a good eye." The elder sister sat beside me with a bowl, "Su Man, have you seen Song Xiang these days?" "Occasionally. Sometimes he will visit my dad after get off work and play chess with my dad." "How is he?" I looked at the elder sister incomprehensibly, "Shouldn't he be fine?"

The eldest sister nodded, "He should have a hard time recently." "why?" "I didn't understand it either. It seems that he didn't handle his domestic relationships well. The top leaders of several big companies didn't like him very much. All the customers he was in charge of were handed over to Lu Licheng. Other customers He also ran a lot, and now he is still operating several foreign companies in China, but the business volume is very small. I heard that he has been empty. This has a great impact on MG. There are rumors that, The old men in New York are very disappointed with him, maybe Song Xiang will leave MG, but he is like this, no matter how good his business ability is, if he can't keep customers, any investment firm in China will not dare to take him. Maybe, he just I can return to the United States." The eldest sister's face was full of confusion, "I don't understand now, whether Song Xiang is too weak or Lu Licheng is too strong, how did the situation suddenly become clear? I was expecting them to fight for 300 rounds! It's too abnormal Already! When you saw Song Xiang, he didn't look a little different?"

I shake my head.I haven't looked at him carefully at all, and I really don't know if there is any abnormality in him. Besides, his thoughts are hidden very deeply, even if there is any abnormality, I can't see it. "Where's Lu Licheng? I went to the hospital to pick you up once, and I saw him there, so he probably went more than once, right?" I thought about it and shook my head, "He's the same as before, nothing special." The eldest sister giggled, "Su Man, you seem to be very lucky in love. I confess honestly, which one do you like?" "Crazy! When Song Xiang came to visit my father, he always came with Malatang, and Lu Licheng also had other reasons. Besides, you have already visited my father, so you can't allow Lu Licheng and me to be friends and also visit my father? "

The eldest sister completely ignored the other words, and only asked in shock: "Song Xiang and Xu Lianshuang are together?" I nod. The eldest sister almost jumped up, "That...that's impossible! Xu Lianshuang..." She looked at me and closed her mouth. I said: "I already know that Xu Lianshuang's father is Xu Zhongjin." The eldest sister can finally vomit quickly, "Yeah, you finally know! Song Xiang has such a towering tree, how can he not manage customer relations well? No need to do it, customers will fawn on him." "This big tree doesn't like Song Xiang very much. I think he is forcing Song Xiang to leave China. Song Xiang's life will become more and more difficult in the future." The eldest sister was dumbfounded, and began to fight for Song Xiang again, "What's wrong with Song Xiang? Our Tsinghua school grass-level figures must be good-looking, talented, and virtuous! His family's Xu Lianshuang didn't grow up You have to have two more eyes than others, why do you bully people like this?" "I thought you were going to Licheng Lu." The eldest sister said with embarrassment, "I'm Licheng Xianglu. I'm an idiot like him. I achieved success by working hard step by step, but because of the unfair employment strategies of these foreign companies, we couldn't climb to the top of the pyramid. I Of course towards him, I hope he can drive Song Xiang away. But, after all, Song Xiang, Lu Licheng and I are all people who rely on our hands to conquer the world, no more privileged than Xu Lianshuang. All of our hard work is because someone does not I like you, but you say that you will be destroyed if you are destroyed, I feel depressed in my heart! I feel uncomfortable! I feel so unfair!" I don't say anything, what is fair in this world?Why did mom die?Why is Dad sick?Why does the person I love love someone else?It seems that in this world, happiness, success, and happiness have never had anything to do with fairness. "Su Man, say something!" I stood up and walked to my room, "I want to call Malatang." After dialing this once very familiar but now somewhat unfamiliar number, Malatang answered the phone as soon as it rang. "Cranberry?" "Well, how are you now?" "I'm very good." The two of them were silent, they didn't know what to say, but they didn't say to hang up the phone, the time passed by in silence, and finally, Malatang said: "I'm hanging up." I said: "OK." I hung up the phone, but my heart felt as if it was about to explode. I turned on the computer, logged in to QQ, and she was there. I didn't want to pretend to be polite anymore, and said straight to the point: "The last time I saw your mother, she said you have a sister." Malatang was shocked for a long time before replying to me: "In my heart, only you are my sister." "Where is your sister?" "She's not my sister, her name is Xu Qiu." "Alright, where is Xu Qiu now?" "She's dead." This time it was my turn to reply after being shocked for a long time: "How did you die?" "She went to the United States after graduating from university and stayed in the United States to work. I didn't care about the details. I only know that she and her friends went to Yellowstone Park to play. They crossed the line and overtook another car and collided head-on with the opposite car. She died after rescue efforts failed." All the details and all the questions were connected together at this moment, and I finally vaguely understood the cause and effect, the sadness that could never be melted in Song Xiang's eyes, the unconcealed hatred in Malatang's mother's eyes, and the indescribable hatred in Song Xiang's eyes. Why Xiang can understand Dad's thoughts so well. "Where's your friend hanging out with your sister?" "I don't know, I don't care. I don't care about anything about her. Maybe you think I'm cold-blooded, but that's who I am. I hated her when she was alive; I don’t hate her anymore, but I will never forgive her for what she did to me and my mother, the pain she inflicted on me, I need to spend my whole life to forget, how do you ask me to forgive her?” "Can you tell me about your childhood? I want to know." "What did my mother tell you?" "She didn't say anything, she just said that you don't have a sister in your heart, it's all her fault." Malatang made a laughing emoji, I didn't know how to comfort her, so I could only send her a hug. She wrote: "Okay, let me tell you, I thought these things were buried forever, and I didn't expect to see them again one day." "I invite you to drink, the old place in the old bar." I seem to be able to see Malatang's dazed expression, how long has it been since we visited our old place? She typed in the word "good", and her profile picture quickly darkened.I also immediately put on my clothes, picked up my handbag and went out. The owner of the bar saw me and Malatang, and before we could speak, he had already poured us two glasses of wine, "I treat you, to celebrate the reunion of old friends, to celebrate that you are still here. You haven't come for so long, I thought you came from a sea of ​​people, Disappeared in the crowd again." Malatang and I raised our glasses and touched each other lightly. After we drank it down, we looked at each other and smiled.The boss put the mixed wine and ice cubes in front of us and walked away quietly. Malatang and I didn't use ice cubes, we just drank one small cup after another, one cup for you, one cup for me, pouring down like pouring water, and Malatang didn't start talking until he was three minutes drunk. "My mother is not my father's first wife. Xu Qiu is my father and his early daughter. She was named Xu Qiu because she was born in autumn. When Xu Qiu was three years old, her mother died. Two years later, my mother was pregnant with I married my father, and I was born not long after. I heard that because I was born in summer, I should have been called Xu Xia, but Xu Qiu didn't like it. She said that summer was earlier than autumn, so my father thought of a new name for me. It was named Lian Shuang. As soon as I was sensible, Xu Qiu told me her mother's small character 'Shuang'. Lian Shuang, Lian Shuang, it's a blessing that my dad can figure it out, and it's also a blessing that my mother can accept it!" Malatang sneered, "Xu Qiu's mother is a beauty, a different type of beauty from mine. My mother is really beautiful, but her mother's facial features are actually ordinary." She rummaged through her bag for a while, took out a photo and threw it to me.The woman in the photo is wearing a black dress and a wide straw hat, standing in front of a cathedral.Because it was a full-body photo, and the photo had been rubbed, it was hard to see the woman's facial features clearly, but the eye-catching aura made people immediately understand that this was an outstanding woman. "This is a photo of Xu Qiu, with the Notre Dame Cathedral in the background. Her mother is very similar to her. In other people's words, she is a very, very temperamental woman. Her mother and father are college classmates. I heard that her grades are better than her father's, and she is better than her father. He joined the party early and was also my father's party introduction." "My mother never went to college, let alone stayed abroad. She started working after graduating from junior high school. Because she was honest, reliable, and good-looking, she worked as a secretary and worked under my father. Of course, my father's official rank at that time was also Not as high as now. After Xu Qiu's mother passed away, my mother was the first to marry my father amidst the envy and envy of everyone. But I am afraid that only she knows the bitterness after the glory. My father is always infatuated. Even now, there are still photos of his ex-wife hanging in his study. He named me Lian Shuang. During the holidays, no matter how windy or snowy, cloudy or sunny, I would visit his ex-wife’s grave. No matter how many times we move, our family will always be There is a shadow of another woman. I have been wondering for a few years, if God gave my mother another chance, would she marry my father? But now I don’t even have the interest to think about it, I think My mother is enjoying herself, maybe she didn't care all the time, she only cares that my father can let her live the life she wants." Malatang raised her neck and downed a glass of wine, "Xu Qiu is a very special girl. She inherited her mother's intelligence and beauty, and her father's scheming. It can be said that she is the perfect match between the two of them." Crystallization. When I tell others, others will not believe it. When I was three years old, she would say to me: "Xu Lianshuang, you know? My father doesn't like your mother at all. He loves your mother forever. My mother, your mother is just our nanny.' My mother is indeed a nanny. She takes care of my father's daily necessities, and Xu Qiu's daily necessities. Everyone is staring at her, waiting to see her. The joke of the stepmother. So my mother is careful in every move and every word, pitifully trying to please Xu Qiu. Everyone is a poor child with a stepmother, but they don’t know that Xu Qiu is not Cinderella at all. She is actually the vicious My mother is the bullied Cinderella. When no one is around, she calls my mother around and treats my mother like a servant. But as long as there are people around, she pretends to be quiet and cute. Always the kind girl who waits for sympathy and praise from others. When no one is around, she hits me and even finds fault with me on purpose in front of my mother. But instead of talking about her, my mother says I shouldn’t To bother my sister, I should let my sister. She pricked me with a compass needle, put the pin on my bed, and threw away the homework I had to hand in the next day." Malatang looked at me, "Manman, do you know? For a while, I would tremble all over when I saw her, and my mother... my mother always said that I would give way to my sister. I have already hid in the corner, Even hearing her voice, I would disappear on my own initiative, but she still won't let me go, I really don't know how else I can let her go." "Why didn't you tell your dad?" "My father?" Malatang sneered, "Before Xu Qiu passed away, I don't think he could remember that he had a daughter most of the time. To him, Xu Qiu was worthy of being Xu Zhongjin's daughter, and it was the crystallization of his love. I'm just a byproduct of his lack of control over his male desires." Malatang smiled lightly, but it made people feel that she was crying, "Xu Qiu already knew how to attract Dad's full attention when she was very young. She never allowed Dad to look at me more. For the performance, I told my dad that the teacher hoped that the parents could go, and he agreed, but Xu Qiu fell ill the next day, and my dad had to accompany her, while my mother had to take care of them. Surrounded by parents, I was the only one alone. For a long time, several teachers at school thought I was an orphan. Another time, my mother’s friend gave me a bicycle, so I begged my father to teach me Me, he agreed, Xu Qiu said she wanted to go together, and then she broke her leg and got a 'bicycle phobia', Dad gave away all the bicycles in sight. Manman, can you believe it? When Xu Qiu fell off the bicycle, I really saw her smiling at me with contempt in her eyes, but even I suspected that I was dazzled. There are too many examples like this, and I can share with you Say three days and three nights." Malatang raised his glass to me, "Cheers!" I immediately raised my glass to accompany her and drank a full glass, "Xu Qiu has never been second in the exam since she was a child, she saved the New Year's money and donated it to the Hope Project. She takes the initiative to make up lessons for poor students. She can sing, dance, and speak well. She is the best student in the eyes of the teacher and the best daughter in the eyes of the father. And me? I am taciturn, always hiding in dark corners, poor academic performance, My dad used his connections to get me into college. Although this is nothing to him, I know he feels ashamed. Xu Qiu is almost a perfect person in the eyes of everyone, only I know she is a devil. But I can't tell anyone that she is a devil. If I say so, others will think that I am jealous and slandering her. I am the evil devil who hurt such a kind and pure Xu Qiu. Even my mother doesn't believe it. Me, she was wishful thinking and pitifully fawning on Xu Qiu and her father, and never believed that Xu Qiu treated her like a servant! Many times, I often wondered if I was suffering from persecution paranoia. In fact, Xu Qiu I have never been bad to me. Everything is my imagination. I have insomnia and nightmares every night. I have seen a psychiatrist for a while, but it is useless. But after Xu Qiu graduated from university and went abroad , the first night she left, I slept until twelve o'clock the next day, and finally made sure that I was not sick. I was just afraid of her, and I couldn't sleep peacefully every day. Manman, I don't care if others think I'm cold-blooded, All I know is that she made me lose my mother and father, and made me lose my entire childhood and youth. I still dream of her, wake up crying from nightmares, and I will spend my whole life forgetting the harm she caused me. It takes a lot of hard work to get rid of the nightmare and make myself a confident and happy person. I can't forgive her, whether she lives or dies!" Malatang stared at me, "Manman, do you believe what I say?" I nodded emphatically, "I believe it!" "Chinese people like to say that death is nothing. Do you mind if I don't forgive Xu Qiu?" "No! But I hope you will forget her in the end. You didn't forget her on purpose. It doesn't matter whether you forgive or not. It's just that you can't think of this person at all!" Malatang hugged me gently, with her head pressed against my neck, I felt a wet liquid flowing on my skin, I hugged her and drank the wine silently. Although I know that Malatang has an unusually flamboyant and enthusiastic soul, I never knew how much psychological shadow she had to overcome and how much effort she had to put in for this flamboyant enthusiasm. Malatang has been lying on my shoulders, and half of my shoulders are already wet. She seems to cry out all the grievances and pains of childhood and youth.I drank glasses of wine, thinking of her hiding in the corner when she was a child, watching Xu Qiu talking and laughing with her father, no matter how hard she tried, her father couldn't see her, so she could only turn around to find her mother, but found that even her mother couldn't see her. Not seeing her, she could only retreat step by step to her little black room, where there were still nails prepared by Xu Qiu, waiting to pierce her anytime.I think of my mother making clothes for me when I was a child, and making them according to the latest styles. After I put them on, everyone thought I bought them.She is reluctant to buy lace pajamas herself, but she is willing to buy me a lace skirt.My dad made rubber bands out of broken tires, and I had the coolest rubber band in the get out of class. Every time after class, I shouted "Who wants to jump the rubber band?" All the girls surrounded me and shouted "I play", I was proud , smiling happily, but one of the people who love me so much has passed away, and the other is suffering from a serious illness. I don't know whether to feel pity for her or myself, but before I knew it, I also started to cry, and the two of us hugged our heads, tears streaming down my face. After crying for a long time, I asked another question in my heart. "Malatang, can you tell me how you met Song Xiang for the first time?" Malatang was seventy percent drunk, and when I mentioned Song Xiang, she smiled, "Five years ago, no, it was almost six years. Six years ago, my kidneys had problems and I had to wait for an organ transplant, but I have not waited for a suitable organ. When my father was young, he was injured while working in Tibet and could not donate an organ. My mother wanted to give me a kidney, but the doctor said that she was not in good health and the operation was too dangerous. I also strongly disagreed. The relationship with my mother eased a little at this time. Later, my kidneys gradually failed, my blood pressure increased, and my retina was compressed. My vision gradually weakened, and I was almost completely blind, but I still did not have a suitable kidney. My mother proposed again She wants to give me a kidney. Dad has no choice but to take us to the United States to see if the medical technology there can perform safe operations. After the doctors in the United States checked my mother’s body, they also opposed the operation. I was already desperate , I didn’t expect that I was very lucky, in the United States, I waited for a suitable kidney.” "Did you meet Song Xiang during that time?" "Well! During that time, I was very pessimistic and desperate. I didn't understand what God wanted me to come to this world for? I have never been happy. I thought that Xu Qiu left China, and I got a new life, but God again Make me sick, it seems that God is going to torture me non-stop. I always sit alone in a dark corner and don't talk to anyone. I don't say a word for three months, no matter how much my mother cries and begs Me, I didn't talk. Then one day, I heard a man crying. I've never heard a man cry so sadly. It made me want to cry with him. I finally came out of my own darkness I opened a tentacle, and I asked him: 'Why are you crying?' He could understand Chinese, stopped crying, and seemed surprised that there was someone hiding in the corner besides him. Probably he saw the gauze on my eyes, and Asked me: "What's wrong with your eyes?" I told him: "Because I did something wrong in my previous life, God wanted to punish me, so I became blind." He said: "No, God just wants to let you The color is more brilliant than others, so now I give you darkness.' Later I met him in that secret corner, he read to me, talked with me, he threw the brightest sunshine into my dark world. He is really My angel! On the third day after I met him, the doctor told me that I had a suitable kidney. I was so excited that I ignored him and pushed me to a secret corner, trying to tell him the good news first, but I never did. I have seen him. I asked my mother and nurses, but no one said that he had seen such a person. He was like an angel I imagined, holding my hand through the darkest days. When I saw the sun, he disappeared into the sun." Malatang asked me indistinctly: "You said, how could I not love the angel who protects me?" Malatang finally passed out from drunk, and I also felt weak all over, so I called my eldest sister and asked her to pick us up.