Chapter 11 Chapter nine

Liang Zhengwei received a call from the police station informing him to release his father Liang Jinghu on bail. "What the hell did he do?" he asked the officer. On the other end of the phone, the police officer just said, "Come here as soon as possible." Dad, who is a teacher in a middle school and will retire in one year, has always been law-abiding. What would he do?Liang Zhengwei was really confused. Liang Zhengwei hurried to the police station and said to the police officer on duty: "I'm Liang Jinghu's son, and I'm here to release him on bail."

The young policeman glanced at him and said expressionlessly, "Just wait a moment." After about a few minutes, another police officer came to the duty room. "Are you Liang Jinghu's son?" the square-faced police officer asked him. "yes." The police officer looked him up and down and said: "please follow me." They walked through the dark corridor and came to one of the rooms. The square-faced police officer said to Liang Zhengwei: "Your father is inside." Liang Zhengwei walked in and was taken aback by the person in front of him.He saw his dumpy dad in a bright red floral dress, two of the buttons pushed open by the fat at the waist.On her shaved legs, she wore a pair of flesh-colored stockings and black high-heeled shoes on her feet.On her lap was a black women's leather bag.He wore a long black wig, his face was carefully made up, his cheeks were very red, and his lipstick was a disgusting ketchup red.

Is this really his father? "The patrolman found him wandering the streets wearing women's clothes," the officer said. When Liang Jinghu saw his son, he lowered his head very low and said nothing. Coming out of the police station, Liang Zhengwei walked in front, and Liang Jinghu limped behind.When he was caught by the patrol just now, he wanted to run away, but his feet went limp, he fell, and he limped when he walked. The two father and son were standing outside the police station waiting for the bus, Liang Zhengwei never glanced at his father.It was the most humiliating day of his life.

Liang Jinghu has always been a dignified and loving father, he has never seen his father tonight.When did his father have this habit?How long has he lied to his family?My mother who died two years ago must have been very sad when she found out about this. Liang Zhengwei became more and more angry when he thought about it, the taxi stopped in front of them, and he fell headlong into the car.Liang Jinghu followed his son into the car with his head downcast.The father and son leaned against the car door on one side, Liang Zhengwei looked out the window angrily, and Liang Jinghu looked down at his knees.

The way home from the police station is not far, but this short journey has become infinitely long at this moment.The radio in the car was playing Channel A hosted by Xia Xinju.A woman surnamed Ji called the show and asked Xia Xinju: "Do you think longing is sweet or bitter?" Xia Xinju said: "It should be sweet, right? Because there is someone you can miss." The woman on the other end of the phone sighed and said sadly: "I think it's bitter. Because the person I miss will never come back. He was my boyfriend and he died." There was silence in the air.Liu Hai of the wig hung on Liang Jinghu's eyelids, making his eyes itchy. He rubbed his eyes with two fingers, and his fingers were also wet. He didn't know whether it was tears or sweat.

"Of course longing is bitter." Liang Zhengwei thought to himself.The woman he missed was thinking hard about another man. Back home, Liang Jinghu hid in his room and did not come out.From midnight to early morning, there was no sound at all inside. Liang Zhengwei was lying on his bed. There was a photo in the room, which was taken on campus with his father, mother and sister when he graduated from university.His father, who was shorter than him, put his hand on his shoulder and smiled benevolently.From an early age, his father taught him how to be a man.Dad taught him how to build models and played football with him.He never thought that his father would not be a man.For him, everything he saw today seemed unreal.Is it a dream?

He picked up the phone and dialed Xia Sangju's number. "It's me, are you still asleep?" "Not yet. A woman came to our house to find her ex-lover from fifteen years ago. That boy used to live here." "Then did she find it?" "I don't know! Even if she finds that person, that person may not still love her. Why do women go to find their old lover fifteen years ago?" "Maybe she's happy now." "happiness?" "Because of happiness, I want to see how my former man is now." "Then I hope that one day I will become very happy, and then find the man who abandoned me before. But, if he doesn't love me anymore, what does my happiness mean to him? Forget it." Xia Sangju said bitterly.

Liang Zhengwei was silent for a long time. "What's the matter with you?" she asked. "Oh, nothing." There are too many things that he can't talk about, such as the matter of his father disguised as a woman today, such as how he misses Xia Sangju.Why is she only willing to let that Li Yiyu occupy the place in her heart?Tonight, he followed her to Li Yiyu's house.She deliberately dressed up seductively and came out of the house, boarded a taxi, and went to Li Yiyu's place.They had broken up, but she was still foolish enough to go to bed with him.And he himself was foolishly waiting outside the apartment, waiting for the woman he liked to sleep with another man.He knew that Li Yiyu would not let her stay, and he was worried that she would go back alone at this late hour.This is not the first time he has done this.Tonight, if the police station hadn't asked him to bail out his father, he would have stayed there to wait for her.

"If there's nothing special, I'm going to sleep." Xia Sangju said. "Okay." He still didn't have the courage to say what was in his heart. He suddenly felt that he was not qualified to fall in love with anyone, he was born of a perverted man. The next morning, when he woke up, Dad had already gone out, leaving the breakfast he had prepared for his son on the dining table.Liang Jinghu usually wouldn't go to work so early, maybe he deliberately avoided his son today.More than a year ago, Liang Zheng bought a house for himself for the convenience of going to work. Since then, he has only come here occasionally to eat or spend the night.Now, he didn't want to eat the breakfast in front of him at all, he just felt sick.

The younger sister Liang Shuying, who works as a nurse in the hospital, came back from get off work at this time. "Brother, didn't you go back yesterday? Where's Dad?" She asked while taking off her shoes. "Do you know what happened last night?" "What's the matter?" She sat down, took half of a sandwich, and said while eating, "I was exhausted last night. There were a lot of patients in our ward." "Dad was caught by the patrol yesterday while wandering the streets dressed as a woman. I went to the police station to bail him out."

Liang Shuying was stunned, unable to believe what she heard. "You come!" Liang Zhengwei dragged her into her father's room. He opened the closet to look for the clothes Liang Jinghu wore when he was pretending to be a woman yesterday. "It doesn't seem right for you to search Dad's things like this?" Liang Shuying said standing aside. "I found it!" He found the red dress that Liang Jinghu wore yesterday in the drawer. There was also a wig, cosmetics and stockings in the drawer. "He went out in this skirt yesterday!" Liang Zhengwei said. Liang Shuying picked up the skirt, looked at it, and said, "This skirt belongs to my mother." "Why did Dad become like this?" she said distressedly. "Who knows!" Liang Zhengwei said angrily. "Could he be betting with someone? Betting whether he dares to wear women's clothes to go out." "Does he look like he's going to bet?" "Could it be because Dad retired in a year, so he was depressed and did some abnormal things? Since his mother died, he was very lonely." Liang Shuying said while tidying up the closet. "Have you talked to him?" she asked. "Forget it, I'm going to work." On the way to work, Liang Zhengwei suddenly realized that for the past year, he had put all his thoughts on Xia Sangju and didn't care much about his father at all.After breaking up with Luo Manli, he moved back home for a while, and after he bought a house, he moved out again.Since they left home and lived alone, the two father and son met less frequently, and even if they met, they did not talk about their hearts. After Mom died, Dad became silent.The relationship between father and mother is very good.In the past, my father sent my mother to work every day, and then went to work by himself.My mother has claustrophobia and is afraid of being trapped in a small space.She was afraid of taking the elevator, and she was also afraid of a car full of people.Wherever she goes, her father is always with her. He has a pair of parents who keep their marriage vows, but he himself is afraid of getting married.Three years ago, Luo Manli broke up with him because he refused to get married.Or maybe he inherited his mother's claustrophobia.What he is afraid of is not the elevator and the narrow carriage, but the marriage of two people. Three years after breaking up, one day, he received a call from Luo Manli.On the night of the reunion, he somehow slept with her.Even though he was leaning on her body, kissing her lips and rubbing her breasts, what he was thinking about was Xia Sangju.He closed his eyes and told himself not to think about Xia Sangju, the more he did this, the more he was thinking about her. The experience that night was not pleasant at all. Although Luo Manli couldn't see it, he felt sad.Didn't he love this woman deeply?Time has passed, and that love has never returned.Her body was just for him to miss another woman. In the afternoon, he received a call from Liang Shuying, "I have a friend who is a psychiatrist. I told her, can you take Dad to see her tomorrow afternoon? Dad may need help." Liang Shuying said. "Me?" Liang Zhengwei didn't want to go at all, he couldn't face such a thing. "I will be on duty tomorrow, so I can't leave." "Can't you change the time?" He wanted to find an excuse to evade. "Dad loves you the most. You can go with him. It's no big deal." "No big deal?" He didn't understand why Liang Shuying could be so relaxed. "As long as you are alive, you can solve anything; if you die, you can't do anything." Over the years, Liang Shuying was used to seeing death and pain in the hospital. Compared with all that, there is no need to be too pessimistic. Liang Zhengwei couldn't evade, so he had to accompany Liang Jinghu to the hospital.The psychiatrist was named Zhou Manqian. He was tall and had a pair of eyes that could see into other people's minds.For forty-five minutes, Liang Jinghu didn't say a word.He was visibly uncooperative.Zhou Manqian also had no choice but to say: "I'll see you next week." "No need, I'm not a patient!" Liang Jinghu stood up and said excitedly. "Can you cooperate?" Liang Zhengwei couldn't help but said loudly. "I'm not the monster in your heart!" Liang Jinghu said in a trembling voice.He glanced at his son and rushed out without looking back. After that day, Liang Zhengwei went home even less. That night, he went to follow Xia Sangju again.If his dad was a transvestite, then maybe he himself was a stalker.He was a good man with a bright future, and he had an old girlfriend who wanted to get back together with him, but he chose to follow a woman who didn't love him.Since the incident with his father, he has followed Xia Sangju more frequently than before, or maybe this is a way to escape the pain in his heart. That night, Xia Sangju dressed up beautifully, and she went into Li Yiyu's apartment at eight o'clock; however, it was eleven forty-five before Li Yiyu came back from outside.She must have been waiting a long time.At ten past three in the morning, like every time in the past few months, she walked away alone with mournful steps.She walked in front, and he followed quietly.Under the street lamp, her back became longer and longer, more and more melancholy.When will she wake up?When will he wake up? Then one day at noon, Liang Shuying came to the company to look for him. "Any time to go out for lunch?" she asked. Liang Shuying took him to a coffee shop that he had never been to before, it was in a big fashion store.Sitting in the coffee room, all you can see are women's clothing that is popular this season. "The clothes here are very beautiful, but unfortunately they are too expensive." Liang Shuying said. Liang Zhengwei smiled: "You really know how to choose a place, I am scared when I see women's clothing now." "Father went to see Miss Zhou himself." "Miss Zhou?" He couldn't remember who it was. "The psychiatrist. Do you know why Dad goes out in women's clothing?" "why?" Liang Shuying looked at Liang Zhengwei, her eyes suddenly turned red. "Why exactly?" Liang Zhengwei asked. "He missed his mother so much that he would wear the dead mother's clothes and shoes and go out with his mother's favorite leather bag. When he was caught by the police, he was near the place where his mother used to work. On that road, he accompanied Mom has been gone for years. Do you remember he used to drive mom to work every day? Our dad wasn't a monster, he was just a poor old man. He could never forget mom. Wearing mom's clothes when he went out, just It's like going out with my mother, then I can relive the good old days." She said and shed tears. Liang Zhengwei's eyes were moist as he listened.How could he forgive himself for being ruthless to his father?What right does he have to look down on his father?He couldn't understand a man's affection for his dead wife at all. It was a miserable lunch, and his heart was full of grief.He should apologize to his father, but he has no face to see his father.At night, he sat at his home, remembering that day when he bailed his father out of the police station, he heard Channel A in the taxi, the woman surnamed Ji said that missing is bitter, because the person she missed is dead , will not be coming back.Dad heard it too, right? Missing is indeed bitter, if the person you miss will never fall in love with you. At midnight, he received a call from Xia Sangju, who told him that she was in the hotel.Her voice sounded like she had been crying.That hotel is opposite Li Yiyu's apartment, and she must have walked out of Li Yiyu's house. Liang Zhengwei came to the hotel room and saw Xia Sangju. "I really wish I could fall in love with you," she said sadly. "No, never push yourself," he said with a smile. She shed tears, hugged his head, and fell asleep on the chair.When she woke up, she chased him away. Missing is bitter, if the person you miss will never wake up. It was more than five o'clock in the morning when we left the hotel.He went back to his father's house.He carefully took out the key to open the door, for fear of waking up his father. Liang Jinghu was already awake. He poked his head out of the bedroom and saw his son. "You're back?" Liang Jinghu said with a smile. "Yes, haven't you slept yet?" After returning from the police station, it was the first time he spoke to his father so tenderly. "Didn't sleep well last night." "How about we go out for morning tea later?" he suggested. "Okay!" Liang Jinghu had a comforting look on his face. "Go to sleep for a while, I'll take a shower." Liang Jinghu said. After Liang Jinghu went into the bathroom, Liang Zhengwei lay down on Liang Jinghu's bed.This is the bed where Mom and Dad used to sleep, and he used to sleep with Mom and Dad when he was a child.Mom is gone, but she is a happy woman with a husband who loves her so much.This man loved her longer than her life. Liang Zhengwei turned over and lay on the bed, recalling those beautiful days when he slept with his parents. Suddenly, his heart became warm and he was no longer alone. He didn't follow Xia Sangju any more.He loved her, but it was also time to retreat.Missing is beautiful.His dead mother will miss his father.The boyfriend of the woman surnamed Ji will also miss his wife in the world.However, the woman he missed, although alive, did not miss him.From the moment he left the hotel, his feelings for her were gone forever. Dad's skirt, set him free.