Bending down to pick up the fallen fruits one by one back into the basket, I coaxed her and said, "Don't be angry, don't be angry, he has already left. If you don't want to eat fruit, eat the pancake fruit I bought for you, that's good eat."
She tightly clutched the quilt under her hand, her eyes protruded slightly due to anger, making her eyes look terrifyingly big.
"He is a broom star! A bedbug that sucks human blood! A white-eyed wolf who repays his favor!"
The fruit basket was placed on the ground, and I sat by the bed, acting as the perfect audience, listening to her cursing Sheng Mingou with all vicious words as best she could, without interrupting.
I never knew she could swear like this, and she swears all the time. It seems that there has been a lot of scolding over the years, and they are already skilled workers.
The nurse showed an unconcealed look of shock under my mother's hoarse curses. She might never say that Teacher Lin is the most temperamental dying patient she has ever met. At this moment, Teacher Lin really has no temperament to speak of.
On the way back, there was still no one on the bus. Holding a basket of fruit in my arms, I lied to my mother that I was going to throw it away, but in fact I wanted to take it home and eat it myself.
It's a pity to throw away this basket, let alone a few hundred yuan.
Looking at the scenery flying by outside the window, my thoughts can't help but drift away, from my mother to the future, and gradually fall on the man I met today after a long absence.
Sheng Minou was only three years old when he was adopted by my family. The reason for the adoption was nothing more than that-my parents could not give birth.
But just like many families with childbearing difficulties, they finally made enough mental preparations and decided to adopt someone else's child and came back to raise it, but they were able to give birth by themselves.
Before I had time to change Sheng Mingou's name and the household registration procedures were completed, my mother found out that she was pregnant.
At that time she wanted to retire, but my dad didn't agree. He felt sorry for Sheng Mingou, couldn't bear to be hurt twice at such a young age, and stubbornly believed that it was the arrival of Sheng Mingou, the child-giving boy, that allowed the old Lu family to flourish, and if he didn't treat him well, he would suffer misfortune.
Although my mother is not a teacher, she has been doing finance in elementary school for so many years. My colleagues and neighbors always call "Mr. Lin" politely when they see each other. People quarreled so much that they almost got a divorce.
But in the final analysis, there is no problem with the relationship between the two, it's just that they are not getting along with each other. Seeing that it couldn't end, I don't know how the two of them communicated. Anyway, in the end, my mother took a step back and kept Sheng Minou.
But in this way, he became a superfluous person.
Rather than saying that he is a member of our family, it is better to say that he is a temporary resident under the fence. My dad is okay, but my mother's attitude is particularly obvious, she doesn't treat him as a son at all, at most it's just an air with a name and a surname.
I was ignorant when I was a child, and I used to be proud of my mother's infinite preference for me. I used the cake toy she bought only for me to show off in front of Sheng Mingou, and asked him if he wanted it.
Sheng Minou always looked at me with a blank expression, his jet-black pupils were extremely deep and cold. Seeing me cowardly and offering "filial piety" by himself, he would tell me without hesitation that he didn't like it, and then turned and left without looking back.
Only when I grew up did I realize how stupid I was at that time, Sheng Minou must have looked at me as if I were a fool.
He hates me, I can feel it.
Every time I act like a baby with him or talk to him, I can feel his well-hidden rejection, and I get a little afraid of him after a long time.
It's not that he doesn't have a smiling face for me, it's just that his smile can never penetrate into his eyes, like wearing a mask of pretending to be kind. All the kindness and affection towards me are just to please the adults of this family, so that he can have a shelter.
This "hate" may still be vaguely distinguishable when I was young, but after growing up, in the past ten years, I have gradually realized it.
When I was ten years old, a big event happened in my family.
My dad was involved in a car accident on the way home from get off work, and was caught under the wheels of a truck with people and batteries. When the ambulance was sent to the hospital, he was almost dead. The wound was too deep, the blood loss was too great, and it was impossible for a god to save him.
When he was dying, my father took my mother's hand and made her swear that she would bring us up well, especially Sheng Mingou, who wanted to support him in high school and college. We have been husband and wife for more than ten years, and he really knows my mother's virtue very well.
Although my mother was unwilling in her heart, she could only nod her head in agreement when facing a dying person.
Since then, she has been orphaned and widowed, carrying a bottle of oil, and even more indifferent and disgusted with Sheng Minou.
Sheng Minou rarely went home after boarding in high school. He only came back during the Chinese New Year and the anniversary of my father's death. He would work outside during the winter and summer vacations.
Since the third year of high school, he stopped asking my mother for money, and relied on odd jobs to earn living expenses and tuition fees, and he even applied for a scholarship in college. And the relationship between me and him, which was not very close, became even weaker after he moved out of the house.
When I was a freshman in high school, he was already a sophomore, studying law at the best university in Qingwan City. Fewer people came back, and they often just had a sloppy meal and left in a hurry.
I had to do my best to ask him on various topics that I had already mastered so that he could stay at home for a while.
When he gave me a lecture, I always liked to watch his side face, watching the sunlight fall on his thick eyelashes and cast light shadows from his eyes.
Every time at this time, I would admire his good looks and wonder if his biological parents were idiots, otherwise how could a normal person abandon such a beautiful and healthy child.
At that time, I thought that the longing in my heart was so strong that I couldn't get rid of it, but it was my attachment to my brother, a manifestation of the lack of fatherly love.
Until Qi Yang appeared.
He pesters Sheng Minou, yearns for Sheng Minou's eyes, is greedy and obscene, and is exactly the same as my own reflection I once saw in the mirror.
At that moment, I suddenly realized that the strong emotions and inextricable yearning were all driven by desire. I covet Sheng Minou so much that I want to hold on to him.
In the past ten years, I have thought a lot. In fact, Qi Yang and I are the same people in essence. We are addicted to unethical feelings, and we are unwilling to be ignored by Sheng Minou. It's just that he went a little further and crossed my line.
When in prison, most of the prisoners are indifferent, but after a long time, there will always be a few people who have a good relationship.
In cell No. 67, I had the best relationship with three people—the third brother, Hou Zi, and Shen Xiaoshi.
These people came in later than me, but they all went out earlier than me.
The third brother's real name is Wei Shi. He is a bold man. He looks like a big and three rough, but he is very economical. When he came in, he had already managed several massage parlors and had countless younger brothers.
I asked him why he came in when I had nothing to do, and he slapped his head and scolded the guy who sentenced him to five years in prison to eighteen generations of his ancestors.
This is quite dramatic. His massage shop is expanding day by day, and he has to win over people from all walks of life. There is a big brother on the road. If he gets on this line, the business of the massage shop can rest easy, and he can make a lot of money every day with his eyes open.
Together with his good brother and business partner, he came up with a way to invite his eldest brother to the casino to gamble until he had a good time. If he wins, it's all his elder brother's, and if he loses, he and his business partner will bear it in half. The eldest brother is happy, and their business is also easy to do.
It was well said when I went there, and the group was in high spirits. Who would have thought that the eldest brother is a once-in-a-thousand-year bad player, and he lost more and more, and finally lost tens of millions.
Tens of millions is not a small sum for Wei Shi. He took out all the cash in his hand and had to pay several stores. But the line of big brother is stable, and it will not be difficult to earn back.
The bad thing is that his good brother turned his face and refused to admit it, refused to fulfill the verbal promise he made when he went there, and blamed Wei Shi for his trip to the casino.
Wei Shi paid the full amount by himself, endured his temper and went back to the country. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became. A few days later, he suddenly ran to his brother's house in the middle of the night, tied him up, stuffed him into a car, and drove him out of the city. He was beaten up in a deserted place, and then the car was driven away and sold.
When the police found him, he didn't realize the seriousness of the problem. Illegal detention and embezzlement of other people's property, he was sentenced to five years in prison.
"You say I'm not unlucky, and I'm all bullshit!" His heroic long eyebrows were raised upside down, and the image of the kind-looking Guanyin on his arm was distorted by his tense muscles, and his face suddenly became pale. gloomy.
I patted him on the shoulder, there was no way to comfort him, I could only tell my story to make him happy.
He looked at me in shock after hearing this, and gave me a thumbs up for a while.
"A mountain is higher than a mountain, and what you encounter is not a thing."
I smiled: "Who says no, so you are not the most unlucky."
After that, there seemed to be some kind of sympathetic friendship between the two of us. We took care of each other in prison and took care of each other after we were released.
On the day when I regained my freedom, he and Shen Xiaoshi came to pick me up together. They not only helped me clean up the dust, but also let me work as the manager of a pawnshop he opened recently.
As soon as I heard that the "manager" was a big official, I asked him how many people he was in charge of.
He took a big gulp of cold beer, stretched out two fingers and said, "Two, one accountant and one clerk." He pointed at Shen Xiaoshi next to him, "This is your clerk, you can see the accountant at work tomorrow, she is a beautiful woman .”
People with business experience can make a comeback no matter what. In the past few years after Wei Shi was released from prison, he stopped working as a massage shop and opened two pawnshops, which have flourished. What I want to manage is the third company in the chain, which is small in scale and lacks a trustworthy person to take care of it.
"I don't understand anything. If you ask me to manage a store all at once, I can't manage it." I bluntly said that I have no such skills and wanted to decline.
In addition to the reason mentioned in the mouth, there is also my mother's illness. In the last days, I want to spend more time with her.
"You don't know anything, you have no education and no experience. After passing my village, where can you find a job you want? I know you are worried about your mother. In this way, I will enroll you in a class first, and you go to learn Learn how to identify those jewelries. It will take at least a month or two to finish these courses, and it will not be too late for you to decide whether to come to work with me."
Wei Shi looks rough, but his words are impeccable, and his deeds are also considerate. If I refuse again, it seems that I don't know what is good or bad.
Fortunately, I did not refuse. I have lived in the "ivory tower" for a long time, and the prices outside are far beyond my imagination. Even the price of pancakes has increased.
My mother was very happy when she found out that I found a job so quickly, and said with a smile that she didn't have to worry about me dying in the future.
If she had seen me fold the quilt so neatly, she would have been able to dispel her worries long ago.
The so-called treasure appraisal course is not difficult, at least much simpler than the high school course. The main purpose is to teach people how to quickly identify those famous watches and bags, as well as real money. Occasionally, when the teacher gets interested, he will also talk about the international trend of luxury goods.
Generally speaking, the trend is like a man coming crazy, coming violently and violently, and retreating silently.
The course ended three weeks ago, and the school gave a diploma in a decent manner, and the teacher also wrote a message for the future for each student.
Mine said: "Student Lu Feng, your future has infinite possibilities, and your hard work will eventually pay off. I hope you cherish it and everything goes well."
Accept his auspicious words, if I get rich, I will definitely go back and give him a big red envelope.
When I got home with a basket of fruit, I just poured myself a glass of water when Wei Shi called and asked me to eat hot pot.
There was a lot of noise, and it was quite lively.
I had no choice but to go out again with the key, walked to the door and lowered my head to sniff the denim jacket on my body. The faint aroma of leather and wood had almost dissipated.
After hesitating for a moment, I turned around and entered the room, took off my clothes, and put on another coat in the closet before rushing to the invitation.