"Mom." Qi Yan walked to Tao Yiru and hugged her.
Tao Yiru patted Qi Yan's back with a backhand, and put a bunch of flowers in front of the tombstone: "Your father will be very happy to know that you have found someone who can be with you for the rest of your life."
Qi Yan turned to look at Cen Baihe, who was bowing to the tombstone, and nodded with a smile, "Yes."
"It's windy on the mountain, let's go back," Tao Yiru put on gloves with a very indifferent expression. In the first few years of her husband's death, her child was also lost. During the day, she fought with a group of people at the company, fighting for power and profit. When she returned home, she began to wash her face in tears. Many times she woke up with wet pillows.
Maybe it was because she cried too much at that time, and the feelings at that time were too strong. Now that she thinks of her husband, her mood is calmer. The memory is still so clear, only the feelings have faded a little bit, lost the strong, only left regret and loss.
It's not that she doesn't love her husband, it's just that she has been too long, too long...forgot the feeling of love.
Looking at the two young people who were supporting her on the left and the right, Tao Yiru looked back at the tombstone. She was unfortunate in her early years, but now she can be considered a complete success.
Tao Yiru returned home, and after leaving the two children for dinner, drove them away. Young people have their own lives. She is not an elder who likes to tie children to her side all the time. Sometimes having a separate personal space can be regarded as an alternative enjoyment.
After six o'clock in the evening, Tao Yan suddenly found her, and there was a very old woman with him.
Tao Yiru knew this woman, her eldest sister-in-law, the eldest sister-in-law who couldn't survive the guilt and told her that the child was not lost, but sold by her good mother.
"Sit down." Tao Yiru pointed to the sofa, her left leg resting on her right, "It's so late, what are you doing here?"
"Auntie," Tao Yan's lips trembled, "My father has terminal cancer. The doctor said that he may only have a few days. He said that he wants to see you."
"Meet me?" Tao Yiru looked at Tao Yan with a funny look, "We are brothers and sisters, but how many brothers and sisters there are, probably nothing to see."
Hearing Tao Yiru say this, Tao Yan couldn't say anything else. He could only look at the red wine in Tao Yiru's hand in silence, and the atmosphere suddenly became silent.
Tao Yan's mother clasped her hands. She is a cowardly woman. Even if she has a son who is a star now, she does not dare to look at Tao Yiru, "Sister, I know that when I say these words now, it is difficult for the strong. I am today. Come with Ayan, not to persuade you, but to see you and... your children."
"He's fine," Tao Yiru shook the wine in the glass gently, "there's no need to meet him."
"I see," Mother Tao stood up and bowed to Tao Yiru, "Yiru, I'm sorry for all these years."
Tao Yiru didn't speak or move. She looked at the cowardly woman in front of her and said after a while, "Have you ever regretted it?"
"I don't know what regret is," Tao's mother's eyes were a little numb. "When my family took the dowry from your family, I became a Tao family member when I married. Your brother has a bad temper, and if you drink too much, you will beat people. , but I have no culture, no ability, and I have only seen places as big as the village head to the town entrance since I was a child. If I leave the Tao family, my mother's family will not want me, and I don't know how to live outside."
She shook her head: "Isn't it just like this in this life, Ayan became a big star, and he stopped hitting me. After I learned to surf the Internet, I realized that a woman like me is called... called..." She tried her best. I remembered that idiom, but I couldn't remember it.
"Look at me, it's embarrassing again," she smiled awkwardly. "Many netizens say that people like me deserve to suffer for the rest of my life. They're probably right, I'll be like this for the rest of my life."
"Mom!" Tao Yan held Tao's mother's hand, "How can you say that about yourself?!"
Mother Tao smiled and shook her head: "It's still better for the little girl now, who reads a lot, has vision, and can live without relying on a man."
When she was a child, her family was poor and she didn't even study for a day. Her parents told her that she was a girl and she had to take good care of her brother. When he grew up, he was a promising man, and she had to take good care of him. Later, when her brother got married and the family was short of money, she married into the Tao family. It is said that the two elders of the Tao family have a bad reputation. If the girl married into his family, she would definitely be scolded by her mother-in-law, but who told her family to give a lot of dowry, enough for her brother to marry a daughter-in-law from a neighboring village.
After that, the days went on like this, she spent all day on the farm and the stove, and even watched TV with her own man. She was stupid and timid, and she couldn't compare to the current little girl.
Thinking of this, Mother Tao wanted to say that she has no regrets. But when she opened her mouth, she couldn't say a word.
In this life... that's all, and that's all.
"I'll accompany you to the hospital." Tao Yiru put down the glass and passed on the coat brought by the helper, "Let's go."
Tao Yan walked behind his aunt and his mother, and his heart was so bitter that the aunt and his mother walked together. In the eyes of outsiders, they were mother and daughter, and I am afraid some people would believe them. His father is not a good husband, nor is he a good father. He stayed up late to study since he was a child, and later went on plastic surgery to make money, just to make his mother live a good life.
But he became famous, but he didn't dare to stand up and support the divorce of his parents. He was afraid that the media would smear him, and that the negative news would affect his advertising endorsement, so his mother still endured it day by day. On the contrary, his father is alive and well, showing off to others from time to time that he has a star son.
Obviously, it was his mother who brought him up since he was a child, but in the end, it was his father who could only serve his father at home.
Tao Yan felt even more bitter in his heart, walked quickly to Mother Tao's side, and gently embraced her shoulders.
The hospital where Brother Tao lives is a well-known liver disease hospital in the Imperial Capital. When Tao Yiru saw him, he was already scrawny and boneless.
"Sister..."
Tao Yiru didn't take off her mask. She stood in front of Father Tao and looked at him blankly, like she was looking at a stranger.
"Yes, I'm sorry," Father Tao looked at Tao Yiru, "sister, I'm sorry."
"Thirty years ago, you should have said this when you beat me. Twenty-five years ago, when you and your parents lost my child, you should have said this," Tao Yiru's eyes were calm, "Your I'm sorry I accepted, but I don't forgive you."
"Hoho." Father Tao let out a huge gasp. He looked at Tao Yiru with pain on his face.
"What do you want to say?" Tao Yiru's pretty fingers made a "shush" gesture, "Did you forget?"
Father Tao stared at Tao Yiru.
"At that time you said, I am a girl, what can I do."
"Look," Tao Yiru took off the mask and showed an extremely beautiful smile, then put on the mask again, "now is the gap between me and you."
"In this life, you will be nothing but garbage until you die." Tao Yiru sneered, "Disgusting."
Father Tao struggled to get up from the hospital bed, but now he could only wriggle on the bed pitifully. Tao Yiru couldn't help laughing softly when he looked at him in such an embarrassed state, then turned and walked out of the ward.
Mother Tao glanced at the man in the ward, hesitated for a moment, and followed Tao Yiru.
Neither of them spoke. Tao Yiru took off the mask and threw it into the trash can. Mother Tao's face was expressionless. The two walked into the elevator and went downstairs, and then Mother Tao saw the young man standing at the gate of the hospital.
The young man is very good-looking, with eyebrows and eyes that look like a aunt. He is also holding a lady's coat and scarf in his hand. He should have come to pick up the aunt on purpose.
"Mom, it's so cold, why do you wear so little?" The young man saw the little aunt, walked quickly to the little aunt, put the coat over her, and thoughtfully tied the scarf for her.
Mother Tao shook her hand and put her hand in her jacket pocket.
Seemingly discovering her existence, the young man smiled and nodded at her, then took his sister-in-law's hand and walked to a car.
Mother Tao looked at the backs of the mother and son, and couldn't help but take a few steps out. Only when the cold wind blew on her face did she react and stop.
"Mom," Tao Yan ran out of the gate and put a coat over her, "the doctor said, Dad, he's not very well."
Mother Tao grabbed her coat and nodded numbly.
One day later, Tao's father died because of a serious illness.
The mother and son only prepared a simple funeral and buried Father Tao.
"Ayan, I said two days ago that your sister-in-law's child is getting married?" Mother Tao sighed, "His wedding will definitely not invite us."
"Love invites or not, I don't have time yet," Tao Yan snorted, "Mom, don't worry about these things now, you just need to take good care of your health."
"Our family owes others, how can we not worry about it," Mother Tao took out a box, "I heard that rich people pay more attention to gold and silver when they get married. I don't have anything to give, so you can help me with this. Send it over."
Tao Yan opened it and saw that there was a golden Guanyin weighing dozens of grams inside. This was something that Cen Baihe or Qi Yan could not look down on, but to his mother, it was extremely precious. thing.
"Mom! Why are you doing this!" Tao Yan miraculously, "This is the money you have saved for a long time!"
"With you here, am I still afraid of being short of money?" Mother Tao smiled, "Just treat it as a favor for my mother."
Tao Yan endured it, but agreed.
A day later, Qi Yan looked at the red velvet box Tao Yan had brought to him, and reached out to open the box.
The carving of Guanyin is not very good, and the box is not too high-end, but the weight of this thing is not light, and it will cost more than 10,000 to buy it.
Tao Yan thought that Qi Yan would not accept it, or showed an expression of disgust.
"Thank you," Qi Yan took out an invitation letter from the drawer, "I hope Lingtang will have time to attend my wedding on the 18th of this month."
Tao Yan looked at the name Zhou Cui written on the invitation letter, and his mood was very complicated.
"Our family dares to finish the funeral. It might be inappropriate for us to go to your wedding."
"You misunderstood, I only invited Lingtang, it has nothing to do with you," Qi Yan tilted his head slightly, "Besides, I never believe in these things, I believe in science."
Fuck your legs!
A feng shui master said that he believed in science, and it was shameless to die!
Tao Yan took the invitation back, he knew his mother wouldn't go, just like he knew that he was not welcome at Qi Yan's place.
That's it, the two of them don't have much relationship now.
The years are quiet, and everyone is safe. Let the past be buried in the years.