Jiang Xiaozhen was pulled away from her mother by He Yu.
He asked her to go out to buy dinner with him.
He told Xu Meiyin that he would help persuade Jiang Xiaozhen.
He Yu's actions were not the same, the way he pulled Jiang Xiaozhen away was rough and eager, as if Xu Meiyin was a great danger.
The tears on Jiang Xiaozhen's face were still wet, and when they walked out of the community, she was still gasping for air.
Passers-by looked sideways, and He Yu silently blocked her.
His mind was in a mess, because of the scene he saw just now, and because of Jiang Xiaozhen who didn't know how to comfort him.
Jiang Yuan and Xu Meiyin in He Yu's childhood memories were parents who were too good to fault. And after reuniting with Jiang Xiaozhen, he also thought so. Even though more than ten years have passed, even though they have experienced turmoil, they still love their daughter as before... until He Yu saw with her own eyes that Xu Meiyin slapped herself heavily.
It is clear that some things have changed in quality and are no longer what they used to be.
"Let's go, you don't need to intervene in my family's affairs." She stopped behind him.
He Yu turned around, only to realize that he had been tugging on Jiang Xiaozhen's wrist.
He let her go.
Wiping away the tears by herself, Jiang Xiaozhen immediately turned around and wanted to go back.
He Yu had no choice but to chase after her, and grabbed her hand again.
"Will it be better if I get the money back?"
Jiang Xiaozhen's back paused.
She didn't shake him off, turned around, and smiled at He Yu.
"No, I was talking nonsense before. Thank you for the money you borrowed. I will study hard." Relaxed and bright, with a very "Jiang Xiaozhen" smile, and a very "Jiang Xiaozhen" tone.
He Yu's heart trembled suddenly.
Such a very normal Jiang Xiaozhen made him feel very strange.
Does he understand her
maybe not.
So how can we help her
"Jiang Xiaozhen..."
He Yu frowned.
"Can you tell me your story?"
He looked at her like a doctor facing an intractable disease. Like a student facing a difficult arithmetic problem.
No one has ever asked Jiang Xiaozhen this question.
He Yu grabbed her hand, as if he would not give up until he got the answer, and he wanted to find trouble.
"There's nothing worth hearing," she said.
"I'm here to hear what you want to say."
His hand changed from grasping to grasping, interlocking his fingers tightly with hers.
"Jiang Xiaozhen, I'm your friend."
He Yu didn't know that just his words had already helped Jiang Xiaozhen a lot.
She helped someone wash their hair all night, and her hands were icy cold.
She lost her direction, there was nowhere to go in the huge world, and there was no one to complain about the pain in her heart.
Those warm hands held her at such a moment, holding her from falling to a darker and colder place.
Jiang Xiaozhen's story, let's start from the year they parted.
Six-year-old Jiang Mingzhen asked her mother when she would be as beautiful as her mother. Mom said that every flower has its time to bloom, and it's not Xiaozhen's season yet. So Jiang Mingzhen has been quietly waiting for her own season every day and night since then.
At the age of seven, Jiang Mingzhen heard her parents arguing. Her restaurant is targeting high-end people, but the business cannot keep up with the high-level service. Under the loss, her father is unwilling to make a transition and starts to borrow money from acquaintances.
At the age of eight, the restaurant went bankrupt.
In the same year, her father ran away with his wife and daughter with a whole body of debts on his back. Their family is not in dire straits, and her father left a sum of money on hand. He plans to continue to do some small business in other cities, dreaming that one day he can make a comeback.
One day when she was nine years old, Jiang Mingzhen was picked up from school by a pair of uncles and aunts she knew. They said that her father was not free, so she went to their house to play first today. That day, my uncle and aunt's car drove a long way, and finally drove to a place that Jiang Mingzhen didn't know at all.
"Your daughter is in our hands, pay back the money, and we will send her back."
"Call the police? It's just right to call the police. You ran away after you owed us so much money. If you call the police, you will go to jail yourself."
The uncle who finished speaking into the microphone brought the microphone to Jiang Mingzhen's mouth after listening to the reply on the other side of the phone.
"Talk to your parents." He directed her.
Jiang Mingzhen didn't know what to say.
"Say you are Jiang Mingzhen and ask your parents to pay back the money."
With a flat mouth, Jiang Mingzhen was unwilling to speak.
She knew that their family had no money now, and money was very important to Dad.
The uncle and aunt changed their faces and slapped Jiang Mingzhen hard.
"say."
Jiang Mingzhen blankly covered her aching cheek.
They yelled at her, and soon another slap was coming.
She was terrified, and as they asked, she repeatedly said: "I am Jiang Mingzhen! I am Jiang Mingzhen!"
Every subsequent call was the same. The uncle and aunt asked her parents to raise money to pay them back, and Jiang Mingzhen wanted to speak into the microphone. When she refused to speak out, they beat her and starved her.
"I'm Jiang Mingzhen." She repeated this sentence mechanically.
They added: "Tell your parents to prepare money quickly!"
Jiang Mingzhen refused to say.
She is only willing to say "I am Jiang Mingzhen".
A week later, her parents raised all the money they owed and redeemed Jiang Mingzhen.
Ten-year-old Jiang Mingzhen lived with her parents without a fixed place, and her school changed from one school to another. The unstable life left her with no friends to talk to. During the parent meeting, the teacher talked to her parents.
"Jiang Mingzhen is too autistic," said the teacher.
From the teacher's mouth, her parents learned about her daughter's unhappy campus life.
The classmates at school laughed at her for being ugly and poorly dressed, but Jiang Mingzhen never resisted and fought back against their behavior. She doesn't talk to her classmates, she doesn't talk to the teacher. After being sent to the class by her parents every day, she sits in her own seat and doesn't go anywhere until after school, when she is picked up by her parents to go home.
She can go a day without saying a word at school, or even going to the toilet.
After the parent-teacher meeting, Mom and Dad talked to Xiaozhen. Jiang Mingzhen told her parents that she wanted to be at home and was unwilling to go to school.
"How can I not go to school?" Her parents disagreed.
They promised Jiang Mingzhen.
"We will buy the best clothes for Xiaozhen and help you dress up the most beautifully."
"We let Xiaozhen study in a good city and a good school. A good school is full of good teachers and students, and they will be kind to Xiaozhen."
Jiang Mingzhen had no choice but to go to school again.
At the new parent meeting in the new school, the new teacher said the same thing to her parents.
"Your Mingzhen is too introverted and always gets bullied at school."
But how could this be? Jiang Mingzhen's parents couldn't understand. Jiang Mingzhen of their family is a bad-tempered little princess who is not afraid of anything. She has always bullied others, and no one has ever bullied her. She is obviously such a powerful little girl, when did she change
They treated Jiang Mingzhen better, took care of her more meticulously, and gave her everything they could.
They want to bring back the little princess who was in a good family before.
When she was eleven years old, Jiang Mingzhen was advised by the school to temporarily suspend her studies.
A professional psychology teacher on campus had a conversation with Jiang Mingzhen's parents. In the end, they accepted the school's suggestion to let Jiang Mingzhen rest at home for a period of time.
How can I protect my daughter
Her parents worry. They fell to the bottom and couldn't protect themselves, so they raised their hands as much as possible to keep Xiao Mingzhen's feathers from getting dirty.
At the age of twelve, debt collectors came to my door. The three members of the Jiang family were crowded in the rental house, and people outside kept knocking on the door, calling the three of them by their names, and wantonly insulting them.
Mom covered Mingzhen's ears: "Mingzhen, don't listen."
Once, they were caught by the same group of people outside, and the mother ran slowly, so she put Jiang Mingzhen on her father's back and let them run first.
Jiang Mingzhen turned her head on her father's back and saw her mother was caught. Their feet kicked her body, and the sound was like heavy sandbags falling to the ground, one after another.
"Mingzhen, don't look."
Dad's pace didn't stop for a moment, and mother didn't ask them for help.
"Mingzhen," they said to her over and over again every chance they had during those difficult days, "you are our apple of the eye, you are our supreme treasure, you must be well."
When she was thirteen, Jiang Mingzhen couldn't even speak to her parents at home, let alone go to school.
But at the moment she has been out of school for two years.
"Xiao Zhen must go to school."
"If you don't study, will you work like us in the future?"
Over the years, Jiang Mingzhen's parents have lost everything. They work part-time and borrow money, no matter how humble and hard work they do, no matter how humble they are, they just need to borrow money.
When you open your eyes, you see a dusty road, but when you close your eyes, you see a leaky basement.
They have no unrealistic expectations, no cheering beliefs. They have completely lost from the inside out, all the glory they had in the past.
There is only one reason for this family, these two people, to exist: Jiang Mingzhen.
They loved her and protected her unchanged for decades.
In Jiang Mingzhen's place, the last sliver of dignity of their family is still preserved, and the last sliver of hope comes from undying.
She still has a long future ahead.
She shouldn't be burdened by them, stop here.
The slaps their parents slapped themselves on the face hurt and woke Jiang Mingzhen up.
"It's all my fault. I have hurt our family Mingzhen."
"Damn me, I owe that much money."
"Mingzhen, can you talk to us?"
"Mingzhen, promise mom and dad to go to school, okay?"
Jiang Mingzhen has been waiting for her season.
When she is in season, she will become very beautiful, gentle, and educated, like her mother, everyone will like her; she will grow up all at once, and carry her home alone, so that parents don't have to go hungry anymore, Being chased, doing hard work.
She has not waited for her season, and when she opens her eyes, she sees that her parents are already old.
They couldn't bear it any longer, their eyes were full of helpless ashes, and they slapped the whole family to the point of collapse.
They pinned their hopes on her before they broke down.
Jiang Mingzhen has to go to school.
She goes to the best school, and her backpack is filled with presents from her mother. She dressed up as she was when she was most confident, and she imitated the way she behaved in the world at that time.
Because, that was the most powerful period in Jiang Mingzhen's life, who had not yet waited for her own season.
Just a little.
"I don't want to be called Jiang Mingzhen anymore." She said to her parents.
The name "Jiang Mingzhen" followed her waiting and was buried at the age of thirteen.
The remaining "Jiang Xiaozhen" is covered with a layer of skin of "Miss Jiang's family" that she painted, and will not grow up anymore.
Her strength is small, and her strength is small.
However, this is the only thing she can do for her parents.
The three members of the family tacitly wanted Jiang Xiaozhen to grow up carefree, and Jiang Xiaozhen was also dutifully spoiled by them, dutifully carefree.
A Taiping.