Du Yuan looked at Tao Shichu's leaving figure, and finally returned to his home with a smile on his face. But as soon as he entered the door, a maid came to him: "Master! Go and persuade Madam, she has been there all day." If you don’t eat or drink, your body won’t be able to survive..."
The good mood Du Yuan brought back from outside suddenly disappeared. His face turned cold, and he asked depressedly and impatiently: "Why is mother so angry this time?"
The maid immediately replied: "Because the master brought another woman back yesterday, saying that she was a concubine given to him by a colleague. When the lady found out, she was very sad. She didn't eat or drink, and just shed tears..."
Du Yuan rubbed his forehead and said, "I'll go see her."
When he arrived in his mother's yard, as soon as he stepped in, he heard the persuasive voices of several maids and his mother's familiar crying.
"Madam, at least drink some water, your voice will become hoarse if you keep crying..." A maid advised softly.
"How can I be in the mood to drink water? My voice is hoarse. No one cares anyway..." Mrs. Du said with a crying voice.
Du Yuan walked in and saw his mother leaning on the bed holding a handkerchief and crying, her eyes were red from crying. She was very beautiful, and when she cried, she looked like a pear blossom with rain. She was weak and pitiful, and she obviously already had Du Yuan, a son who is already weak, is still as innocent and young as a girl in his ninth year, and still like a girl, as if love is the most important thing in life.
"Mother, why are you crying?" Du Yuan asked, holding back the impatience in his heart.
"Yuan'er! Are you finally back? You don't know how much your father has gone too far. He brought another woman back yesterday. Does he still have me as his wife in his heart? He insists on finding other women to break my heart...Son, Please advise your father to send that woman away..." When Mrs. Du saw Du Yuan, she immediately seemed to have seen a savior. She grabbed his arm and asked him to interfere in his father's house affairs.
Du Yuan tried his best to pull his arm out of her hand and said: "Mother, you know that my father will not listen to me, let alone send his woman away. Why have you not been able to see the truth clearly for so long? He Are there still few women in the yard? One more is not too much, and one less is not too many. Can you stop deceiving yourself?"
When Mrs. Du heard what he said, she burst into tears and asked him in tears: "You, are you blaming me? It's obviously your father who's sorry for me, but you blame me? You are indeed your father's son. You only know how to do it." Standing on his side and talking, but ignoring your mother's difficulties, I gave birth to you in vain..."
She cried harder and harder. Du Yuan felt very tired, the tiredness radiating from his bones. He had been used to seeing this kind of scene since he was a child. Since he was three years old, his father had other women besides her mother. , his mother had already started this kind of crying and complaining, complaining that his father had drifted away from other women and disliked the old, forcing him, the son, to persuade his father to send other women away.
Every time his father had another woman, this kind of scene would happen to his mother. At first, Du Yuan would be worried and nervous about his mother, and then he would listen to her words and try to persuade his father. In the end, he would only get scolded. Later, the number of times increased. He got used to it and became much calmer. He knew that neither of these two people would change their behavior because of him, so he could only endure it.
"Mom, why do you still care about whether your father has other women? No matter how many women he has, it will not affect your status. You already have an adult son like me, and your son will become your support in the future. You You no longer have to rely on your father for survival, why can't you look away?" Du Yuan asked Mrs. Du tiredly.
Who knew that when Mrs. Du heard what he said, she immediately accused him angrily: "What are you talking about? Your father is my lifelong support, how could I live my own life without him? You are resenting your father Really? As a son of man, how can you sow your parents' feelings and be so unfilial?"
When Du Yuan heard her words, he was stunned and speechless. He never expected that his mother missed him so much. Didn't he really mean to persuade her to stop clinging to his father's feelings? Why could she understand that she was deliberately stirring up their feelings?
Du Yuan had a feeling that he couldn't explain himself and that he couldn't communicate with his mother. At this time, he suddenly thought, if only his mother were one of those decisive heroines in love-breaking novels, who could handle feelings with ease. Under the circumstances, if you are ruthless and I will break up with you, I will not be unable to live because of emotional frustration.
Having seen his mother's pain and sadness because of his father's affection, Du Yuan felt disappointed in her every time. He couldn't understand why she was hurt by her husband so many times and still couldn't give up. It also gave him a sense of fear of love. If falling in love with someone would make him so humble, then he would rather never fall in love with anyone in his life.
Du Yuan thought of the heroines in the love-breaking knife storybook, and couldn't help but think of Tao Shichu. If it were her, knowing that her husband brought back other women, she would definitely not cry like his mother, and could only humbly beg her husband to change his mind. ?
"Guizi! What are you doing? Are you listening to me?" Seeing that Du Yuan was distracted, Mrs. Du suddenly became angry and asked him angrily.
Du Yuan came back to his senses, looked at his mother who was glaring angrily in front of him, and said directly: "Mom, I can't do what you want me to do. You said I'm unfilial. How can I dare to interfere with my father?" Aren't you making things difficult for me? Since you care about your father so much, you should always put his wishes first. How can you complain that he likes the new and hates the old? If you like him, you should fulfill him, don't you think?"
Hearing his words, Mrs. Du was so shocked that her eyes widened. She was choked by his words and became speechless. She didn't know how to refute, so she even forgot to cry, and her face turned red from suppressing it.
Du Yuan pretended not to see the anger in her eyes and continued: "Mother, your eyes are red and swollen from crying. If your father sees you like this, wouldn't it damage your image in front of him? Also, if you If you don’t eat or drink, your body will be damaged. Didn’t you just give up your father to that woman? The gain outweighs the loss..."
His words immediately made Mrs. Du exclaim in surprise, and she quickly asked the maid to bring her a mirror. When she looked in the mirror, she saw her own red and swollen eyes, which ruined three or four points of her beauty, so she immediately became anxious. , hurriedly asked the maid to bring powder to apply on her...
Du Yuan looked like this and left quietly. In his mother's heart, his father was the first, her own beauty was the second, and his only son was only in the unimportant third place. So Over the years, he has long recognized the truth.
