Because the parents need to be involved in the wedding, you can't just get married without telling your family.
The night before returning to her hometown, Lu Xinting nestled in Song Heng's arms and asked him about his parents.
"I asked you before and never told me, what's going on? Now that we are married, your parents are my parents. If your parents are still alive, don't I need to see them?"
Lu Xinting was absolutely right.
An ugly daughter-in-law has to meet her parents-in-law, not to mention that Lu Xinting can also be taken away. He has been hiding it, always feeling like there is some secret, which arouses Lu Xinting's curiosity.
"Xinxin, it's not that I didn't tell you, it's that my family's situation is really not good."
"Not good? How bad is it?"
Song Heng held her on the bed, pondered for a long time, and then slowly spoke to her.
"My parents divorced very early. My mother took my brother and remarried, and I followed my father."
This was the first time Lu Xinting heard Song Heng mention his family members.
Just such a scrawled sentence?
"So? Aren't my parents divorced? How can this be called a bad situation? My parents are divorced. My stepfather's surname is also Lu. My mother married him and is living a good life now."
Lu Xinting didn't know what was so difficult for this man to say.
"It's not what you think."
"What's that like? Don't be out of breath when you speak, just finish it."
Lu Xinting asked for a long time before he told her in bits and pieces.
Song Heng's father loved drinking and playing cards as long as he could remember, and would come back to beat his mother when he lost money.
The family was very poor at that time and relied on his mother to sell breakfast to support the family. His father was a gambler and would beat his mother every night when he came home drunk and force her to take the money.
Later, he and his brother grew up and learned to resist, but in the end they were caught and beaten by his father.
The most vivid memory he had was when his brother was tied up with a belt by his father in order to protect him and burned with pokers. In the process, he accidentally spilled the boiling water and poured it over his brother's head. After that, his brother I'm a little mentally disturbed.
In order to treat his brother's illness, the family's breakfast shop was closed and there was no source of income. His father's temper became even more difficult to control, forcing his mother to accompany guests to make money.
Of course his mother didn't want to, so his father took a man home in the middle of the night and raped his mother while she was still sleeping.
From then on, his mother was forced to accept customers and was beaten if she didn't want to.
He and his brother slept next door, listening to his mother crying, and then her mother became numb.
"Why doesn't your mother get a divorce?" Lu Xinting was frightened when she heard this. No wonder when she first saw him, she found many injuries on his body and thought they were from when he went on a mission.
"My mother is very timid and has never gone to school. She doesn't know how to protect herself through legal channels. The beast threatened to hack her to death if she dared to divorce. She said it didn't matter if she died, for fear that I would follow her. My brother was implicated, but she didn’t dare to divorce or call the police, and the police didn’t care at that time.”
He didn't even know whether the men who had entered his mother's room were police officers from the police station.
In such a small county town, how can a woman with little knowledge have the courage to defend her dignity and life safety from infringement?
Coupled with mental constraints and concerns, she would choose to swallow her anger.
Until one day, the neighbor's uncle saw that the mother and son were pitiful and brought some food to their house. When his father saw it, his father rushed into the kitchen and stabbed the uncle with a knife.
Originally, this matter could land his father in jail, but his father knelt down and begged his mother to agree to anything as long as he was not allowed to go to jail.
In order to get a divorce, his mother spent all her savings to help his father settle the matter.
After his father was released from detention, he signed the divorce agreement and his mother got divorced smoothly.
Later, his father stopped drinking, found a job at a construction site, and met new people again.
The woman brought a child to marry his father, thinking that he would change his ways, but she didn't expect that he would become addicted to drugs.
At that time, Song Heng was a boarding school student and rarely went home. Once when he went back for a vacation, he saw his stepmother and the child dead at home, and his father was missing.
Later, his father was caught on the way to escape and sentenced to death.
"So Xinxin, it's not that I won't tell you, it's that I really don't know how to speak."
"Everyone in that county knows that my mother works as a receptionist, my father is a death row prisoner, and I am the son of a death row prisoner."
His voice softened, and his head drooped, hanging on her neck.
Lu Xinting remained silent.
She thought Song Heng just had family disharmony and his parents' situation was complicated, but she didn't expect the truth behind it to be so bad.
No wonder he never mentioned family matters, living alone in the capital as if he had no family.
"sorry."
In the quiet air, a low apology suddenly came.
Lu Xinting came back to her senses, reacted, and heard him say "I'm sorry" in her ear again.
"Brother Song, why do you have to apologize?"
He grabbed her hand and said in an extremely low voice, "Xinxin, I owe you this."
"Why do you feel you owe me? Do you think you are not worthy of me?" Lu Xinting said directly.
Song Heng hugged her tighter. Fortunately, the lights were not turned on in the room, so she could not see the expression on his face at this time.
The mixture of embarrassment and guilt must be ugly to watch.
"Brother Song, you didn't choose your birth. Why should you use your family to measure your worthiness as a person?"
Lu Xinting held his face, "The first thing I felt when I heard what you said was that I feel distressed for your past and hate what your father did. But I'm also glad that you experienced such a gloomy childhood and still remain the same when you grow up. He knows how to love people, and he has become such a man who makes me feel stable and solid."
Lu Xinting kissed his lips and felt that his lips were a little warm and trembling.
She didn't expose him and joked, "Brother Song, you are really good. Even my mother said that I was lucky enough to find you in eight lifetimes."
"Xinxin, don't say that."
Song Heng's voice was hoarse, and he touched her face with slightly rough fingers, "I am lucky to meet you in this life."
He always took care of his family, which she couldn't accept, so he didn't dare to tell her.
I didn't expect that she didn't dislike his past and cared for him so much.
"Xinxin, if you want to ask anything else, I'll tell you."
Lu Xinting shook her head, "I won't ask anymore."
Lu Xinting hugged his waist tightly, "Isn't it hard for you to open your scars and tell these things?"
Song Heng shook his head, "It's been a long time, I don't feel much."
"Then you hate him?"
Song Heng thought for a while, "The person is already dead, so there is no point in hating him."
"How are your mother and brother doing now?"
Song Heng was stunned for a moment, "I haven't called back for a long time."
"Have you not been home for a long time?"
"I have no home." His voice was a little lonely.
Lu Xinting realized that she had said the wrong thing, "You fart, this is not our home?"
Song Heng quickly defended, "I mean before, didn't you ask me where my hometown is..."
Lu Xinting chuckled, "I'm just kidding you, why are you so nervous."
"Oh..." Song Heng saw her smiling and laughed too.
"No wonder you've been at my house during the Chinese New Year for the four years I've been with you. Didn't you come back before?"
"Well, my mother has a new family, so I can't disturb her."
"Then do you know where she lives now?"
"Um."
"Then let's go back to see him tomorrow."
"good."
Lu Xinting suddenly remembered something, "Brother Song, did you always celebrate the New Year alone before?"
"Well, sometimes it does. Sometimes a few friends from the car dealership don't go back, so we just make do with each other."
Lu Xinting leaned in his arms and closed her eyes to imagine, "Do you still remember the first time you went to my house to celebrate the New Year? I prepared a red envelope for you. The way you received the red envelope is still something I have never forgotten."
"Ah?" Song Heng's body was a little stiff, but she still remembered it.
Lu Xinting pursed her lips and smiled, "You were as happy as a child at that time, so silly."
Lu Xinting brought this up and laughed at him, which made his ears turn red.
Song Heng couldn't stand her laughter, so he blocked her lips with embarrassment, then turned over and pressed her under him, his actions showed his impatience.
