In the morning, Xu's mother boiled a red egg for Xu Weiwei and asked her with a smile what birthday gift she wanted.
Xu Weiwei thought about it, she didn't lack anything. The family's conditions were better than most people in the town. Because her grandfather opened a drug store, the family never stopped selling hawthorn pills. It was rare for other children to have a bottle of Wahaha, so Xu's father bought them in a row for her.
But seeing the look in Xu's mother's eyes, Xu Weiwei said casually: "I want to eat candied haws."
There were a lot of them sold in winter, and her grandfather would always give her a bunch when he came back from town, so it wasn't any trouble.
Xu's mother nodded and went to do her own business.
After lunch, Xu Weiwei went out to build snowmen with her little sisters, and had a great time sliding around. Seeing that it was getting dark, I said goodbye to my little sisters and went home.
No one invited her to warm herself by the fire as usual, and the house was empty.
Xu Weiwei looked at the coal stove. The briquettes inside had been burned to a grayish white, and he quickly put in new ones.
Sometimes her mother would go to the mountains to wait for her father to come home after work, so Xu Weiwei was not afraid. She would sit quietly by the fireside with her little book and read. However, she couldn't read the originally interesting comics today, and she was very upset. of.
After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the laughter and chatter of his father and co-workers could be heard outside. Xu Weiwei hurriedly went to open the door. When she saw Xu's father coming back alone, she asked in a daze: "Dad, didn't mom come find you?"
Upon hearing this, Father Xu put the tools aside, frowned and said, "No, where is your mother?"
"I don't know, I'm still at home at noon..."
Xu's father pushed the family's motorcycle out, told Xu Weiwei to watch the door at home and not run around, and then rode out on the motorcycle.
Xu Weiwei stood at the door for a while. The cold wind drove away the last trace of warmth from her body. After shivering, Xu Weiwei returned to the stove and stared at the flames in trance.
I don't know how long she waited, but Xu Weiwei felt sleepy. When the last trace of residual heat in the stove dissipated, Xu Weiwei got up and found that it was completely dark outside. He stopped caring about the fire and climbed into bed and curled up until the cold. Fell asleep under the covers.
Two days passed and no one from home came back. Fortunately, it was winter and the food did not spoil easily. The leftovers were reheated for two meals, and then I ate steamed buns and pickled vegetables to barely fill my stomach.
At noon on the third day, the roar of a motorcycle came from outside the house. Xu Weiwei stood up and ran out quickly, opening the door.
Seeing a familiar face getting off the motorcycle, Xu Weiwei threw herself into her mother's arms and wanted to express her grievances over the past two days, but she was pushed away ruthlessly the next second.
Xu raised his head slightly and saw Xu's mother frowning and staring at him with disgust, as if she was some dirty thing.
Although they have the same facial features and the same body shape, Xu Weiwei feels that the person in front of her is a stranger.
Perhaps it is more appropriate to say enemy, because strangers would not treat a child with such disgust.
Xu Weiwei didn't understand why, her mother was standing in front of her, but she seemed to have lost her.
Two days ago.
Xu's mother went to the town to buy candied haws on a stick for Xu Weiwei. Because winter is cold and dark early, the candied haws sellers sometimes go home early, and Grandpa Xu cannot always buy them when he gets off work.
In order to ensure that Xu Weiwei could eat candied haws on her birthday, Xu's mother decided to walk to the town to buy some. However, the snow on the road was frozen hard and it was very slippery to walk on. Xu's mother accidentally fell while trying to avoid the car. , his head hit the stone on the roadside, and he fainted immediately.
Some villagers recognized that this was the Xu family's daughter-in-law, helped take her to the hospital, and contacted Grandpa Xu. On the way back to the village, they met Xu's father in a hurry.
The father and son stayed in the hospital, and he woke up soon. Except for a little skin injury on his forehead, he was fine. He was even healthier than before, because Xu's mother regained consciousness.
Looking at the man in front of her who had been with her day and night for five years, Xu's mother no longer relied on and liked him, but was filled with disgust, collapse and disbelief.
The five years of personal experience flashed through her mind like a movie, and Xu's mother felt like she had watched a ridiculous tragedy.
The default identity in her heart has returned to five years ago - female college student Xu Yanling. Not someone's wife or mother.
Xu Yanling screamed and smashed things in the room to vent her anger and rejection. She could not accept her stupid marriage to a laborer under any circumstances.
Father Xu and Grandpa Xu had no choice. One of them was watching here, and the other invited Xu Yanling's parents to come over.
The two old men were very surprised when they heard that their daughter had recovered, but that was the end of it. In the past few years, they had also noticed how good their son-in-law was to their daughter.
After two days of persuasion alone in the ward, Xu Yanling relented and agreed to go home with Xu's father.
There was also the scene where Xu Weiwei opened the door.
She saw that her mother no longer liked her, so she became more sensible. She usually helps her parents with work, but now she is rushing to do any kind of work.
The small leather shoes that Xu Yanling took off were polished after the adults were asleep - her mother didn't like her touching her things and would be angry if she saw them.
Father Xu also tried his best to please. After returning from the hospital, the two of them shared beds. After work, they rode their motorcycles to the town to buy some braised meat, pickles, pastries and the like.
But Xu Yanling didn't buy it. She always ate a few hasty meals and then hid in her room and closed the door, wondering what she was busy with.
After all, such a relationship was unhealthy. Xu's father gradually couldn't stand Xu Yanling's cold eyes and contempt, and the two began to quarrel.
The home became visibly crumbling.
On New Year's Eve, Xu's father and Grandpa Xu went to the county town. They had just had a quarrel and had been in cold war for several days. Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, Xu's father wanted to go to the city to buy something for Xu Yanling and ease the relationship. Xiao Weiwei and Xu Yanling were left alone at home.
Xu Yanling also went out on a regular basis. Although Xiao Weiwei was not allowed to follow her, she would always come back that day.
But this time when Xu Yanling went out, Xu Weiwei had a premonition that "mom" would never come back.
She didn't bring anything with her, as usual, but if you look closely, your eyebrows have been carefully drawn, and her energy and demeanor are quite different.
The moment Xu Yanling stepped out of the room, Xu Weiwei called out "Mom" in a panic. Xu Yanling turned her head, a trace of pity flashed in her eyes, but that was all.
The door closed in front of Xu Weiwei. She didn't chase him out, she just stayed there, her head blank.
Later, I heard that Xu Yanling had a boyfriend before she suffered from dementia, who was also a college student. The two were from neighboring villages. They met each other on the train to school. The family did not know that Xu Yanling ran away with him.
Xu's father couldn't stand the criticism from people in the village, and was heartbroken about this place. He left home to work. At first, there was still news, but then he moved further and further away, and the news became less and less.
Xu Weiwei began to live with her grandfather. Her parents appeared briefly in her life and then disappeared like meteors. Excluding the year of infancy, the year of toddlerhood, and the two years of ignorance, the only thing that can really be counted is that year.
But as we get older, the memories of this year also fade in our memories.
The two roles of parents brought her only one year of sweetness and a long period of bitterness.
She never imagined that she could be a "daughter" again.
Through a layer of glass, Xu Weiwei looked at this excited woman with tears in her eyes, not knowing how to react.
And Mrs. Seaforth had already locked hands with Merlin. If her body hadn't allowed her, she would have jumped for joy.
"Did you see her eyes? Same as me! I finally have a baby with me."
"The little lady is so cute~~! The general will definitely like it when he sees it."
Mrs. Seaforth puffed up her chest proudly: "Of course, as long as it's my baby, he likes it even if it's a potato."
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