short story collection

"He and I are childhood sweethearts, and we have known each other since we were young. At that time, everyone's conditions were very poor, but he was very good to me, and he would give me basically anything to eat. At that time, children were very protective of food, but he Protect me." Chen Ruo said, laughing a few times.

"His family is very happy. Dad, mother, grandma...although the family of four is struggling, but the whole family is united as one, what difficulties can they overcome?"

"His father is very capable. He took a few hundred dollars to the city to wander around. It didn't take long before he broke into a world of his own. His father took the family to the city. Grandma didn't want to leave and insisted on guarding the city. An old house in the country."

"No one in the family can beat grandma, so I let her go, but the family will come back to see her from time to time... Bring a lot of food and clothing, many things that the country people have never seen before..." Chen Ruo Said: "Originally, they would have thought that they would be happy forever."

"Later...his father took drugs." Chen Ruo skillfully lit a cigarette, but did not smoke, and continued: "...Dad left very early and committed suicide."

Chen Ruo said, "I didn't expect that."

Gu Yuan nodded in a daze.

Chen Ruo said: "After getting infected with that thing, all the hard-earned money was invested...the house was sold, the car was sold, and even the company she founded was sold. The wife couldn't stand this kind of life anymore, so she left killed him."

"I've seen his dad when he was taking drugs... that kind of psychedelic, happy and sad expression... His dad didn't have the heart to work, and he couldn't afford expensive drugs. His dad stole and robbed , and had a leg broken... When he couldn't take it anymore, his father knelt on the ground and begged his own son to kill him..."

"However, this period of time lasted not long. His father committed suicide at a certain moment of sobriety."

"Grandma came from the countryside to take care of the funeral, and brought him back to the old house in the country from the dilapidated iron house." Chen Ruo put out the smoke that was burning to the end, half-closed her eyes, as if thinking about something, "Grandma At first, he wanted to hide this matter, but there are always one or two people in a village who go to the city together. After all, the people in the village knew about it... So his father became a topic of conversation among neighbors .'What is it like to be a drug addict?', they don't know, but that doesn't stop them from talking about it in the streets."

"He just grew up under the guidance of his neighbors. His grandma worked very hard to support him through high school. When he was filling out his volunteer application, he and his grandma had a fierce fight." Chen Ruo smiled wryly, " You can imagine the consequences, the neighbors said, 'the father and the son are exactly the same'."

"He told grandma two things. One was about his college entrance examination volunteers, and the other was about me and him... He and I were together very early."

"After all, grandma is soft-hearted. Hearing what the neighbors said, she just wiped her tears secretly at night. Finally, she compromised with him..."

"He left, and everyone is curious about where he went. Some people say that he didn't get into college at all, and went to work in the city; Others said that, like his father, he was addicted to drugs and died in a foreign country long ago... In short, there were many rumors at that time, but no one knew where he went."

"In the beginning, people would ask where he went, but grandma just said she didn't know. Gradually, no one mentioned it anymore."