Cinderella's Gypsophila

After Qi Yan left, the rainy season became more humid and hotter every year.

No matter how you clean it, the whole house is still full of decay.

Dark, obscure, the dusk is heavy, like a tomb.

Both Qi Shengbin and Meng Xinlan were plagued by serious illnesses, and they became more and more filled with hatred after day-to-day training. They often accused, abused, and even scuffled each other.

In just three years, both of them were completely old.

People in their early forties, but both of them already look like they have been eaten away.

They have now learned not to pay attention to each other, and when they meet occasionally, they will only taunt with cold eyes—to ridicule each other's hateful, humble, miserable and ridiculous appearance.

Qi Shengbin has been sitting in a wheelchair for more than two years, and recently he can finally get out of the field.

With trembling hands, I could almost pour water and cook porridge for myself.But the movements can never be coordinated, and he limped like a freak when he went out the door with his neck stuck, and all the passersby greeted him with avoiding and sympathetic eyes.

People are becoming more and more withdrawn and resentful.

The days of only going out but not going in made him feel a strong sense of crisis - he didn't dare to waste a penny of his savings of 10,000+, and he had to calculate a dime to buy steamed buns and pickles.Every day, I stare at the broken air conditioners and lights at home and turn them off one by one, even if they are turned on for a second.

He hated Meng Xinlan and also Cheng Cheng.

It is said that people are often forgetful, but in the past few years, he has always kept thinking that he used to have a family.

I have a virtuous wife, a pair of smart children, and my life is peaceful and stable.

His wife has a good character, even if he gets into a car accident, she will never leave him and will take good care of him.His son should have been of one mind with him, so he wouldn't have met Cheng Cheng and been kidnapped.

Both are Meng Xinlan's mother and son.

Two debt-collecting ghosts dragged his life into the abyss.He caused his wife to be separated and his sons and grandchildren to be cut off.

He should have avoided this kind of person back then. How could he be so obsessed and insane? !

Cheng Cheng had his son's money in his hand, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to suddenly spend so much to treat Meng Xinlan's illness.

Qi Shengbin guessed that all the money should belong to him.It should be for his retirement!Why fill the bottomless pit for others?

He mentioned it once, but Meng Xinlan jumped three feet high, grabbed him, scolded him, and swore to the death to defend her life-saving money, as if she wanted to kill him.

Qi Shengbin was handicapped and couldn't beat Meng Xinlan.

The woman dug his body full of blood.Although they were really good when they were young, she has never loved him since the reunion.Now it's revealed.

Qi Shengbin only hated himself for being blind. That day, he broke up with Meng Xinlan directly, accusing each other of having genetic problems, and that the son born from a sin in his previous life had a perverted heart and an abnormal mind. He seduced other people's sons and ruined other people's normal lives!

Cursing and cursing, Cheng Cheng disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Cheng Cheng didn't come back that day and night, and both of them were afraid again.They both depend on others to take care of them now, if Cheng Sheng runs away, they will be alone and alone.

Fortunately, Cheng Cheng came back later.

So no one dared to mention it again.

Until this year, Qi Yan suddenly appeared on TV.

The genius boy is glamorous, and his story is almost a household name.Qi Shengbin, who had been depressed for a long time, suddenly felt like chicken blood.

"Ha... That's my son, it's my son! I gave birth to it!"

"Look at how capable he is. You see so many people interviewing him. Look at my son in a neat suit. Look how tall and handsome he is! Just like when I was young!"

He kept getting excited, only to realize that he was already deeply in debt, betrayed by all relatives, and there was no one around him who could share this "pride".

Not even trying to show off to strangers.

Because, how do you explain it to others?My son was invited to attend the family banquet of the top rich man in Hong Kong, and galloped in his military uniform on his horse farm, while his father lived in a dark urban village where no one cares about him, a little moldy and rotten?

Qi Shengbin became more and more lethargic, and this lethargy soon turned into nervousness talking to himself.

"Why! Why does he? Why doesn't he give me a penny, but his brother-in-law can play around with him and spend his money every day?"

"Little white-eyed wolf, when his wings grow hard, he will fly. I will pay him to study and raise him at least 100 million! Pay back the money! If you want to sever the relationship between father and son, first pay me 100 million! 100 million!"

"He was born to me, he has the obligation to take care of me and let me live a happy life!"

Still no one pays attention to him, always like a one-man show.

Cheng Cheng tidied up and served him tea and water silently.Change his bed linen regularly.

He could see the hatred and disgust in Qi Shengbin's eyes.But he also remembered that when he was seriously ill, it was Uncle Qi who generously donated money at a critical moment to save his life.

No matter what reason he paid for it at the time.

At least until Meng Xinlan passed away, he had to take care of him in return.

……

For three years, Meng Xinlan jumped up and down at first, praying to gods and Buddhas everywhere, hoping that her illness would miraculously improve.

Later, the test results again and again shattered her last hope, and her whole body was dry, black and yellow, lifeless, and she was seeing her deteriorating condition.

So while she was in panic all day long, she began to torture the people around her in different ways, and she must make everyone miserable with her.

Cheng Cheng let her torture him.

She twisted and burned his most precious tattered cashmere scarf, and he let her do whatever he wanted.

She watered and killed the plants he kept on the balcony to die, deliberately broke the furniture, littered the garbage, and accused him of being eccentric, and he let her do everything.

She cursed Qi Yan every day.Said that she regretted it, and should have stabbed Qi Yan to death at that time.Anyway, she was going to die, it's worth dragging her back!

Cheng Sheng didn't argue with her either.

Even a little relieved.That look seemed to be saying again, so fortunately, he let him go early, and she can never find him again, and can no longer hurt him.

Meng Xinlan was even more hysterical from his anger.

Until later, when her health deteriorated and she needed someone to be by her side, she finally didn't dare to make trouble.

Started to change to the way of crying every day.

She pulled Cheng Cheng and repeatedly talked about her hardships, her sacrifices over the years, and her greatness.She earnestly persuaded him to go on a blind date, saying that if he didn't get married, he would deprive her of all hope.

Every time, Cheng Cheng accepted the girl's photo with a good attitude.

Never got in touch afterwards.

Meng Xinlan cried and said that you must get married before next year, otherwise your mother will not feel at ease when she leaves.Cheng Sheng still had a good attitude, and the days continued to pass day by day.

In the end, Meng Xinlan became anxious and threatened him that if you were disobedient, your mother would jump off the building and die!

Cheng Cheng looked at her lying on the balcony, and said, Mom, stop making trouble, it's time to eat later.

He knew that she was reluctant to jump.

In this way, day after day, he has a very good attitude towards everything, accepting everything, never fighting back, always keeping his eyes down and smiling faintly.

Like a gentle, caring, filial walking dead.

"Cheng Cheng, what do you mean!? Look at what you look like now?"

Cheng Cheng: "..."

"Mom, what's wrong with me?" he asked her.

"Aren't I right by your side? Don't worry, I won't leave you, and I won't go anywhere."

"That's what you want, isn't it? Marriage... There must be fate, and it can't be forced, are you right?"

The words are peaceful, reasonable and dignified.

This principle can be justified anywhere.But what the truth is, both sides know each other well! ! !

Meng Xinlan really felt that his son had changed, that she no longer knew him.

Cheng Cheng used to be soft, but in the past three years, he seemed to have become cold and numb little by little, leaving only a shell.

He still continued to care about her and Qi Shengbin's daily life in every possible way, but under the mask of gentleness, he became neither happy nor sad or even real. Many times when Meng Xinlan looked at him, he wondered if he was looking at a real and living person.

Some of his behavior has also changed.

His stomach can't eat cream cakes or drink carbonated drinks at all, but he often buys them recently.

Meng Xinlan didn't allow him to buy it, so he secretly ate it behind her back.Sitting in the stairwell, rubbing and poking with fingertips, eating bit by bit.

The expression is hollow, unhappy and unenjoyable.

Cheng Sheng was indeed unhappy, he had been used to the feeling of being infinitely deprived for so many years since he was a child.

You can't eat what you like, and you can't do what you like.

People who like can't like.

So much so that the sense of taste is bad now, and it still feels bitter after eating sweet and greasy cream.But he still wants to eat.

Like a fish in a dry rut, it is eager to touch the water again in its dreams.

Anyway, what I want the most is already out of reach, so why not let him touch it?

He used to be very careful when he was sick for so many years, hoping that he would be healthy one day.

Now I don't care.

It would be better to ruin it sooner - the second half of his life is so long, and he can't survive it anyway if it is too long.

……

Cheng Cheng was in a pool of stagnant water, no matter whether Meng Xinlan was crying or threatening, the reaction was not smooth.

She could only turn to complain to her fellow chemotherapy patients.

Talking about my difficulties all day long, some people sympathized with me at first.But soon, everyone discovered that she always likes to show off her son's previous achievements to overwhelm others to gain a sense of existence, so they didn't bother to talk to her again.

Occasionally, some people will ask in a strange way, your son is really as good as you say, so much better than other children, so it is not easy to get into a good university?

Meng Xinlan: "Of course! My son has always been No.1 in the exam before, and he must be the best in the exam!"

Patient: "So~ I talk about how much I have paid for my son all day long, and I think your son has paid a lot for you? Tsk tsk, he should have a bright future! Isn't he just graduating from high school now?"

Meng Xinlan was so blocked that she wanted to vomit blood.

Forget it, the one who really defeated her was Qi Yan who suddenly appeared on the hospital TV.

She froze on the spot, unable to believe it.I don't want to admit that it is a small oil bottle.How did the little oil bottle go to college?How did he become the proud arm of a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong!This is impossible, there must be something wrong!

The little reporter girl took the microphone and introduced the boy's excellence.Qi Yan's smile in the camera, the more she smiled, the uglier Meng Xinlan's face became.

Her son didn't even go to college, that Qi Yan, how could he live happily...

She screamed and asked to change the channel, but the patient who was infused with her refused to agree.

They just like to watch this young boy. After the broadcast of this station, they have to continue to watch another station, and they have heated discussions while watching.

"Look at how foreign-looking and beautiful, these eyes are eyes and noses are noses, oops~ It's a pity, auntie, if I were 30 years younger."

"Pull you down! But such an outstanding boy is just right for our son-in-law!"

Meng Xinlan: "It's all fake, it's all fake on TV—!"

The patient rolled his eyes greatly: "Oh, Xiao Cheng, is your mother okay? Do you want to ask the doctor? Didn't the side effects of the medicine damage the nerves too much?"

……

Meng Xinlan couldn't accept that Xiao Tuoyouping's rise to prosperity.

She couldn't believe it, and after confirming it countless times, she began to complain crazily that he had sucked up their family's fortune, and frantically called the "Master".

She asked the master, is it his fault that he agreed to agree with sister Qi Yan?The master said yes, but he survived it.

She asked the master about her cancer again, the master: "How many times have I told you before, don't get angry after the operation and you will be fine, if you don't listen to yourself, who do you blame?"

Meng Xinlan was so angry that she cried. It was easy to say, but how could she not be angry?

During those days, she was harassed by her ex-husband every day, why didn't she get angry? !

In the end, the master said helplessly that he told you that the person in your family was born with a precious personality, and those who follow others prosper and those who oppose others die.

Convince yourself early that your house is stable and there are not so many things to do, so why don't you listen?

Now that you have made trouble to this point, the road ahead is all dead, and there is nothing I can do.

Meng Xinlan was still unwilling, and clamored to find other masters to do ghost tricks.

She really didn't want to die.It's finally coming to an end, and she must see her son work, get married and have children, so why is it that after all the hard work, she's going to be finished without any blessings?

But the money in Cheng Sheng's hand was for Meng Xinlan and Qi Shengbin's medical treatment.It is impossible for him to agree with her to spend it on liars.

Then there was a debt crazily, and there was no peace.

For the past three years, Cheng Cheng has tried his best to live by killing his own soul, but sometimes it is still difficult to breathe.

He couldn't hold it any longer, so he went out to hide.

Because of the expansion and relocation of their cities, the original old city is now lonely.The small temple is also much deserted.

He stood by the wishing pool where no one was there, looking down at the memories of the past.

The scenes at that time, the candied haws, the temperature of the palms, already seemed to have happened in the previous life.

For three consecutive years, Cheng Sheng came over to toss a coin every year to make a wish, but he could only throw in one coin every year.

There is no way, it seems that the heavens have forbidden him to be greedy since he was a child.

Give others three wishes and only give him one.

So he prayed every time in the past three years. On the premise of only one wish, he always hoped that Xiaoyan would be healthy and live a happy life.

In fact, he still misses him a lot.

For more than 1000 long days, he had many dreams related to Qi Yan.

Sometimes in dreams, Qi Yan would smile brightly as usual, stretch out his hand and say baby come here.Sometimes it was a warm day, when he playfully snatched his half-eaten pudding and stuffed it into his mouth.

Sometimes I will go back to the days when I was sick and hospitalized, such difficult and painful days, but thinking about it now, it is like heaven.

Of course, in some dreams, he said that he had a sweetheart and was going to marry someone else.

This news is still mostly numb to Cheng Cheng's feeling.It seems that he has really lost the ability to hurt recently, and he doesn't even feel heart-piercing when he wakes up.

Still tidying up and cleaning silently, waiting to hear the report on TV that he was engaged to the granddaughter of the rich man.

But I waited until Qi Yan smiled on the TV and said that I am honored by this scandal, but I have never met that lady at all.

It turned out that it wasn't true, it was just that he was dreaming and confused...

But knowing the truth, Cheng Sheng wasn't very happy either.

Without the granddaughter of a wealthy businessman, there are so many outstanding men and women by his side. The gap between them is so different now. How could the little angel still remember a man who hurt him and abandoned him in the dark years, and was worthless.

But it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter that Xiao Yan will never remember him.It is enough for him to know from a distance that Xiao Yan is doing well like now.

He didn't want anything else.In the past, fish in a dry rut dreamed of touching water again, but now they don't look forward to it anymore.

You can see each other at a glance, and one step is like a heavy city.

The love is separated by mountains and seas, and the mountains and seas are not flat.

Buddhist temples are dense, with drums in the evening and bells in the morning.

Standing in the wishing pool, he suddenly felt that maybe all the love in the world is essentially doomed in the world of mortals.

Unfortunately, they didn't make it through, got separated, and never saw each other in the world of mortals.And how lucky are those who spend it.

But even if you didn't get through it, who can say that it wasn't an unparalleled prosperity.

The best boy in the world gave him the most sincere love at the best age.

So even if he is alone for the rest of his life, he can proudly recall that there was once a person who was still willing to give him tenderness in the abyss before he died.

……

Meng Xinlan's time was running out.

Her face was already dark, and anyone could see it.The doctor also said that there was nothing he could do, so let him take it home and eat whatever he wants.

"Cheng Cheng, I want you...to promise your mother, your last wish."

On the hospital bed, she struggled: "You can do whatever else you want... Mom doesn't care, whoever you like to be with...anyone is fine.

"Anyone can. Only... he can't!"

"Only he can't... it's him... who brought you down, only him... can't!"

"You promise."

"Promise...this is your mother...last wish. Your last wish can't...satisfy your mother?!"

Cheng Cheng: "..."

"it is good."

He said yes, but Meng Xinlan's face did not show the slightest complacency.

She opened her eyes, her skinny face was full of unwillingness, and she struggled with her nails to grab him.For some reason, she just knew that he was just perfunctory and lying to her!

"I want you... swear... swear poisonously!"

"You swear...fa! If you, in the future...see him again, he will die...you swear! Swear!"

During the rainy season, and in the gloomy afternoon when the cicadas chirped in summer, there was no sound for a long time.

Cheng Cheng just stood there without speaking.

Meng Xinlan scratched at the edge of the bed with her fingernails, her eyes tearing apart: "Your mother...is going to die...you just...you can't...cheat your mother."

"I lied to you." After a while, Cheng Cheng lowered his eyes and said softly, "I lied to you, don't you believe me?"

"..."

"Mom, I'm sorry, I'm not a good son."

"I'm not normal, I'm born crazy. I like Xiao Yan, and I will never get married and have children in my life. I know I'm not good enough for him, so I will live alone for the rest of my life."

Meng Xinlan stopped scratching her fingers, she gritted her teeth in despair: "Why?"

"Why. I'm all...for you, but you...revenge me like this."

"I shouldn't have given birth to you from the very beginning, you... ruined my whole life. Until the end, until the end...!"

The rain continued to rain outside the house, and it kept crashing.

Cheng Cheng gently closed the door.

The balcony on the sixth floor is neither high nor low.He stopped slowly, in fact, in the past countless days when he was on the verge of being driven crazy, he thought about holding on gently, being free like a bird, and seeing if he could just let it go.

Stomach began to ache again.

Life is very tiring and tiring, he went back to bed extremely tired.

She said he was taking revenge on him, but he was just out of strength, that's all.

But maybe, he was indeed born to be her karmic backlash.It will only disappoint her again and again, bringing her the deepest misfortune in life, karma and retribution unabated.

……

That night, Meng Xinlan suddenly became energetic.

Qi Shengbin had been secretly recording Qi Yan's interview CD. She dug it out, put it in the CD player and started watching it intently.

His eyes were fierce and strange, and he muttered words.

Qi Shengbin exchanged a complicated look with Cheng Sheng.This might be the legendary flashback, right?

But Meng Xinlan didn't know what she was looking at.

She didn't want to look at it, but her body couldn't stop as if possessed by an evil spirit.In the camera, Qi Yan is so handsome and elegant that there are flowers everywhere, she was so jealous when she saw it, when suddenly a strange woman's voice appeared in her ear.

She said, look, how good and powerful our Xiaoyan is, are you envious, jealous, or unwilling?

It's a pity~

Originally, when your son was with Xiao Yan, he had a chance to live a good life.But look at how your son is being dragged down by you now, will Xiao Yan want him again?

He is so poor and sick.No one will want him in the future.

You see, you have calculated all your life, and what did you get in the end?Nothing!You deserve only to be despised and ridiculed after death.

Meng Xinlan: "Who! Who?!"

She was stunned, and in a trance, she saw two women.

"Ahhhhhh—it's your mother! And your wife! They're wearing white clothes, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the most, don't! Don't come here!"

Qi Shengbin next to him was scared to death.

But he couldn't see anything, there was no one in the dark room, only Meng Xinlan went crazy facing the blank wall.

There are wild dogs barking outside the door, and there is a gust of wind.

The little stick of incense burning on the table was extinguished.Meng Xinlan was left with frightened eyes.

……

The day of the burial was deserted.

Qi Shengbin also refused to come.

There is no team, no music, no scenery, Cheng Cheng doesn't believe in that.

He just finished signing calmly and stood beside the coffin.Really parting, he didn't know what to say.

In the past three years, he always accompanied his mother to the hospital, and doctors, nurses and patients all praised him as a rare and filial son.

But is he really filial?

The last thing his mother said to him was that she regretted having him.

And the last thing his filial son said to his mother was that he could not swear, and that he knew his mistakes and would not correct them.

...It would not be an exaggeration to say that he pissed his mother off.

Time passed minute by minute.

He continued to stare blankly beside the coffin, and suddenly remembered that day again.Wisteria flowers on a snowy night, the night before Zhuo Ziwei went abroad.

In fact, at the end, Zhuo Ziwei also said a few words.

It wasn't specifically for him, it was more like muttering to himself.

He said, if there is an afterlife, I sincerely hope that I will never have a relationship with my parents and never see each other again.

He smiled wryly, and said, in fact, what he had to say was not really hateful.It's not that they are irreconcilable, and they will still give them a good old age and die.

There is no need for them to understand me and compensate me.Pointless.

It's just that I don't want to meet again in the next life, I really don't need it.

Cheng Cheng's throat suddenly became tighter.

He took a deep breath and smiled with a stabbing pain in his chest.He thought how rebellious he was.

"Mom...if you were here," he murmured, "the two of us too...let each other go."

"Thank you for raising me. You go to reincarnate and find a good man to marry in your next life, and have a good son with good fate. Forget about me, okay?"

"We'll be like this, from now on, let each other go, okay?"

"..."

The sun is so dazzling.

The surroundings were dead silent, without any echo.He took her as the default.

As relieved.

It was really as if a long-standing burden was suddenly lifted. He was dizzy for a moment, and he couldn't even stand still.

There are many emotions that were suppressed and numb before, and suddenly returned to the limbs.

His mother is dead, he is finally free, he still has some money left, enough to live on, he can go to college again, he can...

Everything is self-deception.

He wants to die.

Just want to be free.This body has been worn out and turned pale, and the soul inside has long been riddled with holes.

Looking at myself in the mirror, I have to endure nausea.

Enough was enough, it might be possible to start over, but he just had no strength left.

I haven't jumped off the balcony yet, and I can still linger on my last breath until now, but there is only one thought to support it——

Selfishly, he wanted to see the little angel again.

Just take a look from a distance, so that he won't notice.

Just look at it, and it's all you want.

Then if there really is a god, he wants to be reborn as an ordinary and healthy person in the next life, and then meet him well.

In a trance, Cheng Cheng heard someone calling him, but he couldn't hear it clearly.

He lost sight of his eyes and fell backwards.

A hand caught him firmly.

Gently wrapping him in his arms.His eyes were pitch black, and his heart gradually became paralyzed after throbbing violently for a moment.