Confession of Rebirth

"Wait a minute!" Gu's father stopped Gu Chen, still feeling uneasy: "Why don't you take it slow? Anyway, it's impossible to start construction in the first lunar month. You wait for the spring of the next year, when the busy farming is over, if the village If you really want to build roads, I will help you mention it when I see the opportunity. You don’t need to donate more than 20 to [-] yuan, let’s think of a way together, and you can donate another [-] to [-] yuan.”

Seeing that Gu Chen didn't respond, Papa Gu said again: "Papa knows that you have made money and wants to do something for the village. It's a good intention. But the money is not in vain. You must know that you will go back to school after the New Year I went. Your mother and I still have to live in the village. Everyone in the village will know that you are so generous. At that time, if anyone’s family has a problem, they will come to our house to borrow money. You are a millionaire, and you can bear it. I can't afford these autumn winds."

Gu's father has spent half of his life in a down-to-earth manner, and he has the cautiousness of an old farmer in his nature.I can't wait to break a penny in half, let alone more than a dozen or 20?

In fact, when Gu Chen came home this time and bought so many years of goods, Gu's father was already very distressed.Fortunately, the New Year's goods that Gu Chen bought were all for his family.Fertile water does not flow into outsiders' fields.No matter how distressed it is, the meat is still rotten in the pot.

But building roads is different.No matter what Gu Chen thinks or says, in Gu's father's opinion, the money is wasted.This is the road in the village, why should his old Gu's family use money to repair it?

No matter how much money you have, it won't cause such harm.

Gu Chen looked at Papa Gu's sweaty head, and the impulsive thought gradually cooled down.

That's right, I really want to do charity to make a name for myself and accumulate merit to fight against the plot, and I'm not in a hurry to do it for a while, and there's no need to stick to Gu's Village.It is more important to live a clean life with your own family.

Gu Chen thought for a while and said, "Then let's do this first."

"Hey!" Seeing that Gu Chen was willing to listen to the persuasion, Gu's father immediately put his heart back into his stomach, and said happily, "Then let's go back. We've been shopping outside for more than an hour, is it cold?"

"Go back first." Gu Chen said, "I'll walk again."

Papa Gu looked at Gu Chen with some hesitation.

Gu Chen said: "Don't you want to smoke? Go back."

"That's fine, I'll go back first." Papa Gu said, "Don't hang out for too long, it's still quite cold today."

Gu Chen nodded.

After Gu's father walked away with one foot deep and one shallow foot, Gu Chen also turned around and walked to the mountain behind the village without saying a word.

The mountains were covered by heavy snow, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness everywhere.Wrapped in silver.The northwest wind blew past, as if a knife had been stabbed in the face.In the open field, not a single footprint could be seen.

Gu Chen took a deep breath, imitating how he was when he was a child, and leaned back in a large font, and his whole body suddenly sank into the snow.The icy air hits from all directions, enveloping the whole body with slight dampness.

Gu Chen blinked, and the snowflakes that fell on his eyelashes turned into water droplets, rolling down the corners of his eyes.

Gu Chen's eyes were empty, and he looked at the sky in silence.

He was actually a little disappointed today.With a cheeky face, he broke apart what Gu Xiu had done in school and told Mama Gu. He had hoped that Mama Gu would stand by his side immediately, but the result... was actually expected.

Just inevitably a little lost.

Gu Chen took a deep breath.Since he was a child, he has been working hard to be someone else's child, studying hard, being smart and sensible.In order to win everyone's approval, try to please everyone around you.As a result, the facts told him that only children who can cry and make trouble can eat candy.

But now that Gu Chen is making a fuss, he still hasn't had candy.

Sure enough, children who cry and fuss have to be divided whether they have candy or not.

Gu Chen's Adam's apple rolled up and down, feeling that he was worthless.A man who is almost 30 years old has done such a shameful thing.

It's not without reason.

Gu Chen sat up, picked up a pile of snow, rolled it into a ball, and threw it vigorously.The snowball crossed a parabola and landed in the snow three meters away, making a small crater.

Gu Chen was silent for a while, then rolled another snowball and continued to throw it until his arms were sore and exhausted, then he stood up from the snow, patted the snow stuck to his clothes and pants, and walked back slowly.

When Gu Chen returned home, the Gu family saw Gu Chen's overwhelmed appearance, and were taken aback: "What did you do? Why are you all wet?"

Gu Chen said with a smile: "I went to the mountain behind the village to have a snowball fight. I haven't seen such a big snow in a long time, I miss it."

"There's nothing to miss about this." Aunt Gu's family breathed a sigh of relief, and waved her hand away: "Hurry up and change clothes upstairs, don't catch a cold."

The cousins ​​of the Gu family and their cousins ​​complained: "Brother Shen Chen, why didn't you take us to the snowball fight? How boring are you playing alone?"

Gu Chen smiled and said, "You guys are too noisy."

"Snowball fights can only be fun if you don't have to be noisy!" Gu's cousin said, "It's not called snowball fights if it's quiet."

Gu Chen smiled and went upstairs to change his clothes.At the door of the room, I ran into Mama Gu.

Gu's mother was still holding a fruit plate in her hand. When she saw Gu Chen, she hesitated and asked, "Why did you lock the door?"

Gu Chen replied, "I'm used to it."

Mother Gu thought for a while and said, "You never locked the door at home before."

Locking the door means being prepared.But this is at home, what can be guarded against?

Gu Chen opened the door and said casually, "It's different now."

Mother Gu frowned, and put the fruit plate on the table: "Shen Chen—"

"Mom, I want to take a bath." Gu Chen said.

Gu's mother looked at Gu Chen, thought for a while, and said: "Then you wash it. Remember to wipe your hair clean, don't catch a cold."

Gu Chen nodded.After Gu's mother left the room, she locked the door again.

After taking a shower, Gu Chen sat at the desk, flipped through the documents, turned on the laptop, and continued to read.After a few minutes, someone knocked on the door.Gu Chen opened the door and found that it was Gu's mother standing outside the door holding a bowl of ginger soup.

"I made you a bowl of ginger soup, and you drink it to drive away the cold."

"Thank you, Mom." Gu Chen took the ginger soup, and seeing Gu's mother hesitate to speak, his heart softened.He took the initiative to ask: "Would you like to come in and sit down?"

Gu's mother looked at the piles of books and materials on Gu Chen's desk: "Will it not delay your study?"

"I can't finish it anyway." Gu Chen said, "It's not too late for you."

Gu's mother smiled: "I have nothing to say. I just want to say that since I go home for the New Year, I should relax. Play games with my younger siblings, watch TV and chat. It's a combination of work and rest."

Gu Chen smiled and said, "I'll go down after I've finished reading this chapter."

"Okay." Gu's mother pondered for a moment, but she still punctured the window paper: "Shen Chen, don't you blame your mother?"

Gu Chen remained silent.

Gu's mother sighed: "Mom has always felt that you are an older brother and should take care of your younger brother. What's more, Xiuxiu has no father or mother since he was a child, and he is often bullied by the children in the village. Without you to protect him, he will have a very difficult life. "

"In my mother's heart, you are a child who doesn't have to worry. Since she was a child, she has learned to take the initiative to learn, help the family, and be filial to her parents." Gu's mother looked at the silent elder son and said slowly: "Mom goes out every day. I can hear folks in the village and teachers in our school praise you. I say I am blessed to have such a good son."

"Chen Chen," Gu's mother held Gu Chen's hand, and said in a gentle voice, "Mom told you to give way to Xiu Xiu, not because Mom cared more about Xiu Xiu, but because Mom knew that you are too good. If you follow Xiu Xiu seriously Xiu Zheng, he will definitely not be able to compete with you."

Gu Chen moved his fingers slightly.Gu's mother continued: "It doesn't matter if you think I'm sympathetic or you can't let go, I always feel that compared with Xiu Xiu, you have both parents, you are smart, and you know how to work hard. The elders all like you. Your younger brothers and sisters all like you. I adore you. But Xiuxiu is different, he has nothing but us."

"Look, Xiuxiu ran away from home today, but he couldn't even get out of this house. If it wasn't for his mother to keep him, he wouldn't even be able to stay in this house." Gu's mother paused for a moment, then squeezed Gu Chen's cheek Palm: "Just take pity on him, don't bother with him."

Gu Chen said: "I didn't want to argue with him. He didn't want to let me go."

"Because Xiuxiu's feelings are hard to appease." Gu's mother patted Gu Chen's shoulder and said softly: "Mom knows that many of Xiuxiu's behaviors are excessive and make you very angry. But you haven't fought back, it must be in your heart." Still remembering the brotherhood."

Gu Chen frowned, and was about to refute, when Gu's mother continued: "Since you agree with Xiu Xiu to go home, it proves that at least in this family, you still want to calm things down. If this is the case, why bother to have a bad New Year's Eve?" You are the biological son of your parents, what are you worried about? You two brothers are so stiff at school, and Xiuxiu calls home one after another, and your parents haven't said anything?"

Gu Chen stared blankly at Gu's mother.

Gu's mother sighed, and silently said to the back of her son's head: "I shouldn't have said this. Mom always hoped that my child could live a clean and innocent life without too much scheming. But you The child's temper is too straightforward, and the mother is worried. If you can't say something clearly, you will have trouble getting through this hurdle in your heart, you will get into the corner, and you will blame your mother."

Gu Chen's mind was so blank that he couldn't speak at all.

"You just have to remember that Xiuxiu is the child I raised for 18 years, yes, but you are my own son. It's the flesh that fell from my body. Even if the palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh, the flesh on the back of the hands is worn out. It doesn't matter, if the flesh in the palm is gone, the hand will be useless."

Gu's mother looked at the shocked Gu Chen, smiled, and handed the ginger soup on the table to Gu Chen: "Drink it while it's hot."

Gu Chen took the bowl and stared blankly at Gu's mother.

Mother Gu got up and said, "I won't disturb your study anymore. After you finish this chapter, go downstairs. For those who celebrate Chinese New Year, all relatives at home will be there. Both of you brothers shut yourself in the room, what are you doing. "

After saying this, Mama Gu got up and walked out of the room, closing the door lightly.Gu Chen gulped down the warm ginger soup in one gulp, only to feel that he was sweating all over his body.

Gu Chen read the whole chapter in a daze, but felt that he didn't read anything.He thought for a while and simply closed the book.went downstairs.

In the lobby on the first floor, Papa Gu and several uncles are playing mahjong.There is also a circle around to watch the excitement.Gu Chen's aunts and aunts were sitting on the sofa watching TV.Seeing Gu Chen going downstairs, the aunt of the Gu family greeted immediately: "Shen Chen has finished his studies, eat some fruit."

Gu Xiu, who was still having a temper tantrum with her family in the morning, also sat quietly on the sofa playing with her mobile phone.After seeing Gu Chen, he raised his eyebrows at Gu Chen with unconcealed pride.

Gu Chen was suddenly very curious about what Gu's mother said to Gu Xiu to coax this trick.

"Mom, I'll help you peel the garlic." Gu Chen was wondering, when he saw Gu Xiu leaning over to Gu's mother, and said with a twist.

"Okay, Xiuxiu help me peel the garlic." Gu's mother rubbed Gu Xiu's head: "We Xiuxiu are the most sensible."

Gu Chen sat down on the sofa, took the apple handed over by the aunt of the Gu family, and casually took a bite.He took out his mobile phone and sent New Year greetings one by one in the order of the address book.

"Dad, do you know when the driving school starts work?" Gu Chen asked.

"It must be after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month." Gu's father looked at Gu Chen: "Why are you asking this?"

"I want to test my driver's license."

Gu's mother, who was peeling garlic, answered, "It takes at least forty days to get a driver's license. Can you stay at home for so long? Why don't you take the test at school?"

Gu Chen: "..."

Papa Gu said: "You should go back to school to take the test! You take the test here, and the ground is still covered with ice in February! Why do you take the test? There is no way to take the test!"

Gu Chen was about to speak when his cell phone rang suddenly.

Gu Chen lowered his head and glanced, the call was from Zhong Lisui.He subconsciously stood up, went outside, and answered the phone against the whistling northwest wind.

"Are you outside?" Zhong Lisui had just connected the phone when he heard the howling wind, and immediately said: "Syracuse City is minus 28 degrees today, and there is still snow. Are you cold outside?"

"How do you know that it's minus 28 degrees here?" Gu Chen glanced at the snowflakes flying all over the sky: "There's still snow?"

"I read the weather forecast." Zhong Lisui said.

Gu Chen's heartbeat stopped for no reason.He looked at the dark night sky and said, "City A is minus 22 degrees today. You should wear more clothes."

"I'm at home." Zhong Lisui stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at his own reflection on the glass: "What about you? Why did you go out at this hour?"

"I'm at home too." Gu Chen paused, and added: "In our yard."

Zhong Lisui asked, "Why aren't you in the house?"

"My family is too much." Gu Chen said directly without thinking.

After finishing speaking, he realized that something was wrong with his words, and immediately added: "It's clean outside."

Zhongli then smiled: "I wanted to chat with you. It seems that I can only send WeChat."

Gu Chen said, "Let's talk."

"Talking about catching a cold is not worth the loss." Zhong Lisui said tactfully.

"Then I'll go back to my room." Gu Chen said, turned around and entered the main room, and went directly to the second floor.

Seeing Gu Chen's mysterious look, the relatives of the Gu family couldn't help gossiping: "Who? Why did you hide after answering the phone call? What's so shameful? Are you afraid we'll listen?"

"Isn't it a target?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Gu Xiu in unison.Seeing this, Gu Xiu said, "My brother is indeed very popular with women in school. The Dazhou Group, which was making a lot of noise on the Internet before, has the daughter of the chairman of the group named Zhou Xiaoting, and she likes my brother. As a result, Zhou Xiaoting's parents didn't like me. If you agree, you will make things difficult for my brother. He will lose his job."

This sentence immediately aroused the gossip mentality of the relatives of the Gu family.One by one, they approached Gu Xiu and asked, "What's going on, why haven't we heard of it?"

"Why haven't you heard of it at all?" Gu Xiu smiled: "This matter has caused a lot of trouble on the Internet."

Everyone thinks that Gu Chen is excellent, but what is there to be proud of?No matter how outstanding Gu Chen was, he would be disliked in a family like the Zhou family.In order to separate Zhou Xiaoting and Gu Chen, Zhou Xiaoting's parents would rather let Zhou Xiaoting study abroad than let Zhou Xiaoting stay with Gu Chen.

People in Gu's Village are used to being a frog in a well.I really thought that being able to learn and endure hardships is a talent.

In fact, in the eyes of a real rich man, he is just a wage earner with a higher education.

Upstairs, Gu Chen returned to the bedroom, closed the door, and said to Zhong Lisui: "I'm going back to my room. What do you want to say to me?"

Zhong Li smiled and said, "Happy New Year."

Gu Chen: "...Huh?"

Zhong Lisui asked, "Are you going to set off fireworks tonight?"

"Of course." Gu Chen said, "My family bought a lot."

"Then when you set off the fireworks, can you take a picture and send it to me?" Zhong Lisui said, "I want to see how you set off the fireworks."