Euthanasia

Zhu Yuli's culinary skills are very good. When Liu Zhiwei was young, Liu Shuying often stayed at school to teach and did not go home to eat. Zhu Yuli would inevitably leave work late, so she taught him how to cook.When Liu Zhiwei was seven or eight years old, he could already prepare meals for his parents to come back to eat, but he always liked to eat Zhu Yuli's cooking.Not only like the taste, but also because it represents the return and company of parents.

In the year when Liu Zhiwei followed Liu Shuying to dig crabs, Zhu Yuli fell ill and became seriously ill.Liu Zhiwei sighed to his friend when he heard Liu Shuying calling: "...the doctor said that if it develops further, it will be cancer...the cost is already very high..."

In Liu Zhiwei's thinking, cancer cannot be cured, and patients suffering from cancer will die immediately.He dug a lot of crabs for Zhu Yuli to eat, but the quarrel between the husband and wife ruined the plate of sea crabs and left a scar in Liu Zhiwei's heart.

What he vaguely knew was that Zhu Yuli was seriously ill, and Liu Shuying seemed to want to divorce her.

Even now, the word "divorce" still shocks Liu Zhiwei.But now that he is an adult and nearly thirty, he understands a lot of adult helplessness and life struggles.

Whether Zhu Yuli wants to divorce or not, in this marriage, only she knows what she wants, just like even now, she still remembers with a smile the stupid things Liu Shuying did to chase her.Recall some of the sweet past.Those memories of the past are like minced meat in a pot of clear soup. Most of the soup in a spoonful is bland water, and it may even be diced bitter melon, but it is the few traces of meat that make the mouth full of taste .

The smell of braised pork wafted away, and Jon interrupted Liu Zhiwei's trance with "It smells so good".Zhu Yuli stretched her hand back and said to Liu Zhiwei without looking back, "Give me the chopped green onions."

Liu Zhiwei quickly handed the onion bowl to Zhu Yuli.The braised pork was stewed for a while and came out of the pot. Several dishes were placed on the dining table one by one. Liu Zhiwei motioned to Jon for a seat, and Jon quickly moved over on crutches.

While wiping her hands, Zhu Yuli silently watched as Liu Zhiwei helped Jon up and brought him to the table. She took out the rice and put it on the table, and asked, "Is this the only way for your legs?"

"I'm recovering," Jon said seriously. "Half a year ago I couldn't move my legs at all. Zeo made me feel better."

Zhu Yuli couldn't help looking at Liu Zhiwei with dubious eyes.

Liu Zhiwei touched his nose and said, "At that time he wanted to be euthanized, and his lower body could barely move. I just took care of him for a while..."

Subconsciously, Zhu Yuli picked up a piece of meat for Liu Zhiwei, and asked slowly and hesitantly, "What's wrong?" Seeing the look in Jon's eyes, Zhu Yuli slowly picked up another piece of meat for him.

Jon swallowed, looked at the braised pork that was still steaming, and forced himself to look up. "Someone pushed me down..." briefly described the past events.He seldom said those things to others in the past, and he was even unwilling to say more to Lu Yi and Shanna, but facing Liu Zhiwei and his family, Jon said it very easily, as if he was just telling a story about someone else.

After Zhu Yuli listened with her eyes wide open, she slammed her chopsticks on the table: "Who is that!"

Liu Zhiwei was taken aback, the meat he was about to eat fell into the bowl from the chopsticks.

"Is that still a human?" Zhu Yuli's voice was sharp, as if she was about to quarrel, Liu Zhiwei said quickly: "Mom, Mom, now Qiao En's career is developing very well, and he has his own brand. That person is a few blocks away, don't get excited..."

"Push it down, what if it falls on the head? Broken leg is already a blessing in misfortune, he is murder!"

Jon gnawed on the piece of braised pork that Zhu Yuli gave him, and said vaguely: "He is almost eliminated by the Tyrannosaurus Rex now, and he only has a part of the dividends because of the original Narcissus holding... But he is no longer in the company. gone."

"Aren't you going to sue him?" Zhu Yuli felt extremely uncomfortable, "How much money can the system get back? Aren't you annoyed?"

"You can't get any money back from him," Jon said after chewing on the bone, and took another piece, the corners of his mouth were covered with sauce. Even if I appeal, I signed the contract at the time, Jonathan will not let me take advantage of Narcissus, maybe at most push that guy out, and I don’t need his assets at all compensation."

"But it's yours...he still hurts you!"

"I can create something more valuable than that, and I have created it," Jon said, spitting out a bone.He didn't use the chopsticks very well, so he simply ate with his fingers.

"Mom..." Liu Zhiwei reminded hesitantly, "His name is Jon Williams."

"You said—" Zhu Yuli suddenly paused, "Do you have the same name as that one?"

Liu Zhiwei said: "He is that who."

Zhu Yuli was stunned for a while, then took out her mobile phone, searched the encyclopedia of "Jon Williams", and compared the photos with Jon who was eating sauce with his mouth full in front of her for a long time.

Then she silently stuffed the phone back into her pocket, and picked up the chopsticks on the table to pick up the food: "Yes, poodle..."

Wishing received a secret call from Liu Zhiwei at two o'clock in the afternoon. He had been waiting impatiently for a long time, wishing to rush to the other end of the phone line to grab Liu Zhiwei and tell him the whole thing from beginning to end.It is true that he came out, and many friends around him have come out, but very few of them take their partners home. He is very inexperienced in what will happen and how to solve it.The most important thing is - he wants to know gossip too much.

Liu Zhiwei's phone rang once, and he was immediately picked up by Wishing: "Why did you call? How is it?!"

Liu Zhiwei was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect to be so anxious to make a wish.He said: "...my mother is closed."

"She doesn't have a problem with your boyfriend?!" Wishing's voice was raised.

Liu Zhiwei was a little hesitant: "Yes, but it seems to be okay...she still cares more about our relationship..."

"I'm going, buddy, you brought something made of gold back, right?" Wishing said, "When I mentioned this, my mother got angry at me. I showed her a few photos. She had a gun and a stick Said my taste is bad..."

"..." Liu Zhiwei glanced back at Jon who was helping Zhu Yuli clean up the computer, "It might be better to have a skill..."

"Skills? I'll count later—" The colorful joke that made a wish was quickly taken back by him as soon as he uttered it. He felt that he was a bit too out of shape, which was not conducive to establishing his image in front of artists, so he said seriously , "Okay, it's good if you can make a breakthrough, I'm afraid you will be beaten out, and you didn't explain to my brother..."

Seeing that Jon started to open a familiar interface, Liu Zhiwei quickly said to Wishing, "Hey, I have to go, see you..."

Liu Zhiwei put away his mobile phone and rushed to the computer, holding Jon's hand that was about to open the "Do Nothing" communication software: "What do you want to do?"

"Introduce my friend to your mother." Jon said naturally.

"They know about your relationship with me?" Liu Zhiwei couldn't help being surprised.

Jon thought for a while and said, "Although I didn't tell them..."

"Then don't introduce it!" Liu Zhiwei said immediately.

"What's the introduction?" Zhu Yuli walked in, saw the cleaned computer screen, opened the minesweeper and scanned two, opened her eyes and raised her eyebrows and said, "No wonder you are a computer company..."

Jon, who was overqualified and underutilized and only cleaned the hard drive once, was not at all unhappy about being underestimated. He pointed to the two small icons on the desktop that he had just installed and said: "These two games are very interesting, puzzle-like, and more fun than minesweeper." interesting……"

"It's all in English..." Zhu Yuli muttered.

"It's a graphic game, and you can understand it in English," Jon said. "You can build a base according to your interests. Whatever you want to do in it, you can achieve it. It can be based on your knowledge and knowledge. The interest interface self-updates the game direction and level settings, assuming you want to plant a garden..."

"I don't like growing things," Zhu Yuli said bluntly, "What if I want to travel? What if I want to read?"

"This is the most common request," Jon shrugged, "set the 'travel (tourism)' goal, add the 'book (book)' tag... This is a tour based on a 3D real map, if you have our The company's VR helmet, the scene will be more realistic, presenting 3D effects. Similarly, you can get credit points by achieving small goals, and these credit points will be used to consume our company's online products - you can even buy companions to transfer other same goals player map merged."

Zhu Yuli dubiously clicked the cursor twice as Jon said, and different buildings displayed different relevant information and history. "It has an online translation function, you can set it to Chinese..."

Liu Zhiwei felt that the corners of his eyes were twitching a little.Jon is just like a salesperson who officially and diligently sells his own products - of course this salesperson is a bit expensive.

Liu Zhiwei grabbed Jon, and whispered while Zhu Yuli was testing, "You're here to sell games at my house..."

"This is called user experience," Jon said with a blink of his eyes. "This is a 'competition' project that I handed over to my subordinates three years ago to design a large-scale game that can best realize user experience. It was just launched for internal testing half a month ago. , now your mother is also a member of the closed beta."

Liu Zhiwei: "..."

Zhu Yuli originally just wanted to tap twice casually, but she didn't expect that the more taps the more interesting, she "walked" the "road" for more than ten minutes, then turned around and said reluctantly: "The game is well done. of……"

Jon took the opportunity to say: "If you add the 'movie (movie)' tag, you can also enter the relevant movie halls, buy and watch all the movies that have ever been released, including Zeo's movies."

Liu Zhiwei quickly grabbed Jon: "I don't have a movie yet."

"some."

"You have."

When Zhu Yuli and Jon spoke together, the three of them were startled.

"When you first started acting in movies, even if you didn't tell me the news, I could still see it on the Internet. You changed your name to 'Liu Zhi', and your father was so angry at that time," Zhu Yuli said, " In the big and small movies you act in, as long as you leak your face, I will know."

Liu Zhiwei's nose was a little sore, he called Zhu Yuli sullenly.

But Zhu Yuli changed the subject and said, "Are you going back tonight? The roads are hard to drive at night, and the train will take several hours?"

"I won't go back." Jon said it before Liu Zhiwei.

Zhu Yuli glanced at him, and said more bluntly: "Our house is small and there is no guest room." There are only two rooms in the whole house, except for the master bedroom, which is the small room where Liu Zhiwei used to sleep.Zhu Yuli bluntly stated that Jon was still an outsider, but Jon didn't notice it at all.

"I'm with Zeo—"

Liu Zhiwei covered Jon's mouth: "Let's go to the hotel together."

Zhu Yuli glanced at Liu Zhiwei, but didn't say much.After the two left, Zhu Yuli closed the door and stood there alone for a long time.

Leaning her back against the door, she closed her eyes and let out a deep sigh from the bottom of her lungs.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Liu Shuying came back.After washing up as usual, he climbed onto the bed and saw Zhu Yuli playing some game in front of the computer.He took off his glasses, put them on the side table and said, "What are you playing?"

"I saw my son." Zhu Yuli said without looking back.

"Unfilial son, it's better not to have him at the beginning!" Liu Shuying frowned and scolded, "Don't see you, but you still have to see me, blame me for driving him away, see clearly? Raising him so big for nothing, he just repays like this Parents, now I still have the face to come back."

Zhu Yuli said to the screen: "He is the meat that fell from my pregnancy in October, why can't I see my son?"

The two had already quarreled during the day, and Liu Shuying didn't want to quarrel with Zhu Yuli anymore, and Zhu Yuli's words made him a little sad.He sighed and said to Zhu Yuli, "Go to bed early, you are not in good health. Is it interesting to face the computer all day?"

"It's much more interesting than going to the orphans' and widows' house all day," Zhu Yuli said.

When Liu Shuying heard that there was something in her words, she immediately became angry: "What do you mean? I am going to be a tutor, not to do anything else!"

"Come on, I've been in the same bed with you for 30 years, can I know what you think?" Zhu Yuli turned around and looked at Liu Shuying calmly, "Your son is gay, born with it, and I can't change it .He is half of you and half of me, I admit it. If you can't stand it, let's cut it open."

Liu Shuying was already lying in bed, but when she heard Zhu Yuli's words, her heart skipped a beat. "You, you want to divorce me?"

Zhu Yuli looked at him calmly.

Liu Shuying suddenly jumped off the bed, pacing back and forth in the bedroom angrily: "What the hell are you thinking?! Divorced at an age? Tell others to laugh! You divorced me, who else wants to marry me?" you!"

Zhu Yuli said: "Liu Shuying, I have wasted most of my life on you, and all my youth was wasted on you. When you held me in the palm of your hand, bought me a keyboard, and bought me ice cream, where were you at that time?" Is there that thick layer of skin you wear on your face now? I am happy to marry you. If someone else forced me, I would have sent him to jail. But now? Now you are a highly respected teacher Liu, and I am a man at home. A middle-aged woman who is unemployed. You don’t respect me, I don’t respect you, you just quarrel when you have nothing to do, and your son can’t go home because of you. What’s the point of me living like this?

"When my son brings home a stranger, he can send me away with a game. He knows what I want, how about you?" Zhu Yuli said flatly, "We have been married for 30 years, do you know what I want to do the most?"

Liu Shuying was slightly moved, a little out of breath, and a little bit wronged. "Why don't I know...it's either studying or traveling... Back then, your mother didn't send you to college, but provided for your younger brother. It's a pity that your younger brother is not a material for studying. After entering college, he dropped out of school. Don't you just like studying?" Well... I am a teacher, you like me, more or less because of this...

"Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. When I'm old and don't have to read, I like to travel... I don't know..." Liu Shuying's voice gradually dropped, and he saw Zhu Yuli's eyes turned red.

Liu Shuying remembered that before Liu Zhiwei, Zhu Yuli had a boy.At that time, she had just stabilized her new position in the unit and worked overtime very hard. He was also on the go, so he didn't take good care of Zhu Yuli.Zhu Yuli had a miscarriage, and he rushed back from the field overnight.The doctor asked him to protect the older and younger, and he said to protect the older.

At that time, Zhu Yuli was everything to him, and his family was his sanctuary.

"You always have time after retirement, don't you? You never mentioned it to me once. I told you to go on a trip and relax. You have a tutor. Whatever I say, you have a tutor," Zhu Yuli said. Talk to me, find another young mother, find comfort from her. Yes, I am not young anymore, it is normal that you don't want to talk to me, don't want to have sex with young girls, but you don't You have thought about your son's matter carefully. What you value is face, and it is your son who has made you lose your reputation. If you vent this impatience into cold violence, you won't listen to anyone, isn't it you?"

"I..." Liu Shuying frowned and wanted to argue.

"I am not in good health, so I can only have one child, Zhiwei, in this life," Zhu Yuli said, "You can still find a young and beautiful one, and give birth to a 'normal' child, and see if you have a happy family after 30 years , full of children and grandchildren."

Liu Shuying had nothing to say for a while.In terms of beauty, the young Zhu Yuli is very beautiful.He remembered that he once thought that Zhu Yuli was the most beautiful girl in the world, but now her hands are covered with creases from washing, and her hair is full of white hair that no one has pulled out for her.

As Zhu Yuli said, her best years were also Liu Shuying's best years, and they were all spent on each other.

Zhu Yuli has been married to him for 30 years, even if he moves his toes, Zhu Yuli knows what he wants to do.But it is this permeated familiarity and understanding that makes Zhu Yuli's uniqueness towards him gradually buried in all the trivial matters of life.

Liu Shuying knew that it was impossible for him to divorce, he needed Zhu Yuli.